Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 1953

              Pax American World Airways
ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 12
June, 1953
Number 6
Annual Fund Drive Begins»
New York Fund, Red Cross To Benefit By Campaign
FATHER KNICK ROLLS FOR ALL
Electrical Wizard Speeds Messages At Headquarters
An electrical messenger wizard called “Intrafax” that travels miles in seconds is now speeding delivery of intracompany messages in facsimile “picture” form for Pan American at Long Island City. .
The new “Infrafax" system,'®* leased from Western Union, is the
first airline installation for the pick up and distribution of telegraph messages within an organization. It provides nine key departments on various floors in the airline’s nine-story Long Island City headquarters building with instantaneous, two-way facsimile communications with the ground-floor wire center.
The system also connects the wire center with Pan American’s New York City passenger reservation office, 41 East 42nd Street, and its executive officers in the Chrysler Building, both about three miles away.
The “Intrafax” center in the wire room at LIC serves a network of eleven branch stations. Each station is equipped with a compact facsimile machine that takes up less than a square foot of space on the user’s desk. Messages are sent and received on this machine in facsimile simply by pushing a button.
When a telegram arrives in the (Coninued on Page 3)
Awards Total S75 For Five Suggestions
Five awards, made by the Employees’ Suggestion System Committee recently, totaled $75. In addition, the committee presented a certificate of merit and a letter of commendation for two other suggestions submitted by employees.
The top award of $25 went to W. H. Stroh, a master mechanic at Idlewild. It was his suggestion to insert fly leafs in stores catalogs, showing cross reference, interchangeability, and superseding information, as obtained from service engineering, materials control and the SOS catalog unit.
An award of $15 was made to Eugen Saemann, a storekeeper at (Coninued on Page 3)
Human Problem In New York Is Discussed
By Harold E. Gray,
Exec. Vice President
Once a year the Greater New York Fund makes its appeal for funds directly to the employees of corpoi'ations in the city. 423 New York charity organizations combine their appeals for help into this '•mgle request for contribution*.
The reputation and integrity of The Greater New York Fund are of the highest. The campaign this year is being headed by Mr. G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange.
Within the next- several weeks an opportunity will be presented to each employee in the New York area to make whatever contribution his own personal conscience dictates, towards this worthwhile cause.
I am sure that those of us who would like to give an adequate contribution, all have the same problem of not being able to spare this cash from a single pay period. It is for this reason that a payroll deduction program has been established as a service to all employees.
Those who wish to avail them-(Continued on Page 2)
Blood, They Want
A blood drive, to replenish the Pan Am Club’s blood bank for another year, will be conducted at Idlewild on June 11. Donors are urgently needed, it was announced as The Clipper went to press. Further details of the drive will be posted on bulletin boards.
Report Shows Earnings Up During 1952
Net earnings of Pan American for the year 1952, after provision of $4,420,000 for federal income taws, were > $6,673,000,/ compared to the reported net income of $6,-546,000 for 1951, President Juan T. Trippe told stockholders in the 25th annual report.
Net earnings were equivalent to $1.09 a share on the company’s 6,145,082 shares outstanding, compared with $1.07 for the previous year.
Gross revenues amounted to $205,243,000, again an all-time high. And transportation revenues, other than United States mail, totaled $167,607,000, an increase of nine per cent over 1951.
During the year, the company (Continued on Page 3)
Close Idlewild?... Well, Here Are Some Facts You Should Know
Pull up a chair, sit down, and listen to what’s cooking and some facts about our noisy bread and butter.
We have learned that local citizen groups are banding together and raising funds for an attempt to close Idlewild due to aircraft noise.
Our management well realizes that noise abatement is one of the most serious problems with which we are confronted today. With the advent of warm weather, open windows, and boiling tempers, we can expect the anti-Idlewild movement to really get under way.
People should know the truth, and not continue to be led to believe that the airlines are insincere and making no effort to alleviate the conditions. Knowing the full story, people could not be led by an adamant few toward closing Idlewild.
At every opportunity we should tell what PAA, and all of the aircraft industry are doing by coordinated effort through the National Air Transport Coordination
Committee to keep disturbing noise to an absolute minimum.
Here are some of the things that are. being done:
A preferential runway system is in use resulting in the greatest majority of landing approaches and takeoffs being made over the Jamaica Bay area. This is done by allowing landings and takeoffs with crosswinds up to 80 degrees and 15 miles per hour, as well as five miles per hour tailwinds when selecting the runway which will disturb none, or the fewest number of people for any particular wind direction.
When necessary to make circling approaches they are made at higher altitudes than formerly, now performed at an altitude of 1,200 feet or above when the ceiling allows. The only circling at lower levels is when it is necessary to stay under low ceilings while circling to land on the runway required, due to wind direction and velocity.
Pilots are making it a practice (Continued on Page 4)
All NYK Comps Will Be Asked Te Contribute
New York area employees will be contacted this week to contribute to the annual campaign for the Greater New York Fund and American Red Cross, being kicked off today, May 25, and continuing through May 29.
Goal for the Greater New York Fund is $10,600, or about $4.23 from each of the 2,500 PAA employees in New York. Each employee, therefore, is being asked to give a penny apiece to each of the 423 charitable organizations which the Greater New York Fund helps to support. The importance of giving to the community in which they work is being stressed to tj employees.	“-----'¿7
Early in the week, each Division employee at IDL, LGA and LIC will be contacted and will be given a “kit” explaining the campaign.
Each kit will contain a statement from Vice President Gray] concerning the campaign (also printed in this issue of The Clipper), a Greater New York Fund booklet, a Red Cross leaflet, a company- booklet explaining the campaign, and a pledge card.
Kits for flight crew members (pilots, flight engineers and flight service) will go into their mail boxes and will contain, in addition to the above material, a special letter, together with a return envelope for their contributions or pledges.
After the kits are distributed, solicitors will contact all employees for their contributions. It will be explained that an employee may contribute to both the Greater New Yoi'k Fund and the Red Cross, in which case he may specify how (Continued on Page 2)
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In This Issue
Barcelona 				11
Beirut 				10
Boston 				 3
Cairo 				10
Calcutta 				10
Flight Personnel ....			 4
Frankfurt 				 7
Johannesburg				11
Karachi 				10
Lisbon 				11
London 				8, 9
Munich 				 7
New Delhi				10
New York 				5, 6
Paris 				 3
People Talking 				 2
Rome 				11
Sports 				 6
Stockholm				 3
Stuttgart					 7
Washington 				 3
		

At
press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 41,764 transatlantic crossings.