Work Furiously
To Complete New
Ford Contract
(By Glenn Engle)
DETROIT, </P)—Weary negotia
tors worked furiously today to
write a Ford contract and head off
a strike before a midnight dead
line on bargaining.
Unconfirmed reports from the
conference table indicated Ford
had offered company-paid pen
sions at the age of 5. It was also
reported that an unusual two-and
a-half year contract was in the
making.
Some 30 shirt-sleeved negotiat
ors for the CIO United Auto
Workers and Ford Motor Co. bat
tled for last-minute gains. There
were frequent recesses while each
side rushed out to caucus on
points at issue.
Talks had been going on with
out let-up since 9 p.m. last night.
If a new contract is not signed
by midnight, the UAW has threat
ened quick strike action. Ford’s
115,000 hourly workers are stand
ing by.
The reported Ford offer, cou
pled with social security pay
ments, would give retired workers
between $80 and $100 monthly in
pensions. Retirement would be re
quired at age 68, but workers with
30 years service would have the
option of retiring at 60, it was re
ported.
Phil Senour. representing the
Alaska Travel Bureau with head
quarters in Ketchikan and Seattle
arrived with Pan American today
and announced that his company
has a big program planned for
next summer’s tourist trade, plan
ning to bring in regularly tourist
parties of te nor more with over
night stops.
Phil Senour was formerly a
pilot for Alaska Airlines and is
well acquainted in Nome.
Herb Hilscher
Will Pay Bet
When Herb Hilscher of Fair
banks, author of ‘‘Alaska Now,”
and other works on Alaska, was
in New York City a couple of years
ago, he was a guest on the Fred
Waring radio show.
Hilscher, who is proud of Alas
ka, chidded Waring about the av
erage Easterner’s ignorance of
anything west of Chicago. He said,
“I’ll bet you don’t even know the
name or the music of Alaska’s of
ficial song.”
“What will you bet?” Waring
countered.
“Oh, a totem pole.” Hilscher
cracked.
“Done,” said Waring, whereupon
he turned to the members of his
band, said, “Hit it, boys.” The
Pennsylvanians waded without
either hesitation or discord into
the strains of “The Alaska Flag
Song.”
Hilscher said he would pay the
bet and Waring, envisioning a
neatly-carved little table-model
totem pole, said he would accept.
Hilscher is on his way to the
East Coast again this year and he
got in touch with a friend in Jun
eau, asking for a totem pole with
which to pay off his bet with the
nationally famous band leader.
When the totem pole was un
loaded from a Pan American Air
way Clipper in Seattle recently,
Hilcher’s eyes bugged out about as
far as Waring’s will when he re
ceives it. The totem pole is eight
feet high and it weighs just a lit
tle less than 150 pounds.
“Holy smoke,” Hilscher gasped,
“it’s a collector's item—a museum
piece—it’s a real, honest-to-gosh
Haida chief’s pole.”
Nobody knows what Fred War
ing is going to do with an eight
foot, 150-pound totem pole, but
he’s going to get one.
“I’ll pay the bet,” Hilscher said,
“even if it cosst me my shirt to
ship it across the country.”
Alaska Airlines
SCHEDULE CHANGE
SEPT. 1, 1949
NOME - UNALAKLEET - McGRATH
ANCHORAGE
LEAVE NOME—MON., TUES., THURS., SUNDAY
NOME - KOTZEBUE - NOME
21 Passenger Douglas DeLuxe Equipment
NOME to KOTZEBUE.SATURDAYS
KOTZEBUE to NOME.SUNDAYS
FREIGHTER SAILING SCHEDULE
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' St. Michael, Unalakleei, Nome.
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three days prior to final receiving date. All
cargo offered must be delivered to Pier 42 by
September 26th.
I VXLW
Wednesday. September 28, 1949
5:00 p.m.—Baseball—Short Wave
6:00—^Just Jazz
6:30—This Is The Story
7:00—Number Please
8:00—Duffy’s Tavern
8:30—Hollywood Music Hall
9:00—My Friend Irma
9:30—Suspense
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—G.I. Jive
10:45—Words with Music
11:00 p.m.—Sign Off
Thursday, September 29. 1949
7:00 a.m.—Melody Roundup
7:15—Morning Devotions
7:30—Sunrise Serenade
8:00—Fred Waring
8:30—Not So Quiet, Please
9:00—AFRS Sports Reel
9:15—Morning Melodies
9:30—Woman’s Day
10:00—Jack Berch
10:15—Chiquita
10:30—Did ’Ya Know?
11:00—(Personal Album
11:15—Strike Up The Band
11:30—I. & E. Special
Noon—Luncheon Turntable
12:30—WXLN News
12:45—At Ease
1:00—Around World In History
1:15—Club Fifteen
1:30—Metropolitan Opera
4:15—Baseball—Short Wave
6:00—Spelling Bee
6:30—Mission Accomplished
7:00—Number Please
8:00—Dorothy Lamour
8:30—Jill’s Juke Box
9:00—Jack Carson
9:30—Inner Sanctum
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—G.I. Jive
10:45—Words with Music
11:00 p.m.—Sign Off
Friday. September 30. 1949
7:00 a.m.—Redd Harper
7:15—Morning Devotions
7:30—Sunrise Serenade
8:00—Fred Waring
8:30—Not So Quiet, Please
9:00—Zeke Manners
9:15—Morning Melodies
9:30—Woman’s Day
10:00—Jack Berch
10:15—Bob Carlton
10:30—Did ’Ya Know?
11:00—'Personal Album
11:15—Remember
11:30—1. & E. Special
Noon—Luncheon Turntable
12:30—WXLN News
12*45““At Ease
1:00—Around World In, History
1:15—Club Fifteen
1:30—Yesterday’s Best
2:00—Music In Contrast
2:30—Name It For A Song
3:00—'Matinee Melodies
4:00—Corn’s A Poppin’
I 4:15—Baseball—Short Wave
WXLN will broadcast Newt
Casts every day at 8:00 a.m., 10:00
a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 7:00
p.m., 8:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m., and
11:00 p.m., only if the programs
received and scheduled at these
spots are 25 minute programs.
GI'S AID VIENNESE CHILDREN
VIENNA. <7P) — American sol
diers in Vienna have already made
their plans to insure Viennese
children a Merry Christmas. The
soldiers have scheduled six events
by which they hope to raise
enough money to increase the
number of children’s parties they
have been giving every Christmas
since they entered the city in 1945.
The events includ two theatrical
performances, a football game,
boxing match, car raffle and a ra
dio request program.
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"SIOUX CITY SUE”
Gene Autrey
Move Cargo To
Hawaii Under
CIO Agreement
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LOS ANGELES, (/P) — A 9000
ton cargo ship is to be put in regu
lar Honolulu service next week to
carry food to the strikebound is
lands, it was announced here to
day by T. A. Thronson of Seattle.
Thronson, vice-president of the
Interior Development Company,
comprising 16 Honolulu business
men, said the ship, Pyro, now in
Todd drydock here, will take on
7000 tons of food at Long Beach
next week and 2000 tons of rice at
San Francisco.
He said the company has agreed
with the striking CIO ILWU that
the vessel will be unloaded at the
prevailing rate of $1.46 an hour
and that 32 cents an hour addi
tional will be put in escrow pend
ing the outcome of the strike.
The company recently chartered
an Alaska Railroad company barge
which already has made one trip
to Honolulu and a 600-ton motor
ship, the Pacific Queen, now en
route to San Francisco from the
northwest for use in Honolulu
service.
Pineapple Laden
Barnes Unloaded
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THE DALLES. Ore., (/Hi — Si:
non-union workmen began un
loading a Hawaiian pineappl
barge here at dawn today.
Officials of the Hawaiian Pine
apple company, owner of the 2700
ton cargo, unhooked the first slinj
load as it came to rest on the docl
platform.
CIO longshore pickets appearec
about an hour after the unloadinj
started—the second unloading op
eration in Oregon in two days foi
pineapple barged from strike
bound Hawaii.
At Tillamook an empty barg«
today was a reminder of a one
day unloading that went off with
out trouble yesterday. That barge
slipped into Tillamook Bay undei
cover of night and fog and movec
up the Tillamook River where ii
was unloaded at a long dump.
The barge here arrived Satur
day after CIO longshoremen—
linking it to the Hawaii longshore
strike—refused to unload it al
Seattle. AFL longshoremen at Ta
coma also refused to unload.
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