DECEMBER, 1967
THE PIED MONITOR
PAGE FIVE
NEW PAINT JOB tor the first of Pied
mont's eight F-27's which have been
re-sold by Fairchild to Air Manila.
This former PAI F-27 stopped at INT
for refueling en route to Manila.
Painted blue and white, the aircraft
are being modified by Butler Aviation.
YS-11 IS BROUGHT IN for crew and maint-
ence training by Captain Lloyd Lyons. The
plane will be at INT tor about ten weeks.
This particular one will be returned to Nihon
in Japan after its stay with Piedmont. The
first of the ten ordered by the Company is
scheduled for delivery in March.
Ill
s
1
I
Piedmont Press Notes
BALTIMORE — Reporter Bill Burton: Look out,
Winston bowlers, we are ready to take you on. We’ve
never seen a bowling team with more potential than
ours. We had full attendance at our bowling party in
mid-November. The next party we have, if we make
it past the bar, we could bowl a few great games be
cause, the potential is there, somewhere behind the
bar. Fishing season is officially closed December 1st
as Capt. Seasick Sam pulled in his leaky, teaky Tro
jan for the winter. Congratulations to our lead agent,
Howard Lewis. He is now the father of three, the
latest addition is Master Howard W. Lewis. III. We
had a wild experience at the ticket counter the other
day in boarding. BAL’s first Hippie passenger. She
claimed that she was the last of the real Hippies. She
was not exactly the ideal passenger, but she was
colorful. There seems to be a confused feeling here
in BAL concerning our long and loyal neighbors of
Lake Central. The problem is we don’t know whether
»o congratulate them or send our regrets. The new
oming year is bringing on their marriage to Alle
gheny. But then, we’re not losing a sister airline, but
gaining a brother-in-law. Capt. Bud Gilley and family
dropped by for a brief visit on their way to Disney
land. It seems like Los Angeles is the place to go now
days, especially since that bargain of a tour American
Airlines is offering. That is about the extent of hap
penings here in BAL, so we say Merry Christmas to
all, and to all, won’t you come up and see us some
time?
BLL^EFIELD — Reporter Gene Blniorc: We’re sure
y’all have been wondering what in the world happen
ed to us, since we haven’t had any news in the
PIEDMONITOR lately. Well, actually nothing, just we
haven’t been fast enough on the draw. We wrote but
didn’t make press time. Like everyone else we have
been busier than a beehive at clover time. Missed
quota by a tad last month but we will blame it on the
weather. Nonetheless, we finished with some of our
highest boardings. Vacations are about over, just in
time for us to start Holiday repayment time. We,
and our public, are pleased over the announcement
of the order to purchase the YS-11, since it will be
able to operate into our station. The FAA has recently
completed the installation of DF equipment and a
ceilometer, which we hope might help us out. Wonder
what the agent at ROA thought when MILT and TED
checked in for BLF recently via ROA-ATL-ROA-BLF
Fits 33-24-783. While enroute they met Reba June
(The Dee-Jay Gal) and when she asked where they were
off to, their reply was “To Atlanta for a hot dog.”
This week we received a card from Reba in Europe
and she advised that the next day she was going from
Olso to Hamburg. Noland Adams has been getting
some mighty fine experience, training for the ticket
counter, without even having illustrations or
examples, what with the weather and having to
reissue tickets, Rule 75, limo set up, etc. Of course
it didn’t bother Noland. At the completion of his
shift he just ran out, jumped in his truck, and drove
home. Ken Moses and Gene Elmore did away with
the easy living of mobile homes and recently moved
into the awesome group of home ownership, (painting,
lawn mowing, etc.) Y’all come, can’t come, write, can’t
write, hollar, can’t — aw heck forget it.
CHARLESTON — Reporter Ken HaiTisoii: Bas
ketball season is here and the Charleston Pacemakers
have stumbled onto the floor once again. The first
games of the season pitted Bostick’s Bombers •—
.^^teptain Phil Bostick, against Perry’s Pacesetters,
^Kiptain A1 Perry. Three games were played that
evening, and the Bombers took each with equal ease.
The scores were, in the order of play, 30 to 6 (favor
Bombers) 30 to 16, (favor Bombers), 30 to 26, (favor
Bombers). A total of 14 rest p3riods were called dur
ing the evening, as the Pacesetters strived to get that
second and third and fourth wind. Scoring highlights
were as follows: C. D. “Crash” Conrad had 3 baskets
out of 10 attempted; A1 “Gunner” Perry 1 out of 15
attempted, Jerry “Fuzzy” Young 9 out of 12 attempted
and Phil Bostik 6 out of 8 attempted. Sore muscles
were quite noticeable the next day. It has been
brought to our attention that the Pacesetters high
scorer, Charlie “the Pla.sh” Parsons didn’t show up
and as can be seen, the scores showed it. Any time
you stations feel like playing a game or so, drop on
up some Saturday night and we’ll enjoy some sore
muscles together. Well, back to the exercises, a one,
and a two, and a three, and a four . . .
(Continued on Page Six)
OFF TO THE ISLANDS were a number of Piedmont
employees who were selected for the Southeast Re
gion Interline Tour sponsored by United and Delta.
They are, from left, Fred Flynn, United Interline
Agency Manager; Charlie Johnson, TRI; Virg Flinn,
PKB; Jane Griffith, CVG; Larry Brooks, ISO; Bill
Dolan, ILM and John Whalen, United, MIA.