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THE PIEDMONITOR June 1^ 1951 Page 7. Gene GUNTER submits that Bob PARRIS - Beserk - Went swimming at Ocean View in an $85,00 suit. He says; “Bob and I drove down to Ocean View park the other day and with everybody in, switnming I dared him. to go in with his street clothes oiig since we did not carry trunks with uSo Before 1 could turn arouinid he had his shoes and shirt off and dived in! I followedooo So„ don’t dare Parris to do anything! 25th ANNIVERSARY - Norm Arnold The United States Post Office Dept„ began air mail service in 1918o In 1926 the carrying of air m.ail was turned over to private industry, and on Feb, 15 of that year the first com,mercial a.ir mail flight was made from Cleveland to Dearborn;, Michigan., ~ a distance of 91 miles. The pilot w'as Larry FritZj who is now Vice President of Operations for Am.erican Airlines. Today, 25 years later, the airlines of the United States move an average of 10,000,000 pounds of mail a.nd parcel post a month, at speeds up to 350 mph. Today mail m.oves from mailer to addressee in less total time tha.n the air time used for the first flight. Today the P, O, Dept, is studying ways to improve the handling of all classes of U, S, mail. They are even con sidering use of jet-propelled aircraft for carriage of .first class mail. Air Mail is headed for 'an even greater future than it has had in the past, and we are aJ.l a part of this progress, sje * * CONGRATULATIONS; To Nancy VOGLER GREGORY and Frank, married May 5, and back from a honeymoon trip to the West Coast,, To the ISENBERGS, MYR?, who are the proud parents of a baby boy, born May 2L,, To the H„ L, VOGLERs, whose daughter, Donna Jean, was born May 1.,,, To the STRATTNERs for the new daughter born May 27, ,,, To Milt BROWNING - won first flight in golf tournament at Reynolds Park INT May 20,,. To INT BALL TEAM for winning two games, * aje * ie :^e NEW FACES AND TRANSFERS: Joe COOK has stepped out of the Operations Office and taken to the air - he is now wearing the Piedmont blue and Purser’s wings. Harry G, O'CONNOR joined the Purser Dept, at ORF on May 11, Melba HUGHES is the latest addi - tion to the Space Control Section INT - Reservations is about to over-flow with chart's, telephones, bookings, and efficient reservationistsJ Ab RICKS joined the FAY crew on May 21. G, E, SHORE became a part of the Fixed Base Engine Shop INT May 28, Mrs, Theresa Boda^szky GARNER joined Revenue Accounting on May 7. She was born in Berlin^ Germany,and went to England in 1939. She was in Bermuda from. 1946 until 1948, and employ ed by Shell Oil Company, In 1948 she came to the United States for a visit and was married to Ralph Garner of Rural Hall, N, C. She has applied for U.S. citizenship, * sjt # ^ * We hear Larry KELLY is flying F~80’s out in Nevada, It’s good to see John HALL and Bob WELFARE on those occasions when Uncle Sam lets them get up this way.
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