Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 18, September 13, 1956

              21st YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Voi. 12 No. 18
Read From California To Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	September 13, 1956
NEW CLASS FOR CLIPPER CABINS
Introducing the very newest thing in stewardesses . . . the Class of Early September, 1956—new uniforms, wings and all. Left to right meet Ann Eldredge, Mary Young, Claudia Cassidy, Shirley Harwood, Marlis Rochat, Joy Ekdahl, Claire Curley, Alix Wells and Jean McKaig.
AIRLIFTING THE OLYMPIC TEAM
PAA Announces Schedules For Movement of U.S. Athletes To Melbourne; Clippers To Be Used
SFO Bowling League Gets Off To A Flying Start
Tournament at Burlingame Bowl Will Continue For 35 Weeks
The Pan Am Winter Bowling League is underway.
On September 6, the first ball rolled down the alley (or maybe into the gutter) and for the next 34 weeks, at the Burlingame Bowl, SFO teams will be competing for fun and prizes.
The only requirement is membership in the Panair Club ($1.00) and the tournament is open to beginners as well as old-timers, being on a handicap basis. Each Thursday night will be Pan Am night at the Bowl and interested keglers are urged to contact Si Simon on Ext. 403 or Lucille Eddy on Ext. 440.
One of the first departments to get its bowlers organized was Traffic & Sales which has three teams in business, as follows:
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"TOP STORY"
Scene: the California State Fair and Exposition’s recent Press-Radio-TV banquet. Occasion: presentation of “Top Story’’ plaques for excellence in covering thè news. At right is Governor Goodwin J. Knight. Accepting the plaque is no less a personality than Jack Laird, editor of your CLIPPER, who was honored for “the excellent use of pictures and text to portray Pan American’s pioneering past, know-how and daring’’ on the 20th anniversary of the China Clipper’s first flight across the Pacific. (Ed. note: Laird, that modest type, is on vacation and his replacement chose this opportunity to grab a little space to publicize a real achievement.)
Schedules for the mass air lifting of American Olympic Games teams from the United States to Australia and return on seven charter flights were announced recently.
PAA, which has been designated the official U.S. carrier, has assigned five of its Pacific-Alaska Division aircraft—three new Douglas Super-7 Clippers, and two double-deck Boeing Strato Clippers—to carry its share of the 380 athletes and 48 officials, trainers, doctors and nurses, from the West Coast to Melbourne and return—an overall distance of more than 15,500 miles. MATS will handle two of the trips.
All seven flights will leave from Los Angeles, where the athletes are scheduled to train prior to departure.
The first PAA flight leaving Los Angeles November 4 and landing at Melbourne November 8, will carry 14 members of the canoeing team, 19 wrestlers and 31 U.S. Olymnic officials and others.
Fifty-four more athletes, 28 track and field entrants, 21 fencers and 5 members of the pentathlon
group, depart November 5, landing at Melbourne Novembers 9. Tbis is a MATS trip. Another special Clipper flight leaving Los Angeles November 6 and arriving Melbourne November 9 will have on board 45 members of the men’s track and field team, 11 from the women’s track and field group and 8 from the women’s gymnastic team.
On November 7, a Clipper will leave Los Angeles with 36 oarsmen, 10 weightlifters, 13 water polo stars and 6 trainers. It is due at Melbourne November II.
Fifty-three members of the shooting, boxing, cycling, men’s gymnastics and men’s swimming team, plus a trainer, will leave November 8 and land at Melbourne November 12 on a MATS DC-6. The following day the remainder of the men swimmers (19) and women swimmers (24) plus 12 yachtsmen and additional officials will take off via PAA for Melbourne, where they are due November 13.
The final special flight also PAA (Continued on Page 2)
Management Club Names Van Landingham Prexy
Hunt, Love and Moore Also New Officers of Organization
C. H. (“Van”) Van Landing-ham, Supply manager, was named new president of the Panair Management Club at the Club’s recent election.
Other new officers included Don Hunt, Labor Relations superintendent, vice-president; John Love, coordinator, Plant Tours, secretary; and Harlan Moore, internal auditor, treasurer.
The Club selected two new trustees—John Yates, foreman, Line Service, and Axel Mikkelsen, SFO district sales manager. Three other trustees were carried over from the current administration. They are Lyle Warner, Accounting and outgoing president; Barney Frizell of Accounting and Bruce Dedge, fuel superintendent.
Turbine Engines Predicted For Helicopters Of Future
Commercial and military helicopters will be powered by gas turbines, much like fixed-wing aircraft, in the not-too-distant future.
FIRST CUP
Charlie Asken of Line Service had the first cup of coffee to come from the new machine in the San Francisco hangar. This is the same type that has proved so populär in the ad building.