Pan American To
Start All-Cargo
Service To Alaska
To meet increasing demands for
air cargo space to Alaska, Pan
American World Airways will in
augurate an all-cargo schedule,
effective June 1, E. H. Herold,
cargo traffic superintendent for
the Alaska Region announced to
day.
A four-engine Douglas DC-4 es
pecially equipped for cargo car
riage will be added to the Alaska
fleet, flying from Seattle to Fair
banks with stops at Juneau and
Ketchikan on demand.
Upwards of 400,000 pounds per
mon h can be carried with in
augurating of this service, enab
ling Pan American to keep pace
with an ever-increasing demand
for clipper cargo.
The present schedule calls for,
flights from Seattle on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, afford
ing desirable delivery times for
merchants in Alaska.
Pan American’s daily cargo
service will be continued for the
carriage of some commodities,
j such as newspapers, magazines,
fruits, vegetables, flowers, meats
and dairy products. The cargo
clipper will handle heavy move
! men's and cargo of unusual size
1 and weight.
i Herold pointed out that the vol
ume of cargo to Fairbanks has
1 increased eight times _ since in
auguration of lowered cargo rates
in December 1947. Pan American
is the largest regular carrier of
commercial air cargo to Alaska,
i Herold said.
With the increased tempo in
the cargo field, the airline re
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Commissioner Ted Duffield on
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Attendants were Hulan A. Al
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are soldiers stationed here.
ARMY CONTINUES SEARCH
FOR MEDICAL OFFICER
Using Deering as a base, U.S.
Army pilots are continuing the
search for the missing medical
officer who went to the rescue
of the ‘‘Clobberd Turkey.”
According th information re
ceived, the ‘paradoctor’ is the on
ly person still missing.
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Salmon Packers
Union Disagree On
Price Of Fish
CORDOVA, — <)p) —Clam pack
ing got underway today after a
month’s delay by a labor dispute.
A deadlock continues, however,
in the salmon industry dispute.
The principal dispute between
clam canners and the Copper Riv
er and Prince William Sound Can
nery Workers’ Union was a de
mand of resident cannery workers
for a standard eight-hour day giv
en imported labor.
The union settled for a guaran
tee of 200 hours’ work for the
season, with a 20-cent hourly
wage increase from last year.
The guaranteed work last year
was only for 80 hours.
The operators also agreed to
give preference to local labor.
The delay was expected to re
duce the clam pack 40 per cent
or more. Cordova puts up 70 per
cent of the Pacific pack of razor
clams.
A labor deadlock also continues
in the salmon industry, although
the season opened May 15. The
Cordova district of the Fisheries
Union and the Alaska Salmon In
dustry, Inc., were reported still
far apart in their dispute over fish
prices.
The union was reported to have
come down from $1 to 94 cents
for reds and silvers, with the op
erators raising their offer from 65
to 67 cents. The latest askirg
prices of the union for other sp -
cies include:
35 cents for pinks, with ope* -
ators offering 20;
50 cents for chums, operators
offering 25;
16 cents a pound for kings; op
erators offering $2.25 per fish.
No further labor-operator meet
ings were scheduled.
The Prince William Sound Can
ning pack last year totaled more
than $9,000,000 worth.
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