Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 18, September 29, 1955

              Read From California To Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
Voi. 11 NO. 18	PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	September 29, 1955
SAN FRANCISCO PUTS All ITS BEGS IN ONE ASK-IT OCTOBER 10-17
MEET THE PAD'S FASTEST HUMAN
Captain Jim Fleming, assistant chief pilot, technical in the PAD is shown on the jump seat of the Boeing 707 during the demonstration flight which he and two other captains from the Atlantic and Latin American Divisions took two weeks ago. Behind Jim, whispering a bit of jet jargon in his ear, is “Dix” Loesch, senior experimental test pilot for Boeing. All of the Pan American captains had one hour at the controls of the jet transport prototype. During this time each made three take-offs and landings, flew the plane to 40,000 feet and performed other maneuvers required of a transport aircraft.
DON'T SAY NAY TO A NEIGHBOR
United Crusade Gives Employees A Once-Only Chance For One Big Give For One Big Community
"Good Neighbor" Drive Collection Details Set
Two Round-Trips To Guatemala Will Go To Some SFO Employee
Representatives have been appointed in every shop and section at San Francisco to handle the collection of money for the employees’ “Good Neighbor” fund.
Each employee will be personally contacted sometime during the week beginning October 10th. Donations may be made in cash or by payroll deduction.
Payroll deductions may be made from one check or from six consecutive checks. You cannot make two, or three or ten deductions. It’s either one or six.
Payroll deductions of any kind create extra work in Accounting. By placing some limitation on the number of deductions the job in that department is prevented from becoming too cumbersome.
Here are the options offered:
1. Six equal payroll deductions of (Continued on Page 5)
This is one promotion where Pan American is not out to break any records. Bob Goerner, left, star of “Showtime,” hour-long program heard Monday through Friday over radio station KCBS in San Francisco, is shown receiving the first shipment of records from PAA cargo rep Larry Mellema. It’s all part of an arrangement between KCBS and Pan American to fly in records of native music from all of PAA’s Pacific and Orient points.
The San Francisco employees’ annual “Good Neighbor” fund drive has been scheduled for October 10th through 17th.
This is the only appeal of its kind made at PAD headquarters. With the grouping of all the worthy welfare and health agencies in this one campaign, employees are assured that this is the ONLY time during the entire year that they will he. asked to contribute their support to any such drive.
The idea of a United Crusade started in Detroit in 1949. There
are now some 600 such united funds throughout the United States. The United Bay Area Crusade is the third largest in the nation.
It was in 1952 that the United Crusade idea began to take hold in the Bay Area. In the years following five such crusades operated independently of each other. Even though this arrangement was a vast improvement, the need for complete unfication was obvious. This year, with the consolidation of the five drives into one, this uni-(Continued on Page 3)
PAA Will Give Alaska Lowest-Ever Air Fares
New Reduced Round-Trip Tariff Goes Into Effect Next Month
Across the board slashes in round-trip fares between Alaskan cities and Seattle/Portland have been announced by Pan American.
The result is the lowest fares ever offered by any airline serving Alaska.
The reductions range up to ten per cent and apply to all Alaska points served by PAA except Fairbanks. Fares to that city had already been cut to the minimum allowed by the CAB.
The round-trip fare between Nome and Seattle has dropped from $230 to $207. The Seattle-Juneau round-trip will be $99, compared to the former $110. Similar cuts have been made on other routings.
The new fares will become effective October 16th.
PAA’s iniative in setting these fares is another example of the company’s ever-continuing push to make air travel in Alaska as cheap as possible.
Lockheed has produced its 7,000th jet airplane—more than any other manufacturer in the world.
NEW VEEP
Everett Goulard, above, has just been appointed Vice President, Industrial Relations. With Pan American since 1948, he has been an assistant vice president for a little over a year.