Clipper, Vol. 7, No. 7, July 1950

              
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Coblins Win Interdepartmental Softball Title
Here is the Coblins team that won the PAA Softball League crown at Miami by defeating the Hi-Balls three straight games in a playoff series between the winners of the first and second halves of the schedule.
Left to right they are: Front row, Neil O’Leary, centerfielder; Ted Powers, rightfielder; Edison Coulter, shortstop; Tookie Martin Vegue, pitcher; Red Lucas, secondbaseman; Marty Taylor,
shortfielder, and Rocky Miller, fielder; back, row, Charlie Jenkins, thirdbaseman; John Mo-sure, shortfielder; Bill Kelly, leftfielder; Bill Bedford, catcher; Ed Schiff haver, f irsthaseman; John Tigert, pitcher and captain; Ed Weissinger, thirdbaseman, and George P. Gwin, PAA recreational director who served as chairman of the league.
The Coblins won the first half of the schedule. The Hi-Balls
took the second half with a record of six wins against one loss. The Coblins and Connies tied for second place with five victories and two losses each. Other teams finished in this order: SOS, four winners, three defeats; Cargo and All Stars, each with three wins and four losses; Traffic, two victories against five defeats, and Accounting, which failed to win a game while losing seven.
This Is What Happens To LAD Sailor When His Boat Has Sandbar Trouble
LeMoyne Hall, who works in industrial relations at Miami, is every inch an “admiral” on his days off. In his 23-foot sailboat he plows the blue water of Biscayne Bay each week end, veering, tacking, jibbing, booming, yawing and whatever else you do in a 23-foot sailboat.
One recent Sunday Hall’s early training asserted itself. He quit plowing blue water and went back to plowing sand, but he managed this without a mule, and without even leaving his boat.
It all started when he embarked with his wife and two sons, Jonny, 4, and LeMoyne, 10, for a cruise on Biscayne Bay, whose tides and shoal waters Hall says he knows like the palms of his hands. Apparently, however, he didn’t know which hand was which, because, on his return trip, at night and with-
It’s A Lot Shorter Than A Month Ago
In the June Clipper there was a story that told how visitors to El Salvador could see an active volcano, Izalco, at close range by taking about a four-hour drive from San Salvador, capital of El Salvador.
Comes now, with justifiable pride in his homeland, a note from Bernardo Cevallos, traffic clerk at San Salvador, in which he refers to the distance from San Salvador to the foot of Izalco thusly: “Since I have done the drive myself I want to point out that it takes only one hour and 10 minutes, and not four hours, no matter how slowly the car may go.”
The Clipper is glad to “clip” nearly three hours off the traveling time, Bernardo, and the only explanation for the four hours in the original story is that the other automobile must have made an awful lot of stops to view the other fascinating sights along the route.
out a flashlight, Hall mistook an ebb tide for a rising tide and wound up on a sandbar in lower Biscayne Bay. It required a gigantic amount of coaxing and sweating in the darkness to get the boat off, and his family began to speak to Hall with some lack of confidence.
Rising above all reproaches, showing iron self-control, Admiral Hall floated his boat again at 1:30 a.m. and began skimming like a swallow for home, through the darkness, before a fresh breeze. Never, he thought with satisfaction, had he sailed more brilliantly, and never had his mastery of the wind and water been nearer to genius. Then WHAM! ! Suddenly he found himself out of water again with the boat skidding along like a bobsled. Another sandbar!
This time there was ho getting off till the tide returned, a long dark spell ahead. To the gentle inquiries of his brood, such as “Why didn’t you bring a flashlight, daddy?” and “Wouldn’t it have been wise to bring some water, dear?” Hall had no answer
Marquis Promoted To Station Manager
Willard R. Marquis, chief mechanic at Port au Prince for the past three years, has been promoted to station manager at the Haitian capital.
Marquis joined Pan American in 1939 at the age of 18 and has been in maintenance work during his more than 10 years with the company.
He was born in Casper, Wyoming, and attended school in Coral Gables, Florida, graduating from Ponce de Leon High School.
Marquis succeeds Roger Jarman, who recently was promoted to the newly-created post of district traffic manager in Haiti. The increasing volume of air traffic to and from the island republic resulted in PAA establishing the new job.
which can be printed here. And so the dismal night dragged itself away.
Came the dawn of Monday, and George Flanigan, also of industrial relations, with whom Hall was to ride to work, found the Hall residence locked and no Halls at all. On gping to Hall’s boat landing he found his car, but no boat. Worried no end, he notified the Coast Guard, which unleashed its squadrons of ships and planes in a frantic search for Hall and his “navy.”
Then, going back for one last sorrowful look at the boat dock, and to reproach himself for ever having said an unkind word to good old Hall, now maybe being digested by a barracuda, Flanigan was astounded at seeing Hall’s boat, but no car . . . The tide had risen again and, since Hall could still see, even though he was seeing red, he had made it on in to the landing and skulked away from the scene of his ignominy.
Flanigan, after worrying himself sick about Hall’s safety, thinks he should name the boat, which is now un-named, the “Ignominy.” — Sell Your Airline! —
Pilots Summoned To Active Status
Because of the increased tempo of its operations—especially in the Pacific — Pan American has recalled to active status a number of pilots furloughed on January 1. Thirty-five are LAD men.
The company now has 918 men on its pilot roster, some of whom are flying Clippers in a special Pacific airlift set up by the Department of Defense to carry men and supplies to the Far East.
Among the group in the Pacific are' several 20-year veterans with PAA, headed by the airline’s No. 1 pilot, Capt. Basil L. Rowe of LAD, whose 30,405 hours in the air is a world record.
CAB Approves Sale Of AOATo Pan Am; Price $17,450,000
By a three-to-two vote the Civil Aeronautics Board, July 17, approved the sale of American Overseas Airlines to Pan American for $17,450,000.
Approval of the transaction came at the specific direction of President Truman, who overruled the board’s previous
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The purchase of AOA by PAA is expected to produce a better balanced, more economic competitive picture in North Atlantic commercial aviation. During the prolonged hearings and legal proceedings that marked the negotiations PAA officials pointed out to the CAB that the merger would save taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
The unbalance of the present competitive picture, they said,
PAD Also Pays $225 For Idea Of LAD Worker
Harold C. Douglas, a departmental assistant in the Miami maintenance department, is really hitting the jackpot with the suggestion he submitted last year to the LAD Employes’ Suggestion Committee for the abolishment of storage time limits oh aircraft instruments and accessories.
Last November the LAD committee adopted his suggestion and voted him an award of $465. Now comes word that the Employes’ Suggestion Committee of the Pa-cific-Alaska Division, to which his idea subsequently was referred, has found it sufficiently worthwhile to award him an additional $225.
The LAD committee in turn voted supplemental awards to four Pa-cific-Alaska Division employes in June for suggestions they originally had submitted to their PAD Suggestion Committee. R. Sund and
R.	Robinette were given $25 jointly for their idea for a screen flange installation in header ducts. E. Hoffman and V. Jones received $5 between them for their joint suggestion to reroute the wiring of temperature bulbs.
LAD employes who received awards by the LAD committee in June were:
James R. Davenport, $20, for a paint check list; Arthur H. Greer, $40, installation of turn and bank vacuum selector valves; Johnson
S.	Clark, $25 for refilling of Ansul fire extinguisher cartridges and $15 for remodifying fire extinguisher brackets on battery carts; William Wilson, $10, hand pump installation on pressurization jeep; John S. Clay, $15, salvage of propeller blade heater connectors; Glenn Warnock and Helen Coler, $10 jointly, clip fasteners for holding seals in place on deflectors and hoods for riveting; Theodore R. Powers and Claude F. Chambliss, $10 jointly, fuel feed valve puller; George W. Rogers, $10, fixture for spreading center main bearing on R-2000 engines; Sullivan Carter, $25, intake pipe flange reconditioning jig, and Clinton G. Darling, $20, test unit to check out wiring in cabin.
Walter Satfield was given a letter of commendation for his idea for testing and adjusting fixture for oil pressure relief valves on superchargers.
AOA has had to compete directly with PAA for 75 per cent of its transatlantic traffic. On the other hand, they pointed out, TWA, the third American-flag carrier, has had an almost complete monopoly over the richest traffic in Europe, the band of territory comprised of France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Israel and Egypt.
PAA and AOA, company officials asserted, have borne the brunt of the opposition of five of the seven foreign-flag competitors, while TWA has had only one strong foreign transatlantic competitor.
Traffic estimates at the time the present routes were awarded show that American Export (predecessor to AOA), Pan American and TWA expected to show profits—before mail pay—in early operations following World War II. Actually, however, the carriers have shown tremendous deficits before mail pay.
At one of the CAB hearings on the merger it was stated that forecasts indicated that the three airlines would require $32,000,000 mail pay a year in the future.
This prompted one PAA official to say at the time that “We think it clear that if the board (CAB) and the President had had any idea that the cost of maintaining three American-flag carriers across the Atlantic would have amounted to $32,000,000 a year they would have been slow indeed to place three rather than two carriers across the Atlantic.”
In connection with the CAB approval of the sale, Juan T. Trippe, president of PAA, issued this statement:
‘The acquisition by Pan American World Airways, Inc., of the assets of American Overseas Airlines, Inc., has been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board and the President of the United States. Under the contract a period will necessarily elapse before the necessary legal formalities are completed and the sale consumated by transfer of American Overseas’ assets to Pan American.
‘In this interim period the operations of Pan American Airways’ Atlantic Division and American Overseas will be separately conducted by their respective managements. Both organizations will continue to solicit and book traffic as at present. All reservations made on American Overseas’ services for dates subsequent to the transfer of its assets will be honored by Pan American Airways.
“In the interim both managements, in consultation with authorized employe representatives, will complete equitable plans for the transfer of American Overseas’ personnel to Pan American when the sale is completed.” •
— Conservation Cuts Costs —
JUNE BLOOD DONORS
These employes each donated a pint of blood to the PAA Blood Bank at Miami during June: Donald Shrum, traffic; William A. Kopp, services of supply; Norman Merriman, William Woolley, Roger Wilkie, Charles Stoll, Fred Heath, Eulice E. Royal, John Romano. Leon Worth, H. C. Schmidt and Lionel Carrasco, all of maintenance.