Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 2, February 1955

              FEBRUARY 1955


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New Sao Paulo Offices
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Governor, Cardinal Officiate At Opening Day Ceremonies
Keeping pace with booming Brazil, PAA has inaugurated a modernistic new sales office in the heart of Sao Paulo which will offer round-the-clock telephone and information service to the traveling public.	*
The spacious office, staffed by a team of 36 trained Brazilians, was opened officially January 17 by Governor Lucas Nogueira Garcez of the state of Sao Paulo, who pressed a button connecting the office with 418 Pan American stations in 83 other countries of the world.
After a brief address by Governor Garcez hailing PAA’s role in the development of commercial aviation in Brazil, the office was blessed by Cardinal Carlos Carmello de Vasconcellos Motta, Archbishop of Sao Paulo.
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CUTTING THE TAPE symbolizing the start of the new Sao Paulo office is Governor Lucas Nogueira Garcez, as Vice-President Humphrey W. Toomey, second from right, watches. At the right is Paul N. Dault, newly appointed traffic and sales manager in Sao Paulo. Teletypist Douglas Jeffrey Mellor is at the left, while Jack Clark, public relations representative, is partially hidden by the governor. The Sao Paulo office is the 419th in the PAA world network.
PAA Extends Pay Later Plan To Puerto Rico
Made available in Latin America for the first time, PAA’s revolutionary Fly Now, Pay Later plan for air travel is being inaugurated in Puerto Rico.
It will be operated in the island under a contract with Banco Cre-dito y Ahorro Ponceno, one of the Caribbean commonwealth’s largest banking institutions.
Under it, Puerto Ricans will be able to visit any of the 84 countries served by PAA with no down payment and up to 20 mortths to pay the entire cost' in monthly installments.
Even hotel expenses, sightseeing tours, connecting transportation and such other related services may be included in the financing.
The plan, which has been adopted by more than 80 other airlines since it was pioneered by Pan American 10 months ago, represents another “first” for PAA in bringing mass air transportation to Puerto Rico. The airline inaugurated low cost tourist fares there in 1948.
In Puerto Rico, residents may make application for proposed Pay Later trips in PAA or travel agents’ offices and the applications can be cleared within 24 hours in any of the 15 cities throughout the island where there are branches of the Banco Credito y Ahorro Ponceno, bank officials said.
Adoption of the plan is expected to provide a major travel impetus for the island, which is on PAA’s main lines to New York, Miami, South America, and other Caribbean islands.
Pay Later has opened the travel door to many who never before could afford it. PAA records show that these budget-vacationists have made $3,000,000 worth of Clipper trips since the plan’s inception.
Studeman Is Honored
Capt. Oliver J. Studeman, LAD Operations Manager, was elected recently to a three-year term on the vestry of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church in Coconut Grove, Florida.
Humphrey W. Toomey, Vice President in charge of PAA operations in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, introduced visiting dignitaries to government, airline, press and radio representatives and others attending the ceremony.
PAA executives from Miami, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro also were on hand. They included Edwin Drescher, LAD Manager, and Mario J. Martinez, Traffic and Sales Manager.
Others in attendance were Geo. P. Smith, General Manager of PAA, and Fred F. Plimpton, District Traffic and Sales Manager, both from Buenos Aires; Clarence E. Moore, Director and District Traffic-Sales Manager, Montevideo; and Hilbert W. Peterson, Regional Traffic and Sales Manager, from Rio de Janeiro.
Presiding at the ceremonies was Paul N. Dault, newly appointed District Traffic and Sales Manager in Sao Paulo.
Predominant in the color scheme of the ultra-modern office are blue, gray, green and brown. The counters are illuminated by over-hanging spotlights.
The reservations section of the office is located in the rear of the ticket office, while the executive offices are on the mezzanine floor.
GIVING HIS BLESSINGS to the new Sao Paulo sales offices was Cardinal Carlos'Carmelo de Vasconcellos Motta, who looks over the interior with Edwin Drescher, LAD Manager who went to Sao Paulo for the ceremonies. Mario Martinez, Traffic and Sales Manager, also was present.
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Moving This Family Is Really Expensive
Justin Joseph would do well to charter a plane when he moves his family around Latin America.
The oil company employe listed 11 dependents when he boarded a PAA flight from Maracaibo, Venezuela, to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, recently.
His wife Candida accompanied him, along with 10 children, Justin, Jr.; Carlos, Cirilo, Magdalena, Lilia, Rita, William, Candida, Olga and little John, the baby.
Chichester Appointed Cargo Sales Chief
SYDNEY CHICHESTER
Sydney R. Chichester, a big man in LAD’s cargo sales department, has been appointed sales superintendent of PAA’s booming Latin American cargo business.
Besides the jovial friendliness which marks him as one of the best known persons around PAF, “Chi” brings to his new job nearly 13 years experience in various phases of the cargo operation.
As superintendent, he is responsible for the direction of all cargo sales activities throughout Latin America. He assumes his new position at a time when LAD cargo traffic is expected to set all-time records.
Chi has been with PAA since he started as a clerk in the then small cargo section back in 1942. Since that time, he has filled various posi-
tions, including those of sales coordinator, assistant station cargo manager and cargo supervisor.
Most of his life has been spent in Miami, but he was born in New York City in 1912. He took a cue from George Washington and dates February 22 as his birthday. He got a fast start on the measuring tape and used up quite a bit of it before he stopped growing.
Today, he claims he is “only 5 ft. 16 in. tall” and has pared off enough weight to tip the scales in the neighborhood of 230 lbs.
Chi lives in Miami with his wife and daughter and has a son in the U.S. Air Force.
His new appointment fills a vacancy created by the resignation of Shelby W. Merrill, February 1.
FRED P. JENSEN
Fred Jensen Assumes LAD Traffic Post
Frederick P. Jensen, who joined PAA 12 years ago as a traffic clerk, has been named LAD passenger traffic manager.
Jensen, who has been division reservations superintendent for the past eight years, succeeds Milton L. Patterson, resigned.
In his new position, Jensen directs plane scheduling, immigration procedures, fares and passenger handling for PAA’s Latin American network. He is responsible for setting up the intricate inter-connecting flight schedules maintained throughout 33 Latin American countries and colonies served by the PAA System.
Jensen moves into his new post at a time when Pan American’s passenger and cargo traffic in Latin America is flowing at a record high level.
In his career with PAA, Jensen was assistant and later superintendent of district reservations in Miami before he was named division reservations superintendent in 1947.
He is graduate of Central High School in Syracuse, studied banking in an extension course at Syracuse University and was employed there for a time by a bank. He lives with his family at 289 N. E. 104th St., Miami Shores.
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Smith Heads 3-Way Shift In Reservations
Frank B. Smith, a veteran of more than 10 years with Pan American World Airways, is the new LAD reservations superintendent in Miami in a three-way shift of reservations officials.
Smith, who began his career with PAA as a reservations clerk in Miami, for the past four years had been assistant to Division Reservations Superintendent Frederick P. Jensen, recently appointed division passenger traffic manager.
Gilbert E. Broking, a 13-year-
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LAD Gives Red Cross Old Spanish Magazines
Spanish language newspaper and magazines left aboard PAi Clippers are being put to good us when the planes return to Miam:
The Red Cross in Miami has e> pressed its “most grateful thanks to LAD personnel who are colled ing the reading material to be dis tributed to Spanish-speaking pe tients in Miami’s county hospita:
Cameraman Coes Berserk;
Employes of LAD!
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