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Price Five Cents IS Paget KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 6278 Traffic Toll Mears But Still Short Of 600, Guess In The- Day's lews Traffic Fires Miscellaneous Total ' By FRANK JENKINS I seem to be hipped on the ubject of communism these past few days. Maybe the Christmas season has something to do with it. If the world were all commu nist. THERE WOULD BE NO CHRISTMAS and if there were no Christmas it would be a much drabber world. So, at this bright and wonderful season, it may be that the dark and menacing thundercloud of communism becomes by contrast even darker and more menacing. And- It may be The brightness and the cheer and the wonder of the Christmas sea son are stimulating the commu nists to even greater propaganda efforts. At any rate, there has been a lot of communist news in the papers and on the air waves these past few days. An interesting thought: Why are so many people (slight ly unbalanced people, I'd say) so impressed with communism? It must be because communism deems to promise freedom from RESPONSIBILITY. On the surface, at least, it appears to relieve us from the necessity to make decisions. Making decisions means going out on a limb deciding , on a course of action and taking the consequences of the course one has decided upon. Communism seems to say LEAVE ALL THAT TO PAPA. Don't worry your poor little bead about it. To a certain type of mind, that could be appealing. Let's take a look at this red Chinese "commune" system that has been getting into the news of late. It promises the people housing. The housing, to be sure, is in a beehive system of crowded little cells in which a whole family will live m a tiny room. But the tiny room is PROVIDED. The people don't have to hustle around and provide it for themselves. Along with shelter, FOOD is pro vided. Not just rice. MEAT is promised also. No hustling around for it. When mealtime comes, the food will be there. Provided by PAPA. No worry about where it is to come from. Papa will take care of all that. - And, if one gets sick, there will be medicine and care at least care of a sort. No worry about paying the doctor bill and the hos- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 592 93 96 781 Belated reports today swelled the nation's toll of dead from traf fic accidents over the four-day Christmas weekend to nearly 600. Tragic as it was, the number of fatalities was fewer than the pre-holiday estimate of 620. Medics Toil To Save Foot Of Youth, 11 DUNSMUIR Doctors labored Sunday to save the right foot of David Van Hardenberg, 11. David's foot was mangled by a freight train about 4 p.m. Saturday when he fell beneath the moving freight. David, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Van Hardenberg, was play ing brakeman with three compan ions near Scherrer Avenue Satur day afternoon according to railroad reports of the accident. The north bound freight was just picking up speed as it left the Dunsmuir yard when the accident occurred. The other boys summoned Da vid's father and Marvin Hale who was visiting at the nearby Van Har denberg home. With the assistance of Lawrence DuBose, trainmaster, they provided first aid until the am bulance arrived and took David to the Mount Shasta Hospital. Amputation of the big toe was performed Saturday evening. Da vid s father said the doctors could give no assurance that the foot could be saved until natural recu perative processes could be ob served. Railroad officials said youngsters are warned periodically of the dan gers of playing on the railroad right of way and they deeply regret ted this unfortunate accident. (Continued on Page 4) Author Blasts ' Human Frailties MIAMI, Fla. (AP)-Playwrightj Tennessee Williams gives the hu man race 10 years if it doesn't settle down in amity. "People talk glibly about what kind of cars they will have in 1970 and how long it will take to get to the moon," Williams told a Sun day Herald interviewer. "My opinion is that you and I not to speak of the rest of the human race, won't be nere by 1970. I think Armageddon is really at hand this time. "We have speeded up time it self, travel in jets . . . and talk seriously about living in outer space when we haven't yet learned to live on earth without fighting each other." New Dispute Seen Looming By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The threat of a strike next month against National Airlines loomed today as two other major airlines remained grounded by labor disputes. The Air Line Ticket Agents Assn. said in Miami Sunday it was preparing to take a strike vote over discharge oi a National em ploye in New York last year. A union spokesman said if the vote favored the strike, it could begin early next month. One third of ihe nation's com mercial airliners currently stand idle because of strikes at Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines The New York Times said the federal mediators plan to offer a new proposed settlement of the dispute between Eastern and its flight engineers. The engineers quit work Nov 24, protesting a company demand that they qualify as jet pilots. Machinists at Eastern went out the same day, both in support of the engineers and for an improved contract. They reached settlement with the company Dec. 14 and withdrew their pickets Sunday aft er official tabulation of a vote to accept the' agreement. But machinist union officials have indicated their members will not be asked to cross engineers picket lines. Early In the long holiday, with highway deaths occurring at i much faster pace than anticipated it appeared the final count would be far greater man the estimate. But three-quarters through the weekend the rate of deaths slowed as motorists apparently shocked by the awesome toll the first three days exerted greater caution. Safety experts had expressed alarm at the slaughter on the high ways from the start of the 102- hour holiday period at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve to late Saturday. They had feared if the pace con tinued, nearly seven killed per hour, the total would surpass the all-time record of 706 traffic deaths set in the four-day 1956 Christmas weekend. The National Safety Council was hopeful that the toll would not ex ceed its preholiday estimate bf 620. The second worst holiday for traffic deaths was the three-day Christmas period in 1955 when 609 persons were killed. It was the na tion's worst record, on an hourly basis, a death every eight min utes. In the record toll of the Christmas period in 1957 the ap proximate average traffic death rate was one death every 1314 minutes. There were several multiple death accidents during the long holiday weekend. Eight died in two crashes Sunday, including four young Milwaukee men in a smash up near Racine. Wis., and four persons in a collision on icy pave ment in morning log near ttreen- up. III. Fires took a heavy toll, includ- ng a rash of multiple death dwelling blazes. The worst single fire took the lives of a mother and eight of her children in a farm house near Auburn, Wash. The record number of holiday fire deaths was 111 in the four-day 1951 Christmas period. This year s over-all accident death total compares with the rec ord of 884 in the four-day 1956 Christmas weekend. The over-all total also compares with the 552 reported m an As sociated Press survey for a non holiday test period from 6 p. m Wednesday.- Dec. 10. to midnight Sunday, Dec. 14. Included in the survey, made for comparative purposes, were 341 traffic deatns, 106 killed in fires and 105 deaths in miscellaneous type accidents. MONTHLY EARNINGS PRESENT BENEFITS NEW BENEFITS rwi .O CP 150 $ 50 $ 30.00 $ J3 100 55.00 59 150 68 50 73 200 78.50 84 250 88.50 95 300 98.50 105 350 108.50 116 (Elimax Seems Mew In (uhm Civil War 45.00 82.50 102.80 117.80 132.80 147.80 162.80 49.50 88.50 109.50 126.00 142.50 157.50 174.00 HAVANA, Cuba ( API-Heavy fighting broke out today between Cuban government and rebel forc es inside and around Santa Clara, capital of Las Villas province, well-informed sources repotted. The central Cuban city has been threatened by rebel encirclement But a strong army drive was re ported to be dislodging the lebcls. Unconfirmed reports said an important rebel leader was killed. and Fidel Castro's rebel forces suffered heavy casualties. Ihe army s ol tensive was said to be moving rapidly elsewhere in the province. One unconfirmed report said Ernesto Guevara, extreme left wing Argentine who is Castro's lieutenant in Las Villas, had been killed. Both the government and Cas tro's rebels pushed for some sort of decisive victory within the com ing week before the grinding sea- lional organization to thwart an son' begins at sugar mills. Sugar otherwise Inevitable rebel victo is the backbone of Cuba's econ- ry.") oiry. I Rebel rpnnrls frnm Oripnla in. The United States has embar- dicated that the 10.000 Batista mm 0 $ 50 30.00 33 00 100 41.30 44 30 150 51.40 54.80 200 1 5890 63.00 250 66.40 71.30 300 73.90 78.80 350 81.40 87.00 $ 50 - 50.20 53.00 100 82.60 88.50 150 . 120.00 120.00 200 1 57.10 161.60 250 177.20 1 90.10 300 197.10 210.20 350 x 200.00 232.00 SOCIAL SECURITY benefits are going up to meet the in creased cost of living. This table "shows tha increase in broad brackets of the nation's 12 million retired persons. Increases are included in checks automatically and need not be applied for. SHOOTING HOURS: OREGON December 30 OPEN 7:0$ CLOSE 4.43 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Tuesday. Low tonight 22-28; high Tuesday 38-44. High yesterday ... ... . 34 Low last night 14 Precip. last hours - 0.14 Since Oct. 1 1.82 Same period last year 7.92 Normal for period 4.62 Northern California Fair through Tuesday except cloudy in the north. Patches of fog in val leys in early morning. Southerly coastal winds 10-15 miles an hour from Eureka northward. Five Day Forecasts: Eastern Oregon Temperatures averaging above normal with the high temperatures generally 35- 45. Mlnimums mostly In the 20s Precipitation more than normal with the total up to half an Inch. Northern California No pre cipitation except possible rain north portion latter half of period with snow In mountains; tempera tures near normal; normal minimum-maximum Sacramento 39-51, Red Bluff 37-52. Eureka 41-54, Blue Canyon 31-45 and Sanla Rosa 35-S7. , ..CALIFORNIA '. December 30 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 4:40 SSA To Hike Pay Schedule WASHINGTON (AP) A cou ple of end-of-the-year reminders on Social Security changes that may affect your pocketbook: Social Security deductions will lake about an additional $2 a month from the paychecks of most working Americans after the first of the year. : , .. -ihe- new-year will also-bring in creases of 7 per cent in the Social Security checks received by 12 million retired persons Yank Claims Innocence PARRIS ISLAND S.C. (AP) - Marine Sgt. Ralph A. J. Grant pleaded innocent today of charges that he assaulted , and solicited money from members of an Ohio recruit platoon: Grant, 26-year-old Korean War veteran from Racine, Wis., could receive AV4 years in prison and dishonorable discharge if convict ed on all four counts against him in his court-martial. His-trial is the first of three scheduled for drill instructors who last summer led, the Steel Valley recruit piatoon tnrougn its lz-weeK basic training cycle at this Marine training center One charge alleges he "inten tionally inflicted grievous bodily harm upon Pvt. Raymond E. Thiesler of Yotmgstown, Ohio, by hitting him on the head with a plastic mess cup causing a wound that required 11 stitches. Grant and Sgt. Willard B. Poss of Augusta, Ga., are charged with accepting the money from the 69 members of the platoon. The two. along with Sgt. Ronald J. Heller of Milwaukee. Wis., also are charged with manhandling the rookie Marines. Traders Exhibit Confidence In French Economy Public Favors Split-State, Paper Says SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Pub lic sentiment favors splitting Cali fornia into two states, the San Francisco Chronicle said today. ine newspaper, releasing re sults of a poll, said a majority of participants believe the north and south have liltl in common. They wanted the issue settled by refer endum, the paper added. More than a tnird of the voters indicated that the question as put to them was unrealistic, if not im possible. Almost half expressed the belief that such a division would benefit both the northern and southern sections of the state and a ma jority of the ballots favored a par tition of California at the Tchacha pi Mountains the traditional boundary between north and south. The issues which received most votes: Dissimilarities between inter ests, the cultures and general points of view in the north and south make partition desirable 55.7 per cent. Constant shut toward Southern California political domination of the state is a threat to the north which can best be met by separa tion 49.8 per cent. The Chronicle concluded that the ratio of participants favoring partition may in reality outnum ber those who oppose it by three to two. The newspaper did not release gocd shipment of arms to the Cu ban government in an attempt to remain neutral. As a result. Washington has been accused by the Cuban officials of helping the reoeis, since a steady llow of arms is smuggled to Castro from the United States. Despite rebel attempts to have populated places declared open cities, the government warned that it would make all-out coun terattacks on towns held or threat ened by the rebels. (A rebel exile organization in Miami said the planes bombed and strafed cities although the Army knew the rebels were camped outside the cities (In New York, another group of exiles reported Castro had broad cast an accusation that the Do minican itepublic Is preDarinc an attack on Cuba" and 30 war planes with Cuban markings are ready to fly in order to begin a general invasion of the island. (The exiles said the purpose of Ihe attack is to "provoke the in tervention of the Organization of American states or some interna- troops there were in desperate irouDic. The insurgents claimed thev aptured the city of Palma Sori- ano, an important point on the main highway between Bayamo and Santiago, and inflicted 600 casualties on government force, including 286 prisoners taken. They said the highway from Bay amo to Santiago, a distance of about 75 miles, was under rebel control. Rebel casualties were put at 27 dead and 50 wounded. Ihe rebel broadcasts said a gov ernment battalion was holding out at Maffo, near the highway town of Contramaestre between Baya mo ana fauna Soriano, but said it was surrounded and the town virtually destroyed. W)lll A I r;n.it.M nt ihA numhnii fit Mr.nne IIWB VVLVU UJ tllC nn.in .nlinH in HA I last Congress. ..FOl,.,s ... uu. Government pension checks mailed in February will be 7 per cent higher than before, with a minimum increase of $3. The max imum check for a retired man and his wife, both past 65, will climb from $162.80 to $174 monthly. Active workers and employers will bear the cost of the increased benefits. The Social Security tax rate for each will go up from 2Vi to Vh per cent. The amount of annual earnings on which the tax is levied will be increased from $4,200 to $4,800 a year. Workers earning the full $4,800 must pay $120 a year startine Thursday instead of the old total of $94.50. This averages out to about $2 monthly. Tijuana Police Quell Riot PARIS (AP) Stock traders showed confidence today in the government's program for a New Year's housecleaning of French economy. Gold and French stock issues steadied with slight rises in the first session after the de valuation of the franc. Though ordinary folks received the news of cheaper money, fewer subsidies, higher prices and in creased taxes with a sense of shock, optimism was retlected among stock market profession als. French values went up by only 3 to 5 per cent and foreign values, which were expected to adjust automatically to the 17.55 per cent cut in the value of the franc, went down only 3 to 5 per cent. Foreign currencies were traded slightly under their new official rate on the free market with the dollar quoted at 492 against its of ficial value of 493.706. At a news conference, Finance Minister Antoine Pinay spelled out higher prices for French con lumers. Rice, chocolate, bread, pre serves, macaroni and other foods will cost more, he said, adding to Ihe already known price increases In tobacco, wine, milk, coal and rail fares. For the manufacturer and farm er, Pinay outlined the elimination or sharp trimming of subsidies that are intertwined through the French economy. These included some schemes remindful of the U.S. agricultural programs. No longer will France pay farmers to uproot their own apple trees to trim production. Altogether, Pinay said the new French budget stripped some 268 billion francs 545 million dollars in subsidies from the previous year's figures. Pinay announced detailed cuts in social security and medical benefits. Pensions of war veterans who are not jobless, disabled or retired were trimmed sharply. The workers' pay envelopes will also record greater withdawals for social security. The mpteyr' share will also be increased. These charges already amounted to about one-third of a worker's pay. The new charges will go up a few percentage points on a com plicated scale. It was bad news all along the line for most French people, but Premier Charles de Gaulle said it was the only way to get out of a dangerous situation. In a nationwide radio and tele vision address Sunday night, De Gaulle presented only the melan choly big picture. The sad detail of the new austerity will be in the fine print of the official journal, which prints all government reg ulations, in the next few days. These were the major hardship measures announced by the Premier: Devaluation of the franc by 17.5 per cent, cutting prices of French products abroad but rais ing them and of imports for the home folks. T Partial convertibility of the franc, allowing foreigners to dip into France's small stock of gold and dollar exchange without com parable liberalization for French men wanting to buy, travel or in vest abroad. A budget of nearly 15 billion dol lar, up more than two billion dol lars from last year. A variety of tax increases and cuts in subsidies the government has been paying to producers to keep prices of many things down The government estimates this will keep the budget deficit to about $1,100,000,000, some son mil lion less than it was last year. But the loss of subsidies will send prices on those items up. More spending in Algeria, both for the military campaign against the nationalist rebellion and for the ambitious economic program De Gaulle wants to launch to bet ter the lot of the Moslems. The little he promised to bright en, the dark picture included a raise in the lowest minimum wage levels, and increases in unem ployment benefits to bring jobless pay to the minimum wage. There was also indication of improved hospitals, housing and schools. De Gaulle said the revolt of the colonials and the army in Algeria last May, which brought him back to power, actually resulted "from the general conviction that the public powers were impotent against the wave of menaces, which comprised, naturally, those striking our economy. The confidence of the country, he continued, "has permitted us, in this realm as in others, to re verse the tendency and ward off the most threatening. However the situation remains precarious, that is to say, dangerous. - The franc now drops from a rate of 420 to the dollar to 493. This means that French goods sold abroad should sell for 17.5 per cent less, hut frenchmen In turn will have to pay 17.5 per cent more for what they import. Since France is a big importer of raw materials, hardly any Item on French store shelves wilt be spared a small rise in price. TIJUANA. Mexico (UPD Police used live ammunition and tear gas to break up a wild not which erupted among an estimated 1,000 persons attending a political meeting. Some 35 persons sought medi cal help after the melee in which more than 30 automobiles were damaged. Louis H. Alvarez, National Ac tion Party (PAN) presidential can didate defeated In last July s elec tions, said "we, the PAN, will keep on fighting until we have fin ished the regime. Alvarez, who was speaker at the large ' outdoor gathering four blocks from main street late Sat urday when the riot exploded, ad dressed a meeting of 800 persons at Mexicali, Sunday, about 100 miles east of here. Police said this two-hour meet ing was peaceful. Deputy police chief Francisco Vias Novoa said Saturday's riot was the worst in Tijuana s history. Ihe outbreak apparently was touched off by protests against a show of strength by the govern ment which earlier had warned Alvarez that the meeting would be disbanded If a Federal law prohib iting anti-government demonstra tions was broken. Armed police officers were sta tioned at rooftops overlooking the meeting place and fire trucks were drawn up around the gather ing when Alvarez began his talk During the speech in which Al varez labelled the show of force hy the government as aggression someone grabbed the microphone and began shouting anti-govern ment slogans. World News In Brief ECONOMY London Britain's pound sterling and currencies of 10 other Western European na tions approaching free convertibil ity in most significant economic development since war. NEWSPAPERS New York Nine major newspapers resume publication after deliverymcn, on strike nearly three weeks, vote to return to work. HOLIDAY Christmas holiday death toll expected to end up near estimate of 620 traffic fatalities. IKE Washington Eisenhower works in seclusion on his farm home on messages he will send to Congress. CUBA Havana Rebels say new offensive will cut Cuba in two within hours. BERLIN Berlin Moscow and East Germans boast of Soviet weapons, warn of war if Commu nists don't get own way in Berlin. STOCKHOLDER Washington Government's balance sheet on its assets and liabilities comes out al most even. NEW FREIGHTER SERVICE MOBILE, Ala. (UPD-Two new Cunard Line freighters will begin making monthly calls ts Gulf ports In January inaugurating new service between the United States and London. Air Accident Fatal To One IPSWICH, England (UPI)-One person was killed and several others injured today when a flam ing U.S. Air Force jet fighter sliced between a group of houses and slammed into a garage at Kesgrave near here. The pilot, 1st Lt. Charles L Prescolt. Santa Monica, Calif. ejected himself from the F100D Super Saber and parachuted to safety before the crash. He was treated at a local hospital for shock and minor Injuries. Two houses and the garage were destroyed by fire, and sev eral other houses and a group of unoccupied trailers were damaged A number of dogs were killed when debris plunged into their kennel area. Prcscott was on a training flight from Sutton Heath Air Base, which Is shared by the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The crash occurred five and t half miles from the base. The body of a young woman was recovered from the wreckage of the garage struck by the plane. Sho was identified as Mrs. Eliza beth Aggis, 28, Kesgrave, who worked at the garage as a clerk A deep crater was left where the plane dove into the rear of the garage, and wreckage was strewn over a wide area. Police moved in to guard the scene of the crash, william McAllister High Court Names Judge SALEM (AP) Justice William M. McAllister, 53, will be Ore gon's chief justice during the next two years, the court announced to day. McAllister, who will succeed Chief Justice William C. Perry as nead of the seven-member state Supreme Court, has been elected to the high post by his colleagues on the court. McAllister was appointed to the court in August. 1956. bv former Gov. Elmo Smith. McAllister suc ceeded the late Justice Earl C. Latourette, and won election to the office three months after he was appointed. He was. a Medford -lawyer be fore being appointed to the court. Educated in Portland public schools; he was1 graduated from Willamette - University and Wil lamette University Law School. and was admitted to the bar in 1928. He moved to Medford in 1931. McAllister was speaker of the state House of Representatives in i43, v and served in . the House from 1937 through 1943. He was a state senator in the 1949 session. The new chief also was a mem ber of the state Board of Higher Education for several years, and played a prominent role in devel oping the. Western Regional' High er Education Compact. Under this compact, graduate students are permitted to attend schools outside their own states if they seek edu cation which is not given, in their home states. The McAllisters have two chil dren. . One of his first official acts will be to administer the governor's oath to Mark Hatfield at the in auguration Jan. 12. - Youth Learns Jap Strategy In World War LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Japa nese admiral has told a li s schoolboy his fear of a trap led him to withdraw his fleet when the Americans mvaded the Philip pines in worm war 11. The 2,000-word letter of Viea Adm. Kiyohide Shima to 16-year-'' ' old Bill Frazer of Pacoima, Calif., urune me aamirai s long silence on a mystery which has puzzled war historians. Frazer had asked Shima whv he pulled his forces out of the crucial battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The youth will use the in formation in a history term paper in junior high school. Expressing gratitude for the ad miral's response, young Frazer added: "I hope I get an A on the paper." While U.S. forces were fiehlini for a foothold on Leyte Island. Shima withdrew the ships of his 2nd Division from a running sea battle in Surigao Strait. The admiral wrote Frazer that the Japanese 1st Division of Vies Adm. Nishimura was destroyed by the Americans. Shima's own flag- snip, tne neavy cruiser Nachi, was crippled by a cnmsion with anoth er Japanese cruiser and was lim ited to a top speed of 20 knots. All factors made him decide tha Americans were waiting for him in force. "It was quite clear that we should only fall into a ready trap," Shima said. "I considered all such things events, circumstances, possibilities. Then I came to my decision that it would be better to retreat from the strait and wait a chance to know , how everything went." The Los Angeles Examiner, wnich published the copyrighted letter, said it is "certain to be come one of the great historical documents of the war in the Pacific." In a preface to his answer, tha Admiral wrote: I can even now assura vnu that my decisions and judgments of tha day in Surigao Strait were ade quate and proper ... I have nev er made any protest or any sort of thing against misunderstand ings, for I believe that the truth would prove, by itself in the long iuii ui msiury. "But this time," he continued. "I am deeply impressed by your eagerness and enthusiam to find out the truth of the war in spite of your age." HELD FOR QUIZ CARACAS. Venezuela (AP) Seven men suspected of planning an auacK on rresiaeni-eiect Kom ulo Betancourt were held today for questioning. The men wera picked up, while near Betancourt's house Saturday night. The -President-elect was not at home. Newspaper Strike Ends As Deliverers On Job NEW YORK lAPJ The costll-i est newspaper strike in the city's history is over Deliverers went back to work early today witn a new two-year contract. It gave them a $5.30 wage increase and fringe benefits. They ratified It Sunday - 2,091-537, ending the 20-day walkout. The strike cost estimated at 50 million dollars. All four morning newspapers published. Editions began hitting the streets of ihis news-starved city about 2 a.m., four hours after the strike s end. They were the first since Dec. 11, when the nine major daily newspapers halted operations. Plants of the rve afternoon pa pers buzzed again with activity as they resumed nomal schedules. Hundreds of newsstand dealers threw open the.r shutters. New Yorkers normally purchase bv million copies daily and 8Vi mil lion Sundays. A back-to-work call went out to Ihe independent Newspaper and Mall Deliverers Union's 4.400 members and to 15.000 nonstrik ing newspaper employes la off when the plants shut down. Terms of the agreement wera settled by negotiators Friday night. The new contract included a $3.55 pay Increase the first year and $1.75 the second. Benefits in cluded Columbus Day off as a ninth paid holiday and three days of sick leave annually, to begin in I960. Unused sick leave will be paid in wages a, the new scale. The deliverers also won a reduc tion from 53 to 50 pounds in tha weight of bundles they handle. , The basic prestrike wage was $103.83 a week. The new pact is estimated to ba worth $7 weeklv to the delivery men. Asher Schwar'z union attorney, said the new contract would ba in effect as of Dec. 7, when tha old pact expired. Only retroactivity in the contract provides payment for the ttm de liverers worked Dee. 8 and Dec. (. Sam Feldman, union president, said: "We are now ready to ga back to work with the belt wage and working conditions ever a4 by tha members of our union."