ALASKA TO SIBERIA No. I Good e ve ning e1erybody: The first commerical Passeuger flight from the United States, in fact from anywhe1·e i,z America, to Siberia, is now an accomplished fact. Another important milestone in the histor3, of aviation. It look Nine years for Charles Willis, head of Alaska Ai1· Lines lo get /)e1•mission from Moscow - and an oka3 1 from Washington to do this. And then less then Eight ho11rs to make the flight. Now to be followed by a series of similar flights each year. There were One-Hundred-Thirty of us on board the Boeing 707, incl11ding government officials, press, radio and tel e vis ion people , my own Capital Cities crew he ad e d by crack cameraman Dick D11rrance, the top people of Alaska Airlines headed by Board Chairman Willis; and a crew of Jive in the cockpit - veteran Captain Bill L11nd and two ,,ther Americans, Plus two Russians sent to see to it we would not fly over any t,j their military installations on the peninsula of Kamachatka or unywhere along the s;berian Coast washed by the w · ters :\LA . SKA TO SIBERIA - 2 0 of the Sea of "kllolsk . For llzal matt e r ou r ~ g o ve 1 • nmenl would uol allow the· plane lo f/) 1 01 er ou1· 0 1111 milita ,•y and 1,r,val-bases in Alaska - as we made ou.1 · w ay lh1·ough the skies south alon g the One- Thousand m i I e lo 11 g ill e u ti an ~ c h a in . Nor would the Russ i ans pe · rmil u . s to enter Siberia b y way of Vladivostok, the important city we think of as tire Siberian Pacific port of entry. We werE or de re d t o t a k e a c i r c u i t on s r o u t e w h i c h ,, n exp e c t e d l y in ,v 6l v e d . a Fi v e-'!I'housnnd-Three-Hundred-Mile flight; landin . g deep in far Eastern Siberia at the comfllratively little known city of Khabarova . k on the Amur River, within a few miles of Chi ,,a. In my next I ' l l give you a few details about Khabarovak or "Habar'ousk" as the people tlzere call their city. Until then scJlong from Habar'ovsk! SUGGESTED FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE "ALASl(A TO SIBERIA Thank you, Lowell. Back lo lite news . . . M . IAMI ------ The Uni I e rs ily of Miami's Marine Ins titule - 011e of I h e II a t i o 11 's _f i n c s I i n I 11.~ f i e l d of o c e <t n o gr a p I, y - add e d still further to its luster toda y - with the annotozced disco v e1•y of a 1·emarkable new substance . It's an extract from a P>·imitiue grape-like c1·eature - called the sea squirt; a,i extract that has alread y fn·o v ed more than fifty per cent effective in halting leukemia - in mice, at least. Researche1·s who are testing the substance - also report encouraging results in treating ulcers a,id heart disease. Dr. Michael Siegel - who heads the sea squirt project observes that we could be "on the verge" of a major medical break th o ugh • A n d now as L owe l l w o II l d s a y : "So l on g u n t il tomorrow/"