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VOL. VII, NO. 2
APACE WITH THE PACEMAKER
MARCH, 1964
CAB Authorizes Hof Springs Service
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CVG-SDF Application Denied In Separate Action
It's thataway! Agent Rose O'Hara (far right) represented Piedmont at
dedication ceremonies for the new Brent Spence Bridge, the latest part
of the interstate road system connecting Cincinnati with Lexington and
Kentucky with Dayton. At a banquet following the ceremonies Miss
O'Hara and another Agent, Elaine Sturr, acted as hostesses, with CVG
Station Manager Ed Laskowski present as a guest.
In an announcement made
February 5 the Civil Aeronautics
Board upheld the initial decision
of Examiner James Keith and
authorized Piedmont Airlines to
provide air service to Hot
Springs, Va.
In finding for Piedmont, the
Board at the same time denied
the application of Lake Cen
tral Airlines to provide the same
service. The decision was made
by three of the CAB’s five mem
bers, with Chairman Alan Boyd
and member Chan Guerny vot
ing in favor of Piedmont, and
member Whitney Gilliland dis
senting.
Last June Examiner James
Keith recommended that Pied
mont be authorized to provide
service to Hot Springs. Other
parties in the case dissented,
however, and the matter was
brought before the Board. In up
holding Keith’s recommendation
the CAB said;
Resort Isolated
“Essentially, the Examiner
found that Hot Springs, in the
heart of a very mountainous
area, is comparatively isolated
from its major travel markets;
that available surface transpor
tation is extremely circuitous,
time-consuming, unresponsive to
the business needs of the area,
and of limited utility to the tour
ist and recreational traffic at
tracted to Hot Springs . . .
“. . . He further found that
the establishment of air service
to Hot Springs’ Ingalls Field
would relieve the area’s isola
tion, contribute to its industrial
growth and development and,
through the attraction of new in
dustries, check the out-migration
of population.
Significant Edge
"... In choosing between
Piedmont and Lake Central for
Lot Springs service, the Examin
er considered and weighed va
rious factors, such as traffic
benefits, subsidy cost of service,
historic interest in Hot Springs’
traffic, diversion, market identi
fication, geographic route inte
gration, and plan of operations,
and concluded that Piedmont
holds a significant edge and
should be given the award.”
With an effective date of April
4, the Board authorized the
amendment of Piedmont’s cer
tificate for route 87 so as to add
Hot Springs as an intermediate
point on segment 6 (Baltimore-
Atlanta) between Staunton and
Lynchburg.
Denied Service
On February 17 the CAB an
nounced it would not review the
decision of Examiner Robert
Parks in the case involving non
stop Cincinnati-Louisville serv
ice, which means that the. Ex
aminer’s decision now becomes
final in that case.
Parks recommended last No
vember that no scheduled air
carrier, including Piedmont,
should be authorized to provide
additional non-stop service be
tween Cincinnati and Louisville.
Other than Piedmont, the ap
plicants for the service were
Lake Central and Ozark. Parks
said he felt there was not s\af-
ficient justification for another
carrier to serve the run. Three
trunk carriers — American, Del
ta, and TWA — are now operat
ing in the Cincinnati-Louisville
market.
Five Start New Duties
Personnel changes and promo
tions have of late seemed the
order of the day at Piedmont,
and following is the most recent
list of people who are assuming
new duties.
The Flight Services Depart
ment announces two additions to
its staff with the ap
pointment o f Audry
Black as Supervisor
of Stewardess Train
ing, and A. L. Hud
dleston as Assistant
to director — Flighty
Services Harold |
Warner. Miss Black
Miss Black is the daughter of
Mrs. H. Roy Black, Route 4,
Bristol, and the late Mr. Black.
She was born in Shady Valley,
Tenn., and attended H o 1 s t o n
Valley High School, going from
there to East Tennessee State
University, where she graduated
in 1963 with a Bachelor of Sci
ence degree.
Was Stewardess
Prior to her present appoint
ment Miss Black had been serv
ing since last October as a Pied
mont Stewardess. Before joining
the airline she taught a fourth
grade class at Fort Robinson
Elementary School, Kingsport,
during the 1962-63 school year.
In her new position Miss B^cli
will be based at theF '
home office in Win
ston-Salem, and will
be responsible for the
training of the com
pany ’ s Stewardess
Corps.
Huddleston has^
been with Piedmont Huddleston
since 1948 when he joined the
company as a Flight Attendant
based in Norfolk, Va. In 1950 he
transferred to Winston-Salem as
Chief Purser, and in 1951 en
listed in the U. S. Air Force. He
returned to Piedmont following
his discharge in 1955, and until
his present appointment, served
in Wilmington as Division Chief
Flight Attendant.
From Charlotte
A native of Charlotte, he at
tended Central High School
there and Charlotte College, and
before joining Piedmont was em
ployed with the Charlotte Public
Library and the J. B. Ivey Com
pany.
Huddleston is married to the
former Joanne Jacob
of Princeton, Ky. In
his new position he
will assist Director-
Flight Services
Harold Warner in all
phases of the Flight
Services Department
activities. Blackmon
Other recent personnel changes
involve new additions to the
ranks of Station Managers.
Blackmon at LYH
C. R. Blackmon has been pro
moted from Assistant Manager
to Manager at Lynchburg. He
takes over the job from Division
Station Supervisor Ed Best, who
will still have his office at
Lynchburg but will no longer
act as Manager of that station.
Born in Hope Mills, N. C.,
Blackmon attended public
schools there and in 1952 grad
uated from Worth Business Col
lege. Later that year he worked
for a brief period with the Rock-
fish-Mebane Yarn Mills as a Pay
roll Clerk, and in November
joined Piedmont at
the Fayetteville sta
tion.
In 1954 he entered
the U. S. Army and
served as a Personnel
Administration Clerk
in Germany for 18
months, returning to Eisenbath
Fayetteville and Piedmont in
1956. Three years later he was
Soles Sets Goal;
Challenge Is
For More In '64
A million of anything is a lot,
no matter how you slice it, fold
it, or stack it.
And a million people are a lot
of people, especially when
they’re riding on airplanes.
This number figured import
antly in General Sales Manager
W. G. McGee’s announcement of
a challenging sales objective for
1964 — a goal of one million pas
sengers carried during the com
ing year.
“Details of this sales program
are going to each Station Man
ager and Sales Manager,” said
McGee. “It offers the challenge
to Piedmont stations to board
one million passengers in 1964
and thus place Piedmont among
the very few local service car
riers to achieve this mark.”
The program will be supported
by the most extensive direct
sales and advertising campaign
in the company’s history. In
addition, there will be an intra
company program, involving all
departments, aimed at stimulat
ing employee interest.
As the year unfolds, special
promotions will be planned to
appeal to specific segments of
the air travel market.
Status reports on progress,
say's the Sales Department, will
be issued each month, and
monthly passenger quotas for
the stations will be tailored to
require m e n t s necessary to
achieve or exceed the one million
mark.
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Roanoke Maintenance Chief Stock Clerk R. E. Caudle keeps close check
on inventory.
Stock Clerks Reduce Inventory
By Over *20,000 In Six Months
promoted to Chief Agent and
transferred to Columbus where
he worked until 1961, when he
moved to Greensboro. In early
1962 he was again transferred,
this time to Lynchburg where
he has served as Assistant Man
ager until his present position.
Blackmon is married to the
former Patricia McLaurin of
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One of the major problems of
any airline is the high cost of
maintaining extra parts and sup
plies on hand in its mainten
ance department.
Piedmont is no different from
other airlines in this respect, but
during the past year the pur
chasing and stock divisions in
general, and R. E. Caudle of
Roanoke maintenance in particu
lar, have been-taking some posi
tive steps to reduce inventory
and cut down on the large invest
ment the company must make in
on-hand supplies.
One difficulty has been that
parts must be ordered months
in advance, and without clair
voyance it’s hard to anticipate
needs eight to ten months from
the present.
Orders Often
R. E. Caudle, Chief Stock
Clerk at ROA-M, has found ways
to partially overcome this prob
lem. By reducing the actual num
ber of items he has on hand, but
by ordering more often, he has
cut his inventory while giving
more actual coverage with less
dollars.
The extra coverage is possible
since though the quantity of
each separate item has been re
duced, there are more different
types of items now on hand.
, The success of this system can
be measured in dollars and
cents. In June of last year there
were $76,686 worth of expend
able items on hand at Roanoke.
By the end of 1963, however,
that figure had dropped to
$55,660, a savings of $21,026.
Constant Base
The above figures represent
expendable items such as nuts,
bolts, washers, and the like. The
total inventory also includes a
fairly constant base of $160,012
“rotatable” itdms, i.e, parts
which can be overhauled or re
paired and returned to stock.
Purchasing Agent Bill Barber
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