Clipper, Vol. 10, No. 9, September 1953

              YOL. 10 —No. 9	SEPTEMBER 1953	091753
LAD (Picnic Ticket Distribution Set Oct. 1 to 15
Displays Planned For Event
A whizz-bang series of games, contests and just plain fun is in store for members of the PAA family in Miami, at LAD’s anniversary picnic October 24 at Cran-don Park and Virginia Key.
Ticket distribution for the event takes place between October 1 and 15 at three locations: the placement office at the Main Gate, PAF; Industrial Relations office in Building 134, COB, and the office of Robert L. Jones, assistant division accountant, in the Executive Building.
Invitations are to be mailed to each _ employe’s home and this invitation must be presented when picking, up tickets. Picnic tickets, entitling employes to a free meal, with all the trimmings; free rides, etc., are to be issued on the following basis:
Married employe and wife or husband and dependent children under 18; single employe and one guest; divorced or widowed employe and dependent children under 18 or a guest.
An exciting innovation at the picnic this year will be the displays, contests and fun planned by the organizations which make up the Panair Recreational Club. In a 40 by 60 foot tent in the main picnic area, the PARC organizations will have all sorts of interesting and exciting displays—just like a circus sideshow.
Also, there will be a baseball game between the PAA Clippers and Flyers, top PAA softball teams, slated at the baseball diamond at Crandon at 11 a.m.
Food and drink and community singing, under the direction of Edwin Drescher, LAD manager, and Richard Harbottle, LAD production control superintendent, will keep things rolling throughout the day.
And, just as was the case last year, free trip passes will be awarded lucky LADers at both Crandon Park and Virginia Key.
There are other surprises planned—but you’ll have to wait until the October issue of the Clipper to get the full schedule of events.
So, start planning now to get those all important tickets and be assured of a full day of fun for yourself and family come October 24. There will even be a full medical staff on hand to care for any extensive sunburn, barked shins, etc. So there’s nothing to worry about; Just plan to make October 24 your day to spend with the family and the other members of the “PAA family” at Crandon Park and Virginia Key.
The serving of food begins at 11:30 a.m. and continues until everyone has been served, with the day of fun beginning at 9 a.m.
Picnic committee chairmen include: Karl Kaylos, financial; George Flanigan, ticket distribution ; Robert Lockhart, communications; Lou Lindsey and Tom Temple, juvenile fun; George Gwin and Richard Cannon, adult games; Mario Martinez and Charles Shoemaker, food line control.
Drescher and Harbottle, group singing and announcements; Santos Ceyanes, lost and found; Dr. Martin Mangels, Jr., first aid and S. Roger Wolin and Robert M. French, Jr., publicity.
The Panair Recreational Club’s board of directors meets in Miami to plan participation of the organization in LAD’s annual picnic October 24 at Crandon Park and Virginia Key. Left to right, Mrs. Grant A. Baker, Clipper Club; James Mowry, Craftsmen Club; Henry S. “Pete” Wenner, PAA Rifle Club; Johnny Malone,PAA Rod and Gun Club; Robert Hamner, athletic activities and club vice president; Richard Cannon, club president; Harvey A. Word, PAA Golf Club; Sim J. Smith, treasurer and representative of Music Club; Mrs. Robert Roberts, Engineers Wives, and Bob Roberts, PAA Men’s Bowling League.	%
Financial Picture Improves For LAD as Nail Rate Is Set
Improvement in the LAD financial picture for 1953 was reported at the September meeting of the PAA Management Club in Miami, when Karl Kaylos, division accountant, explained details of the final mail rate set for the division for 1953 by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The board set an annual mail^
rate for LAD of $13,171,000. The CAB has not yet established the division’s 1952 rate.
Kaylos also disclosed a note of warning in the CAB rate decision. He reported that the government agency is “concerned” with the “high level” of payment still required for LAD.
“In rendering this decision, the CAB explained that it recognizes the operating problems facing PAA in Latin America, but it also expects us to bend every effort to reduce this need,” Kaylos added.
Kaylos pointed out to Management Club members that while the CAB mail rate decision was an encouraging one, nonetheless, LAD still had a real job to do.
W-ith statistics, Kaylos showed that some progress has been made toward reaching the LAD operating goal for 1953.
“Our total operating revenue before mail pay is short of meeting our own LAD forecast for January-July by $88,000. When comparing our results with the revenues as adjusted by CAB we are short $496,000. Passenger sales were up—cargo sales continue to miss the mark widely.
“Total operating expenses for flight and groxrnd operations exceed our forecast expenses. Our total overage for the seven months now stands at $394,000 which includes the July month’s overage of $67,000. Comparing our total recorded cost to that allowed by CAB we are in the hole for a total of $1,796,000, before mail pay.
“Thus, through July this leaves us $2,292,000 short of the adjusted CAB total break even need.
“The major deletions or adjustments taken by CAB in setting the 1953 mail rate were as follows: “(a) Increase in forecast of commercial revenues “(b) Revision *of depreciation allowance and residual values
“(c) Elimination of excess selling expenses
“(d) Elimination of general and administrative expense in excess of level recognizable for mail rate purposes “(e) Non-recognition of portions of price and wage increases in all groups actually in effect or anticipated in the future year. “Thus every effort should continue to effect all possible economies and to get more passenger and cargo business,” he declared in closing.
Eight Take Course
Recent “students” in the Attitude and Sales Training school at Miami were Isabel Barquin, Miami traffic; Roger Jarman, district traffic and sales manager, Port-au-Prince; John W. Brown, Industrial Relations, Miami; Francisco Machler, Avianca reservations, Bogota ; Tom Ingles, Industrial Relations, Miami; Miss Sally S. Butler, Miami traffic; David E. Gossett, Miami traffic, and James W. Green, district traffic and sales manager, Kingston.
Montego Bay On Top in DALPO SASPO Contest
LAD stations in the DALPO SASPO contest hit more than 115 per cent of sales to quota in July as the big contest got into high gear.
Montego Bay with 162.2 per cent of quota was on top of the heap.
Giving a boost to the contest was the announcement that Avianca and CMA have started their staffs rolling in the affiliate contest.
Herbert Wild, traffic manager of Avianca, said: “As concerns Avianca, this contest has been received with great enthusiasm and we are doing everything possible to obtain positive results. We are impressing all of our offices by means of constant bulletins and anxiously await our our fourth quarter quotas.”
Frank O. Willy, traffic and sales manager of CMA, stated: “We are very enthusiastic in getting all traffic and sales employes to help in the CMA contest. We are certain that we will go over quota in a very big way.”
A total of 19 stations went over quota for July with St. Croix hot on the heels of Montego Bay with 158.5 per cent of quota. Third spot was held by Maturin with 156.0 per cent; Maiquetia, 148.8; St. Thomas, 144.6, to round out the top five.
New Post for Gracy
William F. “Dub” Gracy, traffic representative in Miami, is the new acting short haul coordinator, replacing Forrest R. Stevens in one of the busiest “hot seats” in LAD Reservations. Stevens now is with the Cubana traffic staff in Miami.
Rio-Caracas Now Flown Non-Stop
Capitals of two South American nations have been brought closer together by Pan American World Airways’ Super-6 Clippers which now fly nonstop between Caracas, Venezuela, and Rio de Janeiro.
The 2,878-mile direct flight across mid-Brazil is a segment of PAA’s New York-Buenos Aires route formerly flown by Constellation-type Clippers with a stop at Belem.
Elimination of this stop (Belem now is served by a Super-6 tourist flight) reduces by an hour and 20 minutes the flight between Caracas and Rio de Janeiro, and cuts the flight time of the overall trip from 26 hours, 45 minutes, to 25 hours.
The short-cut is the longest overland flight in PAA’s worldwide system, and exceeds by 400 miles the longest coast-to-coast domestic flight in the United States — New York to Los Angeles.
The Super-6s on this intercontinental route stop at San Juan, Puerto Rico; Caracas, Rio, Sao Paulo, and Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Montevideo, Uruguay. The service supplements PAA’s other Super-6 flights — both first-class and tourist—between New York and Buenos Aires via Port of Spain, Trinidad.
The new Caracas-Rio nonstop service is the first to be operated between those cities and the latest in a series of short-cuts pioneered by Pan American in the South American continent.
When PAA first flew from Miami to Buenos Aires 23 years ago, the trip required nine days by flying boats, which followed the coast-line around the bulge of Brazil.
PAA Super-6 Sets New Record At Port of Spain
PAA set a new record for the largest number of passengers to leave Piarco Airport at Port of Spain aboard a single commercial aircraft, when a Super-6 Clipper, on its inaugural flight down the east coast, soared aloft with 81 passengers aboard.
John E. Probst, senior representative and district traffic and sales manager at Port of Spain, revealed that 48 of the passengers on the inaugural flight were intransit and 33 boarded at Port of Spain for the flight to the Guianas and points south.
Probst told the Port of Spain “Gazette” that: “PAA is pleased with the reaction of the public to the institution of the Super-6 tourist service. We are proud to again bring a service to our Latin American customers that provides further luxurious travel within the reach of the average person.”