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VOL. V, NO. 6
APACE WITH THE PACEMAKER
AUGUST, 1962
Coiner Appointed
RDU Sales Rep.
Piedmont Airlines announces
the appointment of Norman A.
Coiner as City Sales Manager
for Raleigh - Durham, and the
surrounding area.
Coiner is a ten-
year veteran with
Piedmont, having
served seven years
as an Agent at
Newport News and
three years at the
Joint Airline Military Traffic
Office (JAMTO) at Ft. Eustis,
Va. For the last year and a half
he has been Manager of the
JAMTO office.
He is a native of Newport
News and attended public school
there. After graduation he re
ceived two years training as an
apprentice Electronic I n s t r u -
ment Maker at Langley Field,
Va. He also served one and a
half years with the U. S. Navy
in the Pacific theater.
Prior to joining Piedmont,
Coiner was an Electrician with
the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Co., and an Elec
tronic Instrument Maker with
the NASA Electronic I n s t r u-
ment Division at Langley Field.
He has completed the move
from Newport News and is now
residing at 213 King Charles
Road, Raleigh.
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July Tops All Boarding
Records; August Due
To Be Even Handsomer
Passengers of Distinction — see page four
Editor Joins "Happy-
Though-Marrled" Club
The bachelor - girl Editor of
THE PiEDMONITOR ;,as surren
dered to the inevitable.
By the time this issue reaches
you. Miss Cleta Marshall will
have become Mrs. Philip Cov
ington. He is a law student at
the University of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill, and they'll live
in Burlington, Phil driving to
Chapel Hill to classes and Cleta
commuting to her usual Editor's
desk at INT.
Wedding plans were marred
by a serious automobile acci
dent five weeks ago in which
Phil sustained a number of in
juries. He has almost recovered
but was on crutches for the
wedding.
PIEDMONITOR reporters; The
address is the same, only the
name has changed. It's Cleta
Covington now. —D. E. B.
Joking or Not . . .
Government Jails Bomb Hoaxer
Says Special FBI Report
During the past year a num
ber of Piedmont flights have had
serious delays because of anony
mous phone calls warning that
a bomb was aboard one of the
aircraft. Each time a thorough
search was made, with no evi
dence of a bomb uncovered.
The mysterious callers may
think they’ve committed a n
amusing prar\k, but if appre
hended they will find that the
government and the airlines
take bomb hoaxing — whether
malicious or joking — as serious
business.
This is shown by the fact that
17 persons have spent or are
now spending a total of 13 years
and seven months in jail for
hoaxing, according to a special
FBI report to the Air Transport
Association of America (ATA).
These persons have been con
victed, for as long as two years,
under 1956 federal law, amended
October 3, 1962.
The “jokester” type of hoax
er—one who “wilfully and ma
liciously, or with reckless dis
regard for the safety of human
life, imparts or conveys or
causes to be imparted or con
veyed false information, know
ing the information to be false”
—is subject to a fine of $5,000
Interline Contest Offers Europe Trip
An interline contest sponsored
jointly by Piedmont and Trans
World Airlines gets underway
August 15 through October 15,
promoting TWA’s “Adventures
in Europe” campaign now in ef
fect.
The first prize is
a week in Europe,
visiting cities o n
TWA routes, in
cluding pos i t i V e
transportation, ho
tels, transfers, and sightseeing
for the contestant and any com
panion who qualifies under pass
regulations of Piedmont and
TWA.
Second prize consists of a
week-end in LAX, SFO, LAS,
or NYC, city to be selected by
the winner, and includes hotel
accommodations, sight seeing,
transportation, and transfers.
The basis for competition will
be window displays in any city
served by Piedmont, featuring
the Europe theme. The contest
ant must submit a photograph
of his display which will be
judged by General Sales Man
ager W. G. McGee and TWA’s
District Manager R. E. Ellis,
DCA.
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Display ma
terials will be
furnished by
Piedmont and
TWA, but additional material
may be added, at his own ex
pense, if the contestant desires.
A11 employees of Piedmont
Airlines are eligible to compete
in the contest, with the excep
tion of General Office personnel.
Complete copies of the rules
have been forwarded to stations
and interested employees are ad
vised to contact their supervi
sors for further details.
and/or five years. (Title 18 Z. S.
Code Section 31 et seq.)
The first conviction under the
“jokester” provision of the fed
eral law, which became effect
ive last October 3, took place
June 20 in Brooklyn, N . Y. I
Boarding a Miama-bound air-1
liner December 30, a 28-year old
housewife declared. “This bag
mu-^t go witli me. 1 hav*^ a
time bomb in it.”
Laws discouraging related
offenses concerning aircraft are
also in effect;
SABOTAGE—By virtue of
federal law enacted on July 14,
1956, a person who wilfully dam
ages an air transport or com
mercial motor vehicle engaged
in interstate commerce is sub
ject to a fine of $10,000 or im
prisonment for 20 years or both.
If death results, he is subject
to the death penalty or life im
prisonment. (Title 18 U. S. Code
Section 31, et seq.)
PIRACY—Federal law enact
ed last September 5 makes air
craft hijacking punishable by
death or by imprisonment for
not less than 20 years if the
death penalty is not imposed.
The same law makes a person
who “assaults, intimidates, or
threatens any flight crew mem
ber ... so as to interfere with
the performance ... of his du
ties” subject to a fine of not
more than $10,000 and/or im
prisonment for not more than 20
years. If a deadly or dangerous
weapon is used, the penalty
shall be imprisonment “for any
term of years or for life.”
The law also prohibits the car
rying of a concealed weapon
aboard an aircraft, except by
authorized persons. Conviction
can bring a fine up to $1,000
and/or a year in jail.
The same law also brings un
der federal jurisdiction numer
ous other crimes that could be
committed aloft.
PIRACY HOAXING — The
September 5 law further pro
vides punishment for hijack
hoaxing identical to that for
bomb hoaxing, above (Title 49
U. S. Code Section 1472.)
Quotas toppled over most of
the system in July as Piedmont
Airlines racked up new all-time
high passenger boardings. With
a 75,764 quota, hard-working em
ployees boarded 76,799 people,
reflecting a margin for good
measure of 1,035.
At least four reasons could be
counted for the dramatic up-
surge in traffic: skyrocketing
mileage resulting from the new
North-South routings; diversion
of traffic to Piedmont by the
strike of Eastern Air Lines; a
traditional passenger incr ease
during vacation season; and an
employee organization wil ling
and able to cope with the prob
lems and challenges involved.
Average length of haul went
up, too. For July the Piedmont
passenger traveled an average
of 234 miles. For some time pre
vious the figure had been fairly
static at about 191 miles.
Passenger miles for July 1962,
totaling 18,008,463, almost dou
bled the 9,460,276 mark of a
year ago. The July 1962 load fac
tor stood at 52.10, compared to
46.45 for the previous July.
While all stations’ boarding
records for the month were gen
erally good, some were outstand
ing and worthy of mention. Dan
ville almost doubled its quota of
190 with 372 passengers while
Winston-Salem more than dou
bled with a quota of 1,800 pas
sengers and 3,872 actually board
ed. Washington had a quota of
8,569 for the month and boarded
a whopping 12,307, or 16 per
cent of the total passengers sys-
tems-wide.
Charleston, with a quota of
2,300, boarded. 2,801. Hickory
put on 712 passengers with a
500 quota. New Bern also did it
self proud, with a 675 quota and
1,027 actual passengers. Rocky
Mount came close to doubling
its quota of 275 with 515 passen
gers. New-station Atlanta got off
to a good start with a quota-
busting 4,497, up about 450 from
the goal set.
August is historically a better
month for airline travel than
July and this one should be no
exception. The system-wide Aug
ust ciuota, fraught with chal
lenge, is 84,320 passengers. Us
ing the first 15 days of the
month as an indicator, 40,003
passengers had been carried,
squeaking over the cumulative
quota through August 15th of
39,800 by 203 passengers. The
August daily passenger quota
system-wide is 2,720.
In addition to the large num
ber of regular Piedmont person
nel hired recently, Superinten-
aent of Stations K. E. Ross
states that Eastern Airlines em
ployees have been temporarily
employed by Atlanta, Washing
ton, Winston-Salem, Greensboro-
High Point, Raleigh-Durham, Co
lumbia, Augusta, Roanoke, and
Charlotte, to help cope with the
upturn in Piedmont traffic.
All Flights Grounded
For ^Sky Shield III'
The continental United States
will be threatened by “aggres
sor forces” September 2, and air
liners will stay out of the air as
North American Air Defense
Command units act to repel the
invasion.
For the third consecutive year
all civil aviation in the United
States will be grounded from 2
p.m. to 7:30 p.m., EST, as part
of “Operation Sky Shield III,”
which will test North America’s
air defense system.
Alaska operations will be shut
down for only three and a half
hours. Hawaii will not be affect
ed.
Many Attacks
Since the exercise includes “at
tacks” upon numerous continen
tal areas by “aggressor forces,”
there is also a direct effect upon
international flights operating
to and from the North Ameri
can continent.
Those landing in the U. S.,
Alaska and Canada must be on
the ground by 3 p.m. EDT. De
parting flights must be clear of
the over-water areas that will be
utilized by approaching “aggres
sor” aircraft by the same time.
Pledges Support
In pledging the support of the
airlines in carrying out the ma
neuver, ATA’s Stuart G. Tipton
said, “As one of the users of the
airways, the airlines recognize
the overriding, and necessary,
priority use of the airways that
the military must command on
occasions such as this.
“Tests of this sort are an im
portant part of our nation’s de
fense preparedness and the air
lines will ‘sit it out’ in order to
give the military exclusive use
of the sky to make Sky-Shield
III as valuable as possible.”
Special Order
The Federal Aviation Agency
has issued a special grounding
order for all civilian aircraft
during the exercise.
“As in the case of last year’s
exercise,” said FAA Administra
tor N. E. Halaby, “I have issued
this special rule to make official
the cooperation we have always
had voluntarily from civil avia
tion.
“The understanding and will
ingness of the public, the na
tion’s pilots, and the entire avi
ation community to accept tem
porary inconveniences in the in
terest of improved continental
air defense is most heartening
to'the FAA and the Defense De
partment.”