European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 flying Tiger pilots agree to 25% pay Cut los Angeles a the 650 i Lols of financially troubled flying Tiger line he world s largest air cargo Carrier agreed thursday to a 25 percent pay Cut and other concessions in an Effort to keep the company from being sold. The package effective monday also Calls for new employees to be paid at a lower scale and for pilots to give up $18.4 million in pension and of her Bene fits. In return Tor the pilots acceptance of the 3 a year plan flying Tiger officials said they agreed to allow pilots to share in company profits and to Grant employees a place on the Hoard of directors los Angl is based flying Tiger which has lost an average of $74.600 per Day since 1981, went up for Sale last week along with its 20 Boeing 747s and valuable foreign Landing spots. At the Lime officials said they put the company and its asset on the Market because nearly four months of negotiations with the pilots had t produced a agreement on concessions pilots negotiator Rick Macgibbon said flying Tiger s pilots had mixed Foci Ings about the package. We re not pleased with the agreement or the manner in which it was hi.1 said adding that pilots Felt s if the company had held a gun to our Lawrence Nagin. Senior vice president and general counsel for flying Tiger said he hoped the Accord would reassure customers. We Hope to Stem that tide and move the company Forward in a rebuilding of he said Stephen Wolf chairman and chief executive officer of flying Tiger reportedly intends to seek concessions next from the International association of machinists and aerospace workers which rep resents about 2,000 employees. The air line employs 6,500 people including about 1,000here. The pay Cut will reduce pilots average salary by $29,250, from $117,000 to $87,750, salaries Range from $60,000 for Domestic pilots who Fly 727$ to $180.000 for Hose who Fly 747s on International flights. Wolf has said concessions were Essen tial if the company was to refinance about $300 million of its j525 million Debl. Following last week s announcement that the company was for Sale Japan s Nissan motors switched its business to rival Emery air freight Industry source said. Nissan had relied on flying Tiger to ship automotive parts to the United states. Hemingway s widow Dies new York a1 Mary Hemingway tic War correspondent writer and widow of Ernest Heming Way has died after a King illness. She was 78. Mrs. Hemingway who used the byline Mary Welsh until her marriage to Hemingway died Early wednes Day at St. Luke s Hospital. Mary Welsh was a foreign correspondent for time and life magazines during world War to when she met Hemingway in 1944. They married later that year. Ii was her third marriage and his fourth. After his death in 1961, she wrote for magazines and completed How it was her autobiography in 1976. She had remained at Home an invalid her last few years. The daughter of a Lumberman she was bom in 1908 in Walker Minn. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1931 and two years later became a re Porter for the Chicago daily news. She went to London in Hemingway work for the daily express in 19.17, then joined time and life in 1940. Her marriage to the novelist was to Mullous. Hemingway was known on one occasion to have thrown wine in her face in front of friends and on another occasion to have smashed her typewriter. But she also was known As the one who typed Hemingway s manuscripts while they lived in Cuba an swered his mail and supervised their household mrs. Hemingway wrote that in july 1961, she came Down the stairs of their Ketchum Idaho Home an found the writer a crumpled Heap of Bathrobe and blood the Shotgun lying in the disintegrated lie had shot himself to death. Shook rattled n rolled ctn Del Kim Zorn s part Boa Constrictor seems none the worse for Wear after a stint in the washing machine. Grendel had disappeared in Zorn s Louisville ky., Home and was found four weeks later colled Between freshly washed hand towels a survivor of hot Wain Tough detergent and High spent drying. Federal Agency prepares Tough anti drug rules Washington a the office of personnel management will publish rules on illegal drug use by Federal worker that will provide for the firing of workers in sensitive positions after a first offence the Washington Post reported Friday. The rules written in response to presi Dent Reagan s sept. 15 executive order calling for a drug free workplace will resubmitted monday to the Federal Regis Ter for publication next week and would be elective immediately thereafter the Post said. The rules provide for counselling and assistance to help employees overcome drug addiction but they also leave an Agency head free to fire a drug user for a first offence the newspaper said. Employees in sensitive positions could be fired after a first offence and must be fired after a second offence said the newspaper which obtained a copy of the pm regulations. The Agency estimates that 1.1 million of the government s 2.1 million civilian employees fall into sensitive position category. Reagan announcing in August that he wanted to use urinalysis to identify drug users among Federal workers in sensitive positions said there should be no threat of losing their Job or of any punishment there should be an offer of help that we would stand by ready to help them Lake that treatment that would free them from this however the regulations preserve the right of Agency Heads to fire drug users after a first offence under carefully con trolled circumstances so As not to conflict with existing Law pm officials told the Post. The regulations provide that workers will be notified 60 Days before the begin Ning of the drug testing program. Individuals already tested must get a notice of 30 Days before a second test. Employees failing the lest refusing to take the test or failing to successfully Complete treatment or counselling Are subject to disciplinary action which May include leave suspension or dismissal the newspaper said. Agency Heads Are authorized but not required to test Job applicants. They Are forbidden to hire an applicant who re fuses the lest or flunks to the Post said. Woman safely lands plane after husband Dies fort Lauderdale Fla. A a woman who a Oil flown for several years safely landed la Rine air plane with seven family members aboard after Fier husband suffered a fatal heart attack thursday ret minutes after Takeoff from fort Lauderdale spokesman Al Gordon. Claire Fuchs gained control of the aircraft an quickly notified the air traffic control Center in Miami said Gordon. With the heir of an unidentified Pilot who was Fly ing a similar plane in the area and issued instructions by radio mrs. Fuchs brought the plane Back to the fort Lauderdale Airport and landed it without Inci Dent Gordon said. Mrs. Fuchs and her husband and family members Lionel and Lorraine Socolov William and Marilyn Ket Eek and the Ketchik s infant daughter Rachel were in route to new port richly on Florida s Gulf coast Gordon said. Fuchs 59, of Miami was pronounced dead on Arri Val at Broward medical Center said Gordon. Mrs. Fuchs has a private Pilot s License which certifies her to Only operate single engine planes said Gor Don. She told deputies that she had t flown for several years
