New Investigation
Into Airline
Service in Alaska
By John Kamps
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON (JB — The Civil
Aeronautics Board Monday ordered
a new investigation into airline
service in Alaska to find out wheth
er there are too many carriers
competing in the area.
The CAB called for an investiga
tion and hearings before an ex
aminer to determine how many air
lines should serve the 49th State.
The proceeding will be called the
Pacific Northwest-Alaska Air Serv
ice case.
Parties to the case will be Alas
ka Airlines, Northern Consolidated
Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Paci
fic Northern Airlines, Pan American
World Airways and Wien Alaska
Airlines companies.
The Board will decide, on the
basis of the investigation, whether
existing route licenses to and in
Alaska should be changed, suspend
ed, cancelled or renewed.
The CAB said a study it made
of service between Alaska and the
mainland disclosed large subsidies
were paid to the airlines before and
after Alaska became a State.
“The total subsidy paid to Alas
ka Airlines and Pacific Northern
for fiscal 1961 amounted to $8.8
million, representing no improve
ment since 1958.
“The amount attributed to their
mainland-Alaska service, $2.8 mil
lion, was about $500,000 more than
it was in 1958.
“Since Pan American went off
subsidy in 1957, its operating losses
in its Alaska division have ranged
from a high of $2 million to a low
of $592,000 in 1960. During fisca
1961 its losses increased to $1 mil
lion.”
The Board said it held meetings
with the four mainland-Alaska
airlines on the subject of un
economic multiple-carrier service
in 1961.
“Though there was agreement
amoung the air carriers," CAB said,
“that there are too many carriers
serving Alaska, the effort to have
such carriers come to a meeting oi
the minds and produce concrete
voluntary agreements was not suc
cessful.”
CAB said its study indicate
either a two-carrier system or s
GOVERNMENT APPEALS
FOR QUICK END TO
PACIFIC MARITIME STOKE
WASHINGTON <*> — The gov
ernment today appealed to ship
operators and striking unions to
resume negotiations tomorrow mor
ning to obtain a quick end to the
six-day Pacific maritime strike.
W. Willard Wirtz, acting Secre
tary of Labor, said in telegrams to
the owners and unions that the
effect of the walkout is becoming
increasingly critical to the econ
omy of the West Coast and Hawaii.
Wirtz said Deputy Director Robt.
H. Moore of the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service is en
route to San Francisco to preside
over a meeting of both sides
scheduled for tomorrow morning.
three-carrier system would improve
the Alaska route picture.
“The two-carrier system,” CAB
said, “would call for a merged
Alaska Airlines-Pacific Northern
carrier having unrestricted author
ity from Seattle to the four key
Alaskan markets (Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Fairbanks and Anchorage) and
Northwest Service Seattle-Anchor
age, possibly being restricted to
flights originating or terminating
in the Orient.
“Northwest would retain its un
restricted New York-Chicago-Twin
Cities-Anchorage authority,” CAB
said. “Pan America’s Alaskan air
service would be terminated, ex
! cept at Fairbanks which would be
suspended.”
A subsidy-free two-carrier sys
tem probably would be a preferred
route structure, CAB said. How
ever, it added, this is “dependent
upon a merger between Alaska Air
lines and Pacific Northern, which
the Board is unable to compel.”
Without a merger, CAB said, the
three-carrier proposal would ap
pear to be the answer. Under the
three-carrier system:
The present route structure of
Alaska Airlines and Pacific North
ern would remain the same; Pan
American’s Alaska service would
be terminated; Northwest’s Seattle
Anchorage service would be re
stricted; Northwest would retain
its New York-Chicago-Twin Cities
Anchorage license; Portland would
be eliminated from Alaska Airlines
and Pacific Northern’s licenses,
and the Seattle-Juneau-Ketchikan
service would be handled by either
Alaska Airlines or Pacific North
ern.
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HOUSE BOWS TO KENNEDY
ON RS70 CONTROVERSY
WASHINGTON (fl - T h .
House bowed today to Presiden
Kennedy’s stand in the controvers}
over the RS70 bomber, and ther
passed a bill authorizing $13 bil
lion for military ships, aircraft and
missiles.
The measure, which now goes to
the Senate, authorizes $491 million
for the RS70.
But in response to intervention
by Kennedy, the House eliminated
wording that would have “directed”
the Pentagon to spend the money
in the coming year.
Kennedy gave word to Rep. Carl
Vinson that the matter would be
restudied but that he (Kennedy)
would insist on the full powers of
his office.
The White House had question
ed that Congress could, under the
constitution, issue such a directive
to the Executive Department.
The House vote came after mem
bers of both parties spoke out to
uphold the prestige of Vinson who
publicly led and then publicly
abandoned the fight to compel
spending for the RS70.
Would Russians Shoot
Down U.S. Spaceships
Trying to Land on Moon?
LOS ANGELES UR — If the So
viets reach the moon first, could
they get away with shooting down
American spaceships that try to
land there?
A prominent space scientist
thinks they could if they set up a
network of bases before the Amer
icans arrived.
Dandridge Cole, analyst for the
Missile and Space Vehicle Depart
ment of General Electric Co., gave
this opinion to a meeting of the
Institute of Aerospace Sciences.
“If Russia sets up a base at eacfc
lunar pole and four around the
Equator, they could then lay clairr
to the whole moon and threatei
to shoot down any aggressor,” h
said.
“If we did attempt a landing an
our vehicle was shot down, our pro
tests would carry no more weigh
than in previous cases when ou
aircraft have been shot down. J
retaliatory attack against ther
moon bases would be aggression ii
the eyes of the world and migh
lead to nuclear war.”
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battle, looked up and asked hin
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war and no one came.”
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discharged after two weeks in St.
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milk diet, “I’m married to a cow.”
In a thank you note to those
who “helped to bring me back to
tolerable good health,” the car
dinal writes in the archdiocesan
weekly newspaper The Pilot
“My blood pressure was taken
hundreds of times. Into the veins of
both arms blood, donated by chari
table people, dripped for hours and
flowed through my body. How
many times it was withdrawn for
testing is a matter for the records.
“My legs were encased in rubber
stockings; my back rubbed and
polished; other parts were bruised
by needles. Milk and cream were
my food. I’ll never look at a cow
again without recalling this medi
cation, which must be continued
indefinitely.
“I’m married to a cow and, like
a good spouse, she is always with
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WARPLANES CLASH TODAY
JERUSALEM UP) — Syrian and
Israeli warplanes clashed today and
a Syrian spokesman said one
Israeli fighter fled from a dog fight
in flames.
Each nation accused the other of
violating its air space in this fol
lowup to hostilities launched in an
eight-hour battle in the Sea of
Gallilee area Saturday.
The Syrians use Russian-made
Mig 17s. The Israeli fighters are
French Mystre jets.
At dispatch from Damascus said
unusual air activity was noted over
that Syrian capital this morning,
with Mig fighters flashing through
the sky. Damascus is little more
than 40 miles from the frontier.
Israel filed another complaint
with U.N. Syrian-Israeli Armistice
Commission.
The Security Council is expected
to meet next week to take up
Syria’s similar charges against
Israel.
Austrian Defense Minister
Visits NORAD Headquarters
COLORADO SPRINGS Wt —
Austrian Defense Minister Karl
Schleinzer and members of his
party yesterday said they were Im
pressed by the headquarters of the
North American Air Defense Com
mand (NORAD) and its operations.
The Austrian party was taken to
the combat operations center
where a comprehensive demonstra
tion was given.
A conference call was arranged
, with regional NORAD command
ers, including Anchorage, Alaska.
Visitors listened with head
phones to reports from each of the
regional commanders.
During the conference call, re
ports came from the Early Warn
ing System stations at Thule,
Greenland, and Clear, Alaska, that
a satellite had appeared on radar
screens. Information fed into com
puters brought an immediate re
sponse the satellite was friendly.
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