Clipper, May 31, 1945

              ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Production Control Broadens Program
Expansion of the Time Study and Job Methods groups of Production Control has necessitated the appointment of assistants who will work in conjunction with Neil Wilson and “Jeff” Jeffries, coordinators of the respective jobs.
Neil Wilson, as Time Study Coordinator, now has Carl Marshall, Bill Castle and Ira Keller working as his assistants. Joe Moretto and A1 Cohen are assisting “Jeff” Jeffries as Job Methods Coordinator. However, present plans are to train the entire group in both phases so that they can perform with equal facility on both jobs. J. B. Standifer, industrial engineer from the Latin American Division, is acting as visiting advisor to the two groups.
Time Study, which is the latest addition to Production Control’s program, aims to set a fair time standard for each job. “Standard time” is considered the equivalent of the output of an average man working at an average rate of speed. In the over-all picture it gives the shop chief a nofm by which to gauge the amount of time which a given job will take.
Working hand in glove with Time Study we have Job Methods. Their function is to establish the best methods for doing a, job and publishing that method in usable form. By scientifically studying the job, many things can be discovered which impede progress — better equipment may be needed, perhaps a change in design of the equipment being used, or the part that is being worked on may need redesigning.
The assistants were chosen as a result of the bulletining of the vacancies in the Production Control Section.
Sexton 15 Yr. Man;
Hard work and conscientious application to his job has merited Robert L. Sexton a rise from instrument repair mechanic to Flight Engineer, during his fifteen - year affiliation with PAA.
Bob joined Pan American on May 23, 1930 and rose through the various ratings of mechanic to become Foreman of the Instrument Shop. In October, 1939 he was appointed Flight Mechanic and in; 1942 received his rating as Flight Engineer. In 1943 when the flight school was being set up, Bob was loaned to the school to help organize it but returned to us in 1944 to resume his position as Flight Engineer.
Five members of the Atlantic Division also received their Five-Year Service Awards during May and 27 persons merited Three-Year gold emblems.
Overlooked during the month of March were “Mate” Breitschwerdt of Maintenance who is a Ten-Year man and Walter Kolody who merited his Five-Year pin.
In the A-0 Division two NBAers qualified for their Five-Year emblems and six now sport Three-Year emblems.
32 Get 5-3 Yr. Pins
5-Year Pin
traffic
Stella K. Boyle William S. Burton Paul Wollam
Maintenance Earl Doughty
Operations Morgan McDonough Operations A-0 Jack H. Curry Samuel H. Miller
3-Year Pin
Airways
Josephine Parascandola Communications Andrew Aldrich Peter J. Farrell John Grehan Patricia Grover Richard Knowles Edward T. Peck Robinson Woodward
Maintenance John J. Hewitt Leonard Sormani
Traffic
Mary Dickhout Thomas Mooney William Nolan Hal Voeth
Operations Alfred H. Bisson Leslie Brissette-Erma Capas Raynald Dupill John Evans John Fleming Thomas Flanagan Ruth Gray John 'King E. J. Monaghan Walter Schulte Anita Warner
Stores & Purchasing Josephine Dabrowski Communications A-0 Floyd H. Cohick Robert Graves Nicholas Hlipala Francis Kiernan Leslie W. Travers Charles Young
Shediac Honeymoon? It Was On To Botwood!
TILTON TREASURER QUEENS COUNTY
FOREMEN’S CLUB
Several members of the Foreman’s Group which is affiliated with the Queen’s County Foremen’s Club recently attended an Association dinner held at the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce. At the election of officers held during the business session, H. P. Tilton, Acting Shop Supt., was elected treasurer of the Club.
Attending the meeting were: Charlie Tilton, “Gus” Gustainius, Walter Smith, Bill Frank, Carl Doyle, George Updike, Dick Ditty, “Hank” Breitmeier, Charlie Fulmer, Howard Mitchell, Jack London, Don Lampland, Bill Ryder, Jerry Jones, George Potter, Gil Tyler, Bob Sundell, Auggie Augustine and Gus Wunder.
Flight Engineer Robert F. Moore and his bride, Corinne, the first husband and wife to take a Clipper flight to Shediac under the new vacation trip plan, have returned to LGA after a five days’ absence, an hour and a half of which was spent in Shediac.
What started as a routine three-day round trip between New York and Shediac, New Brunswick, wound up with the Moores traveling about 2,000 miles and visiting three-on-the-line stations instead of just one, as scheduled.
But the fact that two added stations and an extra 1,000 miles were thrown into their trip only heightened Mr. and Mrs. Moore’s enjoyment. Factors making it even more memorable were that their flight marked 1945 opener of the Clippers’ summer service over the North Atlantic to Foynes, Eire — and that it was their wedding trip.
Moore and his attractive blonde bride, who were married just two days before leaving on the Clipper, agreed that their pleasure from the trip wasn’t lessened despite having to spend
most of their honeymoon at two military bases.
Weather which still contained a touch of winter caused the deviation in the Moore’s planned LGA-SHE-LGA trip and sent them on into Newfoundland. The Atlantic Clipper, on which they were aboard, left here shortly after 2 a.m. on May 16, overflew Shediac because of fog there, and landed at Stephensville, Newfoundland, an alternate for Botwood and located on St. George Bay on the west side of the island.
“My wife and I, along with the other passengers, stayed overnight at the American Army’s Harmon Field across the bay,” Moore said. “They put us up at a hotel named De Gink built primarily for transient Army officers and while it wasn’t the Waldorf, it was quite comfortable.” 1	,
Leaving the next- morning, the Atlantic made the hour and a half’s flight on to Botwood, located 63 miles inland from the northeastern
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