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Some Cities Find Cash In Trash Collection Dally Newt Pago Wednesday, June 1977 By LEE MITGANG AP Urban Affairs Writer Some cities are beginning to And that their own workers can collect garbage cheaper and more efficiently than private refuse companies. Pittsburgh and Richmond, Va. are saving hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by doing away with private contract garbage service and letting city employes do the job. Minneapolis and Oklahoma City have divided their cities into sectors, some serviced by private refuse firms and the rest by city sanitationmen The results so far have been greater productivity from both public and private workers competing against each other, and lower costs to taxpayers. For years the conventional wisdom has been that garbage collection chores could be handled by private companies at savings to a city.

But in Minneapolis, 50,000 homes are served by city garbage workers and 73,000 by private contractors paid by the city. Gayton Sorenson, Director of Public Works, says that after five years, city costs have dropped steadily while the amount of refuse collected SAXIX'ASTLES People put finishing touches on some of the sandcastles built on beach at Hermosa Beach. one recent Sunday. A chain of medieval castles, pyramids and dragons ran in sections for about 12 miles along the coast. An estimated 2S.SSS people were Involved in the project, which began in the morning and was complete before the afternoon tide came in.

Wirephoto) Flick Breaking Records LOS ANGELES (AP) The good men wear white, the bad guys wear black and no sex, character development or social criticism. But Wars" has managed to break theater records all over the country, and to send 20th Century fortunes rocketing. By Monday, 12 days after its premiere, the George Lucas science fiction epic that took 19 million to make had grossed $5.2 million in 45 theaters. The biggest moneymaking movie of all time was which took in $192 million. grossed $21 million in its first 10 days, but that was in 409 theaters.

The day before opened, Fox stock was selling for $11.75 per share. When trading closed Monday, it was at $21. see any other reason than for the way the stock has taken said Phillip Myers, director of corporate affairs. The country apparently was ready for an escapist movie. Among the good guys in the flick are two robots, See-Threepio (C3PO) and Artoo-Detoo (R2D2), and a hairy creature named Chewbecca, who copilots a space cruiser.

The human name is Luke Skywalker. played by Mark Hamill. Skywalker finds that he stands between the villainous Galactic Empire and the destruction of freedom in the galaxy. With the help of a like sword called a he comes to the rescue. The special effects for aU this have won critical raves.

Theatergoers are something they possibly live as a normal human said Ashley Boone, marketing vice president for Fox, who is looking longingly to the end of the month when goes into hundreds more theaters. Albert Szabo, the 58-year-old manager of the Avco Cinema Center in Los Angeles, said, have never seen anything like this in 30 years in the business. They are filling the theater for every single performance. This a snowball, an The reason, he said, is obvious. the last number of years we have had a whole lot of message pictures which had a social message of some he said.

message pictures imply subtle re-education. But the public want to be reeducated. It wants sheer entertainment. need heroes, he added. are tired of rooting for murderers and STATE or OHIO.

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we began the arrangement, the private contract haulers were doing the job cheaper than our city workers. But we laid out route assignments for the city workers and told them they could go home anytime they were finished, even if it was less than an eight-hour day. Sorenson says. disposed of the stereotype that public workers aren't human beings, that they be The competitive atmosphere between public and private workers in; Minneapolis has worked so well that a year ago city employes were found to be doing their job slightly cheaper than private contractors. As a result, the private firms lowered their rates to keep up with the cost efficiency of the city garbage collectors.

It is this kind of side-by-side competition that some feel is the ideal arrangement. exactly what we're hoping says Pat Lay, director of Public Service in Oklahoma City, which implemented a similar mix of public and private garbage pickup on May 2. The various ways that cities can best dispose of trash were discussed in a study published last winter by Prof. E. S.

Savas of Columbia University. Savas says the most efficient way to handle garbage in larger cities is to divide it into districts of roughly 50,000 persons. The city should then contract out some of them to private firms. The own workers pick up the rest. If handled properly, the resulting competition can do wonders keeping private service costs low, while increasing public worker productivity.

In Pittsburgh, the North Side district with about 80,000 persons was being served by Browning-Ferris Industries, the largest private refuse collector. Frank Williams, director of Department of Environmental Services, said that by 1975, costed out the whole thing and we figured the city could take the North Side over at a savings of 200 000 There is no clear-cut trend favoring either private or municipal collection. But study finds that increasingly cities are willing to change, and the changes have been about equally divided between those that switch to private pickup and municipal pickup. Currently an average of one city out of 80 makes a switch one way or another each year, Savas said in a recent interview. His study of 2,060 U.S.

cities found that among cities with populations of 250,000 to 750,000, 73 per cent use municipal garbage pickup for part or all of the city, and the proportion decreases rapidly to 23 per cent for cities with populations of 2,500 to 10 000 The study, which include cities with populations over 750,000, also found nearly three-quarters of Southern cities favoring municipal collection, but only about 19 per cent of Northeastern cities using public garbage workers. Most of the largest cities use municipal garbagemen, usually because of longstantfing and hard-to- change arrangements with unions. San Francisco, Portland, Boston and Indianapolis are the largest cities that use private contractors for part or all of their garbage collection. study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, found that among 315 cities, the mean annual cost per household for garbage pickup done by city employes is $32.08, compared with $27.82 for private hauling. On the other hand, municipal collection tended to provide more service than contract firms, such as more frequent garbage collection and more backyard service.

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