Clipper, Vol. 10, No. 8, April 15, 1954

              Read From California to Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
Voi. 10 No. 8
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
April 15,1954
LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF FAST TALK
Harry E. Austin, vice president of RCA, looks on as PAD Operations Manager Jim Weesner throws the switch that put the new radioteletype system into operation this month. Backing up Jim is Communications Superintendent Johnny Casselman.
A COMMUNICATIONS JET STREAM
New Electronic Communications Service Delivers a Message From Tokyo to San Francisco in 3 Minutes
Flock of Free Ducats For Panair Club Dance
Peninsula Golf Club Site of Annual Affair on April 24th
The San Francisco Panair Club presents its annual Spring Dance next week on Saturday, April 24th. Scene of the party will be the beautiful Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo.
Club members can purchase tickets for only one dollar per person, while non-members can get in for $1.25 each.
However, several lucky employees won’t have to worry about buying tickets. A unique give-away plan has been devised to get rid of some tickets for free. (The Panair Club hates money, anyway).
Everyone at San Francisco has, or will receive a paychek on April 9th and 16th. This fact in itself is heartening!
On the BACK of the non-nego-tiable half of the paycheck is a number, called the “stock form number.” This will be a six digit number. Here’s how you can get one or maybe two free dance tickets:
Using any five of the six numbers on the back of your check, two tickets will be given to everyone who has four-of-a-kind or better. (Our statistical editor says one person will have five-of-a-kind).
One ticket will be given to the 15 highest full houses. In the event that two persons had three 5’s and (Continued on Page 6)
HERE'S HOW
A pair of tickets and this map will lead you to an evening of fun at the SFO Panair Club’s Spring Dance on April 24th.
An expansion in what was already the world’s largest private communications system is now providing the PAD with instant, 24-hour a day radio teletype service between San Francisco, Hawaii, Manila and Tokyo.
This is the first time that any airline has established its own leased channels across the Pacific. Utilizing the most advanced electronic devices in mechanized and automatic switching, the new system will materially speed up advance bookings, passenger handling and airline operation.
The network has a backbone of three two-way circuits spanning the Pacific — one trunk between San Francisco and Hawaii, another between San Francisco and Tokyo, and a third from San Francisco to Manila. Other Pacific and Orient points will be linked to the main radio network thru existing radio facilities, mostly operated by government agencies.
At San Francisco there are automatic connections with Pan American’s leased wire and radio
systems covering Alaska and the United States.
This new system was installed to increase speed and efficiency and to lower costs in one of the most essential elements of operating a world-wide airline—fast and accurate communications.
Over this new system a message filed in Tokyo can be in the hands of an addressee in San Francisco in three minutes, in New York in five minutes, and in London, Paris or Rio de Janeiro in ten minutes.
Operators punch out the message on tapes with code letters that actuate the automatic switching devices in San Francisco and other control points, and speed the message on its way without further manual handling.
Besides the electronic “brains” that switch messages to any point designated by director code letters other devices can hold up a message for a few minutes if a circuit is busy and send it the moment the channel is clear.
The “brains” can also be keyed (Continued on Page S)
PAD Adds Third Weekly Flight to Philippines
Extra Demand Created by PAL’s Withdrawal From Trans-Pac Run
Starting this Saturday, April 17th, Pan American will inaugurate a third weekly flight to Manila.
The new trip will depart San Francisco each Saturday at 1430 and arrive in Manila each Monday at 1715 Manila time. This will be an all-President service flight. The other two weekly trips are combination service flights.
This additional trip will provide fast through service from Singapore and Saigon to Hawaii and the United States with only a three hour stop-over in Manila.
The need for this increased frequency was occasioned by the withdrawal from its trans-Pacific operation by Philippine Air Lines.
A Helsinki restaurant boasts of an item called Chateaubriand Texas. It was so named because the steak is both big and rich.
25 IN THE WOODS
Oscar Sandin, popular foreman of the SFO Carpenter Shop, celebrated a quarter of a century with Pan American last month. Fellow employees in B&F toasted him over coffee and cake at a small party in the cafeteria. Here George Kuhn, assistant B&F head and Operations Manager Jim Weesner are shown supplying Oscar with the appropriate souvenirs of his long career. He pounded his first PAA nail in Miami and has been in the PAD for the past 12 years. In speaking of the party, Oscar said, “It was a very pleasant surprise. My sincere thanks to everyone for their time and effort.”