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THE PIE
O N I T O R
MAY, 1966
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Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
Smith Reynolds Airport
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Betsy Winstead, Editor
An Empty Break Room
An Air Express ash tray holds crumpled cellophane wrap
pers, a cigar butt, a half eaten cracker, a wad of chewed gum
and a lipstick banded cigarette filter.
Small formica table tops are marred by coffee stains,
cigarette burns, soft drinks, spilled and dried.
Trash cans that must be “PUSH”ed to open are surround
ed with crushed cups and bent straws; the effort to “PUSH”
must have been too much to ask of the breakroom’s periodic
inhabitants.
For a nickel or a dime deposit, the room’s machines
dispense coffee, candy, pastry, milk, cigarettes or carbonated
drinks with ice, to the hungry hand with the right change and
the strength to pull the lever.
The machines’ metallic fronts reflect each others faces.
They watch a weary worker wander in. They listen as one
machine swallows a silver-coated, copper quarter, unaware
that the coin’s actual value is not what it used to be. Simul
taneously the machine spits out the correct change and the
selected bar of candy.
The worker goes back to his desk. The machines stand and
listen. . .
The airplanes come and go.
What Is An American?
AN AMERICAN is one who yells at the government to bal
ance the budget and then takes the last dime he has to make a
down payment on a home.
He whips the enemy nations and then gives them the shirt
off his back. He yells for speed laws that will stop fast driving
and then won’t buy a car if it can’t make 100 miles an hour.
An American gets scared to death if we vote a million
dollars for education, but he’s cool as a cucumber when he
finds out we’re spending three billion dollars a year for smok
ing tobacco.
He gripes about the high prices of things he has to buy,
but gripes still more about the low prices of things he has to
sell.
He knows the line-up of every baseball team in the Ameri
can and National Leagues — and he doesn’t know half the
words in “The Star Spangled Banner.”
An American will get mad at his wife for not running
their home with the efficiency of a hotel, and he’ll get mad at
the hotel for not operating like a home.
He’ll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make
him live longer, then drives 90 miles an hour on slick pave
ment to make up for the time he lost.
An American is a man who will fall out with his wife over
her cooking and then go on a fishing trip and swallow half
fried potatoes, burnt fish and gritty creek-water coffee made
in a rusty gallon bucket — and think it’s good.
An American will work hard on the farm so he can move
into town where he can make more money so he can move
back to the farm.
He is the only fellow in the world who will pay 50 cents to
park his car while he eats a 25-cent sandwich.
We’re supposed to be the most civilized nation on earth,
but still can’t deliver payrolls without armored cars.
In America we have more experts on marriage than any
other country in the world — and more divorces.
But we’re pretty nice folks. Calling anyone “a real Ameri
can” is the best compliment you can pay.
Most of the world is itching for what we have, but they’ll
never have it until they start scratching for it the way we do.
—borrowed
Vacation Note From A/16C
The Ocean Forest Hotel at Myrtle Beach has announced
it will give Airline rates for Piedmont employees at $8.00 per
night for a single room and $10.00 for a double, with no charge
for one child in the same room. All rooms are on the ocean.
Company personnel interested in taking advantage of these
special rates should write the Ocean Forest Hotel, Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina on company letterhead stationery for
reservations.
Special rates are available to airline employees on an avail
able basis year round at the Ocean Forest.
Around The
System
NEW EMPLOYEES
L. C. Baldwin—Stewardess INT
M. A. Collins—Stewardess INT
B. A. Crotts—Stewardess INT
J. E. DeMarr—Stewardess INT
B. Eschweiler—Stewardess INT
S. K. Foxhall—Stewardess INT
N. L. Kapp—Jr. Stenographer
INT-P
T. K. Kidwell—Line Serviceman
ORF-FB
T. L. Mabe—Jr. Stock Clerk INT
L. R. Moss—Stewardess INT
G. G. Mundy—Stewardess INT
A. E. Perez—Stewardess INT
J. A. Show—Stewardess INT
J. K. Smith —Stewardess INT
L. D. Somersett—Stewardess
INT
TRANSFERS
R. P. Kelley — transfer to Sys
tems Analyst INT-A
Congrats
15 YEARS
Harry G. O’Conner—Catain, ORF
Hugh E. Sluder—Lead Agent,
TRI
Robert E. Swaim—Lineman,
CPA
10 YEARS
Rilla Gregg—Secretary, INT
Jack Doyle—Div. Chief Fit. At
tendant, ILM
Norman C. Noah—Spec., INT-FB
J. A. Shulley—Dir. of 'Tariffs,
INT
Donald E. Martin—Ld. Agent,
ROA
Herman J. Marco—Fit. Atten.,
ORF
H. E. Freeman—Mech. Spec.,
INT
Robert R. Kiser—Sr. Spec.,
INT-M
E. A. Kerr, III—Ld. Agent, ILM
5 YEARS
Ira G. Linville—Sr. Stock Clerk,
INT
Dena E. Taylor—Sr. Acct. Clerk,
INT •>
Lyle T. Tyree, Jr.—Agent, LYH
Wm. R. Allen, III—Fit. Atten.,
ILM
Paul D. Anderson—Agent, TYS
Deanna S. Cranfill—Sr. Steno.,
INT-FB
Jerry G. Hines—Fit. Atten., INT
Allen W. Perry—Agent, CRW
Eddie L. Gabriel—Agent, HKY
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Items For Sale
Each—Short
Shore
1 Each-
4 Each-
PICKUP CAMPER and 1962
Chevy %-Tn pickup with less
than 13,000 miles. Camper 35
sleeps four. Excellent for fami
ly travel, vacation and camp
ing. Contact Ed Best, INT or
LYH.
Several different size Agent uni
form coats and trousers. Contact
Leroy Burton, INT-P, for these
and the following items:
1 Each—London Fog Coat with
lining — Size 10 regu
lar — Has been altered
about one inch in
length — $51.30
2 Each—Stewardess Uniform
Skirts ■— Size 10 short
— Has been altered a
little — $16.50 Each
1 Each—Stewardess Uniform
Jacket — Size 10 Long
— Has been altered a
little — $39.50 1 First
4 Each—Stewardess Uniform
Blouses — Size 30 —
Has been laundried a
couple of times —
$5.50 Each
2 Each—Long sleeve Ship ’N
Shore Blouses — Size
38 — 1 Beige and 1
White — $2.50 Each
sleeve Ship ’N
Blouses — Has
Piedmont Airlines
monogrammedon
them — $2.80 Each
2 size 30 10 size 28
5 size 32 6 size 36
-Stewardess Uniform
Skirt — Size 12 regu
lar — Has been altered
a little — $16.50
-Hamilton Cap Covers
— Made of same ma
terial as uniforms and
are Like the Bancroft
Covers, except these
do not have the black
band — $.80 Each —
One size each of 7% —
7Y2 — 7% — 7%
Officer Uniform Coat
and 2 Trousers —
Summer Weight —
Approx. Size Coat, 42-
44 long, 36 sleeve —
— $45.50. Approx. Size
Trousers, 34 x 32 —
$20.50 Each
NEW SALES REPS BEGIN . . .
(Continued from Page One)
Roanoke, Virginia.
Lockamy, a bachelor, is a grad
uate of Roseboro High School
and is the son of Mrs. M. T.
Lockamy of Roseboro. Prior to
his appointment, Lockamy was
employed by the Charlotte divi
sion of the Kellog Company.
J. Michael Mason is the new
sales representative for the At
lanta area. He is working with
the company’s District Sales
Manager in Atlanta, D. G. Ed
mondson. Other Piedmont-served
cities in which Mason is working
are Augusta, Georgia and Colum
bia, South Carolina.
A native of Alcoa, Tennessee,
Mason was employed by Pied
mont in 1962 as a flight atten
dant based in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. He was then
transferred to Norfolk. Subse
quently, he was transferred to
Atlanta and Knoxville and he
returned to Atlanta in March,
1964.
Mason, a bachelor, is a grad
uate of Alcoa High School in his
home town. He attended the Uni
versity of Tennessee and was a
member of the Georgia Army Na
tional Guard prior to joining
Piedmont.
VFR
with
Turby
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
(Continued from Page One)
Stewards and as president of a
men’s Bible class.
Best holds a private pilot’s
license and a Ground Instructor’s
rating for Navigation and Mete
orology.
The Best family will move to
Winston-Salem about June 1.
On Friday the 13th, anything could happen, and did! One of our
stations inadvertently (not knowing the regulations) boarded a
90-pound lion cub on one of our flights in a kennel which could not
stand the pressure of a 90-pound cub. You guessed it! In flight this
lion cub managed to get out of its kennel and into the com
panionway. Who should be riding this airplane as NRSA? None
other than old “Lion Tamer” Capt. Lloyd Lyons, who finally sub
dued the vicious beast and managed to get it back in its kennel.
The rest of the lion’s trip uneventful — that is, both “lions.”
In case you are not aware of it, lions are not accepted for air^^
freight, as well as many other wild animals, and I would suggest^®
everyone checking Bob Reed’s Memorandum Tariff, which covers^^
this subject.
Was in ATL last week and here’s a tip — don’t go to ATL un
less you have the necessary “Las Vegas” money on your person!
B. E. Parrish will get it one way or another. I know how he oper
ates, and I was determined not to let Bruce get into my money. We
talked business until about 10:30 p.m., when the subject of pocket
pool came into the conversation. Well, I have a regular size pool
table at home and I thought I had gotten a bit proficient in the art,
so I suggested we play a game at a nearby pool parlor. That was a
mistake. You guessed it — Bob Talley and Bruce took Pete Jones
and myself to the “cleaners.” When Bob was in LYH he was a
pretty good boy, but has now been subjected to the PARRISH-ISM
and has become one of The Clan.
Was in LEX also last week and got the Red Carpet Treatment.
Seriously, Bob McAlphin and myself got off the flight and they had
a red carpet stretched from the airplane into the terminal building,
just for Bob McAphin. It was his first trip into LEX. I’ve been into
LEX, I guess, two hundred times in the last eighteen years and
never got the Red Carpet Treatment, so I am quite sure it was in
Bob’s honor. We’ve got certificates to prove it too.
In answer to questions that I’ve heard are going aroujid the
system, no. I’m not retiring, yet!
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