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FIRST STEWARDESSES These eight
women pioneered stewardess service in 1930
when they began their duties on the San
Francisco - Chicago route of Boeing Air
Transport, a forerunner to United Air Lines.
At top, left, is Ellen Church, who originated
the idea. She is now administrator of a hos
pital at Terre Haute, Ind. (UPI Telephoto)
1960 Marks 30th Anniversary
Of Stewardesses With Airlines
Washington-UPD - The air
lines should be planning
something special in the way
of a celebration in 1960 it
marks the 30th anniversary
of the airlines stewardess.
It was in 1930 that Boeing
Airlines (later to become
United Airlines) hired the
first cabin attendant in com
merclal aviation.
The idea was born in the
mind of a Boeing official who
was on a rough flight from
San Francisco to Reno, Nev.
The pilot and co-pilot were
busy trying to keep the wings
level, so the official took over
their job of handing out cof
fee and sandwiches to anyone
still well enough to swallow,
Why not, thought the of
ficial, hire stewards to per
form this chore?
Nurses Proposed
He passed this suggestion
n to Boeing's top brass. But
the brass were busy ponder
ing another suggestion this
one from a young San Fran
cisco nurse named Ellen
Church. She had proposed
that the airline hire nurses
s flight attendants, because
of the airsickness problem.
. Boeing put the ideas to
gether and took the plunge.
It told Miss Church to hire
nurses for the San Francisco
Chicago run on a three-month
trial basis. She was to observe
certain standards: each girl
was to be no more than 25
years old, weigh no more
than 115 pounds or be taller
than 5 feet, four inches. The
salary would be $150 a month
for 100 hours of ilying. (The
average stewardess now earns
about $300 for flying 80 hours
a month.)
Pilots Stunned
If management was skepti
cal, the pilots were stunned
and furious. Adding a woman
to the crew, they argued, was
about as sensible as removing
one of the wings. But the trial
period was ordered anyway.
To everyone's surprise except
Miss Church's, the stewardess
plan was a huge success.
There was something about
the uniformed girls going
about their business calmly
and efficiently that made
male passengers (air trips in
those days were about 98 per
cent male) feel ashamed of
being afraid. And fear of fly
ing was the biggest handicap
the infant airline industry had
to combat.
As the airlines expanded,
the supply of registered nurses
who also were willing to fly
for a living became somewhat
short. By the 1940s, most air
lines had waived the nurse
requirement (Trans - Canada
Airlines was the last carrier
to drop the rule, in 1957).
Also, the airlines were setting
up their own stewardess train
ing schools in the realization
that a girl could be an effi
cient cabin attendant without
needing the medical knowl
edge of a nurse. And finally,
airsickness was becoming
rarer.
Jobs Essential
Today, there are about
8,000 stewardesses working
for the domestic airlines.
Their jobs are officially deem
ed essential by the Civil Aero
nautics Board whose regula
tions include a provision that
every plane carrying 10 or
more passengers must have
'a flight attendant. Their two-to-four-week
training courses
include emergency procedures
as well as passenger service.
Most airlines call their
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girls stewardesses, but a few
refer to them as hostesses. Un
til a few years ago, they had
to quit if they got married
but a couple of airlines,
plagued by the stewardess
turnover problem, are letting
a few girls who married
pilots stay on the job. The
average stewardess lasts only
about 20 months with an air
line, the majority of them
leaving to get married.
Ellen Church, the nurse
who started the whole thing,
flew with United for only a
year and a half. She is now
administrator of the Union
Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind.
Pilots Concede
Pilots, who once put stew
ardesses in the same category
as engine failure, now con
cede the girls are a vital part
of commercial aviation. They
will play jokes on new
"stews" (such as the captain
who got the LaGuardia Air
port public address system
Jobs Abandoned,
Newspapers Feel
Portland - (UPD - Manage
ments of the Oregon Journal
and the Oregonian said that
they feel members of the Port
land Web Pressmen's Union
No. 17 have abandoned their
jobs. The union disagreed.
A letter sent to the union
said that because of the ab
sence of members since the j
start of the strike they were !
no longer employes of the
newspapers.
Harold D. Bamberg, chair
man of the union's negotiating
committee, replied by tele
gram that the local "empha
tically disagrees" its members
have termined their employment.
to broadcast that "Stewardess
Jones is loaded and ready
for immediate departure"),
but they have a healthy re
spect for their feminine crew
members.
Almost every pilot, for ex
ample, knows the story of
Stewardess Mary Frances
Housley of National Airlines.
She was working a flight
on a DC-4 that crashed while
landing at Philadelphia in
1951. The plane caught fire.
The official Civil Aeronautics
Board report on the accident
contains these words:
"One pilot escaped through
the front cargo door, the oth
er through the sliding cockpit
window. Their attempts to as
sist the stewardess, still in the
cabin, with the evacuation of
the passengers were unsuc
cessful due to the intense
heat already existing in the
area of the main cabin exit,
which prevented them from !
getting close to it. The stew-'
ardess, who opened the main
cabin door, advised everyone
to remain calm and rendered
the utmost assistance to all,
was highly praised by the
passengers who escaped for
her courageous efforts . . ."
Rescue workers later found
the body of Stewardess Mary
Frances Housley in the
charred cabin. She never even
tried to get out.
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