Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 10, October 1952

              Pan American World Airways
ATLANTIC DIVISIONS
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Read on four continents and four islands :n between
Volume 11
rv-^er, 1952
No. 10
Scholarships Available To Coemps’ Sons
Atlantic Division personnel are reminded of the fact that scholarships to Yale University are available to sons of PAA employees. Last year, a number of friends of Administrative Vice President Howard B. Dean, who died March 21, 1950, established a fund to make the scholarships possible.
Each scholarship will amount to $600 per year and will be awarded every other year to a candidate selected for admission to the f^resh--man year at Yale. Sons of officers or directors of the airline are not eligible to receive the scholarships.
A student to whom the scholarship is awarded for the freshman year will be entitled to a renewal of the award in each of the three remaining years, provided average scholastic standing and satisfactory conduct are maintained.
Recipients of the scholarship will be expected to give evidence of their financial need by meeting a reasonable part of their expenses through part-time employment at the university.
In the awarding of these scholarships, preference will be given to the sons of PAA employees. Each employee must have had at least three years of continuous service with the company immediately prior to the filing of the application.
Prospective candidates for the scholarships are urged to acquaint themselves with the entrance requirements of Yale.
Personnel In Flight Service
Take Part In
The 1952 Flying Salesman Contest — for flight service personnel — is airborne. It started on October 1 and will run for three months. It is based on sales leads which are turned in as a result of contacts with the traveling public, either aloft or on the round. ^
A total of 25 cash prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the contest. The best Flying Salesman will win $300—first prize.
Second prize will be $200; -third prize $100. And there will be 22 prizes of $50 each.
Scoring in the contest will be by points. Each sales lead will be given a score equal to the amount of revenue it represents. In this way, quality of leads is given considerably more weight than quantity. Flight service supervisors at Idlewild, London and Frankfurt will be the scoreke<?pers.
All sales offices within the three divisions and the United States have been alerted to the contest.
The sales office in whose territory the prospect is located will follow up the lead, endeavor to complete the sale and report the results to the flight service supervisor of the Flying Salesman who originated the lead.
All flight service members of a crew will be given equal credit for leads turned in by any one member of the crew. This recognizes and emphasizes the fact that flight service crews work as a team rather than as individuals.
Paul Rennell, Division sales manager,' expressed the hope that all of the 33,000 Flying Salesmen lead forms, specially printed for the contest, would be put to productive use.
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On Sunday, October 19, St. Theresa’s Guild of Airline Employees will hold its third annual Communion Mass and Breakfast. Membership of the Guild includes representation from 29 scheduled airlines, including PAA. All employees, regardless of creed, as well as family members, relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend.
Over a thousand airline employees based in the New York area are expected to attend the mass at
9	a.m. at Holy Innocents Church, 37th Street, just off Boradway, New York, and the breakfast at
10	a.m. in the grand ballroom of the Statler Hotel.
Father Mark Tennien, a Mary-knoll missionary, recently returned after 23 years in China where he was a prisoner of the Chinese Reds (he is also author of the best seller, Chunking Listening Post), and Louis Budenz, former editor of the Daily Worker, noted writer of Men Without Faces and now on the faculty of Fordham (Continued on Page 2)
Scheduling Team—1952 Champions
Above are members of the high-flying Scheduling softball team which won the championship in the PAA Inter-Department Softball League. For an account of the final game in the playoff series, see the sports page in this issue. In the picture, top row, are Doug Mitchell, team manager, and
f Ray AJanis; center row: Mark Rairden and Russ Roelmol; bottom row: Tom Van Sciever, Ed Ferguson, Ray Hoehn, Joe Zaslow, Joe Kenneally and C. Cultraro. Other members of the team, not pictured, were: George Coppin, C. N. Warren, R. Siegel and A. Sadowski.
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Non-Stop To FRA
-A Super Six Clipper, the Priscilla Alden, established a record on September 22, by flying nonstop from New York to Frankfurt in 12 hours and 42 minutes. But the record was short-lived. Three days later, another Super Six Clipper made the same hop in 11 hours and 56 minutes.
Aboard • the first recordmaking flight were 78 wives and children of United States service men. On the second non7stop flight to Frankfurt, there were 35 wives of service men and 45 children.
Awards For Suggestions TotaWltt-i
The Suggestion Award Committee, in a recent meeting, approved the awarding of $115 for suggestions made by two employees— one in Frankfurt; the other in Shannon.
Of the total amount awarded,
$65 went to William K. Lohoefer, a radio operator in FRA, for his suggestion to re-use teletype paper rolls, effecting a saving of $1,000 to $1,500 annually at the Frankfurt communications center alone.
The other award, for $50, went to Hubert G. J. Bourke, operations representative at Shannon, for his preparation of a fuel density conversion table (B-377, DC-6A and DC—6B).
In submitting his suggestion,
Mr. Lohoefer pointed out that in teletype centers, the so-called “hard copies,” consisting of continuous teletype paper rolls, had been stored away and were kept on file for a prescribed time, after which the rolls were destroyed, “thereby wasting valuable raw material.”
It was his idea to use the reverse side of these once-used teletype rolls, and a machine was designed and built, at a cost of $100, to re-wind the paper into accurate hard rolls so that they could be used again. At the time the suggestion was submitted, about 50 rolls had been used again, and no trouble arose, he said.
The conversion table compiled by Mr. Bourke, it was said, facilitates the conversion of pounds/ gallons/kilos in the weight and balance section. From the tables, any fuel figure in connection with flight planning can readily be converted into gallons and kilos in a matter of seconds. It is more accurate (less opportunity for error), and there is less chance of using the wrong fuel weight density, it was said.
Has Been Informally Approached. He Says
The truth of recent news articles, stating that Vice President Harold R. Harris is leaving Pan American to become president of Northwest Airlines, was denied in a wire, dated September 30, to certain key personnel. “No formal proposals have been made me,” he said in the wire.	«
The wire did state, however, that he has been “informally approached on this possibility.” Following is the text of the wire which was issued by General Harris on the subject :
“Various news articles state I am leaving Pan American to become president of Northwest Airlines. For your information, while I have been informally approached on this possibility, no formal proposals have been made me. You will be kept advised of any developments. In the meantime, I am working ^arder than ever to make “Fan American the best mtsma-tional airline in existence. I urge you to continue to do the same. Give such circulation to this message as you feel desirable.”
The first (at least, as far as this writer knows) report concerning the possible negotiations by Northwest Airlines, for General Harris' services, came in the Wall Street Journal^ of Saturday, September 27, That issue stated that General Harris “has been offered a high executive post with Northwest Airlines, according to authoritative sources in the airline industry.”
That article went on to say that officials of Northwest made “no comment” concerning the possible addition to the company’s official family, and concluded with the statement: “It is understood that a formal announcement concerning General Harris’ position may be made next week. ... If General Harris takes the position, it is believed he probably would be operating chief.”
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In This Issue
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Beirut .....................' 8
Bermuda .................... 9
Dakar ..................... 10
Duesseldorf ................11
Flight Personnel ........... 9
Frankfurt ..................11
»Helsinki .................. 3
History..................... 3
Headlinettes ...............12
Istanbul ..................9, 9
Johannesburg ............... 2
London ....................6, 7
JRunich .................... 2
New York ...............2, 4, 5
Nice .......................10
Oslo .......................11
Paris ......................10
People Talking ...........   2
Santa Maria ....?.......... 3
Stuttgart ..................11
System Round-up ............10
Vienna .................... 11
Sports ..................... 4
At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 39,772 transatlantic crossings.