Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 19, July 15, 1945

              10th YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
VOL. 3, No. 19
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
174h Year Pan American World Airways
JULY 15, 1945
BOOKLET DESCRIBES RETIREMENT PLAN
The booklet, “My Future Income,” points the way to the many advantages of the Retirement Income Plan for Pan American employes. The booklet, prepared to answer pertinent questions concerning the retirement plan, was distributed to all hourly paid employes July 12, and is being distributed to monthly paid personnel July 16.
“My Future Income” tells employes of the company the what, when and where of the Retirement Plan. For example, a new feature of the plan is the eligibility of all employes 25 years of age or over who have been with the company one year or more. (Previously, only flight personnel were eligible at this age.)
Out of any group of 100 average Americans starting out in life, only 10 are self-supporting at the age of 65 this booklet points out. This plan, to which both employes and the Company contribute, will enable participating PAA’ers to place themselves in that select group of 10.
For additional information pertaining to the Retirement Income Plan contact your insurance officer, Mr. B. F. Musser, on extension 227 or 228, or drop in to see him in room 157, administration building.
ATA Survey Shows PAA Post-War Position In Industry
Nineteen airlines of the United States expect to have 975 planes operating in the period immediately following the war, of which 409 are now on order, according to the Air Transport Association. These 975 planes will seat 36,180 passengers—an average of over 37 seats per plane.
Before the war, the 19 U. S. airlines had available only 359 planes with 6250 seats. However, after the Army and Navy had taken over one-half of these planes for war uses, the airlines were left with 166 aircraft.
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'BEER AND SEQUINS' SHOW ENDS; CAST SCORES OUTSTANDING HIT
By IDELL McMULLIN
(Parenthetical expressions hy Jerry Baccus, author of ‘Beer and Sequins’)
One of the most refreshing and original amateur performances it has been my pleasure to see was staged Saturday, Monday and Tuesday evenings by PAA employes. (Pat Lang, one of the feminine songbirds, was a United Airlines employe on loan, but you know how women are.) The three-hour entertainment had been skillfully divided
"Refurnees" on The Job
Back on the job by mid-July are Stan Brothers, Traffic, E. J. Powers, Operations. T. C. Erickson, Assistant Division Engineer, Carm Rizzuti, Accounting, and Charlie Wilder, Industrial Relations.
Other ex-internees from this Division who now are enjoying their vacations in all parts of the United States are Delvin Axe, James Boyers, Eugene Brush, Robert Chichester, Rush Clark, Ben Edwards, Lester Fennel, Jack Johansen, Samuel Millward, Andrew Miravalle, John Oppenheimer, Harold Penny, William Spencer, Bob Straub, Douglas Willard, Roland Bass, William Neikam, Arturo Chanco, Bessie Mangels, and Lester Yard.
Bolivia has issued special air mail stamps in commemoration of Pan American’s tenth anniversary of the inauguration of air service into that country. Bolivia is one of the very few countries which ever has honored a specific company by placing its name on the stamps and the special first-day postmark.
’between music and dancing, comedy and slapstick (that will give you a rough idea of what this critic thought of the slapstick, anyway.) The theme of the show was Pan American Airways: past, present and future. The opening scene depicted a run-down speakeasy in Key West, and the closing scene featured the streamlined hostesses of the 198x era. Most of the interim Was filled with colorful dancing and fast-moving dialogue with the company, department heads and captains taking the brunt of most of the gags. (The audience also took the brunt of some of the curtain waits while the cast was voting on whether the gags should be delivered as written, or by characters on-stage who were going to be transferred anyway.)
Acting honors go to Tom Taylor, whose barker sequence was a high point of the show, and to Dick Barkle’s delivery of a telephone monologue, complete with lecherous leers. Harman Jette, who was actually the show’s production manager, brought down the house by acting like a maniac. (In the original notes the words “production manager” and “maniac” were in reverse position, but this must have been a mistake.)
Medals are also due Keith Allen, Dick (Continued on page 8)