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page four PIEDMONITOR April/May/June, 1974 Long Lines Since Piedmont’s long lines was 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 smxill, hut newsy things of interest that go on around the system. Any con tributions you might have will be more than welcome. Address them to the Editor, Piedmonitor, INT-213. Dulles doings Dulles was the setting recently for four days of filming for the upcoming movie “Airport 75”. The stars are Charleton Heston, Karen Black and Gloria Swanson. In one of the sequences the action was staged around the Piedmont gate using a Northwest DC-10. The movie, due to be released late this fall, is being made by Univer sal. Some other parts of the film are to be made at Dallas-Ft. Worth and at Salt Lake City. lAD also has a new airline, Aeroflot. The Rus sian flag carrier operates one flight a week to Paris and Moscow with an Ilyushin IL62. Sev eral news and travel writers flew Piedmont from New York to Dulles for the Aeroflot Washing- ton-Moscow inaugural. Piedmont’s lAD personnel have moved into new facilities, just west of where they used to be in the same lower level area. A new passen ger holding area is also being built. Sincere thanks Louisville supervisor Bob Gilbert lost his home during one of the April tornados in that area. He asked us to relay the following mes sage: “Thank you to all Piedmont Airlines’ employees. On April 3rd when a tornado de stroyed our home and personal belongings we were left absolutely homeless and without clothes. Thanks to all of you for all you have done to help us. We received money, clothing, linens, food, help with the actual cleaning up and many calls and letters. It is impossible for me to tell you personally and individually how grateful we are. Please accept our most sin cere thanks. Bob Gilbert and Family, SDF” The Gilberts were back in their home by early summer. Sports report Applications for the Company’s annual golf tournament are now available at all station managers’ off'ices. The dates are September 30 through October 2 and the place is the Arcadian Shores course at Myrtle Beach. If you have any questions CRE Manager Mike Blythe should be able to help you. Jim Deans at New Bern would like to know if you have an interest in a system-wide ten nis tournament. If so, let him know. In case you forget where Jim is (EWN) send your suggestions along to the Piedmonitor and we’ll forward them. The 12 team Winston Bowling League fin ished up its season in May with a trophy awards banquet. The first place team is shown below. The Jetliners walked off with the second place runner-up trophies. Their team included Nona Weaver, Faye Tuttle, Bill King, Jim Coon, Richard Reavis, Gary Blackburn and Pat Howell. Individual winners were Nancy Thomas and Donnie Ogburn — High Set; Bill Flynt and F. M. Higginbotham — High Average; Roger Ragsdale and Kay Goode — High Game; and Brenda Patton and Bill King — Best Sport. There are 84 players, five members plus two subs for each team in the league. Employees campaigning Two, that we know of and there may be others, Piedmont employees are running for elective offices. Atlanta based pilot James R. (Duck) Hamilton has announced as a candidate for the Georgia State Senate. Hamilton is a Democrat and would represent the 34th Dis trict. In stating his platform Hamilton said he would seek relief from property taxes, promote land use planning, parks and recreation and law and order. Hamilton has been with Pied mont since 1969. Roanoke Station Manager Art Whittaker is running for the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, which is similiar to county com missioners. Whittaker, who has been with Pied mont since 1948, is a Republican candidate. He is seeking to represent five magisterial dis tricts which include 18,000 residents. The number one bowling team in the Winston Piedmont Bowling League was awarded trophies at the group's annual banquet in May. The first place team included, from left, J. L. Dunlap, John Wiley, Kay Goode, Terry Brown, Linda Gentry, Donnie Ogburn, Linda Knight and David Shoaf. Piedmont's 30 millionth passenger was boarded at O'Hare on June 13th. Russell H. Chambliss, Jr., center, boarded Flight 86 at the Company's newest station for Richmond. Chambliss, who is vice-president — sales for Oxford Papers, is shown with, from left, ORD Manager Larry Brooks, agents Teresa Combs and Suzette France and Chicago Sales Manager Bill Asher. Stewardess honored The Association of Flight Attendants, for merly known as the Steward and Stewardess Division of the Air Line Pilots Association, has presented its top safety award to Piedmont Stewardess Margie Slagle. Miss Slagle is based in Wilmington and has been with the Company for 10 years. For the past two years she has served on AFA’s Air Safety Study Committee, the group which plans the guidelines for the association’s national programs on airline cabin safety. The AFA has a membership of 20,000 flight attendants. Others who received awards from the AFA included Norva Achenbaugh of United, Ann Dorkowski and Laurie Eckols of Ozark and Sabra Sullivan of National. New CU services offered The Piedmont Aviation Credit Union Board of Directors has announced two new services for CU members. A certificate of deposit program was approved at a special Board meeting in late June. It is available to members only. Certificates may be purchased in multiples of $5,000 and will be issued for one year. The interest rate is 7 per cent. Interest will be credited to the holder’s regular share account quarterly from the date of the certificate. The certificates of deposit will not have life insur ance as does a regular share account. Members are encouraged to have at least $2,500 in a share account before buying the certificates. At the regular CU Board meeting early in W I Flight Attendant Cynthia Taylor was Piedmont's repre sentative at the 27th Annual North Carolina Azalea Festival. Cindy has been with the Company since 1973. She is based in Winston-Salem, her home town. The Festival was held in Wilmington in April. July an education loan plan was approved. The program is designed to assist parents with the cost of tuition for college and/or other schools of higher education. Individual plans will be arranged for members desiring financial as sistance with educational expenses. Qualifica tions for this program will include consideration of the member’s salary, present obligations and local credit rating. For further details on these two new services contact your local credit union representative or the Credit Union office, INT —240. New numbers appear Did you notice the internal mail address given for the Credit Union in the preceding paragraph? It’s different. Part letters and part numbers. A new numerical code for all Company mail in Winston-Salem has been devised. It is for INT mail only and it will help our mail folks with sorting and distribution. A general list of departments and their new codes is available through A. H. Holland’s office, INT-220. The new Company phone books also show the mail code numbers for all listed personnel. Comat should be addressed to show the individual’s name or department and code number. Mistake means money AVL supervisor Merrill Oxley may have stumbled on a way to put one of his sons through college the easy way. Oxley, who has been with Piedmont since 1957, has been moon lighting for years as a vendor of postage stamps. As a sideline he owns and services 100 machines that dispense stamps in stores around Buncombe County, North Carolina. He buys stamps 10,000 at a time, at least, and in May when he purchased that many at the Arden Post Office, hit a bonanza. His wife, Ethelda, cuts the stamps into strips and packages them for sale through the ma chines. As she was cutting the 10,000 that Merrill bought on May 3, she turned one sheet of stamps over and discovered it was printed with President’s Eisenhower’s picture on both sides. “Look at this,” she said to Merrill. They had never seen anything like it, but suspected im mediately that the sheet might have some value to a stamp collector. “I wonder how often this happens?” Merrill said. “Last year I bought $27,000 worth of stamps. In ten years I’ve bought over $150,000 worth of stamps and never saw anything like this before.”
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