Pan American
Reduced Fares For
Winter Months
Passengers to and from Alaska
on Pan American Clippers will be
able to save as much as 25 per cent
of the transportation cost during
the winter season, it was announc
ed today by James Walsh, district
traffic manager.
Pan American filed today with
the Civil Aeronautics Board a tar
iff for its Alaskan routes which
will permit a saving on round
trips to and from the Territory
amounting in saveral cases to mo:e
than $60.
The new tariff will reduce trip
fares between Seattle and Juneau
from $135 to $100.80; between
Seattle and Fairbanks from $234 to
$1’69.20, between Seattle and Nome
from $288 to $225; between Seat
tel and Ketchikan from $106.20 to
$81.00; Seattle to Sitka from $135
to $111.60 and from Seattle to An
chorage from $180.00 to $165.00
The one-way fares will also be
reduced—Seattle to Ketchikan
will be $45.00; Seattle to Juneau
will be $56.00; Seattle to Fair
banks will be $94.00 and Seattle to
Nome will be $125.00 In South
eastern Alaska the fare between
Seattle and Sitka will be $62.00
and Seattle to Anchorage will be
$92.00.
An added bit ot iniormation ot
interest to many that the fare from
Nome to Sitka is now $99.00. This
became effective with the conclu
sion of an interline agreement be
tween Pan American Airways, and
Alaska Coastal Airlines.
Pan American is reinstituting
the Alaskan winter fare program
because of its outstanding success
in the past, Walsh said.
'‘Pan American desires to pro
vide the best and most inexpen
sive transportation possible for the
people of the Territory of Alaska
and will continue to offer this type
of fare to travelers whenever and
wherever pessible.”
These fares will be effective
CAB Billing Leaves
Teac h< >rs And
Students Stranded
NEW YORK, (/P) — Forty stu
dents and teachers, mostly from
Illinois, found themselves strand
ed—at least for tiie night—when
they landed here last night enroute
home from a European tour.
The group, leaving Chicago June
27 for a round trip to Amsterdam,
Holland, said they had contracted
for the tour with Alaska Airlines,
a non-scheduled airline company.
The line got them to Amster
i dam and made arrangements with
another line to return them to New
| York.
But an official of the Alaska
j line in Seattle said the group is
, going to have to make it back to
I Chicago on its own.
Les Greening, sales manager of
; the line, said its contract with the
1 group expired because of a CAB
i order making the line stop its
service pending a hearing of
safety violations.
Greening said Alaska made ar
rangements with another line to
bring the group to America—and
! from there on, the students would
t
have to proceed alone.
The students and teachers ar
rived at the Neve York internation
al airport last night on a Seaboard
and Western Airlines plane. The
seaboard is not outhorized to fly
from New York to Chicago.
Some students said they had
telephoned a Chicago travel agency
last night and had been assured
arrangements were being made for
getting them back to Chicago to
day.
Many of the students said they
didn’t have enough money with
them even to eat. They pooled
their cash and got coffee and sand
wiches at an airport restaurant
last night.
from October 15 to March 1'5. All
[ travel must be completely by
April 15.
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Many Attend
Menial Health
Meeting Friday
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of Mental Health of the Public
I Health Service, Dr. James Googe,
! representative of the ANS and Mr.
Coding, representative of the Di
vision of Territories and Island
Possessions, department of interi
or, and Dr. Earl Albrecht, commis
sioner of health, Territory of Alas
ka.
The meeting was opened in the
Court Room by Dr. Albrecht, and
the purpose explained to the large
and interested group present.
The method or procedure in
handling mental cases in Nome
was explained by Commisioner
Ted Duffield, who told how men
i tal cases are held for observation
for a period of ten days before
0
commitment is made.
Charles Jones, a former U. S.
Marshal, explained that the meth
od was detrimental insomuch that
the cases were treated as crimin
als in all phases rather than as
sick people.
The general opinion was for a
crying need of a clinic in Nome
so as to eliminate the legal aspect
when necessary. This would re
quire the availability of a public
health nurse with psychiatric
training and a place for patients
to be kept w'hile being treated for
their mental illnesses.
Rev. Paul Carlson of the Coven
ant Mission stated that he believed
that many cases of suicide could
be averted by the clinic as sui
} cides are frequently people who
are ashamed of their mental weak
nesses.
Elmo Miller of the ANS stated
that need of a follow up on cases
: which are discharged without
! treatment.
Interesting facts brought out at
I the meeting showed that half a
| million people in the United States
I are suffering from mental illness
I and half of the hospital beds in
I the United States are in use by
mental patients. It was also stated
| that 39^ of the country are men
, tal illnesses at a cost of $200,000,
; ooo.
Records shown by the U. S.
Commissioner showed that 110
mental cases have been tried in
the local court with 85 commit
ments and 25 cases dismissed in a
period of ten years.
The meeting was followed by a
special meeting of the party with
I the members of the Nome City
j Council.
1
Truman Pledges
U. S. Cooperation
In British Crisis
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tion” to the British cabinet offi
cials who arrive in Washington
next week for negotiations on
their country’s financial crisis.
“We are not looking for trick
solutions to deep-seated problems,”
he added.
The President sharply disavow
ed criticism in this country of
Britain’s socialist government.
I “We recognize,” he declared,
I “that each nation has its own po
' litical problems and that it use
different political labels and dif
I ferent slogans from those we use
, at home.”
! The President spoke before the
national convention of the Ameri
can Legion, which earlier had pre
sented hi ma medal for “outstand
ing service to the nation.”
Fire Destroys
Juneau Spruee Mill
I JUNEAU, </Pi — A four-alarm
I fire, believed to have been started
j by a spark from a repairman’s
acetylene torch, destroyed the Jun
eau Spruce corporation plant here
today.
No one was injured. The mone
tary loss was not immediately es
timeated.
The first of the four alarms was
given at 12:25 a.m. As flames shot
from the mill and spread rapidly,
j It was brought under control 90
! minutes later.
The Juneau fire department was
aided by the coastguard, volunteer
boats and firemen from neighbor
ing Douglas.
Despite a lack of wind, sparks
swirled several hundred feet in
the air. A steady stream of water
was played on lumber -stacks and
a power house across the street to
save them from the flames.
The plant has been operating
for several months following a
year long shutdown because of la
bor difficulties. It employs nearly
100 men.
Freeman Schultz, manager of
the company, was out of the city.
EXPERIMENT WITH COPPER
PLACER MINING
I FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Exploratory
I work on placer copper mining at
1 the head of the White River has
i
I been developing more than satis
factorily, E. F. Wann, president of
the Pewabik Mining Syndicate,
said Sunday.
Wann* who just returned from
the site, said the company plans to
! resume work as soon after the ice
j breakup as possible,
i Formerly with the bureau of
! mines in Juneau, Wann said the
j White River project is the first
j placer copper operation in Alaska
j to his knowledge.
V ^ .4.* 4* M
Hate Of New Polio
Cases Decreasing
<Bv The Associated Press*
The nation’s 1949 polio cases
numbered more than 19,500 tod; y,
but the rate of new infections ap
peared to be slackening.
Approximately 3,900 new cases
from August 18 to 27 reflected
more than a 20 per cent reduction
from the previous nine-day period
when 4,000 were reporter!. How
ever, this was still well above the
3,000 cases reported during the
first nine-day period of August.
The latest Associated Press sur
vey showed actual declines in now
cases reported during the past
week in six state—Alabama, Ar
kansas, Illinois. Kansas, Maine and
North Dakota.
New York, with 2,429 cases and
141 deaths, topped the list of
States. But in New York City,
where 1,433 of the state’s patients
and 114 of the dead were reported,
the health department declared the
epidemic is now in a fluctuating
period before an imminent decline.
The state health department said
New York’s peak is expected in
September.
Washington State had 209 cases
and 10 deaths reported to August
[ 27, compared with 96 cases and
| five deaths last year.
In Oregon there were 31 cases
! and seven deaths this year, ant! 54
* cases and six deaths during the
! same period in 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Boyle of Men
lo Park, California, are spending
i part of their vacation in Nome.
Mr. Boyle is employed by Pan
American as shop superintendent
in California.
Gladys Harris, of Juneau, who
j has spent the last two months in
Kotzebue taking pictures and ma
terial for an Alaskan publication
returned Sunday enroute home.
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