Plane Forced to Land
After Injury Over
Erupting Island Volcano
HONOLULU, Iff) — A Hawaiian
plane carrying sightseers over
erupting Kilaue Volcano was hit
by a rock from the crater last
night and forced to land at near
by Hilo Airport.
A white-hot rock cracked the
plane’s windshield, focing the
pilot to make an unscheduled
landing. The plane had been fly
ing at about 1,000 feet.
No injury was reported. The
twin-engined Convair was on an
excursion flight over the crater
which is spouting molten lava
and rock to a height of up to
1,100 feet. Plane excursion busi
ness has been booming since the
volcano erupted last Saturday.
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Ford s Edsel Model Goes
Off Production Line
DETROIT, UPi — The Edsel to
day became the first casualty of
the new automotive battle of the
compact cars. Ford announced it
will abandon the medium priced
car immediately.
Introduced only two years ago,
the Edsel never .captured a mar
ket. Slightly more than 100,000
were sold. Less than 100 have
been built in the last two weeks
as Ford diverted scarce steel to
its other lines.
In an official statement Ford
said sales of the 1960 Edsel
model, which, looks strikingly like
the 1959 Pontiac, “have been par
ticularly disappointing,” while re
sponse to ail other company lines
has been good.
The Edsel was first marketed
on September 4, 1957. Ford said
it had been under development
for three years at a cost of a
quarter of a billion dollars.
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Industry Offer
Quickly Rejected
By Steelworkers
PITTSBURGH, Wl — The basic
steel industry yesterday dis
closed it had submitted a new
contract proposal to the United
Steelworkers Union. The union
promptly announced rejection of
the offer.
The proposal was described as
a 30-cent hourly package cover
ing a three-year period.
R. Conrad Cooper, industry ne
gotiator, said the new poposal
also softens management’s de
mands for work rule changes, im
proves insurance benefit offers
and the cost-of-living clause.
The new proposal, Cooper said,
would have the companies pay
the entire cost of life insurance
and sickness-accident insurance
heretofore paid for jointly by the
companies and employes.
The offer was presented to the
| union during a series of secret
bargaining sessions started short
ly after the mills reopened under
a Taft-Hatley injunction Novem
ber 7 after a 116-day strike.
The new proposal includes pro
visions for two wage increases
ranging from 6 to 12 cents an
hour, depending on job classifi
cations. The first increase would
be effective October 1, 1959, and
the second a year later.
A 17-cent-an-hour cost-of-living
adjustment given workers during
the last three years would be con
tinued.
The new proposal also provides
for a maximum 4-cent-an-hour
cost-of-living increase in the sec
ond and third years.
The industry poposed that the
knotty questions governing work
rules be submitted to a committee
for study with a decision to be
reached not later than June 30,
1960. If the committee fails to
solve the problems by then, the
question would be submitted for
binding arbitration within 90
days after next June 30.
Some 500,000 steelworkers re
turned to their jobs November 7
uncfer an 80-day Taft-Hartley in
junction after a 116-day nation
wide strike. The injunction ex
pires January 26.
The injunction specifies that
work be resumed under terms of
the old contract. It provided for
an average hourly wage of $3.11
an ho.ur.
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being pul through its paces by longshoreman Jack Cordray at Pier 42, where it was put
info service for Alaska Steamship Company last week.
Russian Yellowstone
Park Established as
Natural Primitive Preserve
MOSCOW, UP) — Russia has
opened a park that would even
overshadow the famous U. S. Yel
lowstone Park, the Soviet news
agency Tass reported yesterday.
Known as the Kronotsky Pre
serve, the park has been estab
lished on the Pacific -coast side
of the Kamchatka Peninsula in
the territory of Khabarovsk.
Tass said thes park occupies
about 3,860 square miles, com
pared to the Yellowstone’s 3,347
square miles.
Much of the area is covered by
forests and plains, “lacerated by
mountain ranges, volcanoes,
rapid rivers and high, mountain
lakes,” the agency reported.
It said park features Include
the still-active Kronotsky Vol
cano, geysers “and the world’s
only grove of graceful fir — a
vestige of pre-ice age vegetation.”
The principal inhabitants are
sable, wild deer, the snow ram,
ermine and the bear.
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U.S. October Income
Rose In Spite of Vast
Industry Idleness
WASHINGTON, Wl — The in
come of all Americans rose in
October for the second straight
month despite the steel strike,
the Commerce Deupartment said
yesterday.
Personal income, a broad meas
ure of purchasing power, increased
by one billion dollars to an annual
rate of $381,900,000,000. A 200
million-dollar drop in rate of
wage and salary payments was
more than offset by increases in
some other types of income.
Farm income, for example, was
upu 500 million dollars to an
annual rate of $13,900,000,000.
Government benefit payments
rose by 300 million dollars, large
ly because of unemployment bene
fits paid workers laid off by side
effects of the steel strike.
With interest rates rising, in
terest income also increased by
300 million dollars.
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More than 50,000 Boy Scouts,
Explorers and leaders from all
parts of the nation and some
from other lands will camp to
gether at the Fifth National
Jamboree, July 22-28, 1960
A 2,000-acre site at Reverse J
Diamond Ranch in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, is being pre
pared for the jamboree. It j
will have its own water supply,
electricity, telephone service,
post offices and other services
for the largest gathering of boys
in the Western Hemisphere.
Jamboree campers, all of them
twelve years old or older, will
share daily camp chores, cook
their own meals, take part in
displays, campfires, demonstra
tions, skill contests, and inter
camp visits during the seven
day event.
Outstanding Americans will
take part in the principal events.