Visit To See His Pretty Co-Ed Girl Friend Leads Agent From Rome to ...

GRAND CANYON te rminal burns. A gaunt chimney is all
that remains of TWA's building at Grand Canyon, which
w as recently destroye d in a 4 a.m. blaze. Verne Carrothers,
station manage r, reports the terminal a total loss. but no
injuries were suffered. A 21·inch snow blankets the remains
of the one-time log cabin landmark on TWA's route. A
temporary structure will re place the burned out terminal.
Photo by Charlie Lundblad.
VOL. 15, NO. 13 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION MARCH 27, 1952
Inllation Forces
Domestic Airlines
To Hike Fares $1
NEW YORK-In an effort to offset
rising COSts, TWA and most of
the other domestic airlines are increasing
local and joint first class
and domestic tourist fares one dollar
and eliminating the discounts on
roundtrips, circle trips and open
jaw trips.
TWA, AAL, CAP, CAL, NW A,
PAL and W AL expect to eliminate
the discounts and make the increases
applicable to their local
fares effective April 16, 1952.
C&S, DAL, EAL, NAL and NEA
are planning for an effective date
of April 27th for both their local
increases and discount elimination:
The dollar increase will also
apply to joint fares. However, because
of the mechanical problems
involved in ad justing joint fares it
is anticipated that the new joint
fares will not become effective
much before the first of May.
Domestic sky tourist and coach
fares are also being increased one
dollar except for the $99 transcontinental
fare and the various coach
fares within the State of California.
No change will be made in the
family plan nor the free and reduced
transportation for travel
agents and tour conductors.
Brussels Wins Again in
European Sales Contest
BRUSSELS-Still forging ahead in
Round Two of the European sales
contest is the Benelux district,
leading contender for the sales
crown. They ended the second round
57.43 % above quota.
The other B team contenders are
Scandinavia, Morocco, Algiers,
Portgual and Ireland. Official
scorekeeper of the match is European
Sales Director Gerald Thornton.
Proxy Wedding Climaxes
Long Distance Romance
LAS VEGAS - A romance that
started in 1944 was culminated
Monday when Joy Slade of Porrsmouth,
England, was married by
proxy to Kelton "Tex" Ritter, senior
ground station radio operator here.
Tex first met Joy in Chedborough,
England, when he was
with the air force, attached to a
RAF unit as a radar technician.
Joy was in the W AAF as a van
driver. They have kept up a con­
Stant correspondence-with Tex
proposing by phone last winter.
They have seen each other only
once since the war when Tex made
a flying trip by TWA to visit her
in May, 1949.
Joy will 3rrive in New York on
April 3 (Flight 961), her first airplane
ride. Tex will meet her in
New York and both will fly back
to Las Vegas for a real wedding
ceremony in the Little Church of
the West at the Last Frontier hotel.
The couple·will make their home
at first in a house trailer, and later
on plan to move to a five-acre
ranch near Las Vegas, which Tex
is now homesteading.
Visit To See His Pretty Co-Ed Girl Friend
Leads Agent From Rome to Moscow (Idaho)
(Ed. note. The following is a condensation of an article which appeared in the
Daily Idahonian. It was written by Lois Bush.)
Moscow, IDAHO-',]ust friendship," smiled Marcello Rossi when
asked why he flew 7000 miles to visit Helen Daniels, a pretty university
co-ed.
Marcello, a resetvations agent at Rome, met Helen 2Yz years ago when
she spent twO weeks in Rome during a summer students' tOur of Europe.
Then letters flew back and forth and Marcello decided to visit this country.
"I've heard so much about your
country," he said, "and I'm not
disappointed." And why should he
be? During his visit at the university
Marcello was the only male
guest for dinner at the Alpha Chi
Omega sorority house. Then Helen
had him to a house dance Saturday
night and her sorority sisters gave
him an autOgraphed picture so he
won't forget them.
Marcello was a guest at the Delta
Chi fraternity house during his
week-long stay at the campus, and
was able to see a cross section of
university life. Discussing the coeds,
he said American girls are
more friendly and less romantic
than in Italy. He said there is no
drastic difference between Italian
and American men.
Marcello is paying his own ex-
penses on his month-long vacation
trip to the United States. He flew
from Italy, arriving at Moscow via
Geneva, Paris, Ireland, Newfoundland,
New York, San Francisco, and
Boise. On the way home he stopped
to visit Helen's parents at Malad,
Idaho, and then saw Los Angeles,
Hollywood, Baltimore, and Wash.
ington, D. C.
Marcello, blond and blue-eyed,
was born in Rome and has lived
there all his life. He speaks English
in a soft voice with just a hint
of an accent. He told Helen's
friends, "I studied English in school
for five years. When I speak English,
I think in English."
Marcello has been with TWA for
four years.
CAB Examiner Becommends
Permanent Boutes to Cairo
WASHINGTON-If the President of the United States and the Civil
Aeronautics board adopt the recommendations of Chief Examiner Francis
W. Brown, TWA will be awarded permanent operating certificates
through to Cairo, Egypt.
Temporary authorizations, as proposed by the chief examiner, would
apply to London and Frankfurt; that segment of TWA's route between
Tunis and Cairo, via Tripoli and
Bengasi; and that portion of
TWA's route beyond Cairo, Basra,
Dhahran, Bombay and Ceylon.
It was recommended that five
year certificates be issued for these
routes, and that no route change
be made eaSt of Bombay pending a
decision in the Pacific route renewal
case next year.
In addition, recommendation was
made that TWA be given traffic
rights at the Azores for a five-year
period, and permanent rights to
operate from Tunis to Rome.
Specific Recommendations
The specific recommendations
contained in Brown's report were:
(1) That public convenience and
necessity require twO U. S. flag
carriers across the North Atlantic
and that, with certain exception,
present temporary authority should
be made permanent.
(2) That public convenience and
necessity require extension of Pan­
American's authori ty for Paris and
Rome, for five years, and TWA's
authority to serve London and
Frankfurt, also for five years.
(3) That TWA should be authorized
to serve the Azores.
(4) That Pan American should
be authorized to serve Casablanca
on a route between Lisbon and
Dakar until the expiration of PAA's
South African certificate.
( 5) That Pan Ametican should
be authorized to serve Nice, France,
for five years.
(6) That extensive route modification
proposed by TWA is not
required at this time.
(7) That decision with repect to
service east of Calcutta be deferred
for consideration with renewal of
authorization granted in the Pacific
case and the Northwest application
for an extension of its trans­
Pacific certificate.
In his report, the chief examiner
upheld the position of TWA with
respect to the many handicaps confronting
a carrier with temporary
certificates while its chief competitOr
enjoys permanent rights to major
traffic centers. At the same
time, the chief examiner lauded
TWA for its outstanding performance
record.
Praises TWA Job
Referring to the commencement
of TWA's overseas service, he said,
in part, "There can be no doubt that
TWA did an excellent job in the
development of this service ... in
the light of adverse conditions
abroad and during a period of unrest
following the close of the war."
The chief examiner was inclined
to attach little significance to the
claims made by Pan American that
a reduction of close to $7 million
dollars in mail pay requirements
had resulted from PAA's purchase
of American Overseas Airline. He
pointed out that for the year ending
Sept. 30, 1950, P AA and AOA
received $13 ,845 ,004 in the form
of mail payments. For the year
ending Sept. 30, 1951, payments to
Pan American alone totaled $13,-
635 ,536.
This figure represented only
$200,000 less than that amount received
jointly by P AA and AOA
before the merger. Thus, the chief
examiner submitted, "It cannot be
said that there has been any actual
savings in mail pay."
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Hostess: "And what do you think of
the Grand Canyon?"
Passenger: ". think U's just gorges. u
Razzle Dazzle Campaign
Doesn't Impress Mailman
FRANKFURT-Strong advertising
men will probably cry at this one.
Pan American World Airways
has been shooting the works in an
ad campaign plugging P AA as "The
world's most experienced airline."
All the StOps have been pulled
out, newspapers, radio, billboards,
etc., etc. The campaign is in full
swing on this side of the Atlantic,
probably more so than in the
United States.
So last week a letter addressed
simply to "The World's Most Experienced
Airline" was quickly delivered
to-TWA's District Operations
Manager Bill Chambers.
After noting contents, Bill smilingly
delivered it-personally.
Hostess To Sing Lead in
Victor Herbert Operetta
Los ANGELES-Hostess Lois Sellman,
petite and channing, will star
.as Fifi in Victor Herbert's M'lle
Modiste opening a three-day run
here tomorrow night.
Lois is making her third appearance
for the South Bay Light Opera
company since arriving on the west
coast a year ago. She had a supporting
role in Rosalinda, and then
sang the lead role in Rio Rita.
M'l/e Modiste will be presented
at the Redondo high school auditOrium
March 28-30.
Tickets for the performances may
Photo by Johnny· Johnson
be purchased at the door or by calling
Mary Bullock, regional chief
hostess, at OR 82181.
Hostess Sellman recalls that just
prior to her appearance in Rio Rita
she had as a passenger Jerome
Hines, Metropolitan opera baritone
He later came to the show and,
after the performance, came backstage
to congratulate her.

SKYLINER
QUIZ PROGRAMS. JEEPS AND PRETTY GIRLS headline the
world of TWA pictures today. Taking a quick look. we see:
(1) and (2) NEW YORK: A one-day slop-over gives Hostesses
Joan Fish and Marilyn Markham (Kansas City) a chance to ";'in
$200 on ABC's " Break the Bank," Shown is Quizmaster Bud Collyer.
In second photo, Bill Noonan, assistant station manager at Idlewild.
bids farewell to Lincoln MacVeagh, newly appointed United
States ambassador to Spain.
(3) LISBON: Suggestion plan checks are presented. Jerry Condon.
operations manager, hands check to Easy D'Aquino. ticket agent.
That's Gabriela Nogueira in middle. And on right. Ralph Lezameta.
ticket agent. receives his check from Ray Kohler. sales manager.
with Felice Levy observing, The agents split the awara for a new
method of assessing excess baggage charges.
(4) and (5) MADRID: When carpenter Jose Lopez builds a work
bench- it takes almost the entire staff to move it into the shops.
Top. giving a hand. in front. are Alberto Lopez. Frank Carcereny.
a 9uest (?). Pedro Alonso. Joaquin Alonso. In back. Antonio
Bolanos. Dick Seiler. Pete Guyer, Jose Martin. another guest. Lucky
some outsiders are handy at moving time. In bottom photo. No. 5.
is seen carpenter Lopez. with another example of his art. the
station jeep. boarded in for protection from the weather.
(6) WICHITA: End 01 a journey is reached by Mrs. Chun Yuen
March 27, 1952
Gee and her three children. who flew into Wichita via TWA to
rejoin her husband. a flight line inspector at Boeing Airplane Co.
and a former mechanic for the famed Flying Tigers of pre·Pearl
Harbor. Shown are Joe Spence. copilot: Ed Greene. flight engineer:
Ada. 9; Mr. and Mrs. Gee: Jar Bing. 4: Jar Bee. 8: and Dottie
Marian. hostess.
(7) LOS ANGELES: Western region station managers meet. Shown
around the table from the lett. arf'! Parks Gilmore, Glenn HalL Dex
Barrett. Bob Montgomery. John Clemson. Doug Stockdale. Tom
McKibben. Standing, Al Franklin. Doc Payne, John HaskelL Paul
Duggan, John Winchell, Jim Frazier. Dick Inderrieden. Herb Stancil.
Pierre Desautels. Buck Riordan, Frank Donant. John Logan. Reay
Jones. Henry Fellows, Terry Bonnie, Bill Fritz. and Paul Markman.
(8) PITTSBURGH: And now we switch to an Atlantic region sales
managers' meeting. First row, John Brock. Clara McGregor, Walt
Coyle. Jack Martin. L. F. Koster. A. J. Pereira. Robert Smelzer,
Mert Nason. Second row. W. W . Sponsler. John Gelm. Jack Forsyth.
J. H. DeRevere. Glenn Wise. Ken Fletcher. Jim Wulpi. Carl Fink·
beiner, Jack Clifford.
(9) SAN fRANCISCO: On time all the way around the world.
That's the good news being heard by Joe Morris. agency sales
rep. Adelaide McCrea. reservations. and Jon Vincent Braga of
Thomas Cook & Sons. They are readinq a report on a recently
;;ZWA
concluded globe girdling tour taken by a San Francisco couple. who
, advise that they had no schedule changes and no delays.
(10) PHOENIX: Arizona's governor Howard Pyle presents a state
plaque to be mounted in TWA's Star of Arizona. Accepting the
plaque are David Shearer. regional governmental affairs representa·
tive. and J. D. Inderrieden. district sales manager.
(1I) INDIANAPOLIS: A IS·year pin :eremony calls lor hand·
shakes. Shown are Bob KaiI. sales manager. looking on as Ed
Kammerer. station manager. gets his pin. Assistant Station Mana.
ger Ken McGaha watches Cliff Abbott. regional operations director.
offer congratulations.
(12) and (I3) FRANKfURT: Captain Russell Dick escorts German
pilot Dieter Pfeifer. 5. through customs a s part of a " make-believe"
flight for the youngster. In next photo. W . C. Vanderley of Paris
comes to Frankfurt to help out temporarily in the accounting depart·
ment. He is met by Albrecht von Meister. sales rep. and Hermann
Rogowski, senior accountant.
(l4) CAIRO: One of TWA's top·notch public relations offices is run
by Hassan EI Samra. shown dictating to Secretary Rita Messara.
(15) and (16) JAMAICA: At the popular Tower Isle hotel are seen
Hostesses Jeanne Chambers and Helen Kittle (Kansa s City). enjoy·
ing a dip in the pool, and Jan Marsh Malkiewicz. Chicago reserva·
tiona alient. helpinq out three of the island's calypso singers.
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