Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 17, June 15, 1945

              10th YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Pa/v Am/ifCA/v World Alruavs
PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
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17th Year Pan American World Airways
VOL. 3, No. 17
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
JUNE 15, 1945
PHONE FUND CAMPAIGN ENDS
The Panair Club expresses appreciation to everyone for the sincere interest and financial support that has been given the Phone Fund. This Fund has enabled many seriously wounded service men returning on PAA aircraft to hear the voices of their wives and relatives in all parts of the United States immediately upon arrival.
Glowing letters in praise of the PAA employees for providing this welcomed service have been received from the veterans.
However, sufficient money is available in the Fund now to continue operation for the next few months and, consequently, no more donations will be accepted for the present.
GO EAST, YOUNG MAN
The advance guard of the Junior Pilots who are leaving this week for the Latin American Division are R. F. Child, W. W. Salter, and R. W. Hampton, all of whom have been flying in this Division since August of 1942. Each one has a month’s vacation which he will be able to take enroute.
Just which type of equipment will be flown and which routes are not known, but for the time being they will still be in the “right-hand-seat” with the hope of checking out as Captain in the not too distant future.
MR. AND MRS.
MARRIED May 18 were Don McCann and Army nurse, Lt. Dorothy Ludlow. McCann, employed by PAA in Manila at the time the Japanese captured the Philippines, met his bride-to-be—in prison. Two years and 10,000 miles later the two were married in Miami Beach, Florida.
COMPANY ANNOUNCES CONTRACT END; PLAN FOR OPERATION CUTBACK
With the announcement of the year-end termination of the Naval Contract under which this Division has operated since September, 1942, the proposed Company plan for reducing the scope of operations is now being relayed to Division personneL
“O.K., MAC, YOU CAN PULL OUT THE PLUG NOW.”
16 TIMES A DONOR —CAL PALMER
When Cal Palmer of Sheet Metal says he’s donated blood 16 times, this is what the results look like. Cal has actually given about three quarts more blood than he has in his body at any one time. From the eight quarts of whole blood Palmer has donated, four quarts of plasma (eight transfusions) can be prepared.
And if you were to take the time out to count the red blood cells you would find that Palmer has given about 4 trillion of the little fellows to the most necessary cause. Although the red cells are not included in the plasma itself there are myriads of uses for them—the treatment of severe anemia, for example, or to promote wound healing.
Briefly, the program for cutting back operations preparatory to contract termination will take this form.
1.	Six PBY2Y3s will be released to the Navy of July 16.
2.	All remaining aircraft will be released in the last month of the year.
3.	More detailed information and possibly acquisition of post-contract equipment is expected around the end of the year.
4.	Leasing of the four Boeings from the Navy is proposed, if post-war equipment is not available prior to or immediately after termination of the contract.
THE REASON
That the Pacific-Alaska Division will not continue contract operations after the end of the year is a fact stemming from the feeling in Congress that the Navy has now reached a position where it can maintain sufficient air transportation without benefit of contract operators. This fact was reflected in the actions of the Appropriations Committee which reduced to one-third the Navy’s proposed PAA contract budget.
THE EFFECT
With a reduction in operations will come a reduction in the number of personnel needed at San Francisco. A month from this date a third of the fleet operated by this Division will be returned to the Navy. However, it is the plan of the Company to retain career men within the System, which plan will be effected through the transferring of personnel to other Divisions. The program for the actual shift of personnel will be announced by the Company shortly when final details are completed.
LIFE IS LIKE THAT No. 1
On August 18, 1921, George A. Jack-son of Terre Haute, Indiana, then living in Butte, Montana, wrote his name on a piece of paper, placed it in a bottle and threw it into the Black Horse River.
That’s the last he ever saw of it.