Daily News from New York, New York • 128

24 DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1971 A i. i i wirSiii Piote Sainiteiiieini's eHDiriiiniini6 Fay Caps' By RICHARD OLIVER Retiring sail itationmen have been racking up an average of $1,300 in overtime pay in their last year on the job, thereby boosting their pensions beyond those of cops and firemen, it was disclosed yesterday. three citv services offer three city services All NEWS photo bv Jack Smith Debris after blast in South African consulate general office. out an additional $19,500 in pension benefits over the man's normal life expectancy of 30 years in retirement. A study of the nation's 20 largest cities by the New York Chamber of Commerce showed that only this city includes a man's overtime in computing his pension.

The provision has been granted to numerous city employes over the past few years, including eops, firemen, sanitationmen, and transit workers. Legislation is pending in Albany to extend the provision to another 120,000 city workers, members of District 37, State, County and Municipal Employes Union. The bills would provide these workers with half pay after 20 years, three-quarters after 30, and full pay after 40 years. However, this legislation, along with several hundred other pension bills, has been bottled up in committee while a joint legislative committee investigates civil service pensions with an eye toward regulating them through a state commission. pension plans that provide half pay after 20 years, computed on the basis of the last year's total earnings, including overtime a relatively new and controversial provision.

Base Pay $9,871 The base pay for sanitation-men totals $9,871, compared with $10,950 for patrolmen and firemen. However, an inspection of Sanitation Department pension records for 1970 disclosed that its members have been retiring on average final-year earnings of $11,182, which provides a pension of $5,591. The difference is overtime. Much of this is built-in overtime, agreed to in contract negotiations with the city. The rest comes from such things as snow emergencies or cleaning up a particular neighborhood.

Environmental Protection Administrator Jerome Kretchmer said yesterday that he was "not surprised" at the $1,300 figure, but noted that it covered "an abnormal year, which included the 1969 snowstorm." He said the average overtime figure for this year would be about $830 per man. Cops, Firemen Speak Up Nevertheless, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the Uniformed Firefighters Association point out that cops receive little overtime and firemen less. Both unions are seeking wage and pension improvements, as is the sanitationmen's union. The sanitationmen also benefit from the fact that the city contributes 100 of their pensions, while cops and firemen pay part of theirs. The inspection of 30 sanitation pension records chosen at random over a three-month period in 1970 revealed earnings of between $9,925 and $13,121.

The $1,300 average overtime represents a hidden cost to the city. For instance, if a sanitation-man retired at 45 after 20 years of service and, in his last year, earned $1,300 in overtime, the city would be required to shell I MQ Pips-Bam By ANTHONY BURTON A 12-inch pipe bomb, loaded with ball exploded yesterday in the 14th-floor offices of the South African Consulate General on Madison Ave. at 60th St. 4 4 it. .1 5k.

hi' TA Sidle Exp ress ms a success, Less FUNERAL DiPJtCTORS im i ihe reception area was wrecked, but the premises were vacant because employes had been given a long Easter weekend holiday and nobody was hurt. Shortly afterward press services received phone calls from a man who said he represented the "black revolutionary assault team," which claimed responsibility for the bombing. The white government of South Africa pursues a policy of apartheid, or separation of the races. The caller said: "This Is to show our support for the revolutionary people of Africa and to totally wipe out this fascist state. Power to the people." It was the second time a bomb has been placed at the consulate.

In July last year, the staff discovered a device which they disabled by placing it in a bucket of water before it could go off. Yesterday's bomb apparently had been placed against the door of the reception room. Standing in the rubble later, Consul General Owen Booysen said: "There are people opposed to my government's policies but no civilized group would do a thing like this. I can't say it worries me personally but, of course, I'm concerned about my staff's reaction. "We have had to discuss tighter security so that it can't happen again.

No, this sort of action will not alter my government's policies." By FRANK MAZZA Express rush-hour bus service at $1 a ride from the upper East Side to the Wall Street area was inaugurated by the Transit Authority yesterday. Even before the first bus came to a halt, this operation was hailed at a success. William Ronan, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said he was "heartened" by the first day's turnout, adding, "Looks like we've got a success here." Ronan, together with City Transportation Administrator Constantine Sidamon Eristoff, two MTA board members, union officials and press representatives rode the first bus from York Ave. and 91st St. to Water and John Sts.

in 30 minutes. Express buses depart every 15 minutes beginning at 7:15 a. The last bus leaves at 9 a.m. With stops along York Ave. at 86th and 79th Sts.

and at 79th at East End the bus then travels along the East River Drive to the downtown area. There are three dropoff points along Water St. at Broad, Wall and John Sts Evening express buses run from 4 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. There were 288 passengers on -a mm iJ 11 nr ir' III! Illir I iSTOiKS aiji Ill NEWS phots by George Lockhart and York Ave.

MTA Chairman William Ronan boards first bus at 91st St. East Side to downtown an average of 36 per trip on the 46-seat buses. The TA was hopeful that the express bus service in Man hattan would prove as successful as its similar runs between Staten Island and Manhattan. Begun two years ago, the Staten Island to Manhattan express service started out carrying 17,000 passengers daily. It now carries 87,000, also at a dollar a ride.

the first day's run from the upper II Gauds Way to programs are continued, the costs go up and reading scores go down. At the same time there are schools in black and Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that claim to have had extremely good results with reading programs. One is Harlem's PS 133, which uses a system called the Gattegno Method that links, similar English sounds with specific colors. Another is PS 115 in Washington Heights, which uses Alpha One, in which a series of letter people, such as "Mr. with the Munching Mouth," develops interesting story lines for children.

If such programs are as successful as the schools claim, they should be thoroughly researched and studied to see why, and then spread around the city to other children. But this is not done. One of the most ambitious "innovative programs" to help the disadvantaged and one of the most questionable is the United Federation of Teachers' More Effective In response, the union answers that the program has proven to be extremely popular with the parents of students in it, and that the reading score comparison is unfair because of the high mobility rate of children in the program's schools. But the real issue behind the fight goes a lot deeper. That is, should educational programs be written into a union's contract and forced on a school system? "We must be free of many of the restraints that exist both in law and contract that hamper the ability of education managers to make changes," says Bergtraum.

"Unions should negotiate salary and working conditions, not educational programs." Critics on the board and in the community now feel that mandating an educational program by union contract defeats the purpose of decentralization especially when the program costs $530,000 extra per school. (Continued from pagm B) All federal and state programs are required by law to be evaluated each year to see if they work no evaluation, no money. Sometimes the studies are carried out by the board's own Bureau of Research, but more often outside independent eval-uators do the job frequently at $25,000 a look. Last month, alone, for example, the board approved $271,500 in evaluation money. But a study of the evaluations by the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Co.

(through a Ford Foundation grant) showed the evaluations themselves left a lot to be desired. "They are no good," concludes Board President Murry Bergtraum. "The level of educational resaarch -hasn't reached the 17th century." Still, the evaluations continue, poor Schools Program. Now in its seventh year, it will cost $14 million extra (almost all in federal funds) to operate the city's 27 schools in the program, which provides smaller classes, specialist teachers and an abundance of extra supplies and equipment. The results are debatable.

Over the years the evaluations have conflicted. The latest one, by the independent Psychological found a "quality" program going on, but no significant improvement in reading or math skills. While the study showed that schools in the UFT program created a better learning atmosphere and environment than slum youngsters could get in regular schools, the academic gains of children in the program weren't markedly better than other pupils. It put part of the blame on the fact that many teachers in the program are young and unprepared for specialized teaching..