European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 7, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7plan would revise Federal wages by the Washington Post Washington a the Bush administrations Long delayed plan to overhaul Federal employee pay would eliminate automatic and uniform nationwide salary increases for Federal workers according to an office of personnel management proposal sent to Cabinet departments this week. The proposal is designed to allow agencies to pay salaries that Are close to the going rate within communities and professions and to Stop paying too Little in the big High wage cities and too much in Low wage areas. Workers in High wage areas could be paid As much As 25 percent More than employees working in Low wage areas. Professional and administrative employees with hard to find Job skills could be paid As much As 60 percent More than the Standard rate. Departments have until next wednesday to comment on the pm proposal after which it is expected to go to Capitol Hill where House and Senate democratic pay Reform Bills already have been introduced. No Cost figures were available on the administrations plan in part because it provides agencies such wide flexibility to determine pay rates. It would not be fully implemented until 1995. The pm proposal would split the 40-year-old uni form general schedule in half paying professionals and administrators on a National scale based on a Bureau of labor statistics Survey of comparable jobs in the private sector and state and local governments. Salaries for clerks and technicians would be adjusted annually based on typical salaries for equivalent jobs in their localities. When the proposed National scale is fully in place professionals and administrators would receive a a comparable pay increases a within 10 percent of what similar workers in the private sector and state and local government receive. Pay rates for clerks and technicians Are also supposed to be within 10 percent of the going rate for similar work in the area. Earlier drafts of the pm Bill would have required the president to propose wage increases in his annual budget that followed the 10 percent comparability guidelines according to documents obtained by the Washington Post. But after negotiations with the office of management and budget language was added to allow the president to slash any increase a because of National emergency or overriding National economic  a major element in the pm proposal is Merit pay. Pm would withhold All wage increases from employees considered to be doing less than a fully successful work. The a step increases that have traditionally been awarded for seniority would be Given Only to the Junior clerks and technicians. After workers on the locality scale began earning the average wage for their jobs in the Community All further a a step increases would be awarded Only on Merit. Workers on the nationwide pay scale would get no a a step increases at All but they would be eligible for Merit increases and Cash awards. Under the plan up to 400 experts could be paid As much As a Cabinet Secretary a after 1991 that will be More than $138,928. Such salaries would have to be approved by bomb and pm and the officeholder would have to have expertise of an extremely High level and be a critical to the Agency a successful accomplishment of an important Mission a the proposal says. The pm proposal under development for More than two years was originally scheduled to be unveiled As part of the Federal budget in january but the complicated 82-Page Bill was delayed because of disputes Between pm and bomb. Annual pay surveys have shown that Federal pay on average lags More than 25 percent behind that of comparable jobs in the private sector but the surveys have been criticized because they do not include salaries in state and local government and Are sometimes based on assessments of Only a few jobs that Are considered  baby a Bone marrow matches that of sister dying from leukaemia los Angeles apr a baby girl was delivered tuesday to a couple who conceived the child to serve As a Bone marrow donor for her older sister who is dying of leukaemia a relative said thursday. Tests showed the baby a marrow was compatible. The Chance that a Bone marrow transplant will cure 18-year-old Anissa Ayala has been reported As Between 70 and 80 percent. Abe and Mary Ayala revealed eight weeks ago that they had conceived the baby named Marissa eve As a last resort to save Anissa a life. The ayalas live in the los Angeles suburb of Walnut with Anissa and a 19-year-old son Airon. The baby weighed about 6 pounds 4 ounces at birth tuesday night at Queen of the Valley Hospital in suburban West Covina said the couples Niece Lydia Sanchez. A a she a Beautiful she looks just like Anissa a Sanchez said. The ayalas chose eve As a Middle name a because eve Means life a she added. Doctors obtained a Little More than 4 ounces of blood from the umbilical Cord which was Frozen to supplement Bone marrow to be transplanted from the baby m future surgery. Anissa a leukaemia has remained stable and the transplantation Likely will occur m six months said or. Patricia Konrad who will perform the surgery at the City of Hope National medical Center in suburban Duarte. We have no reason to do it ahead of time because Anissa is doing quite Well right now a Konrad said. Doctors plan to wait six months primarily so the baby will grow and enough marrow can be taken from her to give her older sister a fighting Chance. Almost 24 ounces of marrow would be Sli 01 an donor if one was available and Konrad said she would be u get a fat amount even from be baby with the supplemental cells taken from the umbilical Cord. The baby faces Little risk Konrad said. The procedure requires the infant to be put under general anaesthesia to Block pain while a Needle is inserted usually twice into the hip Bone to remove the marrow. Leukaemia a cancer of White blood cells typically is treated by killing blood producing cells with chemotherapy or radiation. Marrow from a Matching donor usually a sibling is then transplanted into the leukaemia patient so the healthy Stem cells can produce healthy blood cells. Medical ethicist voiced qualms about creating one child to save another saying the baby was not being created As an end in itself but for a utilitarian purpose. The Middle age couple said they were Hurt by such talk and that they would love the baby even if it proved to be an incompatible Bone marrow donor for their stricken daughter. After waiting almost two years the couple said the National marrow donor program had failed to find a suitable living donor with the Odds reported to be about 1 in 20,000. Abe Ayala told the associated press in february a we just can to stand idly by and do nothing about it and wait for Anissa to  Anissa a has the kind of leukaemia that if it stays in its chronic stable phase has the Best Chance of cure with transplantation a Konrad said. The Odds were even longer when Abe and Mary Ayala who Are in their mid-40s, decided to Gamble in the fall of 1988, by trying to have another child. Abe Ayala had to undergo an operation to reverse a Vasectomy he had 16 years earlier with about a 50 percent Chance of Success. Compounding the equation is the 73 percent Chance of Conception for a woman aged 40 to 44, and finally a 25 percent Chance that the baby would prove to be a compatible donor for Anissa. The father told reporters in february a this is our Miracle  thrilling president Bush welcomes Singer Michael Jackson to the White House on thursday As daughter in Law Margaret Bush and first lady Barbara Bush look on. Jackson was in Washington to receive a humanitarian award from the capital children a museum for his work on behalf of children. Jackson was honoured by the friends of the museum at a $l,000-a-person Benefit thursday night. Woman earns Fine distinction new York apr new York City officials say Sylvia Matos parked her car wherever she wanted a in front of fire hydrants at bus stops beside expired parking meters. The result $171,746 in fines and the dubious distinction of being new Yorkus no. 1 scoff Law. Broken Down the numbers indicate that Matos collected an average of 2.4 tickets a Day a including holidays. Her efforts to avoid detection and collection included registering her car under 19 different addresses and 36 sets of License plates. Unfortunately the City does t expect to collect from Matos because she probably no longer lives in new York parking violations Bureau director Tom Mcenery said thursday. He said Matos received 2,800 tickets Between dec. 31, 1984, and feb. 28, 1988, making her the parking bureaus most wanted Motorist. A she got tickets All Over the place for All different things a said Mcenery. A they run the Gamut from double parking to expired meters to hydrants. A a you re always going to find somebody trying to beat the system. But she a our no. 1, no question a he said. Mcenery said the Bureau has tried to find the woman a but its a cold  Matos was $22,000 ahead of the runner up Charles Rivera and his $149,342 Tab. The list of the lop 10 scofflaws in the City was first reported thursday in the new York Post. Two other reputed scofflaws named by the Post a Mario Correa and Santos Ortiz a ran up More than $ 100,000 each in tickets. All 10 people on the list Are either indigent or missing Mcenery said. Translation none of the others will be paying the City either