Clipper, Vol. 5, No. 3, February 24, 1949

              14th YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Pan American World Airways
PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
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Read From California to Calcutta, From Alaska to Australia
17th YEAR PAA HAS FLOWN IN ALASKA
Vol. 5, No. 3	published by the employes of pan American world airways	February 24, 1949
PAA'ERS TO SEE PREMIER OF "WINGS 10 HAWAII" NEXT THURSDAY
KINDNESS OF ONE BRINGS FUN TO 50
Fifty children from Sunny Hill Home in Marin County took their first airplane ride last week in a Pan American Clipper. Their plane circled the Bay and bridges and took a special flight over Marin so the children could see their home. The trip sprang from the ¿generous impulse of John E. Chadwick, personnel manager for Atkinson and Jones Construction Co. on Okinawa. Chadwick had won a free trip to Hong Kong in a contest sponsored by Pan American. He returned his ticket unused with the wish that it could be devoted instead to give some underprivileged children in the Bay Area an airplane ride. The children were carried in two flights, 25 at a time, and plied with candy bars, cookies and soft drinks aloft by PAA stewards and stewardesses.
Double Bill Highlighted By Free Coffee, Do-nuts
First Show to Start Promptly At 8 P. M. at Burlingame High
“Wings to Hawaii,” which was filmed both on the San Francisco base and in Hawaii several months ago, has just been released and San Francisco based PAA personnel will be the first ones to see it.
A gigantic premier featuring this new 25 minute color travel movie will be held next Thursday evening, March 3, at the Burlingame High School Auditorium, exclusively for PAA people, their family and friends. Fifteen hundred are expected.
Joe Fessio and his hard hitting sales force are working out the details for the first showing. And not to be outdone by Hollywood, they are offering a double bill. The companion feature will be “Wings to Guatemala and Mexico,” also a new PAA release.
Fessio announces that in addition to presenting employees an opportunity to see a film in which many San Francisco employees appear, a special program has been arranged for the between shows intermission. Also at that time winners of the recent In-flight Sales Tip Contest will be announced and presented their prizes.
As first-nighters leave the auditorium coffee and donuts will be served. There will be no charge for the eats or the two epics. Everything will be on Pan American.
The first show will start promptly at 8 p. m.
Military Officers Fly PAA to Arctic Indoctrination School
Pan American recently transported the second group of 71 high-ranking military officers to Alaska to undergo a 30 day course in Arctic indoctrination.
The group, representing Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps branches of service, left Seattle for Fairbanks via two PAA flights. The course is being given at Big Delta, Alaska.
The first group to take the course flew there early in January, and returned at the end' of the month.
In Alaska, Robert J. Lewis, traffic representative, and mechanics George Clayton and Carl Heming, all at Fairbanks, have terminated their employment with the company, as has William Ellis, assistant DTM at Juneau.
National Airlines has asked CAB to dismiss its National Dismemberment Case and to hold oral argument on the motion to dismiss.
Francis J. Rhody, a CAA airport specialist, is now in Ceylon making a survey of Ratmalana Airport for the government of Ceylon.
Pan American to Share Airport Space With WAL
More Convenience to Flying Public Will Result From Move
A tenancy agreement between Pan American and Western Airlines, involving PAA’s moving from its old location on the south side of Los Angeles Airport to new quarters in Western’s terminal building, hangar and general offices on the north side of the field, was completed this month. Pan American expects to start operations from the new quarters about March 1st.
This move has several advantages for both carriers: (1) It will give Western more economical utilization of its spacious new quarters. (2) It will provide a definite convenience for international passengers ,from the Pacific and Mexico to connfect with domestic carriers. (3) It will reflect for PAA a reduction in operating costs, previously necessitated by the transferring of mail, express and cargo a distance of approximately two miles in connecting international services with domestic flights.
Pan American’s executive, administrative, press relations and maintenance activities will occupy 26,-000 square feet in Western general headquarters building. This includes nose hangar space, storage space, executive, purchasing and store headquarters.
The principal reason for Pan American’s move was to offer more convenience to the flying public in effecting domestic connections.
47 Courses in Engineering Subject's Offered by U. of C.
University of California Extension announced recently that 47 evening courses in engineering subjects will be open for enrollment during the last two weeks in February. Courses are offered at 140 Montgomery Street and 540 Powell Street, San Francisco; 1730 Franklin Street, Oakland; and on the University’s Berkeley campus.
All classes meet once each week, and there is no charge for attending the first meeting of any class. Further information may be obtained from any University of California Extension Center, or by phone, Ashberry 3-6000, local 572.
A new edition of the C.A.A. Statistical Handbook of Civil Aviation is now available at 50 cents a copy from the U. S. Government Printing Office at Washington, D. C.
WOULD YOU RESENT BEING ASKED "ARE YOU A GOOD CITIZEN?"
You probably would; but are you one ?
A good citizen accepts the responsibilities of citizenship as well as the privileges. One of the respohsibilities is to help pay for essential services—either by taxation or by voluntary contribution.
One of the most important of these essential services is the American Red Cross, which is now conducting its annual campaign for operating funds.
Demonstrate your good citizenship by contributing what you can. Then, when disaster strikes in our country and the Red Cross goes into actionn, you will feel proud that you did your part to make disaster relief possible, as well as other less spectacular but equally important services.
Your citizenship is priceless—take its responsibilities seriously. A contribution to the Red Cros is one of them.