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LOSEY WINS $1000 SUGGESTION AWARD P*1 ■ IT WAS A LITTLE THING but it meant a $1000 suggestion award to JAY LOSEY. The Overhaul base master mechanic shows his idea to ED CLAISSE, suggestion plan investigator at the base. Other pictures on page 2. Three Stations Open Range War Over On-Time, Cargo Mishandling Records By Gil Buvens Albuquerque—All unnoticed, a private little range war has been sweeping the southwest lately. TWAers from Amarillo, Wichita and Albuquerque are silently and bitterly fighting it out for recognition as the airline's best operating station. A combined "On-Time and Mishandling" contest has sort of "jest growed" Topsy-like among the three cities. Rules and regulations for the contest were formally set down on paper by Albuquerque Station Manager C. A. Williams a few weeks ago. But the dispute itself goes back to the time when two of the stations were jawing about how good each one was and the third jumped in and allowed (without smiling, yet) as how it could lick either one of them. Just which of the stations made this boast is now lost in the antiquity of last month's very important bulletins, but it little matters now. An unidentified spokesman at one of the three stations intimated, with about as much tact as a paper bag popper in a powder plant, that the three stations were settling the dispute among themselves because there is no doubt that the system championship belongs "somewhere in this area." Ahem! The contest opened April 1 on a complicated "point" basis which gives credit for on-time schedule performance and operation without mishandling. Representatives from each station met last week to iron out contest regulations. First prize will be an all metal Connie mounted on a base with the winner's name inscribed on the plaque. The runner-up will be the ashtray-size Connie mounted on the same size base—and for the cow's tail a tiny plastic Connie mounted on the same size base will be awarded. The trophies will go to the deserving stations on a monthly basis, with final possession at the end of the year determined upon total points won or lost since the start of the contest. Flight Crew Job In Co-Pilot Seat Offered TWAers Kansas City—TWA employees can now become co-pilots, too —if they meet the qualifications. TWAers previously have been offered the opportunity to fly as hostesses and flight engineers, but now, to round out the cockpit crew, they may qualify for the three-stripe uniform. Increased schedule and military requirements have made it necessary for TWA to employ dozens of additional first officers within the next few weeks. Any TWAer who feels that he comes close to the qualifications listed below should arrange immediately with his supervisor to complete an application blank and forward it to his regional industrial relations office (or to the system employment office, if he is based in the Kansas City staff departments ). Age: 22 to 27 years, inclusive. Height: 5-8 to 6-2, inclusive. Flight time: 800 hours first pilot, 1200 hours total. CAA instrument rating. Restricted radiotelephone permit, third class. Vision: 20-20 without glasses. Must be able to pass TWA screening tests and flight physical examination. It is also requested that employees encourage their friends or relatives who may approach these specifications to file an application at once. VOL. 14, NO. 16 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES' EMPLOYEES PUBLICATION APRIL 19, 1951 Two Masterminds Needed In Diamond Talent Merger Chicago—To present a united front to the world (of sports), Chicago's downtown and airport softball teams are merging this year. Last year neither outfit exactly set the local diamonds on fire. The joint TWA Chicago squad is undergoing spring training now and expects to open the city league season May 1 with a vigorous blow against Kleenex. The merger of talent on the diamond does not extend as far as the managerial bench. Co-managers are Sales Rep Mike Vaughan, who will direct the downtown TWAers on the field, and Transportation Agent Earl Le Baron, who will give signals for airport TWAers playing on the team. It is hoped that both managers will give the same signal at the same time or perhaps a more interesting contest will develop in the dugout than on the base paths. Maximum Payment Goes to Mechanic At Overhaul Base Kansas City—Jay Losey, 52-year-old master mechanic at the Kansas City Overhaul base, this week received $1000 for an idea, the largest award ever made in the history of the TWA suggestion plan. The presentation of his check was made Tuesday in the sheet metal shop at the Overhaul base by Losey's supervisor, Foreman ■ Ed Gideon. 'Travel at Yoi_r Own Risk' Is Financial Advice for Vacation Paris—It has been noted recently that several persons vacationing at stations other than their domicile are requesting travel or salary advances because they have not been able to travel as planned, advises Gerald R. Thornton, director of sales, European region. This situation is extremely embarrassing, not only for the individual employee, but for the office receiving the request, as it is impossible to grant a travel or salary advance under such circumstances. Travel advances can only be given when an employee is in possession of properly signed travel order forms and when he is on company business. Salary advances cannot be given at other than home stations due to exchange control regulations. Crowther Elected As President oi Los Angeles Club Los Angeles—H. W. "Hy" Crowther, Western region superintendent of maintenance, has been elected president of the Los Angeles Management club. Other officers chosen by members at the April 10 meeting of the club are: Assistant to District Sales Manager Tom McKibben, vice-president. Senior Sales Representative S. E. Burton, secretary. Chief Transportation Agent E. O. Biggs, treasurer. Master Engineer J. E. Guy, ser- geant-at-arms. Crowther and the other newly elected officers will be installed at the May 11 Management club meeting to which all wives and girlfriends of members are welcomed. General Ira Eaker has been invited to be the principal speaker at the May 11 meeting, scheduled for the Nikabob restaurant. Crowther succeeds Dexter Barrett, assistant to the regional sales director, as president of the Los Angeles Management club. Part of Losey's job is repairing and cleaning of exhaust collector rings from the 3350 BA engines. Each ring contains a ball socket for each cylinder as a flexible connector between the stub stack mounted on each cylinder of the engine and the collector ring mounted on the rigid structure of die power egg. It has been found that while in service the outer shell on the rear of the ball socket will flare, or peel back (see pictures on page 2). Exact cause of the flaring is not known but Losey suggested that a bead weld be placed around the end of the socket to seal the crevice between the inner and outer shells of the socket. Tests proved that the weld stopped the flaring, reducing the usage of the ball sockets by almost three- fourths. All On Hand Witnessing the presentation of Losey's award were Frank Busch, general operations manager, Ray Dunn, director of engineering and maintenance at the Overhaul base, Les Myers, manager of overhaul, Bill Neustrom, general foreman of sheet metal and fabrication, and Paul Day, manager of the suggestion plan. Busch later complimented the suggestion plan as a medium for tying company employees closer to management in making TWA a successful airline. "The suggestion plan award (Continued on Page 2) GREETING EACH OTHER according to the Indian custom are Mrs. Ranjit Rai, wife of the Delhi sales manager, and President RALPH S. DAMON on his recent trip abroad. In center is friend Mrs. Dutt. CAB Director To Speak At Management Meeting New York—James Verner, executive director of the Civil Aeronautics board, will be principal speaker at the April 24 meeting of the Management club. Mel Warshaw, director of schedules, will be the five-minute department speaker at the dinner meeting in the Hotel Shelbourne, Lexington Ave. & 37th St. TORE OF THE WEEK "Why has Grandma been reading the Bible so much lately?" "She's cramming for her finals."
Object Description
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Title | TWA Skyliner Magazine, 1951-04-19 |
Masthead | Skyliner: Tran World Airline Employees Weekly Publication |
Publisher | Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. Kansas City, Missouri |
Coverage | United States; Missouri; Kansas City |
Date | 1951-04-19 |
Year | 1951 |
Month | 04 |
Day | 19 |
Type | Serial (Periodical, Newspaper, etc.) |
Source.Original | State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City |
Source.Digital | State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City |
Subject | Trans World Airlines (TWA) Records |
Description | An archive of the TWA Skyliner magazine |
Rights | Public domain |
Volume | Vol. 14 |
Issue | No. 16 |
Format | Tiff; pdf |
Description
Title | TWA Skyliner Magazine, 1951-04-19_01 |
Masthead | Skyliner: Tran World Airline Employees Weekly Publication |
Publisher | Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. Kansas City, Missouri |
Coverage | United States; Missouri; Kansas City |
Date | 1951-04-19 |
Year | 1951 |
Month | 04 |
Day | 19 |
Type | Serial (Periodical, Newspaper, etc.) |
Source.Original | State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City |
Source.Digital | State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Kansas City |
Subject | Trans World Airlines (TWA) Records |
Description | An archive of the TWA Skyliner magazine |
Rights | Public domain |
Volume | Vol. 14 |
Issue | No. 16 |
Format | Tiff; pdf |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Date Digital | 2011-01-25/8:14 PM |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by Western Blue in Kansas City, MO. Archival image is an 8-bit color tiff that was scanned from original at 353 dpi. The original file size was 79.7 mb. |
Transcript | LOSEY WINS $1000 SUGGESTION AWARD P*1 ■ IT WAS A LITTLE THING but it meant a $1000 suggestion award to JAY LOSEY. The Overhaul base master mechanic shows his idea to ED CLAISSE, suggestion plan investigator at the base. Other pictures on page 2. Three Stations Open Range War Over On-Time, Cargo Mishandling Records By Gil Buvens Albuquerque—All unnoticed, a private little range war has been sweeping the southwest lately. TWAers from Amarillo, Wichita and Albuquerque are silently and bitterly fighting it out for recognition as the airline's best operating station. A combined "On-Time and Mishandling" contest has sort of "jest growed" Topsy-like among the three cities. Rules and regulations for the contest were formally set down on paper by Albuquerque Station Manager C. A. Williams a few weeks ago. But the dispute itself goes back to the time when two of the stations were jawing about how good each one was and the third jumped in and allowed (without smiling, yet) as how it could lick either one of them. Just which of the stations made this boast is now lost in the antiquity of last month's very important bulletins, but it little matters now. An unidentified spokesman at one of the three stations intimated, with about as much tact as a paper bag popper in a powder plant, that the three stations were settling the dispute among themselves because there is no doubt that the system championship belongs "somewhere in this area." Ahem! The contest opened April 1 on a complicated "point" basis which gives credit for on-time schedule performance and operation without mishandling. Representatives from each station met last week to iron out contest regulations. First prize will be an all metal Connie mounted on a base with the winner's name inscribed on the plaque. The runner-up will be the ashtray-size Connie mounted on the same size base—and for the cow's tail a tiny plastic Connie mounted on the same size base will be awarded. The trophies will go to the deserving stations on a monthly basis, with final possession at the end of the year determined upon total points won or lost since the start of the contest. Flight Crew Job In Co-Pilot Seat Offered TWAers Kansas City—TWA employees can now become co-pilots, too —if they meet the qualifications. TWAers previously have been offered the opportunity to fly as hostesses and flight engineers, but now, to round out the cockpit crew, they may qualify for the three-stripe uniform. Increased schedule and military requirements have made it necessary for TWA to employ dozens of additional first officers within the next few weeks. Any TWAer who feels that he comes close to the qualifications listed below should arrange immediately with his supervisor to complete an application blank and forward it to his regional industrial relations office (or to the system employment office, if he is based in the Kansas City staff departments ). Age: 22 to 27 years, inclusive. Height: 5-8 to 6-2, inclusive. Flight time: 800 hours first pilot, 1200 hours total. CAA instrument rating. Restricted radiotelephone permit, third class. Vision: 20-20 without glasses. Must be able to pass TWA screening tests and flight physical examination. It is also requested that employees encourage their friends or relatives who may approach these specifications to file an application at once. VOL. 14, NO. 16 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES' EMPLOYEES PUBLICATION APRIL 19, 1951 Two Masterminds Needed In Diamond Talent Merger Chicago—To present a united front to the world (of sports), Chicago's downtown and airport softball teams are merging this year. Last year neither outfit exactly set the local diamonds on fire. The joint TWA Chicago squad is undergoing spring training now and expects to open the city league season May 1 with a vigorous blow against Kleenex. The merger of talent on the diamond does not extend as far as the managerial bench. Co-managers are Sales Rep Mike Vaughan, who will direct the downtown TWAers on the field, and Transportation Agent Earl Le Baron, who will give signals for airport TWAers playing on the team. It is hoped that both managers will give the same signal at the same time or perhaps a more interesting contest will develop in the dugout than on the base paths. Maximum Payment Goes to Mechanic At Overhaul Base Kansas City—Jay Losey, 52-year-old master mechanic at the Kansas City Overhaul base, this week received $1000 for an idea, the largest award ever made in the history of the TWA suggestion plan. The presentation of his check was made Tuesday in the sheet metal shop at the Overhaul base by Losey's supervisor, Foreman ■ Ed Gideon. 'Travel at Yoi_r Own Risk' Is Financial Advice for Vacation Paris—It has been noted recently that several persons vacationing at stations other than their domicile are requesting travel or salary advances because they have not been able to travel as planned, advises Gerald R. Thornton, director of sales, European region. This situation is extremely embarrassing, not only for the individual employee, but for the office receiving the request, as it is impossible to grant a travel or salary advance under such circumstances. Travel advances can only be given when an employee is in possession of properly signed travel order forms and when he is on company business. Salary advances cannot be given at other than home stations due to exchange control regulations. Crowther Elected As President oi Los Angeles Club Los Angeles—H. W. "Hy" Crowther, Western region superintendent of maintenance, has been elected president of the Los Angeles Management club. Other officers chosen by members at the April 10 meeting of the club are: Assistant to District Sales Manager Tom McKibben, vice-president. Senior Sales Representative S. E. Burton, secretary. Chief Transportation Agent E. O. Biggs, treasurer. Master Engineer J. E. Guy, ser- geant-at-arms. Crowther and the other newly elected officers will be installed at the May 11 Management club meeting to which all wives and girlfriends of members are welcomed. General Ira Eaker has been invited to be the principal speaker at the May 11 meeting, scheduled for the Nikabob restaurant. Crowther succeeds Dexter Barrett, assistant to the regional sales director, as president of the Los Angeles Management club. Part of Losey's job is repairing and cleaning of exhaust collector rings from the 3350 BA engines. Each ring contains a ball socket for each cylinder as a flexible connector between the stub stack mounted on each cylinder of the engine and the collector ring mounted on the rigid structure of die power egg. It has been found that while in service the outer shell on the rear of the ball socket will flare, or peel back (see pictures on page 2). Exact cause of the flaring is not known but Losey suggested that a bead weld be placed around the end of the socket to seal the crevice between the inner and outer shells of the socket. Tests proved that the weld stopped the flaring, reducing the usage of the ball sockets by almost three- fourths. All On Hand Witnessing the presentation of Losey's award were Frank Busch, general operations manager, Ray Dunn, director of engineering and maintenance at the Overhaul base, Les Myers, manager of overhaul, Bill Neustrom, general foreman of sheet metal and fabrication, and Paul Day, manager of the suggestion plan. Busch later complimented the suggestion plan as a medium for tying company employees closer to management in making TWA a successful airline. "The suggestion plan award (Continued on Page 2) GREETING EACH OTHER according to the Indian custom are Mrs. Ranjit Rai, wife of the Delhi sales manager, and President RALPH S. DAMON on his recent trip abroad. In center is friend Mrs. Dutt. CAB Director To Speak At Management Meeting New York—James Verner, executive director of the Civil Aeronautics board, will be principal speaker at the April 24 meeting of the Management club. Mel Warshaw, director of schedules, will be the five-minute department speaker at the dinner meeting in the Hotel Shelbourne, Lexington Ave. & 37th St. TORE OF THE WEEK "Why has Grandma been reading the Bible so much lately?" "She's cramming for her finals." |