Pan American clipper, Vol. 25, No. 10, May 1, 1966

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Green Stam p Groom Flies
By Don De Manche
BALTIMORE—You can get almost anything these days w ith Green Stam ps! We know a young lady in Baltim ore who recently ac­ quired a brand new husband in exchange for 2,000 books of S&H Green Stamps. Lest this bit of news s ta rt a stampede, let us explain here and now th a t it was all a lot of monkey business! The blushing bride’s name is Sylvia, a gorilla a t the Bal­ tim ore Zoo. As you can see from the photo, Sylvia is a gracious young lady w ith a lot of poise. H er table m anners are impeccable and, as gorillas go, she has a charm ing disposi­ tion. B ut Sylvia started get­ tin g very lonely, and a t times a trifle depressed. Perhaps, she thought, life was going to pass her by, and there would be no dashing, dark-eyed gorilla in her life. A fter a. hard day on the swings and rings a lady gorilla needs more than a bunch of bananas to round out her life. Sylvia wanted a husband and home life. Mrs. Ruth Chumley, chair­ man of a local group called the Friends of the Zoo in B alti­ more, discussed Sylvia’s plight w ith zoo director A rth u r W at­ son and soon the search for Sylvia’s m ate became known to practically everyone in Bal­ timore. The S&H Green Stamp Com­ pany offered to put up the $4,000 for the purchase of a m ate for Sylvia in exchange for 2,000 books of stamps. Numerous Baltim ore radio and television stations and news­ papers appealed for donations of Green Stamp books and practically overnight more than enough stam p books had been donated. It was one such radio appeal th a t caught the attention of Donna Barys, secretary to the BAL/DSO. She reckoned th a t Pan American should try to handle transportation arran g e­ ments for the groom—as yet
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-Pax and Cargo Volume F] A t New March High
Sxj Pan American flew 798 million revenue passenger-miles sysM tem w id e fo r the month of March, 1966. This is an increase of 21.5 )n jper cent over March, 1965, when 657 million revenue passenger.j^’ miles were flown. lu_| Cargo ton-miles flown systemwide in March, 1966, were j 43,854,000, the highest total of any month in Pan Am’s history. | This represented a gain of 35.7 per cent over the same month last — \ year when 32,327,000 ton-miles were flown. Willis G. Lipscomb, Senior Vice President, Traffic and Sales, I said th a t passenger traffic during March showed a 27.1 per cent increase for the A tlantic; a 20.4 per cent increase for the Pacific # and a 16.8 per cent increase fo r L atin America. F or the first qu arter of 1966 passenger traffic was up 18.2 per a cent and cargo traffic was up 27.6 per cent.

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WHAT DASHING, YOUNG GORILLA could possibly resist Sylvia’s dark, fetching eyes? Pan American, the Bendix Radio Corporation and countless good people of Baltimore joined forces to find a mate for Sylvia so she wouldn’t be lonely living at the Baltimore Zoo

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Service to Dublin Sought by Pan Am
A P an A m erican A irways official urged the Civil A ero­ nautics Board A pril 20 to recom ­ mend to P resid en t Johnson th a t P an Am be selected to serve Dublin, Ireland. P resid en t Johnson recently recom m ended to the CAB th a t only one U nited S tates c a rrie r be selected to serve Dublin. Pan Am and T rans W orld A irlines both cu rren tly provide service to Shannon, but th u s fa r the Irish Governm ent has not a l­ lowed eith er c a rrie r to fly to Dublin. A ccording to Pan Am A tto r­ ney Elihu Schott, the airline should be selected fo r the serv­ ice since it was the “pioneer airlin e ” to Irelan d ; has pro­ vided more and b etter service to Ireland th an TWA; and has ou tcarried TWA to Ireland by a wide m argin. P an Am pioneered tra n s ­ atlan tic service to Irelan d a fte r years of prep aratio n . The first flight was by seaplane which landed a t Foynes, close to Shan­ non. Capt. H arold Gray, now Pan Am P resident, piloted the first flight. N oting th a t TWA did not begin service to Ireland until F eb ru ary 1946, Mr. Schott point­ ed out th a t Pan Am began scheduled commercial service to Ireland in Ju ly 1939. “F ailu re
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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL COUNTDOWN! The lovely young lady who looks so technical and serious standing in front of the space-radar antennae is featured on the May-June Clipper Cargo calendar in full color. Now we know what the “race for space” is all about!

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Clipper Mercy Flight Saves Youth’s Life
By Mary Ann Williams
JF K — The words “on a wing and a p ra y e r” had a different meaning to the fam ily of 17year-old Jean Jacques Mon­ tes, Jr., the n ig h t of A pril 16. They m eant th a t the life of their son m ight possibly lie in the hands of a P an Am a ir­ craft w inging down to P o rt au P rince, H aiti w ith a p re­ cious life saving shipm ent of medicine. Young Montes, the son of Jean Jacques Montes, Sr., Di­ rector of Civil A viation fo r Haiti, suffered critical head injuries when his autom obile skidded on a w et road and smashed into a tree. At approxim ately 8:30 p.m. local tim e S atu rd ay night, April 16, P an Am D ispatch a t JF K received a w ire on the direct teletype p rin te r from San Ju a n advising th a t they were unable to fulfill a re­ quest from P o rt au P rince fo r urgently needed medicine. D ispatcher E arl M olthan w ent to work. He called Irene Gluck, P an Am Medical, fo r assistance and both M olthan and Miss Gluck made several calls to pharm acies in the area w ithout success. F inally M olthan called his own p er­ sonal physician, Dr. E arn est F. B ernhardie of. Malverne, Long Island. Dr. B ernhardie assured E arl th a t he would do his utm ost to find the needed drugs, as he knew it was a m atter of life and death. The Doctor explained to the D ispatcher th a t the drug was a D iuretic generally used in connection w ith b rain surgery. A sh o rt while later M olthan received a call from the Doc­ to r statin g th a t he had located the drugs a t the A bbott L ab­ oratories in Teterboro, New Jersey, and th a t the A bbott representative would contact him.. R ichard Blomquist, B ranch M anager of the A bbott plant, advised th a t he would open the p lan t and deliver the drugs to N ew ark A irport in the hopes it could be put on one of the last helicopter flights to JF K . M olthan then called Mickie B ressler, Station M anager for New York Airways, fo r assist­ ance. B ressler contacted Jim Doyle of the O perations De­ partm en t and they decided they could d ivert one of the helicopter flights directly to Teterboro to pick up the medi­ cine and b ring it back to Kennedy in tim e fo r a m id­ n ig h t flight to P uerto Rico. Mr. B lom quist was advised to bring the m edicine to T eterboro A irport w here he was m et and assisted by a P o rt of New York A uthority representativ e. The New York A irw ays helicopter left Ken­ nedy a t 9:46 p.m. w ith a stop enroute a t the Pan Am B uild­ ing, w here it discharged p as­ sengers, and arrived a t T eter­ boro a t 10 :15 p.m. The em ergency shipm ent arrived back at JFK , person­ ally carried by Mr. B ressler, a t 10:35 p.m. and was placed in the hands of C aptain Ray L. Pearson, in command of the J e t Clipper fo r San Juan. At San Ju an the drugs were carried aboard an o th er Clip­ per, destined fo r P o rt au P rince, commanded by Cap­ tain R. L. Gibson. The m edicine arriv ed in H aiti a t 8:55 a.m. local time where doctors have since ad­ vised th a t the sw ift arriv al of the drugs have given th youth a good chance of recovery. In fact 24 hours a fte r the medicine was adm inistered, the boy’s condition improved greatly. Incidentally, Mickie B ress­ ler was called th a t S aturday evening a t home. And E arl M olthan, who was scheduled off duty a t 9:00 p.m., stayed, on his own time, until a fte r m idnight following through on the details.

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