Clipper, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1944

              VOL. 1—NO. 2
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION	'	JUNE, 1944
Perfect Safety Records Win Coveted Awards
For perfect safety records in flying during 1943, the Latin American division and the five affiliated companies of the Pan American World Airways System have received the Inter-American Aviation Safety Awards of the Inter-American Safety Council.
In a telegram, dated May 24, to Wilbur L. Morrison, vice-president in Miami, Juan T. Trippe, Pan American president, said, “Your division’s outstanding safety record for 1943 has qualified for the Aviation Safety Award of the Inter-American Safety Council. The council’s certificate of award was presented to me today acting on behalf of your division at a luncheon in the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D. C. My congratulations to your division and to its officers and employees upon the operating record which won this citation.”
Similar awards and congratulations from Mr. Trippe went to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, largest domestic airline in Mexico; Panair do Brasil, longest domestic airline in the world; Aerovias de Guatemala, which has set a record of air freight operations unsurpassed by any other airline; Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviación and Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia. Ambassadors of Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico received the awards.
These companies with the Latin American division operate a total of 50,000 route miles serving 300 capitals and trade centers in the Americas. The division flew almost 18,000,000 miles last year with no accident or fatality to either passengers or crew.
J. M. Wilson, president of the Safety Council, which seeks to promote industrial and commercial safety throughout the American republics, made the awards before a distinguished audience of Latin American diplomats, representatives of the U. S. State Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Civil Aero-natutics Authority, the Pan American Union, the office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and officials of companies honored.
“LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON”
Their faces picturing the pride and confidence that they feel in each other, a father and his son pilot the Clippers of Pan American Airways on their wartime missions from their base in Miami, Fla., to distant stations in the Caribbean. Ever since he was a little boy, George W. Snow has wanted to fly with his father, Capt. George D. Snow, and now he is realizing that ambition.
Senior pilot of Pan American Airways’ Latin American Division, Captain Snow has a long history of aviation experience behind him. Commissioned in the army during the last war, he won his flying wings at the Kelly Field Flying School in San Antonio, Texas. He resigned as a major from active duty in 1924 to spend the next four years in commercial aviation. Oo-pilot on the first Pan American plane which flew paying passengers out of Miami in 1928, Captain Snow has been with Pan American ever since.
Today, with 26 years of flying behind him, with more than 16,000 hours in the air, Captain Snow has flown all types of Pan American flying boats.
Young George Snow cannot remember the first time that he flew, because he was only three years old, and so small that he could not see out of the plane.
At the University of Florida, George majored in aeronautical engineering, and his Dad bought him a small Luscomb plane, which Pan American pilots taught him to fly at a private field near Miami. After several years of study, he obtained his junior pilot’s license in November, 1942, and joined Pan American the next month. Now George is a copilot, often flying with his father.
On Your Mark! Get Set! Buy War Bonds!
At the sound of the starting gun for the National Fifth War Loan Drive today, Pan American began an intensive campaign to reach every employee in the Miami area.
Although the drive does not open officially until June 12, all June sales of bonds will be counted on the official scoreboard and members of the Pan American committee began a person-to-person canvas today to solicit subscription to the payroll deduction plan and to urge purchase of extra bonds to help the nation reach its 16 billion dollar goal.
At the end of April, 3,190 employees in the Miami area or 40.88 per cent were subscribing to the payroll allotment plan. Aim of the personalized campaign is to increase this percentage as much as possible and to sign up every employee, no matter how small the allotment.
Sponsoring official of the campaign is Vice-President Wilbur L. Morrison. Robert F. Green, head of the Personnel department, is chairman of the Pan American Airways War Finance Payroll committee. In Green’s absence, John B. Cook has been acting chairman, assisted by Warren Welborne.
Acting as treasury representatives are : Arch S. Galbraith, Latin American division; George Olsen, Africa-Orient division; Lloyd E. Smalley, General Accounting office; Ellis W. Perry, Brownsville area; John H. Webb, Pamsco.
Working under these representatives is a comprehensive network of department representatives and departmental captains :
Latin American division: Operations, Arthur C. Gulliver; Meteorology, John W. Thomas; Personnel and Executive, Lillian McCready; Traffic, James E. Henry; Airport Traffic, Marshall Sinclair; IALTO, May Orr; Pantra, Betty Wood; Express, George Nolan; Purchasing, Chester King; Airways Maintenance, Earle Waring.
Africa-Orient: Executive, Lucille Boule ; Operations, Glenn Gold ; Maintenance, Robert Weathers; Communications, Reginald Reynolds; Accounting, Walter Turning; abroad, Lex Riggan and Robert Sharrard.
Accounting: general, Mildred Rogers;
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