MARTINS to MAKE PUBLIC BOW SEPT. 1 NEW YORK—Fast New Martin Flights Will Be Scheduled in and out of New York by TWA Beginning Sept

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VOL. 13, NO. 34 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES' WEEKLY EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION AUGUST 24, 1950 MARTINS TO MAKE PUBLIC BOW SEPT. 1 NEW YORK—Fast new Martin flights will be scheduled in and out of New York by TWA beginning Sept. 1, E. O. Cocke, Sales vice-presi dent, announced this week. The schedules will start with the first of the new twin-engine fleet ordered by TWA from the Glenn L. Martin Co. Preview flights are being held this week for approximately 6000 TWA employees from LGA to Kansas City—so that they may have Ten More Martins Purchased first-hand knowledge of the speed and comfort of the aircraft, Cocke For Delivery to TWA in 1951 said. NEW YORK —TWA has pur As of Sept. 1 TWA will schedule chased 10 more twin-engine Martin 404s from the Glenn L. four Martin flights daily in and out Martin company for delivery in of LGA, two westbound and two 1951, Warren Lee Pierson, board eastbound. This Martin frequency chairman, announced today. will be increased Sept. 24 to 12 Last March TWA placed its first order for 30 Martin 404s daily schedules, six in each direc and today's order will bring tion. TWA's total purchase to date to The Martin schedules from New 40. The Martins will be used on York will serve Philadelphia, Pitts TWA's medium and short-haul routes. burgh, Columbus, Dayton, Chicago Twelve additional Martins and Kansas City, and later Indiana have been leased from the polis, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. manufacturer to meet TWA's fall Louis. schedule pattern. Eight of these have been delivered and the First of 40 remaining four are expected to The Martins are the first of a be available shortly. fleet of 40 TWA has ordered from the Glenn L. Martin Co., for use on its medium and short-haul Silent Salesman Catches His AMONG FIRST EMPLOYEES to fly in the company's the first day the new plane was at LGA 15 flights flights. They will replace slower new Martin aircraft, this group of LaGuardia TWAers were booked to capacity for the trip over the city, Boeing Stratoliners on most flights Man in Oregon Coast Tavern prepare to board one of the familiarization flights. On Other employee flights were concluded this week. and in some cases will replace DC-3 SEATTLE—You can never tell equipment to provide improved where a TWA salesman will get Reservations Managers Shake Hands air transportation for passengers his man but this story goes even JOKE OF THE WEEK and cargo. beyond the unusual. It happened Two modern youngsters were At First Joint Procedures Meeting discussing the subject of piggy TWA last week announced the in a small city along the coast of banks. purchase of six additional Model Oregon—and in a beer tavern to KANSAS CITY—Familiar names on teletype messages became familiar "I think it is childish to save 749-A Constellations for its domes boot. faces this week as domestic Reservations managers met for the first time money that way." said Mary. tic routes. When delivered in 1951 Naturally, the TWA salesman "I do too," Annie replied. in joint meeting here to discuss reservations problems and procedures these will bring the TWA Con wasn't drinking but just sitting from A to ZZ. "And I believe also that it en courages children to become stellation fleet to 67—largest stand quietly behind the bar. As a mat Under the direction of R. G. Petitte, director of Reservations & misers." ardized four-engine commercial ter of fact, it was only a TWA Ticket Offices, 22 district Reservations managers or their designates set "And that's not the worst of fleet in the world. timetable and it all happened this it," Mary exclaimed. "It turns tled down Tuesday to a three-day parents into bank robbers." The new Martins seat 36 pas- way: discussion session aimed at greater (Continued on Page 2) John A. Martin, owner and man Flight Schedules coordination between offices and ager of Ward's Place, a beer tavern increased efficiency in reservations in Reedsport, Ore., is an aviation Set lor Opening procedures. enthusiast and picked up the time Special emphasis is being placed table while visiting the North Bend Ol MNN Service on sales training techniques and on station of West Coast Airlines. On MARION, OHIO — TWA will new reservations procedures which returning to his business place he begin service into Marion Sept. 1. will speed up transmittal of in put the timetable behind the bar Station manager at MNN will be formation between stations to keep where one and all could see it. Ken Hart, present station manager pace with the larger and faster Soon afterwards one of his reg at Richmond. equipment going into use on TWA ular customers, a lumber worker, routes. dropped in for a few beers, noticed Transportation agents assigned the timetable and asked to see it. Importance Stressed to MNN are Gene Dietz, now at A couple of hours and several beers Toledo, and C. R. Sayers, now at Importance of their role in later the man returned to the bar Springfield. TWA's operation was brought to to announce that he had just dis Service into RID and into SGH the attention of managers in a tele covered he could fly to Helsinki, is to be discontinued Sept. 3. gram from General Sales Manager Finland, and back during his two MNN will be served daily by Clyde Fullerton which said in part: weeks' vacation. eastbound Flight 418 at 3:45 p.m., "Reservations managers and their He subsequently made the trip enroute between Chicago and New associates provide the initial ac and later told Martin it was the quaintance between TWA and well ark, and westbound Flight 405 at over three-quarters of our domestic best investment he ever made—and 4:35 p.m. enroute from EWR to passengers. Contact by this same he did a big part of his traveling Kansas City. sales group with travel agents and on TWA. commercial organizations represents The story came to Sales Vice- Another schedule change will see a terrific volume of action on the deletion of the north-south Mans part of individuals within your President E. O. Cocke from Robert field flight on Sept. 3. The east- sphere of operation that leads to the England, general traffic and sales clinching of sales and eventually a west schedule, Pittsburgh-Mans manager for West Coast Airlines welcome sound from the cash reg here in Seattle. field-Chicago, will continue, how ister." ever. "The incident certainly empha Meeting with the managers in sizes the value of a timetable in The new flight pattern will see addition to Petitte are E. A. Rosser, ONE SURPRISED PILOT is Captain KENNETH WOOLSEY as he hikes the right place at the right time," TWA serving 68 airports through domestic superintendent of Reser out to the ramp to board his Connie at Los Angeles. Here he meets his son, 19-year-old KENNETH ALBERT WOOLSEY, a pre-dental student at the said England, "since the man had out the world on its domestic and vations & Ticket Offices; G. C. University of Southern California, who had kept secret his new job as a no idea of going to Helsinki before international routes. (Continued on Page 2) TWA ramp agent until he could surprise his father at flight time. he saw the timetable." SKYLINER T*AM$ WOLH0 MtKtltli Four DC-4s Marked for Martin Passenger Change to Cargo Ships Flights Scheduled KANSAS CITY — TWA's cargo program for this fall has been mod To Regin Sept. 1 ified to take into consideration leas (Continued From Page 1) ing of four DC-4s to Northwest sengers, have a maximum speed of Airlines for the Pacific airlift, John 312 miles per hour and have a Collings, vice-president of Opera range of nearly 2500 miles. They tions, said this week. have been certified by the Civil However, four DC-4s now in in Aeronautics board for a maximum ternational service will be with take-off weight of 43,000 pounds. drawn' from regular schedules for Special, hydraulically - operated, conversion to cargo types beginning self-contained steps are built into Sept. 15, when the first goes into the tail section of the airplane. the Overhaul base. The second will follow on Oct. 1, the third on Oct. The lonely baby chick, taking a look 15 and the fourth on Nov. 1. around the electric incubator with a lot of unhatched eggs. "Well, it looks as if I'll be an only child. Mother's blown a fuse." PHL Scores First in ATP Sales Competition for July ON-TIME LEDGER NEW YORK—Passenger Sales an Credit Balance August 14 nounced last week that the city of Domestic Albany $ 47 Reading 141 brotherly love, Philadelphia, took Allentown- Richmond 171 first place in July Air Travel Plan Bethlehem - 744 Santa Fe 262 Cincinnati 714 South Bend . 34 sales. PHL sold three new accounts Cleveland 391 Springfield _ 27 AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FOUNTAIN in the center lions. Cybele, a goddess native to Asia Minor, is known Detroit 36 St. Louis 1,024 and reopened one. Fresno 258 Terre Haute 570 of the Plaza of Madrid, one of many in the Spanish city, to the Romans most commonly as the "great mother of Grand Canyon 121 Toledo 721 portrays the goddess Cybele drawn in a chariot by two the gods." High salesman of the month Harrisburg 166 Topeka 575 honors were shared by Dick Ham Indianapolis - 1.270 Washington . 708 Lancaster 211 Wheeling 186 ilton of Columbus and Bill Bennett Louisville 372 Williamsport 454 Mansfield 441 Wilmington . 224 of Dayton, both having sold three Peoria 272 Winslow 477 Visitor to Madrid Enjoys Mixture of 256 new air travel plans apiece. Quincy- Worcester — Hannibal 76 Zanesville 303 International Historic Past in Modern Surrounding Algiers 933 "Father," said Jimmy, running into Athens $ 1,172140 NeMilaw nYor k .. 224 By Frank Howell the drawing room, "there's a big black Basra — 149 Paris •. ~ 1,364 cat in the dining-room." Cairo .. 3,162 Philadelphia 40 MADRID—Greetings, felicidades from Madrid, Spain, the city of must be slain. Listen to the cheers Chicago 192 Rome ... 2,731 carefree gaiety, sunny smiles, sidewalk cafes, restaurants galore of every as the lively team of horses remove "Never mind, Jimmy," said the Gander . 2,276 Santa Maria 53 father, drowsily; "black cats are lucky." Geneva 1,570 Shannon 4,411 variety, historic pageantry, fine arts, majestic architecture, culture, yet the fallen victim with dispatch. Lisbon . 239 Tunis 210 "This one is; he's had your dinner." 791 Zurich _ 638 with modern conveniences, but above all a people as human as you can Quickly all traces of the carmine Madrid imagine with a flair for the spectacular and a hospitality as genuine as sand are covered and pronto! an you will find on Mother Earth. other charging angry "toro" is on News Briefs Peaceful, law abiding, yet with a certain air of independence, most the scene. Madrilenos show in their very walk an attitude of complete contentment. Be sure you get your ticket in Happiness often expresses itself in . advance and it is a good idea to Around the TWA World . . . midnight strolling to the tune of warmly displayed, especially on the take along a cushion or robe to sit ... in 39 Seconds. melodic songs from "Young Spain." smiling faces of happy people glad on as the "seats" are usually of Truly it is the city that "forgets to see you come to have a "look granite and one must have no dis LONDON — TWAers here will join Loosen had been with TWA since Jan. time." Luncheon at 3 p.m. and din see." Formalities are simple and the comfort to enjoy the bullfight to with other airlines personnel in Lon 15, 1942. ner at 11 p.m. is the custom. How courteous treatment is a pleasant the utmost. No hotdogs for sale— don for a foreign airlines summer party on Aug. 27. GENEVA — Trudy Koenig, Geneva's ever, don't believe work is neg starter for your sojourn. bay cerveza! (beer) and dulces lected. Possibly it is occasionally The carefree air men and women will "voice," left the company recently. (candies), not even Coca Cola! go by coach to the coastal resort of Trudy, switchboard and teletype oper postponed, but everywhere one sees True, little English is spoken, but' everyone is so anxious to help that There is a saying in Spain "Only Bognor Regis for a day by the seaside. ator in the downtown office, was guest the people of Madrid at the accus of honor at a farewell "coca-cola" party tomed hours performing their tasks you will not have any unpleasant the bullfights are on time" but this and was presented an alarm clock as with a rigor and determination to experiences getting what you want was before TWA started serving KANSAS CITY—Patricia Loosen, sec a going away present by City Traffic Manager G. V. Lambert on behalf of be admired. at the restaurant or hotel. "Beef Madrid. retary to A. V. Leslie, vice-president- steak" is "beefsteak" on all menus treasurer, resigned last week to enter her co-workers. Bienvenido Say 'Too-Ah' even in Spain, so the inevitable the convent, St. Mary's academy, Sis Miss Koenig was also secretary of the By the way, when you want to ters of Charity, at Leavenworth. Miss local TWA club. Arriving at Barajas airport, Ma steak is always to be had "con pata- reach TWA by telephone you won't drid, is a pleasant experience, where tas fritas"—fried potatoes to you. the sign ''Bienvenido" is always get it by asking for TWA. You There are a number of good ho must say "Too-^Lh." That does it. Reservations, ZZ tels—for the Americans the Ritz or Immediately you have an English- Palace are excellent. The Empera- speaking TWAer on the other end Men Shake Hands dor is also excellent; English is of the line. spoken or at least understood by in Meet at MKC most of the help in these hotels. Madrid is the headquarters for (Continued From Page 1) Room service is particularly effi the Spanish state tourist department Riordan, international superintend cient and when one rises from a headed by Sr. Luis Bolin who ent; L. E. Hesselgesser, staff assist hot tub bath the "jumbo" size towel speaks beautiful English and, of ant, Sales Training; Hank Martin to form a "wrap around" gives you course, Spanish. He has a well or and Pete Illman, domestic field rep a cozy feeling of complete relaxa ganized plan to bring more Amer resentatives; Ray Cole, international tion—just let the towel dry you icans to Madrid. One of his projects field representative, and R. H. Mc- off. It's a lazy man's world. was the "tourist dollar" which Cormick, supervisor of the Reser brings 25 pesetas instead of 16.67; vations Service office (7.7,). Sip It Slowly in other words you buy everything for about one-third less than the In addition to covering every Cocktail hour is usually 9 or local people. You lucky tourist! phase of reservations the managers 9:30 and don't for goodness sake Package tours of from one to six also will meet with representatives try to gulp down that tempting days' duration in modern glass top of Ground Service, Communica cognac. Just sip it slowly and let bus are also available. tions, Flight Planning and Indus your conversation come as naturally trial Relations. as that afternoon .yawn, warning Why don't you plan to come to Members of the Kansas City you it is siesta time. Spain as soon as you can? It is al Reservations office and ZZ were The theater can be an enjoyable ways nice here . . . Spring and hosts at a picnic for the visiting experience and a comparison with autumn are best of course, and if managers last night at Swope park. our own stage personalities is al you're going to Rome for Holy ways a good topic. Typically Span year you simply can't pass over. LAX SETS NEW RECORD ish is the "Teatro Calderon," a well You'll be sorry if you do. Remem Los ANGELES—Heaviest air traf constructed theater much like our ber, Spain wants you to come — fic yet experienced by TWA at its old vaudeville showhouses, with and you'll want to come back! Los Angeles station was reported five balconies—and not a vacant Hasta luego! See you in Madrid! Aug. 21 when a total of 662 per seat. sons boarded TWA planes, most of Don't miss seeing at least one "And what," inquired the coroner, them eastward bound. The former bullfight. Remember, it is an exhi "were your husband's last words?" bition, a show of skill at its best, one-day record at LAX was set in "He said," replied the new widow, "PANDORA," STAR BOARDER of the Philedalphict zoo. greets "Quiz June, 1946, when 619 persons and don't feel sorry for the bull— "I don't know how they make a profit Kid" Harvey Dytch, 7, upon his arrival from Chicago. Holding the energetic boarded here. he is old "Diablo" (the devil) and out of this stuff at $1.25 a quart." chimp is Hostess JANET LONGENECKER, based at CHI. PACE TWO August 24, 1950 SKYLINER NUH* WOtiO AHUM

A QUICK STOPOVER IN MADRID is illustrated by this 3. Inside the terminal Hostess Fontova handles some Zuza stands by as the mechanics get the big engines turning series of photos taken at Barajas airport as a Connie load paper work behind the counter. 4. Meanwhile Jorje Lasa is over, 8. Whether Zuza is the senior man and this is the of international passengers arrives. busy in a back room sending a message over the teletype usual honor accorded him after a departure, we do not 1. The big ship pulls up in front of the terminal building circuit. know, but here he is being transported in a tricycle cart as Ground Hostess Matilde Fontova and Transportation Agent 5. Lead Mechanic Peter Guyer, left, and junior mechanic by Transportation Agent Ricardo Del Moral. Jesus Zuza move out to greet the passengers. 2. Fernando Alberto Lopez finish the servicing job on the wing. Note their 9. Strictly for fun, several of the Madrid TWAers pose for Hidalgo, commissary clerk, and Transportation Agent Fer reflection in the glistening Connie. 6. The passengers board a bit of horseplay. Left to right on the jeep are Ricardo nando Trebol prepare to take over after the passengers have the plane. Trebol, transportation agent. Hostess Fontova, Del Moral and deplaned. 7. With the Connie ready to depart. Transportation Agent Zuza. Free Dance Is Bait ior Western Region's Grip New Air Strip Maps Will Make Employee Club Card Sale On No-Show List Broken Service WILLIAMSPORT — For the first Every Passenger a Navigator lyANSAS CITY — Employees club PLUS time in well over a year a station NEW YORK — TWA passengers cards will admit the TWAer and outside of the Western region led one guest at the next Kansas City will now "know where they're at" the monthly no-show report when no matter over what segment of the club dance, Saturday, Sept. 30. and the July list was released. The free entry to the dance is domestic routes they are flying. As Williamsport had the best no- a matter of fact, they can practically designed to promote sale of club show record among stations board cards to TWAers here. Non-em plot the plane's course from their ing more than 1000 passengers a cabin seat—thanks to a new flight ployee friends of TWAers will be MINUS month with a record of 1.2% pas charged the regular $1 admission packet map put in service this Unexplained Delays Cause Bad Feelings sengers lost within one hour before week. price. flight time compared against the "It is now 7:07 EST and we are waiting very impatiently for our flight Bill Harper, club social chair total number of travelers boarded. The 16-page, three-color folder to depart. No satisfactory explanation for this delay has been offered. It would shows TWA transcontinental routes man, announced that Les Copley seem that delays of this sort caused by anything short of mechanical difficulties Another Atlantic region station has been engaged to play for the with the plane are inexcusable. Would suggest greater effort to maintain sched placed second, Scranton, with a broken down into five segments dance scheduled to open at 9 p.m. uled operations." 1.7% record. with the airline's routes imprinted at the American Legion hall. A Nothing but the Best Amarillo was in the third slot over a detailed map of the country "social hour," starting at 8 p.m., Mrs. Julius Chajes of Detroit wrote this letter of praise and appreciation to with a 2.6% mark. being flown over. Smaller cities, will precede the dance. Paul Matheson, senior Sales representative, YIP, after an overseas trip: Among smaller stations Rich towns, lakes, railroad, highways and "Mrs. Aaron DeRoy and I just returned from a trip to Europe and points mond was in first place with a per rivers are shown on the map and Club cards are priced at $1 east. Throughout our voyage on TWA planes we received the finest attention and apiece for the coming fiscal year. fect record of zero no-shows. a brief historic and geographic de courtesy from your personnel. I would like to mention especially the cooperation scription is given for each section. All club representatives now have of Mr. Arnaldo Garbuio, the ticket agent in Rome. Also, the others in Paris and Grand Canyon had a 1.1% mark. the cards and certain special de Rome were most cooperative, and we will certainly prefer TWA whenever we The flight packet map is the first partment representatives will also travel again." Use Dispatch mail for all inter domestic strip map which TWA office correspondence to ON-LINE have the cards. The cards may be stations. has produced since 1945. It was purchased at the dance upon proper addition to revenue brought in by Drunk: "Ho! Lady, you got two ver' Don't use Dispatch mail to firms published by the Advertising de identification. the card sale, a matching amount beautiful legs." and organizations outside of TWA. partment in New York. of money will be given the club . Girl (snapping) : "How would you For example, mail to Air Cargo, Inc., First reports from hostesses indi Sale of membership cards is the in Washington, D. C, which is not principal method of financing the from the company's Employee Ac know?" a TWA office, must be sent via U. S. cate the maps are being well re local Employees club activities. In tivities fund. Drunk (brightly) : "I counted 'em." mail. ceived by TWA passengers. August 24, 1950 PACE THREE SKYLINER MAMS wo*tD Aimmi

OPENING OF TWA SERVICE into London will find a new ator EDNA MUNDAY at the machine. The barely visible heads ticket counter. At right is the Accounting offices with Field office, staffed by enthusiastic TWAers ready to do business. belong to City Traffic Manager JACK HILTON and Overseas Auditor CHARLES J. PARKE and District Accountant A. L. G. The photo at left shows the Sales office with Teletype Oper Engineer GENE CALLISON. The center photo shows the new VOOGHT apparently oblivious of the photographer.

office contacted the OAK office and SKYLINER Award of Merit found that the money could not be Looking Backw&d... made available until the next morn for That Added Touch ing due to the banks being closed . . . which makes TWA in OAK at that time. This left the soldier all night in TOP, hungry and Service outstanding I without a place to stay, or rather it would have had it not been for TO: FLOYD SHORT the TWA agents. ROBERT RICHARDS Short and Richards gave Blair When Pvt. G. D. Blair, U. S. Army, money out of their own pockets to became stranded in Topeka recently tide him over until the next day he turned to TWA for help. Blair when an exchange order could be had received a ride on a military sent for his ticket to OAK. Ten Years Ago aircraft from his station as far as For such generosity and service Mechanic G. B. Oakley has moved TOP, but that was - considerably SKYLINER, with recommendations up in the world — from the big ones short of his destination, Oakland, from Station Manager Milt Chandler to the little ones. He's now president Calif. It would have been no trouble and Transportation Agent Bill of the Albuquerque Gasoline Model to hop on a TWA plane at TOP Walsh, TOP, presents this week's Airplane association. and continue his trip, except that award to Floyd Short and Robert Oakley is now general foreman at Blair was financially embarrassed. Richards. ABQ. Five Years Ago Blair reported his problem to (For each incident such as this—an Transportation Agents Floyd Short employee's quick thinking in a pinch or Recent visitor to Toledo was Cap and Robert Richards who suggested tactful handling of a delicate situation— tain Bob Strait, on motorcycle. He just sent to us and published, the SKYLINER reached Toledo on his way from Chi he wire his parents for the money will present its weekly Award of Merit to buy his plane ticket. The TOP to the person performing the deed.) cago to Buffalo, reports expenses to date only $1.10. Strait is based now at CHI. One Year Ago Columbus ticket counter personnel were stumped when a box of figs flown in from Los Angeles carried as an ad dress only the name and a six-digit figure. Transportation Agent Bliss Crip- pen solved the mystery with a judicious phone call and got his man — at the Ohio state penitentiary. Horizontal 4. A direction (abb.). 6. Right (abb.). Crippen is still getting his man at 1. Short for Patricia. 7. Flattery. CMH. 5. Your mouth tastes like this the morning 8. Tiny. after. 9. Golfers use it. • 10. Bubble material. 11. Cravat. 12. Musical note. 12. Boy. 13. Baseball tool. 13. The same boy's nickname. 14. Came the (Spanish style). 15. Rent. 16. Preposition. 17. A big wheel. 17. Big men on the campus. 19. Rendezvous. 18. A form of truth. 21. Everyone has one. 19. New York opera. 24. Time. 20. Previous to. 25. Good singers are never off this one. 22. Object of feminine pursuit. 26. The gal who does all the work. 23. One of the organs. 28. Sometimes you do this to your loan. 26. Girl's nickname. 30. Hair net. 27. A solitary number. Nancie J. Baum, YIP to LAX, hostess. 32. Under the waves it goes. 28. Caviar. Thomas E. Woods, Dhahran to Cairo, 35. Before. 29. Fight. controller representative. BEACH PICNIC AT TUNIS finds these TWAers engaged in a fast 36. Sailor. 31. Paydirt. Howard W. Boor, PIT to TOL, trans* game of handball. Left to right are Bob Lawson, maintenance foreman; 38. Chinese beverage. 33. Indian. portation agent. » 40. A slippery customer. 34. Insect. Betty Ruth Dalton, MKC to SFO, hostess. Antoine Consalvi of LIA (Italian airline), just hitting the ball; Stefano 41. A mouthpiece. 36. A drink. Paul V. Detweiler, LTR to PHL, as D'Angelo, mechanic, back to camera; and W. H. Meinzer, district Opera 42. Pursue. 37. Omnibus. sistant station manager. Virginia L. Furnish, PHL to MKC, reser tions manager. In the background other family members are relaxing in Vertical 39. Sales device. 40. And, if you were a Latin. vations agent. the sun. A TWA club outing, the beach party was followed by a cold 2. Air Transport Association. Walter J. Guy, BOS to MKC, first of buffet luncheon at Meinzer's home. Answer Next Week ficer. 3. Man's name. Adele Hanula, MKC to SFO, hostess. John K. Hill, Rome to MKC, senior in ternal auditor. Ben Nicks, Editor Lu Ann Muehl, BOS to LAX, hostess. Art Clayton, Manager Virginia Henry, Assistant Editor James L. Osborn, SFO to OAK, Sales Employee Publications representative. direct to The Editor, SKYLINER, TWA, William J. Street, LGA to CHI, flight Issued every Thursday by the Employee Publications engineer. 101 W. 11th, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.A. Donald W. Sypkens, LGA to CHI, flight section of the Industrial Relations department. News Deadline is Monday afternoon. Republica engineer. Published Weekly at Kansas City stories, tips, and photographs may be submitted by tion of contents permissible. Wayne J. Whitney, LAX to SFO, chief For Employees of TWA, any TWA employee, through his Field Editor, or reservations agent. Member Society of Associated Industrial Editors Sylvan Thomas Wilson, LGA to CHI, Trans World Airlines flight engineer. A. J. Hess . Albany A. H. Smith, R. E. Lee, Cyril F. Luhrs Quincy Frances Burdlek, Sami Gayed, Andy Bittar, Laura I. Zimmer, MKC to LGA, senior Anne Hurt, Gil Bob Frank, C. H. Steiner, Harry Braddock Reading Mary Kellogg Fleet Svc, KCK Edward Haik „ Cairo statistical clerk. Kenneth Farley „. Dhahran Buvens Albuquerque M. A. Kitchel . Kansas City Ken Hart Richmond A. J. Wynn ...Eng. Build-Up, KCK Joe A. Bear, MKC to Saudi Arabia, B. B. Earnhart, Emily Keys Dublin Rita Corkblll Allentown-Bethlehem Calvin Filson Las Vegas Lucille Kanister, A. W. Crandall, supervisor instrument overhaul shop. R. n. Cole. Mildred Yola Condeili, Brad Barrows, J. F. Cook Paint, KCK Gerald Wakeham Gander John Soule, Aileen Melva Braun Upholstery, KCK Basil Davis, Betty Gerencser...Geneva 0 ickerson . Amarillo Jeanne Gordon, Marian Faulkner, Roda . .San Francisco James Tucker .. Boston Helen Perrett, James Philpott, Bobbe Kelton Invent. Cont, KCK Frank Holmes _ __ Jidda Paul Strohm Burbank Mildred Stiner, George Melvin Reavis South Bend H. B. Allen Inspection, KCK Sultan Haji .Karachi A spinster was shocked at the lang Esther Travis, Oscar Lohner, Etter ...*... Los Angeles Robert Lorenz _ St. Louis Elizabeth V. Kee.. .Provisioning, KCK A. L. C. Heitor, Oly de uage used by workmen repairing cables Ralph Roney, Lillian Leedom, T. A. Frederick, Frank A. Donald Hudson Terre Haute J. E. Fisher Plant Maint, KCK Lezameta _ Lisbon Gene Hackett, Ed Boyce ....Chicago Summers Louisville William Navarre Toledo Cleora Kazee. V. K. Brown Josephine Dowle. Jack Hilton.London near her home, so she wrote the com Andrew Dattilo . Cincinnati Robert Gale Mansfield Bill Walsh Topeka Plant Protection, KCK Santiago Fernandez Madrid pany that owned the cables. The man Lois Klawon Cleveland Eleanor Coleman Miami Phil Deslauriers, Graham Small- Bob Wolters. A. L. Egbert Doug Stockdale Mexico City Gert Lincoln Columbus Jack Claflin, Mltzie LeRoy....Newark wood, Dolores Maki .... Washington -.Planning, KCK G. B. Forcignano, ager immediately asked the foreman on Jacqueline Marc urn John Winters, Joy Ellis, Barbara Joe Stroske Wheeling B. V. Duncan Constr.. KCK Guido Nimmo Milan Chick Lachey Dayton Grant, Gordon Ray, Jack Clif Chester Knight Wichita L. B. Murphy Stores, KCK Marc Letourneau, Peggy Jansa, the job to make a report and here's Gayle LorJea, Margaret ford, Kay Conly, Bill Affonso, Dick Bell Williamsport Henri LaLonde Engr., KCK Paul Nemeth, Mimi Romedenne, what the foreman said: Janovich ....Detroit John Uhrich, Jr., Don Smith, John Van Enige, Jr. Wilmington Bill Vance R & E. KCK Robert de Padova, Mario Geo. Langenbuch ..... Fresno Zed Lockhart .... New York Fred Duke Worcester Leila Hosny Alexandria Cassuto, Genevieve Hayat Paris "Me and Spike Williams were on Leroy H. Gerke Ft. Wayne L. D. Peterson Oakland Don Logan _.. Zanesville Alex Hunter Algiers Giovanna Govoni, this job. I was up the pole and acci Harry Davis Harrisburg Bob Price Peoria D. L. Bulnger Inst.. KCK Mary Seraphis, E. Paul Contl Roma Frank Heinzmann, George Fox, Allan Perry..Philadelphia W. H. Richardson, A. Galiatsatos Athens 5- x- Leonardo Santa Maria dentally let the hot lead fall on Spike Jean Petranoff Indianapolis Vie Pulis Phoenix J. H. Frey Eng. O'haul, KCK Fouad Thomas . Basra Terry McGowan Shannon Tom Keliher, Pat Gentry, Evelyn Manning, Dorothy Dorothy Gartner .-.Sheet Metal, KCK Jaek Mantoura Beirut W. H. Meinzer Tunis —and it went down his neck. Then Barbara Hale, Jennie DeStafano, MeCloskey Pittsburgh E. D. Haney ....Access. O'haul, KCK Eric Kanga, Gopal Panjabi Bombay Arnold Matthey, Spike looked up at me and said: J. P. Robertson Zurich "Really, Harry, you must be more careful." PAGE FOUR August 24, 1950 SKYLINER TKAMS WOULD MlMLIKt

MKC SPORTS Bowl Loops Ready To Set 'em Up in ImA^ttsjJUik The Other Alley KANSAS CITY — Seven bowling leagues are all ready to open the make the lot of our fighting men annual timber toppler derby in easier and our ultimate victory Kansas City. sure. While your comments will not reach President Truman, I was A survey of the local Employee glad to receive them myself and club leagues in MKC shows that to sense how seriously young most of the keglers will kick off America thinks about its future. the winter season during the first "I am sure it will be a great week in September on lanes in both future, both for you and for our country, as long as young men like Kansas Cities. yourself continue to plan and work Some of the leagues are com together to make it a better place pleted but teams and individual to live. players are still .-needed in others s/R. S. Damon.' and practically all leagues could use a full panel of substitutes. National Safety Council By Walt Ditsen The following list shows the leagues already organized and the A MAN who really scratches for a secretaries. living is London's cargo chief David Wright. All TWAers interested in bowl Dave is a man who sees the business ing this fall and winter are asked there and goes after it, as witness his to call either the league secretary, MARTINS TO SPARE line up at Philadelphia to fly in one of TWA's new Martin aircraft on tour. Shown is the largest Martin family which could recent achievement in securing a num or Tom Keliher, Employee Activi ber of shipments of live monkeys from be found in PHL, the Edmond Martins, together with the TWA crew. Cap London to New York. The monks were ties supervisor, Fairfax building, 22. tain FLOYD VALENTINE, Hostess JOYCE SYER and Captain ED FLYNN. carried from London to Paris first on CONSTELLATION LEAGUE British European Airways, transferred (MEN'S) there to TWA's cargo liner for ship Secretary, Gene Keefe, NYL 328. ment to the United States where they Bowls Wednesday nights, 6:30 p.m., are to be used in medical research. Plaza Bowl (430 Alameda Road). All Dave is not a man to start the ball teams filled, but could use substitutes. rolling without keeping an eye on CONSTELLATION LEAGUE where it's going either. (WOMEN'S) The London cargo chief is now busy Secretary, Helen Shrontz, KCK 144. accompanying the monkeys at least as Bowls Wednesday nights, 6:30 p.m., far as Gander to make sure they ar Plaza Bowl (430 Alameda Road). rive safe and sound at their destination. Needs seven bowlers to fill out teams; Which goes to show, as we said at "Do you think I'll be able to keep out of mischief in Paris?" also could use substitutes. first, that Dave Wright is a man who AIRLINE LEAGUE (MEN'S) really scratches for a living. Secretary, Ed Farthing, AP 87. THEN THERE'S the story of the of Bowls Tuesday nights, 6 p.m., Bairds THE "FLIGHT LETTER" to the the little girl who boarded Flight 7 president, carried onboard every TWA (14th & Minnesota). Needs two com at Phoenix, bound for Los Angeles. plete teams plus substitutes. plane, might stand a little judicious re The smiling hostess, turning on wording. This blank invites comments AIRLINE LEAGUE (WOMEN'S) the charm, said sweetly, "And Secretary, Ed Farthing, AP 87. from passengers on TWA service or where are you going, little girl?" anything else they may care to talk Bowls Tuesday nights, 6 p.m., Bairds "I'm going to New York," she de (14th & Minnesota;. All teams filled about, but the following letter seems clared positively. to have shot a bit wide of the mark: but could use substitutes. "Ho-ho," said the hostess, "Am I MARTIN LEAGUE "I like to be up high. What can laughing at youl This flight is going Secretary, H. W. Sanders, KCK, 186. we do to help our army? There is to Los Angeles." Bowls Wednesday mornings, 10 something to do about it isn't "I know it," chirped the little gal a.m., Palace alleys (1232 Broadway). there, Mr. President Truman? Our ferociously, "But we're going to This is a men's league, formerly called army is winning now. Do some catch the Smiling Irishman in Los the Twi-Light league. All teams filled, thing to make us win the whole Angeles for New York, 'cause he but could use substitutes. war. doesn't operate through Phoenix. So STRATOLINER LEAGUE s/Timi Watson." the laugh's on you, smartypants." Secretary John McGrath, NYL 359B. WELCOME, HAWAIIAN STYLE, is tendered Sales Vice-President E. O. In President Ralph S. Damon's per And the laugh is on "you," says Cap Bowls Wednesday nights, 6:30 p.m., COCKE and family arriving at Honolulu for a vacation. Chin-deep in leis sonal reply to little Timi is found: tain Jim Philpott, who relayed us this Roe Bowl (51st & Roe). A men's are shown Mrs. Cocke, daughter Fleta Ann, Cocke (who was born in ' . . . I agree that all of us story, for the Smiling Irishman is one league, needs three complete teams and Hawaii, incidentally) and local District Sales Manager WILLIAM G. KELLEY. should do everything possible to of the big LAX. non-skeds. spares. MIXED LEAGUE Secretary, Bob Watkins, KCK 153. Bowls Monday nights, 6:30 p.m., Bryce Hills alleys (4040 Main). A LINK TRfllNEf? -mixed team consists of three men and two women on a team. The league needs nine complete teams.

Flyers Clinch Second The Flyers clinched second place in the first half of the Industrial baseball league this week by whip ping the Kansas City Boosters 4 to 0 behind the effective hurling of Tommy Cockrell. The TWA nine opens its second round play against the Indepen HOLD IT, ANDY1!!!! dence Boosters Saturday at 1:30 Your idea is a bit too violent, p.m. on the St. Margaret's hospital but we must admit you're on the diamonds, Seventh street traffic- right track in seeking better way, Kansas City, Kan. ways to do things—and we hope you carry through your ideas by The Flyers lost a 5-4 thriller to submitting them to the Sugges Edgerton, Mo., last week in the tion Plan office. ninth inning. Joe Meli twice tied Last year 180 ideas were ac the score with run-producing hits, cepted for awards totaling $7,485. This TWA average of $41.58 com but his war-club efforts were not pares to the U.S. average of enough to give TWA a win. TWA $26.03 paid per award. But TWA meets Weston, Mo., Sunday. receives only 118 suggestions per 1000 employees each year and the national average is 188 per CLAYTON TO EDITORS' HELM thousand. Only 100 or so sugges KANSAS CITY — Art Clayton, tions come in each month, so manager of Employee Publications, there's plenty of room to get in TRANS WORLD ANDY was elected chairman of the local and grab off some cash. chapter of the Society of Associated Quoting from a letter recently posted by Pittsburgh Station Manager John Gelm: "You may hit upon the idea that spells the difference be Industrial Editors Aug. 22. SAIE is tween loss and profit, failure and success for yourself, your working a professional group of industrial group, your station, your company, even the whole industry. By Ed Betts, SFO editors with chapters throughout "Too many good ideas are wasted by talking about them and tak "Awright, awright! So I owe you fifteen cents. Now let's the United States. Clayton was vice- ing no action to bring them to attention. Don't hesitate to call on your supervisor." go home." ' chairman of the chapter last year.

August 24, 1950 PAGE FIVE SKYLINER FOUR AIRPORTS SERVE RUSY TRAFFIC HUH AT LGA

All photos by Port of New York Authority excepting photo of Newark airport by Fairchild Aerial Surveys.

REGULATING AIR COMMERCE is but one of the many largest commercial airport in the world. Several overseas air New York Authority is a. many-sided bureau serving LGA's functions of the Port of New York Authority—but to TWAers lines are operating from this field at present and more, in transportation facilities. Primary duty of the authority is to and the rest of the air industry a vital one, for into and out cluding TWA, will move there later. A mile and a half main regulate movements of cargo and passenger traffic on LGA's of New York moves more air traffic than any other place in entrance road leads from the Van Wyck expressway to the ocean and river waterways. The photo shows one of the busy the world. The Port Authority, established in 1921 by the states terminal by way of the first underpass in the world over which harbor tugs in the shadow of the Brooklyn bridge with the of New York and New Jersey to bring order out of the rapidly planes may taxi. familiar skyline in the background. The Port Authority also developing traffic-jammed chaos toward which all forms of runs the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington, transportation seemed to be heading, controls the four major Two other major airports serve the LGA area (bottom Bayonne and Goethals bridges and the Outerbridge Crossing airports serving LGA, shown here. strip), Teterboro at left and Newark, center, both in New connecting Staten island and New Jersey. The agency's ter Jersey. Teterboro is principally a freight airport and is not minal facilities include the authority's building on Eighth LaGuardia airport (top strip), one of the busiest terminals served by TWA. It is the oldest of the Port's four airports, in the world, handles 200,000 passengers monthly and at being opened in 1917, and has been the scene of much avia avenue, housing the Union Railroad Freight terminal; the Port present is served by TWA. The airfield is close to downtown tion history. Newark, served by TWA, was developed by the Authority grain terminal at Gowanus bay and Port Newark. Manhattan and is due for an extensive overhauling by the city of Newark in the infancy of commercial aviation and is Under construction for the authority are the world's two larg Port Authority in the next decade. a favorite terminal because of its proximity to the dense est motor truck terminals and the world's largest motor bus International airport, or Idlewild (center strip), is the industrial district of LGA. EWR also is due for extensive im terminal. The agency has offices in Washington, Chicago and newest LGA field, designed to serve as an international term provement and modernizing by the Port Authority. The final Cleveland in the interest of maintaining movement of com inal for North Atlantic and Latin American traffic. It is the picture in the bottom strip is just a reminder that the Port of merce through the Port of New York. PAGE SIX August 24, 1950