TWA Skyliner Magazine, 1951-04-19

              LOSEY WINS $1000 SUGGESTION AWARD
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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."