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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Two airlines, Pacific Northern Air Lines and Alaska Airline, increased freight shipments from Portland to Alaska due to a warehousemen's strike in Seattle. Recent flights carried produce, furniture, and auto parts originally bound from Seattle.
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PORTLAND, (AP) Two airlines disclosed Friday night they have stepped up freight shipments here to Alaska because of a warehousemen's strike in Seattle.
Pacific Northern Air Lines said that since the strike began it has scheduled five freight shipments a week to Alaska.
The latest shipment came Friday night when 4,000 pounds of produce, including crates of lettuce, left for Alaska, sales manager Walter Morgan said.
The other line is Alaska Airline, whose Portland manager Bob St. Helen said his firm's DC6C craft were carrying extra freight loads.
St. Helen said the latest flight was Thursday, when a plane left for Alaska with 2,500 pounds of produce, furniture and automobile parts.
The cargo originally had been scheduled to leave from Seattle, he said.
Both lines said they probably will put on extra flights to handle the increase in Alaska-bound cargo.
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Portland
Event Date
Friday Night
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increased freight shipments to alaska, including 4,000 pounds of produce on friday and 2,500 pounds of produce, furniture, and automobile parts on thursday, rerouted from seattle due to strike.
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Pacific Northern Air Lines scheduled five freight shipments a week to Alaska since the strike began. Alaska Airline's DC6C craft carried extra loads. Both plan extra flights for increased cargo.