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Out of Swaddling Clothes . . .
TIE JET AQE of air travel has just reached its
third birthday. But it certainly came out of its
swaddling clothes in a “hurry!
Pain American World Airways, which inaugurated
U.S.-flag jet service, announces that it has flown 120,
021,500 jet miles and carried almost 2,000,000 pas
sengers since its planes entered service in 1958.
Translated into space terms this means that Pan
Am’s jet clippers — of which there are 52, with the
©neatest jet experience in the industry could have
carried the entire population of the city of Philadel
phia to the moon and back 237 times.
The Jet Clipper America, which made the first
U.S.-flag jet flight from New York to Paris, has new
logged more than 4,000,000 miles, or some 8,000 hours
in file air. And the jet powerplants used by Pan Am
have proven to be models of reliability. An in-flight
failure has occurred only once in approximately every
40,000 hours. This means that a jet captain, flying an
average of 900 hours a year, could fly more than 40
years without ever experiencing an engine failure.
To sum up, a single jet clipper in a month's operar
tions covers about 160,000 miles. That fact would
startle even Julies Verne.
INTERNATIONAL
PARTS
PICKUPS TRUCKSS •
BEN YOUNG
Civil Defense
Program to Cost
U.S. $700 Million
WASHINGTON Ufl — The Fed
eral Civil Defense program to be
sent to,Congress next month will
cost about $700 million and in
clude incentive payments for
construction of fallout shelters in
schools, hospitals, and public
welfare institutions.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Roswell Gilpatric disclosed de
tails in a news conference yes
terday. • j§;
The program provides federal
guidance but no money for indi
vidual home shelters.
The federal incentive program,
Gilpatric said in a statement, is
planned on the basis of aid for
construction of shelter spaces for
about 20 million persons in the
fiscal year, beginning next July
1. It would make eligible for in
centive payments projects start
ed after next Jan. 1.
A booklet on fallout shelters
will be available to the public in
early January and to news media
sooner, he said.
A “fact sheet’ issued in con
nection with the news conference
gave a look at the government’s
philosophy about the possibility
of all-out attack on tills country.
“The likelihood of such an at
tack is very small, but it is pos
sible the sheet said. "If it comes,
we know its consequences would
be terrible. Therefore, we must
take what steps we can to protect
ourselves through an organized
long-range, sensible program of
Civil Defense.”
—
Greta Garbo was once a lather
girl in a Swedish barber snop.
And Benito Mussolini at one time
ran a five-chair shoe-shine parlor.
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Y TO LIGHT UP
TREE DEC. 20
GTON W — President
Kennedy will wish th# nation a
Merry Christmas next Wednesday
and then set aglow the big nation
al community Christmas tree.
The Dec. 20 date for the tra
ditional ceremony was announced
Wednesday by the White House.
The ceremony will be televised
from 5 to 5:30 p.m. EST. The
President will turn on the 4,000
lights that adorn the 75-foot
Christmas tree.
NANOOKS TO TRAVEL
The Nome High School Nanooks
will make their first trip to Una
lakleet on Dec. 29 to play two
evening games against the Cove
nant High School team. The team
will travel via Wien’s and with
Roald Amundsen. Unalakleet
will play the Nanooks here later
in January. Both games at Una
lakleet will be broadcast by
KICY. '
AN INVITATION
Gov. and Mrs. William A. Egan
and their son Dennis, today ex
tended an invitation for all Al
askans and visitors who are in
Juneau to attend a Yuletide Open
House reception at the Gover
nor’s House on the evening of
Tuesday, Dec. 19 from 7 pm. un
til 9 p.m.
WIEN PLANE TRAFFIC
From Kotzebue: Trygve and
Dana Jorgenson, Grafton Berg
man and Frank Gregory.
To Kotzebue: R. Miller, R. Gar
vin, Grafton Bergman, Laura
Wright, Arnold Dives.
From Fairbanks: Mrs. Jane
Galvin, Cherie Galvin, George
Spratz and Bob Blodgett.
To Fairbanks: Barbara McKin
nis, Roy Jenkins, E. S. Leasby,
Fred Garner, Oscar Webber, L.
Proesch, C. Canson, B. Brady, R.
Bridenburg, R. Seidel, C. Ullrick
son, L. West, M. Leonard, Gene
Joiner, Lt. Anderson, E. Grissom,
R. C. Thomas, F. Wien, N. Wien,
Bud Hagberg, Marsha Broyles,
E. F. Dyer, F. J. Parsons, C. W.
Greely, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Grant,
David, Jeffrey and Debra Grant,
Carl Hillstead, D. Jasper, Arlene
Muller, R. Levy, Don Mangan,
Mrs. Clara Odegard, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Powers.
Income Taxpayers
Have Only Two Forms to
Choose from on ’61 Returns
Individual federal income tax
payers will have only two return
forms to choose from when they
file their 1961 return next year,
according to Commerce Clearing
House.
They still can use the familiar
Form 1040 or the punch-card
Form 1040A. But the buff-color
ed “wage-earner’s” Form 1040W,
which was not used as universally
as the Treasury Department ex
pected, has been dropped.
Form 1040 has been reduced
from four pages to two. Support
ing schedules may be attached
according to the needs of a par
ticular taxpayer.
But a taxpayer wbo has any
amount of income from salary and
wages, and not more than $200 in
interest and dividends need only
file the single 12-page sheet
Form 1040, whether he takes the
standard deduction or itemizes
his deductions. Such dividends
and interest are entered on line
5 of page 1.
On the other hand, punch-card
Form 1040A may be used if (1)
gross income was less than $10,
000, all from wages reported on
Form W-2 withholding state
ments, and (2) not more than $200
was tram interest, dividends, and
wages not subject to withholding.
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