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Plan Proposed for
Foreign Visitors
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ANCHORAGE >.T A low-cost
single-fare plan to permit foreign
visitors unlimited travel over the
nation's local service airlines was
suggested Friday by Charles F.
Willis Jr., president and general
manager of Alaska Airlines.
Hi' said his proposal would en
hance the government-sponsored
“visit the U.S.A." prgram abroad
by making it easier for tourists ,
to see more of America in less
time and at less cost. It would also |
enable local service carriers to at
tract a larger share of this grow
ing travel market.
Willis presented the plan to the
Association of Local Transport
Airlines at its fall meetings in
Copenhagen. Denmark. He said it
would work like this:
Foreign visitors could buy a
$300 master travel card which
would enable them to fly as often
and as far as they wanted on any
local service airLne. The airline
would issue tickets against the
card and submit them to a central |
clearing agency for payment on
a pro-rata basis.
To be eligible for the master i
travel card the tourist would have
to enter the country by one of j
two designated gateways and leave :
by the other. Willis suggested that
New York City and Anchorage
serve as the gateways under his j
plan.
The airlines would share in the j
division of $300 all-inclusive fare I
on some agreed upon formula. I
Willis also recommended a time j
limit which the travel card would j
be effective. He said it should be j
45 or 60 days.
The Seattle-based executive ask- j
ed ALTA to adopt the plan and J
:ek Civil Aeronautics Board ap
proval of the one-payment fare.
"Hotel and surface transporta
>n operators are making reduced
rate packages available to foreign
visitors. The air travel industry
ought to do the same thing. In
c : iition, we can, under the ar
i lgements I have suggested, en
■ urage visitors to see all of
America — including Alaska, one
of its truly great tourist attrac
tions," Willis said.
He added that his plan would
enable the visitor to enter the
United States from either coast,
flight-see his way across the coun
try and return home with his total
transportation cost under $1,000.
This would be a wonderful in
centive to foreign nationals not
only to visit the U.S.A. but to
see more of it, and it would in
crease traffic on the local service
carriers as well, Willis said.
Big. Bouncing. Baby Boy . . .
PAIPEI, Formosa <jP — The wife
of a Chinese school teacher gave
birth to a boy weighing 17.6
pounds, according to local news
papers.
They identified the mother as
Mrs. Chien Ching-Ping whose hus
band teaches in a primary school
at Chuoshi, a village near the east
Formosa coastal town of Hualien.
The report said mother and child
were doing well.
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ELECT
TED
STEVENS
REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATOR
My opponent said, “I stand on my record, so here it is:
CUBA
Vote 410, August 24, 1960
Voted against an amendment authorizing the President to bar U.S.
foreign aid to any country selling arms or giving economic or military
assistance to the Castro government.
Vote 401, Resolution, September 20, 1962
Gruening was not present to vote on a resolution expressing the
determination of the U.S. to defeat Communist aggression in the
Western Hemisphere.
RED CHINA
On Sept. 14, 1959, the Senate passed a resolution opposing admission
of Communistic China into the U.N.
Gruening voted against this resolution. Bartlett voted for it.
Again on July 28, 1961, every U.S. Senator who voted (including
Bartlett) in favor of a resolution opposing the seating of Communistic
China in the U.N.
Ted Steven’s opponent did not vote. He took no position at all !
MUTUAL SECURITY
Vote 211, September 12, 1959
Voted to cut military assistance to free world countries.
Vote 115, July 6, 1959
Voted to cut emergency defense funds.
Votes 135, 140, 191, August 15-16, 1961
Voted to reduce military assistance to friendly nations.
Vote 424, October 1, 1962
Gruening not present but expressed position against military assistance
to Latin American countries and NATO.
STEVENS
IS FOR
The positive action neces
sary to stop the spread of
Communism in the West
ern Hemisphere. He will
be present in the Senate
to speak for Alaskans.
STEVENS
IS AGAINST
The admission of Red
China into the United
Nations.
STEVENS
IS FOR
Military aid to friendly
nations to prevent the
spread of Communism.
Alaska doesn’t want this kind
of representation in Washington
ELECT
TED
E STEVENS
PUT AN AGGRESSIVE YOUNG ALASKAN IN THE U.S. SENATE
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