Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 3, March 1953

              ATLANTIC DIVISION
Pan	American World Airways
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Volume 12
March, 1953
Number 3
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Principles Of Organization
By Harold E. Gray, Executive Vice President
I believe it is important for all of you to know what the Division is planning to do, and why. Otaly in this way can we all work together to strengthen the Atlantic Division and to insure its continued success.
The Organization Section of the ma'nual is being changed, effective March 15th, when all manuals will have the new 05.00 pages. You may be wondering how this will affect the daily functioning of the Division.
These changes in organization
are not great. However they will, to some extent, clarify the channels of responsibility, make even more certain that each person knows to whom to look for direction and administrative control, and shorten lines of communication.
The operatiohs and traffic organizations in the field will be under the direct administrative control of their respective department heads in Division headquarters.
District traffic and sales managers will report directly to the
Division traffic and sales manager and will be under his full administrative cohtrol.
Station operations managers will report directly to Mr. Randy Kirk, manager, ground operations in Division headquarters, who in turn will report to and be under the administrative control of, the Division operations manager.
When it is agreed upon by both the Division operations manager and the Division traffic and sales manager, the traffic personnel lo-(Continued on Page 2)
Division Coemps, Male Or Female, Eligible To Win Trip This Year
This year, SEX will not rear its “ugly head” in the determination of a winner of a trip to Paris. No! Things will be
different this year. Men are eligible to win, too.
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Part of the 15,000 pounds of clothing shipped to flood-ravaged European countries in Pan American’s “Operation Stop-Gap” (or “Operatie Dijkdoorbraak,” in Dutch) is shown at Idlewild before being loaded aboard Clippers. The huge bales are being checked by PAA’s Eleanor Peralt, whose childhood home at Seine Et Oise, Normandie, was also inundated by the flood last month.
Employees, Company Render Aid In Recent Flood Disaster
As a part of Pan American’s hastily-organized “Operation Stop-Gap” (or “Operatie Dijkdoorbraak,” in Dutch), large quantities of food, blankets, clothing, sandbags, money, outboard motors and other items were rushed to the countries hit by the flood disaster last month.
In addition to Pan American’s part (as a company) in the operation, PAA personnel from the Amsterdam office rendered personal assistance.
Tom Wiersma, Ernst Brouwer,
Rate On Bulk Cargo To Be Cut By 45%
Siep Droogsma and Jan van Os, using their cars, rushed food, batteries, sandbags and other urgently needed things to The stricken areas. They also transported refugees and volunteer workers, and evacuated flood victims.
The Amsterdam office also sent blankets and a sum of money to the victims. And the appeal for money and clothing met with a warm, swift response from PAA employees in France. The latter gifts were turned over to the Paris office of the International Red Cross.
In New York, employees gave enthusiastic response to the Dutch Flood Relief collection and contributions amounted to $749.18. This amount was rounded out at $1,000 by a company contribution.
Holland was hit most seriously-by the disaster, and about one-sixth of its fertile soil disappeared under water. Large numbers of people and tens of thousands of cattle were drowned. Damage done (Continued on Page 2)
‘Put-U-Up’ Plan Offers Low-Cost Accommodations
London’s airport personnel committee, in a recent meeting, proposed and adopted a plan to provide inexpensive accommodations for the benefit of visiting employees, from any other PAA location.
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things going and the plan has already become an established fact. The accommodations will be provided by London employees who will put rooms in their' homes at the disposal of those using the scheme.
The proposal was initially put (Continued on Page 2)
Pan American will establish its own low transatlantic cargo rates, reducing the cost of bulk shipments by 45 per cent, if other transatlantic operators are unable to reach agreement on a program for lower rates, Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president in charge of traffic and sales, announced recently.
“The new low rates for bulk shipments are necessary to bring about a greater volume of air cargo on the north Atlantic. They will benefit shippers, the consuming public, and the profit and loss statement of any other airline which meets the new PAA competition with a similar service.
“The benefits of the low cargo rate are not just theoretical. The results have already been established in Latin America,” Mr. Lipscomb said.
“We retgret that the general adoption of the low transatlantic rates has been blocked by some airlines which have not had experience with low rates for bulk shipments and refuse to listen to those who have. We are, therefore, planning to go ahead on our own. We trust that other airlines will join us.”
Pan American’s rate, effective November 15, would be 35 cents per ton mile for shipments of more than 500 kilos, compared with the present rate of 64 cents per ton mile for shipments of under 45 kilos and 48 cents for shipments of more than 45 kilos.
As an example, a shipment of more than 500 kilos, from New York to London under the Pan American rate, would cost a shipper 60 cents per pound,, as against the present $1.10 rate per pound.
Mr. Lipscomb said that Pan (Continued on Page 2)
ous to that), the Pan Am Club conducted, as its spring social event, a “Snow Ball.” And it was the custom, when that affair was held, to name a Snow Ball Queen who was entitled to a free trip to Paris. But, as the title implies, only females were eligible to be winners.
So the' forthcoming social event of the Pam Am Club will be known as a “Spring Jamboree,” according to Ed Corrigan, chairman of the club’s social activities. And it will be held on March 27, at Lost Battalion Hall in Elmhurst, Queens.
Dancing will be from 9 p.m., until two o’clock the next morning, and the music will be provided by Bob Richardson and his orchestra.
Highlight of the Jamboree will be the selection of a lucky employee of the Atlantic Division who will be entitled to a one-week, expense-paid trip to Paris. And the lucky employee may be either male or female. Here are the rules:
•	Only Atlantic Division employees are eligible for the award.
•	At the time the ticket is purchased, the club representative
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Signed Agreement Grants Increases To 5,000 Coemps
An agreement has been signed by Pan American, with the Transport Workers Union, providing pay increases for approximately 5,000 employees.
The four groups affected, in the company’s operating divisions around the world, are the mechanics (pay scales increased by 11 cents per hour except that inspectors will receive increases from nine to 12 cents per hour); ground service personnel (pay scales increased by 10 cents and hour); port steward personnel (pay scales increased by 11 cents per hour); and flight service personnel (raised approximately $30 per month).
The agreements are all effective as of March 1 and are to continue until May 1, 1954 ,subject to the usual 30-day notice of reopening.
PHL Service Will Begin April First
Pan American will inaugurate direct tourist-fare service from Philadelphia to Europe beginning Wednesday, April 1, it has been announced by Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president in charge of traffic and sales.
The new air service will be operated with new, Super-Six Clippers —latest additions to the Pan American fleet—taking off from International Airport, Philadelphia, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Joseph P. Riley, district manager in Philadelphia, described the Philadelphia-Europe schedules as follows:
Wednesday flights, departing Philadelphia 12:30 noon, will be (Continued on Page 2)
In This Issue
Accra ..................... 8
Barcelona ................. 8
Beirut.....................13
Berlin......................H
Bermuda ...................15
Bombay ....................13
Boston ....................15
Bremen ....................10
Brussels ..................10
Cairo ...................  13
Calcutta................12,13
Dakar...................... 8
Damascus ..................13
Emblem Awards .............12
Flight Personnel .......14,15
Frankfurt ..............10,11
Istanbul ...............12,13
Johannesburg ...........A4, 8
Karachi ..................-12
Leopoldville .............. 8
Lisbon .....................A
London ...................6, 7
Munich ....................10
New Delhi..................12
New York ................5,16
Paris ..................... 8
People Talking ............ 2
Rome ...................... 0
Sports ................... 15
Stockholm................9,10
Stuttgart..................11
System Round-up ........... 3
Vienna ....................10
At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 41,141 transatlantic crossings.