Clipper, Vol. XV, No. 10, October 1958

              Give a Fair Share Once and for All UF Agencies
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BARRANQUILLA STAFF PICTURES
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VOL XV, No. 10
CLIPPER
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT PICTURES . . . Pages 4, 5
LATIN AMERICAN
DIVISION
MIAMI, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 1958
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Eastern Wants Public Denied Jet Service
PAA Says Airline Seeking Monopoly Of New York Route
Eastern Air Lines and Northeast Airlines are seeking to deny the public the advantages of New York-Florida jet service, Pan American World Airways warned in a brief filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Denial of jet service between Florida and New York to the U.S. traveling public also would work a hardship on thousands of Latin American travelers who each year fly the route, bound for northern cities or Europe.
The motives of Eastern and Northeast in objecting to an agreement between Pan American and National, which provides that National will lease some of Pan American’s jet aircraft are “altogether transparent,” Pan American said.
Jet Service Planned
National plans to start jet service in December between New York and Miami with leased Pan American jet airliners, reducing the flying time by one third and inaugurating the first jet service within the United States.
Both Eastern and Northeast compete with National on the New York-Florida route.
Pan American pointed out that Eastern “had fully expected to wipe its two competitors in the New York-Florida market off the map this winter” since it is now taking delivery of new turboprop airliners, while National will not receive its jets until after the Florida season. Northeast has not ordered jets.
Pan American stated:
Eastern Outraged
“Eastern is naturally outraged that its smaller competitor (National) has been resourceful enough to find a means of countering Ee stern’s monopolistic efforts and afford the New York-Florida traveling public a pure jet service which Eastern itself cannot, just when Eastern’s jaws were set to snap. Foiled in this predatory design, Eastern wants the CAB to ask the Department of Justice to invoke the aid of the federal courts to have this improved service withheld from the public, and Northeast tags along. We suggest the Board take a long hard look before falling into this trap.”
Pan American dismissed as a “smoke screen” issues raised by Eastern and Northeast regarding the leasing of the jets, issues designed to prevent the opening of Continued on Page 3
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HOOPILITIS, THE NEW AMERICAN DISEASE, spreads to Latin America. With Clipper cargo hauling the plastic rings to Caribbean cities, Stewardesses Yolanda Lopez, left, and Sally Melendez whoop it up with a couple of the gadgets demonstrating their hooping talents.
Joins 30-Year Employes
’ Now I’ve Seen Everything ’ % Veteran Says as Jet Lands
When Pan American’s new jet 707 Clipper, America, visited San Juan, Julio Velez-Lopez, a veteran maintenance man in the Puerto Rican capital said: “Now I’ve seen everything.”
Velez-Lopez, who became a 30-year employe of the airline this month, meant airplanes. Employed by PAA October 8, 1928, within a year after Pan Am was born, he has seen and worked on every type Clipper from the original Fokker F-7s, the Boeing flying boats right through them all to the 575-mile-an-hour Boeing jet.
Born July 25, 1898, in Maricao,
P. R., the day when U.S. forces under General Nelson A. Miles liberated Puerto Rico from Spain,
Velez-Lopez has lived his entire life in the island Commonwealth.
His first job with Pan Am was as watchman in the city office in old San Juan. He worked at various occupations until the fall of 1954 when he was transferred to maintenance at Isla Verde Airport.
Velez-Lopez thinks the high spot in his career was servicing the airplane of Charles A. Lindbergh when the Lone Eagle first flew to
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Dean Scholarship at Yale Waiting For Employe’s Son
The scholarship endowed in the memory of the late PAA Vice President Howard B. Dean, is waiting at Yale University with preference going to the son of a Pan American employe.
The candidate must require financial assistance and be academically qualified for admission with the freshman class of 1959. Normally made available every other year, it is being offered for 1959 since no preferred candidate was qualified in 1958.
Candidates should act immediately through their Pan American
personnel offices. Certificates of eligibility will be sent to Yale by the Company. Applications should be submitted before December 1, 1958. The selection of qualified candidates will be made by the Committee on Scholarships at Yale University on the basis of merit and financial need. The scholarship does not exceed $1,000 for any college year.
One of the preferred candidates who now has the Dean scholarship at Yale is Donald G. Tinder, a member of the Class of 1960 and son of George Tinder, Latin American Division accounting in Miami.
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San Juan. He also serviced planes for other notable pilots including that of Amelia Earhart.
Once told by a fortune teller he would live to be 70, he insists he will make it to the century mark. “At 61 I feel like I was 25,” he recently said, and proved it by marrying his third wife. He has nine sons by previous marriages and 15 grand children.
Velez-Lopez spends his leisure time reading philosophy—the Life of Christ and Allan Kardec’s works.
“I’ll work for Pan American as long as they’ll have me and I expect to help service an even faster Clipper than the new jet—someday,” he said.
Pan American Workers Asked To Contribute In United Fund Drive
Campaign to Start October 15;
Pledge Cards to Be Distributed
With Mid-Month Payroll Checks
With the 1959 United Fund campaign getting under way at Pan American October 15, employes will be asked again to contribute their fair share toward the support of the Fund’s 55 agencies in Dade County during the coming year.
Last year 3,438 Pan Am employes in Miami contributed $65,282.81. The county-wide goal this year is $3,477,000—an increase of $265,000 over the 1958 total.
Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president in charge of the Latin American Division, is co-chairman of the Commerce and Industry Division, Sec-
tion I, which has charge of the campaigns in 921 firms in the county.
Pledge cards will be distributed with semi-monthly paychecks on October 15 and bi-weekly and hourly payroll checks on October 17.
With the in-plant drive scheduled to end November 3, employes are urged to indicate the amount of their pledges, sign the cards and return them to their supervisors as quickly as possible.
Prize* for Givers
As in previous campaigns, Pan American has arranged for regular payroll deductions to be made, withholding small portions of the regular paycheck and spreading payment of a pledge over a year, making it virtually painless for the employe to pledge a fair share based on earnings.
The PAA Combined Welfare committee, in charge of the in-plant solicitation, has secured tickets for the Orange Bowl and North-South football games. These will be distributed by lot in pairs to employees contributing $5 or more to the Fund. There will be 25 pairs of Orange Bowl tickets and 50 pairs of North-South tickets.
In addition, the airline is contributing $600 in prize money to be distributed to fair share givers at the rate of $50 a month during the 12 months following the conclusion of the campaign. The distribution will be made at monthly drawings throughout the year. A committee composed of management and union supervisory staffers will conduct the drawings for all prizes.
Full Support Needed
This campaign is the only in-plant solicitation that will be conducted during the coming year.
Using the money raised, the Fund’s 55 agencies assist families in trouble, youth activities are supported, the aged and handicapped are sheltered and protected, investment is made for infant and child care and special community services are provided.
Last year one out of every five persons living in Dade County benefited directly from the service of at least one of the agencies. Many received aid from two or more agencies.
Full support of the campaign effort will be necessary to meet the airline employes’ share of the county’s community needs during 1959, A. J. Lea Hume, Industrial Relations manager, has pointed out.
The increase in the county-wide goal for 1959 has been made necessary due to increasing popu-
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lation and the necessity to meet the rapidly growing need for more and better health, welfare and youth services in the community, officers of the Fund say, pointing out that the United way plays a vital part in maintaining the strength and dignity of the area.
United Fund records show that 95.4 cents of every dollar contributed last year went to the member agencies. Campaign and administrative expenses were held to 4.6 cents of each dollar given. It is hoped to reduce this figure to 4 per cent in 1959.
Distribution of the $3,477,000 to be raised for the 1959 fiscal year will be as follows:
Family and child care
agencies _____________$897,600
Health agencies _________ 622,056
Agencies to aid aged and
handicapped __________ 287,040
Group work agencies _____ 546,793
Special community
agencies ------------- 627,890
National agencies_______ 107,476
MOSTEST ARRIVE FASTEST
One Pan American World Airways’ jet Clipper because of its great capacity ■— almost double that of the largest piston engine transport — and its 575 mile-an-hour cruising speed will carry nearly as many transatlantic passengers in a year as the steamship Queen Mary.