VOL. 11, NO. 1. TRANS WORLD AIRLINE ' IN SERVICE FROM THE GROUND UP! JANUARY 1, 1948 INTERCHANGE OF EQUIPMENT GRANTED Cohu and Armstrong Will CAB Authorizes One-Plane Direct Service Go Overseas This Month Over TWA-Delta Routes North and South President LaMotte T. Cohu and The Civil Aeronautics Board authorized this week the interchange Dale Armstrong, vice-president of equipment between TWA and Delta Airlines, providing improved Public Relations, will leave New service for twenty mid-western and southern cities. York early this month for a tour Under the interchange agreement, entered into by TWA and Delta of TWA's overseas routes and sta­ on June 13, 1946, one-plane direct service will be provided between tions, it was announced today. TWA cities of Detroit, Toledo, ====^== This will mark the first trip of Dayton and Columbus at Atlanta, that the new interchange will elim­ this nature either executive has Jacksonville and Miami over Delta's inate delays at Cincinnati caused made since becoming an officer of routes. A passenger for example by having to transfer passengers, the company. may board a TWA or Delta plane baggage, cargo and mail from one in Detroit, Toledo, Dayton or Col­ airline to another. YEAR CLOSES WITH umbus and fly to Atlanta, Jackson­ Although the interchange of ville or Miami without changing equipment will not provide any RECORD-BREAKING airplanes. new service for Cincinnati, more HOLIDAY BUSINESS Eliminates Delays frequency of service will now be "TWA has enjoyed a very good TWA and Delta have been offer­ available for north and southbound holiday season. From a revenue ing connecting services between passengers out of Cincinnati. standpoint, it was the best in our these northern and southern cities Essentially the new operation will history," President LaMotte T. Cohu at Cincinnati. Officials pointed out be merely an expansion of activi­ said today. "I want to extend my ties already conducted by each car­ sincere thanks and congratulations rier under its certificates of public to all those people who so ably han­ convenience and necessity and in­ dled this large volume of business. volves no possibility of interference "QV ASK ME" buttons are all the rage around Chicago TWA these days and by one carrier in the operation and when you ask you'll find it's an idea promoting "Quickie Vacations" in the south­ I know how hard they worked, and west. But these three pretty CG ticket representatives decided to give it an added I am sure we all appreciate their business affairs of the other. Under touch by donning western sombreros. The girls—Glenna Griffith, Roslyn Cook and efforts. However, we must put forth the contract, planes used for the Catmen O'Brien—don't really wear the hats while at work; they just borrowed every effort to improve our on-time interchange will be mutually leased 'em for the photographic occasion from Lolita Linn, Chicago's widely-known performance, for our record shows over the other airline's routes. "Arizona in Chicago" tour lady. that such improvement in this im­ Other DAL Cities Listed portant factor of our operation is Other Delta cities which will re­ New York Area Personnel Fight Snowstorm badly needed. ceive either one-plane or improved To Keep Up Operations at LG, NK Airports "December was a good month for service through the interchange are Lexington, Ky., Knoxville and Chat­ By EARL LUBY. NY Public Relations the domestic system," he continued. "We set a record for one day's tanooga, Tenn.; Asheville, North It may have been that one last chorus of "White Christmas" as the business of $239,760, and had two Carolina; Greenville, Spartanburg. bells of St. Patrick's cathedral chimed in the holiday that did it, but more days with over $200,000 rev­ Columbia and Charleston, South whatever it was, New York, Times Square and TWA looked out their enue. In fact, December this year Carolina; Augusta, Savannah, Ma­ windows Friday morning and found themselves nacelle deep in snow. was the best in TWA's history. We con and Brunswick, Georgia. By evening the swirling white stuff lay over LaGuardia and Newark did have one bad break—when the in a blanket 25.8 inches deep, surpassing by 4.9 inches the snowfall big snowstorm hit the east coast Santa Claus Greeted by during the great blizzard of 1888. _^_^^__^_=___^__^___ and paralyzed all forms of transpor­ despite cramped space on the ramps, tation. 400 Eager Children at Transportation at Standstill TWA Cloud Dusters Party Subways, elevateds, buses, taxis flights began to move again. Record Cargo Volume "We had some of the best cargo Santa Claus traded his sleigh for and limousines just stopped. Never­ Domestic got its first flights out a Constellation when he dropped theless, with $325,000 worth of at 5:10 p. m. Saturday after Snogos, {Continued on Page 8) in at the LaGuardia field children's city and Port of New York snow throwing a smoke-like plume of New Officers Elected for Christmas party Dec. 20 but even removal equipment on the constant snow into the air, had cleared a so he ran out of toys twice and his go, TWA personnel tried to keep path from Hangar Four to the taxi- Ten Year Employees Club assistants from the TWA Cloud the Connies and Boeings going ways so that .a Connie could be Fred Betts, system director of Purchasing, KC, has been elected Dusters club had to rush out from LG. Despite seeing their cars taken outside, gassed and gingerly to 1948 president of the TWA Ten- nearby department stores to stalled and buried in the streets and taken to Gate 9 to load the 51 re- Year Employees club, it was an­ plenish his supply. having to carry on afcot, traffic and passengers who had been brought nounced last week. Betts succeeds St. Nick (Walter Smith of passenger operations and passenger to the field from the nearest sub­ John Clemson, general Traffic Building Maintenance) arrived personnel kept coming. way in TWA pie trucks. manager. promptly at 2 o'clock aboard the However, operations were fin­ Problems of getting to work were Other newly-elected officers are: TWA Connie, "Star of the North ally stopped at NK and domestic foremost in peoples' minds as all vice-president, C. V. Abbott, Op­ Pole," and was enthusiastically flights were routed to Philadelphia forms of city transportation were erations manager, Central region; greeted by nearly 400 children. In which struggled with the traffic completely closed down. Many, like secretary, Helen Gunn Jaques, chief addition to their toys the kids were during the two days New York was Betty Dunn, ticket agent at the pilot's office, KC; treasurer, G. O. also treated to ice cream, cookies under the white cover. International terminal, found rides with friendly drivers, but also like Thornley, manager of Traffic Con­ and candy while their parents were Overseas Flights Continue Betty found themselves bogged tracts, KC; and directors, W. E. served coffee, coke and cookies. International operations, how­ down for hours with their bene­ Baker, Boulder City station mana­ MODERN SANTA CLAUS arrives, at Credit for the success of the party ever, continued. Incoming flights factors in the snow-clogged streets ger, C. L. Gallo, director of Traffic, LaGuardia field aboard a special TWA goes to Woody Hansen, president were terminated in WA and NC, of Long Island. Betty finally made international, and C. A. Williams, Constellation, "Star of the North Pole," of the Cloud Dusters, Larry Malla- station manager at Albuquerque. and was greeted by a large number where a flood of war brides from it on Saturday after two hours in of TWA offspring. Several of Santa's han of LG Industrial Relations, Italy and Greece swamped station a busy traffic jam. Most of those Retiring officers other than official greeters are pictured with him Walt Smiley, C. F. "Chuck" Wood- personnel and customs officers. who rode managed to travel in Clemson are: Don Eldridge as vice- on the loading steps of the Connie, hold­ ling, Fred Pirk, Fred Entrekin, president; Ruby Jane McCully as ing their new gifts. In the boxes on the John Budek, "Chuck" Isasi and Eastbound international flights or­ PAA trucks and station wagons steps are other gifts given Santa by the iginated in WA until Sunday eve­ which operated constantly through secretary, and Charles Gress as children to be sent to their TWA "cou­ numerous others who devoted their ning when LG dug itself out and, {Continued on Page 8) treasurer. sins" overseas. time and interest to the occasion. SKY'LINER TWA T***s Wamto Atmiwt Here's Hoping You Like the New Size Service Pins for January Awarded 118 Employees With this issue the STARLINER is no more. All hail to the new SKYLINER, KANSAS CITY we hope! 15-YEAR When the STARLINER was started in the spring of 1946, the SKYLINER Crowl, Joseph M., Manager, Syst. Stf. was still in existence as a monthly publication. It was the STARLINER'S hope to Eng. Res. & Devel. bring you flash news in a hurry through publication each week. Subsequently, the Hawker, Charles S., Foreman, Maint. SKYLINER was discontinued and the STARLINER carried on alone. At that time, paper was extremely hard to get and still is. The small page 10-YEAR size was the only kind obtainable then. Now, after two years, we are able to obtain Downing, Robert C, Captain, Oper. a larger paper and so are changing to a five-column instead of a four-column make­ Marvin, Donald, Fit. Engr., Oper. up. It provides much-needed space for larger pictures and greater flexibility of Marvin, Geraldine, Hostess, Oper. layout. You can still read it in a streetcar, too! McMillan, Charles B., Mechanic, Maint. Why are we resuming the name of SKYLINER? Well, TWA's publicity 5-YEAR had so firmly established the word "skyliner" in the public's mind that it had Bobrink, Mary B., Ld. Key Punch Opera­ come to mean anybody's airplane. That situation no longer prevails. Also, as we tor, Mach. Accounting. said, the SKYLINER was still in existence when the STARLINER was established. Chontos, Anna S., Janitor, Oper. Then too, another airline has a prior claim to the name STARLINER. Alaska Compton, Walter C, Manager, Purch, Airlines used to fly a star route and so called their airplanes "Starliners" and still Stf. do. TWA now bows to that prior claim and has ceased the use of the name. Cornick, Maude H., Sr. File Clerk, Disb. Finally, the old SKYLINER was a beautiful job of editing and printing, and Ehrett, Inez I., Accountant, Acctg. everybody liked it. We hope we can live up to its reputation with the new weekly Ellenberger, Betty, Sr. Secretary, Tfc. SKYLINER.—The Editor. Gerhardt, Betty E., Cashier. Hank, Joseph C, Group Head Stat. & Rep., Mach. Accounting. PUZZLE SOLUTION Heesel, Evelyn V., Ld. Teletype Opera­ SKYLINER Award of Merit W. H. Spannuth, Base Engineering, tor, Oper. KCOB, who gave us last week's puzzle, Hines, James M., Communications Tech­ for That Added Touch "If a ship is twice as old as its boiler nician, Oper. Cent. . . . which makes TWA was when the ship was as old as the Holmes, Oliver W., Grp. Head Acct. Rec, Rev. & Rec. Service outstanding boiler is, and the sum of their ages is 42, what are their respective ages?" Johnston, Elnora, Senior Interviewer, Employment. FOR SERVICE TO TWA ranging from five to 15 years, these KC men were There's no limit to the things some clears up the problem with the following explanation: Jordan, Lowell E., Sr. Traffic Represen­ presented their service pins recently by R. H. Biron, vice-president of Industrial TWAers will do to give added service tative, Oper. Relations. They are (L to R): Joseph H. Bell, superintendent of Flight Control to their customers. There have been "Its (the puzzle's) greatest merit is Kahmann, Glenn, Mechanic, Maint. in the difficulty usually encountered by Operations, 15 years; Raymond Arrington, KCOB assistant foreman-Radio shop, instances of loaning money, returning Kane, George R., Pub. Info. Represent., 10 years; Eldon Frye, director of Employee Publications, live years, and Carl wallets and loaning cars, but now it's the unsuspecting victim in trying to Emp. Pub. make some sense out of the wording. Herre, administrative assistant, Controller-Budgetary Control, receiving his 15 a case of loaning luggage! Keane, Marjorie, Accountant, Const. year pin from Biron. From our LS Field Editor Betty However, once the problem is under­ Cost. Cunningham came the story. stood, it is easy to reconcile the answers Lienard, Margaret, Jr. Pers. Represent., When LS Cargo Sales Representative I gave you. If the ship is 24 years old, Empl. Svc. EASTERN REGION Garvin, Francis, Sr. Supv. Mechanic, Stan Phillips was talking to an Air­ and the boiler is 18, that makes the Lombard, Carmen, Accountant, Disb. 5-YEAR ROME freight prospect recently, the man said boiler 12 years old when the ship is 18 Manfre, Ruby J., Accountant, Acctg. Brozanski, Kathyrn, Second Cook, PT Heilman, Henry C, Sr. Supv. Mech., he would like to make a trip to Boston years old, the present age of the boiler. Buchheit, John R., Trans. Agt., WA Geneva. Thus the ship is twice the age that the Rev. & Rec. but didn't have any luggage and hesi­ Martino, Frances, Trans. Agt., Oper. Chiantella, J. M., Fit. Svc. Help., LG Hendrickson, John, Fit. Engr., NC tated to buy some just for the trip. boiler was when the ship was the same Davies, Vivian C, Ld. Resv. Agt., PT Jacobs, Walter H., Mechanic, NC age as the boiler is now." Meltis, Elaine, Sr. Tabul. Operator, Said Stan, "You make the trip on TWA Mach. Acctg. Grant, Barbara S., Hostess, LG Kovacsik, James S., Assistant Foreman, and I'll loan you the luggage." If that doesn't clear it up for you, Mudge, Esther J., Ld. Key Punch Oper., Marrone, Paul J., Trans. Agt., PT NC The surprised prospect accepted, Stan here's the algebraic solution: Machine Acctg. Oskin, Norman, Ld. Trans. Agt., PT Larsen, Walter K., Mechanic, NC made the reservation and delivered the Let x equal the age of the ship. Then Page, Gayle S., Fire Inspect., Oper. Stevens, Mary F., Offc. Boy, LG Morehead, Robert, Sr. Steward, WA bags next morning. This demonstration 42-x equals the age of the boiler, and Pearson, Thomas F., Supv., Taxes. Strosnider, Eleanor, Ld. Resv. Agt., PT Morrow, John E., Gen. Foreman Comm. of service must have impressed the man x-(42-x) or 2x-42 equals the dif­ Risley, Gene M., Load Ctl. Represent., CENTRAL REGION (a first rider) as he recently made 5-YEAR Engr., JEDDA ference in their ages. According to the Fit. Planning. Nead, Robert H., Asst. Frmn., NC another TWA trip with a new set of terms of the problem: x=2 [42-x) Walbert, Carl K., Sales Supv., Psgr. Franklin, Bertha, Gr. Sta. Rdo. Oper., his own luggage! Norman, Irving, Assistant Foreman, NC -(2x-42)]. Solving the equation we Sales. DY O'Brien, Harry S., Fit. Engr., WA And, just to make the story com­ Wegner, Isabel D., Accountant, Gen. find that x:=24, the ship's age, and Gilmore, Parks E., Dist. Mgr., LV Richter, Rose, Sr. Steno.-Clerk, NY plete, Stan got his bags back, too! Mr. Acctg. Morgan, Harold E., Mechanic, ID 42-x= 18, the boiler's age. Robin, John M., Assistant Foreman, Phillips, take your bow. A SKYLINER Now you know. Weibel, Eugene A., Captain, Oper. Segler, Albert, Chf. Trans. Agent, CG Award of Merit for such service will Werthe, Martha, Chief Clerk, Payroll. Stam, Harold N., Ld. Ticket Agent, CG GANDER be on its way to you soon. Youngs, Benjamin, Engineer, Sec. Prop. Stoner, Roy A., Ld. Trans. Agent, PI Schaaf, Clayton E., Sr. Supv. Mechanic, The airlines of the world are turn­ SHANNON ing over one billion dollars a year and Zoeller, Charles H., Sys. Resv. Agent. WESTERN REGION (For each incident such as this—an em­ 5-YEAR Shepherd, Henry L., Sr. Steward, WA ployee's quick thinking in a pinch or tact­ are collectively employing more than KC OVERHAUL BASE Signore, Michael, Ld. Mech., NC ful handling of a delicate situation—sent a half-million people, according to Sir Henry, Paul R., Fit. Engr., SF to us and published, the SKYLINER will William Hildred, director general, 15-YEAR Knight, Phyllis, Mech. Helper, BU Welch, Edwin T, Foreman, NC present its weekly Award of Merit to the Loomis, Charles C, Mechanic, SF Wishnoff, Walter, Mechanic, NC person performing the deed.) IATA. Hall, John E., Foreman, A'pi. O'H. Monnett, Charlotte, Teletype Oper., AB 5-YEAR Pickering, Ethel, Commissary Clerk, BU Allen. Lois E., Mechanic, Maint. Robb, John Edwin, Ld. Mech., SF Baker, Archie D., Machanic, Maint. Schutz, Charles, Meteorologist, LA Voluntary Housing Bureau Bass, Marjorie, Mechanic, Maint. Sobodos, George, Mechanic, LA Brooks, Raymond L., Inventory Special­ Stevens, Charles, Mechanic, AB At LaGuardia Wins Praise ist, Inv. Ctl. Trimmer, Frank E., First Officer, LA Cooper, Robert D., Mechanic, Sheet Met. Werth, Myrtle M., Fit. Svc. Hlpr., BU Functioning "without portfolio" Dumit, James, Ld. Mech., A'pl. O'H. INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEES and without appropriation or extra Earnhart, Billie, Ld. Mech., A'pl. O'H. 10-YEAR staff, but functioning effectively Elms, Albert E., Mechanic, A'pl. O'H. McMahon, Curtis R., Sr. Supv. Mechanic, Forrest, Norma N., Secretary, Mnt. Plan­ CAIRO nonetheless, TWA's "housing bur­ ning. eau" at LaGuardia field is earning Grout, Quentin, Ld. Mech., A'pl. O'H. 5-YEAR a deserved reputation and respect Jackson, Mary H., Mechanic, Eng. Shop. Barney, Libeus, Sr. Mech., NC Kern, George K., Mechanic, Rdo. & Borkowski, Stanley, Inspector, NC among the employees in New York Elect. Breakey, M. E., Ass't Foreman, NC for whom it has helped provide a McKisick, Horace, Mechanic, Eng. Shop. Bristow, Carter M., Sr. Mech., NC roof, according to Katy Blanck of Meyer, Cecil E., Mechanic, Sheet Metal. Brown, R. L., Sr. Acctg. Supervisor, NY NY Public Relations. Montgomery, Albert, Ld. Mech., Rdo. & Campbell, Robert, Engineer, NC Elect. Cloude, Willard W., Sr. Mech., NC The "housing bureau" is strictly Organ, Ralph E., Ld. Mech., Inst. Shop. Cox, Leo M., Sr. Supv. Mechanic, a labor of love on behalf of the Peterson, Earl C, Inventory Specialist, SHANNON TWA personnel who need and use Inv. Ctl. Curtis, Malcolm B., Foreman, LYDDA its services. It is operated on a vol­ Phillips, McDonald, Mechanic, Sheet Davis, Ray Walter, Fit. Engr., ROME Metal. Dziedzic, Stanley, Inspector, NC untary basis by the staff of four of Ranson, Stevenson, Ld. Mech., Ace. & Engel, Richard, Foreman, NC the employment office at LaGuardia THE BEAR FACTS of his hunting trip in Montana are displayed by Ray Hyd. Fricke, Doris J., Hostess, WA field, which is part of the Eastern Kneller. Fort Wayne mechanic. With a specimen like that to support his hunting Robbins, Ben B., Mechanic, A'pl. O'H. Galloway, Charles, Sr. Supv. Mechanic, region Industrial Relations division. stories, Kneller needs no other proof of his prowess as a "mighty nimrod." Warner, Wesley G, Mech., A'pl. O'H. CAIRO Nearly two years ago when the officially - established and staffed Art Clayton, Editor George Kane, Feature Editor Jeslyn McCleary, Ass't Editor G. E. Pearcy, Geographer housing section of the International division in New York was dissolved, Issued every Thursday by the Employee Publications Field Editor, or direct to The Editor, Sky- Larry Mallahan, Employment super­ department of the Industrial Relations division, Eldon liner, TWA, 101 W. 11th, Kansas City, Mo., visor at LaGuardia, voluntarily as­ R. Frye, director. News stories, tips, and photographs U. S. A. Republication of contents per­ sumed its duties because of the con­ Published Weekly at Kansas City, missible. may be submitted by any TWA employee, through his tinuing need for housing, and he For Employees of TWA, Member International Council of Industrial The Trans World Airline Editors and his staff have handled it ever United States Field Editors since. Raymond McQuillan AZ Harry Davis HX Victor Pulls PH Phil Deslauriers, Grahame Larry Gardner Dhahran Smallwood They have long ago lost count of Ann Hurt, Bill Resnik AB Jim Robinson, Hugh Miller ID Evelyn McKenna, Betty Connelly....PT Emily Keys Dublin William Black AQ Wanda Mlllsap ZZ KC Paul Herre DN Bob McLane wq lim Foran Gander the number of furnished rooms they Bob Patterson Opr., Tfc. WD Arnold Matthey Geneva James Tucker BW Thomas Jones LQ Eleanor Flegal, Emogene Witt, Bob Pickel Lisbon have found for flight personnel, Yola Condelli, Jim Gratiot LA John Hughes SF Esther Travis, Oscar Lohner CG Bedric F. Fessler Lydda Melvin Reavis SN hostesses, transferred employees, Jack Robertson CC Emma Lou Mullins LV Overseas Field Editors Conchita Hombria Madrid Gert Lincoln CO Tom Keliher NC Betty Cunningham LS Paul Nemeth Algiers Andree deMunck Paris etc., but they figure that to date Mary Ellen Simpson Tfc. DY Fred Neuberth NY Ralph Fallowfield TH Mary Saraphi, Danie Walter, Estelle Lukomskl Rome they have located something like a Gayle Lorjea DO Stan Smith OA Ruth Kieper TL Pepa Keyaoglou Athens Terry McGowan Shannon Donald Fagg FW George Fox, Bob Standen PG John Kane TW Andrew Bittar Cairo Bob Everett Tunis score of apartments, furnished and Additional field editors will be added as they are elected unfurnished, for new and veteran employees in the New York area.

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CONSTABLE ANNOUNCES PERSONNEL CHANGES IN TREASURY STAFF Assistant Treasurer Erie M. Con­ stable has announced a number of changes among personnel and their respective duties within the Treas­ ury department. William H. Phipps, Jr., has re­ placed J. J. Arditto as director of Taxes. Arditto has left TWA to become a partner in the Los An­ geles firm of Waters, Arditto and Waters. Earl F. Richmond is the new director of Insurance, replacing C. F. Warner, now with the legal staff YOU'LL FIND THESE TWAERS in Traffic at 44 Upper of Central Surety and Insurance O'Connell street, Dublin. DSM Liam Boyd, upper left. Corp. in Kansas City. is a swimming and sailing enthusiast. Jack Hearn^. Cargo & Publicity (upper center), is listening to Emily Richard A. Miller, formerly di­ Keys, secretary, give somebody some blarney. Jack rector of Research and Reports, likes rowing. Emily goes ior dancing and swimming. has assumed the duties of director At upper right, Una Fleming and Audrey Morrow confer. Una is acting Reservations manager and of Foreign Exchange Control which Audrey is a teletypist. Miss Fleming has been in position formerly was held by C. Little Theatre productions and in Dublin's Abbey A. Bauman who is based in Paris. Theatre. Audrey likes swimming and tennis. At lower Miller will be located in Kansas left, Yvette Massey is talking to a passenger. Another sailing enthusiast. Miss Massey also likes riding. City and will be responsible for Desmond Shannon, a golfer at heart, is at center, and foreign exchange manuals and re­ Elizabeth Monks, steno, likes reading and table ten­ search. nis. Jack Danaher, lower center, is agency representa­ tive, and plays golf and tennis when he can. David T. Beals, III, left TWA, effective Jan. 1, to join the Crowe Goal company in KC. His duties as manager of Cash Control will be assumed by W. J. Breitenstein as supervisor of Cash Control and by Assistant Treasurer M. W. Mc­ Queen. fcttu-- Ronald Duckworth has assumed the duties of Treasury representa­ BROWN: To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas tive, European region, in addition. A. Brown, KCOB line maintenance, an to his duties as regional controller. 8 lb. 4 oz. son, Gordon Thomas, Oct. 25. He replaces C. A. Brackenbury who BADALI: To Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Badali, KCOB engine overhaul mechanic, has returned to the United States a 7 lb. 3 oz. son, Joseph Salvator, Nov. and has not been reassigned as yet. 13. SPENCER: To Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Spencer, KCOB Manuals section, a son, Madison Replaces Cruse; Kenneth Wayne, Nov. 3. Seattle Office Closed TANNER: To Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tanner, KCOB propeller shop mechanic, Boyd Madison, former district an 8 lb. AYJ oz. son, Gary Michael, manager at Seattle, replaced Wrex Nov. 4. SELF-RELIANT BESCIR BEN, 17-year- Cruse in San Francisco, effective L1VERMAN: To Mr. and Mrs. old TWA office boy at the airport in George Liverman, KCOB engine over­ Bombay, is shown talking to Traffic Dec. 31, according to Traffic haul assistant foreman, a 6 lb. 9Vi oz. Representative Sultan Haji in a snap­ Vice-President E. O. Cocke. son, Billy Mack, Nov. 7. shot taken by William C. Love, city The Seattle district office has GRAY: To Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Gray, Traffic manager. Bescir worked for TWA in Tripoli, North Africa, in 1946 when been closed but the district will be KCOB engine overhaul mechanic, a COME ONE, COME ALL!—Philadelphia's newly elected TWA club officers 7 lb. 5 oz. son, George Louis, Nov. 7. he come into contact with a European maintained for the credit of reve­ gather around a placard announcing the "biggest and fanciest" shindig the City WUNDERLICH: To Mr. and Mrs. who, taking a fancy to the young lad with the smiling face and pleasing nue, etc. Representation at that of Brotherly Love will have this winter season. New PG TWA club officers are: R. H. Wunderlich, KCOB engine over­ manners, offered him a ride in a jeep point will be handled through other (L to R) Treasurer Pat Graham, Vice-President Andy Redding, President Dick haul mechanic, a 7 lb. 4 oz. daughter, Karon Kay, Nov. 13. into India. The urge for travel and ad­ airlines and commissioned agents, Roney and Secretary Peggy Mulrine. venture prompted Bescir to accept the KNELLER: To Mr. and Mrs. Ray and responsibility for sales coverage offer and they set out from Tripoli on Kneller, FW, a son, Terry Lee, Nov. 5. CAMERA COUNTER AT LG August 14 on their long journey oi will rest with the KC general of the building. The counter car­ BELSER: To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. nearly 6,000 miles, traveling through Traffic staff. ries a complete stock of cameras, Belser, CG mechanic, a daughter, A new convenience for interna­ Cairo. Jerusalem, Lebanon, Syria. Iraq Sharon, Dec. 20. Cruse has resigned from TWA tional passengers at the LaGuardia films and photographic equipment and Iran, reaching Bombay Oct. 1. KIDD: To Mr. and Mrs. Klayton Bescir presented himself to the city to take a position with Pan Ameri­ International terminal was the open­ as well as supplying daily photo- Kidd, LA flight engineer, a 5 lb. 11 oz. Traffic manager one morning in Oc­ can in Honolulu. ing of a camera counter in the lobby finishing service. daughter, Susan Candace, Nov. 30. tober to tell the story of his adventures —how he acted as chauffeur, cleaner, cook and valet to his master whom he could not now trace in Bombay. Bescir is all smiles about the whole thing and has been hired by TWA again as office boy at the airport.

COHU TO I.C.C. COMMITTEE An air transport committee headed by C. R. Smith, chairman, American Airlines, has been set up by the United States Associates of the International Chamber of Com­ merce. Members are: LaMotte T. Cohu, president, TWA; T. E. Bran- iff, president, Braniff; Croil Hunter, president, Northwest; W. A. Pat­ terson, president, United; Juan T Trippe, president, Pan American; George W. Perkins, executive v.p. and treasurer, Merck & Co.; Henry Rose, v.p., Sears; and Lowell P. Weicker, president, E. R. Squibb.

TRUMAN AS GUEST President Truman has been invited to be the guest of honor at the opening of the New York (Idlewild) airport next July 31. The invitation from Mayor O'Dwyer pointed out the dedica­ tion ceremonies will also mark the PHILADELPHIA'S CHRISTMAS PARTY at the Penn Sheraton hotel Dec. 19 was party was the Russ Hannon trio which played to a large crowd, part of which opening of an international air ex­ acclaimed a huge success by all who attended. Featured entertainment for the is pictured above. position. ;

January 1, 1948 PAGE THREE r SKYLINER INGENIOUS TESTING AND OVERHAUL DEVICE,

in Eeconc Safety and Keeps Cost o£ J During the last decade, maintaining and overhauling TWA passenger air­ they are used to operate brakes, landii; craft has become a precise science that leaves nothing to guesswork; has im­ mechanisms (photo 4). proved safety greatly, and has helped keep costs at a point where, despite inflation, 4. Testing a Constellation elevator it is still cheaper to fly than before the war. One outstanding factor in this evolu­ a Greer hydraulic unit test stand is Mec tion of the airline machine shop is the adaptation of ingenious testing and overhaul assembly is located in the tail section of devices capable of simulating both the normal and extreme in all flight conditions. plies a nine-to-one boost ratio to elevato: Reconditioned aircraft are still test flown, but the rate of failure on overhauled normally supplies power to this unit aboa equipment is infinitely lower due to this rigid laboratory testing. TWA's giant 5. L. H. Martin, fuel pump overhaul overhaul base at Kansas City, Kan., averages a completely overhauled airplane unit. The pump (arrow) is used to deliver g every day, the DC-3, 900-hour double-engine change involving 400 checks and 6. Testing an overhauled Constellat changer being accomplished once each working day. Because the DC-3 spends Mechanic H. L. Hickman. The pump metei: almost half its life in the air, this 900-hour overhaul averages once every two and mixes with air prior to explosion. By obsen a half months per airplane. it can be determined if any one cylinder Illustrated are some of the devices used in conducting tests on all overhauled fuel. Two pumps are used on the Constel TWA aircraft: cylinders. The ninth tube, corresponding tc of the angle of the picture. 1. Mechanic J. E. Beck sprays a Constellation engine master rod with a solution of iron oxide and Crystalite in a Magnaflux "black light" room. The rod 7. Mechanic E. H. Niemeyer adjust has been magnetized and should any invisible imperfection exist, the "black light" carburetor before the Constellations switch will trace the break clearly. Even subsurface imperfections are revealed in this the amount of fuel to the injection pumps manner. All steel working parts in overhauled engines are given the Magnaflux test. of air necessary to mix with the fuel in used, the mixing process took place in the 2. H. B. Smead, fleet service helper, uses one of four walnut shell air blasting Carburetors and master controls are all machines to clean carbon from an engine piston. TWA discovered that ground installed on engines. walnut shells made a far more superior abrasive for this type of work than sand. 8. In KCOB's radio and electric shop, The ground shells remove the carbon with no harm to the metal. The operator transmitting and receiving units used ab works behind a glassed-in steel partition, his hands and arms being protected by has its own special testing unit which si heavy rubber gloves. Radio equipment used aboard TWA d: 3. Mechanic R. O. Hillebrand watches a Constellation hydraulic pump perform transceiver (transmitter and receiver corn/ on a test stand. As though attached to the engine that normally operates it. the a marker receiver, dual radio compass pump is exerting 1,700 pounds of pressure. A Constellation has four such pumps and path receivers for instrument landings an

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Utioning Improves lying Below Pre "War Days g gears, wing flaps and other aircraft tional planes are equipped with separate tuneable transmitters and receivers which are operated by flight radio officers. These planes are also equipped with booster and control valve assembly on radio altimeters. ionic J. P. Benton. The elevator booster 9. Mechanic E. D. Carter (left) tests an aircraft oil temperature regulator. As the Constellation and automatically sup- it is necessary that aircraft engines maintain specific oil temperatures, this regulator controls. The hydraulic pump (photo 3) diverts the oil through a radiator cooler whenever it gets too warm. rd aircraft. Mechanic S. H. Selby (right) tests an aircraft vacuum and pressure pump. nechanic, observes tests on a reserviced These pumps are used to operate gyro navigation and control instruments (photo isoline from the fuel tanks to the engines, 11) as well as rubber deicing equipment. The gyro instruments are actuated by on fuel injection pump (arrow) is Lead vacuum, while th« deicers use direct air pressure from the pump. ; raw gasoline to each cylinder where it 10. TWA's delicate Dynetric balancer is used to test the balance of u super­ ing the vertical glass tubes on the stand, charger planetary gear assembly. Lead Mechanic John Hauck operates the machine, is being metered too little or too much focusing the stroboscopic light on the revolving gears. The light creates the illusory lation engine, one for each row of nine eye impression that the gears are motionless, thus permitting the operator to the ninth cylinder, is obscured because determine on which side unbalance exists, if any. The machine is also used to balance supercharger impellers and drive shafts.

; a master control, originally termed a 11. Automatic pilot control units (directional and bank-and-climb gyros) are ed to fuel injection. The device regulates tested in KCOB's instrument shop on a special machine that simulates maneuvers (photo 6) and the proportionate amount a transport plane might be subject to in operation. While the units are in these the cylinders. Before fuel injection was various positions. Mechanic Don Ringle checks the instruments for proper auto­ master control, then called a carburetor, matic pilot control. The aircraft vacuum pump (photo 9) supplies the power to pre-adjusted in the shops before being operate the small gyros in these instruments. 12. With all the exacting individual engine teardown tests completed, a re­ expert radio technicians test the various assembled 2200 horsepower Constellation engine is given a trial run at one of aard TWA aircraft. Every radio device four giant engine test cells. To cut down noise, the cells are double-walled and nulates actual in-flight operations, double plate-glassed. Winds created by the propeller are of hurricane velocity. mestic aircraft includes a high frequency Mechanic W. B. Songster steadies the speed of the engine at approximately 2400 ned), a very high frequency transceiver, r.p.m. After performing satisfactorily for three hours — equivalent to 900 miles of receivers for navigation, localizer glide travel on a plane — the engine is earmarked for replacement on a Constellation, 1 a terrain clearance indicator. Interna- after which, the plane is test flown before being placed in service.

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P&Uo*talitif ojj tke Week .... NON-REVS' COOPERATION WILL GIVE EXTRA SERVICE Desk Job Was Not for Her; She Yearned to Travel! TO CONNIE PASSENGERS Limitation of non-positive non- By MARIANNE BRENNAN "When people ask me to tell revenue passengers aboard Con­ The biggest thrill of Virginia them about my experiences, I know stellations was explained in a recent Symns' young life was the day her what they really want to hear is bulletin issued by Passenger Service grade school principal in Whiting, how I played bridge with a group Director Clifford Mutchler. Kan., took her and his son up for of movie stars or worked a cross­ their first airplane ride. It was a word puzzle with Alfred Gwynne The policy, as set forth, was di­ tri-motor Ford and it had a bright Vanderbilt," she said, "but I think rected to station managers, district sign that said, "Fly with Ben"— my most interesting passenger was managers and reservations man­ and they flew over Topeka for a little lady 97 years old—on her agers, but should be of interest to fifteen minutes. way to a convention, of all places. all employees since it concerns their travel on vacation passes. The high school principal and She was so alert and pleasant and his son, and even "Ben," would be interested in everything and said To avoid unnecessary crowding surprised if they could see this ex- she wouldn't think of traveling any in the forward compartment, no Kansas girl today. A blue-eyed other way because it would be too non-positive, non-revenue pas­ blonde, just 5' 2", she's traveling slow and monotonous." sengers will be carried when the in 300-mile-an-hour Constellations Otherwise, Virginia's special load aboard exceeds 47. Unless now, has logged over a half mil­ favorites were the enlisted Navy revenue passengers have requested lion miles in the air, and was men returning from the South seating space in the forward com­ recently made chief hostess for Pacific who rode with their faces partment, they should be seated in TWA's Central region at Chicago. glued to the windows and who, she PINNING THE WHISKERS on Santa the main cabin and non-revenue says, "were so appreciative of every while blindfolded offered some hilarious passengers in the forward com­ Still Hometown Girl little favor." entertainment for Columbus TWAers partment. But Virginia still is a hometown at a recent party at the Airport inn. girl at heart. An enthusiastic rooter To make the game even more fun, three Said Mutchler, "We are confi­ for rural schools, she can reel off TESTS DELAYED persons were blindfolded at the same dent that non-revenue passengers the names of her high school teach­ VIRGINIA SYMNS Boeing 377 Stratocruiser CAA test time and turned loose on old Saint Nick. will accept and abide by this policy flights have been postponed until Jan. Taking their turns in picture above are willingly, since it is a real means ers, even though she admits it was 5. The company anticipates the CAA Dick Fisher, mechanic, "Duke" Lutz, foreign assignments and told their of rendering extra service to our more than just yesterday when she tales she changed her mind about tests can be completed within four control tower, and Julie Keith, wife of CO Station Manager Commodore Keith. Constellation passengers." took English, Latin, history and becoming an architect, but stayed months. civics at Rural High in Whiting. with the firm in hopes of foreign A descendant of pioneering folk travel. She soon learned, however, Hostesses Rate Lyrical Stories in Cairo Papers on both sides of the family, Vir­ that engineering firms did not send ginia took to aviation naturally. women on foreign assignments. In Articles translated from an Arabic Her father's parents were early January of '44, after the airlines newspaper in Cairo indicate the in­ settlers of Atchison and her grand­ had lifted the nursing requirement terest which has developed recently mother had the first iron cookstove for hostesses, she carried her wan­ in Egypt as a result of TWA's de­ in Doniphin county. Her mother's derlust to TWA. cision to employ Egyptian hostesses mother taught school in Alaska. and pursers. All vacancies were Her daughter—Virginia's mother— Since that time, Virginia has quickly filled and at present TWA came to Kansas as an Indian mis­ been based at practically every has six Egyptian hostesses, four sionary. major station on TWA's domestic Egyptian pursers, six Indian hostess­ At Kansas State college in Man­ system. She served as coordinator es and four Indian pursers on flight hattan and Washburn university in between TWA and the McConnell duty. Hostess school in Minneapolis and Topeka Virginia studied mechanical G. B. Koch, Jr., Industrial Rela­ just prior to her appointment in drawing, which she put into prac­ tions manager, Middle and Far East, Chicago was a hostess flight in­ tice on her first job in the engineer­ has forwarded the translations, structor at TWA's headquarters in ing department of the Bell Tele­ which we are sure you will find KC. phone company in Topeka. interesting. Wanted Foreign Assignment Plain People Her Favorites Captioned "Searchers for Love, After two years she became an From the experiences of over a Luck and Adventure In The Sky," architectural draftsman for an en­ half million miles of flying, she one story begins with, "How won­ gineering firm in Fort Worth, Tex. has come to the conclusion that derful is the life of the Air Hostess. It was here that the adventure in the most interesting passengers are "It is a new work for hundreds of Virginia's soul began creeping out. the plain everyday homespun folks pretty girls whose veins run with the love of adventure, which pushes them As the engineers returned from like she knew in her hometown. on to live on the top of the world . . . RIDING HERD on four full-blooded Boston terrier pups is Doris Herrmann, steno- always ..." clerk in the LA Airfreight office. While Doris pets two of the pups, the third poses nobly and the fourth seeks consolation from his mother, "Cookie." Father of the That kind of writing ought to litter, "Best Regards," was the 1947 national champion Boston terrier. The canine make American aviation scribes family was en route from AB to its new home in North Hollywood. turn at least a pale green with envy! "If you see in one of these (Cairo) "A large number of Hostesses enjoy Expressing of Gift hotels a smart girl, tender and pretty, all that their life affords of wonder and she will be one of two—either Lana adventure. The Hostess goes round the Parcels Simplified Turner or an Air Hostess," continues various continents and the various oceans The Office of International the story. in one week. She will be in New York "Those in charge of aviation in the in the morning, in the evening she is on Trade, the Bureau of the Census world grasped the value of having a some Pacific island, in the morning she and the Customs bureau, acting pretty girl on the plane and the amount is at Madrid and then she takes her tea upon a request by the CAA, have of tranquility that this conveys to the in Rome and lands in Cairo about mid­ established simplified procedures spirit of the passengers; and they now night to take her dinner; and the follow­ fight for Hostesses, exactly as much as ing day, she sees the sunset at Karachi for overseas shipment of gift par- Hollywood companies fight for their in India; and so on ... eels by air express. OIT has ex­ stars. Whoa there, not even the Con­ tended a general license for ship­ "How wonderful are the stories we stellation is that fast! ping by air express any gift pack­ hear on Hostesses of various nationalities age weighing not more than 22 and from various races . . . they form There is more—much more to the pounds. Such parcels may not con­ a society of their own, according to the story, but our space is limited, even gossip which is carried around the seven tain more than $5 worth of fats, for such lilting prose. We're sure seas by the pilots, the crew and the pas­ oils and scraps, and not more than TWA's new Egyptian hostesses are sengers. $5 worth of streptomycin, quinine "Some of them are more famous than pretty, and we're just as sure that sulfate, and quinine hydro-chloride. the cinema stars within their limited they're normal, wholesome girls, and circles . . . "Some of the Hostesses volunteered who knows, some day they may The Bureau of the Census has in love of adventure . . . adventure of meet that dream man they are seek­ agreed to waive completion of 10 traveling or some other adventure!!! ing on some TWA flight. What items on its shipper's export "Some ran after large profits and an hostess doesn't carry that secret declaration for gift parcels valued attractive salary . . . dream in her heart? WHUP! They "Amongst the Hostesses there are at less than $100. The Customs searchers for luck and those are many. have us doing it now! bureau has agreed to clear all ship­ "All aviation companies complain of ments complying with these re­ this. quirements. "A girl applies for employment . . . NAMED COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN she is taken on . . . she signs a contract J. R. Keegan, TWA Traffic for two years. First month passes, second month or third month and the Hostess manager in Palestine, has been ap­ CONVAIR-LINER TESTED applies to terminate her contract. She pointed chairman of a committee A Convair-Liner was flown east to NOVEL IDEA for decorating a TWA Christmas tree is demonstrated by three is going to get married, she is going to representing all international air­ Barksdale and Wright fields and Wash­ girls in the office of KC Station Manager Worth A. Johnson. What could be more settle on terra-firma and she is going lines serving Palestine in their re­ ington recently for demonstrations colorful than an array of TWA baggage tags for cities all over the system. to leave the sky . . . and it is found out to the Air Force. No. 3 ship off the Putting the finishing touches on their office tree are (L to R) Mary Uhlig, Agnes that the Hostess had hooked one of the lations with the Palestine govern­ line, it is destined eventually for West­ Thompson and Barbara Young. passengers." ment. ern Air Lines.

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HIGHLIGHT OF AN EVENING of entertainment at the Chicago TWA Christmas party Dec. 12 was the "truth or consequence" show, a take-off of the original Ralph Edwards' radio broadcast and emceed by Jack Antink, CG Traffic representative. No. 1—Santa paid his traditional visit but according to his list there were no good boys or girls. Left to right are: Santa Oscar Lohner, Airport Ticket Agents Gene Duesing and Pearl Pearson, Mrs. C. E. McCollum, Mrs. H. E. Didlake and Mrs. E. T. Zavrel. No. 2—Oops! Don't step on that egg! You don't see it? Well, not at 85 cents a dozen. Gag was to spread a half-dozen eggs in front of Renee Roseen before she was blindfolded, after which she had to step lightly through "them." No. 3—Dead Pan Al Hubbard, CG Reservations agent, had to suffer the consequence of balancing a glass of water on the back of one hand through the entire program. Al took the major award of the evening, a wrist watch, for performing the feat. No. 4—Julius Caesar? No, it's C. E. McCollum, general Sales manager. Central region, giving out with "Singing in the Rain" while Mrs. C.E. supplies the "rain" with seltzer bottle every time Mac misses certain words. No. 5—Vaguely reminiscent of Mack Sennett days is KC Hostess Instructor Anita Quast planting a bowl of ice cream on the face of E. A. "Ted" Rosser, CG Ass't DM. Yum. . . . No. 6—Receiving rewards are (L to R) Renee Roseen. secretary in Air­ freight, C. E. McCollum, Mrs. McCollum, Jack Antink, Traffic representative, Clayton Irwin, Public Relations manager, Al Hubbard, Reservations agent, and Bud Wright, Reservations supervisor and assistant emcee. Judging purely from a pictorial standpoint, the SKYLINER votes first prize to Clayton "New Look" Irwin. See Aboard This Flight.

CONSIDERS NEW SHIPS A combined total of 625,000 sea-air United Air Lines is considering the passengers between Europe and the New Connecting Minimums Twenty-Nine Years of TWA Experience United Beechcraft transport and the DC-9 as Mediterranean ports and the U. S. and For International Flights possible answers to its short-haul mul­ Canada, with 464,000 persons traveling Are Announced by Cocke In Marriage of F. T. Jaques and Helen Gunn tiple-stop operations, Harold Crary, v.p. by ship and 160,000 by plane is indi­ E. O. Cocke, vice-president of Traffic, has announced. cated for 1947. Traffic, has announced to overseas Traffic offices changes in the mini­ mum time for connections to and from TWA's international flights. For eastbound flights the mini­ mum connecting time from trans­ continental flights is four hours, and the minimum to all connecting flights at all stations overseas is six hours. The minimum for west­ bound flights is eight hours for transcontinental flights, four hours to all connecting flights at stations overseas, except Paris and Cairo and six hours for connecting flights at Paris and Cairo. These minimum connection times are based on normal opera­ tions and do not take into con­ sideration extensive weather or mechanical delays. When it comes to parlaying Jaques, manager of Inspection at years of TWA experience, the F. KCOB, came to TWA 18 years ATC REUNION FEB. 13 T. Jaques family of Kansas City ago when a part of the company TWA pilots and other ex-flying has it—29 years no less. was then known as Western Air personnel in the company who Dec. 4 at 1:30 p.m. Helen Gunn Express. Born in an Arlington, were officers in the Air Transport of KC Chief Pilot office renown Wash., lumber camp, Jaques moved Command during 1942-45 will be married F. T. Jaques, one of the to California where he started his interested in an announcement senior-most individuals in the air­ career with Douglas Aircraft in made this week of an ATC reunion line business and TWA in par­ 1922. With Douglas for seven dinner in New York at the Waldorf ticular. The ceremony, a family af­ years, he helped build the famous Astoria Friday, Feb. 13. Full details fair, took place at St. Paul's Epis­ around-the-world Douglas Army of the get-together may be obtained copal church in Kansas City, Kan. planes. Shortly after the WAE- from Fred Atkinson, 4 West 43rd Helen came to TWA over 11 TAT merger in 1939, he went to St., New York City. years ago. She was born in Okla­ Kansas City with TWA and has been there ever since. OUR GOAL homa but raised and schooled in Emphasizing that IATA is a tech­ Kansas City, Kan. Her first boss The Jaques reside at 4144 War­ nical organization, Sir William Hildred, was Harlan Hull, superintendent wick, Kansas City, Mo. director general, said recently that "What we have to aim for is that a of Flying. Since that time, Helen Venezuelan pilot, flying an American names the following successive YEP. THERE IS A SANTA GLAUS — and this one is none other than KCOB's plane making a bad weather approach bosses: Otis Bryan, "Doc" Mesker, In one year TWA transmits a total of Lloyd Murphy, Main Stores' supervisor of Shipping. Lloyd didn't tell us what was to a Chinese airport where a Czech Swede Golien, George Rice, Bob over 100,000,000 words—the equivalent in the present he is offering Secretary Vera Quiroz. And why should he? We controller is operating a British land­ of 220 "Gone With the Winds"—over wouldn't have had our mind on our business either. That's a bell Miss Quiroz is ing device should feel as happy in the Buck, Phares McFerren and pres­ its communications circuits regarding holding, not the stem of a cocktail glass. cockpit as a baby in the cradle." ently Paul Frederickson. reservations. January 1, 1948 PAGE SEVEN SKYLINER TWA

Writers, Photographers Spend 'Quickie Vacation' In Phoenix With TWA Fifty writers and photographers, representing publications with a multi-million circulation, were kmdinisfl^kt guests of TWA recently on a "Quickie Holiday" vacation at Phoenix, Ariz. IT WAS THE NIGHT before Christ­ It was just like we say in our mas and old 17 with Capt. Dave Rich- "ads" . . . they boarded a Constella­ wine appeared on the scene. Well, any­ tion in New York, Chicago or Kan­ way, it was Christmas Eve, and as Fit. 17 left St. Louis for Kansas City, Dave sas City and several hours later were and First Ofc. Frank Dubbs felt in riding along Phoenix streets lined excellent spirits at the prospect of being with heavily burdened orange trees, home shortly. date palms or the tall saguaro cacti. As Dave tells it, everybody seemed Guests for Week-end to be happy and the ether crackled with glad tidings in typical American humor. For a full week-end, they were On 17's "off-bound," the LS tower feted at many of the various resorts, sang out with a "Merry Christmas!" including Camelback, Jokake inn, "And I heard him exclaim as he Casa Blanca, Paradise inn, the Wig­ PRIZE WINNERS in TWA's annual aviation writing and photographic contest drove out of sight, 'A Merry Christmas (STARLINER. Nov. 13) were guests of the Phoenix chamber of commerce and TWA to all and to all a good night!' " Dave wam, Hotel San Marcos and West­ at Arizona resort hotels recently. Awards to the winners were presented (above) quoted volubly in reply. ward Ho. at Paradise inn. Left to right in picture are: Dale Armstrong, vice-president Public "Say! Has anybody got a position Arranged by Dale Armstrong, Relations for TWA; JoLn H. Frederick, Irving Stone, Roger Williams. Robert Sibley, report on Santa Claus?" asked the tower. vice-president — Public Relations, Nathaniel F. Silsbee, Eric Bramley, William E. Black, James Strebig, John Baer, "Yeah," chimed in another voice on with cooperation of the Phoenix George Herrick, John Pagoria and Herb Schwartz. the tower frequency. "He just reported 200 miles northwest of Toronto and chamber of commerce and the C. of C, hailed it as "the greatest ence the pleasure of a winter vaca­ has a two hour delay." Phoenix resort owners' association, tion on the desert play-ground. "No! Not another cargo delay?" an­ the holiday climaxed an intensive thing that has happened to Phoenix other piped with feeling. in the Valley of the Sun." And C. E. Aid to Winter Loads "You're darned right!" cut in still promotional campaign staged by During a press conference, E. O. Van Ness, C. of C. president, ex­ another voice. "And it's a wonder they TWA to focus public attention on Cocke, vice-president—Traffic, dis­ didn't try to hang this one on ATC the Phoenix winter play-land. pressed the hope it would become closed that TWA's promotional ac­ (Air Traffic Control) too!" It was so successful that Lewis an annual affair in order that great tivities in the southwest were elim­ E. Haas, general manager of the WHO WON??? If winning by de­ numbers of writers could experi- inating the slump in our winter fault counts, then chalk one up for the load factor. He said the 26 daily KC Flight Engineer basketball team. TWA flights transport approxi­ The F/Es had their first game of the season with KC Reservations, and from mately 6,000 passengers to and from all reports it "twern't no tea party." Phcenix each month. Seems the lads from Resv. got the One of the highlights of the trip idea of putting the ball through the was the presentation of trophies, basket a little better. In fact by the half they were leading. But the game was plaques and cash awards to win­ called off at this time, reports being ners of prizes in TWA's annual that the Engineers were forgetting their writing and photographic contest. manners now and then and generally not J. R. inderrieden, Phoenix dis­ being too genteel. trict manager, his staff, and Bob The game is called basketball, not football, Engineers. Tsk, tsk! Burns, Dave Henes and Tom Lin­ ton, of the Phoenix chamber of CHRISTMAS DAY passengers aboard commerce publicity department, F 29 didn't lack for messages of good handled arrangements for Arm­ cheer and greetings for the approaching New Year, thanks to Capt. R. S. Simp- strong. Assisting aboard the air­ kins. On his flight record at 2:26 p.m. plane were twin hostesses Dorothy over Tucumcari, N. M., was this poetry and Doris DuVall; Gordon Gil- piece: "A Thought from the Captain— more, assistant to Armstrong; and, It is with great reluctance I see the old year go. There were so many things Public Relations Managers Ken to do, so much progress to show; but Fletcher, Tom Bell and Bob Helmer. now the New Year's coming—It's slow­ ly creeping in. We'll have to fight and A TIGHT FIT but Clayt Irwin, man­ struggle, but it's a good place to begin. ager of the CG Public Relations office, YEAR CLOSES WITH So let's look to the future and get this is squeezing through. Clayt's act was one thing straight—There will be big­ RECORD-BREAKING ger and better tomorrows, in good ol part of a "truth or consequences" game '48. Merry Xmas and Happy New at a CG TWA party recently. (See HOLIDAY BUSINESS Year." other pixs, page 7.) {Continued from Page 1) days in history, too," Cohu said. New York Area Personnel Fight Snowstorm "For six days during December we topped a 90% cargo load factor To Keep Up Operations at LG, NK Airports and the whole month will average {Continued from Page 1) better than 75%. We also did an the storm between Jackson Heights International. Although the long outstanding job of carrying the mail, and LG. instrument runway was kept open especially with our Constellation Some Stay at Terminal throughout the storm and work was equipment, since the fast airplanes Some solved the problem by stay­ begun clearing the taxiways as soon of some of our competitors were ing right in the terminal on Friday as the snow stopped, ramp space grounded. night, the worst night of the storm. was at a premium. TWA had to "The Constellations have turned Others gave up all hope of finding take turns with all the other lines in an outstanding performance dur­ rides and walked from two to four in using what space was available. ing the past month. We have a miles through the snow to arrive In all more than 600 flights were great airplane in the Connie, and at LG. cancelled by all air lines at LG; of a lot of credit is due to the TWA The end of the snowfall did not these only 16 east and 16 west­ people who keep her in shape. end TWA problems, especially at bound were cancelled by TWA. "The teamwork between Flight Saturday saw renewal of service, Planning, the Reservations depart­ of the year, traffic-wise. But we Sunday saw LG traffic returning to ment, and the Reservations Service are not going into them this year normal and by Monday operations Office in KC, in particular has been unprepared. We expect to have a were back to normal. excellent. With the cooperation of better than usual scheduled per­ From Don Springer at NK and all districts, our Teleflite reserva­ formance ratio, due in part to im­ Walt Smiley, Jerry Condon, Joe tions system is continually improv­ proved airport conditions and addi­ Clay and all the rest of the depart­ ing. tional alternate airports, especially ment heads at NK-LG have come "Our overseas operations didn't along the east coast. high praise for the loyalty and pay off too well during December "Sales Research department pre­ energy of their crews in Operations, because of general political and eco­ dicts that the load factor on our Traffic and Maintenance through­ nomic unrest in other countries. I DC-3 equipment is going down to out this worst snowstorm in New sincerely hope those conditions im­ around 50% during January, while York's history. In the hangars, at ORANGES GREW EVERYWHERE, or so it seemed to the Phoenix visitors. prove during 1948. the load factor on our Constellations the ticket counters, reservations In top picture. Dale Armstrong, vice-president of Public Relations, gallantly presents Prepare For Low Months will remain fairly high. For this switchboards and loading ramps one to each of twin hostesses Doris and Dorothy DuVall, E. O. Cocke, vice-presi­ "Now, about the next three reason, our Passenger Sales depart­ efficiency was as high as could pos­ dent of Traffic, is at right. In center picture a typical western square dance is in months of domestic operations. ment is stressing the need for sell­ sibly be during such a period of progress at Jokake inn. At bottom, the writers are pictured in the foreground being honored by a military review staged by troops at Williams field. Chandler, Ariz. January and February have tradi­ ing DC-3 seats in its January, Feb­ difficult conditions, was their gen­ An aerial demonstration by a squadron of P-80s and P-51s was part of the review. tionally been the two lowest months ruary and March campaigns." eral opinion.

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