Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 4, February 17, 1955

              20th YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Read From California To Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
Voi. 11 No. 4
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
February 17, 1955
TRYING TO FATHOM THE SITUATION
The photographic weather report in the last issue was so well received that the CLIPPER again gives its line station readers an idea of how things have been at San Francisco. Above Pat Whitney of Engineering prepares to take a sounding to see whether or not her car can stay above the high tide mark.
BE A DOLLAR-A-YEAR BIG SHOT
SFO Panair Club Startles Financial World With Offer Of Year's Fun For Only a Mere Dollar
The San Francisco Panair Club will conduct its annual membership drive for two weeks starting next Monday.
Participation in just one of the many activities offered by the club is well worth the cost of a membership—one dollar.
For the sports-minded there’s golf, softball, bowling and skiing. There are reduced rates for dances, plays and other entertainment features. There are the annual turkey raffles at Thanksgiving and Christ-
mas. These are just a few of the benefits that members enjoy.
In fact, the fun starts the minute you purchase your card. At the conclusion of this drive all ticket stubs will go into a box for the drawing for prizes.
First prize will be a $30 merchandise order good at the Panair store. Second and third prizes will be $20 and $10 merchandise orders. Next will come a copy of the new hook that’s getting raves in better kitchens everywhere—“Round the World Cookbook.” Fifth prize will
Pan American Fails To Win Great Circle Route To Orient-For Now-As Pacific Decision Made
President Does Not Deny Application But Withholds Final Decision Pending Further Study and Additional Reports
President Eisenhower has made his long awaited decision in the Pacific and West Coast-Hawaii Cases.
Pan American did not get the Great Circle route it has sought for so long. However, the President did not deny it either. He stated that he desired to hold his decision on that part of the case “in abeyance.”
Such decision will be withheld' pending further study on the economic and technical feasibility and the military and foreign policy implications of non-stop service between the West Coast and the Orient.
Other points of his decision which he has sent to the CAB for issuance of orders included:
1.	Pan American is certificated for five years from Hawaii to Tokyo and beyond to Hong Kong, and for three years to points in India. PAA’s certificate between Seattle/Portland and Hawaii will be renewed for three years.
2.	Northwest Airlines will receive a seven year certificate for Seattle/Portland-Anchorage-Tokyo, a five year certificate for Tokyo to Okinawa, Formosa and Hong Kong, and beyond Okinawa to the Philippines. It will receive a three year permit for services to Korea and between Seattle/Portland and Hawaii. Its previous authority to
operate direct between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Tokyo was not renewed. (The question of local service between the Twin Cities and Anchorage will be decided in the pending States-Alaska Case).
3.	The application of Transocean Airlines for scheduled service in the Pacific was denied.
4.	The application of TWA for extension of its routes in the Orient was denied.
5.	United Air Lines’ present route from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hawaii was made permanent.
The President did not make public any decision on two other points in the Pacific Case that pertained to Pan American. One was the PAA petition to obtain traffic rights at Okinawa, the other PAA’s request to serve Pago Pago, Samoa, on its Sopac route.
The CAB will shortly issue orders in compliance with the President’s decision.
PAA Directors Declare 20 Cent Dividend Payable Next Month
Directors of Pan American this month declared a dividend of 20 cents a share payable March 11th to stockholders of record on February 18, 1955. This is the forty-first dividend paid by PAA. Payments have been made each year since 1941.
be a handsome gold table lighter.
But that’s not all. Realizing that some folks just don’t go for such games of chance, there’s another prize that is based strictly on skill.
In the display window at the entrance to the cafeteria will be a jar. In the jar will be some beans— lots and lots of beans. Inside a box inside the jar is a five dollar bill. The employee who comes the closest to guessing the total number of beans in the jar gets the five bucks.
' Now you won’t be able to see the box, since it will be surround-(Continued on Page 8)
LIGHTER TOUCH
Advertising’s Amy Sanford, who is chairman of the San Francisco Panair Club membership drive, shows how the modern gal can use one of the prizes that will be won by some employee. Besides this attractive lighter, five other prizes are being offered.