The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 96, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 13, 1960 Page: 5 of 12
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•HOTS UNHAPPY ABOUT
COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
By CHARLES STAFFORD
AF NewsfwUure, Writer
An airline pilot in retirement is
like an eagle with clipped wings.
He no longer flies, nor is he con-
tent to walk. He’s restless. -
“I go fishing far striped Imus
and 1 go deer hunting, but you
can’t fish and hunt all the time.
I’m going to have to figure out
something to do," says S. E.
Robbins of Palo Alto, Calif., two
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years in retirement after 40 years
of flying.
“I never knew anything but fly-
ing. It was sheer pleasure for me
and I was well paid. When you
start looking around no one wants
a guy over SO."
There are few guidelines for
men like Robbins.
With an average age of 38
among the 19,000 airline pilots in
the United States, fewer than 75
have landed in the pladd life of
retirement.
A check with 30 typical retired
airmen across the nation gives
this picture:
Three are still flying, but none
has gone flying off Into the Alaska
hush. None Is flying contraband
to revolutionaries in South Amer-
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ica. Life has grown too comfort-
able for such escapades.
A dozen have gone into new en-
terprise*: as aviation consultants,
service station operators, cattle
and cotton farmers, real estate
salesmen and managers, motel
and dude ranch proprietors
The rest are traveling, fishing,
hunting, doing woodwork in the
basement or restoring old cars in
the garage, building midget rac-
ers and playing golf. Several, like
Robbins, are looking for some-
thing to do..............—
Many are bitter.
Last year, the Federal Avia-
tion Agency set a mandatory re-
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tirement age of 60 for air!
lots. The order, effective Mar
15, pushed many pilots—the esti-
mates range from 40 to 60—into
retirement who had expected to
be flying until they were 65.
There never has been proof
that pilot age was a factor in
airline accident, said E. R. Que-
sada, the FAA administrator. But,
he added, ‘‘The regulation Is based
on medical facts that clearly es-
tablish that sudden incapacitation
due primarily to heart attack and
strokes becomes significantly
mare frequent in any group
Creeping Unemployment Problem Faces Kennedy
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP>-
The skillet-shaped shadow of West
Virginia looms oppressively over
■MMMM' - week
Washington this
It’S a symbolic shadow, repre-
senting the challenge President-
elect John F. Kennedy and his
special citizens' committee face
jn tryiiig to halt creeping unem
plovmant throughout the nation
amt to revitalize its economically
depressed areas.
The citizens’ committee, a task
an Important role In Kennedy's
revitalization program
TV state is an Ideal guinea pig.
Its unemployment woes are rep-
resentative of the majority of de-
pressed area pockets — a labor
force of 21 business, labor, scho-
lastic and government representa-
tives, \vas appointed by Kennedy
two weeks ago. The members
held their organization meeting
here last Friday.
They plan to convene again in
Washington Wednesday, Thursday
ami Friday to draw- up some
measures which Kennedy can aM
on soon after he takes the oath
on Jan. 20.
West Virginia Is certain to play spring for the presidential
force left stagnant by changing
economic conditions and shifting
markets.
There’s a personal reason, too.
When Kennedy was wagig a
Ufe-or-death campaign here last
■M' ' nomina-
tion (“If I can’t win here, I don’t
deserve the nomination'’), ha
pledged he would take quick, posi-
tive action to correct West Vir-
ginia's economic Ills.
The citizens committee has as-
signed itself six all-inclusive sub-
jects, such as world trade and
industry Inducements. One of the
six subjects Is, simply, “West
Virginia."
TRY SUN CLASSIFIED
'BOf! J wish i ooup sue A'67 coMssieis
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reaching age 60,
C, N. Sayen, president of the
Air Line Pilots Association, which
has 17,000 members, contends that
“existing regulations already pro-
vide compulsory retirement, far" a
pilot who .cannot meet current
standards, whether this occurs at
30, 45, 60, or 65.”
Island In Bahamas
Is Tax-Free Oasis
But Quesada's ruling was up-
held in federal court
It hit the older pilots in the
pocketbook. They are retired, but
not eligible for social security un-
til 65. The pension plans, which
about two-thirds of the air-
lines now provide, are too imma-
ture to provide much income. The
first was negotiated in 1955.
Some airlines have increased
the pension payments in recogni-
tion of the pilot’s long service,
And many of the men have in-
come from investments. But it’s
FREEPORT, Grand Bahama
Island (API—On this subtropic
island only a commuter's hop
from Palm Beach, Fla., a tax-
free oasis Is being offered to up the Grand Bahama Port Au-
American business men and in-
dustrialists.
Freeport was created five years
ago under the most liberal deal
with the British Empire since the
Hudson’s Bay Co. was handed a
trade monopoly and legislative,
executive and judicial power over
all of Canada.
Wallace Groves, former New
a big plunge from 125,000 to 55,000 York gtock operator,
a year.
Quesada is not popular among
the retired pilots. “Some of us
spend our entire time trying to
get Quesada out,” says Ralph K.
“Fm^nof^tter about feing
farced to retire," says Walter Bui-
lock, 6L of Lakeville, Minn. "But
I do object to the way it was han-
dled. Giving you 90 days notice
racticafly firing you on the
spot.
Bullock, a hard-muscled crew-
cut man is one of the lew
tired pilots still flying.-
He has s landing strip on his
70-acre farm, and a light plane.
Ha flies occasionally to- an oil
company.
Capts. Byron (Dinty) Moore and
Joe B. Glass are bade flying.
They were selling real estate on
the West Coast when Varig air-
lines beckoned.
Hie Brazilian airline was
switching over to Jets on its New
York-Rio de Janeiro run and was
short on jet pilots- It hired Moore
and Glass on short-term con-
tracts.
“We are the oldest jet pilots fa
the world,” says Moore, author
of the book “The First' Five Mil-
lion Miles." “I guess Joe and I
are just gypsies. We can’t stay
down in any one place for long.”
Moore and Glass are dead set
against the FAA ruling.
“Few pilots over 55 years of
age are able to maintain their
jobs,” says Moore. “But Joe and
I have been able to do it. We take
three physicals a year and often
go through profidency tests.”
worked out the contract that
makes him virtual king of the
Island and, he thinks, will make
Freeport s major business and
Industrial center
“Our future”, be says, *1s based
on six things: No Income taxes,
no capital gains taxes no real
estate taxes, no personal property
taxes, no exrise taxes, and no
customs duties.”
Under the Hawksbill Creek Act
of 1955, residents of the 200-
square-mlle Freeport sfrea are
tnority, Ltd., which la the govern-1
ment of Freeport
Groves heads the authority
president and Charles W, Hay-
ward of the Firth-develand group ]
of London is chairman of the!
board.
So far, |20 million has been ex-1
pended fa Freeport by its develop-1
era.
Businessmen or industrialists,
large or small, who want to move
fa must take their plans to the
part authority for approval.
So far, the authority has been
engrossed fa industrial develop-
ment, with little thought for the |
tourist dollars that might be at-
tracted to the Island with its 140|
miles at sweeping, white sandj
beaches.
“But we will be a resort area I
eventually," says Groves. 1
guaranteed freedom from the first
four taxes
Ashes of burned money can be
analyzed and redeemed.
taxes for 30 years.
Until the year 2054, the British
are pledged to ask no excise
taxes, no export duties, and no
import duties except on Items for
personal consumption.
Adding to the economic climate
of the 100-mile long, frost-free is-
land which lies fa such dose prox-
imity to the vast American mar-
ket is the low cost labor.
‘We are the government here
and we control our own Immigra-
tion,” Groves says. "We can bring
fa skilled or unskilled labor from
any part of the world.
“Consider, too, that we can buy
in the world’s cheapest markets.
“It’s a sad thing, but America
is out-priced fa the world market
Why, cement costs J1.30 a sack
from the United States jurt 80
miles away, but we can bring It
here all the way from 1
tor $L05.” „
Five years ago, tbs Fdeeport
area consisted of two houses to
a scrubby wilderness. Today, if is
a community with 7,000 popula-
tion and Groves believes it will
TRY TO 1
I THIS VALUE
lew Sentry Sidewalk
Given Palace Guards
develop into a major distributing
point for Central and South Amer-
LONDON CAP) - Buckingham
Palace guardsmen have won a
new 35-yard-long strip of pave-
ment for stomping out their sen-
try duty inside the palace gates.
It’s level, and a boost to morale.
The stiff-backed guardsmen,
moved Inside the gates 14 months
ago to protect them from pester-
ing tourists, had stomped to pieces
the old gravel and stone footpath
between their boxes.
The footing got so uneven all
their training was useless. They
were slipping and sliding instead
of wheeling and dealing.
lean markets.
Purchase of a lumber company
first brought Groves to Grand Ba-
hama Island. He arid the firm
three years ago to National Con-
tainer Co., which moved it to the
lush forests of Abeco Island-
Then Groves dreamed up his
fantastic proposition to the
British. In return for f tax-free I S'
franchise, he offered to dredge the | J
first deep water harbor fa the Ba-
hamas. .. ........
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 96, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 13, 1960, newspaper, December 13, 1960; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1043818/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.