NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 1970
THE PIEDM0NITOR
PAGE THREE
First Golf Tournament
Results Are Announced
Piedmont’s First Annual Company-wide Employee
Golf Tournament was not exactly a resounding success.
It rained a lot. So much in fact that the winners had
to be determined from only one round of play.
This year’s winner, E. V. Scales of INT mainten
ance, is in charge of the 1971 tournament. He and his
trophy are pictured on page four.
The results were; First Flight Winner E. V. Scales,
INT-M, Runner-Up J. Gibson, ILM; Second Flight
Winner Capt. L. Cottrell, INT, Runner-Up Capt. R.
Parker, DCA; Third Flight Winner Dave Smith, CRW,
Runner-Up C. Johnson, TRI; Fourth Flight Winner Ron
Beeson, GSO, Runner-Up Merrill Gadker, CVG (Gadker
was this year’s Chairman); Fifth Flight Winner Mrs.
G. Macklin, ROA, Runner-Up Harold Gibson, ROA.
The following rules for the tournament have been
proposed and must be approved by a system-wide vote.
Any suggestions or comments should be sent to E. V.
Scales, INT-M.
f 1, The chairman will be determined by the winner
of the championship flight of the previous year.
2. The chairman will select a committee from his
station.
3. The previous chairman will serve on the tourna
ment committee the following year, as an advisor.
4. The chairman will select, with his committee,
the tournament site.
5. The committee will be responsible for pairing,
tee placement, starting times, prizes, and determining
entry fees, etc.
6. The tournament site will be determined by
committee selection based on bids by PAI stations.
7. Tournament site should have convenient motel
or hotel, should have a championship golf course, have
a locker room, motel or hotel should have room for a
dinner and cocktail party at trophy presentation.
8. All bids should comply with above item, and
turned in by April 1.
9. When a bid is submitted it should be placed by
a committee from the station, and if that station is
selected they will serve with the chairman. Their main
duty will be responsibility for hotel arrangements and
ground transportation.
10. The tournament will be played at INT every
other year.
11. The tournament dates will be announced in
February.
12. The tournament site will be announced in June.
13. The tournament will always be played on
Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
14. The tournament will be flighted, 36 holes.
NEW MANAGER for Lynchburg is Donald E. Martin,
formerly Assistant Manager at Washington National.
Martin's promotion is effective December 16th. He
initially joined the Company as an agent at Roanoke,
his home town, in 1956. Martin has been at National
since 1968. He is married to the former Joyce Ann Dillon
and they have two sons.
William F. Hedgecock
Hedgecock Is New Manager
Of Company's Credit Union
There is a new face in the employees’ world of
high finance. Piedmont has a new Credit Union Man
ager.
William F. Hedgecock joined Piedmont on Decem
ber 1. He was formerly the Secretary and Treasurer
of the Winston-Salem City Employees Credit Union.
A native of Sedge Garden, North Carolina, Hedge
cock went to school in Camden, New York, and served
with the United States Air Force. He was an accountant
for the City of Winston-Salem for 12 years.
Hedgecock is a member of the Credit Union Man
agers Association, a director of the North Carolina
Credit Union League as well as a director of the
Northwest Chapter of the North Carolina Credit Union.
His wife, the former Pauline Young of Walkertown,
North Carolina, is also in the money business. She
works in the Payroll Department of Wachovia Bank
and Trust Company. The Hedgecocks have four daugh
ters and live in Walkertown.
LONG LINES
Since Piedmont's long line is one of, if not the most
successful of our modes of communication, we thought
a column by the same name might be a good, way of
mentioning some of the small, but newsy things of
interest that go on around the system. Any contributions
you might have wtll be more than welcome. Address
them to the Editor, Piedmonitor, INT-ZY.
J. A. Woodruff, Piedmont agent at Lynchburg, has
recently been appointed National Publicity Chairman
for the American Wheelchair Bowling Association.
Woody is also currently serving as Vice President of
the Virginia chapter of this group. AWBA is planning
to have its national tournament in Richmond next
year. It will be the first national ten-pin tournament
ever held in Virginia and as many as 125 wheelchair
bowlers from all over the United States are expected
to attend.
^ ^
The renowned pundit of aviation publications, Wayne
W. Parrish ran a contest in his Personal View column
(Airline Management and Marketing Magazine) last
summer. His invitation was for contributions for some
new aviation “laws,” the satirical kind based on Park
inson’s Laws or The Peter Principle. And, lo and be
hold, Piedmont produced a winner! Assistant Director
of Communications J. R. Reagan was one of 14 honor
able mentions. The following constitutes Bob’s law:
“All avionics equipment will be purchased two years
prior to delivery of new aircraft in order to enable the-
FAA to make new requirements for avionics prior to
delivery of aircraft, which will then be delivered with
obsolete equipment.” Bob’s prize was a check for $5.
The winner, who received five times that amount, was
Tom Kornylak of the Kornylak Corporation in Hamil
ton, Ohio. His entry was “That all redundant features
in any airplane shall be designed to fail in pairs.”
Piedmont’s Vice President of Finance T. W. Morton
has been elected President of the Airline Finance and
Accounting Conference of the Air Transport Associa
tion. Morton was first vice president of the group last
year. Another arm of the ATA, the Airline Editor’s Con
ference, recently elected Piedmonitor editor Betsy
Allen chairman of that group.
* *
The Weather Bureau has changed its name. It is
now the National Weather Service. The change is part
of a reshuffle which puts it under the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. Hopefully we’ll still
be allowed to call the men who man it weathermen
rather than NOAA’ers or something.
NEW SENIOR VP ELECTED BY BOARD
(ContimuMl from I’apo One)
More of a week-end than an avid golfer Shaw
admits to a two digit handicap. His next favorite hobby
is skiing and he is looking forward to being able to
indulge in both pastimes after he gets settled in this
area. He is also a private pilot but hasn’t done too
much flying lately.
A graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson College Shaw
attended the Graduate School of Stanford University.
He served with the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946 and
part of that time he was a Navy control tower operator.
An avid reader, his favorite subject matter is World
War II. He says this grew out of his friendship with
author Cornelius Ryan.
Politically Shaw says he is a moderate conserva
tive. He is registered as a Republican and considers
John Lindsay typical of the liberal element of the GOP.
Though he has hardly been at Piedmont long enough
to predict what the Company’s future holds he has
some great ideas about how we can make sure it will
be what we want it to be.
He says, “Anything you can save for the Company
today will be for your own welfare tomorrow. Next
year, 1971, will be a turnaround year, hopefully by the
third quarter there will be evidence of stabilization
throughout the industry. Piedmont’s traffic composition
is greatly dependent on the ups and downs of business
generally. This Company’s business will go back up as
rapidly as it has come down in the last several months.
“Labor costs totally are our industry’s biggest
problem. There is no immediate or single solution at
the moment, but a major step forward is the accept
ance by everybody of the seriousness of the problem
and everyone’s complete co-operation in re-examining
their own efforts to the degree they can produce cost
savings. The work systems must be simplified and we
must think COSTS. Dollars must be spent construc
tively, in other words we must use even greater dis
cretion as to how and where to spend.
“It will be a rough, tough grind but a big challenge
to those who have enjoyed the prosperous years. It is
past time to stop just talking about our problems and
definitely time to continue doing more about them.
"The real challenge for people is to work with their
Company when it is experiencing difficulties as that is
when the full measure of our efforts truly contributes
to not only the success of the Company but ourselves
as well.”
From these remarks it is hard to tell that Shaw
is new as a Piedmont Senior VP. He certainly seems
to be, already, a real Piedmont person.
VFR
with
Turby
Ken Ross and his wife. Hi, just returned from a
week’s trip to Hawaii, and they flew on the 747 both
ways. Ken says it’s a big flying machine — as a matter
of fact, his only complaint is that it’s so far to the
restroom that by the time he would get back to his
seat, he had to go again. He almost walked himself
to death. T. L. Martin and his wife. Sue, also made
the trip. Ole “Lost and Found Martin” made the trip
without losing his luggage.
Did you know that before the tachometer was
invented, to determine if an airplane engine was de
veloping enough horsepower to take off, a rope was
attached between the tail skid and a spring scale —
the throttle being opened fully to test the number of
pounds the engine was “pulling?” That’s a fact!!
There has been a great deal in the news lately
about Amelia Earhart being alive, which brought back
to my mind those early days when so many people
were trying to break all kinds of aviation records by
flying the Atlantic, the Pacific and around the world.
The following is one such event which might be of
interest:
In 1935, a pilot named Dick Merrell and a broad-
way producer, Harry Richmond, were to attempt the
first round-trip crossing of the Atlantic. So they put
some 20,000 ping-pong balls in the wings of their Lock
heed 10 for buoyancy in case they were forced down at
sea. Well, they made the crossing both ways, re
trieved the ping-pong balls from the wings, autographed
each ball and sold them as souvenirs. This netted
them $40,000.