Pan American clipper, Vol. 6, No. 12, August 13, 1947

              Volume 6
August 13, 1947
Number 12
Waggoner,Wilson, Holcombe, Plimpton Named to Major Middle Eastern Posts
Four appointments to major sales posts in the Middle East are announced by Owen F. Johnson, Atlantic Division sales manager.
Charles H. Waggoner, one of PA A’s most experienced salesmen, has been named sales manager for Turkey.
Stanley Zedalis Is Off For Seattle To Study Stratoauiser
Stanley Zedalis, senior maintenance supervisor of the line crew, is going out to Seattle next week to spend three weeks getting acquainted with the Boeing Stratocruiser.
Stan, who has been in on the ground floor of Atlantic Division activities since 1934, is naturally one of the first in the Division to become thoroughly familiar with the Stratocruiser. He expects that with the delivery of the first Stratocruiser in the fall, he and the members of the line crew will be the first to handle maintenance on the new ship.
Stan Zedalis
Born in the town of Warrior’s Run in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, Stan’s first job was as a miner and he spent five years working in the mines. Deciding then that the life of a bird was more attractive than that of a mole, he switched to aviation as a career and enrolled, in 1931-32, in the Curtiss Wright School of Aeronautics.
He worked for a number of small airlines, then, on January 1, 1934, joined Pan American Airways when the company took over the Marine Airport Corporation at Port Washington. In 1937, when PAA’s Atlantic Division was formally organized, Stan was the first maintenance employe hired by the Division.
Technically Stan was a mechanic, but his job included anything that had to do with building a base for Pan American. When, after six months, the first PAA Clipper was flown into the base, Stan’s work extended to helping in beaching the S-42, maintaining the flying boat, launching it, and loading passengers and baggage. The work-day might extend from dawn to dusk and, in Stan’s words, “We all worked together like one small, happy family.”
Few Old Timers Remain
Looking around the Atlantic Division today, Stan sees only a handful of people who were (Continued on page 3)
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$320 Idea Award Is Won by Casson
When Harry Casson, then of the equipment shop, suggested two years ago that life jackets be packaged in pliofilm wrappers, he was more than a year ahead of the times. Today, with pliofilm available for such purposes, his suggestion has been put into effect, with resultant annual savings estimated at about $3,800. Harry, who is assigned to long service now, receives an award of $320 from the Employes’ Suggestion Committee, the top award of the week.
Looking over the winning suggestion are, left to right: MARTIN CURTIN, TOM RITSON, long service foreman, and HARRY CASSON. A life jacket in a pliofilm case is at Tom’s elbow.
The pliofilm wrappers, costing four cents each, are used to protect the 65 life jackets carried in each PAA Clipper. They save time required for inspection and protect the jackets from damage. When Harry was transferred to long service, the use of the transparent wrappers was promoted by Martin Curtin, assistant foreman of the equipment shop, who is in a large measure responsible for the adoption of the suggestion.
Richard G. Kernan of plane service scores twice in this week’s suggestion awards. First, he receives $40 for outlining a procedure which provides a quick, thorough and efficient check on the Constellation’s fire warning system. Under this system, now in use, it is necessary (Continued on page 3)
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Mr. Waggoner is an old hand at Middle Eastern matters for he lived in India and Turkey before he joined Pan American in May, 1942. Since then he has seen service at North Beach, Bermuda, Dakar, Bathurst, Botwood, Ankara and Damascus in positions ranging from passenger foreman to District traffic manager for the Middle East.
Charles Waggoner Prior t0 the
inauguration of PAA’s India service, Mr. Waggoner was for a time the company’s only traffic man in the entire Middle East. He performed yeoman service in establishing the Istanbul and Damascus stations for Pan American and, in addition, took an active part in developing the traffic and sales program of Syrian Airways.
Mr. Waggoner and his wife will make their headquarters in Istanbul.
Wilson in Damascus
Lloyd M. Wilson becomes sales manager for Damascus with responsibility for the development of Clipper traffic in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Arabia.
Mr. Wilson, like Mr.
Waggoner, is a veteran of the rugged era of wartime operations. He joined PAA in October,
1942, and served in Natal and Belem before his appointment as District traffic manager in Lisbon in May, 1944.
Mr. Wilson later went to Paris as Panair do Brasil representative then, in February of this year, to Istanbul where he worked with Mr. Waggoner in the development of the Middle Eastern sales area.
Mr. Wilson was recently married to the daughter of a Standard Oil executive, and the (Continued on page 4)
PASSENGER MILEAGE UP
Pan American World Airways flew 446,252,-000 passenger miles in the second quarter of 1947. This compared with 280,183,101 miles in the corresponding quarter of 1946 and 343,-538,000 in the first quarter of 1947. This is an increase of over 58 per cent above the same quarter for 1946.