TWA Skyliner Magazine, 1953-01-29

              CHICAGO'S NEW HANGAR was dedicated Friday during an
inspection tour by members of the board of directors. Civic officials
participated in brief ribbon cutting ceremonies at the  55th street
entrance. The TWA hangar took nearly a year to complete. On
the second floor are flight crew offices and administration offices.
The hangar, valued a   $3  million, contains 36,000 square feet of
floor space, can house four Connies or six Martins. TWA will continue to lease space on 63rd street, the airport's south boundry, for
use as an air freight hangar.
VOL. 16, NO. 5
HANS WORLD AIRLINE!   EMPLOYEE PUBLICAT1
JANUARY 29, 1953
Jordan To Head
Production Unit
At Overhaul Base
Kansas City—The planning
and schectuling section at the Overhaul base will be consolidated with
the overhaul section to form a new
production section with Al Jordan
as manager.
Jordan formerly was manager of
the overhaul section. Bill Neff,
former manager of planning and
scheduling, becomes assistant manager of production.
The change in organization is
effective Feb. 1. It has been made
to achieve maximum efficiency in
the operation of the engineering
and maintenance department, according to Ray Dunn, director.
The following changes in assignment have been made to effect the
new organizational setup.
T. E. Burdette becomes superintendent of production control. D.
E. Basore replaces Burdette as supervisor of project planning.
Other changes at the Overhaul
base are: K. J. Holdsworth to hangar general foreman. D. F. Kraus to
assistant general foreman, line
maintenance. Hugh Temple and C.
D. Schneider to assistant general
foreman, hangar.
O. M. Olson, formerly assigned
duties as assistant to manager of
overhaul, will become general foreman of upholstery, paint and fleet
service, replacing R. W. Lichten-
berger, who becomes a foreman in
sheet metal shop.
W. H. Swartwood will continue
to supervise the advanced hangar
planning unit for the production
section.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
The golf pro was frying to explain
the fine points of the game to this
sweet young thing. "It's basically simple," he said. "You just smack the pill,
then walk."
AFTER 9,200 MILES, a wedding. The bride and groom, center, Dorothy Loner-
gan and John B. Jouvenat, TWA sales rep in Dhahran, finally got together in
Frankfurt for their wedding. On the left is Ethel Rindfuss and right Ken Farley,
both of TWA's Frankfurt sales office, bridesmaid and best man.
Love Laughs at Barrier >
To Wedding Ceremony
Frankfurt—Because of the lack of Christian religious ceremonies in
Saudi Arabia, a TWAer and his fiancee had to get married in Frankfurt
recently. Only thing, the bridegroom, Jack Jouvenat, sales rep, was in Los
Angeles when the couple decided to take the final step.
Sounds involved? Well, it is.
The bride is United States WAF Captain Dorothy Eileen Lonergan,
based in Saudi Arabia. Jouvenat is    ______________________________________
"Oh," she  giggled,
dates I've been on."
'just  like  some
a former air force lieutenant and
now a senior sales rep in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia.
But, the pair said, they could not
get married in Saudi Arabia because
no Christian religious ceremonies
are held in that country. Jouvenat
just happened to be in Los Angeles
on a stateside vacation when the
couple had a brilliant idea: Why
not have Dorothy fly outside Saudi
Arabia to meet Jack for the wedding?
So they decided to meet in Frankfurt for the ceremony.
Dorothy flew some 2,800 miles
from Saudi Arabia to Frankfurt—
Jouvenat traveled the 6,400 miles
from Los Angeles to Frankfurt—
and the couple arrived at Rhein
Main airport within two hours of
each other.
The two were married in a ceremony held in the historical Frankfurt city hall. Witnesses were Ethel
Rindfuss and Kenneth Farley of
the local TWA sales office.
HOLIDAY FEBRUARY 23
Sunday, February 22, George Washington's birthday, is a recognized legal holiday for all TWA employees
based within the continental limits of
the United States. Because that date
falls on a Sunday, the following day,
Monday, February 23, will be observed
as the holiday.
Top Management
Answers Queries
Al Panel Night
KANSAS City—Officers and department heads of TWA were bombarded with questions on all phases of the company's operations January
19 as the Kansas City Management club conducted its top management
question-and-answer panel.
Taking the brunt of the more than a score of questions asked by club
members was TWA President R. S. Damon. Others on the panel were
John  A.  Collings,  executive vice- _
Agents at Freight
Clinic Probing
New Sales Trend
president, D. W. Harris, industrial
relations vice-president, Gordon
Gilmore, public relations vice-president, Thomas K. Taylor, vice-pres
'ideiit, George Clay, corporate secretary, J. L. Weller, vice-president and
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Time Marches On, But
Dazed Non-Rev Doesn't
By Audre Vourlis
San Francisco — It seemed
more like a beautiful California
morning rather than a blustery
Kansas City wintry day when Tommy Lipps, reservations agent, stepped off the TWA Connie last week.
As a matter of fact, Tommy was
in California, just a hop-skip-and-
jump from where she had started—
and not at all in Kansas City, her
destination.
For a moment she might have
thought that was the Golden Gate
bridge spanning the Kaw river.
Here's what happened. Tommy
hopped on Flight 10 in San Francisco and popped a sleeping pill in
her mouth to help pass the time
en route to Kansas City. But the
flight barely got started when it
had to return to Oakland account
mechanical.
All onboard deplaned—except
Tommy. She snoozed on peacefully
despite efforts of her traveling companion, Res Agent Barbara Bassett,
to rouse her.
So Tommy was left sleeping in
the plane and all departed. Next
morning out steps Miss Lipps,
wondering what the score was. "At
least the ground service crew was
kind enough to dust me off with
the rest of the equipment," she
commented.
Shortly thereafter the plane was
ready to go and all passengers
climbed aboard again. Tommy enjoyed a beautiful daylight flight to
Kansas City.
New York —TWA's four-day
air freight clinic here is being attended by 25 TWA agents from the
states and abroad.
The clinic, which opened Tuesday, is giving considerable attention to the development of selling
patterns for air freight as applied
to specific industries.
Participants are reviewing what
has been done in the field and the
potentialities for further development in the various countries served
by TWA. It is the first time in
many years that the line has held a
conference devoted exclusively to
the subject of air freight.
As in the case with most airlines,
air freight constitutes but a small
percentage of the total volume, but
it is continually growing.
TWA reported a rise of about
10% in revenue from domestic air
freight operations in 1952 and an
increase of about 18% overseas.
The 1953 goal is a jump of 15%.
Revenue ton miles for air freight
in the domestic service was nearly
16 million last year, up 5%. In
international service the total was
a shade over 7 million, an 8% gain.
First Colombo Flight
To Leave NY Tuesday
New York—TWA's first scheduled flight extending the route
from Bombay to Colombo will leave
New York Tuesday. Ceremonies
here, at Bombay and Colombo will
celebrate the inaugural.
The CAA certificate into Co-
lumbo permits daylight operations
only for the time being, resulting
in a schedule change. Flight 904
will now depart Bombay on Thursdays at 11:10 a.m., arriving at 3:10
p.m. The return flight, No. 905,~
will depart Fridays at 4:30 p.m.