Clipper, Vol. 8, No. 5, May 1951

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VOL. 8 —No. 5
MAY, 1951
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PAA Gross Revenues For 1951 Set Record
Passenger and Cargo Operations Soar; Operating Costs Reduced for Year
Reported net earnings of Pan American World Airways, Inc., for the year 1950, after provision of $2,010,000 for federal income taxes, were $4,064,000, Juan T. Trippe, the airline’s president, told stock-
-^holders in the annual report.
Gross revenues — amounting to
Thomas Davis
Davis Given Commissary Post in Rio
Promotion of Thomas T. C. Davis, former Guest House Man-1 ager in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the post of Regional Commissary Supervisor in Rio de Janeiro, is announced by PAA.
He succeeds the late George Vincent in the Rio post.
Davis joined Pan American as a steward in 1940 and has spent the last eight years in PAA’s commissary department.
Stationed in Miami, Davis was promoted to Port Steward in 1 9 4 3 and held various commissary positions including that of Assistant to the Commiss ary Superintenden fc until he was transferred to San Juan in 1949 as Guest House Manager.
Born in Valparaiso, Chile, Davis attended schools in Buenos Aires and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He then attended New York University where he studied investment banking.
The Davises have three children, two sons and a daughter. The daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Close, resides at 1036 Casaloma, Wichita, Kansas; as does one of their sons, Tom Henry. The other son, George C. Davis, who joined Pan American in 1948 as a Stock Clerk, now is in the United States Army.
As PAA’s commissary supervisor in Rio, Davis is responsible for all food service aboard Pan American’s Clippers operating between Belem, Brazil, and Buenos Aires.
— Every Employee a Salesman —
PAA March Travel Sets New Record
More Clipper passengers traveled through the Miami gateway in March than in any other month in the 23-year history of PAA.
The total of 18,598 arrivals and 16,148 departures — all revenue passengers — topped PAA’s previous record in August, 1948, by 3,710, figures just compiled reveal.
The figures do not include the passenger traffic of three Pan American affiliates — Compañía Cubana de Aviación (Cubana), Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia (Avianca) and Lineas Aereas Costarricenses (LASCA)—that serve Miami.
The month’s total of 34,746 Clipper passengers represents more international air traffic than was flown through any other airport in the United States for the same period.
$153,802,000—were again an all time high. The company’s United States mail revenue for 1950 was reported solely on the basis of temporary rates in effect. This basis of reporting is in contrast to annual reports for previous years.
Previously, such mail revenue was reported on the basis of the company’s estimate of the amounts which should be received in accordance with the terms of the Civil Aeronautics Act, less a reserve. Had 1950 income been reported on the same basis as in 1949, reported net earnings would have been substantially higher than $4,064,000.
Trippe reported that “the volume of business in 1950 exceeded that of previous years in all categories.
“Revenue passenger miles of 1,256,792,000, a gain of 5.5 per cent over the preceding year, were the highest in the company’s history. The volume of cargo also established a new record of 55,-708,000 pounds, an increase of 15.6 per cent over the preceding year.”
Operating costs were reduced from 46 cents per available ton mile in 1949 to 45 cents in 1950, and the company’s increased volume of business was achieved with a decrease of 14.5 per cent in revenue plane miles flown.
Services over Pan American’s “world-wide network were again conducted throughout the year without injury to a single passenger.”
The report also, stated:
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Heckathorne To Houston
Malcolm B. Heckathorne has been appointed Station Manager in charge of PAA’s important Latin American gateway at Houston, Texas.
He succeeds John N. White who has been transferred to the Superintendent of Stations office in Miami.
Joining Pan American’s Africa-Orient Division in 1941 as an Airport Clerk, Heckathorne saw service in Natal, Brazil; Casa Blanca, Karachi, India, and Paris, France, as an Airport Manager and Section Operations Superintendent until 1946, when he was transferred to PAA’s Atlantic Division as Assistant Operations Superintendent in Paris.
He was promoted to Airline Operations Inspector in 1947 and1 then in 1950 was shifted to the Station Manager group in Miami where he served until being named to his Houston post.
Heckathorne is a native of Indiana. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936 and taught in California schools until joining PAA in 1941.
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Trophies and prizes to be awarded winners in the fifth annual Wilbur L. Morrison handicap golf tournament for LAD employes are given the once over by some of the contestants. George Gwin, LAD Recreational Director, left, and a right tough competitor in his own right, points to the set of matched irons awaiting the runnerup in the tournament. Clifford E. “Kip” Lindstrom, Assistant Flight Service Supervisor, right, seems to have his eyes on the winner’s set of matched woods and irons, while Hunter T. Tchakarian, Airport Equipment Engineer, points to the Morrison trophy the winner holds for a year.
2,500 LADers Hear MRA Work Praised
it Was Fun and Instructive’ Declare Crowd Attending ‘A Pan American Family Night’
“It was fun and very instruc-<£>-tive.”
That was the opinion of more than 2,500 LAD employes, execu-* tives and their families who at-* tended “A Pan American Family Night” at the new Dade County Auditorium in Miami, May 2.
Purpose of the get-together was to introduce to all LADers the Moral Re-Armament team which presented “Jotham Valley” and
A delegation of 110 LADers.. is attending the World Assembly of MRA in Mackinac Island, Michigan, June 1 to 12. Two groups of 55 each are flying by Clipper to the MRA session, the first group May 31 and the second June 5, giving each group six full days at the meeting.
“The Forgotten Factor,” musicals which tell graphically the work of MRA throughout the world, to large audiences in Miami during the past month.
The PAA family heard the work and principles of MRA indorsed by speakers from both management and labor.
Wilbur L. Morrison, Vice PresL dent in charge of LAD, stressed briefly the values of MRA in bringing management and labor closer together and explained PAA’s interest in furthering the spread of its principles—“that is why we invited you all here tonight.”
Three speakers representing labor also addressed the meeting.
George Spafford, president of Local 500 of the Transport Workers Union, defined MRA as “a simple phrase—common sense.”
Spafford said: “I now know what application of the principles of MRA can accomplish. We have tried it in our home and the results have been far Continued on Page 6
Station Job For Eppelein
Robert L. Eppelein has been appointed Station Manager for PAA in Pointe a Pitre, Guadelope.
Joining PAA in 1948 as an Operations Clerk, Eppelein was promoted to Senior Operations Clerk in 1949 at Miami.
He moved to Junior Station Manager in 1950 and was sent to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to assist in station operations.
He was shifted to Pointe a Pitre later in the year and served as Junior Station Manager until his new appointment.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Eppelein attended schools there and high school in Newark, Ohio. He served in the Army in the Philippines and Japan in 1944 to 1946. Later he attended the University of Miami before joining LAD.
Eppelein succeeds Andrew W. Abela at Pointe a Pitre. Abela now is stationed in New Orleans.
The last barrier to fast, direct air service between Central and South America and the Pacific Coast of • the United States has been removed with authorization for PAA to fly non-stop between Guatemala and California.
An initial three-year certificate has been granted PAA by the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board for a direct route between Guatemala City and Los Angeles.
Clippers will fly all the way from Los Angeles to Panama stopping only at Guatemala City.
The CAB decision rounds out the semicircle of PAA gateways to Latin America that serve all U. S. geographical divisions. They range from New York in the populous East to Miami in the Southeast, New Orleans in the Mississippi Valley, Houston and Brownsville, Texas, in the Southwest — and now Los Angeles, to serve California and the Pacific Northwest, fastest-growing area in North America.
The new route not only will tap a vast new tourist potential for Latin America, but will speed airmail deliveries and business travel between the areas. The direct flight will save an entire day on airmail between the U. S. Pacific Coast and Central and South America since the mail is now routed by way of Miami, New Orleans or Houston.
The present air trip between Los Angeles and Guatemala City involves flights over two airlines and a change of planes at Mexico City.
Pan American will begin the new service as soon as equipment can be made available. Plans are being made to operate the route at first with Constellation-type Clippers, with the probability of replacing these early next year when PAA’s newest Clippers, the DC-6Bs, are delivered by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
Either of these fast aircraft will fly to Guatemala from Los An-* geles, a distance of 2,190 miles, in less than eight hours. Panama will be only three and a half hours from Guatemala City.
The flights will connect at Guatemala City with PAA’s local service to all Central American capitals and at Panama with Clippers flying across the South American north coast. Connections will1 also be made at Panama with El Interamericano, the fast sleeper planes from Miami to the west coast of South America and Buenos Aires over the routes of PAA and its affiliate, Panagra.
The approximate elapsed time from Los Angeles under the new schedules would be seven hours, 45 minutes to Guatemala City; 12 hours to Panama, and 28 and a half hours to Buenos Aires.
Pan American brought the first international air service to Guatemala City in 1929—from Brownsville through Mexico City. It applied for the new link three years ago.