being approved by R. E. Turbl-
vflle, and operattons needs by
J, W* Lewis, then turned over
to shioplnq and receiving for
preparation and delivery.
Items needed by the Class Two
maintenance bases are approved
by H. M, Cartwright, and cer
tain other Items not classified
as regular stock are checked
and approved by Cartwright, ap
proved by H. K. Saunders and
then turned over to the pur
chasing department*
The detailed handling of the
order includes distribution of
purchase orders to the shipping
and receiving department to
confirm receipt of the order
and final delivery to the de-
pa r tmen t or s ta tI on •
The shipping and receiving room
is staffed by A, H* Burton and
G. R. Boles, and Inventory con
trol is handled by R. G. Godfrey
and Leroy Burton. The main
stockroom at present utilizes
thirteen employees on a 24-hour
basis to keep the line operating.
The printing room, which has
the mountainous task of keeping
the entire system supplied with
stationery and printing mater
ial Is staffed by Roy Pruitt
and R. Vernon. L. J. Lam
bert Is Chief Storekeeper for
the airline stockroom.
In the above olcture, Roy Pruitt
is readying one of the many
forms printed In the print shop,
dominated by the multi Mth ma
chine, shown in foreground,
being operated by W. R. Vernon.
A mountain of printed matter
goes out from this office every
month and Improved methods of
handling the printing are con
stantly being employed*
LYH IN NEW QUARTERS
FINDS BUSINESS DOUBLED
Shown below Is one small
of the high-tlered vast-corri-
dored stockroom, where ')/alt
Russell is checking out items
for INTM and L. J. Lambert is
looking over requisitions at
the background desk.
Being that this Is the first bit
of news for quite some time from
our station, would like to say
first that our new quarters are
far superior to the old hut we
sectlon'Jsed to have. We now have win
dows Instead of painted screens
and a roof that doesn’t leak.
Our new offices, though not as
elaborate as some of the termi
nal buildings on the system, are
completely ample for our opera
tion and it Is a real pleasure
to have the facilities.
N'ot only has the office changed
but the personnel has also. Bill
Dearing and Jack Elliott have
joined us and have made excell
ent agents plus CharIie Clark
and Henry Minnik were put on the
payroll iVarch 1st and are in the
process so welI known of learn
ing the million and one things
they have to learn. Norvel Van-
degrift left us to go into
driving school business. Bobbie
Hi I I, Clyde Vaughan, \J!/arren
Foster and myself are still a-
round, some getting fatter, some
qetting thinner, all getting
older and none getting younger.
Since American left here sever
al months ago we have experi
enced an Increase In business
to the tune of around 150 to
200 percent. This, of course,
leaves NNW to fight It out with
someone else for the title of
being low man on the totem pole.
PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR :
Jack Elliott when the boys are
thirsty and start matching.
That guy is murder on a flip
of the coin. Ask any of us who
k n ow .
PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE OUR SCALP:
Rick Almond of TVS and personnel
at SDF and CVG for routing so
much air freight their way. In
March we put on 11,812 pounds.
PEOPLE WE ENJOY WORKING WITH;
College girls. Put 117 on in
one day here last month. Still
it has its drawbacks. They had
192 bags (all heavy) and we
made out 35 excess baggage cou
pons and seven out of eight of
us here are ma r r I ed .
PEOPLE WHO PROBABLY WISH WE
WOULD DROP DEAD: Bob Rose and
crew in RIC who have to have
the tremendous volume of off
line requests including the
flights out of DCA LGA etc.,
that were formerly handled by
AAL. Want to add that they are
doing a aood job of getting
them back to us and being tol
erant with our mistakes.
*•••.•• .Charlie Russell
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SOFTBALL TEAM WINS OPENING
GAMES AS FUTURE HOPES HIGH
Winning both starting games with
wide margins has sent Piedmont
AviatioiT*s softball team Into
the summer schedule with high
confidence, Henry Wood, manager,
announced. The team still has
ten games to play this half In
the softball recreation league,
but expects to be in the top
playoff bracket within the next
two games. They won their
first game over Wachovia Bank
II to L, the next game over
Modern Auto Service 9 to 2.
Members of the team from PA 1
include Joe and £d Cu-ller, Reid
Cook, A , T Gr a y, John Ha I I,
Frank Perry, Vestal WIdener.
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