Pan Ain’s Bid for
Northern Route to
Orient Rejected
WASHINGTON, UB—The Civil
Aeronautics Board has ruled, in
rejecting a petition by North
west Airlines, that no action is
warranted at this time on the
question of a “great circle” north
ern route to Japan for Pan Amer
ican World Airways.
The CAB also reaffirmed its
denial of an Idia-Japan route for
Trans-World Airlines. It similar
ly refused to reconsider its denial
of authority for Transocean Air
lines, an Oakland, Calif., non
scheduled operator, to conduct a
scheduled air service across the
Pacific.
The pew CAB actions in effect
yesterday apply to orders of last
Feb. 8 and Nov. 26.
President Eisenhower, revers
ing his own week-old order which
would have removed Northwest
from the Hawaii-Seattle-Portland
service and left that route exclu
sively to Pan American, on Feb. 7
ordered the CAB to renew the
Pacific Northest-Hawaii routes of
both airlines for three years.
Pan American in March pro
posed that the three-year certifi
cates be amended to coincide with
the Tokyo authorizations of both
airlines. This the CAB refused to
do.
Pan American has a permanent
route to Tokyo calling for a mid
Pacific stop. Northwest had asked
for permanent certification of its
North Pacific route to Japan by
way of Alaska and the Aleutians.
The President last February de
ferred action on Pan American’s
bid for a great circle route to
match that of Northwest “pending
further study and later reports on
the economic and technical feasi
bility and the military and for
eign policy implications of non
stop service between the West
Coast and the Orient.”
In its new order Wednesday the
CAB said Pan American has not
asked for reconsideration of the
deferral. The board suggested that
possibly Northwest was seeking
denial of Pan American’s great
circle route application.
Lockheed Gets $65 Million
Contract For First U.S.
Commercial Turboprops
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Lockheed
Aircraft Corp. has won a 65
million dollar contract with its
design for the first commercial
turboprop transport to be built in
the United States.
American Airlines announced
it has placed an order for 35 of
the high-speed, medium - weight
planes with cruising speeds of
more than 400 mph and a range
of 2,000 miles.
Delivery is to start the latter
part of 1958.
Awarding of the contract gives
the first challenge to British
leadership in the commercial jet
with-propeller field. The turbo
prop power plant utilizes a tur
bine but instead of releasing its
power in pure forward thrust as
a jet engine does, it uses it to
turn propellers.
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Second Judge For
3rd Division Now
Before Congress
WASHINGTON, Ml— Alaskans
have been trying almost as long
to obtain an additional federal
judge in their 3rd Division as
they have to obtain statehood, ac
cording to Delegate Bartlett.
He told a Senate Judiciary sub
committee Wednesday it be
comes “increasingly urgent” that
the territory’s 3rd Division have
two judges instead of one.
He said the division is 250 miles
wide and 1,800 miles long and
has experienced a tremendous in
crease in the judicial workload.
In the last 10 to 15 years, he said,
criminal cases increased from 16
to 111 and civil cases from 140
to 1,496.
Bartlett’s testimony was sup
ported by Henry P. Chandler of
the administrative office of the
U.S. Courts. He said an additional
3rd Division judge “is absolutely
essential to the proper adminis
tration of justice.”
A provision to add the extra
judge is included in an omnibus
judgeship bill now being consid
ered by the subcommittee. An
identical provision is in a similar
| bill before the House Judiciary
j Committee.
Dean Martin Says Tiff
With Jerry Lewis Makes
Him Look Like A Heel
HOLLYWOOD, (4>>—Dean Mar
tin says that all the publicity
i about his “misunderstanding”
| with his partner, Jerry Lewis,
I “makes me look like a heel.”
Martin is heading to Hawaii
for a vacation with his wife.
Lewis is in New York to attend
the premiere of the team’s latest
movie. It’s purely a temporary
parting of the ways, Martin said.
He said he and Lewis will remain
together as a team.
Martin said a misunderstanding
developed when he refused to go
to the movie premier, to be held"
in a Catskill Mountain resort
where Lewis was once a busboy,
because he felt most of the lime
light would be on Lewis.
He didn’t know Lewis was
going alone until after his de
parture, Martin said. “I’m not
mad,” the singer added. “But nat
! uraly I’m upset. All this publicity
' makes me look like a heel.”
New Approach
Hinted In Atomic
Power For Planes
WASHINGTON, iff — The
Atomic Energy Commission, hint
ing that a “new approach” may
have eased the way toward build
ing atomic-powered airplanes, has
asked funds to speed up its work
on the project.
Testimony released last night
by a House Appropriations sub
committee quoted AEC chairman
Lewis L. Strauss that “experi
mental results warrant a sharp
intensification and expansion of
these efforts.”
No details of the reported new
approach were made public, but
Strauss said he was “greatly en
couraged” by the progress made.
One major problem in designing
an atomic plane has been the
development of a power plant
light enough to fly.
For work on that and other
reactor projects, the AEC asked
134 million dollars — one-third
more than its current reactor
budget. The money will be used
also to develop power plants for
Navy surface ships and peace
time electric plants, and to stim
ulate private development of
peaceful atomic energy.
Rescue Party Seeks
Plane And Two Guides
Who Disappeared May 28
ANCHORAGE, L'Pt—A rescue
party set out yesterday to climb
a 1,9'00-foot peak on an island 75
miles west of Seward to learn the
fate of two Alaska guides whose
plane was wrecked there May 28.
The men are Dyton Gilliland
45, and Gordon Kane, 36, from
Cooper Landing near Kenai.
They had flown to the island
May 26 with George Wilber of
New York and Don Williams of
Ohio on a bear hunting trip. The
guides left two days later on a
short flight to find a new site and
never returned.
Williams was picked up Mon
day when Gilliland’s wife became
concerned at the party’s failure to
return and sent fliers from Sew
ard to check. Kane was not mar
ried.
The wreckage of the aircraft
was sighted from a Coast Guard
plane and the rescue party is en
route from Seward to climb the
mountain. Gilliland’s son is in
the rescue party.
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Pencil Progress
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Although the pencil for 200
years had remained much the
same, researchers recently told of
the first basic improvement in
the common lead pencil when they
announced liquid graphite. As an
almost-universal, inexpensive
piece of personal property, it is
used by an estimated one billion
people. This is somewhat less
than half of the world’s popula
tion, but it includes probably
everyone capable of making in
telligible squiggles on paper. Rus
sian and Chinese, Arab and
Canadian know and rely on this
traditionally yellow, five cent
marvel. It has been yellow, cylin
drical and inexpensive since the
18th Century.
Progress of the lead pencil is
shown in this illustration. Upper
left is a piece of pure graphite
wrapped with cord as used by
English shepherds of the mid
16 th century to mark their sheep.
This was probably the first use
of this material.
In the lower left is a drawing
of an early 17th century wood
pencil. However, it wasn’t until
the middle of the 18th century
that a wood encased graphite pen
cil was produced commercially.
For centuries the ingredients
in pencils have remained the
same, with improvements only in
manufacturing techniques hav
ing changed. Now a liquid graph
ite pencil has been announced by
the Parker Pen Co. The girl at
the right holds a laboratory mod
el of the “Liquid Lead” pencil
that may revolutionize the indus
try.
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