Clipper, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 1951

              PAA Seeks to Clear Interchange Plans
Holds Grace Steamship Interests Trying To Dominate West Coast Air Service
Pan American’s long standing efforts to arrange through service to New York for important points served south of the Miami gateway have been complicated recently by the insistence of the Grace steamship interests on an interchange of equipment between Panagra and
National Airlines.	«
PAA has told the Civil Aeronautics Board that the Grace interests are attempting to dominate air service on the route between the West Coast of South America and the east coast of the United States. The Grace moves show a renewed intention on Grace’s part to change its historic role from that of a simple investor in'Panagra to that of a full-scale airline operator.
Pan American and Eastern Air Lines have before the board a proposal for equipment interchanges that would bring Pan American and Panagra planes into New York over Eastern’s routes.
The CAB will shortly hear oral argument by both Pan American and representatives of W. R. Grace & Co. on the proposed Panagra-National interchange and then will consider the Eastern-PAA proposal.
Pan American’s position is as follows:
1—Panagra and Pan American planes should be brought up to New York over the Eastern Air Lines system, which is larger and would provide better and more service to the public travelling on Pan American and Panagra than any other north-south airline.
2—The competitive pattern for South America set up by the President and the CAB in 1946 contemplates the cooperation of Eastern Air Lines, Pan American and Panagra on the one hand and National Airlines and Braniff Airways on the other.
A National-Panagra interchange would completely destroy this competitive pattern without approval by the President.
3—	A proposed Panagra-Nation-al interchange is impossible from a legal standpoint because Panagra and National do not connect and have no valid interchange contract and because Pan American cannot legally turn over Panagra planes at Miami to a third airline.
4—	Temporary approval of a proposed Panagra-National interchange would delay solution of overall problems of bringing other Pan American services south of the Miami gateway into New York. Such approval would only lead to lengthy litigation.
5—	Control of an airline by steamship interests is contrary to national policy. Full investigation of Grace’s large stock interest in National Airlines and the added control of Panagra which Grace has acquired since 1938 without CAB approval, is, therefore, essential in the public interest.
— Every Employee a Salesman —
13 Stewardesses Join LAD Flight Roster
Thirteen stewardesses have been added to the Flight Service group in LAD. The new girls in Tunis blue are Betty J. Goldman, Janet M. Onorato, Judy V. Reid, Carmen E. Silva, Ligia M. Trujillo, Julie C. Vega, Estelle F. Westee, Carmen M. Rosado, Iris Rodriguez, Isabel L. Cook, Elizabeth L. De-mopoulos, Emma R. Hernandez and Elvira Fuster.
Sales Contest In Caribbean Is Underway
Five LAD stations in the Caribbean are competing during June for some attractive travel prizes in a traffic sales contest.
With an all-expense trip to New York goiAg to the winner, the staffs in Port of Spain, Curacao, Kingston, Ciudad Trujillo and Port-au-Prince are going all out to boost their sales, percentage wise, in a drive for top prize.
Each station’s staff has been divided into teams which compete against each other as well as the other four stations. Agencies in each country also are competing in a similar contest. A contest ended last month for Central American stations.
Second prize in the contest will be an all-expense trip to Miami, with third prize an all-expense trip to one or more of the competing stations.
Prizes also are being offered for sales slogans and for the person selling the largest number of tickets.
PAA Closes Guest House In San Juan
PAA has announced the closing of its passenger guest house in San Juan because it has proved a non-profitable operation and because the present abundance of other hotel accommodations has made continued operation unnecessary.
Formerly known as the San Gerónimo Hotel, the guest house was used during World War II as a U. S. Ndvy bachelor officers’ quarters. PAA leased it at the close of the war and, after extensive modernization, opened it late in 1946.
Pan American officials pointed out at the time that “PAA is not going into the hotel business.” The guest house was being opened, they explained, only as a temporary measure “to house the increasing number of Clipper passengers stopping overnight in San Juan.”
The six-story, 36-room guest house helped alleviate the crowded postwar hotel conditions in San Juan. Its need was removed with the building of the luxurious 300-room Caribe-Hilton Hotel and with expansion and improvement of the Condado Beach Hotel.
A similar guest house in Belem, Brazil, taken over by PAA because of the lack of other facilities, recently was turned over to the Intercontinental Hotels Corporation to manage.
Wing Honors Dr, Macdonald
Photo Courtesy Miami Heraid
Unveiling a plaque which marks a new wing in Doctor’s Hospital, Coral Gables, dedicated to the memory of his uncle, the late Dr. John T. Macdonald, former LAD Medical Director, Mercier Brugler, right, participates in a special Hospital Day ceremony. With him are the Rev. David J. Davis and Dr. James K. McShane, hospital president.
First In Series
MRA Draws 120LADers To Session
Two Special Clippers Fly Groups To Michigan
More than 120 Miami-based LAD employes attended the World Assembly of Moral Re-Armament in Mackinac Island, Michigan, June 1 to 12.
A special Clipper flew the two groups to the assembly. The first contingent of 60 left Miami May 31 to arrive in time for the opening session. They returned on the same Clipper which took the second group to. Mackinac June 6.
Heading the Miami delegation was Humphrey W. Toomey, Divi-
An early edition of the CLIPPER will give complete details of the MRA World Assembly at Mackinac Island. In stories and pictures, complete coverage of the session will tell the story of LAD’s participation in this global program for peace.
sion Manager. Managers of the major departments of the division also attended the 12-day session.
While in Mackinac, the LADers saw the new MRA production, “Annie the Valiant,” as well as “Jotham Valley” and “The Forgotten Factor,” which recently were presented by MRA in Miami.
The Mackinac sessions also included films, songs and concerts by the Mackinac Singers and instruction periods to better acquaint delegates with the global program for peace being carried out by MRA.
— Every Employee a Salesman —
Picture 'Lost’ For 18 Months
'Sell and Report’ Key To LAD Reservations
“Sell and report,” is a phrase which packs a terrific punch in one LAD department — Reservations.
There is a world of planning, revision, revamping and heartbreaking toil wrapped up in those three words. And yet, they explain
the “heart” of	<«>--------------------------------
LAD’s vast Reservations system, designed to speed its passengers to points around the globe with a minimum of lost time and motion.
Adapted t o LAD’s needs in 1946, the “sell and report” system first was	JENSEN
put in operation
when Reservations was located in the Aviation Building in Coconut Grove.
Shifted to the fourth floor of the center section of the main hangar at PAF in August, 1948, the “sell and report” system has there been brought to its present state of perfection. It makes possible, generally, confirmation of space in a few moments to any point in the system.
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Managua Wins Sales Contest
Managua, Nicaragua, with sales totaling $69,171, or 204.28 per cent of quota, is the winner in the April sales contest staged by Pan American World Airways for its Central American stations.
In second place was San Jose, Costa Rica, with sales of $67,986 for 170.76 per cent of its sales quota for the month-long contest in which five stations participated.
In the agency sales contest, Copan Tours of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was tops. Shaoming H. Liang of Guatemala City had the highest dollar sales volume in this category with $28,880 but trailed Copan in the final percentage figures.
The contest generated total sales of $348,675 or $106,000 above quotas.
Shortly before Capt. Seth Blake-man transferred from LAD to PAD, the late Charles Leyden, Real Estate Editor of The Miami Daily News, used the captain’s picture in his column in connection with Blakeman’s Boy Scout work.
That was more than a year-and-a-half ago.
A few days later, Leyden mailed Blakeman’s picture back to him at his Coral Gables home. Blakeman never received the photograph.
In its original envelope, and with very few postal markings on it, the photo turned up the other day on the desk of Mrs. Louise Leyden, also of the Daily News staff. Where it has been these last 18 months is anyone’s guess.
Mrs. Leyden has mailed the photo to Blakeman a second time, to California, of course, and this time she hopes Uncle Sam’s mail does better by our Clipper skipper.
— Every Employee a Salesman —
Record Is Claimed By Cayenne Crew
Cayenne, French Guiana, has come up with a claim for the shortest time unloading and loading a four-engine Clipper with passengers, cargo and mail.
Their best time was scored May 15 on Capt. Fred V. Koepke’s Flight 206 when the ground time for servicing was five minutes flat.
Who says better?