News digest, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 12, 1944

              PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION NEWS DIGEST
Voi. 1, No# 2	October 12, 1944
GREAT SHOPS RECORD ENDS MOVE
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nNot a single flight was cancelled; in fact schedules completed during the recent move from TSL reached a mark of 105/&,” Division Engineer Jim Weesner stated this week upon completion of the big transfer to Mills# Weesner said, ’’Credit for this remarkable record should go to the Shop Superintendent’s office and every individual participating.”
The last plane job was completed on Monday, September 18, when the ’02 was wheel» out of Hangar ’B’ and lowered into the water for a test flight# The Boeing’s departui touched off the signal for the last TSL maintenance shops and offices to pack and depart for the new base. Thus ended Pan American’s 5g--year tenancy on Treasure Island, first a world’s fair and now a Naval training center.
During the last two weeks of intense activity, almost every portable item ranginf from the smallest bolt to a Boeing engine stand was either ferried or hauled by truck and wagon from TSL to the South San Francisco base# Maintenance shops were moved intact to larger and more elaborate quarters.
Crowded waterfront conditions and the bulky hard-to-handle hangar equipment prove a major task at the height of the move. Only the untiring efforts of the employees, such as working split shifts, sacrificing rest days, putting in overtime, and so forti overcame emergency problems. So great was the moving day enthusiasm that a Boeing service was completed 24 hours ahead of schedule#
On arrival at the new amphibious base, the maintenance personnel found all the former TSL offices, Engineering, Operations, Communications, Traffic, well entrenched and operating as usual# Best of all, according to many, was the spacious lunch room near the main entrance#
Loudest in his praise of the mechanics who kept the schedules intact despite the task of moving was Shop Supt. John C. Boyle who asserted: ’’The men did a really splendid job. I wish I could go around and pat each man on the back and tell him how much we appreciate his efforts and whole-hearted co-operation»” Appropriately enough, the first placard to be hung on the wall of the Shop Superintendent’s office was the unofficial Company motto: ’’THE DIFFICULT ... we do immediately. THE IMPOSSIBLE ... takes a little longer.”
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CAFT. 0. J. STUDEMAN APPOINTED DIVISION OPERATIONS MANAGER
New Operations Manager of the Pacific-Alaska Division is Capt. Oliver J. Studemar until September 15 Alaska Sector Manager. He replaces Capt. J. H. Tilton who has reported to New York for a new assignment.
Captain Studeman has been with Pan American for more than 11 years, joining the company at Brownsville in 1933 after graduating from Texas A & M and serving in the Army Air Corps. He later became Chief Pilot of the Viestern Division and in 1940 made the first plane survey flight for PAA from Seattle#
Studeman was promoted to Operations Manager of the then Alaska Division in 1942 and became Manager of the Alaska Sector in February of this year.
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’05 HOME AFTER ’’BIGGEST OVERHAUL”
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The Anzac Clipper, NC 05, returned ’’home” last week after undergoing, in New Yor. the biggest overhaul job ever undertaken by an airline# The job began April 3, and b cause it vías the first project of its kind in which a Clipper was literally rebuilt, it captured the interest of technicians everywhere# To the men of the Atlantic Divis who were assigned to the work, experts from the shops and engineering, the knowledge and experience gained will be applied as a handbook of experience for similar overhaui projects to follow. It is planned to rebuild all Clippers as the need arises#
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An ATC Douglas C-54 Skymaster recently made the trip from San Francisco’s Hamilt Field to Honolulu in lQ-jj hours, an average speed of 230 miles per hour, which clipped i full hour from the best time previously recorded.
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”S0S For A Skyhook” is the title of an illustrated article appearing in COLLIER’ For Oct. 7 by William Van Dusen, Director of Public Relations, who describes the part played by PAA Capt. W. W. Moss ard his crew in the rescue of 48 survivors of the trooj transport, Cape San Juan, which was sunk by enemy action in shark-infested Pacific waters late last fall.