VOLUME 43 NUMBER 25 DECEMBER 8, 19SO

Ta-bles Turn: TWA Greatly Expands Facilities at JFK Outlook Good TWA has announced it has acquireq the National Airlines terminal at New York's (As is his custom at meetings of the System John F. Kennedy International Airport Employee Council, President Ed Meyer from Pan AmeriGan World Airways under gave the most recent session of that group terms of a $6 million a year agreement at Breech Training Academy on November approved by the Port Authority of New 18 a brief update on "the' state of the York and New Jersey. airline." Because of the content and posi-. The terminal, adjacent to the existing tive tone of his comments, Skyliner is 'frans World Flight Center at JFK, became sharing this transcript of his remarks with availabie with the merger of Pan American its readers.) , and National earlier this year and the recent Let me begin by saying that I think the consolidation of their operations- at Pan outlook for our airline has never been better Am's Worldport. - in the many years I've been with TWA. "I am very pleased and proud to an­ We've done a lot of things together, you and nounce the acquisition of this fine facility, I, and I think it's all starting to come which will be a major enhancement to together, in many respects. TWA's operations serving New York," said The proof of that is our performance in president C. E. Meyer, Jr. the industry. In the second quarter, we were The National terminal, first opened in the second most profitable carrier next to 1968, occupies 343,500 square feet of Delta - that's pretty fancy company to space with two operating satellites, each keep - and in the third quarter, we were providing parking space for five to six the most profitable trunk carrier in the aircraft. TWA plans to move domestic industry. flight operations from the Flight Center to To put our 1980 performance into some the new terminal, freeing its famous perspective, American and United this Saarinen building for international flights. year are going to lose something like $100 Various designs 'are being considered for a million, while the industry is headed for a structure to connect the two terminals. loss of between $300 and $500 million. If you look at the recession year 1970, ~eady By Spring when wehadafarsmallerrevenue base, we Mr. MeyersaidTWAwouldbeginready­ lost $100 million that year. In the 1975 ing the National terminal immediately for recession, with revenue of between $1-3/4 its use and plans to begin operating out of and $2-billion, we lost $120 million. This the facility by mid-March 19~1. year, with revenues on the order of $3.5 "While the Flight Center, designed by billion, we might lose only ~24 to $35 the late Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, is million --=- while the industry is losing its probably one of the most recognized build­ shirt. ings in the world," Mr. Meyer said, The fact is that, essentially, we've al­ "current anticipated growth in TWA's inter­ (to page 6) national services at JFK requires additional space. Shifting our domestic flights to the Curbside photo and model prepared by TWA's properties and fac~lities staff illustrate neighboring facility, de_signed by I. M. Pei, Funds to Aid the close proximity ofthe Trans World Flight Center (right) and the National Airlines the renowned _architect, will alleviate many terminal. TWA plans to shift its domestic flights to the new termbial, which has gate constraints to our future plans for New PapaF~mily space for 10 to 12 aircraft. York." :.·.! Michael F. Papa, customer service agent­ in-charge at Washington National Airport, Seniors Salvage 50-Year-Old T&WA Indian Head Insignia was fatally stabbed in an airport restroom on November 19 in an apparent robbery attempt. Mr. Papa, who suffered multiple wounds, was rushed to National Ortho­ paedic and Rehabilitation Hospital in Arlington, VIrginia_, but died_without re­ gaining consciousness. . Airport police arrested an 18~year-old Fort Belvoir soldier, Pvt. Joseph Shay, after being summoned by customer s~ryice agent Tom Payne. Payne, who ran to the restroom after hearing screams for help, found Mr. Papa bleeding. profusely. He ordered Shay not to move and called police. Shay was arraigned at B.S. Magistrate's Court in Alexandria and held without bond on a charge of first degree murder. Authori­ ties said he joined the army last July and recently completed training at Ford Leonard Wood, Missouri. ~e was assigned to Fort Belvoir only days before the attack on Mr. Papa. Mr. Papa, 44, was a 25-year TWA veteran. He worked at Washington N a­ tiona! all his career, starting as a ground service helper. He had been agent-in­ charge at the airport ticket counter the past seven years. Friends expressed shock and grief over Famed Indian head-and-arrow insignia of Transcontinental~ Western Air, salvaged from a Fokker F-10, was displayed at the Mr. Papa's death. "He was a fine individ-_ rec~nt Seniors roundup in Wick~nburg, Arizona. Holding the 16-foot fuselage section-are (from left) Homer Monroe, Herman (to page 6) Zierod, Bob Montgomery, John Meyer, John Guy-and Parky Parkinson. (More Seniors on pages 4-5.) Photo -Ken Fletcher A Man for All Seasons Box605

Calculated Risk Phoenix. More than half the time, after paying the On one recent day in San Francisco, first class surcharge, we are Q TWA paid out $28,000 in denied served a coach meal. I am sure some non­ boarding compensation. Does that indicate revs do not list themselves, but very we ought to take another look at our MUST seldom out of MCI or other stations we levels on transcontinental flights? travel through have we encountered the difficulty we experience at Phoenix. Is this N arne Withheld poor planning locally, or is it a budget San Francisco cutting method at the expense of the non­ revenue traveler? (from Pete McHugh, staffvicepresi­ l hope this inconsiderate treatment of A dent-passengerservices): There are non-revs at this station is not indicative of always going to be days when you pay out things to come as the result of cost cutting $28,000. Hopefully, that's not every day. · systemwide. The way the MUST level works, we look at N. L. Green every flight, every day, and keep a his-tory Kansas City of all of them. The question is, of those people booked on those flights, how many (from Allen B. Brighton, general will show up at the airport? We have A manager-Arizona): Although we do .statistical techniques for measuring that ­ have to watch our meal costs closely, our but like all statistical techniques, they deal objective is to avoid waste ...... :..._ not to in averages and probabilities, and there are economize at the expense of non-revenue always going to be days when more people passengers. show up than you anticipated. Where on an Meal ordering is especially difficult at Captain Si Morehouse (right), demonstrates his solar heating system to a neighbor in average a hundred people don't show up Phoenix due to the large number of non­ his backyard in Alexandria, Virginia. The TWA pioneer, now 83, has many inventions for some flight, there'll be one day when revenue passengers visiting this area who to his credit. everybody will show up - and on that day do not list themselves for meals. (A recent -· ·In April, 1927, as. Charles Lindbergh razoJ: blades to perfecting safety locks on you'll pay a $28,000 overbooking penalty. survey indicates that 31% more NR 's show prepared to fly the Spirit of St. Louis to refrigerators. But based on our information when we up than have listed with reservations). We Paris, a young man started flying for For the past . six years, Si has been measure how much we get in revenue try to compensate for this in our meal Western Air Express. spending his time in his backyard and because we overbook - or, to put it ordering and top-off procedures but we are workshed, experimenting with solar heat­ another way, how much we'd lose if we not always successful. . Silas "Si" Morehouse was his name. ing. By trial and error, he's come up with overbooked less - that $28,000 is just a Our records indicate that the flight to With the merger ofWAE, TAT-Maddux the Silok Solar Heater, a system of panels. drop in the bucket. It's all in proportion. which you refer carried 17 non-revenue and Pittsburgh Aviation Industries in Octo­ that absorbs the sun's rays. Nothing new We've estimated that in a quarter, absent passengers and that it was dispatched with ber, 1930, Si came. over to 'franscontinental about that, except that Si t:hiilks he's got the overbooking, we would have carried some six meals short because more passengers & Western Air. That October 25, ~e to its price down to where any homeowner can $40 million less in revenue. I think that's showed up than expected;· our top-offs new name, TWA inaugurated the first afford it. He hopes to interest manufac­ the key thing against which you have to were exhausted, and extra meals could not transcontinental all-air service. Captain turers . and distributors throughout the. measure that $28,000. be obtained without incurring a lengthy Morehouse was one of the first to fly the flight delay. new run. country to market Silok, which he says any We are sorry that on this flight some of weekend handyman can install easily him­ Innocent Victims Now 83, Si Morehouse is retired and self. our non-revenue passengers were short­ living in Alexandria,· VIrginia. One says Si Morehouse could be content with re­ OnFlight158PHXtoMCithecoach changed. We are . increasing our top-off "retired," but actually Si never really living past glories of his early years in Q section was short 15 meals; none of · capacity at PHX to further reduce the retired. the non-revs, including six children, ate. possibility of shortages but it would help if aviation: Instead, -he's more concerned We travel often between these stations all non - rev~nue passengers would remem­ Dons Thinking Cap about the futlire and, in particular, the with, it seems, the same poor attention at ber to list themselves for meals. energy situation. A man of ideas, early on in his aviation "If the United States doesn't have alter­ career he patented a self-opening parachute native sources of energy in five years, it's that I was standing in for mechanic John which was to be handed out to each going to be a mighty cold winter," he Forbes the day the picture was taken. It was passenger as he boarded. Other experi­ exclaims, adding, "We cannot depend on hot in Tuls,a, and I had my hair cut short to ments ranged from prolonging the life of OPEC." Editor's Notes keep cool. John was not only a great mechanic, but also somehow managed to keep his coveralls spotlessly white. He ·In a pre-election message to employees, just read the outstanding article [by associ­ leadership. If we performed with excep­ must have wondered how I got mine so Skyliner urged everyone to get out and ate editor Anne Saunders] on commuters in tional vigor it is because we have been dirty." vote. JFK F/E Floyd R. Fullen did better the most recent edition of the Skyliner and motivated by our loyalty to you. " ~ than that. He was a Democratic candidate want you to know this is some of the best The letter continued: "We regret that you for the West VIrginia House of Delegates. coverage I've read on our segment of the are leaving Pan Am. You have been the Floyd almost made it, losing by fewer than airline industry. Thank you for the exc.el- 'People 's'President. 'Itis with gratitude for 100 votes out of 17,000, or less than one lent writing." · all that you have done for' us, thai we send vote for each of the 108 precincts he ran in. you our sincerest wishes for continued His narrow defeat hasn't discouraged him. A photo of a TWA 707 over Las Vegas success and happiness throughout your taken by flight attendant Chris Sorensen is "I hope in 1982 you'll be able to say I career." won," he says. featured on the cover of the November issue of Air Line Pilot. Skyliner readers A standby paSsenger now contributes the The "Rockford connection," as it's been will recall Chris' photographic coverage of cost of just two minutes of flying tiine dubbed, has proved so popular that TWA ., Pope John Paul IT's visit to the U.S. last across the Atlantic, statisticians for British has added a second roundtrip between RFD A year. His work also appears frequently in Airways figure . Seven years ago fuel costs and ORD. "Since we started service in In the make-up-our-minds department, such publications as Popular Photography on a transatlantic flight averaged $14 per May, seven out of every 10 passengers have we've decided that that was indeed Joe and Flying, and he's the author of a pass~nger; they now amo-unt to $170. connected to or from other TWA flights at Hall pictured on the front page of the latest handsome collectors' book, "Antique Air­ 0 'Hare," Chicago passenger sales man­ Skyliner at the retirement party honoring planes." ager Marlyn Kagay points out. him as Number One in company seniority. The erroneous heading, "Joe Bell," is A group of Pan American employees has That old picture of Mac McCollum and attributable to that disease · editors are paid an unusual tribute to their departing his Chevy in the November 10 issue wasn't prone to, writer's cramp. There is, we president, Dan Colussy, who resigned as old . as we thought. It was in the late effective December 1. The group, called · hasten to say in self-defense, a Joe Ben: of 1931, not 1930, recalls Parky spring Only he retired before Joe Hall did. Make "Aware, The People of Pan Am Who Published for Employees by the Parkinson, who offered fresh insight. ~·oz no mistake, that's the real Joe Hall on the Care," took out a fair-size ad in the New Public Affairs Department Cocke and I were transferred from Kansas 605 Third Avenue, New York 1 0158 . left and on the right, the real Joe Bell, York Times on November 25 in the form of City to St. Louis in October, 1930, and in pictured at the Seniors roundup in Wicken­ an open letter to Mr. Colussy: Printed in U.S.A 1931 I was transferred to Thlsa. As cut­ burg, Arizona last month. "You have led us through the most Dan Kemnitz, Editor · backs occurred, I was also the relief man at turbulent period in Pan Am's history. We Anne Saunders, Associate Editor Tulsa. We get letters. From Henry R. \bss, have felt confident in the survival of Pan "I suspect, but can't remember today, president of Golden West Airlines: "I've Am because of our confidence in your

2 December 8, 1980 ~'\:~~ t (~ ~ t \ ~ t ~. ·~\ (~ Happy Birthday, 1011 In the News

JFK. He joined TWA in December 1968 Social Security Tax and was previously manager-caterer pric­ The Social Security Tax (FICA on ing and dining systems on the dining the check stub) increases by ·law on service programs staff. Sam Nakamura January 1, 1981. It's going up from has replaced Doug Ashby in thai post, and the present rate of 6. 13% to the new reports to Mike Duarte, director- dining rate of 6.65%. The maximum . service programs. He joined TWA in 1977 amount of salary on which FICA is and was formerly supervisor-ground serv­ deducted increases from $25,900 ice planning for passenger services. annual salary to $29,700 annual President Meyer has been asked to repre­ salary. This translates into an in­ sent the airlines on the transportation advi­ • crease of $5.20 taX on every $1,000 sory committee of President-elect Ronald of salary up to $25,900. For exam­ Reagan. . ple, if your taxable earnings on a. check are $875, the 1980 FICA is Ask Early Election $53.64. The 1981 FICA will be The National Mediation Board has advised $58.18 . TWA that the Teamsters Union has filed an In addition, there will be a tax of application to represent the passenger serv­ $66.50 on every -$1,000 of salary ice employees. TWA expects to meet with between and $29,700, $2~,900 the NMB early in December to request that which is not now taxed. the election process be expedited. The Air Two things to keep in mind: Line Employees Association (ALEA) also 1. The new rate _applies to salaries has petitioned the NMB to participate in the paid after January 1, 1981, regard­ election. less of when the work was actually performed. 2. TWA contributes an amount Phoenix Hosts equal to the amount each employee Business Women ~irthday snoot. Celebrating 10 years of service as a flying test bed for new technology pays. In other words, if .$20 was Nearly 2,000 . business women visited IS Lockhee~'s flrst_1011, shown here wearing a pointed nose housing a "gust boom" to withheld from your check for FICA, TWA's exhibit at the American Business m~asure arr turbulence. Measurements were taken while testing fuel-saving your account. with the Social Secu­ Women's Association's annual conven­ wmgspan extension. Known as Ship One, the aircraft has completed more than 1 600 rity Administration will actually experimental flight missions. ' have $40 paid into it. tion, held this year in Phoenix, October 30- November 1. ABWA members are fre­ quent travelers, for both business and Ten years ago, the frrst Lockheed 1011 took surfaces on the wings to ailow a drag­ Reservation$ Aid pleasure. At TWA's booth they could fill in to the air. Ship One, as it's now called, reducing wingtip extension. This feature is quietly celebrated its birthday on Novem­ showing a 3% improvement in fuel sav­ Effective December 15, TWA will provide consumer questionnaires about air travel ber 16 and then went back to work as an ings. nationwide telephone reservations for the and pick up copies of Getaway tour bro­ experimental flight test aircraft. Another 3% is being achieved by a new · hearing and speech impaired, via tele­ chures, consumer information leaflets and Current test flights are designed to version of the Rolls-Royce RB.211 -524B phone teletype equipment. The servi~e will . Getaway card applications. A daily raffle develop a new automatic pilot using the series engines frrst tested on Ship One last . be available daily from 8 a.m. to 4 a.m. gave away TWA flight bags, and the grand latest digital computer technology. Also year. Before that, Ship One was used to test . Eastern time. Customers can call on toll prize on the convention's last day, a 74 7 being flown is a new Rolls-Royce RB . 211 - Lockheed's pioneering flight management free numbers which terminate in Los desk model radio from the Flight Shop 524B engine which holds-promise of being system that reduces fuel consumption by Angeles reservations . catalog. as much as 4 to 5% more fuel efficient than using computer technology to adjust en­ These numbers are: From California Donna Wildman, public affairs staff earlier versions. gine power automatically throughout a only - (800) 252-0622. From ali other assistant in New York, set up the TWA Much of the advanced technology al­ flight. states except Alaska and Hawaii, but exhibit with the help of the Phoenix sales ready flying on lOll 's is the result of Looking to the future, Ship One is including Puerto Rico and the VIrgin Is­ . office and was on duty there all three days. similar flight testing over the past 10 years continuing to fly with the frrst set ofjetliner lands - (800) 421 -8480. So much so that she barely glimpsed the famous Arizona sunshine. involving Ship One. Since the first flight in ailerons made from plastic-like composite Appointments The ABWA, founded at Kansas City in 1970, 200 other 1011 shave rolled down the materials to cut weight and fuel consump­ Doug Ashby has been named manager­ 1949 as an educational association for the runway at Palmdale~ California. This fleet . tion. A vertical fin made of similar new regional controls, Eastern region, report­ advancement of business women, now has has amassed 2.5 million flight hours, space age materiais is now being ground ing to John J. Dugan, regional controller. 100,000 members. Local chapters sponsor established the best on-time dispatch relia-· tested. Ashby is concerned with budgets and educational scholarships to help women bility of any widebody aircraft, and built Scheduled for next year is the flight the 1011 's reputation within the industry as financial co~trols for the entire Eastern qualify for positions of responsibility in testing of Lockheed's "active stabilizer" - seaboard, including Florida, but excluding business and industry. · the most technologically advanced com­ concept. In addition to locating active mercial transport in the world. controls in the horizontal tailplane, Lock­ ntiA Getaway vacations Ship One is still routinely taking off on heed proposes to locate. fuel tanks in this "frrst flights.." These days, "frrst" refers to structure. The plane's center of gravity o.t vacation Choice the initiation of flight testjng on the nu­ could then be shifted during __flight by merous innovations and new technology controlling fuel distribution, making pos­ the aircraft continues to help develop. Ship sible another increase in f~el efficiency. One has flown more than 1 ,600 such test Developments ~uch as these lead Lock­ missions over the past decade. heed engineers to foresee a 1011 derivative Most recent work has concentrated on whiCh will be as much as 10% more fuel developments for increased fuel effi~i~ncy. efficient than the original intercontinental Ship One was the frrst commercial trans­ version, and a future derivative which port to use com,puter-activated control could reduce fuel consumption by 18%.

distinction in their fields of endeavor. " YWCA Honors Ms. Garlough was nominated by L. Edwin Smart, chairman of the board. As Janet Garlough director-consumer affairs, she "provides Janet Garlough, director- consum~r affairs leadership and awareness throughout TWA for TWA, has been elected to the New York in ensuring that we seize every opportunity YWCA Academy of Achievers. She was to provide the broadest possible range of among 72 women from throughout the services to our ,customers, " Mr. Smart United States who were honored before an said. audience of 1,100 top businessmen and Sharing the spotlight with Ms. Garlough women at the Salute to Women luncheon at were two women who received the the New York Hilton on November 19. YWCA's Elizabeth Cutter Morrow award TWAers at the ABWA convention in Phoenix were (from left): Donna Wildman The academy is an honorary organiza­ for leadership: advertising executive Mary public affairs staff assistant, New York; Loraine Gibney, administrative secreta..; tion established by the YWCA to recognize Wells Lawrence and sculptor Louise PHX, and Stan Burton, manager-sales, PHX. women "who have achieved eminence and Nevelson .

• ... • ~'· •• I t ' I • " -, ~, \ . .· December 8, 1980 3 ' And a Good Time. Wa

Jim Wulpi is surrounded by feminine admirers. From left: Pauline Thomason, Irene O'Connor and Ann Watts·.

Clayton Graves arrived in his beautiful red comparatively strong third quarter operat­ "The fabric is very fragile, " said Parky. Stagger Wmg Beech, spooking the trail ing results, he cited the foresight of TWA's "We plan measures to preserve it and to . horses, and was almost shot down by the management in reducing capacity in line some day present it to TWA for permanent skeet shooters. And the golf scores were with reduced traffic demand, long before exhibition," he added. extraordinarily high because most elected other airlines ·took similar action. He also to take a penalty rather than poke down a described TWA's recent management re­ Golf Course Challenges rattlesnake hole for their ball. But if the alignment, pointing up the recognition A brand new golf course on the grounds course was r~ugh, the weather was perfect given the critical role played _by airline of the 90,000-acre ranch proved to be a and a good time was had by all at the 19th planning. demanding challenge. When the · agony annual TWA Seniors roundup at the Ran­ Historic Souvenir was ov~r, George Hummel had won the cho de los Caballeros · in Wickenburg, low gross title. Arizona October 31 -November 2. Also drawing everyone's attention was Irene 0 'Connor won the women's horse­ If anyone among the 200 Seniors arid the display of 16-foot section of fuselage . a shoe pitching contest for the second year, spouses attending didn't have a good time, skin offaFokker F-10, showing full-length while in the men's division Charlie Sharp it was not the fault of Parky P.arkinson and the famed Indian head and arrow insignia dethroned perennial winner Hal Neumann, his committee. of 'franscontinental & Western Air. who remarked, "I must be getting old. " The 50-year-old relic was presented to Tom 'lllylor Guest Speaker the Senio~ by former flight engineer Fred - Russ Dick took the lazin' around title, Guest speaker Tom Taylor, vice presi­ Sumerwell of Sonoma, California, who in away from Eileen Fleming, but he really dent-government affairs, brought the re­ tum inherited it from an earlier TWA had to work for it. tirees group up to date on developments pioneer, Pops Simmons. It is believed that Homer Monroe won the skeet shoot. within TWA. Remarking on the airline's the piece was salvaged_from a wreck. George Friedrich won the putting contest.

Sharing a golf cart - Robbie Robinson and Pat Harris. Former captain, Hal Blackburn, who now liv-es in Arizona. Thking it easy: Frank Church.

4 . s Had ·By All

il ride. Clayton Graves (right) flew his own plane to the reunion. Kal lrwinJs at left.

~y and Ed Miller. Al _WoDenberg is a retired F/E. Don Sprblger (left) and Ken Fletcher posed in ~front of a saguaro c~ctus.

\ Lloyd Berry (left) and former Skyliner editor Herb Richardson enjoy a cookout. Bob Montgomery in his western garb.

5 fine, and everybody's heaved a sigh of (from page ·one) Outlook... relief, and we've gone back to our bad ·Travel Tips most broken even ina recession year. What million, per copy, and we'll need to buy habits very quickly. that means is that, when the traffic is up and those at the rate.of one or two or three a I'm very gratified that many of my industry pr~fitability turns up, we '11 lead year, for the five years starting in '84 or '85 associates-and others-are stopping me _ by Harry Mickie it. We've turned the tables in profitability - in that time period. in the hallway, or walking me down the - and that's a very important position to be I think we should keep in mind that every street, and saying, "Now, we don't want to Adventure seekers may be interested in a . in. other major carrier in this industry faces a do that again. Let's not go back and do what river run and trek in Nepal. Expeditions are Now, tile one drawback to that statement similar hurdle to replace its own aircraft. we did before. Let's not decide that we can under the direction of explorer Peter is that the industry is goin-g to lose an awful · They've got to earn money in this area, too all of a sudden go out and buy every toy in Byrne, who has 25 years of experience on lot of money in 1980, we included - - there isn't any question about it - or the window and hire four people for jungle safaris and treks in the Himalayas. although I will say that we had an excellent they're not going to be able to replace their everything we think needs to be done." · The dates of the expeditions are January October. fleets. I think we've got a lot more discipline in 6-24 and January 29-February 19 (temper­ As you know, we generally lose money So we've got a lot of things to do, but the organization and we're in great shape. I atures moderate, with little or no rain). No in the fourth quarter of the year; this will be we've made a lot ofprogress in doing them, would re-emphasize and repeat to you that I previous river-running experience is re­ no exception to that - and we will and I have full confidence - more confi­ feel better about where this airline has been quired, and the treks are of short duration at probably lose money · for the full year. dence than I've ever had before - that we and more confident today than I have ever altitudes of 5,000 to 8,000 feet. However, we will also probably have one can do all those things, with what we've put been. The cost is $1,895, which includes all of the best performances in the trunk behind us this year. I have no doubt about where we can go if expenses except air transportation to industry for 1980,. and we're positioned to But thatdoesn' t mean we can relax. This we can keep doing things this way. We will Kathmandu. make good profits in 1981 and in years after airline has done that before. We've gotten be able to execute our equipment plan, and For information contact Interline Repre­ that - if we can manage to hang onto the things straightened out so everything's be profitable for a long time to come. sentatives, Ltd., 25 West 39th Street, New formula we've got right now. York, New York 10018. Phone (212) 840- ·We're going to need to make profits from manager, Walt Green. 6727. '81 on, and what I think we would consider Papa... (from page one) Mr. Papa is survived by his wife, Marie, We're told there's been a good response fairly substantial profits. That number is ual, just a wonderful person," said field and two sons, Gary, 17, and Michael, 20. from TWAers for the tour of l{ong Kong going to have to be in excess of $100 manager Ronald Schee. A Michael F. Papa Memorial Fund has and the People's Republic of China orga­ million a year. Fifteen Eastern Airlines employees been established. TWAers wishing to make nized by Great Circle Tours . To facilitate its Now, that's not a lot of money, when you filled in for their TWA counterparts without a donation in his memory should send their information and reservations services, think in terms of the $4 billion that we'll pay for several hours on Thanksgiving contribution to: First American Bank of Great Circle has added a toll free phone probably be handling (in revenues) per Day, so that Mr. Papa's' co-workers could VIrginia, ·National Airport Branch #27, number, 1-800-325-8316. In Missouri, year, on average, in '81 and '82. It is not as attend his funeral services. Many more Main Terminal, 2nd floor, Washington, call (314) 741-0316. The tours are under ' formidable a task as you might believe it to EAL people volunteered than were actu­ D.C. 20001, Attention: Helen Bray. the direction of an Ozark Airlines captain, be - if, as I say, we can continue doing ally needed. Hank Hancock. things the way we're doing them right now. "It was an extremely gracious and won­ Safe 'Nose Up' Landing That doesn't mean there isn't room·for derful gesture on the part of Eastern," said . TWA.F171 from St. Louis, aB-707, made They call it "God's Country" around steady improvement, but I consider that a Ken Johnson, TWA manager of airport a "nose up" landing at San Francisco Cody, Wyoming. And TWAers wishing a part of "the way we're doing things. " operations. Bob Simmons, an Eastern November 30 when the nose gear could not real Western vacation are invited to Hidden We're doing things a lot better, and we're ticket agent who worked at the TWA be lowered. All133 aboard, including nine Valley Ranch, where owners Duaine and looking for better ways all the time. That's counter, said "In any adverse situation, LAX-based crew members, were evacu­ Teel Hagen offer a special rate. Excellent what these [Council] meetings are about. airline competition falls by the wayside and ated without injury through emergency trout fishing, wholesome meals, good trail We'll have to spend about four to five we help-co-workers. Our pulling together chutes. Captain Ray Lutz was in command horses and expert guides promise a memo­ hundred million dollars a year for airplanes is .nothing out of the ordinary. " "I have no of the flight. rable experience. For a brochure and infor­ - at -least, that's what we should be doubt in my mind that TWA would do the James Nutley of the airport's fire depart­ mation, write to Hidden Valley Ranch; spending - in 1982,_ 1983, and 1984. In same for us," added Eastern's airport ment said "The pilot did a terrific job. " Route 2; Box 3650; Cody, Wyoming fact, the number for 1984 is considerably . 82414. above $500 million. So when you think of Sea World is offering a "Family of Four" expenditures in that neighborhood, you Ho~ace Hogs the Show weekend in Orlando, Florida, for only can more readily understand the need for $115. 80. This includes two nights at the eamiilgs in excess of $100 million a year. ··-·-·-----. Sheraton Lakeside Inn for the price of one It's very do-able. We're going to the and admission to Sea World and Walt [TWC] Board in December to have our Disney World (including eight rides). The fourth session with them on our long-range offer is good through December 14 and can · plan. We'll be asking the Board to approve be booked only through the Sea .World new expenditures for airplanes - some Dolphin Club Vacation Desk. Phone toll­ additional 74 7 sand 1011 s. We'll go back to free 1-800-327-2424. In Florida call col­ the Board in July to ask them, we hope, to lect, (305) 859-7110. approve 10 options we'll need to make firm Vacation rentals on Hawaii & Maui. Ray on 767 aircraft. What we'll be asking them Moorman, manager-catering services at to approve in July will be an expenditure of Pittsburgh, offers fu])y furnished condo­ more than half a billion dollars for those 10 miniums at the Keauhou-Kona Surf & planes. Racquet Club on Hawaii and at Pohailani, In 1984, a 747-200 will cost over $100 Maui (near Kaanapali). Swimming pool, . tennis· courts and recreation center with Wethersfield, the U.S. Coast Guard Acad­ option of ocean-front or golf course view. emy and Mystic Seaport. Also dinner at the 10% discount to all TWAers. Call Ray at Gelston House overlooking the scenic (212) 264-6724. Connecticut River, a Visit to the famed Goodspeed Opera House and a three-hour American Hawaii Cruises offers airline cruise aboard the Yankee Clipper, plus employees reduced rates on its seven-day, · continuous open bar. This tour is always four-island cruise aboard the SS Oceanic sold out early, so plan now. The cost is $84 London cargo CSA Sandy.Budd and friend Horace. lndependen£e, called Hawaii's "floating per person double; single supplement $30. island." Subject to space, the rate is $5~0, . He once roamed the wilder parts of China, cooperation that the brush maker made an For reservations write: Wings Interline including $20 Hawaii tax and $15 port tax; but on this occasion was off to Kansas City offer to employees who wish to try its Club, P.O. Box 652, Windsor Locks, children under 12, $320 including taxes. with a bon-voyage from cargo CSA Sandy wares. Connecticut 06096. Or phone George Hart For a brochure write Kara Andersen, Budd at London's Heathrow. at (203) 521 -9245. 1) A box of 6 Hamilton "Perfection" American Hawaii Cruises, One Embarca­ ,. Horace is the official mascot of the pure black bristle rubber-set painting dero Center, San Francisco, 94111. Phone The Concord resort hotel in the Catskills, Hamilton Brush Company, which claims to brushes with beechwood handles in sizes 2 (415) 392-9400. 90 miles from New York City, offers an produce the best quality paint brushes in 11 11 11 11 x 1 , 1 x Ph , 2 x 2 and 1 x 3 • Usual employees' "winter break" of $39.50 per the world. The brushes are made from Hertz's weekend unlimited mileage dis­ price for the set $51.97, Sky liner offer price person, double occupancy, Januruy 11 - hogs' bristles, which is why Horace has count rates (see Nov. 10 'fravel1ips) are $39. March 12, Sunday through Thursday. In­ becorrie both mascot and trade symbol. not valid at every Hertz location. Check 2) A gift pack containing ~-inch, 111 and cluded are three meals daily, access to four TWA's public affairs personnel in Lon­ Hertz for details. 2"; usual price $10.75, Skyliner price ski slopes, tobogganing, indoor and out­ don and Kansas City, working with their $8.50. The Wmgs Interline Club at Hartford/ door ice skating rinks, nightly entertain­ cargo colleagues, had made sure that Springfield will hold its fourth "Connecti­ ment (no cover, no minimum), indoor pool Horace would reach MKC in time to be a For either offer send order and check cut Caper" June 19-21 . All airline em­ and he8Ith club facilities: Tennis at a featured attraction at the National Decorat ­ payable to: Martin Trading Corp; 920 ployees, families and retirees are nominal charge. For reservations phone ing Products Exhibition, where Hamilton South West 21st Terrace; Fort Lauderdale, welcome. The weekend package includes toll free 800-431-3850. In New York call Brushes were to be the only British exhibi­ FL. 33312. two Qights at the Holiday Inn in Hartford (212) 244-3500. Ask for "Employees' tor - with an eye to export potential. . U.K. employees contact public affairs at and visits to ·the state capitol, historic Winter Break." So pleased was Hamilton with TWA's 214 Oxford St., London.

6 oecemt>er a, 198o VernOgde_,, Safety Month -12 Months a Year at MCI Take a Bow! by Sandy Rickman Vern Ogden started work for TWA at the Kansas City Missouri Airport as a mail boy for 30 cents an hour in 1939. Even then, he showed signs of innovative talent when he used roller skates to race around a table to assemble reports and papers for distribu­ tion. On April 1, 1940 he made clerk at $100 a month as a permanent TWA em­ ployee. With this stable and prosperous looking income, at the age of 21 he married his 18-year-old bride, Helen. Vern learned fast and made mechanic in 1943 with a handsome salary of $1 .01 per hour! He progressed to inspector at KCK in 1946 and was made foreman in 1952. In 1957, when TWA moved to the new overhaul ~acility at MCI, he became gen­ eral foreman. In 1977 he became director­ engine repair and test. During those 42 years, Vern Ogden November was "Safety Month" at the tech services center in Kansas City. TWA management, the environmental health services learned all about engines, like most people department, union stewards and local TWA/lAM safety committee members all cooperated in an effort to make every TWAermore safety know their children. He can tell you all conscious. One of the many safety-related activities held during the month was a safety slogan contest. Wmning entries were displayed on about engine WXYZ, when it was removed posters throughout the base. · · . and why, what we did to it then and what it's Their creators are pictured here with top local management. FronJrow (from left): Bob Lauchlan, city v.p.; Joe Bulk, power plant in for this time. He stores in Q.is head, and accessory shop; Dee Hale~ airframe inspection & quality assurance; Dave Wright, structures & interior shops; AI Bingham, aircraft on precious few sheets of paper, what will maintenance; Bob Kelly, major base maintenance; Bill Neff, v. p. -materials management. later be input on reams of computer re­ Middle row: Dick Ashmuhs, staff v. p. -engine & component maintenance; Nolll! Parmet, staff v. p. -engineering & quality assurance; Ed ports. He has the ability to coordinate and Phillips, hydraulics & pneumatics shops; Walter Tomp, materials management; Ray Keating, engineering; John Cooper, staff v. p. -aircraft bring loose ends together to produce a maintenance; Skuli Gudmundsson, director-environmental health services. product when it seems impossibility. He an Back row: Chet Owen, manager-environmental health services; E. G. "Slats" Slatinsky, director-structures & interior shops; Maurise credits his people: "I just suggest and help Rooks, engine sheet metal & welding shop; Jim Lanning, avionics shops; Ron Nelson, power plant inspection. coordinate the total picture - but they are Also submitting winning slogans but not on hand for the photo were Vern Davy, facilities maintenance, and Jim Whedbee, sales & the ones who accomplish it," he says. At services. the same tinle his computer-like brain is - doing all this, he walks through the shop. People say, "Hi," kid with him and he teases back. · Mutual Respect The repartee and rapport between Vern Anniversaries and the people who work in the Engine Overhaul Building seems to be due in large part to the fact that he is never so far from Nicholas J. Xenos, MCI Rob~rt D. Mitchell, LAX "it". that he doesn't know what is happen­ December Howard W. Morrison, MCI ing and why: and which individuals can 30Years Kenneth D. Motsinger, MCI it work - be it work cop.troller, Carl D. Moudy, MKC make Kenneth L. Askren, MCI mechanic, test cell operator, supervisor, 35 Years John M. Brown, LAX Dennis M. O'Rourke, JFK engineer or clerk. There is always a mutual HomerJ,Ake~,MKC Patrick Dore, LAX Philipp M. Rimmler, JED respect between him and these ·very indi­ James J. Bell, STL Robert W. Flath, NYC Louis E. Robinson, DCA vidual personalities. They are still his co­ Stanley E. Burton, PHX Willie J. Franklin, LAX Bert H. Rubinstein, JFK Arthur C. Grosdidier, MKC workers, bu4dies and friends - not just Harold G. Corwin, MKC Beatrice M. Schmidt, STL cogs in a wheel that.moves on and on. Wallace C. Eaton, MCI Armour D. Johnson, MKC Ronald J. Searcy, MKC Richard W. Kowalski, ORD Ellen V. Evans, HLW John J. Sheehan, PHX Vern Ogden will retire on January 1. Charlotte R. Lake, MCI Calvin D. Filson, NYC Joseph J. Sofianek, Jr., ·JFK He'll be honored at a dinner January 10 at Mark M. Marzouk, LAX Roy E. Furgerson, MCI Joseph E. Stack, JFK the Kansas City Marriott-Airport. Tickets Yvonne M. Nolta, ABQ Ray E. Gentry, MCI Ralph W. Sturm, MKC are $11.50perperson and may be obtained Thomas P. Giannasi, ROM Katherine Z. Pestock, MCI by check payable to.Bill Tidwell, director­ Clarence W. Greer, CHI James W. Schwarz, PIT Eugene Thames, SFO PSM support shops, Room 2-261 MCI. John R. Hugg, Jr., MCI WJ.lliam R. Snyder, DAY Richard E. Thomas, STL George R. Staneart, TPA (The Marriott offers "Escape Rate" ac­ William J. Kassay, TPA George J. Unterreiner, STL Vern Ogden, director-engine repair and Charles K. Weakley, MCI commodations to out-of town guests. Call Paul J. K.elly, JFK test, will retire on January 1 after 42 Wllliam G. Koeneke, MKC David M. White, SFO 800-228-9290.) years with TWA. Randal J. Lemaster, MCI 25 Years John J. Witten, LGA . John E. Lovell, JFK Hugh T. Appleby, MKC William J. Zesiger, LAX Leland L. McElwain, MCI Phyllis A. Ashbrook, LAX James M. Zimmerman, DCA interline accounting department at KCAC, Joseph A. Meinhardt, MCI Samuel I. Bales, MCI Deaths Reported died on November 18 after a long illness. John W. Nininger, MKC Raymond G. Bertles, LGA \ He was 53. Mr. Milnes, a veteran of World Donald Orr, MKC Claude M. Bettinger, LGA 20Years James H. Aiman, who served as a flight War II, joined,TWA in 1956 as an account­ Lewis V Ove~treet, BTA Edward W. Beuerlein, LGA Jose Bardallo, MAD instructor with TWA during World War II ant. He served in the interline accounting Robert C. Rinehart, DAY Allan H. Biermann, LGA William C. Berger, PHX Ramon V. Rodriguez, S~O Eugene D. Bridges, LAX and was a retired Air Force major, died department for all his 24 years with the Eugenia Boudouni, ATH recently. Major Aiman is survived by his · Ralph H. Roney, ORD John D. Burgess, LAX George P. Clancy, BOS airline. He is survived by his wife, Ethel; Oscar H. Roos, MKC Jane F. Compher, ANA wife, Lavon, and a son. sons Wayne, William ·and Robert; daugh­ Mary E. Clark, IND Ralph H. Saunders, MKC Manuel J. Ferreira, LGA Joyce M. Cross, BOS ters Karen Ann and Susan, and six grand­ Charles L. Schneider, MCI Don W. Fligge, MKC Rupert E. Clark, retired TWA captain, Leon J. Debasitis, BOS children. William H. Sell, MCI Bertil A. Franson, LAX died on November 12 after a long illness. Ralph 0. Sheely, Jr., SFO Ralph R. Gatcombe, JFK Robert E. Evans, PHX He was 66. Captain Clark joined TWA in Helen Peterson, wife of retired Captain William H. Sherwood, LAX Nancy M. Griffiths, MKC Eugene W. Foster, JFK Calvin D. Hineman, PIT 1942, starting in the wartime Interconti­ Wendell E "Pete" Peterson, died No­ Samuel R. Shotts, MKC Don H. Gunde~of!, ORD Erich Kanton, STL nental Divisio~ (lCD). He retired in 1974. vember l8 after a long illness. She was a Andrew Shumelda, JFK James W. Hayes, DAY Joseph H. King, BOS He is survived by his wife, Mary, and patient at the San Diego Naval Hospital. Harry T. Snow, MKC Melvin B. Hendrickson, JFK Jacqueline M. Stephenson, MKC Clarence' H. Hurd, STL Vincenzo Martella, MIL daughters Susan and Elizabeth. Captain Peterson was one of the first TWA Friedrich Mylich, FRA Francis D. Terrillion, JFK Ronald W. Johnson, SFO pilots to fly the Boeing 707. RichardT. Nicklas, LGA Cletus W. Koetting, who retired in 1967 as William L. Thiry, PHX Cecil E. Jones, BNA David R. Thompson, MCI John R. Karkkainen, ABQ Michael J. ·O'Sullivan, ORD' Ethel Walter has)nformed the Skyliner of manager-general accounting at Kansas Quincy A. Troup, LAX Leonard V. Labita, JFK · James H. Payne, STL City, died on November 17 . Mr. Koetting, the death in ·March --of this year of her Jeanne K. Valinski, NYC Gilbert L. Lefuolz, MCI Donald M. Perry, BOS who was with TWA 25 years, is survived husband, Ralph Walter. Affectionately Royce W. Vansanford, ABQ Lester L. Littlejohn, DAY Paul F. Sanborn, BDL by his wife, Angele, three sons and a known oy fellow Chicagoans as "Dad", Eugene E. Walter, MKC Baldwin G. Lohnes, MKC Howard C. Schuetz, MKC daughter. Mr. Walter was with TWA as 'an account Alene S. Williams, MCI James T. Manley, MCI Michael W. Siracuse, BOS executive from 1953 until 1974 when Clem A. Wittman, MJ(C Aldo Martini, ROM Barbara J. Wallace, LAX Paul E. Milnes, tariff auditor in the cancer forced him to retire.

December 8, 1980 7 ';'~'~ ,· • ;_({:1 . ) _I KanSas City Golf Tourney Aids Cancer Children

by Larry Hilliard - More than 150 movie/TV celebrities, busi- ness and civic leaders, and sports figures teed off recently in the first annual Peter Marshall Celebrity Golf Tournament in . Kansas City. TWA was a major sponsor for the tourney that raised funds for the new Ronald McDonald House, a non-profit !odging home for famUies who have brought cancer-stricken children to Kansas City hospitals for treatment. The two-day event was staged by TV's "Hollywood Squares" host Peter Mar­ shall, at the urging ofhis son, Pete LaCock, star first baseman for the. Kansas City Royals baseball team, runnerup in the 1980 World Series. · Mr. Marshall, together with Mr. LaCock and his wife, Janna, approached Kansas City vice president Bob Lauchlan and passenger sales manager Mike Rudd. De­ tails worked out were both elaborate and extensive. Mr. Marshall rounded up some 9f Hollywood's and television's _brightest stars to participate, while Pete LaCock brought in not only athletes from the Royals, but baseball greats from other teams. _ Movie/TV personalities included Mike Connors from "Mannix"; Tom Poston from "Mork and Mindy"; Fred McMurray of many movie and TV credits; Don Kansas City vicepresident Bob Lauchlan (seventh from right) hosts personalities prior to the tee-off ofthe Peter Marshall Celebrity Galloway from "Ironside"; Tom Dreesen GolfThurnament in Kansas City. TWA was a major sponsor for the charity competition, and many Kansas City TWAers assisted in from "The Johnny Carson Show"; Dennis running the tourney. Pictured (from left) are Mike Rudd, manager-passenger sales; Judy Juergens, corporate speaker; Marty James, host of "The Price is Right"; Ed Pattin, Kansas City Royals; Cheryl Cassing, account representative; George Brett, K. C. Royals; Cathy Garfiel~, customer Nelson, "Peyton Place"; Joe Santos, service agent; Peter Marshall, tourney host; Anne Whitfill, regional coordinator, Speak~rs Bureau; Bob Lauchlan, K. C. vice "Rockford Files"; Norm Alden from president; Richard Pearson, technical services vice president; Thm Poston, TV personality; B. J. Chimenti, corporate speaker; "Love Boat"; singer Helen O'Connell; Mike Connors, TV's "Mannix"; David Starr, tournament director, and Dick Clark, TWA account manager. blues _singer Joe Williams; Tige Andrews from "Mod Squad"; and Alan Hale of . "Gilligan's Island". Fly TWA Flag Baseball greats included: Tommy John, New York Yankees; Robin Yount, Milwau­ kee Brewers; Steve Renko, Boston Red Sox; and an all-star group from the Royals including George Brett, Marty Pattin, Paul Splittoroff, Dan Quisenberry, Larry Gura, Darrell Porter, John Wathan, Clint Hurdle, Jaime Quirk and Willie Nelson. From football came Ed Podalak, former running back for tlie Kansas City Chiefs. ·- Some 35 cabin attendants, Ambassadors Club hostesses', corporate speakers, sales office~ CTO and ATO women served as cart drivers and.official scorers. The TWA flag was flown over every hole; all players wore the now-famous TWA golf hat. Children's Oncology Services of Mid­ America, operators of 16 such Ronald - McDonald homes throughout the country, Television star Dennis James signs auto­ Waiting to tee off during the recent Peter Marshall Celebrity Golf Tournament in indicate that the Kansas City facility will graphs. Customer service agent Cathy Kansas City are baseball superstar George Brett and Kansas City vice president Bob . open next spring and be located near the Garfield served as a scorekeeper for the Lauchlan. With them is Anne Whitfill, regional coordinator for the TWA Speakers University of Kansas Medical Center. tourney. Bureau. ·

Runners Reach Their Goal It was a case of the able-bodied helping the agency automation coordinator; Fran disabled as 7,500 runners ran for the Moran, retired manager-airport services; benefit of crippled children in Phoenix last John Murphy, manager-airport services; month. One dollar per mile was the going John 0 'Mara, PRR; John Tomlin; 'field . rate in the annual Phoenix North Bank lOK manager; Barbara Weigle, PRA, and road race. Ten TWAers ~ere in the ru~g Jeanne Woodward, staff assistant. Also and TWA employees in Phoenix donated running were Alan O'Mara, John's son, $279 to the Easter Seals campaign. _ and Bruce McQueen, Chris's husband.

, In a moment of post-race reflection, yw.~ None Qf the TWAers was anywhere Iiear .\., Judy Robins put pen to paper and came up winner Henry Rono when he finished the . ~-··· with an epic poem that tells it like it was. Of hilly 6.2-mile course in a record 28 minutes the TWA runners she says, "A quick look 21 seconds, but their hearts, at least, were would tell you, none was a teen." Before PUOB\tXBO .· in the right place. the start, noting that the course was "as­ Judy Robins, Ambassadors Club super­ phalt and hilly", Judy' says. "By now we # visor at Phoenix, organized the TWA team knew we were a little silly.... We plodded ~li 'C~.· and ran in the race herself. The other TWA on and five miles was reached. We felt like The roadrunner is a symbol of the Southwest, and here are two of them. John Murphy track stars were: Ed Bundy, Ambassadors some whales, fmally beached! At the end (left), Phoenix manager of airport services, and Fran Moran, who recently retired­ Club bartender, who ran in costume; John of our trek the trophy was dear; we knew from that post, were among 10 TWAers who competed last mol)th in a road race to Fay, field manager; Chris McQueen, we'd be handed an ice cold beer." · benefit crippled children.· ·

8 December 8, 1980