Clipper, Vol. 15, No. 3, March 1956

              Pam American World Airways
At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 54,264 Transatlantic crossings
ATLANTIC DIVISION
UPPER
Volume 15
MARCH, 1956
No. 3
$330 Awarded For Suggestions
PAA Ready To Inaugurate New York-Nassau Service
Since January 1, the Atlantic Division Suggestion Committee has adopted 17 proposals made by employees, for which it has paid $330 in prize money. Henry Anholzer, one of the top suggestion award winners, is shown receiving his check and certificate from John Shannon, Division operations manager, while Thomas Toberty, personnel and industrial relations manager, with other suggestion award winners, observe the proceedings. Other award winners pictured are: Robert E. Ison, Charles Villa, Gus Pappas, Louis Balascio, Armando J. Forte and William F. Quentin. Others who have submitted award-winning suggestions, but not in the picture, are: Anthony B. Spirek, Leonard Berko, Joseph M. Azzato, Abraham Pilpel, David Barlin, Eugene R. Reichel, Joseph R. Norrito, Rudolph Belpanno
and Irving Zaslow.
Mail Rate For Pan Am Set By CAB
The rate to be paid for the trans-American’s entire system), retroac-mail pay and subsidy over Pan American’s entire system, retroactively for the full year of 1955 and for the future, has been established by the CAB.
Pan American’s total subsidy, for all of its operating divisions, was reduced by 53 per cent, from the $21,000,000 estimated for 1954 to about $9,900,000 for each year beginning with 1955.
For 1955, however, under the board’s existing policies, the amount of subsidy was further reduced by the full extent of profits realized by PAA from sales of flight equipment and from income derived from associated and affiliated companies.
Subsidy actually paid to Pan American by the government in 1955, therefore, was only about $1,500,000.
Gratifying, Says CAB
Following is a statement of the CAB concerning Pan American’s subsidy requirement:
“With the recent improvements in traffic, the PAA System is now at the point where its subsidy requirement is at a new low. In view (Continued on Page 12)
Latest Pan Am Film Produced About Austria
The year-round vacation land of Austria is portrayed in Pan American World Airways’ latest travel film, “Wings to Austria.”
Photographed by skiing champion Dick Durrance, the 27-minute film ranges from spectacular mountain scenery to close-ups of Viennese cafes. The 16 mm. motion picture is produced in full color and sound.
One of the highlights of the film is a record of the coming of spring to a tiny Alpine village. The camera captures the beauty of the changing seasons as the mountain slopes turn from snow white to fields of green.
The outdoor festival of morality plays in Salzburg is depicted with the performance of a scene from “Everyman.” The picture catches not only the expressions of the actors but the reaction of the audience as the play moves to its climax.
Other colorful scenes from the feature are a trip to a country hamlet for a wedding party, the famed white Lipizzaner horses being trained, the lake country where water sports are depicted, a tour through the wide boulevards of Vienna with a background of Mozart’s music, and breathtaking scenes of ski champions rushing down the Alps.
Dividend
Directors of Pan American World Airways have declared a dividend of 20 cents per share, payable on March 10 to ! stockholders of record at the close of business on February 17.
This will be the 45th dividend to be paid by Pan Amer-; ican. Four payments of 20 cents a share each were made by the company in 1955. Dividends have been paid each year since 1941.
Pan American World Airways last month urged the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve the recommendation of its examiner, to permit the airline to fly directly between New York and Nassau in the Bahamas.
Pan American can start the service immediately with two round trips daily during Nassau’s peak winter season, with extra sections whenever needed, it was stated in PAA’s brief to the CAB.
During the balance of the year, PAA would provide one round trip daily between New York and Nassau, it was stated. The airline would assign DC-7B’s to fly the 1,096 miles in three and a half hours, at round trip fares of $36 to $67 below those now in effect.
Pan American said in its brief that it is the only airline
-----------------------------goffering daily tourist and first
class services.
Supporting an earlier recommendation of Examiner F. Merrit Ruhlen that PAA is the airline best fitted to fly the route and should be selected, Pan American pointed out that it has served Nassau from Miami for 27 years— even before there was an air passenger service between New York and Miami.
Division Cargo During January Increases 61%
Pan American, the largest carrier of air freight between the United States and Europe, flew
653.000	pounds of cargo over the Atlantic during January. This was an increase of 61 per cent over the same period last year.
Pan American operates all-cargo Clippers from New York, every morning of the week except Monday for Frankfurt, London, Munich, Brussels, Nuermberg, Duesseldorf and Amsterdam.
In addition to the all-cargo schedules, Pan American provides cargo space in the 98 weekly passenger flights that it operates in both directions over the Atlantic during the off-season.
At the height of the summer season this year, the airline will step up its frequency of transatlantic passenger flights to 160 a week.
January’s cargo total included
439.000	pounds flown westbound and 214,000 pounds eastbound. Last year, the airline flew 269,000 pounds westbound and 137,000 pounds eastbound.
Everg Dog Has His Dag
You think you’ve got troubles? Well, don’t tell ’em to Gene Kelly. He probably won’t be very sympathetic.
Unsolicited, the honor of joining the fraternity of dogcatchers was bestowed upon Gene last month . . . as if the duties of station operations manager in Boston weren’t enough for one guy to handle.
Every dog has his day, they say. And it was one of those days that suddenly made a dogcatcher out of Gene. It was one of those days, too, when Idlewild was weathered in and flights were being diverted to Boston. Three of them were on the ground there as our story begins.
The hatch of one of the aircraft was opened and out jumped a German police dog. He had chewed his way out of his cage, apparently, and here was real freedom.
It would have been, of course,
had Gene decided to look in another direction at the moment But he’s a real stickler for duty. When the dog took off across the airport, Gene was in hot (well, warm) pursuit.
The chase led to the street. There, Gene was met by Colonel Edson, airport manager, who realized at a glance that Gene was already worn out from playing dogcatcher.
The colonel immediately swore himself in as assistant dogcatcher, contacting ground control at the same time, to see if they had the beast on their short range radar- j scope.
Having no luck there, the search returned to the street area. It continued to a parking lot, where the dog awaited . . . until they got almost upon him, when he took off again (the cur).
This time, the chase led out (Continued on Page 12)
PAA Best Fitted
Pan American pointed out that the heavy travel season in the Nassau business occurs in the winter, at the same time as the New York-Miami peak season, but at the low season of the year for travel to Europe.
Pan American, which also operates to Europe, therefore, has excess aircraft and personnel available to meet all needs of the Nassau peak season. This is at the very time that the New York-Miami carriers are unable to handle all their business.
More Economical
Pan American also said that not only could it render the best service, but that it could do so more economically, since it could use temporarily surplus airplanes and personnel to meet peak season demands for service.
In addition, the airline pointed (Continued on Page 12)
In This Issue
Ankara 			 8
Beirut 		
Berlin		
Bermuda 		
Boston 		
Calcutta 			 8
Chicago 			 4
Dakar 			10
Detroit		
Flight Personnel			10,11
Frankfurt 			8, 9
Gander 			 4
Hamburg 			 9
Istanbul			..:	 8
Lisbon 				10
London 			 7
Munich 					 8
New York 			4, 5
Nice 					 6
Paris 			 6
Philadelphia 			 4
Shannon 			 6
Stuttgart			 9
Vienna 			 9
Washington 			 4