Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19

}. G. Transit System, Inc,
G an interview with The
lIMATA outstripped the Air
Transport Association, made up
!, of scheduled air carriers. in de-
tense contract business.
i His own company. Mr.. Chalk
says, "emptied out the DIP camps
Iof Salzburg, Austria" on flights
to Israel, and carried the Army
Corps of Engineers from the
! United States to Greece at the
inception of the Marshall Plan.
Also, he says. Trans Caribbean
has handled mass movements of
people in Colombia and Peru and
Operation Magic Carpet" from
Yemen to Israel, as we'll as ex-
Itensive movements from Puerto
Rico to New York.
\ Trans Caribbean now has
seven big planes. having lost one
under lease to another airline,
and has four 104-passenger DC
I6-ABs slated for delivery next
year.
Aided War Orphans
After the Korean truce, Mr..
Chalk recalls. his daughter-who
then was attending Finch School
lin New York-Suggested that
some of the Korean war orphans
Ought to be able to attend such
a school. Mr.. Chalk agreed, he
says, and brought four of them
to Finch for a full course.
Later. he says, SO others were
brought to America and other
schools by additional sponsors,
and he rounded up a group of
prominent men to sponsor the
American Korean Foundation, of
which he is vice chairman.
Among the sponsors were Gen.
eral James Van Fleet. David
Rockefeller, Milton Eisenhower,
Spiro SkouraS. James A. Farley
and William Zeckendorf.
Now, and for the last year or
SO. Mr.. Chalk also has been a
trustee of Finch College.
Member of Institute
Also, he is a member of the
Institute of Aeronautical Science,
the National Aviation Club and
the Presidents Committee on
Mobilization. And. recently he
says, he has Joined the WASH
lington Hebrew Congregation, al
though a member of Park Ave-
nue. Temple in New York.
4 In Washington he has been
living in a Mayflower Hotel suite,
and is considering leasing it on
a long-term basis. However, he
says, he might be interested in
a Georgetown home near the
transit headquarters building.
1 His hobbies include photog-
Iraphy Che uses a Leica. but lets
commercial firms process the
f1lms); skiing (mostly at st.
Moritz, where he and his wife
TRY to visit every year,; elec-
tronics Che designed his own
high fidelity radio and record
player system with speakers in
every room of his New York
apartment) and collecting paint
Iings and first editions The likes
contemporary French paintings,
and bought up half-dozen vi
ennese masters which he found
in Vienna last year just after
the Russians moved out).
Washington acquaintance who
have known him for several
years recall Mr.. Chalk as bounc-
ling, flamboyant, full of ideas and
especially considerate Of his en-
ployes.
Their only concern is that his
$l3.5 million transit purchase
may be too big a deal to play
by ear" which Mr.. Chalk admits
he has been doing. and that has
not had sufficient guidance from
experts in the business
1 New York associates say they
know no enemies tMr. Chalk
says he has mot one in the
world'D.
Mr.. Chalk says that he is a
pre-l952 Eisenhower hacker, was
the f1rsS to shake the Presidents
hand after he was nominated
that his daughter made her de-
but in 1851 at the home of Col.
and Mrs. George Gordon Moore
brother-in-l law and sister of Mrs
Eisenhower: admits he employed
Col. Moore both on IMATA and
Trans Caribbean, and that Col
Moore introduced him in some
quarters here in connection with
the transit deal.
Clean Deal
\ But, Mr.. Chalk insists, "the
deal was as clean as business
deal can be--especially in WASH
Iington. There were no bar
gains. no nothing. Col. Moore
gave me no assistance. and bent
over backward to avoid doing so.
i just happened to come along
at the right time. Mostly 1t was
luck. Three or four months ear
llier 1t might not have worked
out"