NOVEMBER, 1964
THE PIEDMONITOR
PAGE FIVE
PIEDMONT PRESS NOTES
WASHINGTON — Reporter Austin Morrison:
Everyone in DCA is still recuperating from the big
station party we had September 12. We had an at
tendance of approximately 150 personnel, including
special guests from I NT: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clark, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Cowen, and Mrs. Wilma Cooke. We’re
sorry that more people from the home office were not
able to attend but we understand since it was Satur
day night. We certainly appreciated the help from
ROA and BAL who made it possible for the people
scheduled to work to attend the party. Recent figures
show DCA moving approximately 2,000 pounds of
cargo daily. Vacations for September and August
were Buster Stover, Ritchie Iden, Bryan Duncan,
Doris Freemer, Fay Hutsenpiller, Jack Gallagher,
Terry Heinameyer, and Juanita Mutter. We hope to
have Glenn Burton back with us soon. He has been
in the hospital for a minor operation. New employees
at DCA are Howard Miller, Tom Ragland, Charles
Short, Bill Moriarty. Our best wishes go with Marty
Hoover who is resigning to become a full-time stu
dent. The latest visit from the stork was to Tom
and Mary Cleghon, who are the proud parents of a
baby girl.
ATLANTA-O — Reporter Ed Whittaker: Those
who couldn’t make it to the steak dinner at the
Marinique Restaurant down here really missed a
good time. We had all the trimmings, including an
orchestra. Among those from INT who attended were
Ken Ross, R. E. Turbiville, H. M. ('artwright, and
Bill Clark. Jack Doyle from ILM was also there, along
with Forrest Shelton, Chief Pilot. Our thanks to PAI
for an enjoyable evening. Operations in ATL wel
comes three new agents, Jerry Bell, Don Amer, and
Wesley Carter. Congratulations are extended to ops
agents Benny Britt and Bill Robertson, who very re
cently became fathers of new sons. We’d like to wel
come back agent Ken Dennis. Ken was out because
of an accident, and then took his vacation. Would any
one like to challenge the ATL bowling team? We’ve
got a lot of steam down here,
GOLDSBORO — Reporter Bill Evans: GSB had a
record boarding month in September. We’re trying to
do our share toward that million passenger mark. A
big welcome is extended to E. C. Kearney who trans
ferred here from ILM. We also said a sad farewell to
Dan “Alfred E. Newman” Wester who left here to go
to RMT, his hometown and his stomping grounds.
Dan Berry and Hollis Cook are trying to catch all the
bass in these parts. They aren’t doing so well, though.
Lastly, we’re all eagerly awaiting ground breaking
ceremonies for our new terminal.
MYRTLE BEACH — Reporter Vern McCord: Va
cations are still in store for some of the agents here.
D. K. Jones is just taking it easy here at the beach
and going nowhere in particular, but doing a little
fishing. W. West is journeying to the 2nd largest state
to spend a couple of weeks in cactus land. The big
thing here at MBC is the fish. Everyone is coming
here and going away with all the fish they want.
Just ask McNeil and. Van Berckman from AGS or
Lewis and Walden from FLO. We’d like to welcome
our new agent Frank Woodruff who started to work
for the Company this month. Frank comes from Win-
ston-Salem. We’re all hoping he’ll like this salt air.
Every one here has high hopes that we might be in
our new terminal building by the first of the year.
BLUEFIELD — Reporter John Lawrence: It looks
like this is the year for records to be broken. Not
only did BLP break all records for passenger board
ings, but for air freight too. The passengers were easy
enough, but the air freight left a few sore backs.
Thanks to CVG, SDF, DCA, ROA, and TRI for their
help unloading all the freight. Oops—almost forgot
TYS. They really get excited when they receive the
TD on 901 Saturday night. Vacations are about over.
Ted Farrington drove to Florida for a few days, but
was run home by Dora. .John Lawrence stayed home
and took care of his new son. Joe Robertson spent
his time painting the house. Looks like Eddie Jones
was the only one who really had a vacation. He’s just
returned from what he describes as “one of the best’’.
He was a guest of Lufthansa’s Interline tour to Ger
many. The tour began at Kennedy International with
the flight to Munich where he attended the great
Oktoberfest (beer festival). Ed says this is just -as
much fun as you’ve heard it is. From Munich, the
tour continued by train and bus, stopping at several
German communities for short tours and luncheons
or an overnight stay. The tour ended in Frankfurt
with a visit to Weisbaden and the famous Wine
Festival the following Saturday night. Of course, Ed
had to extend his trip abroad to get up to South Wales
and London to visit those Joneses. This is an occasion
he always enjoys since there isn’t a Jones in the
United States any kin to him.
PARKERSBURG — Reporter Virg Flinn: Vaca
tions are all over for another year. Here’s a brief run
down on what the lads did on their time off. Charlie
Hall toured 'West Virginia. He is a camera bug and
returned with some nice pictures. .Tim Kendricks, va
cation took him to INT where he received his ten
year pin and then on to ATL to his ole plantation
for a look at his assets. Vize Dotson spent his time
off with a do-it-yourself book. The result? One re
modeled kitchen. Roy Roberts also joined the do-it-
yourselfers by adding a new porch to his house. Yours
truly went to the mountains on a camping trip. In
between vacations we found time for our steak din
ner with guests Ed Best and Paul Loar. Everybody’s
back at work, our ramp equipment is painted, and
we’re ready for a long winter.
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Reporter Mark Trail;
This past month was vacation time for Agents Ken
Lucas and Mrs. E. Reed. Don Pierce has bought a nice
house and a few acres of land to go with it. Lance
Anderson and A1 Norvelle are both driving new cars.
Lance has a new Chevy Super Sports and A1 is buy
ing lots of gas for a Thunderbird. On October 17 the
U. Va. Cavaliers of Charlottesville played host to the
Army Cadets of West Point in one of the most
spectacular football games of the season. U. Va., to
the delight of CHO personnel, defeated Army 35 to 14.
October 28 CHO was given another steak dinner as a
result of increased boardings. By the way, the total
number of years that all CHO employees have been
working for Piedmont is SO. That averages out to 8
years per person.
GREENSBORO — Reporter LeRoy Benson: GSO
is now into the rush of the largest furniture show
ever. New buildings constructed this summer have
made it possible for even greater numbers of sales
men and furniture representatives to be present in
this area. At the present time GSO is undertaking a
training program on the Traffic Manual and sales
etiquette. This program is under the direction of
agent Bob Plummer with some assistance from lead
agent Don Tate. We have already noticed a big im
provement in handling telephone contacts. Reserva
tions procedures have steadily improved and we are
still attempting to eliminate most of the errors found
in recording messages and teletyping them to other
points both on and off line. We know that all of you
will join us in congratulating agent Johnny Gardner
on the birth of a new baby daughter named Wendy
I.ea Gardner.
ROCKY MOUNT — Reporter Frank Slone: Like
many other stations, our passenger traffic is continu
ing to be good. We held our steak dinner October 24.
Everyone had a grand time. We regret losing agent
Wendell Gabriel and his family. Wendell recently
transferred to Asheville. In his place, however, we
welcome agent Dan Westei- from Goldsboro. Dan is a
Rocky Mount native and welcomes the chance to be
home. Agents E. B. “B” Fields and Bill Bone report
good fishing off the coast this time of year. We
understand that they have made good catches every-
time they’ve gone. After much legal haggling and a
very long delay, it looks as if we are finally going to
have a new airport in the very near future. Plans are
for a 6000 foot runway, taxi strips, and a new termi
nal. Present estimates indicate a completion date for
the new airport in two or three years.
NORFOLK-F — Reporter Bob Wylie: Since the
last report from Norfolk some two months ago,
things have been happening. We had our second steak
dinner, a thirteen inch rainfall, a couple of close
calls with hurricanes, a re-organization of the bowling
team, and baby girls for the Paul AVyatts and the Max
Sinks. Our second steak dinner was as resounding a
success as our first. Entertainment for the evening
was provided by Lawrence Belk and his Booze Bums.
One of the highlights of the party was a 15 minute
film entitled “How to Do It With Only One”. Don’t
let the title fool you; it’s all about airline work. All
in all we believe everyone had a pleasant evening.
Our faithful bowling team is off and rolling again.
As usual, we are near the top if you start counting
from the bottom. However, Monday, October 19, we
had one of the best nights the team has ever had,
recording a total pinfall of 1,702 sticks for three
games. That’s not too had for Duck Pins.
SHENANDOAH — Reporter Jim Dallas: Shenan
doah had its biggest month for boardings with a
total of 1342 boarded in September. We’re looking for
an even better month in October. Manager Bob
Lipscomb is still looking for the Washington Red
skins to win a football game. Doelph Pitcock and his
wife Marion spent their vacation over in Charlottes
ville waiting for the stork and were blessed with an
8V2 pound baby girl. Agents (’onley Blevins and C. O.
Walters are waiting for the deer season to come. Best
of luck, boys. Bow season is already in. A 200 lb. deer
was killed with a bow in the town of Grottoes, just
three miles from the airport. Y’all come down for a
deerburger cook out. Agent Roger Greenlaw is still
trying to prove that he can shave with those “Beep-
Beep” razor blades. Agent Guy Rawley just purchas
ed a piano. He says Liberace doesn’t have anything
on him except maybe a swimming pool. Don Monroe’s
faithful old Nash Rambler finally quit ramblin’ and
Don is now looking for a bargain on another used
car.
RICHMOND-F — Reporter J. L. Thompson: Wed
ding bells rang for Wayne Walker, our newest em
ployee, on October 20. Wayne, a North Carolina boy,
of course chose a North Carolina gal, the former Miss
Patricia Phillips of Pilot Mountain, N. C. Vacationers
this month were the Gene Jarvises who motored to
the Chicago area for two weeks. It’s steak time again
in RIC. The date is November 19 and we are hoping
to see some of the INT folk here to help us. Plans
are for a dinner theater evening at the Barksdale
Theater and everyone is looking forward to a very
enjoyable get together.
CINCINNATI-C — Reporter Jan Tuemler: CVG-R
welcomes lovely new addition Ruth Huntley, replac
ing Mary Lee Thesing who left to further pursue her
studies., We were very happy to see smiling Kathy
Feldman Hogan, former reservations agent, now
residing in SFO, back here for a, short visit. Your
reporter has just returned from a week in sunny
MIA and TPA, rested and tanned. The Lamplite
Patio was the scene for the Company steak dinner
held Saturday, October 17th. At the rate boardings
have been increasing here, we will be ready for
another one soon.
COLUMBUS — Reporter Ray (^ampbell: We sure
hope everyone on the system is as quota minded as
we are. We want to see that millionth passenger for
the Million Air Club. CMH will be very close to
breaking its own record for any month’s boarding
since the station opened here in 1955. The steak
dinner was greatly appreciated by all the CMH
agents. Guests were the District Sales Representative
Paul Loar, Division Supervisor Ed Best, and Director
of Flight Services Harold Warner. A swimming party
followed the dinner with the dress of the day being
polka-dotted swim shorts. Some big splashes came
from Wallace Kerr, Paul Loar, and Harold Warner.
The latest big news is the birth of a baby boy to Bert
and Myra Carlos. Everyone, including baby Bert
Anthony, is doing fine. Wallace Kerr has been enjoy
ing the Ohio State football games with exuberant
vigor. He’s enjoyed everything, that is, but mistaking
the coke line for another line at half time. Shirley
Sword has just returned from a visit with Don Shanks,
station manager at DCA. Orval Sword says he wore
out a pair of shoes and one leg trying to see every
thing in such a short visit. Our highly educated agent
on travel, .ToAnn Short, has just returned from’ Ha
waii with a gorgeous suntan.
FLORENCE-R — Reporter Lamar Burnett:
Through extra effort last month we increased our
boarding status and merited a steak dinner. Thanks
go to INT. Although somewhat belatedly, we would
like to welcome aboard our new staff crew chief
agent Robert Bennington from FAY and also agent
Lamar Burnett from ATL. We’d like to remind every
one that the new fall and winter schedule will help
Florence connect passengers with Chicago and New
York via Charlotte.
HICKORY — Reporter Fred Classey: We here at
Hickory are busy boarding passengers and trying to
make our quota as .usual. It seems that we really have
our work cut out for us this month, though, and it
will take a lot of extra effort on the part of every
one concerned here to make it this time. We’d all like
to have another steak dinner. Since my last report,
there has been a change in our personnel at HKY.
Jerry Gaither has left and is now attending flying
school in Florida to attain his instrument ticket. We
all send our best wishes to Jerry. Eddie Gabriel from
Asheville is with us now. We’d like to welcome Eddie
to HKY.
CHARLESTON — Reporter Ruth Shumate: CRW
so far is well over the monthly quota and has hopes
of having a record month. Hunting season got off to
a big start — and almost a tragic one. Bob Hill, Phil
Bostic, and Allen Perry went in Perry’s car the first
morning. Due to the slick pavements in the mountain
area, Allen lost control and the car spun into the
side of the mountain. Hill and Bostic did not receive
injuries but Perry had several cracked ribs and a dis
located shoulder. Mary Coyne had a few days of va
cation which she and her husband spent visiting in
MIA. This writer has moved to the city limits now
and will no longer have a fifteen mile drive over those
ice-covered highways. We’re still working for Rocket
football team charters and the team is still winning
many of their games. The trip over the mountains is
so beautiful this time of the year. Why don’t you come
to see us and at the same time attend one of the
games? We’ll be looking for you.
RALEIGH-DURHAM — Reporter J. P. Wheeler:
Big news at RDU was the birth of Kevin Coiner on
October 1. The proud parents are Norman and Billie
Coiner. As many of you remember, Billie is the
former Billie Jean Davis who was Director of Stew
ardess Training before her marriage. Mother and son
are doing fine. Bobby Eatmon spent his two weeks
vacation in CLT with the Air National Guard. Jack
Bullock is planning a vacation trip to Florida—that
is, if there are no hurricanes in that vicinity. The
RDU area has been buzzing with excitement. Both
presidential candidates have been here. Piedmont had
a charter from DCA carrying the White House Press
on one occasion. The World Series had more than
usual interest to people in Durham. Roger Craig, a
I Durham native, was participating.