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6A, Capitol Journal, Solim, Thursday, June 2S, 1979 IBoYEAM Market is lively in flight coupons proof 1 7 1 ih OUR ENTIRE STOCK Regular size Big Tall size have matched us," United spokesman Chuck Novak said. "If they hadn't, we I think we would have given out more." I Novak said United did not believe the demand for the coupons was lessened by -the June 6 grounding of the nation's DC- 10 jets, including 37 flown by United. The coupon market began with college students working deals with passengers for a few tickets and wound up with slick entrepreneurs backed by office staffs and advertising. While dealing in coupons is not illegal, most transactions are for cash, with no exchange of names, as though controlled drugs were changing hands. A certified public accountant in New York who deals in the coupons said entrepreneurs in his area are paying $30 to $40 for each, depending on the number offered, and reselling them in lots of up to 1,000 for about $65 each.

"There is now an organized market in every city in the United States," said the accountant, who asked not to be identified. He said the best business markets are Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Business is not so good in New York, he said, because airport officials stymied on-the-spot purchases from passengers when the coupons were still being handed out. The accountant, who is advertising in the New York Times and plans a bigger ad program along the East Coast, said travel agents and corporate travel managers now are in the market for blocks of coupons. "The price has to go up as people begin using them, because there will be fewer and fewer on the market," he said.

Still, there is a risk that dealers may end up holding pieces of paper before the end of the half-fare promotion Dec. 15. "We just hope the airlines don't pull a fast one on us and offer programs of equal value before December," the New York dealer said. By JAMES A. WHITE UPI Burinesi Writer NEW YORK (UPI) As many as 4 million travelers will be flying around the nation for half the price in the next five months as a result of United and American airlines' coupon promotion, which has spawned a miniature stock market of organized bidding on the precious cut-rate passes.

United Airlines said Wednesday it gave away 22 million half-fare coupons under the bargain program, which ended June 17, and expects that 85 percent of them will be used. American said it handed out I A million coupons. Some of the half-fare coupons, in effect on United and American flights from July 1 through Dec. 15, already have been redeemed by Pan American World Airways, which is honoring the coupons of the other two carriers on its domestic coach flights through July 19. The buying and selling of coupons has become increasingly sophisticated.

Entrepreneurs are amassing blocks of the scrip for resale to travel agents and businessmen. "There's bidding on the blocks, and it's going very much like the stock market," said a New York-based coupon dealer who claims to have an inventory of 1,400 coupons and is looking for thousands more. Coupon-holders can save almost $300 on first-class transcontinental flights, but considerably less on shorter and coach trips. The coupons are not good if tickets are bought under some other discount plan. United, the nation's largest carrier, had hoped to distribute between 4 million and 6 million of the coupons, but floated only the 22 million because the idea was too original and because American, its biggest competitor, joined the act.

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If a rollercoaster can laugh, it did. Explosives experts working with the crew of an ABC television movie, "Amusement Park," tried twice Wednesday to destroy the Rocket for the movie's big scene. They failed. On the second try, 3l2 cases of dynamite twice as much as for the first effort were carefully planted in a huge, twisting turn in the coaster. "It was the most we could use without knocking out the windows of the shopping centers around here," said Wayne Beauchamp, a demolitions expert with 12 years experience who headed the team.

The blast did knock out 25 nearby store windows, but the Rocket did not come crashing down as planned. Beauchamp said a third attempt was to be made today, when a caterpillar-type tractor would be used to pull the Rocket down as the explosion occurs. In each effort Wednesday, after shouts of "action," cameras rolled and gigantic explosions ripped through the wooden framework sending a red fireball 100 feet in the air. The only visible effects the two explosions had on the abandoned rollercoaster, once the main attraction at Ocean View Amusement Park, were a slight twist in its rails and the blackening of its wooden structure. "She defied them.

She stood there and defied them," exclaimed Richard Miller, satisfaction beaming from his face. Miller, who owns another beachfront amusement park in nearby Virginia Beach, had been associated with the Rocket and the now defunct Ocean View Amusement Park for years. He said he wants the TV movie to be a success, but was happy that the Rocket, which had been declared unsafe, could withstand man's first effort to fell it without even swaying in the breeze. Dan Rogers, a spokesman for Playboy Productions, which is making the movie for ABC it stars Mike Connors and Martin Landau hurriedly placed a call to company headquarters in Los Angeles after the first explosions Wednesday morning failed to do their job. A few minutes later, Rogers emerged and announced: "They'll try again." Rogers said, the explosives crew had used 76 sticks of dynamite and 200 gallons of gasoline in the first loud but ineffective blast.

In preparing the Rocket for the scene, the crew had cut many of its support poles and even cut the steel rails in several places so the rails wouldn't prevent the section from falling. But the explosives apparently failed to cut the remaining support poles. "It looks like we're a little behind schedule now," Rogers said. The movie, scheduled for airing this fall, is about the destruction of a amusement park when a hurricane and other natural disasters cause a buried gasoline line to explode. Better Quality DRESS SLACKS 3 Vz Off Paoatela, Levi, Harris CASUAL SLACKS Special Group -Angels Flight A-Smitejlash, 20 -25 off Arrow, Earo, Lancer DRESS SHIRTS Short and Long Sleeve SPORT SHIRTS 1 'M i If 9:30 a.m.

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That means finding more uses for surplus of hardwood trees that Peterson said exists primarily in the Northeast and South. It means meeting a log shortage in the Northwest, which he describes as an "emergency" that threatens to close down numerous sawmills and is not likely to ease for 10 to 15 years. It means keeping the national forests, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, accessible for gas and oil development to meet the energy crisis, he said. Such policies may loom as threats to some environmentalists, who came to have an increasing impact on Forest Service decisions during McGuire's tenure. In fact, Peterson's priorities reflect existing policies of the agency.

Recent years have been tumultuous ones for the Forest Service, caught in the tug-of-war between industry and environmentalists. Key issues have included how much national forest should be protected as wilderness, how much timber should be logged, and whether the agency should be absorbed by a new Department of Natural Resources, a Carter administration proposal which has been dropped. McGuire leaves with the major planning on such work He conceded that much of the the work remains of guiding those programs through public hearings or Congress, but believes there nevertheless will be time to set new directions for the Forest Service. To meet the nation's lumber needs, the federal government should provide more technical assistance to individuals who own timber, said Peterson, adding that possible tax breaks for persons who invest in growing timber are being discussed with the Treasury Department. There should be more emphasis on research, a closer eye on how the Forest Service spends its money, and an effort made to provide gasoline-short park users more facilities close to their homes, he said.

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