Pan American clipper, Vol. 6, No. 32, January 7, 1948

              Volume 6	January 7, 194'jf-—	Number 32
Clothing Drive Planned
Plans are being completed for the shipment by air of used clothing to Europe and Africa for distribution by station managers to local PAA personnel and their families.
The need for such clothing cannot be overstated. Warm articles, however worn, will be received with joy in the countries where most clothing has been worn to tatters and no new materials are available. Look now through YOUR closets for all the dresses, suits, coats, underwear, shoes and other items of clothing you can spare.
Flyers announcing the times and places for the collection of the clothing the being posted. Details of shipment are being worked out with station managers overseas.
TIP SHEET
Contest Passes
Halfway Point
The Atlantic Division Sales Contest, now at the mid-mark, is bringing a rising flood of tips to the desk of the Division sales manager.
With the close of the first month of the contest, on December 15, all contestants started out on an equal footing in the race for the second month’s grand prize of a 10-day vacation in Bermuda. The second third of the contest will end January 15, and the contest will then enter its third and final month.
New sources of potential passenger and cargo business for PAA Clippers are being uncovered with every day’s tide of tips. One PAA-er learned that a large oil company is launching a new project in Africa and suggested that the company arrange for large-scale transportation of the oil workers.
The sporting pages of the newspapers are producing numerous leads on sportsmen taking part in the winter Olympics, college athletes planning trips to Bermuda, Joe Walcott’s projected tour of South America, and winter vacationers attracted to the famous skiing resorts recently reopened in Austria.
Among the tips that have already paid off was one suggesting that the sales staff get in touch with Doris Duke Rubirosa, who planned to travel from New York to Buenos Aires.
Mrs. Rubirosa was booked for the flight a few days after the tip was received and recently took off by Clipper for South America.
Tip sheets for YOUR suggestions may be obtained from the bulletin boards or through the Sales Contest office, Ext. 292.
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lewis Allen Succeeds Donald Lampland As Senior Staff Engineer
The appointment of Lewis H. Allen, Jr., as senior staff engineer, effective January 1, is announced by Albert P. Elebash, Division engineer. Mr. Allen succeeds Donald 0. Q. Lamp-land, who is returning to his home in St. Paul, Minn., to become affiliated with other members of his family in the lumber business.
Mr. Allen was born in Flushing but as a child moved to East Aurora, near Buffalo, N. Y., where he received his early education. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology then, in 1938, joined Pan American in Baltimore as an apprentice engineer.
He moved with the Atlantic Division to North Beach and became a powerplant engineer. In November, 1943, he was transferred to the office of Andre Priester, vice president and chief engineer, in New York City as a staff engineer. Mr. Allen was assigned to the RC-2 Rainbow project at the Republic factory in September, 1946, and early this year, with the cancellation of the Rainbow order, he returned to the Atlantic Division.
For several months Mr. Allen served as PAA representative at the Wright Aeronautical plant in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, then he returned to NBA, where he became powerplant engineer in September. Mr. Allen, who lives in Roslyn Heights, L. I., is married and has two sons, Lewis H., Ill, known as Terry, and John Christopher, who is called Toppy.
DON LAMPLAND (standing) shakes hands with LEWIS ALLEN, his successor as senior staff engineer.
Ball Tickets on Sale
Tickets are now on sale for the Pan Am Club’s Snow Ball, to be held in the Grill Room of the Hotel Taft on Saturday evening, January 24. Kenny Smith, Ext. 341, is chairman of the dance and reminds all PAA-ers that the supply of dance tickets is limited to exactly 500. Announcement of the leading candidates for the title of Snow Ball Queen will be made in next week’s Clipper.
H. R. Canaday Heads New Training Unit
Harry R. Canaday, who begins his fifteenth year with Pan American this week, has been named to the newly created post of superintendent of training for the Atlantic Division, according to an announcement by Horace Brock, Division manager. Mr. Canaday will be in charge of a consolidated training unit, that will unify subjects, equipment and space formerly assigned to several different departments.
Born in Illinois and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mr. Canaday attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. On his graduation in 1930 he resigned from the regular Navy. As a member of the Naval Reserve he took flight training at Pensacola, then served aboard the Saratoga in Scouting Squadron 2. Harry Canaday In January, 1934, Mr. Canaday joined PAA’s Eastern Division in Miami as an apprentice pilot. The following year, as a junior pilot, he transferred to the Pacific Division and was a member of the original survey crew aboard the S-42 that charted Pan American routes to Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Mr. Canaday returned to the Eastern Division in July, 1937 and checked out as a captain. Stationed variously in Miami, San Juan and Trinidad, he flew the Clipper routes to Central and South America. In 1938 he went to the Pacific Division as assistant operations engineer and the next year he joined the Atlantic Division in Baltimore as assistant to ( Continued on page 4)
GCA Minimums Are Lowered at Gander
A reduction in the ceiling and visibility required to make a Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) landing at Gander was authorized by the CAA on December 19.
The new minimums are 300 feet ceiling and three-quarters of a mile visibility for day or night takeoffs and landings with the aid of GCA. The previous minimums were set at 400 feet and one mile.
GCA landings at Gander were started December 17, 1946, when Pan American World Airways rented the specialized equipment from the AAF and received permission for experimental use. Nine international airlines now use the GCA equipment at Gander during their North Atlantic flights and they share with PAA the costs of the operation.