Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 9, September 1956

              VOL 13, No. 9
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SEPTEMBER 1956
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Staff Changes
From Clippers to Cougars For Training
Red Tape Cut
Made to Fill New Positions
Move Is Designed To Give Improved Customer Service
Promotions to fill three new positions have been made by Pan American in Miami.
John C. Witzleben, immigration procedure supervisor, has been moved up to customer relations superintendent; Louis W. Harter, of San Juan, has come to Miami to be assistant to division reservations superintendent, cargo, and William C. Campbell, of Maturin, Venezuela, has been named tariff specialist at Miami.
Witzleben joined PAA in February 1952. Harter was cargo manager at San Juan for the past two years and Campbell, district traffic and sales manager at Maturin, has been with the airline for 11 years.
All three promotions are designed to provide increased service to passengers and cargo shippers.
In other changes involving Miami and line station personnel, Clyde E. Miller of the Miami airport staff replaces Campbell at Maturin; J. Mark Phillips, of reservations, has gone to Caracas to be district reservations superintendent, a new position made necessary by the increased air traffic and growing importance of the Venezuelan capital; Antonio LaFon-taine, Jr/, of the Miami airport cargo staff, has been promoted to airline cargo inspector.
At San Juan, Paul E. Kramer, assistant cargo manager, has replaced Harter and Mario Gavini, cargo sales representative, replaces Kramer. In another shift at the Puerto Rican capital, Martin M. Dessau, agency and interline sales representative has been named district cargo manager at Caracas, replacing Louis H.. Murray, resigned.
PAA Rifle Team Wins Championship
The Pan American rifle team won the Southeastern Regional Any Sight championship, expert class, in the matches at Trail Glades range, sponsored by the National Rifle Association.
The PAA team is composed of Harold W. Deason, foreman, special aircraft service, and Henry S. Wenner, Jr., purchasing supervisor. Competing with marksmen from all parts of the Southeast, Wenner also won the metallic sight aggregate, expert class and the grand aggregate, expert class matches.
SCRAMBLE TAKEOFF—Six Pan American copilots doffed their PAA blue for Marine green during two-weeks active duty at Cherry Point, N. Car. All are members of Marine Air Reserve Squadron 142 at Opa-Locka Marine Air Station. Running for their Cougar jets are, left to right, Maj. Charles Friend, Lieut. Clayton Patino, Capt. Carrol L. Hayden, Jr., Lieut Paul K. Nielsen, Capt. James E. Strange, Maj. Joseph Greely.
Lindsey to Fly Again
Captain Briggs Is Appointed Division’s New Chief Pilot
Capt. Frank M. Briggs, Pan American veteran of 22 years, has been appointed Division chief pilot. He succeeds Capt. Lewis C. Lindsey, a 20-year veteran who has been chief pilot for the past 10 years. Captain Lindsey returns
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senger service manager in Miami from January 1, 1954 until August 1, 1955 at which time he was appointed assistant chief check pilot, LAD.
Captain Briggs lives in Miami with his wife and four children.
Captain Lindsey joined PAA in the fall of 1936 as a co-pilot in Miami. He later transferred to the Atlantic Division and was a co-pilot on the maiden transatlantic survey flight of the famous Yankee Clipper, which inaugurated the first scheduled transatlantic passenger service by any airline. He was chief pilot of PAA’s Alaska operations and also was assistant chief pilot of the Africa-Orient Division.
Craftsmen’s Club Members at Picnic
PAA Flies Relief For Victims of Hurricane Betsy
Some 4,000 pounds of clothing collected in New York for the relief of hurricane victims were flown to Puerto Rico by Pan American World Airways.
Additional shipments may be made to Guadeloupe, the French island which, with Puerto Rico, was hit by Hurricane Betsy on August 11 and 12.
Pan American has offered to transport without charge any relief shipments arranged by the Red Cross for the aid of hurricane victims.
New Clippers Spur Travel
Super-7 Clippers, which demonstrated their intercontinental range last May with a 4,806-mile nonstop flight from Miami to Paris, are helping Pan American World Airways run up a new transatlantic travel record already 22 per cent ahead of last year.
A fleet of 25 Douglas DC-7C’s is being integrated into Pan American’s transocean schedules. When all are delivered this year, the company’s fleet will total 150 four-engined airliners.
For the first time in transatlantic air history, the Super-7 is making possible regular nonstop flights from Paris and London to New York. The great, new airliners save three hours in normal flight time by eliminating refueling stops at Gander, Newfoundland, and Shannon, Ireland.
Although air travel demands are far ahead of last year, the Super-7's high performance leaves travel space available in both directions across the Atlantic through the end of September.
Pan American demonstrated the spectacular range of the Super-7 in May by sending the Clipper Bostonian out of Miami with 63 persons aboard for the nonstop flight to Paris, reached in 14 hours and 2 minutes flying time.
SPROUTS NEW WINGS—Capt. Lewis Lindsey, LAD chief pilot for 10 years, will return to flying after a vacation. He is presented with gifts, among other things, upon relinquishing his executive post, by left, Capt. David Desmond, sector chief pilot, and right, Capt. Daniel Pearson, assistant chief pilot, training. The gals are, left, Patricia Anderson, stenographer, and Amy Jo Morrow, secretary to chief pilot.
The annual summer picnic of the Pan American Craftsmen’s Club was held at the Stone House at Matheson Hammock. More than 75 members and their families attended. Games and entertainment were provided for adults and children.
BAKER RECOVERING
George W. Baker, production control coordinator at COB, who was injured seriously in an automobile accident, is recovering at Doctors Hospital. Baker is widely known in PAA as a top ranking bowler and softball player.
For Travel In Argentina
Government Uses Spot Check for Bag Inspection
Argentina is the latest Latin American republic to join the fight against travel red tape.
In two speed-up measures, now effective, the government has eliminated the written baggage declaration and inaugurated a spot check only of outgoing passengers’ baggage.
Argentine officials attributed the red tape reduction to the government’s policy of encouraging visitors.
Clipper passengers arriving in Buenos Aires now handle the baggage declaration orally in minutes and are required to fill out customs forms only if they have unaccompanied baggage.
Departure also is moving speedily because officials, heretofore required to inspect all baggage, now spot check the baggage of an occasional passenger only.
The action of the Argentine government brings to more than 240 the number of forms that have been eliminated for airline travel in Latin America since Pan American first began the fight to cut red tape in that area. Before the airline tackled the problem years ago, a month often was required to obtain documents for a trip around South America, involving travel time of less than a week.
After years of effort and negotiation, new simplified travel forms have been substituted for cumbersome ones. In the matter of customs declarations, for example, only Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Uruguay of the 20 Latin American republics now require written forms.
The travel streamlining is paying dividends in tourism to the countries involved. In July, for example, Pan American alone handled more than 65,000 Latin American travelers through its Miami gateway, smashing all previous months in its 28-year history by more than 10,000 travelers.
Who’s Afraid? |
BRAVE LITTLE Susan Alvear, four, daughter of Dr. Homero Alvear, Quito, Ecuador, flew alone from Seattle, Washington, where she had been in an orthopedic hospital, to her home, aboard a Pan American Clipper. With her is Stewardess Livia Pesante, Miami.
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