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PAGE SIX THE PIEDMONITOR NOVEMBER, 1959 I I i: PIEDMONT SPONSORED team at INT has seven members. Pictured (kneeling, left to right) are Ed Culler and B. L. Widener and (standing, left to right) Captain W. J. Lambert, J. T. Hall and J. F. Rowe.- C. W. Goff and J. C. Messick are the absentee bowlers. Bowling Is Sport For Many On Lanes Throughout System “Set ’em up again!” is a familiar cry for many Piedmonters as the bowling season liits its stride. Around the system, watch ing the pins fall is the major off-hours activity. At INT, Piedmont sponsors a seven-man, ten pins team. Com posed of Captain W. J. Lambert, C. W. Goff, Ed Culler, J. F. Rowe, B. L. Widener, J. T. Hall and J. C. Messick, and is now in fourth place (just three points out of first place) in the Cosmo politan League, which has 10 teams. This season, the team is in the second round of play. The season lasts for 36 weeks. Lambert is president of the league. Another INT team is in the Sportsman Duck Pin League and ED LASKOWSKI BERT CARLOS has Wimpy Fisher as captain. The team of Boyce Wilson, Carl Khulman, Bill Sanders, Bob Dar den and Jim Angell is in its sec ond round. Women bowlers at INT include Marion Pruitt, Mary Nell Car son, Eloise Hewitt, Margaret Herman and Jackie Abee. They bowl in the Salad Bowl League and are sponsored by a Winston- Salem grocery. Representing Piedmont in the bowling activities at Louisville are Sherley Brown, Jim Eames, Bob Walls, Bruce Parrish, Ed Johnson of the weather bureau, Allen Caswell of the phone com pany and Francis Doninger from air express. Louisville Challenges The SDF team is a member of the Standiford Bowling League and has a record of 13 wins and 14 losses. It has been in the league for four years. SDF bowl ers invite challenges from any other station teams. Columbus has two star bowl ers — Ed Laskowski and Bert Carlos — at the Piedmont sta tion. Ed has an average score of 157 and is president of the Wel come Travelers mixed league. He recently bowled fifth in the doubles event of the City League Officers Tournament. Bert has an average of 170 and placed fourth in the Heart Fund Tournament. He bowls about 15 tournaments each year. Norfolk bowlers are on the Municipal Airport team of the Midtown Commercial League and sport a 18 and 15 won-loss rec ord. They have won 16 of the last 18 games bowled. The present ORF team con sists of Bill Halsey, Bob Wylie, Hank Eisenbath, Larry Redden, Carey Lindsay of Capital Air lines and Cal Johnson from the JAMTO office. The team is in a trophy league, which begins in September and concludes the end of May. Three Piedmont bowlers there have received tro phies for the highest individual average. They are Bill Halsey, Reggie Powell and Bob Bean. Piedmont Press Notes GENERAL OFFICE news includes the selec tion of M. F. Fare, vice president of the ATA’s Airline Finance and Accounting Conference. Gordon Brown and Preston Lincoln attended an ATA meeting in Seattle. Mr. Brown was chair man of the ATC nominating committee; Mr. Lin coln was chairman of the tariff committee. Will Blaclimon, H. K. Saunders and Howard Cartwright attended the F-27 Airline Operations Conference in San Francisco November 23 and 24. Piedmont was in charge of the ground serv icing session of the conference, which was sched uled by the Fairchild Corporation. THE GRAND AWARD for Beechcraft dis tributors was presented to Piedmont Aviation at the International Distributors and Dealers Con vention at Wichita, Kansas, November 19. The award was made for the best overall performance in the sale of Beech parts in the nation. Attending the convention were T. C. Fergu son, Dick Morris, Bill Work and Bob Northing- ton. Northington also attended the National Aviation Trades Association Convention in New Orleans. He is a member of the advisory board. T. H. Davis and W. G. Goff attended the Aviation Distributors and Manufacturers Associa tion Convention at Hollywood, Fla. INTERLINE FRIENDS contribute two items of interest. TWA inaugurated Boeing 707 service to London and Frankfort November 23, and serv ice to Paris and Rome December 3. TWA’s in tercontinental jet carries 134 passengers, 32 de luxe and 102 economy. Air France is sponsoring spring interline tours to Europe, Russia, Greece and the Middle East. The all inclusive tours feature a 75 per cent reduction in air travel on Boeing 707 jets, plus hotel and touring arrangements. More informa tion may be secured by writing the sales depart ment or any Air France office. At ASHEVILLE construction work has be gun on the new $518,309 administration and terminal building for the new airport. The con tractors have until October 22, 1960 to finish the work. * BECKLEY reports they have started carry ing many Army personnel to Ft. Knox, Ken tucky on 371 to Louisville. And Bob Harper from LEX has been transferred there to replace Garry Lewis, who returned to INT. A Merry Christmas to everyone is sent from station personnel there. The first full F-27 flight boarded at COLUM BUS was done November 8. Among important people visiting Port Columbus recently were All Khan and Dr. Teller, “Father of the H- Bomb.” TWA and American airlines have landed 707’s there due to Chicago weather. Mike Hollern has joined the CMH staff. Jan Young spent a vacation basking in the Hawaii sun, while cold weather and rains began plague- ing the Ohio station. NATIONAL AWARD for excellence in Beechcraft parts sales and service is presented to C. W. Goff (left) by Vice-President Northington. Two CHARLOTTE agents—Barbara North- cutt and Louise Ramsey attended the Airline Party in Las Vegas December 2. Dwight Miller had a vacation, too. A1 Shully was given a fare well party before his departure for DCA. A wel come is given D. C. Hardin and family, who have transferred from GSO. News of former agents: Nancy Dabbs Hart visited Charlotte station folks and reports she enjoys life in Chattanooga. Roger Newell is back in college and “racking up A’s” in the classroom. At WASHINGTON Jim Fouts has been pro moted to Lead Agent in reservations. Vacations have been numerous: Ralph Pendleton to Cali fornia; Jo Lindsay to Phoenix, Tucson and San Francisco; Donna Brown to Minneapolis; Kit Thames to Florida; C. H. Widener to Tulsa; Jo anne Palya to New York, and Helen Holland and Jeanne Hoard to California. Jim Glenn spent part of his vacation in Havana and, upon return, was transferred from operations to reservations. AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION at Smith Reyn olds port at INT moves ahead steadily. The enlarge ment program, due for completion in 1960, will give carriers, including Piedmont, needed space and con venience. TEMPORARY QUARTERS for Piedmont's space control, operations control and flight control (moved from the airport) have been set up in the lower story of the general office. GREENSBORO invites everyone down to see ice hockey games played by the new GSO Gen erals at the new municipal coliseum. The Gen erals are in the same league as the Charlotte Clippers. KINSTON welcomes agent Thomas Zabaw- chuk from Broadalbin, New York. Seems he’ll be in the South for some time—he has plans to marry a “rebel” girl. Deepest sympathy goes to LEXINGTON chief agent Reese Kenney, whose father died re cently. Bruce Ball is a new transfer from TRI and as a reporter says, “There is an old saying that Kentucky is noted for its fast horses and pretty women, but a long-kept secret was ex posed the other day. Our own Mr. Casey was voted the most handsome man in his senior year at high school. LOUISVILLE is glad to report that E. Kirk is back on the job after about four months ill ness and that Howard Hughes is fully recovered from his operation. Newcomer Jim Davis in maintenance is a Pennsylvanian at heart, but he is learning to be a Kentuckian. Sympathy goes to Sherley BrowTi in the re cent death of his father. At LYNCHBURG the parking apron in front of the administration building and terminal has been enlarged approximately 50 per cent. The job consisted of placing several inches of crushed stone over the old apron and adjoining area and then resurfacing the entire area. F-27’s and DC-3’s can taxi, turn and unload jointly without difficulty now. Ed T. Best, LHY station manager and divi sion supervisor, started a 15-day active-duty tour December 1 with the Air Force as a captain in the 9473rd reserve squadron. Agent Frank Reyn olds is back after an appendectomy.
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