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Greetings from Chm. Miller, M .Merritt

Christmas with Employees

Our Mind-Readers: Information-PAX Girls

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CARL P. MILLER

A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy New Year to youand your family!

It is a privilege to extend, on behalf of all my fellow mem-bers of the Authority, greetings of the season to each oneof you as we approach our first Christmas together under theemblem of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, bold newventure in transit on the Pacific Coast.

My sintere thanks to all of you for your cooperation inmaking it possible for us to carry on the adventure. Con-tinued cooperation of the excellent quality manifested todate will go far to insure our future.

•May all happiness attend you and yours now and through-

out the coming year!

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T HIS IS OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS as co-workers inthe Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. Iwant to wish for every one of you, and for all your

families, the happiest Christmas and a fine New Year!

For all of us our relationship this past year has been anew experience. To all of you I want to express my greatappreciation for loyalty in a new kind of job well done. Atthis Christmas time we are rendering public service in ourjobs and that is the year-round spirit of Christmas.

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For this fine spirit of loyalty and good will I thank each ,of you. Let us go an together during the coming year, each

his own way, giving better service to make this TransitAuthority an outstanding success.

Merry Christmas to all of you and your families.

RALPH P. MERRITT

ALMOST EVERYONE enjoys a holiday. It gives us theopportunity to relax or otherwise to escape, at least momentar-ily, from our patterns of everyday life. But of all the holidaysChristmas, somehow, is a little different. There is somethingspecial about it.

Christmas is traditionally a time for family gatherings. Evenpeople who don't get along too well during the rest of the yeilleseem to set aside their differentes during the Yuletide whfriends and relatives journey — often many miles — to some-one's home for a Christmas get-together. And the task of pre-paring for many house- or dinner-guests seems to he lessbothersome than at other times.

A feeling of well-being and good-will develops, as we directour thoughts and efforts toward giving and doing for others.Christmas is more than a holiday; it is a feeling — an attitude.It is a time for friendship, and for being, and sharing, withfriends.

How will you spend Christmas? Most people, includingMTA employees, probably will celebrate it with relatives andfriends.

Marilyn Jarvis, 1Vlai1 Room Sorter Clerk, and her husbandwill have a double celebration: Christmas Eve with her parentsin Van Nuys, and Christmas Day with her in-laws in Glendale.

Marilyn's father, incidentally, is Don Bailey, an MTA Oper-ator at Division 8. Her father-in-law is a retired Pacific Elec-tric Supervisor, while a brother-in-law presently works atPE freight station an Santa Monica Blvd.

A. L. ("Pat") Patterson, Accounting Tab Operator, will alsospend the holidays with relatives. But hell travel quite a fewmiles to do so. His family is in Kansas, and "Pat" hasn't beenback there for four years. Also returning home for the occa-sion are his three sisters and two brothers. This year will bethe first since 1950 that the entire family will have been to-gether for Christmas. And, in addition to the immediate fam-ily, there will be several in-laws whom Pat hasn't yet seen.

Leonard Goericke, Division 21 Operator, recalls many pastChristmases when he hosted several friends who were unableto celebrate Christmas with their own families. He and his

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wife plan a quieter Noel this year with their daughter and twograndchildren.

Traffic Man Wilbur ("Sandy") Saunders of Division 21 willspend the pre-Christmas weekend with relatives. He, his wifeHelene, and their son Larry will enjoy a large family reunionat his uncle's in Exeter. From 35 to 90 people — dose relatives,

i-laws, grandebildren, etc, — are expected at this affair, whichs 7 years old. A second celebration, with the Saunderses' im-mediate family, will take place on Christmas Day.

Operator James Boyd, of Division 2, does more than cele-brate Christmas. He captures it on film, so that in later yearshe and his wife may look back and actually see, rather thanmerely remember, their two children enjoying this magic day.His pictures are unposed. Rather, like the wide-eyed looks ofwonder on the faces of children, and feelings of love and pridein the hearts of parents, they are spontaneous.

Along with family ties and feelings of contentment which areevoked at Christmas, there are memories of bygone years.Some of these memories are pleasant; others are grim, and be-long in the past in order to make room for today's friendshipsand tomorrow's hopes, or for pleasanter memories.

Robert L. Fairfax, Division 11 Operator, remembers Christ-mas of 1951. He was in a foxhole in Korea with the Marines.His Christmas dinner was a can of pork and rice, and some

MTater. But he remembers also 1943, when he spent Christmasa boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Vir-

ginia. There had been a fresh, clean snowfall. The Boys andgirls had a party and sang carols. "It was a beautiful setting:calm and peaceful — a perfect picture of Christmas."

Of what value is a penny?When Julia Mendoza, Macy shop cleaner, was a child of

six, a single penny in her Christmas stocking was a wonderfulgift. It made the holiday complete, and one which still standsout in her mind, regardless of the more bountiful Christmasesshe and her four children have since experienced.

Christmas is made up of memories — and of "little" things,which, when we look back, suddenly have become important.

James Boyd

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Sam Singer, Jr.

Earl ("Smokey") Stover of Division 11 recalls 1947. Hiswife, Iole, had recently arrived from Rome, where she had met"Smokey" while he was in the service. It was her first Christ-mas in this country. It is among his favorites.

When Sam Singer, Jr., Division 2 Mechanic "A", thinks ofChristmas, he remembers especially those years when hisdaughter Linda (now 7) and his son Michael ( 5 ) first were oenough to appreciate the event. "I got a kick out of watchithem enjoy it for the first time. I can still see their expressionsof happy surprise and excitement."

Operator Jimmy Kresge of Division 2 likes to talk about lastChristmas when, for the second consecutive year, he and hiswife won first prize for having the best decorated home in EastLos Angeles. "We did all the decorating ourselves," addsJimmy, with justifiable pride.

"I remember," reminisced Operator William Laird of Divi-sion 20, "a wooden train I made for myself one Christmaswhen I was six. The family didn't have too much that year, sowe made our own presents. The train was made of woodenblocks, joined together. For flat cars I used plain flat blocks.To make a tank car I added a round snuff can. I remembermaking wooden doll beds for my two sisters. But I also re-member the fun of just anticipating Christmas."

John Larrabee, Schedule Bureau Vari-typer, recalls Christ-mas of 1942. He was in the Naval Reserve in North Africaand had received no mail for two months. "On December 2my morale was as low as it could have been. Then, the nexday, I received two months' hack mail: 38 packages and about40 letters! It took me a month to read all the letters andpapers; and I received so many fruit-cakes and cookies that Igave most of them to local residents with whom I had becomeacquainted. The people were overjoyed — especially the chil-dren!"

In all probability, John, too, was overjoyed. For this is whatChristmas is for: joining with others in the realization thatthere is something which, despite our differentes, binds ustogether. This "something" is the Spirit of Christmas — its

tT love, its laughter, and its memories.

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THE FIRST PHASE of a two-step project for consolidating MTAswitchboard centers and communi-cation centers was completed onSaturday, November 22, when thetelephone information centers andchannels of the predecessor com-panies were combined into oneunit on the 7th floor of the TransitAuthority Building at 1060 SouthBroadway.

All passenger information con-cerning MTA lines, routes, and

Wschedules is now obtained in thecentral area by calling a single newnumber: Richmond 7-4455.

MAdison 7-7731, the old numberfor the MCL information center onthe mezzanine floor of the PEBuilding, has been discontinuedand the center closed. Persons dial-ing this number are referred, by atelephone-company operator, to thenew information number.

Richmond 9-7211, the old num-ber for LATL information andbusiness calls, remains, but is nowused only for business calls to thevarious departments.

A third number, MAdison 7-2792,the old number for calls to formerMCL departments (and for after-hours MCL information), also hasbeen discontinued, as has the PBXboard on the sixth floor of the PEBuilding. Persons who dial thisnumber are referred to Richmond9-7211. The switchboard Operatorthen gives the caller a new, tem-porary number by which he canreach the desired MCL depart-ment. Calls to LATL departmentscan still be made directly.

Only two former MCL depart-ments—Lost and Found and Bag-gage and Express—have a directtie-in with Richmond 9-7211. Theothers will have new numbers untilsoon after the first of the year, atwhich time a company-wide masterdial system PBX switchboard willbe installed next door to the newinformation board. This new PBXwill receive, and channel directlyto the appropriate department, allnon-information calls, thus com-pleting the final stage of the con-solidation.° PBX: Private Brauch Exchange.

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NEW INFORMATION SWITCHBOARD with 16 stations opened Saturday morning,Nov. 22, on the 7th floor of the Transit Authority Building, 1060 S. Broadway, LosAngeles. A new PBX switchboard for business calis is being instailed in an adioiningroom, and will be in service on January 10 or 11, replacing old board shown on p. 7.

"WhenDoes theNext BusLeave?"

Such Queries Don't FazeOur Info-PAX Girls —They're Mind-Readers

"INFORMATION? Can I get aHollywood bus at Seventh and Bul-lock's?"

"When does the next bus leave?"asked a woman who seeminglydidn't care where she was going.

A man seeking information wasaitold that, in addition to regulme/

CLOSE-UP of a station at the new infor-mation switchboard. Clerk is Isabel Ash.

PAX SCENE at 12thand Sentous, showingMiss Elisabeth Wood,Chief PAX and Infor-mation Operator, andtwo of the PAX Oper-ators: Edna Eichhorn,Mt, and Vida Bow-man. Mrs. Eichhorn,Secretary to GeneralSupt. of Transporta-tion M. Edwin Wright,was relieving on theboard on the daythis photo was taken.

hourly service, there were two ex-press buses• His classic reply wasthat he wanted to go as a passenger,"not by express!"

If remarks such as the foregoingleave you speechless, you can ap-preciate the problems of Chief Op-erator Elizabeth Wood and herstaff of 40 Information-PAX Oper-ators. They are forever copingwith such verbal gems.

These operators — all women —handle all incoming phone calls,

NFERRING over a detail of the switch-ard installation are MTA's Walter

Whiteside, right, who acted as liaison manwith Pacific Telephone for the tlectriralDepartment; and the telephone company'sA. G. D'Amico, Installation Foreman.

and must be qualified both as in-formation clerks and telephone op-erators.

When serving as telephone op-erators they "man" the two-placePAX board at 12th and Sentous,switching business calls to the prop-er company extension, or transfer-ring information calls to the infor-mation center. When acting as in-formation clerks they take theirplaces at one of the 16 cubicles atthe information center at 1060 S.Broadway, where information isgiven 24 hours a day, seven days aweek — although a full crew is notalways on duty.

Information is also given at theInformation Desk at the Sixth andMain depot — the only place whereinformation clerks are visible to,and handle face-to-face inquiriesfrom, the public.

Before a girl can qualify as anInformation-PAX Operator, she re-ceives six months' training in rout-ing and schedule-reading.

After the breaking-in period, in-formation personnel have onlymaps, timetables, and their wits toaid them in smoothing out themany involved situations which willconfront them regularly.

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NOW irs HISTORY — One of the lastpictures of a Los Angeles-San Pedro trainloading on the Viaduct at the 6th andMain Sts. Station, Los Angeles. OperatorS. B. McLemore stands beside the red car.

Bus for Raut StartsOn San Pedro Line

FOR THE FIRST TIME, pas-sengers from San Pedro may traveldirect to the Union Station as aresult of the change from rail tobus, effective Dec. 8, on the LosAngeles-San Pedro Line, No. 37.

Trips to the Union Station aremade on an express route over Ava-Ion Blvd. and the Harbor Freeway.Coaches on this route will beknown as Harbor Freeway Flyers.Flyer service leaves San Pedro Sta-tion hourly from 5:40 a.m. to 5:40p.m., as compared with the formerrail service of one limited trip toLos Angeles in the morning peakand one limited to San Pedro in theevening peak.

For local passengers, a new busline from San Pedro parallels therail line to a terminus at ComptonStation, where augmented LongBeach rail service (Line 36) willpick up those riders destined topoints between Los Angeles andCompton.

A total of 52 one-way trips toand from San Pedro daily are nowbeing made, as against 31 on theformer rail line.

As new sections of the HarborFreeway are opened, the Flyerroutes will be modified to make useof them to the extent practical.

As is customary when importantchanges in service or new lines arecontemplated, the MTA held aspecial luncheon meeting of civic,governmental, and press Leadersin the districts through which theline operates, in order to acquaintthem with the proposed service.Nearly 80 guests heard ExecutiveDirector Ralph P. Merritt and Gen-eral Manager Cone T. Bass teil thestory.

Huntington Park LineCombines with LB-San Pedro

THROUGH SERVICE betweenHuntington Park, Long Beach, andSan Pedro began Dec. 8 when theLong Beach-Huntington Park Line40 was combined with the LongBeach-San Pedro Line 66.

Making use of existing routes, thenew service is called the Hunting-ton Park-Long Beach-San PedroMotor Coach Line 66. Frequencyof service remains about the sameas before.

Flyers from PomonaTHE FINE RECEPTION given

the West Valley Freeway Flyers(which have expanded from anoriginal 8 to a current 19 one-wil)trips a day) led to a decisiontry Flyer service between Pomonaand Los Angeles beginning Mon-day, Dec. 8.

Like the West Valley Flyers, theSan Gabriel Valley Freeway Flyerservice began with two peak-hourinbound and two peak-hour out-bound trips.

A.M. trips leave Pomona Stationat 6:33 and 7:03, making all localstops in Pomona, five stops in WestCovina, and continuing non-stopto Los Angeles, arriving at theMTA Coach Depot at 7:40 and8:10.

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New FacesMTA WELCOMES the follow-

ing new employees, who joined thecompany between October 26 andNovember 23:

TRANS PO RTAT ION

Operators: John Abernathy, 9°; CecilBell (re-employed), 7; Henry Bibrowicz,12; Carlyn Brown, 12; Jack Bunch, 12;11,Donald Caruthers, 11; Floyd Conaway,10; Robert Conroy, 3; Edward Constan-tine, 12; D. C. Criddell, 11; Claude Cum-mings, 7; Donald Dube, 5; George Fa-rias, 12; Leonard Firm, 12; Edmund Fish,Jr., 12; John Franklin, 3; David Galvez,11; Floyd Gentry, 2; Andrew Gilford, 4;Roy Glidewell, 9; Everett Gough, 12;Robert Harrison, 3; Ronald Harsche, 7;Joe Havas, 12; Victor Henze, 7; Wil-liam Hicks, 4; William Hosler, 12; Har-old Jaques, 2; Abraham Jeher, 10; RogerJohnson, 10; Jack Lambertus, 12; AlbertLann, 12; Isidore LeGras, 5; John Long,11; Bob Mann, 12; Robert McDonald,11; Willie Medley, 12; John Miller, 12;R. T. Miller, 6; John Mixon, 3; BuickMonk, Jr., 4; Leon Palmore, 1; J. W.Range, 7; Wilburn Reeves, 10; HaroldRichardson, 8; Melvin Saylor, 12; JohnSeabron, 5; Frank Shewmake, 12;Alvin Smith, 4; Eugene Smith, 12; JamesSmith, 10; Leo Smith, 12; Robert Spears,

1111)2; Roger Terrell, 4; John Tubbs, 2; How-ard Turner, 4; Elmer Voline, 12; Hay-

ward Watson, 12; Robert Wybiral, 12.PBX Operator: Catherine Krog.Typist-Clerk: Rose Patrick.

MAINTENANCE

Cleaner Operators: Jay Goines, 12; Clar-ence Morris, 7; Epifanio Villanueva, 9;Lawrence Walker, 8; Louis Walker, 6.Janitor: Clinton Shelton, 6.Mechanic ist Class: Myron Lund, 6.Mechanic "B": Yukio Kiyabu, 2.Office Clerk: John Hunter, 15.Utility "A": Edward Hector, 2.

ELECTRICAL

Steno-Clerk: Marian Lamb.

PURCHASES AND STORES

Addressograph Operator: Louis Morris.Temporary Junior Stock Clerk: JamesSimmons.

PERSONNEL

Clerk-Typist: Virginia Reczek.

Number of Division where employed.

3n flittnoriamTHE EMBLEM records with re-

gret the following recent deathsamong employees:

Helpes, Almer J., 66, retiredSubstation Operator; Nov. 17; sur-vived by his wife, Mary.

MacDonald, George W., 78,

retired Chief Clerk, Auditing; Nov.5; survived by his wife, Emma.

Nolff, Wesley C., 54, Forernan,El Monte Garage; Oct. 31; sur-vived by his wife, Gladys.

Rosa, Lawrence, 73, retired Mo-torman; Nov. 1; survived by hiswife, Carlotta.

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BetterBusStop sHelpPublic

NEW-TYPE BUS STOP SIGN being completed in down-town Los Angeles near 8th and Hill Sts. by MechanicsLeonard Cummings (on ladder installing slats) and Saldi-var Domingo under the direction of C. E. ("Kia") Fork-ner, Supt., Stops & Zones. Note new information number.

FIFTY-FIVE more of the new-type square-frame bus stop signscontaining informational slats orlouvres are rapidly being installedin the central business district ofthe downtown Los Angeles area.

"Passengers appreciate being ableto see by a glance just what linesStops and Zones, under whose di-("Kia" ) Forkner, Superintendent ofstop at the sign," commented C. E.rection the work is being done.

The square signs are being in-stalled by a Way and Structures

EDWARD L. MOORE, under Mr. Forkner'ssupervision, installs and maintains allbus stops unless extra help is requiredin an emergency. Here he is replacing anold yellow sign with a green MTA sign.

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ABOVE — Saldivar loosens cement, whileLeonard holds broom to stop flying pieces.UPPER RIGHT—New sign with new-type supporting pole is taken from sup-ply on truck, placed in old hole, and(RIGHT) cemented in. Proper infor-mational slats are then installed.INFORMATION SLATS are made in MTAshops. Here Harlan Schumacher is painting

iblette ring on a sign at the South Park Shops.

crew, called in emergency to rushthis important project to comple-tion.

Meanwhile, Mr. Forkner's regularBus Stop Maintainer, Edward L.("Ed") Moore, is busy replacingthe old yellow signs with the tri-angular green MTA signs over theentire system. As of Dec. 1, he hadcompleted Lines 11, 30, 31, 32, 34,50, 54, and 73. He is currentlyworking on Lines 33 and 37.

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LUGGAGE is presented to Charley Aen,retiring Traffic Checker, right, by DaveCoburn, Supervisor of Schedules, on be-half of Fellow-workers, at farewell party.

'31111Meal _BEACH AT WAIKIKI will be the vacationspot for Ticket Stock Clerk Amelia Grenke(pointing to place she has selected tospread her beach towel on) and MTA Sec-retary's Clerk Marion G. ("Snowie")Snowden, who will travel there togetherafter retiring from service Christmas Eve.

Retiremen tsTWO EMPLOYEES with more than

40 years of service each head the list ofretirements for September, October, andNovember.* They are Traffic CheckerCharley Aen, with over 41 years; andMarion G. Snowden, with almost 41years.

Charley worked as a Conductor out ofDivision 3 from 1917 to 1938, before be-coming a Checker.

"I hope your future associations willbe as pleasant as ours have been in thepast," said General Supt. M. EdwinWright to Charley at a farewell gather-ing.

For almost 41 years the rare and gen.tle spirit of "Snowie" (Marion Snowden)has been a blessed influence in the livesof her fellow-workers at PE, MCL, andMTA. The affection she inspires has notbeen limited to the members of the PEand Metro accounting departments or ofthe MTA Secretary s office — in all ofwhich places she has worked in variousclerking capacities. It originates withher own great kindness and love forothers. "She is always ready to do a goodturn, and eager to help when the going isroughest," says Assistant Auditor E. H.Uecker, who was her superior officer formany, years. "Her work was always per-fect.

Others retiring with records of longand faithful service include AmeliaGrenke, Ticket Stock Clerk, AccountingDepartment, almost 39 years; AlphonsoH. Lohr, Mechanic, Division 5, 35 years;James I. Peters, Operator, Division 3, 24years; and three Macy mechanics: Earl"A. Watson, Upholsterer, 38 years; Andrija Pervan, Painter, 35 years; MarinoD. Menni, Carpenter, 19 years.

The story of the retirement of Ticket Clerk Nor,

man Sewall, MTA's senior employee, with 49years, appeared in the October issue.

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SYMBOLIC TURN-IN oftools of their trade beingmade by three retiringmen of the Macy BodyShop to Clerk MarciaSmith, everybody's favor-ite. Foreman Gus Gun-dersen, in white coat,looks on approvingly.Others, from left, are Car-penter Marino D. Menni,Upholsterer Watson Antis,Painter Andrija Pervan.

Vol. 1 December, 1958 No. 5

IN THIS ISSUE

OUR COVER

"TO YOU AND YOURSA very, very, merry Christmas anda happy New Year," says the carcard greeting containing this jollypicture of Santa "driving" threetransit vehicles.

Signed "Your MTA Operator,"the greeting card for passengers iscurrently posted in MTA vehicles.

Operator Clarence G. Urschelwrote the verse on the card:

"To and from your work and playWe've brought you safely every day.Throughout the year that has just

passedWe hope the friends we've made will

last . . .And with the coming of the NewWe hope that well be seeing you."

Dawkins Wins $1000On Groucho Marx Show

THE APPEARANCE of his pic-ture as Operator of the Month ona car card during January, 1957,eventually led Operator RoscoeDawkins to winnings of $1000 onthe Groucho Marx show televisedDec. 4, 1958.

"A lady passenger on my Line85 bus saw the picture and said tome, 'With that senile you ought to

e on television.' She told me whereo apply — and I did," says Roscoe.

"I'm going to use some of themoney for a vacation trip to De-troit to see my relatives."

—FLASH Rose Parade Note

WATCH the Glendale float inthe Rose Parade. Riding an it willbe Princess Diane McBain, beauti-ful (1957 Queen of the Days ofthe Verdugos, ten times a covergirl in 1958 — the tenth time:January, 1959 True Confessions),17-year-old daughter of Division 10Operator and Mrs. W. G. McBain.

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Christmas Greetings .. 2, 3From Our MTA Chairman-From Our Executive Director

Christmas: Time ofLove, Laughter,

and Memories . . . 4-6

New Information and

Telephone Set-Up. . 7-9

Service Changes 10Bus for Rail on San Pedro —Flyers from Pomona —Huntington Park-Long FeschLine Ties with LB-Pedro

New Faces 11

In Memoriam 11

More Square-FrameBus Stops 12-13

Retirements 14

Published monthly for employees of theLos Angeles Metropolitan Transit Aulhorityand their families, by the Public RelationsDivision, Suite 203, Transit AuthorityBuilding, 1060 South Broadway, LosAngeles 15, California.

Carl P. Miller, Chairman

Ciarence A. Winder, Vice-ChairmanRalph P. Merritt, Executive Directcr

Mcmbers. Don Belding, Fred S. Dean, Hay-den F. Janes, Russell A. Quisenberry, ArthurJ. Will.

James H. Raport, Publisher

W. Warren Silliman, Editor

Alan W. Ward, Editorial Assistant

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