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NOVEMBER, 1962 THE PIEDMONITOR PAGE FIVE PIBDMOHT PRESS NOTES SMOK'NO I NO’S OUW RKOMMtND.-.I THE MWORT C0MMIS510M BE UOT»T\tD lMMEO\MLtV CONCEUN\NQ- TU\5 'PWB'-tM... CINCINNATI-F — The holiday season is fast ap proaching and everyone is loolcing forward to the CVG Employees Club Christmas party, writes col- laborating correspondents Elaine Sturr and Bob Steppe. This year it’s to be held December 22 at the Holiday Inn. On the vacation scene Terry O’Connell just returned from short trips to St. Louis and Evans ville, and Charlene Seaver took a tour of the West Coast. Cuba was the main topic among draft-age men, and in the recent reactivation John Rohling, CVG-M, was recalled to duty. BALTIMORE — “A great loss is being felt in BAL this month,” reports Gary Schuman, “with the transfer of Manager Don Shanks to DCA. I’m proud to say that through the 14th of November we’ve boarded almost 25,000 lbs. of air freight. We’re shoot ing for 50,000. Everyone in BAL is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Evelyn and Hank Eisenbath’s first child. Hank has already test driven the run to the hospital and we expect him to set a new course record. I’m happy to report that Bob Gilley is improving rapidly. In fact. Bob is getting in a couple of hours every few days at the airport now in order to get back in the groove.” WINSTON-SAliEM — Betsy Buford acts as guest reporter this month, subbing for Ray Bullard who was in New York in connection with the March of Dimes program. Ray is this year’s March of Dimes Forsyth County Chairman. A very successful October Furniture Market was reported from the Piedmont sales counter in High Point, N. C. The booth was manned by Sales Rep. Andy Foster and INT Manager Jack Brandon. The sudden death of Roy Moser, cab dispatcher at INT airport, was a shock to all who knew him, says Betsy. He was a part of the airport for many years. ASHEVILLE — Naomi McGuinn reports on the AVL state of confusion; “Dave Cameron has changed the PX Plan to return within 30 days,” she writes, “Evon Whitacre is making clear coffee, Joyce Putney is answering calls by saying ‘Asheville Space Control,’ and the office is expecting yours truly to ride her motor bike backwards to work one of these mornings!” Ralph Jarvis and John Queen were good elves and traveled to TYS to help out while they had their party. Guess who department — are there any among you who know the name of this beardless youth, pictured here in a 1946 photograph un earthed by Betsy Buford? After you've made your bets, check the INT news. He's listed as this year's March of Dimes County Chairman. BLUEFIELD — Everyone is shaking the bushes to make that elusive quota, says Joe Roberson. The Agents and their spouses finally had that hoped-for steak and as usual everyone had a good time. Vaca tions wound up with E. E. Jones going to LAX, JAX, TPA, PHL, and DCA. Joe stayed at home remodeling a just-bought house with hopes of moving in soon, and Kent Moses has been waiting, expecting soon to get an invitation from Uncle Sugar. MYRTLE BEACH — “Agents coming and going has been the main event at MBC of late,” writes Gene Shore. “Sorry to say we lost Agent Bobby Butler to the FAA in MEM as control tower operator.” Agents Dave McGregor and Jerry Gaither gave up the sea shore for golf by transferring to SOP. New Agents joining Piedmont are Bill Ray, formerly with EAL in HTS; Mike Bullard, formerly stationed with the Air Force in MBC; and Gene Anderson, who is from MBC but used to be with Southern. Manager Charles Dona- hoo and family recently went to the AVL mountains for plenty of rest. Gene says boardings are down slightly but believes this is due to half the Air Force Base moving out during the Cuban crisis. PARKERSBURG-MARIETTA — A bulletin from PKB and marked for Bob Reed to especially note: Dur ing October Piedmont boarded 13,244 lbs. of air express and 37,842 lbs. of air freight for a total of 50,000 lbs. of cargo boarded. “Lots of sore backs and empty stomachs here,” writes Virg Flinn. “Turby gives steak dinners for increase in passengers (hint, hint). Quote from Vize Dotson: ‘Paul Loar and Virg Flinn made calls on air freight customers in October. Hope they call on passengers this month or we’ll have to keep Paul here to help load it.’ Glad to have Don Shanks and his wife here for a visit, and Cliff Johnson in from fixed base calling on local operators.” ATLANTA-O — A fine cookout was enjoyed by ATL supervisors when Manager Bruce Parrish invited them all to his home. Reporter Tommy Young reports the unhappy fact that his wife slipped in the carport of their new home and broke her collarbone. Contrary to rumor, says Tom, he didn’t hit her. Two recent in ovations there which the staff says are proving a blessing are the new porter service and a duplicator. Visitors are always welcome though you may have to put on your track shoes to keep up with the station crew. And here's another well-fed group, posing after feeding on the filets in Bluefield. Registering post-dinner gastro- nomical gusto are (left to right) Ed Best, Vize Dotson, R. E. Turbiville, Bill Grubbs, J. A. Lawrence, and Bob Reed. GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT — Cupid drew a bead on Agent Bob Plummer and he bit the dust by marrying the former Florence Davis November 2. Con gratulations go to the Ralph Cashatts as they announce the birth of a seven lb. girl. Everyone’s fine. “Station Manager Vernon Moore left to do some fishing in Tampa, Fla. waters,” reports Don Tate, “but there were unofficial reports that he plans to take his little red rowboat on down to Castro land, as if Castro did not have enough trouble. All we at GSO can say is lots of luck to someone!” CHARLESTON — This communique comes from Ruth Shumate: “CRW personnel have been busy mov ing to new abodes preparing for the long winter and the visit from ole Santa. The Hansons have moved to their new home in Teays Valley and held an open house. Jim Birthisel and family have purchased a roomy trailer with all the trimmings. Jerry Young has moved his spouse into a new house where they will be visited by the stork in December. The Abshires have moved to another house in Belle. The annual Christmas party is planned for December 15 in the airport Savrin Dining Room. Charlotte Fuda winds up the ’62 vacations with a trip to LAX.” PULASKI — “We at PSK are proud to report that we went over our quota for October, the first time since the station opened,” says Glen Walters, “this in cluded cargo boardings of over 15,000 lbs. Our Chief Agent and reformed Tennessean, Glen Shanks, was presented his 10-Year Pin by President Davis at INT in October. Our Manager Milt Ward and Agent Ronnie Price are getting everything in line to do some deer hunting. They convinced their wives they really do need a few days away from home. We hope BLF weather breaks soon. If not we’ll need an addition to the airport building to store their cargo. We wish a very speedy recovery for Agent Dan Love’s wife who is in the hospital in RIC.” SHENANDOAH — SHD has been getting a beauty treatment par excellence, with the terminal building getting a sharp new coat of paint courtesy Piedmont personnel and the boys from Holliday Aviation. Doelph Pitcock has the ramp equipment shining, and there’s been a resurfacing job done on the driveway and park ing lot. The bowling team fell to second place, mourns Roger Greenlaw, but has high hopes of being on top again. Recent visitors include Les Watson and Mitch Everhart, Dave Evans of NAL, Pete Ginter of Luft hansa, and Bob Minard of UAL. FAYETTEVILLE — June Greer says their head line for the month is the marriage of Agent Opal Tay lor to Otto Kuker, with congratulations to them both. The male Agents Iiave really been giving their muscles a workout with the large amount of incoming and out going freight they’ve been hoisting. Doing a bit of globe trotting have been Jane Fryar to DCA and Robert Bear to LAX. LONDON-CORBIN — Jim Minnix sends us this report from LOZ: “Manager Roy CaldweU and I joined LEX in a very fine steak dinner recently, with Carl Simpson and Ted Arnold working LOZ so we could attend. In return, Roy covered TYS so all employees could attend their dinner. Thanks to LEX for having us and to Carl and Ted for working. Over 20,000 people gathered at LOZ field a couple of weeks ago to hear former President Ike speak in behalf of Senator Mor ton (Morton won). This was no doubt the largest crowd ever to attend anything in eastern Kentucky. For the past five months, or since we finally had some industry located near, we have been enjoying good business both in passengers, air freight, and air ex press.” RICHMOND •— The station looks like an Army base lately, reports Marie Prillaman, with plane loads of troops going to unknown destinations. A new Agent, Kenneth Edwards, is welcomed. He is from ROA and served six years with EAL before joining Piedmont. A new jet arresting cable was just installed by the Air Force on one of the runways and will be used for the AF jet practice. ATLANTA-R — Our girl in Atlanta, Peg Pequig- not, writes: “Although we missed our quota of 4800 last month the station was kept quite busy. Passenger boardings have shown a marked increase since the schedule change and with all the military troop move ments we are confident we’ll meet and exceed this month’s quota. Mary Strane is a new employee in the res department. She was formerly a teller at the air port bank, and before her marriage was a stewardess with EAL. We had lots of visitors the past few weeks, among them K. E. Ross, T. R. Covven, W. A. Blackmon, and Cleta Covington. Gig Young, the movie star, rode Flight 48 to INT and author Erskin Caldwell spent a few hours in the terminal. The entire staff extends their sympathy to F/0 Curt Ivey whose father passed away recently. LYNCHBURG — Assistant Manager C. R. Black mon just returned from two weeks vacation. Didn’t go anywhere much, just baby-sat at home so his wife could go to the hospital and have their new son, Clarence Jeffry, born October 19, five pounds, ten ounces. Buck fevfer has once more hit the station, ac cording to Frank Reynolds, and it can now be indulged as hunting season is officially underway. Operations Agent Bob Smith has returned from a week’s vaca tion playing golf. FLORENCE — Reporter Julian Morton advises that FLO staff is about to get settled in their handling of EAL flights, “Adams, Lewis, and I transferred from INT-P to get to work one-engine stops after working ship changes and mechanicals at INT. Now we are right back in it. EAL has had three mechanicals here already and we can’t cut one engine on their Convairs. We are enjoying our association with them, though, and feel we’re doing a fairly good job. We welcome Dave Baxley to our staff at FLO. He came to us from EAL at Columbia. Also Bill McKay, another former Eastern Agent, has come along fast and is now checked out on most of our procedures. This reporter will be March of Dimes Director for Florence County in 1963. We don’t have too many visitors — at INT-F we constantly had crew members and NRSA’s. Now we want somebody to talk to, so come on down any time. We welcome any of you.” NEWPORT NEWS — Fred Smith brings us up-to- date on the state of things at PHF, and writes that their new office space has finally been completed, and that now all they lack is a new ticket counter which should be ready soon. He also adds a “welcome aboard” to the newest face there in the form of Agent James L. Carey. Mr. Fmchhy, sales represenfafive, Trans Parent Air Lines to see you, Sir John!"
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