Clipper, Vol. XVI, No. 7, July 1959

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JOIN YOUR PARC NOW HAVE FUN LATER . . . Story Page 8
VOL XVI, NO. 7
CLIPPER
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
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WEATHER BUREAU PICTURES . . . Pages 4, 5
MIAMI, FLORIDA, JULY 1959
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Jet Service Launched Between Americas
Pre-Clearance Will Simplify
Nassau Travel
Entry Requirements For U. S. Handled Prior to Boarding
Travelers arriving in the United States from Nassau after August 3 5 will step from the airliner, pick up their luggage and go about their business without the formalities of clearing U.S. immigration and customs.
These time-consuming chores, Pan American reports, will have been taken care of before boarding the plane in Nassau.
U.S. and Bahama government officials have agreed to start immigration pre-clearance at Nassau beginning August 1, and to follow with customs pre-clearance August 15.
Encourages Tourism
Introduction of the system will mark the first time that there has been a pre-clearance of both immigration and customs for overseas travelers entering the U.S.
U.S. tourists need only a landing card issued by the airline to visit the Bahamas. Nassau, capital of the island chain, is four and one-half hours by Clipper from New York and less than an hour from Miami.
At present there is pre-clearance of both U.S. immigration and customs for across-the-border traffic from Canada to the U.S. and there is pre-clearance of immigration only from Bermuda to the U.S.
Cleared at Nassau
At Nassau, passengers will be cleared by U.S. immigration and customs officers at Windsor Field airport when they report for plane check in. They will not be isolated or set apart after clearance, but will be permitted the run of the terminal until time to board their plane.
Once on the plane their status, when they land in the U.S., is the same as that of a passenger on a domestic airliner.
It’s a Wonderful NEW World With Pan American
Pan Am to Offer Debenture Rights To Stockholders
Pan American has announced that it plans to offer approximately $47 million of convertible subordinated debentures to its stockholders through sub-? scription rights.
The Company, according to an announcement by President Juan T. Trippe, is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement to cover the offering. Subject to this registration statement becoming effective, the Company expects to offer to stockholders of record July 29, 1959, rights to subscribe for the debentures at the rate of $100 of debentures for each 14 shares held. The subscription price, the interest rate and the conversion price will be determined at the time of the offering.
Under the present schedule, subscription rights will expire on August 12, 1959. The offering is being underwritten by a group of investment bankers.
Most Tested Commercial Aircraft in the Sky
This is the 575-mile an hour Boeing 707 Jet Clipper with which Pan American inaugurated service between the Americas. It is the most thoroughly tested aircraft ever introduced to commercial service. It will seat up to 165 passengers.
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Four Captains On Jet Flight
Act in National Interest
Unions, Pan Am Sign Pact
To Move Essential Traffic
Pan American has signed agreements with four additional labor unions, providing assurances that cargo and personnel essential to hemisphere defense will be transported even though union members may have struck.
The significance of the new pact3> lies in the fact that all seven unions directly connected with the airline’s flight operations have now signed defense labor agreements assuring the government that essential traffic will continue to move despite possible labor disputes.
Four Unions Involved
The latest unions to sign the agreements are: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, covering service supply clerks and lead supply clerks; the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, AFL-CIO, covering clerical and related employes; the United Plant Guard Workers of America, and the Transport Workers Union of
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America, AFL-CIO, Air Transport Division, covering mechanics, flight service personnel and port stewards.
Previously similar agreements had been made by Pan American and the Air Line Pilots Association, the Flight Engineers International Association and the Air Line Dispatchers Association.
Provisions Are Cited
The agreements provide for the following:
1.	Even though the unions should withdraw from commercial airline service because of labor disputes, they will continue at their respective jobs to insure the airlift of cargo and personnel essential to national defense.
2.	A company official will certify in writing that the flight concerned will be exclusively for these purposes.
3.	The agreements will not be altered or terminated without at least two years written notice by either the company or the unions.
Club Votes Dues Increase
Members of the Miami Pan American Management club have voted to increase the annual dues to $15.
The vote was taken at the July sports night party held at the PARC clubhouse.
The final tally was 203 ballots in favor of the increase, 64 against.
Tellers were Kenneth Fagan, Richard Williams, John Jay and Ray Maseda.
A two-thirds vote of the members present was required to adopt the revision to the club constitution.
Arrangements have been made for members paying their dues by payroll deduction to have one more deduction made to adjust the increased amount. Those paying by cash or check will be billed individually.
Record Predicted For 1959 Travel
A record year for international air travel in 1959 with an overall increase of 10 to 15 per cent over last year was predicted today by Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president, traffic and sales of Pan American World Airways.
Pan American’s traffic between the West Coast and Hawaii was up more than 50 per cent for the six-month period, and South American traffic was ahead by 37 per cent. Caribbean travel showed a gain of 17 per cent.
Capt. Richard W. Vinal, assistant chief pilot, technical, of the Latin American Division and a veteran of 82 transatlantic jet crossings, was in command of the Boeing 707 jet Clipper inaugurating Pan American jet service from Buenos Aires to New York.
On the flight deck with Capt. Vinal were three captains, each credited with more than 75 transatlantic jet crossings.
One of them, Capt. Robert M. Weeks, Division sector chief pilot at New York, was in command of the jet Clipper on the southbound flight between New York, Caracas, Venezuela; Paramaribo, Surinam; Asuncion, Paraguay, and Buenos Aires.
The other two captains were Lawrence M. Holloway, Division assistant chief pilot, and William P. Monan, sector chief pilot at Miami.
Plotting the course of the jet airliner was Navigator Jack Titus, Continued on Page 3
Approval Is Asked For National Pact
The success of the jet leasing arrangement between Pan American World Airways and National Airlines during its first winter has proven that the three agreements made by the two airlines have benefited the traveling public both domestic and international, and has resulted in increased traffic for all carriers on the New York-Miami route, Pan American said today.
In a brief filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board seeking final approval of the agreements made on September 9, 1958, Pan American stated that National’s operation of leased jet aircraft has provided the public with jet service on the East Coast a full year sooner than otherwise would have been possible and had increased the revenues of all carriers on the route.
Clipper Flies
New York to Buenos Aires
Pauses in Caracas, Surinam, Paraguay On 5,444-Mile Hop
Jet airliner service between the Americas was launched by Pan American World Airways on July 20 with the departure of a 110-passenger, 575-mile-an-hour Boeing 707 Clipper over the 5,444 mile route from New York to Buenos Aires.
Flying time was a little more than 11 hours with stops at Caracas, Asuncion, Paraguay, and Paramaribo, Surinam.
The inaugural north - bound flight departed the following day, July 21, from Buenos Aires arriving in New York after stops only at Asuncion and Caracas.
Refueling Stop
A refueling stop is necessary at Paramaribo on southbound flights until the runway at Caracas is lengthened.
The flights were the first scheduled jet service over the direct route crossing the heart of South America. The sweptwing, four-engined Boeing carries 40 first class passengers and 70 in tourist class.
Pan American will operate one round trip a week with the swift jets, southbound each Monday, northbound each Tuesday.
On both the southbound and northbound inaugural flights United States and Latin American newsmen were aboard as guests of Pan American.
Distances Vast
Non-stop distances are vast on the new jet route. The shortest hop northbound is 748 miles from Buenos Aires to Asuncion, covered in 1 hour 30 minutes. It is 2,522 miles from Asuncion across the jungles and highlands of South America’s interior to Caracas, requiring 5 hours 25 minutes. From Caracas to New York is 2,173 miles, covered in 4 hours 40 minutes.
Tourists’ horizons are broadened. The business man with little time to spare can afford a quick jet flight to the oil fields or iron mines of Venezuela, or the factories of Argentina.
All this is accomplished at no increase in cost. Jet fares are the same as those in effect for deluxe and tourist accommodations on piston-engine aircraft.
Passengers Set Mark Crossing Atlantic
The greatest number of passengers to fly the Atlantic in one week on one airline—10,256 persons—made the crossing during the first week of July, Pan American has announced.
It was the first time any airline flew more than 10,000 transatlantic passengers in one week, and was 13 per cent over the peak week of last year when 9,086 flew via Pan American.
The 1959 one-week record total is nearly as many passengers as the 10,364 who flew the Atlantic during Pan American’s first three years of transatlantic operations (1939-1941). The record figure includes passengers flying on the north and middle Atlantic and over the Polar route.