Spur Walker’s fast push on High Point traffic plan
E L Walker Jr known as Spur, head of High Point Traffic Engineering, led a rapid Main Street makeover with a new yellow median and left turn slots. Since June 1958 he built the department, launching it July 1 1959, and oversaw a one way system and 83 signalized intersections through to 1963. Walker, born September 22 1930 in Decatur Texas, played football and drums at Decatur High School and rose from planning aide to department chief.
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Spur Walker
Main Street
E. L. Walker Jr
High Point
Walker
Ft. Worth
Texas
Decatur
Mauldin
Tennessee
North Carolina
Decatur High School
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Henry Ford
Baby Henry
Henry
McGuffrey
Detroit Edison Electric Co
Earth
Bob Cain
The Great Tinkerer Henry Ford’s Dream of an Universal Car
Editor's Outlook recalls Henry Ford as a tireless tinkerer who built the Model T and launched the moving assembly line. It notes his drive from modest beginnings, the $5 day, and his belief that machines would ease labor, while highlighting his limits and impact on society.
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America
Ford
Henry Ford
Karl Marx
UMPIRE STATES CASE ON LITTLE LEAGUE CALLS
Letter argues both sides of umpiring in youth baseball. Writer praises coaches, criticizes umpires who lack game knowledge, and calls for protection and clear rules for boys. Signed by C L Pop VanCannon and Mrs Mat t ie Hutch ins with civil rights concerns included.
Quotations on Labor Free Markets and Pigs Invasions
A collage quotes President Kennedy urging voluntary restraint in steel prices and wages. Dr J A Salzmann notes anxiety and teeth grinding amid tension. Senator Richard Russell discusses proposals to investigate the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Kennedy
J. A. Salzmann
American Association of Orthodontists
Richard B. Russell
Dga
City completes Duke Power cut over to five thousand?
High Point has finished transferring 3 151 electric customers to city power driving the total to 19 743 in service. The lone remaining area resident will switch soon. Plans began in January under the public utilities department with Duke Power cooperation.
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High Point
Duke Power Co
City Department of Public Utilities
L. C. Williams Jr
Utilities Department
Ben Saunders
Saunders
F. J. Dale
L. E. Wooten
Gene Saunders
Ruth Surratt
Lee Wilson
Claude Wood
City Upgrades Electric System With Duke Power Phase
The city used Wooten firm to plan supervise and check Duke Power property purchases for a 69 000 volt loop system with 12 miles of lines and four substations. From April 3 to June 28 ten cut overs served up to 716 customers with minimal outages. Williams credits planning cooperation and crews for smooth transitions and notes plans to expand facilities manpower and equipment to keep a first rate service.
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Duke Power Co
Wooten
Duke Power
Williams
Utilities Department
Glider Tales and Small Town Scrapes in Piedmont
Milford Byerly describes towplane assisted gliding and unpredictable weather as pilots test patience and skill. A Burlington field misfire ends with a forced landing and a crowd rounding up stray chicken crates after a two-truck bump in Asheboro. Reflections compare 1927 farm life with today through ads for early tractors cars and radios revealing changing prices and customs.
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Milford Byerly
Milford
Burlington Field
Piedmont
ZIP the Post Goes Postal in the Jet Age
A humorous column extols JFKs ZIP program as a speed mail plan while recalling Pony Express days. The author jokes about slow postwar delivery, reading errors, and the need for faster clerks as ZIP promises quicker letters across towns and nations.
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Hawaii
North Carolina
New Brunnsick
N. J
Honolulu
JFK
ABC
Pony Express
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Snow Studio
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Albert Stretlow
Golconda
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Peculair
Dearborn Independent
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C. L
Pop” Vancannon
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Robert F. Kennedy
Floyd McKissick
Durham
Thomasville
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Mattie Hutchens
Washington, D. C
Mattie Hutchins
Robert
Asheboro
Sis
Durance
Detroit
Milady
Braxton Younts
Sid Sinic, Esq
Khrushchev
Vienna
Castro
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
U. S
U. S. Mail
Terry Sanford
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