RTDMAY 1983

INSIDE THIS ISSUEWord Processors 2Recreation News 3Trippers 4Summer Hints 5Metro Rail Update 6 & 7Coloring Contest Results 9

PICKPOCKET PATROL—These four officers are among the TransitPolice officers, full and part-time, who work the District's pickpocketdetail. From left to right, they are: Ray Griffin, Ralph Dorsey, Carl Littleand Al Breckenridge.

stoly tic'ctifibdd as eiciS of hope and plans

BY BOB SECHLERPeople have been talking about

and planning rapid transit in thisregion for more than seventy-fiveyears. Obviously, that span of time,and the twenty or so proposals itgenerated, make up much too longand broad a topic to cover thor-oughly in so little space. Neverthe-less, by organizing the history intoseven, sometimes overlapping"eras", and by focusing attentionan the most important plans, it ispossible to lead one rather quicklythrough a meaningful overview ofwhat was, until a short time ago,

Today, rail rapid transit is a largepublic expense of state and nation-al, as well as local, significance.Such was not always the case. Be-tween 1870 and 1910, most rapidtransit lines in America were pri-vately financed. And, during thisfirst era, "The Era of Private Capit-al," Los Angeles itself came tantali-zingly close to getting rapid transitat no cost to taxpayers. Shortly af-ter the turn of the century, theSouthern Pacific bought a trolleysystem named the "Los AngelesPacific Company." Among the im-

provements the new owners con-templated were high-speedbypasses through Hollywood, andwhat is now the Wilshire District,funneling into a tunnel betweenVermont Avenue and Hill StreetStation. Work actually began onthis ambitious project in 1907. Loc-al civic leaders were thrilled at theidea of Los Angeles joining themunicipal big leagues with a sub-way. Alas, their bubble hurst. TheFinancial Panic of 1907 cut offfunds, and construction was sus-pended indefinitely. Thereafter,private financing of rapid transitwas more the exception than therule, although electric railwayswould remain a booming businessfor many years to come.

In 1911, an event called "TheGreat Merger" took place. Severalinterurban trolley companies werecombined into the Pacific ElectricRailway, the famous "Red Car"system. Today, many people lookback upon this thousand mile, nowabandoned, asset as having beena rapid transit system which wasthrown away. Well, parts of 'were

rapid transit and parts of it weren't.High-speed rights-of-way con-trasted with slow street-car tracks.During its forty-two year life as a

BOB SECHLERpassenger carrier, the PacificElectric was not a financial suc-cess, and never had the big bucksto plow back into those many lineand rolling stock improvementswhich would have been needed for

Please see ... UPDATE, pg. 6

EDITOR'S NOTE: Headway is pleased to present the first of four articlesdetailing the history of rapid transit in Los Angeles. Written by Bob Sechler,these articles were originally the script for a speech Sechler delivered lastMarch in conjunction with RTD's Toastmaster's Club. Currently a ContractAdministrator in the Purchasing Department, Sechler is a recognizedamateur transit historian. Prior to joining the District in 1977, Sechler wroteand published the first complete history of the Philadelphia, Pa., rapidtransit system and a history of transit in Rangoon, Burma. As an Adminis-trative Analyst with the Metro Rail Project for the last several years Sechlerbecame interested in the history of rapid transit here in Los Angeles. Thesearticles, and the script they evolved out of, are the product of that interest.

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That's not your neighbor, lt 's a pickpocketMorris, our regular driver an the

Number 2 line out of Hollywood,quipped a piece of advice to thepeople jamming his bus. Stuck inrush hour traffic on Sunset Blvd., ithelped pass the time and mightsave someone some grief.

"Some of you folks might thinkthat gentle bump an your rear isjust your neighbor getting friendly,

but here to teil you that it was nolove pat. lt was probably a pick-pocket stealing your wallet," hesaid over the microphone. Amidchuckles and nervous laughterdozens of patrons quietly checkedtheir wallets and purses.

On a busy downtown street cor-ner two District employees arestanding at a bus stop, caught inthe jostling crowd as they wait fortheir bus. Suddenly one shouts out,"Hey, stop that." As the would-be

thief disappears into the crowd thegirl who shouted turns to her com-panion and teils her that a pick-pocket had her purse open and hishand in it when she saw what hewas doing.

Both incidences are true. Andboth serve to illustrate one area ofcrime that is an the upswing here inLos Angeles. According to current

police figures, reported pickpock-et incidents have climbed from 347in 1978 to over 1,600 last year.And, with the Olympics just a yearaway and summer tourism climb-ing, police experts say we can ex-pect to see more of the same.

The Transit Police Departmentre .ports that along with increasedridership, the District has experi-enced a substantial increase inpickpocket activity over the lastyear. During the first quarter of

1983, forty-five pickpocket crimeswere reported. Transit police offi-cials note that a significant numberof pickpocket crimes go unre-ported, thus making the actualnumber of such crimes occurringan buses impossible to estimate.

James Burgess, Transit PoliceChief, says that the professionalOperators at the District are invalu-able in preventing our riders frombecoming pickpocket victims."Many of our operators remindpassengers, either individually orvia the bus public address system,to be aware that pickpockets maybe working the bus. A simple,"Watch your purse, ma'am," fromthe Operator has prevented acountless number of pickpocketcrimes. Many of the operators rec-ognize "pickpocket regulars" orrecognize "pickpocket techni-ques" and call for the TransitPolice, thus preventing crimes.Valuable information is providedby operators regarding where andwhen pickpocket activity is takingplace," Burgess said.

When the Transit Police Depart-ment becomes aware that pick-pocket professionals are workingcertain areas, undercover officersare deployed to work those areas.Mug photos of pickpocket pros aredistributed periodically to officers,to aid in recognition andapprehension.

"I've had my wallet lifted threetimes," commented one bus pat-ron." I don't even bother to report itto the police anymore," he added."Yeah," said another, "they'reeverywhere."

"They" are professional pick-pockets — most from CentralAmerica — who've come to LosAngeles to prey an the unsuspect-ing. Sgt. Jose J. Alcantara, withLAPD's Bunco-Forgery division,says the increased numbers of

pickpockets first became appa-rent in 1978. Officers are also quickto agree that these figures mayonly represent the tip of the pick-pocket iceberg. They point out thatmany people simply do not reportthese thefts, especially if their wal-

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Ridership tops 1.5 millionFor first time in RTD history

RTD bus ridership topped 1.5million boardings Friday, April15, for the first time in the Dis-trict's history. Average weekdayridership in April was 1,442,000boarding, up 30 percent overApril 1982, another record.

RTD defines one boarding aseach time someone gets an anRTD bus. Passengers going toand from a destination arecounted twice.

There has also been a sharpgain in the number of RTD busriders an weekends. Saturdayboardings are up 17 percentover a year ago, and Sundayboardings rose 24 percent overApril 1982.

More than 130 extra buseshave been deployed weekdaymorning rush hours since July 1when RTD fares were sharply re-duced.

"We're doing everything wecan to meet our service Je-mands and get the maximumuse from our fleet," said MikeLewis, RTD Board president. Henoted the district is looking for-ward to delivery of 415 new Neo-plan USA buses starting nextfall.

"'At a time when many publictransit districts in the natiion areexperiencing declining rid-ership, I think it's significant thatpublic transportation in LosAngeles is thriving," Lewisadded.

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Word processors can be as easy to learn as video gamesFrom mechanics to managers,

the skills necessary to perform ourjobs are changing throughout theDistrict. Not too long ago all a goodmanager needed was an ability tomanage paper and people while amechanic needed to know only his

tools and the equipment he workedon. This is true no longer.

As the computer comes of age ithas become necessary for more

lets are returned. "A real profes-sional pickpocket wants only thecash," Alcantara said. "He is veryeager to get rid of the wallet andthe identification connecting him tothe crime."

For this reason, most pickpock-ets will drop the wallet in a mail boxwhere it can be, and usually is, re-turned to the owner.

While police agree that somepickpockets are amateurs, or takeadvantage of a momentary oppor-tunity, they believe most of thethefts are committed by highlytrained pro's.

For obvious reasons there are noreliable figures an how much theaverage pickpocket earns. OneU.S. Department of Justice reportestimates that the approximately1,000 professionals working an aworld-wide basis each ea'rn anaverage of $10,000 a week.

Distracting the intended victim isthe single most important part of asuccessful pickpocket operation,Alcantara pointed out. "As sonn asyour mind is an something otherthan your wallet, you are sucepti-ble. This is why the rings usuallyoperate with two to five persons —one pickpocket and one or more"stalls" to distract the victim, lookout for the police and to receive thewallet," he said.

A typical pickpocket situation isa crowded bus stop or a crush ofpeople trying to get an a bus. "Theperson in front of you drops abunch of coins and bends over topick them up, blocking you, orslowing you down while the pick-packet behind you takes your wal-let out of your purse or pocket,"Alcantara said.

and more people to know andunderstand how computers work.More importantly, as the Districtshifts towards computerized op-erations, it is becomming neces-sary for virtually everyone to knowhow to use the most common com-ponent of the modern computersystem — the word processor.

Word processing is a relativelynew skill, and one for which there isan ever increasing need. As re-cently as two years ago there wereno word processors in the District.Today, almost every departmenthas one tucked away in a cornersomeplace.

While we can't hope to teachanyone how to use a word proces-sor through Headway, we can in-troduce you to the equipment, de-scribe the way it works and giveyou some idea of what it can do foryou. So, take that processor out ofthe corner, pull up a chair and let's

Once he has your wallet, thepickpocket quickly passes it to ateam member behind him called a"tail"._ Then, Alcantara poined out,if the victim suspects something iswrong the pickpocket can raise hishands in apparent innocence andeven invite a search safely.

Pickpocket rings are usuallymost successful in large crowds.At a big department store, a sport-ing event, an a bus, at a fire or evenin a group of people gathered towatch a police officer make anarrest. However, according topolice experts, many pickpocketsstill work alone catching the un-wary an busy City streets.

lt is no protection to a woman tozip her purse shut either, Alcantarasaid. A successful thief will simplyunzip it while she is distracted andlooking the other way.

Recent reports even indicatethat a band of Oriental pickpocketsreg ularly work an buses, usingblades to slit open purses.

Although pickpocketing is afelony offense, catching and con-victing a pickpocket is at best diffi-cult. Most cases in which there isno known previous offense areoften treated as misdeameanors,with little or no jail time.

Even when police know theyhave a professional in their cus-tody the job is often impossible.The suspect simply gives a falsename, posts ball and disappears.

Pickpockets also travel a greatdeal, and usually for free. Whenone of them wants to move an toanother area he simply stealssomebody's plane ticket and eithercashes it in and buys another oruses the one he stole.

take a look at the future.WHAT IS WORD PROCESSING?

lt may help to think of word pro-cessing as "computerized typing,"although there are distinct differ-entes. "The major difference be-tween the two," comments BrendaDiederichs, a Supervising Person-nel Analyst, "is that a typist needn't

learn to control a typewriter while aword processor must learn to con-trol the terminal as well as the In-formation that goes into thesystem."

Through the use of word proces-sors you have, in effect, all of theresources of a powerful computerat your fingertips. All you have todo to coaxe perfect copy out of it isteil it what to do. Of course, youmust teil it how to do it but once youlearn the system that becomes theeasiest part.

A word processing system ismade up of five parts. First, ofcourse, is the person operating thesystem. Next is the computer thatwill be doing the work for you. Thirdis the keyboard, very similar to atypewriter, through which you teilthe computer what to do. Fourth, isthe screen or CRT. The Cathode ,Ray Tube, or CRT, allows the Oper-ator to see what they are creating.Lastly, there is a printer that pro-vides a paper or "hard" copy of thefinished document.

The big difference between theword processor and a typewriter isthat when you turn off a word pro-cessor all of the text you have cre-ated disappears unless you've toldthe computer to store it. Themagnetic disks that fit into the pro-cessor are its memory. Withoutthem you could type all day at aconsole and still have nothing toshow for it when you were done.This memory function is as simpleas hitting an extra key or two beforeyou shut the equipment down andmust be performed each time youprepare or revise a document.

Most word processors have atleast one function that has madethem so popular in the businessworld — an editing capability.When using a typewriter, mistakesan your copy must be corrected by

hand. With a word processor yousimply punch a key or two and thecomputer makes whateverchanges or corrections you need,before the document ever reachespaper. This saves time and effortand pleases the Boss because theend product is so much neater andprofessional looking.

WHAT SKILLS DO YOU NEED?The single most basic skill

needed in word processing is typ-ing. Although "hunt and peck" typ-ing will work, the ideal of course istouch typing. More and more peo-ple these days —from clerks totransit cops need to type. Evenmanagers are learning to use theterminals. By entering a few piecesof information at a division terminal,they can activate the computer toprovide them with the importantmanagement information theyneed. And it can be done in a frac-tion of the time it used to take and ata considerable money savings aswell.

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We are all living in an age of ter-minals and video games. Along theway we are aquiring the skills tooperate the keyboard, controlsand the screen. Most of us getthese skills without realizing it aswe play video games. The only realdifference between a game ofVideo Bandits and a word proces-sor is the use to which they are put.

HOW DO YOU USE THE WORDPROCESSOR?

Text entry is just like typing, ex-cept that the text is presented an ascreen instead of being printeddirectly onto paper. The materialyou enter can come from a hand-written or roughly typed master or itcan come straight out of your head.The computer doesn't care.

A second course of entry is adictated tape. This is much more

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That's not your neighbor

HOW TO AVOID PICKPOCKET DANGERS

• Be aware of potential danger, primarily crowds and/or jostling.• lf jostled, check to make sure you money is intact.• Do not display large sums of money.• Do not carry an open-top purse.• Do not carry purse so it can be opened away from your body.• When carrying packages, keep purse next to your body.• Keep money and credit cards in zipped compartments inside

your purse.• Do not carry wallet or loose money in coat or sweater pockets.• Place comb, teeth up, horizontally in fold of wallet.• Do not carry wallet in hip pocket.• Be aware; a large portion of bus pickpockets occur while

boarding the bus.• lf you are the victim of a pickpocket, file a police report.

STILL GOOD CRUISERS — District basketball champs, The Cruisersfrom Division 3, celebrate their win in the finals over the OrangeCrush, from Division 2, with a victory cheer.

Cruisers take championship

WINNERS — The Cruisers include, from left to right: (Front row)Darell Carter, Duane Bonner, Thomas Harris, Derriel Wayne, VernellElgin and Gilbert Anzures. (Rear row) James Amos, Kenneth Willis(Manager), Lonnie Carlyle, Tyrone Richardson, A.J. Taylor (Div. 3Transportation Manager), Stan Mixson, Erick Johnson and HaroldHollis.

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The annual Father's DayWeekend at Knott's Berry Farm isset for June 18-19. Enjoy admis-sion to Knott's "Old Times Adven-tures" entertainment area plus unli-mited use of all park attractions(except Pan for Gold). Shake pawswith "Snoopy" and have a terrifictime with family and friends. All foronly $6.00 for employees, theirfamilies and retirees. Guests are$6.75, children under 2 years areFREE. (Regular ticket price is$10.95. That's a $4.95 employeesavings!!)

Concert season at the Greek,Universal and Beverly Theaters isin full swing for the summer of '83.June concerts available at dis-counted prices are:

JUNE 16—Frank Sinatra -Amphitheatre - $24.00.

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efficient from the point of view ofthe originator. The dictation is re-corded on a small cassette and anoperator transcribes it into the ter-minal.

While the transcribed documentis still in memory, and before it canbe used, it must be permanentlystored for safe keeping. You givethe document a distinctive name,or "slug", so it can be retrieved la-ter when you need it; then youdirect the computer to put the elec-tronic form of the document onto adisk for storage.

With the document safely on thedisk you can now print the copy.Depending on the type of wordprocessor, this is done by a simpledirective from the keyboard or byselecting the print action from amenu presented on the screen.

After the document has beentranscribed, it is usually returned tothe originator for changes. The firstkind of change is correcting mis-read or misheard (from a tape)words. The second kind of changeis the reorganization requiredwhen the originator sees what thedocument actually looks like.

The insert and delete keys arecalled upon to perform most cor-rective functions. But this is wherethe incredible power of the compu-ter your terminal is connected to

comes into play. For instance, ifyou have misspelled the sameword several times it becomes asnap to correct. There is a searchand replace function common tomost word processors that will findeach misspelling and correct it.Similarly, there is a command to goto a particular place in the docu-ment and begin making correc-tions there. A most powerful fea-ture is the cut and paste capability.This allows you to select wholeblocks of text, sentences, groups

JUNE 17—Cameo and the DazzBand - Greek - $14.00.

Multiple concert acts will be per-forming at the San Diego and Play-boy Jazz Festivals scheduled forthis month. The San Diego FestivalJune 10-11 in San Diego will in-clude the following acts:

Friday Night—The Gap Band;The Zap Band; Maze with FrankieBeverly; Cameo; Cheryl Lynn.

Saturday Night—Luther Van-dross; The O'Jays; The Dazz Band;Evelyn King.

$17.50 field level seats are avail-able for $16.50.

The Playboy Festival at the Holly-wood Bowl, June 18-19, will featureVSOP II featuring Herbie Hancock,Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Wyn-ton-Marsalis, Branford Marsalis;Buddy Rich and His Band; Modern

of words or any combination ofthem you like and move themaround wherever you like in thedocument. Other word processingfeatures take care of footnotes,headings, tables in the text and amyriad of other tasks. The wordprocessor can even do simplearithmetic or create graphs andcharts for you.

HOW DO YOU LEARN WORDPROCESSING?

Some high schools, two-yearcolleges and adult educationcourses provide access and train-ing on word processors. However,due to the cost of the equipment,these institutions are often poorlyequipped and funded. There arealso private courses, often givenby the word processor manufac-turer. These courses are good, buttend to be expensive. The Districtalso provides training for selectedpersonnel. Usually, a departmenthead will select one or two peoplewithin the department to be trainedin the use of the word processor.The selection is based on needand, to one degree or another,upon desire to learn the equip-ment. Selected individuals arethen trained by the Telecom-munications Department. "VVeaverage about 30 training sessionseach month," says Caren Epstein,Word Processing Coordinator."There are currently about 140clerical positions within the Districtthat could benefit from word pro-cessor training," she added." Outof that number we've trained about75 people to date." The District hasabout 52 word processor terminalsand 46 printers installed, primarilyin the headquarters building, shepointed out.

The Employee Developmentand Training Department is cur-rently taking a hard look at what thedistrict's long-term needs aregoing to be in terms of skilled wordprocess operators. Director of Em-ployee Development Byron Lewisstated, "Since computers areobviously here to stay, we need togive all of our employees whosejobs may be affected by word pro-cessors and other automatic dataprocessing equipment the oppor-tunity to become competent in theiroperation. A master plan addres-sing all aspects of training andeducation needed as a result ofcomputerization is being pre-pared."

Jazz Quartet; Spyro Gyra; StepsAhead; Tania Maria, Count Basieand His Orchestra; Joe Williams;Hubert Laws and many more. Hostfor the two-day event will be BillCosby. $19.50 tickets on sale for$18.00.

The Dodgers are hitting heavyas they enter the middle of the sea-son. RTD games available in Juneare Dodgers vs. the New YorkMets, June 5, 1:05 p.m., HelmetWeekend; against the AtlantaBraves, June 15, 7:30 p.m; againstthe Cincinnati Reds, June 18, 1:05p.m., Batting Glove Day; andagainst the Houston Astros, June26, 1:05 p.m. — $5.00 Reservedseats for $4.00.

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Angel action lines up as follows:Angels vs. Toronto Blue Jays -June 11 - Mini-Pendant Packnight.Angels vs. Kansas City Royals -July4 - Fireworks display.

You cannot say "Always abridesmaid - never a bride" to theCruisers, Division 3 basketballteam, anymore.

After three years in secondplace, they were finally victorious.They are the District's 1983 basket-ball champions, defeating theOrange Crush of Division 2, 62-48,on May 25. The victory was a cul-mination of a three-month seasonwith eight District teams and aplayoff season featuring the topfour teams.

Word processors easy to learn

$7.00 Club Box Seats for $5.00.

Tickets still available for "Zor-ba", a musical starring AnthonyQuinn at the Music Center on June5. The $25.50 orchestra seats areon sale for $23.50.

You can now drink your coffeeand write that reminder note onspecial logo items. Available at aspecial price to interested partiesare a 12 oz. ceramic mug with theRTD logo on both sides for only$4.00 and a cubic scratch padfeaturing several RTD logos oneach side for $3.00. These newadditions cannot be mailed, butare available through the Em-ployee Activities Office on thefourth floor of the HeadquartersBuilding.

•For tickets and information on

these and all Employee Recreationand Discount items, contact theEmployee Activities Office, Ext.6580.

Starting the playoffs, the topteams, in order of the placing were:

LaCandones, Division 5Orange Crush, Division 2Cruisers, Division 3HeadquartersThe first and second place

teams received individualtrophies. In addition, the cham-pions will have the honor of keep-ing the perpetual basketball trophyat their division for one year, or untilthey lose the basketball crown.

Summertime meansphoto time

Summer is finally here and that means more peo-ple than ever are busy shooting snap shots of theirfavorite summer pastimes. Here are a few hints tohelp you take better photos and enjoy them more,and for selecting your slides for making color printsor duplicate slides.

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SAFETY FIRST—Divisions 16 and 1 wererecently named winners of the Safe Per-formance Award for the first quarter of1983. Shown here accepting the awardsfrom General Manager John Dyer andDirector Jay Price (far left) are JohnAdams, Maintenance Manager at Div. 1and Gene Hamilton, Acting TransportationManager at Div. 16.

BOTTOM LEFT

MAY RETIREES—General Manager JohnDyer (far left) and Director Nick Patsaouras(left, rear) congratulate May's retirees.From left to right, they include: Darrell Allan(31 years), Ray Bauman (25), Wray Deit-rich (19), Virginia M. Fees (30), UlyssesGuillebeau (41), David Huey (18). FloydLawrence (11), Edward Osborne (37),Francisco Prieto (12), Robert W. Strean(10) and Ralph Risola (26).

MISS WEST COVINA NAMEDLisa Alfaro, daughter of Div. 9

Operator Eugene Alfaro, wasnamed Little Miss West Covina anMarch 25, 1983. The nine year-oldLisa attends Cameron ElementarySchool in West Covina and willreign throughout 1983.

LEILANI MICHELLE ACTIONSRobert Waters, from the District

Secretary's Office, was recentlyblessed with the arrival of hissecond grandchild. Leilani Michel-le Actions was born in Bellflower anMay 17, weighing 8 lbs., 3 az., andmeasuring 21 inches in length.

METRO BAGS"Metro Rail is Coming" plastic

shopping bags are available freeto all employees in the CommunityRelations Department, ext. 6456.

EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTHMay 1983

While no photo is available for May's Employees of the Month, wewould like to teil you a little bit about them: As Maintenance Employeeof the Month, Arthur Lewis is considered an expert in coach mainte-nance and is described as "Honest, straightforward and reliable."Operator of the Month David Doakes, with the District since early1976, has compiled an excellent attendance and operating record aswell as numerous commendations from his riding public and super-visors. In the two years Information Operator Mike Witt has been withRTD, his supervisors have been impressed with his quick, polite andprofessional manner and say that the District always comes acrosswell when he is manning the phones. Congratulations to all three ofthese outstanding individuals for being named Employees of theMonth.

Delaney winsNational award

Diane E. Delaney, EmployeeActivities Coordinator, wasawarded professional recognitionas a Certified Employee Servicesand Recreation Administrator bythe National Employee Servicesand Recreation Association at its42nd Annual conference in Col-umbus, Ohio on May 6, 1983.

"I am absolutely thrilled with thisrecognition from my peers," De-laney said. "Especially since theawards are based on passing askill test and only three wereawarded nation-wide," she added.

Established in 1941, the 2,500member NESRA stands alone in itsfield as a non-profit organizationdedicated to the principle that em-ployee services, recreation and fit-ness programs are essential toeffective personnel management.

DIANE DELANEYlt is the oldest association in thehuman resources field and assistsmember organizations in develop-ing, promoting and improving em-ployee programs.

COLORThe colors in your print or duplicate willbe just about the same as they are in theslide. However, overall casts of color,such as the bluishness that often appearsin slides made oir an overcast day, rnaybe more noticeable in the print than inthe original slide. Your eyes are morelikely to adapt to an overall tint in a slideprojected in a dark room than to a tintin a print viewed in normally lightedsurroundings.

SHARPNESSOf course, the sharper your originalslide, the sharper your print or duplicateslide will be. Judge the sharpness of yourslide (both for focus and for subject orcamera movement) by examining itthrough a magnifier. Judging sharpnessby projecting the slide may be misleading.

CLEANLINESSAny dust, scratches, or fingerprints onthe slide will appear in the print or dup-licate slide. These will be particularly ob-vious in an enlargement. Kodak Process-ing Laboratories clean Loose dirt particiesfrom the slides when necessary, hut yourchances of getting a clean-looking printor duplicate are best if you send a cleanslide. You can clean your slides with a

product such as KODAK Film Cleanerand a piece of clean, white, lintless cloth.

EXPOSURETry to avoid choosing slides that areoverexposed (too light) or underexposed(too dark). Prints and duplicates fromoverexposed slides will lack highlightdetail; those from underexposed slideswill lack shadow detail.

CONTRASTDuplicate SlidesWhen you duplicate a slide, the duplicatesometirnes has slightly more contrastthan the original. Usually, the addedcontrast is acceptable, but if you dupli-cate a contrasty original, the added con-trast might be excessive.

Prints and EnlargementsA slide with high contrast will not repro-duce as well as a slide of normal or lowcontrast. A high-contrast slide includesboth very bright and very dark areas(such as a bride in white next to a groomin black or a bright sky behind a tree),and a print often won't show all the detailin these areas that you can see in the slide.Some custom laboratories may employthe use of special image masking tech-niques to control contrast and densitieswithin a picture. Often enlargements arecompleted with the use of a negative as

an intermediate step. Kodak laboratoriesoffer negatives from slides for customerswho wish to print their own work.

Prints from slides are not as brilliantas the original slicte because they areviewed by reflected light. Using an ar-rangement similar to the one in the illus-tration is a good way of judging the con-trast and exposure of your slide to deter-mine whether it will inake a good print.View the slide by light reflected from asheet of white paper illuminated by abright light, such as a desk lamp. Holdthe slide at about a 45-degree angle tothe paper so that the light strikes the slideas well as the paper.

ORIENTATION AND CROPPINGColor prints and enlargements madefrom slides will be oriented in the sameway as the slides are when you viewedthem through the bare (glossy) side.

Cropping often improves slides, andmany photofinishers provide masks forcropping slides which are going to be en-larged. Your photo dealer will let you usea mask, and you can mark the croppingon the slide mount. If you do not indicatecropping on the slide, the photofinisherwill make the enlargement from the en-tire slide or the largest area of the slidethat can be printed to the size you order.

C-7 T0By Elia Borja, RNVisiting Nurse

Lawnmower safety hintsYou probably don't want to be

reminded, but it's now time toget out the lawn mower. Beforeyou do, be sure you know how todo so safety—mowing can bejust as hazardous as it is un-pleasant.

Each year a large number ofboth operators and bystandersare seriously injured in acci-dents involving power lawnmowers, particularly the rotarytype mowers.

Following the safety rules be-low could prevent an injury toyou, a member of your family, ora passerby:• Read the instruction manual

carefully before you operate anew mower.

• Always start the mower anfirm, clear, level ground.

• Shut off the mower—or dis-connect the power cord if it iselectric—before attemptingto clear accumulated grass orother material from themower.

• Mow the lawn during daylighthours only. At night it's difficultto spot and avoid hittingstones and other objectswhich may be hidden in thegrass.

• Pay extra attention to footingand balance when mowing anan incline.

• Wear safety shoes if you havethem.

• Hills and banks should be cuthorizontally instead of verti-cally (but the safety rule is justthe opposite—vertically in-stead of horizontally—whenyou're using a riding mower).This method will allow bettercontrol of the mower.

• Check the mower regularly forworn or damaged parts. If youhave an electric mower, makefrequent checks of the powercord to be sure there are nobreaks in the insulation.

• Never leave the mower un-attended, especially when itis running.

• Don't mow when the grass iswet or slippery.

• Never refuel a gasoline mow-er while it is running or still hotfrom use.

• Keep children away from themowing area.

• Never lift or tip the mowerwhile it is running.

• Shut off the mower beforeattempting to adjust theheight of the wheels.

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Finally, "The last-diet-you-will-euer- be-on-if-you-are-honest" dietThis is the "Last-diet-you-will -

ever-be-on-if-you-are-honest"diet. This will be permanent mod-ification of your eating habits. Theterm diet is usually used incorrect-ly. Properly used, the word diet isthe total food consumed by an indi-vidual. Usually when a person talksof a diet it is a weight-loss diet ofwhich they are speaking. To per-manently lose weight you need topermanently balance your dailydiet and know the balance be-tween your caloric needs andcaloric intake. The "L-d-y-w-e-b-o-i-y-a-h" diet does not count calor-ies, it counts an you.

WEIGHT-LOSS DIET STARTSWITH A DIARY

Before you attempt a permanentweight-loss program you mustknow if you are physically able toundergo the stress of weight lossor if there is an underlying reasonfor your weight gain. After yourphysician has said that it's alrightto lose weight, you need to deter-mine your individual eating pat-terns. For the next two weeks youwill write down everything you eat,drink, or chew. This food diary willcontain what you eat, how muchyou eat, in what location you eat thefood, what your feelings are wheneating and at what time you ate.

So, in a notebook you will placefood/amount/where/feelings/timeand note everything eaten from thestick of gum to the taste of some-one's sandwich. Everything will be

documented. Even each glass ofwater should be noted. For thosewishing to permanently alter theireating habits and have a perma-nent weight-loss this Food Diarywill give you insight to the where,what, and why of your eating. Youneed to keep track of your totalfood intake for at least two weeksand the results will be as honest asyour documentation. This is why

you need to be honest. (And noone needs to see the notebook ex-cept you)

MY DIARYWhen I reviewed my two week

diary, I was astonished to learn thatI ate not only breakfast, lunch anddinner but 3 dinners and whatevermy kids left an their plates. The din-ners consisted of first "tasting"while preparing dinner, the secondwhile sitting down at the dinnertable with my family and the third infront of the television. When I stop-ped tasting food I prepared andstopped eating "with" television I

began my permanent weight loss.These habits were not easy to giveup but when it became obviousthat I was losing weight and wear-ing smaller clothes, I became morededicated to lose those many,many pounds that I had gained.Those restrictions an what, whereand why I eat have become perma-nent modifications in my life style,even today. That was twenty years

ago.BE PATIENT

Don't try to interpret the results ofyour diary until two completeweeks and don't alter your eatinghabits until after your informationgathering. After the two weeks, youshould see where you will need tomodify your eating habits. You willbe able to see where you can cutyour "invisible" eating. This invisi-ble eating is usually done in front ofthe television, or as snacks eatenat a friend's home or at the movies.These are eating habits based ansocial "need" not health needs;

thus, they become the easiest toeliminate. The first rule of weightloss and modification of your eat-ing habits will be to become awareof eating. The what, where, andwhy of eating becomes apparentwhen you become aware of eating.

VISIBLE EATINGWhen you start your food aware-

ness permanent weight-loss, youshould eat at a place set at thetable. You should never stand toeat unless at a party. Do not eatand do something else such asreading or watching T.V. Be awareof when you eat and what you eatand why you eat. You should not"taste" food. Eating is special andshould always be treated as some-thing special.

CALORIESThe second modification in the

permanent weight-loss diet is anincrease of your activity level.Simply stated, if you consume lesscalories than you use you will loseweight. Activity plays a big role inweight loss or weight gain. If youeat less than a thinner person andyou still gain weight it may be yourlow activity level. The more over-weight you are the more "efficient"you probably are. The thinner per-son usually won't wait for the eleva-tor and uses the stairs, where you"conserve" your energy for thosemoments dedicated to eating. Thethinner person usually is "runningin circles" while the overweightperson is a mode! for a time andmotion study.

Take precautions when you go out in theAccording to the famous British

playright Noel Coward, "Only maddogs and Englishmen go out in thenoonday sun." Of course, he waspoking fun at his countrymen butthe advice is nonetheless accu-rate. Experts agree that almosteveryone should avoid excessiveactivity and exposure to the sunduring peak summer middaytemperatures.

The U.S. Public Health Servicereports that there were 1,265deaths in this country last summerdirectly attributable to summerheat. Besides obvious risk groupssuch as children and the elderly,those who work outside during theday are also prone to heat relatedproblems, experts say.

Safety Department figuresshow that each year several casesof heat sickness are reported byDistrict personnel. These casesare linked to over exhertion andcompounded by not drinking suffi-

cient amounts of liquids to replacethe body fluids that are lost byperspiration.

Healthy people have automaticheat regulatory systems that allowtheir bodies to dissipate heat to thesurrounding atmosphere. Whenthe body is exposed to extremeheat, it responds by perspiring. Asthe sweat evaporates, the bodycools down. However, the result isthe loss of essential body fluidsand salt. The loss must be re-placed by drinking additionalfluids and sensibly increasing theintake of salty food. Salt tablets areof doubtful benefit, according torecent tests results, and should betaken only an the advice of a doc-tor. In fact, most employers, includ-ing the R.T.D. no longer providesalt tablets because they havemore potential for causing harmthan good to some individuals.

In addition, individuals withheart, kidney or liver disease

should consult a doctor before in-creasing their salt and fluid intake.

Heat stroke is a life threateningsituation. lt occurs when there is anabsence of sweating, thus causinghigh internal body temperatures.When someone collapses in theheat, and their skin feels hot anddry, they must be rushed to anemergency room for treatment.

Heat exhaustion, an the otherhand, usually results from standingin the heat and sun for long periodsof time without being acclimated to

summer sunit. These people will continue tosweat and should recover quickly ifplaced somewhere cool, with theirhead down and feet elevated.

As in all other situations, ex-tremely hot weather should beapproached with moderation.Don't run, jog, play tennis or en-gage in any other extremelyphysical activity during the hottestpart of the day if you can avoid it.When it's blazing hot outside, hangout in the coolest place you canfind.

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Early transit proposals strikingly similar to currentreal rapid transit. A noteworthy ex-ception was the Bunker Hill Tunneland Subway Terminal, actually astarting over of the 1907 project.For the most part, the P.E. was re-conciled to wearing out what it hadinherited from the good old days of

throughout the entire region. Un-fortunately, it had a lot of ultimatelyfatal flaws.

Its most apparent and controver-sial drawback was vertical con-figuration. Although the core of therapid transit system was to be

METRO QUESTIONS — Congressman Henry Waxman (left) andGeneral Manager John Dyer (center) answer questions fromDaily News reporter Penny Simison and KNX Radio reporterJake Jacobs after Dyer briefed Rep. Waxman on Metro Railprogress recently.

ABOVE — Mike Malak, chairman of the North Hollywood SpecialAnalysis Committee (seated far left) and John Dyer answer ques-tions from a group of North Hollywood High School studentsabout Metro Rail's impact on the first of a series of televisionprograms to be broadcast over Channel 58. BELOW—Engineersand drilling crew watch as an engineer is lowered into an observa-tion hole drilled near the site of a planned Metro Rail Station inHollywood.

cheap land, cheap materials,cheap labor and easy money.Even as the 1920's roared on, theEra of Private Capital faded away.

Public sponsorship of rapid tran-sit studies in Los Angeles beganduring the same years as the GreatMerger. A Chicago consultant,Bion J. Arnold, prepared a reportfor the Los Angeles Board of Har-bor Commissioners, in which he re-commended several transporta-tion improvements, among themdowntown subways for interurbantrains. However, the outstanding

feature of the Arnold Report musthave boggled the contemporaryimagination. He proposed, in acorridor paralleling the shoestringannexation strip to San Pedro,eight railroad tracks flanked bygrade-separated roads, to beknown as the "Auto Speedway".Such intermodal coordination wascertainly farsighted for its time, andas one can see from the dream'seventual fulfillment, The HarborFreeway, Bion J. Arnold was aprophet without honor in SouthernCalifornia.

The Arnold Report heralded thebeginning of era number two, "TheFirst Era of Grand Designs". ltrached its high point in 1925 withpublication of the Kelker, De LeuwReport on Comprehensive RapidTransit Plan for The City and Coun-ty of Los Angeles. In their inch-thick hardbound volume, the con-sultants described an extensivetwo-stage network at a cost of ab-out $320 million. A key element ofthe comprehensive plan was up-grading of the best parts of the RedCar System and connecting themto new high-speed rights-of-way.

For an urban area which wasgrowing very fast, suffering fromlots of traffic congestion, andwhose public transportation was ofvery inconsistent quality, the Com-prehensive Rapid Transit Planoffered the hope of a uniformly highlevel of mass transportation

underground, a considerable partof the new mileage was to be ele-vated over streets. Forseeing ahostile reaction to this idea, theconsultants took great pains to ex-plain how judicious use of sculp-tured concrete could make theoverhead structures aestheticallybenign. lt was a spoonful of sugarthat did not make the medicine godown.

In 1926, a political battle flaredup over location of a union passen-ger terminal. The Southern Pacific,the Pacific Electric, and most

newspapers favored a site aroundFifth Street and Central Avenue. In-cluded in the terminal layout was asort of "initial increment" of ele-vated access trackage from theLos Angeles River to P. E.'s MainStreet Station to take interurbantrains off the streets and out of traf-fic. The Los Angeles Times favoredthe Plaza site for the union station,and was dead set against elevatedrailways. The paper editorializedthat the elevated access was but aforetaste of horrible things to come— a network of noisy, ugly el's allover town! When the union stationissue and the elevated to MainStreet Station were put to an advis-ory referendum, the people sidedwith the Times position, and by im-plication, against any rapid transitsystem which included elevatedrailways.Actually, the voters never got to

decide on the ComprehensivePlan itself, and the Los AngelesCity Council refused to accept it.Little was done about rapid transitfor a while, although the issue waswidely debated. Finally, in the late1920's, various interest groups de-cided that it was time to get the ballrolling. A bill was introduced intothe legislature to expedite forma-tion of tax assessment districts tofinance rapid transit lines. The LosAngeles Board of City PlanningCommissioners, in order to feel outpublic opinion before things

moved too far ahead, held two con-ferences on the rapid transit ques-tion during the first half of 1930.Most of the papers read at theseforums were favorable to the ideaof a rapid transit system, but thosewhich were not, or which werehesitant, made up the tips of somemighty big icebergs. Among theobjections were the following:• Elevated railroads were totally

unacceptable, as they depreci-ated neighborhoods and prop-erty values.

• The property tax assessmentswould be too much of a burdenon the small homeowner.

• Outlying areas would benefit atthe expense of inner areas.

• The transit companies wouldbenefit at taxpayer expense.

• Regional business centers, likeHollywood, would not be as wellserved as downtown LosAngeles.

• Traffic congestion would not godown.

• Most transit riders would not findthe rapid transit lines convenientto use.After the two conferences, the

Comprehensive Plan was a deadissue. Put succinctly, its demisecan be attributed to four factors: itwas overambitious, over-extended, over-priced, and over-head!

The failure of the Comprehen-

Local rail transit history studded with fitfull starts and stops

•rent Metro Rail plans

BELOW — Visitors to FutureWorld Expo '83, held at the Conven-tion Center in early May, view a Metro Reif display and models.

BOTTOM — Lt. Governor Leo McCarthy addresses a group ofNorth Hollywood residents concerning the need for Metro Rail.

End of milestoneProcess in sight

Thousands of weary butproud faces are showing the firstsigns of satisfied smiles as pre-liminary engineering for the Met-ro Rail Project draws close tosuccessful conclusion.

After nearly two-and-a-halfyears of intense effort by hun-dreds of District employees,consultants, Board directors,numerous governmental agen-cies and thousands of con-cerned citizens and civic lead-ers the project has entered thefinal phase of its public parti-cipation program.

Milestone 12, the last step inthe 15-month-long milestoneprocess, will be presented to theBoard of Directors at its publichearing on June 27, 1983, en-ding what has been a long, hardand at times bitterly contestedeffort on the part of the RTD andthe communities impacted bythe subway system. The end re-sult, however, is a proposed pro-ject fiercely supported by abroad-based following of com-munity, civic, business, socialand political leaders as well asmany thousands of everydaycitizens who see the need forsafe, clean and efficient rapidtransit in our urbanized area.

In March, 1982, the RTD be-gan a joint staff/community effortcalled the "Milestone" process,in which all major engineeringand policy decisions were di-vided into 12 distinct subjectareas or "milestones." Milestonetopics included such subjectsas route alignment, station loca-tion, station design, systemsafety, operating equipment,land acquisition and land usepolicies.

lt is in Milestone 12, however,that all these and other relateddecisions have come together ina final "System Plan," the title ofthe document. In two sets ofpublic meetings the communityhas had the opportunity to

observe first-hand the culmina-tion of all their efforts and timespent working with the District'sstaff and consultant team towarda common end for a commoncause.

Chambers of commerce,homeowners, citizen actiongroups, merchant associations,professional groups and similargroups from all sections of thecity and county have bandedtogether to help bring Metro Railinto reality. These groups arecontinuing their support bybringing pressure to bear onCongress in the fight for ade-quate funding for what a high-ranking Department of Trans-portation official has referred toas". . .the most carefully stud-ied, thoroughly justified andmost cost-effective project of itskind."

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sive Plan did not interrupt thesearch for rapid transit, which wasstill seen as a pressing public needin Los Angeles during the early1930's. Mayor Shaw made it acampaign promise, and respond-i ng to his mandate, the LosAngeles Central business DistrictAssociation engaged a prominentlocal consultant, Donald M. Baker,to come up with a less objection-able, and less costly alternative.Baker's report, published in 1933,recommended a subway under HillStreet and four radial grade-separated rapid transit rights-of-way covering the heaviest P.E.travel corridors. At $30 million, theBaker plan seemed highly afford-

able, especially if a Federal publicworks grant could pick up a third ofthe tab. But, it too did not come topass. The Los Angeles Railwaysponsored its own study of street-car subways to be built in conjunc-tion with the Baker rapid transitlines for interurban trains. What amarvellous opportunity was pas-sed up for Los Angeles to get arelatively inexpensive, but highlyuseful mass transit infrastructurewhich would be difficult to assail,and unthinkable to abandon in theforthcoming years!

NEXT MONTH—The Era of In-termodal Sketch Planning.

ABOVE — Drilling crew prepares to line an observation holedrilled near the proposed site of a Hollywood Metro Rail station.BELOW Assistant General Manager for Management JohnRicheson and Mike Hartpence, from Purchasing, peruse the morethan 60 proposals received for bid on continuing preliminaryengineering on the Metro Rail system.

You bethe Judge

OPERATOR'S STATEMENT:I had 25 passengers an my bus and had just picked up three morepassengers at the nearside stop, one of the passengers was carryingtwo shopping bags. As I started to move, an automobile made a rightturn in front of the bus, causing me to make a sudden stop in order toprevent a collision. In doing so, the passenger with the two shoppingbags feil in the aisle.

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Williams named to head EEO

1Last month's mystery guest

must have been too easy. LeilaBailey's picture not only drew thelargest response of any GuessWho we've run to date, but wasalso the only one we've publishedthat didn't draw at least one incor-rect guess. Frank A. Payrow, aretiree, was our winner.

Just so it won't get to be a habit,this month's Guess Who is goingto be a little tougher to figure out.This photo was taken when thismonth's mystery guest was abouta year old, around 1939. She'sworked for the District for the last16 years, starting out as a stenoclerk and Administrative Assis-tant. She's still in administration,but we won't teil you where.

Remember — write your bestguess an a slip of paper and sendit to Headway. The winner will bepicked at random from among allcorrect guesses. Don't forget toinclude your name, extension andbadge number when you send inyour guess. GUESS WHO?

CRYING WON'THELP..BUT YOU DID!

Where there is pain, thereis a problem. The pain can be

physical discomfort or emo-tional upset. lt doesn't matter.

For whichever reason, thepain is real. The person hurts.Attention, care, concern and

treatment are needed.

Because of your gift to theUnited Way Campaign, help

is available.

You, the concerned citizen,are the reason we are able

to say, "Thanks to you, itworks for all of us:'

OUnited Wag

Because you care,SCRTD has increasedits United WayCampaign donationsby 56.5% over lastyear for a total of$228,567 in 1983donations.

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Krafft announcesPlans to retireLater this summer

Marvin D. Williams has beenappointed RTD's new assistantgeneral manager for equal oppor-tunity.

Williams, 34, will oversee theDistrict's Minority and Women'sBusiness Enterprise programs,Contract Compliances, AffirmativeAction, and Training.

For the past five years, Williams

MARVIN D. WILLIAMS

has worked for Boone, Young andAssociates, management consul-tants based in New York City, Phi-ladelphia and Washington, D.C.He has been the project managerresponsible for establishing asmall, minority and women-ownedbusinesses program for a $2.5 bil-lion federally funded railroad re-vitalization project in the Northeast.

Williams also helped organizesimilar programs for the Southeast-ern Michigan Transportation Au-thority, and the Tri-State RegionalPlanning Commission of New York,New Jersey and Connecticut.

Prior to his position at Boone,Young and Associates, Williamswas coordinator of Minority Busi-ness Enterprise for the Mas-sachusetts Bay Transportation Au-thority in Boston. He also served asspecial assistant and investigatorto the Connecticut Commission ofHuman Rights and Opportunitiesin Hartford, Ct.

Williams earned a bachelor ofarts degree in history at WesleyanUniversity in Middleton, Ct., andstudied law at Yale Law School inNew Haven, Ct.

Williams and his wife, Fabriennewill reside in Pasadena.

Director of Transportation Ro-land Krafft has announced that hewill be retiring an July 31 this yearafter more than forty years in publictransit.

Krafft oversees approximately5000 employees including busOperators, radio dispatchers, roadsupervisors and other operationalpersonnel. Krafft began his careeras a trolley conductor and motor-man with the Pacific Electric Rail-way in Los Angeles in 1942. He

later drove for an RTD forerunner,Metropolitan Coach Lines.

"We're going to be hard pressedto replace Roland," commentedRTD General Manager John A.Dyer, adding that a nation-widesearch for Krafft's replacement willget underway soon. "It's a rare in-dividual who has the drive to adv-ance from trolley and bus operatorto top management, but Roland setthat as his goal long ago and heachieved it," Dyer added.

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0DIVISION 6Frances DawsonJose Requero, Jr.Jim FlenouryMary WhiteJacque HancockRick CadelliScott MercerTom PritchettDIVISION 7Carlos IglesiasWilliam ReddickCharles SquareWalter WhiteRichard WestDIVISION 8James Hawkes, Jr.Marc HollanderGuadalupe FonsecaDonna Summers (2)Sudershanam NummaRonald McCoyLuis Martin

Dillard DoraisAllan BernsteinDIVISION 9Samuel McCoy, Jr.Larry P. ThompsonJosie RobbsCelestine RoyalDIVISION 12Merrill FretwellPaul A. TumminieriCharles WatsonDIVISION 15James GrumbachJames StephensonRobert CroweDIVISION 16Ralph Evans, Jr.Benjamin MorrisJerry GardnerDIVISION 18George Nahra (3)Prince Williams, Jr.

Coloring Contest WinnersGRAND PRIZEAnthony Carroll

Age 7

6 YEARS OLDAND UNDER'I st — John Dell2nd — Sandra Novak3rd — Angela Pedroza

9-11 YEARS OLDst — Shawn Cavette

2nd — Cynthia Cook3rd — Derek Walker

7-8 YEARS OLD1st — Eric Aquirre2nd — Martha Aquirre3rd — April Roosen

12-14 YEARS OLD1st — Tracy Lloyd2nd — Cardell Walker3rd — Jennifer Miller

UPCOMING EVENTS

1984 bus pass photo will begin August 6, 1983Watch Headway for details

1983 Bus Roadeo preview in June issue of Headway

NEXT MONTHPart Two of the Seven Eras of Transit Planning

METRO RAIL UPDATEcan be seen on Ch. 58

June 12 at 1 pm June 15 at 7 pmJune 13 at 6 pm June 17 at 6 pm

June 14 at 2:30 pm

About the CoverMike Malak, chairman of the North HollywoodSpecial Analysis Committee, and General Mana-ger John Dyer answer questions from North Hol-lywood High School students about Metro Rail inthe first of a series of televised Metro Rail Up-dates.

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Mark Marcus, Div. 8;1 just want to thank you for locat-

ing my wallet and turning it inyesterday. I was frantic when I dis-covered that I had left it on the bus.But 1 was a little bit encouraged bythe fact that at least it was a 93Uand there are only two of them inthe morning. Nevertheless, if any-one else had been driving the busor if someone else had picked it up,1 might not have gotten it back. So Ithank you for that, very much.

Sincerely,Martin Blair

Debbie Everett, Div. 16;1 ride the RTD almost every work-

day from Pomona Fair Grounds toLos Angeles. I was especially im-pressed today by the driver, Ms.Debbie Everett, employee number2697. She was not only pleasantand courteous, but one of the bestdrivers on the 764 route.

1 feel she deserves a pat on theback from her employer!

SincerelyWalter Sprague

Samuel Humphrey, Div. 5;This past Monday evening, April

4th, 1 witnessed a woman beingforced into a car on ManchesterAvenue in Playa del Rey. Fortu-nately Samual Humphrey was driv-ing his bus eastbound and alsosaw this incident. Mr. Humphreyfollowed me as I tailed the car toget the license plate number. After1 got the number I went to his buswhere he was waiting to radio in the

MOVING UPAdams, Joseph, from Mechanic Cto Mechanic BAguiar, Raul, from Mech B toMech AArriola, Consolacion G., fromTypist Clerk to Word ProcessorOpr 1Atkins, Jack F., from Mech ALeadman to Equip Maint Sup. 1Avila, Hector, from Mech C toMech BBallard, Arthur, from Mech B toMech ABennett, Alice, from PersonnelAsst to Personnel AnalystBonakdar, Morteza S., from MechC to Mech BBrizuela, Jorge, from Mech B toMech ACendejas, Federico, from Mech Bto Mech ADaniels, Richard, from Mech B toMech ADupre, Lawrence, from Mech C toMech BEllison, Sandra, from PersonnelAsst to Personnel AnalystFernandez, Carlos, from Mech Cto Mech BFlores, Debra L., from Typist Clerkto ClerkLee, Jackey, from Mech A to EquipMaint Sup. 1Lezine, Michael, from Mech C toMech BLinie, Patricia A., from ServiceAttendant to Serv. Att. LeaderMitchell, Bob, from Mech B toMech AMynatt, Christopher, from Mop-per Waxer to Service AttendantPlascencia, Oscar, from Mech Ato Mech A LeadmanRamos, John, from Mech B toMech ARamos, Manuel, from Mech B toMech A

number to the police. Fortunately,the car reappeared and threeteenagers came out and told usthey had been horsing around.Both Mr. Humphrey and I ques-tioned the girl until we were com-fortable she was not being heldaginst her will by her companions.

I would like to acknowledge theexceptional service performed byMr. Humphrey by offering assist-ance in what could have been anemergency. His actions demons-trate a high level of responsibility,initiative, and provide an excellentexample for others to follow.

lt is my pleasure to commendhim and to extend my personalthanks.

SincerelyEllice Heyman-Tobin

The following individuals alsoreceived commendations lastmonth.

DIVISION 2John Powell, Jr.Alonzo KelleyAlfreda LaroixGarland HaganDIVISION 3Arturo DelgadoRichard PattersonFred Macklin, Jr.I. D. DeLatorreFrieda KingDIVISION 5Shirley BirdsongRobert LaneBenjamin CooperCarl SandersJohn Shamsid-Deen

Ratner, Allan H., from SpecialAsst to Security Guard IISchwanke, Richard L., from MechB to Mech A LeadmanThorne, Susan, from PersonnelAsst to Personnel AnalystTorres, Robert, from Staff Asst toEquip Maint Sup. IWentz, Janet A., from Clerk toGeneral Clerk II

SHIFTING LEARSGuillebeau, Ulysses, Mech A, hasretired alter 41 years of service.Huey, David H., Operator, has re-tired after 18 years of service.Strean, Robert W., Operator, hasretired after 11 years of service.Villery, Paul, Mech A, has retiredalter 26 years of service.Wilkens, John S., Mgr. of Em-ployee Relations, has retired after34 years of service.

IN MEMORIUMCattell, Kenneth W., Operatorsince 9-25-36, retired 6-1-65, pas-sed away April 11, 1983Holsberry, William, K., Operatorsince 10-4-41, retired 11-8-72,passed away April 13, 1983Hutcherson, Stenson J., Mech Asince 7-3-46, retired 10-3-81, pas-sed away March 25, 1983Loewing, Robert, Operator since1944, passed away Jan. 13, 1983.McCutcheon, Teurman 0., Oper-ator since 6-7-46, retired 7-23-76,passed away March 11, 1983Washington, Ciarence, Mech Asince 9-28-45, retired 9-1-71, pas-sed away April 15, 1983Washington, Ralph R., Operatorsince 1-8-66, passed away April30, 1983 while in service

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column free of charge. Ads wIl be limited to oneper person each month and will not be held overfor repeat. Ads should be submitted either typedor printed. Include your name, work location andcompany phone, and home telephone number.

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FOR SALENice starter home, 10 minutes from Division12 and 18; 30 minutes from downtown LA.Huge yard, approx. $600/mo. Call 632-6398alter 6 pm.

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4 09961 4200WOLF NOLA

1656 BEARS DEN ROADDIAMOND BAR, CA 91765

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1. Union Station2. net Hel

3. FM& &4. 94wan1n & neva.,5. Mahne & Alowado6, Wilshire b Vennont7 WastOte Mannende6. Iniestita & Wettern9. Mahne & Le Oma

10, Westitte b Fante*11 Faidee & 8eYwt.12 fehlet & Sante Monia13 La Nee & Sunset14 Haywood & Canan04

15 Unwonat City16, More HGewood