Clipper, Vol. 10, No. 11, November 1953

              CLIPPER CIRCLE sign is unveiled during ceremonies at Dinner Key October 28 honoring Pan American World Airways on its 26th anniversary. The circle in front of the old
PAA Dinner Key passenger terminal henceforth will be known as “Clipper Circle,” in honor of the historic aviation events which took place at the former PAA seaplane base.
Unveiling the sign are, left to right, Carol Senerchia, 8, daughter of Miami Mayor Chelsie J. Senerchia; LAD Stewardesses Fritzi Schiele and Sally Lepper, and Robert Wol-
farth, 9, son of Miami city commissioner William Wol-farth. The circle sign unveiling was a part of ceremonies at Dinner Key in which the Historical Association of Southern
Florida also dedicated an historic marker, also located in the circle, which tells the story of Pan American’s part in establishing international air service to Latin America with its colorful flying boats.
Marker is Erected At Dinner Key Base
Pictures on Page 8
Pan American World Airways LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
Fun Galore Marks PAA Annual Picnic
Pictures on Pages 4 to 6
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NOVEMBER 1953
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New NonStop Service to Open Dec. 1
New York-Carocas Flight Time Cut By Super-6/s
Nonstop flights—four round-trips weekly — between Caracas, Venezuela, and New York are being introduced December 1 by Pan American World Airways.
Flown by modern four-engine Super-6 Clippers, the trip will require only eight hours.
This improved service will put Caracas on PAA’s blue ribbon route between New York and Buenos Aires. Only other stops will be Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.
Three days a week, the New York - Caracas portion of the route will be flown in daylight. Once a week—on Saturday—it will be a night flight, with berths available.
The night flights, departing at 10 p.m. in each direction, will reach New York at 5:30 a.m. Sunday and Caracas at 6:15 a.m. Sunday.
Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the nonstop Super-6s will leave Maiquetia Airport at 9:15 a.m., arriving in New York at 4:45 p.m. The southbound flights, Sundays, Tues-’ days and Thursdays, will depart at 11:15 a.m. and reach Maiquetia at 7:30 p.m. (local time).
The new operating schedule, also will provide 'the fastest Clipper service in history between Caracas, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires.
In addition, PAA’s revised timetable permits connections in the Venezuelan capital with Super-6s placed in service November 20 between Caracas and Miami and thus provides a through Rio-Miami service.
Supplementing the streamlined Caracas-New York service, there will be two additional Super-6 flights weekly in each direction with stops at Curacao and San Juan.
Snyder Presented 25-Year Gold Pin
W. Overton Snyder of PAA System Industrial Relations, was presented his 25-year pin by PAA Vice President Franklin Gledhill at a luncheon in New York in his honor.
Snyder resides in Coral Gables. He formerly was the general manager of the old Eastern Division, served as special assistant to the manager, LAD, and, in November, 1946, transferred to the staff of the System Industrial Relations Department as a Company member of the System Boards of Adjustments and Arbitration Boards.
A son, W. Overton, Jr., is flying as a first officer in the Atlantic Division.
2 Kinds of Seats?
Memo to LAD’s seat repair department.
Better talk with Miami Reservations.
Message from RCMIA says Have booked 49 gals of the Business and Professional Women’s Club on a tour from Houston to Mexico City.
Message says RCMIA needs “. . . forty NICE seats . . .”
We have some other kind? (Or maybe Communications can explain . . . ?)
T egucigalpa Post is G Joff reWarren
Joffre J. Warren, a native of Honduras, has been named PAA station manager at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, replacing Daniel B. Appling who has served in that capacity since 1937.
Warren joined PAA as a traffic clerk in Tegucigalpa in 1944 and was named chief clerk at that station in 1951. He also had served as assistant station manager since 1949.
Appling—a veteran of 23 years’ service with PAA—is taking an extended vacation in Europe and upon his return to duty, will be stationed in Miami.
Born in Cleburne, Texas, Appling joined PAA as a traffic clerk in Cristobal, Panama, in 1930. He was stationed for a time in David, Panama and at several PAA stations in Mexico. In 1934, he was named station manager in Guatemala City.
The following year, Appling served as station manager at Cristobal, and on January 1, 1937, he was assigned to Tegucigalpa.
Car Crash Fatal To Capt. Baxter
An automobile accident at Queruado, ,New Mexico, on October 29, took the life of PAA Capt. Paul B. Baxter and seriously injured his wife,
Baxter, who had been with PAA for 11 years, was en route to an assignment in the Pacfic-Alaska Division from Rio de Janeiro, where he had been based since 1951, when the accident occured.
According to Arthur V. Pig-gott, Mrs. Baxter’s brother, and a former LAD employe in Brownsville, A. W. Piggott, Mrs. Baxter’s father, died of a heart attack upon reaching Springer-ville, Arizona, where his daughter was hospitalized.
The Baxter’s four sons, Colin 7; Scott, 5; Barry, 3, and Randy, 2, were not seriously hurt in the accident.
Funeral services were conducted for Capt. Baxter in Ponca City, Oklahoma, on November 7.
PAA’S ROLL IN PIONEERING INTERNATIONAL AVIATION HONORED BY MIAMI CIVIC LEADERS
PAA To Move Port of
Sales Off
PAA’s district sales offices in Trinidad are being moved Into the brand new N. E.M. House in downtown Port of Spain upon completion of work on the new structure in November.
The entire ground floor of the building—newest and most modern in Port of Spain—has been leased by PAA to house both its district passenger and cargo sales offices.
The building, designed by the Trinidad architectural firm of Mence and Moore, is constructed of reinforced concrete, with aluminum and plate glass predominant on the ground floor. The building is air conditioned.
PAA has been serving Trinidad for 24 years, inaugurating its services to Port of Spain on September 22, 1929. Today the island is served by 18 Clipper flights a week.
MVD Handles 1st 'Shipside' Horse
The first “shipside” horse shipment has gone into the LAD record book as being handled by Ricardo Bianchetti, Clipper cargo supervisor at Montevideo.
Bianchetti, who often has proved his ability to take care of odd animal shipments, such as cattle, horses and penguins, recently had a request from a Uruguayan shipped to send a race horse, “Tesio” from Montevideo to Caracas.
Much to Bianchetti’s discomfort, the flight requested by the shipper was already loaded out of Buenos Aires with two horses and 39 large parcels carrying a collection of Canadian painting to Caracas.
But, Bianchetti didn’t want to lose the sale, so requested the shipper to bring “Tesio” to the airport on a “shipside basis.”
Once the Clipper arrived from Buenos Aires, Bianchetti lost no time in rearranging the interior, moving cargo here and there and “made” space for “Tesio’s” stall.
Therefore, “Tesio” becomes the first “shipside horse” in PAA’s cargo history.
Pan American’s role in pioneer-! ing international air service and establishing Miami as the No. 1 airport of entry in the United States, was paid high tribute by Miami civic leaders on PAA’s 26th ‘ birthday, with the dedication of an historical marker at the old Dinner Key flying boat base.
Miami city. officials, high officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, representatives of the Post Office Department, Miami Pioneers and PAA officials joined in the colorful ceremony.
The marker standing in the circle in front of the old Dinner Key terminal which will soon serve as Miami’s City Hall — commemorates the “glamor days of aviation” when Pan American’s famous flying boats plied the airways of Latin America.
Paul Aiken, former assistant postmaster general in charge of airmail, and Wilbur L. Morrison, PAA executive vice president in charge of LAD, were principal speakers at the ceremonies sponsored by the Historical Association of Southern Florida.
“The first international flight by Pan American just 26 years ago today, did not then seem very earth-shaking,” Aiken commented in reviewing PAA's history.
“On that day a plane flew from Key West to Havana and on that day American international aviation was born. Pan American went on to chart the airlanes of the world and today its Clippers circle the globe.
“In the development of aviation, Dinner Key has played a major role. From 1930 to 1945, in the glamor era of commercial aviation, here were based Pan American’s famous flying boats; these spectacular aircraft—the world’s first four-engine aircraft ushered in the luxury age of air travel.
“Here international aviation was nurtured and grew. Here Pan American officials dreamed their dreams, made their plans and conducted their research which enabled them, within a short time, to conquer both the Pacific and Atlantic and girdle the globe with their services.”
Morrison congratulated the Historical Association for its “untiring efforts to bring public recognition to sites in Miami where aviation history has been made.”
“We of Pan American are proud of the role that our com-' pany has played in the achievements of air transportation throughout the world.
“South Florida and Pan American together' have maijj aviation history. Meacham Fig.
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Drescher Sees Wel fare Hitting Goal
Captains and Solicitors PAA Combined Welfare Fund drive were given final instructions and heard talks by LAD Division Manager Edwin Drescher, Tracy Hare of Variety Children’s . Hospital; John Stevens, Community Chest of Dade County, and union leaders at a kickoff meeting at PAF October 30.	'
“I am convinced that with the same cooperation that was shown in the campaign last year, we will meet our $45,000 goal—and even exceed it,” Drescher told the group.
He praised the job done by Miami employes in the 1953 campaign, when PAA employes contributed more than $42,000 in the Combined' Welfare Fund drive, to set a record for not only Miami but the entire state of Florida.
Hare and Stevens expressed their appreciation for the wonderful support given their institutions in the 1953 drive and promised full cooperation with Pan .American during the coming year.
Bernie Diesen, president of Local 500 of the TWU, said: “We never know when insecurity may strike us. Remember, this drive is preparation for that happening. Let’s lead with our hearts and not our heads and put PAA over the top in this drive.”
A1 Cresap, president of the BRC, expressed the belief that if any group could put PAA over the top, this year’s campaign workers could do . it. “Remind those you solicit that we have a civic obligation to discharge. The money they give in this drive will not be squandered. The PAA Welfare Fund Committee has received full cooperation from the benefiting agencies during the last year, so let’s return the favor.”
During the 15-day drive, solicitors in seeking the $45,000 goal, also have a chance to win prizes. Three pairs of tickets to either Nassau or Havana will go to the three solicitors obtaining the highest percentage of their quota. The next 50 top solicitors each will win a pair of tickets to the Shrine game in the Orange