July 30, 1975

Arbitration panel awards Nassau County Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn a 12.3% increase in wage and fringe benefits; binding award provides for 8.5% salary increase and 3.8% more in fringe benefits during 1-yr contract retroactive to Jan 1; cost to county to be $7.3-million; PBA pres Danny Greenwald, assn atty Richard Hartman and County Exec Caso comment (M)

Empty Penn Central commuter train bound for Penn Station rams into rear of another empty train in East River tunnel on July 29, killing engineer Patrick Stolla and injuring crewman Timothy Coughlin; illus; crash causes extensive delays for many LIRR passengers; LIRR, in unusual statement, seeks to attribute accident to 'poor maintenance and poor mgt afforded by Penn Central'; says service disruptions will continue into morning of July 30 (M)

A wage freeze canceling the 6 per cent increase clue city workers on July 1, saving an estimated $259‐million.

GM repts 8.8% increase in 2d-qr earnings to $333-million from depressed period in '74 while Chrysler repts loss of $58.7-million in contrast to profit last yr; earnings for GM were slightly better than some analysts expected while losses for Chrysler were worse; Chrysler has reduced its losses from those of previous 2 qrs; analysts estimate that Ford will show profit of about $70-million, turnaround from record 1st qr net loss of $98-million; predict Amer Motors will show $10-million profit for qr; Amer Motors chmn Roy D Chapin Jr confirms at HR Banking Com hearing that co will rept profit, compared with $53.4-million loss in 1st 6 mos of its fiscal yr; GM vice chmn Oscar A Lundin says auto indus can be helped by Fed Govt through 'natl energy policy, 5-yr pause in emmissions and safety regulations and opportunity to provide more energy efficient cars without Govt intervention'; Ford pres Lee A Iacocca also testifies; auto indus sales in '75 are down 15.7% from low '74 levels; GM Chmn Thomas A Murphy and pres E M Estes comment; illus (M)

HR votes 348-43 to override Pres Ford's veto of $2-billion health bill that includes grants to stales to set up migrant worker health centers (S)