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JUNE, 1965 THE PIEDMONITOR PAGE THREE PfEDMONT PRESS NOTES KNOXVILLE — Reporter Carl Simpson: TYS sta tion personnel (agencies and crews) have donated $3,020. to help build a new Blount County Children’s Home. This is enough to build a room and furnish it. Sam Vance, Ted Arnold and Sue Blackwood took vacations during May. We welcome to TYS Capt. R. L. Thomason, FO C. L. Martin, FO C. M. Peavler, and FS Elizabeth Schettler. The TYS bowling team finished the season in sixth place. We did win the high game trophy. While BLF personnel were enjoying their steaks, Marie Leedy was here to help run the BLF station. We wish to convey our heartfelt sympathies to Capt. R. L. Tomason in the death of his son. Miss Jerry Cox from AVL was our only visitor during May. CHARLOTTE — Reporter Loxiise Ramsey: Three new beauty queens have made their appearance in CLT by way of the Sid Hall’s, Joel Bruce’s and Watson Furr’s. All three new arrivals — girls, of course, have our congratulations to them. The CLT circle is soon to be broken, as Jean (Winslow) Pegram de parts for ATL. She is married to Captain Bob Pegram of Eastern, and transfer has been brought about due to the moving of the CLT crew base. Jean will be in reservations at the ATL field. Replacing Jean will be Linda Lowder of Delta Airlines-CLT. We are most fortunate in having Linda come with us after five years with Delta. Well, it has happened, The Walch family, all eleven, have braved the highways and tourist courts for their first trip to Winona, Wiscon sin. The Volkswagen was filled to capacity, but you’ll never find a happier group for a vacation trip. We wish them a wonderful vacation. Also vacationing was Salem Beamer, who went to St. Louis to see the Cardinals lose again. Better luck next year. Madge Lanier has moved again not married, just moved-to the country and all its luxuries and conveniences. Watch that poison oak. It will take a weekend to visit her, it’s so far out. I suppose by now you’ve figured that John Newell wrote this, but Louise Ramsey has been to another party and wasn’t able to get the news out. PARKERSBURG — Reporter Virg Plinn: Aviation dignitaries from pre-World War I days through 1965 were in PKB on June 2 for the rededication of Wood County Airport in honor of Gill Robb Wilson. Mr. Wilson, who is a native of Parkersburg, is known as the Elder Statesman of Air Power. He was four times president of the National Aeronautics Association; a co-founder of the Air Craft Owners and Pilots’ As sociation; a member of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board; and founder and organizer of the Civil Air Patrol. He has been editor and publisher of Flying Magazine for many years and is currently chairman of the board of the Space Education Foundation. The program for the rededication had as principal speak ers U. S. Senator Jennings Randolph and Governor Hulett C. Smith (W. Va.). Prominent among the guests who came from both coasts were aviation dig nitaries aviatrix Jaqueline Cochran, barnstorming stunt pilot Roscoe Turner, and two of America’s most noted test pilots, Joe Walker and Pete Everest. Guests from INT included President T. H. Davis and Don Britt, assistant to the president. Mr. Davis presented to Parkersburg agents a framed certificate of appreciation for the part PKB played in boarding over a million passengers in ’64. Vacations are in full swing again. Vize Dotson is en joying country ham in Kentucky, Jim Kendricks is looking forward to visiting his farm in Georgia, and Roy Roberts is just going to ride his new motorcycle. TRI CITIES — Reporter Ray Norris: If you are wondering where to go on your vacation this year, it might be a good idea to consider good ol’ TRI. This mountain air is the most invigorating thing you ever ran across, outside of our mountain dew. One little snort of corn and one little whiff of clear air and you can kick up your heels like a young colt. Charlie Johnson led the baby announcements with a baby girl. Then came along Ben Pat Bailey with Gill Robb Wilson is surrounded by well-wishers following the rededication of Wood County Airport in his name. Left to right are Virg Flinn, Agent PKB; Richard S. Cotterman, president of the Greater Parkersburg Chamber of Com merce and master of ceremonies for the dedication pro gram and dinner; President T. H. Davis; Mr. Wilson; Paul Stewart, manager of the Parkersburg Chamber of Com merce; and Vize Dotson, PKB station manager. another girl. Not to be outdone, Gerald Basket’s wife had a boy. About the same time that these two were at the hospital, a former employee, Bob Good, appear ed with his wife who gave birth to a baby boy. And we aren’t through. We still have Jim Stan-, Ray Williams, and David Lyle yet to go in the near future. Never let it be said we didn’t warn you. If PI ever opens any new stations in the next 20 years, we will have enough help to staff the place from TRI alone. We recently had a cookout on the lake here. Boone Lake is one of our newest lakes and very close to Johnson City. So, for you fishermen, hotels are easily accessible. Fishing is fair most of the time and Charlie Johnson, BiU Johnson, Ray Williams, Leroy Pickle, Dick Miller, or Charlie Morrison can tell you if they (the fish) are biting or not. Oh well. Even if the fish don’t bite, the mosquitoes will, so come on up to TRI. RALEIGH—DURHAM — Reporter J. P. Wheeler; The addition of flights 652 and 629 on the April 25 schedule brought RDU back into the 2000 a month club. Things have really been jumping here since then, and sometimes they even get a little hectic. The cross connection between 652 and 50 includes a cross crew change on a scheduled five minute stop (Fit. 652) during the hottest part of the day. May was the best boarding month here since Augtist of 1962 and only 400 short of the all time high. Gene Shaw came run ning back into the office one day after working 629 and 27, dirty, hot and sweaty, and shouted to Carolyn Repass, “Did you know that a last minute GSO pas senger boarded 27?” Carolyn answered that she did but that she had been unable to advise anyone be cause the operation forms had already been carried to the ramp. Then Gene, still gasping for breath asked, “Well, did you grease mark his pencil?” Hal Carter was a welcome addition here. After SOP closed, Hal took his vacation and reported here to work vacation relief. Several here have taken advantage of Eastern’s offer of passes to ride the Whisperjet RDU NYC RDU. Here is the way one of them describes his trip. We arrived at the airport, got on the plane, left at 12:30, got to NYC, had some refreshments, told a few lies, got back on the plane, and arrived home at 1700. AUGUSTA — Reporter E. C. Reynolds: The Phan tom rides again, and the boarding chart in Augusta is zooming upward. As car trading was the order of the day last year, it is now house trading — or building. Jack Cluck and Van Berckman have built theirs; every one else is open to suggestions. At our last (’til the next) steak dinner, everyone seemed interested in the refreshment table. Augusta is expanding so fast that a hitch-hiker moved seven times in one day to keep out of the way of crews among the city limit signs. Air Explorer Squadron 1, Boy Scouts of America, sponsored by PI AGS is, for the second year in a row, living on an island for a week and having a blast. Their advisor finally found the reason for their being so tired in the mornings. They were swimming a mile to the mainland on a night flying bikini hunt.. .what ever kind of bird that is. BALTIMORE — Reporter Howard Lewis: On June 1st, Baltimore had a fishing trip to Ocean City, Md., which was a big success. Those who attended, other than BRL agents, were Don Sutphin, Buster Stover, and Bill Stafford from DCA. All attending caught a good number of fish. I hear no one got sick, but George Scherer not only kept the fish wet on the way back to shore, but also kept himself pretty soaked. George had to dip water from the ocean with a bucket and throw it on the fish. While he did, the deck got wet and George did a couple of flip-flops. The gang brought back a little of over 300 fish, thanks to Sam LaFollette, better known as “Sea-sick Sam,” and his continuous fishing effort. Not knowing what to do with all the fish, we had a fish fry at George Scherer’s seven acre estate on Saturday, June 5. All from Pied mont BAL attended, plus a few from Lake Central Airlines, and, of course. Sea-sick Sam. We had re freshments including such essentials as potato salad, cole slaw, macaroni salad, tea, etc. Among the games played were horseshoes and badminton. We all ached a little on Sunday, but everyone had a good time. It seems that a few months ago, Hank Eisenbath went over to Tommy Thompson’s house to borrow some cement to put around his drain spout. It was dark when Tommy gave the “cement” to Hank. Hank mixed the cement and poured it around the drain and also around the base of the house. Only a few days later did he notice that the cement was still wet. He promptly brought Tommy to look over the situation. As soon as Tommy saw the job Hank had done, he bent double with laughter. Because it was dark and mistakes will happen. Tommy accidently had given Hank fertilizer instead of cement. What no one can understand is why Hank didn’t notice this while he, was mixing the “cement”. Anywajr, Hank has good grass around his house, under his house, and around the rainspout. By the way. Hank, cement is usuallv white, not brown. BAL welcomes Allen Staley to its operations. ROANOKE — Reporter Deanna Martin: Vacations have been the highlight of this month. Agent Bowers enjoyed the cool mountains of New Hampshire while G. Wingo soaked up sun along the coast. He started at ORF and ended up at ILM. The office has been buzzing since Joe Lucas and W. Nester returned from t* CAE airport officials accept a barometer given by Piedmont Airlines at the dedication of the new airport ter minal there. Left to right are Monroe David, airport man ager; Don Britt, PI assistant to the president; T. H. Davis, PI president; C. M. Compton, chairman of the Richland- Lexington Airport Commission; Gayle Grygo, PI stewardess and native of Columbia; Forrest K. Abbott, member Rich land Lexington Airport Commission and chairman of the dedication arrangements; and Oliver J. Wolfe, Robert F. Pulliam, and E. M. Woodward, all members of the Rich- land-Lexington Airport Commission. LAS with tips on how to beat the one-armed bandits. They tell us their time grew shorter as the money grew in abundance. Not everyone has been living the life of leisure. Agent Nester graduated from busi ness college, and Iona Carr and yours truly have fin ished a semester and are ready to start another. Any one with questions concerning management, interior decorating, political science, or psychology, just con tact us. We may not be able to solve any world- shaking problems, but we have a grand time discus sing our courses. We are glad to report that a new part-time agent, Tyler Pugh, is replacing Woody Nester, who has become a full time agent in opera tions. DCA has accepted our golf challenge and a tournament is scheduled in ROA on June 22nd with a return match in DCA about two weeks later. Do we have anyone else interested? COLUMBUS — Reporter Joe Frase: Well it’s be ginning to be that time of the year again when every one is planning a vacation, or going to the beach every week like Shirley Sword. Shirley has been flying Piedmont every week this past month. Station Manager Wallace Kerr returned last week from a three-day journey to Seattle. He along with the other CHM station managers were the guests of UAL. They went to Seattle to tour the Boeing plants. According to Wally (and the literature he brought back with him) Boeing has quite an operation out there and turns out a nice product. Ray Campbell is presently on va cation and all I know is that he was going to the sunny south for a week. Joanne Short, I’m happy to report, has survived from all the excitement of receiving her ten-year pin, and is going for ten more now. We all want to wish her the best of luck. Joanne also won the PI CMH golf tourney held last month. Bert Carlos is preparing to go on vacation in a couple of weeks or so, I don’t think Bert has quite made up his mind where to go. He did mention something about heading south for a couple of days to visit the home office. Stan Douglas has been putting in some long hours down on the farm and doing some home repairs. The rest of us can sure tell it. I’m happy to report that Paul Gustafson has returned to the regular line of du ties. As you remember Paul pulled his arm out of place and was in the hospital for a long time recovering. Paul says it’s nice to be back and we are glad to see that everything is coming along so well. I myself just returned from vacation a week ago. I didn’t have anything planned and it’s a good thing because my wife took care of that for me. I sure was glad to get back in the swing of things. That should just about do it for this time except for inviting everyone up to spend a spell with us. I realize that with only two flights it’s hard to come and go, but don’t let that worry you. If you get up and can’t make it back there is plenty of room at all of our homes, and you are welcome anytime. NORFOLK — Reporter Bob Wylie: Summer is finally upon us and the fishing season is getting into full swing. The main catches at this time are flounder, croakers and blues. Hot weather has also brought out the pleasure boaters and a few ardent scuba divers. If you happen to be riding out by the new Chesapeake Bay Bridge and see what appear to be sea monsters, have no fear; it will probably be Capt. C. L. Bunch, F/0 John Richardson, or agent Steve Wa+kins trying out their wet suits and aqua lungs. Vacations are in full swing. Agent Bill Halsey just returned from an eight day interline tour to Hawaii, sponsored by United Air Lines. Station Manager Art Whittaker and his wife spent a week in Switzerland and Portu gal in May. Reservation agent Margaret Calhoun and Stewardess Gail Avera spent their time off in Hawaii. Capt. G. H. Wilson and his family leave this week for Las Vegas and a tour of the western states. Even with most of our Navy customers out at sea in or around either Viet Nam or the Dominican Republic, we managed to set an all time record boarding in May. If the Navy had been here we would have another steak dinner for sure. We boarded 300 passengers in May.
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