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FEBRUARY, 1965 THE PIEDMONITOR PAGE FIVE PiEDMONT PRESS NOTES liOUISVlLLE — Reporter Howard Hughes: Bob bie French has returned from maternity leave with photos of five month old Robin. Ron Shanks and his wife also have a new baby girl, Debbie. While on the subject of new borns, Lowell Beach and his wife are expecting in July. SDF’s bowling team is not doing so well this year with a 23-34 win-loss record. The high series for the year is 598 by Lowell Beach. We have bettered our quota for the last six months so we can now look forward to a dinner from Piedmont. We hope this time to see some of our seldom seen friends from INT. SDF welcomes new employee. Bob Mosser. Recent visitors from Winston-Salem were Ronnie Macklin, George Westerlin, and Henry Wilson, here for the M-404 training school. Congratulations go to Gene Durham, who was promoted to head of SDF maintenance. COLUMBIA — Reporter Joe Frick: CAE’s new 1% million dollar terminal is now almost completed. We should be moving in by April 15, ’65, if the weath er holds out. The 7500 foot runway is already in use. Buddy Robinson enjoyed his holidays this past month. I don’t think he went anywhere, just took life easy. BaiTy Hurley also enjoyed his holiday, spent in CRW butchering a hog for his freezer. We are still waiting for an invite to eat ham. Jack Derrick spent a few days of his holiday in Atlanta just goofing off. Gary Callicoat, Jim Lang, and Jack Dei'rick are taking fly ing lessons. It looks like PI will have an abundance of captains in the near future. Frank Beasley has a new home and what a home — bar and the works. We’re all looking forward to a party by Frank in the near future. We had a little snow here last week, which is something rare down here. Now the tempera ture is in the ,70’s. Bill Taylor has a French poodle he would like to give to someone. It seems he keeps coming back home. We are looking forward to an other steak supper. We really had a ball at the last steak supper the company gave us. We certainly ap preciate the fine opportunity the company gives its employees for a get-together. HICKORY — Reporter Fred Classey: All is well on the firing line in HKY. First, must ask Turby and Ross to please keep quiet on any tales that they might hear about HKY. You know it couldn’t be true. HKY surely enjoyed a Christmas party with all the em ployees and their wives attending. This was paid for by HKY employees because Hickory only had a 2.68 per cent increase in passenger boardings. We wish they’d take into consideration airmail, freight, and express. I think we could go over the top. The next time you see Station Manager Isenberg, ask him if he is still losing his smoking pipe. Our chief agent in HKY is getting prosperous as he now owns two cars, a house, a boy, and a wife — and, like the rest of us, many monthly payments. The transplanted AVL Agent Gabriel said the other day that he sure likes HKY. It’s just like working at home. Agent Tucker has been trying to get Bill Isenberg on his Honda to check the braking action of R/W when snow is on the ground. Fred Classey has moved into his new home. You know, I believe that boy is doing some thing on the side. Along with the new house, he bought a Mustang, and now we hear that his wife is expecting. BLUEFIELD — Reporter John Lawrence: Here in BLF during the winter about all we usually see is snow, but not this winter. January we went over our quota by more than 100 passengers, and air freight was good for January. We even had a few visitors; Don Britt from INT, Ed Best from LYH, BiU Taylor, CAE, and Marie Leedy, TYS. January was a big month for Eddie Jones and Gene Elmore. Eddie has a new ’65 Chevrolet and Gene, an 8 pound baby girl born January 21. You should hear some of the bragging between those two. Eddie said his new Chevy can go 5000 miles without an oil' change; Gene said he only made changes when necessary. Wonder how often that is. Kent Moses, now with Uncle Sam in the Panama Canal Zone was home a few days during the holidays. He hopes to be back with PI in May. WASHINGTON — Reporter J. W. Dawson: DCA- O has a new look. Everything is all changed around with the operations more compact and the crew lounge enlarged. The new setup is working out very well. Bill Burgers’ wife gave birth to a baby girl New Year’s Day, 15 hours too late for an income tax de duction. He’s happy just the same. Welcome to Dean Marion, who transferred here from FAY. Also, wel come back, Carolyn Richardson, after giving birth to a boy a few months ago. Juanita Mutter has been pro moted to lead agent passenger service. All the bache lors in DCA-0 have turned Republican. Lucie Baines didn’t invite them to the Inaugural Ball. We lost a set of teletype keys one day and a week later we found them in the coffee pot. We didn’t have blue coffee, just alphabet coffee. FLORENCE — Reporter Lamar Burnett: FLO is happy with the schedule change. Ashlyn Hammett, the only female at our station, is seriously ill. Every one wishes her a speedy recovery. HOT SPRINGS — Reporter W. O. Radford: Dur ing the winter months most people entertain the thoughts of winter sports. Not HSP agents! Every one here fancies the warmer and more leisurely spots. For proof, Larry Balser is now relaxing in sun ny Florida, and Phil Quesenberry and I have just returned from the west coast. The rest of the clan are planning similar trips in the near future. How ever, one endeavoring soul is just waiting until sum mer to take his trip to Alaska. Bob Waugh and Lyle Cox are busy as usual, but this time they are attend ing meetings of three different chapters of Chambers of Commerce. Though it’s not admitted, both seem to enjoy the time away from home. RALEIGH-DURHAM — Reporter J. P. Wheeler: The cold bug brought about the postponement of Carolyn Repass’ operation in January. It is now plan ned for some time in February. This opened the way for the beginning of some early holiday compensating days for 1965. Verne Crisp was the first to take ad vantage and he got in his usual week’s hunting for this time of year. Russell Price spent his holiday in and around his hometown of Danville. January board ings held up well here and we had a nice increase over January of 1964. COLUMBUS — Reporter Ray N. Campbell: Co lumbus is very proud of its 61.15 per cent increase for the last half of 1964. As we reported previously, this is full proof of just how quota minded these CMH agents can be. We are looking forward to our well earned steak dinner in the near future. Winter at CMH has been very mild so far, with only one big snow fall. We are proud of our snow removal crew. Airport personnel from all over the world have in spected its outstanding operation. Joe Frase, Ray Campbell, and Wallace Kerr seem to, be getting a bit of a golf bug lately. Joe recently bought a complete outfit of woods, irons, and golf bag. Ray picked up some irons to round off his set and Wallace has been influenced by their conversation to try his hand at the game this spring. Bert and Myra Carlos are still tumbling bowling pins for their winter season of en joyment. Joanne Short will leave for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark on March 7th. This will be her second visit to Denmark. Shirley Sw'ord is taking one of two trips she won in a recent contest. She will leave Feb ruary 5th for Amsterdam, Holland. We’re sorry to re port that Paul Gustafson will enter the hospital for surgery on a dislocated shoulder which he obtained while working on the fuel truck. All of us hope every thing goes well, and we’ll be looking forward to see ing him back at work soon. CHARLESTON — Reporter Ruth Shumate: CRW will host the meeting of the managers in our area this month. It’s always a pleasure to visit with any of our big family. The Abshires returned from their vacation in Florida. Returned that windy day when it caused motion upset to merely watch the flights land. Tanned Ronnie’s only words were, “I’m sick, sick, sick ...” ATLANTA-O — Reporters Ken Dennis and George Bond: Congratulations to Tommy Townsend whose wife gave birth to a 7 lb. 3 oz. girl on January 10. Back to work, looking a little red across the brow, is Bob Williams who spent a pleasant holiday vacation in Miami, Fla. Next to go on holiday leave will be our super-duper sky diver, Benny Britt. After several previous jumps, he has returned with a broken leg, a banged up back, and an injured arm. We hope he has better luck in the future and will return in one piece. Again, we welcome a new agent. Bob Johnson, to the ranks. Bob replaces Bill Robertson who was transferred to reservations when Bobby Turbyfield departed for duty with the Air Force. The ATL-0 bowling team is doing great, but could do better. They’re now in second place. Tommy Townsend was high man on the bowling meet with a 255 scratch. We here at ATL are off to a rip and a bang with our passenger boarding this year going well over quota for January. Look out million and a half for ’65 — Here we come! CINCINNATI — Reporter Jan Tuemler: CVG wel comes aboard new res. agent, blonde Sandra Schoen. Ruth Huntley is displaying a beautiful diamond en gagement ring. The wedding date is set for June 26th. Marge. Rieckhoff was one of the lucky winners of a trip to Rome in the Alitalia contest, and Lead Agent A1 Anness won the Astrovision TV given by AAL. We’re glad to report that Paul Loar is back in harness again after his recent illness. Vacation dreams will come true for Jackie Heffernan and Rose O’Hara, who are leaving for Hawaii in February, and Jane Griffith, who is winging to Acapulco. ASHEVILLE — Reporter Jerrie Cox: Congratula tions go to our station manager. Jack Gwennap who recently attended a luncheon at INT, where he re ceived his 15 year pin. Holiday vacations allowed How'ard Meece to spend 6 days hunting, fishing, and shoveling snow. Lead Agent George Gentry and his family are visiting relatives in Sparta. After months and months of waiting, Merrill Oxley is now the proud owner of a brand new Plymouth Fury. On a “Pageant to Britain” tour, sponsored by BOAC, John Queen spent three days in London. The tour included sight seeing trips to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Ab bey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, and sev eral pubs. We welcome back Don “Lightning” Cobb, who has been ill. BALTIMORE — Reporter John Moi*ris: BAL final ly earned a steak dinner by boarding 6141 passengers during the second six months of 1964 compared to only 4032 during the last six months of 1963. There were 26 more departures during this period. Our per centage increase was 44.39 per cent, one of the largest on the system. The New Year’s Eve party was a real swinger. Everybody attending helped ring in the New Year by having a bang-up time. Several of us now have newer cars — a necessity for getting to 1 work on time. Howard Lewis is driving a 1961 Re nault, and Jim Faucette has purchased a 1961 Ford. George Scherer’s sled run at his estate near Annapolis has been very busy lately. Once you start down that course you are committed to the end. So far, no broken bones to report, but before long, somebody probably will show up in a cast or sling. RICHMOND — Reporter J. L. Thompson: The holiday season has come and gone and things are pretty much back to normal here. With the nice weather we’ve been having, can spring be far away? Holiday repayment time is in full swing already and those vacationers from RIC include John Wiedensaul, Dewayne Collins, and Daphne Hileman. Daphne is spending her days off at home housecleaning. With that “southern mansion” she and her husband pur chased near PHF, her work is cut out for her. Bob Bullock is getting to be a regular continent hopper. He recently took advantage of the BOAC interline em ployees weekend to London. This is Bob’s second trip to Europe, and he heartily recommends the trip to all. PULASKI — Reporter Ron Price: On January 26, PSK topped its passenger quota for the month. We hope many other stations joined us. Manager Milt Ward participated in ground breaking ceremonies for the Ruritan National Headquarters, to be located in Dublin, Va. This was quite an honor as everyone in the area has worked hard to get Ruritan to locate here. Recent visitors to PSK include Lionel Anders, ROA-C and Sandra Johnson, CVG. We’d like to ask all our PI friends to visit us. Vacations have started and Agent Dan Love and his wife are planning a trip to Iowa City. Ron Pi-ice spent a week visiting friends and just taking it easy. Other visitors to PSK have been F/A Allen Kirk and F/O Joe High. It seems they have a little flying school going here. We’re glad to have them around. TRI-CITIES — Reporter Guy Linn: Just like the Fourth of July, 1965 is starting off with a bang. Everyone and his brother is flying so it seems. We surely hope this continues for the rest of the year. We had three of our local workers flying the other day. Trying to get to the 35th Ruritan National Con vention in PHL, they ran into our biggest snowstorm yet and were grounded for almost a full day. But being a hardy breed, they braved the wild blue and made it in time for the festivities. Our chief hostess recently had quite a trip. It began early from INT to JAX, then back to INT for lunch, through TRI, to LEX, and back home for dinner. This girl gets around. Charlie Johnson recently got a 612 set at bowling and was very proud. The other day he rolled a single game of 123, though. This one he doesn’t speak about. Spring is on its way and the fishing around here will be very good. If you are interested, I understand that Charlie Morrison is quite an expert on the subject. He has the best recipe in town for flying carp. He’s also invented a sort of doughball for these game fish. We understand that Tom Cowan left INT the other day and arrived at his destination sans luggage which was still sitting in the lobby at INT. On another day, he arrived at work with one black shoe and one brown shoe. Maybe he needs a vacation. Jerry Boyer has done it now — gotten himself engaged. Howard Galloway is giving out sound information on income tax problems. Bob Shepherd came to work the other day sporting a black eye. FAYETTEVILLE — Reporter Robert Beard: FAY would like to welcome new reservations agent Penny Sanabria and operations agent Ray Pope. Penny is from Tampa; Ray hails from Stedman, N. C. Both are married. Penny’s husband works for Uncle Sam at Fort Bragg. Welcome aboard also goes to Don Town send who transferred from GSB. Don says he “sho ain’t used to handling so much cargo.” Best of luck to Dean Marion who transferred to DCA-0 in Jan uary. Shelby Webb is taking a maternity leave this month. We’ll all miss Shelby and hope to have her back with us soon. Recent vacationers include Liz O’Dell who flew to MSY for a week. Robert Nunnery and his family spent some time in ORE visiting his brother. Faye Curd is busy making plans for a trip to Europe to see a friend (male). SHENANDOAH ■— Reporter Jim Dallas: Shenan doah is now experiencing a new fad. There seem to be a lot of U. F. 0. (Unidentified Flying Objects) around this area with little green men in them. Man ager Bob Lipscomb is not interested in the little green men; he’s looking for the little green women. All the agents are looking for some of the little men to work the counter when flights are oversold. This station is also getting some white stools with 0. S. painted on them (O. S. stands for oversold passenger and the stools will be put in the aisle of the aircraft). Since opening this station on February 1, 1960, we have handled over a hundred thousand passengers. Of the original five agents that opened the station, four are still here. ATLANTA-R — Reporter Joyce Stokes: ATL-R welcomes Edna Wells and Richard Morgan as our newest reservations agents in ATL. We also would like to welcome Bill Robertson from ATL-0 to ticket counter and passenger service. When Bill was asked how he likes the change, he stated, “It sure beats working!” Friends of Jane Kinsey will be glad to learn that she is now home from the hospital and recovering nicely with intentions of returning to work in a few days. Our adventurous station manager, Bruce Parrish took a 14 mile hike up the Appalachian Trail this past week-end with his son and his son’s Boy Scout troop. We didn’t expect to see him before Wednesday, but, even with all the rain, he hiked through and was seated at his desk early Monday morning. Reservation manager, Robert Talley, and his family went up to CLT last week-end and return ed through HKY Sunday evening.
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