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NOVEMBER, 1965 THE PIEDMONITOR PAGE THREE % Piedmonitor Goes Hawaiian SURFING AT MAKAHA BEACH — Senior men's surfing champion, Fred Hammings, Jr., an 18 year old school boy, braces to ride one of the "heavies" at Makaha Beach, 45 minutes from Waikiki. Makaha is the setting in December for the International Surfing Championships. This event draws surfers and spectators from all corners of the globe. Pacemaker Puzzle by Betsy Winstead Almost no one will disagree that the greatest advantage in being an airline employee is our opportunity to travel. Each year as Piedmont gives us vacation time or long holiday week-ends pass requests are filed and ex citing trips are taken. The possibilities for places to visit are unlimited and probab ly most of you have been to the points of interest on our system; but have you tried the fun of interline travel? The world itself is your only boundary. Early in October Pan Ameri can World Airways invited all the airline editors, there are about thirty-eight of us in this country, to join them in an ex cursion to our fiftieth state. Cer tainly it was their intention to do some Pan Am promoting for interline travel. But you can’t blame them for that, they’ve got a lot to promote! The trip was designed to reach all the employees of all the air lines, through their editors. We found Hawaiian hospitality as genuine as even any Southerner could wish for. The charming and colorful hosts in our island state seemed particularly partial to airline em ployees and we were asked to extend a warm y’all come or, in Hawaiian, “Hele mai,” to all the folks back home. Airline em ployee discounts on everything from hotels to sightseeing tours are very generous and accommo dations equally plush. The eight lovely lava mounds in the middle of the Pacific which make up the state of Hawaii are connected by a web of air routes and services pro vided by Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines. Piedmont enjoys pass agreements with both of these companies. So it is easy as it is inexpensive for you to visit the outer islands. It is surprising how many people think of Hawaii as being one small is land, taken up mostly by Wai kiki Beach. But Waikiki is just one of many really lovely beach es on the island of Oahu; while Oahu is only the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands. Island hopping on Hawaii’s local airlines is almost like being back home with Piedmont. One company flies F-27’s and the other has a fleet of jet-prop Con- vairs. At least one editor from one of the larger airline com panies had never flown on a “small” plane. But she liked it and I immediately invited her to come fly with us the next time she was in our area. After the stewardesses bid their passen gers aloha, they offer “coffee, tea or pineapple juice” to sip while watching the lovely scenery be low. Without the bother of pass ports and visas, Hawaii offers the flavor of foreign travel right in the USA. Island entertain ment is unlimited, from hula dances and golf courses, to horseback riding and surfing. There is something to suit every one’s taste for fun. The whaling town of Lahina offers as much tradition and his tory as Williamsburg and Old Salem; Honolulu’s shopping cen ters are as thrilling as any in the world. The food is fantastic and the weather exquisite. As a land of many cultures and customs, the 50th State has become the market place for all the products of the Pacific. Shops feature pure silk saris from India, embroidered blouses from the Philippines, kimonos from Japan, fashions from Hong Kong, stoles from Thailand, an tiques and bric-a-brac from all over the Far East. Second to fashions are things with which to decorate the home. Notable among them are the rich koa woods, indigenous to Hawaii, which have been hol lowed into bowls called “cala bashes” or carved into intricate floral designs. Hawaii’s shops display exotic jewelry in abundance, and most exotic of all is Hawaiian black coral. The coral, brought up by skin divers from depths of over 200 feet, has been certified as a gem. Other native stones include olivine which looks like jade but costs considerably less; Hawai ian diamonds which are high grade quartz and Pele’s Tears, otherwise known as obsidian. Truly Hawaii is better than a dream or a movie or a novel be cause it is so accessible. It is not too soon to start planning your jaunt to paradise. When you do, I have lots of helpful information about things you will want to know, place and price wise, and it is all right here on my desk. So I’ll be wait ing to help you with your trip to Hawaii, just like your own private travel agent. Aloha! ■ii ^ BEAUTY ON THE BLACK SANDS — The lovely black sand beaches on the Hav/aiian Islands are invitingly different from the normal white sands of other coast lines of the world. The "sand" is actually powdered lava from the volcanos, which accounts for its jet black appearance. ACB0S8 1. Home Base 4. 404 company 10. different from want 14. to fly alone 23. a local airline thajt grew up 30. and/ 33. speaker at a loss for words says 36. Columbia 39. abbreviation for 23 across 41. college athletic group 46. street 48. foreign F-27 manufacturer 56. printer’s measure 64. President’s first initials 66. Miami baaed airline (abbrey.) 68. mailing system 74. governing organization for airlines 77. golfers prop 80. singular article DOWN 1. credit union pays 6% 2. direction from INT to ORF 3. first time flyers may be 6. reserve section 7. weight measure 8. M-Wilmington 9. employees fly 20. more cars than planes crash 26. Mr. C. G. Brown’s dept. 36. oriental name 40. place where 42. company 53. Eocky Mount 58. Shenandoah 59. ok; down 62. negative 63. American Aeronautical Engineers 66. same as 66 across 70. third note on musical scale 3. THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Mark Twain described Hawaii as "the loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean." Today, the eight main islands of the archipelago which makes up the 50th State in the Union are just five hours by jet from the West Coast of the USA.
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