Clipper, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1949

              Pa/V American World Airmen
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
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VOL. 6—NO. 3	MARCH, 1949	490329
QUEEN OF THE SKIES HOLDS COURT IN MIAMI
Crowds stood in line for hours to see the new Boeing Stratocruiser-type Clipper in Miami. More than 15,000 persons visited the 75-passenger double-decker during its two-day stay and some more fortunate went aloft on its four courtesy flights.
CAB Officials Commend MOB
PAA’s Miami Overhaul Base has received commendation from the highest possible source following an official inspection by a group of Civil Aeronautics Board officials.
“It is the greatest enterprise of its kind in the world,” said Oswald Ryan, CAB vice chairman.
He and six other CAB department heads flew to Miami from Washington aboard the new Boeing-type Clipper in the record time of two hours, 40 minutes.
“PAA’s Overhaul Base is very important to the entire industry as a yardstick of costs and efficiency,” Ryan told reporters. “It is a mammoth effort.”
Safety is always of vital interest to the CAB and in that respect MOB also won praise.
“Its shops and laboratories tries to double-check the reports and tests of air equipment manufacturers,” Ryan said. “PAA doesn’t accept the manufacturers’ findings, but makes its own tests. If any piece of equipment shows bugs, PAA puts it through detailed, independent checks.
“Safety is a 24-hour, year-round job.”
Accompanying Ryan on the inspection were William Cusick, CAB examiner; Walter H. Hord, accounting and rates division chief; William Burt, rate section chief; Frank H. Crozier, analysis division chief; William K. Andrews, safety investigation bureau director, and Edward E. Slattery, Jr., information section chief.
Bennett Griffin, administrator of Washington’s National Airport, also made the trip.
Management Club To Elect Officers
Officers will be elected by the PAA Management Club at a dinner meeting in the Columbus Hotel, April 7, at 7 p.m.
Candidates for president are: Ernie Foss, LAD advertising manager and Ralph Dobbins, standards engineer.
Other candidates named by the nominating committee are: for vice president, Jack Miller, industrial engineer, and Karl Kay-los, assistant division accountant; for secretary, John C. O’Neal, division clearance superintendent and D. R. Maders, communications, and for treasurer W. M. Kirch-hoff, accounting, and G. W. Flanigan, industrial relations.
Additional candidates may be nominated from the floor.
Speakers will include Division Maintenance Manager Joseph Dysart and Tom D. Stuart, of Industrial Relations.
New officers will be installed May 5.
Howard Succeeds Bevil As Station Manager
Findley B. Howard, junior airport manager, has been named Brownsville station manager succeeding Guy Bevil, resigned.
Born in the Canal Zone, Howard attended the University of Nebraska and joined PAA at Brownsville in 1943 as a trainee. He has served in a number of LAD stations.
Bevil, a native of Illinois, started as a traffic clerk at BRO in 1935.
Best Salesmen Of Year Named
Results of LAD’s first annual sales contest to determine the top salesmen and stations of the year have just been announced by Frank Sheldon, sales manager.
The four salesmen of the year for 1948 are Hebert Buoncristiano, Montevideo; Alfredo Carrillo, San Salvador; Raymond Legge, Port of Spain, and Guillermo Viz-carrondo, San Juan.
The four top producers among the affiliates are Jose Paulo Gualano, Panair; Bernardo Estrada, Avianca; Jorge A. Moran, Cubana, and Eduardo Eggleston Lacavex, CMA.
Stations were divided into four classifications according to revenue production. The winners were Bogota, Group I, with a 74 per cent sales increase over the preceding year; Managua, Group II, 31 per cent increase; Tegucigalpa, Group III, 49 per cent increase, and St. Lucia, Group IV, whose 86 per cent increase led the list.
LAD salesmen winning honorable mention were J. Monterrojas, Managua; H. Tjon A. Ten, Paramaribo; R. Rodriguez, Caracas; L. Paniagua, Guatemala; R. Fous-sadier, Buenos Aires, and A. Sumner, San Juan.
A board composed of LAD Traffic Manager Porter Norris, Sales Manager Sheldon and staff selected the LAD winners. The affiliates’ winners were decided by their traffic and sales managers and the PAA representative.
Each of the winners is being presented an individual plaque made of walnut with a sterling silver plate bearing his name. Similar plaques for the four top stations will be on display in their sales offices and will become the permanent possession of (Continued on Page 2)
Todd Is Promoted— Stevenson Retires
Elton Todd, station manager at Balboa since 1946, is the new PAA senior representative there, succeeding W. A. Stevenson, who is retiring March 31.
Todd will continue to serve as station manager in addition to his new duties.
Born in Meridian, Texas, Todd attended elementary and night schools, and the Valley Business College, at Brownsville, where he entered PAA’s service February 10, 1936, as a stockroom clerk.
In 1941 he went to Cristobal as a storekeeper, then moved to Balboa when PAA transferred its Panama operation there.
Stevenson, a native of Utica, Ohio, has lived in the Canal Zone since 1907 and joined PAA as Balboa senior representative January 1, 1942.
In “regretfully” accepting Stevenson’s resignation, Humphrey W. Toomey, LAD manager, said:
“Mr. Stevenson’s outstanding representation during the last seven years of service with PAA has contributed considerably to the company’s progress.”
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson plan to go to Orlando, Florida, to “look around” for a place to settle down.