Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 11, November 1956

              MANAGUA STATION PICTURES
. . . Pages 4 and 5
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
VOL. 13, No. 11
MIAMI, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 1956
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PAA Seeking Season Route On East Coast
Proposes 2-Point Program to Break Air Traffic Jam
A two-point program to break the increasingly critical air traffic log-jam between Miami and the northeastern United States and to provide better service for 71,220 international passengers a year has been proposed by Pan American World Airways. •
In a petition to the Civil Aeronautics Board, PAA is seeking permission to operate:
1—	Seasonal flights between Miami, Baltimore - Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, to be operated only from December through April.
2—	Year-round flights between the Northeast and Latin America, via Miami, which would originate and terminate south of Miami, Cuba, and the Bahamas. Domestic passengers would be carried on these flights only to fill up any seats left after international passengers had been accommodated.
PAA says it can operate this winter 30 flights daily, with a total of 2,250 seats, between Miami and the Northeast without buying a single additional plane.
The service could be operated, Pan American officials explained, simply by making more efficient and economical use of the equipment and facilities it must have in any event to meet the summer peaks of traffic across the Atlantic.
Pan American’s proposals were made in the form of a petition for reconsideration of the CAB decision in the New York-Florida proceeding, which granted a five-year temporary certificate to Northeast Airlines to operate from New Eng-
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Paul deKuzmik Dies in Europe
Paul de Kuzmik, 61, veteran PAA employe on loan to Panair do Brasil, an associate of Pan American World Airways, died of a heart attack October 21 in Frankfurt, Germany. De Kuzmik was on a business trip and vacation to the United States and Europe. He was accompanied by his wife.
De Kuzmik joined Pan American April 8,
1929. He first went to Brazil in 1930 to handle maintenance for Pan American in Belem. He had been on loan to PAB for 20
time of hisAdeath DeKUZMIK he was technical assistant to Pan-air’s director superintendent, Dr. Cesar Pires de Mello.
De Kuzmik’s commercial aviation career started with Pan American in an apprenticeship served under the late Andre A. Priester, vice president for more than a quarter of a century.
Born in Hungary on November 30, 1894, De Kuzmik served in the Hungarian Air Force during World War I. Later he came to the U.S. and lived in Chicago until he was employed by the airline.
He was a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Institute of Aeronautical Science, the American Institute of Management and the American Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Victoria Helen de Kuzmik.
IT'S ALL YOURS, man, says Robert Charles, left, assistant superintendent at COB, as he presents $500 suggestion check to John Egan, master mechanic. Egan received the cash for devising a method to prevent freezing of the bolts he's holding on R-2800 Clipper engines.
idea Pays Big Dividend
Cracking Tough Nut Wins
$500 For PAA Mechanic
Suggestion of a method eliminating the freezing of crankshaft bolts on Pratt and Whitney R-2800 engines has won $500 for John J. Egan, master mechanic at Pan American World Airways Miami Overhaul Base.
The idea, 21st to pay off for^
Egan, brings his awards from the PAA Suggestion plan to $1,010.
Egan devised a special lubricant to use on the head and threads of the two bolts that fasten each crankshaft together. Use of the lubricant eliminated the freezing of the bolts which, prior to his suggestion, required heat and even drilling to remove when the engines were overhauled.
The freezing problem stemmed from the need to “stretch” the huge bolts .011 of an inch on assembling the shafts. Requiring up to 30,000 pounds torque to accomplish, the bolts thus were so tightly fastened that often drilling was necessary to free them, thus ruining bolts that cost $42 each.
PAA Is Praised With ‘No Remarks’
This letter from a satisfied passenger was received at Pan American World Airways division headquarters in Miami: “Pan American World Airways is very nice if I ever went to an airplane like Pan American is now. I like about it. It is very nice, have good food. It doesn’t does much noise and it make you sleep. I have no remarks about Pan American Airways.”
Weeks Appointed Sector Chief Pilot
So successful has been Egan’s idea since adoption by PAA that Pratt and Whitney now recommends a similar lubricant to all users of the engine.
Club to Sponsor Football Special
A special Clipper flight carrying Pan American employes and their dependents to the University of Miami-University of Florida football game in Gainesville, on December 1, is being sponsored by the PAA Management Club.
The flight will leave Miami at 4:30 a.m. December 1 and return the same day, departing from Gainesville at 11 p.m. Tickets are $15 per person and include round-trip transportation, ticket to the game and transportation to and from the stadium. Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first served basis for cash only. Some still are available at the timekeeper’s office, Main Gate, PAF; Buildings 121 and 129, COB; and Room 7, Executive Building.
Eapt. Kobert M. Weeks has beei appointed sector chief pilot, Latii American Division, New York.
Captain Week joined Pai American in th< Pacific - Alask; Division as : student pilot a Treasure Island July 17, 1942 Two years late: he transferred t< LAD. He becami a captain ii March 1945 am after spending some time in Ri< de Janeiro as a senior check pilot went to New York in 1954 when he has been flying Latin Americai Division routes since.
WEEKS
NEW CUSTOMS SERVICE
A new U. S. Customs service to provide speedier clearance of air cargo imports has been inaugurated at Miami International Airport. The branch entry and cashier division office, in Pan American World Airways’ cargo terminal, is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday,
$51,000 Goal Set For PAA Employes In Chest Campaign
November Fair Share Montb; Morrison, Industry Chairman,
Lauds Airline’s Past Record
November has been designated as Fair Share Month for Pan American employes in the 1957 Dade County Community Chest campaign. A record goal of $51,000 has been set for the PAA Combined Welfare Fund drive.
Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president in charge of LAD, who is chairman of Industry I, said:
“The outstanding record of Pan<t>-American employes in supporting ’ previous welfare fund campaigns has shown their awareness of community responsibility. I am confident the effort this year will be even more successful. Representing as we do one of South Florida’s largest industries, our stake is great in the work of the Chest and its agencies. In making our ‘fair share’ contributions we will be contributing to many worthy causes.'’
With the amount to be subscribed agreed on by the Employes’ Welfare Fund committee, personnel this year will be given an opportunity of setting up their contributions on a continuing basis.
This is an automatic plan put into effect by the employe checking the IBM card, authorizing the continuation of the deduction for the fund from year to year. It in no way affects the employe’s option of discontinuing the fund pledge at any time. It merely ends the routine of being contacted each year to make known the desired amount of participation, as in the past. This automatic plan works successfully with other groups in the Miami area.
The company has secured blocks of tickets to the New Year Day Orange Bowl football classic and the annual North-South Shrine gridiron game to be played December 26. These will be shared with employes who contribute to the fund on the following basis:
Twenty-five pairs of Orange Bowl tickets will be distributed by Continued on Page 7
Greener Pastures Not Easy to Find
Some people don’t know a good thing when they have it.
Such was the case of a young man who recently applied for employment with Pan American in Miami. It seems the chap had a job with PAA some time back, resigned, worked at other places for awhile, then decided he wanted to come back to the airline.
Applicants are asked why they left previous positions. So, this guy, when he came to the place on the application where he had to state he had worked at PAA before, wrote in the space inquiring: “Why did you leave?”
“Must have been nuts, I guess!”
He got the job.
PAA Flies Russians To Olympic Games
Pan American World Airways is flying 418 Russian athletes to Australia for the Olympic games this month.
PAA representatives and officials of Aeroflot, the Russian airline, have signed a contract for a series of Clipper charter flights from Rangoon, Burma, to Melbourne, site of the games.
MAKING IT LEGAL—Pan American received its new certificate to operate in El Salvador at a reception in the Casino Militar, San Salvador. Under the country's aeronautical law all airlines must qualify for certification. PAA has been flying to the Republic since 1930. Col. Luis Lobo Castelar, chief of the aviation department, (center) presents the certificate to Francisco Parraga, PAA director, right. At left is Licenciado Rafael Paz Parades, ICAO's technical advisor.