Clipper, Vol. 15, No. 1, April 1959

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PAN AMERICAN • P A C I F I C - A L A S K A DIVISION
Read From The Land Of The Kodiak To The Land Of The Koala—From The Golden Gate To The Ginza

Voi. 15 No. 1
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
April, 1959
THEY GREW UP WITH PAN AMERICAN
The PAD now has four 30-year veterans. In the picture at left are Oscar Sandin, foreman of the Carpenter Shop, Fuel Superintendent Bruce Dedge and B&F Superintendent Bill Eldridge. At right is Captain Ken Beer, who joined the company in New York. The other three started in Miami. Eldridge completed his 30 years in December. The others will pass the mark this
month.
COLONEL YOUNG RETIRES
Vice President Leaves Division Twenty-Four Years After Heading Up Trans-Pacific Inaugural
PAD Seeks Navy Contracts For Island Services
Pan American has recently submitted bids on three contracts to provide various types of service for the U. S. Navy at Pacific Islands.
In two cases the company appears to have an excel lent chance of obtaining a contract. The Navy has asked Pan Am to meet with its officials to negotiate contracts for services at Midway and Guam.
The services to be provided at these islands would include ground handling of aircraft, passengers and flight crews.
A survey team from. PAD headquarters is now in the Pacific ascertaining the extent of the job that would be required of Pan American.
The company also bid on a contract to provide similar services—but on an even larger scale—at Kwajalein. However, it apparently has been unsuccessful in obtaining this contract.
RETIRES
Vice President C. M. Young announced his retirement from Pan American last month after a long and colorful career with Pan Am and with various government aviation agencies.
Vice President Clarence M. Young retired last month after more than 25 years of service with Pan American.
During this period he launched commercial flying service across the Pacific. He has seen aviation grow from Jennies to jets.
Colonel Young first became interested in aviation when a team of French barnstormers visited his native Iowa.
During World War I he was a bomber pilot on the Italian front. On one mission his plane was flipped on its back by an anti-aircraft shell, but he recovered in time to make a forced landing. He and his crew were captured and spent five months in an Austrian POW camp.
In 1926 Colonel Young was appointed Director of Aeronautics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Three years later he became Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aviation. It was during the period 1926-1933 that he was responsible for starting the network of Federal airways that now blanket the United
States. He also qualified for U.S. private pilot’s license number 2, which he still holds.
In 1928, during a visit to the Hawaiian Islands, Colonel Young made headlines in the local press by predicting that Honolulu (Continued on page 13)
The CLIPPER Is Back And It's No April Fool's Gag
With this issue the CLIPPER will resume its regular monthly publication schedule.
During the past five months there has been much news of a company and personal nature that ordinarily would have wound up in print. However, to include all that material in this issue would require so many pages that even those with 20/20 eyes would hesitate to wade through it all.
Consequently, with a very few exceptions, we’re starting from “scratch” with this issue.
Trans-Pacific Pre-Hearing Conference Held
A pre-hearing conference on the consolidated Trans-Pacific Route Case was held on April 7th.
Conducted by a CAB examiner, this meeting was attended by lawyers of all interested parties. In addition to outlining the issues to be argued in the case, the conference will result in the establishment of a calendar for presentation of exhibits, rebuttals to those exhibits and actual hearing dates.
Among the airlines represented at the hearing were Pan American, Northwest, United, TWA, Hawaiian, Western, Continental, Flying Tigers, Transocean and others.
Pan American has asked to have Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington/Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle and Portland made co-terminal points with San Francisco and (Continued on page 7)
EARLY BIRDMEN
Here is Pan Am’s retiring Vice President C. M. Young in his “hot pilot” days. Taken in 1925 when Colonel (then a major) Young, right, was training with the Army Air Corps Reserve, this photo shows him with another young Air Corps officer, Captain Charles A. Lindbergh.