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PAN AM TO FLY THE JET STREAMS
Pan American Airways has asked permission from
the Civil Aeronautics Commission to initiate high jet
stream, non-stop passenger flights over the North Paci
fic Ocean, connecting such cities as Seattle or Portland
with Far East cities like Tokyo.
The streams, usually found at high altitudes, travel
up to 100 miles an hour, and passenger liners can speed
up their ground speed considerably by flying inside
them. Pan American officials reveal that PAA air
liners, heading for Hawaii from Japan, often get in the
air stream which passes over Midway and fly with it to
that island outpost.
This speeds up the Tokyo-Honolulu run by seven
hours and enables the PAA airliner to make the run
non-stop, even though it veers away from the jet stream
after arriving over Midway. The airliner would take
advantage of North Pacific jet streams to initiate
Tokyo - West Coast non-stop flights over the Pacific.
The PAA request opens up new horizons in the
aviation world, for jet streams are not common only
over the Pacific, but in most areas of the world.
The opportunity is one to speed up travel without
adding to fuel or operation costs. Because the flight
would require less time, the operation cost could ac
tually be reduced on such flights. Jet airliners, oper
ating in jet streams to speed up already ffst schedules,
might be the eventual outcome of evolutionary progress
now being made in aviation circles.
Republicans are reported as stunned, and Demo
crats delighted at the revelation of Treasury Secretary
Humphrey that the Eisenhower budget for next year
calls for six billions for foreign aid! Oddly enough, the
Dems are now opposed to hand-outs .. perhaps because,
as Adlai Stevenson reported on his return from Europe,
“We carried every country overseas from Korea to
Britain.” And that wasn’t much of a victory.
Not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing
at the tempting moment. —George Augustus Sala
Human felicity is produced not so much by great
pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little
advantages that occur every day. —Benjamin Franklin
Canada Reports
$9,000,000 From
July Fishing Crop
VICTORIA, B.C., UB—Fishermen
reaped a harvest of nearly $9,000,
000 during last July and as usual,
a small, firm-bodied salmon called
sockeye was the chief crop.
Trade Minister Chetwand said
Saturday this figure — actually
$8,743,000—was eight percent be
low dollar value for the same per
iod last year, despite a greater
value of fish caught.
Visiting the waters which gave
up this harvest and meeting the
men who brought it imis Canada’s
minister of fisheries, James Sin
clair.
At Namu, on Fitzhugh Sound,
he saw one of the largest canner
ies on the coast, working at capac
ity on the late summer pack of
chums and pinks.
He was shown a new by-prod
uct of the salmon industry—pro
duction of leather from salmon
skins. The skins are stripped neat
ly from the fish by a special ma
chine, cut to size, then salted.
The strips are sold to the United
States, tanned and processed.
The leather resembles snake
skin and is tougher than calf,
widely used in the manufacture of
shoes and purses.
In Coal Harbor, in Quatsino
Sound, the fisheries minister saw
the processes which put to mark
etable use every inch of the whale
carcass from snout to tail. The
whalers, despite handicaps of fog
and general rough weather, are
aiming at a catch of 550 whales—
compared with last year’s 465.
Eisenhower Grants Iran
$45 Million Economic Aid
DENVER, UP)—President Eisen
hower Saturday granted the new
government of Iran $45 million in
emergency economic aid in an ob
vious move to prevent any Iranian
alignment with Russia.
The President acted just 10 days
after Prime Minister Fazollah Za
hedi appealed to him for swift
assistance, saying Iran’s treasury
was empty and that money was
needed urgently to enable the
country “to emerge from a state of
economic and financial chaos.”
Juneau Voters To Be
Asked To Double Sales
Tax For New School
JUNEAU, UP)—The Juneau School
board will ask voters to double
the present one-cent sales tax to
finance a two million dollar bond
issue for a new school.
The item will be one of two
propositions to go before the pub
lic after the Oct. 6 election. Nei
ther will be ready in time for the
general election.
The second would terminate the
remaining six years of the 20-year
franchise held by the Juneau and
Douglas Telephone Company, and
authorize a new franchise for 20
years. The company hopes to se
cure a loan to finance the installa
tion of dial telephones.
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Army-Air Force Ruling Allowing Hard
Drinks On Posts Brings Protests From
Liquqr Industry Spokesmen And Dries
WASHINGTON, W»—Some liquor
industry spokesmen joined voices
Saturday with temperance advo
cates in condemning new Army
and Air Force regulations allow
ing hard drinks to be sold to com
missioned and non-commissioned
officers on military posts.
There were expressions of con
cern from members of Congress,
too, along with one of approval.
But other lawmakers, asking not
to be quoted by name, expressed
the hope that the furore would die
down befoA Congress reconvenes
in January. Said one:
“Anything you say publicly on
this is wrong.”
The Army and Air Force an
nounced last week sales of liquor
by the drink or bottle will be per
mitted to persons over 21 at bars
and lounges operated by officers’
and non-commissioned officers’
clubs at posts in the United States
and its possessions. Such clubs,
while on government property, are
not government enterprises. They
are run by their members under
service regulations.
Hammers Schumberg, Washing
ton representative of the National
Retail Liquor Package Stores As
sociation, said the new policy was
“legally, morally, and ethically
wrong.” Schumberg went on to
say in a statement:
This is completely contrary to
the announced intention of the
Eisenhower administration to dis
courage government competition
with private business. If the policy
is allowed to stand, there will be
a mass uprising against the Re
publican Party and the mothers of
boys going into the service will
lead it.”
In Cleveland, William W. Mitch
ell, executive secretary of the Na
tional Alcoholic Beverage Control
Associations, said the loss in' rev
enue to states will be considerable
and that some liquor dealers will
be driven out of business.
However, a spokesman for the
Distilled Spirits Institute, a dis
tillers’ association, said “there
should be no unnecessary discrim
ination against members of the
armed services,” and expressed
confidence that “no looseness will
be tolerated in the handling of
these beverages.”
Unofficially, high military offi
cials summed up the philosophy of
the new system this way:
“Some of the men are going to
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drink anyway so we might as well
make it possible—and attractive—
for them to do it where we can
keep an eye on them and make
them behave themselves.”
The Army pointed out the J^avy
and Marines have allowed on-base
sale of drinks for some time. The
Air Force already had been per
mitting sale of drinks at commis
sioned officers’ clubs.
One attraction of the service
sanctioned spas likely will be low
prices. They will have to pay fed
eral taxes on liquor but they won’t
have to pay state and local taxes
besides.
Jerry Galvin, Alaska
Mining Man, Dies In Seatle
SEATTLE, (iP)—Jerry D. Galvin,
80, prominent Alaska mining and
lumberman, died at a Seattle .hos
pital Sunday.
Born in Eau Claire, Wis., he
went to Alaska as a prospector in
1898 and discovered gold north of
Nome. He find opened up the
Kigluaik district.
Later he became the owner of
other mining properties and
founded a power plant and lum
ber mill near Wrangell. He served
as president of the Alaska Power
and Metals Co., until his retire
ment about six years ago.
Survivors include his widow,
Nellie and two sons, Eugene, New
York City, and George, Palo Alto,
Calif.
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