Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - February 14, 1977, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING Leisure time is when the wife and kids cant find you 105th 135 Lebanon LEBANON MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 14 1977 WEATHER Variable cloudiness breezy and colder through Tuesday with the chance of snow flurries tonight and again on Tuesday Low to night in mid to upper 20s Highs Tuesday in the mid to upper 30s 15 CENTS Top Demand effected in some way by the basic steel negotiations which are expected to establish a pat tern for subsequent bargaining in aluminum container and other industries Union President Abel 68 will negotiate this round of contracts for the last time At his side will be Lloyd McBride who was chosen in a union elec tion last Tuesday to succeed Abel The victory for McBride an Abel loyalist promised a smooth transition next June But defeated insurgent Ed Sad lowski could upset the negotia tions by challenging the legality of the election Abel views the idea of a guaranteed annual wage as a perfect way to culminate his own career The idea was re commended to the negotiators last December by the unions wage policy committee We must have a lifetime OOQ security program guaranteeing that a steelworker will have a job and will receive full pay ir respective of circumstances outside his or her the committee wrote WASHINGTON UPI A guaranteed annual wage was No 1 today on a long list of de mands drafted by the United Steelworkers Union for the start of contract negotiations with the nations ten big steel makers Contract negotiations open today after a long weekend of separate meetings among those who will sit on each side of the table The current contract cov ering about basic steel workers expires July 31 An existing experimental agreement precludes an indus walkout but workers still have a right to strike over local plant issues Unresolved national issues will be submit ted to arbitration by April 20 Most of the unions mil lion members eventually will be Urge Use Of Fresh resent a greater percentage of the employes normal Other income security mea sures might include short week benefits a guaranteed work week or weekly pay and possi bly a guaranteed number of hours per year for senior emp loyes Like many other unions the steelworkers will seek to in crease employment by negotiating longer vacations Steelworkers now average an hour and the current trend in manufacturing could give them a 9 per cent a year raise Shapp To Fire First Shot In Budget Battle FROM THE HE valen tines were exchanged among classmates in the South Lebanon Elementary School today but the largest heart was given to Jimmy and Denise Lymaster children of Mr and Mrs James Lymaster 190S Leinbach Ave Lucie Van ney left and Travis Grimes right gave the heart to Jimmy and Denise today It contains raised by their classmates The Lymasters lost their home and belongings in a fire that gut ted their house Dec Daily News Photo Mayor Surprises With Four Promotions In Police Dept By BERNARD SHIRE Daily News Staff In a surprise move Mayor George Heverling this morning promoted four members of the Lebanon police department See picture on page The appointments by the Today In The NEWS Amusements Comics 16 Love 2 Family mayor carne just hours before tonights city council meeting in which Councilman Catalano was expected to intro duce an ordinance that would place the power of promotion with the police department in the hands of all of council thus stripping the mayor of the right to promote Whether such an ordinance would be legal was unclear this morning Neither Catalano nor City Solicitor Samuel Weiss Jr could be reached for comment this morning The mayor transferred Sgt Bernard Reilly who had been platoon sergeant in charge of Platoon B to Detective Sergeant in charge of the crimi nal division He also transferred Sgt Paul E Keim who is in charge of to Detective Sergeant in charge of the juvenile division To fill the vacancy of Sgt Keim within the patrol division Mayor Heverling promoted Patrolman Carl to sergeant in charge of the day time platoon The mayor also promoted Patrolman George E Gruber to sergeant in charge of the night time platoon to fill the vacancy left by Sgt Reilly Mayor Heverling said the promotions were made in an ef fort to upgrade the operations of the police department Its time we did something to in crease the effectiveness of the Heverling said The mayor noted that he had attempted to initiate the rank of corporal in the department only to have the move thwarted by Catalano and Councilmen George Ross and Clayton Klein felter Money Budgeted Heverling also noted that there will be no problem with the pay that the money is in the budget for the changes Det Sgt Keim has been a member of the police force for almost 28 years He was prom to corporal in 1957 and to sergeant in 1974 He has taken many police school and college courses and has also been ac tive as a leader in the Boy Scout movement since 1958 Det Sgt Reilly is a 13year veteran of the police depart WASHINGTON UPI The United States should set its table with fresh food from small federally subsidized farms in stead of the packaged proces sed commodities from large in operations a pair of economic planners suggest And rich Americans should help bankroll stable food prices for the poor by financing annual federal subsidies of up to bil lion for small farms Without such changes in na tional food policy warned a re port by the Exploratory Project for Economic Alternatives the United States faces rapidly ris ing food costs Direct annual payments to small farms of billion to billion would come from steep ly progressive taxes the re port said including a food equalization would ef shift the treasury costs on to say the top 25 per cent of income A broader plan for such pay ments the Truman administra tions Brannan was re fay Congress in 1949 The report said the cost of government payments would be offset by reduced spending for food stamps and lower govern ment deficits if a reduction in inflation allowed employment to rise The government would as sure adequate consumer food supplies by encouraging heavy production managing reserve stocks controlling food exports and imports and using price An integral part of a lifetime security program is a guaranteed annual wage which would permit an employe to ex and receive a level annual income regardless of his emp To achieve this goal the committee said negotiators should seek to extend and in crease current supplemental unemployment benefits pro vided by the companies to rep HARRISBURG UPI Gov Milton J Shapp Tuesday will fire the opening shot in the battle of the budget The ammunition will be a voluminous document detailing the way Shapp wants to spend some 58 billion in fiscal 197778 About billion of that amount will be the actual state budget The remainder includes federal funds highway money and other items It will be a heated battle this year because Shapp is expected to ask for a tax increase to fill a million gap in revenues His aides have been soften ing the blow for the past six weeks carefully leaking details about the need for a tax in crease Meanwhile Shapp has re mained silent refusing to dis cuss any of the specifics on taxes or spending Still there are important elements in the state budget that have become public through Shapps aides and other sources They include A projected deficit for fis cal 197778 that will reach million Shapps aides blame the deficit on increasing wel fare rolls and declining re venues A move in the legislature to increase school subsidies that could push the deficit to half a billion dollars Shapps aides say Shapp has no plan of his own to hike subsidies to the 505 school districts Depressing economic news Various specialists say 1977 will not be as good a year as anticipated for Pennsylvania Unemployment will remain high and personal income will not keep up with inflation That means government cannot look to economic ery for increases in tax re venues that are tied to personal income So far Shapp has said only that his budget will be au if that label can be tacked onto a proposal to spend billion in state tax revenues In midJanuary Shapps aides said the governor would propose a six to seven per cent increase in state spending which would do little but keep government in line with infla tion The aides also said Shapp was considering proposing an increase in the income tax from 2 per cent to per cent or a 1 per cent hike in the states 6 per cent sales tax Most recently the sources said Shapp was leaning away from the income tax increase because it would take away the benefit of any federal tax cut The last time anyone in the administration would discuss the issue Shapp was leaning to ward the sales tax increase Continued on Page 3 US Ready For Panama Talks Continued on Page 13Col 3 Continued on Page 3 City Ambulance Units Corps Nelson Trefsgar Nelson C Trefsgar Dies At 60 Editors Note This Is the first in a series of five stories written specially for the Daily News by Donald Bowman freelance writer on the two volunteer am bulance units based in the City of Lebanon the Lebanon Inde pendent First Aid Unit and the First Aid and Safety Patrol I have reworked this article four times When I began re search on two lance corps it was with the un that no details of their intermural feud would enter the series Since that time the dispute has become public knowledge What began as a private matter a misunderstanding has become a focus for open rivalry and ran cor in the press Yet just because the frictions both between the companies and within them have been opened to general scrutiny we need more than ever a sense of just who these men are what they do and why they do it In the fog of charge and counter charge the people of Lebanon may lose sight of one enduring fact we have two dedicated well trained highly competent ambulance units in this city The Lebanon Independent First Aid Unit and the First Aid and Safety Patrol are the two principle ambulance units serv ing the city of Lebanon Both are completely volunteer groups both maintain high standards of training Both handle emergency calls trans portation calls from hospital to hospital both serve the com munity as standby services at public functions comparative profiles of the two companies may help clarify their work for the public and perhaps begin to smooth the way for future cooperation Ground Clearing This first installment is for ground clearing We will ex amine the common stereotypes of ambulance units sketch out the different levels of training a corps in may reach and look at what the future of the emergency care in Lebanon may be Fallacy One The ambulance speeds screaming through the streets scattering cars in it howling wake At the emergen cy scene a cluster of attendants with arms like redwoods and brains to match leap from the back of the vehicle heave the hapless victim in and roar off to the hospital Fade out on lance cornering on two wheels while the driver peels a banana Fallacy Two The rescue truck arrives rapidly but very courteously at the emergency site Cool and handsome paramedics haul out enough equipment to staff a rolling re search lab In constant contact with doctors they perform near miracles at the scene The vic tim rises thanks them and goes off to win a handball tour Fade out on selfless and noble smiles of paramedics Truth In Between As might be expected the truth falls somewhere between these two popular conceptions of an ambulance unit The hulking hotrodder image is a sorry remnant of the days when ambulance corpsmen were undertrained or even un trained The prim requirement was a stong back But as one Independent member noted The day of the muscular apes just picking up the litter and carrying you out is That day ended perhaps five years ago now much more emphasis falls on treatment at the scene Is the second stereotype then closer to the truth Perhaps but the vital differ ences Lebanon has no paramedics and despite chil dren shouting Here come Squad linking our corps to TVs Emergency unit Leba non is not likely to get paramedics The paramedic course lasts 400 classroom hours let alone preparation time as one Patrol member puts it that is for paid depart volunteers fall into three categories of training those with a basic multimedia course first aid card those who have com a 52hour advanced first aid and emergency care course and finally those corpsmen certified as emergen cy medical technicians upon completion of 81 hours of classes and ten hours of onthe job work in emergency rooms No one walks into either am bulance unit with an Nelson C Trefsgar 60 prop of Brooks House Restaur ant died Sunday morning in his home 403 E High St Death was attributed to a heart attack Trefsgar served on the Leba non City Council from 1966 to 1970 He was on the board of directors of the Salvation Army and Lebanon County Workshop A member of Messiah Lutheran Church where he taught Sun day school he was a former Sunday school superintendent and church councilman He be longed to Mt Olivet Lodge F and A M Harrisburg Consistory and Zembo Shrine Born in Mt Carmel to Edna and the late Benjamin Trefs gar he was a graduate of Girard College where he was valedictorian of his class He served in the European theater of operations during World War II as an intelligence officer with the 84th Infantry Division and received the Presidential Cita PANAMA CITY Panama UPI A team of American diplomats arrived Sunday to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty and pledged to seek a quick solution to the ing dispute over who will con trol the vital link between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans Chief negotiator Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz Presi dent Carters special represen spoke briefly with repor ters at Airport and then flew to Island 30 minutes away by air to await the start of negotiations Tuesday want negotiations completed at an early date A successful negotiation re quires that each side bring to the negotiating table the politi cal will to conclude a Bunker said 1 can assure you that on the side such politi cal will Linowitz said the United States wants to sign the treaty quickly but added such ag must of the availability of the canal for world commerce at all times and it must protect the security of the Continued on 2 p f Continued on Page 2 The 16th round of canal talks is expected to last 10 days Bunker said both Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance have assigned a high priority to resolving the canal dispute TAXPAYERS The Redevelopment Authority has decided to take private housing In Water Works for flood control but they didnt stop there they decided to take woodland that has nothing to do with flood control or damage but they didnt stop there either now they want to along with all of the above OK a right to purchase other surrounding land In a few years to come Is This What You Want Come and help revive Americas Freedom Feb 17 at in the East Hanover Elementary School Concerned Citizens Valentine Love Lines Page DOWNTOWN LEBANON STORES NOW OPEN 9i30 5 Tuesday Ik Tl 9iOO
