TWA Skyliner Magazine, 1965-10-25

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VOL. 28, NO. 22
OCTOBER 25,  1965
Rome Hosts
Fall Meeting
Rome—The annual International
region fall management meeting
took place in Rome October 22 and
more than 130 key management
members heard top company officials report on TWA's 1965 achievements and its plans for 1966.
President Tillinghast headed the
TWA delegation from the U. S.
He opened the morning session,
after which Raymond M. Dunn,
senior vice president and system
general manager, presented a report on 1965 operations. James
J. Kerley, senior vice president of
finance, gave a report on TWA's
financial progress this year. Schedules and a revenue forecast were
discussed by Russel K. Rourke, vice
president of system planning. The
1966 preliminary profit budget was
outlined by R. G. Oatley, assistant
controller-financial analysis.
Mr. Dunn presided over a discussion period which opened the
afternoon session. Presentations
were made by David J. Crombie,
vice president of industrial relations; Thomas K. Taylor, vice president of government affairs; John
R. Rarch, staff vice president of
industry association affairs; and
James W. Smith, staff vice president of data services.
President Tillinghast spoke at
the concluding dinner that evening.
Marketing division and finance
department meetings held October
21 were attended by director-level
personnel and district sales and
finance managers. International region DTMs and general foremen
attended a transportation division
meeting October 23.
TWAers Urged
To Buy Bonds
President Tillinghast has urged
the support of TWA employees
in the 1965 U. S. Savings Rond
campaign which goes into its stretch
drive beginning November 1.
"As an American citizen, I firmly
believe that sound management
of the public debt and its corollary,
a sound dollar, are of vital interest
to our nation," Mr. Tillinghast said.
He noted that he was "very much
aware" of the progress TWA employees have made in the past
two years, going from a participation in the Payroll Savings Plan of
four percent to 22 percent. In
Kansas City, where the drive is
already underway (Skyliner, September 13), the number of participants increased 50 percent this
year. More than one out of three
Kansas City employees are now
enrolled in the payroll savings plan.
"I hope the rest of the system
will do as well or better," Mr.
Tillinghast said. He has appointed
David J. Crombie, vice president
of industrial relations, to again head
the overall TWA campaign. Person-
to-person solicitation will be spearheaded by regional industrial relations  directors.
President Tillinghast is a member of the New York Industrial
Payroll Savings Committee, composed of 18 of the state's civic
leaders.
CCT Praises Clipped Wingers
For Program of Good Works'
New York—"When I view the work you are doing, I sometimes
wonder whether your name, 'Clipped Wings,' is a misnomer, because
your wings appear far from clipped," President Tillinghast told
members of Clipped Wings International at a luncheon on the final
day of their biennial convention held October 4-7 in New York.
"I am pleased over the work you are doing and the energy with
which you pursue it; and I salute you for your determination to
      spread your 'clipped wings'  even
A ROSE IS A ROSE . . . Three TWA hostesses beautifully frame a beautiful
bouquet of roses in the Paris CTO during a recent exhibition commemorating the first "Week of the Rose" in the French capital. Inge Heyn, Waltraud
Sanft and Gudrun Vosskamp (L-R) appeared before newspaper photographers and television cameras covering the display of more than 3,000
roses in 12 varieties.
TWAer#s Top Thrill
Knock on Flight Deck Door:
Pope Wanted to Say Hello
Kansas City—The top thrill of Larry Gallemore's 23-year TWA
career came in the early hours of October 5 high above the Atlantic
when Pope Paul VI knocked on the flight deck door to say hello.
"We were several hours out of New York," he recalled for
hometown newsmen, "when there was a knock at the door. Someone
tapped me on the back and I turned around to see it was an aide
who said the Pope wished to meet us."
Mr. Gallemore, supervisor of ground radio energy at MCI, was
on board to operate and monitor
the high-frequency radio transmission equipment used by newsmen
for live broadcast from the rear of
the aircraft to ground relay stations in the U. S. and Europe. It
was a complex task for which he
received the plaudits of the press.
Mr. Gallemore also designed the
hookup which permitted transmission from the rear of the plane.
He said Pope Paul spent several
minutes on the flight deck and presented crew members with a
bronze medallion commemorating
his trip, several Vatican stamps denoting the occasion and a personal
handwritten note from the Pontiff.
Mr. Gallemore was notified of
his selection for the flight about
two weeks in advance. On September 29 he first met with newsmen
to work out arrangements for pooling radio coverage during the flight
to Rome.
He spent the entire flight in the
cockpit. His busiest times were the
first two hours and the last two and
a half hours when transmission was
feasible because of atmospheric
conditions. The FCC and Italian
government had granted special
permission for the broadcast setup.
(Photos on Pages 4-5)
All-Air Service
In 35th Year
Today (October 25) is the 35th
anniversary of the first all-air service coast to coast.
TWA inaugurated the service
with a fleet of Ford Tri-Motors.
Dubbed the "Tin Goose," the Ford
was the last word in air travel.
Lumbering along at 110 mph, it
spanned the continent in 36 hours,
including an overnight stop at Kansas City because night flying had
not yet been mastered.
Before that, the trip took 48
hours. Passengers flew by day and
transferred to trains by night.
In the intervening years, the
airlines have knocked 43 hours off
coast-to-coast travel time—a reduction averaging one hour and 12
minutes a year. TWA's StarStream
jetliners now make the trip in five
hours or less.
The fare has shrunk dramatically,
too. In the air-rail days the oneway fare was $351.94. In the Ford
Tri-Motor all-air days, it was $200,
plus $3.50 for the hotel.
Transcontinental coach fare today is $145.10 plus five percent
federal tax.
For the sixth consecutive
year, the board of directors of
the TWA Club Credit Union
has declared a five percent dividend. Details of the annual
review   will  be   reported   later.
wider," he told the group of former
TWA hostesses.
In paying special tribute to the
charitable work performed by the
international organization, Mr. Tillinghast noted that he is "impressed
by your efforts to aid in the fight
against cystic fibrosis, cancer, cerebral palsy and other scourges of
mankind; your student scholarships
and financial aid to families in
need. Your work in Greece, giving
nourishment, education and hope
to an underprivileged youngster, is
especially heartwarming. Indeed,
this program of good works, on a
global basis, befits the heritage of
the hostess corps of a leading and
world-ranging airline."
Mr. Tillinghast referred to TWA's
turn-around of the past five years
as "an exciting story of dedication
and hard work," and pointed out
that "it is a story in which TWA
hostesses, past and present, can
take justifiable pride, because you
have been very much a part of it."
A convention highlight was the
presentation of Clipped Wings'
first Man-of-the-Year award to J.
E. Frankum, vice president of transportation. Honorary memberships
were accorded Mr. Frankum; President Tillinghast; Gordon Gilmore,
vice president of public relations;
and John E. Harrington, staff vice
president of customer service.
New officers who will guide the
organization for the next two years
were installed at the final luncheon.
Ruth Hanwell of Caldwell, New
Jersey was elected international
president. Serving with Mrs. Hanwell are Lucky Kapanka of Huntington, New York—executive vice
president; Edith Cassidy of Wil-
mette, Illinois—second vice president; Jane Bender of Arlington
Heights, Illinois—third vice president; and Mary Norsell of Manhattan Beach, California — secretary-
treasurer.
San Francisco will be the site
of the next convention in 1967.
SCENE AT FIUMICINO AIRPORT as the Pope walked down a red carpet
flanked by an honor guard of Italian carabinieri.
High Court Bars
Toolco Appeal
Washington—A Supreme Court
action October 11 removed the
possibility that the Hughes Tool
Company could regain control of
TWA without a full public hearing
by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The Court denied a request by
the Tool Company to hear an appeal of a lower court decision which
upset an order of the CAB issued
on July 10, 1964. The CAB had
ruled that Toolco could regain control of TWA upon divestiture of
its control of Northeast Airlines.
TWA appealed the CAB decision
to the Federal Court of Appeals
and the CAB order was set aside.
This is the decision which the
Supreme Court refused to review.