Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 8, August 1956

              VOL 13, No. 8
MIAMI, FLORIDA, AUGUST 1956

COSTA RICA PICTURES
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LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
Hemisphere Chiefs of State Arrive in Panama For Historic Meeting
PRESIDENT of Mexico, Adolfo Ruiz Cor-tines, (holding hat) during anthem.
PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower, of the U.S., is met at airport by Panama President Ricardo Arias.
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PRESIDENTS Alberto Zubiria, Uruguay, I, PRESIDENT Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazil, in Panama. with military aide, deplanes at Tocumen.
Employes to Get Raise in Hangars
The incidence of rubber knees, wheezing and heart palpitations should be reduced soon among PAA employes and visitors having business at company offices in Hangars 6 and 7.
A pair of automatic passenger elevators are being installed and will be in operation to relieve muscular, respiratory and cardiac distress by the end of the year.
The new lifts will accommodate 15 persons each and are being installed at the east wing of Hangar 6 and the west wing of Hangar 7. All floors will be served. There will be a small vestibule in the lobby area on the ground floor of each wing and doors will be cut through walls on the three upper levels where there are windows now. The elevator shafts are being constructed on the outside of each wing adjacent to the present stairwells.
PAA Promises Best Service On East Coast
“Twice as Good”
As Competitors, Airline Tells CAB
Pan American World Airways has proved that it can do better than twice as well as any other applicant in providing drastically-needed additional air passenger and cargo service on the Florida-Northeast route, Henry J. Friendly, PAA general counsel, told the Civil Aeronautics Board.
In oral argument before the board in the Florida-New York case, Friendly asserted that Pan American would not have applied for the route unless it could present a case “at least twice as good as any other applicant.”
“We think we have done considerably better than this self-imposed requirement,” Friendly said.
Pan American Has Big Role
At Conference
Airline Appointed
To Aid Arrivals
Of All Presidents
Panama has proved once again its claim to the title “crossroads of the Americas.” And Pan American has contributed another outstanding service to the Republic and its important visitors who attended the Congress of Presidents.
Not since the days of the Spanish Conquistadores and explorers have so many VIP’s gathered on the isthmus as were drawn by the
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historic meeting of American chiefs of state and the Council of the Organization of American States in July.
The guest list included 19 American presidents and presi-
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dents-elect, as well as many ambassadors and government leaders. The session marked the 130th anniversary of the first Pan American Congress called by Latin America’s great liberator, Simon Bolivar.
A tribute to PAA’s longstanding prestige was paid by President Ricardo Arias Espinoza, of Panama, who officially appointed the airline to handle and coordinate with authorities the arrival of presidential aircraft at Tocumen International Airport. Pan American’s passenger ramp was used to disembark all delegations.
Elton Todd, Pan American’s director in Panama, assisted in coordinating arrivals with Panamanian protocol authorities. Tocumen station manager, Findley Howard, and junior station managers assigned to the airport, handled passengers, baggage and cargo operations involving presidential Continued on Page 3
Guatemala Posts Good Departure Mark
A high percentage of on-time departures from Guatemala for May was celebrated by an ice cream and cake party, tossed by Harold Williams, station manager.
With only 10 delays out of 140 scheduled departures, a mark of 93 per cent was set for the month at the station. For 20 consecutive days, including 88 flights, there were no delays. The party was the result of Williams’ offer that if 85 per cent of departures were on time he would treat.
The Pan American picnic is on!
At a meeting of the general committee, the date was set for Saturday, October 27, 1956. The place — Crandon Park and Virginia Beach.
Long known as one of the biggest and most outstanding events of its kind in South Florida, the picnic will entertain more than 15,000 employes and their families. Food and liquid refreshments will be available in abundant quantities.
The festivities will get under way at 10 a.m. and continue with all stops pulled out until 6 p.m.
“We ask you to examine the record. If you find PAA’s case only a little better than its closest rival, don’t select us.
“But if you find, as we think you will, that from the public standpoint PAA’s case is far better than any other, then we ask you not to be deluded by slogans, or fear to do what the record demands.”
Friendly said selection of PAA to fly the New York-Maimi route would provide for the first time through single-carrier service under the U.S. flag to Latin
There will be games and free rides for the children, contests and entertainment for the elders, with dancing for both. Contests will include hole-in-one golf, horseshoe pitching, softball and others. Prizes will be awarded winners.
The committee is composed of: Ernie Foss and Frank Foster, coordinators; Karl Kaylos, Arthur Best, Bob Lockhart, Arch Galbraith, Jim Bacon, Tom Temple, George Brown, Bill Merritt, Ken Fortner, Ed Clapper, Bill Rains, Joe Hughes. Roosevelt Winfield is coordinator at Virginia Beach.
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Picnic Slated For Oct. 27th At Crandon, Virginia Beach
Travel Tax Repeal Hailed as Boon to Tourism, Good Will
President Signs Measure Ending Levy on Latin American Fares
Increased tourist travel and greater international good will are seen as a result of the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on travel to Latin America.
The measure, previously adopted by both houses of
Whatta Man!
A young woman in Puerto Rico, who wants to be a Pan American stewardess, wastes no time with such trivia as swimming, tennis, winter sports and the like. Moreover, she comes right out and admits what most gals mean, when the double-talk is translated.
On her application, received at PAA’s Industrial Relations Department, this information is asked :
“Name your favorite physical or athletic hobbies, recreation or sports.”
The applicant wrote: “My boy-friend.”
Finalists Set For Big Match
The match for the championship in the Tenth Annual Wilbur L. Morrison Handicap Golf Tournament will be played between Carl Anderson, cargo traffic manager and Ralph F. Robinson, copilot.
Robinson eliminated Leon (Fox) Smith, defending champion, in the final match of the first flight, 3 and 2. Robinson enters the last round with a handicap of four.
Anderson, winner of the fourth flight play, has a handicap of 17.
The finalists will be competing for the Wilbur L. Morrison trophy and prizes, which are a full set of matched woods and irons for the winner and a set of matched irons for the runner-up.
The final round has been delayed by the absence of Robinson whose duty kept him flying to Latin America.
f Congress, became law when it was signed by President Eisenhower late in July. It becomes effective October 1.
The new law repeals the tax from the last stop in the continental United States to the Caribbean, including Bermuda, and to Latin America, Hawaii, Alaska and parts of Canada. Travel within the U. S. while enroute to those points remains taxable. The tax also remains on travel from any point in the U. S. to Mexico or Canada not further than 225 miles from the U. S. border.
Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president in charge of PAA’s Latin American Division, said repeal of the tax “will be hailed by every government and tourist group in the affected area.”
The tax has applied to travel from the United States to the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Central America and Panama. A similar travel tax to South America was removed several years ago.
Morrison said the effect of the new law is to reduce travel costs by 10 per cent, thereby encouraging many more tourists to visit these popular tropical vacation lands. Their dollars will spread throughout the economy from bankers to bootblacks.
Typical savings on first class roundtrip travel costs from Miami are $3.60 to Havana and Nassau; $19.80 to Panama; $10.44 to Merida, Mexico; $13.50 to Port-au-Prince, Haiti; $28.80 to Port of Spain, Trinidad; $14.22 to St. Croix, Virgin Islands; $8.60 to San Juan, Puerto Rico; $18.36 to San Salvador, El Salvador, and $18.36 to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.