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ins IT yn6J.tovjn in which me a period each day, often on routes too small to keep them busy, thus inviting them to stretch out breaks and invent new ones. But in Rockville Centre, they operate on an incentive basis. The routes are longer, but when the men are finished they're permitted to go home. Overtime is paid only after 40 hours. The name of the game in Rockville Centre was hustle.

Lambchops. the driver of the truck, often jumped out of the cab and joined the other two men in lugging cans to the hopper. That's something rarely, if ever, seen in the city. Active all the time Right from the start of the route at the Rockville Centre Fire Department at Washington SL and Merrick all three men moved at a brisk pace.At times. Bluejeans actually jogged from can to can.

It wasn't one of the weekly rubbish collection days, but the crew of No.99 still picked up everything left at curbside. On Lakeview Avenue up the street from the synagogue, Bluejeans and No. 119 loaded bundles of shorn tree branches and shrubs into the hopper Commissioner, the crew of No. 99 and most of your men do have one thing in common. They don't stay behind and sweep the streets while the truck goes to the dump.

The policies and needs are different, however. The men in Rockville Centre, unlike your members, aren't required to sweep. The reason is obvious. The streets are almost spotless. collectors placed them upright on the curbsides.

and put the lids back on top. In some cases, they even returned the cans to snug-fitting carts. Midway through the shift, the men took a 10-minute coffee break. When it was over, they had dumped a load of garbage a shade under 12 tons. That's two tons more than the average daily New York City haul of 9.8 tons computed by Mayor Koch's office.

In all, the men spent five hours, 46 minutes on the road, collecting and dumping. That's nearly twice the daily time put in by some New York City crews observed by the News and the Mayor's Office of Operations. And, the pay is substantially different New York City sanitationmen get $14,000 to $18,000 a year, while Rockville Centre crews receive $11,000 to $14,000. 'Low density area Commissioner, Rockville Centre is a sprawling suburban community. It's what you call a "low density" area mostly single-family homes, and you know what that More time to collect less garbage.

But not this crew. The three workers on the big orange truck, No. 99 call them "Lambchops" (because of his fluffy, curving sideburns), "Bluejeans" (that's what he was wearing), and "No. number on his football practice jersey) had to work many more streets than the blocks covered by some of your men in "medium and "high density" areas for the same refuse tonnage. There's another point worthy of note, commissioner.

Your men are required to work over an eight-hour By ALEX MICHELINI Memo to Sanitation Commissioner Norman Steisel: This isn't a complaint You've been getting hit with enough of them lately. It's a suggestion. You promised to improve your department and get more productivity out of your men. Well, instead of flying off to London, Paris and Copenhagen to learn about sanitation services, as you did recently, take a 30-minute drive to the Village of 'Rockville Centre in Nassau County and watch the sanitationmen there in action. You may learn more than you did in Europe.

A Daily News reader suggested we go there as part of our investigation of city sanitation department shortcomings. Rockville Centre is a suburban town of 28,500 people. 21 miles east of Manhattan. Tip from a reader "If you want a really good look at a Sanitation Department at W-O-R-K," the reader wrote, "drive out to R.V.C." So, we did, and here's what we found: The men began arriving for work at the sanitation department garages at 10 Sunrise Highway an hour earlier than necessary, and left in a convoy to begin their rounds promptly on schedule. Contrary to policy in New York City, the three-man crews collected refuse from both sides-of the streets one-way streets and two-way thoroughfares.

After emptying the contents of the cans, the They drew the model I r-r, 1 s4 1 -1 M. ih- -f 2J trash i By BRIAN KATES Angered by years of missed garbage collections, random service and "unrealistic" alternate-side parking restrictions, a Brooklyn community board has submitted a detailed proposal to the Sanitation Department for shuffling collection routes manpower and pickup hours. The department not only has put its stamp of approval on the plan, but it intends to use it as a model for other BE AN APPLE POLISHER Deofiis CwsaDaity Mtwi 3 -Talent Unlimited Jazz Band, an ensembte of 20 City high schoolers, entertains crowd outside Public Library on Fifth Ave. yesterday. Casts of Broadway hits "Grease" and the star of "Annie," actors, politicians, civic and business leaders were also on hand to launch massive midtowncleanup campaign sponsored by I Love a Clean New York, Inc.

Seized in slaying of girl, 15 community boards to follow. Sanitation Commissioner Norman Steisel said. For years, residents and merchants in the Flatbush, Midwood and Kensington neighborhoods had complained about the lack of sanitation services in their community. For years. Community Board 14 had processed the complaints and forwarded them to the appropriate agencies.

And for years, nothing changed. Their answer was to form a sanita tion task force. By the time they had finished months later, they had: Redrawn collection lines so tha' some areas of lower population density switched from three pickups, a week, tc two giving higher-density areas an extri day. Revised schedules so that public schools where garbage buildup fron breakfast and lunch programs was creat ing a hazard would receive pickup three times a week and that refus would not go uncollected over a weet end. Established an 8 a.m.

starting tiir for collections to eliminate "surpris pickups." Recommended a Monday an Thursday collection schedule in Orth dox Jewish communities to avoid co flicts with the Sabbath. The only road near the creek is flooded and the- creek is surrounded by dense woods. Carmel police said the crime site is known as a teenage hangout and meeting place. Jill, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Garrett of 15 Col. Glenn Drive, attended Carmel High SchooL where she was a member of the band. Described by friends as a sociable and outgoing girl, she was a member of the See-Saw square dance club of Mahopac. She had been working as'a volunteer at the Town of Carmel Day Camp. By DANIEL HAYS and CASS VANZI An unemployed Patterson, N.Y., man was arrested last night and charged with the murder of a 15-year-old Carmel, N.Y., girl whom he allegedly had picked up as she hitchhiked near her home Monday night.

The girl's partially clad body was discovered Tuesday floating in a creek. The suspect, Frank Morrison, 29, of Fair St. Patterson, picked up Jill Garret on Route 6. which connects Carmel and; Brewster, N.Y Putnam- County police A preliminary medical examiner's report revealed that the llpound teenager, had suffered massive injuries that included a fractured skull, a fracture of the liyoid bone in the neck and a fractured spine. Further tests were being performed to determine whether Garrett, whose body was clad in only a bra and a blouse pulled over her head, had been sexually molested Sherrif CapL Philip Prinz said Middle Breach, the six-foot-wide creek where, the body wasound by an env, ploye of horse(f arm.

is accessible only by foot or a four-wheel ilfive vehicle..