Corsicana Daily Sun (Newspaper) - June 12, 1975, Corsicana, Texas Covers Better 292 WANT ADS 8723033 8722551 TEXAS 75110 JUNE 1975 38 PAGES 3 SECTIONS 15 CENTS av j ose One Three members of the Corsicana City Commission huddle for a conference during negotiations with the union Wednesday City Manager Dick Ballenger told the commissioners no funds will be available for The commissioners from Stroube Armistead and Mayor Sue and the Elsewhere in the room representatives of the firefighters held an equally serious James Gill at right is their Firemen shown are Terry and Doug partially shown in the The presented some changes in proposals presented Staff Photos by Gary Edmondson NEW India AP A judge convicted Prime Minis ter Indira Gandhi today of wrongfully using government officials in her last successful campaign for Parliament and barred her from public office for six But a spokesman for Gandhi said she would remain in office while appeal ing to the Supreme Court to set aside the The judge in sentencing the 57yearold prime minister stayed the sentence for 20 days so she could Her spokesman said the appeal would probably be filed and it was expected to include request that the Supreme Court continue the stay on the sentence until it decided on the r Action line Does get to use the parking lot free for its merchandise display and garden or have to pay rent Store Manager Laird says the lease Woolworth has with owners of the Navarro Mall Shopping Center covers the stores use of the sidewalk in the and all portions of the parking lot back and on the north end from a point paralleling the southern end of the store building itself for display of He added that the store pays under terms of its on whatever space it utilizes on sidewalk and parking f Action Line answers questions of general Interest the Golden may be addressed to the Corsicana Daily Box Texas Questions include the address and telephone number of the but neither the name or address of the writer Will be J n T BJ BT V W n Firemen learn there no for raises Weather LOCAL Mostly cloudy and fair today through Warm High this afternoon upper low tonight mid and high Friday lower Winds light and High yesterday 79 and low this morning By GARY EDMONDSON Sun Staff Writer After meeting for over two hours in the city halls Municipal Courtroom sweat City Manager Dick Ballenger told firefighter collective bargainers just what they did not want to hear the city has neither the money nor the prospect of money to ac proposed pay Members of the city com mission and the firefighters bargaining team had been trying to reach an agreement on how much of a raise would be equitable for about an and Ballenger himself had researched pay scales for firemen and policemen in various cities before Ballengers pronouncement that the city cannot afford any Chrysler to drop Imperial DETROIT AP Chrysler the regal luxury car which is selling like a is being killed off a after its 1926 industry sources which built its 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were The Valley King is the same vessel that radioed last Friday that she was in trouble in the prompting a weekend search by rescue the Coast Guard On the vessels agent reported in Texas that she was in port in Campeche School superintendent is wrestler increase brought a swift end to Wednesdays Police bargainers were ab sent from the meeting due to a conflict in engagements of their Jack The air conditioning refused to work in the municipal where the meeting was All members of the city commission commented on the undesirability of the window room as a meeting place and City Manager Dick Ballenger twice left to see if he could remedy the He couldnt and Stroube summed up the feeling of most there when he commented that he hopes the next meeting of the bargainers is not held in the same THE FIREFIGHTERS original presented by their attorney James called for equalizing pay by classification between the fire and police When Mayor Sue Youngblood pointed out that the com salaries used in collective bargaining are supposed to be from the private the firefighters then submitted proposed raises based on the cost of living in crease which in higher than current police It was then the mayor who remarked on the inequity between the proposed firefighters wages and the current police To in pointed out that the departments were not to be CURRENTLY THE assistant police chief makes a month as opposed to the assistant fire marshals the police sergeants make a month as compared to the station com manders and patrolmen make a month as opposed to firefighters Police recruits make the first six months and the second six while firefighter recruits make and When called on for exact figures and not equal Gill presented a request of monthly for the fire marshal monthly for station for firefighters and for While the discussion about equal pay per classification between the police and fire departments brought a com parison from who reported that such equal pay was the case in Tyler but not in Pampa or Big Ballenger had earlier told the group that equal pay per equal classification was the normal rule for the cities in the Fort Worth area he has been con EARLY IN THE Ballenger had sidestepped Youngbloods inquiry as to whether the city could live with the proposed raises by saying Ill live with whatever this commission When she asked the question a this they cannot agree to any raises for any one depart This is what they also told the policemen a week and a half That could take Gandhi has headed the Indian government since January 1966 and is the first In dian prime minister to be threatened with ouster by judi cial Her two predeces sors her Jawaharlal and Bahadur Shastri died in Gandhi was convicted by Judge Jag Sinha in her hometown in northern India which gave her a in 1971 over Haj a Narain went to court with a number of charges under the corrupt practices The trial was with 60 witnesses for the prosecution and 37 for the Gandhi her self took the stand for two the first prime minister since independence in 1947 to appear in She denied all the Judge Sinha found Gan dhi innocent of most of the charges against including that she exceeded the limit on campaign ex that she cam in Indian air force air that her campaign sym bol a cow and a calf was a veiled religious appeal to the Hindu majority and that her supporters tried to bribe voters by distributing free blankets and But he found her guilty of the chief charge against her that she used government officials in her including Yashpal a member of her secretariat in New Delhi when the campaign Gandhi is the daughter of the late Jawaharlal Gre The Mills Ceda Cre kes plus and tips planning pensive vacat ties included toda issue Sun sounds Golde experi and ests area spend ther pac tm imm por hery Firemen concede points second time later the the cir any in Ballenger said under present cannot afford Saying the city cannot expect one thin dime more in the coming years Ballenger also told the group that the city will be losing in tax money next year because of the increase in the number of persons eligible for tax exemptions at age 65 the city is behind its total expected revenue for the year and the amount taken in from building permits will be about short of what was ex HE reported the fire department is already over its total budget allotment in seven categories and other departments face similar problems with the continued The city manager had already told the group that the fire department salary item in the budget will have to be in creased by next year because of natural increases in social compensation and the number of firemen attaining certified firefighter Reporting the budgetary problem to be Ballenger explained that presently he is not anyone who leaves the citys employment supervisors are pulling regular work shifts and city crews are being used to carry out normally contracted The commissioners and mayor then agreed that since the city is going to try to make next year on the same budget as Corsicana firefighters are facing a twofold problem in their negotiations with the city Besides being told that the city cannot afford to raise their the firefighters are losing their battle to secure a com prehensive contract with the Thus far the firefighters have agreed to reduce their original contract by half in answer to city commission objections that certain provisions are either an infringement on the right of the fire chief or matters already spelled out by Civil Service MORE PARING MAY follow as the commission still objects to some provisions its members says are already covered by Civil The largest cut in the proposed contract came during Wednesday nights meeting when the firemen withdrew their proposal for classification to six provisions defining the ar board in case of contract disputes the procedure by which to initiate collective bargaining the establishment of a depart mental safety committee and leave time for collective BESIDES GAINING the removal of these the through City Attorney Glenn Stewart and members of the city has also expressed an unwillingness to accept in general principle the firefighters desire to have the contract control matters of conflict between it and Civil Service Stewart maintained again Wednesday that if such a conflict were thusly resolved on a specific point there would be no need for the general adding that such a statement might encompass some area the city was unaware The firefighters have not agreed to strike this provision from the nor have they agreed to remove provisions designed to protect the firefighters union or members of the union from discrimination by the city other points Stewart feels are See 2A re specific While expressing a willingness to negotiate under present firefighter bargainer James revealed the to Gill also firefighters concession eliminate the two page section of rules and GILL EXPLAINED that this section was included because the department currently has no defined He added that since negotiations have Fire Chief Duane Womack has drawn up a set of rules which he plans to reveal The elimination of these regulations from the contract apparently reverses the desire expressed by Gill that firemen have a contract they can look at and know where they stand without having to shift through departmental their contract and Civil Service Falling now State Trooper Al Fisher examines Chris Benton for what were determined minor injuries as his mother Paula Jean Reed ot the Lamp lighter Apartments here holds him following a two car accident at Wednesday at the service road of Interstate 45 near Reeds 1967 Ford was hit by a 1973 Dodge Withrow Furniture delivery truck driven by Alvis Miles of 1407 Sun Staff Photo from the contract b Smith proposal in similar fashion were AP He may have a black a limp or even a dislocated but John Kakacek says he hasnt missed a days work as school superintendent because of his moonlighting as a professional known in the ring as Johnny says mixing education with grunting and groaning on the mat is just good Ive been a professional wrestler nearly 25 ever since I graduated from says superintendent for the last five years of the Em mons It taught me a great lesson of how to sell myself and how to discipline myself to do said who has a bachelors degree in business administration and a masters in When school let out for the the 240pound Kakacek headed for South Korea on a tour sponsored by the Chicago Wrestling Tm on quite a few wrestling shows taped for TV in he The pupils and townspeople are not taken by They may watch me on but nobody asks me for auto boycott HINGTON AP Re publicans boycotted a hearing today by a new House in subcommittee focus ing on the Central Intelligence own secret probe of its The boycott forced cancellation of testimony by CIA Director William Subcommittee chairman James said the refusal of Republican mem J rob bers to attend the open hearing was apparently prompted by the resignation of Lucian as chairman of the full Asked to turn over secret ma terial in advance of another meeting of the subcommittee planned for next Colby declared Ill do it to the ex tent that 1 can and still protect the secrecy of the Cancellation of testi mony came shortly after Stan ton declared that he knows of assassination plots but refused to identify any A subcommittee Michael Har said he be Stantons statement was based on inhouse While acknowledging that Stanton might have gotten his information from a House staff member who had received it 1 from someone who Har rigon said the intelligence com has been given no infor mation about Robert I said committee Dein crats want Slanton to step up to become chairman of the full in We want to get somebody that we can all support and just got this investigation this panel It is shameful the way has House rules require that at least one member of the minor ity be present for Stanton said in announcing the cancellation to who al ready had taken his place in the witness chair before a packed hearing Nedd resigned after several days of Democratic infighting
