Clipper, July 12, 1945

              .TUIA 12, 1945
ATLANTIC DIVISION
UPPER
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Speed Up Handling of Employes Ideas
Designed to provide representatives equipped to handle suggestions of technical nature, two NBAers have been added to the roster of the employes Suggestion Committee, Don Lamp-land of Engineering and Walter Burdick of Airways.
It is the aim of the Committee to speed up the processing of suggestions and to accomplish this, representatives will be appointed in each department to act as such committee to follow through on suggestions and to see that they are put into effect and advise the Secretary of the Committee, Milton Fradkin, accordingly.
As in the past, Milton will make all possible preliminary investigations. He will then pass his findings on to the appointed Committee member or representative who will obtain the opinion of the department. The representative will then see to it that the suggestion is installed as soon as possible and advise Milton of such action. The suggestion will then be submitted to the committee for action.
Another innovation in the function of the Suggestion Committee aimed toward guaranteeing the quickest possible use of ideas, is that no award will be paid until a suggestion has been put into effect.
The present Committee consists of: A. J. Kelly, Executive; Charlie Tilton, Maintenance; Don Lampland, Engineering; Dick Washburn, Maintenance, and Jim Hyde, Operations. John Ward of Industrial Relations is Chairman of the Committee and Milton Fradkin is Secretary.
Off-loading At Lisbon Is Start of Romanie —
Off-loading may be a cause of great annoyance and inconvenience to the average airline passenger, but to Austin Pacher, Maintenance, and his fiancée, Betty Chilson, it will always have a romantic connotation.
Austin was Chief Mechanic at Lisbon. Betty was affiliated with the State Department en route to Warsaw where she was to be attached to the Consular Division. The Polish situation was rather tense at that time and the members of the State Department were ordered offloaded at Lisbon to await further orders. That was in January. A few days later Austin and Betty met. over cocktails and they began to “date.” Betty received a temporary assignment in Lisbon and the dates became more and more frequent.
May 15 Austin was shipped home and Betty remained. Correspondence began. One day Bètty cabled Austin advising him that she was to be transferred to London to await further assignment and that settled the whole thing in his mind. He cabled her to come via New York rather than London, and to this she readily agreed.
Betty, a petite 5'2" titian-head, contrasting 'sharply to Austin’s blonde 6' 5", arrived by Clipper qn July 2. The couple plan to be married in August at Stow, N. Y., Betty’s home town. After a honeymoon they will reside on Long Island.
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THEY’RE GONNA GET MARRIED! Austin Pacher, Maintenance, just can’t hide his happiness at being united with his fiancée, Betty Chilson.
NBAers Guests On Radio Programs
Two Division employes took to the air—-■ waves — recently on successive days to tell people all over the nation of their work in connection with Clipper flights over the Atlantic.
Using a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Company for both broadcasts, Dorothy Mills, Flight Stewardess, and C. C. Snowden, Passenger Service Manager, spoke from studios in the RCA Building. Dorothy appeared on the “Fun and Folly” show presented by Ed East and Polly, and Bert was interviewed by Adelaide Hawley.
Ip response to questions asked by the effer-
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vescent Ed East, Dorothy told of being in the first group of stewardesses to fly out of Miami into Central and South America and of looking forward to her first flight over the Atlantic. She received not only the applause of the large studio audience but also envious looks from the women present.
Described })y Miss Hawley as “the answer man,” Bert Snowden sketched the Division’s present performances as well as future plans. He described the Clippers and their routes, problems connected with catering aloft, dining habits of passengers, and life aboard a Clipper generally. In keeping with the aviation slant of the program, the theme song was “Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine.”
BERT SNOWDON, Passenger Service Manager (center), being interviewed by Adelaide Hawley on her program. Announcer Clyde Kittel (left) awaits his lines on the broadcast. Bert discussed catering on the Clippers and explained the many problems which must be encountered in feeding passengers at 8,000 feet.
PAA Medics
Attend Conference
To keep abreast of latest developments in aviation medicine, Pan American delegated four of its medical directors to a two-day conference instigated by the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field to make available to civilian aviation the vast research that has been conducted by the Army Air Forces during wartime.
The Atlantic Division was represented by Dr. F. H. Shillito, Medical Director., Other PAA representatives were Dr. 0. H. Pearson, A-O Medical Director and Dr. Rodney R. Beard of the Pacific Division.
The conference was in fact arranged by the School of Aviation Medicine for the sole purpose of presenting and discussing all the most modern advances made in the scientific diagnosis and treatment of the ailments to which air travelers might be subject. .Among the major problems discussed was the use of new drugs in the prevention of airsickness, and the development of treatments for this malady.	1
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