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Opinion Weather Deaths Cried an Jranctoro fcxamfaer Mar. 5, 1981 section Overtime pay for City Protesters and paint cops to police Muni By Lon Daniels In response to the rising violence in Municipal Railway buses, the Police Commission has authorized $245,552 to pay overtime for the services of regular policemen during a three-month period. The measure was adopted unanimously yesterday by the commission. Commission member and former Police Chief Al Nelder said: "It a police job to police Muni. The police have made large numbers of arrests in a few weeks.

The Transit Police were ineffective." He got no argument from anyone on the commission. With the passage of the expendi number of taxi permits but came to no decision. Luxor driver Susan Ramsey said she favored more licensed cabbies because "there are not enough cabs on the streets to provide reliable service." Marv Gralnick, DeSoto Cab Co. general manager, disputed that assertion, saying that his business was down 10 percent from last year and that competition from BART, Muni, charter buses and other four-wheeled conveyances was "coming out of our ears." Taking still another position, commission member Jo Daly said she waited as long as 40 minutes for a cab from her home in Diamond Heights. So there was a need for more cabs on the streets, she said.

ture, which would have paid for the hiring of 15 Transit Police members, 29 regular policemen will be assigned overtime duties riding the buses. Since Feb. 6, when the project of replacing Transit Police members with regular cops began, 198 arrests have been made, the commission reported. Transit Police made 186 all of last year. It is planned ultimately to establish a full-time corps of regular Muni police.

Transit Police have come under fire in the wake of a series of assaults and robberies, usually carried out by bands of young thugs against Muni passengers. In other business, the commission heard arguments for expanding the Ai4 1 6. rrr: t'H Wife, 65, missing 10 days 'She has 30 sleeping pills with her. She left with no coat, no money' .1 i ft 1 After a family fight 10 days ago, a 65-year-old housewife walked away from her Sea Cliff home and husband of 48 years, taking 30 sleeping pills with her. She has not been seen since.

Fred Gebhard told police his wife, Mae, left their Sea Cliff home at 44th Avenue on Feb. 24 after an argument Lt Tom Mazzucco, bureau of missing persons supervisor, -said yesterday, "We're very concerned. She's been away too long. She has 30 sleeping pills with her. She left with no coat, no money.

She couldn't have gone too far." The missing woman was last seen wearing a white sweater, light purple blouse, dark green slacks and white shoes. She is 5 feet 3, weighs 93 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. "We've been married 48 years," Gebhard said yesterday. "We've never had anything like this before." It was about 4:15 p.m. that day, Gebhard recalled.

"We were arguing over a phone bill. I told her to call on weekends. She was upset She started yelling and I yelled back and she called the police." The responding officer told the couple: "One of you take a walk around the block." ft About 200 demonstrators marched in front of the the noisy protest but made no arrests. Red paint Federal Building in San Francisco during yester- two gallons of it splattered on the building day's lunch hour to protest U.S. involvement in El was thrown Tuesday allegedly by a young man oatvaaor.

roiice ana reaerai marsnais waiwitsu pay outstrips other I Today in.The City Pay scales for The had that accident." She was injured while riding with Gebhard when they were struck by an auto at Geary and Fillmore streets last May. "She's still shaken, still having pains. She's been taking 15 kinds of pills, off and on. She also has a heart condition and she takes pills for that too," he said. The day she left, she took her medications with her and 30 of Geb-hard's prescribed sleeping pills.

She left behind her glasses and checkbook. Gebhard had called all her friends. Tve called everyone that knows her, but no one had seen her," he said. "I don't think she had any money with her." Her son, a California Highway Patrol officer in Sacramento, and her sister in Aurora, have not heard from her. "We've checked all the hospitals and so far it's been negative," Mazzucco said.

"We're very concerned. She's been gone too long." Anyone who may have seen the missing woman or know of her whereabout should call Mazzucco at 533-1321 or the police operation center, 553-1398. workers survey scheduled to be delivered to the supervisors this month. However, city negotiators and the supervisors have asked the commission not to submit the update at this time, in hopes they may persuade the city emploqees union to drop a series of demands estimated to total $804100 million. "This is certainly going to increase the argument of the miscellaneous unions that they need the update," Lazarus said.

The craft package is scheduled to be submitted to the commission on March 12 and approval is expected. The commission craft survey did not include fringe benefits, which are set separately by the supervisors. Among the craft wages tentatively set by the report are the following: Plumbers benefited most by the survey, and their wages are scheduled to rise 18 percent from a current $13.60 per hour to $16.22. Their maximum annual base pay would rise to $33364 under the proposal. Carpenters' wages would increase by 11.5 percent to $14.09 an hour or $31529 a year.

high rate of attrition. He said 68 percent of those who applied did not show up for the test The test will be given in May but applications must be received by April a The job of a rookie cop pays $1,702 a month, plus 11 holidays and 13 sick days a year. Applications must be made in person on the fifth floor of the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant St More information may be obtained by calling 431- Inside Proposed Average Maximum Maximum current hourly hourly wages in wages wages Percent private Positions 1980-81 1981-82 increase employment Carpenter 74 $12.56 $14.09 11.5 $15.35 Electricians 83 13.15 $15.15 14.5 $18.50 Painter 71 12.90 $14.00 14.5 $17.04 Plumber 61 13.60 $16.22 18.0 $19.15 Truck driver 164 $11.67 $12.73 9.0 $13.88 Laborer 264 $8.76 $9.19 5.0 $11.94 Wage figures do not included trmnes or benefits I 1 "One guy goes for the gun," he said "the other for the suspect" The three-year police veteran doubted hether the incident was the most perilous in his tenure as a policeman. He and O'Connor, members of the vice detail, regularly work in the Union Square area, hich has been the scene of prostitution and drug related problems. But Gardner reinterated his reliance on his partner's support and attributed his cool-headed confidence in the face of danger to the knowledge that his is "one of the best" "A good partner is the most important thing of all," said Gardner.

O'Banion, of 630 Geary St, was booked for investigation of murder. Police said he had a revolver and a pocketful of fresh ammunition. Pacific Telephone has big plans PACIFIC TELEPHONE announced plans today to connect five cities with glass cable capable of carrying more than 60,000 simultaneous communications. Instead of metallic cable, the 168-mile system will utilize fiber optics. Communications are converted into bursts of laser light and transmitted at 90 million bursts per second.

The system would supplement existing facilities between Sacramento, San Jose, Stockton and Oakland. From Oakland it would connect with a fiber optic link now under construction in San Francisco. The glass cables, varying in size from 24 to 96 fibers, will be no larger than a finger. They are stronger than steel, easier to install than metallic cable and immune from electrical interference The new system, including components, will cost $30 million, less than half the cost of a metallic system. positions, who are slated to receive raises ranging from 1 to 4 percent.

"How can a nurse stand still for a piddling raise, next to this?" asked Al Ambrose, the personnel manager for the Civil Service Commission which has responsibility for setting the city scales. Under the survey submitted to the commission in January, the city would raise the salaries of 688 registered '1 bmei Mfctj, Examines Gordon Stone Craft jobs By Paul Shinoff Labor Writer The proposed wage package for San Francisco's 2,190 craft workers is expected to increase their wages by 5 to 18 percent in the next fiscal year, far more than the average 4 percent increase recommended for The City's "miscellaneous" employees. The tentative craft pay rates like all proposed city pay packages, set automatically by the results of a wage survey are expected to increase pressure on The City to raise the proposed wage rates for the rest of San Francisco's 19,000 non-uniformed employees. "Psychologically, the amount of this increase puts more pressure on us," acknowledged city negotiator Jim Lazarus. The controller's office has estimated that the crafts pay package has increased by $5.6 million, some $1.6 million more than last year.

Crafts workers include plumbers, carpenters, painters and other building trades workers. The figures are set automatically using the results of a salary-setting survey of public and private Bay Area employers conducted each year by The City. Because the survey averages wages in both public and private employment the hourly pay fr "ty crafts-workers will be somewhat less than comparative work on union construction jobs. The pay rates must be approved by the Board of Supervisors by April 1 and will take effect on July 1. The craft unions are more than happy with the survey this year," Lazarus said.

Less sanguine, however, are the representatives of the bulk of the city's non-uniformed employees, particularly the lesser-skilled jobs and nursing We want an open hiring policy." Rudy Portis, Oakland district administrator of the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, said his agency will continue an investigation prompted by a discrimination complaint filed in October 1960 by an East Bay NOW member ho was denied a waitress job by restaurant manager Tony Reggkx Portis said Frank Spenger had not informed the agency of its asserted change in policy, nor had the complainant hose identity has been concealed by NOW and the agency agreed to drop her charges. "I guess if we're doing something we're not supposed to be doing, if we are discriniinating," women will be given a chance hen a job opens up. MAE GEBHARD Left home after a family fight Gebhard said: "Mae went into the bedroom and left by the basement. I started to orry hen she didn't come home." He called police about 11 p.m. "She's a sick lady," he said.

"She's been having problems ever since we City's crafts workers nurse positions 15 percent from a current maximum $10.67 an hour to $10.85 or a year. Some 3.684 clerk stenographer positions would be increased 3 percent from the current maximum $6.64 an hour to $6.84 or an annual $14,256, according to the earlier survey. The commission had anticipated that many of the lower-paid positions would be increased with an updated women officers on the force and they have performed well in most departments, including riding motorcycles as well as radio cars and serving on both the Tac squad and inspectors' bureau. Today's press conference was offered in hopes it would attract qualified women applicants. Murphy said the apbeation procedure has been streamlined and the recruitment should go smoothly.

Once they have applied, Murphy hopes to keep them interested enough to stay through the grueling testing. In the past be said, women have had a about his legal residence. At issue is the residence of Trent who took a leave of absence last year from the Hoover Insitutution at Stanford University to be Ronald Reagan's deputy campaign manager. Trent 42. used his residence in Portola Valley in his argument to have the suit moved to Redwood City from Kansas in March 198a Although Trent claimed to be a resident of Portola Valley, he voted by absentee ballot in Kansas in 1974, 1976 and 1978, according to a deposition given by the clerk of Crawford County, Kansas.

S.F. police launch drive to recruit women Tham is nominated to head Joint Council TEAMSTER leader Rudy Tham, currently appealing a series of embezzlement convictions, has been nominated to head the union's Joint Council 7, based in San Francisco. Tham, secretary-treasurer of Local 856 representing hotel, warehouse and clerical workers, will be opposed by Fred Paredes, leader of Retail Drivers Local 588, based in Oakland, according to a council official. Tham was appointed acting president of the council several eeks ago with the resignation of long-time official Jack Goldberger. The election for a new term is scheduled for April 7.

Tham was convicted last April of 15 counts of embezzlement involving the misuse of $2,791 in union funds. He was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $50,000. According to federal labor law, I Tham is allowed to hold union positions pending the appeal. Officer plays down heroism in capture POLICEMAN Dan Gardner may be in line for a commendation of valor for his performance in the arrest of a murder suspect, but with a shrug of his shoulders the lanky of ficer downplays his role. "You have to act fast, but it helps even more if you have a good partner." Gardner said yesterday hile at the Hall of Justice to testify in an unrelated case.

Gardner, 25, kicked a gun from the hand of a man ho allegedly opened fire on four people, killing one, in Union Square Tuesday night Gardner and his partner Tom O'Connor were working the Union Square area in plainclothes hen they heard shots ring out about 11:30 p.m. They rushed to the park. "I saw the body lying on the ground," said Gardner, referring to William A. Williamson, 25, a "street person" with no known address who was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspected gunman, later identified as Bruce R.

O'Banion. 31, tried to flee, running toward Geary ajjd Powell streets, but, according to Gardner, he was quickly cornered by officers. The man dropped to one knee and waved his revolver, but he was too close to bystanders in the square for the ive of icers to ire. Gardner and other officers yelled to bystanders "hit the ground." "The suspect hestitated," said the dark-haired Gardner. "He was dazed.

We just rushed him." Reminded that it was he who had kicked the gun from O'Banion's hand, Gardner remained steadfast in his modesty. fBay Area report The San Francisco Police Department today launched a recruitment drive for women that Chief Cornelius Murphy hopes will soon mean that one out of every five San Francisco cop is a woman. "We want 400 or more female officers," Cornelius told a press conference in his office to kick off the recruiting campaign. If the department ever reaches its authorized strength of 2,000 uniformed personnel, that would mean women would constitute 20 percent of the force Murphy said there are now 130 Spanky Spenger said. The restaurant employs about 40 waiters said to earn $100 or more on days when business is brisk.

Dispute over silver takes ominous twist THE YEAR-LONG dispute over the family silver between U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary Darrell Trent and his uncle has taken a new twist Although a lawsuit filed by the uncle Henry C. Smith of Harbor, Ore was settled this week, San Mateo County District Attorney Keith Sorenson yesterday said he has decided to conduct a "preliminary investigation" into a statement Trent made in the course erf the civil action Policeman who disarmed gunman in Union Square plays I down heroism. LJ I New policy for S.F. student newspapers is viewed as fk censorship.

uJftr Federal budget cuts have halted acquisition of Bay I Area park lands. LsJ A drive to organize workers in white- collar industries is I mmi underway. LJ 0 Spenger's says it'll hire waitresses THE POPULAR Berkeley restaurant Spenger's Fish Grotto, has broken with "tradition" and now will hire qualified waitresses, says owner Frank Spenger's son, Spanky. But a spokeswoman for the East Bay chapter of the National Organization for Women says that isnt enough to satisfy the feminist group, which picketed Spenger's three times last month. "We're glad they've changed their minds, but we feel we need some assurances," JoAnn Schaf er of NOW said yesterday.

"We're not talking quotas, but we dont consider one woman in there to make a difference..