Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-11-28
BARNH0LT -.
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Leaving IUlI SlluIOU Oulludy
after a months visit with his par.
ents, Barney arrived back in Cali
fornia Sunday night where he will
undergo two weeks of annual Navy
training at Moffett Field, San
Francisco, and then it will be back
to Pan American Base of Opera
tions, San Francisco and the ia
mlllar sight of the Pacific thou
sands Of feet below him as he re
sumes his regular flights to Homo
lulu, Tokyo, Manila, the FIJI
Islands, Wake Island, Guam, and
sometimes Auckland, New Zea-
land and Sydney, Australia.
For anyone who thinks the
flights are eventually routine, just
listen to this: Barney and his
flight colleagues were on Wake
Island in 1851 during the historic
meeting between Truman and
Macarthur.
He was in the midst of the Com
munist uprising in Hong Kong
during the same year, and saw
the horror and destruction ef-
fected by the recent earthquake in
Tokyo. He missed the Wake ty-
phoon Of a few weeks ago by only
four days which incidentally he
reports, ''completely demolished
the island, including the Pan
American hotel"
Quonset huts have replaced liv-
ing quarters which were destroy
ed completely. "For awhile" says
Barney, "the only living quarters
were hastily constructed tents. .
Miraculously no one was killed in
the typhoon but numerous per
sons were injured in the chaos.
"We flew through the same ty-
phoon twice on a Manila trip"
calmly reports the experienced
flyer, "but we never believed it
when one of the flight technicians
said he bet that typhoon was head
ed for Wake y
Being Pan American pilot is
not all roses and champagne
There are compulsory physical
examinations by the Civil Aero
nautics Authority physicians every
six months. 'We all go through q
rigid Pan American medical exam
ination each year, and instrument
check-ups every six months, as
well as emergency equipment
drills.
Pan American World Always
have bases all over the world
Barney is with the PacificAlaska
base with headquarters in San
Francisco. Others are the Alaska
section, headquartcrcd in Seattle
handling the Sc tt e-Juneau
, Whitehorse- Fairbanks-Name runs);
the New York office handles the
Atlantic or European run; Rio de
Janeiro is chief office for the
Buenos Aires and South American
coastal run; and London and
Frankfort, Germany make UP the
chief bases for the inter-Europear
| travel. Pan American is the only
around the world airlines.
Each pilot receives minimum
of II hours rest following II hours
of steady flight. Usually this runs
to a day or day and half" Bar
ney stated. Crews are restricted
to IL hour flights and then they
receive what are called, layovel
flights"
Port Clintonites have not beer
rare to Barney in his world trav
els "About two years ago in Hons
Kong, during g stopover, l ran in
| to Ralph Travella, former art
teacher in the Port Clinton High
School, while he was taking {
round-the-World trip. In Tokyo
several years ago ran into Anna
Rose Reimschneider who was ther
working in an Army Hospital
there" Barney recalled.
Barney's two children, Rollit
Tim, 7, and Teri Brook, 6, temper
arily residing with their grand
parents on Madison Street, have
just reason to feel proud Of THEN
world travelling dad They've
flown with me several times wher
we've made trips back to Por
Clinton and they always wan
more reports Barney, who some
Cay may find himself with another
pilot in the family and prett.
blonde hostess on his hands.
Most important phase, relative
to the Korean conflict, has beer
the responsibility of flying man!
of the frostbite cases and wounded
to the United States for hospital
iZation. ''These," Barney stated
"are what we call air "evac" (evac
uee) trips.
How long does Barney expect tt
i continue flying for Pan-American'
The average span of pilots ser
vice is from 20 to 25 years
meaning that Mr. Barnholt may b.
your pilot when you take tha
round-the-world flight in 1860
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