Mayor urges split tanker buy

WASHINGTON - Mobile Mayor Sam Jones wants President Barack Obama to reverse the Pentagon's plan and buy aerial tankers both Boeing and the Northrop Grumman/EADS team as a major job creation program. Jones, in a letter to Obama, said that would create nearly 100,000 jobs nationwide and help retire the existing fleet seven years earlier. He delivered the letter Thursday during a meeting at the White House with other city mayors. (Source: Reuters, 01/22/10). The Northrop/EADS team wants to assemble the planes in Mobile, Ala.