FAA Boss
Cited for Careless
Operation of a Plane
WASHINGTON IS) — An in
spector for the Federal Aviation
Agency has recommended that
Najeeb E. Halaby, Federal Avia
tion Agency Administrator, be
cited for careless operation of
a plane.
Halaby was at the controls of
the agency’s new million-dollar
transport and was taxing toward
a takeoff slot at Washington’s
National Airport Nov. 9 when
the plane brushed the wingtip
of a parked United Air Lines
plane waiting to take off.
No one was injured but the
collision shattered a running light
on the FAA plane and damaged
the UAL plane’s wingtip. The
UAL flight was delayed about an
hour.
An FAA spokesman said that
Halaby had told the agency to
investigate his accident just as it
would anybody else’s.
Hie highest penalty that could
be imposed against Halaby as a
private pilot would be a repri
mand, said the TAA.
Steps Taken to
Form an Alaskan
State Poetry Society
JUNEAU UP) — Steps are being
taken to form an Alaskan State
Poetry Society, according to Carol
Beery Davis, president of Juneau
Creative Writers, sponsors of the
new organization with the help
of the League of Alaskan Writers,
Anchorage, and writer groups
elsewhere in the state.
Preparations are well along the
way, she said, to form a non
profit corporation under the laws
of Alaska. All persons interested
would be eligible for member
ship regardless of whether they
had written or published poetry.
Monthly and yearly awards to
Alaskan poets and other activi
ties are planned. The Texas
Poetry Society and others have,
been studied for ideas to be used j
in Alaska. /
Persons interested may write
Mrs. Davis at 114 Sixth St., Ju- i
neau, for information.
Amateur-Built Radio to
Say “Hi” to the World
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif, w — An Air Force
Discoverer rocket shot into the
sky Tuesday carrying a hitch
hiker named OSCAR — a 10
pound amateur-build radio de
signed to tell the world “Hi.”
Discoverer 30 also carries its
usual cargo, a capsule of secret
instruments to be ejected within
the next few days. Planes were
to try to snag its parachute in
the air near Hawaii.
The capsule was in the nose
of the orbital second stage of the
rocket, OSCAR in the tail. OSCAR
stands for Orbiting Satellite Car
rying Amateur Radio.
AWARDED DAMAGES
LONDON UPI — Richard Gil
bert, 45, was mild mannered and
affable before a car knocked him
from his motorcycle and he suf
fered brain injuries.
Afterward, his attorney said
Monday hi court, Gilbert became
touchy, .difficult and offensive,
with a streak of nastiness he had
not had before.
The court awarded Gilbert
damages of 4,750 pounds —■
$13,300.
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Average Earnings for
Factory Workers Sets a
New High Last Month
WASHINGTON <*> — Average
earnings of factory workers set
an all-time record last month,
the Labor Department announced
Tuesday. The work-week aver
aged 40 hours and 36 minutes—
highest in two years.
The department’s analysis of
the preliminary job figures an
nounced last week showed that
payroll employment at 55.1 mil
lion in November, equaled the
record set a month earlier.
“With all the returns now in
for November, the story is a
pretty good one,’’ said the de
partment’s manpower director,
Seymour Wolfbein.
The unemployment rate is 6.1
per cent of the civilian labor force,
Wolfbein told a news conference.
If the unemployment rate re
mains at 6.1 per cent, there will
j be 4.1 million unemployed this
month, up slightly from Novem
! ber’s 3.99 million. January will
| see 4.9 million jobless, and Feb
, ruary 5 million because of pure
; ly seasonal factors,
j Average hourly earnings in No
J vember climbed to a record $2.36.
; Together with the lengthening of
the factory work-week, and step
i ped-up overtime paid, the aver
| age weekly earnings of factory
j workers rose by $1.28 to a record
of $95.82.
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U.S. Readies Helicopters
For Use Against
| Viet Cong Rebels
, SAIGON, South Viet Nam (/PI—
U.S. Army service troops Tuesday
j began readying some 40 U.S. com
: bat helicopters for use against the '
Viet Cong rebels.
I The helicopters, with nearly
400 U.S. Army pilots and ground
1 crewmen, arrived in Saigon Mon
day aboard the converted U.S.
carrier Core. They reportedly will
be ready to start flying missions
I in about two weeks.
The U.S. crews manning the
.{helicopters will fly Vietnamese
troops and equipment to attack
.positions when Communist rebels
j are sighted. The Vietnamese
j ground forces have had great dif
jficulty trapping the roving Viet
[Cong units because of the lack
of speedy transport over the
jungle.
It will be the first time U.S.
personnel have flown such mis
sions against the rebel forces.
The helicopters are part of ex
panded U.S. military aid to South
.Viet Nam agreed upon a week
ago-'
AFL-CIO Signal
Full-Speed Ahead
For Wage Increases
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. W — The
AFL - CIO convention signaled
full speed ahead Tuesday on wage
increases in contrast to President
Kennedy’s call for wage restraint,
The convention adopted a
series of economic policy resolu
tions that also pledged a drive to
cut the present standard 40-hour
work week. Kennedy has said
that now is no time to reduce
working hours.
Walter Reuther, head of the
United Auto Workers Union, took
the convention floor to denounce
those advocating wage restraint
based on the idea that greater
labor costs would upset the bal
ance of export-import payments.
Reuther didn’t specify that he
was opposing Kennedy policies,
however.
Reuther said he wanted to an
swer those who say working hours
shouldn’t be slashed at this time.
With nearly four million un
employed, he said, the time has
come for unions to campaign for
an hours cut to spread the avail
able work.
The AFL-CIO chiefs set $1.50
an hour as organized labor’s new
goal for the federal minimum
wage.
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State Board of Education
Endorses Draft for School
Foundation Program
JUNEAU OP — At the meeting
concluded Tuesday the State
Board of Education endorsed the
draft of legislation for a public
school foundation program to be
presented to die 1962 session of
the State Legislature. Copies of
the draft will be submitted to
officials and educators for rec
ommendations which will be con
sidered by the board before the
lawmakers meet.
The board also endorsed for
possible presentation to the next
legislative session the draft for
reorganization of local school or
ganizations. This too will be cir
culated among school people.
In another action the State
Board of Education called on the
Legislature to investigate the al
leged satutory defiency in the ap
propriation of state funds for the
support of school districts for the
1961-62 fiscal year and urged the
lawmaking body to take appro
priate action if such a deficiency
exists.
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