Pan American clipper, Vol. 7, No. 8, August 1949

              Volume 7
August, 1949
Number 8
Galluses and Gingham Will Set
Style at September Calico Hop
It’ll be “swing your partner” and “sashay right” the night of Friday, September 23 when the Pan Am Club uncorks its first “Calico Hop.” Calico dirndls and bright plaid shirts will be sartorially in order as Atlantic Division employes and their dates get together for an evening of gayety, games, gifts and giggles.
Kneers Ballroom, at 3208 Broadway, Astoria, will provide the setting for the “Calico Hop.” Frank Fay’s Orchestra, rated among Long Island’s best, will strike up the music at 9 p.m. and festivities will continue until 2 the next .morning.
Tickets for the “Calico Hop” will go on sale the first week in September and Ed Corrigan, dance chairman, predicts a rapid sellout. Type of dress will be optional, with the accent on informality, and prizes will be awarded to the outstanding “calico Jack” and “calico Jill.”
Beverages will be available at reasonable rates and prices will be announced in advance. A variety of prizes and surprises will spice the evening’s program.
Kneers Ballroom is eight minutes from La-Guardia Field by car and five minutes from Queens Plaza. It is located one block from the Broadway station of the IRT and BMT.
Abetting* Ed Corrigan in making arrangements for the “Calico Hop” are Dorothea Abbott, Marie Foley and Art Goddard.
FORMS AVAILABLE
New York State operators’ license renewal application forms are available for the convenience of" automobile drivers in the Employe Relations office, Room 4223, NBA. The new licenses will be good until September, 1952.
PAA PETITIONS
FOR NICE BASE
Pan American World Airways has filed an application with the Civil Aeronautics Board, requesting permission to add Nice, France to its overseas stations. If permission is granted, Pan American plans to make Nice a co-terminal with Marseilles in serving southern France.
Nice, business and transportation center of the French Riviera, is 101 miles east of Marseilles, to which Pan American re-opened Clipper service June 1. A certificate to operate to Marseilles was granted to Pan American in 1939, but flying boat service to that port city was interrupted by the war.
In requesting the new terminal, Pan American points out that much of the traffic handled by Pan American through the Marseilles gateway actually originates in the Riviera and would be more conveniently served through Nice. Dutch, British and Scandinavian airlines are currently operating into Nice. No other American carrier serves Nice or any point within several hundred miles.
The new service proposed by Pan American would originate in New York and continue to Nice by way of Boston, Santa Maria in the Azores, Lisbon, Portugal, Barcelona, Spain and Marseilles. Constellation and DC-4 land-planes would be used over this route.
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CALICO
COMMITTEE
In charge of arrangements for the PanAm Club’s “Calico Hop” are DOTTY ABBOTT, ED CORRIGAN, chairman, MARIE FOLEY and ART GODDARD. The hop, September 23, will open PAA’s fall social season.
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General Marshall,
D. S. Ingalls Added To PAA Directorate
General of the Army George C. Marshall, former Secretary of State, and David S. Ingalls, former Pan American vice president, were elected directors of PAA at the annual meeting of stockholders, July 21. Fourteen other directors were re-elected.
Addressing the stockholders, President Juan T. Trippe declared that governmental approval of the purchase of American Overseas Airlines by Pan American Airways will save the American taxpayers millions of dollars annually.
Approval will also enable the United States to compete more effectively against the foreign flag airlines operating across the Atlantic, Mr. Trippe said.
In discussing the proposed purchase, Mr. Trippe emphasized that “the proposal was made in accordance with the expressed views of the Civil Aeronautics Board that mergers and consolidations are necessary to strengthen the country’s air transport industry.”
Pan American Airways gross revenues for 1948 amounted to $145,216,000, Mr. Trippe reported, again an all-time high despite the fact that for the first time the revenues of Panair do Brasil were not included. Estimated net income for the year was reported at $4,590,000. Exact earnings cannot be determined until the conclusion of mail rate proceedings. Revenues for the first five months of 1949, he said, were slightly higher than for the same period in 1948.
Even a Shoe Horn
Didn't Help Much
Johannesburg,-South Africa
John Punsavits, flight engineer officer at Jo’burg, just missed stepping into the shoes of the world-famed golfer, Bobby Locke. He only missed by “three and a half”!
After becoming quite friendly with the South African par-smasher, John followed Bobby quite frequently during his practice and tournament rounds. During tice plays, before he pressed by the wear and tear on John), Bobby offered John a practically new pair of professional-type American golf shoes, size 8 — all white, at that.
Unfortunately they were just a wee bit short for John’s hoppers—size IIV2.
John Punsavits
one of his recent prac-left for the USA (im-