Clipper, Vol. 9, No. 10, May 28, 1953

              Read From California to Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
COULD YA GO FOR MY TYPE?
Stewardess Denise "Dennis the Menace" Weber comes out from behind her hiding place and is giving the heave-ho to the CLIPPER with the old type. Starting with this issue the Enterprise Press of South San Francsco will set the paper with a new style which recently arrived. The main differences from last issue (besides the fact that Denise showed her face) are that there is slightly more space between each line, making the paper more readable, and that the bold face type used previously will be replaced by italics. Also, picture captions such as this will be set in a different kind of bold type.
SAIGON BECOMES CLIPPER STOP
One Flight a Week to Both Singapore and Manila Now Scheduled as Much-Postponed Service Starts
Vol. 9 No. 10
Badges Get the Boot at SFO Tomorrow Afternoon
Collection of Candid Camera Gems Slated for Moth Balls
The gashed gabardine, the dented dacron, the nicked nylon and the lacerated leather will cease to be stylish on PAA’s San Francisco campus after tomorrow. In other words, you don’t need your badge anymore.
The badges came into existence with the Korean War. At that time our exposure to sabotage was an unknown quantity, but it was wisely decided that every precaution should be taken. Now it is felt that the plant can be adequately protected without the annoyance of the badges.
All of the extra guard posts and barriers that were erected when the badges were introduced will be retained but will not be manned by guards.
This doing away with the badges must not by any means be interpreted as meaning that employees should relax their vigilance insofar as being alert for any evidence of sabotage, smuggling or loss of company property. It is now apparent (Continued on Page 6)
FINAL BOW (WOW)
After tomorrow badges will no longer be requirerd at San Francisco. This one was found in the cafeteria last week. The owner may claim it by proper identification. (The doggy in this window is not for sale—no waggly tail).
Pan American’s long - awaited and often-postponed service to Saigon was inaugurated last Tuesday when the first Clipper landed there from Manila.
The first flight was originally scheduled for early in January, but delays in obtaining the necessary clearances from the different governments concerned postponed commencement of the service.
“We are extremely gratified to realize an old ambition in bringing direct air connections to Sai-
gon,” said Vice President Young. “This route has long been on our planning books and now that it has come into being we consider it a step toward furthering the economic progress of the Orient and Southeast Asia.”
This new service provides for the first time a direct air link to Indo-China from the United States and from other points in the Orient.
Present. schedules list two flights weekly into Saigon, which will be (Continued on Page 2)
May 28,1953
Three More Coast-Hawaii Tourist Flights Added
50% Schedule Increase Will Become Effective June 1st
Because of the unprecedented clamoring for space between the West Coast and Hawaii Pan American will increase its tourist service flights by 50 percent for the summer peak season.
This will increase the total flights between the islands and California from six to nine per week. Two of the additional flights will operate out of San Francisco, while the third will depart from Los Angeles. An additional B-377 is now being converted to the tourist sevice seating arrangement of 81 seats from the 56 that are used for first class service in the same planes.
Shortly after Pan American inaugurated the tourist service just before Christmas, it was necessary to double the flight frequency, so tremendous was the public demand for space. Now, after adding more flights, traffic officials are wondering how long it will be before the Sales Department has them filled up, too.
Texas, which had virtually no aircraft manufacturing at all 12 years ago, is now second in the nation. California is first.
COMING TO GRIPS
Jackie Rung of Honolulu, left, 1952 women's national amateur champion and Peggy Kirk, center, register mild horror at the golfing form of Captain Bill Stansbury. The skipper had just flown the two golfers from Honolulu to San Francisco, on their way to compete in the Reno Women's Open tournament.