Clipper, Vol. 8, No. 10, October 1951

              Pan American W Airways LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
Let’s make the customer content—or none of us will make a cent!
It’s the little things that bring ’em back to the advantages of flying PA A!
VOL. 8 —No. 10
OCTOBER, 1951
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LAD Welfare Fund Drive Opens Nov. 5
One Shot’
Low Tourist Fares Aim Of PAA Says Trippe
Tripling of Spending Abroad by LJ. S. Travelers is Seen by Airline Head
The need for low cost tourist air service was stressed by PAA President Juan Trippe in a recent address before the Foreign Traders Association of Philadelphia.	&
Following is the text of his talk

It is an horn r indeed to receive the award of i le Foreign Traders Association of Philadelphia. It is an honor I accept on behalf of many thousands of Pan American men and women—aloft and on the ground — at home and at their posts on six continents and around the world.
Air Transport made its first contribution to our commerce only 28 years ago. In those days an airline carried only mail. The route extended from New Brunswick in New Jersey out to Chicago and the West Coast.
I vividly remember the inauguration of the first scheduled flight by the then Postmaster General—Harry S. New.
The airplane was an old DH-4 of World War I vintage, with an old Liberty motor clattering away in its nose. The payload consisted of a few letters, which you could almost put in your hat. There were no airways. There were no radio beams and no other aids to navigation but a compass. There was no weather service to guide the pilot. All he had was an eye cocked aloft at the weather, and a prayer, as he took off on the adventure that was to end in a great new transportation system.
Our Company was privileged to open the first international air service under the American Flag. The plane was a three-motored Fokker F-7, the first multi-engined transport to fly under the American Flag. The route was between Key West and Havana—a mere 90 miles over water. But those 90 miles otherwise required a seven or eight-hour choppy boat ride. The new service was an immediate success.
That was in 1927. For the previous six or seven years the great European-flag lines — British Imperial Airways, Air France, the Dutch KLM, and Germany’s Lufthansa — had been expanding throughout the world. They had an impressive and dominant headstart over our country’s infant service. Their routes were penetrating beyond continental Europe across the Middle East and on to the great Continued on Page U
Station Group Has Meeting In Trinidad
Station Managers from Rio de Janeiro to New York converged on Port of Spain recently to take part in a whirlwind conference called by Arthur S. Best, Superintendent of Stations in LAD.
Purpose of the meeting was 'to discuss mutual problems in connection with handling Flights 205 and 206, particularly, with the talks covering reservations, dispatch and loading.
Taking part in the conference were Royce Lee, Station Manager, Georgetown; John Probst, Senior Representative, Port of Spain ; John Madge, Dispatcher, San Juan; Arthur Tjin A. Tjie, Station Manager, Paramaribo; George Nye, Assistant Senior Operations Representative, Rio de Janeiro; Tom Lamar, from Superintendent of Stations office in Miami.
Dick Clapp, Reservations Inspector, Miami; Best; John Echert, Station Manager, New York; Bill Kent, Acting Station Manager, Cayenne, and Jim Gibson, Station Manager, San Juan.
Selin Transferred To Montevideo Post
Frank R. Selin, Project Technician, who has been around LAD since 1946, when he joined the LAD family as a Radio Mechanic, has been transfered to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he will be in charge of maintenance of all communications equipment there.
He is replacing popular Walter A. Simpson, Station Radio Technician, who, after serving two years in Montevideo, has been transfered back to Miami for reassignment.
Driver and Bible Named To New Maintenance Posts
In preparation for establishing maintenance schedules for the fleet of 18 new Douglas DC-6Bs it has on order, PAA has promoted two members of its Miami maintenance staff.
Responsibility for setting up<3> maintenance on the new sky giants has been given William P. H.
Driver, veteran of 22 years with Pan American. He has been appointed to the newly-created post of Assistant Aircrâft Service Superintendent on DC-6s. He formerly was Assistant Aircraft Service Superintendent on Douglas Aircraft.
A resident of Coral Gables,
Driver joined Pan American in Brownsville, Texas, in 1929 as a mechanic, transfering to Miami in 1944.
Directing maintenance on the balance of Pan American’s fleet of DC-4 type aircraft, is George R. Bible whose new title is Assistant Aircraft Service Superintendent on DC-4s. He formerly was Foreman of Douglas Aircraft Service under Driver.
Bible began working for Pan American in 1938 as an Assistant Chemist in the laboratory. He switched to the engineering side of airline work in 1941 and in 1950 had won his place in the supervisory ranks.
MILLARD CALDWELL
ROBERT THIBERT
your club has done a swell job
PAA Management Club Wins National Honors
The next meeting will be November 1 with Senator George Smathers scheduled to speak.
Destinction of being the top organization of its kind in United States has been won by the PAA Management Club.
At the recent annual convention^ of the National Association of Foremen in Chicago, the PAA club, which is only five years old, received the NAF Achievement Award in recognition of carrying out the “most constructive and meritorious foremen’s program” presented by any of the 304 member clubs in the U. S. during the last year.
In addition, the PAA club also won the Zone E Award and took second place in the competition for the Harry Woodhead Trophy, presented annually for the most outstanding project.
The two projects which were judged as “outstanding” by the NAF were the Miami group’s establishment of an Air Explorer Squadron and the Management Club Scholarship.
The NAF Achievement Award, a beautiful plaque, was presented to the PAA membership at the October meeting by Richard Adams,
LAD Production Control Superintendent and a past president of the PAA club and an NAF Director.
In reporting on the convention,
Adams explained that in addition to the club’s prizes, Mrs. Robert Thibert, wife of the club’s president, also took a prize, the grand door prize at the banquet, a Westinghouse roasting oven.
Thibert revealed that he and adaims, who represented the PAA group at the convention which was attended by more than 1,600 delegates, gave away PAA souvenirs “until we ran out.”
Plans also were announced for participation in .Management day by the Miami organization.
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Campaign
Indorsed
Prizes For Best Job Of Solicitation Announced
With a goal of $35,000 as its target, the PAA Combined Welfare Fund campaign for 1952 is scheduled to open November 5 for employes at PAF, COB and the Executive offices, and close November 16.
Machinery for getting the campaign •, underway was set up at a meeting of the LAD Combined Welfare Fund Committee in mid-October when a review of last year’s “Give ONCE for ALL” drive showed Union and Department leaders fully satisfied with this method of providing LAD employes with a “one-shot” method of discharging their community responsibilities.
The Committee set up a distribution of funds pledged during the drive on the following basis: March of Dimes 15 per cent; Red Cross 15 per cent, Community Chest 65 per cent, and added to the list of participating organizations Variety Children’s Hospital, which will receive 5 per cent.
The campaign will be based on asking employes to donate one^third of one per cent of their annual salary—a trifling 20 cents weekly for a worker earning $60 per week—to cover their share of supporting the above listed organizations.
As an incentive to solicitors in the campaign to do an outstanding job, management has donated prizes this year to be awarded to 53 LAD solicitors who produce the top coverage, percentage-wise, of those they contact.
To the three highest solicitors, Continued on Page 3
Yale Scholarship Is Set Up To Aid Sons of PAA Employes
Establishment of the Howard B. Dean Memorial Scholarship at Yale University, available to sons of PAA employes, has been announced
by President Juan Trippe.	------------------------
to the sons of PAA employes.
The scholarship will be provided from a fund created at Yale by a group of devoted friends of the late Mr. Dean, who was Administrative Vice President of PAA, and was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1918.
The program provides for a scholarship to be awarded every other year to a candidate requiring financial assistance. He must meet the university’s entrance requirements for admission to the Freshman year at Yale.
Scholarship recipients are expected to demonstrate their financial need by meeting a reasonable share of their expenses through part-time employment at Yale University. Preference will be given
HOWARD DEAN
Each student holding a Howard B. Dean Scholarship for the Freshman year, will be entitled to renewal of the award for each of his remaining years in Yale College or the School of Engineering, provided he maintains an average scholastic standing.
Each scholarship will be for $600 per year. However, at the discretion of the Committee on Scholarships of Yale University, the scholarship holder may receive additional grants from university general funds, or supplementary employment.
A candidate’s parent must have been continuously employed by PAA for at least three years immediately prior to the filing of the scholarship application. Sons of PAA officers or directors will not be eligible.
Further details regarding the Howard B. Dean Memorial Scholarship may be obtained from Warren G. Welborne, Assistant to the LAD Industrial Relations Manager in Miami, or from your department head.