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PAGE FOUR THE PIEDMONITOR NOVEMBER, 1959 November Personality Stack Helps Find Losers George Stack is an investigator—a tracer of lost luggage for airline passengers during working hours at the home office and a detective for private investigations in Winston-Salem during his non-working hours. Joining Piedmont in 1952 as a flight attendant, George is now an assistant in the passenger service department. As such, he handles passenger service sup plies, conducts tours of the Win- ston-Salem facilities for school groups and hunts lost articles for Piedmont passengers. George was on the flying line for four years. The major part of his flights were from Cincin nati to Wilmington to Winston- Salem. He enjoys flying and still flies charters whenever he is needed. Is Requested He is requested for the Wake Forest College charters and the Kentucky Derby charter each year. Considering the number of charters he has flown so far dur ing the football season, you might think he is still an active purser. George was born in Winston- Salem thirty-one years ago. He attended Hanes High School and graduated there. His wife, the former Phyllis Jean Plemmons, was a classmate, but they didn’t date each other in school. Later, they met again and six years ago they were married. Phyllis and George have one son —Chip—five years old. Together, George and Chip play miniature golf (Chip shoots around 50, but George didn’t reveal his score) and are building a coin collec tion. ‘Out To Pasture’ For hobbies, George has been basketball for several years. But this year, he is going to be a referee. “They’re putting me out to pasture,” he claims. Piedmont Press Notes GEORGE STACK Bi^UluHcUfyi NOVEMBER Leland E. Cottrell, INT 1 Jesse H. Craig, CLT 1 John R. Rohling, CVG-F 1 Norris G. Smith, INT 1 Arthur A. Lenderman, INT —. 2 Chester B. Nutt, RDU 2 Davis R. Mellott, ORF 3 Willie Davis, INT 4 Darrell Gordon, INT 4 James W. Holton, INT 4 James M. Redmon, INT-FB 4 James W. Dallas, HTS 5 Jack L. Kaminsky, ORF 5 F. C. Livengood, INT 5 James S. Lloyd, INT Lee Roy Pickel, TRI 5 Playing amateur Calvin J. Redburn, INT G. W. Barger, RIC Haskil Guy Van Huss, TRI Robert A. Beard, HKY Danny C. Lambert, DCA H. Baker Slater, CVG Richard A. Jones, DCA Floyd L. Finley, INT William Isenberg, HKY Donald L. Price, INT-FB James Y. Spencer, INT-FB ... Jimmy A. Taylor, INT-FB Charles K. Brock, INT Mary Nell R. Carson, INT Owen R. Dietz, ILM WiUiam D. Hall, INT 5 . 6 . 6 . 7 . 7 . 7' . 8 . 9 .10 .10 10 .10 .11 .11 .12 .12 Barney L. Padgett, ILM 12 Walter M. Shelton, INT 12 Robert Allan Brown, INT 13 J. Samuel Bryant, INT 13 Paul N. Masterson, SDF 13 Robert K. Waugh, HTS 13 F. Preston Lincoln, INT 14 Carlos R. Young, INT 14 C. Gordon Brown, INT 15 David W. Hollar, INT-FB 15 WilUam T. Hurst, CLT 15 Howard T. Robbins, INT 15 James W. Starr, TRI 15 Phillis Hall, TRI 16 Robert Welfare, INT 17 Gerald Cannon, HKY 18 Robah R. Carter, INT 18 Dwayne K. Jones, FAY 18 Robert Miller, ROA 18- Elizabeth F. Lewis, TRI 19 Clifford Byington, DCA 20 James E. Davis, ,SDF 20 Aubrey Smith, INT 20 Lewis H. Hand, INT 21 Robert F. Highsmith, INT 21 Luther Hundley, CVG 21 S. C. Dillingham, CLT 22 Joseph H. High, ORF 22 F. L. Reynolds, LYH 22 Lee Eugene Kile 23 Robert H. Reed, INT 23 Hal W. McCormick, INT 24 Warden Mills, ORF 24 Carolyn Ann Pearson, TRI .—24 Thelma T. Davis, INT 25 Margaret B. McAdam, ORF-C ..25 John W. Reich, INT 25 Joseph Gurganus, JAMTO 26 As for coin collecting, he says he enjoys it. However, he is “not going into it in a big way.” He and his wife are sav ing pennies for another project, too. They plan to build a home next spring. And as for his private inves tigating, he says only, “Some cases prove rather interesting.” FASHION MODELS for Win- ston-Salem Traffic Club's annual show were Mrs. Lib Tatum (INT switchboard) and (left) Mrs. Delois Strickland (INT Traffic Secretary). Julius Van Tuttle, INT . Robert W. White, INT . Randolph Hagans, ILM Bruce D. Lance, INT ...26 ...26 ...27 ...27 George W. Strattner, ORF 29 Kenneth C. Whapham, INT .—29 C. S. Melvin, FAY 30 Robert D. Nance, INT 30 GENERALLY SPEAKING, Piedmont is now in a joint sales program with Varig Airlines, an international carrier and Brazil’s oldest and own airline. In radio and other media Piedmont is tied in with the Varig promotion. Piedmont is one of two sales and service dealers for the F-27 announced recently by the Fairchild corporation. Piedmont will be able to sell the prop-jet craft to *any persons other than government agencies or scheduled airline car riers. Most sales are expected in the executive conversion program. FAYETTEVILLE thinks they may have a Piedmont first. They ran an air freight charter with a passenger airline for the C. M. Hall Lamp Co. The charter was ordered by Chrysler Corp., which needed a rush shipment of tail light as semblies for the 1960 Plymouth. The people at FAY loaded the DC-3 in every way possible. Boxes were all over the place— even in the seats where the seat belts were used to hold the cargo in place. Fishing trips have been made there by Beasley, Jones, Bill Wooten and Bob Jackson. Horace Bryant visited his brother in Asheville. Bids are open at FAY for the omni range site. Also plans are being made for a 150-foot ramp extension. * * * HUNTINGTON reports a new agent—Garry Baskett—whom they welcome. Garry replaces Gail Burcham who left for his first love—flying for a Cincinnati charter company. Walt Ryczek, station manager, vacationed in Perry, New York, for some good home cooking. Also, Jay Johnson and family are back after a trip to Beckley and Charleston. LYNCHBURG tells this story: On a landing a Piedmont pilot told the ramp agents their cargo was in the rear of the plane. Nevertheless, one dauntless agent hurriedly moved a stand to the nose compartment and entered the plane. The captain again told him the cargo was in the back. “Yes, sir, I heard you,” the agent re plied, “but I’m looking for some bones.” Restraining the co-pilot, the captain whis pered, “Don’t bother him. Just hope he leaves without tearing up the ship.” Reason for the scrutiny: a shipment of frozen bones was urgently needed in a local operation. * * * Agents Ijee McBrayer, C. Li. Harris, J. W. Dean, D. P. Smith and Jim Fields are still at ASHEVILIjE. They had their best year in board ings and expect to board between 2,000 and 3,000 each month next summer, when the new airport is completed. Sympathy to Dean, who lost a baby at birth. The remains were flown to Southern. Pines for burial. Down CHARLOTTE way, the addition to the terminal has been slowed down because of bad weather. Station Manager J. C. Newell now has his name and title in gold letters on his office door. WOW! Folks there quote a New York telegram re ceived from a good Charlotte passenger by the name of James M. Clark. “8 children counting on my return on Piedmont Flight 355 to Ashe ville. They will be very grateful if you can save me a seat as requested through EAL.” Needless to say, Mr. Clark made the flight and winged his way over to the eight children. Agent A1 Shully, who is promoted to Wash ington, was elected agent of the month by the Air Lines Progress Committee. He was nomi nated by the management and personnel of Eastern Airlines. At the CHARLOTTE CITY OFFICE reports come in that Scandinavian Airlines opened an of fice there October 5 in the Wachovia Bank Building. Miss Jean Adams of the Wachovia Travel Department has transferred to Asheville with the same organization. She will be the manager there. At PARKERSBURG-MARIETTA the main topic of conversation has been the F-27 service, which was inaugurated October 25. Employees at that station had an enjoyable get-together at the home of Jack Gwennaps with eats prepared by the station wives. Also at Parkersburg recently a gentleman checked in for a flight. Though his name was Prymer, he looked just like Billy Graham. A newspaper photographer was at the field and was so impressed with the resemblance, he snapped a photo. The truth of the matter is that Mr. Prymer, who is in the advertising business in Cleveland, said he had often been mistaken for Graham. One time in St. Louis he caused a near riot, since Graham was to appear there that evening. Another time, he was having a drink in a bar when a gentleman approached him and said, “Gee, Mr. Graham, I never expected to see you here.” NO, NOT BILLY GRAHAM. The look alike is Mr. Prymmer of Cleveland checking in with Virg Flinn at Parkersburg-Marietta. * * * Activities at BECKLEY show that winter is almost there. Any employee wishing information about the new ski slopes is asked to write Bob Wilson. Some people come back from vacations with sun tans; others come back with big fish stories —but manager Charles Field returned from his vacation with a new wife! Congratulations, Charles. The terminal at BKW is being painted again and looks bright and clean. * * NEW BERN has a new agent by the name of. Bill Downs. Bill is from Washington, N. C., and has a wife and 3-year old daughter. Manager Dave Morrison spent his vacation at home paint ing the exterior of his house. Personnel at WASHINGTON were hoping for 6,000 passengers during. September, but, thanks to Hurricane Grade, they came up with a total of 5,870. The biggest day was September 16 with 244 seats filled out of a possible 252. Vacationing during October were' Marilyn Eastes with two weeks in California and Min nesota and Bill Broughton and wife with ten days in Kansas City. • * Airport news at NEWPORT NEWS reports ramp improvements with a new and larger pas senger access area. A new communications and office building is nearing completion. It will house the FAA and ATC facilities, airport man agers offices and operations control room. LONDON-CORBIN is back to normal after the construction work. They announce they have made their five-passengers-a-day quota—much to their surprise. A new airport manager, a ramp extension. Avis Service and a nice snack bar are the latest additions. AIR ANECDOTES ARE FOR SALE Want several hours of delight ful reading? A gift for a fellow worker? Franklin W. Marsh’s FLYING HIGH, a collection of about 300 aviation anecdotes, is the perfect answer. The amusing stories concern about 20 airlines—Piedmont in cluded—and are illustrated by airline artists. The hard cover book was published about two years ago. Piedmont employees are en titled to a 10 per cent discount on the book, which sells for $2.50. In quantity order the dis count increases to 20 per cent on up to 10 copies and to 25 per cent on all copies over 10. Those wishing to order the book may do so by mailing check or money order for $2.25 to Frederick W. Marsh, 5711 Colorado Avenue, SW, Washing ton 11, D. C. Brown Heads Nominators C. Gordon Brown, Piedmont Airlines Vice-President, will at tend a meeting of the Air Trans- p o r t Association nominating committee at Seattle, November 15 to 19. Mr. Brown is chairman of the committee which nominates in dustry representatives for the many member committees of the ATA. New Change Made In Pass Policy A new pass policy for reduced rate and non-revenue transpor tation by Piedmont employees and their families became effec- t i V e October 26, according to General Sales Manager W. G. McGee. .j^ The major change in policy allows parents and parents-in- law to request reduced rate transportation on Piedmont and on carriers with which Piedmont has negotiated agreements. A memo on the policy changes —what can and cannot be done in requesting passes—has gone out to the various stations and departments.
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