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O. Caroline
1967
Journal
78
Oct 18 Allbrook Air Force Base, Canal Zone.
Pan Am. for air freight. Call office
for schedule. Cost $70.00 for
100 lbs. Planes do not leave every day.
Check Pan American Airways air freight office.
Speak English if necessary. No one
asked for my collecting permit or shipper
permit (export or import). I'm not
certain why but I think it's due to 3 reasons:
First they were a little bewildered that a
girl would send 'this sort of thing'.
Second - return address I used
Air Force Academy - no crates were
going from Academy to University.
Third
I was with Bill Sherman who speaks
Spanish so well they didn't believe he
was American except that he was in
uniform). New conservation laws went
into effect a few weeks ago AND no
export of animals is allowed from here
because of severe hoof-mouth disease.
None of the animals I took out could have
carried it because they were either
alcoholics or treated skeletons or skins
stuffed with arsenic. I smiled a lot but
acted as if I knew exactly what I
was doing! I hoped works (next few
telegrams are 50 c per word even in the