DECEMBER, 1962
THE PIEDMONITOR
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PIEDMONT PRESS NOTES
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CHARLOTTE-P — CLT’s biggest recent news
comes from Dianne and AVatson Furr, who just be
came the parents of a four-and-a-half-pound girl that
Santa brought just a little early. Congratulations to
all three. Barbara Rippy is substituting this month
for vacationing Madge Lanier, who recently went ’way
south to San Juan. The station has had some painting
done recently and Manager John Newell says the Op
erations office wall looks like Hollywood and Vine
with all the shoe prints on the newly-painted wall.
The prints, says Barbara, come from ILM, ORF, INT
and TYS, so, kind visitors, next trip bring your paint
brush.
SOUTHERN PINES — They’re an optimistic
group there, says Dave McGregor. “Our station started
the season with a staff of three,” he continues. “They
were E._ G. Cooke, J. W. Gaither, and yours truly. But
now we have added an additional Agent, giving us the
largest staff here in the history of the station. We
welcome R. M. Bradford of INT to the Piedmont
ranks. Just to be sure we keep our complement SOP
boarded more passengers this November than any
November since 1956, thanks to the cooperation of the
local resort hotels, travel agencies, and the extra ef
fort our boss has given to public relations. And here,
we lowly Agents wish to congratulate our boss, Ezra
Cooke, oii his promotion to Chief Agent in Charge.
WASHINGTON — From DCA-CTO Peggy Sauser
writes: “Dedication of the Dulles Airport was very
successful with opening ceremonies being handled by
President John F. Kennedy and former President D. D.
Eisenhower and other dignitaries. Piedmont was well
represented by a DC-3 special flight from Winston-
Salem with top management and various members of
their families attending. With the tremendous amount
of work that had to be done for a successful Piedmont
participation. Bud Halsey wishes to thank each and
everyone who took part in our success. Jo Ann and
Chuck (former Agent) Marginot just returned from a
weekend in Paris, compliments of Air France’s “Week
end in Paris for $49.” Kay Gateley who also took the
Air France trip said she hated to come back. Jackie
Hutcherson won the ticketing by mail contest, which
entitles her to a roundtrip to Copenhagen via SAS.
Marilyn Eastes, fans and all, just returned from her
trip to the Orient. We turned our quota party into a
combined “Quota and Going Away Party,” with Bill
Clark being guest of honor due to his recent promo
tion. We know that he’ll make good use of the attache
case which was presented to him.”
SHENANDOAH — A convention at Westinghouse
boosted SHD’s boardings considerably, says Roger
Greenlaw, and with the holidays coming up looks as
though totals will be tops. Mitch Everhart and Les
Watson were recent visitors, and since the new mark
er went in they seem like one of the crew. Other visi
tors included Terry Freeman, AA Sales Rep., and John
Faber from Air France.
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The Dick Mahn family
has completed a full house — three girls and two
boys •— writes Libby Reed, with the arrival of Bar
bara Carol November 26. “Ken Lucas is our most close
mouthed Agent,” she continues, “having kept marriage
to the lovely Agnes Fox secret from all since last
spring. Bill Walker vacationed during football season
and took in all home games and dances after. He
should now be the best Twister on the system. Tommy
Durrer bagged a deer on the first day of hunting sea
son, and Don Pierce and his family are now in their
new apartment in CHO. Your reporter vacationed on
the interline tour of Germany with Lufthansa and the
opening of the Christmas mart in Nuremberg and a
sightseeing trip of East Berlin were among the many
interesting things on the ten-day tour.”
ATLANTA-O — Reporter Tommy Young and John
Comer spent December 14 brushing up on their avia
tion knowledge by touring the ARTC center at Hamp
ton, Ga. They termed it “truly a fantastic sight,” and
said they were warmly received and shown everything
from top to bottom. “It is worth the time,” says Tom
my, “for every Agent to see this.”
NORFOLK — This weather report comes from
Bob Wylie: “We hope by the time this article reaches
the press the very pleasant weather we’ve been hav
ing will be straightened out. For a ten-day period we
had nothing but high winds and rain, and only one
runway in use. The winds didn’t get below 25 knots
and the runway we had was the wrong one (80 de
grees crosswind). None of the three carriers here were
running any flights but we all became very proficient
in operating a bus line. Congratulations to Don Hollo
man of ORF-M and wife on the arrival of a baby girl.
At last report all are doing well, even Don. Hot news
flash — after many years of struggling the Piedmont
bowling team in ORF is in first place in the Midtown
Commercial Duckpin League. We’ve been in first place
before but only if you counted from the bottom up.”
LYNCHBURG — Large congratulations go to
Agent Lloyd Jones and missus on the arrival of their
first child, a boy, weighing seven pounds, seven
ounces. Mother and baby are fine but they’re not sure
about dad. Reservations Agent Charlotte Winfrey took
a pre-Christmas vacation to get ready for Santa. Frank
Reynolds notes the new tower and weather bureau
at LYH will be ready for occupancy January 15. The
United Fund gave LYH employees its Citizenship
Award for their participation in the recent UF drive.
GREENSBORO — Don Tate titles this report,
“Never Argue with a Customer,” and says: “A pas
senger called GSO recently and requested a reserva
tion on Flight 500 from INT to DCA. We suggested to
the passenger that he might prefer Flight 42, a more
direct flight leaving only seven minutes later. The
passenger told us he wanted to see the country and
preferred Flight 500 with more stops. We agreed that
he had really chosen the right flight!”
Ever catch yourself griping about not
getting a long enough coffee break, or get out
of sorts when the boss seems to be constant
ly looking over your shoulders? Well, pal, you
don’t know how lucky you are!
We reprint herewith the following which
recently appeared in TCA’s Between Our
selves. It concerns the rules of a certain of
fice in the year 1872, to wit:
Office employees will daily sweep the
floors, dust the furniture, shelves, and show
cases . . . Each clerk will bring in a bucket
of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s
business . . . Clerks will each day fill lamps,
clean chimneys, trim wicks, and wash the
windows once a week . . . Make your pens
carefully. You may whittle nibs to your in
dividual taste.
This office will open at 8 a.m. and close
at 8 p.m. daily except on the Sabbath, on
which day it will remain closed . . . Every
employee should lay aside from each pay a
goodly sum of his earnings for his benefits
during his declining years, so that he will not
become a burden upon the charity of his bet
ters . . . Men employees will be given an eve
ning off each week for courting purposes, or
two evenings a week if they go regularly to
church.
Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars,
uses liquor in any form, gets shaved at a bar
ber shop, or frequents pool or public halls,
will give me good reason to suspect his worth,
intentions, integrity and honesty . . . The em
ployee who has performed his labours faith
fully and without fault for a period of five
years to service, and who has been thrifty and
attentive to his religious duties, is looked upon
by his fellowmen as a substantial and law
atDiding citizen, will be given an increase of
five cents per day in his pay providing a just
return in profits from the business permits it.
Anybody still longing for the good old
days?
CHARLESTON — The station’s representative at
the recent service pin luncheon was Carl Lipscomb,
who received his Five Year Pin. Eastern Airlines com
munications will be closed there by January and most
of the res. agents transferred to Chicago. CRW had a
swingin’ party December 15. Ruth Shumate describes
it: “The Airport Cloud Room was beautifully deco
rated and had beautiful flowers — mums, carnations,
roses — a gift sent by Cleveland Plant and Cut
Flowers, a local wholesale flower dealer. Each lady
attending was presented a dozen flowers in a bouquet
to take home. A delicious steak dinner was served,
and dancing until late hours finished the evening in
great style.” Girl watchers should keep an eye on
CRW. Beauty queens from all over the state gathered
there for the Miss Centennial contest. Five finalists
were chosen and will be announced in April.
CINCINNATI-F — Our reporting team of Bob
Steppe and Elaine Sturr sends this communique: “The
bowling team sure has improved recently. They moved
from eleventh place to fifth place, just six games out
of first. Everyone at CVG-F is wishing congratulations
and yet a sad farewell to Chief Agent Sheri Brown
as he will now assume the Station Manager’s job at
BAL. We will all miss Brownie. Debbie Tully, CVG-C,
is the proud mama of a baby boy. A good time was
had by all at our Christmas party. Agent Stan Gartner
was Santa Claus and handed out our exchange gifts.”
DANVILLE — In addition to meeting the hither-
yon life of a fulltime airline Agent, Bill Pearman is
also a part-time student at the DAN branch of Virginia
Tech. In a unique vacation, Bill’s spending most of
his holiday preparing for and taking those final exams.
Reporter Russell Price has just received word he’ll be
transferred to EWN in January. DAN has again met
the passenger quota for the month, helped by former
Eastern Agents Lee Jayne and Joe Burton, who are
rapidly becoming familiar with Piedmont procedures.
The new airport there is still getting compliments
as a scenic and economic boost to the area.
MYRTLE BEACH — The MBC crew is still try
ing to recover from their Christmas party held Decem
ber 15 at the Plantation House. Agents Gene Shore and
Gene Anderson almost missed the Piedmont-Southern
blast, since Flight 804 returned to the airport with an
inoperative fuel pump. With the help of ILM me
chanics the work was done and the flight left after
two hours. “We wish to give thanks to the ILM me
chanics,” says Gene Shore, “for hurrying the main
tenance job so we could make the party.” MBC will
soon lose Agent Billy Ray when he joins EAL at PBI.
A welcome is extended to his replacement, Don Knight
from PSK. He’d better remember to bring his water
skis and leave the snow ones behind!
COLUMBIA — Hurry up and heal wishes go to
Lead Agent John Lawrence, out recovering from a
major operation. Kristen and Gary Callicoat received a
holiday present in the form of Whitney Lynn, their
new daughter. Joe Frick is spending a lot of time
lately in DCA, writes Ashlyn Hammett, and Manager
Bill O’Bryan, having returned from the management
meeting, is prepared to fire up a new series of station
meetings.
ROCKY MOUNT — During October the station
was third highest in the system for air freight board
ings, which must mean there’s a fair share of sore
backs in RMT now. Chief Agent Henry Minnick and
spouse spent a deer-hunting week in Roanoke and
Lynchburg, but unfortunately came back empty-
handed. Agents E. B. Fields and Wendell Gabriel and
their families were the guests of Manager Frank
Slone for Thanksgiving dinner. Frank also sends his
thanks to the gang in HTS for the “private” Christmas
party they held in his behalf. RMT has already had
more than a 30 per cent increase in passenger board
ings for the last six months over the same period last
year, and are scanning memos for the official an
nouncement of that steak dinner.
NEWPORT NEWS — Fred Smith says everyone
there really has the Christmas spirit, especially Neal
Dillon who was married December 1 to the former
Kay Robertson. Congratulations are also extended to
Agent Jim Carey and his wife on their new son, born
November 16. PHF set a new record for November
of 840 passenger boardings.
PARKERSBURG-MARIETTA — “Santa was real
good to all the crew in PKB,” writes Virg Flinn, “but
Vize (Colt 45) Dotson can’t understand why he didn’t
get the new pistol he wanted. Roy Roberts was on
vacation the first week in December shovelin’ snow.
Our newly-wed Charlie Hall recommends married life
to all single people. This was a good year for PKB.
It was our best year yet in air freight, and the best
year for passenger revenue since we started opera
tions here. We’re looking forward to an even better
1963.”
Underwrite your country, says Connie Stevens, and buy
U. S. Savings Bonds.