Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 47, August 15, 1946

              11th YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Par American World Airways
PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Í3L/PPFR
18th Year Pan American World Airways
VOL 3, No. 47.
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
August 15, 1946
Thomas Wolle Is New Division Vice President
Two New Publicists To Tell PAD's Story
Selby Calkins has been named Public Relations Manager and Voit Gilmore has been named Public Relations Representative for the Pacific-Alaska Division, both appointments effective August 1.
Calkins was western editor of Skyways magazine until he entered the war and served in the Pacific with the 20th Air Force and then on the staff of General Spaatz. He left the service with rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has been associated with the aeronautical industry for 15 years, doing much‘West Coast aviation writing.
Gilmore was assistant to the division manager, PAD, before entering the Navy. He is a PAA 5-year man, having been based in Miami, New York, Washington, Africa, Brazil and San Francisco. During the war he was based around the Pacific with NATS.
This enlargement of Pacific-Alaska’s public relations staff stems from, the system’s plans to place its round-the-world services before the West Coast public more and more.
Vice President Thomas Wolfe
August 24 Is Seattle's Big Day
August 24 is the big day for Seattle PAAers, when they meet at Beaver Lake for their annual picnic.
Under the general chairmanship of Herb James, plans for the Recreation Club-sponsored affair have been accruing since early this year.
Included in the agenda for the day’s entertainment is dancing, swimming, fishing, baseball, horseshoes, novelty races (Continued on Page 2)
P-A Certificated to Australia, India In CAB's Decision On “Pacific Case"
SEE MAP, PAGES 4-5
In Pacific Case awards announced early this month, the Civil Aeronautics Board made Pan American World Airways the nation’s first and only round-the-world commercial airline, authorizing Pacific-Alaska to fly from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Calcutta for connections with the Atlantic Division.
PAA’s Central Pacific route was extended from Midway to Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Saigon, Bangkok, Rangoon and Calcutta. The CAB also approved a PAA route from Manila to Saigon, Singapore and Batavia (Dutch East Indies).
ALASKA
In Alaska, Pan American’s current routes were consolidated into a single line with Seattle and Fairbanks as the two terminal points, and Ketchikan, Juneau, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing and Tana-cross as stops.
At the same time CAB approved a second American round-the-world service by
extending TWA’s New York-India route on to Shanghai, where it will connect with Northwest Airline’s new route from St. Paul and Seattle to Anchorage, Aleutians, Kuriles, Tokyo, Harbin, Mukden, Darien, Peiping, Nanking, Shanghai, and Manila.
In its decision on the Pacific Case, the CAB also gave PAA a certificate to extend its South Pacific route from Noumea to Sydney. This new service to Australia is in addition to its now certificated route from San Francisco and Los Angeles via Honolulu, Canton, Suva and Noumea to Auckland.
Further, PAA is now authorized to fly Honolulu-Wake direct, and to continue its former operations between Manila and Hong Kong.
Other CAB awards included an Alaskan route from Anchorage to Cordova to Yak-utap to Juneau for Pacific Northern Airlines. Western Airlines was granted an extension of its route from Lethbridge to Edmonton via Calgary.
*Top Official Named To Head West Coast
Thomas Wolfe has been elected vice president of Pan American World Airways in charge of the Pacific-Alaska Division and will arrive in San Francisco within the next few days to commence his duties.
In addition to announcing Mr. Wplfe’s selection, President Trippe also named J. H. Smith, Jr., as vice president, Atlantic Division. Mr. Smith succeeds Vice President John C. Leslie, now transferred to the System executive office to represent the company in the Air Transport Association and the International Air Traffic Association and to serve as liaison with the State Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board in connection with inter-governmental air transport agreements.
Mr. Wolfe has been assistant to air-minded Justin Dart, one of the nation’s outstanding young executives, who recently flew his entire United-Rexall Drug Company headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles by air. Well known in the industry, Mr. Wolfe started his aviation career 22 years ago as manager of the Chicago Association of Commerce Aviation Department.
When the New York-Chicago air mail service was turned over by the Post Office Department to private commercial carriers in 1927, he joined National Air Transport, which subsequently became United Air Lines. After nine years with United, he accepted the position of vice president of Western Air Lines, where during the next ten years he played an important part in building Western’s system from a 600 miles to a 6,000 mile system. Having participated extensively in the Alaskan (Continued on page 2)
CALCUTTA-WHEN?
The Civil Aeronautics Board has now said WHERE we can fly.
Now, WHEN can we fly there?
First, the individual countries through which Pacific-Alaska is newly authorized to operate must agree to the operations, and that means negotiations between governments.
Then there must be enough equipment to span the tremendous distances.
Both will take time. But at least we know now where we’re going.
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