The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-11
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BESlN I1LNE iNDHA
Kay Dunn, pretty young nurse,
applies for a job as stewardess on
Overland Always. In the Over.
land office she encounters Ted
Graham, veteran pilot of Trans
Pacific Always, and largely due
to his Intervention, she is accepted
for a trial period.
Two other girls, Doris Lee and
Alice Miller, are accepted on the
same basis.
Kay, excited over winning the
job, stops to tell Graham the news
He asks her to 60 to lunch with
himself and Benton, personnel
chief.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER III
Kay Dunn listened eagerly to
the technic talk of planes and
plotting she heard in the airport
restaurant. launching with Ted
Graham and Charlie Benton, she
felt that she actually had begun
her new work as a stewardess.
At intervals pilots would stop
at the table to speak to, Graham,
who introduced them to Kay. 1t
thrilled her, too, to notice that
passengers, dining in the restau.
rant while awaiting the arrival of
planes, recognized Graham and
nodded in his direction. Obviously
they were wondering about the
girl with the famous pilot.
After lunch Benton went back
to his office and Ted took Kay on
an inspection tour of the Central
Airport. There was a terminal
building as large as a great city
railroad station and as complete
with restaurant, cafeteria, hotel,
ticket office, baggage rooms and
shops all under one roof.
They climbed, past the meteor
illogical laboratories, to the roof
and looked down at the elaborate
network of runways on the field.
1t was, Kay thought, like a patch
work quilt - the smooth, yellow
ish concrete runways intersecting
at all angles. Below was the con-
crete ramp where planes discharg-
ed and took on passengers.
l. While they watched, big twin
motor TAXED up to the gate and
stopped. Porters ran out, and
helped the passengers to disem-
bark. At another gate passengers
were waiting to board the plane.
Luggage was piled on the ground
beside them. Gay awnings flut-
tered in the breeze.
Away in the distance was the
wharf where seaplanes TAXED up
to land. A giant seaplane and a
cabin cruiser dipped up and down,
side by side, on the glistening
water. Slowly a passenger train
crawled past the entrance gate,
and taxis whirled up and down
the handicapped driveways to the
terminal entrance behind. 1t was
the ideal coordination of travel
facilities on land, water and in the
air. 1t was the most perfect SYM
boil of the goth century that Kay
had ever seen.
"Those are the hangers here"
Ted said, amusing himself by
watching Kay's enraptured fea-
lures. "The big one is for trans
port planes. The doors are 60
ing up now. That's all done by
electricity"
She turned to him and smiled.
There was too much at the airport
to take in at this first inspection.
otis nice of you," she said, "to
show me all this. l don't know
why you should. This morning
when l came out here, looking for
the job as steWardess on Over
land Anyways, I'll admit 1 was a
little afraid"
"I'm not surprised" Ted said.
Strange surroundings, new peo-
pie. A new job in any line is bad
enough"
In the bright sunlight Kay's
eyes SlloIeIlCu. L hGpJ IIllIlhlllS
about my brother who died in the
air"
Ted touched her arm with a
comradely gesture. 81 flew in the
war, too, but we my observer
and had better luck. We're
still-flying. And that war was
long time ago."
Both stared out into the limit
less spaces, and then Ted turned.
"There's my plane" he said.
Fright on the dot. I'll have to go
down now. Will you come and
see me OFF,"
"I'd love to-" she said.
For the infinity of a second he
gazed at her, at her reddish hair
and cat-green eyes, and head like
a diadem in the glaring sunlight.
"You are a strange creature" he
said.
Strange"
81 don't know what it is. Exotic.