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January 12, 1983
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Ex-Braniff staff sought
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"jJBWjtait-d Press International
yj \S — Letters from
AiriiiR>s ,iavc
H&ni this week to iormet
^Hees oi hauknipt Lb.mil!
^•naiional inviting them to
jobs in the proposed
Its Division ot the San Diego-
H |irline.
Rough only about 1,500
lings exist for the 9,000 em-
j»es of Braniff and salaries
^fiMbnlome cases less than half
paid by Braniff, PSA
^ immediate interest was
|P$A spokesman William
iits said the airline needs
rvation sales agents, airport
I personnel, flight atten-
:s, mechanics and other
ground service personnel, llight
crews, crew schedulers, dis
patchers and skycaps.
Job openings exist for sta
tions PSA plans to open in Dal
las, Fort Worth, Austin, Chica
go, Denver, Houston, Memphis,
Miami, Midland, New Orleans,
Newark, N.J., Oklahoma City,
Okla., Omaha, Neb., San Anto
nio, Tulsa, Okla. and Washing
ton D.C.
“This letter and its attach
ments provide you with the
opportunity to express your in
terest in becoming a PSA em
ployee,” the letter says.
“We anticipate most of these
jobs to be in the Dallas-Fort
W'orth area, although there will
be station agent and ramp ser
vice
served
to be
Texas divi
sion.”
The PSA arrangement was
announced late last year, and in
volved an expansion of PSA us
ing Braniff equipment, airport
facilities and regulatory clear
ances.
The proposed Texas division
of PSA must be approved by
federal bankruptcy judge John
Flowers who is directing Bra-
nifFs reorganization.
Many of the unions which
represented Braniff employees
opposed the PSA connection,
primarily because former Bra
niff employees would lose
seniority to PSA employees.
Flowers already has terminated
Braniff contracts with three of
its five unions.
The attachments to the letter
included a PSA job application
form and a release which would
allow PSA to see Braniff person
nel records.
Another attachment detailed
salaries. Captains in the new un
ion would receive $42.94 per
flight hour, compared to the av
erage starting wage of $85 paid
by Braniff. Pay for flight atten
dants and ground personnel was
closer to the Braniff level, but
still lower.
Hastings said PSA expects to
fill most, if not all of the nearly
1,500 openings with former
Braniff employees.
Inmates live extra
winter within tents
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — Several
thousand inmates at the
Texas Department of Correc
tions will spend their second
winter living in surplus milit
ary tents, which were erected
in November 1981 as a tem
porary measure to ease over
crowded conditions.
Prisoners have been work
ing this week to fortify the
tents with plywood sides and
roofs and gas heaters are
being installed.
“It’s hardly right to call
them tents anymore,” TDC
spokesman Jay Byrd said.
“There’s no canvas left in
most of them.”
The tents are scheduled
for use until 1985, about four
years longer than first prop
osed.
They were erected as an
immediate response to a fed
eral judge’s order to halt the
practice of putting three in
mates in a cell.
“We could not build con
ventional facilities fast
enough to meet our popula
tion growth,” TDC director
W. J. Estelle Jr. said.
But since the tents were
built, the inmate population
has swelled by about 10,000
inmates. About 5,000 beds
have been added through a
crash building program, but
f jresently 3,400 inmates are
iving in the 340 tents.
A California lawyer who
represented the inmates in a
federal court battle which
charged the prison system
with violated prisoners rights,
said in the past two years the
housing situation at TDC has
worsened.
“Life in TDC has gotten
worse, and the continued use
of tents is a disgrace,” said
William Bennett Turner, a
San Francisco lawyer who won
the court-ordered reforms.
Although the lawyer is
against the use of tents, most
inmates are eager to move out
of cell blocks and volunteer to
live in the tents, officials said.
Prisoner Gerald Mathis
said he volunteered for the
tent to get away from the noise
in the cell blocks.
“I like it so much, I’ll buy
me a tent if they run out of
money for them,” Mathis said,
adding that most of the tent
residents are trustees and no
problems have been reported.
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