Pan American clipper, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 1949

              PAN AMERICAN
ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 7
March, 1949
Number 3
Johnson Named çar| Kneisel Joins 20-Year Ranks; Supply Manager
Bruce J. Johnson has been appointed Atlantic Division supply manager, succeeding Wayne R. Keagle, who has left the company.
Born in Sidney, Montana, Mr. Johnson was graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a B.A. degree in economics and business administration.
Shortly after graduating from college, on May 5, 1941, Mr. Johnson joined Pan American in Seattle as a stock clerk. He advanced to storekeeper, chief storekeeper and superintendent of supply in Seattle then, in 1946, kwent to San Francisco as purchasing agent ’for the Pacific-Alaska Division. Later that year he became Division supply manager for PAD and he moved to the Atlantic Division as assistant supply manager a year ago.
Mr. Johnson is married and the father of a two-year-old son, Philip. They live in East Meadow, L. I.
B. F. Johnson
PanAm Club Store Adds Varied Items
Television sets, flight jackets, and expert radio repair service are among the newest attractions at the PanAm Club Store, adjacent to the NBA cafeteria. “In fact, we’ll get just about anything for you, except possibly a new car,” says Ralph Parchini, proprietor, who got his training behind the counter of a huge Army PX in Linz, Austria.
Business continues brisk at the Club Store, with electrical items most in demand by the company employes who take advantage of the substantial price savings. One television set is on display in the store, and any other television model, including radio and phonograph combinations, may be ordered at discounts ranging from 20 to 27 per cent under the retail prices.
Orders are also being taken for flight jackets — with a fabric model selling for $7.30 and a capeskin leather version priced at $10.65.
Radio repair service is being offered at a flat fee of $3.25, with a 30 per cent discount available on replaced parts. Repairs are completed in one week or less.
Employes in great numbers are patronizing the store’s thrifty film developing service, witb films picked up and delivered daily. Twice each week orders for drug and cosmetic items are filled. Subscriptions to all popular magazines are also taken at the store. The PanAm Club Store may be reached on Ext. 524.
Christensen, Capt. Cone End 15 Years
Carl M. Kneisel, Atlantic Division airways superintendent, reached the 20-year mark in his Pan American career last month. Since joining PA A at Miami in February, 1929, as an inspector, Mr. Kneisel has served the company in the US and overseas as chief mechanic, airport manager, section operations superintendent, and in his present capacity as head of airways.
Mr. Kneisel, who entered the aviation field as a barnstorming pilot, came to Pan American from the Fokker Aircraft Corporation and was first put in charge of the overhaul of Fokker Ts and Sikorsky 38’s. After eight months in this job he received his first overseas assignment with a transfer to the Panama Division as Division chief mechanic. Later assignments were to take him to Havana, Buenos Aires, Shediac, Botwood, Horta, Lisbon and Liberia.
In 1937, Mr. Kneisel was sent to China to arrange for the delivery of two Sikorsky 43’s. One of these amphibians was consigned to CNAC, while the other went to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, whom Mr. Kneisel met at that time. Mr. Kneisel returned to the US and the Atlantic Division in June, 1937. He has held his present post since 1944.
Mr. Kneisel, his wife, and their son, Carl, Jr., live in Malba, L. I.
15-Year Men
Captain	Howard M.	Cone,	veteran PAA
pilot, and Walter A. Christensen, senior aircraft	dispatcher, have both	completed 15
years with Pan American.
Captain Cone, a native of Crossett, Ark., was graduated from the University of Washington and received his wings with the Navy at Pensacola, Fla. He joined Pan American at Miami in February, 1934, and transferred to the	Pacific Divi-
sion the following year. In August, 1937 he returned to Miami and flew throughout South America. He has been with the Atlantic Division since 1941.
During his eight years flying transatlantic routes, Captain Cone has become celebrated as the pilot of many distinguished passengers. He was in command of the Dixie Clipper, which carried President Roosevelt and his advisers to the historic war-time conference at Casablanca. In 1943 he flew Queen Wilhel-mina of the Netherlands from New York to Ireland, and more recently he was at the controls of the Clipper that flew the Queen Mother of Egypt and her two daughters to the United States.
Captain Cone to date has amassed a total of 11,754 flying hours. He and his family live in Douglaston, L. I.
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Carl M. Kneisel
proudly displays his four-starred pin as he begins his twenty-first year with PAA.
Transfer Unit Aids
Traveling Co-emps
Atlantic Division employes planning Clipper travel for either business or personal reasons may now make all arrangements for tickets, insurance and cash advances through the transfer section, it is announced by Thomas D. Toberty, personnel manager.
An employe planning a trip now has only to report to Helen Hannon and her staff in Room 2238, north wing, armed with a request for a trip pass or a memo authorizing travel, signed by the department head. The transfer unit will prepare complete travel orders, arrange for cash advances, issue the necessary tickets and, where it is requested, sell personal accident or baggage insurance.
This coordinated service, it is explained, saves time and trouble for the employe and for the company. The transfer unit is expected to move to the second floor of the south wing within a few weeks.
Captain Cone
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