Clipper, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, September 1961

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LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
VOL XVIII, No. 5	MIAMI, FLORIDA, SEPTEMBER 1961
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Pan Am Gets New Route to Mexico City
DIDN'T WE MEET IN MONTEGO?—It was
a case of boy-tries-to-meet-girl when Jaime and Ginger met in Pan Am's Miami cargo terminal where they await Clipper ride.
LOVE HAS JAIME making like a giraffe as he tries to cuddle up a little closer. "Why don't we go into the lounge and have a cocktail, Cutie?" says Jaime to Ginger.
OFF TO DOVER, ROVER—I'll have you know I'm a purr-feet lady. And, anyway, you probably have a wife in Colombia where you're going. Jaime wonders what's happened to his idea.
195 Employes Back at Work In September
Pan American World Airways is expanding its work force at its big Miami base, with the total additional employes expected to reach about 195 by mid-September.
Most of the additional employes are being called back from the ranks of those who were furloughed earlier this year when workloads tapered off and the fierce, uneconomic competition in the Latin American air field forced Pan American to effect all possible economies.
“Bigger workloads caused by additional jet maintenance operations here as well as modification of our fleet of DC-7F cargo Clippers is enabling us to increase our force,” a Pan Am spokesman explained.
About 140 of those being added to Pan Am’s Miami payroll are in the maintenance department, with the others including clerical workers, supply clerks, cleaners and others.
Stewardesses also are being recruited currently by Pan Am to staff the jets and piston-engine Clippers flying the airline’s Latin American routes. In most cases the new stewardesses are being sought to fill vacancies caused by resignations or transfers to other bases on Pan Am’s worldwide system.
Pan American currently employs about 4,500 at its Miami base, with approximately 2,400 of these on the maintenance payroll.
Furloughs necessary earlier this year had affected some 445 workers at Pan Am’s Miami base.
U.S. To Establish Tourist Offices
The United States expects to establish tourist offices in six cities abroad by the end of 1961; all are important traffic-generating points for Pan American.
Voit Gilmore, director of the new U. S. Travel Service, said the offices would try to help the United States catch up with other countries in the promotion of tourism.
The offices will be opened in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Caracas, Sydney and Tokyo. In addition, U. S. Tourist Office representatives will be stationed in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
Prizes for Contributors
Employes Open United Fund Drive Week of October 16th
Pan American’s in-plant solicitation for donations to the 1962 Dade County United Fund campaign will be kicked off the week of October 16. The solicitation will be conducted and completed during a three-day period.
Cards for fair share givers on a<*> continuing basis will be distributed
by teams of workers from the airline and the various unions in which the employes are members.
Employes who signed last year to give a fair share on a continuing basis will not receive cards.
Last year Pan Am employes contributed more than $57,000 with an average of $20 per person being subscribed.
Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president in charge of the Latin American Division, is general chairman of the in-plant drive. Deputy chairman is A. J. Lea Hume, manager of Industrial Relations.
Robert Bush, Division meteorologist, is co-ordinating the campaign through the office of Division Manager William F. Raven.
A list of prizes, donated by Pan American, has been announced.
Continuing fair share givers will be eligible at a drawing for a nosub, round trip family pass to any point in the Latin American Division, plus a week off with pay, plus $125, the trip to be taken any time in 1962.
Fair share contributors who limit their subscriptions to 1962 only, will participate in drawings for ten secondary prizes, each to consist of one free no-sub round trip, non-transferable family pass to any point within 1,000 miles of Miami on Pan American lines; 25 prizes each consisting of a pair of tickets to the annual Orange Bowl football game.
Lesser contributors — each employe who donates $12 or more to the United Fund in this campaign —will participate in a drawing for additional prizes, as follows:
Tax free, sub-lo, non-transferable family passes to any point in LAD within 1,000 miles of Miami.
Twenty-five pairs of tickets to the North-South football game.
Second Quarter Revenue Up; Net Loss $2.5 Million
Pan American World Airways total operating revenues for the second quarter of 1961 were $117,392,000, compared to $105,682,000 in the corresponding period of 1960, according to a report made to stockholders.
Net income after taxes was $3,764,000 or 56.7 cents per share on 6,637,934 shares outstanding compared to $4,437,-000 or 67.2 cents per share on 6,607,342 shares outstanding for the corresponding 1960 period.
Passenger revenue amounted to $88,789,000 in the second quarter of 1961, a 5 per cent increase over the $84,545,000 in the second quarter of 1960. Air cargo revenues were $10,-879,000, up 11 per cent over the $9,806,000 in the second quarter of last year. Operating expenses increased by 11 per cent.
Net loss in the first six months of 1961 was $2,588,000 or 39 cents per share, compared to net profit of $2,332,000 or 35.3 cents per share in the corresponding period last year.
Clipper Passengers Get Coffee Samples
There’s an awful lot of fine coffee in Brazil, and now some of it is going out as gifts to departing tourist visitors.
Passengers aboard Pan American’s jetliners which connect Rio, Brasilia and Sao Paulo with major United States gateways, are surprised when the stewardess hands them a small package of coffee— enough to brew a potful when they get home. With it is a booklet about Brazilian coffee and instructions for brewing.
System Wins New Pact at Missile Range
The Guided Missiles Range Division celebrated its eighth birthday with the approval of its 1961-62 contract—an $87,726,000 assignment to provide administration, logistical support, maintenance, range development, and technical support for the Free World’s probes into space.
Although it is the youngest “wing” of the Company, GMRD’s growth during the last eight years is in keeping with Pan Am’s pioneering traditions.
Mitchell Was Manager
In 1952, while the rest of the Company was preparing to observe Pan Am’s silver anniversary, top officials began drawing up a proposal to the Air Force for the planning, engineering, operation and maintenance of what was then known as the Florida Missile Test Range.
When Pan Am was awarded its initial contract, Richard S. Mitchell was named Project Manager and, with a handful of Pan Am career men, mostly from LAD, molded the division from scratch.
Overall Operation
By January 1954, GMRD was phasing into overall operation of the range, now called the Atlantic Missile Range. Six weeks later, on February 18, the division supported its first missile launching—an air-breathing Snark that wobbled off course and prematurely expired 200 yards off the shore of Cape Canaveral.
From that inauspicious beginning, GMRD has grown—in size, strength, skill and scope. Today it is one of the most competent, diversified engineering and service organizations in the world.
Supports Many Projects
During the past 1960 fiscal year alone, GMRD supported the first underwater Polaris launchings, the inaugural Blue Scout and Minute-man flights, the 1,000th live missile firing at Cape Canaveral, the orbiting of Echo 1, Courier IB and Tiros 11, and Astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic flight through space.
Together with its principal subcontractors, Pan Am’s support team numbers over 9,000 employes —each a specialist.
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Jets to Fly Direct From Miami, Tampa
Service to Start In October; Ties Network Together
Pan American, with its sights on spurring a record flow of two-way travel over the Gulf of Mexico, will inaugurate 575-mile an hour jet flights between Florida and Mexico City in October.
The direct jet flights will place the cosmopolitan Mexican capital within three and one-half hours of Florida’s two largest resort and industrial areas —Miami and Tampa.
Pan Am has just been authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board and President John F. Kennedy to start the service October 20.
The new air link enables the airline to tie together a vast Latin American network and offer the U. S. traveler one-carrier service criss-crossing Mid-America, the Caribbean and South America.
CAB Cites Development
In awarding the Mexico air link, the CAB cited that Pan Am is planning a more vigorous development of the travel market than did other bidding airlines. The Board also noted that Pan Am is in an ideal position to offer attractive and convenient circle tours and connections to all parts of Latin America.
Pan Am’s long-standing identity with air service in Mexico and millions of dollars spent in promotional and advertising efforts on behalf of that country over more than 30 years also were noted by the CAB. The airline pioneered air service between the U. S. and Mexico in 1929 and has served Mexico City continuously since then and Merida since 1931.
Service From Gateways
With the start of the new service, Pan Am will serve Mexico City by jetliners from four U. S. gateways:
From Miami and Tampa with direct flights via Merida.
From Houston with nonstop flights.
From New Orleans with flights that merge at Merida for Mexico City.
The airline’s jet routes system from Mexico City stretch through Mid America to Panama, where flights fan out to circle both coasts of South America and also cut directly through the heart of Continued on Page 3
Airline Will Fly Salesmen to Rio
A jetliner airlift to fly a thousand or more United States air conditioning salesmen and their wives to Rio will be operated by Pan American during late September and most of October.
The travelers to be airlifted are winners of expense-paid vacations in sales incentive contests sponsored by the Fedders Corporation of New York.
Most of the DC-8 jet flights are to originate in New York and the 4,000-mile trip down to Rio is believed to be one of the longest group movements of sales contest winners on record.
Starting September 6 and continuing for 11 consecutive weeks, Pan Am will operate another airlift to carry 2,750 Fedders’ contest winners from 19 U. S. cities and Canada to St. Croix, Virgin Islands.