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VOL. VIII, NO. 9
APACE WITH THE PACEMAKER
FEBRUARY, 1965
Reed Says
C. U. Had
Good Year
6 Per Cent Dividend
The Board of Directors of
Piedmont Aviation Credit Un
ion has again declared a six per
cent dividend of all shares of
Credit Union stock, it was an
nounced at the organization’s
sixteenth annual meeting held
January 26, 1965, in Winston-
Salem.
The president’s report, first
on the agenda, further stressed
the Credit Union’s success dur
ing the past year, pointing to its
assets amounting to three-quar
ters of a million dollars and its
135 new members who bring the
total membership to 1435.
“To keep pace with our
growth and progress,” contin
ued President Bob Reed, “sev
eral changes and improvements
in the operation of the Credit
Union took place during the
year, including the employment
of a second member of the of
fice staff and a move to newer
office facilities. Changes were
also made in loan regulations
increasing the amounts mem
bers may borrow on certain
types of loans.”
The report also mentioned
Piedmont’s participation in state
and national affairs, noting Gen
eral Office Manager Freda Zap-
pia’s position as secretary-treas-
urer of the Northwest Chapter
of Credit Unions.
Election of new officers was
the final business of the day.
New Supervisory Committee
members, elected for a one year
term, are Lucian Wrenn, Gen
eral Manager-CPA, L. H. Jack
son, Superintendent-Production
Control, and T. W. Morton, Con
troller. R. L. Westbrook, G. E.
Price, and W. A. Blackmon are
the Directors elected for 1965-66.
Those elected to the Credit Com
mittee (two year term) are H.
K. Scott, W. C. Powles, and C.
E. Wilson, and alternates (one
year term) Jack Brandon, A. S.
Wingfield, and Frances Hand.
Board Elects Officers
The Credit Union Directors,
on January 29, voted to retain
incumbent officers for the year
1965. Those re-elected were R.
H. Reed, president; A. F. Long,
vice-president; G. E. Price, treas
urer, and T. T. Davis, secretary.
Datanet 30 Will
Speed Messages
This is the Datanet 30, the computer soon to replace present electro
mechanical switching equipment. The “box" can accommodate 128 cir
cuits.
Salesmen Campaign For Air Express
FAA RECODIFIES RULES
Aviation regulations govern
ing the nation’s pilots, airlines,
manufacturers and other users
have been reduced by approxi
mately 60 per cent by the Fed
eral Aviation Agency in a major
rules simplification program be
gun in 1961 and completed in
December of 1964.
Fifty-five Federal Aviation
Regulations (FAR’s), written
in compact, easy to understand
English, will replace the 125 reg
ulations formerly used. The
FAA reorganized and stream
lined the regulations to elimin
ate duplicate, obsolete and un
necessary provisions of multi
ple regulatory systems inherit
ed by the FAA from the Civil
Aeronautics Board and the Civ
il Aeronautics Administration.
Substance and legal meaning of
the FAR’s generally remain un
changed.
In line with the air cargo in
dustry’s general description of
1964 as the year of the big
“breakthrough,” Piedmont Air
lines is going all-out in the new
year to increase its share of a
steadily growing revenue-pro-
ducer. Air Express.
Piedmont received an estimat
ed $231,085 in revenue from Air
Express traffic last year. More
importantly, the ton-mile re
turn to Piedmont amounted to
approximately 48 cents. The
high revenue per ton-mile on
Air Express shipments is one
reason why Piedmont is con
ducting a campaign in 1965 to
sell more Air Express traffic.
An extensive Air Express
sales training program is being
scheduled for Piedmont sales
employees, as well as for em
ployees of other airlines and
REA Express.
The Air Express sales train
ing program consists of a series
of seminars to be held in con-
nectipn with a slide film pres
entation and discussion of a
new product manual, “When Is
Air Express Your Best Bet?”
Scheduled to be held in lead
ing revenue - producing cities
served by Piedmont during the
period from Jan. 1 to March 15,
the Air Express training sem
inars emphasize several impor
tant points about Air Express—
all adding up to the theme: “Sell
Air Express When It Meets the
Customer’s Needs.”
Both the product manual and
the sales training film empha
size that:
1. Air Express frequently of
fers shippers the best rate
breaks in the 5 to 50 pound
weight range.
2. Air Express offers door-to-
door pickup and delivery in the
basic tariff with through carrier
responsibility by R E A Ex
press.
3. Air Express has priority
on all planes of all airlines, en
suring next-day delivery to any
of 21,000 communities in the
U. S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Piedmont air cargo salesmen
now stress these points when
approaching customers and
prospects.
Air Express links 288,000
miles of air routes of all air
lines with more than 225,000
miles of surface routes.
Everyday Air Express ship
ments include emergency se
rums, out-of-town newspapers,
advertising brochures, insurance
forms, machinery parts, automo
tive accessories and parts, coats
and dresses, fresh lobsters and
oysters, television films, hit
music records — in short, any
thing that 'someone may need or
want in a hurry.
A “thinking machine,” Gen
eral Electric’s Datanet 30 Com
puter, is expected to become an
integral part of Piedmont’s land
line communications system
within the next six months, Di
rector of Communications L. A.
Watson has announced.
The decision to replace the
current electro - mechanical
switching equipment with the
Datanet 30 was made after sev
eral months of thoroughly
searching the market for land
line equipment to purchase or
lease. It was evident that im
provements were needed to keep
up with the industry and to
efficiently handle an increasing
volume of traffic.
General Electric subsequently
informed Piedmont that Burl
ington Industries was planning
to install a computer for the
purpose of' switching messages
between its own circuits. Since
Burlington would not be using
nearly the full capacity of the
Datanet 30, it was suggested
that Piedmont share the rental
of the computer.
Investigation of this plan re
vealed it to be an economical
and effective solution to Pied
mont’s communication situation.
It affords both companies am
ple space for expansion. Togeth
er, Burlington and Piedmont
will at present use only 30 of
128 available circuits.
What are the advantages of
the machine? It will, first of all,
move characters through the
switching operation at the phe
nomenal speed of 7/lOOths of a
second, or 7 microseconds. The
process takes a tenth of a sec
ond per character using present
equipment.
The Datanet 30 will eliminate
call directing codes on most
messages transmitted from one
circuit to another, thus saving
circuit time.
It will provide for automatic
interception of - messages going
to a station temporarily off the
circuit. It will then hold all mes
sages for such a station until
service is resumed and the dis
abled station requests its back
messages.
The Datanet 30 will auto
matically transmit messages
Coiner New TRI Sales Rep;
Mohler Assumes RDU Position
Norman A. Coiner, twelve year
veteran with Piedmont, has been
appointed City Sales Manager
for Bristol, Johnson City, Kings
port, Tennessee, and the sur
rounding area.
Coiner began his
career with Pied
mont in 1952 as an
agent in his home
town, Newport
News, Va. Seven
years later, he was
___________ transferred to the
Joint Airline Military Transport
Office (JAMTO) at Fort Eustis,
Va., and was promoted to man
ager of that office in 1960. Since
August of 1962, he has been City
Sales Manager for the Raleigh-
Durham area.
Before joining with Piedmont,
Coiner served with the United
States Navy in the Pacific
theater. He worked for the New
port News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Co. and later for the NASA
Electrical Instrument Division
at Langley Field.
Coiner and his wife, the form
er Billie Jean Davis, who was
supervisor of stewardess train
ing prior to their marriage,
plan to move to the Tri Cities
area the middle of March. They
have one son, four month old
Norman Keirn.
Mohler Moves to RDU
Replacing Coiner as City Sales
Manager for Raleigh-Durham is
Raymond R. Mohler who has
been with Piedmont since 1957.
A native of Sioux City, Iowa,
Mohler was first an agent in
Charleston, W. Va. He was then
transferred to Newport News,
Va., and subsequently to the
JAMTO office in Ft. Eustis, Va.,
where he has been
manager for the
last year and a
half.
Following two
years of service in
the United States
Army as a Corp
oral in the Medical Service Unit
in Germany from 1953 to^ 1955,
Mohler was employed by the
Boeing Airplane Company and
then by the Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Co., be
fore coming to Piedmont.
Mohler is married to the form
er Lois Smith of Charleston, W.
Va. With their 3 month old
daughter Stephanie, the Mohlers
plan to reside at 923 Saint
Mary’s Street in Raleigh, N. C.,
beginning the middle of March.
with indicated priority ahead of
all other messages.
Finally, the computer will
eventually be programmed to
select and retain specific flight
information from certain mes
sages. At the end of each day,
operations, maintenance, reser
vations, etc., will be able to ob
tain specific compiled data
which now must be taken from
messages and recorded by hand.
To facilitate the new com
munications system, the number
of circuits used will be in
creased, thus reducing the num
ber of stations on each circuit
from about 12 to about 6. Since
only one station on each circuit
may transmit messages at one
time, this in itself will afford
much greater efficiency.
In practice, Piedmont’s pres
ent communications system
works somewhat like the follow
ing example. Mr. Albright, in
Hot Springs, wants space on
Flight 50 from Cincinnati to
Fayetteville on a given date.
The agent must now use the fol
lowing code: BQ (designating
point of origin) BX (designat
ing that the message must be
transferred to another circuit)
XA (indicating which circuit)
AE (the destination address).
The message is then transmit
ted to the switching center
in Winston-Salem’s communica
tions office where it is trans
ferred to the proper circuit and
sent on its way to Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati agent must then
go through a reverse process in
getting his reply back to the
Hot Springs agent.
In the same situation, the new
system will enable the Hot
Springs agent to merely use his
own code, BQ, and the CVGRR
destination address. The mes
sage will go directly to the Da
tanet 30, located in Greensboro,
where it will be automatically
switched to the proper circuit
and sent to its destination. The
simplified coding will also hold
true for teletype messages sent
to Eastern, Delta, and United
airlines. The only exception
will be when a message is sent
between stations on the same
circuit, and the CDC code will
be used only to avoid needless
ly sending the message to the
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CAB Reports Good
Air Safety Statistics
The Civil Aeronautics Board
announced that for the 13th
consecutive year, the passenger
fatality rate per TOO million pas
senger miles flown by the U. S.
Certified Route Air Carriers in
scheduled passenger service
was less than one.
The preliminary figures of the
Board's Bureau of Safety show
ed that the passenger fatality
rate, for scheduled passenger
service, was 0.27 for 1964 as
compared with 0.23 for 1963.
It estimated that more than 81,-
000,000 passengers were car
ried by the U. S. Certificated
Route Air Carriers in scheduled
domestic and international ter
ritorial passenger service. This is
an increase of some 9,000,000
more passengers carried than in
1963.