Civil Service Leader, 1961 January 3

America’s Largest Weekly for Public Kmptoyees

Vol. XXII, No. 17

Tuesday, January 8, 1961

Price Ton Ce

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CAPI 70, starie,
ALBany i ON
Coup "Ye

Zeserve Explained
See Page 3

ROCKEFELLER WILL ASK
LEGISLATURE FOR MORE
‘COMPETITIVE STATE PAY

Brooklynite Named |Governor To Cite

ment’s activities,

. Commissioner

Now It’s Department’
~ Of Motor Vehicles

ALBANY, Jan, 2—As of yester-
day the title of Bureau of Motor
Vehicles in New York State be-
came « name for the archives. On
January 1, the bureau was raised
to Department of Motor Vehicles
and the transition will be marked
tomorrow by a simple ceremony
in which Governor Rockefeller
and other executive and legisla-~
tive leaders will participate

The Bursau officially became
the Department of Motor Vehicles
on January 1. It is the first new
State department formed since
tha creation of the Department of
Commerce in 1943. Because of the
holiday, the dedication ceremony
has been scheduled for 10:30 AM
Tt will be held at 504 Central Ave-
nua, Albany, the central office of
the Department

Governor Rockefeller
voll a new sign which
the change tn title from “Bureau
to “Department” and will speak
very briefly, Commisisoner William

will
in

8. Hults, who became head of the|

Bureau in April.
will continue the

1989, and who
D
also will speak
Status Changed in 1

The chan status was au-
thorized by an of
Legislature and approved by
Dublic in the general election of
1959. Since the first of this year
Hulte has been re-
the agency

new art~

the State

the

organting
ration for
Departs
nance

Caribbean Cruise
Attracts Many Aides

in prepa
its separation from the
af Taxation and F

which it has b

under

ALBANY, Jan, 2—A group of
Nassau and Haili-bound oivi
vice emp # and thelr families
w ail Ist on & specia
or sponsored by the C
vice Employ Associatiot

Nine days at sea and in port
await those who have signed up
for the outing, In charge of ar-

rangements are Hazel Abrams of

the Education Department and
Foster Potter of Agriculture and
Markets

Late bookings can still be made
through Miss Abrams and Mr
Potter, or by writing at once to
‘Boecialived Tours, 11 W. 42nd St,
New York, N. ¥.

operating since 1924

Functional divisions have been
instituted to handle the various
phases of motor vehicle adminis-
traton and the State has been
divided into five regions under the
direction of deputy commissioners.
Eleven district offices have been
or soon will be established to
achieve closer contact with motor-
ists and to provide more efficient
service than was possible under
the former Bureau.

The Department's district offices

are located in Albany, Buffalo,
Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Bing-
hampton, New York City, Brook-

and Mineola, The
ith will open in White Plains
sometime in March.

Jamaica

elev

Attorney Named To
Liquor Authority

ALBANY, 2 ¥
Rockefel! named
kk City att
to the State Liquor Authority. He
s John C. Hart of 50 Park Ter-
West

Jan
” has

G

a
ey and Democrat

Hart's appointment ts for
m ending Apr. 12, 1963, His

ary will be $16,962 4 year
Under state law, the five-mem-
ber authority is bipar 1 with
not mor¢ than three members be-
ng to the sa! political

The State Education Department in All

Hall
their children made their
qifts were accep

subsequently distribute:

of the Law Division played the role
. sorved

ited by Ist Sgt.

To Fill One Of
Vacancies On PSC

ALBANY, Jan, 2 — Governor
| Rockefeller has filled the first of
| three openings on the State Pub-
lis Service Commission, The jobs
pay $22,486 a year and oarry @

term of ten years

Named to the vacancy created
by the resignation of Richard H
Balch of Utica, a former Demo-
cratic state chairman was Frank
J, McMullen of Brooklyn. Mr, Mc-
Mullen !s a former Republican as-
semblyman

He will ul unexpired term
of Mr. Balch, which ends Feb, 1
1965. The appointment is subject
to Senate confirmation

the

Other Possible Choices
At Leader presstime, Mr. Rocke-
feller still had not acted to fill

& second vacancy on the commis-
sion. A PSC career employe,
est A. Bamman, has been
tioned as a possible choice by the
Governor. He is director of utili-

ern-
men-

ies for the commission at the
present time.
On Feb, Ist, a third commis-

sionership will open up with the
expiration of the term of Francis
J. Mylott, only Democrat on the
commission. He is expected to be
renamed by the Governor

STATE EDUCATION DEPT. CHRISTMAS PARTY
maw rs ;

"

iny held its 1960 Christma:
Thursday afternoon, December 22, at which time the Department's employ:
nnual contribution of gifts to less fortunate youngsters.
rt W. Wilson of the United Stotes Mari
through the Albany civic and fraternal org
of Santa Claus, Ted Wena,
s master of ceremonies.

Personnel Losses

(Special To The Leader)

ALBANY, Jan, 2—Governor Rockefeller will ask the 196%
Legisiature to tackle the problem of making state salaries
more competitive so that the state agencies can recruit and
retain skilled personnel.

Sources close to the Governor, however, indicated that
the question of a general state pay hike would be taken up
separately by Mr, Rockefeller and legislative leaders.

In his annual message to the lawmakers Jan. 4th, Mr,
Rockefeller will voice his great concern over the increasing
problems all state departments and agencies are meeting
in keeping and recruiting people of special training and
experience,

[raised the salary of thelr county
| executive to $26,000—more than
any state department head re-
ceives

Some Specific Groups
The specific groups the Ge
nor is known to have in mind In-
clude the managerial olass, scien-
thats, doctors, prison |
and hospital attendants
He
Legisl:
partic!

Pay Study
As reported last week in The
Leader results of « special com-
notify the! parison study which the Gove
salaries, | er has asked a private con-
sultar make of state and

engineers

expected to
ture that
larly for

is

state or

and

to

professional

utifie positions, are lagging, private salaries will not be ready
hind other states, the federal| for inclusion in the Governor's

government and counties and gislative message.
obties. The study will cover a wide
One mid-western state, a de- we of sp lized flelds and
affect thousands of state workers

head is known to have
told the Governor recently, is
paying $8,000 more than N
York pays for the same position.

It has been called to the Gov-

partmer

om. sourees close to the Gove
it is said that Mr, Rocks.
is “hopeful” that his ad~
ministration will be able to make
a major recommendation in this

ernor

feller

nor’s attention that Suffolk
area. One associate declared
County, for example, recently Absa
New York State must get back
out in front on the salary situa
tion in order to get and hold the

best people available.”
One

state department

reported:

(Continued on Page 3)

Josephine Lochiner
Mother of CSEA

Executive, Dies

Mrs. Josephine Lochner, 86,
mother of Joseph D. Lochner,
CSEA executive director, died Im
Albany a long illness, She
|was the widow of Peter Lochner,

Mrs, Lochner was a lifelong Ale
| bany resident

Also surviving are sona John,

rty in Chancellors Peter and Francis Lochner; « alse
and |‘. Sophia Andrus, 10 grandchite

These | 2 and three great-grandobite
Corps and ‘°
jations. Lou Welch) Requiem High Mast was cele

Treasurer of the oh gg burial was in Albang
ib we

Page Two

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Tuesday, January 3, 1961

IN CITY CIV

By RICHARD

Story Gives Insight
To Meeting Process
In City Service

‘The following is reprinted from
the New York Times. It was en-
titled “Experts Who Pepare Civil
Service Exams Toil in Anonymity
and Stict Secrecy.”

‘The city's civil service examin-
era who broke into print the other
day with a plan to reshape eligi-
bility requirements for men who
want to take the test for patrol-
men, for an anonymous group of
sixty-five men and women pur-
posely hidden from the public eye.

‘They prepare tests for 2,132
different city Civil Service jobs,
mark test papers and grade them.
Part of their work is proctorial,
with some 3,000 reserve monitors
— former teachers, clerks, Wall
treet accountants and the like!
— hired at $7.60 a day to help
keep test-takers honest.

Every examiner is a college
graduate with a master’s degree
or its equivalent. He must have
done gaduate work in his special-
‘ty, or specialties, or must have had
actual job experience in it. The
group includes experts on the Pol- |
foe Department, Fire Department,
on medicine, law, health, transit,
vaious branches of engineering,
social welfare.

For unusual examinations, ex-
pert outside help is called in. ‘The |
test for city bacteriologists, ‘some |
time ago, was prepared by a Nobel |
Prize winner, Karl Landsteiner, for
example. The tests for jobs in the |
city's legal departments were
framed by such men a# Dean
John Finn of Fordham Law)
School and Justices of the State |
Supreme Court.

‘When the examiners themselves |
undertook to qualify for their
Jobs, their tests were secretly pre-
pared by experts both within, and
outside New York State, The test
fer Board of Education Examiner,
& $14,300 post, was framed by «
group of the nation’s foremost
educators, rather than by local
talent.

Four grim, massive multi-com-
partment safes lie behind locked
doors in the Civil Service Commis- |
sion offices at 299 Broadway. Each

@xaminer alone holds the key to )the latier part of January and}
He | copies of the course offerings will|

hia designated compartment.
must put all test papers, at what-
ever stage, into the safe, even if
he leaves his desk for just a few
minutes,

Only Samuel Galston, director
of examiners the last thirty-five!
years, holds a master key to the
safes, and not even Joseph
Schechter, City Civil Serviee Com-
mission chairman, may handle it
The rule is inviolable.

No examiner may show a set of
test papers to another, and each
must ride alone to the printer with
his copy. He must stay there until
M% je printed up, and ride back,
seated on it, During printing, no
outgoing telephone calls are al-
Jowed, One day # print-shop own-
@r unthinkingly walked into his
own plant while questions were

IL SERVICE

EVANS JR, Seen

going through, He had to stay.

Question papers are almost al-
ways printed on the eve of an
examination and are kept locked
in the safe overnight. Those who
take examinations must not put
their names on the papers; they
use only their application num-
bers, These are on stubs, which
are torn off and shuffled. Then
the papers get new numbers. Test-
takers are fingerprinted, too, so
they can't slip in proxies,

‘The examiners are an astonish-
ingly genial lot — not stuffy, as
you might expect their top-secur-
ity jobs to make them, They're
proud of the fret that their safe-
guards have kept city Civil Ser-
vice fee of scandal since it was
organized seventy-two years ago.

| Evening Courses

Popular Among
City Employees

More than 1,300 City employees
attended courses this fall in the
New York University, City Col-

Ideal office conditions may be
offered hundreda of Federal em-
ployces in the New York City
area, when the Government's ul-
tra-modern 41 story office strue-
ture opens ite doors in Foley
Square.

Arthur Miller, soting regional
commissioner of the General Ser-
vices Administration, the con-
struction arm of the government,

the structure is to rid the govern-
ment of inadequate oMfce space.

“The building will face the fed-
eral
which will be an ideal location
for workers living throughout the
city.” Miller said.

“Now that funds for the site
and design of the building have
been approved by Congress,” he
continued, ‘the General Services
Administration will submit a bud-
get for the acwual construction.

Mr. Miller explained that this
will take time and that his agency
does not expect the building to be
in use for at least four or five

rs
A modern air-conditioning plant

|and sumMecient office space wil, |

Ideal Office Conditions
For Federal Employees

told The Leader the purpose of

and county court houses

Catherwood Tours

In Latin America

ALBANY, Jan. 2—State Indue-
trial Commissioner Martin FP.
two contrasting components —|Catherwood recently visited Latin
© customs court building and an|Amerioa for a ten-day vacation
office building for eighteen agen- | trip.
cies of the executive branch of The Commissioner's main stops
the government. The office build-| were in San Juan, Puerto Rice,
ing will be separate from the | and Bobota, Colombin. While tour-
custom court building. ing these countries, he renewed

Lafayette, Worth and Duane acquaintances with labor leaders
Streets mark the proposed boun- | and representatives of the min-
daries of the site. It will extend |istries of labor, as well as unl-
west halfway through the block | versity faculty members,
between Elk Street and Broadway.

<a in this area,” Miller Monsigner Named Visiter

|. “the proposed building will | ALBANY, Jan. 2 — Governor
i amid many of the city's vital Rockefeller has made a recess ap-
centers.” | Pointment of the Right Reverend

At present the United States’ Monsignor Anthony F. DeLaura
Customs Court building ts at 201 of the Assumption Rectory, Copia-
Varick street while many of the. | Rue, to the Board of Visitors of
space |Central Islip State Hospital for

|e term ending Dec. 31, 1964.

YOUTH BOARD PRESENTS AWARD

federal agencies rent
throughout the city.

| according to some observers, add |

|lege and Board of Education!(a the comfort and eMiciency’ of
Municipal Personnel Programs, f| ihe workers, The limestone and

| court

was announced last week
Registration for NYU and City
College courses represented a 30
percent increase over 1959, City
Personnel Director Theodore H.
Lang, expressed gratification at
this increase and said that the
Personnel Department would con-
tinue to meet the needs of City
employees by providing them with

‘opportunities to take courses de-

signed to improve their job skills
and prepare them for promotion.

NYU and City College courses
are offered at # nominal fee;
Board of Education courses are
free.

New courses in the fall program
such as conversational Spanish,
labor relations in New York City
agencies, law for inspectors and
procedure for Criminal
Court personnel met with an en-
thusiastic reaponse.

City employees are urged to
suggest courses to the Personnel
Department (CO 71-8880, Ext. 231)
which can be included In future
programs.

Information about the spring |

1961 semester will be available in

|be available upon request to the
| Personnel Department.

Brooklyn YMCA
Adult Evening
Courses Are Ready

The winter series of informal

adult educational classes at the)

Brooklyn YWCA will begin Tues-
day and Wednesday evenings, Jan,
31 and Feb. 1, it has been an-
nounced. They will include popu-
lar dance, contract bridge, invest-
ors information and successful
photography,

For further information contact
the Y's program department, 55
Hanson Place, Brooklyn 17. Tele-
phone ls JA 2-6000, Ext. 266.

CITY EMPLOYEE EVENTS

CALE

NDAR

ST. GEORGE ASSOCIATION, Pire Department, Installation of

Officers Banquet, Antun’s Restaurant, 96-43 Springfield

Biya,

Queens Village, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17. $7 per person.

NEGRO BENEVOLENT SOCIETY,

Sanitation Department, Meeting,

Bleoction of Officers, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, 81 W. 115th St,

Manhattan,
ANCHOR OL

Branch 39, Meeting, p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 428

Broadway, Manhattan, Entrance on Howard St, side.

metal panels of the
which buttress a plaza and pool
are expected to enhance the ap-
pearance of the area.

The design reportedly will have

Suffolk County —
Announces Exams
|For February 4

| ‘The Suffolk County Civil Serv-

ice Commission announces the}

following examinations to be held

exterior,

Shown above Is Ralph W. Whelan, Commissioner of Youth
Services, senting a certificate of merit and a cash

of $50 to 'y Tobias, an accountant in the Audit and Con-
trel Department of the New York City Youth Board. The
award was presented on Dec. 20 for the suggestion of
fication of requisition forms for the rental of station wagens

Jon February 4, 1961. The Inst @"@ buses. Kalman Rothbaum, the Youth Board's Director of
|date for filing applications is Audit and Control, indicates that other money saving ideas
January 3, 1961 by Tobios ore cise being applied could result in similer
@ Account clerk awards
° Z

Account clerk-typist
Bookkeeping machine opera-
tor
Business manager (a)
Business manager ‘b)
Clerk
School lunch director
School lunch manager
Senior account clerk
Senior stenographer
‘Typist
Superintendent of buildings!
and grounds
© Telephone operator
‘These examinations are being
held to fill vacancies in the school
districts, Suffolk County. Sala-|
ries vary according to school dis- |
trict. For the salary in any par-
ticular district, contact the Board)
of Education
All citizens of the U. 8 who
have been residents of Suffolk
County for one year and who
meet minimum requirements may
Mle for these open competitive ex-
aminations.
| Applications and genera) infor-
mation may be obtained by writ-
ing or telephoning Suffolk Civil
Service Commission, County Cen-
ter, Riverhead, N. Y. Phone No.
| Park 7-4700, ext. 242.

ee

| Syracuse Parole

| Fetes Commissioners
Commissioner Russell G. Os-
wald, Chairman of the New York
State Board of Parole, recently

area on the occasion of the an-
nual Christmas dinner party, at-
tended by more thn forty mem-

visited the staff of the Syracuse

bers of the staff and thelr guests.
In reference to the Christmas

season Commissioner cons Hane ea a a
served that the people in the Di- fl addres ites |
vision of Parole and their fami- City A ates:

ins © splendid fob and "earaist a
ng ® splendid Job and “eertainly |S i i i i a i a

are engaged in Christ-like work,”

Commissioners Frank L. Cald-|
well, Paul J. Regan and Robert
J. Wright, members of the Board
of Parole, also attended the affair
whieh was held at Raphael's Res-
pseeaigpe on State Pair Boulevard
near Syracuse.

Area Supervisor Joseph L. Max-
well, who introduced Mr. Oswald,

IT'S IN THE BAG

RARE AND EXOTIC TEAS HOW
IN CONVENIENT TEABAGS!
Four different ten mixiuree—

ye BO cuye—B1.
Haniomely boxed in gree amd geld
Sampler Package. Makes a perfect

oliday gift
| pointed out that this was the first peascnang case
oe im his experience when e Rampton an
it had been possible to assemble Bene ten: sanainnee om sennelt

four members of the Board of Pa-
| vole at an area function

Toastmaster Daniel M. Fox in-
|treduced other guests, including
| former staf! members Emmett H
|Dunlavey, Probation Examiner: |
Richard J. Beachman, assigned to
Clinton Prison; and Mrs. Lauretta
Jordan of Syracuse. George Hahn
|and Robert Priest of the Buffalo
staff were also in attendance.

Arthur D. MoCabe served as
| Committee Chairman, assisted by
|Anne Morisey, Dorothy Dygert
and Dolores Wilder.

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Tuesday, January 3, 1961

"Weinstein Explains Size

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Three

Of Retirement System's

At a recent meeting of the Met-|

topolitan Division of Employment
ghapter of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Association in New York
City, Max Weinstein, chief actuary
to the State Retirement System,
explained in detail the size of the
System's reserves and how option-
al benefits were determined.
- The Leader, lesrning that this
‘Was the first time Mr, Weinstein
had explained these problema in
detail at ® public meeting, is re-
Deating his talk because of wide-
spread interest in both topics.

‘The following remarks are those
delivered by Mr. Weinstein at the
meeting. It is suggested this story
be clipped for further reference

Winstein’s Report
I have been asked to discuss two
Subjects that you are particularly
interested in. The first is the size
our fund, our reserves, and
why we need so much money,
The second is the way we deter-
mine our optional benefits and
why a member's benefit is reduced
so much when he takes an op-
tion. I shail first discuss each
of these subjects with you and
then, if you wish, you. may. ask

me questions about them

Size of Reserves

At March 31, 1960 our funds
inted to almost @ billion and
@ half dollars. That ts a lot of
money. It is very natural that
Members of the System, and also
the State and the participating
employers, should wonder why we
need so much and when are we
ever going to spend it. I under-
stand that there has been a good
deal of discussion of this matter
‘at meetings of the CSEA, and the
Association has likewise wonder-
ed why we need so much money
and why can’t we use some of it
to provide larger benefits.

I intend to discuss this with
you very fully and in some detail
I hope you will bear with me if
the subject gets to be # bit tech-
nical at times, but I think the
orily way to give you @ full un-
derstanding of this matter is to
Gtscuss is fully, So here
Tn order to do that, I shall have
to use the figures as of March 31,
1059. The reason is that we have

iGowanda State Hospital. The

rted by b
jent recrrati

‘ri

‘eduction chairin:

Chapter; Dr. | Mu

by the Gowanda State Hospital C!

and youngsters of the area. The proceed:
hown above, left to right:

not yet determined all of our re-
serve figures as of March 31, 1960,
and it is important to have such
figures if we are to fully discuss
the subject. The figures as of
March 31, 1959 are, however, just
as good for this purpose, as you
will see when I get into the sub-
Jeet.

At March 31, 1969 our total as-
sets amounted to $1,334,000,000.
In addition, we had about 14 mil-

Reserve Fund: Options

lion dollars in our assets which
are balanced by equal liabilities
of an escrow nature. I shall con-
fine myself to the first figure, I
shalt round all these figures off
to the neaiest million dollars be-
cause, with figures of this size,
half million more or less makes
no difference.

Out of that total fund, $496,-
000,000 represents the active mem-

(Continued on Page 14)

Hawait: Tour

Lures Big

Capital District Crowd

ALBANY, Jan. 2 — An overflow

crowd attended the first meeting) Waikiki Biltmore on the famous

when the Hawaiian tour spon-
sored by the Capital District Con-
ference was described and tilu-
strated recently.

Hugo E, Rausch, sales promo-
tion manager for Niagara Mohawk
Power Corporation, showed colored
slides of the islands taken by him
on @ recent trip through the 50th
state.

Many questions were asked by
the men and women who filled
one of the hearing rooms on the
main floor of the Governor Alfred
E. Smith State Office Bullding in
Albany. The meeting was in
charge of Hazel G. Abrams, Con-
ference President.

Speakers in addition to Miss
Abrams were Miss Deloras G. Pus-
sell and Foster Potter,

‘The towr, in charge of Special-
wed Tours, Inc, 11 West 42nd
Street, New York City, leaves Al-
bany June 30 for 15 days in
Southern California, Waikiki
Beach and the San Francisco area.

Flying non-stop to Los Angeles,
the Super G Constellation carry-
ing the party will arrive on the
coast for two days intermission be-
fore resuming the flight to Ha-
wail. While in Hollywood, the
tourists will see Disneyland and
the chief points of interest in the
film capital of the world. Their
hotel bills and tips are included
in the $475 charged for the entire
trip.

Hula Girls and Flowers

After arrival in Hawali and the
traditional flower lei greeting by
hula girls at International Airport,
the party will transfer to their

GOWANDA CHAPTER RAISES $900

Sh raised b
pter of the

ay Rossni
tant administrative director.

reserved rooms at the beautiful

beach which Diamond Head over-
looks. Each room will be equipped
with @ private lanai (veranda)
and such conveniences as electric
coffee maker and refrigerator bar
in addition to television and
radio.

Sightseeing tours of the Island
of Oahu and a catamaran trip to
Pearl Harbor plus hula shows, a
luau (native feast) and other en-
tertainment are part of the Con-
ference’s package deat for the
tourists.

‘The special plane will arrive in
San Prancisco on the morning of
July 12 for more days of West
Coast sights such as the redwood
forest of giant trees, the bay area,
Chinatown and San Francisco in-
cluding Fisherman's Wharf.

Limited Passage
The Cooperative Hawaiian Tour
returns to Albany airport in the
evening of July 14 after a day-
Ught non-stop flight across the
continent.

Miss Abrams said the trip is
limited to 107 persons, Many have
already signed and made the $160
down payment. When the limit
{s reached, no more can be ac-
commodated, she said, Albany
phone numbers at which Miss
Abrams and Miss Fussell can be
reached in the evenings are HE
4-5347 and IV 2-3597 respectively. |
Mr. Potter is available at the De-)|
partment of Agriculture and,
Markets, 2ist floor of the State
Office Building, phone HO 2-7511,
extension 3442. Complete itiner-
aries of the trip are available.

nts a check for over $900 to Dr. I, Murray Rossman, director of the
the third
ivil Service Employees Association, and

talent show sponsored

is are to be used for

Vito Ferro, Florence Wolcs, treasurer;
Gennard Nelson, chairman of the show; Victor Neu, presi- nition of her services as secretary
director of the hospital; Dr. Frits Trapp, assis- of the council. The new secretary

An Open Letter
To CSEA Members

Li JOSEPH F. FEILY, PRESIDENT
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSN.

“The people of the State of New York use the full
measure of their gratitude to the many professional men
and women who have forsaken greater financial remunera-
tion in private Industry to enter the Civil Service.”

This excerpt is part of a speech recently given by the
Hon. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General of the State of
New York. Speaking further, the Attorney-General com-
mented upon the need for adequate compensation for govern-
mental employees. “It is essential,” he said, “that government
be aware of Its obligations to its professional employees by
setting a pattern of a model employer through concrete
recognition of the invaluable contributions of those who
serve it. — = — —____.

Government and the public} 258’ Public Expenditure Commit-
| must understand that there is no} tee and certain upstate newspaper
inconsistency between fiscal re-|ditors who have been recently
sponsibility and adequate compen-| Claiming that the state worker
sation for civil servants. The sal-| as achieved: equality,
ary schedules of public service ‘Living Wage’ Real Problem
must be adjusted so that compen-| Last year our figures showed
sation is commensurate with the) (#nd they were supported: by an
service required, the skill which |"dependent survey made by an
ia necessary, and the sacrificed| cial agency) that the state
entailed. Pensions and other fringe | Workers were lagging behind in-
benefits must be afforded in a| dustry by some 10%. Thousands
manner equal to that of private|°f state workers were faced with
industry.” | real problem of making their
| The civil servants of the state) ‘ake home pay cover the daily

have never asked for more than} Sts of their living.

|this. For many years they have) The Administration did try to
pleaded with their governmental) Slleviate the stringent conditions
and legislative officials for a com-| Which the state worker faced by
pensation equal to that paid to|®58uming 6 percentage points of
their counterparts in industry. his annuity contribution to the
Yet, year after year the pay ad-|Tetitement system. This was for
justments which are granted to| Sl! Practical purposes giving the
employee back his own money—

This statement ts made despite| *h® states’ workers will get any
the reported assertions of the citi. |Denefit from this at the time of

Rockefeller Will
Seek Pay Raises

(Continued from Page 1 |

to the Governor recently that un-
less something is done regarding
State salaries, particularly for
skilled employes, it would lose
every top person on its payroll
within ten years.

On Salary Inequities

Last week, a spectal committee,
headed by Lt. Gov, Malcolm Wil-
son, met in the Capitol to review
an adjustment in institution sala-
ries and the inequities that grew
out of the reduction in the insti-
tution work week !

The Governor has set two cri-
teria in seeking a solution to the
state's recruitment problems. One
is to arrive at a plan to wipe out
salary inequities and the other is
to return state salaries to a com-
petitive position with those paid
by private industry and other gov~
ernment jurisdictions.

When Mr. Rockefeller delivers
his annual message at the opening
of the Legislature, he also will
propose establishment of a new
Bureau on Heart Disease in the

State Health Department and in- |

stitution of a stepped up program
to help chronic patients in state

| menta] hospitals

The Lawmakers also will be
faced with proposals to place t
State Retirement System on &
non-contributory basis, as sug-
gested by State Comptroller
Arthur Levitt and continuating

of last year's take-home pay raise.

Peg Delehanty Honored

ALBANY, Jan, 2-—Peg Dele-
hanty was guest of honor at a re-
cent Christmas party given by the
State Personnel Council in recog-

lof the council is Frank Benoit.

their retirement.
Gap Has Widened

Meanwhile, during the past year
from April 1 to date, the gap be-
tween the state and industrial
workers has widened. Prices and
Outside wages have continued to
tise—so that at the moment, we
find that the civil servants are
almost 15% behind.

‘The public workers are grateful
for the tribute and the support of
their position which such a knowl-
edgeable person about govern-
mental affairs as Mr. Lefkowits
has made for them. His state-
ments help tot overcome the many
arguments by the groups men-
tioned above—which have obvi-
ously been made without a full
knowledge of the facts and with-
out thinking the problem through,

Mt. Morris Chapt.

Fetes Christmas

| Eighty-five mombers and friends
of the Mount Morris Chapter of
the Civil Service Employees Asso-
| ciation helld their Christmas party
at the Genesee River Hotel. Chap-
ter President, Oliver Longhine,
acted as toastmaster and intro-

duced the guests, Dr. Armstrong,
Director, welcomed all to the
party

Guests at the party included
| First Vice resident of the StPate
|CSEA, Albert Killian and Mrs,
Killian; Fifth Vice President
Claude Rowell and Mrs. Rowell;
Pield Representative James Powers
and Mrs Powers; Dr. and Mrs,
Armstrong

“The Pour Old Timers,” Nick
‘Tennant, Steward; Duane Wicks,
| Laundry Supervisor; Tome Drago,
| Senior X-ray Technician and
Elmwr Pfeil, storekeeper sang
| several Christmas songs, Mr. Ten-
nam led the group in carol
slinging.

Mrs. Burt, The Social Committee
|and Chapter Delegate and her
Couunitice were congratulated by
all attending for their efforts in
making Wis annual affair «
auovead. iad we

Page Four

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Tuesday, January 3, 1961

SERVICE

Federal Workers Take |6,000 Non-Civil Service

Extra Training Courses | Jobs Listed in US Book
A book named “United States

Federal employees are taking Government; Policy and Support-
more and more training courses.| j.¢ positions,” put out by the
I addition to the thousands of
employees who received training) ganate Post Office and Civil ser- |
in their own agencies, it 18 TE) vice Committee lists the more than
ported that in the last few months! 6.499 non-Civil Service Jobs in the |
10,000 Federal employees took 240) povernment to which the new ad-
training courses outside thelr) ministration can make appoint-

agencies.

‘The Civil Service Commission
has provided an explanation for
the need of all this extra training.
In addition to changes in occu-
Pations which must be kept up
with, as in medicine, the Commis- |
sion also points out that new
methods may sometimes change)
the nature of work entirely as in
the changeover from manual to
@ectronic computations. Pinally,|
the Commission notes that the
skills required in Pederal jobs are!
@uch that they cannot be learned)
eutside of Government itself.

Letter to President
Lists Changes in Servic

The Civil Service Commission
sent a letter to President Eisen-
hhower reporting the changes and
improvements which took place
under his administration,

Some of the changes mentioned
in the letter were an incentive
Q@wards program, which saved the
Government over $500 million)
Gollars while paying the employees |
more than $40 million dollars, life
and health insurance programs, |
and an appointment system pro-
viding more Job security for em-|
Ployees.

In conclusion, the Commission |
stated that these innovations pro-!
vided for more efficiency and
economy in government and have
also shown “that the principles of |
the merit system are entirely com-
Patible with the most modern and/
@ffective concepts of personnel,
Management and employee bene-
fits,” \

Applications Accepted
For Coast Guard School
Until January 10,1961 |

Applications for cadetship to
the Coast Guard Academy in New |
London, Conn. are now being ac-
cepted, it has been announced by
Rear Admiral Edwin J. Rolan,|
USCG, Commander of the Third
Coast Guard District.

Applications are open to all up-

married men who have reached | Sine. recently. The dinner waa OVER THE PAST
thelr 17th but not their 2and| hél@ at the Circle Inn in Latham,
birthday by July 1, and are high | NeW York. More than 350 guests 64 MONTHS

school graduates as of June 30, |
Successful completion of the aca-
demic and military training at the
Academy leads to a commission as|
Ensign in the Coast Guard and »
Bachelor of Science degree

The deadiine for submitting ap- |
Plications is January 10, The ex-|
amination is scheduled for Febru- |
ary 20 and 21 in major cities
throughout the U. 8.

Research Psychologist
Needed in Brooklyn

The Veterans Administration
Hospital in Brooklyn has a va-
@ancy for a research psychologist,
GS-12. The jobs pay $8,955 to
$10,255 per year. The requirements
are three years of experience in
social psychology, At least two
Years must have been spent in »
medical setting, either pre or post
doctoral with one post doctoral

, >
bree -*

| State Department of Mental Hy-

ments,

‘There are a variety of jobs
listed, running from janitors to|
US, attorneys, The salary range
for the jobs is equally wide.

Kennedy advisors do not expect |
to fill all of these jobs. They hope|
to fill only 500 to 600 of them with |
the qualified people they want.
The Eisenhower administration
has had the same problem, hence
the large number of vacancies that
exist at this time.

Private Executives to
Try Political Jobs

In order to let people in indus-
try know what government work |
is like, the Brookings Institution
has developed « plan whereby ex-
ecutives from private business
would be assigned to important
political jobs for a three to six
month peried. The program would
serve te give future government

nee
The Department of Public Works Division No. 2 Chap’

ter of the Civil Service Employees As-

sociation recently gave a testimonial dinner in honor of Walter K. Hayes, motor equipment
years of service with the State. Shown above from

supervisor who has now com
left to right a

pleted
Nicholas J. Cimino, President of the CSEA Chapter; Walter Hayes, the

honored guest; Lester H. Krick, general highway maintenance supervisor, and Lacy Ket

chum, district engineer.

New Statistical
Guide Issued by
Commerce & Public
Events Department
‘The fourth annual edition of the

Jet about the City’s economy,
people, facilities and activities, de-
signed to meet the demand for
statistical data on these subjects.|

‘The booklet, bound in the City's
colors, blue, orange and white,
was compiled by Cecelia Winkler,

appointees « taste of government “Statistical Guide for New York | the Department's research assist-
City” was released last week by the ant.

work.

Owen Comments on

Possible Change in C5
Vaux Owen, head of the Ni
tional Federation of Federal Em-
ployees made it known to the Ken-
nedy administration that he is
net happy abeut the proposal to
put most of the Civil Service Com-)
mission duties under a single ad-
ministrator in the White House,
leaving the three man CSC to take |
care of employee appeals. Owen|
said that to have one personnel)
administrater would mean great
pressure for political patronage.

Mental Hygiene
Aide Honored;
Served 50 Years

A testimonial dinner honoring
50 years in State service was given |
by fellow employees for Daniel
J. Doran, business assistant to the
Commissioner of the New York

attended.

C. Gilbert Beck, assistant di-
rector of business Adminstration
of the department, served as toast-
master, and Patrick J. MoCor-
mack, senior business officer,
Rochester State Hospital, made
the introduction and presentation
of a 23-inch console television
set, gift from Mr, Doran's fellow
employees.

Among those present were Dr,
T. Norman Hurd, director of the
Budget; John Corrigan, chief
budget examiner, Division of the
Budget, and Mrs Corrigan; Joseph
Peily, president of the Civil Ser-
viee Employees Association; and
representatives of the state de~
partments of Correction, Social
Welfare, Public Works, The State
University, the Division of Stand-
ards and Purchase, and the agency
of Surplus Property Directors
and business officera of most of
the department's 27 institutions
and members of the Albany of-

City Department of Commeree|

and Public Events. The new edi-

version of the previous one.

The Guide is available free on

| written request only to institu-
|tion is a revised and expanded tions, organizations, business

firma, banks, newspapers, libraries

to Guide, Department of Com-
merce and Public Events, 628
Madison Ave., New York 22.
Commerce and Public Events
Commissioner Richard C. Patter-
son said:
Guide to New York City and the
equally useful monthly compila-
tion of data in “New York City
Monthly Statitstics,” with ite
charts and narrative analyses, to-
gether constitute a statistical serv=
fee not matched by any other

It Is m Ti-page reference book-|and colleges. Requests should go! City.”

fice were alse in attendance,

Imagine the relief on this man’s face when the postman brings a
monthly check for $115.00. Disabled and out of work as a result of a serious
car accident, this member has been receiving checks for the past 64 months:
checks that help keep his family together until he can return to his job.

This money, plus the other important benefits covered by your State
Health Plan, can mean the difference between extreme hardship—with
staggering debts—and a normal recovery free from major financial worries.

Enroll in the CSEA Accident and Sickness Plan now, Make sure that,
if your salary stopped because of a disability, the postman would ring your
bell with a check each month,

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A CSEA
ACCIDENT & SICKNESS POLICY
PAID THIS MEMBER

$7,360.00

For full details on how you can join the
CSEA Accident and Sickness Plan contact—

“The 1960 Statistical ~~

|

-oonsiders himself qualified,

“and objectives in servicing

f

Tuesday, January 8, 1961

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Page Fire

‘500 Custodial Aides
Needed in Post Offices;
Filing Deadline Jan. 14

Applications for custodial posi-
attions in post offices in New York
City and the surounding area are
now being accepted. There are
more than 500 vacancies for these
positions, The deadline for sub-
mitting applications is Jan. 14.

‘The positions to be filled are zens. There are no age limite for) New York 17, N. ¥.

oustodial laborer, janitor, and
oharwoman, They are open only
to persons with veterans prefer-
ence. Preference is granted to
those who serve in active duty
during World War I or during
World War If and the Korean war.

Custodial laborer is a level 2
title, and pays from $1.76 to $2.15
an hour. Charwoman and janitor
are level 1 positions and pay from
$1.64 to $2.0 2an hour.

Benefits that go with these jobs
inelude sick leave with pay, health
denefits, incentive awards, life in-
surance, liberal retirement, and 13
to 26 days of vacation each year.
Eligibles may whoose the |
in which they work.

Applicants will be rated Font

Post Is Open for
CSEA Field Man

The 87,000-member State Civil
Bervice Employees Association
needs a field representative to
service its members in Orange,
Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster
Counties.

Applications for this $5,796 to
97,026-s-year job will be accepted
until Jan. 6 from anyone who
re-
gardless of present residence. Resi-
dence, however, must be estab-
shed in the vicinity of Newburgh
or in the central part of the
four-county area before an ap-
ointment can be made,

‘This is « fleld position. The in-
cumbent cannot return to his
residence each night but must
remain in the fleld as his itinerary
may require. The position is under
the supervision of the CSEA
aupervisor of fleld representatives
in Albany

High School Diploma

To qualify, applicants must
have a high school diploma or
equivalency certifioate and three |
years of satisfactory business or
investigative experience which
must have involved extensive pub-
lic contact as an adjuster, sales-
man, customer representative, in-

Vestigator, inspector, complaint
supervisor or labor relations
worker

A bachelor's degree from a rec-

ognized college or university may |
be substituted for up to two years |

of the experience, or some other
@ombination of education
experience may quality

Preference will be given candi-
dates under 46 and in sound
health and physical condition.

Whoever gets the post will ad-
minister the Association program
ite
chapters in the area and the
ehapier members, He will visit
ghapiers and regional conferences,
conferring with, advising and aid-
ing ohapter and conference officers
and committees regarding Asso-
elation policies, and do other
related work.

Fase Your Goby ef The Leader
en 0 » Non-metaber

and |

{ing to their abilities to (1) read
and follow directions (2) use hand
or power oleaning equipment (3)

handle weights and loads, and (4) | Island City, Far Rockaway, and
operate independently without) Staten Island, or from the Second

immediate supervision. |
All applicants must be US. olti-|

veterans applying under this an-
nouncement,
‘To Apply

To apply, obtain application
Form 60, card Porm 5001 BS, and
Supplemental Experience Sheet

for Custodial Positions from any
of the following main post offices:
Brooklyn, Jamaica, Flushing, Long

U. 8. Civil Service Regional office,
News Bullding, 220 East 42nd St,,

GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED MEETS

Applications should be sent,
when completed, to the Executive
Secretary, Board of U. 8. Civil
Service Examiners, General Post
Office — Room 413, 271 Washing-
ton 8t,, Brooklyn 1, N. ¥.

Buffalo Man And

5 Others Appointed
To Div. of Fire Safety |

ALBANY, Jan. 2 — Pletcher R. |
| Ward of Buffalo has been named
a field representative by the State |
Division of Fire Safety. The ap-|
pointment was made by George H. |
Proper Jr., acting director |

Selected from a civil service
Mist of eligibles, Mr. Ward will
receive a starting salary of $5,516
® year. He will serve a seven-
county area in Western New York.

An experienced former fire
official, he has had 18 years of |
service with the Bemus Point
Volunteer Fire Department and
served as chief for three years.
He also is a past president of the

New Rochelle
Urban Renewal
Asst. Test Set

‘The New Rochelle Civil Service |
Commission has scheduled an
examination for Saturday, January
7, 1961 for the position of assistant
to the Director of Urban Renewal
in the Department of Urban Re-
newal. The exam ts open to res-|
idents of New York City and
| Westchester County who meet the
| qualifications for the position.

| At the present time there ts one
vacancy and the salary range for
| the position is $7,310 to $9,230.
Requirements
Candidates must meet the fol-
lowing minimum qualifications:
either graduation from a recog-
nized college or university from
|which a bachelor’s degree has been
granted with major work In busi-
{ness or public administration,
|economics or sociology, and in
addition, at least two years of
responsible administrative experl-
jence in public administration,
public housing administration, r
estate and property management,
planning or related fields; or
graduation from high sohool and
|at least seven years of acceptable
experience or an equivalent oom-
bination of training and experi-
ence as acceptable substitutes,
Applications and complete tn-
| formation may be obtained from
the New Roohelle Civil Service
Commission, 52 Wildoliff Road,
|New Roohelle, New York, NE, &-
2021. The closing date for fling
applications 1s December 16, 1960.

FREE BOOKLET by U. 8. Gov-
ernment om Social Geourlty, Mail
only, Lender, 91 Duane Gireet,
New York 7, N. ¥.

Chautauqua County
Association.

The division assists local fire

officials with training programs.
Other Representatives |

Other field representatives of
the Division of Pire Safety and
the counties they serve include:

Francis W. Crowley, 109 Verona
Street, Elmira Heights—Sohuyler,
Chemung, Tompkins, Tioga, Cort-
land, Broome, Madison, Chenango.
Otsego and Delaware counties.

John J. Danahy, 175 Culver
Road, Buffalo—Wyoming, Living-
ston, Ontario, Yates, Chautauqua
Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steu-
ben counties.

Francis Brown, 46 North Jeffer-
son Street, West Carthage —
Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida,
Oswego, Herkimer, Lewis, Jeffer-
aon, St. Lawrence and Pranklin
counties.

Fire Chiefs

Sylvester A, Delaney, 87 Cardi- |
nal Avenue, Albany — Albany, |
Greene, Ulster, Sullivan, end

Rockland, Columbia, Dutchess,
Putnam, Westchester, Suffolk and |
Nassau counties.

Francis A. Bourassa, 813 Troy-
Schenectady Road, Latham
Schoharie Schenectady, Fulton,
Montgomery, Rensselaer, Wash- |
ington, Warren, Saratoga, Hamil-
ton, Essex and Clinton counties,

Visual Training

OF CANDIDATES FOR

PATROLMAN
FIREMAN
TRANSIT POLICE

FOR THE EYESIGHT TEST OF
CIVIL SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.

DR. JOHN T. FLYNN

| president, end

Petere above shows ten members and officers of the Lamp-
lighters Association, @ social and cultural organization for
the handicapped, at @ civil service affairs committee meeting
held recently. Front row, from left, are Thomas a
Grace Mazur, Lillian Brown and Sally Roth. Second row,

left: Bernard Berkowitz, recording secretary; Edwin SS
Leder. In back are: Maurice Ward,
chairman of the Joint Handicep Council; Max Lupkin, publi

relations director, and Michael Graziano, vice ident,
Lamplighter headquarters is in Room 16 H, 853 Broadway

at 14th St.), Manhattan.

NEW YEAR OPPORTUNITIES in CIVIL SERVICE

— Salaries and Opportunities for Promotion
bers tions

BE OUR GUEST AT ANY CLASS SESSION OF INTEREST TO YOU!

Opportunities for Men & Women — 17 Yeors ond Over!
XN. Y. Sate Applications Close dan. 14 — Clty Applications Open Soew

N. Y. STATE AND WN. Y. CITY EXAMS SOON FOR

CLERKS - $2,920 to $3,900 a Year

Leading to Career Positions at $7,500 a Year & Higher

THOUSANDS OF APPOINTMENTS IN NEW YORK CITY
Neo Experience Kequired—Penaion & All Civil Service Benefits

CLASSES IN MANHATTAN ON WEDNESDAY ot 5:30

id 7:30 P.M.

FIREMAN APPLICANTS

Only Three Weeks Left to Prepare for Written Exam

ONLY 35% PASSED LAST TIME! (3,035 of 8,501 Candidates)
Dow't take chances! Owe moderate fee wilt wna
it up to your exam date and should greatly enty
me with  kigh ‘using. A’ tow, seveentans potas

In the, laat exam, No. 814 on the lint had a
had 90.20

-
bie difference?
ing of RAT% while No. OOF

‘ the top 10 in the Last Exam were Delehanty Students!
CLASSES IN MANHATTAN & JAMAICA AT CONVENIENT HOURS

PREPARE NOW! — EXAM EXPECTED SOON!

COURT OFFICERS, cints'S. $6,715

SALARIES TO

General Sessions, County and Supreme Courts
Promotional Opportunities to $12,

Classes THURS, at 1:15, 5:30 and 7:30 P.M.

New Exem Expected to Be Held Soon for N.Y.City

PATROLMAN - $5, 438 to $6,850 in 3 Years

Balarios effectiy
Pay for @ Walldays and

Excellent Promotional Opportuniti co

AGES: 19 through 28-01 for Ve San Hs

CLASSES IN MANHATTAN: WEDNESDAYS, at 1 %
CLASSES IN JAMAICA: WEDNESDAYS, at 7:00 P.M.

HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY DIPLOMA

Needed by Noo-Graduai of Wigh School for
6-Week Ca Prepares for EXAMS vonduoied by N-Y, Sli
Enroll Now, New Class Starts Mon. Jan. 4 at 6:30 P.M.

All Who Filed Applications for N. Y. City Exam for

CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR (Bldg. Inspector)

Are Invited to altond = rlnas
Moderate fee for the tow ramaint
wuccess and tatlure,

CLASS MEETS TUES, & WED. AT 7 P.M,
N.Y. CITY WRITTEN EXAM SCHEDULED FOR APRIL

ASST. GARDENER — 4,440 to Start

FULL CIVIL, GRRVICE BENEFITS including PENSION, SOCIAL SECURITY, ete,
Ages te $5 ~ No Educeti or Experience Requirements

ENROLL NOW! Class in Manhattan, TUES. at 7 P.M.

af aur eou
lectures may meant

“Wee cream, blue cheese and ol-

Classes Forming for Forthcoming Exam tor

RAILROAD CLERK — (Subway Cha

Men & Women Eligible, N.Y, City Residence NOT

POST OFFICE CLERK-CARRIER
Get Our Home Study Book for POST OFFICE EXAMS

Qn sale at eur offices or by mall, Ne C.0.0.'s, Money $4.75
back in 5 days if not satisfied, Send check or money order.
auto 1 Masenes Ww SERVICE 8 REPAIR

The DELEHANTY IN INSTITUTE

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Tuesday, January 3. 1961

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1961 <> 3)

The Goal for 1961:
A True Living Wage

ITH THE OPENING of the 1961 session of the State |

Legislature this week, the formal push to improve the
livilihood of our public servants will get underway,

‘There will be a great deal of energy expanded to obtain
& judicious salary increase and this week he would like to
examine one of the labels that will be tagged on this particu-
lar item, the label being “living wage.”

What Js a living wage? What does it encompass? How is
it determined?

Actually, the term is most often used in a general sense
but we feel there is a definite scope that not only can define
the term but also give it application.

To us a living wage ts one that:

1, Enables a worker to live on his income without the
necessity of outside employment to make life tolerable.

2. Is commensurate with the duties performed.

3. Takes into account that a modern standard of living |

is justifiable, not a luxury, and provides for maintaining
that standard.

LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR

Letters to the editor must be
signed, and names will be withheld
from publication upon request,
They should be no longer than
300 words and we reserve the right
to edit published letters as seems
appropriate, Address all letters to:
The Editor, Civil Service Leader,
97 Duane St., New York 7, N.Y.

Suggests CSEA Hire
Retired Members

Editor, The Leader:

I noticed in The Leader that
the State Civil Service Employees
Association is seeking a new field |
man for Orange, Rockland, Sulli-
van and Ulster Counties. Why |
not do the same as the banks do|
—take on retired employees who
are members of the CSE.A. at
$1,200 a year each.

They thus could get their re-
tirement and Social Security and
jearn a little extra which would
be permitted under both Social
Security and retirement.

In place of only one qualified
man, the C.S.E.A. could then have
one for each county and be well
represented. You could not get
better qualified represntativs.

HARRY A. SHANNON
FORMER PROBATION OFFICER
NASSAU COUNTY CHAPTER

Calls for State to

4. Is on a par with similar work in private industry.

5. Recognizes that extra work should be compensated in
overtime payments of cash,

Minimum, Not Maximum Goal

This is what the 87,000-member Civil Service Employees
Associationn wants for the State's workers, not as a maximum |
goa] but as a normal standard of employment.

There will be to other demands on the Legislature this
year—as there always are—but the tedious repetition of
enacting minimal pay structures is at the danger point.
Recruitment of qualified personnel is getting tougher every
year, Valuable personnel already in service are decamping
for more profitable employment.

We wish to remind the members of the Legislature that
it is not the fault of the public workers that the cost of
government grows every year. It is the demands of tax-
payers, who want more and better service as time goes on.

Failure to establish a “living wage" in these times is to
pass on the growing cost of the government to the civil
servant. There has been much talk from Governor Rocke-
feller on down about the unfairness of such practices. Now
that the Legislature is in session the talk can end and some
action taken.

Snow Storm Policy

E congratulate the City Personnel Director, Theodore

H. Lang and Mayor Wagner for their generous policy

on employee tardiness and absence from work the worst
days of the recent snowstorm, Dec, 12, 13 and 14, We agree
that no one can really be blamed for not showing up for
work at all, particularly on the first two of those three days,
The City's policy will, of course, forgive tardiness on
those three days, and will forgive absence in nearly all cases.
But what of those loyal employees who went to work in
spit of the considerable obstacles posed by the storm? It has
been recommended elsewhere that these employees be given
an extra day off at some convenient future time. We agree.

The certificates were presented
by Lt. Colonel Patrick M. Calli-|
nan, Deputy Finance and Accoun-
ing Officer.

Isabella Riedel Retires
Tsabella Riedel retired recently

Howard Raymo Retires

Howard J. Raymo retired as
laundry supervisor of Bt, Lawrence
Biate Hospital on December 1,
1961. He had completed 40 years
of service,

Army Civilians
a principal account glerk of the
Earn Certificates Brooklyn office of the Bureau of
Francis Hosier, Mrs, Gracie Motor Vehicles after 34 years of

Bevin, and Prank Pisano of the
Pires U. @ Army Pmance and
Accounting Section at Governors
Inland received certificates of com-
Pletion for courses taken under
the U. 8. Army Pinance School,
“Wort Benjani Wiirhon, Lddiana,

service, She began as a clerk in
the Manhattan office of the Bu-
reau in 1927.

In her 43 years of service, she
received nine merit awards for
suggestions that were made part
of Blate-wide procedures,

Lead in Pay or
Permit Strikes

| ditor, The Leader:

Civil Service

LAW & YOU

py HAROLD L. HERZSTEIN
Mr, Herastein ls a member of the New York bar

Collective Bargaining

THE WAGNER ADNINISTRATION in New York City, following
the example of the Rockefeller administration in Albany, has adopted

| 2 plan popularly known as “pensions-for-increased-take-home-bene-

fits." The plan gives most members of the New York City Employees’ ™
Retirement System additional take-home pay through the City’s
payment of an additional 2% points of those members’ retirement
contributions. As a result, part of the pay of those members was .
released for take-home pay.

AS I HAVE SAID “most members” of the City’s Retirement
System benefited by the plan—not all. In applying the resolution,
the City authorities conferred its benefits on the civil service em-
ployees who worked in the various agencies and departments of the
City.

EMPLOYEES OF THE independent Transit Authority of the City
are members of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System.
The Authority makes the employer payments into the City Retire-~
ment System for its own employees. It decided to give its employees
who corresponded to and in many cases were regular civil service = |
employees the same 24% point “break” which the City gave its em-
ployces, However, it refused to do that fer its hourly-rated employees.

THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY has 22,882 hourly-rated employees,
which is by fer its largest group. They are the men actually engaged
in the operation of the transit system. Some of them reacted badly
to the exclusion from the 2'y point “break” and they brought a
Jawsuit against the Mayor and other City officials, to compel them |
to include the hourly-rated employees in the plan,

What They Claimed
THE CLAIMS OF the hourly-rated men were basically: first,
they were civil service employees and members of the City’s Retire-
ment System, just as were the employees who were benefiting by the
plan; and, secondly, denying them the benefits of the plan, in effect,

The great sovereign state of
New York denies its employees)
the right to strike for any reason.
The least the great sovereign State
might do—and should do—is to
see it that the wages to its em-
Ployees are abways no less than
the wages paid for similar work
done by employees in private busi-
nes,

It is an obvious injustice if
State employees have to ask for
higher wages, The State has « re-
sponsibility to keep abreast of the
wages problem and to act as a
model employer, In the peculiar
situation that exists the State
should set the standard and not
be merely a belated follower of
private business

Public employees will respect the
“no strike” idea if the employer
respects the privileged position
that public employees should en-
Joy because of the right to strike
which they have renounced.

MIKE MAGEE
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Port Authority
Promotes 5, Adtts
24 in Police Force

‘The Port of New York Authority
last Friday held graduation cere- |
monies for 24 new membera of |
asd Police Force who have just
|successfully completed 12-week |
lcourses at the Port Authority |
| Police Academy, and held promo-
tion ceremonies for five of its
veteran members,

the Olympia Room of the Man-
hattan Hotel. The principal
speaker Austin J, Tobin, the)
Authority's executive director,
‘The promotions went to Captain
Thomas Reilly, now inspector; Lt.
Harry Marshall, now captain com-
manding Lincoln Tunnel force;
La. Robert Friend, now captain,
commanding the Port Authority
Pollee Academy; Sgt. Michael
Slawsky, now lieutenant, and Sgt,
John Mangione, now Leutenant,

| Ting to the 24% points) when the present agreement comes up for

‘The ceremonies took place in|

made them pay unequal shares into the retirement fund and deprived
them of addititonal take-home pay

‘THE APPLICATION WAS HEARD by Judge Henry Epstein. At
the end of his opinion, he wrote: ". . . the application is without merit
and is denied and the petition is dismissed.” (Matter of Neil (Wag-
ner), New York Law Journal, December 20, 1960), In laymen's lan-
guage, the transit workers who brought the lawsuit were out of court.

JUDGE EPSTEIN’S OPINION is very interesting. In his thinking
Judge Epstein started with a number of citations of cases of high
authority to the effect that all discrimination is not prohibited by
Jaw; and that discrimination based upon a reasonable classification
is not unlawful. Of course, the word “discrimination” as used by the
Judge does not have the evil political connotation of recent years.
In law, it means rather the act of distinguishing.

THE JUDGE THEN RULED that it was reasonable to classify
employees for wage and fringe benefits on the basis of those who
obtatined their wages and fringes by collective bargaining, and those
who did not, In fact. he made the collective bargaining men a new
classification. He did thet on the ground that they arrange for their
own rate of pay and their own fringe benefits, by contract, and they
are bound by contract. In that respect, the Judge emphasized that
they were unlike the average run of public employee, whose wages
and fringes are fixed by government, alone,

THE HOURLY-RATED MEN have & collective bargaining con- |
tract which extends to December 31, 1961. It contains no provision |
about a 2% points additional payment for them into the retirement |
fund. Judge Epstein noted that the transit men “without question,
will have their opportunity to bargain for such fringe benefit (refer-

venewal.” But, as stated, he gave them no relief in court.
IT IS NOTEWORTHY that in the case which I have just dis-
cussed, the Transport Workers Union, which represents nearly all

|

| the transit men and which is the organization which does the col-

lective bargaining for them had nothing to do with the lawsuit.
One of their representatives told me that the contract does not expire
until the end of next year, and that when they make a contract,
they keep their word and do not look around for changes during
the term of the contract, I was glad to hear that because the seg-
ment of the civil service which I know realizes that it cannot make
progress without public confidence.

‘The word of the people I know is good, and they want the public
to know that it is good. The type of lawsuit discussed above is a
cheap grandstand play, and is bad for the vast majority of transit
employees and all other civil service employees.

THE JUDGE'S OPINION is solid, legally. It is also solid, morally,

AEC Worker Honored

Fred Parisette of the Atomic
Energy Commission received &
commendation recently for merit-
orious service from Joseph C.
Clarke, manager New York oper-
ations office,

Museum of Science

‘The president of the City Board
of Education has asked Senators
Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B.
Keating and all the State's con-

gressmen to press for establish-

Parisette retired from the Com-| ment by the Federal Government
mission on Deo, 29 after 19 years) of a museum of- science and in-
of service with the Federa) Gov-| dustry at the New York World’
ernment, Pair.
Tuesday, January 3, 1961

Elmira DE Aides End
Techniques Training

Saf members of the Bimira | role of the interview in inter-
foal office of the Division of Bm-| personal relationships was re-
ployment have recently completed | viewed with emphasis on oontrol-
& oourse in “Techniques of Inter-| ling the interaction between the
viewing.” interviewer and respondent, in or-

‘The training was designed cae ere gp Aguero
aid students in learning the | a ee beh
aip through the Elmira Adult Educa-
view spiraled tion Program, in cooperation with

tthe al erate The the New York School of Industrial

and Labor Relations, Cornell Unt-
}

ning School, Elmira, and con-

ment by Cornell University.

Mr. Martin is Director of In-
dustrial Relations, National Cash
Register Company, Ithaca, New
York. He effectively utilized tape
° | Feoorded role playing in his in-

struction, as well as making full
Factory use of charts and visual aids.

John DiBlasi, Senior Claims Ex-

aminer in charge of Unemploy-

To |) ment insurance at the Eimira io-

versity. It was held at Booth Eve- |

| ducted by A, Martin, on assign-|

| cal office who helped organize the)
Wearer |) ining. reports that as a resutt |

Many Titles Open

The U 8S. Government is now

sccepting applications for office
machine operator jobs, From three
months to two years of experi-
| ence is required.
The particular office machine
| operator positions covered by this
examination are as follows: book-
keeping machine operator, calcu-
lating perator, card punch ‘al-
phabetic operator, tabulating
equipment operator, tabulating
machine operator, duplicating |
equipment operator, and office ap-
pliances operator.

These positions are in grades
GS-2 and GS-3 with starting
salaries of $3,500 and $3,760 a
year respectively. Teletypist posi-
tions at grades GS-3 Gs-4
with starting salaries of $3,760
and $4,040 a year respectively are
also covered.

|
‘The examination announcement |
(No. 2-2, 1960) which contains |

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

State Issues Calendar
Of 1961 Legal Holidays
And Religious Holy Days

ALBANY, Jan, 2 — The State Personnel Services Division of the
Btate Lepartment of Civil Service has issued a handy guide to legal
holidays and religious holy days for 1961

Distributed to state agencies, the calendar notes that New Year's

Day, van. 1, and Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, both fall on Sundays,
but will be observed as holidays by state employees on the following
Mondays.

‘Veterans’ Day, which falls on « Saturday, will not be included
as a holiday for 1961, This is under Attendance Rule II, subdivision
1, which states that a legal holiday which falls on a Saturday shall
mot be observed as # holiday.

‘The division said, in a memorandum accompanying its calendar:

“Information on religious observance days has been obtained
from official religious sources and includes the observance days of
only the most populous religious faiths, and to our knowledge is
complete and accurate,

However, there is always the possibility that special or local
conditions will cause variations from “official” practice in a religious
faith. Therefore, we want to emphasize that the attached calendar
fs intended only as @ guide, Questions concerning observances of
Teligions not represented herein may be directed to this office.”

EDF Holy Days
Muh, Date Day Legal Holidays Gregorian Jilian Calendar
en 1 Sue w Your's Day ies t the
ireumeision®
6 Fn
7 Sat Eastern Orthodox
Christmas Day*
8 Sun. Foinhany Sunday
4 Rut Kaaiern Orthodox
New Yeur's Day*
28 Sun. Epiphany Sondey
19) Thurs Rastern Orthodox
Fenst of Rpiwbany*
Bev 12 Sun,
24 Ture Bivove  Tureday
1b Wed Kaatern Orthodox
Fenkt of the Presen
tation “of Our Lent
in the Termpile®
a7 Pe
BO Mow. The Great, Fuate
Orthodox
of Eant)

City Reporter

Filing to Reopen

The New York City Civil Sery-
ice Commission has approved «
recommendation to ammend ite
official examination announce-
ment for court reporter to include
among the duties of the title typ-
ing and stenographic and clerical
‘work.

‘This, by law, means the filing
period must be reopened.

SPECIAL RATE

For N. Y. State

Employees

Probation Officers
In Suffolk County
Offered to $5,910 Phone No. PArk 7-4700, ext, 241,

Buffolk County announces VA-| anpitcations must be filed before
cancies for the title of probation january 11, 1961. The examina-

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Ce Goud Priday*
Apr 1 fat Holy vay
Passover (0.0.1.)* ry
2 su Buster Sunday? Eastere Orthodox 5
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10 Mon, Eaater Mooday*
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aes ae NEW YORK STATE EMPLOYEES
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18 Ture
16 Thur,
40 Weal
$5 Mon Bukinih (0.08)*
te Tien Sukkot (O0}"
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a ‘Then, Columbus Day
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ul Veteran
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(Greek & Syrian)

"Please note the following:

© The Roman Catholvic Religion requires its members to attend
Mass every Sunday during the year

© The Orthodox Jewish Faith vequires its members to observe
@ach Sabbath Day (Saturday) in the year, and they must not be
Sbroad after sundown on the preceding Priday.

@ Holy Days indicated by the asterisk (*) are those days of
Fequired religious observance for most religions, ‘Che initials following
the Jewish Holy Days indicate observance as follows: C—Conservative,
R—Reformed, O—Orthodox. All Jewish Holidays begin at sundown

In New York: Circte 7-3900
In Albany: HEmiock 6.0743
(nm Rochester: LOcust 2-6400
Bingiee from $6.78
Doubles trom $10.50

ol Wellington.

nm the evening before the date given.

to $6,910. The probation officer
makes probation investigations}
and supervises those placed on
probation by the courts,

Citizenship and « one year legal
residence in N, Y. State is a re-
quirement for selection. Prefer-
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dates whose legal residence has
been in Suffolk for year. |

officer with « salary from $4,860 tion je scheduled for February 4

Stenographers to $78

Headquarters Fort Jay needs
stenographers of grade GS-4, The
salary ie $78.00 per week. Appli-
cants must take « US. Civil
Service examination. For more
information telephone WH 4-7700,
ext. 21169,

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Tuesday, January 3, 1961 CIVIL SERVICE LEADER - + Page Nine

. . y
Housing Authority Member| News and Notes On
g rity

_ Urges Close Ties Between U S C ee l S °

Employees and Tenants od Civil service
; “Through staff members and) The public will get a good op-| CLEVELAND, OBIO — The City | creares put througn hy the Trevs-| Oakland and Alameda County—
h volunteers, we must go out and/ portunity to inspect every nook Council has adopted compulsory |ury Board where required. Ad-j|and includes the cities of Ala
work with our tenants, their chil-| and corner of our public housing retirement at age 70 for mem-|justments are based on compari-|meda, Berkeley, Hayward, San
dren and their neighbors,” said | developments during Open House bers of the city’s Fire and Police |son with jobs of comparable re- | Leandro, Oakland and Richmond;
New York City Housing Authority | Week which commences on De- forces, effective in 1962. The city | sponsibility in business and in-' the University of California; the
Member Ira 8. Robbins re- cember 3rd. has also, for the first time, adopt- | dustry. East Bay Municipal Utility Dis
cently in an address at the an-| ed a two-year wage and fringe| OAKLAND, Cal, — For more trict; and the counties of Ala-
| - nusl dinner of the Manhattan- State Wants Doctors ott adjustment program, work- than a year, personnel technicians meda and Contra Costa. Each

ville Community Centers. The ALBANY —At least five doctors ed out with more than a doven|from agencies on the east shore agency takes its turn in handling

dinner was held in the Columbia | unions, This provides for salary |of the San Francisco kay area arrangements.

are needed by the State of New }
‘University Faculty Club. York to serve as Giscstate com. | inereazes in 1961, increased base |have been meeting sonthly #t While the get-togethers ocoa-
“It’s the beginning of the move- rivation examining physicians in| Sates for patrolmen and firemen; lunch to promote social contacts vio lly include a special feature,

' ment by social agencies to get into ek ny, Binghamton, Buffalo, Sy- reduction in the fire department |and discuss common work prob- they are more often “gab” see .

the guts of » community. This is ‘ee new York City. workweek from 60 to 56 hours in | lems, |slons of the 20 to 30 persons who
the front on which preliminary "*°U** 4 1961; liberalized holiday, vacation,| The idea was developed by the attend, and have served effectively
skirmishes in the next battle for A civil service examination for’ ynq sick leave provisions; and|personniel directors of the two to strengthen the ties between the

decent living are now taking the posts, which pay $11,152 ®& Dyrtial payment by the city of |Iargest agencies — the City of|agencies which work in the area,
| - place,” he added. year to start and have five annual) snioyees’ hospitalization costs, | ———— SE ——s

In the 92 completed develop- increases to $13,162, will be held Along with this the city adopted ome |
{ ments of the New York City February 18. Applications should its ars: formal statement of labor Ol
Housing Authority, .with their | be filed by January 16. |relations and gave the unions id Secret Of Wealth
108,000 families and over 431,000/ Additional information and ap- ques check-off privileges,

By ROBERT PETERSON

Tt seems that ig By
er
(here ence lived a —e Fook? What have you to rho
med Arkad. His vous exrnings of the pant

People, we have today 73 commu- | plications may be obtained from
nity centers, 92 centers for chil-|the New York State Department
dren of pre-school and school of Civil Service, The State Cam-
age, 31 programs for the elderly, | pus, Albany, New York,

COOK COUNTY, ML, — The
Cook County Department of Pub-
le Aid has worked out an ar-

* tn addition to 30 health stations, rangement with the city's com- trom younee dae ROUT You pay tev
® branches of the Public Library | mercial high school (Jones) to gut why Arie | nif ye
system, kindergarten and first and NYS Sets Test For provide clerical training. Fees are bt tmble | one-tenth of at vost 4

© for. bow earn,
they had fmneh would you ha:
the same epirieging Ge ten yenrs?™ ve in

mere led Aa for Ni ‘Pay Self Firat’

4 AR! vnswered, “As much
wan felt them that he be | f! tang |
fe earver by taking « the ried perder tok “Poe
‘as a seribe. A rich money ik bu fibers
to orepenine tnd asked him
Wee gmoney in Wey sheet tee | stave ee eo
wry atthy law. | copper it came, Bra, ey
. You are a vs =
Bch imo. I vou wil tell me | it noatt cat earn for you,
Pest may also become rich
tod tol! through the night | fern, ahat, maat
ave the inscription "and fee cnet
Teady tomerrow." dren
sched, oh ae, itary | ea eas 4
Aight sod. ning ‘ied al | you for your tem ichaat
The west day the cine Jak | Moth.” concluded theteg
fa caked OTK tnd Atk 1 thoueny. nin Baie you
for the sec leone
ot pile ye je) have the intelli phpthecd

second grade classes under the 9°. Tel phone Operator | paid by the agency and classes are
Jurisdiction of the Board of Ed-| New York State's senior tele-~ held on agency time. During the
ucation in 9 developments, and| Phone operator exam will be held spring, 1960, 153 attended courses
mental health, TB, out-patient! Feb. 4. You have until Jan, 3 to in supervision and shorthand,
f~ and nutrition clinics numbering |file for this position which pays These will be repeated in the fall

11 in all. | from $3,680 to $4,560, and four other courses added
To qualify candidates must be | grammar review, secretarial tech-
employed in the New York State niques, advanced shorthand, and

eich ee es cect io Division of Employment and have dictation.

extent to New York's This part- Deen s0 for one year prior to the! Los ANGELES, CALIF, — The
nership between public and pri-|'*t | City Civil Service Commission has
vate agencies is w series of very! The senior telephone operator | developed a tab card form survey-
x successful marriages, I have yet | is a supervisor in charge of the | ing language ability and unusual
to hear that one of them has been | switchboard and usually a small | skills to go to all empoyees with
broken up by a divorce.The pri-| group of workers, The announce-| paychecks to secure informretion
vate agencies and the public ment for this exam is number or foreign languages spoken by

Called “Partnership”

agencies too should no longer un- | 5903. See “Where to Apply.” employees and skills they possess Qukad that the secret of | jourst Part of all you earn te
P = derplay their joint arrangement. | not used as part of their jobs, Far of ene ties Me |
‘They should be among the first a tokeep= 7 Cm i yours | of what jou sera Phe eee
to axtol tt This will help both| FREE BOOKLET by U. 8. Gov.| MASSACHUSETTS. — The leg- Youne Arka couldn’ un. | {ast stmaune

fentand and ssi “But all og wi hae ey, fem
4
sett” To ths the ah it | The more Teithtane Sy

Mplied, “Far trom it—don' boil and water that tre

= groups to obtain the additional | ernment on Social Security, Mail !s/ature has established ® perma~

; Public support that they need so only, Leader, 97 Dui Street, nent Retiremen’ Law Commis-
e |New York 7, N. ¥. sion to make continuing examin-

j bey
ation of public employee pension
inc to study the operation and

administration of state, teachers’

e
Pr motion |and local retirement. systems and
ate Opens ei

S Raprinted with perimission of
other changes. New York Journol-American
2 *
Ex ams in Man Titles vice Commision bas elimine chan oncosreat or maken dapit Up  Jemeeny Ted
Service Commission has elimin- ‘open an account or make a deposit, Up to January
y aa oni kee, Femiemenic ~Emigrant will credit your dividends from January
| Ist... at the highest bank rate in New York State!
A number of important com-)examinations are open only to in most of {ts examination an-
petitive promotion examinations | Permanent employees in the de-|nouncements, retaining them pri- PSP ar ere, Set py ONT 33, 5/4 %o
will soon be held in State service |Partment or promotion unit for marily for certain trainee or en- cvsly on deposit fr two yours eurned Emigrants regular
25 ‘|which the examination is an-/ trance level assignments for which IA Oates Hen 0 sont MM 7 oem
The filing period expired on Det. | oo uinced order workers do not ordinarily ‘A dividend of 9436 por annum was cried trom doy of Ble%
19 and the examinations will be| Given below are the depart- apply, epee to tara a Seat and i
held on Jan, 21. ae | ment, examination number, title) smNNEAPOLIS, MINN. — The hoe eae ius =
It ts important to note that the and salary range: City Council has approved » code
; of ethics for city employees pro- Extra Dividend Days Every Month!
Losihuasinssisid BAM, NM suis felary Range | POSE DY f citizens’ committee, Dividends From Day Of Deposit!
v jeu Accoun toons. 7358 i cans’
pg a Rag ly Boer Chet Account Cherm Seae: boa | Nien Will eronin 9 citinens bowed Dividends 4 Times A Yeart

of ethics to consider charges of

conmscrion “Hh? 8018 —Seuior Probation Examiner 0732. siso |UNEthical conduct. The code cre-
W01¢ —Amvinie Probation Examiner 781. #408 ates no new law, but Council ac-
BDUCATION Tinta PASSES gacg. gare | Ceptance involves a strong moral ’

LABOR |obligation to observe it and en-
tc aman ors os |courgen accepianee of 1 BY em Industrial SAVINGS BANK
} — tate Tosurance Fund tous ployees.
wie toro. soig _, ERFICIRNOY RISE — The U. 51 Chambers Street 5 lest 42nd Stroct
F sono 8, Civil Service Commission has Oni Oo ree PM. oo pA, is
rin 501% / found that while the number of Cee Te pa Pd.
vo | Mts recruiters has decreased 14
a OnE See . ago | Per cent over the past few yeara, 1th Ave. & Street
— Wi 'e Compenestion ory erk ( Payroll’ 8500. 4350 enn
pomeranian tes Ps "iaetuy S38: $345 | Be umber of applicants bas} | _____ Opes Mimraad Hit 633 PM. =~
— Beant of Hquaiisation Reissued Tex Valuation lof employees certified for jobs Js 1) Withow ebligation—send lterotwre on how | can start building @
Asmueannent 038 e408 | oth reserve in on Emigrant Savings Account. | em interested in on
_ Fumie Wonks for dneo {UP 8X Per cent and Inquiries have He aye el as Py elie adi ry oes
|grown three per cent to nearly ' i
» 776 two million annually, while the H
9408 | staffs to handle the work in both
1418 instances are down six per cent, H
ROCIAL WELPARE na CANADA — The frst group of ; x
©" | 50,000 classified employees of the 1 Forwordpombook to = C} Mm. CT) Mm OT] Min
ee kOMS Canadian government received 1 ramen mann. 1
ot pay increases averaging $300 « { amonsss, '
SHARP AT SERNONIET year recently, It is expected that 1 om. oN. mame H
NEW TORK COUNTT as Alleriaat (An by the end of the year, salary 1 Wee Registered Mell when sending cosh) H
anion bl » des of the remainng 130,000 MEMBER FROGMAL BAPORIT MBURANGR CORPORATION MI-—I-4

mLVE Aneistac

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J re tee ‘ en eee ee ee captet es fui {Wil have been reviewed, with tm-

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Page ~~
~ Questions

Answered

On Social Security

Should all disabled workers
under 50 get in touch with their
social security office now?

Not if they've already had their
social security record frozen. In
that case, the social security
office will automatically get in
touch with them and advise what
action they should take.

My brother, who was born in
the United States, works for a
foreign embassy in Washington,
DC. Is he covered under the new
law?

Yes. United States citizens who
work within the United States for
foreign governments, their wholly
owned instrumentalities and inter-
ational organization will be cov-
ered beginning with 1960,

Who will report their employ-
ment for » foreign embassy?

‘These people will not be covered
as employees, but as if they were
self-employed, This means that
they will report their own earnings
for social security and pay the
social security self-employment
tax of 4') per cent of their earn-
ings, The first report will be due
on or before April 15, 1961.

AUTOS, new and used. See
weekly listing in ad tiatog
columns of The Leader.

Salesman Wanted

ure ‘Time & suare

Prodyets, Box 153, Gr Neck NY

Salesmen & Agents Wanted

JOBE SALESPEOPLE 1008
MARKUI. If you sell retail-—26 %

a tabu
amt ei
Car nee

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ATT'N HOMEOWNERS

BROWNSTONE
Tnterior Decora
PAT nye

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rs Const. Corp.
HY 3.0360

MAKE A DOLLAR
WORTH A DOLLAR

“OW? Ask the
FULTON PAWNBROKERS
140 Hvlinn Mt, Bkiya, PR MAODe

Krecyibing for Your Shepp
News Including MONEY

on Social Seourlty, Mall
Leader, 97 Duane Street,
New York 1, N. ¥.

+ Shoppers Service Guide

T understand that now severely
disabled workers need not wait
until age 50 to become entitled to
| disability insurance benefits. What
should a disabled worker under
age 50 do who has never applied
|to have his soclal security record
| frozen?
| A disabled worker under age 50
| who has never previously applied
for the disability freeze should find
out right away from his local
social security office if he is now
eligible for monthly benefits. If
he has worked under social se-
curity for at least five out of the
ten years just before he became
|disabled he should apply for

| benefita.

| Does the new Social Security
Law make any changes in the
amount of work required in order
|to be eligible for retirement
| benefits?”

Yes it does. Under the new law, 1

most people can become insured
more quickly. Also, many older

| people who did not work for the 2

length of time required under the
old law will now be eligible for
| Payments.
|

What should a person do now

|who has been told in the past >

that he did not have enough work
under social security te qualify
| for benefits?

TRAINS!
Display of

counts,
Old Trains For New
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TRAIN TOWN . 103 Duane St,
(neor City Hall) Digby 9-0044

UTILITIES

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Maid Seheirich Kit

} Appliance Services

Sales & Servier revad Ke
Wash Machines. cumbe «aie Guu
REFRIGERATION CY
240 E140 St & 1208 Caaile

TRACY AEMTICING COR

ABARD PIANO CO.

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PIANOS BOUGHT, SOLO

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MAGNETS $1 00

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Unbelievably powerful
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Lab Apparnion

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Is there still a minimum of
work that everyone must have?

Yes. No one can become entitled
to benefits with lem than a year
and « half of work under social
security, Our new pamphlet,
“Social Seourity Amendments of
| 1960," shows very clearly exactly

Tuesday, January 3, 1961

social security. Work done in the

Detvate household of x son or
@aughter, however, will still not
be covered, Parents now working
for their children in « business
who do not have social seourity
cards will need to apply for social
seourlty cards promptly, $

FREE BOOKLET by U. 8. Ger-
ernment on Social Security. Mall
only, Leader, 97 Duane Street,
New York 7, N. ¥.

Chart Gives Proposed CSEA

Salary Schedule Changes

2
The salary resolution of the Civil Service Employees Association calls for a three-
grade raise for all State workers, with additional increments for service.
| The following chart shows how the CSEA salary plan, if adopted, would work out ~
|in terms of new pay scales, This chart should be saved for reference.
| PRESENT AND PROPOSED STATE SALARY GRADE
Grade Ist %nd = Ord ih Sth «= 6th« tht «12th
Yr ‘ Te Te. Se , Yr.
NEN a 3380
3506 «63658 «= 3810 4144
3220 «63360 «= 3500 3640 %
3664 «63822-3080 4296
3258 3650 3706 «3796
3832 4160 43% —— 4488
‘4 3506 3e10 — 3962 3962
NEW 4. 3500 4010 4350 4529 ~ —— 4690
2664 3980 4138 4138
NEW 5 4208 4560 4736 ~—— 4912 “4
6 3832 4160 - 4324 4324
NEw 6 416 4780-4952 — BG
\7 4010 4350 — 4520 © 4520
| NEW 1 4634 S010 5198 —— 5386
8 4208 4560 4736 47:
| NEW 8 4862 5250 5444 —— 5638
, POE RE oes 3870 4416 4780 4062 4962
NEW 9 4502 5108 5512 S714. —— 5916 -
10 4070 4636 5010 5198
NEW 10 4740 5370 5790 8000 6210
tt 4280 4862 5250 5444
| NEW 11 — 4988 S642 60TR «6298 ~—— 6514
12 4502 5108 3512 sq 5714 y
NEw 12 5246 5024 6376 —— 6828
13 4740 5370 5790 8000 6000
NEW 13 5316 6234 6695 «6932 —— 1168 -
4 4988 S642 5860 © GOT8 6296 © 6298
2 5796 6534 «6780 «7026 «1272 «= —— ‘1518
{15 5246 5924 «6150 6376 4602 © 6602
NEW 15 6098 6873 «7130 738% 7646 —— 1904
5516 6224 «(6480 «6696 6932 6932
6410 7220 «1490 7780 8030 —— 8300
5196 6534 «6780 «1026 «=—— 1272 17272 72 *
6732 1578 «(7860 8142 «8422 —— 8702 8982 9262 280
6098, 6872 «7130 7388 — TH46 «67646 «(1646 «691646 «358
‘1074 7966 «68250 8544 9132 9426 9720 «394
6410 7229 «14907760 8030 8030 8030 270
7426 8354 8660 68968 9578 9884 10190 306
6732 7518 «1860 © B142 8424 8424 8424 982
7818 8772 9090 «69408 9725 —— 10044 10362 10680 818
a 7074 1056 8250 | 8544 8638 8838 «8838 883884
b 8220 9210 9540 9879 19200 —— 10530 10860 11190 330
22 7496 8364 8660 8966 9272 9272 9272 9272 306
NEW 22 8652 9678 10020 10362 10704 —— 11046 11388 11730 342
23 Tala 8772 9090 9408 9726 9726 «9726 9726 “
NEW 33 9104 10166 10520 10874 11228 —— 11582 11936 12290
a4 8220 9210 9540 9870 10200 10200 10200 10200 330
NEw 24 9586 10684 11050 11416 11782 —— 12148 12514 12889 368
25 - 8652 9678 10020 1O1382 10704 10704 10704 10704 342
NEW 25 ~ 10078 11212 11590 11868 12346 -—— 12724 13102 19480 9878
26 9104 10166 10620 10874 11228 11228 11228 11228 984
Feo 26 10800 11770-12160 12550 12940 -—— 13330 13729 14110 $90
a7 9586 10684 11050 11416 11782 11782 11782 11782 366
| NEW 27 11152 12352 12766 13162 13564 —— 13966 14368 14770 402
10078 10456 10834 11212 11690 11968 12346 12346 12346 12346 © 878
11734 12148 12562 12976 19390 13804 14218 —— 14632 15046 18460 414
10600 10990 11380 11770 1218 12550 12940 12940 12940 12940 300
12346 12772 12198 13624 14050 14476 14902 —— 15328 15754 16180 426
| 30 11152 11554 11956 12358 12760 13162 13664 13564 13664 13564 402
| NEW 30... 12998 13436 19874 14312 14750 15188 15626 -—— 16064 16502 16940 438
aL 11734 «12148 12976 13300 13804 14218 14218 14218 14218 414
E 13680 14130 15030 16480 15930 16380 -—— 16830 17280 17739 460
12346 12772 13624 14060 14476 14902 14902 14902 14902 426
. 14362 14894 15748 16210 16672 17134 -—— 17506 18058 18529 468
- 12998 13436 19312 14760 15188 18626 15626 15626 15626 438
. 16084 15558 16506 16980 17464 1792 —— 18402 18876 19350 474
13680 14130 16030 15480, 15930 18380 16380 16380 16380 450
« 15856 16342 17314 17800 18286 i877? ——- 19258 19744 20230 486
14824 18748 16210 16672 11184 17154 17134 LTA 4k
17163 18169 18657 19155 19653 -——. 20151 20649 21147 498
15558 16506 16980 11454 17928 17928 17028 17028 «474
18015 19035 19545 20056 20565 -—— 21075 21585 no
16342 11314 17800 16286 16772 18772 18772 18772 486
18913 19067 20479 31001 21523 —— 22045 22567 $23

is

Tuesday, Janu January 3, 1961

L

civ

IL SERVICE LEADER

Page Eleven

REAL ESTATE VALUES

INTEGRATED

OFFICES READY TO
SERVE YOU!
Call For Appointment

FOR RENT

Large 2 fomily, 6 end bath dows, |
r

| HEMPSTEAD & VIC.
BUNGALOW

ond beth up. Et $11,500

UB ond newly de:

II] side ond out. Walk

gett a tse ie amen 17 SOUTH FRANKLIN ST.

j))] Detached, 8

pl
‘aavene' and churches,

Will tease entire house to 6:
Hable pa

ty.
CALL FOR DETAILS nly $350 Down, Vac

HEMPSTEAD

IV 9-5800
RANCH
$290 DOWN

| seostiful

159-12 HILLSIDE AVE. |
JAMAICA

JA 3-3377

SPRINGFIELD
GARDENS
$11,000

room home, vacont.

| $78.93 @ month pays ail

135-19 ROCKAWAY BLYD.| 277 NASSAU ROAD

SO, OZONE PARK ROOSEVELT

JA 9-4400 MA 3-3800
BETTER REALTY

ALL 4 OFFICES OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

FROM 9:30 A.M. TO 8:30 P.M.

SPRINGFIELD GDNS.

2 FAMILY
$15,990 $16,500
$450 CASH $900 DOWN
Completely

with 3 bedro:

Ge,
| plot in VorWyck Gordens oreo,

COTE

JA, 9-5003

116-09 SUTPHIN BLYD. JAMAICA

i eg ne ig ss

wvvvvvvvvvwy,

INTEGRATED

RANCH RIOT

No Down Payment Gl
$700 CASH ALL OTHERS

BF, ALHANS — @ Reome - 202100 + Garnae - ON Moat - Full Basement
oome ~ 802100 » Garage - Gane Heat +
BAISLBY & Rooms + BOxIOG » Garane - @ae Meat - Full Bane

ment $10,

* * Plus Many Other Homes From $9,000 & Up

MO owe

JAMAICA
(lan, Mi tli, ds, fy AX1-1900 Oe ae Mm tm

gi eg

In

= Ss Cinticraten E = =
anniek to Subway! wrrvrvvv15
TWO FAMILY

jj) LARGE PLOT, 1 car garage, extra large rooms, automatic
heat, many extras, full price $15,500, Cash $600,

SPRINGFIELD GARDENS

6 ROOMS, detached, 40x100 landscaped plot, 6 large rooms,
oil heat, many extras, $13,006 selling price, $400 cash.

NO CASH DOWN G.L's

CALL FOR APPT.

JEMCOL REALTY

170-03 Hillside Ave.,
Jamaica, L.

1 FREE PARKING 1

AX 1-5262

a at a lt a
INTEGRATED N

CONVENIENT HEMPSTEAD

OFFICES AT & VICINITY

YOUR SERVICE stor ravine rent!

“HOMES TO FIT YOUR POCKET"
NEW YEAR'S GIFT SPECIAL DEAL

ears: Kuebas by
train te

1 FAMILY, 7 rooms, with em FOR HOLIDAY
closed porch, 2 cor gorge, ANCH style, 6 rooms with cory
fra lavatory, stall show: i
beostiful plot, 75x120, AT

|. $500 on contr

tS SS bed SS a

___ HEMPSTEAD ot HEMPSTEAD - “vic.
NEW YEAR'S GOOD START
SPECIAL! FOR NEW YEAR
COLONIAL, 1 family with in-| COLONIAL, 7

come, 5 rooms and perch, go-
rt

| with lorge pore!

4
§ . Chase Street,
Hempstead $500 on contract.

HEMPSTEAD - Vic,

We have a selection of some of the finest homes in Hempstead
and vicinity in 1 and 2 family. Ranches, Cape Cods, Colonials
from $350 up

$10 Deposi# Holds Any House

FHA or Gl

LIST REALTY CORP.

OPEN | AYR 4 WH

14 SOUTH FRANKLIN “STREET
HEMPSTEAD, L. |.

IV 9-8814 - 8815

Directions: ‘Take Southern Sine Parkway Exit 10, Peolneuls Boulevard
Mnder the bridye to South Franklin Sireet

125-30 ROCKAWAY BLVD, $0, OZONE FARK
JA 9-51000
160-13 HILLSIDE AVE, JAMAICA

iday.
en costrect. Feir View Bivd.
HEMPSTEAD

Sa Bs a DE ot Ne

OL 7.2038 o1 71004 &
Ohhh hhhnhrhnhnthathentenhentnnt.

het For Rent - Brooklyn Forms — Ulster County

90M APTS. modern, all esnve SPECIAL “BAKGAIN—4 room concrete

MAVARAIDE ORIVR, 16
ar Ta

sg

priveue
The

~ Uhr Cou ity

ALT
0Y, b6700

{Shia foun, ensodesen, B.%. SANE Huwhow Ave, Be

GI's NO CASH

SOLID BRICK
2 Family $14,990

21% baths, large beeutiful rooms,
seperate entrances, finished bose-
ment, 2 car gerege, oil heat,
modern kitchen. SO. OZ. PK. —
Full Down Poyment $600,

E. J. DAVID
REALTY

mH eR Wm,

AX 7-2111

OPEN 7 BAYS A Witem

10u-11 JAMAICA

Iirored wall living room, | wood

| carpeting, Custom

) WHY PAY RENT?
XMAS SPECIALS!

$1,000 Cash = $17,900
ST, ALBANS — Brick bun-
alow, 4 bedrooms, finish-
ed basement, oil heat,
rarage,

HOLLIS $18,900
2 family, 5 down, 3 up, fin-
ished basement, oll heat,
garage.

SPECIAL
ST. ALBANS

1 family, detached, 1 car
. Terms

192-05 LINDEN BLYD,
. ALBANS

Fieldstone 1-1950

2 GOOD BUYS

ST. ALBANS

DETACHED, 2 family, 65x100
plot, 1st floor, 44% rooms, mir-

burning fireplace, custom built!
kitehen, 2nd floor, 4 rooms,
screens and storms throughout

$22,500

HOLLIS

SOLID BRICK, | family, Al eon-
dition, 1% baths, soreens
storms, venetians, wall-to-wall
made radi
ator covers, oll heat, garage,
ultra modern kitchen, built-in

wall oven.
17,900
Other 1 & 2 Femily Homes

HAZEL B. GRAY

168-33 LIBERTY AVE.
JAMAICA

AX 1-5858 - 9

Furnished Apts,
Brooklyn
57 Herkimer Street, between Bed

ford & Nostrand Ave, beawtifully
furnished one end twe room =

kitchenette, gon  elestris »
Hevater, Near Sth Ave, iow
Adults, Seen dally,
Page Twelve

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Tuesday, January 3, 1961

State Employees
Complete Course

Ten State agencies were repre-
sented in a recently completed
course called “The Fundamentals
of Supervision.” The course was
given in the Rochester area and |
was conducted by Samuel Gross-

Syracuse WCB Bids
Mrs. Goodwin Goodb

SYRACUSE, Jan, 2—Mrs. Clara
Mulroy Goodwin, hearing reporter
in the Syracuse office of Work-
men’s Compensation Board, re-
tired January 1 after 36 years of
service, She began her state serv-
foe on July 1, 1924, as hearing
reporter in the Rochester office,
and transferred to Syracuse in

1925. Previously Mrs. Goodwin
had served with the United States
Government in Washington, D.C,

Mrs. Goodwin is a native of
Marcellus, N. ¥., and comes from
‘one of the pioneer farm and dairy
families of this section. She has
always been considered one of the
Board's crack reporters, and re-
placing her will be a difficult task,

Members of the office honored
Mrs. Goodwin at the annual
Christmas party held December
22 at Camuso’s Restaurant. Ar-
rangements for the party were
handled by Edward Downes,
Chairman, asissted by Virginia
Baldurzi, Janet Pratt, Pauline Re-
@an, Joan Roberts, Alex Ruben-

stein and Dorothy Silliman.

TERRIFIC SAVINGS
CITY EMPLOYEES

BIG DISCOUNTS

+ FORDS
+ FALCONS
THUNDERBIRDS

A-l USED CARS
ALL YEARS & MAKES

SCHILDKRAUT
FORD

LIBERTY AVE. & 165th ST.

For Low Cost Cost

Vi 5-6648

ond WILL, N.Y,

Hardware Mutuals

YOu'LL ALWAYS
DO BETTER AT

BATES

GRARD CONCOURSE «

BRONX: OPEN EWES

field of the Division of Bmploy-
ment.
‘These classes are sponsored by

the State Department ef Civil)

Service under the direction of Dr.

Charles Klein, director ef public)

employee training.

‘The following emplayees received
certificates: Franklin Alderman
and Brenard Weed of Agriculture
and Markets; James Campagna,
Helen Pinn, and Calvin Resen-
baum of Tax and Pinanos; Richard
Cross of Audit and Control; Wil-
Mam Hickey of Alcoholic Bever-
age Control; Leland Knab, and
Stephen Lenox of State Univer-
sity of N. ¥.; Harriet Kolfsky,
Rita Vanderweel of Department
of Public Works; Irving Levey, and
Harold Zimmer of Division of
Parole; Gladys Madden, and Mar-
garet Nobes of Motor Vehicles;
Robert Magill, Arthur Pemberton,
and Robert Ries of Department of
Labor; Abe Shulman and Frank
Matthews of Division of Employ-
ment,

LEGAL NoTtOm

BRUCE, FLORENCE | — Ha Mo P
1080, — CITATION. — ‘The Paople of tlie
State of New York, iy the a

Fees and Indepenileat, (0
Law, next of ki
Florenea 1. Bruce, Dec
Mf any of them te dead to) vale
ribbutoee,
aaelaences
one mame are
be asonrtalned after

Ingatons,

and

tain writing dated June Ath
ich tered for
by Samuel
green Avenue, Ly
Bet, be probated aa the lant Wil ‘al
o real and
ny. at Flor Bruce, Decent
at {he Fine of ee death,
resident of 316 West 83nd Strest
York City, tm the County of New York.
New York

Dated, Atieated and Saaied, December
18, 1980,

HON. JOSEPH A. 0Ox

ms) Surrogais, Naw York County
PHILIP A, DONABUE
STATE OF NEW YORE, DRPARTME

or svat
1 do heoby certify tua
solution of S & AD)

in duplicate under my hand sad oMciai

feal of the Dopariment this 16th day af

Deoetber, 1080,

LINE K SEMON
of a

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of Gad. Pree

Some 22 examinations to be
given by the City Of New York
are now open for continuous filing
|and many will remain so until
| June of next year,

Among the more popular titles
open for filing are: typist, social
investigator, recreation leader,
housing caretaker, stenographer,
medical social worker, junior elvil
engineer, and college secretarial
assistant,

‘The salary ranges of these titles
is from 3,000 to $6,400, depending
on experience requirements.

College Secretarial Assistant

Por those college graduates who |
have secretarial skills, the college
secretarial assistant examination
is now open. This job offers candi-
dates an opportunity to work in
the municipal colleges or else-
where with the Board of Higher
Education,

To qualify, applicants must be)
high school graduates and have
either a college degree, or four
lyears experience tn office work,
lor m satisfactory equivalent of
| both,

‘This position has a salary range

'|Program of State

Youth Employment
Service Expanded

The Youth Employment Service|

(YES) of N. Y, State in coopera-
tion with the Board of Education
has extended {ts program of voca-
tional counseling of graduating
seniors to assist potential drop
outs from high school

‘| In schools where a high per-
centage of students leave before
xgraduation, YES interviewers will
encourage students to remain in
school through counseling and re-
feral to part time Jobs for after
school hours.

For the student who ts not plan-
ning to continue with normal
sohooling, YES is participating in
two projects developed by the
|Board of Education. In one of
these projects a six week pre-em- |
ployment course is given; the

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‘Upon the petition of United
Company of New York, having
place, of business at No, 45 Wall, Sire
rough of Manb New York Oty
‘You and enck of you are hereby clad to
cause before the Surrogate
York County. eld te
Recor jounty of New
the Bed aay af Fourunt?, Lesivst

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REGINALD
Order of Hen. Joarph

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A, Cox, Sur-
New ‘York,

claims ag: Reginald E.
late of the Ogunty of Mew Yor

Harry Kriener and

hie Aliorneys, at

Mount Vernon, New York, on or betore

the Eta day of July 1961

Dated, Moant Vernaa, N, ¥

of December 1060.
Rexinald Mastman

the 27th day

¥

HARRY KRIEGER and PHILIP KERIB
Attorneys for ¥;

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CITATION — THR PEOPLE OF THR
NEW YORK By the Grace of
God Pres and Indepanden. To ‘Tune Onuse
Ho Jen: Tung Bu Hung: Tung Bun

pon the petition of First National Olay
‘Trust Company, having its principal office
‘Wiliam Street, New York 18, New

ci,

You and enh of you are hereby cited to
show cause before the Suri
St Now Wark County held atthe Mall

oveedings 0!
First Nasional uy ‘Trust Ooms ae

Aduiutslrator, should got be}
‘aatiied.

TN TESEIMONY WHERKOF, we bi
caused

DONANVE
the Burregate’s Court

other consists of finding afternoon |
Jobs for students attending only
morning classes.

of $3,450 to $4,850. Applicants
who wish to apply in person for
® test appointment should report
to the commercial office of the
N.Y. State Employment Service,
1 Bast 19th St.

Candidates must type 45 words
per minute and take dictation at
words per minute.

‘The popular social investigator
@xemination remains on & con-
tinuous filing basis, These jobs are
offersd with the Uept. of Welfare
and are open to college graduates
who have an interest in social
work. The salary range of the
social Investigator is now $4,550
|to $5,990 yearly. There are many

Continuous Filing For
22 Popular City Tests

Promotional opportunities offered.
Among the other titles now put
on a continuous basis are: x-ray
technician, youth guidance tech-
nician, assistant architect, assist~
ant civil engineer, assistant me-
chanical engineer, assistant plan
examiner, civil engineering drafte~
man, college office assistant, dental
hygienist, family and child wel-
fare worker, Junior electrical engl~
Neer, occupational therapist and
Phychiatric social worker.

For additional information and
applications you may contact the
New York City Dept. of Personnel,
96 Duane St. N.Y. N.Y, across
the street from The Leader,

A major study of coronary heart
disease will be conducted by the
Health Insurance Plan of Greater
New York, it was announced last
week by Dr. David P. Barr, the
Plan's president and medical di-
rector. The study will be financed
for the first three years by a
$180,000 U.S. Public Health Serv-
foe grant, It will be run a total
of eight years.

‘The project will provide basic
information from medical exam-
inations on the incidence and

largest and most diversified popu-
lation to be studied in this way.

The study will seek to deter-
mine:

(2) survival rates during a five-
year period following the first
diagnosis of goronary heart
disease.

(2) the probability rate of addi-
tional attacks occurring in certain
categories of patients.

(3) whether there is an asso-
ciation between the course of the
disease and characteristics such
as weight, smoking habits, choles-
terol levels and the presence of
other diseases.

Progress Expected

Significant progress is expected
in identifying segments of the
population that have low incidence
rates and those that have favor-
able prospects of recovery. It ts
hoped that this will lead to new
approaches in the prevention and

Chanukah Dinner
Dance Held

‘The Jewish State Employees As-
sociation held ite elghth annual
Chanukah dinner-dance recently
in the Colonial Room of the
Sheraton-Aulantic Hotel in New|
York City.

Among the guests who attended |

of New York State; Louis J, Letko- |

se | Wits, Attorney General; Caroline

Simon, Seoretary of State; Wil-
Mam 8. Hults, Commissioner of
Motor Vehioles; George H. Fowler,
Deputy Iudustrial Commissioner
Arthur Hirsh, District Tax Super-
visor, Brooklyn; Morris J, Solo-
mon, former Deputy Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles,

Nathan Rogers, president of the
Jowish Stato Employees Associa-

| tion of New York, was toastmaster,

Rabbi Harold H, Gorden, exeoutive

S22] vice-president of the New York

Board of Rabbis, gave the bensdiq-

"| ton and told the story of .the

Mghiing of the oandles,

progress of the disease in the|

wore: Arthur Levitt, Comptroller |

HIP. Plans Major Study
Of Coronary Heart Diseases

control of coronary heart ailments,

The population to be studied
will consist of 110,000 persons
aged 25-64 years @nrolied in about
a third of the 31 medical groups
of family doctors and specialists
affiliated with HIP. in the
Greater New York area. Special
examinations by H.LP. specialiste
working with the study team will
provide the basic data.

Favorable Setting

The HIP, setting is uniquely
favorable for such a study because
the Plan provides all its doctors’
care through medical teams, main-
tains a central reporting system
and serves a highly stable, closed
Population covering a wide range
jot occupational pursuits, educa~
tonal and income levels, and
ethnic and religious groupings,

The study will be directed
Jointly by Sam Shapiro, H.IP.'e
| Director of Research and Statis-
| ties, and a heart specialist yet to
be selected

The grant was approved by The
U. 8. Surgeon General upon the
recommendation of the National
Institutes of Health of the Public
Health Service, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.

Education Aides in
Science Conference

Two top officials of the New
|York City Board of Education
haye prominent roles at the an-
nual convention of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science next week. The con-
vention opening on Monday (Dee,
26) and continuing through Fri-
day, will be held at the Roosevelt
and Biltmore Hotels. Samuel
|Schenberg, Director of Science
jand Katharine D, Lynch, Director
|of the Bureau for Children with
Retarded Mental Development,
will reside at four major confer
ences. Mr. Schonberg will head
the Scientific Manpower Confer-
ence on Tuesday at 9 AM at the
Biltmore and will also preside at
® film panel the following even-
ing at the Roosevelt, Miss Lynch
will conduet two Joint sessions on

‘| retarded and exceptional children

jon Monday at 2 PM and Tuesday
jat 9 AM both at the Roosevelt,
Other Board personnel partiol-
pating In the convention are Ed-
ward G. Bernard, Director of the
Bureau of Audio Visual Instrue-
tion, and Darwin S. Levine, Alfred
D. Beck and Harry Milgrom, Su
pervisora of Science for the senior

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Tuesday, January 8, 1961

Social Security Questions Answered |

T am receiving disability bent
fits now. If I go to work will my

benefits stop?
Not immediately. Under the
new law, bled beneficiaries

who go to work despite severe
handicaps can continue to be paid
their benefits during twelve
months—whether they go to work
under a vocational rehabilitation
plan or on their own,

eee |

How much work under social
security does a woman of 60 need
in order to be eligible for benefits
at age 62?

The new law requires a woman
of 60 to have 14 quarters of cover-
age. This is about 3!) years of
work under social security, The
old law required over 5'y years of
social security coverage.

I am self employed running my
own business, How much social
security tax will I pay on my 1960
earnings?

The rate of tax on your net
earnings for 1960 will be 41.%.
This tax is not due until early
1961 when you file your 1960 Fed-|
eral Income Tax return.

cry

I work for the City of New York
and have been covered by social
security since 1956. I have earned
maximum wages since my cover-
age began. I am now 65 and will
retire at the end of this year. How
much will my social seeurity bene-
fit be?

You will receive a monthly so-
cial security check of $120 a

month,

How old do you have to be to
get social security disability bene-
fits?

There is no longer any age re-
quirement. Any worker who meets
the definition of disability in the
law can be paid disability benefits
if he has social security credit for
at least five years of work out of
the ten years before his disability
began,

I am physically unable to do
heavy labor any more and don't
have taining for any other kind of
work, Would I be considered dis-
abled?

If you are physteally and ment-
ally able to eng: in substantial
ainful work, even though tt is not
your regular work. Mowever, all

IL

There are no provisions in the
social security law to permit pay-
ment of medical expenses,

My wife 1s 43 years old and we |

have no ohildren. She has never
| worked under social security, but
she is disabled, Can she receive
disability benefits? I am now re-
ceiving social security.

No, to get social security disabil-
| ity benefits, your wife would need
| social security credit for at least

five years of work under social
security, Since she has . never
| worked, she must walt until she is
| age 62 to apply for wife's benefits
based on your social security ac-

count,
cee

I worked steadily under social
security until five years ago when
I took a job that was not covered
by social security, A year ago I
had a heart attack and have not
worked since. Do I qualify for dis-
ability benefits.

| If you had five full years em-
ployment under social security in
| the ten years before you became
disabled, you may qualify for dis-
ability insurance benefits. How-
ever, the medical evidence regard-
ing you disability must show that
your heat condition is so severe

| disabled peaple applying for dis-| that you are unable to engage in

When will the new increase in ability benefits are referred te) any substanti:

work.

benefit amounts for children of| their State Vocational Rehabilita-| See

deceased workers be paid? |

The increased amounts payable
under the 1960 Amendments will
be added automatically to the
cheeks they will receive for Janu-
ary 1961, Families eligible for in-)

ereased payments do not need to Working and go to a different cli-|

ret in touch with their social se-|
curity office.

e+e

My husband died in 1939, I am
75 years old now but I never was
able to get widow's benefits. Is
there any hope for me under the
1960 law?

Yes, there certainly is, Survivors
ef any worker who died between
March 31, 1938, and January 1,
1940 (and who had worked under
social security for ut least a year|
and a half before his death) may|
now get benoefits, These benefits|
are payable beginning
1960. ‘

tion agencies for possible help in
learning new skills and finding
other jobs.

Every summer I have to stop

mate for three months because of
hay-fever. I do no work during
this time. May I qualify for dis-
ability benefits because of this?

No, disability benefits can only
be paid for « disability of six
months or more duration and pay-
mente do not start until the sev-
enth month. Also, the impairment
must be se severe that it makes
it impossible for the worker to en-
gage in iy subs ial gainful
activity.

Will my medica! expenses be

benefits?

If you want to know what's happening

to you

to your chances of promotion

to your job

to your next raise
and similar matters!

FOLLOW THE LEADER REGULARLY!

Here is the newspaper that tells you about what Is happen-
ing in civil service, what is happening to the job you have and

the Job you want.
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I work on conscuction jobs and
change employers several times a
year, How can I be sure that al!
my employers report: my earnings
properly for social security credit?

| First you should keep an exact
tecord of the name and address of
each employer, the location of the
Job, dates worked and amount
|earned. In addition to keeping
these records, you should ask the
| Social Security Administration for
| a statement of the earnings posted
| to you social security account at
least every three years. A special
Posteard for requesting this state~
ment can be obtained from your
social Security office. The state-
ment will be mailed directly to you
from our accounting office in Balt-
imore, Mayland. If such a state-
ment does not include all of your

October | paid since I am yeceiving disability | ¢@rnings, you should contact your

social security office for assistance

In getting your record corrected

ee

| 1 have

under

18 quarters of coverage
social security and I have

just taken a job in an industry
not covered by social security
What will happen to those 18

quarters when I reach age 65? Can

| I get benefita at that time?
You will be able to receive «
benefit on your 18 quarters of cov-
| erage if you will be 65 before 1966,
If you will be 65 in 1966 or later
you would need more than 18

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Page Thirteen

The Job Market

A Survey of Opportunities

In Manhattan
are in demand, women with some
tipper experience, preferably top

aipper workers

|and bottom, stop machine and
pinking experience. $42 to $46 &
week, Also wanted is a foreman
in a sipper assembly shop. Must
have at least one year’s experi-
ence as foreman in this industry
Jobs pays $125 a week

A hard candy maker is wanted, a
|man to measure, weigh, mix and
cook ingredients for hard candy.
Must use own formulas and be
Tamiliar with mixing, spinning
and pulling, and will ball ma-
chines. Should have at least 15
years’ experience at these tasks.
Si ‘¥ $150 to $200 a week, Auto
body repairmen are needed to
| ten bodies and fenders.

| Should have at least three years’

of reeent experience and be able
to braze, weld and solder. Must.
have full set of tools. $2.00 to $2.75

|an hour, depending on experience.

Apply at the Manhattan Indus-
trial Offlee, 255 West 5t4h Street.

Practical Nurses

A veterans’ hospital in Manhat-
tan je new recruiting both men
|and women fer a number of per-
manent positions, Must either
have, or must have made appli-
cation fer, license to practice.
Salaries begin at $3,760 a year,
with annual increments for sat-
isfactory service. Opportunities
for advancement. Apply at the
Nurse and Medical Placement Of-
fice, 444 Madison Avenue.

Teachers

There are many desirable posi-
tions new available for next Feb-
ruary and September in the su-
burban areas of New York City.
These positions are in both ele-
mentary and high schools, on all
grade levels and in all subjects
Requirements include some ex-
perience and New York State cer-
tiMeation. Selaries range from $4,-
#00 te $8008 « year. Interviews
may be erranged immediately

Summer Work

Teachers, group workers, and
college students interested in sum-
mer camp counselor jobs in resi-
dent eamps, hotels, work camps
and day eamps are urged to apply
early. Teacher skills in the arts
and erafts, dancing, dramaties,
nature study, photography and
sports—especially swimming—are
mest in demand, Salaries for
counselors and program directors
range from $100 to $1,000 for the
| season. In resident jobs, room and
| board and transportation are also
provided. A visit to the Camp
Unit ef the Professional, Place-
ment €enter during the Christmas
vacatien may prove worth your
while For any of these positions,
apply te the Professional Place-
ment Center, 444 Madison Avenue.

FZ

Private Industry
By A. L. PETERS

In Brooklyn

A colorist is wanted, a man who
knows how to duplicate exact
shades of color used in printing
plastic material. At least two to
three years of coloring matching
experience ts required. Hours, 8:00
AM. to 5:30 PM. Starting pay
$75 a week increasing te $80 in
three months. Here's an opening
for a foreman who will supervise
40 production workers in the lam-
inating department of a plastic
sheeting plant. Must be familiar
with laminating and embossing
machine. $120 to 2140 n week,
Brooklyn manufacturers seek met~
al spinner experienced in setting
up and operating Lodge and Ship-
pley “Flo-Turn” and Cincinnatt
“Hydrospin” metal spinning ma-
chines on stainless steel. $2.50 to
$3.00 an hour, depending on ex-
perience. Also wanted is a fore-
man to supervise silk screen print-
ers of dress goods. Experience in
this industry ts required. Shfte
8:00 A.M. te 4:30 PM. or 4:30 to
4:30 P.M, to 1:00 AM. Jobs pay
$125 a week. Apply at the Brook-
lyn Industral Office, 590 Fulton
Street

Im Queens

An engine Iathe operator with
five to ten years’ experience in
machinery manufacturing or job-
bing is wanted. Must be able te
set up and operate an engine lathe
to make parts for macaroni-mak-
ing machinery—pressers and dri-
ers. Will work from blueprinte,
doing single-plece, custom work,
Must cut all threads and tapers,
Must also speak Italian. Job pays
$2.60 an hour. Here's a job for
& pressman experienced in Plexe-

graphic printing en cellophane
bags. $1.50 to $2.00 an hour.
Wanted also ia an experienced

profiler to operate and set up @
profiling machine, $1.76 an hour,
Apply at the Plushing Office, 42-
09 Main Street, Flushing.

Traffic Controls on
Private Property

The Police Department is still
opposed to the idea of enforcing
traffie violations within the con-
fines of private property. it was
announced last week by Commis-
sioner Stephen P. Kennedy

A proposal for this, originally
made in 1958, is up before the
City Council again. Commissioner
Kennedy has written to Mayor
Wagner urging that the bill be
vetoed,

Commissioner Kennedy said the
effect, of the proposal would be to
“constitute each owner or leasee
of every parking lot in the City
of New York as an individual
legislative body able to preserile
under what conditions another
could be charged with an offense
punishable by a fine of $50 or 10
days’ imprisonment.”

Shown above are the members of the Matteawan State Hospital police fo

for their semi.

thur Getter, Joseph Va!

nual uniform end equipment inspecti:
maintaining order at this large institution, T

Marshall, Keneth Campbell, George Fergueson, Joseph Fits
tan, Richard Kennedy, Poy! Guttman, Vance Hawks,

Jo: eph Guttman, Richard
‘

jlenger ond Jomes Tom

Edword Gall

These are the men charged wi
ere from left to ri
tino, Charles Cassidy, Gustave Wassw:

ald (safety superviser), John
drew Molacarne, Peter Nelson,

pins, Not present are Charles Bell, ond
o. A
Page Fourteen

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

Tuesday, January 3, 1 61

RETIREMENT RESERVE FUND EXPLAINED

(Continued from Page 3)

bers’ own accumulated contribu- |

ure, it no longer looks so big. This
$2,472 is obviously not sufficient

tions. Surely nobody would sug-' to provide a retirement allowance

gest that we should use one mem~-
ber’s contributions to increase the
benefits. of another member. So
we stiould subtract that sum frum
the total assets, in discussing the
amount which may be available
for additional benefits.

Similarly, we have $325,000,000
set aside to pay the pensions of
those who are already retired
This sum will be sufficient for

that purpose if present mortality
rates continue into the future.
However, if we have a further
improvement in mortality, as we
had in the past, and if people
live longer than we now expect,
we will have to pay them for a
Jonaer period of time while on
retirement, and that will take
more ryoney, If that should devel-
op, our fund of $325,000,000 will
be deficient and will have to be
added to out of our other funds
Certainly we would not want to
‘use any of the funds set aside for
Present pensioners to provide ad-
ditional benefits for active mem-
bers like yourselves. So we should
Proverly deduct this fund also
from our total assets to see how
much may be available for in-
ereases in benefits, These two
funds together amount to $821,-
000,090. When you subtract that
sum from our total present assets
of $1.374,900,00, there is left a
sum of %513,000,000.

A mot Per Member

You rmitht say that that is a
lot of money too, and it is. But
just how much it is.
ch 31, 1959 we had 207,-
members, like your-
selves. Some of these people are
aad some are older, Some
and some are women
Some are clerks and some are la~
borers. But all of them are look-
ing forward to the day when they
Will retire on a retirement allow-
ance suticlent to maintain them
during their later years, If you
divide the remaining fund of
$513.000,090 by our 207.495 ac-
tive mombets, you come out with
an averate fund for each member
amounting to $2,472.

When you get down to that fg-

Rules for Chapter
News Writers

Chapwrs of the Civil Service
Employees Association wishing
to remit items to The Leader
concerning chapter activities
are asked to observe the follow-
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2, The first name or first two
{initials of a person’s name
should always be used, People
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or Miss Jones but Robert
Smith, R. L. Smith, ete. Do not

abbreviate titles. Use first vice
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3. Meeting announcements

or other news with time ele-
ments should be mailed at least
two weeks before the date of
the meeting or event

4. Pictures should be glossy
prints and should be clear.
Dark or extra light pictures do
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Observance of these rules
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for life, after retirement, to each
active member who reaches re-
tirement age. Furthermore, it is
also expected to provide a death
benefit, which may run up to a
maximum of two years salary, if
he should die before retirement,
and in addition it must provide «
disability benefit, if he should be-
come disabled before retirement,

In other words, if this present
fund of $613,000,000, averaging
out to $2,472 per active member,
were all we had, we could not
hope to pay the benefits we had
promised, The only reason we do}
expect to pay these benefits ts
that this fund will be added to,
year by year, as the State and the
participating employers continue
to make contributions to the Sys-
tem

There ts still another way of
looking at the size of this fund.
At March 31, 1959 the total sal-
aries of all of our active members
amounted to $906,322 per year. If
you divide our fund of $513,000,000
by this total annual payroll, you
come out with a figure of $566 for
each thousand dollars of salary.
Since all of our benefits are based
on salary, and since every member
hopes that some day he may re-
tire on an allowance which ts
equal to half salary, you can se
that this fund is small compared
to total salaries.

I would Hike to summrize this
point before I go on to the next
point. In effect, what I have been
saying !s that our total present
assets are huge indeed, but that
when you break the figure down
and compare it with the number
of members, or their salaries, or
the benefits we have promised to
pay these members, we see that
the fund, per member, or per
thousand dollars of salary, or per
benefit promised, is really quite
small, In other words, the size
of a fund is a relative matter and
it is quite incorrect to merely
look at the total fund, without
giving consideration to these other
things I have pointed out, and
then conclude that we have too
much money

Operation Procedures

Tam not finished with this sub-
ject. To clarify it further, I want
to go into one of the processes

we use in operating the Retire-
ment System.

‘The law requires that we make|
an annual valuation of our Sys-
tem, at which time we determine
the value of all of our assets and
Nabilities. As a result of this deter-
mination, we also determine how
much the State and each partici-)
pating municipality must contrib-
ute each year. The contribution
of the State and of each partici-
pating munieipality is required to
be sufficient to meet our Habili-
tes. It may not before than sum,
and it should not be less.

In other words, the Retirement
System has no right to collect one
penny more than ia necessary to
meet its Mabilities, The System
has a fund which is computed
to be exactly sufficient to meet
those liabilities. It does not have
one penny of surplus, nor should
it have one penny of deficit.

Suppose, however, that a mis-
take has been made and the Sys-
tem, in a particular year, collects
too much money so that It does
end up with a surplus. What do
you think would happen? The an-
nual valuation process, that I de-
scribed briefly, provides the auto-
matic adjustment for such a situ-
ation. In this process we re-deter-
mine our labilities each year on
the basis of all the information
which ts available at that moment
Ve subtract from those total ll-
vollittes the total funds on hand,
awd the balance represents how
much we must collect in the cur-

vat year and in all future years,
in order to meet our liabilities.

‘ne balance is then distributed
wer these future years, so as to
»ovide an even rate of contribu-
tion. Thus, if we have collected
too much in one year, we have
a larger fund to subtract the next
year. This automatically reduces

‘wt contribution required in that
next year, which brings the fund
back to its proper size.

What It Would Mean

What does that mean for us?
CSEA has hired » firm of actu-
aries to review our System for the
murpose of determining whether
we have a larger fund than is
necessary, Suppose these actuaries
do find that we have a larger fund
than is necessary. In that case,
the system has collected more
money from the State and the
varticipating employers in past

BUFFALO STATE HONORS FOUR

tf ' j

years than it should have collect- employees, We have an abundant
ed, and the excess will have to be past history of public retirement
returned to the State and the| systems which were inadequately
participating municipalities. The) financed. All of such plans ulti<
only result of such a finding,| mately went broke, or they found
therefore, would be that our ac-| themselves in such diMculties
tive members would end up with) that they had to be bailed out by
a smaller fund than we have at the Retirement System. I am not
present to guarantee the prom- at liberty to give you the names
ises which have been made to of some of these funds, or the
them. localities in which they are, but

‘Why is this so? The reason is I can tell you that we have balled
that our benefits are not deter- out ® number of such insolvent
mined by the size of the fund we retirement system. The public em-
have. The benets are specifically, ployers, in those cases, have had

| and in great detall, spelled out In to pay large contributions over «

the law. Regardless of whether we long period of years to make up
have » large fund or a smail fund, | for the lack of adequate. contrt-
the State has promised each of | butions In the years when they

you, as active members, that you) should have been made.
will receive certain benefits upon| Indeed, our own great system,
retirement or death or disability, and the great retirement systems
These benefits cannot be changed Of New York City, were born
by me nor by any one else in the Shortly after World War I as a
System, We have no discretion to result of this very factor. The
qive you a larger benefit, merety City and the State had a number
because we have a larger fund,|f retirement systems where the
‘The only way that a benefit can benefits promised were generous
be changed is by having the Leg-| indeed, but the contributions were
islature pass the neeessary laws, "Ot sufficient to meet those prom-
and then have them signed by the ‘ses. The difficulties were not ob-
Governor. ‘Thus, if {t ts found that | Vous at first. But when the dimf-
our fund Is too large, the only re-| Clty became perfectly clear to
sult will be that our fund will be| Public officials, there was a great
reduced, but the benefits will re-| t0-do and ® complete re-organ-
main exactly the same | imation of the whole set-up. What
resulted were sound actuarial re-
Says Fund Not Too Large | tirement systems, which have be-

1 do not want to leave any doubt

come a model for similar sys-
in your mind about this matter. toms all over the United States.
Our fund is not too large and) our system, and the New York
there Is no danger of its being city systems, were born during
reduced, The benefits which have|this trying time. It would be @

been promised to our membrs will’ pity if the sound actuarial atruc-
be paid, because the State of NeW ture of our system should at this
York and the participating mu- time be undermined by cries. to

nicapalities stand back of that the effect that we have too much
promise and have guaranteed to) money

pay those benefite. But I think Now. you might think, from

it is unwise for employees to set what I have said, that the Sys-
up a hue and ery to the effect that tom would not like to see the

our funds are too large. You CA benefits increased. In case any of
very well understand that the you have that illusion, I want to
State and the participating mu-\ dispel it at once. We have been
nicipalities constantly have budg- advocates of increased benefits, as
etary problems and would love tO has our Comptroller, Arthur Lev=

have some reason for reducing! it and our Deputy Comptroller,
their contributions to the Retire- witiam Girden .

ment System, It would not take Some Liberalizations
too much arm-twisting on your Let me just mention a few of
part Lo convince some budget peo- in. liberalizations, and improve-

ple that our funds are too large ment of benefits, that have oo

and that the State and the mu- curred in recent years, In the first
nicipalities can very well reduce tince we have social security, on

their contributions, or even SKID ® ton of and in addition to our re-

few. tirement benefits. This is a tre-
This is dangerous ground for mendous advance for which the
Retirement System can take en-
ormous credit, Then the 55-year
plan was broadened, and reopened
several times, Then our ordinary
death benefit was doubled, from
|@ maximum of half a year’s sal-
ary, to ® maximum of one year’s
salary, and then doubled again to
| maximum of two years’ salary.
Then there was the enactment of
the 5% Law, which substantially
reduced the contributions of all
active members.

At this moment the Comptroller
|4s sponsoring a further step to
make the System wholly non-
contributory. Then there was the
enactment of the supplemental
pension act, which, to a large
extent, offsets the eroding effects
of inflation. Then there was the
enactment of a vesting benefit,
which represents an important
change in the concept governing
&@ public retirement system. At
this moment the Comptroller is

es vesting benefit, so that 55-year
members may vest the full amount
in the rear °f thelr benefit instead of only
part of it. Then there has been

y of the TI id
it of the Board of Visitors and Nicholas J. Strozzi, sec- ‘i's insurance have been extend-

retary of the Board of Visitors.

(Continued om Page Wa)

Tuesday, January 3, 1961

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

(Continued from Page 14)

ed, both by age and by amount
of insurance, and at the same time
the premiums have been lowered.
Now the Comptroller is sponsor-
ing @ further liberalization of the
Joan insurance provision, so that
loans may be insured up to age
10, and in any amount, and this
ts coupled with a further decrease
im premiums

I think this should clearly in-
dicate to you that the Retirement

Other Options

‘The next one is known ss Op-
tion 1. It also provides a lump
jum insurance benefit for the
beneficiary, payable at the death
of the pensioner. The lump sum
is equal to the Initial reserve, ea-
tablished by both the member and
his employer at the same time ot |
retirement, less the total retire-
ment allowance paymnts made to
the pensioner during his retire-|
ment and before his death.

lump sum,

and sometimes it fit, In other oases an insurance

erating expenses, or any othep

should be in the form of @ life) benefit i appropriate for the
annuity for his beneficiary. As I) member and we charge him an
said, {t all depends on the circum-| insurance premium which ts di-
stances of the person you are) rectly related to the amount of
talking about, |the insurance benefit he wishes
But whatever provision is made, | to buy.
you must bear this in mind. Such| ‘There was « further question,
provision is really an insurance; why fs the deduction under an
policy, The member, and the option so large? Of course the
Retirement System, agree that, answer to that one is that it is
upon the death of the member | not large, but only seems so. No-

thing, All of the expenses of op~
erating this insurance business are
paid by the State and by the pare
tletpating employers. Thus, a pers
son who selects an option, buys
‘an insurance policy at the lowest
premium rate which it is possible
to determine.

Let me give you a few exam~
ples to illustrate what these in«
surance premiums are. For that

System has been in favor of in-| ‘The next one is known ag Op-

after he has retired, certain bene- | body likes to have his retirement! purpose I shall take two pension~

creasing benefits to members and
Uberalizing them wherever possi-
ble, But this cannot be done by
reducing our present funds. On
the contrary, It can be done only
by having the necessary legisia-
tion enacted and then receiving
from the State and the participat-
ing employers the larger contri-
Dutions which will be required to
provide the larger benefits I think
your best bet as employees and
members of the System is to con-
tinue to work for an actuarally |
sound retirement system which|
has and maintains sufficient funds
to pay all of the benefits which
have been promised. |
Reduction in Benefit on Options |

tion 2. It provides a monthly al-

either in the form of a lump sum

lowance to the beneficiary after|or In the form of a life annuity.
the death of the pensioner, which | This ts an insurance policy, In no
is equal to the monthly allow-| wise difference from tnsurance
ance that the pensioner receives! polcies issued by any of the life
whil he is alive | Insurance companies. And just like
‘The last one ts known as Op-| those insurance company policies,
tion 3. It provides a monthly al-| !¢ Tequires a premium.
lowance to the beneficiary, after| The premium {s computed in
the death of the pensioner, which | exactly the same way as it would
is equal to \% of the monthly al-| be for a life insurance policy. We
lowance that the pensioner had| have mortality tables which indi-
been receiving.

None of these options may be| ®™ong each group of our pension-

changed after the member has re-| °T# at each age. From these ta-
tird, However, under Option .%/| Dies we can determine the proba~
and Option 1, the pensioner may

change the beneficiary at any)
y | the beneflt which is to be paid

fits will be paid to his benefiiclary, allowance reduced, and any re-| ers, both of whom are entitled

duction would naturally seem to a No Option retirement allow-
large. I oan tell you, however, that | ance of $2,000 a year, consisting
the reduction represents only the | of $1,000 pension plus $1,000 an-
net premium, which is barely nec-/ nuity. One of the pensioners is
essary to provide the insurance age 55 and has a wife age 80,
benefits the member has pur- | while the other is age 65 and has
chased, Unlike an Insurance pol-| a wife age 60. Following are the
ley, there is no loading in this) benefits that each could receive
premium for commissions, or op-' under each of the options.

een Pensioner Annual Pensioner Annual
Item AgeSS Premium Age6S Premium
No Option. Allowance ......$2,000 $2,000
cate the mortality we may expect Option 3 Allowance . 1,838 364 1,546 484
Option %4 Allowance 1839 $161 1,168 9235
Option % Reserve ......... 13,048 oail
Option 1 Allowance . 1.678 $23 1,630 410
bility of dying at any particular Ootion 1 Reserve ... . 26,086 18,822
time, and if we multiply that bY Option 2 Allowance ..... 1.386 ou 1,263 18

T have spent a lot of time on) ,

the beneficiary cannot be

| time. Under Option 2 and Option |

upon the occurrence of that death,| You will notice that the insur- , lve after his death.

the first subject because I con-| |

sider it vitally important But I
Would also like to discuss the sec-
ond subject, namely, why is there |
® reduction in benefits when an
option is selected, and why is the
reduction so great “

However, retirement plans, like
all other things, have grown and
developed. By the time our plan
was established, it had become an
aooepted practice to make some
Provision for members of the em-
Dloyee’s family. This provision
took the form of a death benefit,
if a member died before retir
mat, or the further form of per-
mitting a member to use some)
of his retirement allowance to|
make provision for a beneficiary,
upon his death after retirement

Our System also permits you to
make provision for a beneficiary
after retirement, This may be
done by selecting one of the "op-
tions” upon retirement. I think it
would be helpful if I described
these options briefly,

‘The first ts called No Option.
BH provides a maximum benefit
for the pensioner for as long as
he lives, but there is nothing left
over for a beneficiary after his
death.

‘The second is called Option 4
Tt provides a lump sum insurance
for a beneficiary, payable at the
death of the pensioner. This lump |
sum is equal to the member's ac-
cumulated contributions at the
timo of retirement, less the an-
nuity payments which were made
to the pensioner during his re-
tirement

changed.

wo have the figures that we need

to determine the insurance pre-

sioner. This is Just what one would

Not every person who retired Is
require® to make provision for a
beneficiary. We have many exam-
ples of women who retire and who
have no one for whom they must
make provision. In such cases she
takes all of the retirement allow-
ance for herself. We also have
many instances of men who re-
tire, whose wives have died and
whose children are grown and

|
self-supporting. Often these chil-

dren earn a much better living
than the old man himself. It ls
proper, in such cases, that the
member should take the whole re-
tirement allowance for himself

mium. expect, because older people are

ance costs more for the older pen-| 4s 1 said before, these premi-
ums are the lowest that can pos
sibly be charged to provide this

We can do this in one of two
ways. We oan pay every pensioner
the full No Option retirement al-
lowance, and then request those
pensioners who have selected an
option to send us the necessary
premium. A second way is to de-
duct the premium from the
amount we would otherwise send
to the pensioner and merely pay
him the difference

We actually do it the second
way because It is more convenient
and because there seems to be
ho sense in sending the pensioner

more likely to die sooner and the

kind of insurance. It is much
insurance benefit will probably be ‘cheaper insurance than could be
paid sooner. It therefore costs a|

|Drovided by any life «insurane
larger premium to provide. For! company, which must necessarily
example, under Option I the pre-/| meet its expenses cut of the pre-
mium ‘for the younger man ts/ miums it collects.

$322 a year to provide an initial! y would like to end on ® word
insurance of $26,086, while the | o¢ caution, I have given you these
premium for the older man ts $470 | option figures for illustration pur
& year to provide an initial in-| 5665 only, ‘They do not necessarily
surance of $18,822. Similiarly, un-| s5oly to any particular individual,
der Option 3, the premium for) pach individual case has to be
the younger man 1s $364 & Year  sooarately figured, 30 I would eau-
to provide his wife with a life tion you not to use these figures

and make no provision for a ben-| the full amount and then asking
eficiary. him to send back the premium.
But although we deduct the pre-

long as she lives after his death,
while for the older man the pre-

annuity of $818 « year for as for your own case or for any one
else's case. If you wish to have
similar Information in your own
case, please write us and we

Making Provision
For these reasons It would not

mium fn the office and send the
| Pensioner the net amount, in our

mium is $454 « year to provide

be glad to furnish it, if the
® life annuity for his wife of $773

of retirement is not too far

will
date
inte

be correct to provide an optional | hookkeeping we treat it as though|a year for as long as she may

benefit in every case, Where an
optional benefit ts needd, it ls a
very valuable thing. But wher
it Is not needed, It merely reduces

the first method were actually |

the future.

followed. This ts necessary if we
are to keep track of the cost of
our pensions and the cost of our

the member's allowance or in-
creases the employer's oost, for
no good purpose, But how about |
those cases where a man retires| Why The Reductions?

and has a dependent wife or de-| Which brings me back to the
pendent children? Obviously, in| question which started this dis-

insurance, since they are two
separate operations.

State Exam for

such cases, he should take an op-
tion and make proper provision
for his beneficiaries.

What provision should be made?

T really don't know. Jt depends)

entirely upon the circumstances.
Sometimes he should make a large
provision, and sometimes a small
provision, Sometimes this provi-

J sion should be in the form of a|duction for any insurance bene-

| cussion, why do we reduce the

benefits of members who select
an option? I think the reason is
obvious to you now, For some
members the No Option retire-
ment allowance is the best for
their purpose, and so we want to
|pay them the full amount which
| the law provides, without any de-

Principal

New York State has announced
that the promotional examination
(No. 5044) for principal clerk has

BINGHAMTON LAUNDRY AIDES AT CHRISTMAS PART

been re-scheduled for April 29.
The examination was originally
scheduled for Feb. 18. The salary
ranges from $4,280 to $5,250 a
year, Applications can be filed up
to March 27, Those who have
filed applications for the examin-
jation scheduled for Feb. 18 need
not file again,

Candidates must have been em-|
ployed in the competitive class in

Clerks

Re-Scheduled

terpersonal relations; reading
comprehension and vocabulary;
business letters and reports; ant
office practices, procedures, organs
ization, and management, Appll-
cations will not be reviewed for
minimum requirements until after
the written test is held

A&M Personnel
Changes Announced
ALBANY,

Jan, 2— Personnel

State departments, institutions, or Changes in the State Department
agencies in positions Grade 7 or Of Agriculture and Markets’ Divi-
higher for one year preceding the son of Animal Industry include

Shown above are the laundry
, held on Bae, Os for the
Badger; Marjorie Hunt;

Helen Taylor; Ev ya

William

lades Maril
la, Mary Luchansky; Earl Smith; Lucy Ryen; Mary Dolan; Ana Ford;
"pike; Roneld Wekemen,

\
ilt

t
employees of the Binghamton State Hi
tients. In the front row, wate
‘erry; Thomas Edwards, supervisor; Rose Eva

benofit of
Margaret

Wellman.

the beck

date of the written teat.

A principal clerk does highly
diMocult and responsible office)
work, He must train and super-
vise a group of employees, He
must make reports evaluating the)
wok of the section or unit of
which he ts supervisor,

at a Christmas
right, are: Car-

di Howerd

row are: Donald

these retirements; Dr. A. C, Grace,
Little Falls; Dr, A. M. MoClel-
land, Philmont,

New assistant directors are Dr,
Lyle 8. Compton, Clymer and Dr,
George EB. Buroh, Delmar.

Supervising veterinarians are
Dr, Sidney. Nusbaum, Herkimer;

‘The written test will nclude| Dr. Sumner Shaw, Millbrook and
Questions oa supervision and in-| Dr. L. L. Tyler of Canlates.

RETIREMENT RESERVE FUND EXPLAINED*