TWM. Ethiopian Sign Three-Year Management Pad ADDIS ABABA—TWA has signed a new three-year contract to con­ tinue operation of Ethiopian Airlines, which is wholly owned by the Imperial Ethiopian government but has been operated by TWA since VOL. 16, NO. 31 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION JULY 30, 1953 it was organized in 1946. Ethiopian Airlines operates internally within Ethiopia and Eitrea and offers international service between Addis Ababa, Asmara, Nairobi, Cairo, Jidda, Aden, Khartoum and Port Sudan. It has a fleet of two Convair 240s, three DC-3s and five Volunteers So Sorry, C-47s. The new contract was signed Help Re-Kindle Blaze here by His Excellency Yij Lilma By John Van Enige Deressa, Ethiopian minister of com­ BALTIMORE — Otto R. Moesle, merce and industry and president master mechanic, was burning the of Ethiopian Airlines, and J. L. grass and weeds off his suburban Weller, vice-president of TWA. lot when the afternoon quietness Captain W. G. "Swede" Golien, was shattered by the wail of sirens 20-year TWA veteran, is general and noisy red fire trucks. manager of Ethiopian Airlines. Up roared the local Linthicum Other TWA representatives in the volunteer fire department. Every EAL management are: D. P. Reid, man jack rolled off the truck and sales manager; M. C. Zander, sec­ set about busily stomping out the retary-treasurer; V. H. Harrell, Jr., brush fire and quickly doused the operations manager; J. H. North- blaze. up, director of purchasing; and J. B. Ferris, director of mainten­ "No, no," Moe protested, "I'm trying to burn these weeds." ance. The volunteers apologized, help­ In commenting on the new con­ ed Moe start his fire again, and tract, Warren Lee Pierson, TWA's then roared off down the street chairman of the board, said that two blocks to answer the original this is part of TWA's own "Point alarm, a fire caused by an explo­ IV" program in giving technical sion. and management assistance to air­ K. C. Airport Agents To Try Out lines of other nations. Air transportation is particularly Service Charge Altered important in Ethiopia, a mountain­ On Braniff, Southwest Automatic Ticketing Machine ous country largely without surface NEW YORK—Service charge on transportation. KANSAS CITY—The answer to a ticket agent's dream may be just Southwest Airlines is $1.50 one around the corner—or rather, just under the counter. It's the Burroughs MacAndrews Dies in N.Y. Ethiopians have been trained for way, $3 roundtrip. Cashier's check flight and supervisory positions and "Ticketeer," pictured above on the left, which will soon be installed on an After Extensive Illness or money order must accompany experimental basis by TWA at the Kansas City airport counter. the aim of the program is that the applications. This charge is not Already in use by one airline and several railroads, the machine offers NEW YORK—James E. MacAn­ airline shall ultimately be operated refundable. No service charge will many features which reduce ticketing time to seconds and practically drews, 56, manager of customs and entirely by Ethiopian personnel. be made, however, on company eliminates errors in fare computa­ immigration, died July 23 after business or reduced rate transporta­ tions. Pre-stamped matrices show­ an extensive illness. Aerial Cake Featured on tion. ing the fare, broken down by tax Pullman Porter Converts MacAndrews joined TWA in 1945 in the operations department. TV Homemaking Show Braniff Airways has a service and total charge, between the city charge of $2.50 one way or $5 He became customs manager in ST. LOUIS — Eve DeMariano, where the machine is being used To Speedier Air Travel roundtrip between Kansas City and 1950. manager of food service, appeared and all other TWA locations are LAS VEGAS Agent Les Wood's Miami. This is an exception as inserted by the agent. The Ticketeer Before joining TWA he was recently on the television show, eyes popped out when a Union the service charge on all other then automatically issues the prop­ with the Scandinavian American "Wilma Sim's Homemaking." Braniff routes is $1.50 and $3. Pacific railroad porter briskly step­ Line, Anchor Line Ltd., and Fulton Miss Sims demonstrated the erly stamped ticket. ped up to the TWA counter and (13.19.04 in the manual.) P & I shipowners company. preparation of an icebox cake and purchased a ticket for Los Angeles. Provisions for interline ticketing MacAndrews is survived by a emphasized the fact that it's served are also included, according to Cliff The porter, Don King, was in sister. on TWA flights aloft. She inter­ Ireland, CAA, To Speak full Pullman attendant uniform, Mutchler, director of passenger and viewed Eve throughout the dem­ At Pilot's Safety Meet cargo service, who announced white coat, black cap and shiny BELL TO TRAVEL POST onstration. Those watching the TWA's plans to experiment with brass buttons. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Percy show were given first-hand infor­ KANSAS CITY—Airline pilots of the Ticketeer on the Kansas City Seems like he'd stepped across Bell, district sales manager, was mation on TWA's food service. the Kansas City area, numbering airport ticket office counters. the street from the railroad station elected vice-president of the New This show over station KSD-TV more than 400, sponsored a local South Wales Travel league at its air safety conference here Wednes­ Tickets requiring as many as to get a bite to eat and his train is one of the most popular in St. annual meeting last week. day and will hold a duplicate meet­ 15 coupons require only 20 seconds pulled out without him. Louis. ing tonight at the Hotel Phillips. to be completely issued and ac­ Guest speaker will be George W. counted for. An accounting tape in­ Ireland, chief of the air carrier side the machine records each sale safety branch, Civil Aeronautics by ticket number, routing, fare, Administration. tax and issuing agent's number. Captain L. Homer Mouden, Bran­ No longer will an agent have iff, general chairman of the con­ to look up a fare and fill in the ference, said the meetings are a ticket by pencil; he merely selects follow-up by the national air safety the proper destination matrix and forum conducted by airline pilots inserts it in the machine. Check­ in Chicago. out time at the end of a shift is also reduced with the aid of the "We are very proud of the fact automatic accounting tape. that the year ending June 30 was the safest in the history of the Properly installed in the counter, scheduled airlines," Captain Moud­ only the top part of the Ticketeer en said. "These conferences, which is visible. Professional models il­ are planned for the larger cities lustrate its use in the picture on throughout the country, are de­ the right above. signed to further promote the TWA's first experimental ma­ safety and reliability of air trans­ chine will be put into use about portation." Sept. 1 in Kansas City. After sev­ eral months' use, if it proves satis­ GERMAN LESSONS factory for TWA's needs, present NEW YORK—Helga Mueller, res­ plans call for installing the Ticke- ervations, is putting her native teers at most of TWA's airport SLASHED RIBBONS open the new Miami ticket office. Jack reservations agent, Dorothy Long, agent in charge. Bob Martin, regional sales director, wields the shears as the Burns, sales rep from Havana, Al Pereira, district sales knowledge of German to use; she's ticket counters and possibly at office staff looks on. From the left, others are Helen Spach, manager in Miami. The new TWA office is located on "air­ teaching German to language con­ many of the CTOs. secretary, Frank Nelson, reservations agent, Roseann Cliff, line row," rather than on the 13th floor as before. scious TWAers here. SKYLINER TKMW$ wwttP Antimn Tickets on Sale Sept. 1 August Service Honor Roll For K.C. Airlines Ball tOOKXKCL 20 Years M. I. Bickerstaff, E. D. Masters, CVG J. G. Armstrong, M. Laase, LAX Margrit Faure, KANSAS CITY—Tickets for the BRCKWKR- AMA G. P. Novotny, YIP MKC J. E. Carey, IDL Geneva D. R. Terry, IDL R. E. Kneller, FWA J. W. Pancoast, YIP N. J. Bell, DAY S. B. Corey, LGA Manuel Lena, Madrid first annual airlines ball, sponsored G. B. Oakley, ABQ M. M. Starrett, LAX J. H. Pearce, CVG R. J. Cunningham, K. L. Evans, IDL Selma Klein, Paris in the A. P. Tweeddale, J. J. Rebel, CVG CVG M. E. Monley, IDL Maurice Sitheon, by the TWA Employees club and 15 Years KCK C. G. Selch, Jr., E. Hoyt, LGA J. W. Parker, LGA Paris including all airlines in Kansas City, M. F. Barren, CHI J. A. Arnold, MKC DAY M. A. Janovich, IDL R. L. Dudgeon, OAK Michel Hirsch, Paris SKYLINER E. C. Twing, AMA T. E. Chappell, KCK C. A. Tudor, CVG P. T. Lafollette, MKC M. L. Baca, LAX Ernesto Mainetti, will go on sale Sept. 1. W. H. Martin, CMH H. Yocich, SFO M. Lawler, IDL R. D. Connelly, PIT Rome 10 Years E. E. Junge, PIT R. C. Carter, MKC B. J. Liquie, MKC L. J. Farley, SFO Anahid Baghdigian, The ball, to be held at the New J. H. Coleman, MKC H. E. Shaffer, DAY J. W. Eury, PIT J. L. McAtee, IDL L. Hampson, LAX Cairo Town House ball room, 4011 Twenty Years Ago H. W. Diekmann, Jr., H. W. Greiner, LGA F. E. Howell, Madrid A. C. Roda, IDL J. R. Landers, SFO Anselmo Barros, Harry Davis, stationed at Jack's MSP D.