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LATIN AMERICAN
DIVISION P**
IDLEWILD CARGO PICTURES
. . . Pages 4 and 5
VOL 14, No. 6
MIAMI, FLORIDA, JUNE 1957
570606
PAA Scores Eastern Air Misstatements
Tactics of Airline In Mexico-New York Route Case Assailed
Pan American World Airways has called upon the Civil Aeronautics Board to recognize Eastern Air Lines’ conduct in the New York - Mexico nonstop case as a campaign of “lies and vilification,” and to affirm the considered judgment of the CAB examiner who found Pan American to be the “crystal clear” choice to operate the route.
Eastern’s tactics in attempting to bar Pan American from the route were assailed by Henry J. Friendly, PAA general counsel, before the CAB in Washington.
Eastern has used arguments without consistency to suit its purposes, he asserted. In the New York-Florida case, Eastern argued against Pan American’s certification on the ground that an international airline should not be given domestic routes. Yet in the New York - Mexico case, Eastern argues that it, a domestic airline, must be given an international route and an international carrier be denied it.
International Route
The route is truly an international one, Friendly said, involving service not only between Mexico and Washington and New York, but between Mexico and Europe as well.
Only Pan American has the route structure to provide one-carrier service between Europe and Mexico, he asserted, and has the experience to compete with other international airlines.
Eastern’s “supremacy is not in refinement of service,” he said, “but in cramming the largest number of bodies into the smallest space.”
Friendly’s conclusions follow:
“Eastern has sought to overturn the recommendation of your examiner by a campaign of lies and vilification unprecedented in the history of the Civil Aeronautics Board. They, and their henchmen, have spread these through the halls of Congress; they have hawked them to states and municipalities; and a certain columnist has broadcast them throughout the land.
“Pan American’s answer is plain. It is A1 Smith’s phrase, ‘let’s look at the record.’ Pioneered By PAA
“Eastern says it pioneered air transportation to Mexico City. The record is that Eastern has never operated into Mexico at all, and didn’t even have a domestic connecting service for a decade after Pan American had done the pioneering job.
“Eastern says it is wrong to let Pan American parallel Eastern. The record shows Eastern wasn’t
Continued on page 6
Employes Receive Second Salk Shots
Second Salk vaccine shots were administered to more than 2,000 Pan American employes and their dependents, June 3 through 5. The same group was vaccinated against polio early in May with first shots.
The inoculations were given by Pan American nurses under the direction of Dr. Martin Mangels, Division medical director. As in the case of the initial shots, the second of the series was completed on employees’ own time at a nominal charge of one dollar each.
Persons desiring to complete the series with the third, or booster shot, may do so on their own responsibility at any time between six months and a year from the date of the second vaccination.
Clippers Open 1957 Little League Season
“TRY THIS ONE, when that slugger comes up,” Edwin Drescher, Division manager, advises Pat Lunn, third from left, pitcher for Pan American’s Little League baseball team, at the opening game of the season. The budding "Mickey Mantle" and "Yogi Berra" in the picture are, left, Larry Lee, outfielder, son of Robert W. Lee, traffic representative, and Mike Berry, catcher, whose dad is Leon E. Berry, master mechanic. Master Lunn is the son of Charles J. Lunn, superintendent of ground training and one of the coaches.
40 Teams Vie at Bird Bowl
Bowling Leagues Combine For Tournament and Banquet
Forty teams from three leagues of Pan American employes celebrated the end of their bowling season with a special tournament and banquet at Bird Bowl on Memorial Day. It was the most ambitious one-day sports event ever
sponsored by the airline in Miami. A---------
More than 300 bowlers took over
the huge 40-lane alleys from 2 to 7 p.m. for the tournament, after which a buffet dinner was served.
PICTURES ON PAGES 7-8
First of its kind ever staged in Miami, the event combined separate year-end bowling banquets previously held by the three PAA leagues. It also included two teams that bowled under Pan American colors in other leagues.
The idea was proposed by A. J. Lea Hume, PAA industrial relations manager and was arranged and directed by Richard Cannon, recreation director, and Nat So-kalow, manager of Bird Bowl. The Bowl was closed to the public during the hours of the event.
Continued on page 7
Club Installs New Officers
Robert M. Evans, LAD service manager, was installed president of the Pan American Management Club at its May meeting in Miami Springs Villas Playhouse.
Other officers inducted for the year 1957-58, were James E. Henry, assistant to the sales manager, vice president; Kent Stratford, personnel section supervisor, secretary; John W. Moore, personnel staff assistant, treasurer. Three members of the Board of Control installed, were, Edwin B. Weissinger, personnel superintendent; C. Ben Malicotte, chief timekeeper, and William E. Loucks, assistant airci-aft service superintendent.
The installing officer was Robert S. Bush, Division meteorologist, a past-president of the club.
Speakers at the meeting were H. J. Richardson, of the Convair Customer Relations Department, and Dan Ryan, administrator of the town of Miami Springs.
Robinson Assigned To Uruguay Post
James S. Robinson is Pan American World Airways’ new station manager at Carrasco Airport, Montevideo, Uruguay, succeeding Herbert Thomas. Thomas has returned to Miami for another assignment.
Robinson, assistant station manager at Mai-quetia airport, Caracas, Venezuela, for the last three years, joined PAA in his home city,
ROBINSON
Brownsville, Texas, in 1936 and was assigned to the operations staff in Panama five years later.
In 1943 he was promoted to an assistant flight dispatcher, and he was senior dispatcher in Panama in 1949 when assigned to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the same capacity. He was transferred to Caracas in 1954.
Intercontinental Speed Record Set
An intercontinental Clipper speed record of four hours, nine minutes between Miami and Caracas, Venezuela, has been set by Pan American World Airways.
At the controls of the DC-7B nonstop flight was Capt. David G. Desmond, sector chief pilot, who averaged 333 miles an hour for the 1,386 miles.
The former Clipper record between North and South America was four hours, 37 minutes from Caracas to Miami March 30, 1955.
Flights To London Quadrupled June 1
Pan American World Airways quadrupled the number of flights of its extra de luxe President Special service between New York and London on June 1.
Four flights a week instead of one will depart Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 4 p.m., arriving the next morning in London at 9 a.m. They will be offered on Super Stratocruis-ers at $50 premium fare.
The flights feature Sleeperette service, enough space between seats to permit full recline, plus 13 upper berths and two specially equipped staterooms.
"Pat" Has All The Answers
Robot Is Star of Quiz Show In San Juan Demonstration
A major first in the automation field has been chalked up to Pan American World Airways with a machine that will ask a question across 2,040 miles of ocean and land —and get an answer in less than four seconds from another
machine.
No human agency is involved in the quiz program, except the man who pushes a button in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that sets mechanical brain cells whirring in a machine at PAA reservations bureau in Long Island City, New York.
Star of the show is a robot
named “Pat” — short for Pan American Teleregister. The performance marks the first time radio has been used for such communication, a step that opens unlimited possibilities for Pat’s future development in Pan American’s worldwide network.
Continued on page 7
Trippe Sees Big Increase In Air Travel
Stockholders Elect Directors For Year At Annual Meeting
Nearly 3,000,000 passengers will be carried on Pan American World Airways global routes during 1957, Juan T. Trippe, president of the airline, said at the company’s 29th annual meeting of stockholders at the Ambassador hotel, New York.
The record high represents a 15 per cent increase over the 2,600,-000 in 1956.
Mr. Trippe based his forecast upon traffic figures for the first four-and-a-half months of 1957 which showed increases in passengers carried throughout the Pan American System in comparison with a corresponding period for 1956.
The greatest upswing—24 per cent—was in Pan American’s Atlantic operation. Trippe pointed out that the summer European tourist surge started in May, a month earlier than usual. Westbound transatlantic travel also is running higher than a year ago.
154 Flights A Week
Pan American is scheduling 154 transatlantic flights a week this summer, the majority of which will be operated with the airline’s new fleet of DC-7C equipment non-stop in both directions. DC-7C’s are the fastest and quietest transport in international service.
Trippe reiterated his previous prediction that the receipt of jet airliners now on order by American and foreign-flag airlines will more than double present international passenger travel.
He told stockholders that construction of the first series of jet transports that Pan American will receive beginning late next year was proceeding on schedule. Their actual flight testing was expected to begin in seven months. Pan American has ordered 44 Boeing and Douglas jets and will be the first to put them into service on international routes.
Operate Nine Hotels
Pan American is continuing to help alleviate the shortage of overseas hotel space which has been a deterrent to post-war travel, Trippe said.
The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, which already operates nine tourist hotels abroad, will open two more this year, in Curacao, the Dutch West Indies, and at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Two additional IHC hotels are scheduled to be completed next year. They will be in San Salvador, El Salvador, and Beirut, Lebanon.
Trippe said the company’s pro-
Continued on page 6
Caracas, New York Flights Increased
An additional weekly round trip Clipper flight between Caracas and New York has been placed in operation by Pan American World Airways.
The new nonstop service, in four-engine radar-equipped Super-6 Clippers, is first class only. The roundtrip fare is $360, with no U.S. transportation tax.
Pan American now will operate 20 flights weekly between New York and the Venezuelan capital, of which four are first class only and the balance both first and tourist class. The new flight leaves Idlewild Airport at 11 p.m. Fridays, arriving at Caracas’ Mai-quetia Airport at 6:30 o’clock the next morning. Northbound flights leave Maiquetia on Saturdays at 8:30 a.m., reaching New York at 5 p.m.
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| Full Text | LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION P** IDLEWILD CARGO PICTURES . . . Pages 4 and 5 VOL 14, No. 6 MIAMI, FLORIDA, JUNE 1957 570606 PAA Scores Eastern Air Misstatements Tactics of Airline In Mexico-New York Route Case Assailed Pan American World Airways has called upon the Civil Aeronautics Board to recognize Eastern Air Lines’ conduct in the New York - Mexico nonstop case as a campaign of “lies and vilification,” and to affirm the considered judgment of the CAB examiner who found Pan American to be the “crystal clear” choice to operate the route. Eastern’s tactics in attempting to bar Pan American from the route were assailed by Henry J. Friendly, PAA general counsel, before the CAB in Washington. Eastern has used arguments without consistency to suit its purposes, he asserted. In the New York-Florida case, Eastern argued against Pan American’s certification on the ground that an international airline should not be given domestic routes. Yet in the New York - Mexico case, Eastern argues that it, a domestic airline, must be given an international route and an international carrier be denied it. International Route The route is truly an international one, Friendly said, involving service not only between Mexico and Washington and New York, but between Mexico and Europe as well. Only Pan American has the route structure to provide one-carrier service between Europe and Mexico, he asserted, and has the experience to compete with other international airlines. Eastern’s “supremacy is not in refinement of service,” he said, “but in cramming the largest number of bodies into the smallest space.” Friendly’s conclusions follow: “Eastern has sought to overturn the recommendation of your examiner by a campaign of lies and vilification unprecedented in the history of the Civil Aeronautics Board. They, and their henchmen, have spread these through the halls of Congress; they have hawked them to states and municipalities; and a certain columnist has broadcast them throughout the land. “Pan American’s answer is plain. It is A1 Smith’s phrase, ‘let’s look at the record.’ Pioneered By PAA “Eastern says it pioneered air transportation to Mexico City. The record is that Eastern has never operated into Mexico at all, and didn’t even have a domestic connecting service for a decade after Pan American had done the pioneering job. “Eastern says it is wrong to let Pan American parallel Eastern. The record shows Eastern wasn’t Continued on page 6 Employes Receive Second Salk Shots Second Salk vaccine shots were administered to more than 2,000 Pan American employes and their dependents, June 3 through 5. The same group was vaccinated against polio early in May with first shots. The inoculations were given by Pan American nurses under the direction of Dr. Martin Mangels, Division medical director. As in the case of the initial shots, the second of the series was completed on employees’ own time at a nominal charge of one dollar each. Persons desiring to complete the series with the third, or booster shot, may do so on their own responsibility at any time between six months and a year from the date of the second vaccination. Clippers Open 1957 Little League Season “TRY THIS ONE, when that slugger comes up,” Edwin Drescher, Division manager, advises Pat Lunn, third from left, pitcher for Pan American’s Little League baseball team, at the opening game of the season. The budding "Mickey Mantle" and "Yogi Berra" in the picture are, left, Larry Lee, outfielder, son of Robert W. Lee, traffic representative, and Mike Berry, catcher, whose dad is Leon E. Berry, master mechanic. Master Lunn is the son of Charles J. Lunn, superintendent of ground training and one of the coaches. 40 Teams Vie at Bird Bowl Bowling Leagues Combine For Tournament and Banquet Forty teams from three leagues of Pan American employes celebrated the end of their bowling season with a special tournament and banquet at Bird Bowl on Memorial Day. It was the most ambitious one-day sports event ever sponsored by the airline in Miami. A--------- More than 300 bowlers took over the huge 40-lane alleys from 2 to 7 p.m. for the tournament, after which a buffet dinner was served. PICTURES ON PAGES 7-8 First of its kind ever staged in Miami, the event combined separate year-end bowling banquets previously held by the three PAA leagues. It also included two teams that bowled under Pan American colors in other leagues. The idea was proposed by A. J. Lea Hume, PAA industrial relations manager and was arranged and directed by Richard Cannon, recreation director, and Nat So-kalow, manager of Bird Bowl. The Bowl was closed to the public during the hours of the event. Continued on page 7 Club Installs New Officers Robert M. Evans, LAD service manager, was installed president of the Pan American Management Club at its May meeting in Miami Springs Villas Playhouse. Other officers inducted for the year 1957-58, were James E. Henry, assistant to the sales manager, vice president; Kent Stratford, personnel section supervisor, secretary; John W. Moore, personnel staff assistant, treasurer. Three members of the Board of Control installed, were, Edwin B. Weissinger, personnel superintendent; C. Ben Malicotte, chief timekeeper, and William E. Loucks, assistant airci-aft service superintendent. The installing officer was Robert S. Bush, Division meteorologist, a past-president of the club. Speakers at the meeting were H. J. Richardson, of the Convair Customer Relations Department, and Dan Ryan, administrator of the town of Miami Springs. Robinson Assigned To Uruguay Post James S. Robinson is Pan American World Airways’ new station manager at Carrasco Airport, Montevideo, Uruguay, succeeding Herbert Thomas. Thomas has returned to Miami for another assignment. Robinson, assistant station manager at Mai-quetia airport, Caracas, Venezuela, for the last three years, joined PAA in his home city, ROBINSON Brownsville, Texas, in 1936 and was assigned to the operations staff in Panama five years later. In 1943 he was promoted to an assistant flight dispatcher, and he was senior dispatcher in Panama in 1949 when assigned to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the same capacity. He was transferred to Caracas in 1954. Intercontinental Speed Record Set An intercontinental Clipper speed record of four hours, nine minutes between Miami and Caracas, Venezuela, has been set by Pan American World Airways. At the controls of the DC-7B nonstop flight was Capt. David G. Desmond, sector chief pilot, who averaged 333 miles an hour for the 1,386 miles. The former Clipper record between North and South America was four hours, 37 minutes from Caracas to Miami March 30, 1955. Flights To London Quadrupled June 1 Pan American World Airways quadrupled the number of flights of its extra de luxe President Special service between New York and London on June 1. Four flights a week instead of one will depart Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 4 p.m., arriving the next morning in London at 9 a.m. They will be offered on Super Stratocruis-ers at $50 premium fare. The flights feature Sleeperette service, enough space between seats to permit full recline, plus 13 upper berths and two specially equipped staterooms. "Pat" Has All The Answers Robot Is Star of Quiz Show In San Juan Demonstration A major first in the automation field has been chalked up to Pan American World Airways with a machine that will ask a question across 2,040 miles of ocean and land —and get an answer in less than four seconds from another machine. No human agency is involved in the quiz program, except the man who pushes a button in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that sets mechanical brain cells whirring in a machine at PAA reservations bureau in Long Island City, New York. Star of the show is a robot named “Pat” — short for Pan American Teleregister. The performance marks the first time radio has been used for such communication, a step that opens unlimited possibilities for Pat’s future development in Pan American’s worldwide network. Continued on page 7 Trippe Sees Big Increase In Air Travel Stockholders Elect Directors For Year At Annual Meeting Nearly 3,000,000 passengers will be carried on Pan American World Airways global routes during 1957, Juan T. Trippe, president of the airline, said at the company’s 29th annual meeting of stockholders at the Ambassador hotel, New York. The record high represents a 15 per cent increase over the 2,600,-000 in 1956. Mr. Trippe based his forecast upon traffic figures for the first four-and-a-half months of 1957 which showed increases in passengers carried throughout the Pan American System in comparison with a corresponding period for 1956. The greatest upswing—24 per cent—was in Pan American’s Atlantic operation. Trippe pointed out that the summer European tourist surge started in May, a month earlier than usual. Westbound transatlantic travel also is running higher than a year ago. 154 Flights A Week Pan American is scheduling 154 transatlantic flights a week this summer, the majority of which will be operated with the airline’s new fleet of DC-7C equipment non-stop in both directions. DC-7C’s are the fastest and quietest transport in international service. Trippe reiterated his previous prediction that the receipt of jet airliners now on order by American and foreign-flag airlines will more than double present international passenger travel. He told stockholders that construction of the first series of jet transports that Pan American will receive beginning late next year was proceeding on schedule. Their actual flight testing was expected to begin in seven months. Pan American has ordered 44 Boeing and Douglas jets and will be the first to put them into service on international routes. Operate Nine Hotels Pan American is continuing to help alleviate the shortage of overseas hotel space which has been a deterrent to post-war travel, Trippe said. The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, which already operates nine tourist hotels abroad, will open two more this year, in Curacao, the Dutch West Indies, and at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Two additional IHC hotels are scheduled to be completed next year. They will be in San Salvador, El Salvador, and Beirut, Lebanon. Trippe said the company’s pro- Continued on page 6 Caracas, New York Flights Increased An additional weekly round trip Clipper flight between Caracas and New York has been placed in operation by Pan American World Airways. The new nonstop service, in four-engine radar-equipped Super-6 Clippers, is first class only. The roundtrip fare is $360, with no U.S. transportation tax. Pan American now will operate 20 flights weekly between New York and the Venezuelan capital, of which four are first class only and the balance both first and tourist class. The new flight leaves Idlewild Airport at 11 p.m. Fridays, arriving at Caracas’ Mai-quetia Airport at 6:30 o’clock the next morning. Northbound flights leave Maiquetia on Saturdays at 8:30 a.m., reaching New York at 5 p.m. |
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