The Chico Enterprise-Record from Chico, California · 1

: iTV — - t i 4 rf f KaA V 5 By JIMMIE SKJKL5T AD E-RStaffWriter G RIDLEY — Employee groups have filed 19 to 20 percent pay raise and fringe benefit requests with the City Council Employee requests are on the council's Monday meeting agenda Two separate proposals were filed for the fiscal yearthatstarts July 1 One was from the Gridley Police Officers Association representing police officers and departmental clerical workers The other was signed hy em-ployees in the Pnblic Works City Clerk Finance and Fire departments The latter also included the requests of Evdene Payne finance director-city derk Marvin Scott fire chief and JdbpDonnahoepoliceddef The multi-departmental proposal is for workers not aligned with any employee association It asks a 15 percent cost-of-Uving raise an additional floating holiday city payment of any increases inhealth or dei The police request asks for a 20 percent costaf-Uving raise workers to be able to accumulate an unlimited amount of compensating time off instead of the present 40-bour limitation with a lump sum payment for unused compensating time once a year and city payment of increased costs for health and dental coverage- Although separate requests have been filed the council in the past has maintained a policy of grading the same percentages and benefits to all city workers In a memorandum to the council Mrs Payne estimated 15 percent raises for the year would cost the cy $131362 including additional costs for retirement unemployment insurance and other assessments based on wages A20 percent raise she estimated on tiie same basis would cost $175149 Granting an additional holiday would coat the city about $2JML The optical allowance suggested for con-: sideratkn would be limited to the em-' ployee with possibly a $100 payment ! every two years on proof of purchase : In the proposals both groups said tiie California Department of Finance reported the cost of living increased in i excess of 15 percent in calendar 1980 i M i - X t -: i or dental insurance i an allowance for employee eye glasses and allowing rethed workers to remain under city health coverage with the former city workers paying the monthly premium " y" CHICO 128TH YEAR -NO 132 PHONE 5)7 ': — — — Union Will Resume Strike Negotiations HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - An official pf the striking Writers' Gpild of America said Friday the union would resume negotiations next week with movie and television produpsEs ih hopes of ending the -thifdmajor entertainment industry walkout in the past year Outside Fire Causes Hotel Evacuation LAS VEGAS (UPI) - Portions of the Holiday Inn Center Strip resort were evacuated Friday when fire broke out In an outside con-' straction project sending black smoke into the public areas of the hoteL Seyen people were hospitalized for treatment of smoke inhalation The fire began outside a 14-story room tower where a new 23-story building is being built The blaze was extinguished by construction workers before firemen arrived Report Says Reagan May End Embargo WASHINGTON (UPI)- President Reagan is prepared to end the Soviet grain embargo in the next few weeks if he becomes convinced the Soviets do not plan to invade Poland it was reported Fri-day night The Washington Post quoting "well-placed administration sources" reported in Saturday editions that no discussions are planned with the Soviets on the issue and any Reagan action to end the embargo would be based on "an evaulation of their intentions” City Workers End Three Day Strike' YONKERS NY (UPI) -Striking city workers returned to their jobs Friday ending a three-day-old walkout that had left the 200-000 residents of the state’s fourth largest city without fire sanita- tion or other municipal services Man Arrested on Threat Charge GRAND RAPIDS Mich (UPI) — A man who allegedly bragged he would be more famous than Sir-han Sirhan and Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on ebarges of threatening to kill Vice President 1 1 Til I 1 PI If Colorado rlane Crash Claims 15 his Lansing Mich home by Secret Service agents Thursday after he allegedly jnade the threatening comments to inring police officers investigating a harassment complaint LOVELAND Gobi (UPt) - A twin-engine commuter airplane carrying U Sle collided with a skydiving plane over a northern Colorado wheat Friday killing 15 people Three skydiven and the pilot of tbe parachutists’ airplane jumped to safety as their craft exploded AD 11 passengers and the two crewmen on the commuter plane were killed as lJV Lebanon Force One of the skydiven who escaped said he did not know there hud been an in-flight collision nntil he reached the sad He said he thought the plane simply exploded WASHINGTON (UPI) - Administration officials said Friday the Soviet Union has informed the United States that it would veto a i to send a Unitpd Nations proposal I force toe force to end tbe fighting in northern Lebanon EMPKIS ' A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF CHICO AND 891 - 1234 :i(M DURHAM (E-R) - Da Jean Pooler stepped down Friday as postmaster of the Durham post office ending a 19-year career that began and ended at the same location ' “We’re still working out of the same facility that I started my career in as a clerk” said Mrs Pooler who added wryly “and yea it’s a bit more crowded now” Named postmaster in 1971 Mrs Pooler said the Durham rural routes have expanded from one 40-mile route serving about 380 customers in 1882 to two routes today that cover 85 miles and service more than 700 residences The Durham Road post office contains more than 450 boxes up from the 300 that were there when Mrs Pooler started work there)1 Despite having to deal with administering rising postal rates to her customers and occasional : rural carrier mishaps Mrs Fooler said she has enjoyed her tenure aa postmaster “It hasn’t been bad at ifl” she -said in reference to complaints about the steadily rising hike in postage fees “you know we’re the only ones the people can complain to “But they really haven’t done that much of it Our customers : over here are pretty nice” Mrs: Pooler recounted tales of a few carrier accidents that tested the postal service's time-honored motto “tiie mail always goes through” In one instance she said a rural carrier’s car burned up but the mail was retrieved from th flaming gphicl lmriamngxi - About a year later a carrier was involved in an accident and once again the mall was re- ‘ trieved “bloody but intact” Mrs Pooler said On both occasions substitute carriers pressed into service delivered the mail to customers on time Mrs Pooler is the third postmaster to give up the reins at Durham sbce 1962 She began' her career when Forrest McNabb was poatmaa- (Continued on Page 5A Column 6) V JERUSALEM (UPI) — Jews ushering in the Passover holiday and Christians preparing for Easter festivities today packed the holy city of Jerusalem in a festive show of its critical nde in the traditions of both faiths Because of their different calendars Sunday will see Armenians and members of other Eastern churches start their holy week observances while Catholics Protestants and member? of other Western churches bring it toa joyous close The Easter observance will coincide with the first day of Passover a holiday marking the exodus of tbe ancient Awing of the commuter airplane1 a twinengine Handley Page tuitoiwop owned by Air UJL apparently hit the ' CALIFORNIA SATURDAY APRIL 18 " Ila Jean Pooler Durham's Israelites from Egypt and their emergence as a distinctive nation more than 34)00 years ago Authorities doubled up security precautions against possible Palestinian guerrilla attacks during tbe holidays Israeli tourisAaffidals estimate 100-000 worshippers will visit both annexed Arab EascUerusalem and the Western Jewish sector of the city The focal point elf Jewish holiday interest is the Wailing Wall a relic of the -second Herodian some 2)00 est centers on thrCburch of the Holy Sepulcher reputed site of Jesus Ottist’s crucifixion entombment and fuselage of the smaller plane a singleengine Cessna 206 owned by the Skies West Parachuting Club witnesses The commuter plane nosed into a wheat field about two miles southeast of the Fort Collins-Loveland Airport cutting a 10-foot-deep hole into the plowed wheat field j “It (the Cessna) Just exploded when the wing of the twin engine hit tt” said David Pickett a skydiver waiting on ' the ground “There was nothing left of the small plane and the larger plane was spiraling into thfc ground” Greg Feith an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said the two airplanes apparently collided at an attitude of about I- 800 feet THE GREAT MID-VALLEY AREA 198L 2Dc GOPY-$4MONTH -50 PAGES-4SECIHWS postmaster for the past 10 resurrection Both sites are a few hundred yards apart Festive meals interspersed with readings from the Haggadah the traditional account of the exodus usher in the Passover holiday at sundown today Because it fells on a Saturday all preparations for the holiday including the ritual burning of all leavened products inch as bread and cake took place Friday Throughout the 7-day festival Jews eat unleavened bread called matzo a reminder that the ancient Israelites were unable to make leavened bread when they fled Egypt The commuter plane had taken off from Stapleton International Airport at Denver about a half-hour before the 4:84 pm MST crash on a regularly scheduled flight to Gillette Wyo heart of Wyoming’s huge coal fields Steve Kinnett 24 of Denver was preparing to jump from the Cessna at the time of the collision “When I got on the ground the people told me there had been a mid-air collision” Kinnett said “My concept was that our plane had just exploded around ns” Kinnett was treated for minor injuries and released from McKee Medical Center in LoVdand The pilot of the Cessna Dave Vigen 44 of Windsor Ooio escaped injury (Continued on Page 5A Columns) (E-R Photo bjr Ok Malian) years is calling it quits ! scheduling will ei Eastern and Western Churcb worshippers to celebrate their respective holidays which mark different stages in Christ’s passion First Monsignor Giacomo Beltrttti the Latin patriarch will celebrate tbe Sitifical high mass 'celebrating rist’s resurrection inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher tbe climax of the week-long festivities far tiie Western Chinches Afterward members of the Orthodox churches will file into the church in a traditional Palm Sunday procee- sion marking Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem- Inside Irrigation Begins Four years of work was com- Pitted this week when the Or- land-Artois Water District started its first irrigation deUv- eriesPage4A r Quake Relief Work In Chico the predicted killer earthquake will be noticed but it probably won’t do much more than rattle windows hut when the quake does occur Butte County will have a rale in relief operations Page 7B Kids I v k Launch - yr v Sf ’! jA'' ' Balloons t s See Page 10D WARSAW Poland (UPI) -After an all-night emergency negotiating session the government reversed its long-held stand Friday and settled its last major labor dispute by signing an agreement giving farmers the right to form a rural Solidarity Polish authorities followed op their dramatic recognition of a farmer’s onion by making an immediate over: Jure of partnership with the lOmUlion member nrban Solidarity to solve the nation’s crippling economic problems Union activists called it their moat important victory since the recognition of the urban organisation last year Immediately afterward the government released its proposed agmda for further talks with the urban Solidarity which observers said wmsasignifi-cant gcatws to the lOmflliolvinember - organization led by Ledi Walesa - The government obviously hoped to enlist Solidarity in efforts to solve tbe drastic economic problems that have left Poland short on food and long on debt —estimated at more than $24 bfl-lion to the West alone ' The government proposed talks with Solidarity as soon as possible It urged that only issues aimed at overcoming tbe economic crisis be dealt with immediately Other outstanding problems such as political prisoners and a new labor law could wait it said “The most significant problem now is how to stop the deterioration of the economic situation to secure proper living standards of the people” the government statement said It appealed to the union asking “In which ways can the government count an Solidarity to remove negative aspects of the economy? But it was expected the government talks with Solidarity would not be held until after tbe next Communist Party Central Committee plenary session— probablynextweekend Major changes in the leadership were expected as a result of recent pressure from rank and file party members ft still was not dear what effect official recognition of Rural Solidarity would have on this year’s food production Rural Solidarity represents about2Jmfllion— 75 percent— of Pih land’s35million private farmers The farmers now hope they will receive funds and equipment so they can better endott the land j Several hundred people attended low-key ceremonies Friday marking tiie 38th anniversary of tbe Warsaw Ghetto uprising in which more than 50000 Jews were killed during a month-long battle with Nazi troops -This year’s anniversary took place in an atmosphere charged with renewed furor over what is seen as the revival of antSemitism in Poland Last month leaflets appeared at the time of a threatened general strike by the independent labor union Solidarity ‘ accusing Jews of attempting to sabo- tage changes in Poland the E-R — rr — J2 ' Classified 1C-10C Comics fB OrawortPuafel 9R Editorial JOB Horoscope SB — 2 : Polly ’a Pouters A4 Pnacrlptioas 7B Religkm 4B Sports 2B4B Strength for tbe Day Teienskm Section D Weather It i A il