Clipper, Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1953

              Employes Give Welfare Facts
(Story on page 4)
Pa/v Am ericaiv World Am ways LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
Accessory Shop 6 in One Deal
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VOL. 10—No. 10
OCTOBER 1953
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LAD Picnic Set for Saturday
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$45,000 GOAL IS SET IN PAA COMBINED WELFARE FUND DRIVE
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Campaign Will Open ' November 1
Prizes are Offered Top Solicitors
With a goal of $45,000 as its target, the PAA Combined Welfare Fund campaign for 1954 opens November 1 for LAD Miami-based employes and closes November 15.
With the wholehearted backing of all employe and management groups, the PAA drive in 1953 resulted in the largest employe contribution ipr welfare work in Florida’s history — a whopping $42,049.
Enthusiasm for the “one-shot” drive was voiced at the organization meeting in September when the PAA Welfare Fund Committee setup the following breakdown for distribution of funds raised in the 1954 campaign:
Variety Children’s Hospital, 15 percent; National Polio Foundation, 5 percent; Dade County Community Chest, 70 percent; Red Cross/ 10 percent.
It was the feeling of the committee that this distribution best fitted the benefits derived from these vitally-necessary welfare groups as applied to PAA personnel.
The PAA combined Welfare Fund drive is based on asking employes to donate one-third of one percent of CtV^r annual salary* ~ a mere 20 cents we'ekly for an employe earning $60 per week — to cover their share of supporting the necessary welfare organizations in Dade county.
As an incentive to solicitors in the campaign to do an outstanding job, management has again donated prizes to be awarded to, 53 solicitors and one drive captain, who produce the top coverage, percentage-wise, of those they contact.
To the three highest solicitors, the prize will be a pair of round-

3 Years in a Row
Fun Galore is Planned At Crandon, Virginia Key
Free Food, Rides, Games And Prizes Await' 5,000 Families
A full day of free eats, drinks, games, rides and all-round futt is in store for Miami based LADers at the PAA 26th anniversary picnic at Crandon Park and- Virginia Key Saturday, October 24.
Everything is in readiness to^	----------*
provide for 5,000 LADers and
NUMBER ONE SHOP CLUB in the nation for the third successive year is the distinction won by the PAA Management Club in Miami. William Roettgen, left, club president, receives the plaque symbolic of the club’s outstanding work, from Robert S. Bush, LAD chief meteorologist and NAF director for Florida, at the organization’s October meeting.
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All solicitors and captains in the PAA Combined Welfare Fund drive will meet for final pre-canipaign briefing October 26 and 27. The meeting for COB solicitors is being held in the Ground School projection room, Building 134, at 1 p.m. October 26; the PAF group meets at 9 a.m. October 27 in the PAF Cafeteria, and the Executive Building group meets at the cafeteria there at 1 p.m., October 27.
trip tickets to Havana or Nassau. The top drive captain also will win a pair of Havana or Nassau tickets.
The next 50 solicitors, doipg the best job, will receive two tickets each to the annual North-South Shrine football classic at the Orange Bowl.
“We feel that the PAA Combined Welfare Fund campaign is the ideal method of handling our donations to the needy organizations in Dade County,” the committee declared.
“By combining the numerous fund drives into this one BIG effort, valuable time is. saved and .we are better able to budget ourselves to share this welfare load on an equitable basis,” the committee pointed out.
Welfare Fund Committee members Bernie Diesen and Mike Mari, TWU representatives; Capt. Harold A. Lamm, Airline Pilots Association; Stanley Dwyer, International Association of Machinists and Edwin A. Cresap, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, added:
“We feel that the Combined Welfare Fund drive for 1953 was an outstanding success. It provided employes with an opportunity to do their bit, on a basis which they could afford, to aid their community. We feel that (Continued on Page 4)
Contest Gets Shot in Arm
Non-Sales Employes Can Win Big Prizes
All non-sales employes at LAD downline stations — mechanics, secretaries, porters, janitors, etc. —now have a chance to earn valuable prizes for their individual efforts to “sell” PAA in the DALPO-SASPO contest.
This new incentive in the DALPO-SASPO contest for nonsales employes is the counterpart of a gigantic System-wide Tip/Top Sales contest now underway for non-sales employe^ at all PAA U.S. gateway cities beginning October 1.
At the end of the fourth quarter in the DALPO-SASPO contest, the total dollar sales credited to each downline non-sales em-playe, at stations exceeding their fourth quarter quota, will be totaled and each contest participant at these over quota stations then can select merchandise equal in value to two percent of the sales credited to him.
This is how you can win a share of the giant “treasure” chest of prizes.
Each non-sales employe, both on-line and at the U.S. cities, has been provided with “Clipper Courtesy cards” which he presents to prospective customers. The prospect should he requested to turn in his card at the time he purchases his PAA ticket. The employe, before presenting the card to a prospect, puts his name on the “Clipper Courtesy card” and when the ticket is sold the employe responsible for the sales “tip” is credited with the sale.
As the contest proceeds, each, time a “Clipper Courtesy card” bearing the name of a non-sales employe is* turned in by a customer on buying a ticket, the amount of the sale is credited to the employe whose name the courtesy card bears and the amount automatically becomes a part of the station’s gross sales. So, the more prospects you dig up who buy PAA tickets, the (Continued on Page 7)
Men Mee In Panama
Key PAA personnel from Mexico, Central America and Panama *net October 13 to 15 in. Panama with top-level officials from Latin American Division headquarters in Miami.
Seeking first-hand progress reports on the program for improvement in all phases of Pan American’s operations, which he instituted,at a series of field conferences last Spring, was Division Manager Edwin Drescher. During the three-day session, station personnel also were asked for further recommendations for bettering passenger service and handling.
A similar conclave for personnel based in the West Indies was conducted last month by Drescher in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Other division officials attending the Panama meeting were Mario J. Martinez, traffic and sales manager; Capt.- Oliver J. Studeman, operations manager; Fred P. Jensen, reservations superintendent, and Arthur S. Best, superintendent of stations.
PAA officials from Houston and Brownsville, Texas; New Orleans, Mexico City, Guatemala City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Managua, San Jose and Panama attended.
Host for the session was Elton D. Todd, Pan American’s director for Panama.
PANAMA AIRPORT REPORTS RECORD WEEKEND TRAFFIC
The largest number of passengers ever flown out of Panama in a 24-hour period by Pan American World Airways System was handled recently whfen 615 persons departed from Tocumen Airport.
Although the majority was destined to the United States through the Miami gateway, there were passengers bound for Dakar, Bombay and even Tokyo, as well as Central and South America. Students returning to schools in the U.S. accounted for a large part of this traffic movement
their families during the day-long affair, beginning at 9 a.m.
There will be prizes awarded during the day at Dotli Crandon and Virginia Key to lucky LADers, including round-trip tickets for two to Nassau and Havana, plus prizes for contest winners in events staged for the kiddies.
Free rides on all the concessions except the train at Crandon Park and the ponies, will provide an endless series of thrills for the youngsters. And there’ll be swimming, sun bathing, horseshoe pitching and volleyball for the grown-ups.
An innovation at this year’s picnic wil he the exhibitions and contests staged by the various member orgainzations of the l’anair Recreational Club. These will include exhibits by the PAA Rod and Gun Club, Craftsman Club, Bowling League, PAA Rifle Club and a liole-in-one-contest conducted by the PAA Golf Clif f. In addition there will he a complete display of PAA trophies and a photographic display by the PAA Camera Club.
All LADers attending the picnic should make sure to enter through, the main gate so they can drop their number cards in boxes provided for this purpose.
Rounding out the day of family fun will be athletic field events staged by. members of the PAA Flyers and PAA Clippers soft-ball teams. These events, followed by a baseball game, begin at 11 a.m. at the Crandon Park baseball field and will include such fun-producing events as a “Round the Horn” contest, in which infiqld players of the two teams will race around the bases with an egg, the team lasting the longest without breaking the egg being declared the winner.
Dick Harbottle, production control superintendent, and Division Manager Edwin Drescher, will lead group singing throughout the day and there will be plenty of food and drink for everyone.
So, join the “LAD family” at the picinc Saturday for a day you’ll long remember.
9 a.m. Picnic Opens
Free Rides For the Kiddies. (All Day)
Swimming — Sun Bathing (All Day)
Horse Shoe Pitching (All Day) Volleyball (All Day)
11:00 A.M. At Ball Diamond
Athletic Field Events Event #1 — 50 Yd. Dash Frank Duffy of PAA Flyers Team vs. “Dub” Gracy of PAA Clippers Team
Event #2 — Softball Throw for Distance. Home Plate to Center Field (Each Contestant allowed one throw)
Event #3 — “Round The Horn” with an Egg. By the infield players of the two teams. Team lasting longest without breaking egg will-be the winner.
Event #4 — Fungo Hitting for Distance by L. Powell — Mgr. Clippers Team and Bob Mikell — Mgr. Flyers Team. Each allowed two trials.
Event #5 — Softball Throw For
Pan American Has Scored Many Firsts
PAA. employees around the world are celebrating the company’s 26th anniversary in October. But nowhere does the observance carry the same meaning as in the Latin American Division — parent organization — of the PAA system which now circles the globe, providing service to 83 countries and six continents.
No formal ceremonies are planned to mark the anniversary of PAA’s inaugural flight between Key West and Havana, October 28, 1927, which established Pan American as the first United States-flag international airline.
Many other spectacular “firsts” have been recorded in commercial aviation by PAA since that day, and the Company's numeiV" ous outstanding accomplishments have been largely a matter of public record.
From an historical standpoint, PAA is distinguished as America’s first international airline; the first to operate regular foreign airmail service across the Pacific (1935) and the Atlantic (Continued on Page 7)
PAA Caracas Bowlers Win T ournament
The Pan American bowling team of Caracas — Federal Distinct Champions in Venezuela —• scored an impressive victory over L i n e a Aeropostal Venezolana (LAV) of Caracas, and a team of PAA starts from Miami, in an international round robin tournament held early this month in the Venezuelan capital.
PAA’s Caracas team, led by Capt. Pablo Perdomo, sewed up the championship on the third day of the scheduled four-day competition, beating Miami ib two sets^of four games each and the LAV combine in the deciding match.
The Miami team, composed of John T. Crowe, Alfred M. Perron, James D. DuPnis, Benjamin C. Ordakowski, George W. Baker, William Hoffman and Homer D. Miller, lost twice to PAA-Caraeas and once to LAV.
In doubles competition following the tournament, George Baker and John Crowe teamed up to defeat the rival doubles teams of LAV and PAA-Caracas by bowling a 450 set.
The trophy for individual high average in the tournament was won by Raul Carrasco of LAV with a 197.8 average. The Miamians presented complimentary trophies to both the PAA-Caracas and LAV teams, and a sportsmanship trophy was awarded to the Miami team.
Aside from bowling day and night for three days, the Miami-
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Accuracy. Center field to home : sightseeing around Caracas, and plate. To catcher on first were guests at a cocktail party bounce. Each contestant allow- n.t the Clipper Club and a dinner ed one throw.	a downtown restaurant. Head-
Event #6 — Circling The Ba.	-'ers for the team was the
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