Clipper, Vol. 4, No. 46, April 4, 1946

              BROOKS HAS $400 INSPIRATION;
THREE OTHER AWARDS ARE MADE
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BOB BROOKS
A $400 prize, top sug gestion award to date in 1946 and second highest award ever won by a Pan American employe, has been voted to Robert Brooks, Natal airport manager, for his recommendation that telautograph units he installed. The device permits instant and simultaneous communication, by means of facsimile messages, between all installation points.
The Employes’ Suggestion Committee approved the award on the basis that use of the telautograph would eliminate errors and misunderstandings, fix responsibility, furnish permanent records, speed operation, and reduce phone congestion in the dissemination of aircraft movement information. It is estimated that installation and operating costs will be repaid several times in a single year.
J. M. Van Law, Operations Schedule Coordinator, presented Bob Brooks’ suggestion formally in Bob’s absence from North Beach. Six of the telautograph units, recognizable by their electric light beacon signals, are already in use—in Passenger Service, Production Control, Reservations, Operations Notifications, the Airport Office, and Flushing Traffic. A seventh unit will soon be installed in the Operations Schedule Coordinator’s Office. Sending and receiving messages is possible with each of these units, which are used at present only for the transmission of messages pertaining to schedules.
Three other awards were made by the Suggestion Committee at its most recent meeting. Ted Bidermann' of the Radio Shop received $30 for his safety suggestion that emergency procedure placards be installed in aircraft on the radio operator’s desk, on the navigator’s
desk, at the flight engineer’s position and the pilot’s position. The sequence of action for each of these crew members is listed on the placards, which have already been installed in L-49 aircraft.
Harry O’Neill of Engineering has been awarded $20 for suggesting that adhesive tape be placed along the folded edges of maps carried by navigators aboard PAA aircraft. Holes can then be punched in the exposed section of the tape and maps can be placed in standard binders. The suggestion has the merit of providing for a compact carrying case, permitting orderly transfer of maps from one station to another, eliminating the need to unfold maps completely, and saving wear and tear on maps.
To Austin L. Schmitt, recently of Engineering, an award of $5 has been granted for a suggestion that a placard be installed calling attention to the emergency key to the Reception Room for entrance from the north wing of the hangar after office hours.
FINAL WAR BONDS
READY APRIL 30
All employes for whom War Bond purchases have been made through the payroll savings plan are requested to call between April 30 and May 15 at Room 2220, North Wing, to receive final bonds due them.
Frank J. Kubik, accounting representative in charge of War Bonds, reports that all bonds must be issued to the owners by May 15.
The payroll deduction plan has now been discontinued. Bonds on which a complete cycle of deductions has been made will be issued on April 30, and refunds of amounts insufficient for the purchase of bonds will also be made at that time.
STELLA BOYLE of Passenger Service consults the telautograph atxthe counter in the Rotunda.
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Morrison Is Named
Chief of Cafeteria
William B. Morrison, now in his fifth year with Pan American, has been appointed assistant commissary superintendent with headquarters at North Beach.
Having completed a variety of overseas assignments, Bill’s new job gives him his first tour of duty in this country. He started out at Fisherman’s Lake in 1942, transferred the following year to Ireland, and then went south again to Natal. He comes to New York from Horta.
Bill is a native of Ithaca, N. Y., and a graduate of Cornell University where he majored in hotel management. In his new job he is in charge of the cafeteria, the port steward’s office and the passenger coffee service.
LETTERS TO EDITOR ARE INVITED
A “Letters to the Editor” column will henceforth be a regular Clipper feature.
Employes are invited to use this new department to air their views on subjects of general interest.
Letters should he brief and must be signed, although signatures will be withheld at the writers’ request.
Letters must be in the Clipper office — Room 1213, North Beach — before 9 a.m. on Wednesday for inclusion in the following week’s edition.
BAUDO, MECHANIC,
IS KILLED BY PROP
Joseph J. Baudo, 26-year-oJd mechanic, was killed instantly on March 22 when he accidentally walked into the propeller of a C-54 which was being run-up in the rear of the hangar.
Joseph, a graduate of Bryant High School, was employed by PAA on August 5, 1943. As a trainee, he was sent by the company to the Academy of Aeronautics. His record with the company was a fine one, showing excellent progress.
Joseph lived at 21-44 41st Street, Long Island City, with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Baudo, and his sister and two brothers.
A number of PAA employes attehded the funeral services, which were held in St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, Long Island City.
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