Clipper, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1952

              VOL. 9 —No. 1
JANUARY 1952
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New Records Set in LAD and System During ’51
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'Management Training' Program Opens for LADers at Miami
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Eight Men Selected For 'Class’
Program Will Run For Two-and-a-Half Years
An intensive two-and-a-half year “Rotation Training Program,” designed to provide top-flight managerial personnel for LAD in the years to come, has been launched in Miami, with eight hand-picked employes as the first trainees.
The program—most elaborate and comprehensive ever undertaken in LAD to develop management talent—was worked out by a committee of Division Executives with the aim of giving the trainees a full, well-rounded understanding of all division operations.
“When the men selected for this training, complete the program, they will be qualified to take any assignment in LAD, up to the department head level,” said Wilbur L. Morrison, PAA Vice President in charge of LAD. “I am sure this program will be of definite benefit to Pan American, as well as to the individuals selected to take part in it.”
Under the program, trainees will spend from two to 26 weeks on an actual working assignment in each Department of the Division. Thus they will know all the ramifications of each operation and its interlocking relationship with other departments.
In addition, each man is being given intensive language training, and is required to qualify in at least one of those used in Latin America.
Selection of the first eight trainees was made by the Executive Committee which worked out the details of the training program. On the committee áre Edwin Drescher, Division Accountant; Porter Norris, LAD Traffic and Sales Manager; Richard S. Mitchell, LAD Ground Operations Manager, and A. J. Lea Hume, LAD Industrial Relations Manager.
“Naturally,., the., committee found it impossible to single out the eight BEST men in LAD,” said Hume. “So we concentrated on those men who have been with the company long enough to demonstrate management potentialities through their qualities of leadership, high moral character, initiative, reliability, technical proficiency in their own line of work, and other exacting qualities necessary to management men.”
The men selected ai'e: Edwin B. Weissinger, Personnel Superintendent handling flight and management groups; Thomas J. Townsend, LAD Flight Operations Controller; Findley B. Howard, Station Manager at Maiquetia, Venezuela; Julio W. Mijares, District Sales Manager in Panama; Howard F. Jacobson, Station Manager at San Salvador; Charles C. Fleming, Supervisor of Component and Continued from Page 3
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COLOMBIA HONORS TRIPPE—PAA President Juan T. Trippe, right, receives the rank of Knight of the Order of Boyaca from Dr. Juan Uribe Holguin, Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, during his recent visit to Latin America. The award was presented to the PAA President in recognition of having rendered “invaluable services in furthering friendly relations among countries and developing international air transportation.”
President of PAA Decorated By Colombian Government
Juan T. Trippe, President of PAA, has received another signal honor for his world-wide aviation achievements.
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Knight of the Order of Boyaca, a decoration presented only to those who have distinguished themselves as benefactors of Colombia or humanity.
Mr. Trippe qualifies on both counts, as the citation attests.
Presented to the PAA President by Dr. Juan Uribe Holguin, Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, during Mr. Trippe’s recent visit to Bogota, the decoration reads, in part:
“Juan T. Trippe, founder of Pan American World Airways, and president of said organization for the past 24 years, has rendered invaluable services in furthering friendly relations among countries and developing international air transportation, and has contributed effectively to the advancement of civil aviation in Colombia.”
The decree was signed by Dr. Roberto Urdanta Arbelaez, acting President of Colombia.
The Order of Boyaca commemorates the battle of Boyaca on August 7, 1819, which won from Spain the independence of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Panama.
Other wearers of the Boyaca Cross include the late U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Laureano Gomez of Co-
Lasso of Ecuador.
The honor is the latest of many conferred on Mr. Trippe by governments around the world. They include the Order of the Southern Cross by Brazil, the Order of Brilliant Jade by Nationalist China, the Order of Christ by Portugal, the Order of the Crown by Belgium and the Order of Christopher Columbus by the Dominican Republic.
Holder of a Master of Arts degree from Yale University, Mr. Trippe also has been awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from the Universities of California, Miami and Boston.
Record Shipment Of Drugs to Panama
Three plane loads of “miracle” drugs were flown by PAA from Miami to Panama iir what is believed to be the biggest international air shipment of its kind on record.
The shipment consisted of 41,000 pounds of anti-biotics—terramycin, penicillin and dihydrostreptomycin.
Shipper was Charles Pfizer Company of New York, which sent the drugs to its new Latin American branch, Laboratorios Pfizer, recently established in the foreign trade zone at Colon, Panama.
Clark Named New President Of Cubana
Sergio I. Clark, former Minister of Communications and a prominent figure in Cuban public affairs for many years, has been named president of Compania Cubana de Aviacion (Cubana), an affiliate of PAA.
He succeeds the late Antonio Tarafa Govin.
Clark formerly served as a Vice President of Cubana, which operates 11,982 international and 1,929 domestic route-miles, linking all parts of the island republic and spanning the Atlantic to Madrid, by way of Bermuda, the Azores and Lisbon.
The new Cubana president is a former executive of several Cuban railroad companies. He also has served on various government committees organized to solve transportation problems involving land, sea anH air carriers and is considered an authority in the entire transportation field.
In elevating Clark to the presidency of the company, Cubana also announced appointment of Dr. Jorge Barroso, prominent Cuban financial figure, to the Board of Directors.
Other Cubana officials include Augustin Batista, Vice President; Warren A. Pine, Vice President and General Manager, and Dr. Carlos N. Parraga, Antonio Falcon, Ramon Perez Daple, Wilbur L. Morrison and Frank Powers, Directors.
Passenger And Cargo Figures Up
Exceed Million Mark Second Straight Year
The biggest traffic volume in its 24-year history was transported during 1951 by LAD.
And in like fashion, PAA carried more passengers and cargo on its global routes during 1951 than in any previous year.
Figures reveal a record 788,919 passengers traveled by Clipper during the year in LAD with the total for the System hitting 1,289,000 —the second consecutive 12-months it has exceeded the million mark.
The LAD passenger figure represents a 12 per cent increase over the 704,211 carried in 1950. The system increase was 271.000 passengers.
Aircargo kept pace with the high-flying passenger statistics. In LAD, we transported 44,805,-818 revenue pounds of perishables, live animals and general merchandise during 1951. Throughout the PAA System we carried 77,059,000 pounds.
The cargo figures in LAD represent an increase of almost 5,000,-000 pounds, while those for the System represent a 21,659,000-pound increase.
Cargo shipments ranged from
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Port of Spain First In 'Opportunity’ Drive
Port of Spain took first prize in group 1 and Forte de France, with 245.20 per cent of quota, was tops in Group 4, and also registered the greatest percentage over its sales quota, during the recently completed LAD Opportunity Sales Contest.
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quota, led Group Two stations and Curacao, with 174 per cent of quota, was tops in Group Three, to round out the list of first place winners.
With stations competing for a “bag full of prizes,” final results of the contest showed that LAD competing stations went 14 per cent over the quota set for the two-months’ drive.
Some of the oustanding results of the campaign were that all stations competing in Group One exceeded their quota from Port of Spain’s high of 33.59 per cent, to Buenos Aires’ nearly seven per cent.
In addition, five of the seven stations in Group Two also exceeded their quotas; eight of nine stations in Group Three, and four of nine in Group Four.
So successful was the campaign that LAD sales officials in Miami announced that the contest is to be an annual affair.
Final results by groups:
Group One
Port of Spain __________133.59
Montevideo _____________122.52
Caracas ____________.___ 117.33
Guatemala______________114.46
Panama ________________111.20
San Juan_______________109.21
Buenos Aires___________106.72
Group Two
Kingston ______________187.29
San Jose ______________122.01
Salvador ______________116.50
Port-au-Prince ________114.95
Managua _______________102.56
Maracaibo _____________ 93.60
Ciudad Trujillo________ 93.22
Group Three
Curacao ______________ 174.13
Fort Davis (Canal Zone_.148.71
Georgetown_____________127.90
Maiquetia __1._________126.04
Barcelona _____________123.37
St. Croix _____________113.91
Nassau ________________113.35
St. Thomas ____________108.55
Tegucigalpa ___________ 87.08
Group Four
Fort de France ______  245.20
Point a Pitre _________233.85
Cayenne________________169.28
St. Lucia______________130.07
Montego Bay ___________ 83.99
Paramaribo ____________ 80.39
Belize ________________ 69.25
Maturin _______________ 69.22
St. Johns _____________ 65.23