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Striking Brunette tells All About Stewardess Role
By ROBERT JO 8ERLING
UPI Aviation Editor
Washington (DPI) Bev
erley Boyer is one of the 10,
000 stewardesses working for
the U.S. scheduled airlines.
In a sense, she Is typical.
A striking brunette, poised
and mature iar Deyond her
28 years, in love with her
job and its opportunities but
honest and open enough to
discuss some ot its drawbacks.
In an equal sense, she is
not exactly an average stew
ardess. Beverley has been Hy
ing for American Airlines
since 1098. Her own airline,
like all the others, considers
itself lucky to keep a good
stewardess longer than two
years. She lives with her fam
ily in Washington, DC; the
overwhelming majority of
stewardesses (some carriers
call them hostesses) share
apartments and a few prefer
living alone. And unlike some
of the newer girls, she would
rather work trips on the se
date and veteran Convair 240,
a twin-engine piston airliner,
than the glamorous Jets.
Likes Convair
"It's more informal, you can
take more personal care of
your passengers and literally
you can put more of yourself
into the job," explains Bev
erley. Her seniority at American's
Washington base gives her a
chance to bid the relatively
few Convair trips. Last
month, she flew eight round
trips to get in her maximum
80 hours flight time. Her
flight left Washington at 12:05
p.m., for Charleston, W. Va.,
and Cincinnati, another seg
ment to Louisville, then back
to Cincinnati, Dayton, Colum
bus, Canton-Akron and Clevc
land arriving in Cleveland
at 11 p.m. for a ouc-night lay
over. She left Clevclund at 3:15
p.m. the next day, returning
to Washington via Dayton,
Cincinnati and Charleston.
She averages 15 days off a
month and clears about $400
monthly in addition to extra
pay for such special assign
ments as talking tu prospec
tive stewardesses in high
schools, chores for public rc
lations, etc.
Pay Good
The relatively high pay
comes with her seniority; the
starting salary for the average
stewardess can be as low as
$250 monthly but some sen
ior cabin attendants flying in
ternational routes make as
high as $500-600.
Like most of her colleagues
who have gone through the
transition from pistons to
jets, Beverley has found dis
advantages to the jet age.
She agrees with most stew
ardesses who have been flying
for at least five years that
their jobs are more routine
and less fun than they used
to be mainly because it is
difficult to give personalized
service in a 120-passenger jet.
But Beverley Boyer bristles
at the often-heard charge that
the modern stewardess is
nothing but an airborne wait
ress or barmaid.
"Just remember that to a
stewardess, the jet age has
brought new advantages as
well as disadvantages," she
says. "What other job gives
a girl a chance to shop in
cities not only all over the
country but all over the
world? I've flown to Europe
and back for $133. We get a
75 per cent discount from
overseas airlines. We can take
ourselves and our parents
any where on American's
whole system for free or at
most an $8.20 surcharge on
jets. Last fall, on my own
vacation I hit Los Angeles,
Hawaii, Seattle, San Fran
cisco and Phoenix.
Vacation Rales
"I had only two week va
cation time, but 1 got another
six days by trading trips and
three days leave from the
company. In 23 days, I didn't
spend $300. 1 got reduced
rates on everything from ho
tel rooms to sightseeing li
mousines because 1 was a
stewardess. In a way. the job
I is less glamorous than it used
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Teens Disagree on
Proposal To Raise
Age of Drivers
Salem -fflrV- Teen-agers dis
agreed over proposals to raise
the minimum age for drivers
licenses from 16 to 18 before
the House Highways Commit
tee. Eugene junior Nancy Hinch
sliff, 16, said youthful drivers
"lack responsibility," and
should not be given a license
until they are 18.
John Borachcr, 10, Seaside,
said he polled about 40 class
mates and "half of them said
the age should be increased,
the other half disagreed."
Mike Sellard, 16, North Eu
gene, termed this a "mobile
age," and added "driving
teaches responsibility."
Sellard said he already had
a drivers license, but he was
taking a high school driver
training course because he
thought it would benefit him.
Thrat Bills
The committee held a hear
ing on three proposals to re
strict youthful drivers.
Rep. Phil Lang (D-Portland)
is author of a bill which
would raise the age to IB, ex
cept where youths had com
pleted a driver training
course. They would be able to
gel a license at age 16, but
would be under curfew not to
drive alter 11 p.m. on pre
school nights, and after 1 a.m.
on Saturdays and Sundays.
Parking of cars near schools
also would be prohibited.
A bill by Rep. Ken Maher
(R-Portland) would have the
18-year limit except for a
provisional p e r in i t" that
could be issued in some cases
to those 16 and over.
A bill by Rep. Wlnton Hunt
(R-Woodburn) would raise the
age limit for instruction per
mits to 17, and for driver's li
cense to 18.
All three said there was a
direct relationship between
ownership of an auto and
school dropouts and lowered
grades.
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Oregon Delicacy on
Way to World's Fair
Eugene, Ore. W1 The Eugene-born
"Ery-Jo. ' a veri
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i various shapes and deep-fried.
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1 last year.
to be but in other ways it's
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available."
There is some truth to the
able gripes. Such as drunks,
wolves and mechanical or
weather delays which may
mean a broken dinner date
at a home base. The first
calls Beverley. -Delays don 1 1 wno insists on
I guess imra aniiK wcn
d we.i we re oniy n-
bother me, anyway
thP rhipf erine I have is a darn
passenger who's too demand-; lowed to serve two
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regulation of
a stewardess is not to plan
anything social ahead of time.
She's Lucky
"I've been fairly lucky," re-
alleffation that the modern law. rule and
stewardess, despite her chic
uniform, performs tasks no
less menial than the average
waitress. But one thing should
be noted: Her presence aboard
an airliner is required for
safety reasons, not passenger
comfort. Civil Air regulations
specify that a cabin attendant
must be present on any trans
port capable of carrying 12
or more paying customers.
The majority of "flygirls" re
gard their training in emer
gency procedures as the
toughest part of a steward
ess course.
"Menial" also is too broad
a word. The airlines believe a
good stewardess can imparl
personalized service even on
a crowded jet.
Smile on Job
"I agree," Beverley says.
"There are a lot of little
touches a stewardess can pro
vide even when she's swamp
ed like wearing a smile
along with her uniform. And
there's always room for or
iginality and ingenuity. I
know one girl who always
puts an amusing "thought for
the day' on the cabin bulk
head. Her passengers get a
real kick out of it."
Stewardesses have incvil-
ing and thinks be s me oniy
one on the airplane. Women
seem more appreciative than
men because they don't fly
as much, I suppose. And my
other gripe is the passenger
Contrary to me popular
conception, most stewardesses
do not marry pilots. If they
fly for less than two years,
thev usually marry "the boy
back home." After two years,
they are more likely to marry
men they meet on flights or
socially- They seem to mako
good wives, too at least
one survey showed a lower
divorce rate among steward
esses than any other femala
group.
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