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PAA’s Global Birthday Cake Is Now
Late in October, a great international airline that literally rose out of a mud flat celebrated its 27th anniversary.
PA A, first airline to carry the United States flag to the four corners of the earth, today is a monument largely to men who dared dream and who kept faith in the face of every obstacle.
Graced With 27 Candles
An old Fokker tri-motored plane soared off a rough airstrip carved out of a Key West mud flat on October 28, 1927, for a 90-mile flight to Havana that put PAA in business as an international airline.
Three planes, $300,000 in capital, 75 employes and a 90-mile,
two-country route—that was PAA then.
Today, some 125 Clippers ply
650.000 miles of global airlanes that circle the earth and some
17.000 employes are scattered over the 84 countries which PAA serves.
In a little more than two years
after the first Key West-Havana flight, President Juan L. Trippe had pushed PAA routes over more than 11,000 miles of ocean, jungle and mountains. Clippers were flying through Central America. Mexico and the Caribbean. PAA with its affiliate, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra), was flying down the west coast of South America and across the soaring Andes to Buenos Aires.
Wilbur L. Morrison, today’s PAA executive vice president in charge of the Latin American division
was one of the men responsible for the early mushrooming growth as well as the steady expansion that has continued over a quarter of a century, Morrison has spent his entire aviation career in Latin America.
He became traffic manager of PAA’s Mexican affiliate, Com-pania Mexicana de Aviacion, in 1928. The next year Morrison was named PAA special representative in Central America and obtained the airline’s earliest concessions in Guatemala, El
Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama—concessions through which those countries became directly linked for the first time with other countries in North and South America.
Morrison was named general manager of CMA in 1935, and subsequently manager of PAA’s former Western Division. In 1944 he became head of the company’s entire' Latin American’ Division.
A man who has done much to guide Pan American’s financial (Please Turn To Page 11)
PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 5
FULL PAGE OF PICTURES FROM GUATEMALA CITY
VOL 11, NO. 11
Pan American World Aìrwavs LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
UPPER
NOVEMBER 1954
THE CARGO STORY
Two Full Pages of Pictures Turn To Pages 6 - 7
541101
Fanny Is Folded Up For Shipment
GORGEOUS GALS just don’t seem to get along together. Oney Ferro, left, of Miami traffic, doesn’t care to have much to do with Fanny Flamingo being held by Clifford Fiddy, Miami fleet serviceman. Cliff is showing how a gal’s long legs should be doubled up for shipment. We mean long-necked Fanny’s legs, of course. She is one of 10 flown to the rare bird farm at the government aquarium at Bermuda.
Clippers Speed Aid to Stricken Haiti, Honduras
Emergency Red Cross shipments of vaccine and other medical supplies totaling more than a ton were rushed by PAA to hurricane-hit Haiti and flood-stricken Honduras.
Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds of typhus vaccine were flown nearly 3,000 miles from Toronto, Canada, to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The rush air cargo, packed in cartons, was sent by the Canadian Red Cross to the Honduran Red Cross to meet an epidemic threat in the Central American country, hard hit by rampaging rivers.
At the same time, a Pan American Clipper flew 1,200 pounds of drugs and disinfectants from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port-au-Prince for use by the Haitian Red Cross in caring for victims of hurricane Hazel which hit the Caribbean nation. It brought the total of PAA flown supplies to Haiti to nearly 4,000 pounds.
Pan American already has rushed medical and other relief supplies totalling 2,431 pounds to Haiti from Jamaica and Curacao, Netherlands West Indies.
All of the relief shipments have been flown by PAA free of charge.
A giant Pan American Boeing “Strato” Clipper, which was on an exhibition flight in Canada, flew the typhus vaccine from Toronto to New York October 18.
Rec Clubhouse Deal Is Closed
The Panair Recreational Club, Inc., October 29 became the owner of the 11-acre lake-front clubhouse site it has sought to buy for the last three months.
Closing details on purchase of the property, on which a deposit was made by the club in July, followed re-zoning approval of the tract by the Miami City Commission. The tract is located on Blue Lagoon north of N. W. Seventh Street and west of 42nd Avenue .
Dan Verlin, club president, said development plans for the tract will be announced within the next few weeks.
“We plan to get clearing of the land and construction of our facilities underway at the earliest possible date”, Verlin declared.
The weekend of rain, which be-* gan Oct. 1 and totalled 11 inches before it let up, closed the airport to air traffic for two days. As the flooded conditions let up the field was opened to limited traffic, mostly daylight operation.
The easterly wave which moved in from the gulf covered the terminal building floor with more than seven inches of water. Many employees tied their shoes around their necks and sloshed through their daily routine.
Arrangements were made with the Miami dispatch center to take
Easy For All Except Russians, Red China
In the October issue of The Clipper a story appeared about the Dominican Republic easing its rules to any visitor regardless of nationality on presentation of a simple tourist card.
This is true for all countries EXCEPT Red China and the Iron Curtain aliens.
The Dominican Republic is very anxious that these two exceptions be noted by all countries so The Clipper is pointing it out to all stations.
But you’ll have to attend if you* want to know what those prizes and surprises are.
Plans have been completed to handle more than 10,000 mem-
over the Western Sector dispatching in the event communications at Brownsville went out. They did go out briefly but were quickly put back into working order.
Miami’s flight watch was set up so there was duplicate control of the flight dispatch operation. Miami also was ready to take immediate control of dispatching if anything had happened to the underground cables at Brownsville.
At the last report, all feet, shoes and socks had been dried and operations were back to normal.
Tuck Them In And Away-ay They Go
Ten flexible flamingoes, their long legs and pink feathers folded neatly into cardboard boxes, were flown from Miami to Nassau by PAA enroute to a Bermuda zoo.
The Rare Bird Farm of Miami, which imported the tropical birds from Colombia, said folding flamingoes is a brand new shipping stunt.
“Doesn’t hurt the birds a bit,” a spokesman said. “They bend like pretzels.”
bers of the LAD family along with their wives and sweethearts. Additional food lines will speed your getting mighty tasty eats and, of course, there will be a day-long schedule of events to keep you busy.
Again there will be free rides for all youngsters throughout the day. A larger committee this year will speed them on and off the various rides so that they will have just that much more fun.
The picnic gets under way at 9 o’clock in the morning with races for the children beginning an hour later. At 10:30 the old-timers at PAF and COB will engage in what is called a softball contest. An hour later the food and drink department opens.
The first drawing for prizes will be held at 1 p.m. Races for the adults begin a half hour later. At 4:30 the final drawing for prizes will be held. This will be followed by community singing at 5.
At 6 o’clock dancing will start and continue until closing time.
All Is Ready For LAD’s Annual Picnic November 6 At Crandon
Prizes and surprises aplenty are in store for the PAA family in Miami, Saturday, November 6, when LAD holds its 27th annual picnic at Crandon Park and Virginia Key.
Brownsville’s Barefoot Boys Weren’t Singin’ In The Rain
PAA’s Brownsville folks literally waded through their work in the early part of last month as heavy rains deluged the base.
U. S. Newsmen Visit Guatemala To Aid Lowered Tourist Trade
A group of 75 leading U. S. editors and writers are being* invited on a 10-day good-will tour to Guatemala, November 6-15 in a move designed to help the country recapture her formerly-flourishing tourist business.
The newsmen will be flown by* PAA to see the steps being taken to re-establish the business that shriveled up in recent years under the unfriendly, Communist-tinged regime that was recently overthrown.
Guatemala once attracted about 50,000 tourists a year, but in 1953 the number had dwindled to less than 4,000.
The good will flight was arranged by Pan American with the cooperation of the new Guatemalan government and business leaders of the country. The U.S. embassy and representatives of U.S. interests in Guatemala also are lending full support.
Observers in both countries have emphasized the importance to the Guatemalan economy generally of quickly restoring tourism to a par with bananas and coffee as a major revenue producer for the country.
The good will flight will serve to introduce the United States editors to the new Guatemalan government and its objectives, let them see what happened during the former Communist regime and show them the country’s outstanding tourist facilities.
One of the high points of the editors’ stay will be an interview with President Carlos Castillo
Armas, the formerly-exiled Guatemalan Army officer who led the forces of liberation which ousted the Communist-dominated government.
Guatemalan government officials will outline work being planned to rehabilitate its tourist facilities, including construction of new roads, building of airports in picturesque back country areas and opening of new attractions.
One group of far western hews-men will be flown to Guatemala City from Los Angeles, a southwestern group will leave from PAA’s gateway at Houston, a mid-western contingent will take off from New Orleans, and the eastern group will leave from Miami after a special flight from New York, and Washington.
The press flight is another step in the tourist-promotion campaign that was intensified by PAA even while the new Guatamalan government was only days old.
Traffic and sales specialists were sent into the country immediately to gather fresh information on hotels, restaurants, sightseeing and other tourist facilities. Their full reports already have been distributed to PAA offices and travel agents throughout the world.
San Juan Management Clubbers Aid Legless Puerto Rican Boy
A wheel chair was flown 3,450 miles to aid a crippled Puerto Rican youth under the wing of the PAA Management Club of San Juan. *
With it, 13-year-old Monchito Batista was able to get around by himself again and even go back to school instead of spending his days begging alms while being carried on the shoulders of playmates.
PAA club officials, who rallied to the legless youth’s aid when his case was brought to their attention, had to go all the way to Los Angeles to get the kind of chair that Monchito needs.
The San Juan youth lost both legs nqar the hips about a year ago when he fell beneath the wheels of a train while playing. Since getting out of the hospital. Monchito has been having his little friends carry him onto San Juan buses, where he begged donations from the passengers.
Monchito was in the third grade when the accident occurred. He got good grades and would have liked to continue, but, as he said, “I need a little cart to get around”.
PAA Management Club officials decided he should have not only a little cart, but the most modern wheel chair they could get, best suited to his needs.
A check showed that no such vehicile was available in San Juan. Station Manager Andy Monteath and Cargo Manager Will Harter, who were going to Miami, were commissioned to seek one there.
After considerable discussion. Charles Phillips, of the Surgical Equipment Co., of Miami, recommended that the San Juan men go direct to Everest & Jennings, wheel chair manufacturers of Los Angeles. to get the vehicle that would be best for Monchito.
As their part of the project, officials of the Miami surgical supnly firm offered to take care of the cost of having the chair
flown from Los Angeles to Miami.
Once in Miami, the chair was loaded aboard a Clipper, and now Monchito is ready to go back to school.
s
BURDEN no longer to his friends is 13-year-old Monchito Batista whose only means of getting around was on the shoulders of friends like Isidoro Garcia, here.
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| Full Text | PAA’s Global Birthday Cake Is Now Late in October, a great international airline that literally rose out of a mud flat celebrated its 27th anniversary. PA A, first airline to carry the United States flag to the four corners of the earth, today is a monument largely to men who dared dream and who kept faith in the face of every obstacle. Graced With 27 Candles An old Fokker tri-motored plane soared off a rough airstrip carved out of a Key West mud flat on October 28, 1927, for a 90-mile flight to Havana that put PAA in business as an international airline. Three planes, $300,000 in capital, 75 employes and a 90-mile, two-country route—that was PAA then. Today, some 125 Clippers ply 650.000 miles of global airlanes that circle the earth and some 17.000 employes are scattered over the 84 countries which PAA serves. In a little more than two years after the first Key West-Havana flight, President Juan L. Trippe had pushed PAA routes over more than 11,000 miles of ocean, jungle and mountains. Clippers were flying through Central America. Mexico and the Caribbean. PAA with its affiliate, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra), was flying down the west coast of South America and across the soaring Andes to Buenos Aires. Wilbur L. Morrison, today’s PAA executive vice president in charge of the Latin American division was one of the men responsible for the early mushrooming growth as well as the steady expansion that has continued over a quarter of a century, Morrison has spent his entire aviation career in Latin America. He became traffic manager of PAA’s Mexican affiliate, Com-pania Mexicana de Aviacion, in 1928. The next year Morrison was named PAA special representative in Central America and obtained the airline’s earliest concessions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama—concessions through which those countries became directly linked for the first time with other countries in North and South America. Morrison was named general manager of CMA in 1935, and subsequently manager of PAA’s former Western Division. In 1944 he became head of the company’s entire' Latin American’ Division. A man who has done much to guide Pan American’s financial (Please Turn To Page 11) PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 5 FULL PAGE OF PICTURES FROM GUATEMALA CITY VOL 11, NO. 11 Pan American World Aìrwavs LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION UPPER NOVEMBER 1954 THE CARGO STORY Two Full Pages of Pictures Turn To Pages 6 - 7 541101 Fanny Is Folded Up For Shipment GORGEOUS GALS just don’t seem to get along together. Oney Ferro, left, of Miami traffic, doesn’t care to have much to do with Fanny Flamingo being held by Clifford Fiddy, Miami fleet serviceman. Cliff is showing how a gal’s long legs should be doubled up for shipment. We mean long-necked Fanny’s legs, of course. She is one of 10 flown to the rare bird farm at the government aquarium at Bermuda. Clippers Speed Aid to Stricken Haiti, Honduras Emergency Red Cross shipments of vaccine and other medical supplies totaling more than a ton were rushed by PAA to hurricane-hit Haiti and flood-stricken Honduras. Thirteen hundred and fifty pounds of typhus vaccine were flown nearly 3,000 miles from Toronto, Canada, to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The rush air cargo, packed in cartons, was sent by the Canadian Red Cross to the Honduran Red Cross to meet an epidemic threat in the Central American country, hard hit by rampaging rivers. At the same time, a Pan American Clipper flew 1,200 pounds of drugs and disinfectants from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port-au-Prince for use by the Haitian Red Cross in caring for victims of hurricane Hazel which hit the Caribbean nation. It brought the total of PAA flown supplies to Haiti to nearly 4,000 pounds. Pan American already has rushed medical and other relief supplies totalling 2,431 pounds to Haiti from Jamaica and Curacao, Netherlands West Indies. All of the relief shipments have been flown by PAA free of charge. A giant Pan American Boeing “Strato” Clipper, which was on an exhibition flight in Canada, flew the typhus vaccine from Toronto to New York October 18. Rec Clubhouse Deal Is Closed The Panair Recreational Club, Inc., October 29 became the owner of the 11-acre lake-front clubhouse site it has sought to buy for the last three months. Closing details on purchase of the property, on which a deposit was made by the club in July, followed re-zoning approval of the tract by the Miami City Commission. The tract is located on Blue Lagoon north of N. W. Seventh Street and west of 42nd Avenue . Dan Verlin, club president, said development plans for the tract will be announced within the next few weeks. “We plan to get clearing of the land and construction of our facilities underway at the earliest possible date”, Verlin declared. The weekend of rain, which be-* gan Oct. 1 and totalled 11 inches before it let up, closed the airport to air traffic for two days. As the flooded conditions let up the field was opened to limited traffic, mostly daylight operation. The easterly wave which moved in from the gulf covered the terminal building floor with more than seven inches of water. Many employees tied their shoes around their necks and sloshed through their daily routine. Arrangements were made with the Miami dispatch center to take Easy For All Except Russians, Red China In the October issue of The Clipper a story appeared about the Dominican Republic easing its rules to any visitor regardless of nationality on presentation of a simple tourist card. This is true for all countries EXCEPT Red China and the Iron Curtain aliens. The Dominican Republic is very anxious that these two exceptions be noted by all countries so The Clipper is pointing it out to all stations. But you’ll have to attend if you* want to know what those prizes and surprises are. Plans have been completed to handle more than 10,000 mem- over the Western Sector dispatching in the event communications at Brownsville went out. They did go out briefly but were quickly put back into working order. Miami’s flight watch was set up so there was duplicate control of the flight dispatch operation. Miami also was ready to take immediate control of dispatching if anything had happened to the underground cables at Brownsville. At the last report, all feet, shoes and socks had been dried and operations were back to normal. Tuck Them In And Away-ay They Go Ten flexible flamingoes, their long legs and pink feathers folded neatly into cardboard boxes, were flown from Miami to Nassau by PAA enroute to a Bermuda zoo. The Rare Bird Farm of Miami, which imported the tropical birds from Colombia, said folding flamingoes is a brand new shipping stunt. “Doesn’t hurt the birds a bit,” a spokesman said. “They bend like pretzels.” bers of the LAD family along with their wives and sweethearts. Additional food lines will speed your getting mighty tasty eats and, of course, there will be a day-long schedule of events to keep you busy. Again there will be free rides for all youngsters throughout the day. A larger committee this year will speed them on and off the various rides so that they will have just that much more fun. The picnic gets under way at 9 o’clock in the morning with races for the children beginning an hour later. At 10:30 the old-timers at PAF and COB will engage in what is called a softball contest. An hour later the food and drink department opens. The first drawing for prizes will be held at 1 p.m. Races for the adults begin a half hour later. At 4:30 the final drawing for prizes will be held. This will be followed by community singing at 5. At 6 o’clock dancing will start and continue until closing time. All Is Ready For LAD’s Annual Picnic November 6 At Crandon Prizes and surprises aplenty are in store for the PAA family in Miami, Saturday, November 6, when LAD holds its 27th annual picnic at Crandon Park and Virginia Key. Brownsville’s Barefoot Boys Weren’t Singin’ In The Rain PAA’s Brownsville folks literally waded through their work in the early part of last month as heavy rains deluged the base. U. S. Newsmen Visit Guatemala To Aid Lowered Tourist Trade A group of 75 leading U. S. editors and writers are being* invited on a 10-day good-will tour to Guatemala, November 6-15 in a move designed to help the country recapture her formerly-flourishing tourist business. The newsmen will be flown by* PAA to see the steps being taken to re-establish the business that shriveled up in recent years under the unfriendly, Communist-tinged regime that was recently overthrown. Guatemala once attracted about 50,000 tourists a year, but in 1953 the number had dwindled to less than 4,000. The good will flight was arranged by Pan American with the cooperation of the new Guatemalan government and business leaders of the country. The U.S. embassy and representatives of U.S. interests in Guatemala also are lending full support. Observers in both countries have emphasized the importance to the Guatemalan economy generally of quickly restoring tourism to a par with bananas and coffee as a major revenue producer for the country. The good will flight will serve to introduce the United States editors to the new Guatemalan government and its objectives, let them see what happened during the former Communist regime and show them the country’s outstanding tourist facilities. One of the high points of the editors’ stay will be an interview with President Carlos Castillo Armas, the formerly-exiled Guatemalan Army officer who led the forces of liberation which ousted the Communist-dominated government. Guatemalan government officials will outline work being planned to rehabilitate its tourist facilities, including construction of new roads, building of airports in picturesque back country areas and opening of new attractions. One group of far western hews-men will be flown to Guatemala City from Los Angeles, a southwestern group will leave from PAA’s gateway at Houston, a mid-western contingent will take off from New Orleans, and the eastern group will leave from Miami after a special flight from New York, and Washington. The press flight is another step in the tourist-promotion campaign that was intensified by PAA even while the new Guatamalan government was only days old. Traffic and sales specialists were sent into the country immediately to gather fresh information on hotels, restaurants, sightseeing and other tourist facilities. Their full reports already have been distributed to PAA offices and travel agents throughout the world. San Juan Management Clubbers Aid Legless Puerto Rican Boy A wheel chair was flown 3,450 miles to aid a crippled Puerto Rican youth under the wing of the PAA Management Club of San Juan. * With it, 13-year-old Monchito Batista was able to get around by himself again and even go back to school instead of spending his days begging alms while being carried on the shoulders of playmates. PAA club officials, who rallied to the legless youth’s aid when his case was brought to their attention, had to go all the way to Los Angeles to get the kind of chair that Monchito needs. The San Juan youth lost both legs nqar the hips about a year ago when he fell beneath the wheels of a train while playing. Since getting out of the hospital. Monchito has been having his little friends carry him onto San Juan buses, where he begged donations from the passengers. Monchito was in the third grade when the accident occurred. He got good grades and would have liked to continue, but, as he said, “I need a little cart to get around”. PAA Management Club officials decided he should have not only a little cart, but the most modern wheel chair they could get, best suited to his needs. A check showed that no such vehicile was available in San Juan. Station Manager Andy Monteath and Cargo Manager Will Harter, who were going to Miami, were commissioned to seek one there. After considerable discussion. Charles Phillips, of the Surgical Equipment Co., of Miami, recommended that the San Juan men go direct to Everest & Jennings, wheel chair manufacturers of Los Angeles. to get the vehicle that would be best for Monchito. As their part of the project, officials of the Miami surgical supnly firm offered to take care of the cost of having the chair flown from Los Angeles to Miami. Once in Miami, the chair was loaded aboard a Clipper, and now Monchito is ready to go back to school. s BURDEN no longer to his friends is 13-year-old Monchito Batista whose only means of getting around was on the shoulders of friends like Isidoro Garcia, here. |
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