OCTOBER, 1966
THE P I EDMONITOR
PAGE SEVEN
PIEDMONT PRESS NOTES
ASHEVILLE — J. W. Dean recently had a tour
of JAX. While Jane Kienker spent a weekend in
Bourbon County, Ky. (What is this????) Don Cobb
and his wife have just returned from MEX and ACA.
Evon Whltacre is touring LAS, LAX, and SFO this
week and Dave Cameron will be off to MSY, LAX, SFO
and DCA later in the week. Parm Johnson toured GRL
over the weekend. It seems like everything is happen
ing away from here. Wait a week or so till the moun
tain color is full and AVL will be the center of attrac
tion. If we can get enough folks home to work, that
is.
CHARLESTON — Reporter Ruth Shumate: No
words could describe the sad group when we learned
of Eddie Jones’ promotion and transfer to NYC. Shock
ed, sad and sick. Jerry Young couldn’t even eat and
those of you who know Jerry, know this was tragic.
But best of luck to a swell guy, a fine manager and
friend. Piedmont will be well represented in the Big
City. One of the local airline managers made the
statement that “Mr. Jones has made more friends in
the short length of time he has been here in CRW
than any other one of us here at Kanawha Airport.”
We had planned to save our incentive dinner for a
later date, but everyone elected to have the dinner
for a party in Eddie Jones’ honor, to be held in the
Airport “Cloudroom.” Previous to Mr. Ed’s transfer,
an informative station meeting was held in the Air
port conference room which later adjourned to Mr.
Jones’ apartment in the Imperial Towers. Most of us
shared a delightful evening recently at the Holiday
Inn when Eastern and Braniff Airlines entertained
the local airlines and travel agency employees at a
buffet supper. A movie of the Braniff-Eastern inter
change to South America was shown. Shopping bags
from South America and “loot” of all sort, were taken
home. Representatives from DCA and NYC offices
of EA and BI were present. PAI was well represented.
It was Ruth Shumate’s pleasure recently to work at
the Industrial Exposition travel booth at the Civic
Center. The exhibits were fabulous and many of our
good PAI customers’ products were in evidence. Bill
Grubbs, our Sales Representative, worked the booth
also. We understand that Bill, as always, has been
doing a terrific “selling job” in CKB-MGW and HLG.
CHARLOTTE — Reporter Louise Ramsey: It was
very nice to see Ross, Best, Mai’tin and Cowen down
for the Lufthansa Octoberfest party. All who missed
it missed a good time. Come on, now, all you stations
along the East-West-North-South through this Station,
save us some seats so we can have another shot at a
steak dinner. It has been too long since our first one.
Bob, we are looking to you to give us some good con
nections to New York, don’t forget about 497 thru
ROA. Recent visitors to CLT have included Mr.
T.H.D. It is always good to have our President drop
in and bring us up-to-date. Vacations are about over
with. Johnny Newell finally got the rest of his this
month. The boys have been taking tests on the 727—
wonder why the girls never get to take these tests—
I think it would be a big help in getting more fa
miliar with the new type aircraft. Getting back to the
Octoberfest, Boyd Rutledge still thinks he went to the
Red Scarlet Inn. John Hinson doesn’t remember it,
but he went. Delta Airlines put on a nice Cocktail
Party for the local management, showing off their
new freighter—the L-100.
CINCINNATI — Reporter Susan Roe; Well, CVG
is back in the swing of things again. We have two
new agents to welcome. Miss Barbara Wilson replacing
Walt Jacobs who is presently employed with TWA in
DCA, and Miss Carolyn Matthews replacing Sue Roe,
who is replacing Lenore Steppe in the CTO. You think
you’re confused! Our new and old agents found time to
attend a party given by Delta Airlines, and then last
week we took in the Octoberfest given by Lufthansa
Airlines — JA WOHL! Vacation time is a little late this
year. Jan Tuemler just returned from the hurricane
parties in Florida. Guess those hurricanes have their
good points. Elaine Moore has just left to enjoy the
sun and the aftermath! Jane Griffith will be on her
way to Europe shortly. Sandy Schoen and Sue Roe will
leave shortly for a three-day interline trip to Switzer
land. Would you believe four broken legs? That just
leaves Ed to run the office, which, by the way, has
been newly decorated, fully equipped with a refrig
erator. Watch those midnight parties!
COLUMBUS — Reporter Joe Erase: Station man
ager Vize Dotson thought he was being invaded recent
ly when all the employees here in CMH pulled up in
front of his house and surprised him with a “Welcome
to CMH” party. We were entertained by Ray (Elvis)
Presley pickin’ country and western music on his
guitar. Shirley Sword showed slides of past office
parties, some of which dated back ten years, We were
all surprised when an F-27 was sent in for one of our
flights not long ago. We had to dust off the manuals
and brush up on how to work him. We would like to
see more F-27’s up this way. We were pleased to have
a visit from our new district station supervisor Harold
Gibson the other day. Joanne Short is off globetrotting
in the Orient. We are all anxiously awaiting her re
turn, and especially anxious to hear about her Japan
ese bath. Shirley Sword recently visited friends in
Milwaukee and Chicago, and last week made a two-
day trip to Las Vegas.
GREENSBORO — Reporter Weldon Wallace: We
finally recovered from the “strike” and everything is
back to normal. What a wonderful feeling to come into
the office and not be three or more hours behind
before you even start to work. We were sorry to see
John Hanner leave Piedmont in July, and now
Johnny Gardner will be leaving Oct. 14. We welcome
their new replacements, S. D. Hill for Hanner and
H, L. West for Gardner. Most of our vacations and
holidays have been taken, so everyone will be ready
for the winter operation coming up. Our Incentive
Dinner was held at the Tropicana Supper Club in
GSO. We were honored to have Messieurs Bob Mc-
Alphin and Wayne Pope, from the home office, dine
with us. Our Manager, R. V. Moore, is now sporting
a new ’67 Ford LTD. Hollis E. Cook will be passing
out cigars about the middle of November, so be watch
ing for him!
HOT SPRINGS — Reporter Sharn Perry: HSP
does it again — always first with the latest. Yes, we
now have the first operational category III IDS! For
those who aren’t keeping up with the latest develop
ments, that’s a zero-zero Instrument Driving System.
It works simply enough. The center line of the high
way is painted with a magnetic paint; by mounting a
compass in the car we just keep the compass needle
pointed toward the front of the car. Jim McDaniel
kept running off the road until he changed the anti
freeze with magnetic film in his radiator. Now our
only serious problem is to get the deer to file IFR.
Keith Grimmett had an enroute collision with an eight
point buck on Monday evening; the following Wednes
day morning Lyle Cox was the victim. Made him lose
his new Beatle wig, he never got enough money for a
toupee. We’ve talked to the local game warden about
the situation; he promised to revoke the license of the
deer involved, but since they were already venison
that seemed a little unnecessary. Ah Autumn! When
Mother Nature dresses up for her own going away
party in gala reds, oranges, yellows then, womanlike,
she turns cold. A little tip to the agent who finds
himself working with the station manager, or any
other supervisor for that matter, put garlic in your
mouthwash and breathe on him. Worked fine against
Bob Waugh. Where we were, he wasn’t. A great way
to combat a cigar too. 0’ hummmmm, my yawner tells
me that winter is fast approaching, cold winds, ice,
snow, fog, and that’s inside the terminal, outside it’s
terrible.
MYRTLE BEACH — Reporter Frank Woodruff:
We have finally gotten used to using CRE after a
month’s frustration. It will probably be another couple
of months yet before we quit having no-rec’s after the
QRE gets changed to CRE instead of MBC. We are
still getting CAE and CRW traffic and some CAE
comail. It’s vacation time around here now. Milce
Bullard and Harold Rowe have just come back from a
couple of weeks’ rest. Harold went up to look over the
new terminal at Dulles. D. K. Jones, Chief Agent, is on
vacation this week and is hoping to get in some fish
ing. The fishing is real good here now. We sure have
been getting seaworms in lately, so it must be good.
We’re looking forward to the new schedules into
New York.
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' NEW BERN — Reporter Jim Deans: It’s been so
long since you’ve heard from EWN that we had to
send in something just to let you know that we’re still
here. But any of you that see the on-hand baggage
report on the teletype each night know we’re here.
We have a few new men since last we wrote. They are
Maurice Boothe, Ron Broome and Steve Ellis. Not the
same as Captain Steve Ellis, although this one wishes
they would mix up the pay checks occasionally. All
the new men are saddle broken and bit trained by now.
They can handle a seabag like a veteran. We almost
lost Bill Do-wns. He professed an interest in DIA but
I think the price of real estate up there made him
decide that there’s no place like home. You know the
old saying: “You can take a boy out of the country,
but you can’t take the country out of the boy.” If any
of you need fishing lessons, come on over and Hubert
Waller will show you how it’s done. If he had any
more time off, we would probably have to restock the
coastal waters with more speckled trout. Larry “Stick-
shift” Whitley has been laying them low at the Kinston
Drag Strip this summer. He says that the only car
hotter than his was Lacy Edwards’ Olds when it
caught fire. Jim Deans has been bitten by the horse
bug, so if any of you know of some good bargains in
riding stock, let him know. Y’all come, and remember;
Any woman that drives a man to drink, can’t be all
bad.
ROANOKE — Reporter Don Conner: Greetings
from ROA, where the ever-changing scene finds Don
Martin promoted to Chief Agent, Rodney Bowers and
Emory Bowers to Lead Agents, and Chief Agent Pete
Martin shifted from Operations to Reservations. Jim
Pratt is rumored headed for a promotion in DCA. Jim
Wilson has already assumed his new position in that
city. We at ROA took a vote and it was decided (by
a vote of 12-11) that we missed Jim. (We understand
Jim voted for himself by proxy.) A word of warning —
if you don’t want to be involved in an accident, don’t
buy a fancy car. Donna Silcox has just added her ’66
T-bird to the collection started by Joe Lucas’ Corvette.
Fortunately, Donna was not injured, at least nowhere
that shows. The new faces around ROA are Carlyle
Kemp in Res., Ted Nichols and Lloyd Jones in Opers.
Lloyd is a former LYH agent, and is rumored to be
headed back that way. Opers. has been hit hard by
injuries this month. Lots of bad backs and even a few
operations thrown in. Carl Francis escaped this plague
by leaving PAI for a position with Holly Farms in
RIC. Vacation time found Teresa Woznisky in the
Quaker State, Jesse Cantline in the Deep South, Don
Conner in SFO, and vagabond Mary Parks spending
a few days in Bermuda. To prove all ROA personnel
are rich. Art Whittaker purchased a new Mustang.
We thought he was going to have to live in it for a
while, but he finally found a place to stay. Judy
Painter has just ordered a ’67 Mustang and Shelby
Hale is sporting a new GTO. Opers. is currently featur
ing the only agent known by six different aliases. We
have to check his monogrammed shirt each day to see
what name he is going under for that week. Got an
other msg from the Phantom who has now moved to
SOP. We have recommended him for transfer to HSP
where he will have more time to sit around and think
up witty messages to send us.
SOUTHERN PINES — Reporter “The Phantom”:
Would you believe a change in scenery is the order of
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