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MAY, 1963
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Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
SMITH REYNOLDS AIRPORT
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.
Editor: Cleta Covington
CORRESPONDENTS THIS ISSUE
Tommy Young, ATL-O; Ray Campbell, CMH; Bob Gilley, BAL;
J. P. Wheeler, RDU; Neal B. Dillon, PHF; Don Pierce, CHO;
Ruth Shumate, CRW; Frank Reynolds, LYH; Roger Greenlaw,
SHD; Bill Evans, GSB; Naomi McGuinn, AVL; Gene Shore,
MBC; Bob Wylie, ORF; Glen Shanks, PSK; Flo Merritt, CAE.
= 1
VFR
with
Turby
Business in April was mighty good, and you all are to be con'
gratulated for the fine job you did and are still doing! The on
time operation was exceptionally good which, in turn, is one of
the keys to carrying more passengers.
We are ending up the season in bowling, and I was a member
of one of the PAI teams known as the “Pencil Pushers.” Well,
I’m not a very good bowler, but I just happened to be in FLO
with Pete Jones some time ago, and he got to bragging about
what a good game he could roll. He has a 160 average — me, only
131. The point is, we went out after dinner that night and I beat
him four games!! It was a bitter pill for Mr. Jones to take, but
like I told him, he’ll grow up someday and be able to play with
the big boys. (Just for the record — how ’bout the girls, Mr.
Turby? Understand your secretary won the last four games out
of five—Ed.)
Had a most enjoyable time last night in CRW at their incen
tive dinner. This was a double-barreled occasion, as it was also
the 15th anniversary of PAI operations into CRW. Special guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hodges. Mr. Hodges is “Mr. Aviation
of Charleston, West Virginia.
Am writing this from ORF this time as the deadline of this
article caught me away from home.
Tomorrow night, I’m looking forward to dining with Doug
Guin and his PHF gang for their outstanding contribution, to our
good business.
Sorry I couldn’t make CHO on the 13th.
Agent’s Brain Busters
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This cheerful group helped Brown wind up his airline career with a dinner in Washington. During the eve
ning they presented him with a shotgun for hunting and an autographed F-27 picture. The names of those
smiling faces are (seated, left to right): H. P. VanHorn, Benny Walker, A. G. Melson, W. O. Tadlock, H. K.
Saunders, H. R. Brown, W. H. Finen, W. G. Moser, G. R. Welborn, (standing, left to right) Fred Kozack,
L. R. LaFollette, Vic Conary, H. C. Kelly, G. N. Irwin, Forest Shelton, A. E. Smith, R. B. Swartz, R. L. Evans,
Ward D. Daub, K. C. Lineback, E. D. Clement, J. E. Pierce, E. J. Thurber, L. D. De Armond, L. W. McNames,
W. M. Acree, and R. B. Richardson.
BROWN . . .
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regulations he had to retire from
scheduled airline flying at that
age. May 2 was the last day he
put on an airline uniform and
started the painstaking routine
of safely transporting passengers
from one point to another. Now
it’s a “little hunting, a little fish
ing, and maybe a little flying”
for him and his attractive wife,
Louise.
Captain Brown’s colorful avia
tion career is worthy of the best
barnstorming movie script. He
first became interested in fly
ing in 1918 when as teenagers,
he and his brother built them
selves a glider. Everything was
fine until they cracked it up one
day, at which point the elder Mr.
Brown told his sons there’d be
no more experiments with flying
machines.
He went to public schools in
Question
A passenger calls our RIC of
fice for a routing RIC-TRI. He
states he would like to use flight
491 RIC-ROA and continue on to
TRI on Flight 85. Flight 491 ar
rives ROA at 8:07 a.m., the next
departure is Flight 789 at 8:57
a.m., and Flight 85 leaves at
By Tom Cowen and Bob Reed
11:56 a.m. Since the passenger
states he wanted 491 and 85, is
he charged for stopover at ROA
or is he given the through fare?
Question
What does the term “Normal
Mail Load” mean and how is it
determined? (Answers on page
four)
Free Enterprise-
A Way of Life
What is “Free Enterprise?”
It has nothing to do with poli
tics or wealth or class. It is a
way of living in which you as
an individual are important. Lit
tle things make up this way of
living, but think what you would
lose if you ever surrendered it:
Free Enterprise is the right to
open a gas station or grocery
store or buy a farm, if you want
to be your own boss, or change
your job if you don’t like the
man you work for.
Free Enterprise is the right to
lock your door at night.
Free Enterprise is the right to
argue.
Free Enterprise is the right
to save money if you want, or
blow it on a good time if that’s
what you prefer.
Free Enterprise is looking on
a policeman as someone to pro
tect you, on a judge as a friend
to help you.
Free Enterprise is the right
to speak freely about anything
you wish.
Free Enterprise has nothing
to do with how much money you
have or don’t have, nor what
your job is or is not. Free En
terprise means the right to be
yourself instead of some name
less number in a horde bossed
by a few despots. Free Enter
prise is the sum of many little
things . . . but how miserable
you’d be if someone stole it from
you!
Bank-Trust News
First Nat’l Bank, St. Louis
Within the time it takes jet
passengers to draw two breaths,
they have traveled more than a
mile at cruising speed.
Rachel Alley, INT-F 1
Sherley Brown, BAL 1
C. C. Haycraft, SDF 1
K. D. Heflin, ORF 1
William Nelson, INT-FB 1
D. H. Rieger, Capt., ORF 1
J. F. Weidensaul, RIC 1
Joyce Dobinette, DCA 2
J. H. Glenn, DCA 2
Genevieve Fincher, TRI 3
G. A. Sugg, F/0, INT 3
R. S. Sutchffe, INT 8
K. W. Atkinson, ROA-M 4
J. W. Branan, F/O, ATL 4
W. G. Robertson, Capt., ILM 4
M. R. Sink, ORF 4
Betty Sugg, INT-SC 4
V. L. Widener, INT-FB 4
E. C. Dark, Capt., INT 5
J. N. Lawson, INT 5
L. F. Anders, City Sales Mgr.,
ROA ! 6
J. F. Beasley, CAE 6
R. B. Carter, Capt., ATL 6
H. C. Fleear, ORF 6
C. E. Jarrett, INT 6
C. L. Stewart, F.A., ILM 6
T. J. Wimbish, CPA 6
C. V. Clemmons, LEX 7
Ben Dunne, INT 7
S. C. Folger, Asst. Gen. Sales
Mgr., INT 7
G. A. Gentry, AVL 7
F. D. Reeves, INT 7
L. G. Bennett, INT-M 8
J. L. Brown, INT-FB 8
H. L. Gibson, Sta. Mgr., ROA 8
D. J. Pitcock, SHD 8
Mary Weaver, ROA-F 8
W. A. Crowe, Dist. Sales
Mgr., CLT 9
M. F. Everidge, INT-M 9
Jim Hill, INT-C 9
F. E. Jaconbs, ILM 9
J. H. Jennings, LYH 9
R. R. Kiser, INT-M 9
K. T. Cale, ATL 10
W. H. Craver, INT-M 10
W. C. Dolan, Sales Rep., ILM 10
Margie Baker, INT-A 11
K. W. Dennis, ATL 11
C. J. McDonald, INT 11
Jacqueline Heffernan, CVG 12
Ruth Revell, DCA 12
Margaret Rieckhoff, CVG-CTO 12
J. D. Storch, INT-M 12
A. L. Cody, INT 13
Susan Davis, F.A., DCA 13
J. E. Frick, CAE 13
Lucille Holder, INT 13
R. C. Hoots, INT-A 13
C. H. Jones, INT 13
J. L. Mustin, INT-M 13
R. B. Parker, ILM 13
D. W. Priddv, INT-M 13
M. C. Baugh', R.OA 14
W. h. Downey, Capt., TYS 14
H. J. Trollinger, F.A., INT 14
G. L. Baskett, AVL 15
D. L. Boggs, DCA 15
R. D. Dean, F/O, ORF 15
W. A. Grubbs, Sales Rep., CRW -15
R. P, McClung, ATL -.15
K. M. Moser, BLF 15
T. G. Pennell, HKY 15
Louise Ramsey, ATL 13
J. W. Williams, INT 15
H. M. Cobert, F/O, INT 16
H. E. Cooke, GSB 16
W. G. Matthews, F/O, DCA 16
R. D. Smith, LYH 16
Irene Kiser, CRW ...J7
D. C. Carter, INT 18
C. A. Hughes, Capt., ILM 18
L, J. Lambert, INT 18
Joan May, CVG 18
Sylvia Parsons, DCA 18
Bobbie Pugh, ROA-M 18
F. L. Stickney, Capt., DCA 18
F. C, Works,'CVG-F 18
W. M. Barnes, Capt., ROA 19
W. F. Edwards, ORF 19
R. C. Herzing, ORF-FB 19
J. T. LeBarron, ORF-FB 19
Deborah Smith, F.A., ILM 19
G. T. Stack, Div. Chf.
Purser, INT 19
Elizabeth Brendle, INT-FB 20
G, M. Combs, CLT 20
J. W. Johnson, Supt. Inspec.
. Dept, INT-FB 20
J. W. Pfaff, INT-FB 20
J. B. Ramey, INT-M 20
M. E. Smith, ROA 20
R. D. Belcher, ROA-M 21
J. D. Hall, INT-FB 21
V. A. Howard, INT 21
Kenneth Patterson, INT 21
J. P. Wheeler, RDU 21
Patricia White, ORF-FB 21
N. B. Dillon, PHF 22
C. E. Donahoo, Sta. Mgr,, MBC ...,22
Gilbert Wesley, TYS 22
R, E. Griffin,' INT-M 22
T. R. Thompson, ATL 22
R. S. Totten, INT-FB 22
P. M. Walden, FLO 22
A. E. Wilkins, INT 22
C. E. Almond, F/O, TYS 23
Kwenda Cobb, F.A., ORF 23
J. R. Crank, AGS 23
R. H. Hampton, INT 23
Betty Hunter, INT-SC 23
S. A. Shore, INT 23
C. H. Sprouse, ROA-M 23
Rainey Chandler, INT-M 24
C. T. Leonard, ILM 24
G. M. Livengood, INT 24
P. G. Puckett, TRI 24
W. H. Forsythe, INT 25
P. R. Graham, INT 25
G. E. Hendrix, Capt., INT 25
Barbara Northcutt, ATL-C 25
B. N. Cash, F/O, INT 26
J. W. Connor, F/O, DCA 26
M. H. Payne, Capt., TYS 26
G. S. Angle, INT-M 27
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his hometown of Brocton, N. Y.,
plus the Rochester Institute of
Technology, and the Bliss Elec
trical Engineering School, where
he graduated as an electrical en-
g i n e e r. Once on his own, he
worked long enough to earn
money for flying lessons, and
then it was back to aviation
again.
Brown learned to fly in 1930
at the D. W. Flying School in
New York. From 1931 through
1939 he operated the Rochester
Flying School in Rochester, N. Y.
Not only did he instruct stu
dents, he also hired out for any
skywriting, towing advertising
banners, and dare-devil barn
storming for air shows.
After that, he flew for the old
Molzer Airways in St. Peters
burg, Fla., and from 1941 to 1942
he was an instructor for the
Rochester Aeronautical Associa
tion.
By then the war had broken
out and he joined the U. S. Army
Air Corps. He flew search and
rescue missions in the North
Pole, and after transferring to
India, flew in supplies and car
ried out wounded in support of
the mission for the first bomb
ing of Japan. Of that he says,
“We were told it was a super
secret assignment, but when we
got to India we found out every
body there knew what we were
doing and why.”
By 1945, he was Chief Pilot of
the Crescent Operation which in
cluded Air Corps flights all over
the world. By the time his mili
tary career ended in 1946, he
had flown in every U. S. theatre
of operations.
Once home, he took up civilian
flying and in the late 40’s helped
start Robinson Airlines, based in
Utica, N. Y. Robinson is now Mo
hawk Airlines, a local service
carrier serving New England. In
March, 1948, he joined Piedmont
Airlines where he has been ever
since.
Piedmont first assigned him to
the Norfolk crew base, and he
and his family lived there for 14
years. Then in 1962 he trans-
f e r r e d to Washington, D. C.,
where he has been until the
present.
Captain and Mrs. Brown’s fu
ture plans include a life as
“gentlemen farmers” at their
country place nine miles south
of Ithaca, N. Y. The farm has
been overgrown for 20 years
with weeds and brush, and Mrs.
Brown recently spent a hardy
five months clearing the grounds
and getting everything ready for
moving day.
As a pilot with four million
miles under his belt. Brown is
not ready to give up flying just
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