Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 12, June 23, 1955

              Read From California To Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
Voi 11 No. 12	PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	June 23, 1955
FIRST AT NEW TOKYO TERMINAL
When the new terminal building was opened last month at Tokyo International Airport, guess who arrived first with an airplane! PAA Captain Gib Blackmore is shown being greeted by terminal hostess Kyoko Ogura, while Purser Lee Seegers also received a bouquet from T. Akiyama, president of the building. More pictures of the opening appear on page three
THE BEST OVER-WATER WATER
New Filters Being Installed In Strato Clippers Will Assure Customer Appeal For Drinking Water
Guatemala Case Will Soon Go To President
Favorable Decision Will Add San Francisco As Co-Terminal
Pan American should be permitted to give the San Francisco area the one-plane direct service to Latin America that the city’s government, Chamber of Commerce and civic leaders have requested. So said Pan American in a brief filed this month with the Civil Aeronautics Board in support of a recommendation by the Board’s chief examiner that such service should be speedily established.
The brief also asked for permanent renewal of PAA’s certificate for direct service between Los Angeles and Guatemala.
Citing the fact that 38.8 per cent of the passengers carried on the Los Angeles-Guatemala flights originated in the San Francisco Bay Area, the brief pointed out that experience gained since World War II has made it clear that the principal international routes must he brought to the major population and business centers of the United States.
Besides the convenience to passengers that would be afforded by the addition of San Francisco to the route, other benefits would be the expediting of cargo shipments and a reduction of $61,000 in Pan American’s subsidy requirements.
Oral arguments have now been concluded in the case, and after the CAB sends its report to the President he will make his decision.
PURE FOR SURE
Charles “Tex” Fitzgerald of Ships Equipment is shown installing one of the new water filters in the lounge of a B-377. Their introduction has sounded the death knell of that popular highball— scotch and chlorine.
The Pacific-Alaska Division is now installing new water filters on all of its B-377’s.
The provision of good tasting water has long been a problem for Pan Amercian in the Pacific, where it must obtain its water from many different areas.
Harmless organisms in this water frequently gave it a bad taste, smell, color or all three. Naturally, passengers complained about this.
In order to kill the algae in any water that might be put aboard Clippers, it was decided to super-chlorinate it with chlorine tablets. The Engineering department knew that this would not completely solve the problem, however, as many times the taste of the chlorine was worse than that of water that had not been chlorinated.
After examining several types of filters, the engineering department selected the Everpure filter. Three of these are now being installed on each Boeing.—one at the forward drinking fountain, one in the galley and one in the bar.
All the water used on the B-377’s comes from one 40-gallon tank. The Wash water will be chlorinated but not filtered.
In addition to assuring good tasting and appearing water, these filters will effect an annual saving of $10,000. Before installation of the filters routine flushing and disinfecting the aircraft water system required 260 man-hours every month. An additional 160 manhours were spent every month in checking out planes written up on a discrepancy report.
The filters, which add 25 pounds to each aircraft, will be replaced about every four months.
United Shareholders Award Goes To President Trippe
The United Shareholders Annual Meeting Award has been presented to Pan American President Juan T. Trippe for “meritorious achievement in the field of management-shareholder relationship.”
The engraved certificate cited the Pan American president for “encouraging participation in American corporate ownership so essential to strengthening the pillars of our Constitutional form of Government and upgrading our American way of life, for notable leadership and in association with his confreres.”
PAA Will Partidpate In Another F0A Project
24 More Will Be Sent To Train Personnel Of Turkish Airline
For the second time within as many months the U.S. Government’s Foreign Operations Administration has called upon Pan American to provide technical assistance to a foreign airline.
A program similar to the one recently undertaken with Pakistan will be conducted in Turkey. Twenty-four Pan American experts will train personnel of the Turkish airline, Devlet Hava Yollari, in the latest techniques of both air and ground operations.
The airline has a fleet of 30 airplanes that serve Athens, Cyprus and Beirut in addition to 20 to 25 cities (depending on the season) in Turkey. Its personnel numbers 1,200.
FOA will finance 70 per cent of the cost of the program, with the remainder being borne by the Turkish Government.
A resolution by the Michigan State Senate endorsing PAA’s bid for a Pacifi® Great Circle route has been forwarded to the President, Congress and the CAB.
SNAP SHOT
This baby loggerhead turtle was too young to snap at stewardess Janece Bertschi when he and his brother departed San Francisco for Honolulu this month. The turtles were a gift from the Stein-hart Aquarium in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to the Honolulu Aquarium. Natives of Florida, they were acquired in a swap for a California octupus. When full grown they will measure several feet across their shell.