European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 8, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Law Chrysler Council ratifies landmark pact Dearborn Mich. Up the United Auto workers1 Law Chrysler Council approved Friday a new 28 month labor agreement establishing full parity among workers at the nation s big three car makers for the tint Lime in nearly a decade. The 190-Mcmber Council Sci for nearly six hours Friday in Dearborn. Mich., before approving she pact an a voice vote. The agreement covering workers at 46 facilities nationwide and reached wednes Day after 2 v weeks of bargaining now must be ratified by Chrysler approximately 6fi, workers in a vote wednesday. The Job protecting contract would re place a three year pact that Cipres sept. 14, in 1990, All big three contracts win Bipire together for the first time in a decade boost int he u a s bargaining Power. Law president Owen Bieber told the Council thai the contract marked another giant step adding that i truly be Lieve that it will make the Union much stranger when we go to the bargaining table in 1990." Anthony is. John Chrysler vice presi Dent and chief negotiator for the company called inc agreement affordable and  but analysts said the contract Al though fair would be expensive for Chrysler and put More pressure on it to contain costs in other areas to remain competitive with its larger rivals. Provisions in inc contract agreement allow Chrysler to proceed with plans to sell or close within 16 Moulds four plants in its Acuilar parts division. The plants Ore the Detroit trim Detroit forge and Trenton chemical plants in Michigan plus the am ple metals plam in Van Wen Ohio. Under the tentative contract Chrysler workers Wilt receive a one time signing Bonus of 51,000 paid by Chrysler. Chrys Ler workers each got $2,120 signing bonuses when they agreed to the current contract in 1985. The up front Bonus the Union hinted would make up for the Lack of a lucrative profit sharing payout his year based on Chrysler s 1987 profits of ,3 billion. The Accord puts Chrysler workers fully on Par with their counterparts at general motors and Ford motor co and will expire when those two do. It would be the first coordinated expiration since 1979, Afler Chrysler s flirt with bankruptcy forced concessions from the Union and put it out of sync with the other automaker. The tentative contract also Marks the first time Chrysler and the Union have negotiated a National contract without the pressure of a strike deadline. The typical Chrysler worker already earns s 14.43 an hour including Cost of living benefits compared with jm.29 Ulm and $ 14.30 at Hord. Chrysler work ers therefore will forego Cost of living increases until wages at pm and Ford Caich up to the Chrysler pay level. There will be an immediate bid in of 81 cents of the current Cost of living payments into base wages. The agreement does provide for two Lump sum payments in of Iobco 1988 and october 1989 equal to a total of a percent of the average hourly worker s annual pay. Those payments could aver age As much As 11,160. At the end of the agreement Chrysler assemblers will Cam j15.7.1, compared with si5.79 Dick and s 15.80 at Furd. A Law spokesman said the projected end wages diner slightly because of the historical differences in Cost of living payments at Chrysler. Fri claims guard took $2.5 million As partners slept ur1gham City Utah up a missing a Mored truck Driver was charged Friday with stealing More than $2.5 million from his Wells Fargo armoured truck Federal prosecutors said the Driver stole the Money from the vehicle while two guards slept in the bunk Seel Ion the Fri said Friday. Jared Layne Gray 26. Of Murray Utah was charged in . District court with three counts of theft. Fed eral prosecutor Richard Lambert said Between $2.5 million and s3 million was taken. The Federal Bureau of investigation citing wit Nesses said Cray pulled off a freeway got out of his armoured truck at a service station opened the rear of the truck and took the Money. The suspect s abandoned pickup truck was later found in Brigham City. Wells Fargo guards Scott Reford and Dale Nilson told investigators they were asleep in the front compartment of the truck when the theft occurred. The suspect s brother told inc Fri he had received a Telephone Call from his brother about 1 i hours after his disappearance apologizing for having embarrassed the  the investigation was turned Over to the Fri be cause it involved Money from a federally insured Bank. Fri agent Don Kirby said thai the Driver after Tak ing the Money apparently blocked the 3b.ooo-Pound truck s front doors trapping the sleeping guards inside. Mock disaster astronaut Kathy Thornton left watches As Nasa fire Rescue workers carry in injured crewman from a Mack space shuttle during a simulated Mode 7 disaster at the Kennedy space Center in Florida on Fri Day the Mode 7 Mould be the crashing of a space shuttle on Landing where a heeled or trucked Ichi Eles could not reach the injured. The injured Arr then removed by the defense department helicopters. At 60, she gets her Pink Cadillac convertible Jacksonville Beach a. Apr when Fay Walker s four children were growing up she always answered demands for fancy clothes or toys the same Way of no not unlit i get my Pink Cadillac  Well last week Fay Walker turned 60 and graduated from College and you can guess what her children gave her. After receiving her political science degree she returned to the parking lot with her husband Chuck. Family and friends were waiting. A3 she approached the group parted. Behind them loaded up with eight of her 10 grandchildren was a refurbished 1973, Pearly Pink Cadillac Eldorado convertible the top Down of course. Blasting from the cassette player was aretha Franklin s freeway of love in which she sings of Riding in a Pink Cadillac. I was in total Shock she said. My kids really pulled one. I Don t know what 1 said. Everybody on Campus at jul Jacksonville University knew they were doing this and they were All watching. The kids gave me a whole list of things they re telling me they be been wailing for me to do for years now that i be got the Pink Cadillac she said. I m afraid to ook at the  Fay Walker had started College in i945, but marriage interrupted her education. She returned to school when son Andy went to College seven Yean ago. But there were other interruptions As she helped out when grandchildren were bom. Finally graduation loomed. Son Jeff 37, said it would really be neat if we could find an old Cadillac and paint ii Pink and then we immediately dismissed the idea said son Tim Walker 35, of Jacksonville. But then we All started looking around in garage sales and car lots in Orlando and  son Andy 25, found the Caddy the sons and daughter Colin James. 33. Of Tampa bought for Jisoo in february i was White and it ran but it needed work and paint. The family chipped in with a son in Law providing mechanical work. Tim taking care of inc paint and others helping Sand the car. Soldier s widow gets his world War ii watch Richmond a. A a Waich traded by a famished american prisoner of War for a piece of bread near the end of world War ii has found its Way Back to the Soldier s widow. Thomas Willis pills who was captured during the Battle of the bulge in december 1944, gave his watch 10 a fellow prisoner for the bread at a com Pound at Muhlberg Germany. After the War Pitts resumed to his Job with the internal Revenue service where he worked until retirement in 1976. He died in june. After her husband s death Esther Pitts joined the in ii inf div association inc., composed of men who had belonged to the division and their wives. One Day while looking through the organization s Magazine she saw this notice from Theodore Wil Liam Young of Ozark Ala. Anybody out there who traded a watch for bread in 19457i had a piece of bread. When some i came Over to me and said i la give you this watch for your bread i still have inc watch and would like to return  when i saw the and i got cold All Over mrs. Pitts said. I said. That s got to be Willis she wrote Young and described the watch. They agreed it had been her husband s. Young said he Kepi the watch in a Matchbox for the rest of the War when he returned Home then in Columbus Ohio Young gave inc timepiece to his father in Law. Aboul four years ago the father in Law returned inc watch to Young. The watch Giitl keeping time was delivered 10 the Pitts Home monday