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mpieDmonim JULY, 1962 PAGE TWO Piedmont Aviation, Inc. SMITH REYNOLDS AIRPORT WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Editor: Cleta Marshall CORRESPONDENTS THIS ISSUE Gene Shore, MBC; Joyce Bocetti, ROA; Elaine Sturr, CVG-F Ray Norris, TRI; Peg Pequignot, ATL-R; T. F. Young, ATL-0 Bill Pearman, DAN; Ted Farrington, BLF; Bert Carlos, CMH June Greer, FAY; Virg Flinn, PKB; Bob Lipscomb, SHD; J. C. Morton, FLO; Frank Reynolds, LYH; Ruth Shumate, CRW-F. VFR with Turby The new routes have now been inaugurated and business is looking good. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the help and hard work that was put forth to get the newsservice “on the road.” When you stop to think, it is the most service that any local service airline has inaugurated at one time 50% more route miles than we had. I was among those who attended the inaugural luncheon in Atlanta on June 22, and I thought the new stations did a remark able job of handling the inaugural flights. It was my first trip into FLO, CAE, AGS and ATL. They all look good. I have just returned from a week’s vacation in the North Carolina Hills — it sure was great, but I still did a lot of manual labor; this is much easier than using your head. Well, Jack Bran don and Ray Bullard came up to camp out over the weekend, which just happened to be the time I was putting up hay. To make a long story short, I don’t think they will try that again, as I put them to work loading hay in the barn. They just couldn’t make the last load. Did you hear the one about the drunk driving the wrong way on a one-way street? The cop stopped him and asked, “Say, didn’t you see those arrows?” Drunk replied, “No, ossifer, I didn’t even see any Injuns.” Have you read the little booklet I recently sent out entitled DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU? If you haven’t, please contact your Station Manager for a copy. It tells a great story that I am sure will be helpful to all of us in our daily contacts with people, particularly our good customers. Definitions of words not found in the dictionary: Bigamist: A man who tries to serve two masters. Bloc: A minority group often led by a bloc-head. Bore: A man who talks about himself when you want to talk about yourself. Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. Courtship; A man pursuing a woman until she catches him. A Brief Look at How It Happened The steps leading to the final decision in the Piedmont Area Local Service Case were taken slowly, extending over a period of some five years. For the benefit of Piedmonitors who have not been with the com pany long enough to have wit nessed each stage of the proce dure, here is a brief recap of how it all happened. The case had its beginning several years ago when the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) insti tuted proceedings designed to evaluate the local service airline needs in communities throughout the nation. In order to simplify as much as possible the Board' investigation, numerous applica tions from communities and air carriers were consolidated with in 12 major geographic sections of the country. Piedmont Area The section designated the “Piedmont Area” was described by the CAB as “extending from St. Louis and Terre Haute in the northwest, to Philadelphia in the northeast, to Jacksonville in the southeast, and to Atlanta Knoxville, and Memphis in the south and southwest.” November 8, 1957, Piedmont Travel Tax Finally Dying; Local Airline Traffic Up WASHINGTON, D. C. — The World War II “temporary” tax on common-carrier travel is finally dying. A bill calling for repeal of the 10-per cent tax on November 15 was passed by Con gress on June 27 and signed into law the next day by President Kennedy. The same measure imposes, ef fective November 16, a five-per cent tax on domestic air travel ds a charge for use of the federal airways system. The Air Transport Association of America (ATA) estimates the government’s yield from the five- per cent user tax will run about $100 million annually. Tipton Comments Commenting on the Congres sional action, ATA Pres. Stuart G. Tipton said, “The bill deals lairly with all forms of passen ger transportation. We regret that the traveling public could not have received the benefits of an earlier date for repeal of the travel tax, but the bill rep resents an effective compromise with the requirements for repeal of this travel-discouraging tax and the government’s fiscal 1963 revenue requirements. The im position of a five-per cent air ways user charge tax on air travel will produce revenue more than meeting the airline indus try’s share of costs of the federal airway system.” War Tax Taxes on common-carrier pas senger travel were enacted in 1941, chiefly to discourage public travel during wartime when space was needed for military and prioi’ity civilian travel. Last week’s action culminates years of vigorous effort on the part of the transportation industry, par ticularly air transport. liocals Up Other recent news of note in the aviation industry shows a leap in the traffic of local service airlines, according to figures compiled by the Air Transport Association. Passenger traffic on America’s 13 local service airlines in May topped May, 1961, by 17.3 per cent, reports ATA. Traffic in the first five months of this year was up 18.8 per cent. Passenger miles totaled 131, 932,000 in May and 603,544,000 in the first five months of this year. Systems Double Local service load factor rose from 40.9 per cent in May, 1961 to 41.7 in May of this year. Jan uary-May load factor was 41.5 per cent, compared with 40.8 per cent during the corresponding months of last year. The local service airlines op erate over a route system that measures 51,182 unduplicated miles — almost double that of 10 years ago. They now serve 580 cities — compared with 385 a decade ago. The number of passengers has risen from 1,481,- 000 in 1951 to 6,478,000 carried last year. Employment in that period rose from 4,804 to 13,479. Airlines filed an application for authorization to serve new points and routes within the Piedmont Area. This application involved the addition of two new states (Georgia and Maryland) to Pied mont’s system, and eight new communities, including the ma jor connecting points of Atlanta, Ga., and Baltimore, Md. CAB Examiner James Keith was assigned to conduct the pro ceedings. After months of prep aration by the parties repre sented, hearings were conducted through April and May, 1959, in Charlotte, N. C. and 'Washington D. C. Initial Decision Almost two years later, in March, 1961, Examiner Keith issued his initial decision and recommended to the Board that Piedmont be authorized to serve nearly all the points for which it had applied. At that time Piedmont’s President, T. H. Davi^ expressed the company’s appreciation for the support from civic leaders in the com munities involved and described Examiner Keith’s recommenda tion as “ ... an outstanding job of analyzing the role of the local service airlines as they relate to this evergrowing Southeastern area of our nation.” Final Step The final step in the case, prior to the CAB’s final decision, was taken May 23, 1961, in Wash ington, D. C., when oral argu ment was presented to the Board by parties involved in the pro ceedings. Ten months later, on March 20, 1962, the final decision was announced. Piedmont was au thorized to serve Atlanta, Au gusta, Baltimore, Columbia, Florence, Goldsboro, Jacksoh- ville-Camp Lejeune, and Pulaski- Radford-Blacksburg. Many Helped The outcome resulted from the work of many people. President Davis voiced the thanks of Pied mont and stated, “The civic leaders, local, county, and state, in all the communities involved, deserve great credit for their tireless efforts — including prep aration of exhibits and briefs for the Civil Aeronautics Board Ex aminer and the Board itself, per sonal appearances at Civil Aero nautics Board hearings, and in many other ways — all with the steadfast purpose of obtaining better air transportation for their communities.” W. F. Hanson, CRW 1 Mary Harris, RIC-CTO 1 H. S. Huls, INT-M 1 H. F. Day, INT-FB 2 M. W. Hamilton, Alexandria-FB 2 Virginia Malcom, INT 2 Juanita Mutter, DCA 2 R. A. Myers, INT-M 2 B. A. Carlos, CMH 3 W. M. Cline, INT-M 3 E. W. Foster, INT-M .,3 R. L. Goforth, F/0, ROA 3 B. W. Linville, INT-M 3 A. E. Smith, Capt., CLT 3 S. W. Vance, TYS 3 R. W. Vogler, F.A., ILM 3 D. R. Willard, Power Plant Analyst, INT-M 4 C. E. Hester, INT-FB 5 D. B. Miller, CLT 5 Edwin Rosdhal, INT 5 H. M. Vaughn, INT-M 5 R. G. Ingram, INT-FB 6 G. E. Bodenheimer, INT-M 7 Barbara Daking, ROA 7 Kathy Feldman, CVG-C 7 R. L. Hupp, TYS 7 J. L. Wright, INT-M 7 JULY R. H. Knight, INT-FB W. C. Kuhlman, INT-A R. E. Mason, ROA-M B. H. Taylor, INT-M R. S. Craft, INT-FB 9 B. C. Flynt, INT 9 T. E. Robinson, INT-M 9 F. O. Wyckoff, ROA-M 9 J. W. Yates, INT-FB 9 F. R. Cook, INT-M 10 C. B. Cross, Div. Chf. Purser, ORF lo R. H. Dekay, Supt. Line Maint., ILM lo J. H. Miller, INT-M 10 G. W. Overstreet, ROA-M 10 M. K. Page, F/0, INT 11 O. F. Richardson, INT 11 E. A. Wobser, Mgr. Sales Dept., Alexandria-FB 11 D. F. Barnhill, ILM 12 R. D. Satterfield, INT-M 12 Norman Miller, TYS 13 W. M. Pendleton, LEX 13 J. G. Fickling, Capt., ORF 14 J. C. Kelley, F/0, ILM 14 F. R. Krynicki, DCA 14 J. B. Moorefield, INT-M 17 R. A. Norris, TRI 14 R. E. Stephens, Eng. Co-op Trainee, INT 14 H. G. O’Connor, F/0, ORF 15 John Wilson, INT 15 R. F. Alley, INT 16 T. L. Martin, Staff Asst. Sales, INT 16 L. S. Simmons, INT-M 16 C. L. Smith, SDF 16 W. V. Newman, F.A., INT 17 R. T. Hunter, ROA-M 18 Leroy Jackson, INT 18 D. B. McGregor, MBC 18 J. B. Rutledge, CLT 18 R. S. Stepp, ROA 18 J. D. Westmoreland, INT-FB 18 C. B. A. Brown, F/0, INT 19 A. E. Rozitus, Capt., ORF 19 R. E. Swaim, INT-FB 19 R. W. Westmoreland, INT-A ..19 Charlotte Winfrey, LYH 19 C. H. Wood, INT-FB 19 B. G. Watts, F.A., ILM 20 Beverly Berkeley, Capt., ROA 20 J. G. Hines, F.A., DCA 20 Kenneth Snow, INT-M 20 H. C. Thompson, F/O Trainee, INT 20 R. L. Almon, F/0, ILM 21 M. B. Hemble, Capt., TYS 21 C. L. Ivey, F/0, ROA 21 H. C. Johnson, Sales Rep., INT-FB 21 R. K. Plummer, GSO 21 Ruth Shumate, CRW 21 J. H. Treadway, F.A., ROA 21 F. C. Nicholson, Dir. Fit. Safety & Asst, to V.P., INT 22 J. E. Raiford, INT 22 L. C. Woodcock, F.A., ILM ....22 P. E. Carter, INT-Flt. Contrl. 24 W. A. Foster, Sales Rep., INT 24 L. H. Jackson, Supt. Produc. Control., INT-M 24 L. G. Miller, INT 24 Barbara Collins, CVG-C 25 H. L. Cox, GSO 25 J. C. Doyle, F.A., TYS 25 Ben Johnson, INT-M 25 E. J. Tompkins, SDF 25 E. T. Wilson, DAN 25 H. J. Barco, F.A., ORF 26 R. W. Goolsby, LEX 26 Theresa Hester, INT-M 26 F. L. Sfreddo, Asst. Eng., INT-M 26 E. W. Shaw, RDU 26 I'ess Time on Ground Means SAore In Air We could have the equivalent of 1,000 mph air transportation just by speeding up ground travel. For example, if the time used in getting to and from airports on the London to Paris route were shortened by ten minutes at each terminal, this would give the air traveler the equivalent (in time) of a boost in en route airspeed from 400 to 1,000 mph. —NEA Skylights E. Robertson, BLF 27 A. Shulley, Asst. Dir. Tariffs & Schedls., INT 27 Shirley Hartman, INT-A 28 R. Morgan, CRW 28 . M. Waddell, INT-M 28 . H. Grimmett, ROA-FB 29 W. P. Austin, F/0, ILM 30 Jack Cluck, FLO 30 W. Combs, INT-F 30 P. Dennis, F/0, ILM 30 Mary Fryar, FAY 30 J. W. H«lms, ROA 30 O. V. Key, INT-M 30 R. E. Snow, INT 30 F. R. Poindexter, INT 31
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