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1959 ccom> d on- olived s and -Cake sugar i top- lie or I veg- luffle igeta- serve loked fitter ! not ;d or r in- con- pop ;r in Friday, September 18,1959 THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Page Seven economic highlights American Jet Airlines Need Break to Meet Competition Commercial international air transportation has made vast strides since the end of World War II. Very recently, the introduction of jet service between continents has given it another big spur. Bookings of all the lines are show ing dramatic increases. The jets, with their superior speed and com fort, are capturing the public imag ination. There is more to the Jet Age than the foreign travel opportuni ties it provides. All the interested nations use their airlines as instru ments of prestige, power and in fluence. They offer a means of showing the flag in farflung corn ers of the world, and that can be an enormously significant matter in this complex age. The U. S. international airlines have been world leaders. No doubt a great many people think that this will continue to be the case, virtually as a matter of course. But it seems to be time to think again. An article in the August 17th is sue of Time magazine says this: “As U. S. international airlines en ter the Jet Age, the U. S. is junk ing a belief as outdated as its pis ton planes. The belief was that U. S. flag carriers could hold their lead over a growing flock of ag gressive foreign competitors with out a drastic change in U. S. air policy.” Time cites a fresh example of what foreign competition is doing. The State Department has just giv en two of the major foreign lines the right to expanded service in this country which will cost U. S. lines something like $7,800,000 a year in business. And the biggest threat of all, the magazine goes on is Aeroflot, the Soviet civil air line; It is the largest commercial airline in the world, and has been expanding at a great rate. It now seeks the right to enter New York. In return, our own Pan American World Airways would be given the right to enter Moscow. But this is not so simple and fair an exchange as it may appear on the surface. Pam-Am is a self-supporting, tax- paying private enterprise. Aeroflot is a property of the Soviet govern ment. Thus, as a subsidized agency of the state, the fear is that once it has been given the rights it seeks, it would cut fares to any degree needed to further the Soviet eco nomic offensive against the West. Beyond this, as the Time article makes abundantly clear,, the need is to give our airlines a fairer, break in the competitive battle with th^40 foreign carriers now enteringthis country. There are some good signs on the horizon—” .... the State Department and the President, who has the final say about what international routes the U. S. gives out, are ending the give away period in favor of more horse trading and stricter rule watching.” This undoubtedly has been brought on by certain statistical facts. For instance, even though 70 per cent of all the passengers traveling by air between this and other coun tries are American citizens, the share of the business carried by our own lines has dropped from 75 per cent in 1949 to 60 per cent now. This has been, in large part at least, the consequence of viola tion of agreements, and of govern ment policies which have tended to favor foreign lines over our own. And, though corrective attitudes are appearing, it is clear that a great deal must be done if our proper position in the international air race is to be protected. Time concludes: “As the only private, non-subsidized air fleet in the world, U, S. carriers must find a better way to face competition . . . . The most obvious solution would be a government subsidy, but most airlines themselves admit that this is a last resort. What they want is for the U. S. to show a tougher stand in route bargaining and in enforcing current agree ments. In the next five years the jets will force a revamping of vir tually all of the 54 bilateral agree ments between the U. S. and other nations. Unless the U. S. trades much more shrewdly with foreign airlines, U. S. flag carrier’s may not be able to compete in the Jet Age.” A man without decision can nev er be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feath er in the air which every breeze blows about as it listeth. —John Foster. For Top Tunes by Your Favorite Recording Stars YOUR TEEN-AGE MUSIC CENTER IS HAWKS Radio & Appliance Co. 327 Middle St. Direct Mail Advertising Stencil Cutting Offset Printing Copy Service Addressing Secretarial Service Mailing Lists Mimeograph Work CAROLINA LETTER WRITERS 423 Broad St, Phone ME 7-2542 New Bern, N. C. •32 45 WE, THE UNDERSIGNED BUSINESS FIRMS HEARTILY ENDORSE THE ACTION TAKEN BY NEW BERN'S BOARD OF ALDERMEN IN CHANG ING THE NAME OF SOUTH FRONT STREET TO TRYON PALACE DRIVE. 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