Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1955 — Page 9

Puerto Rico Will Dedicate Airport Airport Os Future Dedication Planned SAX' JUAN, P. R„ (INS) — On th** site of a former coconut plantation on the outskirts of San Juan, Peurto Rico’s new $15,000,(WO ' airport of the futhre." will be dedicated with elaborate ceremonies from April 15 to 17. Located at Isla Verde, a fifteen -minute ride from the heart of San Juan, the airport has a 7,800-foot-long concrete runway, capable of handling the largest type transport Planes .including jets. • The new airport's modernistic terminal building has space for airline offices, government services, observation decks and concessions, such as restaurants, bar, casino, barber shop, newsstands, florist, bank, guided tours, cable offices and gift shops. A 30-room hotel on the upper floors of the 7-story building will enable passengers to stay overnight in comfortabler-wellfurnish-ed roomettes. The Puerto Rican Transportation Authority, which has jurisdiction over the new facility, plans to develop an adjacent beach as part of an already approved master plan for construction of resort hotels, a boardwalk, an aquarium, athletic field, an amusement park, a cabana becah colony, yacht club, \ zoo. as well as auto and dog racing tracks. All of these will require an investment of approximately $13,000,OOP, exclusive -of the land rental. Also planned, with construction slated to start this year, is a superhighway which will link the new —- • *

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airport and the proposed recreational area to downtown San Juan. Cost of the new Isla Verde airport i« being shared by the Puerto Rican government and the United States Government, under the terms Os the Federal Airport Act of 1956, with Uncle Sam putting up $5,000,000. With its lengthier runways, necessary to the handling of such type planes as Super-Constelia-tions and Stratocruisers, the airport will cut travel time between New York and Miami and San Juan considerably. Eastern Air Lines, for instance, estimates that with its new SuperConstellations it can cut its present flight time of six hours between New York and San Juan by nearly a third. The four-hour flight from ’Miami to Puerto Rico will be reduced by a full hour. Busy Business CHICAGO (INS) — The Chicago Board of Trade, largest grain exchange in the world, was busy businesswise during 1954. Cash and futures trading. Secretary Robert C. Liebenow reports, approximated 31 billion dollars. Grain futures trading was the largest of any year since 1973. 'Blood Alley' HOLLYWOOD, Calif., (INS) — The Red China-Formosa crisis has provided a timely peg for a new picture now in production by Batjac Productions of Hollywood. Titled "Blood Alley,’’ it is a gripping story of love, hate and war told against the background of the Straits of Formosa. The film is directed by William A. Wellman. John Wayne and Bacall are co-stars in the $2,500,000 production. I

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Forecasts Nature 1 Won't Harm Bridge Mackinac Straits Bridge Defies Ice i i ST. IGNACE, Mich., INS) —The ( builders of the $100,000,000 bridge , across the Mackinac Straits have halted construction for the winter and defied the crush of great lakes ice to harm the work that has been done so far. It is an ambitious project, sinking piles of steel and concrete in the midst 1 of howling winds and groaning ics— and expecting them to stay there. But the engineers report confidently that nature in this area is incapable of conjuring up pressure strong enough to move or damage the 33 piers sunk during 1954 in the dark blue five-niile span of water between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. Longest Span Work on the bridge, slated for completion November 1, 1057, was begun on February 17, 1954, when the bridge authority received a check for $99,800,000 realized from the sale of revenue bonds. It marked the culmination of a dream talk- ‘

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Huge caissons 116 feet in diameter were built in Alpena, Mich., and towed to the scene. These massive cylinders have an inner steel ring 86 feet in diameter and tapering toward the outer 1 ring at the bottom to form a cutting edge. They were poised over their resting {dace and the water tight compartment between -the 1 two steel rings loaded with con- ■ crete thereby causing the caisson • to sink gradually. During the progress downward i additional steel rings were added i on top until the cutting edge not ■ only sank to the bottom of the i straits, but penetrated through > mud and sone down to solid rock, i 204 feet bleow the surface. t ' i The magnitude of the work accomplished in the first year is indicated by some of the following figures on materials used: con--1 crete. 160,000 cubic yards; structural caisson steel, 7,500 tons; 1 fuel and diesel oil. 1,030.000 gal- ’ lons. The work consumed 750,000 man hours. » — , r Chattanooga — Great Smoky . mountains national park lands were given by Tennessee and . North Carolina to the U. S., their t gifts matched by John D. Rockefel- . ler as a memorial to his mother.

Gorgeous Girls Are Unexciting To Model Male Model Gives Advice On Posing NEW YORK (INS) — Don’t envy the man who poses for ads with his arms around a gorgeous girl, advises Lionel Wiggam, top male model in New York. He might have added (but didn’t) "unless you like money.” Those glamorous night clulr scenes, says Wiggam, are usually photographed "at dawn” and with all the rushing around the girls do, they “look terrible until they get all gooked up.” Wiggam claims it’s “just a Job" to him, although he admits it’s a well paying one. Making his living looking good in Tuxedos, -business suits, various hats, shorts and Bermuda shorts earns Wiggam S3O an hour, or between S6OO and SBOO a week. The good-looking but not startlingly handsome Wiggam entered the modeling field on the advice of a friend, although he didn’t think his looks were outstanding enough for success. He has regular features, light brown hair and brown eyes. For the measurement - minded, he stands six feet tall, weighs 170 pounds and wears a suit size 40 long. He also has freckles. And he doesn’t diet to keep his figure. Wiggam’s face is familiar to millions of people all over the country who have seen him in the Hathaway ads (not the chap with the patch but the all-American male type), the Arrow shirt ads and posing for his biggest account, Hart, Shaffner and Marx. Smiling,, frowning or as background for female fashion displays as well as auto ads, Wiggam has appeared in national magazines like Life and Esquirh. But no matter how successful, the usual length of a model’s career is about five years, and Wiggam intends to "milk this opportunity dry, saving every cent I ■ can.” Being No. 1 in the modeling profession isn’t enough to satisfy Wiggam. His real ambition Is to be a creative author. "I don’t really like to write,” he

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MOHAMMED REZA PAHLEYI, Shah of Iran, receives an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Dr. Grayson Kirk (right), president of Columbia University, New York. Watching the ceremony is Queen Soraya, the Shah’s wife. Later, the ruler of Iran, in an address at the university, said that the “idealistic as well as realistic** foreign policy of the United States is “the greatest single factor contributing to the peace and security of the world.” (International)

confided. "It’s too isloated. But I feel Its my purpose and tolent.” Wiggam was a hollywood writer for several years, and later tried peddling poetry. He found his poems easy to sell — but the money he collected for them hard to live on. When he switched froin poerty to posing he had one suit to his name. Today Wiggam has 10 suits, along with about 35 shirts and 200 ties. He must have a well-rounded wardrobe since only when modeling men’s fashions is he suppied ’ with something to wear. When pos--1 ing in cither ads he must wear his ( own clothes. Up early each morning, Wiggam often has posing appointments as ’ late as seven in the evening. But the hours, and therefore the pay, are irregular and no model can be sure where his next commission is coming from. Wiggam admits he thought mod- . eling was an easy way to earn money until he tried it. But usually it just means holding one tedii ous position “in small, dirty rooms

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under hot lights.” Even posing with celebrities isn’t exciting. "They’re usually very co-operatvie. hut everyone is — just thinking about getting the job » done,” he said. "Kissing a girl you never saw before was one thing that disconcerted me horribly when I began modeling,” Wiggams admits, “and I used to blush every time. But now I’m blase about that, too." Small Alarms i BATTLE CREEK, Mich., (INS) —Small alarm devices are being considered by the Federal Civil ' Defense Administration for installJ ment in homes. The FCDA says ' General (Electric Co., is expert- ’ menting with a device that could ( be plugged into home power out--1 lets. About the sire of a small alarm clock, the alarm would be ■ set off by a special receiver, cost--1 ing between *5 and $lO. One light year is approximately i six trillion miles.