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THEPiEomonim JULY, 1963 PAGE TWO Piedmont Aviation, Inc. SMITH REYNOLDS AIRPORT WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Editor: Cleta Covington CORRESPONDENTS THIS ISSUE Flo Merritt, CAE; Naomi McGuinn, AVL; Elaine Sturr, CVG-F; Ray Norris, TRI; Bob Wylie, ORF; Frank Reynolds, LYH; Joe Robertson, BLF; Bruce Ball, LEX; Neal Dillon, PHF; Madge Lanier, CLT; J. P. Wheeler, RDU; F. J. Slone, RMT; Ruth Shu mate, CRW; Jim Deans, EWN; John Morris, BAL; Marge Rieck- hoff, CVG-CTO; Roger Greenlaw, SHD; Fred Classey, HKY. VFR with Turby Ken Ross had an urgent phone call the other day from Vize Dotson, Station Manager at PKB. Vize, being rather excited, ad vised that the station had been robbed the previous night. The conversation went something like this— Vize; “Ken, this is Vize. The station was broken into last night.” Ken: “Anything missing?” Vize: “I’ve checked all the tickets, equipment, furniture, communications equipment, and everything is intact — nothing missing. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to mention the safe. They did take it with all the money!” --- S'^fcT i-^rr-r-j-ast returned from Las Vegas where he attended the Annual Meeting of all Credit Unions. Now, can you think of a better place for such an organization to have a meeting (slot machines, dice tables and all those gadgets)? And, all those shows you have been reading about out there! Of course, he had to behave because Ileita, his attractive wife, was along to keep him in line. George Price and his wife and son also attended. George, too, was at a disadvantage. Guys, I’m kidding — I think it’s great you made the trip. BKW: Two dinners in two weeks! They sure are living high on the hog these days. As you know, they won the UAL Contest as well as PAl Incentive Contest. Bobby Harper, you know, gets the trip to Hawaii, along with his wife, of course. I had the pleasure of attending the Incentive Dinner last Thursday night, July 11. Also visited their very neat-looking station. Bill Clark, Supervisor of Ground Operations, put on his usual Twist exhibi tion, which, of course, he is an expert at doing. I recently sent to all supervisors a little prayer known as “A Supervisor’s Prayer,” which I thought had a great deal of good advice in it. Today, I received from Howard Lewis, Agent in BAL, a prayer he wrote — “An Agent’s Prayer” which I think is very good and with Howard’s permission, I wish to include it in this article so that all agents at PAI may follow, I hope: “O, Lord, please help me to do. The many things my boss wants me to, “Although I try to do my best, I’m always in a mess, “He wants so much and I give so little. So please dear Lord, help me a little.”. The horse and buggy had one advantage over the motor car at railroad crossings — the horse looked too. Sif^ite4n PROMOTIONS K. W. Rose to Shop Mech. Helper W. W. Scudder to Mech. L. W. Peters to Mech. L. E. Simmons to Mech. Spec. J. D. Wiltsey to Mech. TRANSFERS B. A. Walker, DCA to ATL R. A. Emanuelson, DCA to ROA P. R. Bostick, CRW to BLF D. H. Cooper, CVG to ILM N. K. Vaught to ILM E. K. Spencer to ILM B. I. Marshburn to ILM W. J. Selvia to ROA NEW EMPLOYEES G. C. Bond, Oper. Agt., ATL Nancy Ayers, Res. Agt.,, ROA J. D. Whidden, Jr. Radio Tech., ORF Agent’s Brain Busters by Bob Reed and Tom Cowen Question In air freight pick up and de livery service, what is “auto matic delivery” and how is it used? L. C. Baldwin, Jr. Key Punch Oper., INT L. N. Linville, Jr. Gen. Clrk., INT W. B. King, Jr. Acctnt., ROA-M W. B. Marshall, Cleaner, INT W. A. Lambeth, Lineman, INT-CPA D. G. Avera, F.A., INT D. D. Murray, F.A., INT F. E. Vaught, F.A., INT W. E. Johnson, Helper, INT-FB B. G. Dillenseger, Gen. Clrk., DCA C. W. Sparks, Jr., Chf. Pilot, ORF- FB P. E. Cole, Lineman, ORF-FB AUGUST Jack Baum, ORF 1 S. P. Brown, ILM 1 C. W. Bryant, Supt. Eng. Overhl. Shp., INT-FB 1 M. P. Holt, INT-M 1 D. E. Knight, MBC 1 Joanne Marginot, DCA 1 J. L. Martin, ATL 1 I. R. McHargue, INT-FB 1 D. C. Miller, BAL 1 R. P. Pate, ISO 1 J. M. Fouts, Res. Mgr., DCA-F 2 Betty Fulp, Personnel Rep., INT ....2 E. C. Groce, INT 2 B. L. Harper, BKW 2 C. C. Jackson, ILM 2 J. L. McDonald, INT 2 C. E. Pitts, INT 2 J. L. Smith, INT-F 2 N. L. W. Ball, F/0, INT 3 Lewis Watson, ATL 3 A. L. Bianucci, INT 4 G. L. Burton, PHF 4 W. A. Fishel, INT-A 4 A. T. Gray, INT 4 R. L. Smith, INT-M 4 Shirley Sword, CMH 4 G. F. Davis, INT-M 5 L. H. Jones, LYH 5 D. D. Shean, INT .5 Nancy Vaught, F.A., INT 5 H. M. Watson, INT-M 5 R. W. Cunningham, INT-M 6 Ashlyn Hammett, FLO 6 T. L. Hayes, INT 6 H. H. Hutcheson, Capt., INT 6 M. T. Sneed, CVG-M 6 W. S. Spach, INT 6 Margaret Gorman, RIC 7 William Miller, ROA 7 Carole Roub, DCA 7 .1. W. Cox, DAN 8 R, R. Gabriel, INT 8 G. N. Mowbray, ROA 8 J. M. Orr, ORF-FB 8 J. C. Queen, AVL 8 J. M. Bruce, CLT 9 D. E. Raines, ILM !) Elizabeth Reed, CHO 9 Carolyn Repass, RDU 9 R. A. Turbiville, Asst. Mgr., RDU 9 Olive Webster, INT 9 R. S. Carpenter, INT-M 10 T. W. Cleghon, DCA 10 W. M. Acree, Capt., DCA 11 F. B. Brown, II>M 11 J. W. Gardner, GSO 11 H. W. Gordon, INT 11 N. B. Horton, F/0, ILM 11 W. G. Mabe, INT-FB 11 Palmer Alexander, IBM Superv., INT-A 12 D. V. Blackburn, F/O, DCA 12 Robert Duckett, INT-FB 12 R. G. Ellwanger, ROA 12 J. W. Ledbetter, INT 12 R. L. Bosley, HTS 13 Gail Brewer, INT-A 13 D. G. Bumgardner, INT 13 Lynda Smith, INT 13 S. E. Smith, ILM 13 W. J. Taylor, INT 13 Jean Winslow, CLT 13 Sara Kelly, INT-F 14 J. W. Lewis, INT-D 14 D. L. Rowe, INT 14 Oscar L. Tesh, INT-A 14 Rebecca Trollinger. DCA 14 P. B. Wallace, INT 14 H. L. Joyce, INT-M 15 J. M. Leslie, ROA 15 W. T. Mosko, INT 15 H. L. Vahdyke, ROA-M 15 W. F. Davis, Supt. Bus. Aircft. Maint. Sales, INT-M 16 J. T. Gibson, ROA-M 16 R. L. Gordon, INT-M 16 D. L. Johnson, INT-M 16 R. M. Ross, CVG 16 R. E. Williams, TRI 16 G. A. Burton, DCA 17 W. E. Foster, INT-FB 17 D. C. Milgrim, ROA-FB 17 A. L. Mills, INT-M 17 E. W. Wilkins, INT-FB 17 Helen Hull, INT-M 18 K. C. Lineback, Capt., DCA 18 R. L. Nunnerv, FAY _...18 J. W. Cantline, LYH 19 C. E. Hill, INT 19 E. T. Holt, INT 19 Margaret Jenkins, F.A., ATL 19 J. I. Jester, INT-F 19 P. E. Voight, ORF-M 19 T. B. Adams, FLO 20 M. G. Ayers, ROA 20 H. E. Bryant, FAY 20 Shirley Byerly, INT-A 20 J. V. Head, ATL 20 G. L. Herman, INT-FB 20 C. A. Joyce, ILM 20 R. T. Powell, Sta. Mgr., SDF 20 Joyce Putney, AVL 20 E. G. Warner, INT-FB 20 D. R. Anderson, INT-FB 21 B. P. Bailey, TRI 21 This month your “Open Forum” reporter visits Lynchburg, talking with some of the personnel on duty there and asking them; “What do you think are some of the things we can do to solve the lost and damaged bag problem?” Ed Best, Division Station Supervisor “We recently made a survey of all the sta tions in my division on bags mishandled during a two-week period. By a conservative estimate, approximately 148 mishandled bags in that tirue cost the company over $245 in delivery and mis cellaneous costs. The majority of these bags missed connections in Washington. They were not delivered to Piedmont by other carriers in time to make our flights. The rest of the mis- handlings were purely errors on the part of our personnel and carelessness in the handling of the baggage. Occasionally there would be rare instances in which problems would occur over which we had no control — for instance, a bag ticket being torn off or bags torn up by bouncing against each other when hitting rough air during flight. One solution to the problem of bags damaged in flight would be to segregate cargo, loading baggage in one bin and cargo and express in other bins. “There are so many varied reasons for baggage problems that you can’t put your finger on a specific cause and say, ‘This is it.’ I wish it was that simple.” C. R. Blackmon, Assistant Station Manager “If every Agent would think through, and then follow through, 60 per cent of our baggage problems would be eliminated. The main body of our baggage problems are caused by careless ness. The rest cannot be helped since they are caused by misconnections over which we have no control.” Frank Reynolds, Agent “As far as the lost bag department goes, if in booking return reservations we can make sure there is sufficient time to make connections, I think it would help. We also need to have more information. When a bag is not on the flight, right away a passenger is upset, but if you can tell them where the bag is, the reaction is much better. If other stations would make it a prac tice to forward on bag information, I think we would find the problem much easier to deal with.” Larry Fuda, Agent “A lot of times these things cannot be helped. If a flight has a tight connection and then is late, the bags are lost. Agents should be careful checking the cargo. No cargo should be placed on top of bags — they should have priority. When bags are taken off one flight the Agent should make sure they are placed on the right flight. Mistakes in this cause many of our prob lems. If we followed through on being careful our problems would be solved.” Gene Clay, Agent “I think if everyone would do his part and check the airplane thoroughly it would solve the problem. We have a system here that might help. We get the Total Dispatch of cargo on the airplane from the last station on the flight be fore it gets here. We check the bags on the air plane against this TD. If we can’t find the piece we keep checking till we do.” liloyd Jones, Agent “The main problem is misconnections at Washington or Atlanta, our two main points. The trunk lines coming in misconnect to our flights and there’s nothing we can do. We can make the passenger happier, though, by having some kind of information for them. When the trunk carrier is late, if they would only let us know then we can tell the passenger so he will know his bag won’t be on the flight, and he will not be so upset. If we could tell the passenger in advance that his bag was going to be late but would be delivered just as soon as possible, I think it would really help the problem.” R. R. Bennington, FAY 21 B. W. Cassell, ROA 21 D. E. Collins, ROA-M 21 W. G. Dunn, F.O., ILM 21 G. D. Hedrick, INT-M 21 B. G. McLeod, ROA 21 L. M. Swindell, ORF-FB 21 G. L. Westerlind, Tech. Train. Instr., INT 21 W. E. Bost, Capt., ILM 22 Rilla Gregg, Ex. Sec., INT-A 22 J. S. Guy, BKW 22 R. J. Holliday, ROA 22 W. B. Johnson, JAMTO, Ft. Bragg 22 L. E. McConnell, Dir. of Train., INT 22 L. J. Sessler, ORF-FB 22 Joyce Crawford, DCA 23 W. C. Kyle, Capt., INT 23 C. S. Lipscomb, CRW 23 G. E. Osborne, INT 23 S. M. Parnell, Capt., INT 23 Barbara Whitaker, INT-C 23 R. C. Drewry, ORF 24 K. R. Lucas, CHO 24 J. R. Raby, INT-M 24 C. W. Poteat, INT 25 K. N. Smith, ISO 25 H. E. Dull, INT 26 R. H. Easley, INT-M 26 C. M. Lawson, INT 26 Florence Beeson, INT-P 27 T. H. Laine, INT 27 W. O. Tadlock, Dir. Fit. Oper., IMT 27 R. M. Bullock, RIC 28 H. V. Chambers, INT-M 28 S. E. Elmore, BLF 28 Kathleen Gateley, DCA 28 P. S. Beeson, F.A., INT 29 J. U. Crider, DCA 29 H. E. Earnhardt, INT 29 V. E. Hurley, INT 29 Sandra Thompson, ATL 29 C. B. Warden, INT-FB 29 B. M. Pack, F/O, ATL 30 Baxter Slaughter, Capt., INT 30 Deborah Tully, CVG 30 (Continued on Page Six)
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