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ROADWAYS

JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1968

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Editorial

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CUT IN HALF

Many people look upon highway accidents like the
weather — there is nothing you can do about it, they say.

Up in the 14th Highway Division, something is being
done, and the results are so convincing that specialists
in the field of Highway safety are taking notes, and find-
ing a realistic answer rather than just a theory.

And like so many things, the answer is so simple, that
it has been overlooked time and time again.

The records show that 11 people were killed on Hay-
wood highways in 1966, and this became a matter of con-
cern to several officials at the same time, and consequent-
ly, they began working on a program which resulted in
cutting that figure to less than half for 1967 — only 5
deaths.

Back in January 1967, Commissioner W. Curtis Russ,
and Sgt. O. C. Brock of the Highway Patrol told Chair-
man Joseph Hunt of a program which they had just
inaugurated — combining forces, CREATING A SPIRIT
OF TEAMWORK between the Highway Commission
and Patrol. The basic idea was for both agencies work-
ing together, to make a careful study of areas where
accidents were taking place, and see what could be done
to correct the roadway, or erect additional signs, or guard
rails.

The Patrol keeps a keen eye peeled for such areas, and
it takes just one call to the State Highway Commission
to get action in a matter of an hour or so. There have
been times, when signs have been erected within the day.

Chairman Hunt was impressed with the program, and
encouraged Commissioner Russ and Sgt. Brock to con-
tinue, and even expand the activities.

All patrolmen assigned to Haywood became interested,
as did the Highway personnel from A. J. "Red" Hughes,
division engineer, on down to truck drivers. The enthu-
siasm spread, and very soon the public began to see pat-
rolmen in conference with Highway forces, and later
saw widened shoulders, guard rails, more signs, or other
changes all designed for safety.

EVERYONE WORKED TOGETHER AS A TEAM.

When December 31, 1967 rolled around, the record
showed highway deaths at 5 instead of 11 like the year
before.

About the time the report was made, Governor Moore
heard of the plan, together with Ralph Howland, com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles, and more enthusiasm was
generated.

The officials in Haywood now take the program for
granted, all as a part of their responsibilities, and pride
in saving lives. They enjoy the teamwork; often meet to-
gether, talk things over, and highly respect the views and
ideas of each other. It boils down to communication of
the highest degree, and getting a job done.

THEORY has been tossed out of the window, and the
SAFETY PROGRAM IS A REALITY.

A patrolman saw a loose rock on a high bank the
othe day, called the Highway maintenance shop, and
within 90 minutes the dangerous rock was removed. No
record was made; just an act of using common sense on
the part of the team.

After a fatal accident late in 1966, engineers and pat-
rolmen spent two hours on the site trying to figure the
best way to prevent other such accidents. More signs

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ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XIV

NUMBER Wk\

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist J AN IE WILLIAMS

Photographer Gordon Deans

DAN K. MOORE _ GOVERNOR

JOSEPH M. HUNT, JR. CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr. John F. McNadj, III

W. W. Exum George L. Hundley

Ashley M. Murphy George H. Broadrick

Carl Renfro Raymond Smith

J. B. Brame W. B. Garrison

Carl Meares James G. Stdxeleather, Jr.

Thomas S. Harrington W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chief Engineer

George Wdlloughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

COVER

The cover for the January-February issue of ROAD-
WAYS is a picture of the concrete pilings of the new
Wilmington-Cape Fear River Bridge. The photographer
exhibits his ability to obtain an angle of these pilings
which resembled marble in the sunlight and gave an ap-
pearance of a Roman Coliseum and of ancient Rome.
It was hard to visualize a four lane highway with cars
zooming across the top of these huge round balls of
sand and cement.

Highway Design And Operational Practices Related To
Highway Safety In North Carolina

By W. A. WILSON, JR.

Safety has been a predominant feature in highway de-
sign in North Carolina since the start of our State and
Federal highway systems. Use of design control features
such as design speed, sight distance, structure, lateral
clearance, wider lanes, wider shoulders, flatter slopes,
cross sections, and even control of access have been steps
in which we up-grade to provide better safety on our
highways.

Over a period of several years there have been signifi-
cant changes in vehicles, in the drivers, and in the man-
ner in which they operate, in the speed, and in the ty-
pical distances traveled. The freeways that we are now
offering enable the average driver to roll along at 60
m.p.h. or greater completely relaxed or gaily chattering
to companions or listening to the radio. The combination
of car and highway is so easy that the trend to con-
centrate diligently and the need to drive carefully is
sometimes forgotten. Any day or night, good or bad
weather, the people sail along in complete faith that the
road ahead is open, quiet, and completely free. Then the
least something happens. The driver relaxes too much or
he is inattentive too long, or some minor happening dis-
tracts him and his vehicle becomes an off the road, out
of control fast moving object.

Safer roadsides have become the current item for em-
phasis in our present highway design. The provision of
a roadside, which is clear and safe as it is feasible to
provide for any vehicle that may leave the road surface
is our aim. This is being done in many different ways.

1. By flattening of slopes along the highway.

2. Elimination of all unnecessary sign supports along
the highway.

3. Development of break away sign posts adjacent to
the roadway.

4. Removal of all gore signs in interchange areas.

5. Where supports and signs are necessarily of a de-
sign that is massive and unyielding and cannot be
eliminated or relocated, we are protecting this in-
stallation with adequate guardrail design. The new
guardrail design is based on 6'3" spacing in lieu of
the original 12'6" spacing. The ends are anchored
into the ground or flared back into the cut sec-
tions. All guardrail now are being tied to bridges
so that vehicles cannot penetrate the rail or hit
the end of the bridge rail.

6. On the interstate system and freeway system, a lot
of unnecessary signs are being eliminated. Such
signs as "Emergency Parking Only", "No U Turn"
signs, "Keep Off The Median" signs, and some
"Yield" signs. Also where practical guide signs will

be mounted on existing structures to eliminate the
hazards of a support adjacent to the structure.

7. Careful attention is being given to drainage struc-
tures such as catch basins in the medians. In lieu
of the original catch basins, we are incorporating a
grate and frame drop inlet which eliminates the haz-
ard of the deep ditch and the structure in the me-
dian. It has been found that curbs adjacent to the
travel way are inconsistent to highway safety. At
present we are removing all curbs that are adjacent
to the travel way in rural type design and trying
to eliminate as many curbs as possible on urban
freeways.

8. We are not using guardrail on any facility unless all
other conditions and roadside features make it the
only practical alternate. We feel that greater road-
side safety can be obtained through grading sections
flat enough to make the guardrail unnecessary.

9. On all freeways we are carrying the full shoulder
width across all structures. In our secondary high-
ways we are carrying a minimum of 6' shoulders
across all structures. For bridges that cross over the
main highway, we originally used a 10' clearance off
the through lane. This was changed to 16' in the
early 60's and at present we are using up to 30'
from edge of pavement to a pier. At present all
bridges with a median with less than 30' will be
closed in, in lieu of the two rails in the median as
previously designed.

10. We are providing climbing lanes. This is an addi-
tional safety element in some areas where the grades
are so excessive that trucks can hardly make the
grades and the driver gets impatient and makes a
wrong maneuver in order to pass the slow moving
truck.

11. Slippery pavements have come to our attention and
we are in the process of designing a skid trailer
which is to be used to make studies to determine,
methods in which we can eliminate these slippery
pavements.

12. Massive driver education and retraining programs
to readjust the driver's attitude to fit the highways
and the instant conditions as they use them should
help in the reduction of roadside accidents. The
Highway Commission is at present giving defensive
driving courses to all members of the Commission
as a step in this direction.

13. In order to keep improving on our design practices
of future highways and in removing accident haz-
ards and operation deficiencies in completed high-
ways, the department is setting up design review

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teams which are used to make a surveillance of a
completed highway and give recommendations as
to the improvements in the view of safety. This
team is composed of members from the diverse oc-
cupations in the highway field and we be'.ieve that
this will be a valuable asset to the Highway Com-
mision in developing its overall safety program.

14. We are using the New Jersey median on narrow
medians such as 1-85 in Greensboro and 1-40 from
the Tennessee line to Cove Creek to protect the
vehicles from encroaching and crossing the median
and having a head-on accident. This median is
made of solid concrete and approximately 32" high.
The face is sloped so that if a vehicle hits this me-
dian at an angle the vehicle will ride up on the
medians slightly and along the median, and not
cause any major damage to the vehicle.

15. Even at 35 m.p.h. a vehicle colliding wih a telephone
pole probably would be classed as a serious acci-
dent. Many of our trunk highways and other high-
ways which run through cities and towns have
utility poles, light standards and trees adjacent to
the face of the curb. In working with some cities
and towns in North Carolina we have been able to
remove these hazards from these streets and place
them further from the traveled lane. It is hoped
that in the future many other cities and towns will
join these so that we may have safer streets in our
cities and towns.

16. Rest areas are being provided on our interstate sys-
tem. These provide a place for the long-run drivers
to stop and untense themselves for a few minutes
prior to proceeding on their trip. These rest areas
will be spaced anywhere from one to two hours
driving time apart. Some of these areas are plan-
ned for use as welcome centers. Also these centers
will provide the traveler with helpful information
to help him reach his destination as well as infor-
mation relating to safety.

17. The overall safety program as far as the North
Carolina Highway Commission is concerned is to
incorporate as many of the new safety features to
the future projects as possible and to go back on
the existing projects and locate the hazardous lo-
cations and make corrections.

W. A. WILSON, JR.
Roadway Design

Department of Motor Vehicles
and State Highway Commission
Merge Efforts

Col. Charles A. Speed, in a commentary on traffic ac-
cident prevention prepared for ROADWAYS, placed en-
gineering side by side with enforcement and education
in the task of reducing human suffering and property
damage on the highway.

The viewpoint expressed by the head of the N. C.
State Highway Patrol is given substance by the close co-
operation that does exist between all services of the De-
partment of Motor Vehicles, including law enforcement,
and the N. C. State Highway Commission.

Partnerships in Highway Safety

This partnership is perhaps most evident in the area
of accident reporting and investigation.

To begin with, the accident report form now used by
State troopers was developed jointly by the two agen-
cies to extract both engineering and law enforcement
data from accident experiences.

Periodically, as the reports are processed, the De-
partment of Motor Vehicles furnishes the Traffic Engi-
neering Department, SHC, with copies of reports and
computer processing cards on all officially reported acci-
dents which occur on North Carolina rural highways.
In addition, separate records of fatal accidents are sent
to Traffic Engineering for special processing and study.

In turn, Traffic Engineering performs various computer
analyses relating to high-accident locations on State
roads, types of accidents, and other data studies neces-
sary for accident preventive measures.

Computer Approach — A Cooperative Effort

The computer approach to highway safety in North
Carolina is a cooperative effort of the Department of
Motor Vehicles and the State Highway Commission.
Colonel Speed accents the importance of this method of
investigation:

"We are very fortunate today, particularly in North
Carolina, that high emphasis has been placed on com-
puterizing our accident and driver violation records
which enables our departmental statisticians to accumu-
late, analyze, and interpret the basic causes of motor
vehicle accidents."

Highway safety starts with a statistic. Protection of
citizens' lives and property depends upon knowing exact-
ly what ingredients are present when cars collide, go
over embankments, or hit pedestrians. Systematic com-
pilation of factors contributing to road mishaps, when
"viewed" by the data processing machine, can reveal
information required to help guard against these condi-
tions.

It is easily understood that data to guide highway
plans and the use of traffic control devices are more
realistic if gleaned from accidents that actually happened
— thousands of them, covering an appreciab'e period of
time. Protests from the public regarding the possible
danger of a certain intersection, for instance, are not
entirely reliable because they do not represent the whole
picture, nor do they te.l what is happening at other places
which may be equally or more hazardous.

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Trooper Deployment vs Accident Experience

State highway resources have been placed at the dis-
posal of the highway patrol officials to achieve one of
their current objectives: the optimum deployment of
personnel in the enforcement of traffic laws and preven-
tion of accidents.

With this goal in mind, the Traffic Engineering De-
partment was called on for data pertaining to high-acci-
dent locations over the state; and, to this extent, the
Traffic Research Engineer worked with the SHP on a
trooper assignment plan based on accident frequency
and severity.

Moreover, the SHC Planning Department, upon re-
quest of the Department of Motor Vehicles, performed a
special study which elaborated upon the DMV's data
relating accident occurrence to times of day.

This analysis located accidents on given highways, in
the primary system, by time of day; thus allowing the
SHP to develop a plan of "selective enforcement". Un-
der this plan, a trooper can be assigned to a given coun-
ty and a given section of highway at times when, ac-
cording to past history, accidents are apt to occur.

To further inform the patrol officers on Statewide
accident-prone locations, by county, and with possible
hazards cited, copies of the Rural Safety Program re-
port were put into their hands.

Troopers Taught Accident Reporting

The training program for new patrolmen is another
meeting ground for two of the agencies charged with ac-
cident prevention.

For several years now, Traffic Engineering personnel
have had the privilege and the benefits of sitting in on
basic courses conducted within the State patrol organiza-
tion. And, as the need for critical accident data became
more pressing, they have participated actively, aiding
instruction of classes in accident reporting methods and
practices which will enhance the ability to determine
what actually happens when someone has an accident.

Troopers Assist In SHC Work

The State trooper, as he patrols his section of the
State Highway System, is in a good position to assist the
State Highway Commission in the safe and efficient main-
tenance of road facilities, by notifying the proper depart-
ments of poor road conditions, such as a hole in the
pavement, a broken sign or guardrail, a landslide, and
the like. Troopers in many divisions of the State do this
regularly. They may send in a written report to Raleigh,
or, for some conditions, they may call the local high-
way office.

The trooper is also relied on, by virtue of the statutes
of North Carolina, to enforce certain traffic engineering
regulations established by the Highway Commission, in
addition to apprehending violators of speed limits and
other traffic laws.

These reciprocal activities, only briefly described here,
all step-up the progress toward highway safety.

Speed Sees Progress in North Carolina

Commander Speed shares his observations on the traf-

fic picture in North Carolina from a long experience in
the field of traffic supervision.

"Progress has been made in Traffic Accident Preven-
tion through education, engineering and enforcement,
but no one in America today is doing the job that they
should be doing in preventing motor vehicle accidents . . .

"Tremendous progress has been made in North Caro-
lina. In 1935 we registered 512,076 motor vehicles which
traveled some 4 billion miles; and 1,095 persons were
killed. In 1967 we registered 2,708,769 motor vehicles.
They traveled approximately 24 billion miles, and 1,743
persons were killed. This is 648 more than were killed
in 1935, but look how our exposure rate has increased!
If traffic deaths has occurred in 1967 at the same rate
as in 1935, 6,000 people would have died on our streets
and highways.

We quote Col. Speed: "I am convinced that until more
emphasis is placed on driver selection training and licens-
ing we will continue to have a high motor vehicle accident
rate. To accomplish this will require that problem drivers
be referred to drivers license medical centers. They
would be staffed with competent medical research per-
sonnel who would interview and examine drivers that we
refer to them that we have classified as accident and vio-
lator prone based on their driving records. We would also
refer to them as accident and violator prone based on
their driving records. We would also refer drivers with
senile characteristics, physical and mental deficiences.
Such a system of clinics operated in connection with a
statewide system of traffic courts staffed by young attor-
neys trained in every phase of traffic accident prevention.
This would establish the machinery for adult driver re-
education schools and provide more effective use of scien-
tific devices for the drinking and speeding drivers."

Norris Suggest Survey
of Worn Bridges

A general survey of bridges in North Carolina, order-
ed by Highway Commissioner J. M. Hunt, Jr. on Decem-
bers 20th, has turned up three bridges on which Commis-
sion engineers feel the loads should be reduced.

Assistant Chief Engineer for Bridges J. L. Norris
recommended that the bridge over the Banks Channel at
Wrightsville Beach in New Hanover County, the old
West Asheville Bridge over the French Broad River at
Asheville, and the old bridge over the Yadkin River be-
tween Elkin and Jonesville in Surry County be restricted
to use by automotive traffic only.

Commission engineers said there would be no inconve-
nience since alternate routes are available nearby.

The bridges would be closed to all trucks, passenger
buses and school buses and posted with four-ton limits.

All three bridges are located within the corporate limits
of cities and the municipalities have been informed that
proper signs will be erected on February 2nd.

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Above, W. G. Reaves and Secretary Mrs. Mary Lee Stephenson.

Highway Purchasing
And Central Services
Department

W. G. Reaves
Highway Purchasing Agent

"Service" is not just a by-word
with us. It is more or less our motto.
This department is a "service" or-
ganization, its functioning is far and
wide in this respect. From picking up
and delivering that litle 'ole' letter to
purchasing that largest piece of
"earth-moving" equipment you have
seen in operation in Highway main-
tenance.

The Purchasing and Central Serv-
ices Department of the N. C. State
Highway Commission is a staff func-
tion serving in an administrative ca-
pacity under the State Highway Ad-
ministrator. It comprises four sepa-
rate and distinctive sections, with a
personnel complement of 50 employ-
ees and operates with an administra-
tive budget approximating $675,000.00
annually. The four sections compris-
ing this Department are: Purchasing,
Mail and Stockroom, Reproduction
and Central Files.

The Purchasing Section has the
responsibility of handling all pur-
chases of supplies, materials, and
equipment utilized by the Highway
Commission. Our total purchases for
the past fiscal year were in excess
of 50 million dollars. All purchasing
is handled in accordance with Gen-
eral Statutes, General Rules and Reg-
ulations, governing the N. C. State
Highway Commission and the Pur-
chase and Contract Division of the
Department of Administration. The
Purchasing Section also has the re-
sponsibility of coordinating Highway
Buildings maintenance and operations
with General Services Division,
coordinating a 1 1 telephone addi-
tions and changes with The
Department of Administration and
General Services Division as well as
Record Management and Control
with the Department of Archives and
History. This Section has 22 employ-
ees with an annual budget approxi-

mating $175,000.00. Approximately
38,000 purchase orders are written
on an annual basis. Approximately
115,000 invoices are checked and ap-
proved for payment on an annual ba-
sis. This department has one Traffic
Manager and seven Assistant Pur-
chasing Agents, and all are assigned
certain categories of items to be pur-
chased as well as related duties and
responsibilities, plus 14 secretaries and
clerical personnel.

Traffic Management

Above, R. G. Johnson and Secretary
Miss Betty Wilkins.

In the Traffic Management Sec-
tion headed by R. G. Johnson, work
involves all materials pertaining to
transportation cost, routing, schedul-
ing and purchases of materials by
the State to be used in construction
and maintenance of the Highway
System. Activities also include trac-
ing shipments, filing claims for loss
and damage, checking freight rates,
routing shipments and various other
duties. The handling of passenger
transportation is also the responsibili-
ty of this section. This operation re-
quires quoting schedules, making res-
ervations, issuing tickets and verify-
ing charges on all bills before approv-
al for payment.

A complete tariff file is maintained
in order to check and verify railroad
freight and truck line rates charged
for transportation of aggregates, bi-
tuminous materials, cement, coal, fuel
oils, salt, household goods and other
items purchased by the Highway
Commission. Our file also contains
tariffs showing rates, charges, rules
and regulations for handling claims,
demurrage, storage, diversion, recon-
signing and stopping of cars and
trucks in transit for partial unloading.

This section is also responsible for
handling, processing and carrying out
purchasing procedures for all items
where transportation cost is the deter-
mining factor of procurement. All re-
quisitions covering fine and coarse
aggregates, bituminous materials, ce-

B. P. Lambert and Secretary Mrs. Leona Sidbury

raent, calcium chloride, rock or solar
salt, fuel oils, construction materials
and moving of household goods are
handled in this section.

Aggregates purchased for our main-
tenance forces will exceed 5,000,000
tons annually at a cost of more than
$8,000,000. This operation requires
drafting and issuing of approximately
1,000 bids and the handling and pro-
cessing of purchase orders.

Bituminous materials used each
year by maintenance forces will ex-
ceed 38,000,000 gallons at a cost in
excess of $4,000,000. Approximately
800 purchase orders are issued to
complete this contract.

Cement purchases will exceed 30,-
000 barrels annually at a cost of ap-
proximately $165,000. This operation
requires placing of approximately 50
purchase orders.

Contracts covering calcium chloride
and rock or solar salt require the
handling and processing of 100-150
purchase orders to complete deliver-
ies.

Individual yearly contracts at each
destination are made to cover our
requirements of fuel oils for heating
purposes, and it is necessary to write
a purchase order for each contract.

Purchase orders are issued in this
section for all approved requisitions
covering road materials to be deliver-
ed by contractors complete in place
at job sites.

This section also handles all requi-
sitions covering the moving of house-
hold goods and office equipment. Ap-
proximately 60 purchase orders are
issued yearly to cover this service.

Our purchase order writing unit
requires three full time employees.
All requisition handled by buyers are
forwarded to this unit for purchase
orders to be written. This operation
requires typing of orders, checking,
filing, mailing copies to various de-
partments throughout the State and
distributing written orders to each
buyer. Approximately 38,000 pur-
chase orders are processed in this
section each year.

Auto Parts And Supplies

B. P. Lambert's primary responsi-
bility is the purchasing of Automotive
Parts and Supplies from Distributors
and Jobbers under contract. He pre-
pares and sends out bids for parts
and supplies which are used on cars,
trucks, tractors, motor graders, etc.
that can be interchanged from the
original equipment and which the

volume and savings would justify be-
ing put under contract. He evaluates
the bids and makes recommendations
to the Purchase and Contract Divi-
sion. Before the award of a term con-
tract, bids must be reviewed and ap-
proved by the Board of Award. This
contract which is estimated at three
million dollars is for a two year per-
iod. Discounts offered are applicable
to the latest published price lists and
orders are issued as requisitions are
received from the field. Approximate-
ly 800 purchase orders per month are
issued against this contract.

His other duties are to issue Blan-
ket purchase orders for repair parts,
terms and discounts approved by
Purchase and Contract Division,
which allows the Equipment Superin-
tendents and Equipment Depot Su-
perintendent to purchase genuine
parts (not contract items) under cer-
tain limitations to put the equipment
back in operation.

He approves emergency purchases
for repair parts made by the Equip-
ment Superintendents and Equip-
ment Depot Superintendent. These
emergency purchases are approxi-
mately 150 thousand dollars annual-
ly; however, they represent less than
1% of the total purchases approved
by the Purchasing Department.

He performs related work as re-
quired which includes responsibility
for each order issued until same is
shipped, invoiced, and invoice approv-
ed. Tracing orders by telephone or
letter to expedite shipment. He sepa-
rates all requisitions received from
the Equipment Department and for-
ward to the proper Purchasing
Agents for handling after contract

items have been considered. He also
secures latest catalogs, interchange
information and price lists.

Mr. J. R. Ray, Assistant Purchas-
ing Agent duties consist of buying
parts for light and heavy equipment
such as draglines, shovels, scrapers,
wheel and crawler tractor, rock
crushers, asphalt plant, centerline ma-
chines and maintenance tools and
supplies.

On various items he gets out bids
and quotations on parts and sup-
plies that may be furnished on com-
petitive bidding. There are many
items that are purchased from con-
tracts which are furnished by the Di-
vision of Purchase and Contract for
a specified period.

He also spends much time tracing
shipment on parts that have been
outstanding for more than thirty
days. In some instances this is re-
peated each month until orders are
complete.

J. R. Ray and Secretary Mrs. Bet-
sy Lancaster,

At the end of the fiscal year, all
outstanding purchase orders have to
be extended and added showing a
balance before they are sent to the
Accounting Department for encum-
bering.

This is all made possible with the
aid of his secretary, Mrs. Betsy Lan-
caster.

Vance McDaniel and his Secretary
Mrs. Jean Johnson.

This segment of the Purchasing
Department by Vance McDaniel is
responsible for the handling and pro-
cessing of all requisitions and placing
of purchase orders covering the fol-
lowing commodities: Corrugated Met-
al Pipe, Concrete Culvert Pipe, Pre-
stressed Concrete Beams, Timber,
Treated Sign Posts, Guard Rail,
Building Materials including lumber,
Roofing, Plywood, Laboratory Equip-
ment, certain Office Supplies and
Equipment, Diamond Drill Bits, Man-
ganese Crusher Jaws, Tires, Tubes,
Paper Towels, Wiping Rags and var-
ious other supplies.

Concrete Pipe, Metal Pipe, Creo-
soted Timber, Sign Posts, Guard Rail
and Prestressed Concrete Beams are
purchased on a bid basis as the needs
occur. This operation requires issuing
approximately 800 bids annually.
Other items listed above are purchas-
ed on written quotations or from term
contacts.

The annual dollar volume of the
above materials purchased on bid ba-
sis is approximately as follows: Cor-
rugated Metal Pipe — $1,200,000;
Concrete Pipe — $600,000; Prestress-
ed Concrete Beams — $600,000; Creo-
soted Timber and Sign Posts —
$225,000.

In this segment of the Purchasing
Department, work involves handling
service calls from field offices and
Raleigh office on manual and electric
typewriters, adding machines, calcu-
lators, copying machines and IBM
equipment. Other responsibilities in-
clude tracing shipments, handling
penalty claims due to late deliveries
and other miscellaneous duties.

W. A. Benton, Assistant Purchas-
ing Agent defines purchasing as
the term generally used to denote the
act and functional responsibility for
procurring supplies and materials.
The term is not completely descrip-
tive, for the purchasing responsibility
goes beyond the single act of making
the purchase. It involves planning and
scheduling, policy decisions, research
and selection both as to materials and
sources of supply, drafting formal
bids and specifications in preparation
of issuing "Request for Bids" as re-
quired by law and/or established po-
licy and procedure on items that are
not covered by state contract and
where the dollar volume justifies ra-
ther than obtaining telephone or in-
formal written quotations. After bids
are received, it is necessary to tabu-
late and evaluate them and make
recommendations as to whom they
are to be awarded (all before issuing

W. A. Benton and Secretary Mrs.
Brenda Barker.

the purchase order), follow-up to in-
sure proper delivery. It requires close
coordination with the divisions and
inventory control.

The responsibilities of his office
are to purchase the following items:
Mowing equipment and parts, fenc-
ing, grader and drag blades, safety
equipment and supplies, first aid sup-
plies, explosives, bolts, nuts, fasten-
ers, tire chains, anti-freeze, spark
plugs, batteries. Repair parts for Ga-
bon, GM & Fairbanks-Morse diesel
engines, Ford and AC tractors, drills,
reamers and miscellaneous cutting
tools. Items pertaining to Ferries op-
erations.

In addition to issuing regular pur-
chase orders to cover the above items
it is necessary to place purchase or-
ders for emergency requirements of
those items due to equipment being

down for the lack of repair parts and
obtaining immediate delivery. All this
is made possible with the assistance
of his very capable secretary, Mrs.
Brenda Barker.

The duties of Assistant Purchasing
Agent, J. R. Maynard are varied. As
an understudy to the Transportation
Agent, he has been assigned the du-
ties of preparing and filing all claims
with railroads, bus and truck lines
covering loss and damage to materials
purchased by this department. He
assists in placing orders and check-
ing rates for all shipments of aggre-
gates which move via railroads. Also,
he checks road mileage for truck
shipments in order to determine haul-
ing costs per ton mile.

In addition to the above, he is
responsible for purchasing the fol-
lowing materials, supplies, equipment,
parts, etc., which have been assigned
to him: miscellaneous, reinforcing
and structural steel, traffic signal
equipment and accessories, signs and
sign materials, paints, bags, oil ab-
sorbent, welding equipment and sup-
plies, industrial and laboratory chem-
icals, historical markers, stoves and
furnaces, metal sign posts, light bulbs
and lamps, seat covers, soaps, waxes,
disinfectants, automotive plate and
miscellaneous glass, water coolers,
twine and ready mixed concrete. This
entails the issuing of requests for
bids when volume requires, opening
and tabulating bids, recommenda-
tions for awarding, obtaining quota-
tions by telephone or correspondence
and purchasing on existing contracts
certified by the Purchase and Con-
tract Division.

His secretary, Mrs. Sandra John-
son, is most efficient in handling the
large amount of correspondence, quo-
tations, bids and inbound telephone
calls which are essential in this posi-
tion.

It is his responsibility to direct and
supervise the mail and purchase or-
der file room. In this capacity, along
with Mrs. Johnson, it is his duty to
supervise purchasing personnel which
are assigned to mail room duties by
the Purchasing Agent.

He also handles and processes pur-
chasing section records. This consists
of a systematic control of retention
and disposition of records as approv-
ed by the Department of Archives
and History. Transferring records
within the department, transferring
to record center or destroying, which-
ever applicable, and general supervi-
sion of all highway purchasing re-
cords.

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J. R. Maynard, J. W. Lambeth and Mrs. Sandra Johnson, Secretary to
Mr. Maynard.

In his work as Assistant Purchasing
Agent for the State Highway Com-
mission, John W. Lambeth is charged
with the purchasing of certain items
assigned to him. It is his duty and
responsibility to buy the best product
at the best possible price on quota-
tions (sent to all manufacturers or
distributors of the product) , bids and
state contract. The contract is usual-
ly let and awarded for a two-year
period to several different companies
for items the commission will use
over and over.

His purchases cover certain non-
contract automotive parts and acces-
sories, parts for air tools and equip-
ment, all hand and shop tools that
are very important in the operation
throughout the commission shops and
yards of the Equipment, Maintenance
and Bridge Departments.

He further purchases all electrical
and plumbing supplies used by the
Bridge and Construction Depart-
ments in the maintenance and build-
ing of all shops and buildings through-
out the field.

This is usually done on written quo-
tation or bid. The bid is used when
the cost is determined to be in ex-
cess of an amount set by the statute.
Mr. Lambeth has to determine the
approximate cost through experience
he has had in purchasing these items.
This is then approved by the High-
way Purchasing Agent and submit-
ted on bids to the Division of Pur-
chase and Contract.

His duties also include the pur-
chase of all industrial rubber goods
which encompass the hose used by
the Bridge Department in the main-

tenance of all the bridges through-
out the state.

The Landscape Department uses a
large quantity of seeds, fertilizers
and soil improvements that are on a
yearly bid basis according to their
anticipation of needs for the year.
The requisitions are processed by him
and carried through to their conclu-
sion.

He also purchases all the service
station equipment used in the con-
struction of new stations and in the
maintenance of existing stations that
the Equipment Department has to
have for the service of all commis-
sion vehicles, parts for Continental
Engines and Oliver Transmissions
used in several different types of
equipment, Hydraulic Pumps, fit-
tings and hoses used on all tractors.

He also handles all purchase orders
placed on wrecked equipment that
has been cleared by the Equipment
Department as to insurance status.

He is ably assisted in the many du-
ties and responsibilities by his Secre-
tary, Miss Judy O'Neill, who was ab-
sent when the above picture was tak-
en, but is shown in the picture with
order writing and checking personnel.

Invoice Approval Section

W. M. Biggers
Assistant Purchasing Agent

His duties as Assistant Purchasing
Agent for the State Highway Com-
mission consists of the supervision of
the Invoice Approval Section and re-
lief work on any other desk of any
purchasing agent in the Department
who is absent.

The Invoice Appraisal Section is
staffed by Miss Olene Ennis, Miss
Betty Pearce, Miss Sue Davis and
Mr. Biggers. It is their responsibili-
ty to see that every invoice, whether
for service or material sold to the
Commission, is approved as soon as
possible after received by this depart-
ment.

Every invoice, unless by special re-
quest on the purchase order, is sent
direct to the Highway Purchasing
Agent and then placed in the partic-
ular order folder to which it applies.
It is then held until the Material Re-
ceived Report, from the particular
department ordering it, is received
showing material received in good
order.

The invoice is then ready for check-
ing as to price agreement, terms, and
quantity according to the reading of
the purchase order. The invoice is
then coded with the proper charge
and approved for payment. If there is
any discrepancy, the invoice is re-
turned for correction. This is very im-
portant for there are a great deal of
errors found.

A large number of invoices carry a
term discount, which means if they
are paid within a specified time, the
Commission is entitled to an addi-
tional discount.

The exact figure of savings this
amounts to has not been determined;
but it can amount to a great deal,
since we approve an average of from
three hundred to four hundred in-
voices per day. All invoices for emer-
gency purchases, utilities and any
other service not covered by a pur-
chase order that the Commission re-
quires are transmitted to this office
daily by the particular office in the
field that they cover. These are then
checked and approved for payment
and transmitted to the Finance De-
partment for payment.

At the end of each working day,
all invoices are divided into twenty-
one different categories according to
their application such as aggregate,
asphalt, road machinery, etc. A total
is then run in each category and then
a grand total for each day. This is
recorded, and at the end of each
month, balanced out for the use of
the Highway Purchasing Agent to
know how much is being purchased in
each department.

His other duties require a know-
ledge of the general purchases of each
Assistant Purchasing Agent in the
department so as to relieve them
when they are absent in order to
keep the work moving smoothly.

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Invoice Approval Section. Left to Right are Miss Sue Davis, Miss Betty
Pearce, W. M. Biggers and Miss Olene Ennis.

CENTRAL FILES

The Central Files is the filing cen-
ter for all Highway Projects such as,
Roadway, Bridges, Right-of-Way,
Landscape, etc. This consists of daily
correspondence and assorted reports
from most all departments to be re-
tained in the Central Files along with
Contracts, Proposals, monthly Esti-
mates, then Final Estimates when the
Projects have been completed. These
projects are retained in the Central
Files for a required period of time
and then they are sent to the Records
Center for a required period of time
and then microfilmed.

The Central Files Section is staff-
ed with a Supervisor and one assist-
ant and is responsible for handling
permanent filing of valuable High-
way Commission correspondence, pro-
ject files, and other documents. This
Section is an important phase of the
vast Highway operations due to the

- - Order Writing and Checking Section. Except Left is Miss Judy O'Neill,
Secretary to J. W. Lambeth. Center is Mrs. Joyce Parrish, Order Writer. Right
is Mrs. Inez Weatherman, Order Checker. Mrs. Ruth Jenkins, also of this sec-
tion was absent when this picture- was taken.

Abave, Mrs. Rachel Gregory and
Mrs. Lena Morgan.

importance of having available on
short notice the many important pa-
pers handled. This Section operates
on a budget approximating $11,000.00
annually.

Mrs. Lena Morgan has been with
the Highway Commission for 15 years
on February 1st. She is a Clerk 3
in a supervisory capacity of the Cen-
tral Files.

Mrs. Rachel Gregory has been in
the Central Files for 5 years
as a Typist 2. She was trans-
ferred from a temporary position in
the Planning Department April 1,
1961, where she worked for a year, to
Central Files.

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REPRODUCTION
Paul Pearson
Reproduction Supervisor

Reproduction is a part of Pur-
chasing and Central Service, under
the supervision of Paul R. Pearson
and assisted by Claude G. Sugg, with
eighteen Duplicating Equipment Op-
erators.

Employees in Reproduction like to
think that they play a vital role in
the development of the North Caro-
lina Highway System. This section is
responsible for making all Reproduc-
tions required by the Highway Com-
mission headquarters in Raleigh.

The year 1967 Reproduction repro-
duced approximately fifteen million
copies, this includes Ammonia Prints,
Photostats, Xerox Copies, Offset
Prints and Micro-film. In order to ac-
complish this task, this organization

PHOTOSTAT AND
MICRO-FILM SECTION

Charles E. Lassiter

This section is equipped with one
continuous Photostat machine with
dryer, 1-35 M.M. Micro-Film Camera,
2-35 M.M. Viewers, 1-16 M.M. View-
er and at present, one operator. Here
all photostat's such as legal docu-
ments and drawings are enlarged or
reduced to scales desired, also its
equipped with a film enlarger to re-
produce Micro-Film and any print
that can not be reproduced with any
other process. All Final Estimates
made by the Highway Commission are
put on Micro-Film and kept on file
here for any future use.

is divided into five sections, which
operates on a budget of approximately
$200,000.00 annually, with twenty-
five pieces of equipment for necessary
work requirements. Thinking back in
time of twenty-five years ago, Repro-
duction was known as "Blue Print
Room" with maximum of three em-
ployees and two pieces of equip-

ment: one Photostat Machine and
one Blue Print Machine. Also at this
time Reproduction was a part of
Roadway Dept. because most of our
work was for them. In 1957 when the
Highway Commission was reorganized
we were placed under Purchasing
Dept. with three pieces of equipment,
and five employees.

OFFSET SECTION

Reading from left to right: Ben Garner, Henry Hailey, McKay Massey and
Vernon Branch.

The offset section is equipped with four Multilith machines, one Nu-Arc
Rapid Printer used to burn masters and plates, one light table used for setting
up over-lays and masking negatives. This section is responsible for all printing
such as: Letterheads, Brochures, Magazines, Traffic Reports, Safety Bulletin,
Bids, News Releases and many other forms and Correspondents used by the
Commission's many Departments.

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ADDRESSOGRAPH, COPY AND
COLLATING SECTION

Reading left to right; Miss Betty
Carter and Mrs. Joan Creekmore.

In this section they have one ad-
dressograph machine, 2400 Xerox
Machine with 20 station sorter, 914
Xerox machine, 3-6 Station Collators,
1-10 station Collator, and a folding
machine. A mailing list for all News
Papers, TV and Radio Stations, and
Highway officials which are used for
all news releases. Also make Xerox
copies, collate all brochures, safety
bulletins and reports.

SUMMARY

Although operators are assigned
certain tasks at one time or another,
all must be capable of filling in for
others, who are absent for one reason
or other.

At present the Reproduction Sec-
tion has twenty employees. More
than double in the last decade. In
order to keep up with the increase in
Highway Construction, Reproduction
must increase its personnel strength.

This is a very important depart-
ment of the State Highway Commis-
sion and Roadways is so happy
this month to honor this section and
all the employees of this section. We
thank you all.

XEROX PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION

Reading from left to right; Bobby Poole, Ronald Keller, Larry Watt,
Woody Ragan and Garland Johnson.

This is a photographic method of Printing. By this method the printing is
mostly of Bridge and Roadway Plans for lettings, which are reduced to half
scale. This section consists of: a Mark III Camera, a Charge Unit, Developing
Tray, a Transfer Unit, a Heat Fuser, 2066 Offset Press, a 650 Accro-Feed Col-
lator, 1850 Offset Press with sorter.

AMMONIA PRINT SECTION

Reading from left to right: E. G. Eakes, Joe Sanders, Billy Stephens,
Jackie Frazier and Louis Lyons. Johnny Stancil was out sick and was unable
to be in the picture.

This section is equipped with four White Print Machines. Here the operat-
ors print, cut and bind prints. All full size prints and drawings are printed for
all departments, such as: letting plans, location maps, planning maps at sizes
from 8»/2" x 11" to the Highway State map at 42" x 96".

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Mail And Stock Room

Cary Muse, seated, Supervisor and
Nelson Stephenson, Assistant Super-
visor.

The mail and stockroom is under
the supervision of Mr. Carey C.
Muse. Stock clerks are Nelson Ste-
phenson, Richard Blalock, Don Dean,
and Robert Minges.

The mail and stockroom personnel
sort and distribute mail to the dif-
ferent departments in the main build-
ing and to the other departments that
are not in main building. There are
about thirty-four departments that
mail is carried to.

Mail is also picked up in each of
these offices and sorted and prepared
for mailing. This is done twice a day;
once in the morning and once in the
afternoon. Once a month bids on road
lettings are picked up at the post of-
fice. Packages of plans and equipment
are also picked up at the post office.
Maps and rolls of plans are wrapped
and prepared to be mailed.

The stockroom supplies the main
building, the fourteen divisions and
Equipment Superintendents. Requisi-
tions are used to order supplies from
the stockroom. These requisitions are
filled and sent out to the division as
quickly as possible.

The stockroom sends out such
items as stationery, paper clips, car-
bon paper, pencils, and other items
for the office.

Engineer supplies such as level
rods, range rods, stake tacks, hand
levels, plumb bobs, and tapes are
also mailed or shipped.

New transits and levels are ordered
and distributed to the different divi-
sion offices through the stockroom.
The new transits and levels are num-
bered at the factory and these num-
bers and makes are typed on a Kard-
ex and filed in the stockroom.

Damaged instruments such as levels
and transits are sent to the stockroom
from the divisions. They are then sent
to the factory to be repaired. The
mail and stockroom personnel also
check in new supplies that are order-
ed.

The Mail and Stockroom Section is
staffed with a Supervisor and four
employees and operate with an an-
nual budget approximating $320,000.-
00. This Section has the responsibility
of all pick-up and delivery of mail
between departments and to and
from postoffices on a twice daily ba-
sis. This Section also maintains a
stockroom of general office supplies,
printed forms, etc. adequate for sup-
ply of central office and field force
offices throughout the State, as well
as maintaining engineering instru-
ments and engineering equipment and
supplies.

The Highway Purchasing and Cen-
tral Services Department would not
be complete, and would be remiss, in
its responsibilities if Mr. George Sut-
ton, Highway Building Superinten-
dent, was not included as a part of
of this organization, even though he
does not come directly under the
supervision of this Department. Mr.
Sutton comes directly under the sup-
ervision of the General Services Divi-
sion, Dept. of Administration, but in-
directly he is under the supervision
of the Highway Purchasing Agent
who coordinates activities pertaining
to building maintenance and opera-
tions with the General Services Divi-
sion. Mr. Sutton is still considered
in many respects as a Highway em-
ployee, having been the Building
Superintendent here since 1946, and
in 1957 the general direct supervi-
sion of the Highway Building was
transferred from the Hughway Pur-
chasing and Central Services Depart-
ment to the General Services Divi-

George Sutton
Highway Building
Superintendent

George Sutton

sion, Department of Administration,
with all expenses on a reimbursable
basis. His responsibilities are great,
and varied, maintaining supervision
of all building maintenance crews, ap-
proximating ten day-time prison in-
mates and fifteen women prison in-
mates on night duty. It is his respon-
sibility to satisfy the needs of ap-
proximately 600-700 employees in the
Highway Building, with the new ad-
dition now, and it goes without say-
ing that this is, and would be, a
mountainous job. Mr. Sutton is very
capable in his duties and responsibili-
ties, and all employees are indebted
to Mr. Sutton due to the many times
he is called upon to do things beyond
the actual scope of his duties and re-
sponsibilities.

Stock and Mail Room Assistants. Left to Right: Don Dean, Bob Minges
and Dick Blalock.

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Improved Courts = Traffic Safety

Historically, we have had in North
Carolina three levels of courts —
the Supreme Court, the Superior
Court, and, at the local level, hun-
dreds of recorder's courts, domestic
relations courts, mayor's courts, coun-
ty courts, and justice of the peace
courts. All of these lower courts were
creatures of the Legislature, hardly
any two alike. They exercised such
jurisdiction as was given them by
statute. It was recognized more than
twelve years ago that something
should be done to bring uniformity
to our court system; and, at the sug-
gestion of Governor Hodges and Chief
Justice Barnhill, the North Carolina
Bar Association sponsored a study
in depth which ultimately resulted in
the submission of a Constitutional
Amendment to the people of the
State, which was voted upon and
adopted by the people at the general
e'ection held November 6, 1962. Thus,
Article IV of the Constitution of
North Carolina now provides: "The
judicial power of the State shall be
vested in a . . . General Court of Jus-
tice. The General Court of Justice
shall constitute a unified judicial
system for purposes of jurisdiction,
operation and administration; and
shall consist of an appellate division,
a superior court division, and a dis-
trict court division."

There was insufficient time be-
tween the passage of the Constitu-
tional Amendment and the conven-
ing of the 1963 General Assembly to
permit the preparation of legislation
to implement the new judicial arti-
cle. The General Assembly of 1963
provided for the appointment of a
Courts Commission and charged it
with the responsibility "to prepare
and draft the legislation necessary
for the full and complete implementa-
tion of Article IV of the Constitution
of North Carolina".

Editor's Note:

Jud^e Huskins was sworn in as
Associate Justice of N. C. Supreme
Court on February 5, 1968.

THE COURTS IN TRANSITION

JUDGE J FRANK HUSKINS
Director, Administrative Office
of the Courts

The Courts Commission began its
study soon after the adjournment of
the 1963 General Assembly. Its work
between sessions culminated in the
passage of The Judicial Department
Act of 1965, codified as Chapter 7A
of the General Statutes. This Act
implemented the constitutional struc-
ture of the courts, created an Ad-
ministrative Office of the Courts, es-
tablshing the framework of the Dis-
trict Court Division with the Gen-
eral Court of Justice, and provided
for activation of the District Court in
three seperate phases.

The Appellate Division consists of
the Supreme Court of North Carolina
and the Court of Appeals.

The Superior Court Division con-
sists of the Superior Courts of North
Carolina. This division will remain
essentially unchanged, allowing, of
course, for the addition of manpower
as the State continues to grow and
litigation continues to increase.

The District Court Division intro-
duces the greatest change in our sys-
tem. The 1965 Act provided for the
establishment of a District Court on
December 5, 1966, in six judicial dis-
tricts, comprising twenty-two coun-
ties. In December, 1968, the District
Court will be estab'ished in an addi-
tional sixty-one counties, and in De-
cember, 1970, in the remaining seven-
teen counties.

The District Court will have exclu-
sive original jurisdiction of misde-
meanors, and concurrent jurisdiction
of civil cases where the amount in
controversy is $5,000 or less, and of
domestic relations cases regardless of
the amount in controversy. Jury trial
is provided, upon demand, in civil
cases. Appeal therefrom to the Court
of Appeals is on questions of law,
only. No jury is authorized in cri-
minal cases. Upon appeal, trial de
novo will be had in Superior Court.
District judges will be elected to
four-year terms.

When the District Court is estab-
lished in a judicial district, all courts
inferior to the Superior Court are
abolished, all cases pending in the
abolished courts are transferred to
the dockets of the District Court for
trial, and all records of the abolished
courts must be transferred to the of-
fice of the Clerk of Superior Court,
who, under the law, is required to
maintain a system of consolidated re-
cords for both the Superior Court
and the District Court.

The Chief District Judge in each
district, designated by the Chief Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court, has many
administrative responsibilities, includ-
ing the following: arranging schedules
and assigning district judges for ses-
sions of district courts; arranging or
supervising the calendaring of mat-
ters for trial or hearing; supervising
the clerk of court in the discharge of
the clerical functions of the District
Court; assigning matters to magis-
trates, and prescribing times and
places at which magistrates shall be
available for the performance of
their duties; making arrangements
with proper authorities for the draw-
ing of civil court jury panels and de-
termining which sessions of the Dis-
trict Court shall be jury sessions; ar-
ranging for the reporting of civil
cases by court reporters or other au-
thorized means; arranging sessions, to
the extent practicable, for the trial
of specialized cases, including traffic,
domestic relations, and other types
of cases and assigning district judges
to preside over these sessions so as
to permit maximum practicable spe-
cialization by individual judges; pro-

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mulgating a schedule of traffic of-
fenses for which magistrates and
clerks of court may accept written
appearances, waivers of trial, and
pleas of guilty, and establishing a
schedule of fines thereof; assigning
magistrates, in an emergency, to tem-
porary duty outside the county of
their residence, but within the dis-
trict; and designating another dis-
trict judge of his district as acting
Chief District Judge. The foregoing
itemization clearly demonstrates that
the Chief District Judge will be a
very busy person. He will be expected
to hold his reasonable share of courts
while attending to all the administra-
tive duties.

As noted above, the office of jus-
tice of the peace will be abolished.
The old days of the "fee system" are
gone forever. While it is obviously
true that over the years we have had
many fine justices of the peace, it is
nevertheless well known that the
system was abused by many who did
not have sufficient regard for the
fact that they were judicial officers
of this State. The people have de-
creed that magistrates shall hereaf-
ter act in minor civil and criminal
matters only. The law prescribes the
number of magistrates for each coun-
ty, requires that they be paid a sal-
ary by the State, and gives the Chief
District Judge general supervisory
authority over them. They are ap-
pointed by the Senior Resident Su-
perior Court Judge of each judicial
district, upon recommendation by the
Clerk of Superior Court. They serve
for a term of two years, and their
salary is set by the Administrative
Officer of the Courts, within the sal-
ary range authorized by statute.

The people of this State, when
they amended the Constitution in
1962, directed the General Assem-
bly to provide for an Administrative
Office of the Courts to carry out the
provisions of the Constitutional
Amendment. That was done by the
General Assembly of 1965, and Chief
Justice Emery B. Denny appointed
Judge J. Frank Huskins as the first
Director of the Administrative Of-

fice of the Courts of North Carolina.
Judge Huskins was reappointed by
Chief Justice R. Hunt Parker when
he assumed that office upon the re-
tirement of Chief Justice Denny in
February, 1966. The primary duties
of the Director of the Administrative
Office of the Courts, as set forth in
G. S. 7A-343, are as follows: collect
and compile statistical data and other

Outdated Wake County Court
House in process of being torn down
to make way for modern offices and
Court Room facilities.

information on the judicial and finan-
cial operation of the courts and on
the operation of other offices direct-
ly related to and serving the courts;
determine the state of the dockets
and evaluate the practices and proce-
dures of the courts, and make recom-
mendations concerning the number of
judges, solicitors, prosecutors and
magistrates required for the efficient
administration of justice; prescribe

uniform administrative and business
methods, systems, forms and records
to be used in the offices of the clerks
of court; prepare and submit budget
estimates of State appropriations
necessary for the maintenance and
operation of The Judicial Depart-
ment, and authorize expenditures
from funds appropriated for these
purposes; investigate, make recom-
mendations concerning, and assist in
the securing of adequate physical ac-
commodations for the General Court
of Justice; procure, distribute, ex-
change, transfer, and assign such
equipment, books, forms and supplies
as are to be acquired with State
funds for the General Court of Jus-
tice; make recommendations for the
improvement of the operations of
The Judicial Department; prepare
and submit an annual report on the
work of The Judicial Department to
the Chief Justice, and transmit a
copy to each member of the General
Assembly; assist the Chief Justice in
performing his duties relating to the
transfer of district court judges for
temporary or specialized duty; and
perform such additional duties and
exercise such additional powers as
may be prescribed by statute or as-
signed by the Chief Justice.

Numerous additional special func-
tions are found in applicab'e sections
of The Judicial Department Act of
1965, as follows: assist the Chief Jus-
tice in scheduling courts and assign-
ing judges; approve designation of at-
torney to assist solicitor of Superior
Court and authorize length of time
of service; provide mechanical re-
cording devices for Superior Court
trials, if reporter unavailable, and de-
termine salary limits of court report-
ers; determine the numbers and sal-
aries of assistant clerks, deputy
clerks, and other employees of clerks'

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STRUCTURE OF THE JOP 1 1

THE JUDICIAL DtPI

office; with Department of Adminis-
tration and subject to approval of
State Auditor, establish procedures
for receipt, deposit, protection, in-
vestment, and disbursement of funds;
fix amount of clerks' bond and deter-
mine adequacy; prescribe and pro-
cure bonds for assistant and deputy
clerks and other employees; concur
with Chief District Judge in deter-
mining adequacy of facilities for ad-
ditional seats of district court; in con-
junction with Chief District Judge,
determine whether special counselor
services should be made available to
the District Court in counties of
85,000 population or more and deter-
mine number and salaries; determine
additional compensation and allow-
ances paid to holdover district court
judges; designate specialized judge-
ships; approve designation of attor-
neys to assist prosecutor of the Dis-
trict Court and authorize length of
service; prescribe salaries to be paid
to magistrates and approve necessary
additional magistrates within maxi-
mum authorized by the General As-
sembly and set salaries; determine
amount of magistrates' bonds and
procure such bonds; prescribe records
to be maintained by magistrates;
supervise establishment and mainte-
nance of office of consolidated records
in each clerk of court's office and
prescribe form and style of records;
provide mechanical recorders for dis-
trict courts and determine salary
range for district court reporters; es-
tablish alternative procedures for
prompt payment of jurors, witnesses,
and "other small expense items"; ap-
prove provision of physical facilities
by a municipality; approve amount
of surplus from "facilities fees" to
be used for retirement of outstanding

indebtedness or to supplement oper-
ation of the General Court of Jus
tice.

Under our former system, the ex-
penses of operating the courts of
this State have been paid from 101
different sources. Under the new sys-
tem, essentially all the expenses of
the courts will be paid by the State.
The 100 counties, numerous munici-
palities, and the State have been
spending an estimated $20,000,000 per
year to operate the courts. Under
the new system, this figures should
remain essentially the same, except as
additional costs may be occasioned
by an expanding economy and a cor-
responding increase in litigation.

After the establishment of the Ad-
ministrative Office on July 1, 1965,
the Director proceeded to organize
the office and began plans for activa-
tion of the District Court in twenty-
two counties on December 5, 1966.
Three divisions were established in
the Administrative Office — account-
ing and budget, personnel, and clerks'
supervisor. Division heads were em-
ployed, and the recruiting of a suf-
ficient staff to serve during the first
phase of the District Court imple-
mentation began. The budget request
for the 1967-69 biennium was prepar-
ed and presented. The operating bud-
get for the remainder of the 1965-67
biennium was worked out from the
initial lump sum appropriation. Fol-
lowing the election of the District
Court judges, the Chief Justice desig-
nated the Chief District Judges. The
Superior Court Judges selected and
appointed District Court prosecutors,
magistrates, and court reporters. A
special committee of the Associa-
tion of Clerks of Superior Court was
appointed to assist the office in the
preparation of uniform forms and
practices for the clerks' offices. This
project has progressed satisfactorily,
but will require several years for
completion. Uniform accounting and
auditing practices for The Judicial
Department were established. Inven-
tories and determinations of needs
for forms, equipment and supplies in
the various clerks' offices were made.
A study was conducted as to the ade-
quacy of court facilities at the addi-
tional seats of court within the var-
ious counties. Construction and reno-
vation was suggested in some locali-
ties, and this work was instituted.
Seminars were planned and held for
the purpose of training the new judi-
cial and other court personnel, A

GOV. DAN K. MOORE

THE ADMINISTRATION
OF JUSTICE

"North Carolina can be very proud
of the progress being made in improv-
ing and expediting the administration
of justice. The State is indebted to
the members of the Courts Commis-
sion for their effective services. After
twelve years of planning and develop-
ment, new district courts are begin-
ning to replace all courts in the State
below the Superior Court. This new
system of uniform courts will provide
better administration of justice while
relieving counties and cities of the
cost of operating local courts."

program of instruction designed to
train an adequate supply of court
reporters was instituted in the com-
munty college system. A study of me-
chanical recording equipment was
made in order that this equipment
might be made available in the event
a sufficient number of court report-
ers were not available. A classifica-
tion and pay plan for Judicial De-
partment employees was prepared.
Position authorizations were made
for assistant and deputy clerks and
other employees of the clerks' of-
fices. The numbers and salaries of
magistrates were prescribed. Bond re-
quirements were studied, and bonds
were procured for the necessary offi-
cers and employees. Numerous ad-
ministrative and legal memoranda
were prepared and distributed for
guidance of the personnel affected.
Statistical reporting forms were de-
vised, printed and distributed. Final-

ly

Seated — J. Frank Huskins; 1st Row, Left to Right — Lynwood Robinson, Jo Henderson, Judy Sexton, Alice Nor-
ton, Dorothy Cooper, Bert M. Montague, B. J. Mooneyham, Helen Bagwell, Valerie Williams, Harriet Long, Kathryn
Bartholomew, Janice Pace, Carl Murphy, Don Chap pell, Max Blackburn; 2nd Row, Left to Right — Doug Pearson,
Phillip Johnson, Ruth Beck, Alex Cherry, Jo Ann Tilley, Ronnie Sloop.

ly, in these plans and organizational
problems, constant coordination was
maintained with the Chief Justice,
the Courts Commisison, the State
Department of Administration, and
local officials.

The Administrative Officer has at-
tended and participated in the meet-
ings of the Courts Commission. His
recommendations for improvements
in the law and in the operations of
The Judicial Department are embod-
ied in the recommendations made by
the Courts Commission to the 1967
and succeeding sessions of the Gen-
eral Assembly.

By 1971 North Carolina should
have a unified system of courts —
The General Court of Justice —
housed in appropriate facilities at all
levels and conducted in a proper at-
mosphere so as to afford, in truth as
well as in theory, equal justice under
law for every man. The resulting im-
provement in the administration of
justice is obvious and should be a
source of pride to all those who have
participated in the effort. We need
the help, the cooperation, and the
understanding of the judicial officers
and employees and, indeed, of all
citizens of the State in this endeavor.

J. Frank Huskins was born near
Burnsville, Yancey County, North

Carolina, on February 10, 1911. At-
tended Mars Hill College 1927-1929;
University of North Carolina 1929-
1930; University of North Carolina
Law School 1930-1932; graduated; li-
censed to practice in North Carolina
22 August 1932; admitted to practice
in Federal Courts, 1933; member 24th
Judicial District Bar Association;
member North Carolina State Bar,
Inc., and the North Carolina Bar
Association.

Mayor, Town of Burnsville 1939-
1942; resigned during second term
to accept commission in U. S. Navy.
Served in U. S. Navy during World
War II from 10 July 1942 to 18 Feb-
ruary 1946; Lieutenant Commander
(Ret.) in U. S. Naval Reserve at
present time. Member of the Amer-
ican Legion; Lions Club.

Representative from Yancey Coun-
ty in the General Assembly of 1947
and 1949. On May 25, 1949, appoint-
ed Chairman North Carolina Indus-
trial Commission by Governor Scott
and re-appointed by Governor Urn-
stead on May 28, 1953; resigned in
January 1955 to accept appointment
by Governor Hodges as superior court
judge; nominated and elected by the
people in November 1956 to a full
eight-year term as Resident Judge
of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial Dis-
trict, composed of the Counties of
Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery
and Watauga; re-elected in Novem-

ber, 1962, to an eight-year term; ap-
pointed July 1, 1965, by Chief Jus-
tice Denny as Director of the Ad-
ministrative Office of the Courts; re-
appointed in February, 1966, by
Chief Justice Parker; appointed by
Governor Moore to the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, effective
February 5, 1968.

COL. CHARLES A. SPEED

Col. Charles A. Speed become com-
manding officer of the North Caro-
lina State Highway Patrol on Jan-
uary 4, 1966. He began his law en-
forcement career in 1935, six years
after the formal establishment of the
826-man highway patrol.

15

View of Roads
in Europe

By JOHN BIRDSALL

Roadway Design Dept.

Early this spring my family de-
cided to make a trip to Europe to
visit my wife's relatives and do some
sightseeing. My family include my
wife Barbara and my son Ian and
myself. It takes considerable plan-
ning for a trip like this in order to
get the airlines and hotel reserva-
tions to fit the schedule. We finally
had everything ready and left the Ra-
leigh-Durham Airport on an Eastern
DC-9 for Washington National on
July 31st at 10: 10 A.M. EDT. We took
a taxi frora Washington National to
Dulles International, which in itself
was a sight seeing trip with the taxi
driver acting as a guide. We had a
four hour-lay-over at Dulles then left
on a TWA-707 for Heath Row Air-
port, London. It took 6x/2 hours actual
flying time and we arrived in London
at 8 o'clock in the morning En-
glish time. Riding on these Jets was
a new experience for me, I have
quite a lot of private flying time but
I found that there is nothing like
the smooth silent ride that you get
in a Jet.

We had rented a car for our tra-
vels in Europe and it took us a
couple of hours to leave the airport,
pick up the car and check it out, so
about 10:00 A.M. we were on our
way to Plymouth where my wife's
mother lives. Ian sat in the left front
seat and took most of the pictures
through the windshield as I drove
from the right front. The first pic-
ture is about half way from London
to Plymouth close to a little town of
Andover. You can see it was raining
which is very common in England,
and we had pretty heavy traffic.
There are many two lane roads
in England that axe main high-
ways and they have curb and gutters
on most of them.

Picture No. 2 is in Andover, the
highway went right through the middle
of town and you can see the traffic
backed up in both directions, stopped
due to the traffic lights in the mid-
dle of town. We arrived in Plymouth
about 5:00 P.M. and spent three days

there. Picture No. 3 shows the street
that my Mother-In-Law lives on. The
street is 14 feet face to face curb
and gutter, and while we were there
we actually saw two furniture moving
trucks pass each other on this street.
On the way back to London we took
Picture No. 4 which shows some four-
lane construction. The workmen are
working in the median and the other
car is a service vehicle on the new
lane that they are building. Picture
No. 5 shows a completed section of
the four-lane highway. This is the
Exeter Bypass, a very high standard
super highway. The English have a
custom that scares me to death. Pic-
ture No. 6 shows a truck passing a
passenger car while it is straddling
the white line and meeting another
truck coming in the opposite direc-
tion. They do this whether they are
going around curves or going over a
hill and how they get by with it I
will never know. Picture No. 7 shows
a Primary Highway on the road from
Andover to London and you will no-
tice the steep high banks on the
very edge of the highway. There
is just enough room for trucks to
pass each other. We spent one night
in London where we visited one of
Barbara's aunts. The next day at 12
o'clock we had reservations on the
ferry from Harwich to Holland, how-
ever the company that was furnish-
ing the insurance on the car did not
have the papers ready for us. By
the time we got the papers it was
10:00 o'clock and we had 75 miles
to drive to Harwich. Picture No. 8
shows where they were four-laning
the highway just east of London and
you can see the new roadway on the
left. Picture No. 9 shows a bridge of
novel design close to Colchester on a
completed section of a four-lane
highway. Just after we passed under
this bridge we came to a line of traf-
fic that both lanes in our direction
had jammed completely and the traf-
fic was moving so slowly that the
vehicles were heating up. I ac-
tualy saw people get out to get ic%

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cream from booths set up in the
median, and I even saw one fel-
low go across to a Pub and get a
beer before he had to move his car.
When we got to Colchester the only
bottleneck that was holding every-
thing up was a roundabout or what
we call a traffic circle. The amount
of traffic that could go through that
roundabout was so small that it just
backed up the traffic on the four-
lane highway. We missed our ferry
to Holland since it had taken us 5
hours to drive from London to Har-
wich. We were lucky to get a space
on an overnight Ferry that went to
Bremerhaven. Picture. No. 10 shows
the Bremerhaven Ferry and its
open bow doors. There are doors
on the stern similar to the doors
on the bow so at the destina-
tion the vehicles drive right off
through the stern doors. Picture No.
11 shows the deck on the ferry look-
ing out and you might notice the
mini-skirt on the girl walking down
the deck. The temperature was about
50 degrees that morning. It was 11:00
A.M. by the time we got ashore at
Bremerhaven and we were lucky to
find a filling station open that Sun-
day morning. Gasoline in Europe
costs about 75 cents an imperial gal-
lon which is about 65 cents for a US
gallon. The vehicles, however, (at
least the one we drove) went about
35 miles to the imperial gallon or
about 30 miles to the US gallon so
the actual cost is not much more
than in the states. From Bremerha-
ven to Bremen we had a good two
lane highway. The noticeable feature
of this highway was a sidewalk that
went the entire distance and was re-
served for pedestrians and bicycles.
At Bremen we hit the Autobahn. We
followed the Autobahn all the way to
Koln where we had reservations for
the night. On part of the Autobahn,
1 suppose the older sections of it,
the right lane was in terrible shape.
It was very very bumpy. The left
lane was considerably smoother so
the traffic would travel down the left
lane. Every so often a real fast car
would come up from behind and
you would have to get over and let
him get by. One of the things I no-
ticed in Germany was the very ex-
treme differences in speeds of the
vehicles on the highways. There
would be some of these little cars
pulling trailers going quite slowly
and then there were some Mercedes
and Citron going 100 miles per
hour or faster. There was no speed
limits except where the road was

under construction and this was not
very often. There were some places
where they were resurfacing or six-
laning some of the four-lane high-
ways. We were lucky to find
a good restaurant right at an inter-
change at Hannover then it was clear
sailing from there to Koln for our
nights reservations. We got into Koln
somewhere around 5 o'clock and
found our hotel after getting direc-
tions from various people who did
not speak English. It was quite a
task. I had heard that most every-
where in Europe you could find
someone that spoke English but that
is not true. Picture No. 12 shows an
interesting thing that we noticed
along the Autobahn quite often, the
guard-rail in a cut. I could not fig-
ure out why they were trying to
guard the cut, but there it is. In
picture 13 it shows the nose of the
interchange off-ramp. The ramp is a
loop and notice the pier between the
ramp and the main highway as the
loop starts before it gets to the
bridge. In picture 14 you can see an
extended view of the Autobahn be-
tween Bremen and Koln. The med-
ian here was about 20 feet and you
notice it has a guard rail down the
center. There was very little indica-
tion of drainage structures in the
medium. I don't know what they did
with the water, apparently they just
forgot about it. Picture 15 shows a
mountain in the distance along a
straight section of the Autobahn. I
wondered when I saw it whether :t
was designed that way for esthetic
values or whether it was just by
chance. We spent one night in Koln.
The next morning we went down
and saw the Koln Cathedral which
is indeed amazing. You can't get any
conception of the building from a pic-
ture you just have to stand there and
gaze at it. We went to Bonn for
lunch and then on to Frankfort that
evening where we had reservations
in a very nice hotel. The next morn-
ing we started out for Nancy, France,
after some sightseeing in Frankfort,
due to the fact that we did not
have a very good map we got off of
the Autobahn on some older high-
ways. As in this country the older
highways wander through the little
towns and the signing was not too
good. In one town we got lost and
had to ask direction at a filling sta-
tion. They did not speak much En-
glish, but everyone tried to help and
we finally understood. One thing

17

that was very interesting, the filling
station attendant was a very pretty
girl She was dressed up like she was
going to a party and yet she was out
there pumping gas and servicing the
vehicles. We wondered how she kept
so clean. We went on through Saar-
brucken and asked for directions
again there for Nancy, France. The
local people directed us through some
secondary roads rather than the main
highways. Picture No. 16 shows the
secondary roads that we were on and
notice the big trees along the edges
of the road. This is very common
in eastern France. Picture No. 17
shows some workmen re-surfacing the
highway and the little white sign on
the spreader Barber-Green which was
quite familiar. Picture No. 18 shows
the resurfacing that they were lay-
ing and it appears to be about 3 in-
ches thick. We stayed one night in
Nancy and ate dinner in a very exclu-
sive restaurant with wine and all the
trimmings. Then we went on to Pa-
ris the next day. The Highways in
France are usually two lanes and in
quite good condition. If you notice
the pictures you can see very few
automobiles and the traffic is so light
that two lanes is adequate. They are
building by-passes around some of the
smaller towns and four-laning some
of the highways close to the bigger
cities. Overall there are very very
few cars on the country highways.
Picture No. 19 shows where they are
cutting down the trees along the
highways, apparently they have found
them to be a hazard to safety. Pic-
ture No. 20 shows an open Highway
which is representative of central
France where they do not have the
trees and it also shows the open
country that you see in much of
France. Since we had two nights
reservations in Paris we had one
full afternoon and one whole day
for sightseeing. This is not enough
time to see Paris but we were
able to see some of the most famous
spots. The next day we went on to
Le Harve and Picture No. 21 shows
the approach to the ferry at Le
Harve.

Notice the baggage on the tops of
all the cars, this is a very common
practice over in Europe, the cars are
so small and they don't have room in-
side. The Ferry took us to South-
hampton where we spent the night,
the next day we went on to Wey-
mouth where my wife's brother and
his family live. Picture No. 22 is on
the road to Weymouth, notice we
are back on the left side of the road

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again, the traffic travels on the right
side on the continent, but in England
on the left. We spent two nights in
Weymouth, two more in London and
then we went to North Wales where
another aunt lives at a little town call-
ed Mold. They have two main north
south throughways in England called
M-l and M6. Picture No. 23 shows
the bridge crossing M-l, notice it is
6 lanes with a narrow median. Pic-
ture No. 24 is also on M-l and in
this picture you can see a guard-rail
in the medium. Most of the entire
distance that we travelled on M-l and
M-6 was six lanes. While we were at
Mold we decided to take a trip to
a little town called Birdsall that we
heard was in Yorkshire about 150
miles east. We left early one morn-
ing and we had rainy weather most
of the way, however it was clear
when we got there. Picture No. 25
shows the sign pointing the way to
Birdsall from the town of Melton.
Picture No. 26 shows the village of
Birdsall and the only two houses
in the town. Nearby the town is a
large Estate called Birdsall Estate,
Ltd. The church in Picture No. 27
is on the Estate and also the big man-
or house shown in Picture No. 28
which is called Birdsall House. Lord
Midleton lives in the house at the pre-
sent time. It is reported that the house
was built in 410 A.D. It is in re-
markable state and is not a ruins

by any means. We had very good
weather for most of our trip in Eng-
land and on the Continent and the
Sunday that we went from Mold
back to London was exceptionally
warm and sunny, and I don't believe
I have ever seen th sky as clear in
England as it was that day. We went
by Stratford on the Avon and stop-
ped there several hours and went
through the Shakespeare birthplace
House. One thing particularly we no-
ticed in the warm weather was the
clothing that the British wore. They
wore their same winter coats that
they usually wore even though the
temperature was up in the 80s. I
guess they couldn't think of taking
their coats off. Apparently the En-
glish thoroughly enjoy a picnic. Rain
or shine cars were parked at every
wide shoulder where they would even
sometimes have folding tables and
chairs for their outing. They never
leave any trash though. In fact it
was quite noticeable to me to see how
clean the roadsides were in Europe
as compared to the United States.
We left for the United States the
next day from London and arrived in
Raleigh- Durham about 9 o'clock in
the evening. We had spent 21 days
in England, Germany and France
and covered over 3 000 miles of high-
ways. It was indeed a very enjoy-
able trip.

Above is a picture of the Koln Cathedral. This is one of the most impres-
sive Cathedrals in Europe.

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Stratford On The Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare as seen by John Bird-
sail of Roadway Design. He spent several hours going through the historic
site.

EDITORIAL — TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

(Continued from Inside Front Cover)

were erected, a rougher pavement poured, and shoulders
widened. The result was no more accidents. A preacher
living near the scene used the example of teamwork as a
text, and has highly praised the two groups for working
together to save lives.

On one heavily traveled road, accidents were happen-
ing frequently. The Patrol made a map showing the loca-
tion of every accident for five years.

Together with engineers, a detailed study was made
for necessary corrections. The engineers came up with
an estimated cost of $10,000 for the work. The Commis-
sioner hurriedly got the funds approved, and the pro-
ject was on the way.

The engineers and patrol have covered every foot of
school bus routes together, checking for danger spots.
The public knows this, and school patrons are apprecia-
tive. They have proof someone cares.

The men in the 14th Division responsible for all this
are too modest to tell all their accomplishments — they
shrug it off, and ask. "ISN'T EVERYONE SUPPOSED
TO WORK UNTIRINGLY TO MAKE OUR HIGH-
WAYS SAFER?"

The men in Haywood — Governor Moores home county
— have set an example that something can be done about
highway safety.

The preventive approach is paying the richest dividends
possible — lives saved.

ROADWAYS feels this is a challenge for the other
97 counties in the state — Henderson and Transylvania
are also under the same plan with Haywood, and making
equally as fine records. It so happens the 3-county dis-
trict is under both Commissioner Russ and Sgt. Brock.

ROADWAYS congratulates Division 14. Will the other
Divisions follow suit and see what results in traffic safety
they can come up with in their Division?

THANKS
(From Highway Employees)

TO GOVERNOR DAN K.
MOORE, CHAIRMAN JOE
HUNT AND STATE PERSON-
N E L DIRECTOR CLAUDE
CALDWELL, HIGHWAY EM-
PLOYEES SAY THANKS FOR
THE TWO DAYS OFF DURING
THE TERRIBLE SNOW AND
ICE STORM.

WE ARE POSITIVE THAT
THIS KIND DEED AND FORE-
SIGHT HELPED KEEP TRAF-
FIC ACCIDENTS AND FATAL
ITIES DOWN DURING THIS
TRYING TIME!

WE FEEL SURE THAT A
FRIEND, LOVED ONE OR CO-
WORKER IS NOW ON THE
JOB AND ALIVE WHEREAS
HAD NOT THIS THOUGHTFUL
ACTION BEEN TAKEN, WE
MIGHT BE GRIEVING NOW.

AGAIN, OUR HEARTFELT
THANKS GOVERNOR DAN,
CHAIRMAN JOE AND PER-
SONNEL DIRECTOR CLAUDE!

Tunnel No Problem

For all those who advocate a new
tunnel, and for all those who do not,
I offer the following for considera-
tion.

A construction crew was engaged
in building a tunnel thru a moun-
tain. They had started on one side
and planned to emerge on the other.
The project was in charge of a young
engineer.

Among the crowd of onlookers was
an elderly, retired engineer. He went
over to the young engineer, introduc-
ed himself, and said "when I was
younger, I also built tunnels, but we
did it differently. We would start on
both sides of the mountain and meet
in the middle."

"What if you failed to meet in the
middle?" asked the young engineer.

After a little thought, the older
engineer said, "So we'd have two
tunnels!"

—Paul E. Davis
Holly Hill Road
Asheville

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The Cape Fear River Bridge at Wilmington

This photo shows piers 5-W, 4-W,
3-W, 2-W and 1-W looking east across
river.

The design and engineering of this
bridge is being done by a Consultant,
Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and
Douglass, Inc., of New York City,
New York. Mr. L. H. Sutcliffe, Jr.,
is Resident Engineer for the consult-
ant.

The bridge crosses the Cape Fear
River just south of the Battleship,
U.S.S. North Carolina, with roadway
sections joining US routes 17, 74, and
76 in the vicinity of Alligator Creek
on the west side of the river and tie-
ing into Third street of Dawson and
Worth Street on the east side of the
River.

The main bridge is about 3,040'
long consisting of the main steel truss
lift span and steel box beams and
prestressed concrete girder approach
spans.

The lift span is 408' long and pro-
vides a 350' horizontal opening for
ships passage. In the fixed position
the bridge provides a 65' vertical
clearance above average high water
and 135' above average high water
when in the lifted position. This span
is lifted vertically by means of steel
towers, motorized machinery and
counterweights.

The bridge deck will provide two
27' roadway sections divided by a
concrete and steel box beam median
barrier. The decks of the approach
spans will consist of reinforced con-
crete while the deck of the lift span
will be open type steel grid flooring.

This bridge is being built under

three contracts. The first contract
consists of the construction of six
river piers — the two main lift span
piers and four approach span piers.
About 30,000 cubic yards of concrete
and 810,000 pounds of reinforcing
steel are required for these piers.

It is interesting to note the size and
some qualities required in the con-
struction of the east main lift span
piers. Permanent cofferdam sheet-
ing was driven around the tremie
steel and footing area (56' x 107')
down to about 55' below water sur-
face. Excavation was then made with-
in the cofferdam from the river bed
to about 50' below water surface
where a satisfactory grade of marl
was encountered. The foundation was
well cleaned by means of bucket-dip-
ping and air lift operations and was
inspected by a commission diver.

A tremie seal of class AA concrete
was then deposited under water
through 14" tremie pipes over the
foundation area within the coffer-
dam and for about a 24' depth. The
tremie seal of the east main pier was
the first concrete to be placed of
contract #1; this was done begin-
ning on December 19th, and was a
continuous operation for 36 hours.
About 5,175 cubic yards of concrete
were used.

After the tremie seal was cured
the cofferdam above the seal was de-
watered and preparations were made
to place the reinforced concrete foot-
ing. No forming was required for
the footing, as this concrete was also
placed against the cofferdam sheet-
ing. The footing and remainder of
the pier, of course, were cast in the
dry. This footing has a depth of 10'
and contains about 2,325 cubic yards
of concrete. Top of cone pier where
steel tower begins is about 64' above
water.

The approach span piers have steel
pile foundations. Shallow tremie seals
were used in order to dewater the
cofferdams to permit placing the re-
maining portions of pier concrete in
the dry.

The second contract consists of
steel truss lift span, machinery and
steel towers of the two main piers
mounting to about 4,640,000 pounds
of structured steel.

The structural steel of lift span,
superstructure will be steel grit blast
cleaned and fabricated by American
Bridge Division at Ambridge Plant
in Sewickly — Pittsburgh, Pa. The
steel will be shipped to Wilmington
by rail. The steel will be further
cleaned by blasting and washing at
Wilmington before any paint is ap-
plied.

(Continued on Page 30)

This photo shows west main piers 1-W, and piers 2-W, 3-W, 4-W and 5-W,
looking southwest.

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"Letters
We

Liked"

HEADQUARTERS
29TH GENERAL SUPPORT GROUP
Office of the Group Chaplain
APO US Forces 96491

23 Dec 1967

State Highway Commission
Purchasing Department
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

Dear Bill Reaves: (or any of the other 21)

Your box arrived yesterday in perfect condition. I wish
to say in Bill Rices behalf and for all the men who will
share in your gift a warm and heart-felt "thank you". Your
thoughtfulness in selecting something which could be di-
vided among many is refreshing.

If you or any member of your department would like
to have further information on how we distributed the deli-
cacies please feel free to write me at the above address.
Or if you have any questions in general which I could
answer for you, I would count it on honor to correspond
with you. The only reason I picked your name to address
this note to is that it appeared at the top of the list.

May you all have an exciting and happy New Year.

Sincerely,
/a/ HUGH M. GRUBB
Chaplain (MAJ) USA
Group Chaplain

DAVID ROBERT BLANCO
1000 Wellington Road
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
January 19, 1968

North Carolina Highway Department
Raleigh, North Carolina

Gentlemen:

I want to compliment those responsible for keeping the
ice and snow cleared off Interstate 1-40 between Winston-
Salem and the airport exit during the recent storm. I
traveled this road every day and the condition of the road
was outstanding — not a bit of snow on the four lanes by
Sunday morning.

Perhaps it is not often that a citizen compliments our
Highway Department personnel but they certainly deserve
a pat on the back for this job well done. Please convey
one man's gratitude to them.

Sincerely yours,
/s/ David R. Blanco

New Controller Appointed

William M. Ingram, Jr.

A veteran State Highway Commission employee has
been named Controller for the road agency by Chairman
J. M. Hunt, Jr.

William M. Ingram, Jr., who joined the Highway Com-
mission as Assistant Secondary Roads Officer in 1957,
has been appointed to the Commission's top financial
post, succeeding John L. Allen, Jr., who resigned effec-
tive January 31st.

In the four years from 1957 to 1961, Ingram helped to
organize the newly created Secondary Roads Depart-
ment and remained in that department until his appoint-
ment in July of 1961 as Project Control Officer. Ingram
organized the Project Control Department and guided its
activities until his appointment as Controller for the
Commission effective February 2nd.

During his eleven years with the Highway Commis-
sion, Ingram's many responsibilities have required that
he maintain close liaison with the Controller's Office
and with financial officers of the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads. It is the Project Control Department which com-
pletes final vouchers for Federal-aid reimbursements.

The Duplin County native graduated from North
Carolina State University with a degree in Civil Engi-
neering in 1951, and later earned the Master of Science
degree from the same institution in 1956.

He is a registered professional engineer, vice president
of the Eastern Branch of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and has served on various committees of both
the Southeastern and American Associations of State
Highway Officials, including AASHO's financial commit-
tee of which he was chairman.

Ingram is married to the former Polly Ong. They
have three children, Christopher, Gregory and Jennifer.
The Ingrams live at 2407 Medway Drive and attend St.
Timothy's Episcopal Church.

In making the appointment, Chairman Hunt said: "Mr.
Ingram has proven himself to be a valuable and dedicated
employee of the Highway Commission. He has made out-
standing contribution in his positions with the Secondary
Roads and Project Control Departments. I have the ut-
most confidence in his abilities and know he will do an
outstanding job as Controller."

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Leaders of the traffic safety source included, left to right, Don Ingold,
Jay Quinn, R. V. Moss, Paul Cribbins, Harold Rhudy, and Jim Lynch. All
were instructors except Dr. Cribbins, who is president of the N. C. Division,
SITE, one of the sponsoring agencies.

Traffic Safety Course
Given in Winston -Salem

Twenty cities and towns of North
Carolina sent staff personnel to the
short course on "Traffic Safety" in
Winston-Salem, January 23-24.

A majority of the 47 persons who
followed the two-day schedule are in
responsible charge of traffic opera-
tions in their home communities. The
group included Federal and State
highway engineers and technicians as
well as municipal officials.

The school was sponsored jointly by
the North Carolina Division, South-
ern Section, Institute of Traffic En-
gineers; the North Carolina Traffic
Safety Council, Inc.; and the North
Carolina League of Municipalities.
Their primary purpose was to assist
municipalities in upgrading traffic en-
gineering functions by providing a
better understanding of some of the
more practical aspects of traffic safe-
ty for personnel engaged in this ac-
tivity.

Subjects covered in classroom in-
struction included accident reporting,
accident record systems, data collec-
tion and analysis, determination of

T. J. Morawski, Division Engineer,
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, was
presented an instructor's certificate
for serving on the staff of the traffic
safety school. In the foreground is
Dr. Paul Cribbins, who presided over
the NCSSITE dinner meeting.

high-accident locations, and basic en-
gineering techniques available for im-
proving hazardous locations. Empha-
sis was also directed to the Gover-
nor's Highway Safety Program and
the role of the Federal government in
traffic safety.

Instructors for the course were
drafted from people currently em-
ployed in the traffic safety field:
James D. Blackburn, Traffic Engi-
neer, City of Raleigh; Bernard A.
Corbett, Jr., Assistant Traffic Engi-
neer, Citv of Charlotte; Lt. Earl T.
Green, Executive Officer, Training
and Inspection Division, N. C. State
Highway Patrol; Donald P. Ingold,
Associate Traffic Engineer, Wilbur
Smith and Associates; James M.
Lynch, Traffic Research Engineer,
SHC; R. G. McCombs, Traffic Engi-
neer, City of Greensboro; T. J. Mo-
rawski, Division Engineer, U. S. Bu-
reau of Public Roads; R. V. Moss,
Traffic Engineer, City of High Point;
Elbert L. Peters, Coordinator, Gov-
ernor's Highway Safety Program; Jay
Quinn, Traffic Engineer, Southeastern
Safety Supplies, Inc.; Joseph K. Reg-
ister, Statistical Analyst, N.C. Depart-
ment of Motor Vehicles; Harold C.
Rhudy, Assistant State Traffic En-
gineer, SHC; and W. S. Schwartz;
Lighting Engineer, General Electric
Company.

Certificates for successfully com-
pleting the course were presented at
the quarterly dinner meeting of the
North Carolina Division, SSITE, at
the Sheraton Motor Inn, January 24.
SHC employees so recognized were
Jimmy Beckom, Ormond Bliss, Don
Dupree, Paul W. Elliott, James

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Greenhill, Terry A. Harris, John Per-
man, Franklin Price and Garry
Sumer.

Garry Sumer, SHC Planning En-
gineer, was among those receiving cer-
tificates for completing the traffic
safety course in Winston-Salem, Jan-
uary 24.

"I'll bet the stops and starts make
you tired," the gentleman said, flirt-
ing with the elevator operator.

"Not so much," she replied with a
bite, "it's the jerks that bother me."

Highway Employees make "President's List"

Left to Right: Mrs. Linda Langdon, Larry Harrell, Joel
Johnson, Paul Maulsby (Student advisor at W. W. Hold-
ing Tech Institute) and Ronald Johnson. These four stu-
dents left their jobs as permanent employees of the High-
way Commission to enroll in this program.

Linda Langdon, 21 years old, married and working as
a stenographer, decided she liked engineering technology
work and proceeded to enroll in school. She is the first
woman employee to leave her job for this purpose and
the first of her sex to become a cooperative education
trainee.

Larry Harrill is the young man of the group who worked
for maintenance in Division 3. Joel Johnson, married
and the father of one daughter, is the group's senior
member in age. He is 29 and worked several years with
the prison department prior to employment with the
Highway Commission. He has maintained a "B" average
throughout the first year's studies.

Ronald Johnson, 28 years old and married is the rank-
ing member for length of service with the Highway Com-
mission having worked 4 years in the materials and
tests department prior to entering school. Ronald having
graduated from high school in 1958 with the minimum
math requirements was admitted to Holding Tech on a
provisional basis. He has maintained a "B" average or
better each of the 3 quarters.

The President's List are students who have achieved
a 3.5 quality point average at the end of a particular
quarter. The individuals achieving this average will have
their names published in their local newspaper and
shall receive a letter from the President of the Institute
commending them for their academic achievement.
What these young people are taking includes instruc-
tion which provided in the theory and practice of
surveying, route surveying, and highway surveying. Con-
struction layout training is provided for foundation grade
layout, building construction planning, and sewer and
pipe line surveys.

A core of mathematics and physics through statics in
the first year provides a base for engineering subject

matter presentation. Laboratory courses in soils, con-
crete, asphalt, metals and wood provides a base for un-
derstanding basic construction problems.

Another sequence of courses covers construction plan-
ning, specifications, methods and equipment and estimat-
ing.

The diverse nature of this curriculum will produce
technicians who can assist contractors, structural engi-
neers, civil engineers, and mechanical contractors in their
work areas.

THE CURRICULUM AT HOLDING INSTITUTE

COURSE TITLE HOURS PER WEEK

Quarter

Hours

FIRST QUARTER Class

Lab.

Credit

T— CIV 101 Surveying

2

6

4

T — DPT 101 Technical Drafting

0

6

2

T— MAT 101 Technical Mathematics

5

0

5

T— PHY 101 Physics: Properties of Matter

3

2

4

T— ENG 101 Grammar

3

0

3

13

14

18

SECOND QUARTER

T— DFT 102 Technical Drafting

0

6

2

T — MAT 102 Technical Mathematics

5

0

2

T— ENG 102 Composition

3

0

3

T— PHY 102 Physics: Work, Energy, Power

3

2

4

T— CIV 114 Statics

5

0

5

16

8

19

THIRD QUARTER

T— ENG 103 Report Writing

3

0

3

T— CIV 102 Surveying

2

6

4

J. — rni iuo rnysics . iLiecLricity

3

2

4

T— MAT 103 Technical Mathematics

5

0

5

T— CIV 216 Strength of Materials

3

2

4

—

16

10

20

FOURTH QUARTER

T— ENG 204 Oral Communication

3

O

o

T— CIV 103 Surveying

2

6

4

T — CIV 217 Construction Models and Equipment

3

2

4

T— CIV 218 Plain Concrete

3

3

4

T — CIV 201 Properties of Engineering Materials •

2

3

3

13

14

18

FIFTH QUARTER

T — CIV 220 Construction Planning

2

3

3

T— CIV 202 Properties of Soils

2

3

3

T — CIV 223 Codes. Contracts and Specifications

2

0

2

Social Science Elective

3

0

3

Electives

5

9

6

16

SIXTH QUARTER

Social Science Elective

3

0

3

T — CIV 225 Construction Estimates and Costs

3

6

5

Electives

5

T — CIV 227 Construction of Roads and Pavements

3

2

4

9

8

17

Total Quarter Hours In Courses

98

Electives (Min.)

10

Total

108

Definition of a man:

A man is like a candle. He smokes too much, not too
bright when lit and goes out when you need him the most.

2U

N.CS.H.P.EA. ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By OTIS M. BANKS & DAVID W. KING

SPECIAL ATTENTION of all employees should be
given to the following letter from Mr. Nathan H. Yel-
ton, Director, Teachers' and State Employees' Retire-
ment System: (Subject: Requests for Refunds of Con-
tributions)

"As you are aware it has been our policy in the past
to prepare a refund check approximately ninety days
after the date of resignation. Recently the number of
requests has increased so much that it has been impos-
sible to meet this date, and it is now necessary that we
set a six-month date after date of resignation. Please ad-
vise all employees when requesting a refund that it will
be at least this long before we can send them a check.

"We cannot possibly be current in posting individual
contributions to accounts as soon as the payroll report
reaches us. There is, of necessity, a lapse of several
months in posting contributions, and this means that
every time we receive a request for refund we must check
by hand all payrolls not posted. This requires an item-by-
item check and our work space is limited, which prohibits
using many more employees on this operation. We are
now in the process of changing our computer operation,
which will eventually speed up our processing of con-
tributions, but this will require some time to make the
changes to up-date contributions.

Under the new death payment in our law, employees
are covered in case of death within ninety days after
separation; therefore, it should be to their advantage
not to request a refund until they have been separated
for this length of time. When you sign the Form 5, the
death benefit is cancelled."

The number of requests for refunds of contributions
has increased tremendously in the past year, and the
work load for the Retirement System has been taxed to
the breaking point — hence, the necessity for this direc-
tive. As Mr. Yelton has stated, it is to the advantage of
the employee separating and not leaving contributions
intact to wait at least 90 days before filing request for
refund, this in order to be protected under the new death
benefit payment. Retirement applications also cancel
death benefits.

INSURANCE BENEFITS increased in October, 1967,
by overwhelming vote of policy participants. Your Group
Insurance now allows $20 for daily Room and Board, for
a maximum of 70 days or a maximum of $1,400 — allows
up to $210 for hospital services and charges such as X-
rays, drugs, dressings, laboratory, etc. — allows up to
$250 for Surgeon Fees — allows up to $350 for Doctor's
services during hospital confinement. This includes your
family, if signed up as such, and students up to age 23.
The Group Policy also provides Life Insurance in amounts
from $3,000 to $7,000 dependent upon your annual sal-
ary; provides Accidental Death and Dismemberment
benefits in the same amounts dependent upon annual
salary. Accident and Sickness payments are from $35 to
$40 weekly dependent upon salary also. This is defi-
nitely an excellent Group Insurance Plan and should be
participated in by all. You can check costs against other
plans and you will find — considering all allowances and
the weekly A & S — and the LIFE — that this provides
more for your money than ordinary group plans.

THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES — the
campaign for Governor and Lt. Governor is well under-
way and should really warm up in the next few weeks.
Your President, your Secretary and Assistant, and your
Legislative Committee Chairman met in Raleigh on Jan-
uary 30th with a similar group from the NCSEA to dis-
cuss plans for our conferences with each candidate (both
parties) in the very near future. Contacts are now being
made to arrange suitable dates and we will jointly talk
with these fine people to discuss the problems facing
State Employees. It is our plan to secure from each of
them their statement on behalf of State Employees and
to publish these statements in a special edition in early
April, this for the benefit of our members who have to
make their decision of support in the Primary. We hope,
and believe, these statements will be beneficial and will
give you an insight on the thinkings of these candidates.

SPECIAL NOTE — Some apparently still do not un-
derstand the method of credit allowance for accumulated
sick leave at time of retirement. This is not a cash set-
tlement, is not paid on normal separations as such. It
is an allowance credited to your retirement account as
to service rendered — on the basis of 1 month's service
allowance for each 20 days of sick leave or any frac-
tion thereof. An example, a retiring employee with 65

AND DID YOU KNOW — nightclubs are still popu-
lar because they're the only places still open by the time
your wife gets dressed — you can make your wife drive
more carefully if you tell her if she has an accident the
newspapers will print her age — and K. B. Bailey told
me he once had an inmate in Central Prison who told him
he would bust out of the joint but his wife was outside.
BE SEEING YOU AROUND!

By KEITH HUNDLEY

COLD SHOULDERS — The Governor, Chairman Hunt
and other various assembled brethren got them to go
along with feet, noses et cetera at the dedication of In-
terstate 95 between Weldon and Gold Rock on that blus-
tery, cold December first when the ribbon was cut. The
speakers' platform was placed under an overpass bridge
'cause it had rained hard the last few days in November,
but it faired off and got whistling cold. We all nearly froze
and the Governor said in his remarks, "I want to thank
the planners of this affair for finding such a nice shady
place for this platform".

LOOKING BACK — We were riding over the I 95
project several days before its dedication with Commis-
sioner Carl Renfro, Division Engineer Bob Dawson and
Resident Engineer Monk Moore. Monk got reminiscing
about the early days of the project. "I walked right
through here when this was just a swamp", he said, "and
we used to jump from log to log to keep our feet day
. . . that is, until we found out we were jumping from
cottonmouth to cottonmouth."

NOTED IN THE MAIL — We got a memorandum
from Project Contrcl Officer Bill Ingram the other day
telling us about telephone number changes relative to his
moving into new quarters in the annex and caught this.
Did you know that when you write the initials of Pro-
ject Administrative Officer Sherman Yeargan and his
assistant Phillip Heffner you get the phrase: "SAY, PAH"?

WHY THE HEADACHES — Along those same lines,
it's difficult for a lot of fclks to understand why the
Project Control Department complains of so many head-
aches, especially when they've always got "B. C." on
hand. Poor pun, huh, Cannon?

THAT'S SO — Talked to Mr. Howard Koontz (Mr.
Jim Councill still calls him by the unmentionable nick-
name) the other day when there was so much snow and
stuff on the ground and he gave me a pretty good defi-
nition. FRUSTRATION: Spending the day on a motor
grader moving snow drifts off the road and then watch-
ing a 40 mph wind put it right back again. Speaking of
Councill, I understand his golf game's slipping, but his
sense of humor and that ready smile ain't changed one
whit.

DISAPPOINTED — Must admit we've worn out our
thumbs turning quickly to Division 14 news section each
issue, but to no avail. Never before, nor since, has the
colorful Allyce Cunningham come close to the "bull
Story".

SAFETY PROGRAM — There's a good deal of interest
in the highway safety program these days. So much so
that a friend of ours says most women are such poor
drivers that the police ought to issue them season tickets.

STICKY SITUATION — We called Jim Litchford the
other day to pass along word from an interested motor-
ist concerning a phase of our job on US 70-401 south of
Raleigh. Seems that some of the reflectorized striping
used for lane dividing on the project has busted its glue
and was either flapping in the breeze or rolling up in a
wad. "Thanks", said Litchford, "we're going to fix it
when the weather gets warm, but next time we'll use a
good strong mixture of flour and water". He was kidding,
we think, but he tells us all the kites he made with that
kind of paste never came apart.

PARTING SHOT — Someone around here who has a
teenage son was overheard the other day saying, "The
way these kids dress and act today and the way they
look. It's enough to make you want to tear their hair out".

See you in two months.

Don't Quit

Contributed By BILL WILSON
Roadway Design

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit —

Rest if you must but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a fellow turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow —

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup;

And he learned too late when the night came down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out —

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit —

It's when things seem worse that you mustn't quit.

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Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock
^4jBg±~. PHOTOGRAM-

rlHL.^ ?jl Photo Lab and his

8 lbs., 6 oz.

Congrats also to HAROLD BIS-
SETTE of the Photo Lab and his
wife on the arrival of a baby son,
Joseph Mark, December 26th. Har-
old is originally from Middlesex and
has another son, Gregory Vaughn,
six years old.

Best wishes to Linda Grey, daugh-
ter of CHESTER T. GREY, who was
married January 19th in the Church
of the Good Shepherd to Craig Ste-
wart of San Diego, Calif. Craig is in
the Special Forces at Fort Bragg.

RUTH HAYWARD of the Engi-
neering Section enjoyed a week's va-
cation in Winter Haven, Fla.

Welcome back to Department Head
ED J. PAGE, who was out several
weeks during an illness.

EQUIPMENT — MARGARET
SEAGROVES was recently appoint-
ed to the nominating committee of
the Executive Board, State Employ-
ees Credit Union.

Co-workers miss HELEN BAR-
HAM who resigned to become the
bride of A. J. "RED" HUGHES, Di-
vision Engineer in Sylva, January
6th. Our very best wishes to the
happy couple! LORRAINE CAR-
TER has assumed Helen's duties as
secretary to Department Head, L.
H. GUNTER. MARY FRANCES
FERRELL replaced Lorraine as sec^

Christmas Party — Wake County
Shrine Club, December 1st.

Dick Massengill and the fish he
caught at Surf City on Thanksgiving
Day.

retary to Asst. State Equipment En-
gineer, H. G. LONG.

Best wishes to BEATRICE HAR-
RISON, who recently transferred to
the Finance Department — also, to
BILLIE LOWERY, who transferred
to the Retirement System.

Congratulations to BUCK and Ma-
rie WOOD, proud new parents of
little daughter, Lisa Michelle, who
arrived December 10th — and to
JUDY and Hersey HALL upon the
arrival of daughter, Edith Alease,
September 9th. It's nice to have Judy
back at work again.

A hearty welcome is extended to
our new neighbors — the Personnel
Department and the Permit Section,
now located on third floor in the
new annex of the Highway Building.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Good
luck to the following employees who
are retiring: Mr. JAMES H. GOOD-
WIN, Upholstery Shop; Mr. W. A.
TYSON, Foreman of the Carpenter
Shop; Mr. FRANK GODBOLD,
Foreman of Truck Shop and Mr. T.
R. BUCHANAN, Foreman of the
Car Shop.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees at the Depot: WILLIAM
EDWARD HAYNES, Stockroom;
EARL G. WATERS, Upholstery
Shop; DURWARD HAMILTON,
Stockroom; DREW GUPTON, Stock-
room; and SIDNEY SEAL, Stock-
room.

Employees were saddened by the
death of A. J. (JACK) WINSTEAD
January 7th. He was an employee in
the Plumbing Shop.

Get well wishes to HOWARD
GUPTON, Asst. Equipment Depot
Superintendent, Mr. D. H. BRANT-
LEY of the Machine Shop and Mr.
H. G. FINCH, Foreman of the Up-
holstery Shop. Mr. Gupton and Mr.
Brantley recently were hospitalized
but are now recuperating at home.
Mr. Finch, at this writing, is still
hospitalized. Employees are glad to
see F. DALE GRAHAM. Foreman of
the Machine Shop, back on the job
after a recent hospitalization.

PERSONNEL — The Department
welcomes MARY LEE GRIFFIN,
new Steno II, who recently transfer-
red from Construction.

After almost four years in Per-
sonnel, JOANN VAUGHN decided
to make a change. This time it was
to the Project Control Department.
Personnel will miss JoAnn, but every-
one wishes her the best of luck on
her new job. The Department also
extends get well wishes to JoAnn's
husband for a speedy recovery from
a recent heart attack.

It's birthday time again. On this
occasion Personnel helped BETTY
HORTON celebrate her birthday
January 28th with a luncheon at the
new Balentine Cafeteria.

MARY LEE GRIFFIN spent a re-
cent weekend at Carolina Beach with
friends. She reported the beach
weather was great — for January
anyway!

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Having to pose for my picture al-
ways did bore me, says pretty little
Charlotte Ann Hailey, baby daughter
of Henry and Carolyn Faye Hailey.
Charlotte Ann was born August 9,
1967 and her proud father, Henry, is
a member of Highway Reproduction,

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Miss Judith Carole Steadman is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pres-
ton Steadman of Williamston. Her
father is Bridge Maintenance Fore-
man there.

Judith finished the requirements
for a B. S. degree in Home Econom-
ics at East Carolina University last
July. She presently is teaching Home
Economics and General Science at
Stony Creek High School, Stony
Creek, Va.

BARBARA STUSSIE enjoyed a
very wintry January weekend in D.
C. visiting relatives.

LANDSCAPE — The First Bap-
tist Church in Clayton was the set-
ting for the January 5th wedding of
Miss SANDRA BYRD, Stenograph-

Meet Randall Lee McKinney, baby
son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin McKin-
ney. Randall Lee was born December
3, 1967 and is one month old in this
picture. His proud father works in
Bridge Maintenance.

er, and Mr. Randall Jackson. The
Rev. John Warren Steen officiated.
After a trip to South of the Border
and Myrtle Beach, S. C, the couple
is making their home in Raleigh.

Valentine's Day, February 14th, is
something else again for Landscape
employees. That's the day they mov-
ed into their offices in the new High-
way Building Annex.

After the Flu Bug made a tour in
Landscape, reports are that all he
bit are now back at work waiting pa-
tiently for Spring to come again.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
Death came to DAVID WESLEY
LOWDER January 10th after eight
years loyal service with the Davidson
County Bridge Dept. Mr. Lowder's
death was a great loss to the Bridge
Dept. and to the other employees.

Best wishes to JOHN HILL, who
retired from the Davidson County
Maintenance Dept., January 1st, af-
ter 25 years service as Truck Driver.

SECONDARY ROADS — Con-
gratulations to JIM WHELESS and
his wife, who are the proud new par-
ents of a darling baby girl, Sarah
Elizabeth, born January 25th in Rex
Hospital. Sarah Elizabeth weighed
in at 7 lbs., 3 oz.

BITUMINOUS — Mr. and Mrs.
G. G. LUPTON and son, George,
spent the Christmas holidays in New
Orleans. Bituminous employees are
glad to see A. R. CHERRY back on
the job after surgery at Rev Hospi-
tal during December.

RIGHT OF WAY — JENNY
FERRELL is real proud of her new
little baby girl, born December 29th.
A stag fish fry was held by the Right
of Way men December 2nd. It's nice
to have SARAH WATTS back at
work following minor surgery.

LAURA JONES is the proud own-
er of a new color TV. Champion
speller for the Right of Way Depart-
ment is NELSON FRYE. He won
the championship by spelling "cor-
respondence".

PLANNING & RESEARCH —
Everyone in Planning and Research
is glad to be back over in the new
wing of the Highway Building. KEN
JARMAN is glad to have his brother
back from Viet Nam, after being
wounded in battle.

ANNETTE UPCHURCH is sport-
ing a ring, third finger, left hand!

GERALD MCCARTHY is real
proud of his new home. Another
proud new home owner is LEE WEB-
STER who lives in Spring Dale Es-
tates.

HIGHWAY REPRODUCTION
BASKETBALL TEAM

Pictured above in the newly organ-
ized Highway Reproduction's basket-
ball team are left to right: Larry
Watt, Henry Hailey, Jackie Frazier,
Rex Wilson, Joe Sanders, Tripp
Nivin, T. A. Harris, and Billy Mit-
chell. One of the team members not
pictured is Sam Pippin.

The team is a member of the In-
dustrial Closed League in the City of
Raleigh, which features 11 teams, and
plays two nights a week.

The Highway Reproduction team
was especially thrilled to win the big
game over Advance Planning's team!
And they won 54 to 37.

Our deepest sympathy to WALT-
ER WILEY upon the recent death of
his father.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: MICKEY MANESS, BOB
POSEY, JUDY SUTTON, KAY
KNOWLES and JANICE MIT-
CHELL.

BILL BURBAGE and his family
enjoyed a trip during Christmas to
the Florida Kevs. in a Cox Camper.
PHYLLIS NELSON visited her
brother and his family in Atfanta
during Christmas, and also enjoyed
a nice trip to New Orleans.

ADVANCE PLANNING — The
Department is glad to have Mr. W.
F. CADDELL, JR. as the new Ad-
vance Planning Engineer. Everyone
will miss MR. ROSE and MRS.
PLEASANT who returned to MR.
BABCOCK'S office.

Welcome to PAMELA ANN LIT-
TON and JIMMIE BECKOM, new
employees.

Everyone who attended BILL
RIGGS' oyster roast had a wonder-
ful time while consuming two and
one half bushels of oysters.

Wedding bells will ring for GREG
COULSON and Betty Brooks Boy-
ette in March. Greg is working as a
draftsman while attending NCSU.

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MAUREEN DUNN enjoyed a re-
cent weekend of skiing at Bryce's Ski
Lodge in Basye, Virginia. No broken
bones, Maureen? FELTON LOW-
MAN would appreciate any advice
on how not to be accident prone. He
found out standing up is not the way
to ride a sled.

ROADWAY DESIGN — Welcome
to the following new employees:
NORMAN F. BOYCE, ERNEST F.
MALLARD and JAMES R. TI-
VETTE. Employees miss ANNA H.
DANIELS who resigned February
2nd to be with her husband current-
ly stationed at Langley Air Force
Base, Hampton, Va.

Best wishes to BRYAN MOORE
for a happy retirement. W. A. WIL-
SON, JR., FRANK PACE and
NORMAN WILLEY attended the
Highway Research Board Meeting
in Washington. D. C, January 15th-
19th. Congratulations to the FRED
BEYS, who recently moved into
their new home in Devonwood Es-
tates.

MARGARET MILLS flew to Los
Angeles, California for a two-weeks
visit with her son, Mike, and his wife,
Carolyn. Mike is a math instructor
at La Habra Junior High School
there. Although she missed her con-
nection in Atlanta due to fog and
arrived thirteen hours late, Margaret
reports she had a marvelous time see-
ing the sights. A few of the most out-
standing highlights were attending
the "Lawrence Welk's New Year's
Eve Show", the "Dean Martin Show"
and the "Jerry Lewis Show." Some
other exciting places of interest were:
"Bush Gardens, Sea World, Disney-
land, Knotts Berry Farm, Movieland
Wax Museum and Palace of Living
Art." Incidentally, Maggie's leg

Real Indians? The one on the right
is not fooling. But Margaret Mills
(loft) of Roadway Design decided to
find out what the Indian style was
like at Knotts Berry Farm, Buena
Park, California, on a recent visit
there.

doesn't "quite" fit Betty Grables
which can be seen at "Grauman's
Chinese Theater," where all the most
famous stars' footprints and hand-
prints can be seen. Although she
spent a day in beautiful Beverly
Hills, she didn't get to see her fa-
vorit Hollywood star, Raymond Burr.
Maybe next time, Margaret!

MATERIALS & TESTS — Wed-
ding bells will ring this summer for
LINDA STONE, typist at the Lab.
Linda and William Haynes former
Stock Clerk at the Lab will marry
July 14th. Linda is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Stone,
Route 8, Raleigh, and William is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Hay-
nes, Jr., of 1016 Brooks Ave., Ra-
leigh. He is employed at the High-
way Equipment Depot.

The Record Section of the Lab
welcomed a new employee in Jan-
uary, KAY JONES of Garner, who is
replacing BRENDA G. BENNETT.
Brenda resigned to await the arrival
of the stork. Employees hope DICK
BAKER of the Soils Lab, who has
been ill for several weeks, will soon be
well ar.d back at work.

All members of the Department
were saddened by the death of E. T.
"GENE" REYNOLDS of the Soils
Lab, who died December 31st. Gene
was a Materials Engineer in charge
of nuclear testing. Our deepest sympa-
thy to his widow, Mrs. Doreen Rey-
nolds, and his daughters, Kathy, Kel-
ly and Kristy.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
REILEY CURTIS on the birth of a
daughter, Sandra Leigh, December
8th; and to Mr. and Mrs. TOMMY
KNOX on the arrival of a daughter,
January 29th. Both fathers work in
the Design Section.

JIM LYNCH attended the High-
way Research Board Meeting in
Washington, D. C, January 15th-
18th.

RUTH STEPHENSON of Clayton
has joined the staff as a temporary
employee in Special Studies.

JIM BRYAN completed two solo
flights in January and is on his way
to earning a private license. Jim has
been taking flying lessons at the Ra-
leigh Municipal Airport.

Welcome back to ELAINE GLOS-
SON after a leave of absence. Elaine
is a Steno.

We want to take this opportunity
to say how much we miss the Plan-
ning Department folks who moved
out of our building the last of Jan-

This cute little youngster is John
Sigma Chamblee, II, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Chamblee. His father is
a member of Traffic Engineering.

uary. We know they will be an asset
to the Highway Building.

BRIDGE — GARY BROOME and
BOB TURPIN are now on perma-
nent status in the Department. Bob
was married January 20th to Jus-
tine Rogers of Seattle, Washington.
They met there when Bob was in the
Coast Guard. Justine is now a phy-
sical therapist at Wake Memorial
Hospital. It's nice to have MAR-
SHALL HUNTER on the Co-op
program and LARRY KETCHUM
on the training program.

KENNETH DRIVER and JOE
OSBORNE have completed the train-
ing program. Kenneth is now in Traf-
fic Engineering and Joe went to
Roadway Design. TOM DIXON re-
signed to join a consultant firm in
High Point. DON HAIGH left to be-
come a full-time student in graduate
school. GERRY PAGE has assumed
the duties of NOBLE WALL who re-
tired. This job involves reviewing and
checking plans for structural steel.

GEORGE PARKIN went to Myr-
tle Beach February 3rd for a meeting
of the Bridge Contractor's Group of
AGC — North and South Carolina
inclusive. Mr. Parkin gave a talk on
proposed changes in bridge design for
1968. Field trips for the bridge draft-
ing room employees are getting under
way again. These are short trips with
the Area Construction Engineers to
provide "on the job" construction
knowledge for the office employees.
This has proved to be a very valuable
experience.

GUY ALFORD and SILVIO SAN-
TO-TOMAS are proud owners of

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Pam Powell, daughter of former
photographer, Harold Powell. Pam is
shown loving her cat. ROADWAYS
is happy to report that Harold is get-
ting along fine.

new homes. Guy's home is in Brent-
wood and Silvio's is on Claremont
Road in Anderson Heights. DAVID
VANCE reports ownership of a new
Corvette (monster) .

JIM TEAGUE is getting to be
quite knowledgeable about "ghosts"
(folklore) of North Carolina. The
stories he has gathered are interesting
and intrigue one by the elements of
truth implied.

GARLAND MITCHELL surprised
everyone when he sang a duet with
Sharon Lienau, Miss Apex, at the
Bridge Dept. Christmas Party. Could
this be a sign of more undisclosed
talent? Look out, Elvis! When
ROYCE CARROLL got out of Army
Reserve, he took off for New York
to have fun and to visit with friends.
He saw four plays and had a won-
derful (very expensive) dinner at the
famous Four Seasons. Upon return-
ing home, his thoughts turned toward
New Orleans and the Mardi Gras.

ROBERT GOWER and his fam-
ily had an enjoyable holiday in Flor-
ida visiting Bob's brother. This is the
first trip back to Florida for Bob
and Sarah since their honeymoon.

JIM and Jean WILDER visited
Jean's sister and brother-in-law in
Washington, D. C. recently. They
also enjoyed a trip to Georgetown.

DAVE NORKET had a ball when
he visited friends in Chicago. Being
a bachelor, Dave can still include
"girl watching" as legitimate enter-
tainment.

Heartfelt sympathy is extended the
following employees: ELEANOR
TAYLOR upon the death of her
father; RANSOME BENNETT on
the death of his father; and to
CHARLIE KING whose wife died in
December.

Cape Fear River Bridge

(Continued from Page 21)

The steel is to receive three coats
of unesterfied epoxy catalyzed resin
coating system which shall be applied
under housed and controlled weather
conditions. The combined dry film
thickness of the three coats of paint
shall be not less than 6 mils. The
lower sections of steel towers and
the open type steel grind flooring of
the lift span will be painted with one
coat of Patent Applied-For Special
Glass Flake Epoxy Coating which
shall produce a dry film thickness of
not less than 6 mils.

In the contract No. 3, this contract
consists of the construction of the
remaining approach span piers and
all of the superstructure of the ap-
proach spans. Work of this contract
has not been started.

The quantities of the major ma-
terials of this contract are about:
Structural Steel 4,445,000 lbs., rein-
forcing steel 2,078,000 lbs., prestress-
ed concrete girdons 13,008 lin. feet —
concrete - substructure 6.720 cubic
yards and super structure 5,700 cubic
yards.

There are two other contracts re-
lated to this overall project. They
were let in June 1967 to Gahagan
Dredging Co. of Tampa, Fla. at a
cost of $3,185,269.06. This contract
consists of removing insuitable ma-
terial to elevation of -10, then plac-
ing hydraulic fills for the west ap-
proaches to the main bridge plus two
structures; a bridge over Alligator
Creek and bridge over a leg of the
west interchange. At the present
time the contractor is removing the
unsuitable material by drag line.

A consultant is not used on this
project as all design and engineer-
ing is being done by the commission.

The other contract, which covers
the east approach from the main
bridge up to Third Street and im-
provements to Wooster Street on be-
yond Third Street is scheduled for
March letting, and the design will
also be done by the Commission.

N. C. Expects Good
Construction Year

W. F. BABCOCK

Any attempt to give a reasonable
picture of North Carolina's construc-
tion program for 1968 as of Decem-
ber 1967 is at best most difficult. At
the present time all Appalachia pro-
jects are frozen although the State
has over $15,000,000 worth of work
that it can put under construction in
1968 if funds are available. Similar-
ly it is not known as of this date
whether there will be a cut back of
sizeable magnitude in the regular
Federal-aid and Interstate program.
Thus it is impractical to attempt to
make a listing of projects that might
be let because of the many impon-
derables at the national level.

North Carolina will continue with
major lettings in its $300,000 000
Bond Program. These will be State-
wide in over 200 towns and cities,
and for secondary road improvement
in all counties in the State. There
will be a large number of major pri-
mary projects, predominantly four-
laning of existing two-lane highways
and major relocations as a part of
this particular program.

It is expected, assuming there will
be some Federal funds available,
that the total lettings for 1968 will be
of the order of $125,000,000 to $150,-
000,000.

It is difficult to set forth at this
time the trend construction costs be-
cause of the difficulty of determining
the general trend of the economy. It
would appear, however, that costs
will continue to go up moderately be-
cause of inflation.

North Carolina expects to have an
excellent construction year if the
Federal funding is made available for
all types of activities and it would
be most helpful in highway planning
for all States if decisions on these
matters could be made as rapidly as
possible.

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TED BABIES OF 19 6 7 AWAIT FIRST VISIT FROM SANTA

Sons and daughters born to Traffic
Engineering families during 1967 in-
clude the foll-ving:

Top row: Michele Adina Justice,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert

Justice; Sherna Marie Moody, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Moody;
Norman Shon McLamb, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Kirby McLamb.

Second row: Donna Sue DuPree,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Du-
Pree; Sara Ann Grigg, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Grigg; Robert
Vann Cautey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cauley.

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Among those va-
cationing in Flori-
da were Mr. and
Mrs. ALTON
KEEL and Mr.
and Mrs. EU-
GENE LINDSAY,
and all report hav-
ing a most enjoy-
able trip.

LOUISE SIT-

M. G. Carawan ,
Division Correspondent 1 EKSsUM IS wel-
comed to the ranks of District 3 em-
ployees.

Condolences to Mr. and Mrs. D.
W. PATRICK on the passing of Mrs.
Patrick's father, Mr. Elijah Morris.

Sympathy is extended to Mrs. W.
C. SEXTON in the recent death of
her husband, a retired state employee.

We all wish Mr. E. G. LEGGETT
and Mr. S. D. JONES a long and
happy retirement after so many years
of devoted service to the Highway
Commission.

District 3 employees celebrating
birthdays recently were LOUISE
SITTERSON, W. E. MOORE and
W. F. SESSOMS.

Congratulations to CATHY ANGE
who was married on December 4,
1967, at the Church of God in Ply-
mouth, to a former state employee,

David Smithwick. David is now in the
military service and is stationed ait
Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Cathy
is a typist in the Plymouth office.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll Van-
derberry, Jr., and infant son, Robert,
of Chapel Hill, were visitors of their
mother and grandmother, Mrs.
NEDRA HOLLOMAN, recently.

JULIUS HAYNES, Maintenance
Mechanic I, has returned to work
after spending some time with his
wife at Norfolk General Hospital
where she underwent eye surgery.

WILLIE LONG; M. W. GODWIN,
whose fall on ice January 12 resulted
in a sprained shoulder; and F. R.
GILDEN, who had an operation at
the Albemarle Hospital, all have been
recuperating at their homes.

We are happy to have W. E.
MOORE, J. C. MONDS, W. C.
JOHNSON, R. F. HALL and M. L.
HARRIS back to work after having
been on the sick list. Also, on the sick
list are W. GRIGGS DOWDY, Bridge
Tender on the Knobbs Creek Bridge,
who has been confined to Albemarle
Hospital since January 17; Mrs. J.
B. GARRIS, a patient in Norfolk
General Hospital; and Z. F. PAYNE,
Bridge Tender of Manteo, who had a
stay of two weeks at the Norfolk
General Hospital after being badly
burned by an explosion of a stove at
his home.

As of January 11th, S. A. WOOT-
EN, JR. has a new daughter, Dawn
Eason Wooten.

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES DAUGH-
TRY visited friends recently in
Charlotte. Mrs. Daughtry is a Sten-
ographer in the Right-of-Way Depart-
ment.

At the age of three months is Troy
Wayne Raynor, the grandson of M.
S. Raynor of Williamston.

Hazel Raker
Division Correspondent J

Mr. & Mrs. LEX
A. KELLY have
recently moved in-
to a new home in
the Country Club
Area of New Bern.
Their new address
is 4509 Green view
Road, New Bern,
N. C.
Mr. CHARLIE
PUGH, Engr.

Miss Becky Young, Secretary in
the Division Office, spent a long week-
end recently in Kentucky and Ten-
nessee. Becky visited Lookout Moun-
tain, Wonder Cave, The Grand Old
Opry in Tennessee and other points
of interest.

Tech., with Mr. Ralph Pollock's of-
fice in New Bern, is a patient in
Craven Co. Hospital. We wish Char-
lie a speedy recovery and hope he
will be "up & about" shortly.

We welcome aboard Mrs. BETTY
E. WALSTON, Typist, who has join-
ed the staff of Mr. Ralph Pollock's
Construction office. We wish Betty
the best of luck on her new job.

KERMIT RAY ROUSE, Engr.
Aide with Mr. Ralph Pollock's Con-
struction office, was drafted into the
U. S. Army in January. Best of luck
to Ray in his new field of endeavor.

Condolences to the family of Mr.
W. M. EDMONDSON, Highway
Insp II, who died Dec. 18, 1967. Mr.
Edmondson started work with the
Commission on Jan. 2, 1929 and held
various classifications both with the
Maintenance Dept. and the Construc-
tion Dept. He had been employed by
the Construction Dept. at Kinston
office since 1949. He will be missed by
his fellow employees and friends. We
extend our deepest sympathy to his
family.

Congratulations to the following
men in going on permanent status in
the Traffic Department: JAMES W.
SMITH, JAMES N. MANNING,
LYMAN S. EVANS, ALBERT G.
PARAMORE, JR., ARTHUR D.
BUTTS, CLAUDE G. BRAXTON,
WILLIAM WHITE, JR. Transferred
from Dist. 3 Maintenance to Traffic
Sign Erector, LEWIS L. THOMAS.

Best Wishes and congratulations to
Mr. JAKE RAGAN, long time Con-
struction Employee who is going on
Retirement March 1, 1968.

Mr. VERNON B. CARAWAN,
Maintenance Foreman in Pitt County,
is welcomed back to work after being
confined in Pitt Memorial Hospital
for several days.

The following is a release to THE
DAILY REFLECTOR of Greenville

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Mrs. Robert Joe Morgan, Jr., the
former Miss Susie Elizabeth Chaun-
cey is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Chauncey of Washington. The
bridegroom attended N. C. State Uni-
versity and is now a Civil Service
electronics apprentice at Cherry
Point. He is the son of Robert Mor-
gan, Area Foreman in Division Two.

from the Society of Real Estate Ap-
praisers of Chicago, Illinois:

CHICAGO, ILL.— The Society of
Real Estate Appraisers' board of gov-
ernors has awarded the Senior Resi-
dential Appraiser designation to Wal-
lace S. Chandler, Division Appraiser,
North Carolina State Highway Com-
mission.

Mr. Chandler is a member of the
Society's Eastern Carolina Chapter
and has nine years experience in ap-
praising residential and commercial
properties. He received his BS de-
gree from North Carolina State Uni-
versity and has completed real estate
and appraising courses sponsored by
the American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers, North Carolina Real Es-
tate Institute and Carolina Business
College.

Attainment of the SRA membership
designation requires extensive practi-
cal appraisal experience, ability,
knowledge of the current real estate
market and adherence to the Society's
code of ethics.

Only 3,700 appraisers of the So-
ciety's membership of over 18,000
throughout the United States, Canada,
and Puerto Rico have qualified for
this designation which carries profes-
sional endorsement of the Society,

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
John Robert Edwards, Jr. on the
birth of twin daughters born Decem-
ber 20. Mr. Edwards is an Engr. Tech.
II in the Construction Dept. at Kin-
ston.

Irene Hewitt
Division Correspondent '

Congratulations to
JOE LYNN JER-
NIGAN, 17, a se-
nior at Midway
High School, who
is one of the Samp-
^ son County final-

ists in the More-
head Scholarship
competition. Joe
Lynn is president
. of the Midway stu-
dent body. He
played varsity football for four years
and was co-captain his senior year.
His father, C. E. JERNIGAN, is Area
Foreman in Sampson County.

We wish a speedy recovery to LIN-
DA FISHERS two sons (Linda is
Sec. in R-O-W) who have been in the
hospital quite a bit lately. Also to
Ronnie Sears, little son of H. L.
(BUCK) SEARS, our Div. Materials
Inspector.

Sympathy is extended to the fami-
lies of C. T. SPELL and C. A. SES-
SOMS who both passed away recent-
ly. They were employed with the
Maintenance Department in Samp-
son County. Also, the family of BER-
NICE G. HARVELL who died on
January 14. He had been with our
Construction Dept. a number of years.
We would like to extend our sym-
pathy to MARIE FERRELL, Secre-
tary in Maintenance Office at Bur-

gaw, in the bereavement of her
Mother, Mrs. Sue Bordeaux.

We wish a speedy recovery to the
following employees who have been
sick: L. V. WILSON, R. W. BLACK-
BURN, J. O. WILLIAMSON, W. J.
WILKERSON, EARL HARDY,
THURMAN EZZELL, JOHN M.
THORNTON, L. A. HALL, E. R.
HEWETT, HALLIE LAMB, CLIF-
TON SMALL and PURDIE
WRIGHT.

We surely miss some of our per-
sonnel that has recently left us. NEL-
SON I. BOWDEN, R-O-W Agent,
has transferred to Asheville. A fare-
well party was held in his honor at
the Marina Restaurant at Wrights-
ville Beach, N. C. ARLENE MO-
ZINGO, Sec. in ROW, recently re-
signed to go with the new General
Electric Co. plant here in Wilmington.
We're sure she will be quite a jolly
addition for "G.E.". we were very-
fortunate to get Mrs. RUBY CAMP-
BELL, a former employee, to return
in R-O-W. ROSE DUNCAN, former
secretary in Div. Office has trans-
ferred to the N. C. Dept. of Correc-
tion as secretary to Major Whitfield.
We miss Rose very much. CAROLYN
GURGANIOUS has transferred from
N. C. Dept. of Correction to Div. Of-
fice in Rose's place. We were fortun-
ate to get someone we already knew.
Carolyn has a charming little son,
David, 8 mos. old. She was formerly
with the Alabama State Highway
Commission. We are glad to have
BILLY ISOM, our new Division Staff
Engr., with us. He transferred here
from Hendersonville. He and his fa-
mily are now settled in their new
house at Tanglewood. We welcome
EUGENE SKIPPER, a former Wil-
mingtonian who has returned "home"
and come to work in our Construc-
tion Dept. Also the welcome mat is
out for MIRIAM MARLAR, another
former Wilmingtonian who has been
living in Florida for some years She
has taken the Typist job in the Resi-
dent Engr.'s office here in place of
SYLVIA SULLIVAN who resigned
to accept other employment. LEROY
FRINK of Dist. 1 and HARVEY S
CASHWELL of Dist. 2 also resigned
recently to accept other employment.
ROBERT M. BARNHILL of Con-
struction Dept. has gone on Military
Leave.

NELL STRAUGHAN, Secretary in
R-O-W, has recently had the pleasure
of having both her lovely children
visit her. Her son Edward was on
leave from the service and daughter,
Joan, was home between exams from
college,

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Capt. Norman E.
Pridgen, Jr., son of
Mr. NORMAN E.
PRIDGEN, SR.,
Mechanic in the
Division Four,
Equipment Shop,
has gone to Viet-
Nam and stationed
at Chi Lai Air
Base. Captain

Margaret Barefoot n - j • M

Division Correspondent rridgen is a ma-
rine Fighter Pilot.
Mr. MARVIN OWENS, a Me-
chanic in Division Four Shop was in-
volved in a Pool Tournament, Mon-
day night, January 29th, and his
son-in law, Woody Jones defeated
him 11 to 10.

Mr. M. D. MANNING, Division
Four Shop Foreman, is hospitalized
for an eye operation. We wish him a
speedy recovery.

Mr. J. E. JOYNER, Nash County
Area Foreman, retired December 31
after forty-one years with the Main-
tenance Department of the Highway
Commission. Mr. Joyner lives in
Bailey and expects to work part time
and engage in his hobby of gardening.
District Two employees wish for him
a long and happy retirement.

Best wishes are extended to Mr.
M. P. YOUNTAIN, Mr. R. D.
MORGAN with the Maintenance De-
partment and Mr. GROVER WIN-
STEAD with the Equipment De-
partment in Nash County. These men
have been out due to extended illness.

Also out recently due to illness were
R C. WALLACE and NOAH MUR-
RAY who work with the Maintenance
Department in Nash County.

PAUL FULGHUM, Wilson County
Maintenance Supervisor, has return-
ed to work following recent hospital-
ization. Also improving following re-
cent illness is JIMMY STALLINGS,
Wilson County Area Foreman.

Mr. and Mrs. FRANK EDWARDS
had a most enjoyable trip during the
holidays visiting their son and his
family in Mississippi. Mr. Edwards
is an Area Foreman in Nash County.

Also vacationing were Mr. and Mrs.
GEORGE EASON who went by plane
to Florida to meet their daughter and
son-in-law who were returning from
California by way of Florida. Mr.
Eason, is Assistant District Engi-
need in District Two, reports a very
fine trip.

Nash County Maintenance em-
ployees are very happy over the near
completion of a building which will
house facilities for the cleaning and
servicing of equipment.

Mr. J. A. HODGE, District Engi-
neer, has two sons in the U. S. Army,
J. A. Hodge, Jr. — worked with the
Highway Commission in the summer
of 1966; and John E. Hodge — worked
with Mr. M. W. MOORE, Resident
Engineer in our Construction Depart-
ment.

The following employees have been
on sick leave and are welcomed back
to work: E. R. EASON, W. L. Daugh-
try, O. H. BAKER, J. N. BRAS-
WELL, VERNON WELLS, and R.
J. HALES.

Best wishes for a quick recovery to
MAJOR LANE who is presently in
Wayne Memorial Hospital in Golds-
boro, and to P. E. G ARRIS who is
on extended sick leave in Veteran's
Hospital, Fayetteville.

Johnston County employees wel-
come DENNIS DEAN BENSON
back to work after a tour of duty in
the U. S. Army.

JOE and JAMES MASSENGILL,
Area Foremen in Johnston County,
have "Bird" Fever again since the
snow has melted away.

Maintenance Supervisor, Mr. HEN-
RY WIGGINS, in Wayne County is
proud of the fact that employees in
County Maintenance Dept. suffered
no personal injury of equipment acci-
dents during the severe ice and snow
storms in January.

Goldsboro Construction Office wel-
comes a "Transnlanted Texan", Mrs.
TWANA VONMILLER as their
typist. Twana and her husband reside
in their new home on Westwood
Drive.

Also new additions to our office are
D. R. HAYES, Tech II, from the
Smithfield Office, H. E. STRICK-
LAND, Tech I, from the Goldsboro
Maintenance and JIMMIE C. AN-
DERSON, a temoorary Aide.

During the cold weather Mr. C.
B. BULLOCK spent most of his days
searching for one of his horses that
had gotten out. He works in the
Goldsboro Construction Office when
he isn't chasing horses!

We, in the Smithfield Office, regret
losing Mr. D. R. HAYES, Engineer-
ing Technician II on January 8th,

Mr. F. S. BOONE, Highway Inspec-
tor III, Mr. R. F. PARRISH and
Mr. B. R. McKEEL, Engineering
Aides will be transferred to the
Goldsboro Construction Office on
February 5, 1968. "Good Luck" Boys!

We welcome Mr. F. A. MIMMS,
Cooperative Education Trainee and
hope he enjoys his short training pe-
riod with us.

Best wishes to Mr .and Mrs. FRED
J. HETTINGER who celebrated their
25th Wedding Anniversary on Janu-
ary 24th. Fred is Resident Engineer
in the Smithfield Office.

Miss RHONDA JEAN BARNES
celebrated her eighth birthday along
with twenty-three guests at a party
given by her mother, Shelby, on Jan-
uary 6th. Congratulations, Rhonda
and again "Happy Birthday."

Sincere Get Well Wishes To: Mrs.
ALICE DICKERSON, wife of Mr.
J. R. Dickerson, Sr., Master ROGER
WOOD, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Wood and Miss SHEILA PENNY,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. E. PEN-
NY, who have been in the hospital
recently.

Get well wishes
to M. T. ADKINS,
Division Engineer,
who recently un-
derwent an eye
operation. Mr. Ad-
kins seems to be
recuperating very
rapidly and we all
hope it won't be
long before he is

Division Correspondent back at work.

Congratulations to Barbara Jones,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. SAM H.
JONES, who completed a whole
year's algebra by the end of the first
semester. That is quite an achieve-
ment. Sam is Resident Engineer in
Durham.

You can always tell folks with
plenty of money. CURTIS WIL-
LIAMS has so much he had to re-
model his home to spend some of it.
We are all anxious for Curtis to get
through so we can have a house
warming.

ROBERT MANGUM, Landscape
Supervisor, spent two weeks in Flori-
da in January, he reports that the
fishing was not up to par but the

8k

Football and Races were all he ex-
pected. We still haven't seen any of
Robert's winnings but we were treat-
ed with some Florida Fresh Oranges.
But then, there are those in the Divi-
sion who can't speak too highly of the
oranges they received.

Get well wishes to BILLY HILL,
Traffic Services Dept., who has been
in the hospital. The best to you Billy.

Mr. KIRK DUNCAN, Durham
County Maintenance Supervisor, is
out of the hospital and able to be up
and about. Glad to hear he is doing
well but bet this really puts a "kink"
in those fishing trips.

Sympathy to LONNIE CURRIN
in the recent death of his brother.
Lonnie is a mechanic with the Equip-
ment Department in Granville Coun-
ty.

VENCE MORTON is proud of the
new Volkswagen automobile which
he purchased recently.

EARNEST OAKLEY fell on the
ice recently and fractured his arm.
All of his fellow employees wish him
a speedy recovery.

Several employees have been on
sick leave recently because of the flu.
Employees on sick leave recently in-
cluded LENWARD AVERETTE,
WAYNE CURRIN, HERBERT
HENLEY, HENRY HICKS, BOOK-
ER COLE, ALTON DEAN, BOBBY
GRIFFIN, JOHN HART, WILLIAM
REAMS, WAYNE THOMAS and
JOHN LOUIS WILLIAMS.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded ERNEST ADCOCK, ED
DAVIS, ALTON ELLINGTON,
GARLAND ELLINGTON, WIL-
LIAM ELLINGTON, FRANK
LAWS, WILLIE COLE, ERNEST
HICKS, BRUCE H O C K A DA Y ,
VENCEN MORTON, CLARENCE
WILSON and GEORGE WOODY.

SAM AVERETTE has returned to
work after being on sick leave for
several weeks. He was hospitalized
for several days.

BOOKER COLE has also returned
to work after being on sick leave and
hospitalized for a few days.

ALTON ELLINGTON and WAL-
TER RUTLEDGE have returned to
work after being on sick leave for
several days.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded ERNEST ADCOCK, GLEN-
WOOD BROGDEN, GARLAND EL-
LINGTON, BRUCE HOCKAPAY
and MARVIN SEAT,

Santa Claus brought GEORGE
BAILEY a toy train for Christmas.

GLENWOOD BROGDEN and
GEORGE WOODY continue to have
good luck rabbit hunting. Glenwood
has a pack of seven beagles.

WILLIAM REAMS' telephone
seems to break down during snowy
weather.

Durham County Ladies night was
held November 10 at Durham Police
Club. Bar-B-Q, Bar-B Q Chicken and
stew was the main course served. Fol-
lowing the meal a brief talk was made
by K. M. DUNCAN, Maint. Supp.
and M. F. ADKINS, Div. Engineer.
After which the table and chairs
were cleared away for a square dance.

KIRK M. DUNCAN, Maint. Supp.
gave his annual Christmas supper for
his employees and friends on Novem-
ber 17. The supper was held at the
Durham Police Club near Lake
Michie. Bar-B-Q and brunswick stew
was served.

Durham County sick list includes
V. L. DAY, C. O. VAUGHN and V.
R. OVERTON. V. R. Overton has re-
turned to work and we hope that C.
O. Vaughan and V. L. Day will soon
be well enough to return also. W. H.
WALKER has also returned to work
after his convention illness.

tire. There were several who express-
ed their desire for more such occa-
sions. We hope that more will attend
our next party, after hearing about
the good time we had at this one.

There were ap-
proximately forty
couples who at-
tended the Divi-
sion Christmas
party held at the
V.F.W. Hall, in
Fayetteville, on
Thursday, Decem-
ber 14th. The eve-
ning began with a

Division CoSondent social hour> which

gave everyone a
chance to become acquainted. After
a turkey dinner was served, dancing
lasted until near midnight. I must
commend our men on their wives, who
looked so lovely in their holiday at'

Mr. R. A. Averitt, Equipment Su-
perintendent, Division Six, retired
December 29th, after serving faith-
fully for more than 47 years. Mr.
Averitt was succeeded by Mr. W. B.
Nobles, a Columbus County native
who has been employed by the Com-
mission for 21 years. Born in Cum-
berland County in 1902, Mr. Averitt
began work January 1, 1921, with the
Equipment Department as a Field
Mechanic, in 1953 he was promoted
to Mechanic-Foreman, and in 1959
he was promoted to Equipment Su-
perintendent, and held this position
until he retired. Friday at noon Mr.
Averitt was honored with a luncheon,
by the District II Engineers, Main-
tenance Supervisors, and Area Fore-
men from Cumberland and Harnett
Counties, and at that time he was
presented a silver plaque. At the an-
nual Christmas dinner Mr. Averitt
was honored, and at that time he was
presented a watch by his fellow em-
ployees. Mr. Averitt resides with his
wife, the former Ester Moody, at
Route 2, Fayetteville. Mr. Averitt is
an Elder of the Sunnyside Presby-
terian Church.

I certainly enjoyed my vacation
which I took over the holidays. My
husband, Ken, and I, along with our
three children, Craig, Kendra and
Shari, drove to Patroon, Texas to
spend Christmas with my parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Edward S. Burnitt.
We also visited other relatives in
Shreveport, Louisiana. We had a
wonderful time, but I must say, I'm
happy to be back in North Carolina.

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The following poem was written by
BARBARA PEARCE, Typist in the
Resident Engineer's Office, in Fay-
etteville, to describe their office
Christmas party.

Fun for everyone we thought
would be the thing,

a party for Christmas which
turned out to be a bang.

Refreshments sparkled with
Christmas delight,

caused our celebration to
turn out just right.

Loftis and Jenkins, Engineers
with supervisory tones,

were presented gifts from their
men to take home.

Day, Butler and Allen received
a gift from us too,

for being our leaders the
whole year through.

The following Right of Way Agents
and Aides from Division Six have
been responsible for acquiring the
right of way on two projects located
in Division Ten: HILBRETH L.
BRITT, W. L. CRAWFORD, A. E.
DIXON and MERRIT F. HARRI-
SON, SR. These men have been re-
sponsible for acquiring the right of
way on two projects located on US
74 — one from Marshville to Peach-
land, and one from Peachland to
Wadesboro. We are happy to report
that Mr. A. E. Dixon was successful
in acquiring 100% of the right of way
settlements on the US 74 project
from Marshville to Peachland.

The Right of Way Department wel-
comes a new employee, CLAUDE R.
MOORE, JR., who was recently
transferred from the Right of Way
Department in Waynesville to Fay-
etteville. Mr. Moore and his wife,
Nancy and their two sons, Tri and
Richard, live at 3313 Madison Ave-
nue, Fayetteville. Tri has had the
Chicken Pox recently, and Richard
now has the Flu.

Our sincere sympathy is extended
to HILBRETH L. BRITT, Right of
Way Agent, upon the sudden death
of his sister-in-law, Mrs. J. P. Britt
of Swannanoa, on December 23rd.

MERRIT F. HARRISON, SR.
and his wife, Doris, and their son,
Merrit, Jr., visited his father and sis-
ter in San Antonio, Texas during the
last week of December. Mr. Harrison
reported that it rained all the way
to Texas and all the way back to
Fayetteville. Other than the rain, they
had a wonderful trip and enjoyed
their visit with his father and sister
and her family. While in San Antonio
they observed construction of the 1968
Hemisfair and other points of inter-
est.

A Retirement Party to honor B. T.
Bordeaux, Maintenance Supervisor in
Bladen County, was given at Sam's
Place in White Lake, on December
29th. Mr. Bordeaux began his em-
ployment with the Commission in
1923. He became Maintenance Super-
visor in 1949, and his retirement was
effective January 1st of this year.
Congratulations to you, Mr. Bor-
deaux. May your retirement years be
very enjoyable ones.

Location Department hunters —
ERNIE CAIN and BOBBY JOHN-
SON, spent their Christmas holidays
deer and quail hunting. Ernie got his
deer on the final day, with help from
his dog, Banjo. Bobby bagged his li-
mit each day he visited the fields.
Who said they need glasses?

Best Wishes to BILL BENNETT,
JR., of the Location Department, who
is being transferred to Aberdeen in
February.

Welcome to CHARLES W.
BROWN, Tech Trainee who joined
the Location Field Party in Fayette-
ville. Charlie is a graduate of Fayette-
vill Technical Institute, and is pres-
ently working under the Training
Program.

Property Survey's A. P. SPENCE
and wife spent New Years in Kansas
City, Mo. with their daughter who is
completing Airline Stewardess School
in January.

J. T. BUIE of the Construction
Department, has returned to work af-
ter a confinement with the Flu.

W. G. HARRISON is back at work
after a fishing trip to Lake Occaho-
bee, Florida,

The daughter of S. H. EASON,
Kimberly Kay, is home from the
Babies Hospital at Wrightsville.
sound after a brief stay there .

The Construction Department em-
ployees at Lumberton have made a
New Year's resolution to strive to
make 1968 a better year.

They would like to welcome Mrs.
LINDA FLOYD, Typist with the
Resident Engineer's Office at Lum-
berton. She and her husband, Jimmy,
have two daughters, Cynthia Lynn,
age 5, and Donna Kaye, age 4. We
are very glad to hear that she is en-
joying her new job.

Several employees of the Construc-
tion Department at Lumberton have
been out with the "Flu Bug", but have
recuperated and are back on the job.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of Mr. CRAYTON BARNES who
died on January 19th. Mr. Barnes
was employed with the Maintenance
Department and retired September
1st.

Best Wishes to Mr. JODIE ED-
WARDS, Maintenance Foreman II,
who retired January 1. Mr. Edwards
has been with the Maintenance De-
partment since January 12, 1944.

AMOS HOWELL, Truck Driver in
Cumberland County, died December
17, 1967, after a month long illness.

Get well wishes are extended to J.
C. WARD and H. C. BLACKWELL,
of the Maintenance Department in
Whiteville.

R. H. DAVIS transferred from Ro-
beson County to Whiteville as an En-
gineer Tech I.

The preacher, hoping to get ac-
quainted with one of the new mem-
bers of the congregation, knocked on
the front door of her home one even-
ing.

"Is that you, Angel," came the wo-
man's voice from within.

"No," replied the minister, "but
I'm from the same department."

"Why don't you go out with me
this evening for dining and dancing?"
the salesman said to the barbershop
manicurist working on his fingernails.

"I can't. I'm married."

"You could tell your husband you
had to work late," the persistent sales-
man said.

"You tell him," she said sweetly,
"he's shaving you.

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DIVISION
SEVEN

5ION I

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Welcome, to the
new secretaries in
the Division Office
building —

MELBA WEB-
STER came with
us the first of Jan-
uary. Melba is ori-
ginally from
Leaksville and she
has lived in

Carolyn Graves Orppnehnrn several

Division Correspondent ^reensooro several
years. She, her husband and 14 year
old daughter live at Country Club
Apts.

CLAIRE GENTRY, has recently
moved to Greensboro from Raleigh,
her husband being transferred here
with Burlington Industries. She will
be remembered in the Raleigh office
as having been with Project Control
and Personnel. We are happy to have
these two efficient ladies with us.

CARLTON ROBERTS, who has
been one of our most efficient young
men in the Division Office, has been
transferred to the Traffic Services
Department. We shall miss his willing
services, however, wish for him the
very best in his new position.

OLLIE N. ALLEY, Maintenance
Supervisor of Rockingham County,
retired on February 1st, after 32 years
of faithful service with the State. We
wish for him a happy and interesting
retirement, playing with his grand-
children and getting in all the fishing
he wants.

R. L. HICKERSON, Resident En-
gineer, retired on March 1, after 47
years service with the State. We wish
for him a very happy retirement in
which he has the time of those things
he wishes most to do.

GARLAND O. CLODFELTER,
Maintenance Foreman, retired on
March 1, after 42 years of faithful
service with the State. He shall be
missed — we wish for him the best.

The stork received assistance dur-
ing the recent snow storm when the
state road machines cleared the road
for ambulance to take an expectant
mother to the hospital. However, they
were not quite quick enough, as the

baby would not wait and the mother
and baby were both taken to the hos-
pital, where both were reported in
good shape. Congratulations men, for
a job well done.

Here's hoping for RAY SHELTON
a speedy recovery after surgery — this
is the second operation for him in
recent months.

Sympathy is extended to the fami-
lies of H. B. MYERS and R. V.
GRAHAM in the recent death of
their wives.

Well, we must report that one of
our emloyees says he was knocked
speechless recently when he slipped
on the ice which jarred him so badly
that he couldn't talk for awhile and
his teeth were loosened. That's a hard
way for one to keep his mouth shut.

THOMAS E. SHERRON, M. F.
2, working out of Camp Burton, suf-
fered a heart attack on October 25th,
and to date has not returned to work.
It is reported that he is improving
and expects to return soon.

HAROLD G. RUDD, was injured
on the job under date of November
20, returned to work on December
27th.

Svmpathy is extended to SHIR-
LEY NEWELL in the death of his
father, John W. Newell.

CHARLIE E. GREENE, a former
Machine Operator III, was retired
in 1962, passed away on January 5th.

LONNIE R. REECE, M. F. 2 work-
ing out of Sandy Ridge Camp, retired
on Dec. 1, and has moved to Cocoa
Beach, Florida.

LARRY C. COLEMAN, Temp.
Truck Driver, working out of Sandy
Ridge Camp, has been confined to
Forsyth Memorial Hospital and is
reported improving.

VAN WOOD STAFFORD, Truck
Driver, working out of Sandy Ridge
C?mo, was confined to Forsyth Me-
morial Hospital and is expected to
return to work shortly.

Mrs. FRED WOOD, wife of M. F.
IV, Sandy Ridge Camp, was a patient
in Moses H. Memorial Hospital in
Greensboro and has returned home.

Harold Jones, son of M. F.
TV, A. W. JONES, Sandv R;dge
Camp, was a patient in High Point
Memorial and has returned to school.

DIVISION
EIGHT

Sympathy is ex-
tended to CURTIS
LEE SUMMEY,
Truck Driver, Dis-
trict One, in the
death of his father,
B. H. Summey of
Denton on Decem-
ber 16; also, to
BEN CAMERON
MORGAN, Main-
Virginia Williamson tenance Foreman

Division Correspondent in District One on

the death of his father Ben Franklin
Morgan on December 13.

Employees were saddened by the
death of W. A. ALLAN, a former
Bridge Department employee in San-
ford, who retired three years ago.
Mr. Allan died on January 2.

Our best wishes to the newly weds.
Among these have been: Jean Caro-
lvn Weldon, daughter of Maintenance
Foreman and Mrs. ROBERT WEL-
DON, District II, who was mar-
ried January 20 to Carey Fincher of
Goldston. The lovely church cere-
mony was performed in the Salem
Presbyterian Church, Sanford, follow-
ed by a reception given by her pa-
rents. They will be making their
home in Goldston.

Bobby Thomas, son of CLARENCE
B. THOMAS, Maintenance Depart-
ment, Sanford, was married to Sher-
rill Thomas in the Mt Pisgah Presby-
terian Church, near Broadway. They
will be making their home in Semi-
nole.

Patricia Wall, daughter of PAUL
WALL, Construction Department,
Sanford, was married to Richard Frve
of Carthage on December 23 in the
Yates-Thaggard Baptist Church, San-
ford.

Brenda Sue Tedder, daughter of
PAUL TEDDER, Maintenance Fore-
man in District 1, R^ndolnh County,
was married to Earl Wavne King, in
a lovelv church ceremony in the
Union Grove United Church of Christ,
Asheboro. Mrs. King is employed in

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Mrs. Larry Rickard, the former
Lida Chapman Bullock of Red
Springs, who became the bride of
Larry Rickard, Maintenance Depart-
ment, Raeford, on December 22.
"Tina" as she likes to be called, also
graduated from UNC-G, in January
and has accepted a teaching position
at Riley Road Elementary School,
Cumberland County. Larry and Tina
are living in Red Springs.

the Payroll Department of Burlington
Socks; while her husband is presently
stationed at Fort Ord, California, with
the U. S. Army.

Two proud grandfathers — Michael
Lawrence Phillips, born to Judy and
Larry Phillips. TOM COLLINS,
Road Oil Foreman, is the proud
grandfather. A son born to the Mack
Douglas Patricks of Washington, D.

C. DOUGLAS PATRICK, Landscape
Foreman, is the proud grandfather.
Mr. Patrick and his daughter recently
visited in Washington with Mack
Douglas and his family.

LESTER BAILEY, Maintenance
Department, Carthage, reports a most
enjoyable trip to Florida during late
December. We hope he can soon go
again — the oranges and grapefruit
were delicious.

We are glad to hear that T. K.
SMITH, Resident Engineer, Ashe-
boro, is able to be back at work again,
having been in Duke Hospital recent-
ly for surgery. We certainly hope that

D. M. KUNCE, Landscape Supervis-
or, is going to be feeling much better
real soon and able to be back at work.
We miss his smiling face in the Divi-
sion Office when he is unable to be
here. Hurry back, Mr. Kunce!

Mr. T. C. JOHNSTON had an en-
joyable visit with Bob Southall a few
days ago. Mr. Southall was a patient
in Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem
for a few days in December. It is
always good to hear from Mr. South-
all. I hear he made a short trip to
Florida back in the fall, and I am
anxious to visit with him and hear
about his trip.

Congratulations to the DON W.
JOHNSONS, Engineer Aide in Siler
City, on the birth of their baby; also,
ROBERT LEE EDWARDS, Road
Oil Department — a baby girl to that
family.

J. O. BLACKMAN, Sign Painter,
Asheboro, is confined to bed in Vet-
erans Hospital, Durham. We hope he
will be improving soon.

JUNIOR HICKS, Maintenance De-
partment, Carthage, reports he is
mighty happy to have his son home
from service.

Our best wishes to ALONZA G.
WOMACK, Maintenance Foreman,
District II, Sanford, who retired on
January 1. Mr. Womack was pre-
sented a check by his fellow workers
at time of retirement in token of their
friendship and years of service to-
gether, as all departments in Sanford
gathered at the close of the work day.

Mr. W. E. SPENCER, Machine
Operator, District 1, Randolph Coun-
ty, retired January 1 after having
served more than 23 years with the
State Highway Commission. We wish
Mr. Spencer many happy years of
retirement, and the very best of luck.
He will be greatly missed by his fel-
low workers.

DIVISION
NINE

J. L. Stewart and wife Nell, with
one of their catches at Long Beach.
We hear retirement gets better all the
time for this former Maintenance
Supervisor in Lee County.

Sympathy is ex-
tended by all Road
Oil Department
personnel to JIM
LEAKE, Winston-
Salem, in the
death of his bro-
ther who resided
in Stoneville.

Get well wishes
go to Mr. H. L.

Dorothy Phelps MYERS, who has
Division Correspondent x JJJ-»"^'
been hospitalized and is now recuper-
ating at home. We wish for you a
speedy recovery and return to work.

E. M. NEILL has joined the Divi-
sion Nine forces as Foreman and
will be working with District 2, in
Forsyth County. We are happy to
have you with us.

We offer our deepest sympathy to
the family of Mr. DAVID CROCK-
ETT OGBURN of Route 3, Winston-
Salem. Mr. Ogburn died at his home
on December 29th. He was the father
of ALDEEN S. "DINK" OGBURN,
Division Nine Traffic Service Fore-
man, who resides on Route 7, Win-
ston-Salem.

We were all sorry to hear that
RALPH W. NANCE, 2221 Winston
Road, Lexington, suffered a stroke
on Sunday, January 14th. Mr. Nance,
is a Sign Erector with Traffic
Services, is now recuperating at his
home. We sincerely wish for him a
speedy recovery.

Right of Way extends its condol-
ences and heartfelt sympathy to G. C.
WALTERS and family on the recent
death of his father, GROVER C.
WALTERS. Right of Way persons at-
tending the funeral in Blowing Rock
were LARRY CABE, R. H.
BROOME, III, EARL SMITH and
EDITH CARPENTER.

A complete and speedy recovery is
wished for Mr. LLOYD LEFTWICH
of Mt. Airy, father of ROSCOE J.
LEFTWICH, Right of Way Agent,
and JAMES E. LEFTWICH, Resi-
dent Engineer, who entered Baptist
Hospital for heart surgery. Mr. Left-
wich is reported recovering favorably
at his home.

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The above picture is little Chris-
topher Scott Thrift having his first
visit with Santa. Little Chris Scott
couldn't tell Santa what he wanted
but Mom put in a good word for
him. He's the 10-month old son of
Mrs. Marie Thrift, Stenographer in
the Winston-Salem District Office.

Rockin' and a'waitin for Santa
Claus is Lori Elizabeth Davenport
who is 5 months old and the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davenport.
Lori's father, Jerry, is employed in
the Construction Department in Win-
ston-Salem.

We wish to welcome the following
new employees who joined State
forces with the Stokes County Main-
tenance Department. The following
laborers were employed: R. M.
BROWN, P. J. ROMINGER, H. HA-
ZELWOOD, R. L. COLEMAN, B.
HAUSER, L. D. MARTIN, J. F.
MABE, T. E. RICHARDSON, R. E.

Brian Keith Rothrock seems to be
tickled pink at the thoughts of Santa
Claus visiting him for the first time.
He was born September 21, 1967.
Needless to say, Brian's Grandpa-
rents, who are Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Rothrock of Walnut Cove, were
quite proud to welcome their first
grandchild. Dewey is Resident En-
gineer in Winston-Salem.

JOYCE and R. SEARCY. The fol-
lowing truck drivers were employed:
S. E. M. GOAD, L. J. JOYCE and
E. R. KNIGHT.

The welcome mat is out for JAMES
SHIELDS USSERY of Asheville who
has accepted permanent employment
in Right of Way. Jim is a graduate of
Asheville-Biltmore College.

A "Hi You All'' and welcome is
also extended to RONALD ARTHUR
GIFFORD and wife Pamela who hail
from Massachusetts, originally. Ron-
ald is a graduate of Wake Forest
University and Boston U. He has ac-
cepted permanent employment with
the Appraisal Department and will
be in training here three months.

Mr. JOSEPH MINOR has accept-
ed temporary employment with R/W
Secondary Roads and is most wel-
come.

I am sure that quite a few of you
sports lovers can appreciate these
two eight-point deer which Clyde
Brown shot on November 22nd and
25th in Surry County. Clyde is with
the Landscape Department in Win-
ston-S::lem. Incidentally, for those of
you who may have been sending ani-
mals to the Taxidermist in Asheville
for lack of knowing of anyone nearer,
Clyde advised that Mr. Buddy
Grubbs, North Street, Rural Hall,
North Carolina, Telephone 989-5788,
does excellent work of this type and
of course is much nearer to those in
this area.

One who believes "There's GOLD
in Them Thar Hills" will be delight-
ed to hear that a glittering occasion
took place in Winston-Salem — The
GOLDEN Anniversary of The Moose.
EDITH CARPENTER and husband
W. R. Carpenter, who are "Top
Officials" of the local Moose also re-
ported a new member, the Honorable
Nick Galifianakis, U. S. Representa-
tive, joined their Lodge. For this
golden occasion Mr. Walter Ketz,
Superintendent of Mooseheart, Illi-
nois, flew here to address Moose
Twin-Citians.

On our concern for Mrs. BUCK
PATTERSON, we are happy she is
heme from being hospitalized and re-
covering, following a heart attack.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to P. O. YOUNG and family in the

loss of his brother-in-law, Mr. J. O.
Bennett of Walnut Cove, when the
bridge collapsed at Point Pleasant,
West Virginia. Mr. Bennett's body
was recovered on Wednesday, Decem-
ber 20, and funeral services were held
at the Bethel Baptist Church on Fri-
day December 22.

A "Welcome Mat" is out, as well
as "Congratulations'' to Mary Moore
Winters, who has been employed as
a Typist II in the office of W. D.
Rothrock in Winston-Salem. Mary
has learned real well to look after
herself — in spite of all the teasing
and jokes she has to take from the
Engineers and Inspectors. However,
she finds the task a bit easier now
since she acquired a MRS. with her
name. She and Robert Donald Win-
ters were married in Calvary Mora-
vian Church on December 16. They
will be living in Winston-Salem,
where Don is employed by the Belk's
Department Store.

The month of December offered the
opportunity for Teresa Anne Clod-
felter to change her name to Mrs.
George Wayne Burns. Her husband,
George, is employed in the Construc-
tion Department in Winston-S~l3m.
They were married in Wallburg Bap-
tist Church on December 23, and went
on a honeymoon to Florida for the
Christmas holidays. Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs.!

S9

it is good to have JULIE LARSON,
Road Oil Stenographer, back after
her sojourn in Baptist Hospital and
at home recuperating.

Mr. and Mrs. ARNOLD L. MY-
ERS recently enjoyed a two weeks
vacation of relaxation and fishing in
parts of Florida. No reports are avail-
able as to where Arnold did more re-
laxing— or fishing. He is a Highway
Inspector III in the Winston-Salem
Construction Office.

I DIVISION (
L TEN

We welcome
back C. R. SMITH,
District Engineer,
who has been out
for the past several
months due to a
heart attack. He
says he feels good
and is looking for-
ward to getting
back in the har-
J. W. Jones ness
Division Correspondent

Best of luck to D. L. GADDY and
J. I. STREATER. They are leaving
for a tour of duty with "Uncle Sam".
Both men are Truck Drivers in Anson
County.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of three retired Anson County em-
ployees, who passed away during the
month of January. They were J. F.
TURNER, J. D. REDFEARN and
G. C. ALLEN. Mr. Turner and Mr.
Redfearn were Maintenance Foremen
II when they retired and Mr. Allen
was a General Utility Man.

Get well wishes for JOSIAH PER-
RY and C. B. FLOYD. Both men had
surgery in Charlotte Memorial Hos-
pital.

H. W. LOVE, Maintenance Fore-
man IV in Cabarrus County, visited
his daughter and family during
Christmas Holidays in Gainesville,
Florida.

Best wishes are extended to C. W.
HURLOCKER, Cabarrus County em-
ployee, who retired January 1. He
had been employed since 1947.

Welcome to permanent status in
Stanly County Maintenance —
LLOYD RUSSELL and W. P.
CRAWLEY, new Truck Drivers.

Our sincere best wishes to R. B.
HAFN, Machine Operator I in Stan-
ly County, who retired February 1.

Welcome back to work from being
on sick leave: RAY HATHCOCK,

JAY AUSTIN, H. R. POPLIN and
C. A. FRICK.

Condolences to the family of
Thomas Vern Staton, Sr., who passed
away in the hospital, January 3. His
son, THOMAS V. STATON, JR. is
employed with the Maintenance De-
partment as the Assistant District En-
gineer.

WINTER'S REVENGE

Listen my children and you shall
hear;

Of the midnight ride of the

Maintenance Reveres.
The snow was snowing, the sleet

was falling;
And not a mowing machine was

seen to be mowing.
The salt was flying, the sand was

spreading;
While all motorists wished they

were out sledding.
The roads were impassable, the storm

grew fierce as a witch;
While many a citizen found himself

in the ditch.
Wheels were spinning, traction was

bad,

Many a striving Businessman was

known to grow sad.
The land it was white, the sky

it was gray,
And many a District Engineer

was seen to pray.
For his salt supply was dwindling

and his employees were tired;
While the sliding public demanded

that he be fired.
But, alas, the sky cleared,

the radio was silent;
All was well, and no one had

become violent.
As the roads were cleared, a weary

Engineer was heard to mumble;
Oh help me Father, the roads were

beginning to crumble.
But we who saw it all through

have nothing to dread;
If Winter is here —

Can Spring be far ahead!
Written By: C. N. WHILDEN, JR.
District Engineer
Charlotte, N. C.
* * *

Sympathy is extended to JIM AL-
LEN and family. His brother George,
passed away recently.

A speedy recovery is wished for
SPENCER BURRIS, who underwent
surgery recently. We hope he will
soon be able to return to work.

CLAUDE RIDENHOUR, better
known now as Grandpa, since he was
recently blessed with his first Grand-
child (Grandson). Grandpa Riden-
hour also verifies the faot you learn
something new as you get older, there

were two dogs fighting, a big one
winning over a small one — Grandpa
to the rescue, but also to his sorrow
received a badly bitten hand — Grand-
pa's advice to all of us is "If you
have to referee a dog fight you had
better use a stick not the bare hand".

SWAIN MOORE, thinking he
could judge mules like other big trad-
ers who are well known to a lot of
Road Oil Folks decided he would
trade for one. The other party's tac-
tics used on Swain were that the mule
was so slow that a person could walk
behind him all day. But as the story
goes, when the mule was unloaded
he took off running and hasn't been
seen since. Swain said ho was the
fastest thing he ever saw on four
wheels. And too "His trading days are
over".

It seems that some folks are not
cut out for gardening, for instance
RALPH FISHER and SPENCE
MAULDIN decided last summer to
combine their resources and know
how with the goal of filling two home
freezers with food and maybe selling
the surplus. The Road Oil Dept. went
on ten hours a day, so the evenings
were not long enough, they couldn't
make themselves work on Saturdays,
so some seeds went unplanted while
others went unworked, yet Ralph and
Spence say the weather run them out
of business, but the wives say they
were too lazy. At any rate the tractor
arid equipment was sold at a loss and
all concerned have agreed to close out
the business. So Ralph and Spence
want to say to those friends who were
looking for fresh vegetables last sum-
mer and who might still be looking,
"Sorry Folks" its over.

TRAFFIC SERVICES and other
State Highway Depts. express sym-
pathy in the recent death of Traffic
Service Supervisor CLYDE HUNEY-
CUTT'S father, Walter J. Huneycutt.

Traffic Services welcomes back LO-
RAIN WELCH who has been in
Veterans Hospital.

Traffic Services welcomes these
new permanent employees: RAY JU-
NIOR SMITH, DAVID TALBERT,
RAYMOND POPLIN and MI-
CHAEL CARRIKER.

CAROL AUSTIN, Secretary in the
Right of Way Department, and her
husband, Vernon were having a good
time sledding Thursday, January 19th
until Vernon lost control of his sled
and ran into a driveway pipe and
broke his arm. I would say this would
be one ride he wouldn't forget. Hope
he has better luck next time.

Congratulations to HOWARD
WOOTEN, Agent in the Right of

Way Department, upon becoming a
proud grandfather of a big boy. His
daughter, Janice, gave birth to little
Scott Lane on January 9.

PAM NAPIER, Secretary in the
Right of Way Department, and her
husband, John Wayne joined the
Stanly Trailblazers on Sunday after-
noon, which is a newly formed camp-
ing club in Stanly County. All the
members of this club also joined the
National Campers & Hikers Associ-
ation. Thought this might be of in-
terest to other campers.

HOWARD WOOTEN has handed
in his resignation as Agent in the
Right of Way Department. He is go-
ing into demolition business for him-
self. Mrs. Pollard has invited every-
body to her home on Friday, Febru-
ary 2nd, for a spaghetti supper in
honor of Howard. We wish him much
success in his new business.

Dolores Rogers

Sympathy is ex-
tended to District
1 employees S. H.
RENEGAR and G.
I. HARRIS whose
fathers passed
away recently and
to the family of
W. S. (SIMP)
WALSH who pass-
ed away January
18th. Mr. Walsh

Division Correspondent^ retired Majn.

tenance Foreman
for Wilkes County.

Congratulations to Mr. SAMMY
HOLDER and Miss Margaretta H.
Amburn who were married January
24th. Sammy is a Machine Operator
II in Surry County.

We are glad to have Mr. JOHN
HOPPER Right of Way Agent, back
at work after out on sick leave.

District 1 employee C. H. BAD-
GETT and his family spent the
Christmas holidays in Orlando, Flor-
ida visiting relatives.

With all the snow, sleet and freez-
ing rain we have had lately, you
might say that weather conditions in
this area leave a lot to be desired.
However we would like to take this
opportunity to thank our employees
for their efforts in keeping the high-
ways cleared and congratulate them
for a job WELL DONE!!

Employees of the Eleventh Division
were saddened by the death of Frank
W. McCracken, Maintenance Super-
visor for Caldwell County, on January
9, 1968. Mr. McCracken was a dedi-
cated employee of the Commission
and will be missed greatly by all who
knew him. He began work with the
Commission January 1, 1925, in the
western part of North Carolina and
transferred from Sylva to Boone in
1931. He worked in Haywood, Jack-
son, Graham, Watauga, Ashe and
Avery Counties during his 43 years of
service. Mr. J. H. Council, Area
Maintenance Engineer, made the fol-

lowing statement regarding Mr. Mc-
Cracken which I feel expresses all
of our thoughts:

"Frank and I had worked together
continuously from January 1, 1925,
until his death January 9, 1988. He
was one of the finest christian gentle-
men it has been my privilege to know.
I am confident that during all of
these years he never did one single
thing that he did not believe to be
completely fair and honest. He was a
capabla, dedicated employee and was
referred to by many as the best bi-
tuminous patch foreman in North Ca-
rolina. Duiing his long career, he had
served well in many capacities, among
them, mechanic, labor foreman, patch
foreman, gang foreman, area foreman
and maintenance supervisor. North
Carolina has lost a valued employee
and those of us who were associated
with him a very dear friend."

Our depest sympathy is extended to
his family.

What is a Good Man?

He is silent when your words

would hurt.
He is patient when the

neighbor's curt.
He is deaf when scandal flows,
and thoughtful for other's

woes.

He is prompt when stern duty
calls,

and is courageous when
misfortune falls.

It would appear that quite a few changes have been made around the High-
way Commission since this picture was taken at Pembroke in 1942. Left to
right — Gene W. Haire, Assistant Locating Engineer, North Wilkesboro; Henry
O. Drum, Area Locating Engineer, North Wilkesboro; and Alfred Phillips,
former employee of the Commission.

I DIVISION
TWELVE

Our deepest
sympathy is ex-
tended to the fa-
m i 1 y of J . P.
PHILBECK,
Maintenance em-
ployee in Gaston
County, who died
December 30, 1967.

Our sympathy is
extended to the
Division Correspondent family of ARLIN
LUTHER REEL, another Mainten-
ance employee in Gaston County, who
died December 16, 1967.

We wish for BARBARA ANDER-
SON, Typist in the Construction De-
partment, a speedy recovery from her
recent operation.

We welcome Mr. DAVID CLARKE
JONES to our Construction Depart-
ment at Statesville. He came to us
from the Roadway Design Depart-
ment.

Get Well Wishes are sent to Mr.
E. W. LIPSCOMB, JR , Maintenance
employee in Cleveland County. May
he soon be able to return to work.

Miss JEAN HELTON has been
employed as a Typist in the Resident
Engineer's Office at Hickory.

Mr. and Mrs. J. T. BENFIELD are
the proud parents of a son, Eric Ryan.
Jim is with the Hickory Construction
Party.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and
Mrs. G. I. PEARCE in the recent
deaths of both his Mother and her
Mother. Mr. Pearce is a Highway
Inspector III at the Hickory Office.

Mrs. Carl Acker (Wife of Right of
Way Agent CARL ACKER) is re-
covering at hrme after a recent stay
in the hospital.

BILL BURGESS, ED COOKE,
RALPH E. GREENE, DURHAM
WHISNANT and CARL ACKER of
the Right of Way Department attend-
ed Mr. A. E. SNELSON'S retirement
banquet in Asheville in December,
1967. The Twelfth Division wishes
Mr. Snelson many Happy Retirement
Years!

Mrs. JEAN CLINE (Division 12
Correspondent) is recovering at home
after a recent stay in the hospital. We
wish for her a speedy recovery and
hope to have her back in the Divi-
sion Office soon.

Pictured above is a group of deer hunters made up of, 1. to r. Gleen Morton,
Hazel Talent, R. W. Ward, Carl Ellis, Joe Gantt, and Dale Mauney. They are
all employed by the Equipment Dept., Division 12 Shop, Shelby, N. C.

The SNOGO went out on its first mission during our recent heavy snows.
Earl McEntyre, Gene Edmunds, Ron Butler, Warren Franklin, Ken McCall
and several others went to report on how well it did and the agreement seemed
to be that there was no better way to clear a road up to the top of Mount
Mitchell, which was covered with more than 36 inches of snow. The tempera-
ture was 10 degrees below zero and Ron Butler says it wasn't bikini weather!!
Joe Cheek, Burdett Carrcll and Ben Griffin operated the SNOGO and the
motor grader. You can get an idea of how deep some of the drifts were by the
way the snow is nearly to the top of our sign for N. C. 128. The other picture
shows the SNGGO in action on the way up to the top of Mount Mitchell.

Sympathy is extended to CARL
ALLEN in the death of his brother.
Carl is employed with the Equipment
Department in Shelby, N. C.

RALPH M. HARRILL and family
visited relitives in Florida during De-
cember. Ralph is employed in the
Construction Department at Shelby.
We wish to congratulate him on his
recent promotion.

Mr. S. R. STUTTS, M. O. 3 in
Iredell County, is still away from
work due to sickness. We hope he
will soon be back.

Mr. F. F. WARREN, Maintenance
Foreman 3 in Iredell County, return-
ed to work on January 8 after being
out for over a year due to accident.

Mr. and Mrs. L. R. TEAGUE are
the parents of a baby daughter,
Sharon LaRue, born December 11,
1967. Mr. Teague is M. O. 1 in Alex-
ander County.

Mr. E. T. COLES, Truck Driver in
Iredell County, is back at work after
being in the hospital for surgery.

Sympathy is extended to the fami-
ly of Mr. G. W. PEARSON who
passed away January 9. Mr, Pearson

was a maintenance employee in Alex-
ander County.

Mr. G. S. HENLY, M. O. 2 in Ca-
tawba County, is home after being in
the hospital due to heart attack.

Mr. H. T. TEAGUE, M. O. 3 in
Catawba County, is away from work
due to sickness.

Mr. G. H. ARMSTRONG, SR.,
General Utility Man, is out due to
accident while working during our
recent snow and ice.

We have had two men to retire in
Catawba County— Mr. W. G. HUNT,
M. O. 1, retired December 15 and
Mr. G. D. McREE, M. O. 3, retired
December 29. We hope they enjoy
their retirement years to the fullest.

Sympathy is extended to retired
Maintenance employee C. V. TILLEY
in the death of his wife on January 26.

Sympathy is extended to CECIL
CLARK, Area Traffic Engineer, in
the death of his Father on December
16th. We also regret that Cecil will be
leaving the Highway Commission the
first of the year to accept a position
with the City of Hickory, but we wish
him the best of luck.

Debra Edney was one of the seven
members selected from the Shelby
High School Band to participate in
the All-State Band Clinic, Southwest
Division which was held in Gastonia
on January 26th and 27. She was
chosen as one of the first clarinetist
for this band. She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Edney. Her
mother is Road Oil Clerk in Shelby.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to the family of FURMAN ED-
WARDS, retired Construction em-
ployee, who died on December 18th.
Mr. Edwards, a Bridge Inspector, re-
tired in 1966 due to ill health.

Retired Division Engineer E. L.
KEMPER and Mrs. Kemper vaca-
tioned in Hawaii for the Christmas
Holidays.

Retired Office Engineer E. R. Mc-
GIMPSEY spent his Christmas Holi-
days in Florida.

M. N. A. DIXON, Construction
Employee at Statesville, has resigned
to accept another job. We wish him
much success in his new employment.

SONNY L. BENTLEY, Engineer-
ing Technician II, recently resigned
from our Construction Department in
Shelby to accept work with a Lumber
Company in Gastonia. We wish him
much success in his new work.

We are very glad to have Traffic
Services Supervisor CLYDE POS-
TON, JR. back at work after several
weeks of sickness.

Best wishes and a speedy recovery
to Mr. FRED SUMMERS, Traffic
Services Foreman, who recently was
dismissed from the Hospital. We hope
he will soon be back at work.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. SPRINKLE in the death
of her Mother, Mrs. Tilley.

We welcome the following new em-
ployees in the Traffic Services De-
partment: K. F. BAYNARD, W. H.
BROOKS, J. C. McSWAIN, and V.
C. GREENE.

Sympathy is extended to GUY G.
BUTLER, employee of the Road Oil
Department, on the death of his
mother.

The Division 12 Equipment Dept.
was well represented for the opening
of deer season. The group, made up
of CARL ELLIS, DALE MAUNEY,
GLENN MORTON, JOE GANTT,
HAZEL TALENT, and R. W.
WARD left Sunday, Nov. 19th for
their annual two day hunting and
camping trip to the Table Rock area
in Burke County. Glenn Morton was
the official cook and R. W. Ward
handled the dish washing and wood
chopping chores. Hazel Talent was
the only one that killed a deer, so it
looks as though the rest of the boys
just went along to eat and sleep.

WAYNE D. MILLER, JR., Me-
chanic in the Division 12 Shop was
elected Adjutant in the Warren F.
Hoyle Post 82 American Legion, Shel-
by, N. C. on Dec. 11th. Wayne has
held membership in this post for 23
years having served many offices in-
cluding Post Commander, 27th Dis-
trict Commander. At present is serv-
ing a term on the National Security
Commission, and a three year term
on the State Security Council. Wayne
also attends all state and National
conventions.

Miss Kathy Dian Short and Arnold
Evans McCurry were married at
Elizabeth Baptist Church on Decem-
ber 24, 1987. Dian is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Short. Ray is em-
ployed with the Equipment Depart-
ment in Shelby, N. C.

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The picture of 7 men — these are
men who retired during the year of
1987 with the exception of Mr. Line-
berger, and Mr. Laughter. They are
left to right — G. D. McRee, F. E.
Whitener, W. P. Lineberger, F. L.
Sherrill, W. G. Hunt, W. R. Laughter,
S. W. Blackburn. This picture was
made at the Catawba County Christ-
mas Party.

The other picture is of Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Bebber, made at the Alex-
ander County Christmas party. Mr.
Bebber is Maintenance Foreman 4.

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

Our jet setter, DANNY TURNER,
flew to Burbank, California for the
holidays to visit his fiancee, Mrs.
Launa Shelton. They plan to be mar-
ried in June. Danny is with the Con-
struction Department here and says
he visited Disneyland, but not Sunset
Strip — doesn't sound like our Dan-
ny to have missed a sight like that!!

Several of the children of Mainte-
nance Department employees were in
the hospital this month: little Missy,
17 month old daughter of RON BUT-
LER of the District Office; William
Roberts aged 9 and Kathy Roberts,
aged 6, children of DEDRICK RO-
BERTS of Madison County were
both in the hospital at the same time;
Verlon Jr. two year old son of VER-

This beautiful bride is Patricia
Anne Edwards, the former Patricia
Rice. Patricia and Calvin Ray Ed-
wards were married on October 6, in
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards graduated
from North Buncombe High School
and both are employed by the High-
way Commission. Patricia is a Typist
II in Clyde Ball's Office and Ray is
with the maintenance department at
Craggy.

LON COATES, Aide in the District
Office and also the six month old son
of L. J. TREADWAY. We are very
happy to be able to report that all
the children are back home and doing
fine.

The Right of Way Department
welcomed several new employees this
month. LARRY PARHAM and
EVERETTE CREASMAN, Tempo-
rary Aides; ROBERT CHRISTO-
PHER, new Right of Way Aide hails
from South Carolina and is a grad-
uate of the Citadel; N. I. BOWDEN,
Right of Way Aide transferred to
Asheville from Wilmington. Sorry to
have to report that DICK DILLING-
HAM has been in the hospital for
ten days, but he is now back home
recuperating and doing well. Hope
to have you back soon Dick — we
miss you!!

News from Resident Engineer A.
L. NEAL'S office is that Mr. and
Mrs. BARRY SPRATT became
proud parents of a son, Tray Barry

on December 21st, Also welcome
to two new employees, L. R. LAUGH-
TER and R. G. MORGAN.

Deepest sympathy to the families
of Mr. A. W. BALDWIN, Mr. JO-
SEPH E. TERRELL and Mr. J. E.
COFFEE, who passed away recent-
ly. Also our condolences to HAR-
RIET GOSSETT on the loss of her
husband, Burgin. It is always so
very sad when we lose someone dear
and there is so little we can say.

We had a very nice visit with
JERRY BLACK, home on leave
from the Air Force. Jerry was with
the District Two office last summer
and it was so nice to see him again.

RAY RANDALL, maintenance em-
ployee from Madison is back home
recovering from a nasty and unfor-
tunate accident after spending three
weeks in the hospital. We hear he
is doing nicely, but it will be several
weeks before he will be able to re-
turn to work.

Mr. Hutchinson gave a Christmas party for the staff in the Division 13
office this year and a good time was had by all. Hostesses were left, Edna
Ramsey, and right, Louise Norton.

We even had entertainment
his fiddle!

Johnny Rhymer played some tunes on

A beautiful bride last month was
the former Freida Dean Morgan of
Robbinsville who became the bride of
Joe Terrell on December 24. Joe is
with the Right of Way Department
and is a graduate of East Carolina
College and the new Mrs. Terrell re-
ceived her B.S. degree in Home Eco-
nomics from Western Carolina and
has done graduate work at the Uni-
versity of Georgia and N. C. State
University.

Above is a picture of the recent snow in the western part of the State.
This was sent to us by Edna Ramsey, our correspondent.

u

David Kyle Goodson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Vernie Goodson, Jr., was
born on October 19, 1967. Vernie is
with Resident Engineer Clyde Ball.

Brent Duane Canipe was born on
October 12, 1967 and is shown here
at the ripe old age of six weeks. Proud
parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Ca-
nipe — his daddy is with A. L. Neal's
office in Marion.

This cutie is the 8 month old son
of Sue and Jim Marcum, Robert
Bradley Marcum. Jim is an Eng.
Technician II in Ken Rabb's office.

f

This was certainly the month for
weddings in Division 13. This lovely
bride is the former Jacquelyn Joy
Napier, who was married to Walter
Wayne Ford on December 10. Walter
is a Civil Technician Trainee with
Resident Engineer Ken Rabb. We
wish all our newly married couples
every happiness.

DIVISION FOURTEEN

SUE ENSLEY, Road Oil Depart-
ment, has completed her new home
and moved in — It sits on the side
of a hill, stream runnng through
yard and with a gorgeous view —
What with working, deaths in family,
trying to get all moved in, she hasn't
had a chance to sit down and really
enjoy. We're all going up one day
and enjoy it all with her.

Mrs. ED MADDEN (nee Erlene
Millican, Personnel Department) and
her husband are moving into base-
ment apartment at Sue Ensleys new
home. Erlene and Ed were married
December 10, 1967 upon his return
from Vietnam.

MARVIN ADAMS, Asst. Staff En-
gineer, just up and got "hitched"
without giving us much notification.
He and Sue Harris were married
January 19th. We wish them both all
the happiness in the world for a
long married life.

During Christmas is a heck of a
time to be sick but we had quite a
few of our employees who did just
that. GEORGE CLAYTON, Resident
Engineer, and his family took turns,
starting with Butch the youngest
and working up to George. Then the
BILL RAY family. Asst. Division En-
gineer, made the rounds a'so. Bill's
mother from Florida, visiting during

It was with
much regret that
we let MR. SNEL-
SON retire from
our midst Decem-
ber 31, 1967. It
was around the
summer of 1965
that he moved in-
to our office and
has added much
Allyce Cunningham . „nljftinfr of

Division Correspondent 10 lne upiliung OI

our spirits — al-
ways a smile and an occasional "tale"
from the older days in building the
roads in this section. Mr. Snelson
remarked one day that he was join-
ing the "Honey-Do Club". When ask-
ed just what he meant by that —
said, "Well Mrs. Snelson will be say-
ing honey do this and honey do that
from now on." I visited with them
the other day in their home and find
that he is enjoying his days at home
and Mrs. Snelson says that believe
it or not, she is enjoying having him
under foot all day. We still miss him.

More than seventy friends and col-
leagues gathered to honor A. E.
(Wick) Snelson, Area Right of Way
Negotiator, at a luncheon at Bucks
Restaurant in Asheville on the occa-
sion of his retirement after 42 years
with the Highway Commission. We
all wish for him a happy and long re-
tirement, but we won't say goodbye,
because we do not think Wick could
rerlly stay away for long after all
those year. Picture shows, left to
right: W. H. Webb, Jr., State Ri~ht
of Way Agent, Mrs. Snelson, J. G.
Gibbs, Assistant Right of Way Agent
and A. E. (Wick) Snelson.

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This beauty was caught by Ed Ro-
land, Maintenance Department in
Swain County. The measurements
run like this: 25*4 inches long, 6 lbs.
3 oz. in weight and is a brown trout.
Guess we will have to believe him
since he has the picture to prove this.
This was caught in Deep Creek out-
side Bryson City.

the holidays, started the ball rolling
and each took their turn. JOYCE
CLOER, Division Steno. gave up and
went to bed to recuperate. A. J.
HUGHES, Division Engineer, escap-
ed but his bride came up to these
hills and got the bug too — this time
it wasn't the "love-bug' but maybe
has the same effect. C. L. McGEE
had to go one better. He and his fam-
ily had this "thing" before Christ-
mas and survived during Christmas
and then took it all over again —
CAREER carried a very apt poem
on staying at home and not giving to
others which I immediately read to
all who would listen.

DON HARRELL of the Appraisal
Office leaves February 15th for a
week at Clemson for Appraiser Course
III. Good luck to our "human ball of
fire".

Congratulations to MARION O'-
NEIL, Area Secretary as new Secre-
tary of the Haywood County Board
of Realtors.

BOB TURNER Review Appraiser
recently scored a "hole in one" on the
7th green at the Waynesville Country
Club. Did this go to his head? Heav-
ens no — he still plays with Don
Harrell.

Miss the smiling faces of the boys
while they are off to Durham helping
with a project there, but most of all
nrss our "Whistler", BRADLEY
PRICE.

Although the Appalachia Office has
been here a year and one-half now,
we hope we will begin 1968 by being
a regular contributor to ROADWAY
news. We also hope you are well on
the road to recovery and will enjoy
better health from now on.

JACKSON CO. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Sylva, North Carolina 28779
January 22, 1968

Mr. A. J. Hughes, Engineer
Fourteenth Division
State Highway Department
Sylva, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I wish to thank you for the excel-
lent work done by the highway de-
partment of District 2 of the Four-
teenth Division. In addition to doing
all that was humanly possible to
clear the roads, the highway employ-
ees were extremely helpful in fur-
nishing the information that we need-
ed to determine whether or not to
operate schools. They were courteous
and considerate each time they were
contacted concerning our needs, even
though they had many other respon-
sibilities during this period of emer-
gency.

We have heard many people say
that the highway crews in Jackson
County do one of the best jobs in the
State in looking after the roads dur-
ing emergencies, and those of us in
public school education agree with
this statement wholeheartedly.

Yours very truly,
/s/ R. P. Buchanan
Superintendent

Sylva, North Carolina 28779
January 26, 1968

Jackson County

Subject: Letter of Appreciation

Mr. R. P. Buchanan

Superintendent

Jackson County Public Schools
Sylva, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Buchanan:

This is to thank you for your let-
ter of January 22, 1968. It is so sel-
dom that we receive a letter of this
nature that I would like to say
thank you for these kind words. I am
going to pass it on so that the men
in Jackson County and of District 2
in the 14th Division will get a chance
to see the letter. We of the Highway
Department feel that all our efforts
are not in vain if we receive just one
letter of this nature once in a while.
Your cooperation has always been ex-
cellent when roads and highways
were involved.

With kindest personal regards,
Yours very truly,
/s/ A. J. Hughes
Division Engineer

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Troop F, District 5
Waynesville, North Carolina
January, 1968

Mr. A. J. Hughes
Division Engineer
State Highway Commission
Sylva, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Hughes:

During the year 1967, in District 5
of Troop F of the State Highway
Patrol, we had a decrease of 20 per
cent in fatalities. Our District is
composed of three counties, Haywood,
Henderson and Transylvania. We be-
lieve that the efforts and co-opera-
tion of the personnel under your
supervision were a significant part
in this reduction.

During the past two or three weeks,
we have had several inches of snow
and ice on the highways. Your per-
sonnel have done an outstanding job
in keeping the highways open.

Thank you for a job well done.
Whenever we can be of assistance to
you, please let us know.

Very truly yours,

/s/ O. C. Brock, Sergeant

Sylva, North Carolina 28779
January 26, 1968

Subject: Road Conditions in Hay-
wood, Henderson, and Transylvan-
ia Counties

Sergeant O. C. Brock
State Highway Patrol
Troop F, District 5
Waynesville, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Brock:

Your letter of January 23, has
been received and we do appreciate
these kind words that you have sent
forth with reference to the job that
the Maintenance crews are doing in
keeping the roads clear. It is so sel-
dom that we receive letters of this
nature that I am sending a copy of
this to Mr. Austell and requesting
that he post it in the Maintenance
Quarters of the above counties. One
letter of this nature more than repays
us for all the efforts we put forth
and let me assure you that we appre-
ciate the fine cooperation that you
and your men have given us in work-
ing with the roads of North Carolina.

Yours very truly,
/s/ A. J. Hughes
Division Engineer

HOT ITEM:
AGENT GOES TO THE DOGS

BILL WARE, Right of Way Agent
with the Appalachia Offices in Way-
nesville accepted the challenge from
his fellow agents ... If he could eat
10 hot dogs they would pick up the
tab; if not he would pay his own
way no matter how far he went!
Well, Bill got 8V2 down, and was last
seen counting the change, and head-
ing for an Alka-Seltzer. As far as
we know, this is a new record for
"hot dogs" . . . any challengers

Tribute To
John Pendleton Upton

John Pendleton Upton, 62, died
January 10th at OUR Community
Hospital in Scotland Neck, after sev-
eral weeks of illness. Funeral serv-
ices were conducted at Scotland Neck
Funeral Home by the Rev. E. M.
Thompson, Jr., pastor of the Meth-
odist Church. Interment followed in
Sunnyside Cemetery.

Mr. Upton was born and reared in
Camden County and attended schools
there. He had been associated with
the State Highway Commission since
January 1, 1923, completing 45 years
of dedicated service. At the time of
his death, he was maintenance fore-
man for the Scotland Neck area. He
became section foreman in Halifax
County in 1931. He had previously
worked in Currituck, Camden, Gates,
Hertford Bertie, Northampton, Edge-
combe, Nash and Martin counties.

For many years Mr. Upton was
an active member of the Scotland
Neck Volunteer Fire Department and
the Junior Order, United American
Mechanics.

He is survived by his wife, the for-
mer Minnie Lucas; a son, John P.
Upton, Jr., of Petersburg, Va.; a
daughter, Mrs. Garland R. Bedsaul,
of Newport News, Va.; two sisters,
Mrs. Herbert Hathaway, of Norfolk,
Va., and Mrs. Ralph Festa of Eliza-
beth City; a brother, Samuel B. Up-
ton, of Norfolk, Va.

Servant of God

By PAUL A. MOORHEAD

He had served his God as a witness
and as a teacher and he served his
family as a devoted husband and
father.

He served his country as a soldier
in two World Wars, and he served
his chosen State as a humanitarian,
fostering the cause for better roads
and schools.

He was a good neighbor and a
staunch friend.

These were some of the attributes
of Col. James Philander Dodge, Jr.,
a man who always clung steadfastly
to his convictions of man's purpose in
life and his destiny in heaven.

Col. Dodge was born at St. Augus-
tine, Fla., on October 22, 1893, the
son of James P. and Jesse Adams
Dodge. He spent his early life in that
historic city, graduating from Ketter-
linus High School at the age of sev-
enteen.

His early employment was with
the Florida East Coast Railroad and
in association with Attorney David
Dunham, after which entered Stet-
son University at Deland, Fla., in
1911, majoring in the study of law.
He graduated in 1915 at the age of
twenty-two.

He moved to North Carolina dur-
ing 1917 where his parents had a
summer home at Linville Falls, and
began working as a rodman for the
State Highway Commission.

When the United States declared
war in 1917, he went the following
day to Charlotte, N. C, and enlisted
in the North Carolina National
Guard.

He advanced rapidly through the
ranks and was shortly honored by be-
ing commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant
in the 113th Field Art:llery Regi-
ment stationed at Camp Sevier, near
Greenville, S. C.

He went overseas with that organ-
ization and served throughout the
conflict.

He returned to North Carolina af-
ter the war was over and married
Miss Mabel Crockett of Linville Falls
and Hickory, N. C. She is a descend-
ant of the famous Davy Crockett
family of Tennessee.

Following their marriage on Jan-
uary 20, 1921, the couple made their
home at Marion, N. C, where he re-
sumed his duties with the Highway
Commission.

During January of 1925, he was
transferred to Raleigh, N. C, where
they made their home on Courtland
Drive.

The Dodges were blessed by hav-
ing three children, all boys. James
David was born on December 3, 1921,
and served as an aircraft pilot dur-
ing World War II. He retired in
grade of major and is employed by
the aircraft industry.

William Henry was born on June
9, 1924, serving in the U S. Army
as a field artilleryman like his father.
He retired from the service as a
Lieutenant Colonel in 1967, and is
presently working in the education
field at the college level.

Robert Jaquelin was born on De-
cember 5, 1928. After his tour of
duty in the U. S. Army, he began
working with the Highway Commis-
sion. Presently, he is a safety engi-
neer and was recently honored by be-
ing elected President of the South-
eastern Institute of Engineers.

During 1938, the Dodges were
again transferred to Marion, N. C,
where the Colonel was given the im-
portant task of procuring the right-
of-way for the Blue Ridge Parkway.
This beautiful, scenic roadway winds
along the crests of the Blue Ridge
Mountains from Virginia to the
Great Smokies and has become right-
ly so the most visited and popular
of all our National Park Service at-
tractions.

His role in the effort to gain both
approval and funds for this project
were notable. Many of the plans
and proposals which his superiors
took to Washington were drafted by
h;m. His important contribution in
bringing this road into reality have-
n't been fully recognized. It is hoped
that he will someday be honored by
perhaps having some facility along
the parkway named for him.

h7

Experiment in Cooperation
Saves Lives

An experiment in cooperation between two agencies of state government is
being credited with a major role in reducing economic loss from traffic accidents
in three Western North Carolina counties.

(From the Left): T. M. Austell, district engineer, Plott, Trooper Peeler,
and Webb Pittello, district supervisor of maintenance. These raised stop signs
were installed to give motorists notice of the U. S. 276 bypass and U. S. 19A
intersection. A number of accidents resulted because motorists came to inter-
section so quickly after cresting hill. Tall stop signs gave them long distance
notice.

SAMUEL WILEY, RETIRED DIPLOMAT DIES

Samuel Hamlton Wiley, 79, former resident of Salisbury and a
long-time member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps before his retirement,
died January 15, 1968 in a Raleigh nursing home.

Graveside services were held January 18 in Oakwood Cemetery, Ra-
leigh.

Wiley was born in London, England, to Mr. and Mrs. William Mur-
doch Wiley. The family moved to Salisbury when Mr. Wiley was a
small boy.

He was a graduate of the University of North Carclina Law School
and practiced law in Salisbury for about a year before becoming Amer-
ican consul to Paraquay.

Before his retirement some years ago, he served as consul-general to
a number of European and North African countries.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nancy Hay Wiley; two sons, Walter
Wiley of the Highway Planning & Research Department in Rakigh;
Patrick Wiley of Los Angeles, California, and a number of kin in Salis-
bury.

(From the Left): Highway Com-
mission W. C. Russ, District Sergeant
O. C. Brock, and A. J. Hughes, chief
engineer for the 14th Highway Divi-
sion. These are the three men who
got the cooperative program off the
ground and going. It has now been
underway for 15 months in the three
counties of Haywood, Henderson and
Transylvania. Deaths were down 29
per cent in the three county area in
1967.

(From the Left): Trooper L. C.
Dixon, Gene Edmonds, SHC district
traffic engineer, and Frank Bryson,
signal and signing supervisor. Flash-
ing light and directional sign warn
motorists of change in highway pat-
tern. The light was added because
motorists were not heeding signs and
becoming involved in accidents at
curve. Located on U. S. 19A and U.
S. 23.

(Left): Trooper J. H. Peeler and
John Plott, county foreman STIC
Haywood County. They are examin-
ing the "roughing" coat put on the
highway to allow for safer driving.
Many wrecks and several fatalities at
spot on U. S. 276 in Haywood Coun-
ty prompted the Patrol to request
local SHC forces to work on site.
The "roughing" coat, a coating of hot
mix with rcks, srives cars more trac-
tion and calls attention to dangerous
roads.

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Governor Dan K. Moore, along with State Highway Commission Chairman J. M. Hunt, Jr., and Fourth Division
Highway Commissioner Carl Renfro are shown on this map above. The event was the dedication of the new segment
of Interstate-95 at Gold Rock on Friday, December 1st.

HENDERSON COUNTY'S GREEN RIVER BRIDGE— When this bridge 1,050 feet long, is completed it will carry
Interstate 40 traffic over the Green River Gorge in Henderson County. It will be one of the most scenic structures in East-
ern America and will cost about $2 Million Dollars. The roadway will be 230 feet above the river.

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ROADWAYS

MARCH-APRIL, 1968

North Carolina State Library
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N. C.

Doc.

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XIV
NUMBER X¥H J*

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

DAN K. MOORE GOVERNOR

JOSEPH M. HUNT, JR CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr.

W. W. Exum

Ashley M. Murphy

Carl Renfro

J. B. Brame

Carl Meares

Thomas S. Harrington

John F. McNair, III
George L. Hundley
George H. Broadrick
Raymond Smith
W. B. Garrison
James G. Stdkeleather, Jr.

W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chief Engineer

George Wdlloughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial — Robins and Roadway 1

Preconstruction Department 2

Highway Personnel Department 4

Bit of Computer Humor 7

Henry Watson Jordan Dies

Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hughes Retires 9

Annual Meeting of Traffic Services Department 10

Beautification Awards 12

N.C.S.H.P.E.A. Association News 15

Partners In Beautification 16

West Virginia Novelty Tune 19

Names and Their Origins

20

Pot Luck 22

Headquarters 23

Division News

30

COVER NOTE

Steel and concrete of a highway structure underscore
the Durham skyline as the Durham Expressway begins
to take shape in the new construction season. The 2.3-mile
section from Chapel Hill Street to Alston Avenue is being
constructed by William Muirhead Construction Company
of Durham at a cost of more than $4- million.

(Photo by Gordon Deans)

Editorial

Robins and Roadways

By Keith Hundley

Mr. Robin Redbreast has quite deservedly earned for
himself the title Harbinger of Spring. His appearance,
along with those of other feathered seasonal nomads, and
the blooms of Thrift, the Jonquil, the Azalea, Japanese
Cherry and Peach, certainly indicate that with the grad-
ual warming of the soil Mother Nature is stirring herself
for that burst of energy and brilliance which will ex-
pand, blossom and finally explode into summer.

But by no means has Mr. Robin, or his friends —
feathered and flowering — cornered the market in the
harbinger business. Each spring their songs and color are
joined with a hum and clang and clatter and splash of
color no less the first note of a symphony of sound and
movement which will expand and explode as the days
lengthen into summer.

For the men of the Highway Commission and for the
men of the construction industry who work to give North
Carolina the highways and streets necessary to keep the
State vigorous and growing, these lengthening days, fill-
ed with warming breezes and more blue skies than grey,
mean the beginning of a new construction season.

At the same time the air of the Old North State is filled
by the songs of Mr. Robin and his compatriots, so it is
filled with the roar and rattle, the grinding and grumbling
of tracked, heavy motored vehicles as they strain and
shift against the awakening earth to carve out the lanes
and lines that will one day become ribbons of asphalt
and concrete carrying the people and commerce of this
State.

At the same time the red, yellow, blue and orange of
returning birds and blossoming plants are seen against
the pale green of trees regaining their leaves, so the yel-
low of earth movers, the blue and silver and yellow of
"hard hats", the red and orange of structural steel ap-
pear in sharp relief against the background of blue sky,
returning greenery and newly turned earth.

Spring for all of Nature is a time of rebirth and be-
ginning, and in this time of the year after a winter of
study and planning, the Highway Commission begins to re-
pair the damage caused by storms and freezing and to
construct the new projects necessary to expanding the
highway system to meet our growing needs.

This spring of 1968, like all the others since 1921, is a
time of rebirth and growth for the Highway Commission.
As the men who create our roads shake off the doldrums
of one of the meanest winters in recent memory, they
begin work on what is seen as one of the best years in
the Commission's history.

Asked recently to assess the current position of the
Highway Program in North Carolina and to give an im-
pression of where it's headed this year, our Chairman,
J. M. Hunt, Jr. said, "The State Highway Commission's
$139-million total contract award figure in 1967 was the
second consecutive record-breaking year, and the Com-
mission expects to have another excellent year in High-
way Construction in 1968 . . . provided Federal funding
of all types is made available for all types of highway
activities".

In the same statement, Hunt went on to say that 1968
will see a great deal of activity aimed at closing the so-
called "missing links" on the 770-mile Interstate System
in North Carolina. He also said this will be a year of con-
tinued major bid lettings in all phases of the $300-mil-
lion road bond issue program.

Writing in a recent issue of CONSTRUCTION MAGA-
ZINE, Highway Administrator W. F. Babcock noted that
during 1968 there will be a great deal of activity in the
areas of urban highway construction within the bond pro-
gram. Babcock said that projects would be put under con-
tract all across the State in over 200 towns and cities,
that secondary road projects would progress in every
county and that there will be a large number of major
primary projects aimed predominantly at "the four-lan-
ing of existing two-lane highways and major relocations".

At the time this assessment was made, despite difficulty
in determining construction costs and budgeting brought
about by the war in Vietnam and other factors, Babcock
and the other planners felt our total contract awards in
1968 would be somewhere between $125-million and $150-
million. It is hoped that Federal funds will be made avail-
able readily to allow us to hit the higher figure.

And so as this issue of ROADWAYS goes to press we
have seen the Harbingers of Spring. Mr. Robin Redbreast
is here, and has been seen, we're certain, by you, tilting
his head to the side as he moves across lawns which are
slowly returning to green.

There are those among us who would tell you that he
is listening for the earthworms who toil beneath his feet,
and who will provide him with his morning, afternoon or
evening meal. Perhaps.

But, we say not so. Mr. Robin Redbreast is listening
to the thrum and hum of moving machinery and the ac-
tivities of men who toil to provide for North Carolina the
roads and streets it needs.

He knows at last that here in Tarheelia he must share
his title, and we don't think he minds at all.

I

Preconstruction Department

By R. W. McGowan
Assistant Chief Engineer
Preconstruction

The Preconstruction Department is the Administrative
Office of the Location, Photogrammetry, and Roadway
Design Departments. The Assistant Chief Engineer of
Preconstruction is under the direct supervision of the
Chief Engineer. This office is responsible for the major
functions and the co-ordination of the above departments
which are all concerned with the preconstruction phases
of highway location and design. This includes all engi-
neering services required following the adoption of plan-
ning reports through the development of right of way
plans and complete construction plans. This includes all
aerial surveys, contour mapping, and other services of
the Photogrammetry Department, including cross-sec-
tions for design and estimates and original and final
cross-sections for pay quantities to contractors. The Lo-
cation Department makes all ground surveys, property
surveys, prepares courthouse maps of proposed projects,
proceeding maps for right of way acquisition and other
services to the various departments. This department
also prepares the highway maps. The Roadway Design
section prepares all preliminary design plans and location
projections from material furnished by the Location and
Photogrammetry Departments. This section prepares the
right of way plans and construction plans for all pro-
jects let to contract except structure plans. All project
contract proposals, contract forms, special provisions, gen-
eral specifications, utility plans, and other services neces-
sary for contract work.

The Preconstruction Department is responsible for the
administrative supervision of all work performed by
Consulting Engineering Firms under engineering agree-
ments with the Highway Commission. This consists of
participating in the selection of the firms to be employed.
Outlining the scope of work to be performed. Drafting
engineering agreements. Reviewing proposed fees for
the services required. Co-ordinating the review of all
plans prepared by these firms. All invoices for consulting
services are routed through this office for checking and
processing on to the Administrator's Office and the Con-
troller's Office for payment. The final draft of all engi-
neering agreements are co-ordinated with the Legal De-
partment and the Bureau of Public Roads on Federal
Aid Projects. Practically all work performed by consult-
ing engineers is on the Appalachian Development High-
way System, the Interstate System, and Primary Sys-
tem, both rural and urban.

R. W. McGowan
Assistant Chief Engineer

Miss Rebecca Pittman, Secy, to Mr. McGowan

2

W. A. Garrett, Jr.
Highway Engineer III

This Department has the responsibility of conducting
public hearings on proposed highway projects. The hear-
ings are conducted in co-operation with the Division
Commissioner and Division Engineer of the Division or
Divisions in which the project is located. Maps, plans,
photographs, slides and other material are used for dis-
play depicting the proposed project.

The public hearings are for the purpose of explaining
to the public the concept of the project, the impact of the
project on the community involved, the effect on private
property that will be involved in the right of way, the
traffic pattern in the vicinity of the project, and other de-
tails. All questions raised by individuals are answered
and explained when possible. Colored-up maps are used
for advertising the hearing and explaining the project.
These maps are prepared by the Location and Roadway
Design Departments. The hearings are recorded and then
transcribed by the stenographers in this Department for
distribution to the Highway Commissioners, the Engi-
neering Staff and the Bureau of Public Roads.

The Assistant Chief Engineer is constantly involved in
discussions of various projects with individuals or groups.
These consist of the Highway Commissioners, Staff Mem-
bers, representatives of Cities, Towns, and communities
and individual property owners affected by the projects.

This office is represented on various Committees and
Review Boards set up within the framework of the engi-
neering organization.

The staff of the office of Assistant Chief Engineer Pre-
construction is composed of: R. W. McGowan, Assistant
Chief Engineer, W. A. Garrett, Jr., Highway Engineer III,
Administrative Assistant, Miss Rebecca K. Pittman, Sec-
retary of the Assistant Chief Engineer, and Mrs. Faye
Baker, Secretary to Mr. Garrett.

Mrs. Faye Baker, Secy to Mr. Garrett

Work Commences

Work has begun in the N. C. 54
freeway to Chapel Hill.

Clearing crews from Blythe Broth-
ers Construction Co. of Charlotte re-
cently began cutting trees and clear-
ing brush along the right-of-way start-
ing at Reedy Creek Road north of
old N. C. 54.

Blythe received a $2.9 million con-
tract for grading and paving from
Reedy Creek Road near Cary to the
Research Triangle north of Nelson.
This 7.5 miles stretch is the first of
three sections.

Triplett & Ryan of Chester, S. C.
has an $800,000 contract to erect eight
overpass structures.

R. G. Wright, resident engineer of
the State Highway Commission, said
Blythe planned to begin grading
March 1. He said both firms have
a deadline of July 12, 1969.

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Highway Personnel Department

J. Raynor Woodard
Highway Personnel Officer

in an advisory capacity to other departments and supervi-
sors on personnel management.

Even though personnel work is not glamorous, it is,
by its nature, interesting, challenging and rewarding. Re-
gardless of the final decisions made concerning salary
range revisions, classification studies, reclassifications, pro-
motions, etc., it is impossible to please every highway em-
ployee. However, we do work with all departments and
its employees to carry out an effective personnel program.

To carry out the vast responsibilities and duties of this
Department along with processing thousands of personnel
transactions, the Personnel Department is staffed with
nine permanent employees, one temporary employee, and
one Industrial Cooperative Trainee (a high school stu-
dent) who works four hours per day.

J. Raynor Woodard
Highway Personnel Officer

The Personnel Department is an administrative func-
tion staffed to the Highway Administrator and is re-
sponsible for recruitment, testing, placement, classifica-
tion studies, training and management of personnel files
and records of approximately 10,500 permanent employees
and an average of 3,000 temporary employees. The de-
partment is also responsible for approving and processing
personnel forms related to routine new hires, promotions,
salary and increment increases, salary range revisions,
longevity, retirement and resignations.

In addition to administering and interpreting the High-
way Commission Personnel Policies, the department op-
erates within the rules and regulations of the State Per-
sonnl Department which supervises employment prac-
tics for all agencies of North Carolina State Government.

The Personnel Department is responsible for main-
taining a close liaison with all highway departments and
field employees of the Commission and assists employees
in personnel problems.

The Highway Personnel Department makes recommen-
dations to the Highway Administrator for improvements
or revisions in personnel policies and procedures and acts

The Department is staffed as follows: Mr. J. Raynor
Woodard, Highway Personnel Office; Cloyce B. Alford,
Assistant Highway Personnel Officer; Mrs. Betty Horton,
Stenographer III; Ron Wolfe and Fred Adcock, Person-
nel Analyst IPs; Ted D. Austin, Personnel Analyst II
(Training Officer); Mrs. Joyce Clark, Clerk IV; Miss
Barbara Stussie and Miss Mary Lee Griffin, Stenographer
IPs. Mrs. Patsy Pearce is employed as a Typist on a
temporary basis and Miss Patricia Gale Strickland, In-
dustrial Cooperative Student.

Management Section

The Management Section is responsible for the over-
all functions of the Highway Personnel Office. Included
is the planning and organizing of all duties and delegat-
ing work to employees staffed to the Personnel Depart-
ment.

Employees in this section work closely with the High-
way Administrator in administering highway policies and
procedures related to personnel matters.

This section cooperates with Department Heads and
Division Engineers concerning their personnel problems
and needs. Grievance hearings, complaints, and other mat-
ters are also functions of this section.

Administrative Section

The Administrative Section has the responsibility for
processing all personnel transactions including the various
types of personnel forms which are too numerous to men-
tion individually. Included in this is processing classifi-
cation and pay changes resulting from promotions, incre-
ments, longevity and salary range revisions for highway
employees. Classification studies are an important func-

tion of this section and is time consuming. In classifica-
tion studies, we work toward equal and fair pay for the
work performed. Other duties of this Section is to ac-
cumulate data, prepare and assist in the awarding of
service awards, certificates and retirement certificates.
This section also assists in charitable drives assigned to
the Personnel Office. The suggestion awards program is
also administered by this section.

The administrative section is responsible for establish-
ing and maintaining individual personnel files and re-
cords for the 10,500 highway employees. The future plans
for this section include the responsibility for initiating,
coordinating and maintaining personnel records on an
IBM system.

Cloyce B. Alford, Assistant Highway Personnel Officer,
and Mrs. Betty Horton, Secretary to Mr. Alford and Mr.
Woodard.

Training Section

This section is responsible for organizing and adminis-
tering an in-service training program for needed areas of
highway training in addition to administering the civil
engineering, civil technology, and cooperative student
training programs.

In addition to maintaning current individual records
on trainees and students, this section coordinates place-
ment, transfers, and other student related duties.

Other functions of this section are as follows: Schedule
training assignments and counsel with trainees and as-
sist in placing them on a permanent basis in an area of
their choice, if possible, after completion of the training
program.

Recruiting Section

This section is responsible for maintaining interviews
and recruiting services. In this section, we maintain re-
cords of existing vacancies and manpower requirements
of all departments of the Highway Commission.

When necessary this section is responsible for placing
newspaper advertisements in various parts of the coun-

Mrs. Joyce Clark, Clerk IV and Mrs. Patsy Pearce,
Typist I.

Patricia Gail Strickland, Industrial Cooperative Student.

5

J. R. Wolfe
Personnel Analyst II

try for needed personnel, if the needs cannot be secured
from within the Highway Commission or with North
Carolina.

We recruit on the college and technical school levels
for graduates in civil engineering, civil technology, and de-
sign technology. Last year we recruited at 10 colleges and
12 technical schools. We conducted 160 interviews and
placed 60 on our training program. This year we recruited
at 10 colleges and 12 technical schools. Thus far we have
received applications from 30 applicants. During past
years, we have placed all engineering graduates who were
interested in employment. For the first time we are in a
position that we will offer only the upper classmen em-
ployment since our recruiting has caught up with our
needs in this particular area.

Our Future Plans

We, hope in the very near future, that we will be in a
position to have Personnel Field Coordinators whose pri-
mary duties will include traveling throughout the State
giving more aid to Division and District Engineers con-

i I 'IWIIIIllilliiil "~ "

Ted D. Austin, Highway Training Officer and secretary
Miss Barbara Stussie.

cerning their many personnel complements, evaluating
requested departmental studies, counseling, and assisting
employees with any personnel problem. It is very evident
that we could solve many problems and answer many
questions for the employees and render assistance to our
supervisory personnel with a full time field operation such
as this. We are planning some type of pre retirment coun-
seling program which will enable this department to ren-
der more assistance to employees prior to their date of
retirement by conducting meetings through the State.

Plans are also being made for Management schools and
other programs that should be helpful for Foreman and
Supervisory personnel.

In Conclusion

In this article we have only "scratched the surface" as
it is too involved to explain in detail the complete func-
tions of this office concerning the responsibilities, prob-
lems, duties, etc.

We are interested in all personnel problems and strive
to perform all our work in an efficient and effective man-
ner. I must say without the assistance given our depart-
ment by Division Engineers and Department Heads our
job would be impossible. We stand ready to assist all em-
ployees of the Highway Commission and hope that you
will continue to contact us if we can be of assistance.

Fred D. Adcock, Personnel Analyst II and Miss Mary
Lee Griffin, Secretary to Mr. Adcock and Mr. Wolfe.

If you want to keep everybody happy, then indulge in
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM OF MY WORK.

IT MAKES MY FRIENDS HAPPY BECAUSE THEY

THINK IT IS GOOD FOR ME.
IT MAKES MY ENEMIES HAPPY BECAUSE THEY

FAVOR ANY KIND OF CRITICISM.
IT MAKES YOU HAPPY BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A

CHANCE TO EXPRESS YOURSELF.
IT MAKES ME HAPPY BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT

I MAY NOT HAVE TO DO ALL THE THINKING

MYSELF.

AND LASTLY, IT MAKES MY BOSS HAPPY BE-
CAUSE HE FIGURES I NEED ALL THE HELP I
CAN GET.

6

Bit of Computer Humor

By E. H. CASE

"Edd, you look at them eggs like
you saw a hair in them," Tiny shook
a greasy fork at me over the break-
fast table. "What ails you?"

"An old wagon breaks down some-
time, don't it?" I said. "I ain't twen-
ty no more."

"It's that bush axe you"ve been tot-
ing since you was sixteen. Left your
dad's mule and plow-stock standing
in the field and took off after a bunch
of surveyors. Well, it's come time for
you to lay that bush axe down before
you catch it in your beard and cut
a leg off."

"Them State Highway folks pay
me good to tote that axe," I remind-
ed Tiny. "I can't lay it down."

"No, you can't no more than your
grandpa could lay aside that old tow
sack he carried night and day. Even
brought it in the living room and sat
on it."

"Grandpa made a living with that
tow sack," I defended. "Carried fer-
tilizer from the stables to his water-
melon patch in it every day. He grew
the finest melons in Grubbers' Cove."

"Which gives you no cause to keep
toting that axe. You are going to lay
it down!"

"I can't, Tiny. We ain't got no
money hid away to live on."

"No, we ain't. All we got is them
old golf sticks cluttering up the place.
And them little white balls all over
the floor. It's a wonder I ain't broke
my neck over one — and you ain't
go drowned in a branch looking for
one. That's where you play most of
them."

"Don't blame our poverty all on
my golf. Who keeps our closet full
of dresses and coats? Who owns all
them shoes in your room? And them
hats — You could start a shop. I
won't mention the candy oxes."

"You've already mentioned too
much. Sit down and write to Raleigh.
Ask them how much money they got
saved out for you. I've been reading
your pay-cards. They've been taking
out part of your pay in that Retire-
ment slot. Find out how much they
got for you."

"I thought that was for retarded
folks. They take out for everything
else."

"Who's more retarded than you?
It's for people who ain't got the
gumption to save a dollar — like
you."

"I'll write, Tiny," I said. "But
don't get out your beach pajamas.
We may have to go back to Grubbers'
Cove and grow turnips and watermel-
ons."

"I ain't going back to Grubbers'
Cove. I've got too heavy to swing
down on a grapevine, or cross that
slick footlog."

"I told you about that candy — "

"You cut that out and start that
letter. They've got a machine down
there that knows exactly what you
got."

"I've heard about it. Put a man's
picture in it and it will tell his life-
time history."

"Don't you dare send your pic-
ture. I don't want folks to know all
about the man I have to live with.
Just ask about the money. And quit
trying to get in the last word!"

Folks, that was it.

A Letter We Liked

Taylorsville
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Box 477

Taylorsville, North Carolina 28681
March 29, 1968
W. W. Wyke
Division Engineer
N. C. State Highway Dept.
Shelby, North Carolina
Dear Sir:

On behalf of the Taylorsville Jay-
cees, I would like to express our ap-
preciation for the fine job Mr. J. D.
Bebber and his personnel did during
our bad winter months this year. We
believe that our roads were cleared
quicker and better than in most sur-
rounding counties.

Oftentimes, good deeds go unmen-
tioned but we feel you should be
made aware of the fine job they did.

Sincerely,

Benny H. Sharpe

President

POE COX NEW GARNER
JAYCEE PRESIDENT

Anthony Poe Cox, employed in the
Highway Commission's Location De-
partment was installed Thursday, Ap-
ril 18 as President of the Garner Jay-

cees.

Cox succeeds John L. Smith of
Garner, who, incidentally, is a squad
leader in the Bridge Design Depart-
ment.

Cox came to the Raleigh area five
and a half years ago when he joined
the Highway Commission team. Short-
ly after arriving he joined the Jay-
cees and has held many important
posts and committee chairs on the
way to the presidency.

The 32-year-old native of Richlands
(Onslow County) attended East Caro-
lina University, is married to the for-
mer Carol Taylor of Pink Hill and
resides in Garner. The couple has one
son, Anthony Poe Cox, Jr.

John L. Smith
Former Jaycee President
of Bridge Design Dept.

7

Henry W. Jordan
Dies

Dr. Henry W. Jordan, who died last month in Asheboro,
chose three services, from among the many he rendered
North Carolina, as those he considered most significant:
his leadership, as chairman of the State Highway Commis-
sion, in getting North Carolina voters to approve a $200-
million bond issue for rural roads in 1950; a study which
he initiated, also as highway commission chairman, and
which resulted in separation of prison system from the
highway department; and the establishment of the reha-
bilitation center for first offenders at Butner.

Each one of these would have furnished ample reason
for statewide gratitude to the man whose leadership made
it possible. That one man should have had a conspicuous
part in accomplishing all three is testimony to the social
concern, the industry, and the dedication of Dr. Jordan.

Dr. Jordan, was one of a quartet of brothers, sons of
the Methodist parsonage, who achieved both personal
success and public usefulness. One is United States Sena-
tor B. Everett Jordan; another, Dr. Frank Jordan, be-
came one of North Carolina's most prominent Methodist
ministers; Durham holds the third, Dr. Charles E. Jordan,
retired vice president of Duke University, in special af-
fection and esteem for his notable civic service here, par-
ticularly to the schools.

When delegations came to Dr. Henry's office, seeking
help in paving a road (during the Cherry and Scott ad-
ministration 20 years ago), he generally knew as much
about local road conditions as any Tar Heel present.

Dr. Jordan served as a valuable channel of continuity
between the old Democratic establishment and the Kerr
Scott insurgency of 1948.

It was then that farm-to-market roads came to mean
paved roads passable the year around throughout North
Carolina. Dr. Jordan contributed much to that enormous
— and enormously successful — venture. It not only
marked his ability and concern for the people, but the
sure establishment of a secondary road network that con-
tinues to shed blessings on the State. Frequently described
as a "longtime political figure," Dr. Jordan actually was
a successful textile manufacturer who made a serious avo-
cation of public service. With his death the Democratic
party loses a much admired adherent, and the State a
good and useful citizen.

Former Highway Chairman
Henry Watson Jordan
1898 - 1968

EXCERPTS FROM MINUTES
COMMISSION MEETING
MARCH 6, 1968

The following resolution was introduced by Com-
missioner McNair, who moved its adoption; motion
was seconded by Commissioner Garrison, and upon
being put to a vote was unanimously carried:

"WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina has lost
a dedicated public servant in the passing of Dr. Henry
W. Jordan of Cedar Falls; and

"WHEREAS, Dr. Jordan, with untiring energy,
served his State nobly as Chairman of the State
Highway Commission and as a distinguished Senator
who championed education, secondary roads, and the
Bond program; and who throughout his life served
his State and its people as an outstanding professional
man in his field of dentistry, as well as a businessman
who devoted every effort to the progress of the textile
industry in this State; and

"WHEREAS, Dr. Jordan was a statesman and a
person of the highest Christian principles and integ-
rity;

"NOW, THEREFORE, BE AND IT IS HEREBY
RESOLVED that the Members of this Commission
honor the memory of the late Dr. Henry W. Jordan, a
truly great North Carolinian, and express their appre-
ciation for his services to the State and extend their
sympathy to his family and many friends;

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secre-
tary be directed to spread this resolution upon the
minutes of this meeting and a copy be presented to
each member of his family."

S

Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hughes Retires

Mrs. Hughes, better known to all her co-workers as
Elizabeth was educated at Misses' Hawkins Private
School, Warrenton High School and King's Business Col-
lege in Raleigh before joining the Highway Commission in
1929 as secretary to the auditor. She became secretary to
Chairman Graham in 1945 and has remained in that
capacity until appointed Commission secretary in 1956.

She is the wife of William H. Hughes, Jr., and they
are members of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in
Raleigh. Elizabeth and William plan to spend a good deal
of time in Southport.

Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hughes, a native of Warrenton, who
handles the administrative affairs of the North Carolina
State Highway Commission will retire on May 31st. Eli-
zabeth has held this office for 12 years.

Mrs. Hughes has had many fond memories while hold-
ing this office, and after inquiring about some of them
I find that she not only has served as the Commission's
seal keeper and custodian, but has taken the minutes of
each meeting and transcribed them into official records,
that are kept in an official record book. Her signature
is affixed to all official agreements, contracts, and docu-
ments.

Chairman Hunt presiding over Commission meeting in
new Conference Room.

AZALEA FESTIVAL SCENES

B 4 • *

April in North Carolina would not be complete without scenes from the recent Azalea Festival held in Wilmington
on April 20th. What State could be more beautiful?

9

Annual Meeting of Traffic Services Department

By OLIVE DONAT

Joseph M. Hunt, Jr., evaluates his
experience in the chairmanship of
the N. C. State Highway Commis-
sion as rewarding. This viewpoint, in
the fourth year of his present term of
office, was expressed at the opening
session of the annual meeting of Traf-
fic Services Departments and the
Traffic Engineering Department, held
at the College Inn Motor Lodge, Ra-
leigh, March 12-14.

Chaiman Hunt, featured speaker of
the meeting, also revealed that he
holds a favorable impression of State
Highway employees through observ-
ing them first hand. He said, "I find
them dedicated to service and doing
a tremendous job, in every depart-
ment, from top to bottom." Speaking
on one of his favorite themes — pub-
lic relations, Mr. Hunt stated that
State Highway employees are public
servants and that the fostering of
good public relations is an important
part of their jobs. Personnel in the
field have a large responsibility to
maintain favorable relations with the
public, and with other agencies, he
said, because sometimes they are the
only representatives of the Highway
Commission the public ever sees.

Highway Administrator W. F. Bab-
cock, who followed Mr. Hunt to the
rostrum, said that Highway people
should be on the lookout for hazards
and other conditions of the road that
need correction and do something
about them — bring them to the at-
tention of the proper authority. He
also announced that a policy was be-
ing drafted regarding specific re-
sponsibilities for maintaining traffic
control devices within North Carolina
municipalities; in other words, as
Babcock told Traffic Services, "what
you are expected to do and what the
city is to do" will be set down.

Chief Engineer C. W. Lee told the
group that "we face a critical time".

Chairman J. M. Hunt, Jr., center, was featured speaker at the Traffic
Services meeting in March. He shared the rostrum with, left to right, Con-
troller W. M. Ingram, Highway Administrator W. F. Babcock, Chief Engineer
C. W. Lee, and State Traffic Engineer J. O. Litchford.

Traffic safety will be in the spotlight
more and more, and traffic control
devices, largely installed and main-
tained by Traffic Services, will be in-
creasingly emphasized. There is a
financial squeeze in maintenance
funds which means that ways will
have to be found to do things as well
or better, with less money. It will be
up to Traffic Services to report defi-
ciencies in the signing of construction
projects by the contractors and to
improve standards of this type of
control. Policies with regard to traf-
fic control devices in municipalities
will have to be carried out. Lee also
pointed to bridge load limits and the
signing of such limits as a help in
preventing the kind of catastrophe
which occurred in West Virginia.

Controller W. M. Ingram stated
that his department is trying to in-
stitute a functional cost system and
fiscal procedures in several opera-
tions of the Highway Commission.

State Traffic Engineer J. O. Litch-
ford presided over the session and
introduced the opening speakers, who
included Public Relations Officer
Keith R. Hundley, Highway Person-
nel Officer J. Raynor Woodard and
his assistant, Cloyce Alford, Purchas-
ing Agent W. G. Reaves and his as-
sistant, Raoul Maynard.

The three-day program featured a
nighttime demonstration at the Fair
Grounds of equipment and methods
used in Traffic Services; and part of
an afternoon was occupied by com-
mercial representatives showing their
products.

Panel discusions covered various
phases of work and the procurement
of materials and equipment by Traf-
fic Services, with special attention
given to specific questions submitted
by personnel from the 14 Division
Departments. Visual aids included

10

slides of the new preline and sight-
distance machine, now ready for use
in all but one of the Divisions; and a
film was shown on Kentucky rock
asphalt as a skid-resistant pavement
surface.

Panel subjects and participants
were as follows: Safety Programs —
J. O. Litchford, moderator. Traffic
Research Engineer, J. M. Lynch;
Signing and Related Matters — As-
sistant State Traffic Engineer, H. C.
Rhudy, moderator; Traffic Signing
Engineer Pete G. Deaver; Area Traf-
fic Engineer Charlie Sessoms, Traffic
Services Supervisor O. K. Stephens

of Division 9, Assistant Traffic Re-
search Engineer G. C. Grigg; Equip-
ment— Harold Rhudy, moderator,
State Equipment Engineer L. H. Gun-
ter, Assistant State Equipment Engi-
neer Harry Long, Equipment Depot
Superintendent Lloyd Young, Ralph
Stanberry, Howard Gupton, and Rex
Thompson; Pavement Markings and
Related Matters — Harold Rhudy,
moderator, Traffic Services Supervi-
sor K. R. Hill of Division 4, G. C.
Grigg, and Electronics Technician
Tommy Jeffreys; Traffic Signals and
Related Matters — Harold Rhudy, mo-
derator, Traffic Signal Engineer
Gwyn Sanderlin, and T. Jeffreys. M.
C. Henderson, Jr., Assistant Super-

intendent of Prison Enterprises, told
of efforts being made to manufacture
signs after the fire which destroyed
hundreds of screens and of increased
facilities for meeting the demand for
paint this season.

At the closing session, State Traf-
fic Engineer Litchford moderated a
discussion on problems and respon-
sibilities connected with Traffic Serv-
ices and suggested procedures for im-
proving the work.

Approximately 75 of Highway per-
sonnel participated in the meeting.

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Highway personnel attending the Traffic Services meeting included the group above: First row — Harold Rhudy,
Sim Pressley, Tommy Jeffreys, Gwyn Sanderlin, Gene Edmonds, Jack Bryant, Joe Young, J. O. Litchford, M. C. Hen-
derson, Jr., Kenneth Hill, Jim Stamp, J. R. Naylor; second row — J. D. Yow, C. G. Poston, Jr., Ben Wheeler, Herb
Justice, Frank Bryson, M. A. Compton, Dan Bishop, C. M. Hill, C. R. Southerland, Goldman Snyder, O. K. Stephens,
Graham Cheek; third row — Vernon Rollins, Larry Williams, Terry Harris, Harold Steelman, L. R. Merritt, James
Boyd, David Spell, A. S. Ogburn, Carlton Roberts; fourth row — Glenn Grigg, Wake Watts, Wilbur Edwards, G. L. Cole-
man, Leland Davis, Jimmy Billings, C. S. Huneycutt, Glen Johnson, R. J. Dodge; back row — Joseph Buckner, Mike
Tewell, W. A. Ward, Don Dupree, Pete Deaver, Ned Bivins, Roy Williams, Woodie Warrick, Landis Satterwhite, Eu-
gene Lindsay, Jerry Todd, C. C. Sessoms, Jr., Bill Allred, Ken Milam, S. B. Smith, and Ed Frazelle.

11

Governor Dan Moore

I am happy to be present at anoth-
er meeting of the Advisory Commit-
tee on Beautification to present
awards to the children who have
participated so actively in the anti-
litter campaigns in the public schools
of North Carolina.

The Bible teaches us that "a little
child shall lead them." I often think
of this quotation when I think of the
anti-litter campaign because I re-
member the story of the school teach-
er who was having great difficulty
with one of the little boys in her class
trying to get him to pick up the mess
he left wherever he went. One day,
she said to him, "Johnny, don't you
know that cleanliness is next to God-
liness?" and he said, "No m'am, it's
next to impossible."

Happily, cleanliness and the beau-
tification of America and North Caro-
lina is not impossible. Sometimes it is
difficult and always it is expensive.
We are moving forcefully in North
Carolina to prevent people from us-
ing our roads and highways as one
giant outdoor wastebasket. In 1967,
the North Carolina Highway Patrol
made 827 arrests for violation of the
litter law. Maintenance crews from
the State Highway Department are
engaged in an almost constant house-
cleaning job throughout the State.
In 1967, we spent over $1 million to
remove trash and refuse from our
highways. I compliment all of those
who are involved in doing this ex-
pensive but important job. I only wish
that it could be terminated. This
money could have been spent more
advantageously if the problem did not
exist. How wonderful it would be if
this money could be given instead to

Beautification Awards
Presented by Gov. Moore

education. The money could be used
in our public school system to provide
greater opportunities for students
like those who are here today. I am
proud of what you are doing, and I
know that with your continued help,
we are going to make great progress.

Dr. Charles Carroll

North Carolinians enjoy and recog-
nize the value of clean highways. We
know that we cannot expect to at-
tract tourists and industries from
other states if we permit our land-
scapes to be cluttered. Tourists spent
almost $650 million in North Caro-
lina last year. We added over $660
million in new and expanded indus-
try in 1967 and since this administra-
tion took office, we have added more
than $2!/4 million for every working
day in new and expanded industrial
investment. We have no reason or
right to expect tourism or industrial
development to grow in North Caro-
lina unless we maintain the high
standards of cleanliness which we
have set for ourselves.

I am proud of the fact that Keep
America Beautiful, Inc. invited North
Carolina to be one of the eight states
to do a pilot program on litter. Dr.
Charles Carroll, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, joined me in
strongly recommending that our
North Carolina elementary schools go

into this program. In over 19,000
schools, 34,000 teachers and princi-
pals and 850,000 pupils joined in the
effort to help eliminate the problem.
With your help, we have been able
to bring more forcefully to the atten-
tion of the people of North Carolina
the fact that litter is not only a dis-
grace and an eye-sore and an ugly
blot to the natural beauty of our
State and Nation, but it is also a
menace to health and safety. Litter
provides the breeding ground for di-
sease-carrying insects and rodents.
Littered water is dangerous for swim-
ming and boating. It is a threat to
marine and plant life and helps make
otherwise pure water unfit for human
consumption.

I am proud of the fact that while
the adult population of North Caro-
lina recognized the advantages of
beautification, the children of North
Carolina have joined the effort to
help put the spotlight on the prob-
lems we face. The word "litterbug"
has attained a high status in the
vocabulary of our young people and
even some of our smallest citizens
know that it is a bad thing to be one.

Gov. Moore and Mrs. John Robin-
son are shown above giving the
awards to the children and schools
across the state.

12

PSYCHEDELIC BRIDGE

The underpass under Southern Railroad at Jamestown in Guilford County
has been given a new look by the Highway Commission's Bridge Maintenance
Department in an experimental project — "psychedelic painting". It has gain-
ed widespread attention in catching the eye of motorists along the route. Sev-
eral newspapers and television stations have carried pictures of the under-
pass's "new look".

Bridge Maintenance Department head J. J. Powell said: "It is hoped that
this will eliminate some of the unsightly paintings and obscene wording which
have been appearing on the underpass's Abutment wall in the past."

Powell also said he had received numerous complaints for some time about
the unsightly conditions caused by vandalism in the Jamestown underpass
and other bridge sub-structure units throughout the State.

— By Jewel Adcock

Bridge Goes Psychedelic

Many times we have dwelt on our
problems. We have described them
over and over again. We have tried
to find ways to solve them. Today we
can celebrate achievement, and al-
though work has just begun, nonethe-
less, some milestones have been pass-
ed. You, the children of North Caro-
lina, have helped set the standards
for future conduct. In doing so you
have made a real contribution, not
simply to the beauty of North Caro-
lina, but to the whole life of North
Carolina as well. We cannot grow and
flourish, either spiritually or physi-
cally, in an atmosphere which is ugly.
In such a climate, our standards
would be lowered and our spirits dis-
couraged. You have helped lift up
our eyes and our goals, and you have
participated actively and in a most
tangible way in helping to make
North Carolina all that we want it
to be. As Governor of North Caro-
lina, I want each of you to know that
I am proud of what you have done,
and I want to thank you for help-
ing all of us build that great and
good community that we love.

Anti-Litter Contest

Governor Moore had awards pre-
sented and silver trophies and trays
recently for 10 North Carolina schools
for their winning efforts in an anti-
litterbugging contest.

An estimated 250 pupils from the
winning elementary schools attend-
ed the wards ceremony held in the
Highway Building Auditorium and
sponsored by the Governor's Advi-
sory Committee on Beautification.

Joining Moore in extending con-
gratulations were his wife; Mrs. John
D. Robinson of Wallace, chairman of
the committee; Supt. Charles F. Car-
roll of the State Department of Pub-
lic Instruction; Highway Chairman
Joe Hunt; and George J. Monaghan,
representing the Department of Con-
servation and Development.

Receiving awards were Jackson
Park School and Woodrow Wilson
School, both in Kannapolis; Murphy
City Schools; Rankin School in Ashe-
ville and the Asheville City and Bun-
combe County school systems; Rho-
diss School, Rhodiss; Candor School,
Candor; Holloway Street School, Dur-
ham; and Matthews School, Mat-
thews.

The State Highway Commision has
just created what may be the world's
first psychedelic bridge abutment.

Recently maintenance men went on
a spree of self-expression and splash-
ed seven colors of paint all over the
stone supports of a railroad underpass
in Guilford County.

The art work was done at the di-
rection of the bridge maintenance de-
partment, and the idea is to keep
scrawlers of vulgarities from doing
their dirty work on the underpass.

Joe Powell, bridge maintenance en-
gineer for the commission, said the
brainstorm originated in his office af-
ter much griping was heard about the
way people were sneaking out to the
underpass and painting obscenities.

"We had so many complaints from
up there we decided to try this as an
experiment," he stated. "It's nothing
permanent — we're just trying it one
time."

The theory is that a wall already
filled up with LSD like patterns won't

be nearly as attractive to scrawlers.
And, said Powell, anything inscribed
on the wall in the future shouldn't
show up nearly as well.

The maintenance artists didn't have
a completely free hand. "I think our
superintendent up there kind of gave
them a pattern to go by," said Powell.

Concrete along highways seems to
be as inviting as bathroom walls to
people who get their kicks painting
dirty words and pictures — dirty or
otherwise — on noticeable surfaces.

Many a Tar Heel bridge has been
branded "Class of So-and-so" by ener-
getic high school pranksters. So
have water tanks and other public
edifices.

The practice of painting highway
facilities is pretty widespread in
North Carolina, according to Powell.
He said his forces recently had to
erase some risque writing on concrete
along the Raleigh Beltline.

In the case of the railway abut-
ment at Jamestown (near High
Point), people had been writing dirty
words, "painting different figures on
it, and so forth," said Powell.

U

NCS.H.P.EA. ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By Otis M. Banks and David W. King

The recent solicitation by Occidental Life In-
surance Company for participants in a new plan
of salary continuation apparently was very suc-
cessful in that approximately 6,000 employees of
the State Highway Commission signed up for this
payroll deduction plan. A report from Mr. Frank
Howard for the period from January 1, 1968, to
March 1, 1968, indicates a total of $6,292.04 has
been paid in disability claims, plus one death
claim in the amount of $5,000, for a total of
claims paid in this period of $11,292.04.

The Group Insurance Plan with Connecticut
General Life Insurance Company is in reasonably
good financial condition at the present time and
if this holds we will be in satisfactory status at
the end of the current policy year September 30.
A report for the current policy year for the period
from October 1, 1967, through February, 1968,
as prepared by the Controller's Office is as fol-
lows :

The experience of the Group Insurance Plan for the month of February of the policy year ending September 30,
1986 as compared with the month of February for the preceding policy year is presented below:

Premiums

Coverage Amount

1. Employee Medical 29,171.58

2. Employee A & S 24,123.88

3. Dependent Medical 65,061.30

4. Employee D & D 6,488.40

124,845.16

5. Employee Life 38,931.29

6. Retired Life 2,962.13

7. Total Life 41,893.42

8. Total 166,738.58

Percentage Return
Claims Policy Year

Amount

Deaths

1967-68

1966-67

50,953.01

174.67

146.92

19,693.37

81.63

82.69

50,187.97

77.14

71.44

5,000.00

1

77.06

81.32

125,834.35

1

100.79

91.14

32,500.00

6

83.48

65.05

10,000.00

10

337.59

175.25

42,500.00

16

101.45

72.96

168,334.35

16

100.96

86.13

Active Employees Retired Employees

February February

1967-68 1966-67 1967-68 1966-67

9. Life Coverages:

(a) Lives Insured 8,308 7,613 1,002 963

(b) Carrier Liability

Lives Insured 43,953,500 40,983,500 990,375 951,000

(c) Average Life Claim 5,416 6,000 1,000 1,000

The experience of the Group Insurance Plan for five months of the policy year from October 1, 1967 through
September 30, 1968 as compared with the preceding year is set forth in the following summarized analysis:

Percentage Return

Premiums Claims Policy Year

Coverage Amount Amount Deaths 1967-68 1966-67

1. Employee Medical 137,847.18 181,559.27 131.71 122.95

2. Employee A & S 117,091.27 87,582.08 74.80 89.17

3. Dependent Medical 308,033.79 215,103.41 69.83 76.09

4. Employee D & D 31,835.72 5,000.00 1 157.06 49.90

594,807.86 489,244.76 1 82.25 87.71

5. Employee Life 191,015.18 176,500.00 31 92.40 " 73.46

6. Retired Life 14,671.51 30,625.00 31 208.74 150.05

7. Total Life 205,686.69 207,125.00 62 100.70 79.05

8. Total 800,494.65 696,369.76 62 86.99 85.32

Active Employees Retired Employees

Policy Year Policy Year

1967-68 1966-67 1967-68 1966-67

9. Life Coverages:

(a) Lives Insured 7,983 7,409 950 954

(b) Carrier Liability

Lives Insured 42,600,700 39,893,800 978,825 941 400

(c) Average Life Claim 5,694 5,520 988 965

It is noted that the percentage return for the current year is 86.99% compared to 85.32% for the preceding year.

Respectively submitted,
W. M. INGRAM
CONTROLLER

15

Partners In
Beautification

By MARIE P. ODOM

Marie P. Odom

Beautification of Ahoskie has been
a continuous endeavor of The Ahos-
kie Garden Club for the fifteen years
of its existence. A publicly owned
parking lot in the center of town along
the railroad tracks would have long
since been an eyesore had it not
been for the vision and perseverance
of a few women interested in sepa-
rating the drab steel rails from a sea
of asphalt parking lot with a green
segment of grass outlined with ligus-
trum and highlighted with pyracan-
tha bushes and deodara cedars. A
drinking fountain and benches com-
plement this restful oasis in the cen-
ter of our town. Many projects of
planting have been completed over
the years since this first endeavor of
the Club, which have added immeas-
urably to the beauty of the town and
the pride of its citizens.

But with the idea of beauty sud-
denly becoming an accepted goal of
national policy in 1965 with the Pres-
ident's Message to Congress on Na-
tural Beauty, followed by Governor
Moore's State Conference of Beau-
tification in April of 1966, the citi-
zens of Ahoskie welcomed an addi-
tional group in their town know as
The Ahoskie Beautification Commis-
sion. This group was the indirect re-
sult of the Governor's Advisory Com-
mittee on Beautification which en-
couraged cities to appoint beautifica-
tion commissions, with authority to
prepare plans, make studies and car-
ry on a voluntary continuous pro-
gram of community beautification and
improvement, and the direct result
of perhaps the greatest crisis in Ahos-

kie's beautification program which
occurred some months ago when, un-
beknownst to any of the citizens and
practically overnight, elm trees on
Church Street were cut to the ground
line by power company workmen.
When the hue and cry of interested
citizens went up, as well as editorial
opinions from the local newspaper,
the reason given for the murder of
this oldest and most beautiful street
in town was the installation of the
White Way on Main Street. As sad
as this occurrence was, it perhaps
served some good purpose as it caused
the town government and power

company to come to some clarifica-
tion of public policy regarding trees,
as well as bringing home to the Town
Council its responsibility for the
beauty of the community. To this
end, the Town Council and Mayor,
the Honorable Charles Pierce, ap-
pointed a committee of ten persons
whom they felt possessed qualities of
impartiality and broad judgment and
in whom they felt the citizens of
Ahoskie would have confidence. This
committee became known as The
Ahoskie Beautification Commission
and was comprised of the city man-
ager, the city maintenance superin-

16

Mrs. J. B. Brown, Woman's Club representative on Beautification Com-
mission, working at Ahoskie High School fronting US 13 and NC 561.

One corner of school foundation after beautification.

Used and junk cars on US 13 and NC 561 shown in foreground.

Same location on US 13 and 561 after cars placed on back of lot pursuant
to request of Beautification Commission.

Junk car within one block of Main Street in town of Ahoskie.
Same location with car removed after request of Beautification Commission

tendent, representatives from the Wo-
man's Club, Business and Profession-
al Women's Club, Rotary Club and
most important four members of The
Ahoskie Garden Club who were con-
sidered to be expert in horticultural
practices. One of these members, Mrs.
Hugh Harrell, was elected to serve
as chairman of the newly formed
Commission.

With monies from the Garden Club
and the town government through its
Beautification Commission, plus large
sums given by anonymous donors,
Church Street was reincarnated with
the planting of thirty-five crepe myr-
tle trees, eighteen flowering cherries
and twenty-five Darlington oaks.

For approximately 14 months now
since the tree episode, the Garden
Club and the Beautification Commis-
sion have been in partnership for the
beautifying of Ahoskie. One of the
next programs set up was a year-
round anti-litter program which was
kicked off in May of 1967 when Gov-
ernor Moore proclaimed the month
of May as Anti-Litter Month. Opera-
tion Sweep by city officials and mem-
bers of the Beautification Commis-
sion kicked off the month-long clean-
up, followed by a parade in which all
the civic clubs participated, the high
school bands and youth organiza-
tions. Highlight of the parade was
the float carrying Miss Tidy Tarheel
with her court who reigned over the
month-long special activities.

Not unmindful of Commissioner Joe
Hunt's war against roadside litter,
special emphasis was given to NC
Highway 561 which passes through
Ahoskie in an east-west direction and
US 13 which travels in the north-
south direction through the town. In
a poster contest conducted among the
students, one of the winners was a
poster showing pictures of eyesores
in our town which included litter
along our highways. This pointed up
to the youth the serious problem of
littering our roadsides and reminded
them of the importance of disposing
of their trash properly.

Continuing the education of our
youth to make them more aware of
keeping their environment clean,
classrooms in the white and colored
schools were judged with money
prizes being offered to the first and
second place winners in each school.
It was real rewarding to see not only

how the students had cleaned their
classrooms, but how they had gone
a step beyond and beautified them
with green, living plants and an or-
derly display of posters and slogans
calling attention to the emphasis on
clean-up and fix-up.

The Ahoskie Garden Club gave
$5.00 to the housewife who had the
largest load of trash hauled from her
premises. The sanitation workers of
the town served as the judges. They
also offered $5.00 to the home owner
who made the greatest improvement

17

Mrs. Hugh Harrell in foreground,
Beautification Commission Chairman,
Mrs. J. B. Brown and daughter and
Mrs. W. B. Everett in background to
left, all members of Beautification
Commission and Garden Club work-
ing on school grounds fronting on
Highway 31 and NC 561.

in the general appearance of his yard.
Both winners received publicity in the
local newspapers and over the local
radio station, WRCS.

In an effort to make US 13 and
NC 561 pleasing to the tourists who
pass through Ahoskie, the grounds
of Ahoskie High School were cleaned
and landscaped. This school faces on
the two routes which are one and
the same as they go through Ahoskie.
This project involved extensive plant-
ing of hollies and pfitzer junipers
along the foundation of the building,
hauling in of some twenty-five loads
of dirt for filling through the cour-
tesy of the State Highway Depart-
ment and subsequent truckloads of
topsoil.

Three service stations on this main
highway artery planted islands of
dwarf hollies for year-round beauty,
interspersed with colorful annuals
during the summer months. A large
traffic island at the egress of US 13
and NC 561 from Ahoskie was land-

Rotary Park on US 13 and NC 561
with benches and water fountain —
very popular with tourists through
town.

scaped with santolina plants. Nearby
a used car and junk dealer cooperat-
ed by moving his dilapidated cars
from the front into the back of his
lot. Other discarded automobiles
throughout the town were removed by
gentle prodding of the Beautification
Commission.

For several years the Rotory Club
has maintained a rest area on the
tourist route through Ahoskie. It has
been so popular that the Commission
has acquired the use of another wood-
ed area on the south side of town
and is in the process now of making
a rest area and overnight trailer stop
with the cooperation of the State
Highway District office.

Traffic island south of Ahoskie on
US 13 and NC 561 from Ahoskie
beautified with santolina.

Arbor Week was recently observed
with the planting of dogwood trees
at the National Guard Armory and
at the Elks Home in the Negro sec-
tion of our town. Both of these build-
ings have been assumed as projects
for beautification. Several hundred
dogwood trees have been sold to the
homeowners looking toward even-
tually featuring the natural beauty
of the dogwood in our town.

While the Garden Club and the
Beautification Commission are serv-
ing as our inspired leadership, it is
quite evident that the individual ci-
tizen must assume his role of re-
sponsibility for beauty and cleanli-
ness start at home in our own back
yard, on our own street, in our own
neighborhood and on our own road-
sides. The continuous anti-litter pro-
gram or the beautifying of public
buildings and private enterprises or
the replanting of trees on Church
Street may not accomplish an envi-
ronmental revolution, but they may
well lead to a new awareness of our
surroundings. This can be an im-

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Dirt hauled by State Department
Highway Department trucks to fill
school grounds fronting on NC 561
and US 13.

portant beginning. Trees can lead to
public parks, public parks to recrea-
tion, recreation to pleasure and fun
and a renewed appreciation of our
community. After all, beautification
is not so much a specific program as
it is an attitude toward one's envi-
ronment, a way of looking at the
world around us and deeply caring
about it.

IT SHOWS IN YOUR FACE

You don't have to tell how you live
each day;

You don't have to say if you work or
you play;

A tried, true barometer serves in the
place,

However you live, it will show in your
face.

The false, the deceit that you bear in
your heart

Will not stay inside where it first got
a start;

For sinew and blood are a thin veil
of lace —

What you wear in your heart, you
wear in your face.

If your life is unselfish, if for others
you live.

For not what you get, but how much
you can give;

If you live close to God in His infi-
nite grace —

You don't have to tell it, it shows in
your face.

— Anonymous.

18

West Virginia Novelty Tune

By CHARLIE CONNER
Of The Daily Mail Staff

HILLBILLIES? Not really. The threesome above are
full-fledged architects with C. E. Silling and Associates of
Charleston, West Virginia, recently made famous by their
hit record "The Interstate Is Coming Through My Out-
House ..."

Contributed by a friend who gets the Charleston, West
Virginia paper, the article below explains further.

Architects of Hit Tune — Charleston architects Bill
Murray, Howard Johe and Dick Blankinship, become
Ugly Irving, Boliver and Clide, respectively, when they
don mountaineer garb and sing "The Interstate Is Com-
ing Through My Outhouse," a song written by Johe and
Blankinship. Their song is on record and headed for the
top on country-western music charts. The three men are
members of the C. E. Silling firm whose head man, Cy
Silling, is an outspoken foe of interstate planning as it
now exists in Charleston.

"I'm proud to live in West Virginny . . .

"Them other states can't hold a lick to us . . .

"But now I must relate — what's happen'n' in our state

"By gawd, it's really causin' quite a fuss."

These lines written by two Charleston architects are
the introduction to a song that now is racing to number
one rating in country and western music.

They call themselves Boliver and Clide. Boliver is
Howard G. Johe and Clide is Dick Blankinship, both
architects in the local office of C. E. Silling and Asso-
ciates. For good measure, Boliver and Clide added Ugly
Irving when they got ready to sing the song. He's Bill
Murray, also an associate in Silling's office.

"We didn't have the nerve to sing it by ourselves,"
Boliver and Clide said.

Many Charleston area residents heard the song as long
as four years ago when it was written but it's just now
coming to nationwide attention.

Plugged By Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey told his audience about it one morning
and disc jockeys throughout the country have picked it
up as a novelty tune that tickles the funnybone.

The first verse goes like this:

"Granny says to cancel Sears and Roebuck . . .

"Tell Lyndon's boys to hurry up our dole . . .

"With all this progress comin —

"We'll change to inside plumbing —

"And sorten up our early morning stroll!
Chorus:

"The interstate is coming through my outhouse . . .
"They tell me that I'm on their right-of-way —
"I'll sell to them and I'll git rich . . .
"But my path'll end at the highway ditch . . .
"I'm makin' my last visit there today!"
You get the idea.

Rosy Future

Billboard Magazine predicts that "The Interstate Is
Coming Through My Outhouse," will reach the top 20 of
the "hot country singles chart."

"Cash Box," a country music review magazine, also
picked it as a winner.

"We don't know what's coming off," said Johe, a
South Charleston resident, "only that apparently the re-
cords are moving. In Minneapolis, for instance, the first
order was for 100. Three days later, the dealer ordered
600; three days later, 2,400."

Boliver and Clide wrote the tune to spoof the interstate
and it caught on locally. They've sung it scores of times
at parties and conventions, dressed up mountain style
with Ugly Irving plunking away at his "Stradivarius tub
bass," a wash tub affair. Boliver plays a mandolin and
Clide plays a five-string banjo. They've brought down the
house on many an occasion.

Billy Edd Wheeler, nationally known song writer and
performer, "discovered" the tune at the Arts and Crafts
Fair at Cedar Lakes, near Ripley, and made arrangements
to get a tape from Boliver, Clide and Ugly Irving.
Leroy Pullins Sings

Now it's on a Kapp record as sung by Leroy Pullins,
one of Nashville's finest novelty singers.

In between the choruses are these verses:

"Uncle Ben has got a case of mis'ries . . .

"A-hikin' to that outhouse makes him t'ard . . .

"But he'll be gittin' better, He'll be a inside setter . . .

"When we install that cess-pool in our yard.

"Them engineers made forty seven surveys . . .

"They said to put it there and that was that . . .

"They'll bring a big steam-roller, And flatten my two-
holer . . .

"But I'll keep right on votin' Democrat.

"Someday when I grow old and kinda feeble . . .

"Some moonlight night I'll wake up feelin' strange . . .

"I'll finish up my bath, And stroll down my old path . . .

"And wake up in a great big interchange!"

Yes siree, that's the way it is in West Virginny, folks.

19

Names and Their Origins

By VERLUS MASON, Roadway Design

Following are the English transla-
tions of a number of Cherokee names.
These are names of places in West-
ern North Carolina and elsewhere.
The translations are taken from the
Glossary in the Mooney Report found
in Part I of the Nineteenth Annual
Report of the American Bureau of
Ethnology. Government Printing Of-
fice, 1900.

Aquone, A post office on Nantahala
river, Macon County, N. C, sit of
the former Fort Scott. Probably a
corruption of eqwani, "River".

Cartoogechaye — Cartoogaja-Gatu'-
gitse'yi, "New Settlement Place."

Cataloochee — Gadalu'tsi, In the cor-
rupted form of Cataluchee this ap-
pears on the map as the name of a
peak, or rather a ridge on the line
between Swain and Haywood
counties, in N. C, and of a creek
running down on the Haywood side
into Big Pigeon River. It is pro-
perly the name of the ridge only
and seems to refer to a "fringe
standing erect," apparently from
the appearance of the timber
growing in streaks along the side
of the mountain; from wadalu'yata,
"fringe", gadu'ta, "standing up in
a row or series."

Cheoah, Cheowa — Tsiya'hi "Otter
place", from tsipu, "otter" and yi,
"locative", variously spelled Cheo-
wa, Cheeowhee, Chewohe, Chewe,
etc. A former and still existing
Cherokee settlement on Cheowa
River, above Robbinsville, N. C, in
Graham County.

Cherokee, Tsa'lagi, "People of the
cave county".

Cowee, Kawi'yi, A former important
Cherokee settlement, commonly
known as Cowee, about the mouth
of Cowee creek of Little Tennessee
river, some 10 miles below Frank-
lin, in Macon County, N. C. The
name may possibly be a contrac-
tion of Ani'Kawi'yi, "Place of the
Deer Clan".

Coweeta), Ani'Kawita, "The lower
creeks", A small creek of Little
Tennessee river above Franklin, in
Macon County, N. C. is now known
as Coweeta creek.

Cullasaja, Kulsetsi'yi, "Honey-locust
place," from kulse'tsi, honey locust.
Kulse'tsi, is also "sugar". The local

name has commonly been rendered
Sugartown by the traders.

Cullowhee, Gula'hi, "Gula'hi place",
so called from an unidentified
spring plant eaten as a salad by
the Cherokee. The name of two or
more places in the old Cherokee
country; one near Currahee moun-
tain in Habersham County, Ga.,
the other on Cullowhee River, an
upper branch of Tuckasegee, in
Jackson County,N. C.

Ela, "earth, ground".

Ellijay — Elatse'yi, Green Earth

Hiwassee — Ayuhwa'si, The proper
form of the name commonly writ-
ten Hiwassee. It signifies a savan-
na or meadow and was applied to
two or more former Cherokee set-
tlements. The more important,
commonly distinguished as Ayuh-
wa'si Egwa'hi or Great Hiwassee,
was on the north bank of Hiwassee
River at the present Savannah ford
above Columbus, in Polk Co.,
Tenn. The other was farther up
the same river at the junction of
peachtree creek above Murphy in
Cherokee County, N. C.

Juanluska, "He tries, but fails".

Knoxville, Kuwanda'ta'lun'yi —
"Mulberry grove"

Nantahala, Nundaye'li "Middle (i.e.
Noonday) sun," from nunda', sun
and aye'li, middle. A former Cher-
okee settlement on the Nantahala
River near the present Jarrett Sta-
tion, in Macon County, N. C. so
called from the high cliffs which
shut out the view of the sun until
nearly noon. The name appears also
as Nanthahala, Nantiyallee, Nunti-
alla, etc. It appears to have been
applied properly only to the point
on the river where the cliffs are
most perpendicular, while the set-
tlement itself was known as Kanu'-
gu'la'yi, "Briertown."

Oconaluftee — Egwanulti', "By the
river".

Santeetla, The present map name of
a creek joining Cheowa River in
Graham County, N. C. and of a
smaller tributary (Little Santeet-
la). The name is not recognized or
understood by the Cherokee, who
insist that it was given by the
whites. Little Santeetla is known

to the Cherokee as Tsunda'nilti'yi,
q.v.; the main Santeetla creek is
commonly known as Nayu'hi ge-
yun'i, "Sand place stream".

Savannah, The popular name of this
river is derived from that of the
Shawano Indians, formerly living
upon its middle course, and known
to the Cherokee as Ani'Sawanu'gi,
q.v., to the Creeks as Savanuka,
and to some of the coast tribes of
Carolina as Savanna. "Meadow".

Sequoya, Sikwayi, A masculine name,
commonly written Sequoya, made
famous as that of the inventor of
the Cherokee alphabet. The name,
which can not be translated, is still
in use upon the East Cherokee re-
servation.

Soco Gap, Ahalu'na, "Where they
ambushed".

Stecoah. Stekoa, Stika'yi, The name
of several former Cherokee settle-
ments. The word has lost its mean-
ing.

Tallulah, Talulu', The word is of
uncertain etymology. The dulu'si
frog is said to cry talulu'.

Pigeon River, Wayi "Pigeon"; the
modern Cherokee name for Big Pi-
geon River in Western N. C. prob-
ably a translation to the English
name. It appears also as Wayeh.

Tellico, Talikwa', Tahlequah, estab-
lished as the capital of the Chero-
kee nation, Indian Territory, in
1839. The meaning of the name is
lost.

Tomotla, Tomotley, Tama'li, The
name cannot be translated and may
be of Creek origin, as that tribe had
a town of the same name upon the
lower Chattahoochee River.

Tuckasegee, Tsiksi'tsi, The word has
lost its meaning.

Tusquittee Bald, Tsuwa' uniyetsun-
'yi, "Where the water dogs laugh-
ed."

Tusquittee Creek, Da'sklitun'yi, Raf-
ters place. A former settlement on
Tusquittee creek, near Hayesville,
in Clay County, N. C.

Unaka, une'ga and Unicoi,
unega "White"

Unicio, the map name of the old
Unicoi turnpike, of a gap on the
watershed between Chattahoochee
and Hiwassee rivers, in Georgia,
and of a County in Eastern Tenn-
essee. The present map name of a
part of the Great Smoky range.
Watauga, (commonly written Wa-
tauga,; also Watoga, Wattoogee,
Whatoga, etc. The meaning of the
name is lost.

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Waya Gap, A thi'ta, "Place where
they shouted", The map name is
probably from the Cherokee wa'ya,
wolf.

Cherokee Myths

Jonna Bald — A bald mountain near
the head of Valley River, on the
line between Graham and Cherokee
Counties. Called Diya'hali'yi "Li-
zard Place", from a traditional
great lizard, with glistening throat,
which used to haunt the place and
was frequently seen sunning itself
on the rocky slopes.

Gregory Bald, On the western border
of Swain County, adjoining Tenn-
essee. The Cherokee call it Tsistu-
'yi, "Rabbit Place". Here the rab-
bits had their townhouse and here
lived their chief, the Great Rabbit.
In the old times, the people could
see him. He was as large as a deer
and all the little rabbits were sub-
ject to him.

Tsu'dinuniti'yi — "Throwing down
place", the site of a former settle-
ment in a bend on the west side
of the Nantahala River, just with-
in the limits of Macon County. So
called from a tradition that a Cher-
okee pursued by the enemy threw
away his equipment there.

Tsukilunnun'yi — "Where he alight-
ed," Two small bald spots on the
side of the mountain at the head
of Little Snowbird creek, southwest
of Robbinsville, in Graham County.
A mysterious being, having the
form of a giant, with head blazing
like the sun, was once seen to fly
through the air, alight at this
place and stand for some time
looking out over the landscape.
It then flew away, and when the
people came afterward to look,
they found the herbage burned from
the ground where it had stood.
They did not know what it was,
but some said that it must have
been the sun.

Cheowa Maximum

Swin Bald — Together called Seh-
wate'yi, "Hornet Place", from a
monster hornet, which, according
to tradition, formerly had its nest
there, and could be seen flying
about the tree tops and sunning it-
self on the bald spots and which
was so fierce that it drove away
every one who came near the moun-
tain. It finally disappeared.

NANTAHALA: A river and ridge
of very steep mountains in Macon
County the name being a corruption
of Nun'daye'li, applied to a former
settlement about the mouth of
Briertown creek, the townhouse be-

ing on the west side of the river
about the present Jarretts. The
word means "middle sun, " i.e.
"midday sun" from nunda', "sun",
and aye'li, "middle" and refers to
the fact that in places along the
stream the high cliffs shut out the
direct light of the sun until near-
ly noon. From a false idea that it
is derived from ununti, "milk"' it
has ben facifully reneder, "Cen-
ter of a woman's breast," "Maiden's
bosom", etc. The valley was the
legendary haunt of the Uw tsun-
'ta.

DIVISION 14 (Cont.)

Mr. Jon H. Laughter joined the
Maintenance Department as Asst.
Dist. Engr. in District 1 Office on
January 22nd. His experience with
the Highway Commission goes back
to 1957 when he started work in the
Construction Department prior to en-
tering N. C. State College. After grad-
uation he worked eight months on the
Training Program and entered mili-
tary service in 1963 at Officer Train-
ing School at Lackland Air Force
Base, Texas.

After being commissioned, he went
with the 464th Civil Engineering Sq.
at Pope Air Force Base, then with the
555th Civil Engineering Sq. (Red
Horse) at Vietnam. While there he
was promoted to the rank of Captain
and was awarded the Air Force Com-
mendation and Bronze Star Medals
for meritorious service.

Mr. Laughter received his Profes-
sional Engineer license in 1967. He
is married to the former Miss Linda
Connell of Hendersonville, and they
have two daughters, Stephanie and
Cindy. His father, J. H. Laughter,
has been employed in the Bridge De-
partment for many years.

Engineers Make
Good Physicians

"Engineers and mathematicians
make good physicians, says Dr.
Reinhard Harkema — and he should
know.

He is in charge of the pre-medical
and pre-dental program at North
Carolina State University.

"Pre-medical students," he said,
"may take their undergraduate work
in almost any area, including liberal
arts, physical sciences or agricul-
ture."

Dr. Harkema pointed out that stu-
dents with technical backgrounds
have a good foundation for the study
of medicine because doctors find
themselves turning ever more fre-
quently to machines for research and
diagnosis in our technologically-or-
iented world.

He noted, "Any good qualified
graduate possesses excellent prepa-
ration for medicine."

A good student does not necessar-
ily have to obtain his degree in zoo-
logy in order to enter medical school
upon graduation, Dr. Harkema stated.

Although most students who enter
the medical field major in zoology as
undergraduates, Dr. Harkema esti-
mates that a dozen or more students
who majored in the physical sciences
and engineering at NCSU have suc-
cessfully completed medical training
in recent years.

This year, Stephen Herbert of Ra-
leigh, a senior in textile chemistry
at NCSU, has won a scholarship for
medical study at Bowman Gray
School of Medicine in Winston-Sa-
lem.

The requirements for most medi-
cal schools, Harkema said, include
two years of English, one year of
biology, two-and-a-half years of chem-
istry, one year of mathematics and
a course in comparative anatomy.

At NCSU most students take part
of these requirements and may elect
organic chemistry, comparative ana-
tomy and more biology, fulfilling their
requirements both for an undergrad-
uate degree and entrance into a medi-
cal school.

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THE YUM YUM SPREE — Take the hind leg of a
hefty hog, add a hayrick full of henfruit, a gallon of
grits, a bushel of biscuits, a bale of butter, hand it over
to the best bunch of boys ever to serve the Sixth High-
way Division, sprinkle lightly with invited department
heads from Raleigh, and really, Riley, you've got Division
Six Engineer Nat Day's annual culinary convocation.
You just can't beat that kind of goings-on, not matter
how hard you try. Anybody care to count calories???

FACES IN THE CROWD — All the big doings in
Six were conducted on Friday, March 23rd. Nat, his usual
jolly self, made the perfect host, flanked by other notables
from the division including assistant Kesler Butler, dis-
trict chiefs Sam Wilson, Billy Dees and E. L. Green.
Man, there was all kinds of conversation, and plenty of
fun. We got to talk at great length with a great guy —
Rowdy Rayvon Autry, Nat's Office Manager at Fayette-
ville. Also saw his predecessor, Swain King. Bill White
did a lot of the cooking honors, and everybody else did
a lot of eating. Planning and Research Engineer Max
Sproles tore everybody up with his latest "genie" joke.
Construction Engineer John Davis ate biscuits like they
were going out of style. After all that eating, I under-
stand some folks still left lighter than when they got
there.

SPRING CHICKEN — Any of you who know our As-
sistant Chief Engineer for Construction and Maintenance
know a guy who believes you're as young as you feel and
act. Hunter Irving feels young, acts young, thinks young,
and is young. But, we got a call the other day from a
fella wanting to know when the first paved road was built
between Raleigh and Cary. Guess who we called? Baker
Two came up with the expected answer on old NC-10 . . .
then with a sound in his voice that made you see the
twinkle in his eye, he said, "Why ask me? You think I'm
one of the 'old-heads' arounds here or something?

REPEAT PERFORMANCE — Purchasing Agent Bill
Reaves is, we're here to tell you, still one of the great-
est magicians of all time. 'Bout two years ago I saw him
make two barbecued chickens disappear at D. W. Pat-
rick's Division One annual meeting ... on February 23rd
at Fayetteville, half a dozen eggs and two rashers of ham
were involved in the disappearing act. Would you believe
five eggs plus grits and gravy?

POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE — We were in-
vited to address a group of history teachers renewing
certificates through extension classes of our Alma Mater,
Western Carolina University, on February 19th. Real
pleasure to try teaching again. It all took place in Hen-

By KEITH HUNDLEY

dersonville High School. We tried as best we could
(relying heavily on notes left hereabouts by J. S. Burch)
to trace the history of the Highway Commission since
1921. We then threw the session open for questions and
answers. What do you reckon the first question was?
"How do you go about getting a secondary road paved
when there's one property owner holding out on donat-
ing right-of-way". So help me, George Willoughby, that
was it!

YOUNG EAGLE — Jimmy Newhouse (that's his col-
lege name ... we know it's really James Orr Newhouse)
says he wants to be an astronaut. He's on his way, too.
He became, in February, North Carolina's first and only
Civil Air Patrol Cadet to win the coveted Spaatz Award.
Before that it was the General Billy Mitchell Award and
before that the Amelia Earhart Award ... all for dis-
tinguished service to, and progress in training in the
CAP. Apparently, Newhouse, like Ben Franklin, noticed
something more than a tug on the string when at some
time in his life his friends told him to "go fly a kite". His
proud Mama edits this magazine and his dad is R. B.
Newhouse of CHE M STRAND'S Raleigh operation.

TRADE — We saw the venerable Tom Burton on a
recent outing to the Piedmont . . . Remember he retired
in January after working for the SHC since 1921. Tom's
traded his transit for a casting rod and swears he's gon-
na find out once and for all whether my tales of there be-
ing fish in the waters of Smith River at Spray (or is it
Eden?) are true.

PARTING SHOT — Our good friend Bill Jackson of
the "BJ SHOW" on Raleigh's 50-thousand watt voice had
a good one the other morning. Jack allows that a friend
of his says, "It's not what they take out of my take-
home pay that worries me, it's what's taken out of it
after I get it home". Sound familiar. Here's just one
more. A friend of ours says his wife has discovered the
magic of driving. She tried to get off a secondary road
to enter a drive-way and turned into a utility pole. Bye
y'all.

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Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

BRIDGE — It's
nice to have BILL
GOODWIN, KEN-
NETH PRIDGEN
and BOB LILLEY
as new permanent
employees. And
welcome to train-
ing program em-
ployees LARRY
K E T C H U M ,
LARRY STALL-
INGS, VAN STARLING and JOEL
JOHNSON.

Good luck to CHARLES POTTS,
who went to the Laboratory as a
trainee and to MARSHALL HUN-
TER, who left the Co-op Program to
attend Gaston College.

CHARLES KING, GEORGE
PHILLIPS and BOBBY POWELL
journeyed to Rockingham to see the
"Carolina 500" which, to the disap-
pointment of all, was rained out. Not
to be out-done, the boys plan a re-
turn trip June 16th for this event.

The scene above shows members of Bridge Maintenance at a luncheon at
the Plantation Inn. The occasion was a surprise luncheon and gifts for Mrs.
Brenda Johnson who resigned her position as secretary to J. J. Powell March
8th. Department employees bid Brenda farewell and good luck.

Jim Bryan and Brenda Price of
Traffic Engineering try out the ski
slopes at Beech Mountain.

The Mardi Gras in New Orleans
was the scene of ROYCE CAR-
ROLL'S latest vacation. Besides a
fabulous breakfast at Brennans, Royce
had the good fortune to sit next to
comedienne Phyllis Diller at break-
fast. Another thrill was seeing the Al
Hirt-Herb Alpert TV show in the
making.

JIM TEAGUE went to the moun-
tains at Franklin for a week's vaca-
tion. During the week, he made trips
to Boone, Hound Ears Lodge and
Seven Devils. ART NOBLE and his
wife had guests from Puerto Rico.
Last year the Nobles spent some time
in Puerto Rico. SUE ROYAL is
commuting from Benson again. Af-
ter living in Raleigh for a while she
decided to return home.

In a "this could happen to you"
vein, H. C. TOWNSEND, C. B.
PATTON and ROYCE CARROLL
were cruising on the Roanoke River
during a field trip when the boat's
motor stalled and couldn't be start-
ed. They managed to get to shore,
however, and after tramping through
swampland, got to a road and flag-
ged a ride, suffering only dampened
spirits.

When the early spring weather be-
gan to feel like "summer", the lure
of the coast was evident. SUE ROY-
AL went to Surf City, the GEORGE
PARKINS went to their cottages at

Hampstead. the LANDIS TEMPLES
visited their cottage at Ocean Isle,
GARY BROOME and his wife went
to the Outer Banks, and ANNIE
RUTH SUGG and her husband spent
the weekend at Myrtle Beach.

Now that GERALD WHITE has
started construction on his new home
and is planning to do a lot of work
himself, his co-workers are bracing
themselves to lend sympathetic ears
to many a tale of woe.

PERSONNEL — The Department
is happy to have GALE STRICK-
LAND, student at Garner High
School, who is on the Co-op Office
Occupations Program. Gale works
four hours each afternoon doing most-
ly filing. Welcome, Gale, from all
employees.

It's rumored that FRED AD-
COCK purchased a used set of golf
clubs from the golf "pro" CLOYCE
ALFORD. Included with the trans-
action were ten easy lessons on
"How to make an eagle on every
hole."

MR. WOODARD is all smiles
since completing his income tax way
ahead of the deadline. RON WOL-
FE's family is once more back to
normal after "passing-the-buck" of
sickness around. PATSY PEARCE
and JOYCE CLARK have announced
a recent arrival. They conducted a

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CONSTRUCTION ACROSS THE
STATE.

Ik .;}

1- TOPSAIL ISLAND BRIDGE.

2- 1-26 AND U.S. 64.

3- PAVING ON 1-40.

4- CONSTRUCTION SITE OF
1-26 - 1-40.

5- U.S. 421 SOUTH OF CLINTON.

6- CAPE FEAR RIVER BRIDGE
PILE SETTING.

7- NEARLY COMPLETED TOPSAIL
ISLAND BRIDGE.

8- DURHAM EXPRESSWAY TAKI
SHAPE.

9- 1-85 "MISSING LINK" BEING
CLOSED.

10- DECK PORTION OF NEW
TOPSAIL BRIDGE.

(HEADQUARTERS— Continued)

Miss Sarah Jean Brown of Route
1, Fuquay-Varina, became the bride
of Harry Miller Thompson of Ra-
leigh, January 21st in the Christian
Light Christian Church on Route 1,
Fuquay.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Mattie Belle Champion Brown of
Route 1, Fuquay and the late James
Milton Brown. The bridegroom's par-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Colbert Nor-
wood Thompson of Cary.

The bride attended Campbell Col-
lege and is a former secretary to Mr.
W. A. Wilson, Jr., State Design En-
gineer, N. C. State Highway Commis-
sion.

The bridegroom is an engineering
design technician in the Roadway De-
sign Department.

"bird watch" from their window as
they watched the arrival of two pi-
geons.

MARY LEE GRIFFIN is the
proud owner of a 1968 Volkswagen
convertible. BETTY HORTON cer-
tainly has been excited lately about
all the country and western singing
shows coming to Raleigh.

TED AUSTIN seems to be a first-
class movie critic since viewing sev-
eral movies while on out-of-town
trips.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — WADE
ELLIOTT of the Drafting Section
participated in the Latter Day Saints
Regional Zone Basketball Play-offs
in Washington, D. C, March 8-9th.

MURRIEL STIVERS, Draftsman,
and his wife are real proud of "Kai-
kei", their recently-acquired Old En-
glish Sheep Dog.

Welcome back to PETE ED-
WARDS of the Engineering Section,
who was sick for several weeks.

DON HOLLOWAY, Supervisor of
the Engineering Section, attended a

one-week course on the Current
Techniques of Aerial Photo Interpre-
tation at the Sir Walter Hotel the
last week in February. This course
was sponsored by the Forestry Divi-
sion, North Carolina State Univer-
sity.

MARLENE CAULBERG and her
husband enjoyed a week's vacation on
the West Coast. They took in the
sights in San Francisco, Los Angeles
and Las Vegas, Nevada. They also
visited Disneyland.

Department Head EDGAR J.
PAGE, E. D. GUTHRIE and W. D.
CUTHRELL attended a meeting in
Washington, D. C. of the Society of
Photogrammetry and The American
Congress on Surveying and Mapping
during the week of March 11th.

The Photogrammetric Department
has taken on a new phase of engi-
neering duties of taking original and
final cross-sections to be used for
contract payment purposes.

AL TATUM of the Stereo Section
took his family to Merritt Island,
Fla. for a week's vacation. His grand-
parents returned with them to their
home in Fayetteville.

LANDSCAPE — BOBBY BOY-
ETTE and wife, Doris Lee, spent a
February vacation in Florida. In-
cluded in their trip was the Daytona
"500". Bob was well pleased with the
cyclone victory.

It's nice to see D. R. McMI-
CHAEL, Area Landscape Supervisor,
back on the job after recovering from
an accident.

Our deepest sympathy to SANDRA
JACKSON, whose grandfather died
April 3rd and to JIMMY ARM-
STRONG upon the death of his
grandmother April 4th.

Get well wishes to Mr. P. F. Har-
ris, KATHERINE DAVIS' father,
who was recently hospitalized.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
Welcome to Mrs. NANCY HARD-
ING, who replaces BRENDA JOHN-
SON as secretary to J. J. POWELL.
Nancy hails from West Virginia
where she worked for the state and
was introduced to the Bridge De-
partment when she worked tempo-
rarily for J. L. NORRIS in Decem-
ber.

Our best wishes to Brenda Johnson,
who resigned March 8th.

BRIDGE LOCATION — It's nice
to have several new employees in
the Department. Welcome ROBERT
DOUGHTIE, JR., ROY FULLER,
KEITH TART, MELVIN WRENN,
DALLIE BAGWELL and EDWIN
FISHER.

The Department is sorry to lose
two employees, JAMES KELLEN-
BERGER and HUBERT GILL, who
resigned to return to school, but
wish them the best of luck.

A NICE MORNING'S CATCH! Although J. A. Saunders, Area Landscape
Supervisor, and his fishing buddies found the weather somewhat cold at Cape
Kennedy (35-40) for trout fishing in February, they did find the Blue Fish
hungry. Only one day out of the ten they were in Florida, did the temperature
rise above 60. That day they caught 126 speckled trout, the largest weighing
1ZA pounds.

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Our deepest sympathy is extended
to ROBERT GREEN upon the re-
cent death of his father.

RIGHT OF WAY — JENNY
FERRELL has returned to work
from maternity leave — congratula-
tions to Jenny upon the arrival of
her little girl, Lee Michelle, born
December 29, 1967.

JESSIE GARDNER resigned
March 29th to become a mother and
housewife. BECKY JONES has as-
sumed Jessie's duties as secretary to
W. D. MOON. Employees gave Jes-
sie a nice stork shower and she re-
ceived many pretty gifts. GAIL
ARMSTRONG, former temporary
employee, replaces Becky Jones as
a permanent employee.

BUDDY CAGLE vacationed a
week in Texas and Mexico.

LUCILLE JONES is back at work
after a short stay in the hospital.

BOB SHEETS underwent a kid-
ney operation in February and is
now back at work.

Congratulations! Right of Way has
two new Gold Dust Twins: BEN
BROWN and LINDSEY GOULD.

LOCATION — A. L. LEWIS, JR.
was recently elected Baptist Brother-
hood Man of the Year at Grace Bap-
tist Church in Charlotte. Upon being
recognized by the pastor, "Dick" was,
for once, at a loss for words.

Congratulations to MARSHALL
and Charlotte PHELPS who an-
nounced the birth of a daughter,
Sherry Lancaster, January 26th.
Sherry weighed in at 8 lbs., 12 oz.

Just wondering if BOYCE MID-
GETTE has been gazing at any sun-
sets lately. Especially down east!

EQUIPMENT — The Department
is delighted to have new employee
MARGARET WARREN, as secre-
tary to R. M. STANBERRY.

LORRAINE CARTER is attend-
ing the Creative Writing Workshop
at North Carolina State University.
Lorraine was pleased to have her
mother visit her several weeks re-
cently.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Our
deepest sympathy to R. LLOYD
YOUNG, Equipment Depot Superin-
tendent, upon the death of his mother
in February. She was 94.

Our heartfelt sympathy is extend-
ed to CHARLIE ROGERS, Machine
Shop employee, upon the death of
his wife in February.

Your Editor and her husband Berg
were doubly proud of one of their
seven children when their second son
James Orr Newhouse, better known
as Jim to the family, was presented
the CAP's first General Carl Spaatz
Award that has been presented to a
CAP here in North Carolina at a din-
ner sponsored by the Headquarters
of the North Carolina Civil Air Pat-
rol. The award was presented by Lt.
Governor Robert Scott at a din-
ner presentation at the Statler-Hilton
Hotel on February 26th. The picture
above top from left to right is Major
John Birdsall, Commanding Officer
of Raleigh- Wake County Sqd. Major
Birdsall is a project engineer in the
Roadway Design Department, Lt. Col.
Ralph P. Cochrane, North Carolina
Wing Commander from Charlotte, Ca-
det Col. James O. Newhouse and Lt.
Gov. Robert Scott. The bottom picture
shows Lt. Gov. Scott presenting the
Award to Jim. Needless to say this
was a memorable moment for both
Mom and Dad.

Members of the Equipment Depot
recently hospitalized but, we're happy
to report, now back on the job are:
R. LLOYD YOUNG; HOWARD
WILDER, Truck Shop; CLAUDE
ELLIS, Stockroom; C. D. HARRIS,
Carpenter Shop; and JESSE
BLAKE, Machine Shop.

JIM ADAMS has replaced Alex
Tyson as Foreman of the Carpenter
Shop; MASON SMITHLEY re-
placed Frank Godbold as Foreman of
the Truck Shop; and CHARLES
NUNNERY has assumed T. R. Bu-
chanan's position as Foreman of the
Car Shop. Congratulations to all of
you. Mr. Tyson, Mr. Godbold and
Mr. Buchanan have all recently re-
tired and highway employees wish
for them the best of luck and hope
they will return to visit us often.

New personnel at the Depot are:
NATHANIEL C U R L E Y, Yard
Gang; ERNEST L. SENTER,
Plumbing Shop; HENRY POL-
LARD, Carpenter Shop and ROGER
ROBERTS, Machine Shop.

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. HUDSON and
son, Donald, recently returned from
a trip to Lakeland, Florida, where
they visited their daughter who is a
student at Southeastern Bible Col-
lege.

ROADWAY DESIGN — Employ-
ees miss SARAH THOMPSON, for-
mer secretary to W. A. WILSON,
JR., State Design Engineer. Good
luck, Sarah, in your new job. Wel-
come to Mrs. CAROLYN LEE, Sa-
rah's replacement.

It's nice to have ROBERT D.
HURLBUT back as a permanent em-
ployee. Welcome to new secretary,
Miss CHERLE HARRISON, and
new trainee, RONALD A. FITZ-
ULA.

Cigars have been plentiful in Road-
way Design lately and here's why!
Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT BRAAM
announce the birth of a son, An-
thony Clifford, born March 16th. The
DAVID McFARLINGS are proud
parents of Michael Wayne, born
March 25th; and the RALPH TRI-
VETTES little son, Mark Ethan, ar-
rived March 6th.

Whde CHARLES BARNDT, JR.
vacationed at home in March, he was
pleased to have his parents from Chi-
cago pay him a visit.

LEGAL — CHARLES W. WIL-
KINSON, JR. is a new attorney in
the Department.

Welcome to new secretaries NAN-
CY HOBGOOD, JAN KOZMA,
MARY ELLEN MERRITT, SAL-
LY STEWART, who transferred from
Bridge, and SANDY JACOBS who is

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working temporarily while MARI-
LYN LEE is out on maternity leave.

SHIRLEY WHITE enjoyed a re-
cent weekend in Washington, D. C.
Shirley is real proud of her Pekin-
gese puppy, Puff, which she recently
bought.

Governor Dan Moore hands a heart
fund contribution to Keith Hundley,
Public Relations Officer for the State
Highway Commission, who is acting
as State Government Coordinator for
the 1968 Wake County Heart Fund
Drive.

CANDIE JOHNSON'S chihuahua,
Nickie, is in the animal hospital, but
Candie says he is doing fine.

FINANCE — New faces in Key
Punch are LINDA JOYNER,
PHYLLIS HARRISON, MARY
GREGORY and KATHY WELLS.
MARTY WILLOUGHBY is a new
employee in the Tabulating Section.

Employees will miss MARILYN
LONG of the Key Punch Section,
who moved to Roanoke Rapids, and
DIANNE HOLLEMAN, who moved
to Greensboro. ROBY HALL and
DOUG SHINNER of the Tab Section,
BRANTLEY BUIE of Accounting
and GENEVA MANNOOCH recent-
ly moved to Florida.

It's nice to have DONNA FAYE
STALLINGS as a new employee in
General Accounting. And employees
welcome back PHIL YARBROUGH
to Accounting. BEATRICE HAR-
RISON and DIANNE WATTEN-
BARGER are new members of the
Accounting Section also.

Congratulations to the DEWITT
PERRYS upon the recent birth of a
son; to BRENDA PARTIN and her
husband upon the birth of a daugh-
ter; and to the BOB NICHOLS upon
the recent adoption of a son.

Miss Helen Frances Morris, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wingate Morris
of Route 1, Angier, was united in
marriage with Billy Ray Best, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hosea Best

of Benson, November 11, 1967 at the
White Memorial Presbyterian Church,
Route 1, Willow Springs.

The bride is the sister of Miss
JUDY FAYE MORRIS in Highway
Finance.

MATERIALS & TESTS —
CHARLIE and Virginia JACKSON
recently returned from a visit to
Charleston, S. C. They report a won-
derful time in this scenic and his-
toric city.

Employees of the Lab extend sin-
cere sympathy to AL WOOD in the
loss of his father, who passed away
recently.

JEAN BOULIER, Chemist in the
Chemical Lab, and H. L. (BUCK)
SEARS, Materials Inspector in Wil-
mington, have been on the sick list
and hospitalized recently. Employ-
ees hope they will soon be back at
work.

New employees in the Department
include LINDA LANGDON, Soils
Lab; L. W. WOOD, Stockroom; A.
H. BROUGHTON, JR., Bituminous
Lab; and WILEY BROWN, JR.,
Concrete Lab.

The Tabernacle Baptist Church in
Raleigh was the setting for the wed-
ding ceremony of Mrs. Betty Caudle
Sutton and Mr. Richard Watson Pur-
ser February 17th.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry T. Caudle of Raleigh
and the bridegroom is the son of Mrs.
Ethel S. Purser and the late Mr.
Purser of Raleigh.

Following the ceremony, a recep-
tion was held at Chef Bonin Restau-
rant.

The groom is employed in Road-
way Design.

G. W. MORGAN supplies the fol-
lowing information about the High-
way Laboratory Softball team. They
were League champs in 1965, 1966,
and 1967. During the three-year re-
cord, the team won 69 games and

Mrs. Jefferson C. Bulluck was the
former Miss June Carmilla Pearce be-
fore her marriage October 14, 1967 in
the Pearce Baptist Church in Zebulon.

The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Addison Elmer Pearce of Zeb-
ulon. She is a graduate of Bunn High
School and Hardbarger Business Col-
lege, and is employed in the Finance
Dept. of the Highway Commission.

The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmore Carson Bulluck of Louis-
burg and is a student at N. C. State
University.

lost 9 games. Team batting average
1966, .445, 47 home runs. Team bat-
ting average 1967, .404, 42 home runs.
The 1968 team consists of 16 ball
players, and they are out to win
again this season, of course. Seven
of the 1967 team are back this sea-
son, with ample replacements for
members lost by transfers, etc. CUR-
TIS HARRISON, who hit 20 home
runs last time, will be back at third
base along with center fielder HER-
MAN JOHNSON, catcher WIL-
LIAM HAYNES, pitcher DAVID
FUQUAY, 2nd baseman BILL WAT-
SON and pitcher WILEY STEPEN-
SON, HERMAN JOHNSON will act
as field captain.

PLANNING & RESEARCH —
Congratulations to the WARREN
BAGLEYS upon the birth of baby
girl, Ginger Elaine.

Employees will miss TENNEY
PRIDGEN who transferred to the
Bridge Department. Good luck to
BEN RHUE, who left to enter serv-
ice.

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Miss Snow White (the name is au-
thentic) is the freshman representa-
tive for Homecoming Queen at Gar-
ner High School.

Snow White is the 15-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
White, and her father is State Ap-
praiser with Right of Way.

It's good to see SAM STANCIL
back on the job after a recent illness.
Also, welcome back to BARBARA
MITCHELL, who was recently ill.

Best wishes to ANNETTE UP-
CHURCH who just recently became
engaged to Ben Rhue. An April wed-
ding is planned.

JUDY AUSTIN is real proud of
her husband, Pat, who was selected
to sing in the Campbell College tour-
ing choir.

ED SHULLER enjoyed a nice
vacation in the Florida sun.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Congratulations to ROY WILLIAMS
and his wife, Ann, on the birth of a
son, Douglas McLeod, March 18th.
Naturally, Roy passed out lots of
cigars to celebrate the occasion.

Sympathy is extended to BETTIE
MASSENGILL and family upon the
death of her brother, William E.
Sauls, March 7th.

HERBERT JUSTICE, GWYN
SANDERLIN, H. C. RHUDY, J. O.
LITCHFORD and R. J. DODGE will
attend the annual meeting of the In-
stitute of Traffic Engineers, Southern
Section, in Louisville, Kentucky May
6-9th. BOB DODGE is the outgoing
president of the Southern Section.

JOHN ISLEY, LARRY WIL-
LIAMS, S. B. SMITH, KEN MI-
LAM, HAROLD STEELMAN, JIM
BRYAN and ROGER HAWKINS
attended a short course on Traffic
Engineering at Virginia Military In-
stitute, Lexington, Va., March 25-
29th.

JERRY TODD joined the Design
Section recently. An employee in
Roadway Design for eight years,
Jerry attended N. C. State Univer-
sity and has been with a consulting
firm for the last year and a half. His
family consists of his wife, Sue, and
daughter, Lisa.

DAVID MOORE and BILL
RUDD, part-time students at NCSU,
are temporary employees in the Sign-
ing Section. They are helping re-
place sign drawings for screens des-
troyed in the fire at the Prison En-
terprises' sign shop.

BOB PAGOOTA, Traffic Control
Technician for Division 10, was a pa-
tient at Presbyterian Hospital in
Charlotte for a week in March.

Miss Diane Fay Peele became the
bride of Robert Edward Roberson at
Holloway Street Baptist Church in
Durham, Saturday, February 24th.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Robert Peele of 1115
Driver Street in Durham, and the
bridegroom's parents are Mr. and
Mrs. John K. Roberson of 3817
Deepwood Circle, Durham.

The couple resides at 3711 Wood-
side Road, Raleigh. The bridegroom is
employed in Roadway Design.

Meet handsome six-months-old Jeff-
rey Carson Leonard. His proud par-
ents are Mary and Edwin Carson
Leonard. His mother is a member of
Finance and his father works with
the Highway in Div. 5.

RUTH STEPHENSON, temporary
employee in Special Studies, left
March 29th to accept a permanent
position with the Budget Division.
JOAN McKEEL, a native of Wilson
now living in Raleigh, replaces Ruth.
Joan attended Chowan College.

REILEY CURTIS, TOMMY
KNOX and JERRY TODD of the
Design Section, accompanied by JIM
MORRISON of Maintenance, went
to Salter Path on a camping and fish-
ing trip the last weekend in March.

BRENDA PRICE and JIM BRY-
AN joined the Raleigh Ski Club for
a weekend at Beech Mountain March
l-3rd. LANDIS SATTERWHITE,,
Div. Traffic Engineer of Div. 11, is
a regular skier at Beech Mountain.
So far he has escaped any skiing
mishaps, but his wife, Ellen, sustain-
ed a minor injury in the sport.

This cute little fellow is Benji
Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Brown. Benji's father is a member of
Right of Way.

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„ „ „ CHAMBLEE, Ma-

M. G. Carawan .
Division Correspondent ;hine Operator III,

who has been a surgical patient at

DePaul Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. JOLLIFF at-
tended the 60th Wedding Anniver-
sary of Mrs. Jolliff's parents in Hat-
teras in February 12th. Her parents
are 83 years of age.

Timothy Ray Bivens, son of Mr.
and Mrs. NED R. BIVENS, under-
went eye surgery in the Beaufort
County Hospital, at Washington, N.
C. recently. Mr. Biven is Division
Traffic Engineer.

Mr. and Mr. RAY WEST's
daughter, Lynn, and Mr. and Mrs.
BRUCE CALLIS's daughters, Linda
and Lynn, were among the members
of the choirs from the Ahoskie First
Baptist Church who participated re-
cently in a Regional Choir Festival
held in Wilson. The two "Lynns"
were in the Junior Choir and Linda
was in the Junior High Choir.

TOMMIE BRITE and Miss Rayna
Deafenbaugh were married on March
2nd at Virginia Beach and are now
living in Elizabeth City where Mr.
Brite works with the Construction
forces.

LOFTON DAIL, Bridge Tender at
Hertford River Bridge, has returned
to work after a week's confinement
in the hospital and two weeks' con-
finement at home.

JAMES L. LONG, Machine Oper-
ator; W. A. RENFROW, Maintenance
Foreman; F. D. MEEKINS, Mainte-
nance Foreman; and L. R. JONES,
SR., Machine Operator; are all Dis-
trict I employees confined to the Al-
bemarle Hospital.

F. R. GILDEN, one of the "Old
Timers" with the State Highway, has
applied for retirment for April. He
lives at Grandy, and has worked in
Currituck County since 1928, except
for a while when he retired on dis-
ability and then returned to the
State in 1964.

W. A. STEVENS, Machine Oper-
ator at Knotts Island, was injured
on the job during the last snow on
February 24th. The back injury kept
him out of work until March 19th.

R. C. BUNCH, Supervisor in Dis-
trict I, injured his leg by a falling
barricade March 23rd, and is confin-
ed to the Albemarle Hospital.

P. L. JACKSON, Supervisor in
District I, has been out sick since
March 8th.

O. W. WESTON, Machine Oper-
ator in District I, died suddenly
March 3rd. He has worked with the
State since 1955. He worked in Dare
County and lived at Stumpy Point.
R. B. BERRY, also Machine Oper-
ator in District I, unexpectedly pass-
ed away February 18th. He has work-
ed with the Commission since 1926.

The Construction Department im-
proved the looks around the Resi-
dents' Offices in Division One during
the past year by employing the pretty
ladies shown above. Each Resident
now has a stenographer to take care
of all typing and filing previously
done by the Resident Engineer and
survey crew. All correspondence from
the Residents' Offices look much bet-
ter, girls, and we are happy to have
you in this great organization.

Nancy Pritchard (Miss) — Eliza-
beth City Office

Margaret Walker (Miss) — Wil-
liamston Office

Kathy Smithwick (Mrs.) — Ply-
mouth Office

Ellen Willoughby (Mrs.) — Ahos-
kie Office

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Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
MILDRED PEELE and family and
Mr. W. H. COLEMAN and family
on the death of their brother and
brother-in-law, respectively. Condo-
lences also to GLENN CARAWAN
and family on the death of his grand-
father.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
ALBERT VANN! They FINALLY
moved into their newly constructed
home April 5th. Mrs. Vann is a
Stenographer in the Right-of-Way
Department and NOW lives in the
Ashley Grove Community which is
between Murfreesboro and Woodland.

These happy retired State employ-
ees are Mr. and Mrs. Mark Law-
rence (Mark and Lucy) of Murfrees-
boro. They retired early this year
(Mark on February 1st and Lucy on
March 15th) and plan to continue
living in their beautiful home in Mur-
freesboro, where Mark will work in
his wood shop as a wood craftsman.
Mark began work on October 1, 1922
and, except for six years of other em-
ployment, he continued working un-
til his retirement with the Highway
Construction Department as an in-
spector, completing approximately 40
years of service. Lucy began working
with the Right-of-Way Department
in October of 1949 and continued
working until her retirement, com-
pleting approximately 19 years of
service. They have one son and two
grandchildren who live in Wake
County near Fuquay-Varina. We wish
them continued good health and a
long and very pleasant retirement.

Approaching completion is the
bridge-road project connecting Bertie-
Washington Counties near Plymouth.
The picture shows the main bridge
which is 1.106 miles in length and
crosses Roanoke River, Middle River,
Cashie River and heavy swamp lands.
The canal which parallels the bridge
was excavated by the contractor for
maneuvering floating type of equip-
ment used in the construction. Mr. A.
L. Moore, Resident Engineer, and
party, will handle the construction out
of the Plymouth Office. The cost of
the construction is being financed
with State Funds and Federal Aid
Funds and the project is scheduled for
completion by July 1, 1968.

Dual laning of US 17-13 in Bertie
County between Windsor and Wil-
liams ton, as shown in the picture, is
now under construction. The project
is being financed totally with Pri-
mary Bond Funds and is scheduled
for completion by September 1, 1969.
The construction is being handled by
Resident Engineer W. H. Hofler, Jr.
and party out of the Williamston Of-
fice. This project is somewhat differ-
ent in nature than the projects pre-
viously handled by Hofler and party.
For the past 10 to 12 years, this party
has been located in Manteo construct-
ing bridges in Dare County. Observing
the construction in the left of the pic-
ture are, left to right, Tommy Wood,
Inspector, W. H. Coleman, Assistant
Division Engineer, and W. H. Hofler,
Resident Engineer.

Gene Minton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W- Minton of Roxobel, has been
accepted to attend the Governor's
School in Winston-Salem, Minton is
a sophomore at Bertie High School
where he has an outstanding scholas-
tic record.

Phillip Stalls is the son of E. S.
Stalls, Maintenance Foreman I, in
Martin County. Phillip was second
highest scorer with 274 points this
season for the Robersonville High
School Basketball Team.

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Brenda Lou Cratt is the daughter
of Machine Operator III, King E.
Cratt in Martin County. She will
graduate in June at Norfolk General
Hospital of Nursing where she will
begin her duties.

Two month old Robert Carroll Van-
derberry III is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Carroll Vanderberry, Jr.
of Chapel Hill and the grandson of
Mrs. Nedra Vanderberry Holloman,
Stenographer in the District II Of-
fice. He and his parents are spend-
ing the spring holidays with Mrs.
Holloman.

EDWARD
LATHAM, Staff
Engineer with Mr.
Ralph Pollock's
Construction Of-
fice, and his fam-
ily have moved in-
to a new home in
the Country Club
Section of New

_ . „ . Bern.
Hazel Baker
Division Correspondent . , . ,

Mr. and Mrs.
JAMES BRILEY (Helen is Steno
in Dist. 2 office-New Bern) recently
returned from a short vacation to
Ft. Myers, Fla. to visit the parents of
Mrs. Briley. They toured the old
homes in Savannah, Ga. — several of
them had been declared in the "slum"
area but were very beautiful after
undergoing restoration.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. CLEMENTS
vacationed in Florida. Mr. Clement is
a Mechanic Foreman with the Equp-
ment Department in Kinston.

Sympathy is extended to Mrs. M.
E. NEWMAN in the death of her
mother. Mr. Newman is also with the
Equipment Department in Kinston.

DONALD K. NORMAN and
LARRY L. JONES, Construction em-
ployees have recently completed
courses in Reading Highway Blue-
prints with International Correspon-
dence Schools, Scranton, Pa. Con-
gratulations on your accomplishments.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of Mr. JOHNNIE L. McGOWAN,
Bridge Maintenance employee who
was recently killed in an accident.
We welcome Mr. LLOYD STOCKS,
who was also injured in this acci-
dent, back to work.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. STOCKS are
proud to announce the birth of a
granddaughter, Mary Staton Stocks,
who was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam E. Stocks on March 24th. Mr.
G. L. Stocks is Bridge Maintenance
Foreman in the Second Division. His
son William is an Attorney in Greens-
boro,

The Welcome Mat is out for Miss
Carolyn Nelson, Secretary in the Di-
vision Two Right of Way Office.

Above is a picture of the new Divi-
sion 2 Sign Shop.

Welcome back to work to RALPH
L. TAYLOR after being out sick for
a month.

Sympathy is extended to W. E.
WETHERINGTON due to the death
of his brother, Raymond Wethering-
ton.

Also to the family of MERLE
NEWMAN due to the death of his
mother-in-law who passed away re-
cently and made her home with them.

"If you don't want to do something
for some one else Christianity hasn't
done anything for you."

"Reputation is a bubble which a
man bursts when he tries to blow it
himself."

"Men must be governed by God, or
they will be ruled by tyrants. —

William Penn.

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6.2010039, Roadway (US 70 By-Pass at Kinston, from US 258 and NC 58
Easterly across Neuse River to a point approximately 300 feet of NC 11 and
55). Hoping to be ready before the long hot summer. Contractor: Barrus Con-
struction Company, Kinston, N. C.

6.2010039, Structures (US 70 By-Pass at Kinston, from US 258 and NC
58 Easterly across Neuse River to a point approximately 300 feet of NC 11
and 55). Contractor: James T. Triplett, Inc. and L. R. Ryan, Inc., Chester, South
Carolina.

6.2010019, Roadway (US 70 from the Lenoir- Wayne County Line South-
easterly around La Grange to existing US 70 approximately 800 feet West of
SR 1327 thence along US 70 to NC 58). Contractor: Sherman Simpson, Inc.,
Mount Airy, N. C.

Pipe laying operations at the beginning and west Henderson Street, Project
Pipe shown is part of storm drainage system. Contr.: Crowder Construction
Co., Res. Engr.: A. L. Neal.

JOE BANNER-
MAN, our High-
way Office Man-
ager, has just re-
turned from a
short trip to
J ' <*' \ Washington, D. C.

« where he visited
his brother and
family, and some
R of the points of in-

Irene Hewitt terest in the area.
Division Correspondent Reportg he had &

nice time.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
MARVIN STARLING, JR. who an-
nounce the birth of a son. Mr. Star-
ling is Engineering Technician II
with the Maintenance Dept. in Clin-
ton.

We wish a speedy recovery to R.
W. BLACKBURN and N. V. SAND-
LIN of Dist. 2 and from Dist. 1:
EUGENE BELLAMY, H. E.
MINTZ, W. H. MOORE and IVEY
D. PRIDGEN who are on sick leave.
Also J. W. CAVENAUGH of Road
Oil Dept. We've just received word
that PURDIE WRIGHT also of Dist.
1 is now on sick leave.

We're glad S. C. VARNAM of
Dist. 1 and J. O. WILLIAMSON of
Dist. 2 are now back at work after
having been on sick leave.

CAROLYN GURGANIOUS, Sec
retary in the Div. Office; ROSE
DUNCAN, Secretary in the Dept. of
Correction and H. L. (BUCK)
SEARS, Materials Inspector, all have
just returned from the hospital.
We're so glad to have them back to
work.

Sympathy is extended to W. A.
POPE, whose brother died recently.
Mr. Pope is a Dist. 2 employee.

From Right of Way Dept. the
news is — TOM DAVIS resigned on
March 29th to accept employment
with Jones-Onslow Elec. Memb. A
party was held in his honor on March
29th at the Marina on Wrightsville
Beach. CHUCK CLEMENTS (R-O-
W Aide) and his Anice celebrated
their 25th wedding anniversary on
April 6th. Understand some of their

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Pictured above, David O. Sellers,
Machine Operator, Brunswick County
Maint. Dept. proudly displaying his
catch of large mouth bass and bream
caught in private pond (believe it or
not while sleeting) on Saturday,
March 24th.

Some of the bass weighed in ex-
cess of four pounds.

co-workers dropped by their home to
wish them well. The Right-of-Way
fellows report they're really looking
forward to the R/W Golf Tourna-
ment on April 27-28th at Oak Island,
Long Beach.

With U. S. Combat Air Forces, Viet-
nam — Staff Sergeant Jerry A. Mc-
Lean (left), son of Mr. and Mrs. An-
gus L. McLean of 60 Holland Drive,
Wilmington, receives the U. S. Air
Force Commendation Medal at Phan
Rang AB, Vietnam, from Major
James G. Cole, commander of the
1882nd Communications Squadron.

Mr. A. L. McLean is Foreman in
Sign Shop.

Marie Ferrell, Secretary of Dist. 1
office, and group of Dist. 1 person-
nel prior to going to luncheon.

Best wishes are extended to Mr.
Kedar Bryan who retired from active
service on December 31, 1967. Mr.
Bryan came to work with the Division
3 Equipment Department in Wilming-
ton on May 23, 1955.

He resides with his wife, the for-
mer Josephine Padgett, at 131 Gordon
Road, Wilmington. Mr. Bryan's fav-
orite sport is hunting and his fellow
employees presented him with hunt-
ing gear on his retirement. We know
it will be useful to him for he will
have more leisure time now to enjoy
the outdoors. AH of us in the Equip-
ment Department wish Kedar a long
and happy retirement.

FRANK COLE-
MAN has four
new Engineering
Aides — BILL
\ YOUNG and
GRAHAM
CAMPBELL are
college students
working with us

during the Sum-
Margaret Barefoot mer- RAEFORD
Division CorrespondentW ALSTON and

MELVIN HARRELL have just
started to work with us as Engineer-
ing Aides, Temporary. We hope the
new "fellas" will like their new jobs.

Inspector DONALD W. STEHLEY
has been out on sick leave for the
past 6 weeks. He is to be admitted
to Duke Hospital April 12th. We all
wish Stehley the best of luck.

Get well wishes go to W. E. WAG-
NER, Maintenance Foreman, EL-
LIOTT CRAWLEY, Truck Driver,
and BUDDY HUGH CRAWLEY,
Truck Driver, all of Halifax County,
who have been ill and hospitalized re-
cently.

Welcome to Mr. DENNIS A.
FORNES, who is now assigned to the
Location Department in Wilson. Mr.
Fornes is working under the Co-op-
erative Education Program.

Mr. S. H. HANNA, III, Trainee,
has been transferred to Materials
and Tests Department in Raleigh.
Mr. Hanna had been working with
the Location Department in Wlson.

Resident Engineer J. W. VICK
and his party welcome B. A. (BUD-
DY) GREGG who joined them on
January 2nd as Assistant Resident
Engineer. Buddy came to Wilson from
Florence, South Carolina where he
had been affiliated with the South
Carolina Highway Department. He
has a wife and two young boys.

Congratulations to Mr. E. R.
(SPEED) BATTEN who was mar-
ried on February 29th. He and his
wife, the former Alice Jean Gates,
have made their home in Black Creek.
Speed has been an employee of the
State Highway Commission for twen-
ty-six years and is a Highway In-
spector III in Wilson.

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WELCOME — Mrs. Jean Thomp-
son, Typist II, to Fourth Division
Construction. Mrs. Thompson is em-
ployed in the newly established office
of M. W. Moore, Resident Engineer
in Wilson.

Welcome back to work to Mr.
PRENTICE G ARRIS and Mr. ER-
NEST EASON after lengthy illness,
and to Mr. WILLIAM W. HILL
after short illness. We also welcome
back Mr. JESSE R. JOHNSON af-
ter illness and hospital confinement.

Best wishes are extended to Mr.
WILLIAM L. DAUGHTRY who is
still on sick leave and has been out
of work due to illness since Septem-
ber, 1967.

Mr. J. W. EVANS, M. F. IV,
Wayne County, recently spent a va-
cation with his son in Tennessee.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. JAR-
VIS SUTTON whose father recent-
ly passed away and to Mr. OTIS
MYERS who lost his mother.

It is rumored that Mr. FRANK
W. MORSE (M. F. IV, Wayne Coun-
ty) is not so efficient at the fishing
trade or past time as he is in the
PLUMBING and SMALL LOAN
Businesses. It has been reported that
on a recent "fishing" trip with Mr.
NORMAN HOLLAND (M. O. Ill,
Wayne Co.) he couldn't even land a
skate.

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. MATTHEWS
enjoyed the weekend of March 16-
17th in Albemarle, with their son,
Doug, daughter-in-law, Francis, their
grand-daughter, Sarah and their
daughter, Bonnie.

Mr. LEE PAGE has returned to
work after a recent illness.

Mr. T. W. PARRISH has purchas-
ed a home at 106 Warren St., Wilson.

Mr. and Mrs. EMMETT BLACK-
SHEAR are proud to announce the

birth of a daughter, Nancy Caroline,
on February 25th.

We are happy to welcome Mr. M.
D. MANNING back to work after his
recent sickness.

We would like to welcome Mr.
GEORGE LAMM, Mechanic II with
the Equipment Department, who is
working in District II Shop, Nash-
ville.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boone, daughter
Stena and son Fred, Jr., have just re-
turned from a winter vacation in Wi-
chita, Kansas. They visited their
daughter and son-in-law, A2C and
Mrs. Larry Letchworth while there
and toured the underground missile
complex. The Boone's enjoyed the
trip through the mountains of North
Carolina and Tennessee as it was
snowing the first day. They returned
by way of Oklahoma, Texas and many
other southern states.

EARNEST
OAKLEY has re-
turned to work af-
ter being on sick
leave for several
weeks recently be-
cause of injuries
received from a
fall on the icy
ground.

WAYNE THO-

Di vision Correspondent MAg hag returned
to work after being on sick leave for
several days because of injuries re-
ceived in an auto accident. He was
hospitalized for a few days.

SAM AVERETTE and wife visit-
ed relatives in West Virginia recent-
ly. They ran into a late snow storm
before they reached their destination.

VENCEN MORTON, WALTER
RUTLEDGE, NELSON WHITT and

CLARENCE WILSON were on sick
leave for a few days recently.

WILLIAM REAM'S dairy herd is
beginning to pick up in milk produc-
tion since the early spring grasses
have begun to grow on his ranch.

Good luck is extended to HOWARD
RIGGAN as he takes over his new
job as Superintendent of the Street
Department of Oxford. He has been
with the Maintenance Department in
Granville County for approximately
15 years.

GEORGE BAILEY is proud of the
car which he purchased recently.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded GEORGE BAILEY, GLEN-
WOOD BROGDEN, LEONARD
CLAY, WILLIAM GRADY, HER-
BERT HENLEY, FRANK HILTON,
P. W. JONES, JR., ALVIN LAWS,
ALBERT MAY, WALDO MINOR,
MARVIN SEAT, PAT TINGEN,
ROBERT WELLS, HAROLD
WHEELER and ROY BLACK-
WELL. Many of these men were on
compensatory leave because of the
many hours earned during the recent
inclement weather.

FRANK LAWS was on sick leave
for a few days recently because of the
flu.

Mrs. Josephine Crutcher is back
at home recuperating from a recent
operation at Medical College Hospital
in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Crutcher is
the wife of GILES CRUTCHER,
Granville County Maint. Supervisor.
Mr. Crutcher reports that Mrs.
Crutcher is doing just fine and we are
glad to hear that news.

Durham County Maintenance Dept.
men who were out on sick leave were
S. E. JONES, EULIS WEAVER, G.
W. MARTIN and J. M. COOKE. We
welcome these men back to the job.

Recently enjoying a vacation were
C. PERRY, J. T. EDWARDS, who
vacationed in Florida. J. WADE, who
also vacationed in Florida and W. W.
TILLEY who reports a wonderful
time in the Sunshine State.

A supper recently was held in the
honor of F. A. AIKERS and G. W.
MARTIN who retired and both were
presented with a gold watch. A de-
lightful steak dinner was enjoyed by
all.

Welcome back to work: Mr. KIRK
DUNCAN who spent a few days in
the hospital, Mr. C. O. VAUGHN,
who has been out for two months.

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DIVISION SIX

CLAUDE R.
MOORE, JR. and
his wife, Nancy
at Holden's Beach.
Tri and Richard
recently spent a
fews days vacation
and their two sons,
Claude reported
he and his fam-
ily had a won-

Rose Swain , . , ,. j

Division Correspondent dertul time and

that he caught several fish while at
the Beach.

We have certainly enjoyed having
R. R. TREVATHAN, JR. and C. D.
CLEMENTS working with us for
the last few weeks and regret that
they cannot remain with us. "Bob"
and "Chuck", who are employed in
the Right of Way Department of Di-
vision Three, were on a temporary as-
signment in the Right of Way De-
partment of Division Six. Good luck
and best wishes to both of you and
come back again soon.

LEE E. PERRY, Right of Way
Agent, who was out with the "Flu
Bug" a few weeks ago, has complete-
ly recovered and we are happy to
have him back at work with us.

J. C. CHADWICK of the Land-
scape Department has returned to
work after extended illness in Bla-
den and Duke Hospitals. Glad to have
you back, J. C.

Congratulations go to Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. HUBBARD on the arrival of
their new son, born March 29th. The
eight-pound, twelve-ounce boy was
named George Wilson Hubbard. Mr.
Hubbard is Maintenance Yard Fore-
man for Cumberland County Mainte-
nance in Fayetteville.

Former employee, F. W. HAM-
MOND, of Whiteville, died February
21st. Highway employees extend their
sympathy to his family.

Get well wishes are extended to
J. C. WARD, who has been out since
November, 1967. Mr. Ward is a dozer
operator in Columbus County.

Sandra Lorraine Carter, Steno-
grapher in the Right of Way Depart-
ment, who is engaged to Gaston Mil-
ton Malloy and will be married on
June 1st. This engagement has been
announced by Sandra's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Carter of Fayetteville.
Parents of the prospective bridegroom
are Mr. and Mrs. James D. Malloy,
Sr. of Parkton.

Everyone is glad to see HOMER
C. BLACKWELL back on the job
after an extended absence for heart
surgery. Mr. Blackwell is a Machine
Operator in Columbus County.

Get well wish are extended to two
Robeson County Maintenance em-
ployees, J. MELVIN ANDREWS
and JUSTIN BYRD, who have re-
cently been in the hospital and are
now recuperating at home.

Sympathy is extended to the fami-
lies of S. H. CARTER and D. S.
WILLIFORD in the recent death of
their brother, also to K. C. MORGAN
in the death of his father. These men
are Robeson County Maintenance em-
ployees.

W. H. EDWARDS and wife, Nell,
celebrated their 26th wedding anni-
versary in Key West, Fla. with
friends and relatives. They had a
wonderful time, even though the
weather was too windy and cold for
fishing. Mr. Edwards works with the
Equipment Department in Fayette-
ville.

The Landscape Department has re-
cently purchased new uniforms for
their rest area attendants. Pictured
above is D. R. Johnson, at rest area
located on 1-95, one mile south of St.
Pauls, wearing the new uniform. The
Highway Commission has received
many complimentary letters in Mr.
Johnson's behalf. Let's keep the good
publicity coming.

Rebacca Joy Moore, Stenographer
in the Right of Way Department, who
is engaged to Bobby Worth Huffman
and will be married on June 15th.
This engagement has been announced
by "Becky's" parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Moore of Parkton. The par-
ents of the prospective bridegroom are
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Huffman of Hope
Mills.

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LETTER TO ONE OF OUR HIGH-
WAY EMPLOYEES

Mr. WILLIAM STACY ADCOX
is a Machine Operator I in Cumber-
land County. He operates a mowing
machine. He has been with the Com-
mission since July of 1946.

2414 Morgan ton Road
Fayetteville, N. C.
April 1, 1968
Mr. Stacy Adcox
P. O. Box 1150
Fayetteville, N. C.
Dear Mr. Adcox:

In this day and time when so many
people are too occupied with their
own plans to have consideration for
someone in need of help, it is indeed
appreciated more than ever when
that help is offered.

I want to thank you again for tak-
ing so much time to help me when
my car stalled on Saturday afternoon
on a crowded street in Fayetteville.
You must have given me forty-five
minutes of your time besides finally
pulling my car by chain to a filling
station — and then not accepting any
money for your time and work.

I was glad to know that you work
for our Highway Department.
Most sincerely,
Louisa Rankin Macllwinen
(Mrs. John H. Macllwinen)

Two Location Department Field
Survey parties are based within the
boundaries of the Sixth Division. As-
sistant Locating Engineer Ernest
Cain, Jr., in Fayetteville and Donald
E. Blalock in Lumberton.

N. C. 87, REIGELWOOD TO BRUNSWICK COUNTY LINE
In the near future, through traffic on N.C. 87 between Reigelwood and
Delco, N. C. will cease to use a narrow, winding three mile segment of N.C. 87.
This new location will complete the upgrading of the thirty-five miles of N.C.
87 from Elizabethtown to U.S. 74-76. The railroad grade crossing at Reigel-
wood will be replaced with a three-span overhead structure. A five span struc-
ture is being constructed across Livingston Creek, which will eliminate the
hazards presented by the narrow bridge presently in use on existing N.C. 87
at Acme.

The roadway will be 24 feet in width constructed of bituminous concrete
surface and binder placed on a coarse aggregate base course, together with ten
feet shoulders of which four feet will be paved.

This project is scheduled to be completed by November 1, 1968 at an es-
timated contract cost of $928,000.00.

DIVISION 1
SEVEN ~1

Welcome to As
sistant Division
Engineer JOHN
W. W ATKINS.
He and his family
will be moving to
Greensboro at an
early date.

We are glad to
report that BOB
CANADA and
Divisiaor„0cyonrrespoTde„tBOB SANCTON
are back at work after their absence
due to illness.

Welcome to the following men on
Training Programs — KEITH P.
LAYEL, LINWARD CHAMPION,
JR., and JAMES F. MOORE, JR.
These young men are always an as-
set to our organization.

Sgt. Kenneth Mitchell Faulk, son
of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Faulk, is
serving with the Headquarters Com-
pany, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Di-
vision in Vietnam. He joined the
army in March, 1966 and has been
in Vietnam since December, 1967.

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Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of JACK CAR-
TER, Machine Op-
erator III, Lee
County, who died
April 5th. M r .
Carter had been
employed with the
State Highway
Commission since

Virginia Williamson September, 1945.
Division Correspondent

We regret to learn of the death of
THOMAS L. CARTER, brother of
W. A. CARTER, who is Maintenance
Supervisor in Randolph County. Sym-
pathy is extended to CLARENCE C.
HARVELL, Maintenance Foreman in
Randolph County, in the loss of his
mother.

Congratulations to Ann and ROY
WILLIAMS on the birth of their
son, Douglas McLeod Williams, on
March 18th. Roy is Division Traffic
Engineer. Also, to DAVE BOYLS-
TON on the birth of a new baby girl
in his family; and ALBERT
THOMPSON and wife on the adop-
tion of their new baby. Dave and Al-
bert are both in the Wagram Con-
struction Party.

If ED DARDEN, District Engi-
neer in Rockingham, seems to be
wearing an unusually big smile these
days, it is because of the purchase of
his new home, in Rockingham. All
of us wish Mr. and Mrs. Darden
every happiness in their new home.

ARCHIE FRANKLIN NOR-
WOOD, JR., Engineering Aide in
District 1, will be entering the Armed
Services in April.

J. O. BLACKMON with the Sign
Department in Randolph County con-
tinues to be out due to illness. E. E.
HARDY, District II, Moore County,
also continues to be out due to ill-
ness. We hope both of these are soon
going to be feeling better.

We are glad to report that W. T.
ALCON, Maintenance Foreman in
Randolph County; W. G. GARNER,

Mrs. Floy Burkhead, Secretary in
the District Office in Asheboro, re-
tired on April 1st, after having served
the State of North Carolina for 32
years — three years as a public school
teacher and 29 years with the State
Highway Commission. Floy was not
only a hard-working, faithful, loyal,
and efficient employee, but a friend
to all employees of the Highway Com-
mission. She will truly be missed by
her fellow workers. We wish her a
most enjoyable and restful retirement.
She did not reveal any definite plans
for retirement, other than enjoying
her home and being with her family
— Tom, her husband; her son Frank;
and two grandchildren Debra Ann
and Alton Lee Lennon. We believe
Floy's retirement is a first for secre-
taries in this division — others hav-
ing either resigned before retirement
or moved away.

Floy, we shall miss you and we wish
you every happiness, which is well
deserved.

Moore County Maintenance Depart-
ment; and L. C. SINEATH, Moore
County Maintenance are all back at
their duties after extended illnesses.
It is good to have each of you back
on the job.

We are glad to report that JAMES
R. LOWRIMORE, Sanford Construc-
tion party, is much improved after
his illness and now ready to return
to work.

D. M. KUNCE, Landscape Super-
visor, is most happy to have his son
Dennis home now, following his ten-
ure of service with the Army. While
in service Dennis was in German and
Vietnam.

Welcome to Mrs. RONNIE
WOODELL PREVO, Clerk in the
Equipment Office in Asheboro, who
has recently come to work with the
Commission.

GRAHAM CHEEK, Traffic Serv-
ices Supervisor, and BILL ALLRED,
Clerk, attended the Traffic Services
Meeting in Raleigh on March 12, 13,
and 14th. Both of these report a
very enjoyable meeting.

Friends will be saddened to learn of
the death of GEORGE HOWARD
YOW, who retired from his job as
Truck Driver with the State Highway
Commission on August 1, 1956. Mr.
Yow was 78 years old. We extend
sympathy to his family.

It was with much sorrow that we
learned of the death of Mrs. Madie
Willis, wife of RILEY WILLIS, who
is with the Maintenance Department
in Hoke County. Mrs. Willis died on
March 27th following an extended ill-
ness. Not often does one have a friend
with a cheerful smile and loving dis-
position of Mr. Willis. Neighbors and
friend always said she was never too
busy to stop and lend a hand, bake a
cake for them, or be by their side at
a time of need. We extend sympathy
to Riley and his daughter Jean; also
the grandchildren, who will be with
Mr. Willis for a few weeks until they
return to their home.

Miss Particia Ann McPherson be-
came the bride of Merle Gene Phil-
lips in a lovely ceremony in the Piney
Grove Methodist Church in Siler City,
March 1st.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dave McPherson of Siler
City and the bridegroom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Phillips of Bear
Creek.

The bridegroom is an Engineering
Aide in the Resident Engineers office
in Siler City.

The newlyweds are living in Bear
Creek.

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Our very best wishes for TOM
DUNLAP, who retired from his work
with the Hoke County Maintenance
Department, on March 1st. Tom
will be greatly missed by his fellow
workers.

Welcome to Mrs. MARGARET
FREEMAN LAMB, Secretary in the
District Office in Asheboro. We hope
you will enjoy your new work with
the department. Mrs. Lamb will be
filling the position formerly held by
Mrs. Burkhead, who retired April
1st.

DIVISION
NINE

Welcome back to
Mrs. CAROL
DOTY who has
! been on maternity
leave. We are
looking forward to
Carol's bringing us
a picture of her
new daughter, Pa-
mela Anne, for our
Roadways Maga-

Dorothy Phelps zme Carol is a
Division Correspondent . .

stenographer with the Appraisal
Section.

We hope that Mr. JIM BRAD-
FORD, Appraiser, will soon be able
to return to work after having been
a patient at Forsyth Memorial Hos-
pital in Winston- Salem. Jim is now
recuperating at his home.

Mr. DON COX of the Appraisal
Section has returned after having
completed Course III sponsored by
the A.I.R E.A. This course was given
at Clemson University, Clemson,
South Carolina.

LARRY WILLIAMS of Traffic
Services Department has returned af-
ter having taken a short course in
Traffic Engineering at V.M.I. Larry
reports that although there was a lot
of work to be done he enjoyed the
course and trip.

JACK CREWS, who has been em-
ployed in the District II Office, has
transferred to the Department of Ma-
terials and Test and is working with
TOM STANCELL in the field.

The news from Road Oil Depart-
ment will be short as the Spring
weather we have experienced recent-

ly.

The two "Men of the House" ap-
pear to be in perfect harmony at the
time Brenda happened to catch them
napping. It is hard to tell who was
more content, Baby Craig or Daddy
Mac Yokeley. At any rate, we are
glad that Sandra Teague brought this
picture of her brother and nephew to
share it with us. Sandra is a steno-
grapher in the Personnel Office.

Get well wishes go to RALPH
HOWELL, M.O. I, Road Oil Depart-
ment, Winston-Salem, who underwent
surgery at N. C. Baptist Hospital. A
speedy recovery to you.

We welcome D. L. WALL, Engi-
neer Trainee, to Road Oil Depart-
ment. He comes to us from the Divi-
sion 9 Construction Department, and
for the next three month he will un-
dergo training as a Staff Engineer
in several departments at the Divi-
sion 9 Office.

Mr. and Mrs. TED HAMM are
the proud parents of a baby girl, Mi-
chelle Hope, who arrived on February
28th. Mr. Hamm is with the Con-
struction Department.

Our sincere sympathy is extended
to the family of Mr. W. S. RUS-
SELL for the loss of his brother,
JOHN WESLEY, on March 20th.
Mr. W. S. Russell is also employed
by the Construction Department of
this Division.

The Construction Department wel-
comes STEVEN BEASLEY and
FRANK HILL as new employees.
Steve is a Highway Engineer and a
graduate of Clemson College, Frank
has been employed as an Enginering
Aide.

We're real glad to have back in the
employ PHIL BERRIER, a Highway
Engineer in Training, who has re-
cently returned from a tour of duty
in Vietnam. Welcome home and back
to the Highway Commission, Phil!

Proud parents in the Construction
Office of W. D. ROTHROCK are RI-
CHARD and DONNA SINK. They
welcomed a baby girl on March 23rd.
The baby, Angela Marie, was awfully
proud to arrive before April Fool's
Day! Best wishes to all of you.

"Best Wishes" for a long and hap-
py retirement to RAYMOND S.
KEARNS and JOHN R. HILL. Mr.
Kearns, who retired on April 1st was
a Machine Operator in Davidson
County and was employed for 8
years. Mr. Hill, who retired on Feb-
ruary 1st was a Truck Driver in Da-
vidson County and was employed for
20 years.

We extend our deepest sympathy
to the L. A. COOKE family at the
death of Mr. Cooke's wife on January
31st. Mr. Cooke is Road Maintenance
Supervisor in Rowan County.

"Best Wishes" for a long and hap-
py retirement to FRANCIS W.
SCHENK who retired on April 1st
under disability. Mr. Schenk, who suf-
fered a severe heart attack September
28, 1967, was a Machine Operator in
Rowan County and was employed for
17 years.

We wish a speedy recovery to the
following employees: DONALD L.
HONEYCUTT, Assistant District
Engineer in District 1, who had an
operation on March 5th; C. R. BUR-
RELL, Machine Operator in Rowan
County Maintenance Department who
suffered a heart attack on January
8th; LEROY TROUTMAN, Mainte-
nance Foreman in Rowan County
who has been out of work due to in-
juries sustained in an on-the-job ac-
cident on December 1, 1967; BRADY
L. LEAZER, Machine Operator in
Rowan County Maintenance Depart-
ment who underwent surgery on Feb-
ruary 27th.

A long and happy retirement to
Mr. L. U. KISER who was employ-
ed as a Truck Driver with the Stokes
County Maintenance Department
prior to his retirement February 1st.

Mr. J. W. DYSON returned to his
former job as Truck Driver with the
Davie County Maintenance Depart-
ment on February 17th, after serving
2 years with the U. S. Army.

We wish to welcome Mr. T. O.
GRUBBS, JR. to the Maintenance
Department in Winston-Salem. Mr.
Grubbs is a Highway Engineer in
Training and was transferred from
Construction to Maintenance on
March 16th.

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Mr. R. L. CHEW, JR., District
Engineer in the District Office, Win-
ston-Salem returned to work March
25th after an illness of 5 weeks. Wel-
come back.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mr. JEFF BROWN, Machine Oper-
ator I with Stokes County Mainte-
nance Department. Mr. Brown has
been absent from work due to illness
since February 20th. Also to Mr. R.
NEIL KEARNS, Road Maintenance
Supervisor for Davie and Stokes
Counties, Mr. L. W. CARTER and
Mr. R. L. FULP, Machine Operator
3's with Forsyth County Maintenance
Department who are recuperating at
home after recent surgery.

Paraplegic is given cart. Mr. L. S.
GIBBONS is able to get around and
visit his neighbors due to the assist-
ance of Mr. W. R. Roebuck, a driver
for Hennis Freight Lines. Mr. Gib-
bons is a paraplegic and was employ-
ed as a Truck Driver with the For-
syth County Maintenance Depart-
ment when he was injured on the
job in February of 1967. Mr. Roebuck
heard of his condition, added hand
controls, stop lights, a horn, painted
and repaired a "E-Z Go" golf cart be-
longing to the Easter Seal Society and
presented it to Mr. Gibbons for his
use.

Right of Way personnel, including
the two secretaries, attended the Dri-
ver Improvement Training School
with 99% attendance (Roscoe Left-
wich in School in Georgia). We say
thank you for an informative day
which enriched our areas of safer and
more courteous driving. RACINE
VAN DUSEN felt well-informed when
asked the next day to assist the Lit-
tle Theater with its production of
"DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY".

Welcome back, Georgia Cracker!
ROSCOE LEFTWICH attended the
University of Georgia at Athens for
Appraisal I Course.

Our compassion and wishes for a
complete recovery to Mrs. Burnette
Bessellieu of Wilmington, mother of
OWEN BESSELLIEU. Her hospi-
talization was unexpected and we
hope of short duration.
EDITH CARPENTER and husband,
Bill, spent a week's vacation in Jack-
sonville, Florida.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. W.
N. NEWMAN and family in the re-
cent death of his father. Mr. Newman
is employed by the Equipment De-
partment.

We extend our deepest sympathy
to MARSHALL WADE HAMPTON

upon the fatal accident of his broth-
er on March 30th.

We are glad to welcome back to
work Mr. M. L. CULLER after his
recent illness.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
HANABLE OWEN WILLIAMS on
the birth of twin girls, Brinda Lee
and Robin Sue, on February 2nd. Mr.
Williams is also employed by the
Equipment Department.

/ DIVISION
TEN

Condolences t o
the family of BU-
FORD F. BARN-
HARDT who pass-
ed away on Feb-
ruary 17th. Mr.
Barnhardt was em-
ployed with the
Maintenance De-
partment as a Ma-
chine Operator I.

Division cirierpCondent Our sympathy is
extended to the family of Mr. A.
FLOYD PENNINGER, who passed
away February 17th. Mr. Penninger
was employed with the State High-
way Commission for 44 years and was
well known by all State Highway em-
ployees.

Congratulations to Mr. McAULEY
C. BYRUM, JR., and Mr. HOWARD
M. CRUTCHFIELD, JR. for success-
fuly completing Course III of the
American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers at Clemson, South Caro-
lina.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. J. H. WHITE in the death
of Mrs. White's father. Mr. White
is Maintenance Supervisor in Anson
County.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of Mr. M. M. WRIGHT in the death
of Mr. Wright's grandson. Mr.
Wright is a Machine Operator II in
Anson County.

We welcome JOSIAH PERRY back
to work after having surgery for a
tumor in his neck.

Congratulations to the following
Stanly Maintenance employees who
have recently been promoted: W. V.
HUDSON from M.O. I to M.O. II
and C. L. BURRIS from Truck Dri-
ver to M.O. I.

J. E. Davis— Top
R. W. Turner— 2nd
Grading Operations — Anson County
H. E. Presler and M. M. Wright

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Top— R. L. Cash
2nd— W. T. Ratliff and R. W. Martin
J. B. Potter, Jr.

A LITTLE ADVICE

Take 2 heaping cups of patience

1 heartfull of love

2 hands full of generosity
Dash of laughter

1 headfull of understanding
Sprinkle generously with kindness
Add plenty of faith and mix well
Spread over a period of a lifetime
And serve everybody you meet

— Contributed by Aaren Kreme

The adorable Michelle Taylor, 4-
months-old grandson of C. B. Floyd
of Division 10. Mr. Floyd is a M.O.
Ill in Anson County.

Eric William Thompson, 1-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson.
Robert is a Clerk in District Office in
Stanly County.

Above, recent picture of G. W. Han-
na and his eight brothers: Tom Han-
na, Wadesboro; Ray Hanna, Mary-
land; Jim Hanna, Wadesboro; George
Hanna, Wadesboro; Robert Hanna,
Summerduck, Va.; Henry Hanna, Ca-
lif.; Jeff Hanna, Portsmouth, Va.;
Clyde Hanna, Wadesboro; David
Hanna, Holly Hill, Fla. and G. W.
Hanna M.O. IV of Anson.

Above, Mrs. Evelyn Carpenter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Hanna, and son-in-law, PFC Fulton
Carpenter, who is now stationed in
Frankfort, Germany is pictured be-
low, is the husband of Evelyn.

Tammie Joyce Thompson, 8 years
old February 19, Daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Thompson. Robert
is employed in District Office.

Employees o f
the Eleventh Divi-
sion were sadden-
ed by the death of
WILLIAM
PITTS on March
18th. Pitts, as he
taiMii was known to his

iSii f"enc's- came to

MM work with the
res Rogers t Commission i n

Correspondent

Dolores Rogers
Division

September of 1946
and worked with the Construction
Department until December of 1961
when he came to work in the Divi-
sion Office in the capacity of Staff
Engineer. He retired on disability
September 30, 1966. We extend our
condolences to his family.

Sympathy is extended to District 1
employee S. S. SHERMER whose
mother passed away March 1st and
to District 1 employee W. R. BILL-
INGS whose son, J. K. Billings, was
killed in an automobile accident on
March 2nd.

C. A. AMBURN who works out of
the Elkin Office is beaming over his
new grandson, Johnny Gray Bruner,
III, who was born March 2nd.

Get well wishes are extended to
District 1 employees W. D. HAL-
SEY, SAM BILLINGS, W. R.
BRANCH and H. G. SHAW.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees in Surry County Mainte-
nance: J. C. FREEMAN, H. L.
WHITE and J. D. ROBERTS.

DOUG MELTON, Clerk in the El-
kin District Office, has announced
that he is the proud owner of a new
red Mustang.

Congratulations to LARRY FRAN-
CIS, Landscape employee, on his re-
cent marriage.

Shown here is a bridge under construction over NC-89 — US-52, left lane
by-pass around Mount Airy — Project 6.7410039.

Resident Engineer T. E. Gwyn and Inspector W. R. Pendleton are shown
looking over a bridge ready for final inspection on Project 8.1767602, relocation
of US-601, near Mount Airy.

This bridge over Fisher River is a portion of Project 8.1767502, relocation
of US-601 near Dobson, is being constructed by W. F. Brinkley & Son, Con-
struction Co., Granite Quarry, N. C.

This rock cut being moved on US-52, left lane, Project 6.7410039, near
Mount Airy. Troy Smith Construction Company, Mount Airy, N. C, is the
contractor.

married to VENITA MORTON of
Hickory on February 3rd.

Right-of-Way folks honored MARK
WILLIS with a farewell party in
March, as Mark will be transferring
to Greenville on April 15th.

MICKEY E. WILLIS, Highway
Inspector II, resigned after seven
years employment with the Shelby
Construction Office. His friends gave
him a farewell supper in Charlotte
on March 29th.

WALTER H. MANLEY, Resident
Engineer, moved his family into their
new home between Shelby and Kings
Mountain.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. J. A. TUTTEROW. Mr.
Tutterow, an employee in Iredell
County, passed away March 12th.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. ZEB
SPEECE, Iredell County employee,
whose wife passed away March 7th.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. C. L.
PAYNE, Alexander County employ-
ee, whose father recently passed away.

Mr. TOM CHERRY, Catawba
County employee, has a right to be
doubly happy. His son, Tommy, who
is a Senior in Engineering Operations
and Production Control, at North
Carolina State University, recently

Welcome to MI-
CHAEL GREEN
as Clerk in Dis-
trict 1 Office in
Shelby.

On the sick list
in District 1 are
E. W. LIPS-
COMB, JR. of
Cleveland County
and CLARENCE

Jean Cline HOYLE of Cleve-

Division Correspondent [and County.

It's good to have HENRY DELL-
INGER back at work after an ex-
tended illness.

Sympathy is extended to Steno-
grapher MARTHA ALLEN of Dis-
trict 1 in the death of her father, A.
W. Smith, of Americus, Ga.

Congratulations to D. M. PEN-
NINGTON, Engineering Aide in
Shelby Construction Party, who was

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Above little Tim, son of Mrs. Doris
McEntire, who is employed in Resi-
dent Engineer R. R. Nichols' office
and Mr. McEntire of Shelby.

made the Dean's List. Tommy's wife,
Betty Jean, graduated at Meredith
College, Raleigh, during the Fall Se-
mester, with a Bachelor of Arts De-
gree in Home Economics.

L. J. BROWN, JR. of the States-
ville residency answered the call of
"Uncle Sam".

Sarah Jane Allen married Richard
Paul Hord on February 3rd. Jane is
the daughter of Mrs. Martha Allen in
District 1 Office and Hill Carl Allen
with the Equipment Department in
Shelby. She is a Senior at Crest High
School and Richard is with Air Na-
tional Guards at Charlotte.

HORACE LOWRANCE of Road
Oil Department has been on the sick
leave, and it is hoped he will be able
to return to work in April.

F. E. SCHRUM of Gaston County
Maintenance has not come down from
the clouds after the arrival of his
first grandchild, a girl — name — Ed-
wena Machelle.

Welcome back to work to R. J.
GOINS after an extended illness.

It's good to have J. R. FRIDAY
back at work after being away from
work on sick leave.

FLOYD F. WARREN of District
2 Maintenance is on sick leave —
wishes for a speedy recovery are ex-
tended to Mr. Warren.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Queen are
the proud parents of a daughter, Eli-
sa Kay Queen, born February 13. Eu-
gene is with the Hickory Construction
Party.

The Twelfth Division wishes the
BEST for JOHN W ATKINS, for-
mer Resident Engineer at Statesville,
in his promotion to Asst. Division
Engineer in Greensboro. He will most
certainly be missed by all in the
Twelfth Division.

Best wishes go to JERRY L.
RUPPE who has assumed the duties
of Resident Engineer at Statesville.

Congratulations to the following
employees in the Statesville Resi-
dency on new additions to their
families: Mr. and Mrs. D. R. OR-
REN, a daughter born in November;
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. WEBSTER, JR.,
a daughter born in January; Mr. and
Mrs. D. L. BOLT, a daughter born in
January and to Mrs. ANDY RIM-
MER, secretary in the Statesville
residency on the birth of a daughter
on March 8th, whose name is Sandra
Renee.

N. A. LEWIS, JR. has transferred
from J. L. RUPPE residency to the
residency of C. C. MAUNEY in
Statesville.

D. R. ORREN of the Statesville
residency has resigned to accept other
work.

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

EARL McENTIRE, Division Staff
Engineer got a promotion and is now
a Resident Engineer. His first project
will be construction of the interchange
East of the Smoky Mountain Bridge.

Congratulations are also in order
for GENE EDMUNDS, Division
Traffic Engineer and CLYDE BALL,
Resident Engineer, on passing the
Professional Engineer's examination.

Welcome to the District Office to
DAVID PATTON, Engineer-in-
Training. David has been working
with the Division Staff Engineer and
we hope he will be happy in the Dis-
trict Office!!

EDDIE BASKERVILLE, Road
Oil Supervisor has been in the hospi-
tal, but tells us he is gradually re-
covering from the shock. Eddie hopes
to be back in another two weeks and
is, in the meantime, catching up on
his reading.

Our deepest sympathy to EARL
McENTIRE on the recent loss of his
father, Rev. A. A. McEntire, on
March 17th.

Our news from the Landscape De-
partment this month is that HO-
WARD J. SPROUSE recently at-
tended ceremonies conducted at Fort
Bragg. Several hundred troops grad-
uated from basic and specialized train-
ing and Howard had a reason for
being there — his son, Billy, was
among those completing their course
of training. Howard said his trip
brought back old memories of his
days in the Army during World War
II.

RICHARD ROBERTS and HAR-
LEY HONEYCUTT recently under-
went treatment in Asheville hospi-
tals. They are both back on the job
now and feeling somewhat better, al-
though they could not find the rea-
sons for Harleys cap twisting around
on his head or his occasional spells of
stammering when trying to give di-
rections to people seeking advice.

These two little dolls are the daugh-
ters of Gene Edmunds, Division Traf-
fic Engineer. Jane, on the left, is three
and Susan is two.

Above is a project picture taken a year apart. This is also part of the West
Asheville - Weaverville connection and part of the Appalachian program. Com-
pletion of this section is expected to be July, 1968. Asheville Contracting Co.
and Wilson Construction are the contractors. Overpass is for children to cross to
get to the school.

Babies
&

Construction

Miss Carolyn Elaine Bowman, one-
month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
K. E. Bowman. Mr. Bowman is High-
way Inspector III in Division 13, Ken
Rabb's Office. Carolyn was born Feb-
ruary 28th.

Picture shows bridge carrying Dog-
wood Drive traffic over 1-40.

Grading from Dogwood Drive look-
ing West on 1-40. Resident Engineer
is Bob Adams and the contractors
are Burns & Spangler and Structures
Incorporated.

This project will tie in on the West
with the existing Canton Bypass and
on the East with the 1-40 and 1-26
interchange.

Service road into Westgate shopping center on U.S. 19-23 is part of the
Hanover Street - Patton Avenue connector which will also tie in with the new
bridge. The retaining wall in middle right of picture is 260' long and 25' high.
Contractor is Bowers Construction Company.

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Rock Cut looking Northeast. End
Resident Engineer, Division 13.

GUS HEDDEN, also of Landscape
has been talking a lot lately of fly-
ing — we wonder if he has in mind
a trip to see his twin grandchildren
in Germany?

WILLIAM CARTER recently vi-
sited his son Kenneth and family near
Camp Lejeune. He reports he had a
wonderful time. We would like to ad-
vise Bill to get a heavier test line
next time he goes fishing in the
ocean. Seems his line kept breaking
— we bet there was something on his
line bigger than a crappie.

Landscape grapevine has it that
W. L. EDWARDS and his wife have
been seen looking over baby clothes.
We know "Buddy" isn't going to tip
his hand, but we wonder!!!!!

Army SP-5 James H. Wright, son
of JAMES N. WRIGHT of Division
13 Landscape recently received a
commendation from his Commanding
Officer, along with a promotion to
SP-5. We know James is proud of his
son and are also aware that commen-
dations received in the Army are
highly deserved.

CHRISTINE McKAY, daughter of
Andy Ray, the Voice of Asheville,
was recently reunited with her hus-
band, Lt. E. C. McKay in Honolulu,
Hawaii for a week. Lt. McKay has
now rejoined his unit in Vietnam
where he is a helicopter pilot. Chris-
tine is hoping he will be back for
good in August, when his tour of

Project No. 8.3191102. P. R. Robinson,

duty finishes. Mrs. Ray had custody
of Fang, the cat, while Christine was
away and was more than glad when
her "tour of duty" was up.

News from the Right of Way De-
partment is that LINDSAY DEAN
was transferred to Greensboro and
ROYCE OGLE has joined the de-
partment in the secondary road field.

We hear that secretary NANCY
VALLANO is expecting a blessed
event about June!!

CLYDE ORR, Area Landscape
Supervisor, has been on the Jury
this week. Doesn't it make you feel
you can sleep better nights knowing
that such an upright SOLID citizen
is taking care of our interests?????

We hear that HARRIET GOS-
SETT, secretary in the Division Of-
fice recently spent a day in Charlotte
catching up on her shopping!!!

We were all sad to hear of the re-
cent death of FURMAN (JUG)
MERRILL who was with the State
from July, 1928 until he retired with
a disability in 1955.

DAN MARTIN, Assistant Resident
Engineer in PAUL ROBINSON's
Office has made a good recovery from
his recent illness and is back working
again.

TEDDY DOUGLAS BALDWIN
reported to work with M. C. ADAMS,
Resident Engineer at Candler.

LESTER WILDE was transferred
to BOB ADAMS' Office from the of-
fice of CLYDE BALL, Resident En-
gineer.

JOSEPH L. ETHERIDGE, As-
sistant Resident Engineer, has been
promoted to Resident Engineer and
has transferred to Division 5 at Ox-
ford. Congratulations Joe and we all
wish you the best of luck in your
new job.

This is also a part of the West Asheville - Weaverville connection and part
of the Appalachian program. Completion of this section is expected to be
around July 1968. Asheville Contracting Co., and Wilson Construction are the
contractors.

This picture shows a curb and gutter machine owned by Asheville Con-
tracting Co. You can clearly see the before and after effect, and it should be
noted that this machine requires only one operator. This is part of the curb
and gutter work on the West Asheville - Weaverville connection.

The two above pictures were taken in Rutherford County, the left view
looking east from Ohio St. Ext., below Spindale. The contractor is A. R. Thomp-
son: Res. Engr.: A. L. Neal. The picture on the right is also in Rutherford
County view looking Northwest from Ohio St. Ext., below Spindale, Contr. is
drilling and blasting rock cut Sta. 49too-52too. Contr.: A. R. Thompson and the
Res. Engr. A. L. Neal.

The picture on the left shows the excavating under temporary trestles
carrying southern R. R. across site of West Henderson St. Underpass in Marion.
Contr.: Crowder Construction Co., Charlotte, N. C. Res. Engineer: A. L. Neal.

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Brice and Brian, one-year-old iden-
tical twins and brother Daniel, four-
years-old, shown here with their fa-
ther and mother, Sgt. Ernest Davis
and his wife, Annie. Annie is the
daughter of Gus Hedden of Land-
scape.

A Highway Employee
Stranded

Three Goldsboro fishermen, strand-
ed five miles from shore in the At-
lantic Ocean for more than 32 hours,
were rescued by the Coast Guard.
Charles Bell associated with Ben-Ty-
ler Co., and G. W. Walters, 61, who
has been employed by the State High-
way Commission for 30 years, and
John Rich, 30, left Sneads Ferry
about 8 A.M. one Sunday recently to
try out the 16 foot boat belonging
to Walters and to do some Spring
fishing.

According to the account of the
story the outboard motor on the boat
developed mechanical trouble, even
though there was plenty of gas
aboard the craft when found by the
Coast Guard. The men were in good
shape except for complaints of being
cold and a little hungry. Friends and
relatives had not been able to tell
the searchers where the men had
planned to go when they left the
landing that Sunday morning.

Thirty-foot Coast Guard boats
from Swansboro and Wrightsville
Beach with the aid of aircraft, search-
ed the intercoastal waterways and the
ocean in the vicinity of Sneads Ferry
after dawn on Monday.

The Swansboro-based Coast Guard
boat located the men and towed
them to the landing here. There were
quite a few people assisting in the
search for the men, the Onslow Coun-
ty Sheriffs Dept., the Wayne County
Sheriff's Dept. and military officials
from Camp Lejeune. This was quite
an experience and one that the men
reported that they never want to go
through again, and they were certain-
ly grateful when found.

The new bridge will involve some complicated tie-ins with other projects.
These are some interesting pictures, because some were taken just about one
year apart. Paul Robinson is Resident Engineer and John Mills of same of-
fice took the pictures.

This picture was taken on January 24, 1967 and you can actually see the
smoke from the explosion when they were shooting and blasting rock out for
the ramp going into Patton Avenue to tie in with the new bridge.

News has not
been forthcoming
from outside our
building and I
haven't "gotten
around" these days
to snoop, conse-
quently this colu-
umn is lacking in
length. Again I re-
mind all of you
Allyce Cunningham .l i ii.;,, :„ Vr>ur
Division Correspondent tnat ttUS 1S yOUr

column and without you it falls
through. Don't let me down!

Guess 'tis spring fever — this do-
less feeling — or maybe need a bottle
of Geritol — This little poem found
and expresses my feelings right now:
I would I were a tree asleeping in

the shade,
With all the bills I've got to pay
Paid.

I would I were beside the sea or

sailing in a boat,
With all the things I've got to write
Wrote.

I would I were on yonder hill abask-

ing in the sun,
With all the things I've got to do
Done!

I would like to tell KEITH HUND-
LEY that I'm trying but as yet
haven't found anything to equal our
bull story — just don't lose faith in
me, I'm working on it.

Happy Fishing all youse guys!

Taken one year later. Contractors are Asheville Contracting Company and
Wilson Construction.

Appalachian
Highway News

By Marion O'Neil
D. L. HARRELL and R. P. TUR-
NER, Staff Appraisers have been ad-
vised by the American Institute of
Real Estate Appraisers that they re-
ceived passing grades on Appraisal
Course III. Don and Bob recently
attended the Institute's Course at
Clemson University. Congratulations!

SHIRLEY EZELL, Secretary in
the Right of Way Division Office has
recently returned from the land of
"SUNSHINE ". From the pretty tan,
we know she, hubby Don and little
Donna enjoyed their Florida trip.

FRANK "DEE" MORGAN'S bro-
ther was recently injured in an auto
accident; sad news but we're pulling
for his speedy recovery.

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Water Problems In Western N. C.

Not all water problems posed for road builders are
found on the coast a project nearing completion in the
far west, »ln Graham County, also had problems, which
were overcome.

US 129, was a narrow, winding road from Robinsville
to Sanyeetlah Church. Construction of a 120-foot bridge
over a neck of the Lake, where the water is 65 feet, cut
over 4 miles of mountain road building off the project.

Th roadway covers some of the roughest terrain in the
mountains, and called for moving 2,500,000 cubic yards of
earth and rock.

The bridge cost $441,267. A crane on a barge excavated
for the foundation, and Ray Collins, diver for the bridge
department, went down 40 feet in 40-degree water to
direct the work. An 8 per cent curve on the roadway is
an approach to the bridge, while in the center of the
bridge a 200-foot spiral curve connects with a 2 per cent
curve on the other end.

Project cost $3,300,000. Dickerson, Inc., Monroe, had
structures and Wilkes Contracting Company, Asheville,
the roadway.

Editors Note: Picture on Inside Back Cover.

Picture shows the additional bridge being built over the
French Broad River on U.S. 19-23 in Asheville which will
run parallel with the present Smoky Park Highway Bridge.

The new bridge is part of the Appalachian Development
program and work was started on January 9, 1967 with
an anticipated date of completion of September 1, 1968.

Some specifications on the new bridge are that it is
1315.25 feet long and will span two highways, the French
Broad River and the Southern Railroad. It will be 52 feet
wide from curb to curb and will carry the East bound traf-
fic to tie in with other projects under construction.

Cost of construction will be approximately $1,317,615.00
and materials used will include approximately 6,265 cubic
yards of concrete; 1,056,710 lbs. reinforced steel and ap-
proximately 2,851,200 lbs. of structural steel.

One very interesting thing about this project is that it
brings back together some of the people who built the
Smoky Park Bridge. Bowers Construction Company was
the contractor and is even using some of the men who
worked on the existing bridge and the Resident Engineer
is George Prescott, who was also Resident Engineer of
the original bridge which was started on May 31, 1948
and completed and opened to traffic on October 2, 1950.

Photographer — Malcolm Gamble, Citizen Times

WHITEWATER FALLS ROAD — Completed April 5,
1968 — at corner of Transylvania-Jackson counties, near
South Carolina line. Bridge is across Whitewater River,
and the falls, 500 feet away, are the highest in Eastern
America — 800 feet, and much higher than Niagara. South
Carolina already has paved to road line.

Roadway is 3*/2 miles, and built by A. B. Burton Com-
pany, of Lynchburg, Va. Bridge by Hayes Block Com-
pany, Franklin. Project cost $1% millions. George Clay-
ton, resident engineer. Here is a picture of the bridge.

Connecting link between end of above project and US 64
due to be let when some Forestry money available. Des-
tined to be a major scenic spot of the entire mountain re-
gion.

4,000 Tons of Asphalt being paved per day — Workmen
are putting down up to 4,000 tons of asphalt per day on
the Pigeon River link of Interstate 40 down scenic road
leading to Tennessee. Road due to be opened late this
fall. Project is 22 miles long, will cost about $33 millions,
most of it through rock. Robert Pless, resident engineer.

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Nearly Completed Tunnel On 140 In Western North Carolina

(Photo by Gordon Deans)

ROADWAYS

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
RALEIGH, N. C. 27602

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Permit No. 287

ROADWAYS

MAY-JUNE 1968

Nortfc Carolina State Library
Raleigh

N. C.

Doc.

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XIV
NUMBER Will

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Operations of Chief Engineer 1

Extra Vehicular Permit Department 3

Safety and Emergency Planning 4

Will Deslickers Work?

Accident Sections Creates New Jobs

Pot Luck

10

Right of Way Annual Golf Tournament 12

Connecticut Capers 15

Ward Boulevard 19

N.C.S.H.P.E.A. News 21

Hunter D. Irving Retires

23

East To West Attractions 24 and 29

Green River Bridge 25

Headquarters 30

Division News 36

DAN K. MOORE GOVERNOR

JOSEPH M. HUNT, JR. CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr. John F. McNair, III

W. W. Exum George L. Hundley

Ashley M. Murphy George H. Broadrick

Carl Renfro Raymond Smith

J. B. Brame W. B. Garrison

Carl Meares James G. Steceleather, Jr.

Thomas S. Harrington W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chdsf Engineer

George Welloughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

COVER

Our Cover for this issue of ROADWAYS is a scenic
view of a road on the Interstate System. This particular
one being 1-26, with the Blue Bidge Parkway crossing in
the distance near Biltmore Estates in Asheville.

Photo by Bill Hood (Photogrammetry)

Operations of
Chief Engineer

The Chief Engineer's headquarters are located on the
first floor of the new addition to the Highway Building.
It is from this suite of offices that Chief Engineer Cam-
eron W. Lee directs the Engineering forces of the State
Hghway Commission. This involves administration
through the four Assistant Chief Engineers, Division En-
gineers and various Departments of over 9,000 permanent
employees, plus around 2,200 temporary employees and
the work of approximately 2,500 prison inmates. Since
the total labor force of the Commission is in the neigh-
borhood of 15,500, the chances are over eight to one that
you work for the Chief Engineer.

Assistant Chief Engineer Ivan Hardesty has adminis-
trative control over the Division organization, the Ferry
system, the Permit Department and the Safety and
Emergency Planning Department.

With very few exceptions, the entire work of the
State Highway Commission is culminated in the work
of the Division Engineers in the constructon, improve-
ment, maintenance and operation of the Highway Sys-
tem. For instance, the State Highway Commission meet-
ing in official session selects an improvement project;

MRS. ALENE FOLTZ
Secretary to Mr. Lee

MR. CAMERON W. LEE
Chief Engineer

Advance Planning, subject to the concurrence of the
Planning Board, determines the concept, the corridor
and design standards Location and Design (Bridge and
Roadway) will determine exact location and prepare
plans; it is let to contract and the Division Engineer,
through the Resident Engineer, supervises the construc-
tion which, when completed, is maintained and operated
by the Division Engineer through the District Engineer
and/or Traffic Services Supervisor, Road Oil Supervisor
and the Landscape Supervisor. True, many other Depart-
ments have their "hand in the pie" in all these phases
of the Highway business. These other departments have
been featured in previous issues of Roadways as have
the three other Assistant Chief Engineers, of Construction
and Maintenance, Bridge, and Preconstruction.

The work of the Permit Department is growing daily.
Anyone desiring to move a vehicle or load which exceeds
the legal weight or size limit must secure a permit from
this Department. The Division and District Engineers
have been authorized to issue routine permits with the
larger and heavier moves going direct to the Permit
Department. Since so many permits involve bridge load
limits, this Department is located adjacent to the
Bridge Department and these two departments work
very closely together. An average of 4,500 permits are
issued each month, 3,500 by the central office, 1,000 by
the Divisions.

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IVAN HARDESTY
(Assistant Chief Engineer)
The Permit Department

This department is a service organization, its functions
are far and wide in this respect. No sooner do we honor
requests for moves by one contractor to job site, do we
have requests from others to move their equipment into
other project locations throughout the State.

The Extra Vehicular Permit Department of the High-
way Commission is a department that adequately and
efficiently serves the public with which it is in constant
direct contact. It is the issuing agent for permits issued
by the N. C. State Highway Commission for loads or ob-
jects over the legal dimensions for width, weight, height
or length for movements over the primary and/or secon-
dary highways of North Carolina by authority as estab-
lished in Section 20-119 of the Motor Vehicle Laws of
North Carolina.

The Permit Department is a section of the Bridge
Design Department but serves directly under Mr. Ivan
Hardesty, Assistant Chief Engineer. The department's
prime function is the processing and issuing of over
dimension permits from telephone, telegraph, written and
personal requests. Requests for permits involve move-
ment of mobile homes, houses, various types of construc-
tion equipment such as dozers, scrapers, cranes, shovels,
pavers, rollers either self-propelled or hauled on tractor
trailer; various types of utility and electrical equipment
such as transformers and circuit breakers, Government
moves such as boats, tanks, various types of aircraft and
aircraft parts, rockets, missile and space vehicles, radar,
radio, antenna and other communication equipment. In
issuing these permits it is believed that the most important
single fact is protection. Protection of our highways and
bridges from undue damages and extreme deterioration
resulting from heavy loads. Protection of the regular
users of our highways from abuse by owners of oversize

vehicles and their loads on roads where they should not
be permitted; protection of structures over highways
which may be hit and severely damaged by overheight
loads; looking after the safety of those requesting per-
mits, and preventing damage to their equipment, which
could very well happen if permits are erroneously issued;
preventing loads in excess of legal limits from crossing
low capacity bridges. Permits must frequently be refused
for this reason. Assisting those who request permits by
searching for alternate permissible routes when permits
must be refused over routes requested.

In order for an ind vidual to efficiently process and is-
sue these permits he must have a thorough knowledge of
the State Highway System as to where the highways
are by route designations; the conditions of the highways
at all times; the capacity of the highway and the struc-
tures thereon; the vertical clearances of overhead obstruc-
tions such as overpasses, overhead signs, utility lines,
etc.; the connecting highways for main cities, towns and
other points in rural areas that are constantly requested
to be used by applicants of permils so that he may rapid-
ly determine what routes an applicant can move an over
dimensional load from point of origin to destination. He
must also have knowledge of Laws and Policy governing
the issuance of permits in order to be able to determine
quickly if a permit can be or cannot be issued.

As to the efficiency of the Department, it is believed
that the records speak well for the employees. The de-
partment has seldom had to carry over requests for
permits until the next day before being processed and
delivered. The department works hard and takes pride in
its record of serving the public promptly and efficiently.
The public has learned that they can expect immediate

MRS. MYRTLE WALL
Commission Secretary

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MISS JOAN RAY, Steno II
Assistant to Mrs. Myrtle Wall

by applicants as "Mr. Permit". Familiarity with all the
duties involved in the Permit Department does not come
easily or quickly and his experience is invaluable to the
Department. Mr. Sutton handles telephone requests and
the requests from individuals in person as well as super-
vising the remaining team of five.

Assisting Mr. Sutton is Bill Hagwood, who has been
with the Commission 13 years and in the Permit Depart-
ment 2Y2 years. Bill works the other phone along with
Mr. Sutton and also takes personal requests. The de-
partment has data on all state and county bridges in the
Highway System and it is his responsibility to see that
all data is current, up to date and filed for each structure.

The real worker on the team is Mary Stuart Allen who
is secretary and typist. Mary Stuart is most efficient in
handling the large amount of correspondence, typing all
the permits, operating a direct tie line machine to the
Western Union and keeping files on all permits issued
for two years. It is also her responsibility to order sup-
plies and forms that are used in the department.

Another member of the staff is Dan Woodall who is
relatively new in the office. Dan has been in the depart-
ment since February. His duties are receiving telegram
request from the direct tie line teletype printer from
the Western Union and writing up the permits for re-
quests received by telegram. Dan also handles mail
correspondence and does some receiving by telephone.

EXTRA VEHICULAR PERMIT DEPARTMENT
W. C. HAGWOOD D. B. SUTTON

service This is evidenced by the fact that frequently,
during rush periods, calls are received for permits to
be issued by wire and two hours or so later, follow-up
calls are received wanting to know what has happened
the the permit.

At the present time, the Permit Department is is-
suing an average of approximately 243 permits each day
with the largest day, so far for one day, being 388. For
the past twelve months the Department has issued 43,237
permits with a monthly average of 3,603. These figures
can hardly compare with a total of 8,294 permits issued
for one year ten years ago. The volume of work continues
to increase and we project that by the end of this year
the department will have issued approximately 60,000
permits.

Heading up the Permit Department is D. B. Sutton,
Highway Office Manager, who has been with the de-
partment for 14 years. Mr. Sutton is often referred to

Left to Right: Frank Murray, Margary Pearsall and
Dan Woodall.

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Rounding out our team of full time employees is F. A.
Murray. Frank is our draftsman who does all the draft-
ing on our many maps. He makes route changes, adds
structures and the number of structures; adds and re-
cords the clearances of the many structures as shown on
our maps both state and county. Frank also helps in writ-
ing up permit requests that are received by mail and
telegram during the rush hours.

Closing out the staff is Margary Pearsall who is a
part time employee with the Permit Department. Margie
works only during the lunch hour each day and during
days when the requests are so heavy that the regular
staff needs help. Margie assists Mrs. Allen in the typing
of permits and is regularly assigned to the Bridge Design
Department. She has been with the Commission since
October, 1967.

Although each employee is assigned certain duties, at
one time or another, all must be capable of filling in for
others who are absent for one reason or another. Like
many other Departments with the Highway Commission,
the permit department deals directly with the public
constantly and it is our prime desire to furnish them the
service they desire in order that the Commission's public
image is preserved.

At the present time no fee is charged for overdimen-
sional hauling permits, making North Carolina one of
the few remaining states offering th's valuable service at
no cost to the traveling public.

MARY STUART ALLEN

Safety and Emergency Planning

By GERALD FLEMING

The Safety Department was organized in 1940, when
it was generally recognized that the State Highway Com-
mission needed to set up procedures and policies for
conducting a continuing Safety Program in all of its
divisions, sub-divisions and departments, and for all its
employees.

The objectives of the Safety Department are set forth
in a manual of Safety Rules and Regulations. The prin-
cipal objective is to develop and place in effect a sound
and practical Safety Program designed to protect the
persons, lives, and health of all State Highway Commis-
sion employees and to reduce or prevent accidents, loss
of time, and damage to property and equipment. Other
objectives are to reduce the monetary losses incident to
accidents and injuries, to both the employees and the
Commission, by the elimination of accidents; and to in-
crease the safety of highway users by the maintenance of
safe working conditions, equipment and practices.

In 1963, the Safety Department was reorganized. This
reorganization included combining the Safety and Emer-
gency Planning responsibilities under one Department
Head. This reorganization also assigned the direction
and supervision of this department to the Chief Engi-
neer's office. The Safety Department is staffed to the
Assistant Chief Engineer — Administration, Ivan Har-
desty.

The objectives of the Emergency Planning Department
include coordinating the Emergency Planning responsi-
bilities of the State Highway Commission with other
agencies. This department also supervises the training
and indoctrination of the personnel assigned specific du-
ties that enhance the State Highway Commission's capa-
bility under emergency conditions; whether emergency
situations due to nuclear warfare or due to a natural
disaster.

The Safety and Emergency Planning offices are lo-
cated in the Thompson Building at 122 N. McDowell
Street. This department is one of the few that is not
located in the Highway Building. The department is
manned by Gerald Fleming, Safety and Emergency
Planning Engineer, and two very competent and effi-
cient ladies, Miss Mary Anne Jobe, Statistician and
Safety Bulletin Editor, and Mrs. Dot Hayes, Secretary.

Miss Jobe has the responsibility of preparing our
monthly Safety Bulletin. This Safety Bulletin serves to
inform you of the accident experience across the State.
Miss Jobe also collects pertinent articles and information
that will be of interest to everyone. She is responsible
for recording the necessary statistics which play such an
important part in our routine activities concerning your
safety.

The Safety Bulletin is widely distributed all over the
United States as well as to the Highway Commission
employees. Approximately 200 copies are distributed to
various universities, colleges and schools upon request.
The Safety Bulletin is also forwarded to most of the
States on a reciprocating basis. This exchange of in-
formation is helpful in keeping this department better
informed.

Mrs. Hayes has the responsibility for recording our
accident experience. This department maintains a card
file on each of the permanent employees. This file lists
the accident experience and the date each employee is
to receive a safety award. From the information in the
files, she is able to prepare the Safety Award Selection
and Certification Sheets which are distributed to each
department for award selection. Mrs. Hayes also is re-
sponsible for the volumes of correspondence that are
distributed from this office as well as other routine du-
ties.

The Safety Department occupies a unique position in
the State Highway Commission organization; unique in
that this department is in the business of selling and pro-
moting attitudes in our daily activities. We are in the
business of convincing our employees that good sound
common judgment should be an integral part of our
daily activity.

In our efforts to inform our employees of sound acci-
dent prevention practices and to encourage good safety
attitudes, the Safety Department has sponsored several
programs. The First Aid Training for our employees in
the divisions has been the most comprehensive and has
been well received. This program has proven its worth
many times over. There have been many instances in
which the basic knowledge of First Aid has been very
useful. We will continue to encourage and make avail-
able the Standard First Aid Course to at least one-third
of our employees each year. This department is work-
ing toward sponsoring a Medical Self-Help Program
for the Raleigh personnel sometime in the future.

The Defensive Driving Course has recently been con-
ducted on a State wide basis for State Highway Com-
mission employees. This course was given to well over
8,000 of the employees to date. The Motor Vehicles De-
partment is to be commended on the methods and
thoroughness of the instruction made available to our
employees. This offcie has received many good com-
ments as to the worth of this course.

The Safety Department has recently sponsored a
Fire Prevention Training Course for selected division

MRS. DOT HAYES, Secretary

personnel. This series is being taught by representatives
from the State Insurance Department. Mr. Elwood Ins-
coe heads the Fire and Rescue Service in the Insurance
Department and has conducted the sessions in the divi-
sions to date. This series has been temporarily post-
poned until the fall, due to increased activity during
the summer months.

The State Highway Commission is a member of the
National Safety Council. Through the membership in
the Council, this department has access to the publica-
tions of the Council, the centralized collection of statisti-
cal data and the expert advice available from knowledge-
able professional safety people. Some of the data pub-
lished in the National Safety Council literature has
been reprinted in our monthly Safety Bulletin. This de-
partment will continue to make available to all State
Highway Commission employees any information that
might help in creating a better accident prevention atti-
tude.

The Governor of North Carolina has delegated to
the State Highway Commission certain duties and re-
sponsibilities as assigned in the State Plan for Emer-
gency Management of Resources and the State Disaster
Plan. The State Plan for Emergency Management of
Resources is a plan designed to enable this State to
conserve life and resources in the event of a Nuclear
War. This department coordinates the State Highway
Commission responsibility with the Civil Defense Agen-
cy, the State Highway Patrol, the Highway Users Con-
ference and the Bureau of Public Roads. The assigned
responsibility delegates to the Highway Commission
the administrative responsibility for the Construction and
Housing Agency as set forth in the State Plan. The
State Highway Commission also has been delegated the
administrative responsibility for the Emergency High-
way Traffic Regulation Plan for North Carolina.

The administration of the Construction and Housing
Agency will include maintenance and reconstruction of

5

MISS MARY ANNE JOBE
Statistical and Safety Bulletin Editor

highways and bridges destroyed or damaged by nuclear
blasts. This responsibility will also include the recon-
struction of mass housing for bombed out areas. As an
integral part of the activities as outlined, the State
Highway Commission in close cooperation with the
State Highway Patrol and the Highway Users Confer-
ence will administer the Emergency Highway Traffic
Regulation responsibility. This activity will include check-
ing for radiation contamination, measuring radiation in-
tensities and regulating safe routes in order for needed
supplies and services to travel to disaster areas on a
priority basis.

The State Highway Commission now has trained ra-
diological monitoring personnel in each division in the
State, Approximately nine hundred employees are train-
ed as monitors. These employees are trained or re-train-
ed by the Radiological Defense Officer in each division.
The RADEF Officer has responsible charge of the Ra-
diation Source Sets and the radiation testing equipment
assigned to each division. The Safety Department co-
ordinates the required testing of these instruments at
regular intervals with the Civil Defense Agency. This
department also coordinates the training of the RADEF
Officers for each division with the Civil Defense Agen-
cy and the University of North Carolina Institute of
Government at Chapel Hill. All RADEF Officers are
required to complete a two-week course now provided by
the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill.

Previous tests of the North Carolina capability con-
ducted during a simulated nuclear war pointed out sev-
eral deficiencies. These deficiencies are presently in the
process of being resolved. The Emergency Operating
Center for the State Highway Responsibility will be lo-
cated in the basement of the Highway Building. It is
anticipated that this location will be steadily improved
and hardened as funds become available.

NEW TRAINEES

A number of new faces will be ap-
pearing in the Raleigh area and in
divisions of the State Highway Com-
mission. The new employees joining
our civil engineering and civil tech-
nology training program are: Roy L.
Bumgardner, Jr., from Gaston Col-
lege; Dan E. Slagle from Asheville-
Buncombe Tech; Annie H. Lassiter
from Fayetteville Tech; Rodney M.
Honeycutt from Fayetteville Tech;
Bruce C. Jacobs from N. C. State
University; Robert G. Wright from
N. C. State University; Tim C. Clark
from University of South Carolina;
David M. Moore from N. C. State
University; John G. Wilson, III, from
N. C. State University; Garland L.
Burch from Virginia Polytechnic In-
stitute; Eddie Buchanan from Ashe-
ville-Buncombe; John W. Rogerson
from Fayetteville Tech; Donzie Las-
siter from Fayetteville Tech; James
E. Turlington from N. C. State Uni-
versity; Howard White, III, from N.
C. State University; Ernest W. Park-

TOP CAT SPOOK
AND TOM CAT FINK

He walked slowly toward me with a
battered look

It was plain to see he'd been in a ter-
rific fight

With bloody feet he was a terrible
sight

And as I cried out his name in fright,
My beloved cat "Spook" lifted his

head with a half wink
As if to cite — I beat the hell out of

that Tom Cat "Fink" last night.
It was easy to see that Spook was in

trouble

For becoming a recent father, he was

paying double
Mother Cat "Missy" loved Spook

dear

And of Old Tom Cat Fink, she lived
in fear.

Spook cut Fink out when he moved

on the street
Missy Preferred dear Spook 'cause he

was so sweet
Old Fink keeps battling from time to

time

But Spook is the winner and seems

not to mind.
He's Top Cat on the street, Spook

knows quite clear
And even tough Tom Cat Fink he

doesn't fear
Though battles he has, and last

night's is over
It's worth the effort to be Missy's

great lover!

— Jewel Adcock

6

Will Deslickers Work?

Can the number and severity of
skidding accidents on wet highways
be significantly reduced by treating
the pavement with a deslicking
agent?

That is essentially what the Traf-
fic Engineering Department is try-
nig to determine in anti-skid tests
now underway on four segments of
the State Highway System.

Hydroflouric acid compound ap-
plied to pavement is being tried as
a deterrent to slippery road condi-
tions. The acid solution attacks the
silica in sand and stone used in road-
building material, creating microscopic
pores in the structure. The action of
the compound, which takes about 20
minutes, etches the aggregate to
form a clean, sandpaper-like finish;
but at the same time it doesn't dam-
age the road.

The locations on the State Sys-
tem with an impressive history of
skidding accidents were selected for
one half of the tests. An "S" curve
on 1-40 near Kernersville and a
curve on US 64 near the Neuse Ri-
ver bridge, near Raleigh, were treat-
ed with a commercial hydrofluoric
compound, trade marked SP-3. The
effectiveness of the project at these
two locations will be evaluated on the
basis of accident experience. That is,
relevant accident records for the
period of one year after treatment
will be compared with reports of the
year before to learn what statistical
difference, if any, exists.

A different procedure is in pro-
gress at two other locations where
SP-3 and a deslicking compound for-
mulated by the Division of Purchase
and Contract, Department of Admin-
istration, will be tested. In the pro-
cess, a concrete site on US 1 North of
Raleigh and an asphalt stretch of
highway on US 64 East of Raleigh
will serve to compare untreated sur-
faces and those sections which have
been sprayed with either the Pur-
chase and Contract skid-proof for-
mulation or SP-3, for both concrete
and asphalt construction.

By OLIVE DONAT

Three sections, each approximately
500 feet long, were set apart at both
test sites. The first section was treat-
ed with SP-3, the second one was left
untreated, and the third was sprayed
with the Purchase and Contract pro-
duct.

The comparison study here will be
based on skid-tests alone, conducted
with the aid of the Materials and
Tests Department and special equip-
ment. In this method, stopping dis-
tance of a vehicle is measured for
each type of surface tested — six in
all, and from that measurement is
computed the coefficient of friction
present.

Skid-tests were performed on all
six sections, before the specified
strips were treated and then shortly
thereafter. In six months time,
around the last of November, the
treated sections will be given a sec-

ond application. Skid tests are sche-
duled at three month intervals over
the full 12-month period.

At the end of the year, accident re-
ports for the first two locations and
data on the skid tests will be ana-
lyzed to determine the effect of de-
slicking treatments.

The Traffic Engineering Depart-
ment is compiling a list of "slippery-
when-wet" locations on the State
Highway System, through data analy-
sis. A computer program is used to
flag locations where the actual acci-
dent rate is higher than the critical
rate, and these locations are scruti-
nized on the basis of average daily
traffic (ADT) and length of section
involved. If an anti-skid treatment
now being tested proves effective, it
may be applied to sections of road
which appear to have a significant
rate of skidding accidents under wet
conditions.

Looking like astronauts about to take a walk in space are Glenn Grigg and
Ed Butler, transferring the acid solution to the tank truck.

7

Spray Bars In
Operation

With spray bar at low position, the tank truck applies acid treatment to
pavement.

Tests on Louisiana streets and
highways indicate that one type of
hydrofluoric acid compound reduced
stopping d'stances on wet portland
cement concrete pavement by at least
25 percent, and sometimes more. Like
tests on asphalt pavement showed the
product to be equally effective. Traf-
fic engineers are hoping a similar
treatment will cut down on traffic
accidents due to wet pavement. A side
benefit of the spray is that it chem-
ically cleans the road's surface of car-
bon, oil film, and other dirt.

SUCCESS ON SMALL MARGINS

It has been pointed out that suc-
cess is built on small margins. The
fastest runner in the world is only 5
per cent faster than scores of ordinary
runners. The difference between a
great race horse and a good race horse
is only a few seconds.

Small differences in personality
separate the superior salesman from
the average. That extra hour in the
laboratory may make the big differ-
ence in the lifetime search of a scien-
tist, or just one more experiment may
bring the result that years of labor
failed to produce. In almost every in-
stance, the man who perseveres a 1 1-
tle longer is acclaimed the winner.
GOSSIPS

Gossips have been catalogued into
three different types: The vest-but-
ton type — always popping off; the
vacuum-cleaner type — always pick-
ing up dirt; and the liniment type —
always rubbing it in.

The spray bar was raised to thor-
oughly wash the road after the acid
solution had been left on for about
20 minutes.

Traffic Research Engineer J. M. Lynch, far right, and Safety and Emer-
gency Planning Engineer G. R. Fleming make sure that every precaution is
taken to protect the men from contamination when mixing the hydroflouric
compound with 9 parts water, to prepare the solution used in the anti-skid
tests. Putting on safety gear are T. Jay Owen, Jim Bryan, and Glenn Grigg,
all three are from Traffic Engineering. Partially hidden from view is W. J. Ellis,
Technical Analyst, who represented the Division of Purchase and Contract at
the skid tests.

8

"Accident Section Creates New Jobs"

A new section has been created for
the Traffic Engineering Department,
to concentrate the work of accident
identification and surveillance. This
extension and the expansion of other
sections in the Department have
opened 27 new positions. At the same
time, 11 positions have been deleted
and placed under division offices.

The section for accident studies
has been set up to comply with a
standard of the Federal Highway
Safety Bureau, resulting from the
Highway Safety Act of 1966 and re-
quiring accident identification and
surveillance by the states. For the ini-
tial stage, 21 positions have been
authorized, but by the end of three
years the complement will reach 39.
Personnel is organized into three
areas of work: Accident Identifica-
tion, Surveillance, and Design Review.
The project is jointly funded by State
and National highway agencies and
is coordinated through Governor Dan
K. Moore's office.

Robert J. Dodge heads the new acci-
dent unit, and his former position of
Area Traffic Engineer is now held
by Roy D. Williams, past Traffic En-
gineer of Division 8.

J. M. Lynch moved to new respon-
sibilities with Dodge and was suc-
ceeded by Glenn G. Grigg as supervi-
sor of Special Studies Section. Other
transfers to accident identification
and surveillance work were Sarah
White, Jim Bryan, E. Y. (Chris) Staf-
ford, Ed Butler, Earleen Medlin, and
Brenda Byrd, from Special Studies;
Ed Siler and Don Dupree from offi-
ces of Area Traffic Engineers. They
were joined by Dwight Kelly from
Roadway Design Department; Need-
ham Crowe and John Permar from
Advance Planning. Also employed for
this section were Larry Stallings and
Dwight Tant, who come from the
SHC training program; and Mike
Austin.

Six Assistant Area Traffic Engi-
neer positions have been added, two
for each ATE. H. A. Justice, former-
ly Traffic Engineer for Division 2,
and Woodie Warrick, Jr., who had
been Division 5 Traffic Engineer,
now fill assistant positions under
ATE C. C. Sessoms; and ATE W. A.
Ward will be assisted by H. L. Sat-

By OLIVE DONAT

terwhite and R. E. Edmonds, Traffic
Engineers from Divisions 11 and 13.
John Hoyle is a new Division Traf-
fic Engineer, assigned to Division 14.
Andrew Allen was employed to fill
an engineering technician vacancy
with ATE Sessoms.

Some positions in Special Studies
were reassigned to other sections. In
this way, Signal Section acquired a
clerk and an additional engineering
technician, positions taken by Irene
Beddingfield and Vann Joines. C. D.
Stone has one of the two ET posi-
tions added to Signing Section; and
Design Section will gain a statistical
analyst.

W. A. Collins and Stan Moody, two
of 13 Traffic Control Technicians
who had been with the Traffic Engi-
neering Department, were retained to
work in the Signal Shop in Raleigh.
The 11 other TCTs, plus three more,
are now staffed to the 14 Division En-
gineers.

Responsibilities in these areas are
briefly outlined here. For one part,
a surveillance team will review each
fatal accident report completed by a
member of the State Highway Patrol
or local police for such accidents
which occur in an assigned section of
the state. A report will then be made
by the team, if they determine the
highway contributed in any way to

the accident, giving the findings and
recommendations for the prevention
of further mishaps at the subject lo-
cations.

Teams will keep continual surveil-
lance on the roadway network for
potentially high-accident locations
through computer printouts, personal
observation of highway conditions,
oral and written reports from high-
way and enforcement personnel, pub-
lic officials, citizen groups, news me-
dia, and other like sources.

A project review team will review
plans for all new highway projects
and make their own field inspections
at the appropriate times during the
design stage. They will recommend
design changes, wherever appropriate,
to the Design Engineer before the
construction plans are finalized. And
to determine the effectiveness of the
improvements to highway installa-
tions, before and after accident stud-
ies will be made for all major pro-
jects.

It is planned that the Accident
Identification and Surveillance unit
will also administer the Urban Safety
Program.

The new section is under the im-
mediate supervision of State Traffic
Engineer J. O. Litchford and Assist-
ant State Traffic Enginer H. C.
Rhudy.

Robert Dodge, center, who heads the new Accident Identification and
Surveillance Section, outlines the plan of work for his top aides, left to right,
Jim Lynch, John Permar, Dwight Kelly, and Needham Crowe.

9

!.i-.J."ri..lyiilW/'vl-i,y

t Luck

NEVER THE TWAIN — East is and west is some-
one has said, and never will the two get together. Well
if that's so, allowed some of the "Dome Writers" from
the Nuisance-Disturber here in Raleigh, how in the name
of a Scotch Bonnet did the State Highway Commission
have a picture of a North Carolina Ocean Sunset on its
official highway map when the sun sets in the west and
we're on the east coast? (We gotcha now, ha, ha, they
said). State Locating Engineer H. Boyce Midgett, born
on the coast said it was simple ... go to any one of sev-
eral areas on the coast where the beach runs at the
proper angle (near Hatteras, Topsail Island, Fort Cas-
well, et ux.) and you can see and photograph an Atlan-
tic Sunset. That map photo was just an example of truth
and consequences: Midgett told the truth and paid the
consequences*

COASTAL DIRECTIONS — We ran into another of
those curious situations involving coastal directions a
while back when we joined Division Three Engineer
Paul DuPre and photographer Gordon Deans on a trip
to the new Topsaid Island Bridge. There you stand
looking directly out to sea over the blue Atlantic. Looking
due east right? Wrong. You're looking south. How does
that grab you? By the way, on that trip, we got a cook's
tour of the project provided by Inspector Vestal (sounds
like Scotland Yard, doesn't it?) and crossed the Inland
Waterway in the heaviest smallboat we've ever seen.
David Rose was at the helm and during the whole con-
versation he didn't mention Holiday for Strings even
once. T'was a good day though, and Mr. Vestal says
the construction canal dredged for Topsail Bridge and
new dredging nearby in the Waterway, will make the
area a hotspot for mullet and trout.

COLD SHOULDER — Western North Carolina roll-
ed out the frost colored carpet for us when we made a
little trip to Asheville recently to get pictures of traffic
congestion at Beaucatcher Tunnel. Nice day when we
arrived but by early the next morning that thermometer
had dropped to 30 degrees. Things warmed up later
though, and we got a great greeting from Division Engi-
neer Frank Hutchison, and engineers Dan Martin and
Paul Mclntyre. Still later — just to prove you can't get
away from Raleigh — we ran into Henry Hammond and
Carter Dodson. With Hammond, there was a stimulating
discussion of broom straw, with one of the questions
being: does broomstraw grow green, and if so, have you
ever seen green broomstraw? Everything went well until
this fellow told a tale about a wind storm so terrible
that it blew a broom straw through a three-inch oak
board.

By KEITH HUNDLEY

I SURRENDER, DEAR — Old buddy Floyd Bass
of the Division Three office told us the other day that
back during all that ice, he and several others got strand-
ed in Dunn. They needed some lunch, but upon arriv-
ing at their favorite eating spot found it locked up for
the duration of the big freeze. They found another place.
It was filled to overflowing. Finally, a harried waitress
got to Floyd's table, and with big old grin said, "May
we see a menu". Came the reply, "You don't need no
menu, buddy, we ain't got nothin' but ham and eggs and
beef stew and we'll probably be out of both when we get
around to your order". Did you say first and last visit
rolled into one Floyd???

UH-HUH — Word gets to this pillar that a certain
high ranking employee in the Highway Commission has
purchased a red MUSTANG for the editor of ROAD-
WAYS. (No, dear, this is not Earl Wilson's Column.)

GULL-ABLE — Some years back when we were work-
ing for some newspapers and radio stations, we got a
story about the SHC painting pictures of headless sea-
gulls on roadways along the Outer Banks to keep real
gulls from dropping clams on the pavement.. Seems one
gull will not attack another in any way form or fashion
if the bird has his head turned. Noble, isn't it? But the
trick birds didn't work, as a matter of fact we get the
word that Division One Engineer D. W. Patrick thinks
they use the bird-pictures as targets now.

10

SOMETHING FISHY — SHC had its first big meet-
ing out of Raleigh at Nags Head on May 10th. At the
banquet the night before Ed Harding of Beaufort
County entertained. Some say Comptroller Bill Ingram
will never be able to look at a brood sow or a wheel-
barrow again without breaking into gales of laughter.
For supper at Nags Head we had roast beef. We're not
knocking it, but with all those fish in that big pond
lapping at the back steps of the CAROLINIAN it just
seemer a little fishy . . .er, uh, strange.

IT FIGURES — We had been talking to Editor New-
house the other day about the fine new positions daugh-
ter Carolyn and friend Janice Malone landed up north
in Hartford, Conn. Only three girls graduated from State
this June in Math and one was Frances' daughter, Caro-
lyn and the other Bill Wilson's daughter, Rebecca. Fran-
ces asked us, "Why don't you come on upstairs with me
and see what you think of what I've done so far on the
next issue of the magazine?'' So we got on the elevator
and it promptly went to the basement.

WHAT PRICE GLORY? — We bought a new turtle
neck shirt just to wear at the Nags Head pre-meeting
banquet. Got much comment:

a. Didja get any hippies beads to wear with it?

b. Is that a neck brace you're wearing? A whiplash
accident, huh?

c. Oh, waiter, would you clear away these dishes!!

d. Just got back from the Kentucky Derby, huh?
PARTING SHOT — We saw in one of the newspapers

crossing this desk the other day this quote: Being poor
ain't no disgrace, but that's about all you can say for it.
Bye, y'all.

We wonder — is this looking East or looking West?

PAST HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS ON FENCE

Dear Sir:

Just a brief note to congratulate
you on a superior system of highways
in your state. My family and I have
just returned from a trip through
your state, from the Smokies to Cape
Hatteras. If time permits, please com-
mend whoever is responsible for the
attractive rest stop on Interstate 40,
just west of Statesvllle. We spent one
day in our trailer there, and found
picnic tables, cut firewood and neat-
ly trimmed grass.

Mrs. Jerry McKenny
Route 1

Sturgis, Ky. 42459

A photo of the Commission members of 1940 viewing the flood of August,
1940, taken at Caledonia Prison farm near Tillery in Halifax County. This
shows that the Highway Commission can get on the fence while viewing a
problem.

11

Right of Way
Annual Golf Tournament

The Right of Way Department of
the State Highway Commission held
its Statewide Annual Golf Tourna-
ment on April 27 and 28 at the beau-
tiful Oak Island Golf and Beach
Club, Yaupon Beach, Southport,
North Carolina.

This was a 36 hole golf tournament
with 18 holes being played on Satur-
day and Sunday. A few arrived early
on Friday for practice rounds and
to look over the course which is
quite difficult with an abundance of
water and sand traps. There were
five flights, and the first day's play
determined which flight each player
would be in, and the total score for
both days determined the winners in
each flight.

There were 44 men playing in the
tournament with representation from
as far west as Sylva and east to
Wilmington. Mr. Grady Shook, Divi-
sion Right of Way Agent from Sylva
was presented a trophy, inasmuch
as he traveled further than anyone
else and did not play golf. Of course,
he is quite a fisherman and he en-
joys the fellowship of being with
the men throughout the State.

On late Saturday afternoon after
play was completed, the entire group
with wives and children met for a
cookout at the Lorraine Motel at
Long Beach where most of the men
and their families were quartered.
There was an abundance of food,
drink and talk and speeches. Every-
one had a gay time at the cookout,
including the ones that were able to
remember. Bill Moon and Buddy Ca-
gle were kept busy autographing golf
balls for the kids present, being they
were keen competitors for the cham-
pionship flight. Being the pros they
are, it was a shame they had to use
shag balls in lieu of shiny new ones
for the kids.

As darkness approached, the crowd
began to dwindle and separate for
their own little parties. It was noted
that Pat Wilkie had quite a shindig
at her place.

By SAM JACKSON

L. to R. Championship Flite: Bill Moon, 1st Place; Buddy Cagle, 2nd
Place and Bill Dillon, 3rd Place.

12

Third Flite

1st Place — Lindsey Gould
2nd Place — Jim Moore
3rd Place — Bill Murray

Jim Moore winning 3rd Flite Play-
off in Parking Lot.

Picture Not Available

Fourth Flite

1st Place — Russ Carter
2nd Place — Russ Bullock
3rd Place — John Holmes

The final 18 holes were played on
Sunday with play being completed
approximately 2 o'clock. Everyone
met at the Lorraine Motel at 3
o'clock after the completion of play
for the presentation of trophies and
awards. A playoff betwen Jim Moore
and Bill Murray was necessary to
determine the runnerup in the third
flight. A playoff hole was established
in the parking lot at the Lorraine
Motel and Bill Murray and Jim
Moore putted out for the runnerup.
Jim Moore three-putted for a win.

After completion of the award of
trophies, the group dispersed for the
long trip homeward, some to Ashe-
ville, Sylva, Albemarle, Shelby,
Greensboro, Raleigh and other points
west. For those with trophies and
pleasant memories the trip was short
but for others — long. Some of the
ladies acquired nice sun-tans. Pat
Bryant tried to get all of her tan
in one day — lobster pink! I under-
stand that Pat Wilkie and Gennette
danced all night, while Coydrea and
Tommy drank!

In spite of the day after, a good
time was had by all and returned
home with pleasant memories.

The Wilmington Right of Way
Department, host for the tourna-
ment, should be congratulated for
the fine job. It takes a lot of hard
work and time to accommodate a
group of this size. I think everyone
present at the tournament will agree
that this was the best ever. Everyone
is looking forward to next year.

Worth Sorrell — Ski demonstrates
putting ability on 18th green. His
conservative attitude towards "malt"
and "hops" did not improve his golf
disposition or score (112-114 — 216).
Better luck next year Worth!

13

Golf Results

1st FLIGHT

Bill Moon, Winner— 79-77— 156
Buddy Cagle, 2nd— 78-83— 161
Bill Dillon, 3rd— 77-85— 162
Will Davis— 80-86— 166
2nd FLIGHT

Al Deblanc, Winner— 85-79— 164
Sam Jackson, 2nd— 87-86— 173
Warner Powell, 3rd— 91-86— 177
Jack Baldwin— 87-91— 178
Ben Brown— 90-92— 182
Tony West— 93-90— 183
Paul Bunn— 93-92— 185
Buster Mills— 85-101— 186
Chuck Watchel— 93-98— 191
3rd FLIGHT

Lindsey Gould, Winner— 95-90— 185
*Jim Moore, 2nd— 97-94— 191
*Bill Murray, 3rd— 98-93— 191
Bill Beddingfield— 97-96— 193
Bill Davenport— 100-93— 193
J. D. Joyner— 98-98— 196
Jim Delruhl— 98-99— 197
Sam Pollard— 101-97— 198
Sam Pearce— 99-104— 203
Jim West— 105-99— 204
Bob Paschall— 103-104— 207
4th FLIGHT

Russ Carter, Winner— 107-97— 204
Russ Bullock, 2nd— 106-101— 207
John Holmes, 3rd— 106-102— 208
Claude Moore— 110-101— 211
Don Sellers— 107-106— 213
Cliff Carroll— 113-100— 213
Doug Taylor— 107-107— 214
Gene Franklin— 106-108— 214
David Thrower— 112-103— 215
Worth Sorrell— 112-114— 216
Don McCallum— 109-107— 216
Sam Smitherman— 112-105— 217
L. R. Mays— 114-106— 220
Harvey Boyette— 111-110— 221
Jack Batchelor— 116-113— 229
5th FLIGHT

Frank Ulmer, Winner— 123-117— 240
Lewis McGee, 2nd— 124-122— 246
Stanley Blue, 3rd— 132-117— 249
Jim Runley— 142-120— 262
John Colville "Duffer"— 135-131— 266

*Jim Moore won play-off.

At Right is a picture of Location
Department Golf Tournament.

The semi-annual statewide Location Department golf tournament was
held at Quail Ridge Golf Club, Sanford, N. C. on May 11. A large turnout of
golfres were on hand to compete for the handsome trophies that were present-
ed at a smorgasbord banquet following the tournament at the Dutch Farm
Restaurant. The Honorable Mr. Roy Stewart, Mayor of Sanford was on hand
to present the awards to the following winners, John M. Falkner of Raleigh
won top honors with a low raw score of 74. K. B. White of Mount Airy was
runner-up with a low raw score of 89. Joe G. Creech of Garner, 1st flight
trophy; John Anderson of Winston-Salem, 2nd flight trophy; Marvin Cava-
naugh of Fayetteville, 3rd flight trophy; Joel Dermid of Winston-Salem, 4th
flight trophy; Jerry B. Maddox of Sanford, 5th flight trophy; Fritz Koch of
Garner, 6th flight trophy Horace Jernigan of Raleigh, special award trophy;
C. W. Lee of Wake Forest, low score guest trophy Eddie Lee of Wake Forest,
youngest golfer trophy; Neill Ross of Fayetteville, highest score trophy; and
Sarah Jernigan of Raleigh, ladies trophy. Guests consisted of C. W. Lee and
son Eddie, Henry Jordan, Joe Allen, Richard Siler, George Parrott, W. D.
Cunningham and W.; J. Morrow. Numerous favors which were donated by
l^cal mrechants vere distributed at the banquet. Mr. C. S. Bristow, Jr. of
Sanford was host chairman and wishes to thank all those who participated in
or contributed to making this a most successful affair.

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Connecticut
Capers

Editor's Note: "I would like to
share with you my recent trip to
New England in Apartment Hunting
for my daughter, Carolyn."

We headed for Connecticut early
Tuesday morning, May 28th. The
party consisted of your Editor, my
daughter, a friend, two cars, and
enough luggage and clothes to fill
the Salvation Army quota for a
month. We began with a minimum
of fuss, the only argument being
which way to go. After much deliber-
ation we decided to go the Route
that Dave Cook of Roadway Design
had prepared for me.

Taking US-1 North we began our
trip. We have traveled as far as Vir-
ginia when we ran into rain. Little
did we realize the role that rain was
to play on our trip.

Nothing really earthshattering took
place between Raleigh and New Jer-
sey except that everytime I paid a
toll I cringed a little.

We decided to find a place to stay
in New Jersey for the night. Since I
was in the lead car, it fell on me to
pick the place. We got off the New
Jersey Turnpike at Princeton (I
thought it would be a nice place to
stay). Princeton left something to
the imagination at least the part we
saw. It is almost impossible
to find a place to cross over the
highway between Princeton and New
Brunswick and most of the motels
were on the Southbound side (I
guess that's a indication that more
people come South than go North).

We passed through a little town
in New Jersey named Deans. I im-
mediately thought of our Photogra-
pher Gordon. I wondered how in the
world this town got its name and
wanted to stop and ask some of my
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Sisters how this town came
about, but time would not allow me
to stop. We then passed the Boy
Scout Museum and I knew that had
Robert my baby been with me I
would have been forced to stop
whether I had wanted to or not, but

Twin Tunnels: Connecticut's West Rock Tunnel, the costliest of 69 Wilbur
Cross Parkway projects, is the state's first vehicular tunnel. Consisting of
twin bores 1,200 feet in length it carries a divided traffic lanes through West
Rock, New Haven, about 2,000 feet below the summit of the ridge. North
Carolina's first twin tunnel will be opened sometime next year.

promised myself I would look into
both of these when I went again, if
I went this way again.

Well New Brunswick, New Jersey
was the place that we found the first
motel on the right. The motel itself
was huge, we checked in, but instead
of a nice place in the front our room
was down the hill in the back. There
were three beds in it and since we
were quite tired we went right to
bed, thinking surely the rain would
stop by morning. We realized that
we were only three hours away from
Hartford and we knew that we could
reach it in plenty of time to house
hunt for Carolyn.

I was the first to awaken. I knew
that it had rained all night. What I
did not know was how much. I de-
cided to check on the cars. Well, it's
a good thing that I'm an early riser.
In another hour there may not have
been any cars to check on. The water
was up almost to the top of the
wheels of the cars.

Now for those of you men who
think women are slow, I wish you
could have seen the three of us throw
our stuff together and into our suit-
cases. We waded to the cars with our
skirts hiked knee high and started
the cars. How they ever started we
will never know. We got up
the hill but were totally without
brakes of any kind. If you don't

think we were scared — we were
and there was nothing we could do.

We went to the motel restaurant
for breakfast and were greeted by a
charming New Jersey waitress who
welcomed us with "Come have a cup
of coffee, it will warm you "all the
way down to your belly button".

Breakfast over, we started again.
The rain was unbelievably hard. New
York and New Jersey received 4J/2
inches of it in 24 hours, the same 24
hours we were in those two states.

Alas but I digress. Toward Connec-
ticut we went. The road was 3 lanes
wide cars were bumper to bump-
er, the lower turnpike was flooded
out and they were routing ;']1 the
traffic to the higher turnpikes. Caro-
lyn was alone in the lead car and I
was driving the other car. Well to
make a long story short, I turned off
the wrong turnpike and lost her. I
was anxious to get out of all the
maddening traffic, and my friend
kept telling me that I was headed to-
ward Canada. I found a road that
was not traffic jammed and stopped
and asked where I was. To my sur-
prise I found that I was headed on
the right road to Canada and not in
the right direction of Hartford at all.
After obtaining another map and get-
ting on one secondary road after
another, I was again going due east
and in the direction of Hartford. It

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was pretty scenic. The rain had stop-
ped somewhat and afterwards we de-
cided it was the nicest drive after all.
We saw more of upper State New
York than I ever realized existed. A
trip that should have taken at most
4 hours had taken 8 hours.

Carolyn had stayed on the beaten
path and was in Hartford by 12 noon.
She had left messages at Pratt and
Whitney Aircraft Corporation with a
guard and has even called home try-
ing to get any place we might call
from, as it never crossed our feeble
minds we would get separated.

Just as we were arriving in East
Hartford, we slowed down at an in-
tersection at a Howard Johnson Mo-
tel. This motel is only about 5 blocks
from Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Cor-
poration. I happened to look in the
direction of the Motel and spotted
Carolyn in my friends green Chevro-
let. I said to my friend "there is
Carolyn" and just at that moment
she spotted us, and our party was
once again reunited.

We checked into the motel and
began to check out apartments. Need-
less to say, in about two hours we
were totally discouraged. It was im-
possible to find an apartment in East
Hartford. We then resorted to a
newspaper. We did, however, find a
new apartment complex in an outly-
ing town which had vacancies. We
called the number and got directions
to the place. The woman said some-
one would be there.

Directions in hand we began to go.
We paid the toll but missed the turn
off so we had to get off and start all
over again. We paid the toll again,
and made it pass the first turn off
but missed the second turn off. Again
it was back to downtown Hartford
and another toll. I decided I now
know why and how they get their
roads paid for.

Finally we made it to the apart-
ments. It was unbelievable. They
were about as ready for occupancy as
an open patio. Well we scratched that
off our list. Thus ended our first day
in Hartford.

2nd Day — Bright and early
Thursday morning we got up full of
hope and eager anticipation. We gath-
ered together the newspaper and all
our other leads and set out. Since
East Hartford was a lost cause as

far as Apartments was concerned we
again started out for some of the
outlying areas. Now it was Thursday
May 30th. Does that ring a bell
with any of you Southerners? Well
it didn't to us either, but it just so
happened that this was Memorial
Day and in the North it is just like
our Fourth of July. The first out-
lying area was Manchester. We ar-
rived there about 10:30 A.M. which
was also the approximately starting
time of the local parade. There was
nothing we could do, but park the
car and enjoy the bagpipes. We won-
dered what was worn under the col-
orful kilts. We then put ourselves in
the spirit of local high school bands
and boy scout groups. After the pa-
rade we began systematically check-
ing the apartments. It was again all
no vacancy. We were wondering if
we had moved to a vacation paradise.
At the last apartment, however, we
did have a rather interesting exper-
ience. The superintendent ask us
in and volunteered to check on a few
other places for us. The longer we
sat there the more talkative he be-
came. It seems his wife had just left
him. At this point we began to get
a little uneasy. He talked on and
really began to pour his heart out to
us. Well, folks if you think those peo-
ple that write Dear Abbey are phon-
ies or think that Peyton Place is a
ficticious town you should have been
with us in Manchester. It's all for
real. Finally we were able to get
away.

By the end of Thursday we were
totally discouraged it looked abso-
lutely hopeless.

3rd Day — Friday desperation set
in. We were determined to find
something today, as our finances
were melting away, and Carolyn had
to report to work on Monday morn-
ing. Our only hope was to go out to
these new apartments that were al-
most completed and see if they could
possibly complete one for us before
the weekend set in. We went, told
our plight to the most helpful
man who was the rental agent. Af-
ter telling our life's history, he was
kind enough to get one of the new
apartments ready for us by Mon-
day. The floor had to be sanded and
painted, the hot water turned on,
the new stove checked out, shades
put up, a million other check outs, and
Carolyn had a home. It is a two bed-
room town house on Downey Drive
with heated pool, Ski Lodge

across the Parkway and Golf Course
on the left of the 315 units. It is a
real dream apartment for a new
graduate with a new job.

4th Day — The apartment taken
care of and an entire weekend with
nothing to do we decided to go to my
friends Aunt in Northfield, Vermont.
We got up early, had breakfast,
checked out of the motel and caught
the right Interstate Road for a
change without paying a single toll.
It was amazing the similarities be-
tween New England and our own
North Carolina mountain area. The
drive was like an extended Parkway.
Interstate 91 goes right up the bor-
der between New Hampshire and
Vermont.

After about an hour and y2's ride
in the distance we saw a sign ad-
vertising "The World's Largest Bas-
ket Store". Having nothing else bet-
ter to do we decided to stop. It was
amazing the different types of bas-
kets we found in this store. Every-
thing from tiny roll baskets to 5 ft.
high elephants and giraffes.

Getting off the interstate road we
decided to stay on this secondary
road that was parallel to 1-91. It
wound around the mountains in and
out the valley's of Vermont. Stop-
ping now and then at gift shops and
the like, we found some really un-
usual gift ideas.

We stopped for dinner at White
River Junction, Vermont and just
happened to notice gas dripping
from behind the wheels of the car.
It wasn't very much, but we decided
after dinner to have it checked. It
was probably the best move we ever
made. It seems that the gas tank
had sprung a leak and the service
station attendant told us that had
the car back fired we never would
have known what hit us. After much
dickering back and forth, the serv-
ice station attendant promised to call
his mechanic in after dinner, if we
would pay him double for his time.
He thought maybe he could have it
fixed in about 2 hours. Well to tell
you the truth we would have paid
him triple time to get it fixed, so I
guess everyone was happy. However,
even at that we had about 2*4 hours
of time on our hands in White Ri-
ver Junction, (the home town of
Dartmouth College), and this town
is by no means the entertainment
Capital of Vermont. They did have
a gift and woolen shop about a quar-

1-6

ter of a mile down the road where we
set off on foot. The day was just
beautiful, the sun was shining and
not a cloud in the sky. The air
smelled of lilacs, balsum and pine.
Everything had a special freshness
to it.

By sheer accident, I looked up and
noticed a glider and immediately re-
called my last summer's airplane
ride with Jim my second son who is
so fond of flying. I couldn't help but
wonder just where the pilot intended
to put down this glider as it was so
hilly and not many of the valleys
looked long eough or flat enough to
land a glider.

Finally the car was finished and
we set out on our last leg to North-
field. We had gone about 15 miles
when there in a field no bigger than
a large parking lot was the glider we
had seen earlier. The pilot had done
a beautiful job of landing, but I cer-
tainly don't believe I would have
enjoyed flying with him in those
narrow mountains.

Vermont is a most scenic state.
Its towns and villages are exactly
like the protype of what we con-
sider to be a New England Village.
The streets and the towns are nar-
row with large trees on either side.
Most of the towns are no more than
5 or 6 street wide being no more
than 2 blocks long. They are truly
quaint village squares.

We arrived in Northfield, Vermont
about 4 o'clock and took in the lo-
cal scenery in about an hour. The
houses are huge, there must be at
least 20 rooms in the average size
house, some of them are 3 and 4 stor-
ies with porches that go all the way
around the house.

Sunday my friend's Aunt took us
out to dinner at the "Little House
and Pantry" where we truly enjoy-
ed a Vermont Sunday meal of Ham,
with Maple Syrup and brown sugar
glaze and the most delicious Maple
Walnut Pie. It was a real treat, and
so different to this Southerner. After
dinner it was back to Hartford as
Caroyln was anxious to see what her
first job would be like. We arrived
back in Hartford Sunday night, but
coming back on 1-91 we ran into
traffic just like the traffic around
New Jersey going into New York I
supposed it was the Memorial Day
long week end as most of the cars
bore New York licenses. It was again
bumper to bumper and again it start-
ed to rain and it seemed longer than

it really took us, but I was beginning
to grow tired of the rain and the
bumper to bumper traffic.

After arriving at the apartment,
we proceeded to camp-out and it
is a good thing I am a good camper
and like it very much. Little did I
know or realize that I was going to
camp in an Apartment for 4 nights
until Carolyn's furniture came. The
electricity and water were on but
there was no heat or hot water. We
tried to find the Supt., but found one
of the co-owners. Well, the heat could
not be turned on in the new com-
plex until it was checked out com-
pletely, but he did bring us a bottle
of Champagne to christen the apart-
ment.

We had two cots and two thin blan-
kets. It was a cold night and we used
coats and sweaters for warmth. I
had brought the other girls some
woolen material for winter skirts, so
we got this out, and it did come in
handy these few nights.

Monday Carolyn left for work and
I stayed at the apartment to await
the furniture. It didn't come Monday,
and it didn't come Tuesday, and I
kept calling the Van Lines and fi-
nally was informed by a talking Yan-
kee Gentleman the Van had broken
down in Richmond, Virginia and

Carolyn's furniture was sitting along
the roadside awaiting another trailer
to get it again on the road to Hart-
ford. With patience, frustration, and
disgust, more patience, and endur-
ance, it finally did arrive Wednesday
morning. I spent the remainder of
the day unpacking, washing out the
refrigerator, buying groceries and get-
ting Carolyn partially settled in her
new home.

My friend came back from North-
field Wednesday afternoon and we
decided to go to Sturbridge Village
in Sturbridge, Mass. on Thursday.
Old Sturbridge Village is a regional
museum of rural New England life.
Its purposes are historical and edu-
cational, to preserve and present the
story of New England farm and vil-
lage life of yesterday, and to impart
a knowledge and understanding of
that heritage to the citizens of today.
Old Sturbridge Village is not a res-
toration of an actual historical place,
but the re-creation of an imaginary
representative New England com-
munity of the period 1790 to 1840.
I especially enjoyed the clock exhi-
bit. The extensive collection of New
England clocks were most fascinat-
ing. We arrived back in Hartford
just as Carolyn was getting home
from work and heard all about her

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first few hours of work. That night
we decided to take in a Supper Club
called Marco Polo where they spe-
cialized in Italian Food. We thor-
oughly enjoyed it, and we all tried
something different. We all liked
what we ordered. We had scrubbed
our trip to New York and Washing-
ton after the untimely death of Sena-
tor Kennedy, so we decided to come
straight home. The trip home was
uneventfull except for one time when
I got off the Maryland turnpike to
get gas and had just paid a 50 cent
toll, and was told by the gas man
that I would have to pay another toll
to get back onto the turnpike. I
said to my friend, "What would hap-
pen if I ran this toll gate?" it was on
a side road and no one was in sight,
I happened to look out my rear view
mirror and saw the Maryland State
Police behind me. I think he must
have been reading my mind, as I
pulled over to the side and motioned
for him to come over to the car. He
must have known that this toll gate
was not in the right place, so he
waved me on, but he had to get out
of his car and turn off the button as
the bell was ringing madly as I ran
on through. He followed me for a
long way, and I never did explain,
but he must have known my feelings.
Coming back into North Carolina on
US-1 from Richmond the roads
looked cleaner, they drove smoother,
and they were so much better mark-
ed. I remarked to my friend, who is
from "Big Georgia" and thinks there
is no place like Atlanta, "North Caro-

lina sure has it on all the states that
we went through. After counting up
we decided that we had gone through
13 states. It was good to go, but bet-
ter to come home. I can honestly say
North Carolina does have good roads
and I am not prejudiced. Although
we enjoyed our frolicking through
New England I still will take North
Carolina from the mountains to the
sea, and especially when there are
no $15.00 tolls that could have bought
us a lot of goodies. It was truly an
adventure, but we accomplished our
purpose and we launched our ship.

Drive defensively! Give the other
driver the right of way even if he is
in the wrong. Never pass on hills
and curves, and avoid those who do.
Don't try to outspeed the other fel-
low.

On long turnpike trips, keep a
close watch on the speedometer. Af-
ter many hours of steady driving,
drivers often have the illusion that
they are going slower than they ac-
tually are.

Miss Etta Elizabeth Hunt
To Marry
James Ellington
In August

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marvin Hunt
Jr. of 3308 Starmount Drive, Greens-
boro, N. C. announce the engagement
of their daughter, Etta Elizabeth, and
James Howard Ellington of Graham,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Marshall
Ellington of Graham.

The wedding will take place Satur-
day, August 31, in West Market Street
Methodist Church.

Miss Hunt graduated from Grims-
ley High School and from Peace
Junior College in Raleigh. She is a
rising senior at Greensboro College
where she is majoring in elementary
education. She was presented at the
1966 Greensboro Debutante Ball and

the state debutante ball in Raleigh,
and is a member of the Junior Spin-
sters Club.

The bride-elect is a granddaughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Philip Boren and of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Marvin Hunt Sr.

The bride's father served five terms
in the N. C. General Assembly and
in 1961 was Speaker of the State
House of Representatives in Raleigh.
He is now chairman of the N. C.
Highway Commission.

Mr. Ellington attended Ringling
School of Art at Sarasota, Florida,
and is a rising junior at Elon College
where he is majoring in social science.

He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
John Howard Keck of Snow Camp
and of Mrs. Rayburn Paschal Elling-
ton of Graham and the late Rev. Mr.
Ellington..

An Aerial View of Apartment Complex

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Ward Boulevard
Dedication

Reprint — The Wilson Daily Times,
Friday, May 31, 1968

Ward Boulevard is rightly named.
It honors one to whom honor is due.
For it was the vision of T. Boddie
Ward and his efforts which made the
first section of Ward Boulevard a
reality. Now it is a complete link
around the city and the travel al-
ready justifies the expense and is
proof of both vision and foresight.

Boddie Ward was a road builder.
As was said at the dedication exer-
cises on Thursday, Ward Boulevard
was a green field, a cow pasture with
with only a few houses, where the
tenants lived, when the project was
begun.

Look at it today, it is a busy traf-
fic thoroughfare in the process of
being widened in order to carry the
ever-increasing traffic. And nice
homes fill every building lot in the
area.

Yes, Boddie Ward saw into the
future, he recognized the potential of
this city back when road building was
in its infancy. And there were many
present at the dedication who re-
member when Ward's Boulevard was
called "Ward's Fantasy" or "Ward's
Folly," depending on how strong you
felt on the subject.

This was during the time Mr.
Ward was the highway commissioner
for this, the Fourth Highway Divi-
sion. His ability was recognized at
the state level and he was selected to
organize the first Motor Vehicles
Bureau and to serve as the first
commissioner. In fact Mr. Ward has
been a planner and leader in govern-
ment in this state for as long as his
health would permit. And now, from
his home, he continues to be a guid-
ing force in the life and politics of
the county. Seldom does a member
of the legislature or a politician visit
Wilson without going by to see Bod-
die Ward before they leave town.

As you looked about the crowd at
the dedication you saw many who
have had a part in the progress and
road building of this city and area.
There was John N. Hackney, Sr.,
who served two terms as highway
commissioner. Mr. Hackney succeed-

ed Mr. Ward when he was made
motor vehicles commissioner.

Wilson owes much to the leader-
ship of those who had the vision to
plan for the growth we now enjoy,
as Carl Renfro, the present highway
commissioner said, as he dedicated
the final section of the Ward Boule-
vard loop. And Carl is also doing an
exce lent job as highway commission-
er for this district.

The dedication of Ward Boulevard
was a landmark, the accomplishment
of a project begun many years ago.
And it will serve the area for years
to come. But other thoroughfares and
highways are needed. For Wilson is
growing, traffic is increasing and
road building is a slow, and expensive
process.

But never forget that it was T.
Boddie Ward who was responsible for
the start that was made in the direc-
tion of handling the traffic back be-
fore many of us could visualize the
need. Now the need for highways and
thoroughfares are recognized, what is
lacking is the money.

Dream Becomes Reality!

By GERALD THOMAS

"That was Ward's fantasy down
there," said Highway Commissioner
Carl Renfro of Wilson as he pointed
about 300 feet away to a busy traffic
segment of the old Ward Blvd. off
Raleigh Road.

"It was a cow pasture. There was-
n't a house on the road. But look at
it now, It is one of the most traveled
thoroughfares in Eastern North Caro-
lina."

The highway commissioner was
speaking at a dedication ceremonies
to open the final section of the
Ward Blvd. loop road.

"With tears in his eyes, Mr. Bod-
die Ward (the former state director
of motor vehicles whose name the
thoroughfare bears) told me he could-
n't be here today because of his
health. However, he said when he
felt better he hoped to ride on the
bypass from one end to the other."

On hand for the ceremonies held
under sunny skies at the new high-
way were: the Wilson County Board

BP* A

Commissioner Renfro holding the ribbon for the cutting.

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Above is a picture of the crowd at the Dedication.

of Commissioners, the Wilson City
Board of Commissioners, State Rep-
resentative J. Ernest Paschall, Rus-
sell Kirby, former state senator, and
other public figures.

As the ribbons were cut, one of
the highway officials asked that a
piece of the ribbon "be saved for Mr.
Ward."

Mayor E. B. Pittman described the
event as "a practical dream" becom-
ing a reality.

Today the State of North Carolina
and the City of Wilson make reality
out of a 10-year practical dream and
this community becomes the benefi-
ciary of a thoroughfare traffic link
that will serve the people of this
area, the people of Eastern North
Carolina and the people of our whole
state," the mayor said.

It is evident that the great increase
in traffic, envisioned back in 1957 has
become a reality, he said, noting that
work was already started to widen
the older section of Ward Blvd. to
handle an ever increasing traffic
flow.

The mayor said the city was most
indebted to Commissioner Renfro
"who has worked so hard to make
this day possible."

"We know of no citizen who has
ever been called upon to work for

this state who has put more effort
and more hours into that work than
Commissioner Renfro.

"Not only has he worked for Wil-
son, he has worked for every com-
munity in this area, and for every
citizen, as he has attempted to carry
the message of needed improvements
of highways in Eastern North Caro-
lina to those who finally make the
decisions."

Renfro's work is in evidence

WILSON

CITY LIMIT

around Wilson and all around the
area he represents, the mayor de-
clared. "It can be seen to the west
of us, to the east, to the north and
to the south."

"As we open this vital link today,
it behooves all of us to express ap-
preciation to him for his service to
the state and to this area and to tell
him that we look forward to greater
progress in the future. For Wilson is
growing and the area is growing and
this area will need the commitment
of continuing strong leadership to
see that its highway needs are met."

Praising the citizens of the state
for approving the road bond issue
which paid for the new thoroughfare,
the mayor noted that highways are
expensive and require the work of
many people.

The mayor went on to say that
there will be a need for other thor-
oughfare projects in the city and
area.

"We cannot stress too highly the
importance of long-range planning,
the importance of co-operative ef-
fort between the city, the State of
North Carolina and its highway com-
mission and highway department.

"We thank those who have made
this possible here today and we open
it on behalf of those who will use it
in the years ahead. We hope they will
use it with care and they will under-
stand to some extent, the real effort
that has been made to make their tra-
vel easier.

View of the traffic at Wilson City Limits.

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NC.S.H.P.EA. ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By Otis M. Banks and David W. King

State Employees Week

North Carolina operates the largest highway system
under the jurisdiction of a single state agency anywhere
in the United States and perhaps the world.

The improvement, expansion and maintenance of a
system of roads and streets which is already rapidly
approaching 75,000-miles is big business; big business
which involves the expenditure of more than $l-million
a day.

For many of us, the secondary road which carries us
to and from the rural areas, the freeway which gets us
to and from work and the interstate highway over which
we travel are just there, taken for granted.

To most of us, these roads were constructed and are
kept in good condition, by some impersonal "they". In
this sense, we say, "they built this highway", or "if it
snows or freezes, 'they'll' keep it cleared".

There is nothing impersonal about the approach to
highway construction and maintenance in North Caro-
lina. The men and women involved in the operation of
this business which expands some $365-million each year
take highways as a very personal matter. And why
shouldn't they? They are themselves users of the high-
way system which they help to construct and maintain.

There's nothing impersonal about sitting for hours
at a drafting table working out the most minute details
of an intricate highway design.

There's nothing impersonal about meeting with prop-
erty owners when the time comes for acquiring land for
the construction of roads, about meeting with local
leaders to discuss the development of highway programs,
or about operating a motor grader through heavy snows
with temperatures below freezing and winds howling at
you throughout the night.

North Carolinians should be proud of the fine high-
way system this State provides. It stands among the fin-
est. But North Carolinians should be prouder still of
the men and women who have dedicated their lives to
creating and perpetuating this highway system. They
are the finest.

Throughout the years since 1921 when North Caro-
lina really got going in the highway business the plan-
ning of good Governors, legislators and highway com-
missioners, along with the dedicated efforts of high-
way employees have translated the tax dollars of the
citizens of North Carolina into a system of roads and
streets totaling almost 75,000-miles.

New modes of transportation may one day displace
highways and trucks and cars but for at least the fore-
seeable future, roads will be around, and they will be
heavily used.

Governor Moore Receiving Award.

The people of North Carolina, through their duly elect-
ed officials will continue to recognize the growing highway
needs of this State, and will determine how necessary
improvements will be financed.

And, the people of North Carolina will depend on the
State Highway Commission and its loyal employees to
plan, to create, to innovate and maintain our highway
system.

Proclamation By Gov. Moore

I don't suppose that any Governor has ever had as
many opportunities to pay tribute to State employees as
he would have liked. Time marches at a fast pace, and
unfortunately occasions such as this do not occur as
frequently as they should.

This is a time to say "thank you" — officially, as
Governor of North Carolina, and personally, for helping
make this administration a success. I extend these thanks
to you on behalf of the people of North Carolina whom
we all serve as faithful trustees and employees.

I can say of State employees with great pride that the
conduct of the public business has progressed with sin-
cere dedication and with renewed imagination and en-
thusiasm during my administration. I am proud of the
response by State Government workers to my call for

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the total development of North Carolina. No Governor
could have asked for or expected more diligent industry
that has been so characteristic of State employees during
the past three and a half years. It has been a source of
comfort and pride for me to work with you. In working
together, I believe we have further developed State Gov-
ernment into a more efficient and useful servant of the

people, which will, I believe, continue to demonstrate ef-
fectiveness in the progressive life of our State.

We have succeeded because of imaginative and sound
ideas. But the programs which were developed did not
just happen, and they did not succeed by themselves.
They succeeded because of the people who put their
brains and their energy to the task of improving the
lives of all North Carolinians. State employees, working
together, set the tempo and the tone for the role of
State Government in developing and implementing a
sound, progressive program for North Carolina.

I believe that the people of North Carolina have the
inclination, and should be provided with the opportunity
to express their gratitude to State Employees for the
continued spirit of dedication which exemplifies their
work.

I have, therefore, set aside May 26 to June 1 as State
Employees Week. I call for this observance in recogni-
tion of the outstanding contribution of State employees
to the continuing enrichment of our State and her peo-
ple.

The task of this administration is, and will continue to
be, to develop fully every resource with which we have
been so happily blessed. I believe that State employees
will rededicate themselves to the achievement of this
goal in helping make North Carolina all that we want
her to be, and all that she can be in the years ahead.

In Memoriam
Marion Boyce McEwen

The many friends of Marion Boyce
McEwen was saddened by his sud-
den death on March 22, 1988.

"Mc" was born in Mecklenburg
County November 20, 1897. He grad-
uated from Bain Academy, Mint Hill
and Mars Hill College. He was a
member of the First Presbyterian

Church in Raleigh, and a member
of North Carolina Society of Engi-
neers.

After graduation he was employed
by the Location Department of the
Highway Commission. Later transfer-
red to Construction work and was a
field Resident Engineer, where he
worked at many roadway jobs over
North Carolina. In 1944 came to Ra-
leigh Office and later became Final
Estimate Engineer, where he work-
ed until he retired five years ago. He
worked for the Highway Commission
forty years. After retirement he was
an active gardner, and rose enthus-
iast.

Services were held at Brown-Wynne
Funeral Home on March 23, and
the body was taken to Mint Hill
where a short service and burial was
at the Evergreen Burial Park, Mint
Hill, N. C, Philadelphia Presbyterian
Church on March 24.

Immediate survivors are his wife,
Celeste White McEwen, a former
grammar grade teacher, his mother,
Mrs. S. N. McEwen, of Mint Hill,
two brothers, J. Dowd McEwen, Jack
McEwen of Mint Hill; two sisters,
Mrs. H. J. Barger, Davidson, Mrs.
J. B. Richards, Charlotte. Mrs. Mc-
Ewne lives at 315 South King Char-
les Road.

Kinston Bypass

The three and one-half mile Kni-
ston Bypass has been completed, in-
spected and opened to traffic well
ahead of schedule.

Highway Commissioner W. W.
Exum of Snow Hill said final in-
spection on the 1.4 million dollar
project was completed Thursday,
May 2nd.

The four-lane facility, which was
let to contract in two sections during
the spring and summer of 1967, had
originally been scheduled for final
inspection and opening in November
of this year.

The project included construction
of additional travel lanes and the up-
grading of existing lanes on the by-
pass and the separation of grades at
the intersection of US 70 Business
and US 70 Bypass, with bypass traf-
fic traveling over US 70 Business
traffic (Vernon Avenue) heading in-
to downtown Kinston.

Commenting on the completion of
the project, Commissioner Exum
said: "This improved highway facili-
ty will greatly benefit the citizens of
the Kinston area and will help to
alleviate traffic congestion in the
area by separating local and through
traffic.

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Hunter D. Irving
Retires

One of the Highway Commission's real veterans is re-
tiring. Hunter D. Irving, who has served the North Caro-
lina State Highway Commission continuously since 1921,
is stepping down as Assistant Chief Engineer in charge of
Construction and Maintenance. The announcement was
made recetly by Chief Engineer Cameron W. Lee.

John H. Davis, who has served as State Construction
Engineer since 1959, will succeed Mr. Irving and Davis'
assistant, Ed Latham, will become State Construciton
Engineer.

Irving, who has served every Chairman the State
Highway Commission has ever had, jonied the organiza-
tion in 1921 while attending Wentworth High School in
his native Rockingham County. Mr. Irving later served
as Junior and Senior Resident Engineer in the Greens-
boro - High Point area and became a state-wide claims
adjuster in 1931. He moved steadily upward through the
ranks of the State Highway Commission, becoming
Senior Construction Engineer in 1949, Division Engineer
at Durham in 1953 and State Construction Engineer in
1956. He was appointed Assistant Chief Engineer for
Construction and Maintenance in October of 1957 and
has held the position until his retirement.

Irving is married to the former Howard Morning
Brooks of Hamlet and they have a daughter, Mrs. Donna
Irving Lambeth of Greensboro, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Irving has been very active in the American Asso-
ciation of State Highway Officials, the Southeastern As-
sociation of State Highway Officials, the American So-

ciety of Engineers, American Road Builders Association
and is a Mason and Shriner, a member of the North
Carolina Society of Engineers and the West Raleigh
Presbyterian Church.

John H. Davis joined the State Highway Commission
in 1941 as a rodman and held various positions in the
contruction area of highway activities until his ap-
pointment as State Construction Engineer in July 1959.
Mr. Davis attended North Carolina State University
and served in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1942
until 1945. He is married to the former Marian Smithie
Waddell and they have three sons.

Ed Latham joined the State Highway Commission
January 8, 1966 as Highway Engineer IV in the Construc-
tion Department, and has served in this capacity until
being appointed State Construction Engineer. A native
of Dallas, Texas, he is a graduate of the Citadel with a
B.S. degree in Civil Engineering.

Commenting on Irving's retirement, State Highway
Commission Chairman J. M. Hunt, Jr. said: "Mr. Irv-
ing has been an outstanding public servant and state
employee. He has given 47 years of dedicated service to
the upgrading of North Carolina's State Highway Sys-
tem. Mr. Irving has been associated with the Highway
Commission since the first year of its existence and has
been in the enviable position of seeing history made and
having a hand in its making. He has done a great deal
for North Carolina and on behalf of the members of the
Highway Commission, I wish him well in his retirement."

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East To West Attractions

Professional theatre for sports-
clothed audiences in a historic out-
door setting in one of the chief at-
tractions for summer visitors to the
fascinating Dare Coast — Outer
Banks of North Carolina.

"The Lost Colony" outdoor drama,
authored by Pulitzer Prize-winner
Paul Green and directed and choreo-
graphed by Joe Layton of Broadway,
TV and Hollywood fame is being pre-
sented for its 28th production season
through August 25.

Layton this year has won acclaim
for his "snap-crackle-pop" staging of
the new Broadway hit musical come-
dy "George M". He was choreograph-
er for the original Broadway produc-
tion of "The Sound of Music", won a
TONY award for staging Richard
Rogers' "No Strings', and an EMMY
award for the first of his three Bar-
bra Streisand TV spectaculars.

Performances are presented Mon-
day through Saturday nights at 8:30
o'clock (EDT) in 2,000 seat Water-
side Theatre. There will be special
Sunday night shows on August 18
and closing night.

The beautiful theatre is located on
Roanoke Island, in Fort Raleigh Na-
tinonal Historic Site where Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh's first English colonists
attempted a settlement in the 1580's,
some 20 years before Jamestown and
30 years before Plymouth Rock. Their
mysterious disappearance following
the birth of Virginia Dare, the first
child of English parents born in the
16th Century "New World", is dra-
matically told in music, song, dance,
pantomime and the spoken word. The
cast numbers nearly 100, plus another
35 or 40 off-stage technicians.

INTERESTING AREA

Within sight of "The Lost Colony"
theatre, across Roanoke Sound, is the
memorial atop one of the Kill Devil
Hills, near Kitty Hawk, where the
Wright Brothers successfully made
the first powered airplane flight in
1903. Next door to the Waterside
Theatre is the beautiful Elizabethan
Garden, developed by the Garden
Club of North Carolina, Inc., as
another tribute to Sir Walter Ra-

leigh's and Queen Elizabeth's adven-
ture.

In the Nags Head Atlantic Ocean
beach resort — 12 miles from Fort
Raleigh — are the Dunes of Dare, in-
cluding Jockey Ridge, highest sand
hill in Eastern America. For some 70
miles south of Nags Head stretches
the Cape Hatteras National Seashore,
first oceanside recreational area de-
veloped by the National Park Service.
It offers undisturbed beaches with su-
perb fishing and the opportunity to
bird-watch in the Pea Island National
Wildlife Refuge. Examining old ship-
wrecks and collecting shells and drift-

wood are other pastimes in this area
of sand, surf, sunshine and accessible
solitude. On Hatteras Island, reached
via a toll-free bridge, is the famous
Cape Hatteras lighthouse, guardian of
the Diamond Shoals — "Graveyard
of the Atlantic". A few miles fur-
ther south — via a free state-operated
ferry — is the Island of Ocracoke,
one-time hangout of Blackbeard, the
pirate.

The Dare Coast - Outer Banks is
in Northeastern North Carolina, some
90 miles south of Norfolk, Va. and
188 miles east of Raleigh, N. C.
(Continued on Page 29)

ENGLISH ROYALTY — Queen Elizabeth I of England is one of the
principal characters in "The Lost Colony" outdoor drama being presented for
the 28th production season on the Dare Coast — Outer Banks of North Caro-
lina. Here "Queen Bess" (Marjalane Thomas of Elizabeth City) is shown re-
ceiving from Governor John White (Woodson B. Fearing II of Manteo, on the
left) his paintings of the 16th century "new world". Standing by is the
Queen's Master of Ceremonies. Shown is Steve Presnell of Tennessee who
played the role in 1967 and who is now the Historian of the play, while Trip
Plymale of Raleigh acts as the M. C. The spectacular entertainment in the
Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island near Manteo, N. C. will be presented
through August 25, with performances Monday through Saturday nights at
8:30 (EDT). Photo by Aycock Brown.

2A

Green River Bridge

S. F. Davidson, Resident Engi-
neer and J. L. Norris, M.ASCE,
Assistant Chief Engineer —
Bridges, North Carolina State
Highway Commission, Raleigh

Motorists in North Carolina will
soon glide effortlessly across Green
River on dual bridges which are links
in Interstate Route 26. Each bridge
will carry two lanes of traffic at an
elevation of 220 feet above the small
streambed in the heart of the Blue
Ridge Mountains near the small town
of Saluda, approximately 30 miles
south of Asheville. The unique fea-
ture of the bridge is the use of corro-
sion-resistant steels that will never
require painting.

Considerable thought was given to
the aesthetic quality of the structure
since it was to be located in a setting
of natural beauty; it would be one
that would blend in with the sur-
rounding landscape. Although no
plans are yet proposed for a scenic
overlook or park, the possibility of
such later development near the site
made aesthetics an important design
factor.

Two employees with training in
School of Design at North Carolina
State University were assigned the
task of establishing profiles, compil-
ing information concerning the gen-
eral surroundings, and preparing
drawings of what they considered the
most attractive structure. The 14 foot
deep parallel flange welded plate gir-
der type was chosen for its simplicity.

A scale model of the bridge was
then prepared for a more detailed
study of piers, abutments and general
proportions of the structure. Pier
stems of uniform diameter for the
full height and of stepped variable
diameters, along with uniform taper,
were studied. Considerable public in-
terest was shown in the proposed
structure when the scale model was
exhibited at the North Carolina State
University and at Hendersonville, the
county seat of the county in which
the structure is located.

The final design selected consists
of a continuous span unit of 260'-330'-
260' flanked by a 100' simple span on
each end, for a total length of 1,050
feet. Due to the accessibility prob-
lem in reaching the site, and to ship-
ping limitations on the depth of gird-
er, a uniform depth of 14' deep flange
welded plate girder type was chosen
with simple hammerhead type piers
and uniform tapers.

Because of maintenance problems
in painting a structure of this height,
unpainted corrosion-resistant steel was
selected for use in the superstruc-
ture ,as well as for encasement of
piers. This grade of steel was decided
upon only after a number of con-
ferences and discussions with offi-
cials of the Bureau of Public Roads
and was finally agreed to, on an ex-
perimental basis, by Mr. W. J. Wil-
kes, Chief Bridge Engineer, U. S. Bu-
reau of Public Roads. This steel was
specified as a steel meeting the re-
quirements of A-242-M; the modifica-
tions being requirements of special
weathering qualities, corrosion- resist-
ant, and weldability. The fabricator
preferred to call this steel ASTM A-
441-M, while holding to the original
specification requirements. The fact
that the steel alloy weathers to a deep

brown patina and blends itself into
the forest setting was an added incen-
tive for its selection.

In the past there have been prob-
lems in the use of "Weathering"
Steels; one of the most annoying be-
ing the unsightly stains on concrete
piers and abutments during the oxo-
dizing period when water from the
superstructure carried the oxidizing
coating to the concrete surfaces be-
low. To solve this problem, it was
decided to encase all of the reinforc-
ed concrete piers with thin-walled
steel shells with the same grade of
steel, which would require no paint.
Prior to the above decision several
prospective contractors were contacted
for their opinions regarding the per-
manent in lieu of movable forms; the
idea was found to be very receptive.
Safety during construction was a very
important factor in favor of the per-
manent encasement forms. It was
decided to require a 5/16" thick
shell for the higher piers and to uti-
lize 1/8" of the material to replace a
portion of the reinforcing steel. The
contractor was given the option of
using a minimum of 3/16" for the
shorter piers where its use as rein-
forcing steel was not important. It
developed that the contractor chose

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E E N RIVER

to use the 5/16" throughout. Before
finally specifying the uniform tapered
pier column there was assurance by
tank manufacturers that the tapered
sections would present no problem in
fabrication. The higher pier stems are
133 feet from top of footing to bot-
tom of cap, 13' 1-7/8" diameter at
the base, and 9'-0" diameter at the
top. Steel shells were also used for
the pier caps forms.

The bridges were designed for a
light weight concrete deck on the con-
tinuous section with regular weight
concrete on the simple spans. Speci-
fications for the light weight aggre-
gate were carefully prepared to in-
sure uniform production.

Surface drainage of the deck pre-
sented a problem which was resolved
by designing a galvanized steel drain
which would collect the water at the
face of the curb, located on the out-
side of the exterior girder, and carry
the water over the top of the girder
and down the inside face where it
was discharged at the level of the
bottom flange.

Construction started on August 2,
1966 on the 2.3 million dollar con-
tract which had been awarded to
Wannamaker and Wells Company of
Orangeburg, South Carolina, the first
operation being the clearing and con-
struction of the necessary access road.
The contractor was allowed to clear
the trees underneath the proposed
bridges and construct needed access
to each foundation, with the provision
that the site would be restored to the
original contour upon completion of
construction.

Based on four borings at the pier
site made by the Geological Section
of the Highway Commission, special
footings were founded on soft rock
for bearing pressures up to ten tons
per square foot. The elevation of the
footing was determined after the con-
tract was awarded by obtaining a
core at the corners of each footing
site.

It was planned to do the field stake-
out by triangulation and horizontal
measuring; however, the terrain was
so rugged this was found to be im-
practical since a base line for the tri-
angle could not be established due to
the dense undergrowth and irregular
contour. The stakeout was finaly done
by repeated horizontal measurement
and was checked by using a Geodi-

meter having an accuracy of 99.9%.
The check by the Geodimeter reveal-
ed an error in the measuring of three
inches between piers 2 and 3. This
was corrected before construction be-
gan.

It was proven during construction
that the use of the steel encasement to
act as a stay-in-place form was one
of the most exciting features of the
structure. The pier was constructed,
as you will note from the photograph,
without any falsework except a mini-
mum amount of scaffolding to hold
the No. 14- S reinforcing bars in place
until the footing had been poured. The
steel shells were placed and held in a
true circle by a stiffner with a known
center point which was installed by
the shell fabricator. The stiffner was
removed as the shell was filled with
concrete. Reinforcing bars (#18-S)
were field spliced by welding using
the Cadwell process or other approv-
ed methods.

Cap forms were constructed on the
ground and were "beefed" up by
welding X-braces which acted as ad-
ditional reinforcement and served to
make the shells self-supporting. The
cap form was then lifted by crane
into its final position and held in
place while it was welded to the
column form. The cap was then pour-
ed without benefit of falsework or
external bracing of any type. The
contractor was elated at his rate of
progress and the fact that the work
was done without any lost time acci-
dent. Only two minor accidents oc-
curred during the period the sub-
structure for the two bridges was be-
ing constructed.

The substructure was completed in
July 1967 and the American Bridge
Company, as sub-contractor, moved
onto the project and began erecting a
cableway to be used for placing the
structural steel. The cableway con-
sisted of two cables 1,100 feet long
and 2 7/8" in diameter, which was
supported by two towers 150 feet
high that could be tilted left or right
so that girder sections could be plac-
ed at any exact location on the bridge.
Backstays were anchored 750 feet
from the towers and sideguys extend-
ed as much as 34 feet from the tow-
er. The traveling dollies were con-
trolled by power wenches located at
each end of the bridge with the oper-

ator keeping in touch with erection
crews by means of telephone.

First girders were placed August 3,
1967 on Span E, northbound lane, and
the steel erection was completed with-
out incident on December 8, 1967.

The Special Provisions of the con-
tract required the sand blasting of all
structural steel, including the pier
shells, at the shop with any touch-up
to be done in the field after the con-
struction had been completed. The
contractor secured the permission of
the Bureau of Public Roads and the
State Highway Commission to do all
blast cleaning after the bridge had
been completed, including the casting
of the decks. Experience has proven
that it would have ben unwise to have
cleaned the steel prior to casting of
the concrete decks because of the
great amount of re-cleaning that
would have been necessary. It is de-
sirable to have the corrosion- resist-
ant steel cleaned uniformly at the
same time so that the bridge will de-
velop its final color for the entire
are at approximately the same time.

The contractor began pouring the
bridge deck in December 1967, and
due to the high altitude and the ne-
cessity to pour concrete at times
when the temperature was below
freezing, the contractor devised a
plan to completely enclose the slab
section to be poured. The enclosure
consisted of canvas supported on light
weight metal frames into which heat
could be forced as needed (see photo).
Screeding was done by longitudinal
screed constructed by the contractor.
The freshly finished concrete was
covered with commercial type mats.
The order of pouring the multiple sec-
tions of the slab was furnished to the
contractor by the State Highway
Commission.

The use of Mayari-R steel (ASTM
A- 242) for the substructure and Cor-
Ten steel (modified ASTM A-441) in
the superstructure, both of which are
corrosion-resistant, has created na-
tion-wide interest in this project and
demonstrates how cooperation be-
tween the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads and the State Highway Com-
mission, together with the ingenuity
of the contractor can work together
to plan, design and construct bridges
of this magnitude, using untried ma-
terial and construction procedures.

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HEARTBREAK AND MYSTERY
— One of the tragic scenes of "The
Lost Colony" outdoor drama on the
Dare Coast — Outer Banks of North
Carolina is in the second act when
Eleanor Dare sings a lullaby to her
baby, Virginia, the first child of En-
glish parents born in America. Pat
Kelly Gilbreath of Greensboro, N. C.
is "Eleanor Dare". The play ends
shortly thereafter as Sir Walter Ra-
leigh's first English colonists in the
16th century "New World" march off
into the wilderness to mysteriously
disappear. Written by Pulitzer Prize-
winner Paul Green and directed and
choreographed by Joe Layton of
Broadway, TV and Hollywood fame,
"The Lost Colony" is being staged
for its 28th production season in the
Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Is-
land, near Manteo, N. C, through
August 25. Performances are given
Monday through Saturday nights at
8:30 (EDT). (Photo by Aycock
Brown)

Horn In The West

Centennial celebrations are as
American as homemade cider and the
Thursday-night special. There's just
something about them that satisfies a
quirk in our national character —
that purely American idiosyncracy
which makes us enjoy nostalgic
glances into the past as we rush mad-
ly into the future.

But there is also a sad, nearly tra-
gic, side to these once-in-a-hundred
year jubilees. It seems that, come cen-
tennial time, every town from Mud-
ville to Four Oaks feels it must stage
a summer-long outdoor pageant to
commemorate the conquerors of the
wilderness who founded their fair
city. So far, so good. The merchant
turned summer actor has the time of

his life playing Davy Crockett. Aud-
iences turn out in fair numbers, and
the city fathers hear nothing but
praise for their dramatic enterprise.

Then comes the tragedy. The taste
of one summer's success prompts the
local historical society to sponsor the
outdoor drama as a permanent sum-
mer attraction. They borrow huge
sums of money to build an amphithea-
ter, and they contract a playwright
to revamp last summer's show. The
townspeople dig into their pockets to
finance professional costumery and a
full-time director.

After months of work and worry,
the show opens, and everyone is there
except the audience. Sad as the fact
is, 90 of 100 outdoor dramas pass in-
to oblivion because second summer
audiences dwindle to nearly nothing.
And the third season, if there is one,
rarely shows an increase.

That's why Horn in the West is a
dream come true for the Southern
Appalachian Historical Association.
Their outdoor drama in Boone, North
Carolina, is the one in ten that made
the precarious transition from cen-
tennial pageant to successful outdoor
drama. Even so, it was 14 years be-
fore the outdoor drama broke even
financially for a single season.

When it debuted in the summer of
1952, the drama played to a season's
total of 55,000. The reviews were laud-
atory and the story itself was an ex-
citing one. It capitalized on the au-
thentic exploits of Daniel Boone in the
Southern Appalachians during the
American Revolution. Its theme of
westward expansion in search for free-
dom was universal enough to over-
come the localism which destroys most
historical pageants. Even so, attend-
ance plunged downward the second
season.

The trend continued for nearly a
decade until Horn in the West played
to only 19,000 people.

Heaven only knows why the histor-
ical association members voted to
continue the show. Perhaps they rea-
lized that the segment of history told
in the Horn was too important to let
die. At any rate, they invested more
of their own money.

The next summer, the drama's at-
tendance began a gradual increase,
and this trend has continued ever
since.

The reasons are apparent. During
its season, any outdoor drama at-
tracts thousands of people from its
own locality. Few of them, however,

DANIEL BOONE, portrayed by
Glenn Causey of Arlington, Va., lis-
tens for the horn of freedom, symbol
of America's struggle for indepen-
dence.

return during the following years. It
is then, if the drama is genuinely a
good one, that its reputation begins
to spread into adjoining areas. Grad-
ually, over a period of ten years or
so, a regular tourist audience will
equrl the first year's local attendance
and then replenish itself each season.

Now that their outdoor drama is
standing on its own feet, the members
of the SAHA are afraid to think what
might have happened had they not
kept Horn in the West operating
through its dark ages.

The outdoor drama is now one of
scores of attractions in the Boone-
Bliwing Rork-Linville area of North
Carolina, all of which make this sec-
tion of the Blue Ridge Mountains a
year-round haven for more than one
million vacationers.

Sponsors of the drama have also
seen it develop a theatrical excellence
that places it on a par with the best
of its genre. Professional actors, dan-
cers and musicians have been re-
cruited to produce the story of Dan-
iel Boone in the heart of original
Daniel Boone Country. Opening June
29 this season, the play unfolds on
three curtainless stages with some-
thing to excite every member of the
family. Action ranges from authentic
Cherokee war rituals to reenactments
of the Battles of Alamance and Kings
Mountain as Daniel Boone and his
followers are trapped in the Revolu-
tionary War.

Authentic costumes, live trees and
animals on stage, booming cannon
echoing against the surrounding Blue
Ridge peaks all convey the sincere
impression that "this is what it was
like in the old days."

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Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

PHOTOGRAM-
METRY — CON-
McDONALD i s
recently transfer-
red from the Ster-
eo Section to En-
gineering. A mem-
ber of the field
party for three
years, CHARLES
NIE WESTER
back in Engineer-
ing. Photogrammetric golf enthusiasts
enjoyed playing golf at Fuquay on
Memorial Day, May 10. DON HOL-
LOW AY of Engineering and LEIGH-
TON ELLIOTT, Photogrammetric
Pilot, attended summer camp with
the National Guard recently. A nice
week's vacation at HoHens Beach
was enjoyed by CONNIE WESTER
and family.

RIGHT OF WAY — Vacations
have begun in Right of Way. JOHN
HOLMES and family spent a week
at Kure Beach. ELEANOR TAY-
LOR and family went to Long Beach
for a few days. DEBBIE MOONEY-
HAM and children vacationed at
Virginia Beach for a week. DAN
SHOMAKER and wife motored to
Washington, D. C. to visit friends.
LAURA JONES, BETTY RAD-
FORD and GAIL ARMSTRONG
were at Carolina Beach for a few
days. And Wrightsville Beach for a
week was a nice vacation for JEAN
BYRD and her family.

ALVIE PATTERSON, DOUG
SMITH and FRED BARKLEY
spent two weeks in June at Fort
Stewart, Ga. fulfilling their military
obligations.

Employees are glad to report that
JOHN HONBARRIER is recuperat-

This charming little Miss is Lisa
Ann Deans, born Dec. 15th to Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Deans of Raleigh.
Poppa Gordon is a Highway photo-
grapher and she sure gave him a big
smile while he was taking this picture.

ing at home after a stay in the hos-
pital following a heart attack. All
wish John a speedy recovery.

Welcome to PATRICIA BEACH
and DICK CONELY, summer em-
ployees. Also, it's nice to have TED
SEWELL back in Right of Way. Co-
workers miss CARROLL WILSON
who transferred to another State
agency. KEN DRIVER, trainee, has
been transferred to Sylva as a per-
manent employee.

Congratulations to the BOB
SHEETS upon the birth of Robert
Wesley June 3rd.

EQUIPMENT — Get well wishes
to R. G. SETZER, who is on the sick
list. Co-workers are happy to have
MARGARET SEAGROVES back at
work after a recent illness.

JEAN and Nelson BLINSON re-
port that the fish were definitely in
the mood to bite on a recent trip to
Atlantic Beach.

BILLIE and Henry LOWERY,
with daughter Miriam, visited Keith
and Betty Williams of Charlotte the
weekend of June 8th. Betty is Bil-
lie's twin sister!

ALMA HOOKS NORTHCUTT
was hostess for the Hooks family re-
union Sunday, June 2 at her resi-
dence in Greenwood Forest, Cary.
About fifty relatives were present.

KATHLEEN UPTON vacationed
the week of June 15th at Ocean Isle,
accompanied by her daughter and
snn-in-law, Sarah Lynn and Gary
Thaggard, with their two daughters

from Brunswick, Ga. Also enjoying
the sun and surf, was Kathleen's son,
John, and wife, Nancy, from Strat-
ford, Conn.

Welcome to the following tempo-
rary summer employees: JUDY
KEITH, VICKI WADE, JANE
STEPHENS and JOANNE WILK-
INS.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Con-
gratulations to DALE GRAHAM,
Machine Shop Foreman, on the re-
cent birth of little grandson, Freder-
ick Dale Graham Bender.

Welcome to new permanent em-
ployees SHERWOOD A. THORN-
TON and JAMES ROBERT WIN-
INGS, both Mechanics II.

Recently hospitalized but now back
on the job are BILL MANLY and
SIDNEY SEAL. Get well wishes are
extended to the following employees
who at this writing are in the hospi-
tal: JOE LAMBERT, R. B. GUP-
TON, WOODROW CAMPBELL
and LYN POWELL.

The Depot is delighted to have
the following summer employees:
JEAN BARGER, MARTHA ANN
(SISSY) DREW, EMILY SUE
NEWHOUSE, SYLVIA NORTH-
CUTT, DIANNE WILDER, JIM-
MY BARNES, ROBERT DANIELS,
DAVID DIXON, JOHN ILER,
GLEN WALL and BUCKY WIL-
LIAMS.

Mrs. Brenda Johnson stands next
to one of her "Summer Help Gals",
Sylvia Northcutt, who is employed
at the Equipment Depot. The picture
was taken by Mr. Graham's new Pola-
roid camera which he received from
his family as both Father's Day and
Birthday present. Mr. Graham is
also employed at the Equipment De-
pot.

so

Our deepest sympathy to the fam-
ily of H. G. FINCH, formerly Uphol-
stery Shop Foreman, who died May
11, and also on the death of Mr.
Finch's sister; to JAMES EVANS
upon the recent death of a brother;
to HOWARD GUPTON on the death
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lynch; and
to A. W. KIRK upon the recent
death of his brother.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Two of the Department's bachelor's
"middle-aisled" it this season. RO-
GER DALE HAWKINS of the Sig-
nal Section and Miss Patricia Cava-
naugh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Cavanaugh of Raleigh, were
married in Midway Baptist Church
May 19th. Roger is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. David Garrison of Newark,
N. J. JAMES MAURICE LYNCH,
Traffic Research Engineer, and Miss
Nancy Jean Rummage, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Rummage of
Raleigh, were married in the chapel
of Forest Hills Baptist Church June
1st. Jim is the son of Mrs. James R.
Lynch of Sanford and the late Mr.
Lynch.

Cpt. C. C. SESSOMS, Area Traf-
fic Engineer, and Lt. JOHN E. HOL-
LINGSWORTH, Traffic Research
Programmer, participated in the Na-
tional Guard Annual Field Training
at Fort Stewart,, Ga. the 2nd and 3rd
weeks in June. RONNIE WEBBER
attended National Guard camp at
Fort Gordon, Ga. for two weeks in
July.

ROBERT J. DODGE, retiring
president of the Southern Section of
the Institute of Traffic Engineers,
received special honors at the meet-
ing in Louisville, Ky., the week fol-
lowing the Derby. He was titled Am-
bassador of Good Will and received
a Master's license for stern wheelers
(river boats). He also attended the
Derby and was one of those winning
on the losing horse, Dancer's Image.
One of the races held during conven-
tion week was named in honor of
SSITE.

EMILY BLOUNT and her sister,
Miss Mary Brown of Virginia Beach,
made a plane trip to the West Coast
in May. They visited San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Hollywood, Disneyland,
and other favorite tourist spots.

GENE EDMONDS underwent
treatment at Mission Memorial Hos-
pital in Asheville early in the sum-
mer. BRENDA PRICE had minor
surgery at Rex Hospital in May.

Only three weeks old when this
picture was taken, little Joel Gray
Bullins was born March 16 at the
Forsyth-Memorial Hospital in Win-
ston-Salem.

His parents are Melvin and Alma
Smith Bullins of Walnut Cove, and
his grandfather, Cero Smith, worked
with the Bridge Maintenance Depart-
ment for 23 years.

BOB DODGE and family vacation-
ed at Linville Falls in July. JIM
BRYAN, ROGER HAWKINS, ED
BUTLER and TERRY HARRIS
went fishing off Harker's Island on a
recent weekend. EARLEEN MED-
LIN and husband, Wallace, spent
some time at Virginia Beach recently.
HAROLD STEELMAN and family
chose Atlantic Beach for their vaca-
tion spot this year, and ROBERT
CAULEY and his wife, Vanda, were
also beach visitors for a few days.

Little Leah Carol Helms was born
May 10, 1968. Her proud parent are
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Helms, and dad
works with the Monroe Location De-
partment.

LOCATION — The Department
welcomes several new employees:
Mrs. SHARON RIGSBEE, Miss
JANE BRITT, MICHAEL AL-
FORD, DAVID McNEIL and DA-
VID O'NEAL.

JANE and Harry FINCH are the
proud parents of a baby girl, Gwen-
dolyn Carol, born May 13. Little
"Gwen" weighed in at 6 lbs., 11 oz.
Mr. and Mrs ASHLEY IPOCK an-
nounce the birth of a son, May 26.

Miami Beach and beautiful Nassau
were the spots ELAINE ROGERS
chose for a wonderful week's vaca-
tion.

C. S. BRISTOW enjoyed a delight-
ful weekend of boating at Charleston,
S. C. June 1.

Property Survey Section employees
are enjoying their new offices after
moving from 202 New Bern Ave.

ADVANCE PLANNING — The
men in Advance Planning are find-
ing time once again to do things like
play golf, fish, ski and play tennis,
with never time to cut grass, paint,
make repairs and baby-sit while
their wives play bridge. Good luck
with the other golf teams in the build-
ing.

Employees will miss ALEX HEKI-
MIAN, TOM COCHRANE, LEO
SANTOWASSO, HAP CROWE, and
JOHN PERMAR who recently left
the Department, Alex plans to return
in September.

It's nice to have MILE TEWELL
as a permanent employee and ARUN
CHATTERJEE, who will be working
during the summer months.

JOHN RICHARDSON will change
his title from Administrative Assist-
ant to a Community Planner Trainee
while attending school in the Divi-
sion of Community Planning in the
Dept. of Conservation and Develop-
ment.

HAP CROWE is entering his Con-
stellation Sailboat and ELLIS
SPAKE is entering his Comet in the
Governor's Regatta at Kerr Lake
June 15-16. Let us know if you win,
boys.

PLANNING & RESEARCH —
It's nice to have Mrs. GRAY McGEE
as new Correspondent for ROAD-
WAYS. ANNETTE UPCHURCH
was formerly correspondent until her
marriage to Ben Rhue April 28. Best
wishes to Annette, who resigned to
join her husband, now in service in
Lansing, Kansas.

Congratulations to the LUBY
MOORINGS upon the recent birth of
a baby boy, Joseph Edward.

GEORGE FRISING and wife en-
joyed a recent visit with friends in

31

Miss Dancella Hall became the
bride of Bruce Kyler in the Knight-
dale Baptist Church May 26.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John S. Hall, Sr. of Route
1, Knightdale. Her mother is a mem-
ber of Planning and Research.

The bridegroom is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Paul Kyler of Maiden.

Washington, D. C. The L. G. NI-
CHOLS, MYRTIE DIXONS and
BARBARA MITCHELL with their
families enjoyed a weekend at Top-
sail Beach. Mr. and Mrs. MAX
SPROLES with their family spent a
nice weekend at Myrtle Beach, S. C.

The Drafting Section welcomes
LINDA MAXWELL, JO WAR-
LICK and MILLARD HIGH, JR.,
as new members.

JANICE MITCHELL and hus-
band. Phil, attended the "Charlotte
Worlds 600, the weekend of May 26.
CAROLYN BAILEY and family en-
joyed a weekend at Atlantic Beach
May 24; also, LOUISE WHITE had
fun at Atlantic the same weekend.
PHYLLIS NELSON enjoyed a trip
in May touring Florida and visiting
friends and relatives. The LEROY
JAYS had a delightful week in June
vacationing in Florida.

Our deenest and heartfelt sym-
pathy to SAM STANCIL upon the
recent death of his wife.

LANDSCAPE — Employees ex-
tend their depeest sympathy to KA-
THERINE H. DAVIS on the recent

loss of her father, May 25; and to
J. A. SAUNDERS on the loss of his
mother, May 30.

Welcome to ED EVANS and CA-
THY CLARK, temporary employees
for the summer.

Recently FRANK BOWEN and
PHYLLIS SUGGS got all dressed up
for a June wedding. Frank was an at-
tendant for his niece's wedding in
Eurgaw while Phyllis was a guest at
her nephew's wedding in Murfrees-
boro. After the respective weddings,
Frank ended up at Topsail Beach
and Phyllis went to Nags Head.

SANDRA B. JACKSON spent her
vacation in Boone with her husband,
Randall, who is temporarily working
there while on vacation from W. W.
Holding Technical Institute.

HENRY HAMMOND has finally
gotten his sailboat ready for launch-
ing after spending much time trying
to finish before the summer months
got here.

AL KIRKLAND attended the NC-
AA Baseball playoff at Gastonia and
very obviously was pleased with the
outcome since his team was the win-
ner.

BRIDGE LOCATION — The
FRED HABELS enjoyed an early
spring vacation in New Orleans.

C. R. EDGERTON attended the
mid-year Highway Research Commit-
tee Meeting in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Mr. Edgerton is a member of the
Surface Drainage Committee.

Best wishes to LYNN and Glenn
JENKINS on their recent marriage.

The Department is happy to wel-
come NED PERRY back to work.
Ned has just recently returned from
a tour of duty with the U. S. Army
in Vietnam and upon reaching home
had the pleasant task of getting ac-
quainted with his new son.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. POWELL recently
visited their children and grandchil-
dren in Marietta and Atlanta, Geor-
gia. Seeing their grandchildren was
a real treat.

MAX COLLINS, JR. attended the
annupl Sea Horse Institute meeting
at the Elockade Runner Hotel in
WriThtsville Beach June 3-6. The
main topic of discussions at the
meeting was the cause of corrosion
in metals.

Congratulations to A. S. FURTA-
DO on the birth of his first grand-
child — a boy, born to the Robert A.
Furtados,

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to the family of RICHARD E.
BLAND, who passed away April 25.
Prior to his death, Mr. Bland was
employed as a Bridge sub-foreman
with the Martin County Bridge Main-
tenance Dept. and had been with the
Commission for about 19 years.

BENNY R. SHEPARD, Bridge
Maitenance employee in Burgaw
has recuperated from a recent car ac-
cident on NC 53 west of Jacksonville,
in which two of his fellow workers —
R. C. BROWN and DAIRS SHEP-
ARD — were killed.

After a siege of illnesses and sev-
eral hospitalizations, LAURIN A.
JACKSON of Burgaw went back to
work, but only briefly. Laurin had to
return to the hospital again and at
this writing is still hospitalized in
New Hanover Memorial in Wilming-
ton. Employees hope that Laurin will
soon be well.

Miss Judith Coley O'Neil was mar-
ried to Roland Vance Venters, Sun-
day, May 12 at the Stoney Creek
Baptist Church near Rocky Mount.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John O'Neil, Route 3,
Rocky Mount, and the bridegroom is
the son of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Venters
of Trenton and Leon Stephens Ven-
ters of Atlantic Beach.

Mrs. Venters is a graduate of Red
Oak High School and the Automation
Institute of Raleigh. She is an em-
ployee in Highway Purchasing. Mr.
Venters attended East Carolina Uni-
versity and is employed with Com-
mercial Credit Corporation in Dur-
ham. The couple resides at 16-D Co-
lonial Apartments in Durham.

32

DIESEL POWtK

Some got away, but not all as the Roadway Design section invaded the
water off Morehead City June 1. The fishing was good as you can see. The
catch included mostly King mackerel and a few Amber jacks.

The fishermen top row left to right: Wayne Barnette, Ken Gardner and
Ed Cox. Bottom row: Bob Pearson, Ralph Trivette and Barney Roberts.

Not shown in the picture (nor are their fish) but on the same fishing
trip were Frank Starnes, Bob Wells, Bob Walker, John Taylor and Al Avant.
They "said" they caught more fish than all the rest put together, even though
they don't have a picture to prove it!

EDDIE and Sandra BOOTH en-
joyed a recent trip to visit Sandra's
sister, Mrs. Tony Vernon, in Atlanta,
Ga. They also visited historic Stone
Mountain State Park. Eddie works
with Bridge Maintenance in Forsyth
County.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
MELVIN BULLINS upon the birth
of a baby boy, Joel Gray, March 16.
The proud father works with Bridge
Maintenance in Stokes County.

ROADWAY DESIGN — W. A.
WILSON, JR. attended the AASHO
Operating Committee on Design, Re
gion II at Williamsburg, Va. June 5-7.
Mr. Wilson participated in the panel
discussion on "Urban Design Prob-
lems."

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: HEBER C. EASON, JR.,
ROLAND ROBINSON, JR., JOHN
TAYLOR, WILLIAM A. TYNDALL
and KATHY LASSITER. Summer
employees are: WILLIAM S. CLE-
MENTS, JR., DAVID L. RUSSEL,
ARCHIE F. CARTER, JR., MAR-
THA U. CRAMPTON, JOHN R.
VALLEY, MICHAEL T. SOUTH-
ERN, RODNEY V. SMITH, JUDY
K. YOUNGBLOOD, BENTON G.
PAYNE and DAVID M. WARD.

Employees will miss DWIGHT
KELLY who transferred to the Traf-
fic Department, and STEVE MEA-
DOWS and BRYCE CLODFELTER
who left to enter the Armed Forces.

Good luck to HENRY HAM-
MOND, who has accepted a two-year
assignment in Melbourne, Australia.

Taking two-weeks military leave
recently were: ROBERT WALL,
EARL WILLIS, ROBERT BRAAM,
DICK PAWLIKOWSKI, GEORGE
HOLLAND, JAMES MEARES,
JOHN TAYLOR and DAVE COCH-
RAN.

Jeanne Lynn Sutton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Michael Sutton
of Wendell; granddaughter of George
Sutton, our Building Superintendent.

Congratulations to the BILL BET-
TERS upon the recent birth of a
son, William E. Betters, III, and to
the TOMMY PEACOCKS upon the
birth of a son, Gregory Thomas.

Early vacationers and their desti-
nations were: Mr. and Mrs. ALLEN
ATKINS, Windy Hill Beach, S. C;
Mr. and Mrs. RAMEY KEMP,
Long Beach; Mr. JERRY TWIGG,
Tampa, Fla.; and Mrs. ANN FUT-
RELL, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

LESTER BROWN and family en-
joyed the weekend of June 7 at Sal-
ter Path. Lester reports that his boys
caught 44 blues, and during that
time, "Pinchie-winchie Lester" re-
laxed in front of his cottage (tent)
watching the "bikinis" go by.

Our deepest sympathy to RI-
CHARD PURSER upon the recent
death of his mother.

All employees are glad to have
Mrs. LOUISE M. SHEPHERD, Typ-
ist 2, re-join the Department after an
absence of seven years.

Welcome to Miss GAIL BYRD,
new secretary to John W. Lambeth.

It's nice to have three new girls
as temporary summer help. Welcome

to ANDREA LEIGH COHOON, who
is enrolled in UNC at Greensboro;
SUSAN WHEELER, who plans to
attend Hardbarger Business College
this fall; and KATHY MEDLIN,
who will enter Southwood College in
the fall.

Mrs. JEAN JOHNSON and her
husband, Cecil, vacationed in Ashe-
ville the second week in June, where
they attended the Eastern Star Con-
vention.

Above are the two men in Carolyn
Lee's life. Edward Allen Lee Sr. and
Edward Allen Lee Jr. They look like
they are enjoying the surf and sun-
shine at Wrightsville Beach. Carolyn
is secretary to W. A. Wilson, Jr.

33

PERSONNEL — Employees of
Personnel recently celebrated birth-
days for JOYCE H. CLARK and
CLOYCE B. ALFCRD. Joyce was
treated with a luncheon at the Holi-
day Inn Restaurant and Cloyce was
taken to the King of the Sea.

Congratulations to GAIL STRICK-
LAND who recently graduated from
Garner High School. Gail has been
a temporary employee in Personnel,
but will be placed on the permanent
pavroll soon. It's nice to have PAT-
SY PEARCE as a permanent em-
ployee after being on a temporary
basis for over a year.

CLOYCE B. ALFORD and family
recently visited Ocean Drive Beach,
S. C. for a weekend of relaxation and
sun. TED D. AUSTIN and family
enjoyed their trip to the Outer Banks
for a weekend of fun. The children
re^llv enjoyed the ferry ride. JOYCE
CLARK was out several days attend-
ing her youngest daughter, Teresa,
who had her tonsils removed at Rex
Hospital. We wish Teresa a speedy
recovery and Joyce a good rest.
BARBARA STUSSIE and MARY
LEE GRIFFIN have been frequent
visitors to Fayetteville on recent
weekends. Co-workers are wondering
what or who they have found so in-
teresting! (Could it be Fort Bragg?)

Department Head J. RAYNOR
WOODARD and wife recently visit-
ed their son, who is in flight train-
ing in Pensacola, Florida.

If MARY LEE GRIFFIN and
BARBARA STUSSIE believe in
fortune tellers, these two girls are
destined for much wealth and riches
in the near future! PATSY PEARCE
recently took a few days vacation,
but according to Patsy, she worked
so hard she didn't feel like she had
vacationed.

Personnel's annual Golf Tourna-
ment was held May 10th at the Zeb-

Smiling for the camera are charm-
ing John David and Kimberly Sue
Wood. Their proud dad is Dave
Wood, a member of the Roadway
Design Department.

ulon Country Club. FRED ADCOCK
and CLOYCE ALFORD were able
to retain their trophy which they won
last year. Feeling sorry for RONALD
WOLFE and TED AUSTIN, a tro-
phy was abo given to these brave
lads.

BRIDGE — DEWEY PHILLIPS
is a new member of Bridge Design.
A native of Dallas, Dewey attended
NCSU and formerly held a position
with Charles Kahn & Associates. His
wife, Pat, is a draftsman with Bigger
& A*mew.

LYMAN BRYANT went on six
months military leave, attended para-
trooper school, returned to Rnleigh
with his new bride, Betty, and is now
a permanent employee in Bridge De-
sign.

LARRY KETCHUM, former train-
ee, is now a permanent employee.
Summer employees who will return
to NCSU in the fall are H. C. STAN-
LEY, LARRY PATTON and PHIL
WYLIE. DAVE NORKET and JER-
RY HEALY are attending summer
school at State. Dave is working part-
time, but Jerry is on leave of absence.

VAN STARLING left Bridge De-
sign and GRADEN DAVIS and RI-
CHARD KELLY left Encroach-
ments. Graden transferred to Bridge
Maintenance and Richard is working
in IBM at NCSU.

DIANE BAGWELL, formerly on
the co-op office training program,
now works temporarily as a Steno I
in Bridge Design. JUDY BLEVINS
recently moved from Fuquay-Varina
to Raleigh.

CHUCK and Sandy CATO are
proud of new daughter, Brenda Gail,
born May 19. Their little two-year
old daughter, Jenny Elizabeth, is
mighty proud, too.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
VANCE WRENN, whose father died
in May.

LANDIS TEMPLE and KEN
CREECH are coaching a Jr. Lea-
gue baseball team — two of Landis'
sons play on this team. The coach-
ing must be pretty good, especially
in the pitching department — one of
the boys pitched a "one hitter",
striking out nineteen in seven innings
and the other boy pitched a "two
hitter".

TOM PATE spent seventeen days
on naval reserve duty in the Carri-
bean. The trip aboard the USS Ran-
dolph Aircraft Carrier began in Nor-
folk, Va. and went as far as St. Tho-
mas in the Virgin Islands.

LOVELY BRIDE

A beautiful wedding ceremony was
performed Saturday, July 13, in the
Ebenezer Methodist Church when
Miss Betty Ann Wilkins became the
bride of Forrest F. King of Orlando,
Florida. The Reverend James Hamil-
ton officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Jessie G. Wilkins and the late Mr.
Wilkins of Route 2, Raleigh. Before
her marriage, she held a position as
secretary to Purchasing Traffic Man-
ager R. G. Johnson with the High-
way Commission.

The newlyweds will live in Orlando,
Florida, where the bridegroom is in
business.

This little girl is Chestine Christ-
mas, 1000 Bunch Drive Rd., age
one. She is the granddaughter of
Irma Banks, one of the elevator op-
erators at Raleigh headquarters.

Two of the Newhouses "out of the nest", who were June graduates from
North Carolina State University are Carolyn and Roland Newhouse pictured
with "Momma" Frances and "Papa" Berg in between.

Carolyn obtained a BS Degree in Applied Math and has a new position
as Industrial Engineer with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford, Conn.

Roland, Jr., hold a BA Degree in Economics and recently moved with his
wife, Kay, to Philadelphia, Pa., where he is employed as an engineer with
New York Central Railroad.

The current count (formerly 7) now in the Newhouse family is 2 "out"
and five to go.

This leaves Jim, a rising senior in Engineering at NCSU, Emily, a fresh-
man at Lees-McRae this fall; Debra, a junior at Broughton High, and Marion
and Robert, students at Daniels Junior High.

To Momma and Papa Newhouse all we can do is gasp and offer our
heartiest CONGRATULATIONS for such a fine "Crop".

The G. S. MARCHANTS vaca-
tioned for a week in eastern Virginia.
They visited Mathew, Williamsburg
and Newport News. Not all the trips
to the beaches are for fun only. BOB-
BY POWELL is making trips to
Morehead to paint his father's cot-
tage and GEORGE PARKIN makes
frequent trips to his cottage on the
Inland Waterway "to work". The
Parkins recently had their cottage
remodeled.

TOM DIXON and RALPH UN-
DERWOOD spent an enjoyable va-
cation at Holden's Beach on a house
party and really enjoyed the beach,
dancing and fishing.

BOB TURPIN bought a lot at
Emerald Isle and plans for a future
cottage on the one-acre wooded lot,
on the Sound side, are already in
the making. ROYCE CARROLL
bought a sail boat and enjoys after-
noon sailing at Lake Wheeler and
frequent trips to Carolina Beach,
Wrightsville and Virginia Beach.
GARLAND MITCHELL (cool cat)
is the owner of a new gold-colored
Impala, fully equipped. Garland's car
has everything — but everything on
it!

With visions of an extensive and
exciting boating vacation in mind,
REUBEN SHAW, BOB ELLIS and
two NCSU faculty members, Bob
Carson and Bob Douglas, left Raleigh
headed south. They reached North
Palm Beach the same time as "Ab-
by", the season's first hurricane and
the cruise became a "snooze". After
three days of being grounded, they
abandoned their original plan of sail-
ing to the Bahamas. Boarding their
rented sail boat, they sailed around
in the Inland Waterway about thirty
miles south toward Miami and back
via the Gulf Stream. The expedition
spent two days sailing and trolling
for fish out of North Palm Beach —
with heavy rains both days!

Heartfelt sympathy is extended
to Margaret Seagroves upon the
death of her mother, Mrs. Kate
Jones Rogers, June 15th. Funeral
services were held at the First
Baptist Church in Fuquay and
burial was at Montlawn Monday,
June 17th.

PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING MRS. HUGHES

WHEREAS, Mrs. Elizabeth John-
son Hughes, Secretary to the State
Highway Commission, has submitted
her resignation effective June 1, 1968;
and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Hughes assum-
ed her present position as Secretary
to the Commission in 1956, following
many previous years of distinguished
service with the Commission; and

WHEREAS, throughout the term
of her employment, the Commission,
and the people of North Carolina,
have received the benefit of the com-
petent service rendered by Mrs.
Hughes; and

WHEREAS, the members of this
Commission sincerely appreciate the
cooperation and the faithful, efficient
service that Mrs. Hughes has provid-
ed the Commission;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE AND
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that
the Commission extends its heartfelt
appreciation to Mrs. Elizabeth J.
Hughes for her years of service to
the State Highway Commission, and
the Commission further extends its

sincerest best wishes for her happi-
ness and success in the future;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that this resolution be spread upon
the minutes of this Commission meet-
ing and that Mrs. Hughes and her
family be furnished copies of this
expression of appreciation.

COMMISSION SECRETARY —
Many friends and co-workers paid
tribute to long-time Commission Sec-
retary Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, before
her retirement May 31, by giving
a lovely luncheon at the Velvet Cloak
Motor Inn in her honor. A nice gift
of money was presented Elizabeth
after a delicious meal was served. Eli-
zabeth's many highway friends wish
for her a most wonderful retirement
with her husband at their new home
in Southport.

The friends and co-workers of
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hardesty, Asst.
Chief Engr., share with them their
deep loss in the untimely death of
their youngest son, Frank Hardes-
ty, who was k lied in an automobile
accident on June 21st in Raleigh.

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Mr. and Mrs.
JAY SMITH at-
tended their son-
in-law's graduation
from Pembroke
College at Pem-
broke May 26 and
also their daugh-
ter-in-law's grad-
uation from East
M. G. Carawan Carolina Univer-

Division Correspondent sity. Mr. Smith is

Shop Foreman with the Equipment
Department in District 2.

DICKIE FEHER, Mechanic with
the Equipment Department in Dis-
trict 2, has resigned for other employ-
ment. Good luck Dickie. Resigned
also, as of May 15, is S. A. WOOT-
EN, JR., Engnieering Technician III
of Elizabeth City Construction Office
who is taking a position with a pri-
vate contractor in Wilson. The Eli-
zabeth City Construction Office held
a farewell party for Mr. Wooten and
the participants report . . Good Party
. . Good Time had by all.

Congratulations to the following
employees who have recently been
promoted: W. E. BOSTON, LEROY
BEACH, E. F. WILLIAMS, D. W.
MILLS, ROY HOGGARD, J. B.
LEGGETT and PAUL HARRISON.

Mrs. NEDRA HOLLOMAN, Ste-
nographer in District 2, spent a few
days with her son and his family, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Carroll Vanderber-
ry, Jr., of Chapel Hill, during which
time she attended the graduation
exercises of Robert, who received his
M.D. Degree from the University of
North Carolina on June 3rd.

Mrs. LINWOOD RAWLS is re-
cuperating at her home after receiv-
ing second degree burns of her arm.
Mr. Rawls is Assistant District En-
gineer in District 2.

Mrs. CLIFFORD ASKEW was a
patient for a few days in the Roan-
oke-Chowan Hospital where she was
recuperating from an automobile ac-
cident. Mr. Askew is Clerk II in Dis-
trict 2.

ELTON STALLS, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. S. Stalls, Martin County, is
improving in Walter Reed Hospital.
Elton, a member of the Armed Forces
was injured in Vietnam.

Mr. ROBY HALL, Resident Engi-
neer, is out on sick leave. Hurry and
get well, Roby!

We are glad to report that JAMES
MODLIN, as of the first of June, is
much improved after his illness and
will soon return to work.

Get well wishes are extended to L.
D. CHERRY, T. A. CREDLE, JAM-
ES WHITE of Whaleyville, Virginia
(who has been out sick since April
4th) and JAMES HASSELL of
Manteo (who has been unable to
work since April 22nd).

Welcome back to work to Mr.
HOWELL WARREN after his re-
cent illness. We are also glad to have
back on the job P. L. JACKSON and
R. C. BUNCH.

Condolences to the J. R. PAYNES'
in the death of their son, JAMES
TERRY PAYNE, who was a Lance
Corporal stationed in Vietnam since
December, 1967; our deepest sym-
pathy also to Mrs. J. L. FOXWELL
on the recent death of her husband,
who was a former Albemarle Sound
Bridge Tender; to C. S. SPELLER
in the death of his mother; to the
family of KADER SILAS WHITE,
Bridge Tender on the Knobbs Creek
Bridge, who passed away suddenly on
May 7 after finishing his days' work;
and to the family of E. C. CASPER,

Shown above are Mr. and Mrs. D.
W. Patrick with grandson, Donald
Sawyer, who is the son of the for-
mer Betsy Patrick. Mr. Patrick is
Division Engineer in Division One.

March 5, 1968, J. R. Felton com-
pleted Forty Years of Service with
the North Carolina State Highway
Commission. He was employed with
the Maintenance Department in
1928, transferred to the Sign De-
partment in 1931 and later transfer-
red to the Landscape Department in
1947. He is now Area Landscape
Supervisor in Divisions 1, 2 and 4.
Mr. Felton is married to the former
Hazel Carter and they have three
daughters. Sue is a student at Atlan-
tic Christian College, Wilson.
Mollie is a student at Ahoskie High
School and Emily is a student at the
Ahoskie Elementary School.

truck driver of Gatesville, who died
unexpectedly on May 3.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
PAUL HARRISON on their recent
marriage. Paul is an Engineering
Aide with the Plymouth District
Survey Party.

Mr. W. M. SMITH, Resident En-
gineer, attended the Spring Meeting
of Shriners held recently in Rocky
Mount.

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES DAUGH-
TRY vacationed at Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina the last of May.
Brenda is Stenographer in the Right-
of-Way Department.

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Pictured at 5 months is Shelia Mae Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Turner, Belvidere. Mr. Turner is a Machine Operator in District 1.

Enjoying life at the age of 4 months is Gregory Carroll Hall, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Garvan C. Hall. Mr. Hall is a truck driver in District II.

Congratulations to Gail and Jimmy Nash on the birth of a daughter,
Angela, May 18.

Adorable little Pledge Michelle is the two year old grand-daughter of
Frank Bunting, Machine Operator in Martin County.

Standing PROUDLY with her 18
pound Rock is Mrs. Ellen Willough-
by, Typist II, in the Construction Of-
fice in Ahoskie. Ellen HOOKED the
fish on a recent trip to Santee Coop-
er Dam, South Carolina. By the time
she made the rounds showing it off,
it did not require scaling and had
dried out to approximately 12
pounds; however, according to her,
the fish was sold to a local restau-
rant and the owner had to rent a
tobacco barn furnace in order to
cook him.

Division I
Babies
&

Graduates

Brenda Joyce Moore, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Moore of Wind-
sor, has been chosen to attend the
Superintendent's School this sum-
mer. This is a new program pattern-
ed after the Governor's School and
will be held at Bertie High School
from June 20 to August 2.

Miss Frances Lynn Smith is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Smith
of Murfreesboro. She graduated re-
cently from Chowan College School
of Nursing after 33 months of train-
ing. Chowan College is affiliated with
the Duke University Medical Pro-
gram. Mr. Smith is Shop Foreman
with the Equpiment Department in
District 2.

Miss Betty Phelps was Valedictor-
ian of Creswell High School. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Char-
lie R. Phelps. Betty was President of
the Student Council this year, mem-
ber of the National Honor Society,
active in the Monogram Club and a
cheerleader for three years. Betty is
planning to attend Louise Obici
Nursing School in Suffolk, Virginia
this fall.

H. L. AMBROSE vacationed brief-
ly in Pennsylvania.

M. G. CARAWAN, Division Staff
Engineer, enjoyed a recent fishing
trip on the Outer Banks. From all
reports, he returned with coolers full
of Blue fish; however, none, as yet,
have been seen. We know he had a
WHALE of a time.

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Hazel Baker

Sympathy is ex-
tended to Mr. C.
W. SNELL, JR. in
the death of his fa-
ther-in-law, Mr. R.
L. Stevenson.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of Mr. OZZIE
WILSON, retired
Division Correspondent Maintenance Em-
ployee in Pitt County who died re-
cently.

Mrs. BECKY SUMRELL, Secre-
tary in the Division Office, vacation-
ed for a week at the beach, Morehead.

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. and
Mrs. VERNON ELLIS CARAWAN
on their graduation from Lenoir
County Community College. Mrs.
Carawan received an Associate In
Arts Degree and Mr. Carawan re-
ceived a Degree in Accounting. Ver-
non is the son of Mr. V. B. Carawan,
Maintenance Foreman, Pitt County.

Congratulations are extended to
Mr. and Mrs. CARROLL B. RO-
BERTSON, JR., who announced the

Above is Beth Glisson, precious
little granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Gray. Mr. Gray is a Mechanic
with the Equipment Department in
Div. 2. Little Beth was born April
15th and is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard F. Glisson, Jr.

birth of a son, James Garner, born
April 29th, weighing 7 lbs. 8V2 °z-
Carroll is associated with the Right
of Way Department.

JOHN H. BANKS, Right of Way
Agent, spent two weeks in May at
the University of Florida, Gainesville,
attending Appraisal Course I at the
American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers.

W. L. (BILL) JOHNSON, JR.,
was transferred during June from Di-
vision Two's Right of Way Depart-
ment to Division Six in Fayetteville.
We will certainly miss him but wish
him the best of luck in his new job.
His wife, Mavis, will be employed
with Cumberland County as Home
Economics Agent.

RALMOND LOVE, recently re-
turned to work after being hospital-
ized a week.

Sympathy is extended to LIN-
WOOD EARL DAWSON due to
death of his father.

The US 70 By-Pass at Kinston,
from US 258 and NC 58 Easterly
across Neuse River is now open to
the traffic.

Construction on NC 11 Grifton By-
Pass is to begin around June 1st.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
JOHN SAWYER upon the arrival of
their new granddaughter, Jennifer
Dawn. John is an Appraiser with the
Greenville Appraisal Section.

We extend our deepest sympathy
to JOSEPH M. HAYES and his fam-
ily upon the death of his mother, Mrs.
Bertie Davis Hayes of Elkin on May
8. Joe is the Review Appraiser in the
Greenville Appraisal Section.

Mrs. CLAUDE FULBRIGHT is
vacationing in the mountains this
week. Trust she is enjoynig the
change from the flat country to that
"high-ground" fresh mountain air.

Two year old John Bennett, son
of Mrs. Katherine Bennett, Secretary
in the Division Office, seems to be
enjoying his Second Birthday very
much. Pictured with John is his
older brother Irving.

Since we have not exercised the
privilege previously, we are now
taking the opportunity to present to
you the two adorable children of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Harry, III. We are
indeed happy to have you meet John
Courtney Harry, IV - 21 months;
better know to all as "Corky". We
know Corky as one of the cutest
little brown-eyed, blonde-haired, most
intelligent little "live-wires" one
could ever meet.

His little sister is equally adorable.
Margaret Frances is seven months
old and the best natured, sweetest
little bundle of joy for her proud
parents, Jack and Billie. Jack is an
Appraiser in the Greenville office.

Shelby is a Secretary in the Apprais-
al Section.

Congratulations to WILLIAM ED-
WARD WILLIAMS, JR., who re-
ceived his Associate in Applied
Science Degree in Architectural
Drafting from Pitt Technical Insti-
tute on May 24th. Bill is the son
of Mrs. Gladys William, who is Sec-
retary in the Appraisal Section.

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DIVISION
THREE

Congratulations
to CLETUS PRI-
DGEN, Clerk in
the Road Oil Of-
fice, who recently
became the proud
^ ,f father of a darling

baby girl named
Andrea Maureen.
The girls in the
Division Office

Irene Hewitt g CletuS a

Division Correspondent"

"Baby Shower". He was very thrilled
over it. Perhaps he has the distinction
of being the only "Highway Man" to
receive a baby shower. J. H. HOLD-
EN of Traffic Services Dept. also re-
cently became another proud father
of a baby girl. C. E. JERNIGAN,
Area Foreman in Sampson County,
is the very proud proud father of a
baby girl. This is the only girl and
he has two sons and the youngest
one just graduated from high school
this year.

We recently had a luncheon at
Ballards Rest, in Wilmington for
ROSE DUNCAN, Sec. in the Dept.
of Correction, and presented her with
a lovely bracelet as a going away
present. Rose left to join her husband
in Metropolis, 111. where he has trans-
ferred. Rose has gone to work on her
new job in 111. and fixing to move
into her new home. Rose says even
though she missed all of the States
employees; if she had to leave Wil-
mington, Metropolis is one of the
friendliest towns she had even been to
and she is very happy there. Also, we
had a luncheon at Ballards for LIN-
DA FISHER, former secretary in R-
O-W who resigned to accept other
employment. Linda was presented a
lovely watch which she seemed to be
overjoyed with. We welcome Miss RI-
CKIE JO STRICKLAND who is re-
placing Linda. We take it Rickie Jo
has really been enjoying the beaches
by the lovely tan she already has. We
also welcome Mrs. LAURA DAR-
RENKAMP who replaced Rose with
the Dept. of Corrections. Laura for-

merly worked on that job on a tempo-
rary status and transferred to a per-
manent job with the N. C. Rehabili-
tation Dept., and now that the Dept.
of Correction job is a permanent one,
transferred back.

We are glad to have ROY BROWN
and CHUCK CLEMENTS of R-O-W
back after their recent illness. LU-
THER R. MERRITT, Traffic Serv-
ices Supervisor is out sick. We
wish him a speedy recovery.

We wish to extend our sympathy
to the family of CLEAB TANNER,
M. O. I in the Road Oil Dept. who
was killed in an auto accident on
May 18. Also to the family of W. H.
MOORE, former Bridge Tender of
Dist. 1 who recently died after an ex-
tended illness. We wish to express
our sympathy to CHINNIS McKOY
of the Construction Dept. whose baby
died.

A tea was given on June 8 by Mrs.
RUBY CAMPBELL, Sec. in the R-
O-W Dept. together with Mrs.
CHUCK CLEMENTS (wife of our
R-O-W Aide) honoring lovely bride
elect JOAN STRAUGHAN, daughter
of Nell Straughan, also Sec. in R-
O-W.

CAROLYN GURGANUS, Sec.
here in the Division Office, was
off a few days to be with
her mother and other relatives visit-
ing her from Cullman, Alabama.
Carolyn enjoyed very much getting
to see her folks even though she was
in the middle of moving into her new
home and little son David's first
birthday.

Congratulations to Donna Brown,
daughter of Div. R-O-W Agent ROY
D. BROWN; and John Paul DuPre,
son of Div. Engr. PAUL J. DUPRE,
who have recently graduated from
high school.

We have enjoyed very much hav-
ing trainee BOB FIELDS work in
the Div. Office with us but he will
be leaving us soon for his permanent
assignment in the Construction Dept.
in Charlotte. We hope he will be
back to see us often.

Then there was the fellow who
wanted to know if he could have a
day off with pay. When asked why,
he replied: "I want to catch up on
the time I missed for coffee breaks
when I was on vacation."

DIVISION
FOUR

Wilson County
Chapter enjoyed a
delicious barbecued
chicken supper on
May 3rd. R. W.
DAWSON, Di-
vision Engineer,
welcomed members
and their families
and introduced
Com missioner
Di^"c.,«pSSd«aCARL RENFRO.
Mr. Renfro spoke briefly, praising
the good works of the Highway Com-
mission Employees and urging all to
get out and vote in the May 4th
Primary. Delicious homemade cakes
were won by several who attended.
Approximately 60 were present.

SHIRLEY HAYES, Stenographer
in the Division Office, spent a
week's vacation in the moun-
tains of North Carolina with her
husband, Ray.

MARGARET BAREFOOT, your
correspondent enjoyed two week's
vacation with husband, Bill.
Spent one week in Florida and re-
turned home to get a sun tan in N.
C. and do some "Spring" cleaning.

Mr. O. C. HOWELL, Auto Body
Repairman with the Equipment De-
partment, has returned to work fol-
lowing an arm operation. We wish
him the best of luck.

Mr. and Mrs. MARVIN OWENS
had a most enjoyable time vacating
in Florida.

James Mitchell Baise, born April
16th, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Baise, R-W Agent.

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John Richard (Ricky) Harlow, son
maintenance mechanic, and Mrs.
of Lindbergh Harlow, Halifax County
Harlow, of Weldon, is shown holding
a brass plaque awarded to him by
Weldon High School, with the fol-
lowing inscription: "Industrial Arts
Award Presented to Ricky Harlow
for Outstanding Achievement in the
Field of Industrial Arts — 1988".

The fishing wasn't quite up to par
for Mr. DONALD WOODARD and
Mr. WOODROW WILLIAMS on
the Outer Banks, the week-end of
May 25th.

Our Staff Engineer, GEORGE H.
KING, took off for a week at the
beach with his family. George told
me he plans to lay around and be
waited on, but that he would get up
for meals. Lots of luck, George.

RESIDENT ENGINEER and
Mrs. VICK attended the NCAA Base-
ball Tournament in Gastonia. Their
son Dennis played second base for
East Carolina University. The Vicks
also added a bit of enjoyable sight-
seeing to the trip.

Congratulations to Mr. THOMAS
A. CAUSEY who was married on
May 11th to the former Miss Velma
Ruth Ray of Abbington, Virginia.
They are making their home in Wil-
son vhere Mr. Causey works as an
ET II with J. W. Vick's Engineering
Party.

Welcome back to work ELLIOTT
CRAWLEY and WILLIE WAGNER,
both of whom underwent surgery.

Get well wishes to: Carol Ann Proc-
tor, daughter of AMOS LEE PROC-
TOR, of Pinetops; BUDDY HUGH
CRAWLEY, of Halifax, who is still
unable to return to work following
illness and hospitalization; HARRY
LEE PRICE, who continues ill at

his home in Weldon; and J. G.
BROWN, Maintenance Supervisor
in Edgecombe County, who underwent
surgery.

Congratulations to LEON and Ha-
zel KEEL, of Elm City, upon the
birth of a daughter on May 20th.

LARRY NEWSOME and wife,
Carolyn, enjoyed a sightseeing trip
to the Great Smoky Mountains, in-
cluding visits to Asheville, Cherokee,
and Maggie Valley.

We wish to welcome new employ-
ees to this office, E. P. BROWN, a
temporary Aide, R. J. MOORE, a
temporary Aide, G. M. KORNEGAY,
and E. L. KORNEGAY, both Engr.
Asst. and D. B. LASSITER as a Ci-
vil Technology Trainee.

Welcome to MACK C. BEALE,
Engineering Aide, who will be em-
ployed with our Location Depart-
ment for the summer.

Get- Well wishes to W. L. DAUGH-
TRY, E. R. EASON, ROLAND WIL-
LIAMS, JACK McCULLEN, JOHN
SLOAN, and Mr. PRENTICE GAR-
RIS.

Welcome back to work to Mr.
HENRY WIGGINS after treatment
at Wayne Memorial Hospital.

Employees who attend the Divi-
sion Safety Meeting to be held in
the Wayne County Maintenance
Yard on June 26 will be treated to a
fish- fry. The fish will be cooked by
PLUMBER RALPH BARNES, and
FISHER, FRANK MORSE.

We welcome the following new em-
ployees: L. R. RAYNOR, Truck Dri-
ver; EARNEST GODWIN, WIL-
LIAM NARRON, LAWRENCE E.
LEE, LEO ATKINSON, KILBY
MERRITT, EARNEST A. WALK-
ER, D. C. WHITE, and HOWARD
WILLIAMS, Laborers.

FRANKLIN M. BENNETT, R-W
Agent is to be married on June 9th.
Congratulaaions.

C. J. BALDWIN and W. R. DA-
VENPORT of the R-W Dept. at-
tended the Golf tournament at Oak
Island recently. They did not bring
back a trophy, but it is rumored that
they had quite a bang up on the way
back.

We are happy to know that W. H.
EVERETTE, R-W Agent is recup-
erating nicely and will be back to
work soon, after suffering a mild
heart attack.

Congratulations to Miss Robert Su-
san Dawson, daughter of Division En-
gineer, R. W. Dawson, who graduat-
ed from Ralph L. Fike High School
in Wilson.

Good luck and a
long, happy mar-
ried life is wished
for CHARLES
PLEASANTS by
his fellow employ-
ees. Charles was
married recently
to the former Miss
Barbara Ross of
Henderson. He is

Peggy Bright , _

Division Correspondent machine operator I
with the Maintenance Department in
Granville County.

JOHN SETZER, JOHN LOUIS
WILLIAMS and WILLIAM GRA-
DY were on vacation for a few days
recently. William spent some of his
vacation time in Virginia.

PENDER WOODLIEF'S face
seems to be quite red recently. Won-
der why?

ERNEST ADCOCK, SAM AVER-
ETTE and WALTER RUTLEDGE
were on sick leave for a few days re-
cently.

Out on sick leave recently were
C. O. VAUGHAN and M. J. WADE
who are both from Durham County.

Listed below are names of employ-
ees with the maintenance department
in Granville County who received
safety awards recently.

Congratulations Philip Lee Pen-
nell, son of W. L. Pennell a M.O. 3
in the Maintenance Department of
Durham County who just graduated
from Northern High School on June
7th.

Millard Brent Jones graduated
from E.C.U. May 24. Brent is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Jones. Jones
is a Gang Foreman No. 2 with the
Maintenance Department in Durham.
Brent finished in four years making
the honor roll five quarters. Brent is
going to teach history in high school.
The Jones' oldest son Marvin is a
graduate of E.C.U. and is employed
by North Carolina National Bank in
Durham.

20 Year Award

Edwin B. Davis, William A. Elling-
ton, Lester L. Reece, R. Lawrence
Royster and John Louis Williams

15 Year Award
Sam H. Averette, Giles E. Crutcher
and Elvin A. Lumpkin

10 Year Award
Ernest C. Adcock, Glenwood J. Brog-
den, Joe S. Greenway, Frank H. Laws
and Vencen V. Morton

5 Year Award
Bruce O. Hockaday, William B. Gra-
dy and George W. Woody
3 Year Award
E. Alton Dean, L. Earnest Oakley
and Charles W. Pleasants

GEORGE BAILEY, our roving re-
porter, reports that WILLIAM
REAMS is adding another industry
to his growing list; the timber in-
dustry. George reports that William
has already purchased a truck in
which he plans to haul his wood.
Anyone needing wood for the coming
winter or lumber for building pur-
poses should place their orders early
to assure prompt deliveries.

WALTER RUTLEDGE plans to
return to work soon after being on
sick leave for several weeks.

HENRY HICKS has returned to
work after being on sick leave and
hospitalized for a few days.

Mrs. O. D. Ellis, Jr., formerly Miss
Wanda Overby, daughter of D. L.
Overby, Maintenance Mechanic I in
Vance Co., Div. 5 - Dist. 3, is leaving
June 10, 1988 to join her husband
who is with Delta Battery, 4th Bat-
talion, 41st Artillery in Stuttgart,
Germany.

Mrs. Ellis will be in Germany
from twelve to eighteen months.

We will miss
ROSE SWAIN,
former Correspon-
dent and Steno II
in the Division Of-
fice, who resigned
3ffective April
13th, to become a
full-time house-
wife. We welcome
JEAN BULLARD

Ray Autry ... ,

Division Correspondent to our office and

hope she will enjoy her employment
with the Highway Commission.

Congratulations to Mrs. R. W. Lof-
tis who graduated from Pembroke
College on May 26th, as an hon-
or student. Mrs. Loftis plans to teach
at Legion Road Elementary School
this coming fall. Mr. LOFTIS is a
Resident Engineer in Fayetteville.

Congratulations to Miss Barbara's
Wellons, who graduated from Camp-
bell College on May 24th. She
will teach the 4th grade in the Char-
lotte Area school system. Barbara's
father, Mr. H. S. WELLONS, is
Landscape Specialist I with the Land-
scape Department in Fayetteville.

Birthday wishes are extended to
W. F. FLOYD, Resident Engineer,
in Lumberton. We hope he has many,
many more.

JOSEPH E. BULLARD, Highway
Inspector, III, has ben temporarily
transferred to Division 3 in Wilming-
ton. We hope that he is enjoying his
new location and that he will be back
with us soon in the Construction De-
partment.

The Construction Department,
Lumberton, would like to welcome
RICHARD F. HOLMES who began
work with them on May 27th; and
JIMMIE LOCKLEAR, who began
work on May 28 for the Summer
months.

Congratulations to KENNETH M.
HESTER and wife, Druzilla, on the
birth of their first son, Kenneth Road-
ney, born April 23rd, weighing 8
lbs. and 6]/2 oz. Kenneth, better
known an "Ringo", is employed as

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Mary Louise Robinson is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Em-
mett D. Robinson, Fayetteville.
Mary Louise is a 1968 graduate of
St. Pauls High School and is Vale-
dictorian of her class. She plans to
attend Duke University this coming
fall. Her father, Mr. E. D. Robinson,
is an Engineering Technician III
with the Construction Department in
Lumberton.

an Engineering Technician I in Lum-
berton.

ALBERT BERGIE HORNE,
Maintenance Foreman I in Cumber-
land County retired effective April
30, 1968, after 35 years of service
with the Highway Commission. We
wish Mr. Home a very enjoyable
and restful retirement.

Mr. DAVID W. WEAVER return-
ed to work June 3rd, after under-
going surgery. Mr. Weaver is a
Maintenance Foreman III for Har-
nett County.

Mr. JOHN F. CANNON is away
on sick leave. He is Maintenance
Foreman IV for Harnett County.

Mr. A. E. COX, Mechanic Fore-
man II, Equipment Department in
Fayetteville, retired on May 1, 1968
after serving more than 37 years with
the Highway Commission. A supper
was held in honor of Mr. Cox's re-
tirement on April 30 at the Lakeside
Fish Camp. We wish Mr. Cox many
happy years of retirement, and the
very best of luck. He will be greatly
missed by his fellow workers.

The Equipment Department would
like to welcome Mrs. ALICE OS-
BOURNE as a Steno II in Fayette-
ville. Mrs. Osbourne replaced Mrs.
DOROTHY BUIE, who transferred

to the Construction Department after
7 years with the Equipment Depart-
ment.

ROBERT L. MARTIN, JR., Right
of Way Aide in the Right of Way
Department, resigned effective April
19th, to accept employment as an
Industrial Engineer with the Burling-
ton Industries, Inc., in Fayetteville.
We shall miss "Bobby"; however, we
wish him lots of success and happi-
ness in his new job.

CLAUDE R. MOORE, JR., his
wife Nancy, and their two sons, Tri
and Rich, recently spent the weekend
at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Claude's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Moore,
Sr., accompanied them on the trip.
They reported having a very enjoy-
able and relaxing week-end.

Bonnie Gayle Berry, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Connie M. Berry, Sr.,
was married on June 8th to
Charles Tucker Hudson, Jr. Con-
gratulations and best wishes are ex-
tended to this young couple. CON-
NIE M. BERRY, JR., is a Right of
Way Aide in the Right of Way De-
partment in Fayetteville.

Mr. R. P. TATUM, General Util-
ity Man in the Landscape Depart-
ment, is in Duke Hospital awaiting
surgery. We wish Mr. Tatum a very
speedy recovery.

Get well wishes are extended to
LAWRENCE PRIEST and A. S.
HAIRE who are employed in Bladen
County.

Best wishes for a lengthy retire-
ment to Mr. T. B. RHODES, who
retired effective June 1, 1968 as a
Machine Operator I in Columbus
County. Mr. Rhodes was first em-
ployed with the Highway Commission
Feb. 1, 1957 as a Truck Driver. He
was promoted to Machine Operator
I on the first of July, 1968, and he
held his present classification until
his retirement. He will certainly be
missed by his fellow workers.

Best wishes are extended to Mr.
J. C. WARD who was hospitalized
during May, 1988, due to an auto-
mobile accident.

DIVISION
SEVEN

.ION I

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He always has something to grum-
ble about, has the man with a chip
on his shoulder. The world to the
dogs is going, no doubt, to the man
with the chip on his shoulder.

The clouds are too dark, the sun
is too bright; no matter what happens,
it is never quite right. When peace
prevails he is spoiling to fight — the
man with a chip on his shoulder.

Mr. ROY C.
BIGGS, M. O. 2
i n Rockingham
County, returned
to work June 3rd,
after six months
extended illness.

Mr. G. P. BRIT-
TAIN, Assistant
District Engineer,

Carolyn Graves ■ Greensboro, was
Division Correspondent '

recently elected President of the
Sedgefield Civitan Club. He will be
installed in the new office the first
Friday in July.

Mrs. HELEN PRINGLE, Steno-
grapher II in Greensboro District Of-
fice, Penny and Billy, recently visit-
ed Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pringle, Jr.
in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Mr. C. E. WILLIARD, M. F. II,
at Sandy Ridge Camp has been on
extended illness for approximately
two months.

We are happy to report that JOHN
W ATKINS, Asst. Div. Engineer, is
now a full fledged Greensboro citi-
zen, having moved his family from
Statesville to 2519 Donlore Drive,
Greensboro.

CLAIRE GENTRY left us on May
31st to devote her full time to home-
making, as a new arrival is expect-
ed at her house in December. We
shall miss Claire's happy smiling face
around the office and wish for her
the best.

The vacation season is upon us
again and several are enjoying vaca-
tion spots — HAROLD JOYCE and
THOMAS KNIGHT have been on
a fishing trip to the coast and report
successful trip.

The J. O. LAMBETHS vacation-
ed in June, visiting relatives and
places of interest around the state.

The W. W. WHITES also vaca-
tioned in June.

MELBA WEBSTER and husband
had a most wonderful vacation in
New Hampshire visiting with her
brother at their lake cabin.

ARLENE RAY and family enjoy-
ed a most wonderful week touring
Florida.

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Welcome to the following young
men who are now assigned to the
Right of Way Department in this
Division — RONALD SMITH,
LINDSAY DEAN and TOMMY
TATE.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of PAUL S. BUCKNER in his
untimely death of April 22nd, when
he was struck by a car while work-
ing on a secondary road in Guilford
County.

We wish for J. A. HAMLETT and
ROY BIGGS speedy recoveries, after
extended illnesses.

Mr. JOE MORRISON HOUGH,

Road Oil Supervisor, retired on July
1, after over 40 years of faithful
service to the State.

Mr. Hough began road work in
1924 and has seen many changes in
our road system have taken place
since that time.

Mr. Hough and his wife, Marion,
live on Groomtown Road in Greens-
boro. They are both natives of Moore
County. Their son, Joe, is an engi-
neer with the Construction Depart-
ment, SHC, living in Roanoke Ra-
pids — and, of course, Mr. Hough
is very proud of his two granddaugh-
ters and looks forward to seeing
them as often as possible. Mr.
Hough's only daughter, Sara Janice,
was married on June 2 to Howard
Charles Malpass, Jr., and will be
living in Philadelphia and Norfolk,
Va., while he is serving his time with
the Navy. Sara has been teaching
school this year at Pleasant Garden
Elementary School near Greensboro.

Mr. Hough is quite a gardner and
we are sure that he will now have
time for doing the things he likes
most, and we all wish for him a
happy retirement.

Lovely Mrs. Howard Charles Mal-
pass, Jr., fromer Sarah Janice Hough
who was married on June 2nd. The
young couple will be living in Phila-
delphia and Norfolk, Va.

Mr. CLARENCE I. WALTERS,

Road Maintenance Supervisor for
Orange County, plans to retire ef-
fective July 1, 1968. Orange County
and the N. C. State Highway Com-
mission have been very fortunate that
Clarence chose for his profession the
job of highway maintenance. He

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has been affectionately known as Mr.
Highway Commission in Orange
County for many years and has left
his mark of good roads in every cor-
ner of the county.

He has been with the Highway
Commission since 1921 and has been
a part of its development from a sys-
tem with a few hundred miles of
paved primary roads to the Highway
System we all are so proud of today.

Highway employees in the Seventh
Division and many from other areas
of the State have enjoyed the fellow-
ship and fine food found at the many
barbecues held in Orange County un-
der the guiding hand of Mr. Wal-
ters. Friends of Highway employees
have come from near and far to par-
ticipate at these occasions.

Mr. Walter's hobbies have been
hunting ,fishing, and gardening. In
his prime, Clarence could point out
most every covey of quail and every
producing fish pond in the county.
He still fishes quite a bit, hunts a
little less and plants a garden most
every year.

Mr. Walters was born June 19,
1903, son of Vernon and Susan W.
Walters, in Granville County, North
Carolina. His career with the North
Carolina State Highway Commission
began in 1921 when he worked with
the District Bridge Forces. He later
served as Floating Gang Foreman for
Granville County and on March 1,
1936, was transferred to Orange
County as Floating Gang Foreman.
From November 1, 1937, to May 16,
1941, Mr. Walters served as Supervi-
sory Foreman in Orange County. On
May 16, 1941, he was promoted to
Road Maintenance Supervisor and
has served Orange County and the
Highway Commission in that capa-
city until the present time.

Mr. Walters married Minnie Davis
of Granville County on December 27,
1922. They have two children who
also reside in Orange County, Mrs.
H. T. Pope of Cedar Grove, North
Carolina, and Mr. Dwight Walters
of Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Also, Mr. Walters has six grandchil-
dren.

We regret the time has come for
Mr. Walters to retire and we want to
wish for him and his family the best
of everything in life.

CAULDERS are
the proud parents

■^•^^■i of a new baby boy.

Virginia Williamson ]yjr Caulder is
Division Correspondent

employed in the Traffic Service
Department.

Welcome back to work to J. L.
ODOM, Machine Operator in Hoke
County; JIM GARNER of the Con-
struction Party in Sanford; ELBERT
HARDY, Moore County Mainte-
nance, who have been away from
their duties due to illness. We are
also glad to report that Lillie Faye
Lathan, daughter of CARSON H.
LATHAN, District III Maintenance
employee, Richmond County, is get-
ting along fine now following an ap-
pendectomy.

We are sorry to learn that the fol-
lowing are out of work on extended
illnesses: J. W. BUTLER, Truck
Driver, Hoke County who suffered a
compound fracture of the wrist; LU-
THER NICKENS, District II, Moore
County, who suffered a heart attack;
ATLAS THOMAS, Machine Opera-
tor in Lee County who was injured in
an accident; and N. W. SINGLE-
TARY, Road Oil Foreman, who has
undergone knee surgery. We hope
each of these will soon be improved
and able to be back at work.

Employees and friends in this di-
vision have been saddened recently by
the death of JACK CARTER
who died April 5; by the death of
CECIL SHARPE, Lee County Main-
tenance employee, who was killed in
a highway accident on April 14. We
are saddened to learn of the death of
EDGAR V. HOLCOMB, Scotland
County Maintenance employee who
was killed in an automobile accident
on April 23; and of the death of
JAMES DAVID PATE, Scotland
County Maintenance employee who

died April 29. We extend our sympa-
thy to the families of each of these
employees.

We regret to learn that ASTOR
SPINKS, Montgomery County em-
ployee, is on extended leave due to
illness. We hope that he will soon be
improved.

Sympathy is extended to J. A.
SMITH, Hoke County Truck Driv-
er, in the death of his father recent-

ly.

The Annual Shad Bake held by
the Town of Aberdeen for employees
of the Division Eight of the Highway
Commission was enjoyed by every-
one. This is an event that is always
looked forward to by our employees.
Since we are told that we are living
in a fast changing world, it may even
by that in time to come secretaries
will be attending this occasion. I
won't hold my breath; however, we
do hear from the men that this is
always an enjoyable occasion.

Our congratulations to F. M.
HUMPHRIES, District Mechanic in
Sanford, on being appointed Chapter
Chairman, American Red Cross, Lee
County, reorganizing Chapter Board
of Governors and Service Chairman
Special Emphasis on Program in this
order — Youth, Blood, First Aid,
Water Safety, Disaster, Service to
Military Families.

Mrs. Woody Mashburn, Jr., lovely
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Glad-
den, Mr. Gladden being with the
Sanford Construction Party. Mary
Ellen and Woody were married in a
beautiful church ceremony on June
8 at the Pocket Presbyterian Church,
Sanford. Mr. Mashburn is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Mash-
burn, Sanford,

Mrs. James M. Dowless, lovely
daughter of Mrs. Sarah Edwards,
Secretary in the Right of Way De-
partment in Aberdeen. Mrs. Dowless,
the former Norma Kay Edwards,
was married to James Dowless on
Sunday, April 28th, in the Meth-
odist Church in Aberdeen, in a beau-
tiful double-ring ceremony. Follow-
ing the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
wards entertained friends and guests
at a lovely wedding reception in the
Church Fellowship Hall. After a
wedding trip to the coast, Mr. and
Mrs. Dowless departed for Key
West, Florida, where James is serv-
ing with the Navy, and they will be
making their home for the present.

We are happy for ROY WIL-
LIAMS, former Division Traffic En-
gineer, on his promotion and move to
the Raleigh Office of the Highway
Commission. However, we shall cer-
tainly miss him in this division.

Mr. and Mrs. T. C. JOHNSTON
recently spent a few days at Cherry
Grove Beach. JOE MATTHEWS
and wife of Sanford enjoyed a trip
in the Blue Ridge Mountains in
their new air-conditioned Buick.

Miss Carolyn Kelly, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Shelton B. Kelly of
Sanford, recently was married to
WILLIAM (BILL) FRANK ROS-
SER, of the Sanford Construction
Department.

Sympathy is extended to Sanford
Construction employee J. H. HAR-
RINGTON in the loss of his father-
in-law recently following a short ill-
ness.

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Red Haywood, Brack Murray, Bert Seawell, members of the Nelson Con-
struction Party in Wagram, setting slope stakes on the US 220 Rockingham
Bypass.

Mr. E. T. BRAME, retired Resi-
dent Engineer, was a recent visitor
in the Sanford office and everyone
was happy to see him doing so well.
He was proudly telling of a new
granddaughter.

Bettina Maria Ellis, daughter of
Liz and Jimmy Ellis. Jimmy is with
the Sanford Construction Party. Mrs.
Ellis' mother and father from Ger-
many spent a month with their new
granddaughter and were present for
the christening of little "Tina."

Congratulations to the JAMES R.
LOWRIMORE family of Sanford
Construction in their recent move
into their newly re-modeled home.

Welcome to LARRY B. THOMAS
and ANDY BROWN, Engineering
Assistants, with the Sanford Con-
struction party.

J. D. McINNIS, Scotland County
Maintenance Department, reports a
very enjoyable trip to Winter Ha-
ven, Florida, recently.

ANN McBRYDE, secretary in the
Sanford Construction Office, was re-
cently surprised by her fellow work-
ers on her birthday. The resident en-
gineering party provided cake with
candles and all the trimmings for
Ann. Congratulations, Ann!

Our best wishes to the following
who have retired recently: TOM
DUNLAP, Hoke County Truck Dri-
ver; GEORGE WILLETT, Truck
Driver, District 1; and W. B. WEBB
and WILSON TERRY, District III.
These men have each devoted long
faithful years of service to the Com-
mission, and will be greatly missed
by their fellow employees. We wish
each of them a happy retirement.

DIVISION
NINE

Above is the lovely Mrs. Jimmy
Thomas, the former Dana Gail Coe
who was married on June 29th to
Jimmy Thomas of Sanford Construc-
tion Party.

We wish to wel-
come the following
new employees to
the District 2
Maintenance De-
partment: P. R.
FULK, Truck Dri-
ver, Stokes Coun-
ty; N. L. CAN-
TER and V. O.
HESTER, Mach-

Dorothy Phelps

Division Correspondent ine Operator Fs;
and B. G. JAMES, Machine Opera-
tor II, Forsyth County.

Welcome back to work to the fol-
lowing employees who have been
recuperating after surgical opera-
tions: R. NEIL KEARNS, Road
Maintenance Supervisor, Davie and
Stokes Counties; L. W. CARTER and
R. L. FULK, Machine Operator
Ill's, Forsyth County.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to L. M. BOWLES and family in
the death of his father, Albert M.
Bowles, Route 2, Mocksville, who
passed away at his home on Tuesday,
May 21st. Mr. Bowles is employ-
ed with the Davie County Mainte-
nance Department as a Machine
Operator III.

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Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Shoaf of Route
5, Lexington, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Janice Layne Shoaf, to John Albert
Jaurequi, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Albert Jaurequi of 2073 Wal-
lam Street, Los Angeles, California.
The wedding will take place at Reeds
Baptist Church at Eight O'clock on
August 5th. Miss Shoaf is a grad-
uate of West Davidson High School
and was presented in the 1965 Sub-
Debutante Ball. She received an As-
sociate of Arts Degree from the Fa-
shion Institute of America in Atlan-
ta, Ga., and is now employed with
Belk-Harry Company of Salisbury as
Assistant Decorator. Her father, Mr.
I. N. Shoaf, is employed in the Con-
struction Department of Division 9.

Davie County Maintenance em-
ployees and their families got to-
gether and enjoyed a barbecue sup-
per on Friday, May 12th.

During May, Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
CHEW, JR., flew to Boston, Mass.
to visit daughter, Marther, Mrs.
Blaisdale, who is attending Boston
University studying for a Doctor's
Degree in English. Mr. Chew is Dis-
trict Engineer at the Winston-Salem
District Office.

Sons Neil and Kurt Kearns thinks
Dad's T.V. suppers are pretty good
after doing the household chores,
painting and various other jobs. Mr.
Kearns and sons are batching while
Mrs. Kearns and youngest son, Mark,
age 5, visit relatives and friends at
Bad-Oeynhousen, Germany. Mrs.
Kearns and Mark sailed from N. Y.

Harbor on the T. S. Bremen on May
18, 1968 and plan to return Septem-
ber 7, 1968. Mr. KEARNS is Road
Maintenance Supervisor for Davie
and Stokes Counties.

Congratulations to PHILIP A.
TRAHAM, a Cum Laude student for
5 years, who graduated from Pied-
mont Bible College May 27, 1968
with a Bachelor of Theology Degree.
He is presently employed with Road-
ways Trucking Company and is the
son-in-law of Mrs. MARIE THRIFT,
stenographer in the Winston-Salem
District Office.

Sorry to report that one of our
Right of Way Agents has been "ston-
ed". R. J. LEFTWICH has returned
to work after spending a week in the
hospital. He parted from the hospi-
tal but did not part from the
kidney stone. Roscoe's greatest
concern, however, was whether or not
he passed his Appraisal I test, and
we happily report HE DID'.

Right of Way expresses apprecia-
tion for help received from other Di-
visions on alleviating our recent work
load: especially to A. B. CRIST, R.
J. TREECE, ED WILCOX and
KERMIT CONNER from North
Wilkesboro, and JULIAN McCALL
and DON BAISE from Wilson.

Right of Way welcomes CORA LEE
BROWN as our "new" temporary
stenographer. She and her husband,
James, hail from Columbia, S. C. He
is stationed with the USAF at our
local Radar Station.

It was a pleasure to have our
friends stop by to say hello while
here in Winston-Salem to attend the
Right of Way Association Meeting.

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was the
destination of CHARLIE and Jane
RUMPLE during the last week in
May. Charlie had nothing but GOOD
to report about their visit to the re-
cently opened "Million-dollar PLAY-
BOY CLUB" at Lake Geneva. After
recovery from this palatial "pad", a
stop was made in St. Louis, where
they were able to be present for the
dedication of the new and modern
"St. Louise Gateway Arch to the
West", and see the Vice-President cut
the ribbon; also a journey was made
to the St. Louis Zoo, where they view-
ed the first gorilla born in captivity
at the Zoo. Charlie and Jane noticed
what seemed like a familiar face in
the cage — came to find out it was
Marlin Perkins, Curator of the Zoo
— and seen weekly in Mutual of
Omaha's WILD KINGDOM. So be

Batchelor Jim Ussery has relin-
quished this long-retained title for a
charming "First Lady" by the name
of Linda Jarrett who is also from
Asheville, and a Dental Hy-
genist. Following the honeymoon,
Jim and Linda will reside at Snows
Apartments, Bethania Station Road,
Winston- Salem.

watching your TV sets for the faces
of other strange animals! Charlie is
employed in the Construction Depart-
ment in Winston- Salem.

MARY and Don WINTERS en-
joyed a fast-moving week in New
Jersey and in New York City. Mary
reports that love-ins and the hippies
are definitely the THING in Central
Park. They also reported plenty of
nerve-racking rides in subways and
taxis — not to speak of the tired feet.
Mary is a typist in the Resident En-
gineer's office in Winston-Salem.

Three young men who feel like
they are certainly on the way up —
that is in the Golf World — are K.
B. White, John Anderson, and Joel
Dermid, all of whom were Trophy
Winners in the Location Depart-
ment's Annual Golf Tournament at
the Quail Ridge Greens in Sanford,
No scores were available from
these Pros — but Congratulations to
all three! Left to right are J. F. An-
derson, K. B. White and J. A. Der-
mid.

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Above Commissioner George Hund-
ley of Division Nine who is holding
his trophy that he received recently
naming him "Boss of the Year".

This award was sponsored by the
Cairtown Chapter of the National
Secretaries Association.

Congratulations to Mr. N. H.
COLE, Maintenance Foreman, Da-
vidson County, who retired on May
17, 1968 after having served the
Highway Commission for thirty-seven
years.

Another Maintenance Foreman in
Davidson County has earned his
retirement is CALVIN SOWERS who
retired on June 1, 1968 after forty-
one years with the Highway Commis-
sion.

Our deepest sympathy is express-
ed to the family of ROBY W. EVER-
HART who expired on April 21, 1968.
A Maintenance Foreman II, he had
been with the Commission since Ap-
ril 1, 1942 in a permanent status.

The Construction Department is
pleased to welcome Mr. L. F. DUNN
as a Highway Inspector II. Mr. Dunn
was formerly employed by the West
Virginia Highway Department.

The Construction Department also
welcomes Mr. H. E. GRUBBS and
Mr. O. W. STORY who have been
placed on permanent payroll as
Engineering Aides; and Mr. T. O.
GRUBBS, JR., who has decided to
join the Construction Department af-
ter completing the Highway Commis-
sion's Training Program.

New employees who will be with
our Construction Department during
the coming summer months are: L.
F. AUSTIN, M. E. CLARKE, D. M.
NICHOLS, JR., M. E. PETTITT, D.
C. PHILLIPS, J. D. WHISNANT,
JR., and J. F. BALLARD. Welcome
to you fellows!

Mrs. SANDRA TEAGUE is en-
joying her vacation, maternity leave,
while waiting their first-born in June.
During her leave she has been replac-
ed temporarily by Mrs. KAREN
HARBIN. Karen joined and married
Larry in Germany where they have
lived for nineteen months, returning
to the States in April after his dis-
charge from the Army. She will be
working as Stenographer in the Per-
sonnel Office for the Office Manager.

Much additional happiness is evi-
dent in the ROSCOE LEFTWICH
household since the arrival of Master
ANTHONY ROSS LEFTWICH.
Virginia states he looks like his proud
papa and weighed in at 7 pounds 10y2
ounces on June 7th.

C. EARL SMITH has resigned
from R-W to accept employment with
Burlington Industries in Raeford.
EARL and his lovely wife Dianne
have both been assets to our area and
will be greatly missed. We feel BI
will be enhanced with the addition of
EARL to their Staff.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and
Mrs. Buck Patterson on the recent
death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. W.
S. Roderick of Spencer, N. C.

I DIVISION (
L TEN

Welcome to
JOYCE ALDRID-
GE who joined the
Appraisal Section
Charlotte on
May 20, 1968. She
transferred from
the Employment
Security Commis-
sion in Charlotte.

J. W. Jones n, , , , .

Division Correspondent L^narlOlte Ap-
praisal Office wishes good luck to
M. C. BYRUM, JR. who resigned
from the Commission on May 31,
1968, and is now associated with O.
J. Clontz Realty Service in Winston-
Salem, North Carolina.

Our sincere Sympathy is extended
to the Family of Mr. E. E. Wern-
sing who passed away May 10, 1968.
Mr. Wernsing is the Husband of
Mrs. THELMA E. WERNSING, who
is employed as a Stenographer II in
the Charlotte District Office.

Robbie Broome, IV, is fully indoc-
trinated on this Thomasville Busi-
ness! He informs his dad R. H.
Broome, II, and mom Judy "Be late
for supper — going to Thomasville";
"Need a BIG file folder to put Tho-
masville papers in".

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Mr. and Mrs. B. F. MANGUM
spent a nice vacation in Texas. They
visited Austin, Houston, Kings
Ranch (823,403 acres) (Hemis Fair
at) San Antonia, Big Bend National
Park, Pan Handle and L.B.J. Ranch
at Johnson City. Mr Mangum is a
Mechanic Foreman II in District I.

Horace W. Hutto, of Mecklenburg
County Maintenance and his wife are
the proud grandparents of Kelly Mi-
chelle McKee, born on April 30th,
to their daughter Linda and husband
Kenneth McKee. The McKee's are
presently living in Kansas City, Kan-
sas where he is stationed with the
U. S. Armed Forces.

Mr. and Mrs. MAYO PETERS
and family spent a vacation with his
parents in Georgetown, La. Mr. Pe-
ters is a M. F. II in Anson County. .

We are glad to have Mr. J. P.
HILL back on the job after being on
the sick list several days. Mr. Hill is
ters is a M. F. II in Anson County.

Best of luck to S. T. DIGGS who
is leaving for a tour of duty with
Uncle Sam. Mr. Diggs is a Tempo-
rary Truck Driver in Anson County.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
JAMES HOWARD (Mr. Howard is
M. O. Ill in Stanly Maintenance)
who won an expense paid, 7 day vaca-
tion in Florida. They were flown by
Eastern to Tampa and furnished a
new Oldsmobile for sightseeing. Jim
reports that they spent most of
their time in the Tampa Bay Area
and really had a wonderful time.

Get well wishes are extended to
J. H. LOWDER, M. O. Ill of Stanly
Maintenance. Mr. Lowder had a
tooth removed and complications set
in, giving Mr. Lowder quite a hard
time.

Congratulations to Mrs. Jonah W.
Vanhoy who graduated May 6th
from West Stanly High School. Mr.
VANHOY is a M. O. I in Stanly
Maintenance.

Congratulations to Miss Anne
Moss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. RO-

BERT MOSS, who is a recent grad-
uate of Wingate College. Mr. Moss
is a mechanic in Equipment Depot.

G. B. Hill, of Union County Main-
tenance and his wife are the proud
grandparents of Regina Leigh Grif-
fin born on March 29th, to daugh-
ter Phyllis and husband Keith Grif-
fin. Son-in-law Keith, worked with
Sign Department in Union County
for 3 years and for the past 2 years
Mr. Griffin has been with the U. S.
Armed Forces and is now stationed in
Vietnam.

Candice Paige Thompson born
May 17th. Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill
Thompson and grandson of William
Sherrill Thompson who is G. U. Man
in Anson County.

Pvt. Glenn K. Little, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn K. Little, has
completed his training at Fort Leo-
nard Wood, Mo., on May 3. He ar-
rived home May 4th for a 22 day
leave. On May 25th he left California
in route to Vietnam. He is a 1966
graduate of East Polkton High School
and he has completed one year in
auto mechanics schools at Ansonville
Industrial Education Center, Anson-
ville.

Mr. G. K. Little, Sr. is a Powder-
man in Anson County.

Kenneth Ray Lemmond will grad-
uate from Sun Valley High School
in Union County on June 6th. He
is 18 years old and the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas R. Lemmond.

Mr. Lemmond is an employee of
the Bridge Maint. Dept. in Union
and Mecklenburg County.

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Caldwell County
Maintenance Sup-
ervisor and Mrs.
DAYMON STAN-
LEY are the proud
parents of a new
son, born June 4th.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of E. C. NOR-

Divis^otcorfesronden.RIS who passed

away April 24th. Mr. Norris retired
on disability March 1, 1967, after
having served with the Highway Com-
mission for over 35 years; also, to
T. R. REAVIS, District I employee
whose faher died May 10th and to
L. I. SHEARIN, District I employee
whose mother died April 20th.

Martha is a rising senior at Wilkes
Central High School where she is a
member of the National Honor So-
ciety, Tri-Hi-Y Club and the Green
Key Club. She will meet with other
North Carolina winners at Raleigh
and travel to Washington by bus
where her activities will include a
tour of the city, a speech by the
President and other members of the
NRECA, breakfast with congressmen
and a meeting with other contest
winners from the 27 states in the
Rural Electric Corporation. Martha's
mother is employed in the Right of
Way Department.

Get well wishes are extended to
the following District I employees
who are out on sick leave at this
time: SAM BILLINGS, W. D. HAL-
SEY, W. H. BUSIC, C. M. NIXON,
GEORGE CHILDRESS and E. P.
COMBS.

Mr. S. H. RENEGAR, District I
Maintenance Employee visited with
his son in Jacksonville, Florida, dur-
ing May.

The Tri-County Chapter of the
Employees' Association met in May
and elected officers for 1988-69 as
follows: STONY CARTER, Chair-
man; JAMES COMER, Vice-Chair-
man and JIMMY SLOOP, Secretary
and Treasurer.

The Surry County Chapter of the
Association also met and elected their
officers for the next year as follows:
C. H. MOORE, Chairman; W. C.
JARVIS, Vice-Chairman; and J. D.
WHITE, Secretary and Treasurer.

Martha Ann Kilby, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Kilby, North
Wilkesboro, won first prize in the
Tarheel Electric Tour Contest which
is an all-expense paid trip to Wash-
ington, D. C, June 10th thru 14th.
Martha is a rising senior at Wilkes
Blue Ridge Electric Membership
Corp., Lenoir. To enter the contest,
she had to compete with other high
school juniors in writing an essay on
the subject of "Rural Electric Co-
operative — What They Have Meant
to the Economy of North Carolina
and to the Well Being of Its People".

IT'S SIMPLE

Asked the inquiring child, "Daddy,
is today Wednesday?"

Answered the patient father, "No,
daughter, today is Thursday."

Child: "But yesterday you said that
today is Wednesday.' "

Father: "Well, today was Wednes-
day yesterday. Yesterday Thursday
was tomorrow today. When today is
tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
Today is today now. Now, do you
understand?"

Miss Dana Ernestine Martin be-
came the bride of Jimmy Frank
Sloop on Saturday afternoon, April
20th, at Bessie's Chapel Baptist
Church. The Rev. Clay Macemore,
pastor, officiating.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest M. Martin of El-
kin. She is a graduate of Elkin High
School and Draughn Business Col-
lege, Winston-Salem, and is employ-
ed at Central Telephone Company.

Mr. Sloop is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Sloop of State Road. He
is a graduate of Elkin High School
and is employed by the N. C. State
Highway Commission - Landscape
Department.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to R. J.
ALBERT in the
death of his wife,
Winifred, on May
30th. Mr. Albert
was Area Con-
struction Engineer
until his retirement
in 1964. He is
now living at 8907

Jean Cline Tumbull Ave.,

vision Correspondent Richmond ya

Welcome to J. R. PARKER, Traf-

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S. H. Speaks, Machine Operator 2,
Iredell Co. and grandson, 6 months
old Glenn Douglas Crater.

fic Technician, who has recently
moved to Shelby and who is assigned
to Division 12.

A speedy recovery is wished for
Mrs. D. L. Cash and Mrs. W. H. Bar-
rett who were on the sick list in May.
Mr. CASH and Mr. BARRETT are
employed in the Shelby Construction
Office.

The handsome couple in picture
above are Tammy and Tony Wray,
children of H. E. Wray, Engineering
Technician II, and Mrs. Wray.

JIM SPRINKLE is very proud of
his BIG boy born March 22. Baby
Sprinkle weighed only 11 pounds.
Congratulations Jim!

Sympathy is extended to CLINT
HASTINGS, retired Traffic Services
employee, in the death of his wife.

We welcome our new employee in
Construction Department, R. L.
BUMGARDNER, JR., Civil Tech-
nology Trainee.

Congratulations to Dave Wyke, son
of Division Engineer and Mrs. W. W.
WYKE, who graduated from N. C.
State College on May 25th, receiv-
ing B. S. in Electrical Engineering.

Best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Tho-
mas Stephen Helms, who were mar-
ried on June 1st at Clanton Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Charlotte.
Mrs. Helms, prior to her marriage
was Miss Glenda Anne Alexander,
daughter of Assistant District Engi-
neer J. WATT ALEXANDER and
Mrs. Alexander of Statesville. The
young couple attended the University

The two young fellows above cele-
brated their first birthdays on May
10. Pictured left to right are Gregory
Scott, Pop and Jeffery Scott. These
two boys are the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Sam Pierce, Jr. Sam is an Engi-
neering Technician II with the Con-
struction Department.

of North Carolina, Charlotte, where
Mr. Helms recently received a B. S.
Degree in Political Science.

Congratulations are in order for
Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES D. GET-
TYS of Polkville who announce the
birth of a daughter in May. Charles
is an Engineering Technician I at
Shelby.

It's good to have RALPH (PAN-
CHO) HARRILL, Highway Inspector
III, back at work after a two week
illness in May.

Temporary Engineering employees
in the Shelby Construction Office for
the summer include CHARLES RAY
BLACK, JOHNNY BAXTER Mc-
CLURE, LARRY GERALD WARE,
CARLOS WAYNE HAMILTON,
GARY THOMAS COLLINS,
JAMES RAY HEAD, EARL H.
LUTZ, JR. and JAMES C. ALLEN,
JR.

Tom Cherry of Catawba County
has two good reasons for seeing June
come this year. His son, Tommy,
graduated on May 25th from North
Carolina State University at Raleigh.
Tommy received a Bachelor of
Science degree from the school of
Engineering. He majored in Engi-
neering Operations and Production
Control. He has accepted a position
as an Industrial Engineer with Tal-
on, Inc. in Meadville, Pa. He finish-
ed his senior year with an overall
"B" average, making the Dean's list
for both semesters. Tommy's wife,
Betty Crews Cherry, finished the fall
semester and graduated on May 26th
from Meredith College in Raleigh.
She majored in Home Economics and
received her Bachelor of Arts degree
in Home Economics Education. She
plans to teach in the Meadville area.
Recently, she has been employed at
North Carolina State University in
the Genetics department, since she
finished her studies in January of
this year.

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Congratulations go to JERRY
FORD also, who is the proud papa
of a baby girl, born May 15, weigh-
ing 7 pounds, 9 ounces.

We have three new employees in
our department. They are: JAMES
EDWARD McLAIN — Temporary
Engineering Aide. Mr. McLain is
from Statesville. EVERETTE
BRENT SIGMON — Engineering
Asssitant. Mr. Sigmon is from Con-
over. Mrs. RUTH LAW — Secretary
to Mr. Charles Mauney. Mrs. Law
is from Statesville.

Above William David Walton, age
211/2 months. Isn't he adorable? He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Dalton and Herman is employed in
the Shelby Construction Party.

Mr. E. T. COLES has recently been
elected President of the Statesville
Optimist Club. He is an Iredell Coun-
ty Maintenance employee.

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES CAMP-
BELL and family recently went on
a trip to West Virginia. Charles is
Engineering Technician in Iredell
County.

Mr. G. H. ARMSTRONG, Cataw-
be County employee, returned to
work May 20 after being out several
months due to injury. We are glad
to have him back.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. J. H.
POOVEY, Maintenance Foreman 4
in Catawba County, in the recent
death of his mother.

Miss Patricia Ann Connolly is the
daughter of R. Wayne Connolly,
Road Maintenance Supervisor in Ire-
dell County. Patricia graduated from
North Iredell High School in May
where she was the recipient of the
Danforth Award. She also had an
outstanding record of attending school
for twelve years without missing a
day.

Roberta Anne Capps, daughter of
F. M. Capps, Engineering Technician
III, and Mrs. Capps, was married to
Jay Ahern of Atlanta, Georgia on
May 26, 1968. Anne completes her
course at Bouder Careen College, At-
lanta, Georgia in June after which
she will be employed by the College.
Mr. Ahern is in Industrial Engineer-
ing.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. J. W. EARP who passed
away on May 23. Mr. Earp was a
maintenance employee in Alexander
County.

DON REAVIS, BOB LACKEY,
ERNEST BRYAN and JOHN VAN-
STORY attended the "World 600"
in Charlotte, May 26. To everyone's
disappointment the rainy weather
interfered with what could have been
a good race.

Mrs. Ronald Harold Johnson, who
prior to her marriage on April 7 was
Sandra Gail Gaither, daughter of
District Engineer L. D. Gaither and
Mrs. Gaither. "Sandy" and "Ronnie"
are employed in Statesville.
She is a Registered Nurse at Iredell
Memorial Hospital and he is with
partment. We wish for them many
years of happiness.

The following employees have left
the State's employ: D. L. BOLT, J.
R. HAYES and W. G. CHILDERS.
The first two men resigned to accept
other employment and the last one
left to fill his military obligation.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees in the Statesville Construction
Department: S. F. JURNEY and R.
D. JONES, Engineering Aides. We
will be getting several boys for sum-
mer employment sometime in June.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
EDWIN HENDERSON on the ar-
rival of a baby boy on March 17. His
name is Jeffery Edwin and his fa-
ther is an Engineering Technician I
with the Statesville Construction De-
partment.

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Mr. George Stewart Henley retired
May 1st, as Machine Operator 2
in Catawba County. We wish him
much happiness in his retirement.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wa-
caster, son of G. M. WACASTER,
Cleveland County employee — a Son
— only Wacaster Male in 17 years
to fall heir to the throne. A very
proud Grandfather.

E. W. LISPCOMB, JR. continues
to improve after severe heart attack.
Mr. Lipscomb is Blacksmith in Cle-
veland County. Able to be home.

J. T. PRUITT, M. O. I in Cle-
veland County home after surgery
on throat.

WILLIAM JAMES McSWAIN,
Maintenance Foreman III retired
June 1, 1968 on disability. Mr. Mc-
Swain has been with the State for
approximately 23 years.

CARL ACKER, Division Right of
Way Agent, and Mrs. Asker are
proud of their new son, John Ray-
mond Acker.

Welcome to the Twelfth Division
to A. DEAN BRIDGES, who trans-
ferred from Aberdeen Right of Way
Office to Shelby. Also to LEWIS
SHAW who transferred from Wilson
to Shelby Right of Way.

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

GENE EDMONDS, Traffic Serv-
ices Engineer, is in hospital at the

present time, but expects to be going
home shortly. MERYL COMPTON,
Traffic Services Supervisor was a pa-
tient at a local hospital earlier, but is
now back with us.

RALPH WARNOCK, JR. has been
transferred to the District Two office
from Sanford. We all welcome him
nad wish Ralph, his wife Janice and
22 months-old daughter Stephanie a
happy stay here in Asheville.

Right of Way Department has some
new transfers also. Welcome to JOHN
H. BLAND, JR. from Raleigh, WIL-
LIAM MORTON from Lumberton
and LARRY BALL.

Congratulations to DAN MARTIN
on his promotion to Staff Engineer
in the Division Office — Dan was
with Paul Robinson, Resident Engi-
neer prior to his promotion.

HARRIET GOSSETT, secretary
in the Division Office, was named
Asheville Secretary of the Day re-
cently and received a beautiful bou-
quet of flowers.

We all hope that ALONZO
FRANKLIN'S daughter, Shirley
Jean and EARL CUTSHALL'S mo-
ther have recovered completely from
their recent sickness. Both Alonzo
and Earl are with the Road Oil De-
partment. Welcome back to EDDIE
BASKERVILLE, who has now re-
cuperated from his recent surgery.

Anne Kearney, who graduated last
week from St. Genevieve High School,
was awarded the highest honor the
school can give — the Moore Award.
She has been very active in all school
activities, holding the office of Stu-
dent Body President and has also
been on committees of several civic
and social organizations. S. W. Kear-
ney, Division Office Manager, has
every reason to be proud of Ann, for
as busy as she has been, she has
maintained a very high scholastic
average and is a member of the Na-
tional Honor Society. Anne will be
a Freshman at U. N. C. Greensboro
come September and we all wish her
every success.

Six members of the Right of Way Department went fishing recently off
the South Carolina coast. Here, displaying their catch are: Back row, left
to right, Jack Finger, Dick Dillingham, Kenneth Roberts; Front row, Robert
Christopher, Dallas Clark and Nelson Bowden.

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DANNY TURNER is remodeling
the kitchen of his new home and has
put in 50 tomato plants. Dan is get-
ting married later this month.

Other Road Oil Department news
is that RAY HYLEMAN'S wife is
in the hospital. We all wish her a
speedy recovery. We were all so
sorry to hear the news of ROGER
FRANKLIN'S heart attack and are
so glad to hear that he is now home
and getting along fine. MARGARET
STEWART, secretary in Road Oil
had company from Washington, D.
C. — her nephew and his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Stewart.

JAMES A. RAMSEY, son of your
correspondent, recently was awarded
a National Science Foundation grant
for research study this summer at
Chapel Hill, where he is a rising
senior.

Noted in last
issue of our Road-
way that MARK
WILLIS was given
a farewell party in
Shelby to go to
Greenville to work
— Funny thing
happened to him
on the way! Mark
took the wrong

d^SSEESS**"™ and ended up
in Sylva and has been here since. As
yet Greenville hasn't sent out a
searching party but if they are in-
terested they will have to pay a
ransom to get him. Comes pretty
high too!

JOYCE CLOER, Steno in Division
Engineer's office, has decided to re-
turn to work. She recommends a
good long rest for all of us as the
best medicine a doctor can prescribe.
Sounds good but am afraid they will
find out can do without me.

LOUIS McGEE, Right of Way
Agent, took his family and went to
the golf tournament and won a flight
trophy. I couldn't find a picture of
him to get in this issue but thought
maybe someone would have a group
picture to show you — look for him
— he's our boy!

RAY SPANGLER, Resident Engi-
neer in the Murphy area, got fussed
at by his wife for not turning in any
news — so bless his heart, he has
contributed — here goes:

LOUISE DEHART has been em-
ployed recently as Typist. Ray dic-
tated a letter to her other day re-
ferred to "Y" Lines — Know how it
came out in letter? — Wild Lines —
She says that nok she knows the
difference — Don't let that bother
you Louise these Highway people
have some difficult words to under-
stand — Reminds me of my first
month with the highway — I was
taking a letter on Nigger Skull Rd.
and I thought he meant Negro so
when typed up the letter I used Ne-
gro Skull Rd. — my boss got a big
kick out of that — A hardy welcome
to you Louise.

Ray also has a new Assistant Resi-
dent — CARL AUVIL. He was trans-
ferred to the Bryson City office
from Hendersonville office and then
on to Murphy. I don't guess he had
time to unpack his suitcase before
moving on. He swapped places with
JOHN D. ROBERTSON, which puts
John closer home.

Baseball is picking up over the
Murphy way also. Their office has
a slop pitch softball league and won
the first game, losing the last two.
We're rooting for you so get in there
and pitch.

ZEB PATTON in Construction has
been out sick several weeks but is
back but still not up to "snuff" —
Huel Millsaps in Construction under-
went surgery recently — altho is
back home has not returned to work
at this date.

Thanks Ray for the news from
your area!

FRANK BRYSON, Sign Supervi-
sor, has been in and out of the hos-
pital for exploratory work — and
finally decided what was the matter
— he has had surgery and understand
that he is getting along nicely — He
had a "highway" ulcer.

JOE NOLAND, Right of Way De-
partment, has resigned to go into
"sales" work — We wish for him the
best. Added to our department is
Fred Langston from Fayetteville.
Fred has just returned from a tour
of duty in Viet Nam. We hope he
will like us long enough to stay
awhile. The girls downstairs says the

These two pictures were plucked
off the Post Office Bulletin Board as
the most wanted men. They are
wanted by the Right of Way Golfers
to learn how to play the game. As
a little encouragement, John Colville
(top photo) was given the Duffers
Award for having the highest duffers
score. He was really in there pitch-
ing — pitching so hard he bent his
nine iron around a tree and in pic-
ture he has it partly straightened.
Grady Shook (lower photo) won a
trophy also and it wasn't what you
thing by the picture. Grady won his
for driving the "fartherest" and not
hitting a ball (Tis a long way from
Sylva to there). Course when got
there he was real thirsty and the
can he is holding was filled with good
ole seacoast water! (Sylva Correspon-
dent).

faces change so fast upstairs that
can't keep up with them. We have
named the Right of Way Department
in Sylva "Purgatory" — If you make
it you are sent on to greater things,
if you don't make it you can go —
How about that Ahoskie?

Typical of the North Carolina scene, now that school is out, is the camper above and many happy and excited chil-
dren nearby for lots of summer fun with Mom and Dad in our beautiful Variety Vacationland.

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A MAGAZINE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XIV

number mmrv

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

DAN K. MOORE GOVERNOR

JOSEPH M. HUNT, JR CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr.

W. W. Exum

Ashley M. Murphy

Carl Renfro

J. B. Brame

Carl Meares

Thomas S. Harrington

John F. McNak, III
George L. Hundley
George H. Broadrick
Raymond Smith
W. B. Garrison
James G. Sthceleather, Jr.

W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C W. Lee Chdsf Engineer

George Wdlloughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Ferry Operation 1

Ferry Operations Along N. C. Coast 1

Sound Level Survey Conducted 15

Think Signs 16

Defensive Driving 17

New Technologies Need Good Highways 18

Highways — Current Status 19

Governor Moore Dedicates Park 21

1968, 40-45 Year Service Award 23

Elwell's Ferry — Bladen 24

From The Chairman's Office 25

N.C.S.H.P.E.A. Association News 26

The 1933 Storm 27

Arnold Kirk — Editor, Conservation

and Development 30

N. C. Hires Swedish Students 31

Pot Luck 33

Headquarters 34

Division News 37

Maiden Of The Narrows 52

Rattlesnake Season Inside Back Cover

COVER

Our Cover for this issue of ROAD-
WAYS is an artist sketch of what the
layman might visualize a clover leaf
highway to look like. We have our 14
Highway Commissioners superimpos-
ed into the sketch and an actual
drawing of the Death Valley Complex
around Greensboro on either side of
Chairman Hunt's picture.

Thanks to Wayne Shaw of Advanc-
ed Planning and W. A. Wilson, Jr., of
Roadway Design for the ideas.

The Ferry Operation

By E. H. BAGGS

Headquarters of the Highway Commission's most uni-
que operation is located at Morehead City, North Caro-
lina. Its function is the supplying and operating of move-
able links (ferries) for Eastern North Carolina Highways
and extends from Southport, N. C. (approximately 35
miles from the South Carolina line) to Knotts Island, N.
C. (approximately 5 miles from the Virginia line).

Ferries are operated at six locations and divided into
two districts; namely: Northern District Office, located at
Hatteras, N. C. and Southern District Office, located at
Headquarters in Morehead City, N. C.
Headquarters Personnel:
Mr. E. H. Baggs, Ferry Operations Manager
Mr. 'Mack" McBryde, Highway Office Manager
Mrs. W. D. Daniels, Steno II
Mrs. J. P. Edwards, Clerk II
Northern District Personnel: (Hatteras)
Mr. J. F. Wilson, Ferry Superintendent
Mr. G. R. Fuller, Administrative Assistant
Mr. W. B. Creef, Clerk II

Under Mr. Wilson's supervision are Hatteras Inlet
Ferry Operations, Currituck Sound Ferry Operations and
Hydraulic Dredging Operations.
Southern District Personnel: (Morehead City)
E. N. Jones, Ferry Superintendent
Willie Nelson, Jr., Clerk II

Under Mr. Jones' supervision are Cedar Island-Ocra-
coke Ferry Operations, Bogue Sound Ferry Operation,
Pamlico River Ferry Operations and Southport-Ft. Fisher
Ferry Operations.

Following is a brief description of each operation:

E. H. Baggs, Ferry Operations Manager, seated at his
desk.

Ferry Headquarters at Morehead City

Ferry Operations Along N. C. Coast

The topography found along the Coast of North Caro-
lina is most unique and not duplicated elsewhere along the
eastern seaboard of our nation. The mainland is protected
from the Atlantic Ocean by an outer reef barrier, known
as the "Outer Banks", which is made up of several is-
lands, each separated by "Inlets" connecting the ocean
and sounds.

Many years ago the inhabitants of these islands were
completely isolated from the outside world, the only
means of commuting was by privately owned small boats
or the mail boat that visited each island, several times a
week, bringing in staple foods and mail.

As other areas of the State progressed, the inhabitants
of the Outer Banks began to recognize the potential of
their area, and being a hearty breed of people, and de-
voted to their way of thinking; this area too, began to
show progress. This transformation necessitated ways and
means of travel by land, as well as by water; therefore a
ferry system was born, and a system of public roads soon
followed.

The first ferry service, between the Outer Banks and
the outside world, was inaugurated in 1932, by Mr. J. B.
Tillett, as a toll operation, between Wanchese on Roanoke
Island and Rodanthe on Hatteras Island. The operation
was moved to Oregon Inlet in the summer of 1934. It was
entirely a private operation until December 1, 1934,
when the Highway Commission began paying a subsidy
and continued to subsidize the operation until July 1,
1942, at this time the tolls were removed. Mr. Tillett con-
tinued to operate the ferry for the Commission on a fixed
reimbursement basis until October, 1950, at this time
the Commission purchased the franchise and equipment
from Mr. Tillett.

1

Standing, Mrs. J. P. Edwards and Mrs. W. D. Daniels.

In 1947 the nearest paved road to Hatteras Island was
at Whalebone Junction, the intersection of U. S. High-
ways 64; 264 and 158, this point being approximately 8.0
miles north of Oregon Inlet, and 57.0 miles north of Hat-
teras Village. The public road between the above points
was merely a sand trail and practically impassable for
conventional type vehicles. The Highway Commission re-
cognized the problem, and began constructing a paved
road, beginning at Hatteras Village. The entire 65.0 miles
of road was completed in 1953. E. H. Baggs, present Ferry
Operations Manager was Resident Engineer for the Com-
mission on all of this Roadwork.

Upon completion of the road, traffic across Oregon In-
let increased to such an extent, it could not be handled by
the obsolete equipment purchased from Mr. Tillett;
therefore, more and better equipment was a must. The
National Park Service came to the rescue and was most
cooperative in arranging with the Department of Navy
for the transfer of an LCU type craft to the Highway
Commission, on a Revocable Special Use Permit basis
for conversion to an automobile-passenger ferry for use
at Oregon Inlet.

A further increase in the volume of traffic across Ore-
gon Inlet in 1953, prompted the Highway Commission to
request the National Park Service to make arrangements
with the Navy for the transfer of two additional LCU
type crafts for conversion and use as ferry boats; these
were placed in operation during the summer of 1954. The
fourth LCU type craft was acquired through the National
Park Service and placed in operation in October, 1955, and
two more in August, 1961, making a total of six (6) con-
verted LCU's.

In February of 1947, during Governor Cherry's admin-
istration, the State Highway Commission bought from
Mrs. T. A. Baum of Manteo, North Carolina, who was
the widow of the late Captain T. A. Baum, the ferries
named Tyrrell and Dare, which were operating across
Croatan Sound from Manns Harbor to Roanoke Island.
The carrying capacity of these two ferries was 10 cars
each.

Mr. T. J. McKim, First Division Engineer, employed
Mr. J. F. Wilson on the 22nd of February, 1947, as Ferry
Superintendent.

Mr. McDonald Clark and Mr. James C. Clark who were
father and son were operating the ferry at that time for
Mrs. T. A. Baum and were also employed by Mr. McKim
to operate the ferry for the state.

The carrying capacity for these ferries was not ade-
quate, so in 1947, the state purchased from the Navy
Bureau of Ships two surplus LCT landing crafts which
were converted at the Craig Brothers Shipyard at Nor-
folk, Virginia, into two ferry boats with a carrying capa-
city of 21 cars each. They were named Governor Cherry
and Sandy Graham.

In August, 1947, two new ferry landing was constructed
at Alligator River. One at Sandy Point and one at East
Lake.

On August 15, 1947, the Sandy Graham was put in
operation at Alligator River.

In 1950, during Governor Scott's administration another
LCT was purchased by the State named Governor Scott
and was converted into a ferry by the Dunn Marine
Shipyard at West Norfolk, Virginia which later replaced
the Sandy Graham at Alligator River and the Sandy
Graham was moved to Croatan Sound to supplement the
Governor Cherry.

During the winter of 1950 and 1951, Mr. W. N.
Spruill, First Division Engineer, saw the need of a ship-
yard to maintain the State Ferries and received approval
for the construction of a railway at Manns Harbor,
North Carolina, which was built by Mr. Jim Twiford of
the Bridge Department and work was supervised rty Mr.
George K. Mack, District Engineer, and Mr. J. F. Wilson,
Ferry Superintendent.

In December of 1956, when the Governor Umstead
Bridge across Croatan Sound was opened the old Sandy
Graham and the old Governor Cherry were surveyed and
sold. The Governor Scott was converted into a work
boat which was used for driving piles and repairing docks
at different ferry landings.

Traffic continued to increase at the different operations,
requiring the construction, in 1957, of three double end
ferries to operate at Alligator River. They were built by

E. N. Jones, Ferry Supt. and Mark McBryde, Highway
Office Mgr.

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Willie Nelson, Clerk in Morehead Office.

Barbour Boat Works at New Bern, North Carolina, dur-
ing Governor Umstead's administration. They were named
Governor Cherry, Sandy Graham and Emmett Winslow.

In 1957 the State Highway Commission bought Capt.
F. L. Peele's ferry at Hatteras Inlet, connecting Hatteras
and Ocracoke Island. This ferry had a carrying capacity
of four (4) cars.

During the winter of 1957 and 1958, ferry landings were
built at Hatteras and the north end of Ocracoke Island
and two more landing crafts were acquired through the
Park Service to operate across Hatteras Inlet. These
were named Hatteras and Ocracoke.

In 1961, increasing traffic demanded the acquisition of
additional boats, so three more landing crafts were ac-
quired through the Park Service. Two of these were for
the Oregon Inlet operation and one for the Hatteras oper-
tion. The boat for the Hatteras Operation was named the
Buxton and later changed to J. B. "Tobie" Tillett. The
two assigned to Oregon Inlet were named R. Bruce Eth-
eridge and Alpheus W. Drinkwater.

During Governor Hodge's administration, the Highway
Commission purchased from the Taylor Brothers of Sea
Level, North Carolina, the ferry boat Sea Level to operate
as a toll ferry between Atlantic, North Carolina and Oc-
racoke Village. This was the state's first toll operation.

At this time, the ferry operations had spread out to
where it was necessary to create a position of Ferry
Operations Manager, which was filled by Mr. D. W. Pat-
rick, who was the District Engineer at Washington, North
Carolina and a ferry office was opened at Manteo, North
Carolina.

In 1962, during Governor Sanford's administration, the
bridge across Alligator River was opened and a new ferry
operation was opened up in Carteret County between
Emerald Island and Cape Carteret and two of the double
end ferries at Alligator River were transferred to that
operation, and the other double end ferry was sent to
supplement at Oregon Inlet.

In 1963, the H. C. Bonner Bridge across Oregon Inlet
was opened to traffic, terminating that as a ferry opera-
tion.

The LCU type ferries assigned to Oregon Inlet were
transferred to the Hatteras Inlet operation and the double
end ferry was sent to supplement the Bogue Sound opera-
tion.

In 1963, Manns Harbor Shipyard was taken over by
the Equipment Department and Mr. D. E. Snow was
placed in charge as Equipment Superintendent.

In 1964, Mr. D. W. Patrick transferred to the First
Division Engineer position at Ahoskie, North Carolina
and Mr. E. H. Baggs, who was then Assistant Division
Engineer, in Ahoskie, was made Ferry Operations Man-
ager and headquarters for ferry operations was moved
from Manteo to Morehead City, retaining an office in
Manteo, N. C. that was moved to Hatteras Inlet Ferry
Operations in 1965.

During Governor Sanford's administration, a new ferry
landing was constructed at Cedar Island. The ferry Sea
Level was moved from Atlantic to Cedar Island which
shortened the run approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.

During Governor Moore's administration, traffic in-
creased to the extent that two new ferries were completed
by the New Bern Shipyard and placed on the run be-
tween Cedar Island and Ocracoke and a new operation
between Southport and Fort Fisher was created and this
Sea Level was sent to Southport for that run. At this
time, the name of the ferry was changed to Southport-Ft.
Fisher. The two new ferries were named "Silver Lake"
and "Pamlico".

About this same time another new ferry route was es-
tablished across Pamlico River in Beaufort County from
Bayview to Aurora. The ferry for this run was also con-
structed by the New Bern Shipyard and named "Beau-
fort".

Since the beginning of state operated ferry system in
February, 1947, with one vessel and three employees, the
system has steadily grown until it requires sixteen (16)
vessels, a hydraulic dredge and approximately 200 per-
manent employees to carry on the operations. Two of the
original employees are still with Ferry Operations — Mr.
J. F. Wilson, Ferry Superintendent and Mr. McDonald
Clark, Pilot. Mr. Wilson will retire January 1, 1969, after
22 years of dedicated service.

The 6 Ferry Operations for fiscal year 1965-66 trans-
ported 277,440 vehicles and 937,529 passengers. 1967-68
the 6 ferry operations transported 392,799 vehicles and
1,312,956 passengers, an increase of over 40% in a three
year period.

FERRY OPERATIONS ARE NEVER ENDING —
ONE, OR MORE, FERRIES ARE IN OPERATION 24
HOURS A DAY, 365 DAYS A YEAR.

Currituck Sound School Ferry Crew
McDonald Clark, Capt.; J. C. Harris, Engineer; R. A.
Dunton, Sr.; Jake Snow; R. B. Mansfield, Deck Hand.

S

CURRITUCK SOUND

The Ferry "Knotts Island" was placed in operation be-
tween Currituck and Knotts Island during the fall of
1962. The primary reason for this operation — to trans-
port school children from Knotts Island to Currituck to
attend the Currituck county schools. The trip from Knotts
Island to Currituck by school bus required iy2 hours
traveling time and by ferry, approximately 45 minutes.
This ferry operates 7 days per week, 365 days a year. Dur-
ing the summer season it operates 14 hours per day; and
from the time school opens until it closes, it operates 12
hours per day.

Gross Tons — 99
Horsepower — 340

STATISTICS:

Length — 71'
Breadth — 28'
Depth — 7'6"

Capacity — 7 normal size cars, Approx. 50-60 passengers.
Crossing distance between landings — 5 miles
Crossing Time — 45 minutes

CURRITUCK SOUND, N. C.
FREE— FERRY SCHEDULE

EFFECTIVE SEPT. THRU MAY
(SCHOOL TERM)

Leave
Mainland Side

6:30 A.M.

8:30 A.M.
10:30 A.M.
12:30 P.H.

3:30 P.M.

Leave
Knotts Island

7:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
11:30 A.M.
1:30 P.M.
4:30 P.M.

EFFECTIVE JUNE THRU AUGUST

Leave
Mainland Side

5:00 A.M.
7:00 A.M.
9:00 A.M.
11:00 A.M.
1:00 P.M.
3:00 P.M.
5:00 P.M.

Leave
Knotts Island

6:00 A.M.

8:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
12:00 Noon

2:00 P.M.

4:00 P.M.

6:00 P.M.

PERSONNEL REQUIRED:

2 Pilots 3 Deckhands

2 Ferry Engineer I 2 Nightwatchmen

2 Ferrymen I

TRAFFIC:

Fiscal year Total vehicles Total passengers

1964- 65 5,886 34,342

1965- 66 6,820 38,864

1966- 67 7,508 38,123

1967- 68 6,572 28,557

Few high schoolers say, "Let's cruise over to school"
and mean it literally. But then, few can salute a fish-
ing boat from their bus or watch a seagull tracing circles
in the sky, daily sights for 24 "commuters" from Knotts
Island to high school at Currituck Courthouse, North
Carolina. Actually, Knotts Island is a pine-shaped town
that caps a slender finger of land pointing into the At-
lantic off the North Carolina coast. Until the ferry was
built to carry the students straight across Currituck
Sound, they had a hectic bouncing over almost 50 miles
of twisting road around the sound to get to class. Now
the bus collects its riders and arrives at the ferry dock
at about 7:15 a.m. Boys and girls board their craft with
the casual air of globetrotters, and their bus rumbles on
board behind them to finish the trip to the school door.

As ferries go, the school boat is referred to thereabouts
as a "cute toy." Only 71 feet long and 28 wide, it has twin
diesel engines that can turn up a total of 340 hp. for a
maximum speed of 12 knots. The warm cabin substitutes
as a study hall, and a student may do his homework be-
fore getting it home! Bright paint marks the school boat:
black hull, gray vehicle deck, white cabin and bridge,
and red- orange roof. Orange life preservers — 70 of
them — are stored on the green cabin bulkhead. But
there's not a seasick pill on board; these students are
veteran sailors.

Currituck Sound Ferry

HATTERAS INLET

Ferry vessels for vehicle transportation between Hat-
teras Island and Ocracoke Island was instituted by Mr.
Frazier Peele in April 1953. The ferry used was a small
wooden craft 54' long and 16' wide, with a capacity for
four standard size automobiles or one five-ton truck,
with a light load, and two automobiles. This service was
continued by Mr. Peele as a toll operation until August,
1957, when Mr. Peele's Ferry Franchise and equipment
was purchased by the State Highway Commission and
the operation was made toll-free at that time.

During the winter of 1957-58 a ferry landing was built
at Hatteras Inlet at the North end of Ocracoke Island
— two (2) modified LCU's were placed in service during
the Winter of 1959. Traffic has grown to such an extent
until at the closing of the Oregon Inlet Operation, vessels
used there were transferred to Hatteras Inlet until we
now have eight (8) converted LCU's at this operation.
This service is available 7-days per week, 365 days a year
(Operating 18-hours per day during the Summer Season,
and 14-hours per day during the Winter months).

NAMES OF FERRIES:

"HERBERT C. BONNER" "R. B. ETHERIDGE"

"OCRACOKE" "CONRAD WIRTH"

"A. W. DRINKWATER" "LINDSEY WARREN"

"HATTERAS" "J. B. TOBY TILLETT"

George Fuller, Administrative Assistant in Northern
District, Hatteras.

STATISTICS: (All Ferries Same)

Length — 107' Gross Tons — 160

Breadth — 35'6" Horsepower — 495

Depth — 5'6" Capacity — 18 vehicles

Distance between landings — 5 Miles

Cross Time — 1 Hour

TRAFFIC:

Fiscal year Total vehicles

1964- 65

1965- 66

1966- 67

1967- 68

Total passengers

295,526
355,719
379,545
332,353

78,033
91,623
96,762
103,504

Note: For traffic prior to Fiscal Year 1964-65, refer
Mr. J. S. Burch, State Planning Engineer.
PERSONNEL REQUIRED:

6 Port Captains 15 Ferrymen I

15 Pilots 15 Deckhands

20 Engineer I

HATTERAS INLET (FREE) FERRY
Ferry Capacity — Aprox. 18 Automobiles
SUMMER SCHEDULE
Effective During
Eastern Daylight Time Period

to

Leave

Leave

Hatteras

Ocracoke

5:30 A.M.

(Delete

Sept. 15)

6:30 A.M.

6:10 A.M.

7:10 P.M.

6:50 A.M.

7:50 A.M.

7:30 A.M.

8:30 A.M.

8:10 A.M.

9:10 A.M.

8:50 A.M.

9:50 A.M.

9:30 A.M.

10:30 A.M.

10:10 A.M.

11:10 P.M.

10:50 A.M.

11:50 A.M.

11:30 A.M.

12:30 P.M.

12:10 P.M.

1:10 P.M.

12:50 P.M.

1:50 P.M.

1:30 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

2:10 P.M.

3:10 P.M.

2:50 P.M.

3:50 P.M.

3:30 P.M.

4:30 P.M.

4:10 P.M.

5:10 P.M.

4:50 P.M.

5:50 P.M.

5:30 P.M.

6:30 P.M.

6:50 P.M.

(Delete

Sept. 15)

7:50 P.M.

6:10 P.M.

(Delete

Oct. 15)

7:00 P.M.

ADDITIONAL TRIP
June 1 thru August 1

WINTER SCHEDULE

Effective During
Eastern Standard Time Period

Leave
Hatteras

5:00 A.M.

6:00 A.M.

7:00 A.M.

8:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
11:00 A.M.
12:00 Noon

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

3:00 P.M.

4:00 P.M.

5:00 P.M.

(Add April 1)

(Add March 1)

Leave
Ocracoke

6:00 A.M.

7:00 A.M.

8:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
11:00 A.M.
12:00 Noon

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

3:00 P.M.

4:00 P.M.

5:00 P.M.

6:00 P.M.

CEDAR ISLAND— OCRACOKE

The first ferry to operate between Ocracoke, N. C. and
the N. C. mainland (Atlantic, N. C.) was the Ferry "Sea
Level" in April, 1960. It was a toll operation and inaug-
urated by the Taylor Brothers, Atlantic, N. C. The N.
C. State Highway Commission purchased this vessel
from the Taylor Brothers (West Indies Fruit and Steam-
ship Co., West Palm Beach, Florida) on February 9, 1961.
It began operating on May 1, 1961 from Atlantic, N. C.
to Ocracoke, N. C. under the N. C. State Highway Com-
mission making one round trip daily. When the new
Ferry Terminal was built at Cedar Island, N. C. in
May, 1964, this enabled the ferry to make two round
trips daily, due to the greatly shortened distance between
Cedar Island and Ocracoke — and better ferry channels.

The Ferry "Sea Level" was transferred to the South-
port-Ft. Fisher Ferry Operations in 1965. At this time,
two new ferries were placed in service at the Cedar Is-
land-Ocracoke Ferry Operations — the Ferry "Silver
Lake" and the Ferry "Pamlico".

These vessels were built by the New Bern Shipyard at
New Bern, N. C. The Ferry "Silver Lake" was dedicated
and christened in July 31, 1965, by Mrs. Merrill Evans,
wife of the former Highway Chairman. This vessel made
her first run on August 12, 1965.

The Ferry "Pamlico" was dedicated and christened by
Mrs. Joe Hunt, wife of Joe Hunt, Chairman of the N. C.
State Highway Commission on December 2, 1965.

7:20 P.M.

8:20 P.M.

Hatteras Free Ferry

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Cedar Island Ferry Office
Irene Hamilton, Clerk I and G. W. Gaskill, Clerk II.

The Silver Lake and Pamlico ferries are identical and
statistics are as follows:

Length — 150.7'
Breadth — 38.1'
Depth — 11.6'

Gross Tons — 499
Capacity — 30 Cars
Capacity 300 Passengers

Horsepower — 990 (Twin Screw Diesel - 2-495 H.P.
Fairbanks Morse Engines)

Crossing Distance between landings — 22 Miles
Crossing Time — 2J/2 Hours

This Ferry service is available 7-days per wek, 365 days
a year, operating 13-hours per day — year round.

PERSONNEL REQUIRED:

5 Masters (Ferry Captains) — Requires Master's License,
500 Ton Inspected Vessel, Third Class Radio Oper-
ator's License, Pilotage for Pamlico Sound.

5 Ferry Enginer II — Requires license for Inspected Ves-
sels of 1,000 Horsepower.

5 Ferry Quartermasters — Requires Able Seaman Ticket.

5 Oilers (Ferry Engineer I) — Requires Oiler's Ticket.

5 Ferrymen II — Requires Able Seaman Ticket

5 Deckhands — Requires Ordinary Seaman Ticket.

2 Clerk II

2 Clerk I

These ferries are dry-docked annually for repairs and
maintenance. They are inspected and approved by U. S.
Coast Guard Marine Inspection and all Safety Equip-
ment checked and approved.

TRAFFIC:

Fiscal year

1964- 65

1965- 66

1966- 67

1967- 68

Total vehicles

11,037
14,791
22,116
28,983

Total passengers

30,645
41,796
62,019
85,343

SILVER LAKE CHRISTENED

The new Cedar Island to Ocracoke Ferry has been
christened. The long awaited vessel has gone into opera-
tion, according to E. H. Baggs, and the service was wel-
comed by everyone who are glad to see it become a reality.

The Silver Lake was dedicated at 11:00 o'clock Satur-
day morning July 31, 1965. A dedication service was held
in the waters of the Trent River where she was built by
the New Bern Shipyards Inc.

State and local officials from Carteret, Craven and
Hyde counties were present.

Mrs. Merrill Evans, wife of the former Chairman of
the State Highway Commission christened the ship. She
was presented a bouquet of red roses by little Margaret
Ward, granddaughter of the master of ceremonies D. L.
(Libby) Ward.

Mr. Ward, a former general assemblyman from New
Bern, introduced Joe Hunt, Greensboro, Chairman of the
State Highway Commission. Mr. Hunt observed that the
ferries are helping to link eastern and western North
Carolina as are its highway. He invited the people to bet-
ter acquaint themselves with the state and the many ave-
nues that are open to us here in North Carolina from east
to-west.

The new vessel was dedicated "for service to all hu-
manity who would seek solace and comfort in serene and
contented places".

Among the officials introduced by the master of cere-
monies were the late Cameron Langston, highway com-
missioner of the second division which includes Craven
and Carteret counties; Dick Lupton, Hyde County Repre-
sentative; R. C. Godwin, Craven County Representative;
Senators Sam Whitehurst and Thomas White of the state
senatorial district.

Mack Lupton, Mayor of New Bern; Ivan Hardesty, as-
sistant chief highway engineer; Cdr. John Fox, USCG,
Wilmington; Merrill Evans, V. B. Andrews, President
of New Bern Shipyards; C. S. Hardison, formerly of
Morehead City, Vice-President of the shipyards and
supervisor of the ferry construction.

A dedicatory prayer was offered by the Rev. Reid Er-
vin, pastor of the Neuse Forest Presbyterian Church,
New Bern.

After the ceremony about 30 guests were taken on a
cruise on the Neuse River.

Irvin Garrish, veteran ferry skipper of Ocracoke, was
master of the vessel. He is also master of the Sea Level.

Four crews will alternate between the two vessels. The
chief engineer on the Silver Lake is K. R. Robinson, Oc-
racoke. With the addition of the Silver Lake means that
ferries will leave Ocracoke and Cedar Island slips four
times daily. With only one ferry, the Sea Level, departure
times from each place were only twice daily.

When the Silver Lake goes on the run, departure
times from each side will be at 6:00 and 9:00 A.M., noon
and 3:00 P.M. It takes about 2y2 hours to make the trip.

Traffic along the Outer Banks from both north and
south necessitated the additional ferry.

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Mrs. Joseph M. Hunt, Jr. Christens
"Pamlico" In Craven Co.

Mrs. Joseph Hunt, wife of State Highway Commission
Chairman Joe Hunt, who was principal speaker for the
dedication, did the christening honors with little trouble
as she rapped the bow of the new ferry with the tradi-
tional bottle of champagne.

The sleek 161-foot "Pamlico", sister ship to the "Sil-
ver Lake" already plying the waters on the Cedar Island
to Ocracoke run, was officially christened at the New
Bern shipyards' James City operation.

The "Pamlico," with a capacity of 300 passengers and
30 cars, was turned over to the state Thursday morning,
December 2, 1965.

Mr. Hunt addressed the several hundred persons who
braved the freezing temperatures to attend the dedica-
tion, praised the launching of the "Pamlico" as a new
link to the highway system of Eastern North Carolina.
"I know that this might sound a little strange at first;
but a ferry is really a highway that moves."

"As more people come to Eastern North Carolina on
the better roads provided by the Highway Commission,
the tourist business will get better and better. More
people from out of the State will return home to tell
that it's easy to travel safely and conveniently to the
seashore resorts of North Carolina."

Mrs. Hunt was most gracious and charming in the
christening of this new boat at this Historic Occasion.

CEDAR ISLAND TO OCRACOKE
TOLL FERRY SCHEDULE

EFFECTIVE DURING
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME PERIOD

Leave Leave

Cedar Island Ocracoke

6:00 A.M. 6:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M.

12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon

3:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.

FARES AND RATES APPLICABLE
(ONE WAY)

A. Pedestrian .50

B. Bicycle and Rider 1.00

C. Passenger Cars, Station Wagons, Carry-All,

Pickup Trucks, Campers 20' or less in

length, and Motorcycles 5.00

D. All other vehicles or combination

up to 40' in length 10.00

(Vehicle Fares include driver
and passengers)

NOTE: Vehicle or combination of Vehicle in excess of
40 ft. not permitted.
Crossing Time Approximately 2l/2 Hours

EFFECTIVE DURING
EASTERN STANDARD TIME PERIOD

Leave Leave
Cedar Island Ocracoke

6:00 A.M. 9:0 A.M.

12:00 Noon 3:00 P.M.

Ferry Capacity — Approx. 30 Automobiles

Ocracoke Port Captain, Van Henry O'Neal

MODIFIED RESERVATION SYSTEM:

(25 Spaces to be used for reservations)
Reservations may be obtained:

For the next scheduled trip only by application in per-
son at the Ferry Terminal from which the departure is
to be made.

i.e. Reservations for the first scheduled trip on
the following day may be obtained after the de-
parture of the last trip for the day; Reservations
for the second scheduled trip may be obtained
after the departure of the first trip, etc., for
each additional departure scheduled.
No mail, telephone, or telegraph reservations will be
made.

Reservations not transferable or refundable.
Reservations are void if vehicle is not in loading lane
30 minutes prior to loading time.

SOUTHPORT— FT. FISHER

The ferry "Sea Level" was transferred from Cedar Is-
land-Ocracoke Ferry Operations to the Southport-Fort
Fisher Ferry Operations, in the late winter of 1964, this
vessel made her first run between Southport-Ft. Fisher,
N. C, across the Cape Fear River on February 8, 1965,
a distance of five miles requiring approximately one hour
for crossing time.

PERSONNEL REQUIRED:

3 masters (Ferry Captains) — requires masters license
500 tons inspected vessel, 3rd class radio operator's
license, pilotage for route traveled.

3 Ferry Engineer II — Requires license for inspected
Vessels of 1,000 H. P.

2 Ferry Quartermasters — Requires Able Seaman Ticket.

3 Oilers — (Ferry Engineer I) — Requires Oiler's Ticket.
3 Deckhands

2 Clerk I (Perm.)

2 Clerk I (Temp. Summer Employees)
2 Clerk II

This vsesel makes 6 trips daily in the summer and 4
trips daily in the winter and operates 300 days a vear —
annual repairs require approximately 60 days per year.
This ferry operates 7 days a week, 12 hrs. per day.
STATISTICS:

Length — 119.6' Gross Tons — 229

Breadth — 31.1' Capacity — 20 Cars

Depth — 9.8' Capacity 200 Passengers

Horsepower — 2, 450 Caterpillar Engines, Diesel
Total H. P. 900

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TRAFFIC:
Fiscal year

1965- 66

1966- 67

1967- 68

Total vehicles

4,419
12,062
19,047

Total passengers

17,337
51,872
87,312

SOUTHPORT-FT. FISHER
RIBBONS TIED

Highway Commission Chairman Joseph Hunt predicted
the new Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry service would be a
large step in the full development of Southeastern North
Carolina.

Hunt, calling on the people of the area for support of
the ferry, made the prediction at the re-dedication of
the vessel, formerly the Sea Level of the Cedar Island-
Ocracoke service, here Wednesday, March 2nd.

Speaking before a crowd of more than 250 persons,
Hunt said, "This great region of North Carolina has
many tourist attractions. Its beaches are among the
finest in the State and the fishing is great. History
abounds here and there are many attractions like Fort
Fisher and the Battleship North Carolina.

Hunt added that it is the responsibility of each indi-
vidual citizen and government and of development organi-
zations and civic and service organizations to see that
this new ferry is utilized in such a way as to insure the
future growth of this region of the State.

Ribbons Tied

Contrary to the customary ribbon cutting, Mayor M. L.
Lowder of Kure Beach and Southport Mayor Eugene
B. Tomlinson, Jr. tied two ribbons together to symbolize
the joining of the two counties — New Hanover and
Brunswick.

Dr. Joseph Hooper, chairman of the New Hanover
County Commissioners presented the Brunswick Coun-
ty Re-Development Board and the Brunswick County
Commissioners with a map of the area dating back
to 1781.

Hooper said the map shows the ferry connection be-
tween New Hanover and Brunswick counties 185 years
ago.

He pointed out that the route is nearly the same as it
is today and the landing on the Fort Fisher side is exactly
in the same location.

Senator J. Vivian Whitfield of Wallace stressed the
need for an East-West highway system connecting North
Carolina's ports with the Piedmont.

Whitfield said the ports of North Carolina are vital to
the economy of the Piedmont and the rest of the State
and surveys should be taken to emphasize this fact.

He said a survey was completed of the so-called Pied-
mont Crescent which stretches from Southern Virginia
to South Carolina and if a half million dollars could be
spent for the Piedmont survey, then Eastern North Caro-
lina should be entitled to a similar study.

According to Fred Willetts, Jr., president of the Great-
er Wilmington Chamber of Commerce who attended the
ceremony, the ferry is another milestone in progress for
Southeastern North Carolina.

"The ferry will provide a complete tour of the scenic,
recreational and historic Cape Fear area to visitors of
New Hanover and Brunswick counties."

Southport Crew — L. to R., L. C. Holden (Capt.), Eu-
gene Gore, Quartermaster; O. Willis, Chief Engineer; H.
Pigott, Oiler; J. E. Sellers, Deck Hand and Donald Sellers,
Deck Hand.

SEA LEVEL BEGINS

SOUTHPORT-FT. FISHER SERVICE

The ferry Sea Level which has been renamed the
Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry began regular service be-
tween Southport and Fort Fisher on February 8th, ac-
cording to Assistant Chief Engineer Ivan Hardesty of
the North Carolina State Highway Commission.

Hardesty said that the ferry would begin making four
round trips daily with its first departure from Southport
at 6:00 A.M., Tuesday, February 8th.

The Sea Level, which served for many years between
Ocracoke and Cedar Island, was moved down the coast
to Southport after the Highway Commission in 1965
put two new ferries, the "Pamlico" and the "Silver Lake"
into service at Cedar Island.

Late in 1965, the Sea Level was put into drydock
for renovations and repairs before making the run down
the coast from Cedar Island to Southport earlier this year.

The Sea Level is capable of carrying some 22 vehicles
and will operate two crews of six men each. Crossing
time for the ferry is approximately one hour.

Southport — P. L. Bryant, Supervisor and Tom Jener-
ettte.

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A.
B.

C.

D.

SOUTHPORT— FORT FISHER
TOLL— FERRY SERVICE

EFFECTIVE MAY 16 thru SEPTEMBER 15

Leave Leave

Southport Ft. Fisher

7:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M.

11:00 A.M. 12:00 Noon

1:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M.

3:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M.

5:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M.

FARES AND RATES APPLICABLE
(ONE WAY)

Pedestrians .25

Bicycle and Rider .50

Passenger Cars, Station Wagons, Carry-Alls,

Pickup Trucks, Campers 20' or less in

length, and Motorcycles 1.50

Other vehicles or combination

up to 40' in length 3.00

All other vehicles or combinations

up to 55' in length 10.00

(Vehicle fares include driver

and passengers)

Crossing Time Approximately 1 Hour

EFFECTIVE SEPT. 16 thru MAY 15

Leave Leave

Southport Ft. Fisher

8:00 AJvI. 9:30 A.M.

11:00 A.M. 12:30 P.M.

1:30 P.M. 2:30 P.M.
3:30 P.M. 4:30 P.M.

BOGUE SOUND

The double-end ferries constructed for use at Alligator
River were placed in service at the new Bogue Sound
Ferry Terminal at Bogue, N. C. Carteret County, during
May, 1962.

These ferries operate 7-days per week, 365 days a year.
Our Summer Schedule begins with and closes with Day-
light Saving Time (6-months), operating 24-hours per
day. The Winter Schedule begins and ends with Eastern
Standard Time operating 20-hours per day.

These vessels are dry-docked annually for repairs. In
addition to the regular dry-docking, Manns Harbor Ship-
yard provides regular maintenance and service to these
vessels.

The three ferries at Bogue Sound Ferry Operation
are: "Sandy Graham", "Emmett Winslow" and "Gov.
Cherry" and are identical with the following statistics:

STATISTICS:

Length — 100.2'
Breadth — 32.2'
Depth — 7.1'

Gross Tons — 163.37
Capacity — 20 Cars

Double Ender — 2-240 Horsepower GMC (6-110 Engines
Diesel Powered)

Distance from Mainland to Emerald Isle — 1 Mile
Scheduled Trips — 30-mintue intervals (12 min. crossing
time - 16 min. loading and unloading)

Bogue Sound Ferry — L. to R., Pennel J. Tillett, Port
Captain; M. A. Moore, Pilot; B. S. Guthrie, Engineer; C.
S. Wiggins, Ferryman; R. L. Midgett, Ferryman; D. Zee,
Night Watchman and I. Kinhmon, Deckhand.

PERSONNEL REQUIRED— PERMANENT

3 Port Captains 8 Ferrymen I

8 Pilots

8 Ferry Engineer I
TEMPORARY

2 Port Captains

TRAFFIC:

1 Deckhand

1 Night Watchman

14 Deckhands

Fiscal year

1964- 65

1965- 66

1966- 67

1967- 68

Total vehicles

119,303
149,162
181.125
194,103

Total passengers
411,430
460,617
532,482
693,037

BOGUE SOUND— EMERALD ISLE
FREE— FERRY SCHEDULE

EFFECTIVE DURING
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME PERIOD

Leave Leave
Mainland Side Beach Side

Departures Every Hour

12:00 Midnight
thru
5:00 A.M.

12:30 A.M.

thru
5:30 A.M.

Departures Every 30 Min.

5:30 A.M.

thru
11:00 P.M.

6:00 A.M.

thru
11:30 P.M.

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EFFECTIVE DURING
EASTERN STANDARD TIME PERIOD
DEPARTURES EVERY HOUR

Leave
Mainland Side

5:00 A.M.
thru
12:00 Midnight

Leave
Beach Side

5:30 A.M.

thru
12:30 A.M.

Additional Trips on Weekends and Holidays as
Traffic Requires

PAMLICO RIVER

The Ferry "Beaufort"

The ferry "Beaufort" was built by the New Bern Ship-
yard and delivered to the N. C. State Highway Commis-
sion March 10, 1966. She was launched and christened
on March 7, 1966, by Miss Etta Elizabeth Hunt, daugh-
ter of Joe Hunt, Chairman, N. C. Highway Commission.

The "Beaufort" operates from Bayview to Texas Gulf
Sulpher Plant across the Pamlico River. She made her
first run March 18, 1966. The ferry operates 7 days a
week, 24 hours per day, year round.

PERSONNEL REQUIRED:

5 Port Captains 5 Ferryman

5 Pilots 5 Deckhands

5 Ferry Engineer 1

STATISTICS:

Length — 124.1'
Breadth — 35.1'
Depth — 8.0'

Gross Tons — 287
Capacity — 18 Cars
Capacity 200 Passengers

2-380 H. P. Caterpiller Engines — Diesel — Total Horse-
power— 760

Distance from one terminal to other — 4 miles
Crossing time — 45 minutes

TRAFFIC:

Fiscal year

1965- 66

1966- 67

1967- 68

Total vehicles

10,626
40,822
40,590

Total passengers

27,718
92,729
86,354

Miss Etta Elizabeth Hunt, lovely daughter of High-
way Chairman Joseph M. Hunt, Jr. performed the
christening honors by breaking the traditional bottle
of champagne on the bow of the new ferry "Beaufort"
March 7th in New Bern.

The northern and southern shores of Beaufort County,
isolated for centuries by the swirling Pamlico, were join-
ed by this ceremony.

The "Beaufort" was christened in special ceremonies
at the New Bern Shipyards, James City plant.

This ship which carries 250 passengers and 20 cars,
will lease a transportation snarl which at one time
threatened the labor force of the Texas Gulf Sulphur
Company's phosphate operation at Aurora.

Mr. Hunt in his dedication speech painted a bright
picture of Eastern North Carolina, asking "Who here
today can deny that Eastern North Carolina is on the
move and making the kind of progress and economic
strides for which she's always been destined?"

"This vessel we are dedicating here today will serve
an area which some say holds the key to the future
economic development of Eastern North Carolina," and
he added "That this ferry will give greater access to
the phosphate mining fields of the Pamlico Sound area.
It will carry men and equipment. And in the not-too-
distant future, the mining fields will add to the economy."

Mr. Hunt then assured the assembled guests that the
Highway Commission was aware of the progress being
made in Eastern North Carolina and by working to-
gether he was sure the full potential of Eastern North
Carolina could be reached.

Mr. David L. Ward, Jr., served as master of cere-
monies for the dedication. Senator Sam Whitehurst ex-
tended the welcoming address, telling the guests "you
all have our warm welcome of heart in spite of the
chilly weather" at present. The temperature hovered in
the mid 40's for the second time that the commission
has dedicated a ferry.

The late Highway Commissioner B. Cameron Langston,
Sr., said "The great abundance of water and open lands,
that attracted settlers to come here in the early days of our
history are the same things which today make the area
attractive to industry.'

Following the dedication, the new ferry was given
a test run down the wind-swept Neuse River.

This new ferry "Beaufort" cost $285,316 to construct
and equip. The new ferry docks are located at Bayview
and Lee Creek, which are just east of the Texas Gulf
Phosphate Operation.

This vessel is dry docked annually for repairs and
maintenance.

A. B. Cutler, Shore Super.; Russell Willis, Pilot; Mur-
iel Moore, Engineer; Joe Braddy, Deck Hand; and Gene
Credle, Ferryman.

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Beaufort County Ferry Now Making
Seven Round Trips Daily

The State Highway Commission's newest ferry, the
Beaufort, is presently making seven round trips daily
between the Bayview and Aurora sides of the Pamlico
River. The trips are spread over a 24-hour period.

The new ferry began plying the waters of the Pamlico
on Saturday, March 19, serving residents and tourists
in the Beaufort County area. It also provides a rapid
and economical way for employees of the Texas Gulf
Sulphur Company Phosphate Mine at Lee's Creek to
make their way to and from work. The ferry is operated
as a free ferry.

Ferry Operations Manager E. H. Baggs of Morehead
City said the schedule for the Beaufort has not been
finaly set at this time and points out that some ad-
justments could be made depending on the outcome of
a traffic patterns study being conducted by the Highway
Commission.

Here is the schedule in which the ferry is now operating:
PAMLICO RIVER FERRY
FREE— FERRY SCHEDULE

(Year round)

Leave
South Shore

(Hudles Cut
near Aurora, N. C.)
12:30 A.M.

6:15 A.M.

8:30 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
12:00 Noon

2:00 P.M.

4:45 P.M.
6:15 P.M.

8:00 P.M.
10:00 P.M.

Leave
North Shore

(Gaylord's Bay
near Bayview, N. C.)

5:30 A.M.

7:00 A.M.

9:15 A.M.
11:00 A.M.

1:00 P.M.

3:00 P.M.

5:30 P.M.

7:00 P.M.

9:00 P.M.
11:00 P.M.

Hydraulic Dredge
GROSS LOAD LIMIT

Any Axle 13,000 lbs.

2 Axles (Single Vehicle) 24,000 lbs.

3 or More Axles (Single or

Combination Vehicle) 36,000 lbs.

8" HYDRAULIC DREDGE

The Dredge "BUXTON" operating under the supervi-
sion of Roy E. Etheridge, Dredge Superintendent, is a
hydraulic dredge with a discharge of 8" that works 12-
hours a day, 7-days a week. Its main function is to pro-
vide a channel for Hatteras Inlet Ferry Operations and
on infrequent occasions has done ferry basin and chan-
nel work at Knotts Island Ferry Operations and Cedar
Island-Ocracoke Ferry Operations. This dredge is too
small to properly maintain ferry channels, and a new
and larger hydraulic dredge with a discharge of 12" is
being constructed by Barbour Boat Works, New Bern,
N. C.

PERSONNEL REQUIRED:

1 Dredge Superintendent 2 Dredge Levermen
3 Deckhands 2 Ferry Engineer I

2 Ferrymen

* * * *

"I hear they're really biting, Reverend. Too bad you
have to work Sundays."

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FERRY DIVISION

Joyce Spencer, Correspondent

Avast! You landlubbers, fore and aft, port and star-
board. A new ship has appeared on the horizon of the
ROADWAYS magazine. This is to launch the Ferry
Division as a regular contributor to this publication.

Miss Joyce Spencer, Typist at the Equipment Division
Headquarters will be the Division Correspondent.

Mr. E. H. (Bill) Baggs, Ferry Operations Manager
will enter the hospital August 15, 1968 for a check up.
We wish you the best report possible.

If any one wishes to acquire a horse, Mr. J. F. Wilson,
Ferry Superintendent at Hatteras Inlet can accommodate
you. We cannot guarantee the breed but believe there
might be a little Ocracoke Beach pony mixed in. "Trader
John," they call him.

Mr. Roger Gard, Auto Parts Clerk II at Manns Harbor
was recently on vacation in Florida. He refuses to divulge
if she was a blonde or brunette.

A trip on the Hatteras Inlet ferries this last week
revealed sever cases among the pilots of strained and sun-
burned eyes. It seems that a view from the pilot house at
this time of year is simply irresistible. Les, we under-
stand that a few days at home is a good antidote for this.

We wonder if the distinguished and esteemed CAP-
TAIN GARRISH of the M/V Silver Lake has ever con-
sidered making a record. Senator Dirksen did and he
sold a million.

Fishing forecast; according to Mr. I. H. Evans, Fore-
man II at Manns Harbor, fishing will be extremely good
this fall in the Croatan Sound. He is the only man we
know of who can catch two ten pound rock fish at one
time with a hand line and coat hanger. Honest, fellows,
he does.

Mr. Henry Edens, Auto Parts Clerk II, is looking for
a game of chess. Do we have any takers?

Would the crew of the Southport-Ft. Fisher please ad-
vise if the alligator has returned?

We understand that D. I. Dowdy, Foreman I at Manns
Harbor has made on several occasions some nice catches
on his party boat "Libby D." How about taking us out
sometime, Delton?

We will not call any names but we have a Clerk IV
in our office at Manns Harbor whose little six years old
daughter thinks that he is ready for swimming at all
times. He always carries a life ring around his middle.

I understand that the other Divisions have been having
some hot weather. Well, it's nice and cool here, as a mat-
ter of fact, we have six feet of snow. (D. E. Snow that it.)

EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT

FERRY OPERATIONS

The Equipment Department is a service organization,
with headquarters in Raleigh, directed and guided by Mr.
L. H. Gunter, State Equipment Engineer. An Equipment
Division is assigned to each Highway Maintenance and
Ferry Operations Division.

On July 1, 1963 the Equipment Department was assign-
ed all ferries, dredges, work boats and tow boats for
maintenance and repairs. Previously this work had been
under the Ferry Operations Department who also fur-
nished crews and operated the equipment.

At this time these marine units were assigned to Divi-
sion 1, located in Hertford, North Carolina. It soon be-
came apparent, due to an ever increasing demand for
more ferry service, more scheduled runs, and an ever
widening area of operation that the job was too large to
be handled by a regular highway division. On July 1,
1965 the Equipment Department, Ferry Operations was
organized and came into being as a separate Highway
Division Equipment Department.

This was an entirely new experience for the Equipment
Department. We were entering an entirely new field of
operations, going from land based equipment to water-
borne equipment. We knew that we had much to learn.
One of our first lessons was that any breakdown was an
emergency. It is impossible to park one of the ferries
on the side of the road, besides, we did not have any re-
placement units so they had to be repaired immediately.
These units run seven days per week and some of our
operations are around the clock.

The growth and expansion of the ferry system is evi-
dent by the fact that on July 1, 1963 there were thirteen
ferries, one dredge and one tow boat. Today we have six-
teen ferries plus dredge, tow boats, barges, etc. for a
total of twenty-seven marine units. We have under con-
tract and scheduled for delivery in the fall five more
units. These will be a 12" dredge, two barges and two
work boats. This is an increase of seventeen units or
53% within five years.

Division Headquarters for Ferry Equipment is located
on Spencer's Creek in Dare County near the village of
Manns Harbor. Here we have shop facilities for the engine
and reduction gear overhaul and repair, auto and truck
repair, auto inspection station, a small machine shop,
with a lathe, drill press, and hydraulic press, and a weld-
ing shop for electric and acetylene welding.

The Division administrative offices and Division parts
department are located in the same building adjacent to
the main shop. A number of warehouses are required in
order to store our stock.

District One is located at Hatteras Inlet and District
Two is located at Bogue Sound. From these three loca-
tions we maintain and keep in service all of our marine
and automotive equipment.

Nine of the ferries, the dredge, barges and all tug
boats are dry docked at Manns Harbor. When the ves-
sel is hauled, a minute inspection of the under water part
of the hull is conducted. Keel coolers are checked (these
cool the engine water). Zinc plates are inspected for
deterioration (these plates neutralize electrolic action on
the hull). Struts are checked for damage, rudders inspect-
ed for damage and wear, propellers are checked for
damage and wear, propeller shafts are pulled and checked
for damage and wear and propeller shaft bearings inspect-
ed also. The hull is cleaned and examined for damaged
areas, cracks, pitted places, and etc.

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The necessary repairs are completed; the numerous
paint coats applied (one primer coat, three anti-corrosive
coats, and three anti-fouling coats). The vessel is re-
floated and upon completion of repairs in the engine room,
pilot house, deck, etc., trial runs are conducted to prove
the work satisfactory.

Joyce Spencer and D. E. Snow

For the reader to fully grasp the full significance of the
overhaul job, please visualize a complete, self-contained
unit; composed of: the main propulsion units, generator
sets to supply electrical current, a complete piping and
pumping system to all bilges and void spaces, a separate
fire fighting system, a plumbing system to include a
number of bath rooms, a heating system with all its
plumbing to accommodate a hot water heating system to
all occupied areas of the vessel, a fresh water system for
drinking purposes, a separate ventilation system for en-
gine rooms and passenger quarters, the complete elec-
trical system for lights, radios, radar, fathometer, the hy-
draulic system to include piping, electric motor pumps,
pressure regulators, and hydrauglic steering motors, an
air system for starting motors and control of the engines
and clutches, and then the pilot house where all the navi-

—

A. L. Mann, Jr., Manns Harbor

gation aids are located, i.e. the compass, radar, fathometer,
radio, barometer, etc. then there is the horn, windshield
wipers and spot lights to be kept in repair. There are
still a number of minor items that I have not mentioned.
Just one vessel involves a large number of items to be
kept in repair.

We utilize the same skills that the regular Highway
Equipment Department uses with one exception. We use
divers in our work quite often. We have two complete
sets of diving gear including our own compressor for re-
filling air tanks. We have changed propellers and rud-
ders under water and removed a number of foreign ob-
jects from the shafts and wheels (logs, timber, cables and
old rope). Our divers are able to inspect the under water
hull of our vessels at any time and to advise of the hull's
condition. This valuable service allows us to make im-
mediate, on the spot, decisions as to needed repairs or to
continue operation.

Each of our districts are manned by mechanics seven
days per week with a man on call at night. We make
numerous repairs at night for vessels to continue opera-
tions or to be able to operate the next day. Two of our
operations are continuous twenty-fours per day, seven
days per week operations; therefore, mechanic help has
to be available twenty-four hours per day.

Our boys have a saying and seemingly there is more
truth than poetry in it. "If we could remove the calanders
from the ferries and dredge, our troubles would be over.
They know when weekends and holidays arrive, because
that is when they break down."

This is particularly true of the dredge. It is a coinci-
dence I am sure that it always needs repairs Friday and
the weekends. Seriously we have learned from experience
that this type unit and operation requires more mainte-
nance and repairs due to the work it does. We have
through experience learned to anticipate major repairs and
keep an adequate supply of parts to make repairs imme-
diately. Dredging is a very important and integral part
of the Ferry Operations and it cannot be done without.
The necessary channels have to be maintained for the
ships to operate.

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Three of our ferries are toll ferries and therefore come
under regular U. S. Coast Guard Inspections. These in-
spections are made quarterly and any discrepancies are
immediately taken care of. The mechanical operation
and performance as well as all safety features are closely
scrutinized at these inspections.

We actually have three fire fighting systems on these
vessels, portable 15 lb. CO 2, fixed CO 2, and regular water
pressure fire pumps. We maintain an adequate number of
life jackets, life rings, flares, and fire axes, etc. aboard
each vessel. Inflateable life rafts are checked and re-
packed each year. Dependable performance from our me-
chanical and safety equipment is our daily goal. Our per-
sonnel are capable and dedicated and we are proud of
their past performance and contemplate with confidence
their ability to meet our future responsibilities.

Our office staff is Mr. D. E. Snow, Equipment Superin-
tendent; Mr. A. L. Mann, Jr., Clerk IV; and Miss Joyce
Spencer, Typist. Mr. Roger Gard, Auto Parts Clerk II
and Mr. Henry Edens, Auto Parts Clerk II are our staff
in the Parts Department. Mr. I. H. Evans, Foreman II
and Mr. D. I. Dowdy, Foreman I are the supervisory per-
sonnel at the Division Shop. Mr. N. L. Capps, Foreman II,
Hatteras Inlet and Mr. E. L. Bell, Foreman II and Mr.
C. W. Midgett, Foreman I of Bogue Sound are our super-
visors in the field.

L. to R., H. O. Edens, Auto Parts Clerk II and C. L.
Quidley, Truck Driver.

We invite and urge each reader to plan a trip to the
coast and include in those plans a trip on our ferries. We
will be proud to have you as our guest. But please keep in
mind that no fishing is allowed from the ferries as they
make their runs.

L. to R., Above is a picture of Steel Boat — D. I.
Wright, Welder, at the back of boat, and B. C. Saunders,
General Utility.

THE CREW AT THE EQUIPMENT
DEPOT AT MANNS HARBOR

First row: B. S. Midgett, Mech. II; A. R. Johnson, Mech.
II; E. E. Smith, Mech. II; A. D. O'Neal, Gen. Utility.

Second row: J. R. Butler, Mech. II; I. H. Evans, Mech.
For. II; P. E. Sawyer, Mech. II; D. I. Dowdy, Mech.
For. I.

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Sound Level

Survey
Conducted

GERALD FLEMING

Left to Right: William M. Smith, Ferry Engineer II; Elmo M. Fulcher,
Ferry Engineer I — Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry Operations.

Recently the American Congress of Governmental In-
dustrial Hygienists announced its intent to establish
threshold limit values for noise with limits as defined
below:

These values should be used as guides in the control of
noise exposure and, due to individual susceptibility, should
not be regarded as fine lines between safe and dangerous
levels. They are based on the best available information
from industrial experience and from experimental human
studies. These values will be reviewed annually by the
Committee on Physical Agents for revision, or additions,
as further information becomes available.

These values apply to sound energy of noise which is
distributed more or less evenly throughout the eight oc-
tave bands with mid-frequencies from 63 to 8,000 Hz as
determined by sound-measuring equipment meeting the
standards of the United States of America Standards In-
stitute.

Average Sound Pressure A-weighting
Levels of Octave Bands Network of
Centered at 500, 1,000, Sound Level Meter
and 2.000 Hz

92 dBA
97 dBA
102 dBA

100 dB 107 dBA

Duration of
Exposure
per day

4-8 hours
2-4 hours
1-2 hours
Less than 1 hour

These values apply to total time of exposure per work-
ing day regardless of whether this is one continuous ex-
posure or a number of short term exposures but does not
apply to impact or impulsive type noises.

The medical profession has defined hearing impair-
ment as an average hearing threshold level in excess of
15 decibels (USASI 224.12 — 1952) at 500, 1,000, and
2,000 Hz and the limits which are given have been es-
tablished to prevent a hearing loss in excess of this value.
Because of wide variations to individual susceptibility,
exposure of an occasional individual at or even below the

threshold limit may not prevent annoyance, aggravation
of a pre-existing condition, or noise induced hearing loss.

At a recent Safety Congress of the National Safety
Council, speakers were agreed that an industrial worker
who is surrounded by high levels of noise all day be-
comes less efficient in his job, less alert, and more in-
clined to be careless than he would be without the inces-
sant din. Noise may have a noticeable effect on a work-
er's nervous system and the resulting increase in blood
pressure and muscular contraction can result in excessive
fatigue. Interference with the reception of danger signals
and auditory communications is another side effect of
high-level industrial noise. All these things, of course,
have a bad effect on general safety.

Excessive exposure to high noise levels will cause a per-
manent loss of hearing; however, there is no simple way
to define a potentially harmful noise because of the
many variables involved. The frequency characteristics,
time pattern, and level of the noise, along with the indi-
viduals susceptibility to damage, all are factors that should
be considered to determine the potential hazard of a
noise.

In our concern for Highway employees general safety,
a sound level survey was conducted in the engine rooms
of several ferry boats. It is generally recognized that diesel
engines operating in an enclosed area generate a high
level of sound. This was pointed out when the sound
tests showed the sound levels to span from 105 dB to 114
dB. These sound levels were decidedly above 92 dBA
which has been established as the threshold limit for a
4 to 8 hour work day.

The North Carolina Industrial Commission does not
recognize hearing loss as a compensible occupational di-
sease. Therefore, it will be to the individual employees
benefit to utilize the personal protective items to the
fullest. It is the Safety Department's hope that this will
be so.

15

DID YOU
KNOW?

Thurman Salter, Port Captain, Bogue Sound Operation with Gerald Flem-
ing and E. H. Baggs, looking on.

THINK

Those little roadside signs which
have admonished Tar Teel motorists
to "THINK" since the spring of
1966 are coming down.

The removal of the "reminder
signs", the like of which this State's
highway system had not seen before
1966, doesn't mean that the High-
way Commission wants our drivers to
stop thinking while they drive. What
it does mean is the Commission feels
it has come up with some new signs
which will limit the subject matter
thought about to two important areas:
highway safety and littering.

Early in July, Chairman J. M.
Hunt, Jr., the man who conceived the
"THINK" sign idea, wrote to Divi-
sion Engineers across the State and
to Traffic Engineers in Raleigh indi-
cating it was time for a new message
to North Carolina highway users.

Hunt commended the engineers for
their cooperation in getting the
"THINK" signs — which are actual-
ly decals — placed on bridge ap-
proaches across the State.

In the same memorandum, Hunt
went on to say that the "THINK"
signs have served their purpose and

SIGNS

indicated that it was time for a
change. He suggested two messages
to be used on the new decals:
"THINK SAFETY" and "DO NOT
LITTER".

The first of these new decals will
be placed in service on the Raleigh
Beltline at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday, Aug-
ust 6 at the Crabtree Creek bridge
near Glenwood Avenue (US-70)
ramp. Others have been sent to the
divisions across the State and should
start going up sometime after Wed-
nesday, August 7.

The "THINK SAFETY" and "DO
NOT LITTER" decals, just as the
old "THINK" decals were, will be
attached to the unused portion of the
Highway Commission's folding "Ice
on Bridge" signs.

Traffic Services personnel across the
State will be placing one litter decal
for each two highway safety decals
in the new double-barreled attempt to
make the State's highways safer and
more beautiful.

Engineers indicate that 1401
"THINK SAFETY" and 820 "DO
NOT LITTER" decals have been pre-
pared by Prison Enterprises at a cost
of $2.00 each.

Many of the counties in North
Carolina bear the same names as the
county seats, such as Camden, Curri-
tuck and Wilson. Many of the other
county seats have the same name as
the county with a suffix such as War-
renton, Nashville, Hendersonville and
Lincolnton. After that it can get con-
fusing. For instance — Henderson-
ville is in Henderson County, but
Henderson is the county seat of Vance
County and Vanceboro is in Craven
County. Greenville is the county seat
of Pitt and Pittsboro is the county
seat of Chatham. The county seat of
Green is Snow Hill. Washington is
the county seat of Beaufort, Beau-
fort is the county seat of Carteret and
the county seat of Washington is Ply-
mouth. Kinston is the county seat of
Lenoir, but Lenoir is the county seat
of Caldwell. Reidsville is the county
seat of Rockingham, but Rockingham
is the county seat of Richmond. Jack-
son is the county seat of Northamp-
ton, but Sylva is the county seat of
Jackson. Columbus is the county seat
of Polk, but Whiteville is the county
seat of Columbus. Robbinsville is the
county seat of Graham and Graham
is the county seat of Alamance. Louis-
burg is the county seat of Franklin,
but Franklin is the county seat of
Macon and Macon is in Warren
County. Jefferson is the county seat
of Ashe and Asheville is the county
seat of Buncombe. Burnsville is the
county seat of Yancey and Yancey-
ville is the county seat of Caswell,
and Caswell Beach is in Brunswick
County. Lexington is the county seat
of Davidson, but Davidson is in
Mecklenburg. Albemarle is the coun-
ty seat of Stanley, but Stanley is in
Gaston County and Gaston is in
Northampton County. Danbury is
the county seat of Stokes and Stokes
is in Pitt County. Gets confusing,
doesn't it?

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HMWAYS

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NATIONAL HIGHWAY WEEK SEPT. 22-28, 1968

DEFENSIVE DRIVING

In preparation for Highway Week Recognition Sep-
tember 22-28. Chairman J. M. Hunt, Jr., took the lead
in arranging for the majority of the Highway Commis-
sion employees to enroll in the State's Defensive Driv-
ing Course in which 12,000 Highway Commission em-
ployees have received defensive driving.

Wholehearted participation of Highway Commission
employees in the Department of Motor Vehicle's defen-
sive driving course has helped the Tar Heel State reach
the number one position in training for 1968.

C. S. Waters, Director of the Driver Education and
Accident Records Division at the Motor Vehicles De-
partment, estimates that at least 10,000 of the approxi-
mately 12,000 Highway Commission employees have re-
ceived defensive driving instruction.

The course consists of eight hours of intensive train-
ing in driving techniques developed to help the motorist
survive in today's traffic.

By the end of July, more than 16,000 state employees
had received the full eight hour course.

That's just a start. Mr. Waters, believing that good
driving like charity, begins at home, set out at the be-
ginning of the year to try to teach defensive driving to
every member of the state employee family during 1968.
Hopefully, the training will be reflected in a decline of
death, injury and destruction during Highway Week
and other weeks and months ahead.

The big push got underway among state agencies in
July. "We're going to just keep on working until every
state employee has been reached," says Mr. Waters.

Upcoming is a training course for 500 members of the
Department of Public Instruction, plus courses in sev-
eral other agencies.

In addition to the Highway Commission, the Depart-
ment of Motor Vehicles, the Welfare Department, De-
partment of Health, Administration Department, Archives
and History, Personnel Department, Board of Paroles
and Probation Commission have already participated in
defensive driving courses this year.

Both Motor Vehicles Commission Ralph Howland and
Assistant Commissioner Joe Garrett have taken the
course. Both are completely sold on its merits as a wea-
pon in the continuing war on traffic death.

Behind the Department of Motor Vehicle's number one
position for this year are some impressive statistics. At
the beginning of 1968, the National Safety Council set
as a goal for North Carolina the training of 25,382 per-
sons during 1968. Already, the Tar Heel State has reached
94 percent of its goal, training during the first seven

months of the year more drivers than were trained dur-
ing all of 1967.

The Department of Motor Vehicles is one of 19 dif-
ferent agencies conducting defensive driving courses in
North Carolina. The others are chiefly trucking firms
which are concerned only with training their own em-
ployees. In addition, military bases in the State are
conducting the courses for military personnel. Thus,
the Department of Motor Vehicles is the only agency
offering the course free to the general public.

During the past two and one half years the Depart-
ment has carried the course to thousands of drivers
through civic, church and fraternal groups and through
private industry.

The course has been conducted for members of senior
citizens groups and for groups of teenagers. If a person
drives a car, he can benefit from the course regardless
of his age, Mr. Waters feels. "It is really a very practical
thing," he says.

The veteran Motor Vehicles employee admits that he
and his field force of 54 are "selling defensive driving"
with evangelistic zeal.

"No other project that I can remember has served to
unite driver education personnel the way defense driving
has," he says. "The men are sold on the value of the
course and thoroughly enjoy teaching it."

Even extended teaching of the course doesn't dull the
enthusiasm, says Mr. Waters, "one man has taught more
than 2,000 people and he stil lenjoys it.

"We feel that if one life is saved by each course, all
the work is worthwhile."

As an experiment, the defensive driving course has
been substituted for regular instruction in driver im-
provement clinics conducted by the Driver Education
Division in Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte, Asheville, Fay-
etteville and Kinston.

So far, says Mr. Waters, "the response has been very
infl." An analysis will be made following more extensive

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good.

experimentation.

One thing already is apparent to Mr. Waters though:
The course definitely has a place in regular driver edu-
cation. In some counties the entire 11th and 12th grades
of the county school systems have take nthe course. The
planning and packaging of the course and the excellent
visual aids make it ideal for holding the interest of teen-
agers, Mr. Waters feels. In several counties the course is
used as a follow up to the regular training program for
school bus drivers.

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New Technologies

Mr. C. S. Waters, Director of Driver Education Di-
vision of Motor Vehicles Department is at left foreground
presenting Certificate of Completion of Defensive Driv-
ing Course to Mr. Sterling Manning, Asst. Director of
State Personnel Dept. Shown in background are em-
ployees of State Personnel Dept. who took the Defensive
Driving Course recently.

After considerable experience with the course, there are
two areas of discouragement for motor vehicle driver edu-
cation personnel.

"For one thing," says Mr. Waters, "we're not reaching
the people in the lower socio-economic groups and these
are the people who can benefit most because accident
records indicate they have more accidents."

At the present rate of teaching, there is no hope of
reaching the mass driving population. "We must find
a way to reach more drivers," says Mr. Waters. "The
quota of 25,000 for North Carolina set by the National
Safety Council is simply unrealistic if we are to reach
the masses."

Discouragement is not allowed to interfere with the
work, however. "We'll work out the problems as we go
along. Meanwhile, we're trying to reach everyone we
can."

The teaching of defensive driving is Mr. Water's re-
sponse to Governor Moore's challenge in 1965 to Motor
Vehicle employees to do something about traffic death
and injury.

"When the Governor stood before the General Assem-
bly and committed himself and asked us to do our best,
we decided to do something extra.

Something extra is just what defensive driving is for
Motor Vehicle driver education personnel. Without addi-
tional appropriations and without reducing other serv-
ices, the division has trained thousands of North Caro-
linians in life-saving driving techniques.

Does it pay off? "We can't single out any driver and
says that he's alive because he took the course," says Mr.
Waters. "But this we do know: If there is value in driver
education, there is value in the defensive driving course."

Need Good Highways

Almost 80 percent of all American families owned auto-
mobiles in 1966 as compared with 59 percent in 1950; 25
percent of all families owned two or more automobiles in
1966 as compared with 7 percent in 1950.

The total number of registered motor vehicles rose
during those 16 years from 49.3 million to 94.2 million.
In 1967, this number rose to 98 million.

When these statistics are considered in relation to the
fact that practically all of the net population growth in
the United States is occurring in urban areas, the obvious
result is a massive increase in urban traffic problems.
Even those cities which have forged ahead with freeway
construction programs find these facilities heavily load-
ed, especially at peak hours.

National Highway Week is an appropriate time to ask
what is going to happen to the national traffic jam. Will
our cities eventually choke and die of traffic strangulation?

There's no simple answer to the traffic problem, not
even making all streets one way, leading out of town.

Completing the planned 41,000-mile Interstate System
and building other new freeways, as needed, to comple-
ment it will help a great deal. Hand in hand with free-
way development, we need an expanded program for
the improvement of existing streets.

Such improvements as traffic channelization at inter-
changes, overpasses for pedestrians, and sophisticated
traffic signal systems can alleviate much of the congestion
on arterial streets of older design.

It's obvious, too, that much could be done to improve pub-
lic transportation facilities. Despite the increasing urban-
ization of our country, public transit patronage decreased
36.5 percent between 1940 and 1966. While patronage went
down, operating revenues doubled, indicating that transit
may eventually price itself out of existence.

Congress recently received the results of an 18-month
study by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment (HUD) suggesting a broad program of research and
development costing $980 million, aimed at improving
public transportation facilities. Many more millions will
be required to translate research findings into actual fa-
cilities.

Typical of the innovations proposed are the "dial-a-
bus" — a system in which a commuter will dispatch buses
to pick up passengers at their door or nearest stop, elec-
tronically adjusting routings to match the demand —
and dual-mode vehicles, capable of operating on both
highways and on rail.

Generally, the proposed innovations are not intended
to supplant highways. They either use highway facilities,
or will fit in with the highway system to form an inte-
grated system of urban transportation.

They demonstrate again that highway transportation is
adaptable to serve many kinds of traffic, all kinds of
people.

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Highways-Current Status

By M. R. SPROLES
Planning and Research Engineer

Presented at the Symposium on Transportation
for North Carolina
July 25, 1968

I would like to discuss with you the current status of
the Highway system and goals for the future. To begin
this discussion I would like to present several highway
statistics. On January 1, 1968 there were 84,219 miles
of highways and streets in North Carolina. There are
9,499 miles of local city streets, 1,488 miles of State and
Federal park roads leaving 73,232 miles of roads and
streets under the responsibility of the State Highway
Commission. 13,169 miles are Primary highways carrying
the US or NC route numbers. The State Secondary high-
way system includes 60,063 miles.

The Primary highway system has undergone drastic
changes over the past 18 years. In 1950 about 5,000 miles
of the Primary system was 19 feet wide or less. Less than
170 miles was wider than two lanes and approximately
250 miles was 24 to 26 feet in width which is considered
standard for a two-lane highway. Now less than 2,600
miles is 19 feet wide or less and more hatn 3,500 miles
are 20 to 21 feet in width and 4,500 miles between 22 and
26 feet wide. We now have 931 miles of highways that
have more than two lanes.

The Secondary highway system has also undergone
drastic changes over the years. The Highway Commission
assumed the responsibility for Secondary roads in 1931.
The Secondary road system totaled 47,000 miles at that
time and about 1,000 miles was paved.

In 1950 the system had grown to 49,000 miles and
about 7,000 miles was paved.

Now the Secondary road system totals approximately
60,000 miles and over 33,000 miles or more than half is
paved.

Another very important part of the North Carolina
Highway system in the Interstate highway program. This
program began in 1956 and North Carolina's 770 miles
of Interstate connects with routes in adjoining states to
become a part of a nationwide network of controlled ac-
cess high speed highways.

STATUS OF THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM

North Carolina has been allocated 770 miles of Inter-
state Highways. These Interstate routes include:

1-95 which runs from the South Carolina line near Lum-
berton to the Virginia line north of Roanoke Rapids. From
the South Carolina line to just south of Lumberton right
of way is being acquired. From south of Lumberton to
near Hope Mills is open to traffic. From near Hope Mills
to north of Fayetteville is under design. From north of
Fayetteville to Kenly is open to traffic. From Kenly to
near US 64 right of way is being acquired, and from US
64 to north of Rocky Mount is being designed. The sec-
tion from north of Rocky Mount to the Virginia state
line is open to traffic.

1-85 runs from the South Carolina state line southwest
of Gastonia via Charlotte, High Point, Greensboro and
Durham to the Virginia line north of Henderson. The
section from the South Carolina line to Charlotte is open
to traffic. The section from Charlotte to China Grove is
under construction. The section from China Grove to
southwest of Lexington is open to traffic. From southwest
of Lexington to Greensboro is being designed. Greensboro
to north of Durham is open to traffic. North of Durham
to Henderson will be under construction soon. From
Henderson to the Virginia line is open to traffic.

1-77 runs from Charlotte to the Virginia line northwest
of Mount Airy. The section in Charlotte and north to
NC 73 is being designed. From NC 73 to south of Moores-
ville is open to traffic. From Mooresville to Statesville
and the Statesville Bypass is open to traffic. From States-
ville to Elkin right of way is being acquired. The Elkin
Bypass is open to traffic. The section from Elkin to the
Virginia line is being designed.

1-26 runs from the South Carolina line southeast of
Hendersonville to Asheville. The section from the South
Carolina line to Columbus is open to traffic. The section
from Columbus to Saluda is under construction. The sec-
tion from Saluda to Asheville is open to traffic except
for the interchange with 1-40 which is expected to be
opened later this summer.

1-40 runs from the Tennessee line northwest of Ashe-
ville to Greensboro. From the Tennessee line to Cove
Creek is under construction through the Pigeon River
Gorge and is expected to be open to traffic this fall. The
section from Cove Creek to the Canton Bypass is under
right of way acquisition. The Canton Bypass is open to
traffic. The section from the Canton Bypass to Asheville
is under construction. Right of way is being acquired from
east of Asheville to Old Fort. From Old Fort to Hilder-
bran the route is open to traffic. From Hilderbran to
Conover the right of way is being acquired. From Cono-
ver to Statesville the route is open to traffic. The route
is under construction from Statesville to NC 801. This
route is now open to traffic from NC 801 west of Win-
ston-Salem to Greensboro.

At this time we have 425 miles of Interstate system open
to traffic with another 150 miles of the system being
served by the existing four lane highways. We expect
to complete this system as quickly as funds are avail-
able. The Federal Government provides 90% of the funds
for developing the Interstate highways and 10% is pro-
vided by the States. Therefore, construction progress de-
pends on the allocation of funds by the Federal Gov-
ernment. Initially the plan was to complete the Inter-
state system in 1972. At the present time the expected
completion date ranges from 1974 to 1976 depending on
who is making the prediction of funds to be allocated by
Congress.

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STATUS OF BOND PROGRAM

The Legislature approved a $300 million Road Bond
Issue in 1965. The bonds were approved by the voters in
a special referendum in November 1965. $150 million of
this Bond Issue was for Primary highway construction,
$75 million was for urban highway construction and $75
million was for Secondary highway construction.

This Bond Program was described as vital to the
State at the time it was proposed in the Legislature. This
program has become even more important due to the
cutback in Federal aid highway funds.

The first Bond Projects were let to contract in 1966.
Since that time, construction has been proceeding at a
very rapid rate. By the end of June 1968, $45 million of
urban, $67 million of Secondary, and $95 million of Pri-
mary Bond Funds or a total of $207 million have been
obligated. $115 million have actually been spent at the
end of June 1968. We are now expending Bond Funds
at the rate of $10 to $15 million per month. It is expect-
ed that practically all of the Bond Funds will have been
spent or obligated during the next year.

One of the New Ideas that may be funded by the Con-
gress to assist in alleviating the traffic congestion on our
highways is the program entitled TOPICS. The initials
stand for Traffic Operations to Increase Capacity and
Safety. This Program would go a long way toward assist-
ing the North Carolina State Highway Commission and
the municipalities in making traffic engineering improve-
ments in urban areas that would help make the best use
of the existing highway and street system.

Another item that has been receiving considerable em-
phasis by the Highway Commission is the Highway Safety
Program. This Program is a very important part of our
work and concentrated efforts are being applied, and we
have an Accident Surveillance and Investigation project
approved as a part of the Governor's Highway Safety
Program. In this Program we are attempting to locate
high accident sections and develop corrective procedures.

This brings us up to date. What happens now?

Based on present trends, we can expect that North
Carolina's population will increase from about 5,200,000
in 1968 to about 7,000,000 in 1990 and that the register
of motor vehicles will increase from about 2,700,000 in
1968 to over 4,000,000 in 1990. This shows the increase in
automobiles per person due to the fact that many more
families are obtaining second and third automobiles,
and this trend is expected to continue. Each automobile
is expected to travel about as much each year in the fu-
ture as it does now. This means that a massive improve-
ment program must be undertaken in order to keep pace
with the growing population and increased number of
motor vehicles. We have developed a very sophisticated
approach to highway needs studies in this State. This
approach utilizes computer techniques and is based on
the basic highway data that has been collected and main-
tained over the years. Through these techniques, we are
able to analyze the highway system and obtain a ratio of
vehicles to the roadway capacity to obtain the highway
facilities needed to provide for safe, efficient travel in
the future. We estimate that the total cost of improving
the highway system to meeting the needs by 1990 will
require about $5 billion. Naturally, the next question is,
where will we get that much money? We will have a
highway sytem that is very nearly the same as the one
we have today related to travel speed and congestion.
This $5 billion is also in today's dollars. With a continu-
ing increase in inflation the amount required could

double by 1990. Also it is very important to note that
this amount of money would just keep up with the exist-
ing growth in travel. There is a great difference between
what the people want and what they are willing to pay for.

One of the major problems related to highway needs
is those highway needs in urban areas. North Carolina
has 26 urban places over 5,000 based on the 1960 census.
We now have nine urbanized areas which have more
than 50,000 population. We have been fortunate in North
Carolina that cooperative urban planning has been under-
way for many years and between the local municipalities
and the State Highway Commission mutually adopted
thoroughfare plans are developed on which to base high-
way improvements. We estimate that by 1990 about 55
percent of the State's population will live in urban areas
and that a major part of the cost for improving this
system will be related to developing highway facilities
in these urban areas to provide for traffic service for
this large increase in population. At the present time,
the Highway Commission is responsible for approximately
3,500 miles of major arterials in urban areas out of a
total of 12,000 municipal miles. You can see the size
of the problem when you consider the fact that a four
lane highway on Interstate type costs an average of about
$1 million per mile in a rural area and an equivalent
four lane highway in an urban area cost approximately
$10 million. Time is also important where a rural high-
way project can be planned, designed and constructed in
approximately two and a half years. It may take as
long as five years to plan, design and accumulate right of
way and construct an urban highway project. We esti-
mate that the total needs in urban areas between 1968
and 1990 on the State highway system to be approxi-
mately $1 billion. You can see that while we have the
largest highway system under any jurisdiction in the
United States, we also have enormous problems of the
future.

I hope that this brief presentation will make you more
aware as you travel over the highway system in North
Carolina of what has been involved to get to this point
and what an enormous task lies ahead of us to provide
an efficient system for the next generation.

WE'S A vmy KEEN COMPET/TOJZ."

HENRY CLEGG

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Governor Moore
Dedicates E. 8.
Jeffress Park

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NATIONAL

Gov. Dan Moore dedicated the E.
B. Jeffress Park on the Blue Ridge
Parkway Friday morning, June 28th,
with a call for a better state and fed-
eral relationship.

Moore said the state's relationship
with the National Park Service, which
administers the parkway, is the "best
example" of state-federal cooperation
he has seen.

"I'm sorry I can't say that about
some of the other federal agencies,"
the governor said, departing from his
prepared speech. "We have had trou-
ble with them."

George B. Hartzog, Jr., director of
the National Park Service, agreed
with Moore's evaluation of the coop-
eration between the park service and
the state.

"In all of the 50 states," said Hart-
zog, "we of the park service have no
finer partnership than we enjoy with
North Carolina and its State High-
way Commission."

Several hundred people from North-
west North Carolina attended the
ceremony at the 600-acre park named
for the former chairman of the State
Highway Commission.

The park site is at Milepost 272 in
Ashe County, about four miles east
of Deep Gap at U. S. 421 and about
nine miles west of Horse Gap at N. C.
16.

It lies near the point where Wa-
tauga, Ashe and Wilkes counties cor-
nor. Curious tourists from other states
joined the crowd attending the dedi-
cation.

Jeffress was chairman of the high-
way commission in the early 1930s,
and was one of the men credited with
swinging the Blue Ridge Parkway
through North Carolina. He was also
president of the Greensboro News Co.,
publisher of the Greensboro Daily
News and the Greensboro Record and
a two-term mayor of the City of
Greensboro.

The governor described Jeffress as
"an outstanding head of the highway
department during very critical times
... an undertaking he handled skill-
fully and ably."

Moore said, "It is fitting that we
should dedicate this park to him, and
to place his good name on it. I hope
it will endure ... as an inspiration to
all."

One of Jeffress' sons, C. O. Jef-
fress of Greensboro, publisher of the
Daily News and the Record, re-
sponded to Moore and Hartzog for
the family.

"We appreciate deeply," he an-
nounced, "what has been said and
done here today."

Jeffress said his father loved "these
mountains," and rejoiced in the know-
ledge that the parkway brought mil-
lions of visitors each year, and would
bring millions more.

' The last year of his life," said
Jeffress, "he came to this spot and in-
sisted on walking down to Cascade
Falls, though it was difficult for him
to make the long climb back."

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Another son, the Rev. E. B. Jef-
fress of Raleigh, attended the cere-
mony, as did a number of other rela-
tives. All of them were recognized by
Hartzog.

A marker identifying the site as
the "E. B. Jeffress Park" was unveil-
ed by Moore, Mrs. James T. Broyhill
(wife of Rep. J. T. Broyhill) and C.
O. Jeffress. It said:

"Six hundred acres of mountain,
field and forest comprise this memor-
ial of the late E. B. Jeffress. A native
North Carolinian, Mr. Jeffress rose
to prominence as a newspaper pub-
lisher.

"While chairman of the State High-
way Commission, he was instrumental
in routing the Blue Ridge Parkway
through scenic North Carolina.
Teacher — journalist — public serv-
ant — the memory ... is honored
here on a portion of the land he
loved."

high school in Asheville and entered
the University of North Carolina on
an academic scholarship. He majored
in chemistry and geology. He was
honored for his high scholastic ac-
hievement by being elected to Phi
Beta Kappa. Upon his graduation in
1907, he went to the Bingham School
in Asheville as an instructor where he
stayed two years before taking a job
as reporter with the old Asheville Ga-
zette-News, which was owned at that
time by W. A. Hildebran. When Mr.
Hildebran later acquired the Greens-
boro Daily News, he sent E. B. Jef-
fress, Jr. to Raleigh to handle Capital
News for both the Asheville and
Greensboro papers. Thus, E. B. Jef-
fress became the first full-time out-
of-town news correspondent assigned
to Raleigh. At age 24, E. B. Jeffress
obtained an interest in the Greensboro
Daily News and later he became its
publisher.

Remarks by Governor Moore

There is a line in Ecclesiastes
which reads, "Let us now praise fa-
mous men . . ."

In thinking of Edwin Bedford Jef-
fress, Jr., I remembered that line
and thought it appropriate to this
occasion. It is not because he was
famous that we should remember him
today, but rather because he did so
many things which were praiseworthy
that we should recall his accomplish-
ments and praise him for them.

He was born in 1887 in the Pigeon
River Valley four miles south of
Canton in Haywood County, North
Carolina. Much of his early life was
spent on a farm there. He completed

Mr. Jeffress settled in Greensboro,
it was a town four miles square, and
had a population less than 11,000. E.
B. Jeffress devoted himself to the
Chamber of Commerce, believing that
Greensboro had a destiny as an im-
portant part of the State's commer-
cial growth. He served two terms as
the Chamber's President, and helped
establish the Greensboro Community
Chest. He was Mayor of Greensboro
for two terms.

When Mr. Jeffress was a student
at the University of North Carolina,
he roomed with O. Max Gardner, who
was later to become Governor. It was
Governor Gardner who suggested to

Mr. Jeffress that he run for the Gen-
eral Assembly, which he did. In the
1931 session, Mr. Jeffress was Chair-
man of the House Committee on Re-
organization of State Government.
He was Vice-Chairman of the House
Committee on Public Roads. He con-
ducted hearings on the measure which
provided that the State was to take
over the maintenance of the County
roads with the prisoners working on
them.

Later when Mr. Jeffress became
Chairman of the Highway Commis-
sion, he worked to improve the medi-
cal care of prisoners throughout the
system. Because of his familiarity
with the mountains of North Caro-
lina he sought successfully for the
route of the Skyline Parkway connect-
ing the Shennadoah and the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park.
Largely through his efforts, the Park-
way was located in North Carolina
instead of Tennessee.

Although his chairmanship of the
State Highway Commission was of
comparatively short duration, Edwin
Bedford Jeffress, Jr. proved himself
an outstanding head of the Depart-
ment during very critical times. He
set up a recognized Highway Depart-
ment which at that time had 40,000
miles of roads to maintain and about
10,000 prisoners to keep and work.
It was a tremendous undertaking, and
Mr. Jeffress handled it skillfully and
ably.

It is fitting that we should dedicate
this park to him, and to place his
good name upon it. I hope that it will
endure, not only as a monument to
his memory, but also an inspiration to
all of those who seek to give North
Carolina something of themselves,
who lose themselves in her work, and
who thereby find their future entwin-
ed with hers. From such a union there
can come only outstanding progress
and achievement.

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The Group in front of Highway Building.

Governor Dan K. Moore presented

FORTY YEAR SERVICE

FORTY-FIVE YEAR SERVICE

service certificates to 40 veteran

William T. Alcon

James Atwell

Highway Commission employees in

Dan S. Allen

Chelsie W. Foster

ceremonies Tuesday, July 16th in the

Earl T. Bender

Dallas S. Ingram

Highway Building Auditorium in Ra-

John B. Bright

William V. Jenkins

leigh.

Earl J. Brinkley

George E. Rackley

Twenty-nine men were honored for

Mark H. Charles

William C. Reep

Robert L. Chew

R. G. Setzer

40-years service to the Highway Com-

Withers Davis

William A. Tyson

mission, and eleven men received

Eugene D. Downs

William E. West

awards for 45-years service during the

James R. Felton

William W. White

annual awards program.

Morris W. Godwin

Coy C. Wood

Leroy Hall

Highway Commission Chairman

Lewis A. Hillard

Joseph M. Hunt, Jr. introduced Gov-

John T. Hinnant

Call to Order

ernor Moore, with Highway Adminis-

James W. Kirk

W. F. Babcock, Administrator

trator W. F. Babcock acting as pre-

Mark L. Lawrence

Invocation .... Rev. David H. Moylan,

siding officer for the occasion. The

W. M. Mashburn

Chaplain, Central Prison

invocation was delivered by The Rev-

Rufus V. Nelson

Introduction of Chairman

erend David H. Moylan, Chaplain at

Dillie G. Baxter

W. F. Babcock

Central Prison in Raleigh.

Claude L. Rogers

Remarks and

Jesse A. Savage

Introduction of Governor

Among those that were honored for

Adrian P. Seabock

Chairman Joseph M. Hunt, Jr.

45-years service were William W.

Wilbourne M. Smith

Remarks and

White, District Engineer in Division

Andrew J. Taylor

Presentation of Certificates

Seven at Greensboro. Mr. White be-

Paul Vaughan

HONORABLE DAN K. MOORE

gan work with the Highway Commis-

Jacob S. White

Governor, North Carolina

sion in 1922 as an instrumentman,

R. S. Wicker

Presentation of Lapel Buttons

and assumed his position as a Dis-

William C. Williams

Asst. Chief Engr. Ivan Hardesty

trict Engineer in 1937.

John H. Workman

1968

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R. G. Setzer

Presented 45-Year

Service Award

Mr. R. G. Setzer who was eligible
for his 45- Year Service Award was
unable to attend the ceremonies that
were held recently in the Highway
Auditorium due to a recent illness.
Mr. Lay ton Gunter, Equipment De-
partment Head went to his home and
presented the award to him. At right
is a picture of the presentation with
his lovely wife looking on. Mr. and
Mrs. Setzer have one daughter, Mrs.
Jean Setzer Gupton.

In 1906 Mr. W. H. Russ and Mr.
John Russ, two brothers, purchased
land and obtained the right of way
leading to a site on the Cape Fear
River, in which to construct a ferry
crossing. The first ferry was construct-
ed by them in that year, and they
were paid $25.00 per month by Bla-
den County. This ferry was of wood
construction and would carry two
light vehicles. A few years and prob-
ably around 1912, a toll of twenty-five
cents per vehicle was put into effect.
A few years later, the ferry was
taken over by Bladen County and
operated by the County until 1931,
when all county roads were taken
over by the State Highway Commis-
sion.

Elwell Ferry-Bladen

The first ferry was poled by hand
with oars and gig poles. Several years
after it began operating, a cable was
put across the river and the ferry
was pulled across by hand stick. This
method was used until 1940, when a
gas motor with paddle wheels on each
side was installed. On March 1, 1942,
gas fumes in the bilge exploded kill-
ing the operator, Mr. W. H. Russ,
and badly damaging the barge. It was
soon repaired and back in operation.

In 1967, the old wooden barge was
replaced by a steel barge that is in
operation at this time. It also carries
two vehicles, but will carry a much
heavier load.

The ferry got its name from the
Elwell Family, but why it was named
for that family, is not known.

One car on the Elwell Ferry.

2U

From The
Chairman's Office

W. RALPH McCUISTON

Sales Engineer
Meadowbrook Estates
Post Office Box 587
King, North Carolina 27021
Telephone (919) 983-5545
July 11, 1968

Mr. Joe Hunt, Chairman

North Carolina Highway Commission

Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Joe:

I am writing to commend one of
your employees, Mr. William Warren
of Spring Hope. Yesterday I was on
N. C. 44 between Whitakers and Leg-
gett and pulled over on the shoulder
and mired up in mud. The shoulders
had been recently reworked and I
did not know this. Mr. Warren came
along in one of the State's trucks
and stopped to give me help. He, Mr.
Warren, went to two different farm
houses and borrowed a log chain and
attached to my bumper and helped
me back onto the pavement. He was
very courteous and helpfull for which
I appreciate very much.

It has been some time since I last
saw you. I hope that this finds you
getting along all right. I send along
my very best regards.

Very sincerely yours,
"Mac"

/s/ W. Ralph McCuiston

TAYLOR, McLENDON & JONES

Attorneys at Law
Wadesboro, North Carolina 28170
Anson Professional Building
July 25, 1968

Honorable Joseph M. Hunt, Jr.,

Chairman
State Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Joe:

On last Friday afternoon I was go-
ing from Wadesboro to Winston-Sa-
lem, and around five o'clock in the
afternoon I had a flat tire in the vi-
cinity of Lexington. We were just
about to have a cloudburst, and I
got out and started fixing the tire
when Mr. Robert Mallard came along
and saw my situation and stopped
and helped me get the tire changed

(as you probably suspect he did most
of the changing). I was certainly im-
pressed with the thoughtfulness of
this act, and simply wanted to write
and tell you of it.

With kindest regards, I remain

Cordially yours,

Pat

/s/ H. P. Taylor, Jr.
cc: Mr. Robert Mallard
Route 9

Lexington, N. C.

* * *

This man works for Highway in
Lexington. He was off work and going
home and did not know me from
Adam. I was certainly impressed by
his Good Samaritan attitude. Best
regards.

3837 Berkley St.

Slidell, Louisiana 70458

July 22, 1968

J. M. Hunt, Jr., Chairman
State Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

Dear Mr. Hunt,

I would like to express the sincere
appreciation of my entire family, and
especially that of my daughter, for
your assistance in locating and re-
turning the ring lost in the rest area
at Kings Mountain on June 29th.

It is extremely gratifying to be the
recipient of such an act of kindness,
and reassures a person's faith in hu-
man nature.

I wish you would convey our appre-
ciation to the attendant who recover-
ed the ring, and to everyone on your
staff who must have participated in
its' return.

I would like to add in closing, that
the facilities we encountered through-
out your state were undoubtedly the
finest we have seen anywhere; but
more importantly, are staffed with
just plain good folks.
Sincerely,

/s/ Phillip W. White

* * ■ *

TOWN OF BEAUFORT
Beaufort, North Carolina
July 15, 1968

Hon. J. Wilson Exum

Highway Commissioner

Snow Hill, N. C.

Dear "Wick":

As Mayor of the Town of Beaufort
I want to thank you for your interest
in the now about completed improve-
ments to U. S. 70 on Live Oak Street.
I feel sure that without your aware-

ness of the needs of this community
and the very fine potential this pro-
ject would not have been as complete
in relations to the local needs.

Too, I want to express thanks and
congratulations for the way in which
the project has been accomplished.
The N. C. State Highway personnel
responsible for the job and the con-
tractors and contractors representa-
tives have not only done their work
well but in a manner demonstrating
good public relations.

Please pass on to those involved the
appreciation of the Town of Beau-
fort's administration.

Yours very truly,

/s/ Wm. H. Potter, Mayor

August 14, 1968

Mr. Joe Hunt, Chairman

N. C. State Highway Commission

Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Hunt:

This letter is to applaud and com-
mend the services of the State High-
way Commission and the employees
who were directly involved in remov-
ing a common trash dump near my
house on New Hope Road in Wake
County. I was overwhelmed by the
swift and thorough action of your em-
ployees on Friday, August 2nd, and
also with the efficiency in which this
was handled.

I am sure I speak not only for my-
self but for the other members of the
community in expressing appreciation
for removal of an eyesore and a
health hazard. It is with pleasure that
I salute fellow State employees for a
job well done.

Sincerely,
/s/ Mrs. C. S. Metsger

3103 New Hope Road

Raleigh, N. C.

"You and your off-season rates.'

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NCSH.P.EA ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By: OTIS BANKS and DAVID KING

PROGRAM OF THE
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION
SEPTEMBER 26-28, 1968
JACK TAR DURHAM HOTEL

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

9:30 A.M.- 5:00 P.M.— Registration— Hotel Lobby
7:00 P.M.

9:00 P.M.-10:30
COMMITTEES:

10:00 A.M.

11:00 A.M.
2:00 P.M.

— Buffet Dinner —
University Ballroom

— President's Reception-

LADIES' ENTERTAINMENT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

3:30 P.M

4:30

-Suite 1401

-Resolutions Committee —
Durham Room

-Finance Committee —
Motel Room 20B

— Personnel Committee —
Secretary's Room

3:00 P.M. — Board of Directors —

Wedgewood Room

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

8:30 A.M.- 9:00
9:00 A.M.-10:00
10:15 A.M.

12:00 Noon
2:00 P.M.

4:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.

— Registration — Hotel Lobby

— Open Forums — Panel Discussions

— Convention Convenes —
University Ballroom (business,
Committee Reports)

— Adjourn for Lunch

— Convention Reconvenes
Annual Safety Award of SHC
Convention Business

— Adjournment

— Annual Banquet — Civic Center —
Principal Speaker:
Hon. Robert W. Scott,

Lt. Governor

10:00 P.M.- 1:00 A.M.— Cabaret Dance-
University Ballroom

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

8:00 A.M.

9:15 A.M.

-Nominating Committee
Breakfast Meeting —
Durham Room

-Convention Reconvenes —
University Ballroom
Completion of business —
Report of Time and Place Com-
mittee for 1969 — Report of Nom-
inating Committee
Election and Installation of
Officers for 1968-1969
Memorial Service
Adjournment Sine Die

7:00 P.M.

9:00 P.M.-10:30

— Informal Reception —

President's Suite
— Buffet Dinner —

University Ballroom
— President's Reception — Suite 1401

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Morning — Shopping

1:00 P.M. — Luncheon — University 2 Room —

Flower arrangements, use of
decorative candles — by Mrs.
Doris Cuddy of PANDORA'S.
7:00 P.M. — Annual Banquet — Civic Center

10:00 P.M.- 1:00 A.M.— Cabaret Dance-
University Ballroom
SPECIAL COURTESIES

Hospitality Rooms — Open House during Convention ex-
cept during business sessions for Delegates and Guests
— courtesy of Mr. E. C. Meredith, Executive Director
and Host, Carolina Asphalt Pavement Association

Daily Newspapers — E. F. Craven Company — John Dixon,
Representative

Notebooks — E. F. Craven Company

Coca Cola Dispenser — Durham Coca Cola Bottling Com-
pany, Mr. Hubert Rand
B. C. Tablets — B. C. Remedy Company of Durham
Cigarettes — Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, Mr. E.
M. Waller, Jr.

Official Photographers — SHC Roadways Magazine — Mr.
Gordon Deans; State Department of Corrections —
Mr. Hal Rericha

David King and Otis Banks planning this years Con-
vention.

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The 1933 Storm

By OTIS BANKS

Back in 1933 the people on the
coast of North Carolina were used to
storms of all kind, good, bad, indif-
ferent. There was no network of
weather-warning radio stations as we
know it now. We took it in stride.

The storm that centered on the
coastal area on September 15, 1933,
from New Bern to Cedar Island, was
thought to be just another "blow"
when it began — nobody realized
what the end results would be. The
Dictures accompanying this, taken by
me, show these results very graphic-
ally.

The Neuse River Bridge, New Bern
to Bridgeton on US 17, lost 85 spans
during the night of the storm. The
next morning, the end on the New
Bern side was still there, as was the
drawbridge, and from that point to
Bridgeton nothing but capsills and
piles. It was really a desolate site in-
deed. Guy Moore, engineer, and Mr.
O. F. Yount, Bridge Superintendent,
along with Mr. C. B. Taylor, Bridge
Maintenance Engineer, were on the
job shortly and all available bridge-
men were on their way to the scene.
Guy felt the bridge went out in sec-
tions and could be salvaged — this
idea was slightly ridiculed by the
others, but Guy was a determined
man. He secured a motor boat when
the water was such as could be tra-
velled and proceeded downriver. You-
're right, he found most of the bridge
in the swampy shoreline below the
point where the Neuse and Trent
rivers merge at New Bern. Much of
the bridge spans were intact, al-
though warped somewhat; some were
broken up, but there it was! Prison
labor was brought in quickly and sal-
vage began — bridge spans and tim-
bers brought back up the river by
barge and raft like logs. This meant
a great deal of time saving to the
work of replacing the bridge.

Traffic on US 17 was cut off. De-
tours were maintained from Vance-
boro north of Bridgeton over county
roads and Streets Ferry into New
Bern, but this was a trip of about 40
miles for those in Bridgeton to cover
a distance of about 1 mile to New
Bern. A barge was pressed into serv-
ice with a tugboat, a makeshift land-
ing prepared, and autos were ferried
as much as possible.

On the night of the storm, the
New Bern end of the bridge (which
sloped into the street) was flooded
badly. No cars attempted to cross
from the New Bern side, but traffic
coming in from the northern end had
no way of knowing the condition un-
til they "landed" and they were not
about to return. They had to be pull-
ed through the water, up into their
engines, and the service station on
the corner did a land-office business
draining crankcases that night for
awhile. Although I was in the Dis-
trict Office, I always derived pleasure
from going out with the men when-
ever possible and I was out that
night. It was decided to close the
bridge on the Bridgeton side and a
truck was dispatched — Webb Har-
rison, Foreman and now retired, in
charge. I had the doubtful privilege
of riding with him. When barricades
were placed on the Bridgeton end,
we started the return trip — the ri-
ver was lapping the decking in many
places — dark as pitch except truck
lights — I was never so glad to see
the land! Next morning, when I saw
the bridge completely gone, I had
second thoughts, believe you me!

The old "Joyland" ferry from Glou-
cester to Harkers Island finished a
trin that night 100' from shoreline
hisrh and dry on a hugh hummock.
There was no bridge then, so the peo-
ple on the Island were isolated ex-
cept by their own boats. It was quite
a task to walk the ferry back to the
channel, but it was done.

The Bridge Maintenance Depart-
ment, as always, rose to the task of
rer>lacirg the bridge at New Bern
with all available help and local la-
bor (25$ an hour). Believe it or not,
15 days after the storm, October 1,
1933, the first car crossed the bridge!
That speaks for the efficiency of the
Bridge Crews, and in those days it
was mostly "by hand" since they did
not have the modern machinery used
today.

I made a trip into Carteret County
on Sunday following the storm, with
Mr. Roy Hart, District Engineer, now
deceased. It was a desolate country
with many areas isolated due to roads
cut in two, bridges washed away. The
people on Harkers Island were com-
r>letely isolated since the ferry was
high and dry away from water. How-
ever, in a FEW DAYS, traffic was
moving — that is the way the High-
way Commission worked then and
has always worked since.

Some people speak of the "good old
days" but I'll take the days now be-

27

cause I have been through both. I re-
member very well beginning work
with the Commission in June. 1931,
at New Bern. Twelve months later,
on the same job but with a heavier
work load, I received an "increment"
— we did have them in those days
but they worked slightly different
from the way they do now. I began
at $75 per month in 1931 — in 1932
I was getting $62.50 — an icrement
of $12.50 "down"! Don't tell me
about the "good old days" — some
of our younger people working now
do not realize the hardships suffered
by so many of our good employees in
the really lean years — and it was
5V2 days a week, 55 hours, with the
crews cleaning up their own equip-
ment on Saturday afternoons!

Today, with radios and weather-
warnings, storms are anticipated and
met actually ahead of time. With
modern equipment and machinery,
the task is not as bad. But, looking
back to 1933 when that storm did so
much damage, we didn't do so bad
with what we had, did we?

1. The morning after — view from
drawbridge toward Bridgeton —
85 spans missing.

2. The calm after the storm.

3. Wreckage piled against the New
Bern end of the bridge.

4. More wreckage on the shoreline.

5. Bridge timbers piled on the shore-
line by the storm.

6. The New Bern end of the bridge
— all that was left other than
drawbridge.

7. Salvage crews — prisoners — re-
trieving the spans down the river
from New Bern.

8. Salvage crews

9. Some entire spans were intact in
the swamp.

10. Typical prisoners at work — one
believe in working "free".

11. Not swimming — just working.

12. Temporary barge-ferry working
between Bridgeton and New Bern.

13. Repair crews — timbers floated
back upriver to the bridge.

14. Replacing decking.

15. Partially finished bridge — view
toward Bridgeton.

16. Repair crews.

17. Back-breaking work, nailing floor-
ing.

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18. Those in charge — L to R —
John Epperson, Bridge Foreman
of New Bern; Guy Moore, Engi-
neer (later Bridge Superinten-
dent, now deceased); Charlie Da-
vis, Engineer (now deceased) ; O.
F. Yount, Bridge Superintendent
(now deceased); One of the engi-
neering party, name unknown.
This car the first to cross the
bridge.

19. Traffic moving on the replaced
bridge.

20. Outskirts of New Bern — Jack-
smith Creek Bridge washed away.

21. Ferry landing at Gloucester, after
the storm.

22. Gloucester-Harkers Ferry ( n o
bridge), 100' from shoreline, high
and dry.

23. "Joyland" (ferry) with wreckage
on the deck.

24. Ferry landing on Harkers Island,
after the storm.

25. The "Joyland" back in operation.

26. Typical scene of wreckage on Ce-
dar Island.

27. Methodist Church at Marshall-
burg — both ends gone.

28. House at Straits — family depart-
ed just before the collapse.

29. Typical of the wood around the
area — Otis Banks in the back-
ground.

30. House blown and washed 150'
from original foundations, ap-
parently no other damage.

31. Typical damage on Cedar Island.

32. Road blocked by fallen trees, Ce-
dar Island.

33. Road blocked, Cedar Island.

Arnold Kirk New Travel
Editor for Conservation
and Development

Arnold Kirk has been promoted to
Travel Editor for the Travel and Pro-
motion Division of the Department of
Conservation and Development. His
appointment was announced Tuesday,
August 13 by his division chief Bill
Hensley.

Kirk, a veteran newsman who came
to the travel post in the summer of
1966, has worked for newspapers
across the piedmont and eastern
areas of North Carolina.

Immediately prior to joining the
Department of Conservation and De-
velopment, Kirk was employed by
John Harden Associates, a public re-
lations firm. In this post, Kirk played
a major role in the research and writ-
ing of the second volume of Superior
Stone Company's North Carolina
Road and Their Builders, a history of
roads in this State written in easy
to read fashion.

Kirk, who was publications editor
for the travel and promotion office
prior to being named to his new
position, will continue to work closely
with the State Highway Commission
in promoting use of the State's high-
way system.

North Carolina
Hires
Swedish Students

Ten young Swedish Students were
hired on June 17th for the summer
in the North Carolina State Highway
Commission.

A letter was received last December
28th from Mr. Hans Ch. Lindgren,
Chairman of Study Tour Committee,
Vasaplatsen 6, Gotheiburg, Central,
Sweden, which had been directed to
Mr. W. F. Babcock. After a meeting
with Mr. Babcock around the first of
the year, it was agreed that the Com-
mission would work about 8 to 10
Swedish students. It was felt that
this would create good international
relations and would create good pub-
lic relations between this country and
the country of Sweden.

These students are from Chalmers
University of Technology and have
studied for three of their four years
for a masters degree in engineering.
After these student graduate from a
four-year college of technology, which
is considered equivalent to our Mas-
ters Degrees in the United States.

After letters of correspondence and
upon receiving applications from the
students along with a curriculum of
their studies, the Commission agreed
that they would offer these students
employment as Engineering Assist-
ants with an annual salary rate of
$5,556 ($463) monthly. The person-
nel office called several departments
within the Highway Commission, who
would be in agreement to work these
students and proper forms were sub-
mitted to the American Consulate
General and the Immigration and Na-
turalization Service for visas.

After evaluating the employees' ap-
lications the Commission again cor-
responded with the school in Sweden
sending proper information as to the
type of work being performed in the
various departments and asked that
the student working with the Chair-
man of the Study Committee deter-
mine which department they would
prefer working with. Listed below
are the names of students and the de-
partments that they will be working
in for the period from June 17th to
August 17th.

Highway Personnel Officer Raynor Woodard, Per Ahlberg, P. A. Malm-
quist, Bo Karlsson, Goran Anneback, Rolf Magnusson, Even Andersson and
Assistant Highway Personnel Officer Cloyce Alford.

Not pictured are the four Swedish Engineering students in the Western
part of the state.

NAME — DEPARTMENT
Per'Arme Ahlberg — Roadway Design
P. A. Malmqvist — Bridge Design
Bo Karlsson — Advance Planning
Goran Anneback — Location
Rolf Magnusson — Photogrammetry
Sven Andersson — Traffic
Goran Kers — Construction
Christer Lundin — Construction
Anders Stoltz — Construction
Rolf Ohman — Construction

The four students who are report-

ing to Division Fourteen will be as-
signed to the Construction Depart-
ment in Waynesville. They will re-
port directly to Mr. A. J. Hughes in
Sylva, and he will see that they are
taken to the Construction office in
Waynesville for assignment.

We welcome you Swedes and hope
you enjoy your brief stay in the
States, and your work here in the
North Carolina State Highway Com-
mission.

AN OLD GRIST MILL

Above is one of the few remaining old grist mills left near Raleigh.

SI

All Roads Lead
To Raleigh

FAIR WEEK

October 14-19

All roads will lead to the Capital City during the week
of October 14-19.

These are the dates of the 101st North Carolina State
Fair, and Manager Art Pitzer hopes to start the "second
hundred years" off with one of the largest attended and
most interesting expositions ever. Fair officials hope this
year's attendance will top the one million mark. An
estimated 900,000 poured through the gates during the
100th classic in 1967.

Entertainment for every fairgoer and in every con-
ceivable fashion is the target for this year's fair, the
theme of which is "Tarheels at Work".

An increase of some $5,000 in premiums, bringing the
total to its highest of more than $80,000, assures top
notch competition in the more than 30 competitive de-
partments.

Something old, and something new, both will highlight
the six-day attraction. The Sinclair Dinosaurs and the
Vietnamese Hamlet will be top attractions for both young
and old as an outside exhibit and the Fieldcrest Mills,
complete with style shows, will be a welcome addition in-
side the arts exhibit area of the Industrial Building.

Old but not too old are the wildlife, childrens barnyard
and hobby and crafts features. Each is being improved
and should provide hours of enjoyment for even the
most critical of fairgoers.

The barnyard will be relocated, but on a prominent
spot at the fairgrounds. The wildlife exhibit will be en-
larged and will vacate the tent it has been housed in for
the past several years for more permanent quarters. A
first last year, the Hobby and Crafts building was con-
sidered to be very successful, despite the fact that it had
only a dirt floor, and will receive a facelifting and con-
crete floor for '68.

The second annual Horse Show, the first enjoying
maximum success last year, is expected to be another
of the fair's highlights. Last year the show included 260
head, while the 1968 edition is expected to surpass 500.
A six-day program of halter events and performance
classes and includes Arabians, Morgans, Saddlebreds, Ten-

The Fair from the air.

nessee Walkers, Quarterhorses, Appaloosas, Thorough-
breds, Shetlands, and Welsh Breeds, the show is expected
to enjoy astounding success in future years.

As in the past, the Village of Yesteryear continues to
be one of the top attractions during the fair, its aisles
jammed to capacity during open hours.

The senior citizens of North Carolina will once again
open the week, being honored during the fun festival
Monday. Opening night will once again feature Jimmy
Dean popular TV and recording star who performed
before a sellout audience last year in Dorton Arena. Be-
ginning Tuesday the second day of the fair, the cham-
pionship rodeo will begin their competitive events with
two performances daily through Saturday.

Band concerts, skydiving by the Golden Knights, a
thrilling midway, exciting grandstand attractions includ-
ing the dare devil drivers, folk festival dancing, tractor
driving and bricklaying contests and many, many other
exhibits will help make a six day six-night extravaganza
you won't want to miss and certainly won't forget.

NORTH CAROLINA
STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
Rest Areas on Interstate Highways

Litter
Picnic Deposit
Areas Tables Cans

Open to Traffic *27 367 191

Under Construction 8

In Some Stage of Design 11

Future 7

Rest Areas on Highways other than Interstate

Open to Traffic 15 176 113

Under Construction 2

In Some Stage of Design 1

Park Area, in cooperation with

Wildlife Resources Commission 1 14 5

Roadside Tables 422 419

Roadside Litter Deposit Cans 231

(Can installations only, separate
from table installations)

979

959

*Including two combination Welcome Center-Rest Areas
open in August, 1968; and one area not yet remodeled to
Interstate rest area standards.

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t Luck

FEARSOME FOURSOME — The first of two Com-
mission Meetings out-of-Raleigh for the month of June
was held in Greensboro ... at Sedgefield. Day before
the meeting some of the commissioners and staff had an
opportunity to play the sprawling course which gives the
pros a fit at GGO-time. One foursome — commissioners
Brame and McNair, staffers Lee and Willoughby —
gave it a whirl. We stood on the veranda of the Inn and
watched them approach number nine ... so did commis-
sioner Murphy. We left for a spell, returned to see them
on the same green. "They back around here", we inquired.
"Naw", said Murphy, "they haven't left yet. Think some-
body cemented over the cup". Tennis, anyone? Chair-
man and Mrs. Hunt were the perfect host and hostess
for this meeting.

NEW LYRICS — Another great time was had when
the commission gathered for work and rarified air at
Blowing Rock. The W. B. Garrisons and Raymond Smith
played hosts. SHC got a big pat on the back from Gov-
ernor Moore for a job well done since July 1965, and
Jim Stikeleather got a mild surprise. Charlotte's Ty
Boyd — magnificent as MC at the banquet there — said,
"Up in Jim's division folks don't want to hear Kate
Smith sing 'When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain'.
They want to hear the US Bureau of Public Roads say
when the cut's coming through the mountain."

VISITORS — We were pleased to have two outstand-
ing visitors in this office lately . . . both named Harold.
First, Harold Finley, PR for the Kentucky Highway De-
partment. Took him on a short tour of the new annex,
talked about public information in general, big four
basketball- football. He left. Shortly after, Governor Louis
Nunn made us a Kentucky Colonel. Second Harold Plum-
mer, former head of Wisconsin State Highway Depart-
ment, now a consultant. Would you believe h ewanted di-
rections on how best to get from Raleigh to Washington,
D. C. Laughingly, I suggested politics . . . then got out
a road map.

POW! — We understand from the grapevine that there
was a conversation recently between Paul Pearson and
Charlie Lassiter something like this: Pearson and Lassi-
ter in a rowboat fishing, a storm is approaching . . .
Pearson: "Man, look at that lightning!" Lassiter: "Yeah".
Pearson: "You know they say lightning never strikes
twice in the same place". Lassiter: "Yeah. It don't have
to".

HUH?? — Our very attractive and capable receptionist,
Janie Williams, gets all kinds of phone calls. Other day,
a small boy called saying, "I want a job with the High-
way Commission cutting grass around telephone poles
on the side of a road for fifty-cents an hour". Janie

By KEITH HUNDLEY

didn't bat an eye before inquiring, "Do you have a de-
gree in civil engineering?"

ONE BLOT — Raleigh had managed to have a pretty
good year for itself and then the North Carolina Jaycees
convened here.

BLIMEY — On a recent trip to the Winston-Salem
area, we were on Interstate 40 in the Kernersville area
when it seemed that all of a sudden — POOF — we
were transported to another land — There on the con-
crete before us were two Omnibuses. We were told later
they are the property of a certain Winston-Salem tobacco
company which uses them in cigarette ads for television.

TEXAS TALK — Those same cousins we visited in
Waco, Texas last year made it to our place briefly this
summer. Talk drifted to the HEMISFAIR at San An-
tonio. We asked about the big spire with the cafes, etc.
at the top . . ."How does that thing compare in size to
the Space Needle at Seattle?", we asked. "Well", said
cousin Jack Harbour, "I understand our folks tried to
buy it for a television antenna."

PARTING SHOTS — A friend of ours says that psy-
chiatrists who advise parents to spend more time with
their children must be trying to drum up business, and
that the reason there are so many henpecked husbands
in this world is they try to make their wives get along on
chickenfeed.

Bye y'all.

Could this be Layton Elliott and Carl Lusk of the Fu-
ture? Cartoon by Jim McCloskey

S3

To Be A Hermit

By JEWEL ADCOCK

Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

Due to a stint of unexpected
Jury Duty, plus vacations, the time
element has been so limited that
we will not have "HEADQUAR-
TERS NEWS" this time.

However, I do hope that each
of you enjoy reading my feature
story on "The Fort Fisher Her-
mit," which I wrote in my off-
hours at home recently. While on
vacation in July, my husband, Jim,
and I visited the old hermit and I
would like to share this interesting
experience with my Highway
friends.

We'll be back with Headquarters
in the September-October issue.
Until then, thanks for your pa-
tience.

Jewel Adcock
Assoc. Editor

ABOUT THREE MILES SOUTH
of Carolina Beach, the sign read,
FORT FISHER HERMIT. Parking
the car so we wouldn't get stuck in
the sand, we set out on foot to the
Hermit's shack. After a hot walk of
more than one-fourth mile, we turn-
ed the bend and just ahead in an
open clearing, we spied the old Her-
mit standing in front of his half-un-
derground hut.

Like a knarled, weather-beaten tree
he stood out beside his beach hut.
Back of him was the Cape Fear Ri-
ver and in front the sound, which
served as his bath-tub and a place to
fish.

The moment he saw us he waved
and shouted, "Come on up." Wearing
a grey beard and large-fringed straw
hat with swim trunks, his skin had
the look of bronzed leather. An out-
standing feature was his deep-set,
penetrating blue eyes, which seemed
to take in everything at once. Slight-
ly humped, the old Hermit had no
doubt weathered many storms on the
beach.

As he motioned us to seats, which
were old broken-down lawn chairs,
car seats, boxes, etc., we noticed eight
mongrel dogs lying lazily around the
hut, eyes half-open, some uttering low
growls. To provide shade, an old di-
lapidated beach umbrella was prop-
ped in the center of a stack of worn-
out automobile tires. An antique car-
cass of an abandoned car rested near-
by, obviously serving some purpose
amidst the litter of tin cans, old tires,

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various junk items, bottles, shoes, old
papers and scraggly weeds. In a pro-
minent place on the ground was a
rusty iron frying pan with coins,
mostly nickels, dimes and quarters,
tokens from his previous visitors. As
we placed our coins in the pan, his
eyes gleamed as he quickly informed
us this was the only way he had to
buy "rations" down at Carolina
Beach.

After sitting out front a while, he
asked if we'd like to take a look in-
side his hut, which was formerly an
old abandoned ammunition dump
built by the government in 1943 dur-
ing World War II. Eagerly peering
into the dark interior, we were
amazed at what we saw — stacks of
old newspapers, clothes, cooking uten-
sils, old junk — all stacked together
so high you wondered how he ever
got inside and when he did, how on
earth he ever managed to find any-
thing he was looking for. We thought
he must have great courage to live
in such surroundings, as it seemed to
us to be the perfect place for insects,
snakes and rats.

When asked if he actually slept in-
side the hut, with a wry smile he re-
plied that, due to a rash of recent
thieves and robbers, he now slept out
in the open in a sleeping bag with a
loaded shot-gun and dog by his side.
Each night he would sleep in a dif-
ferent place near the area so he would
be hard to find if crooks arrived. He
told us that many times when van-
dals came up and could find no
money hidden around, they would
beat him before leaving, and he was
taking no more chances like this!

The old Hermit's views on the out-
side world and politics were explosive.
Instead of losing touch with the world
outside, his stacks of newspapers in
his hut proved otherwise. In fact, he
seemed quite proud that he kept up
to date on current events and he used
words as big as a "Philadelphia law-
yer."

When asked about becoming a
Hermit, the old man squinted his un-
usually bright eyes and sighed, "I
didn't really plan to become a Her-
mit. I came to the Wilmington area
14 years ago to study marine life and
this is how I ended up."

We inquired about his life before,
and he seemed eager to unload his
past history. His name was Robert
Harrell, and he emphasized that al-
though his name was English, he was
half Irish with a drop of Jewish
blood. Seventy-five years old now,
he was born February 2, 1893 in
Shelby, Cleveland County. His mother
died when he was seven. Educated in
the Cleveland County Schools, he ob-
tained a job at 18 in the print shop
of Gardner- Webb College. He studied
at Gardner-Webb while working his
way. After that, he worked as a print-
er with newspapers until 40 years

old. Married for a period of 25 years,
he is the father of three sons, now all
grown and out of the state. Asked
about his wife, he paused for a mo-
ment while looking out over the beach
and slowly replied: "Well, for one
thing sure — she was a good woman.
But her folks broke us up!"

Quickly changing the subject to
religion and politics, the old Hermit
allowed he was a Baptist, but felt
like the Baptist Church ran off and
left him.

Claiming to be a Democrat at one
time, he said he was against politi-
cians because "They're all crooked."
And, he said, with a fierce shake of
his head — "What's wrong with this
world is — the Nation's full of free
loaders! Though most of the country
is against L.B.J. ," he almost shouted,
"you'll see — he'll go down in history
as our greatest President!'

But getting back to local politics,
he almost spat out the words —
"Them people down in Raleigh
are a bunch of crooks." We tried at
this moment not to cringe — just
smile.

Inquiring about his everyday life
as a Hermit, we found that he arises
every day at daylight and reads and
writes for a while. He said he is
strongly interested in the sciences
and humanities and is writing a book
on psychology.

His breakfast is simple. On an open
fire, using his rusty iron skillets and

pans, one of his favorite foods is
fried half-grown citrons and green
tomatoes. But he lamented, "the cit-
rons have been scarce as grasshoppers
this year." Though he did do quite
a bit of fishing in the nearby river
and sound, he said he had caught only
two fish since last fall. "Thieves have
cleaned me out," he thundered, "clean
out. Why, they got my last fishing
rod and reel just last week. And I've
only one small fishing boat left out
there by the canal."

The old Hermit goes down to Caro-
lina Beach once a week for his "ra-
tions" and seven gallons of drinking
water, his weekly supply. "And —
my bath-tub is out there," he said,
pointing toward the sound.

As the sun was pounding down and
there was no sign of a Seabreeze, we
decided we'd better get going down
the hot, sandy road back to our car
and air-conditioned motel. But with
a parting shot, we remarked on his
easy, carefree life.

Hermit Robert Harrell, age 75,
weather-beaten, bronzed, yes — even
knarled with his hunch back, stood
there in front of his hut with his
deepset, bright eyes blazing. "It's not
easy," he said. "It's a hard time. Just
try being a hermit. Go crazy before
becoming a hermit, and then you be-
come immune."

After pondering the situation on
our long hot trek back to our air-
conditioned car, we thought that per-
haps Hermit Robert Harrell was
right!

Chairman and Mrs. J. M. Hunt s
Daughter Marries Mr. Ellington

Miss Etta Elizabeth Hunt, lovely daughter of
Chairman and Mrs. Joseph Marvin Hunt, Jr., was
married Saturday, August 31st, at West Market
Street United Methodist Church in Greensboro,
North Carolina to James Howard Ellington, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Marshall Ellington of
Graham.

The bride was given in marriage by her father
and matron of honor was Mrs. Joseph Marvin
Hunt, III of Winston-Salem. Bridesmaids were
Mrs. Rodney Brown, Miss Margaret Carson Mus-
tard, Miss Mary Jane Boren, Miss Amry Stout,
and Miss Joan Bland Crutchfield of Altavista, Va.

Child attendant was Marshall Rand Ellington
of Charlotte, nephew of the bridegroom.

The bridegroom's father was best man. Ushers
were Carroll Marshall Ellington, Jr. of Char-

lotte, brother of the bridegroom, Joseph Marvin
Hunt, III of Winston-Salem, brother of the bride,
John Clark of Graham, Joseph Fowler of Bur-
lington and Rodney Benson.

The bride is a graduate of Peace College and
attended Greensboro College. She is a former
member of the Greensboro Spinsters' Club.

The bridegroom attended Ringling School of
Art in Sarasota, Fla., and is now a student at
Elon College.

The bride's father has served five terms in the
N. C. House of Representatives and in 1961 was
Speaker of the House. He is now Chairman of the
North Carolina Highway Commission.

Following a trip to the coast, the couple will
live in Burlington.

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Congratulations
to ELEANOR and
ROBERT LEE
CASPER upon the
recent birth of a
daughter and to
the ED MOD-
LINS upon the
birth of a son.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
M. G. Carawan TrvccTHJ A

Division Correspondent ll.V 01 JUSri.rH A.

MODLIN, who passed away recently.
Mr. Modlin worked with the Highway
Commission 18 years. Our condolences
also to the family of C. H. BAILEY
in the death of Mr. Bailey's father;
to the E. S. STALLS in the death
of their son, Elton, who was in the
United States Armed Forces; and to
the family of EUGENE ALLS-
BROOK in the loss of his uncle.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement to DAVID E. SAWYER,
who retired on August 1 under dis-
ability. Mr. Sawyers was a Mainte-
nance Foreman and has been with
the Highway Commission for 26 years.

Our best wishes go to PAUL HAR-
RISON who resigned to work for
Weyerhaeuser Company.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mr. L. D. CHERRY, G M. BLAKE
and H. B. ROUGHTON.

Mr. WORTH ASKEW has been a
surgical patient in Roanoke-Chowan
Hospital.

Mr. A. B. WILLIAMS has return-
ed to work after undergoing an opera-
tion.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. JOLLIFF at-
tended his class reunion in Hertford
recently. This was the Hertford High
School Graduating Class of 1938. They
both report a most enjoyable time and
Mr. Jolliff tells that he saw a lot of
his classmates which he had not seen
since graduation.

GLENN CARAWAN attended a
Radiological Defense Course in Cha-
pel Hill the week of August 5th
through 9th. The following week of
August 12th through 16th, D. W.
PATRICK attended a Management
Seminar held at Asheville Biltmore
College.

The refreshing ocean water and
breeze has been enjoyed this long hot
summer by many of our personnel.
Mr. and Mrs. LINWOOD RAWLS
and family vacationed at Nags Head
and Virginia Beach; Mrs. LOUISE
SITTERSON and daughter Linda en-
joyed a trip to Atlantic Beach where
Louise caught her first fish and came
up with a unique remedy for "Sun-
burned Nose"; Mrs. ANN WHITE
and family, JACK ASKEW and
wife, and Mrs. ELLEN WILLOUGH-
BY and family all were among the
crowd at Myrtle Beach, South Caro-
lina (Ellen reports the fishing was
great, but, really, an OCTUPUS!!!);
and GLENN CARAWAN and family
enjoyed a week at Atlantic Beach.

Other vacationers this summer in-
clude EARL MOORE and wife who
had a good time at Pamlico Beach.
Earl has finally learned to bait a
hook and mighty proud to catch a
fish.

JAMES STALLS has returned
from a trip to "parts unknown", un-
known that is, to the District 2 of-
fice staff. We think he learned to
"Kill a Fox".

M. S. RAYNOR and wife vacation-
ed in California with their son. Pink
learned all about the "Hippies", 77
Sunset Strip and the Hound-dogs at
Universal Studios.

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. VINSON spent
some time with their children in
Abingdon, Virginia, recently.

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ru-
pert W. Hasty's daughter took place
July 21st at Mt. Carmel Baptist
Church in Seaboard, N. C. The cou-
ple are making their home in Rich
Square, N. C.

Hazel Baker

Division Correspondent W 1 L lj 1 A JV1

This picture indicates a very suc-
cessful fishing trip for District Engi-
neer W. F. Sessoms and a fishing
companion??? As you can see, Mr.
Sessoms is under a strain holding a
9V2 pound Large Mouth Bass and he
reports that this is one of the smaller
ones. How about letting us know
where the good fishing spot is, Mr.
Sessoms!

Sympathy is ex-
tended to Mrs.
JANICE MOORE,
Secretary in the
Division Office, in
the death of her
Father on August
4, 1968.

Miss JOSINA
MOSLEY became
the bride of Mr.

P.

MILLS, JR on June 29th at the Hope
Well Church at Black Jack, N. C.
William is employed with the State
Highway Commission and is located
with a Construction Party at Wash-
ington, N. C.

Recent vacationers are: C. W.
SNELL, JR., Division Engineer, Nags
Head, R. D. FRANKS, Asst. Division
Engineer, Myrtle Beach, Hazel L.
Baker, Secretary, Division Office, Vir-
ginia and Charlotte.

87

Miss Sandra Lynne Oliver became
the bride of R. J. Downes, III on Sun-
day afternoon July 21, 1968 at Spill-
man Baptist Church at Kinston, N. C.
The bride's father officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. Lacy Oliver of Kinston, she
is a graduate of Grainger High School,
Kinston and is presently a junior at
Lenoir Memorial School of Nursing.

Mr. Downes is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. J. Downes, II of Kinston. He
is a graduate of Grainger High School
and attended W. W. Holding in Ra-
leigh and is employed by the N. C.
State Highway Commission, Mainte-
nance Department as Engineer Tech.
I.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
JOSEPH M. NEWMAN on the birth
of a daughter July 27, 1968. Joseph
is an Insp. with the Kinston Construc-
tion Dept.

Mr. LYNWOOD EARL DAWSON,
vacationed for a week in Gadsden,
Alabama.

Division Two wishes WALLACE
S. CHANDLER the best of luck in
his new job. Wallace recently trans-
ferred to the Charlotte Appraisal Of-
fice and we will miss him in this divi-
sion.

Mr. C. Y. GRIFFIN'S engineering
staff was happy to welcome back
Engr. Assistant, Brian T. Armstrong
for the remainder of the summer.
Brian will be a Senior at NCSU at
Raleigh this coming fall.

H. B. NORRIS and H. F. SPAIN

were among those who served with the
National Guard for a 2 week summer
encampment at Ft. Gordon, Ga. dur-
ing the first 2 weeks in July. We un-
derstand it got pretty "hot" while
they were there.

BERT L. WHITE and his family
enjoyed a visit to the West Coast and
toured Yellowstone National Park
while on a western vacation in July.

Mr. and Mrs. EDWARD E. COU-
SINS are the proud parents of a new
baby daughter who made her first
appearance on April 24th.

Mr. and Mrs. CLYDE M. IPOCK,
JR. are the proud parents of a new
baby son who was born on July 4th.
Needless to say they will always cele-
brate the "4th."

LEX A. KELLY, Asst. Dist. Engr.,
spent the week of July 29 in Chapel
Hill, attending a Radiological Moni-
toring School.

The office of Mr. J. B. JEN-
NETTE has been well represented at
White Lake this summer. Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. JOHN and family along
with Mr. and Mrs. BILL PAPPAS
spent the first week of July there and
according to all reports had "a whale
of a time." J. T. HUFFMAN and
his family vacationed there for a week
during the middle of July.

M. O. WHALEY has been hospital-
ized — hope he is out soon and back
to work. GEORGE EMERSON (Re-
tired) suffered a stroke and is hospi-
talized at Lenoir Memorial Hospital
— hope he soon recovers.

Donald K. Norman - Billie G.
Norman. Baby girl Jo Lynn Norman,
June 27, 1968 7 lb. and 8 oz. Donald
is with the Construction Party of
Washington, N. C.

John H. Banks
Receives
Eagle Scout Badge

John H. Banks, Jr., 14, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Banks of 206 Pat-
rick St., Greenville, recently received
his Eagle Badge.

Banks is the first member of Boy
Scout 362, sponsored by the Green-
ville Moose, to earn the Eagle Badge.
His Scoutmaster is Thomas Butts.

The new Eagle Scout has just re-
turned from 3 weeks at Camp Boy-
haven, in the Adirondacks of New
York, where he was sponsored by
William Davis, past Neighborhood
Commission of Troop 362.

Davis, a graduate of East Carolina
University, is now an executive scout-
er in the Schenectady County Council.
N. Y.

John has earned 34 merit badges,
seven of which were earned at Camp
Boyhaven this summer. He is also a
member of the Order of the Arrow.

Son of JOHN H. BANKS, Right of
Way Agent, who is actively involved
as Troop Commiteeman of the Scouts.

38

I

Congratulations
to JOAN STRAU-
GHAN and EL-
BERT HERRING
who were married
^ on June 23rd at
^ 4:00 at Temple

'M Baptist Church in
I Wilmington. Con-
J gratulations also to
Joan's Mother,
Divis^cor^ndent Nell Straughan,
secretary in R-O-W and of course
Dad- Lewis Straughan, who gave
their daughter one of the lovliest
weddings this correspondent has seen
in a long time. It must have taken a
lot of planning, organization, etc. The
couple are now living in Knoxville,
Tenn. Joan, a former Campbell Col-
lege student, has gone to wor kin the
Library of the University of Tenn.
Her husband, a graduate of Wilming-
ton College, has entered a Training
Program with Sears, Roebuck and
Co. in Management and Personnel
Division.

Last we heard from our "DEAR
MINNIE MAY SMITH", former
secretary in our Dist. 2 office at
Clinton who has been retired several
years; was that she had arrived in
Hyannis, Mass. We always love to
hear from her and would love for her
to stop by and see us if she ever gets
back down this way again. We under-
stand she still receives the "Road-
ways" so a hello and love to her from
all of us.

Some of our employees have been
vacationing. MARIE FERRELL, Sec-
retary in Dist. 1 office at Burgaw,
and family motored to New Orleans,
La. in their new car. BOB TREVA-
THAM and WILL DAVIS, both of
R-O-W, and their families went to
the mountains. PAUL DuPRE, our
Div. Engr., and his family also went
to the mountains in Boone to visit
relatives. HOUSTON CARTER, also
of R-O-W, took his camper travel
trailer and went to the Smoky Moun-
tains and Kentucky. They visited
daughter Joan at Fort Campbell, Ky.;
also attended services of son-in-law,

Mrs. Elbert P. Herring, the former
Joan Darnell Straughan, daughter of
Mrs. Nell Straughan, Sec. in R-O-W
Dept. Joan was married on June 23
at 4:00 P.M. at Temple Baptist
Church in Wilmington.

who was ordained as Presbyterian
Minister in Norfolk, Va. who is mar-
ried to another daughter, Doreen.
CARL PARKER, another from R-O-
W, and family vacationed in the New-
port News, Va. area. JIM STAMP,
our Div. Traffic Engr., and family
motored to points of interest in Flor-
ida. BOB TAYLOR, of Traffic Serv-
ices, and wife motored to some points
around N. C. SUSAN ANNE HE-
WETT, daughter of "yours truly"
took a trip to Nashville, Tenn. with
her Grandmother and went to the
"Grand Ole Opry", and on the tour
to the homes of the stars, the record-
ing studios, and watched part of a
movie being made. Needless to say,
Mom and Dad were quite lonesome
until only child Susan returned.
HARRY "BUCK" SEARS, our Div.
Materials Insp., and wife and hand-
some little son Ronnie, are motoring
to Wilmington, Delaware to visit rela-
tives and the other point sof interest
in the area.

A very proud lady working in our
office is, Mrs. CHARLOTTE LEO
WALLACE, Secretary to our Div.
Engr. The reason, Michael Edward
Elks, great-nephew recently born to
niece Mrs. Edward (Becky) Elks.

The sympathy of all of us is ex-
tended to GRAHAM ENGLISH, Rd.
Maint. Supervisor in Brunswick
County, due to the recent loss of his
wife Mary, after a lengthy illness.

We surely miss the following em-
ployees who have recently separated:
JAMES E. TURLINGTON of Con-

struction who has gone on Military
Leave, CORDIS FULLWOOD and
JAMES L. STEPHENSON of Dist. 1,
JAMES N. BOWDEN and DAVID
E. LOCKAMY, MARION E. HOR-
NE, and J. L. WHITFIELD of Dist.
2, ELTON I. GORE and V. T. BRO-
THERS of Traffic Services, who have
resigned to accept other employment.
C. E. HORNE, M. O. 2 in Road Oil
went on disability retirement 6-28-68.
MOSSETT BASS of Dist. 2 also re-
cently retired. D. R. BRADSHER of
Dist. 2 is out due to illness from an
injury received on the job. DEAMES
E. HAIRR of Dist. 2 is also on sick
leave.

We welcome back the following
employees who have been out sick: R.
B. HEWETT, I. D. PRIDGEN and
G. M. SHEPARD of Dist. 1. Also,
R. W. BLACKBURN of Dist. 2.

We wish to congratulate JIM
MEDLIN, our Resident Engineer
here in Wilmington, on his recent
marriage to Mrs. BETTY PROCTOR
of Durham. Jim really surprised us
as we had thought he was a "con-
firmed batchelor". He and Betty have
moved in their lovely new home and
we wish them all the happiness in
the world.

Congratulations also to KATHY
CROOM and FRANK McKOY who
were recently married. Frank is with
our Construction Dept. Kathy's fa-
ther works with our Equipment Dept.
and her brother works with our Dist.
1 Maintenance Dept.; so Kathy has
quite a "Highway" family.

Pvt. Bobby L. Watkins, youngest
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Watkins
of Burgaw. Pvt. Watkins is serving
with the U. S. Army at Ft. Huachuca,
Arizona. Mr. Watkins is a Machine
Operator I with the Maintenance
Dept. in Pender County.

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Enjoying vaca-
tions during Aug-
ust were: District
Clerk ANN GRIF-
FIS, in Charleston,
S. C; Assistant
District Engineer
J. C. PEELE in
the mountains of
North Carolina
and Tennessee;

Margaret Barefoot ni„:„i„„„„„A Onn
Division CorrespondentMaintenaI1Ce SuP'

ervisor H. L. LIGHT, in Virginia;
and District Engineer E. J. BUTLER,
who went to both the coast and the
mountains.

Congratulations to MARTHA
BUTLER, daughter of District En-
gineer E. J. BUTLER and Mrs. BUT-
LER, of Weldon. Martha spent the
summer attending The Governor's
School, on the campus of Salem Col-
lege in Winston-Salem, as one of the
several hundred high school students
chosen on the basis of talent, out-
standing ability and scholastic ac-
hievement to enjoy this unique oppor-
tunity for specialized study.

Get well wishes to: RUSSELL
BURNETTE, BILL COOPER, TOM-
MIE JONES, HARRY LEE PRICE,
and B. H. CRAWLEY; also to DOR-
OTHY BOYSWORTH, wife of Wil-
bur Boysworth.

Happy Birthday to: W. A. BRI-
LEY, B. L. BRITT, DWIGHT
HALL, CLIFTON HUDSON, JOE
LANDEN, JR., T. R. MORRIS. ZO-
ELLER SUGGS, and H. G. TURNER
— all celebrating birthdays in Aug-
ust.

Congratulations to J. H. CARROLL
and wife, Lizzie, on the birth of a
daughter.

Welcome to new employees HO-
WARD EARL ROSE and DONNIE
WAYNE ALLEN, who are working
in Halifax County; and to HENRY
SENTELL COKER and JESSE
JAMES SHERROD, both employed
in Edgecombe County.

We congratulate LARRY HOL-
LAND on his commission as Second

We are very fortunate indeed to
have Angela Renfrow working in the
Division Office with us this Sum-
mer. She came to us under the PACE
Program (Plan Assuring College Edu-
cation).

Lieutenant given during graduation
exercises at Fort Bragg for the Na-
tional Guard O.C.S., on August 10th.

Vacationing in the Great Smoky
Mountains is Inspector JESSE
HALL and his family.

Congratulations and best wishes to
Mr. and Mrs. BOBBY BIRDSONG
on their recent marriage. Bobby is
an Engineering Aide in the Weldon
Construction office.

ANDY McMURRAY of our Land-
scape Department is hospitalized due
to a heart attack. Get well wishes
are extended to him.

BOBBY BARNES, Engineering
Technician II of the Goldsboro Dis-
trict Office, just returned from a
weeks vacation at White Lake. Bobby
and family had a wonderful time.

CONGRATULATIONS to KEN-
NETH and Elaine HILL on the birth
of a son born July 15th, Russell Fred-
erick. Kenneth of our Traffic Services
Supervisor. Look for a picture of Russ
<n the next issue.

RACHEL PATE, Stenographer in
the Division Office, recently enjoyed
a trip to New England and Canada
along with her husband, Jarvis. The
high point of their trip was attending
the graduation of their son, Harold,
who completed Naval Officer's Candi-
date School at Newport, Rhode Is-
land.

We wish JAMES C. SELLERS,
Machine Operator IV in the Road Oil

Department, a speedy recovery from
his illness.

ROSE FELTON, Clerk in the Road
Oil Department, went camping at
Blowing Rock and went to Carolina
Beach.

DON OVERMAN, Assistant Divi-
sion Engineer, and family spent sev-
eral days in Canada. While there he
attended the Kiwanis International
Convention.

Mrs. O. C. HOWELL has returned
home after an operation and is doing
well.

Mr. Charlie Williams has been out
sick approximately a month. We hope
to have him back soon.

Mr. M. D. MANNING has return-
ed to work after two weeks vacation.
We are glad to have old Big Boy back.

Mr. JOHN JOBE, JR. began work
on July 29, 1968 as Mechanic II, Dis-
trict 2, Sub Shop, Wilson, N. C. Wel-
come, John, to the Equipment De-
partment.

Retiring recently on disability were
Mr. R. D. MORGAN and Mr. B. S.
STRICKLAND, both of Nash Coun-
ty. Mr. Morgan was a Machine Oper-
ator III and had been with the High-
way Commission for eighteen years.
Mr. Strickland was a Maintenance
Foreman II and had also been with
the Highway Commission for eighteen
years. We wish for both of them im-
proved health and happiness in their
retirement.

Wilson County employees were sad-
dened recently by the death of a long
time employee, Mr. JIMMY STALL-
INGS. Mr. Stallings was a Mainte-
nance Foreman IV and had been with
the Highway Commission for twenty-
five years.

Mr. H. L. PRICE and Mr. WIL-
LIE CARRAWAY have returned to
work following surgery. Mr. Carraway
and Mr. Price are truck drivers with
Nash County Maintenance.

Also back at work after a period of
extended illness is Mr. M. P.
YOUNT. Mr. Yount is an Area Fore-
man with Nash County Maintenance.

Mr. W. C. PAGE is recuperating
following surgery. Mr. Page is a Ma-
chine Operation III with Wilson
County Maintenance.

Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS is reported
recovering nicely from a recent heart
attack. Mr. Williams is District Me-
chanic Superintendent.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. HODGE and
daughter, Beth, spent three days with
friends at Atlantic Beach. Mr. Hodge
is District Engineer at Nashville.

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Mr. Willie Byrd retired as of July
1, 1968 after completing thirty (30)
years of service as a Mechanic II
with the Equipment Department,
Johnston County. We wish Mr. Byrd
the best of luck in the years to come.
Willie, do some fishing.

Right of Way Department News
DON BAISE spent a week's vaca-
tion in the Mountains of North Caro-
lina, but avoided visited Right of Way
in Sylva, as last Roadway indicated
that it had been named "Purgatory".
He had rather go on to greater things.

CECIL McLAMB of Right of Way
is attending Appraisal School in Conn.
His enthusiasm for the Course is so
great that he lost interest in visiting
Peyton Place, while in the New Eng-
land States.

Several employees from this office
have enjoyed summer vacations: VAN
CHAMBLEE and family visited Myr-
tle Beach, S. C, VIRGIL JONES and
family camped out at the coast of N.
C, FRANK COLEMAN and family
enjoyed sightseeing in the Smoky
Mountains, LAWRENCE CAMER-
ON and family visited Virginia Beach,
Va., and ARLENE RICHARDSON
and husband George enjoyed a week's
stay in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

DOUG WA-
TERS and family
vacationed at
Ocean Isle Beach
recently and Amy,
who is four, really
enjoyed the ferry
ride to Southport.

HILDA HAR-
RIS, Steno in Dist.
2, vacationed at
Division Correspondent Myrtle Beach with
her family. Hilda, who is an avid

fisher-woman, says this is no place
for an enthusiastic fisherman — too
crowded.

MATTIE HALL, Steno in the Di-
vision Office, has been all smiles
lately — this due to surprise visit
from her son, Danny, who is in the
Air Force stationed in Puerto Rico.
Get well wishes to Matties husband,
Jimmy, who has been ill but is on
the road to recovery.

If anyone has any questions about
camping at Arrowhead just ask CARL
PAINTER, Asst. Div. Engineer, who
recently chaperoned a group of M.Y.
F's from his church.

Right of Way Department

We welcome Mr. N. E. UNDER-
WOOD, JR. from the Albemarle of-
fice who will take over July 1st when
cation Advisor effective July 1st when
Mr. W. H. DARTT will begin work
with the Department of Conservation
and Development, Division of Com-
munity Planning.

We hope A. L. DeBLANC and AL-
TON PHILLIPS did not have to
study too hard when they attended
Appraisal School at the University of
Virginia for two weeks in June.

PENDER WOODLIEF had good
luck while fishing in a private pond
recently. He caught a bass which
weighed five pounds.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded GLENWOOD BROGDEN,
ROBERT INSCOE, ALBERT MAY
and ERNEST OAKLEY.

WILLIAM REAMS was also on
vacation recently. He spent his time
improving his pastures for his dairy
herd. He was assisted by George
Bailey.

GEORGE WOODY was on sick
leave recently. He has returned to
work.

ROY BLACKWELL and family
have been spending some time recent-
ly at their cabin on Kerr Lake.

Durham County Maint. Dept. va-
vations: W. T. MOORE, S. E. JON-
ES, G. W. JUSTICE, G. M. WIL-
SON, M. G. KEITH, G. P. HES-
TER, G. C. RAILY, A. W. CARDEN,
W. O. CRABTREE, N. J. WADE,
L. F. LUXTON, RALPH JOHN-
SON, W. L. PENNELL, M. L. MAN-
GUM and F. S. MANGUM.

Sympathy to HAROLD G. WHEE-
LER in the recent death of his
mother.

Sympathy to LEONARD CLAY in
the recent death of his mother.

WALTER RUTLEDGE is on sick
leave and has been hospitalized for
a few days.

BOBBY GRIFFIN was on sick
leave for a few days recently. He
has returned to work.

Beekeeping is a hobby of PAT
TINGEN and ROBERT RENN.
Each has several hives.

WILLIAM REAMS is getting his
pack of fox hounds in shape in order
to chase some of the foxes on his cat-
tle ranch.

Employees in vacation recently in-
cluded E. C. ADCOCK, WILLIE
COLE, E. B. DAVIS, JOHN SET-
ZER, NELSON WHITT, GARLAND
ELLINGTON, ALTON ELLING-
TON, ERNEST HICKS, GRADY
WHEELER, CLARENCE WILSON
and GEORGE WOODY.

Sick: B. P. LACY, M. G. KEITH,
S. E. JONES, B. B. SUMNER, C. O.
VAUGHAN and H. V. MOORE.

Get well wishes
are extended to G.
P. FORBIS, who
was in the Lum-
berton Hospital
the second week in
August; and W. C.
FAULK, who was
in Duke Hospital
the first week in
July and is now

Division Correspondent Commuting to the

hospital several times a week for
treatments for a throat ailment. Hope
they will soon be able to return to
work.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. and Mrs. HOWARD T.
HERRING who son, Lance Cpl. John
H. Herring died July 5 of wounds
received in Vietnam. Johnnie worked
with the Construction Department in
Lumberton during the summer of
1966 before entering the Marines. His
father is Area Foreman in Robeson

Donald Joseph Allen, a student and
football player at Elon College, made
the Dean's List this spring semester.
He graduated from Fayetteville Sen-
ior High School in 1967 where he
played football and received the My-
rover Sportsmanship Award. He is an
Eagle Scout and Assistant Scoutmas-
ter. This summer Don is working
with a survey party for Mr. S. M.
Wilson, District Engineer, in Fayette-
ville. Don is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph E. Allen. Joe is Area Con-
struction Engineer for Divisions 3, 6,
and 8.

County. Sympathy is also extended
to the family of BILLIE BRITT who
died August 1, 1968. Mr. Britt was a
former Highway employee with Main-
tenance Department from 1945 to
1957. In 1957 Mr. Britt resigned to
enter into private business.

JOHNNIE ATKINSON has been
working with Maintenance Engineer-
ing Party during the summer after
graduating from Citadel in June. He
will report to Fort Benning, Georgia
in September as 2nd Lt. to begin his
Army career.

STONIE BRITT and family spent
a few days in Plymouth, Indiana, vi-
siting Mrs. Britt's grandparents.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. KING on the birth of their
daughter, Erin Lynn, on July 16,
1968. Mr. King is Assistant District
Engineer in Whiteville.

Get well wishes are extended to Mr.
E. L. GREEN, District Engineer in
Whiteville, who recently had eye sur-
gery at McPherson Hospital in Dur-
ham, North Carolina.

LAWRENCE PRIEST retired on
July 1, 1968, after several years as
Machine Operator 3 in Columbus
County.

L. C. DEAN, of the Harnett Coun-
ty Maintenance Department, has been
hospitalized in Betsy Johnson Me-
morial Hospital after having a heart
attack.

W. H. STONE and family have re-
turned home from a trip to Toronto,
Canada to visit Mrs. Stone's family.
They also visited Niagara Falls and
other points of interest.

W. A. TYNER and family toured
the mountains of Western North
Carolina and Tennessee during their
vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. D. B. HILBURN,
JR., and boys have returned from a
trip to Maggie Valley and other in-
teresting parts of the State.

Welcome to BUDDY WHITE of
Vander and ROBERT PLEAS-
ANTS of Coats, new employees with
the Fayetteville Location field party.

Location Eng. Technicians HEN-
RY MULLEN and J. SAM CAIN
have been accepted at Fayetteville
Technical Institute, both plan to fol-
low Civil Technology courses. Our
best wishes go with each of these
men. Lots of luck and a speedy re-
covery to W. L. SULLIVAN, who is
going into the hospital for an oper-
ation.

Vacations were enjoyed by F. D.
ROHRBAUGH who took a trip to
New York, BOBBY JOHNSON who
went to the mountains to beat the
heat, and ERNIE CAIN who went to
the beach.

Welcome to ROBERT KIMBELL
who is working this summer with
Property Surveys. Robert returns to
Fayetteville Tech in Sept.

MARVIN CAVANAUGH and fam-
ily enjoyed vacationing at Wilming-
ton, and Carolina beaches for a week
this past month.

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. MELVIN and
daughters, Kay and Ann, spent their
vacation this year in Canada. Mrs.
Melvin is Steno III in the Division
Office in Fayetteville.

We are happy to report that Mr.
HILBRETH L. BRITT, Right of
Way Agent, who has been a patient
in the Southeastern General Hospital,
Inc., Lumberton, is now at home re-
cuperating from a recent illness, is
much improved. Hurry and get well
"Hilbreth" as we are missing you
and hope you will soon be back at
work. Also, we wish to report that
Mr. Britt's wife, who has also been
sick and hospitalized, is much im-
proved and we hope she will soon be
well.

Get well wishes are extended to
CONNIE M. BERRY, SR., Right of
Way Aide, who is quite sick in Cape

Mrs. Bobby Worth Huffman was
the former Rebecca Joy Moore be-
fore her marriage June 15, 1968 in
the Parkton Presbyterian Church in
Parkton, N. C.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Ernest Moore of
Parkton, N. C. She is a graduate of
Parkton High School and attended
Fayetteville Technical Institute, and
is employed as a Stenographer in the
Right of Way Department of Divi-
sion Six.

The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Worht Huffman of Hope
Mills, N. C. Mr. Huffman is a grad-
uate of Hope Mills High School and
is employed with Civil Service at
Fort Bragg, N. C.

The newlyweds live in Hope Mills,
N. C.

Fear Valley Hospital, Fayetteville.
We are wishing for you a speedy re-
covery "Connie" and hope you will
soon be well and able to return to
work, as we are missing you.

CLAUDE R. MOORE, JR., Right
of Way Aide, spent two weeks in
July, 1968, at the University of Vir-
ginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, at-
tending Appraisal Course I at The
American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers.

Also, Mr. MOORE and his family
recently spent a few days vacation
in Burlington, N. C. and at Holden's
Beach, N. C.

The Right of Way Department wel-
comes two new employees, namely:
JIMMY LEE JACKSON of Kenans-
ville, who was assigned to this office
as a Right of Way Aide, effective

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July 29th; and WILLIAM L. JOHN-
SON, JR., Right of Way aide, who
was transferred from the Right of
Way Department in Division Two to
the Right of Way Department of Di-
vision Six, effective June 17th.

The following
employees were re-
cently honored in
Raleigh for their
years of service
with the State
Highway Commis-
sion — Forty
Years Service, RU-
FUS V. NELSON
and JOHN H.

DW^&£££«t WORKMAN -
Forty-Five Years Service, W. W.
WHITE.

The following employees received
Retirement Certificates and 35- Year
service certificates with lapel but-
tons at the Unit VII Association
Meeting held in Greensboro, July 19,
1968 — Thirty-Five Year Certificates,
JOHN W. BARTS, MARSHALL C.
DAILEY and IRA O. COOKE
(Equipment) — Retirement Certifi-
cates — OLLIE N. ALLEY, T. A.
BURTON, GARLAND O. CLOD-
FELTER, WILLIAM D. COLLIE,
ROBERT L. HICKERSON, JOE M.
HOUGH and CLARENCE I. WAL-
TERS.

K. R. WILLIAMS retired August
1, after 18 years with the Construction
Department. Mr. Williams has built
a new home on Lake Murry near Co-
lumbia, S. C, and he and his wife
will enjoy all the advantages of lake-
side living, such as boating, fishing,
etc. We wish for K. R. a very happy
retirement.

We wish for a quick recovery for
the wife of RON COMPTON, as the
two young sons and their baby sister
miss her and hope she will soon be
home with them and their daddy.

JACK and Eloise MARTIN had a
wonderful trip to Nassau in June,
and, of course, we enjoyed all the
beautiful pictures he took while there.

This being the vacation season, the
following families have been travelling
from one end of the country io the
other, including Canada — Those en-

joying the mountains of North Caro-
lina being the W. L. LOVELESS,
RAYMOND BOONES, J. D. DUKE,
W. F. McCOLLUM and J. C. MAR-
TIN went to Fontana and Atlanta,
Ga. Those going to White Lake being
the J. H. MITCHELLS, W. R.
KNIGHT, MITCHELL COLLINS,
R. H. ROBERTSON, — To More-
head and eastern beaches in the State
went the B. D. MAYHEWS, B. K.
NEWMAN, B. F. CHILTONS, C. J.
SHREVE, O. C. HOLLAND and A.
T. KNIGHT. To Calif, Nevada and
the west coast went the S. A. WAT-
KINS, and the T. W. HOLLANDS
and S. F. FAINS went to Niagara
Falls and Canada. CLYDE JONES
and his wife had a vacation trip to
Tennessee. The KENNETH COOKS
vacationed at Myrtle Beach. LOIS
HODGES and family are vacation-
ing in Georgia and visiting relatives
the week of August 5.

HARVEY BOYETTE and family
and the WAYNE LINEBERRYS va-
cationed at Myrtle Beach.

The W. W. WHITES, J. A. BUR-
GESSES, W. H. INGLES and H. O.
WYRICKS have been on vacation
recently.

We are happy to report that JAM-
ES CAGLE, Equipment Department,
is back at home after undergoing op-
eration at the Baptist Hospital in

Winston-Salem, and he is doing nice-
ly, and we wish for him a speedy
complete recovery.

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL WELCH are
vacationing at Garden City, S. C.
Beach with their daughter and family
— and it goes without saying that Mr.
Welch is enjoying his fishing with
the grandsons (week of August 5).

On June 21, 1968 the State High-
way Employees of Orange County
gave a barbecue at the Maintenance
Office Building in honor of Mr. C. I.
WALTERS, Maintenance Supervisor,
who retired on July 1st.

In addition to local Highway Per-
sonnel, those attending the barbecue
were Hon. J. M. HUNT, JR., Chair-
man, State Highway Commission, Hon.
THOMAS S. HARRINGTON, High-
way Commissioner, Mr. GEORGE
BRINKLEY, State Maintenance En-
gineer, Mr. LAYTON GUNTER,
State Equipment Engineer. Also at-
tending the event were Mr. A. H.
GRAHAM, former Lieutenant Gov-
ernor and Chairman, State Highway
Commission, Mr. T. A. BURTON, re-
cently retired Division Engineer, and
Mayor FRED S. CATES, Town of
Hillsborough, North Carolina. Mem-
bers of County Board of Commission-
ers, Sheriff's Department, State
Highway Patrol and many others
were present.

C. I. Walters Honored by Division Seven

Mr. A. H. "Sandy" Graham,
former Lieutenant Governor, and
Highway Commission Chairman, Mr.
Thomas S. Harrington, Commissioner,
Mr. George Brinkley, State Mainte-
nance Engineer, Mr. J. M. Hunt, Jr.,
Chairman, Mr. T. A. Burton, former
Division Engineer, and Mr. C. I.
Walters, retiring Maintenance Super-
visor.

John Lee McPherson, Engineering
Technician II, Mr. J. M. Hunt, Jr.,
Commission Chairman, Mr. C. I. Wal-
ters, Maintenance Supervisor, Mr. A.
H. "Sandy" Graham, former Lieuten-
ant Governor and Chairman, State
Highway Commission.

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Division along with Mr. T. A. BUR-
TON, former Division Engineer, Mr.
FRED S. CATES, Mayor, Town of
Hillsborough, and Mr. LUCIUS
CHESHIRE, Attorney, Hillsborough
attending. Mr. P. L. WELCH, Divi-
sion Engineer, Mr. JOHN WAT-
KINS, Assistant Division Engineer,
and Mr. T. A. BURTON were speak-
ers thanking Mr. Walters for his
years of fine service.

DIVISION
EIGHT

The lovely Mrs. Larry Burton Dur-
ham, the former Dollie Sue Collins
was married June 16th at Bethany
Methodist Church at Reidsville. She
is the daughter of Woodrow Collins
of the Maintenance Dept. in Guilford
Co. They will make their home in
Reidsville.

Mayor FRED S. CATES were
Master of Ceremonies — Mr. E. F.
HOOVER, District Engineer, Mr. T.
A. BURTON, former Division Engi-
neer, Mr. LAYTON GUNTER,
Equipment Engineer, and Mr.
GEORGE BRINKLEY, State Main-
tenance Engineer, were speakers at
the barbecue. Highway Commissioner,
Harrington, and Chairman, Hunt,
spoke and praised Mr. Walters for his
service to the Commission.

Mr. A. H. "SANDY" GRAHAM
presented Mr. Walters with gifts from
Highway Employees and Orange
County Friends. A large silver tray
containing an inscription of thanks
and a Remington Shotgun were pre-
sented. Mr. Graham and Mr. Walters
have been close friends since 1936.
The State Highway Patrol of Orange
County gave Mr. Walters a money
tree at the occasion and he was also
presented a fishing reel.

On July 12, 1968, Seventh Division
Highway Personnel held a dinner for
Mr. Walters at Huey's Steak House
in Buarlington, North Carolina. Su-
pervisory Personnel in the Seventh

Congratulations
to these employees
with new babies in
the family: J. T.
and EMILY WIL-
LIAMS, District
III, a baby boy.
LARRY RICK-
ARD, Hoke Coun-
ty Maintenance is
proudly announc-
Virginia Williamson ■ t^ hirth nf
Division Correspondent mS tne Dlrln 01

Larry Lance, Jr., who weighed in at

seven pounds on July 25. LESTER
BAILEY, Moore County Mainte-
nance, has a big smile these days —
and rightly so on the birth of a baby
daughter on July 3, who weighed in
at 9 lbs. You know the grandparents
can always wear the biggest smile
though. J. E. GREGSON, Equipment
Supervisor, Asheboro, now is boasting

of a third grandchild — a daughter
born to his son Robert and family in
Buffalo, New York, on June 10. Best

wishes to all of these.

Among those vacationing have been:
HENRY JORDAN, Assistant Division
Engineer, and his family have been
to Wrightsville Beach. Division Staff
Engineer FRED WHITESELL and
his family Linda and Sharon also to
the beach. JOE ADAMS, Road Oil
Foreman, with his wife Betty and sons
Jobie and Spencer report a most en-
joyable trip through Pennsylvania, in-
to Michigan, and I believe over into
Canada. DOUGLAS PATRICK Land-
scape Specialist has been vacationing
in Chicago following which his son
with his wife and grandson have been
visiting from Washington D. C. RO-
BERT SMITH Assistant District En-
gineer vacationing at White Lake with
his wife and children. TESSIE MO-

FIELD Secretary in District II va-
cationed at Carolina Beach with her
husband Carl and son Derrick; and
D. M. KUNCE Landscape Supervisor
vacationed at the beach with his fam-
ily. A. L. NELSON Resident Engi-
neer and his family vacationed in
Alabama. AUDREY DeLONG and
her family vacationed at Windy Hill.
Audrey is secretary in the division of-
fice.

Division Office employees were very
pleased to be visited recently by Resi-
dent Engineer ROBERT G. SOUTH-
ALL antd his wife Edna. Mr. South-
all has been away from the office on
sick leave for the past few months and
it was just wonderful to have him come
in and stay awhile and let us visit
with him. We hope he can do this
again soon. He was his usual cheerful
self with the dry wit and humor —
and the big happy smile.

Friends were saddened at the death
of the wife of J. L. ODOM of the
Hoke County Maintenance Depart-
ment. Mr. Odom has now retired from
highway work after more than 20
years' service and has gone to Colo-
rado to live with his daughter.

J. L. Riley, Division Eight Road Oil
Supervisor, and Tom Collins, Road
Oil Foreman, under whose supervi-
sion the mountable median on U. S.
1 between Aberdeen and Southern
Pines was applied.

Editor's Note: It has been called to
my attention that the recent issue of
Roadways, Division Eight News, re-
ported the death of Edgar V. Hol-
comb, Scotland County Maintenance
Employee. This should have been E.
V. Holcomb, Jr., son of our employee.
So sorry.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Cox re-
ceived their Master of Arts degree
from Appalachian State University
in commencement exercises on Aug-
ust 17.

Gerald is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd T. Cox, Route 1, Asheboro. He
graduated from Ramseur High School
in 1958 and Presbyterian Junior Col-
lege in 1960. In 1964 he received his
B.S. degree in Health and Physical
Education from Appalachian State
Teachers College. During the 1967-68
school year he was a graduate assist-
ant in the Health and Physical Edu-
cation Department at ASU. He re-
ceived his M.A. degree in this field.
Prior to returning to graduate school,
he taught and coached in Charlotte-
Mecklenburg.

Mrs. Cox is a graduate of Bladen-
boro High School, and received her
B.S. degree in biology from Appala-
chian State Teachers College in 1964.
During the school year 1967-68 she
was a graduate assistant in the bio-
logy department; she received her
M.A. degree in biology. Prior to go-
ing to graduate school she taught in
Fayetteville and Charlotte. Mrs. Cox
is the former Polly Anna Bullard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Bull-
ard of Route 1, Bladenboro, N. C.

In September, Mr. and Mrs. Cox
will begin teaching in Cleveland, Geor-
gia. They will be members of the
faculty of Truett-McConnell Junior
College Mr. Cox will teach health and
physical education and will be assist-
ant basketball coach. Mrs. Cox will
teach biology and zoology.

Mr. Cox's father is a Maintenance
Foreman II in Randolph County.

Mr. ASTOR C. SPINKS Mont-
gomery County Employee retired on
disability on July 1st. Mr. Spinks we
hope you will now be able to take
life a little easier and with lots of
rest, fishing, reading and just relaxing
your health will be much improved.

Mr. Spinks was a Machine Operator
3 at the time of his retirement after
21 years of service with the Highway
Commision.

Katie Cornelia Yeargan of Durham
and William Harris Spinks son of
ASTOR C. SPINKS were married on
July 7th in Emmanuel Baptist Church
in Durham. William graduated from
West Montgomery High School and
then went into Army National Guard,
where he is still serving, and working
with the shoe company in Wadesville.
His wife will be teaching music in
Wingate College this fall, where Wil-
liam will be a student. Following their
wedding they went to the mountains
of North Carolina.

Among those vacationing from this
division have also been J. L. RILEY,
Road Oil Supervisor at the beach;
HAROLD MATTHEWS at the beach;
also TOM COLLINS reports an en-
joyable trip to Carolina Beach.

JUDY OWENS, secretary in the
Construction Office in Asheboro has
resigned and we welcome BRENDA
HALL, new secretary in the Con-
struction Office. We hope Judy en-
joys her stay at home.

Applying Stone to Median

Bobby Stutts and E. C. Morrison applying stone for mountable median
on U. S. 1 between Aberdeen and Southern Pines.

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DIVISION
NINE

Welcome to the
following employ-
ees who joined the
Forsyth County
Maintenance For-
ces August 3rd. J.
H. PAYNE, Truck
Driver; E. R.
MICKEY and A.
F. NEWSOME,
Machine Oper-

Dorothy Phelps , _

Division Correspondent atOT S 1.

Deepest sympathy is extended to
J. W. STONE and family in the
death of his brother-in-law, Mr.
PETE TUTTLE, who passed away
recently. Mr. Tuttle had worked with
the State Highway Commission for
construction previously helping move
buildings off the right of way. Mr.
Stone is employed as a Stokes Coun-
ty Maintenance Foreman IV.

Mr. B. G. GEORGE, truck driver
for Stokes County Maintenance De-
partment, recently lost his father-in-
law.

We sincerely regret the loss of one
of our Forsyth County Maintenance
Department Truck Driver, Charles E.
Brown, 1650 Brown Street, Winston-
Salem, who passed away on June
22nd. Mr. Brown was age 60 and had
been employed with the Highway
Commission since January, 1957.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to KENNETH GRAY CAIN in the
death of his sister, Ruby Cain Cran-
f ill, on July 15th. Kenneth Gray Cain
is a Machine Operator I in the Traf-
fic Services Department.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to JAMES CALVIN JOHNSON in
the death of his brother WILLIAM
T. JOHNSON who suffered a fatal
heart attack on July 29th. Mr. James
Johnson is a Traffic Control Techni-
cian in the Traffic Services Depart-
ment.

Mr. CLYDE ADKINS and fam-
ily spent the week of July 1st
vacationing at Key West, Fla. Mr.
Adkins is a Machine Operator I,
Stokes County Maintenance Depart-
ment.

Miss BETTY SUE REDMON,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. RED-
MON, Route 3, Walnut Cove, became
the bride of JOHNNY THOMAS
MITCHELL, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hughes Mitchell of Germanton, on
June 8th. The wedding was held at
3:30 in the afternoon at Rosebud
Christian Church in Walnut Cove.
Rev. Eart Stiff officiated.

The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a princess dress of
Peau de Satin with elbow-length
sleeves of scalloped lace made by the
bride. Her floor-length veil of bridal
illusion fell from a rose-shaped, bead-
ed head piece. She carried a bouquet
of white roses.

Mrs. R. W. STRATTON, the
bride's sister, was Matron of Honor.
She wore a floor length green dotted
swiss dress and carried a bouquet of
daises. The Junior bridesmaids were
Margie and Vickie Mitchell, sisters
of the groom. Both wore yellow dot-
ted swiss dresses and carried daises.

The bridegroom's father was his
best man.

Ushers were TOMMY REDMON,
the bride's brother, Bill Mitchell, the
groom's brother, and Brent Smith of
King.

A graduate of South Stokes High
School, the bride is a rising soph-
omore at Appalachian State Univer-
sity.

The bridegroom is also a graduate
of South Stokes and attended Piffea
College and is in Army Reserves.

After a wedding trip to the moun-
tains, the couple will reside in Boone.

We wish a long and happy retire-
ment to Mr. RALPH W. NANTZ,
Sign Erector, Davidson County, who
became ill January 14, 1968 and re-
tired on July 1, 1968.

Vacationing at Wrightsville Beach
the week of June 17th were Mr. and
Mrs. TOM SHELTON and Mr. and
Mrs. HUGH SANDS. Both are
Maintenance Foreman IPs with
Stokes County Maintenance Depart-
ment.

Getting away from it all were Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. JOHNSON and sous,
Rodney, age 10 and Todd, age 3,
who spent the week of August 5th at
Carolina Beach, N. C. Mr. Johnson
is Assistant District Engineer at the
Winston- Salem District Office.

The employees in the Maintenance
Department at Salisbury are happy
to welcome Miss NANCY LEON-
ARD, who began work on August
12th as Clerk in the District Engi-
neer's Office. Nancy is a graduate
of Boyden High School, Salisbury,
and completed two years at Sacred
Heart College, Belmont, N. C, maj-
oring in Business Administration. She
resides with her parents at 1124 Boy-
den Road, Salisbury, N. C. We hope
she enjoys being with us and doesn't
find the work "too hard".

k6

The employees in the Construction
Department at Salisbury rolled out the
"Welcome Mat" for Mrs. JOAN
CABE who began work July 8th as
typis tin the Resident Engineer's Of-
fice. Her husband is Lt. Jack Cabe
who is with the Highway Patrol,
Salisbury, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Cabe
live with their two daughter on For-
restdale Drive, Salisbury. We are all
happy to have her and truly hopes
she enjoys working with us.

Mrs. Mitchell Thomas Mclnchak

Mrs. MITCHELL THOMAS Mc-
INCHAK, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira R. FULTON. Mrs. Mclnchak,
the former Mary Ruth Fulton, was
married to Sgt. Mitchell Thomas Mc-
lnchak on August 16th, in the Hick-
ory Ridge Methodist Church in Win-
ston-Salem, in a beautiful double ring
ceremony. Following the wedding, Mr.
and Mrs. Fulton entertained friends
and guests at a lovely wedding recep-
tion in the Church Fellowship Hall.
After a short honeymoon Mr. and
Mrs. Mclnchak departed for Myrtle
Beach, S. C, where Tom is serving
with the Air Force, and they will be
making their home for the present.
Mrs. Mclnchak is the daughter of
Mechanic Foreman I, Ira R. Fulton,
at the District 2 Shop in Winston-
Salem.

We are glad to welcome back to
work Mr. WAYNE JESSUP who
was in an automobile accident on
August 5th. Mr. Jessup is employed
with the Equipment Department at
the Division Shop in Winston-Salem.

We hope that each one who has
taken a vacation in the Equipment
Department has had a wonderful
time.

We welcome back to work Mr. C.
HARBIN who has been out of work
due to a broken toe.

We extend a hearty welcome to
Mr. F. E. Floyd and Mr. J. C. STE-
VENS who have joined the Equip-
ment Department as mechanics here
in Division Nine.

Little Mother Sandra Teague is
finding life quite different these days
since the birth of Yvonne Christie
on July 13th. Sandra reports that the
baby is doing well, but she didn't
know that there was so much work
involved with a new baby.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.

FRED V. YOST on the arrival of

their new daughter, Sue Lynn on
June 28, 1968.

We are stil ltrying to locate the pi-
lot and co-pilot of the rescue boat that
ran out of gas on High Rock Lake
near Oakwood Acres on July 21, 1968.
"Uncle Sam's" Navy needs men like
them who can use a ' make-shift"
paddle so professionally! For further
information contact R. B. FITZGER-
ALD, Division Engineer and O. D.
RENTZ, Division Engineer.

"Best Wishes" for a long and happy
retirement to JAY REESE BASIN-
GER. Mr. Basinger, who retired on
July 1st was a Maintenance Foreman
in Rowan County and was employed
for 39 years.

Mr. and Mrs. BRUCE J. EVER-
HART recently enjoyed a trip to
Crescent Beach. Mr. Everhart is Road
Maintenance Supervisor in Davidson
County.

The Annual Unit 9 meeting of the
N. C. State Highway & Prison Em-
ployee's Association was held on July
12, 1968 at the Holiday Inn, Salis-
bury, N. C. Among the special guests
attending were Mr. CLYDE HAR-
RIS, Chairman of the State Depart-
ment of Corrections Commission, Mr.
K. B. BAILEY, President, Mr. L. H.
BARRIER, 1st. Vice President, both
officers of the N.C.S.H.&P.E.A., J.
RAYNOR WOODARD, Highway
Personnel Officer, CLOYCE AL-
FORD, Assistant Highway Personnel
Officer. The new Unit officers elect-
ed were IRVIN W. MORRIS, Chair-
man, CHARLES T. CHRISTIAN,
Vice Chairman, and Mrs. CAROLINE
B. HONEYCUTT, Secretary and
Treasurer.

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These slick, as an eel, operators
(or was it just fisherman's luck?) are
Lyman Pullman, Machine Operator
II, and W. D. Shelton, Temporary
Laborer, Stokes County Maintenance
Department. They are holding a mud
turtle and five pounds, four-ounce eel
which they caught June 22nd while
fishing in Jacob's Creek near Madi-
son, N. C.

RONALD GRIFFIN, Appraisal
Trainee in R/W, and wife Pamela
have returned to Cape Cod, Massa-
chusetts and plan to locate there per-
manently. We extend best wishes for
their success and happiness for their
future.

RACINE VAN DUSEN got a va-
cation after working two years in
R/W. The first week she recuperated
at home and the second week she en-
joyed the rest and leisure at Topsail
Beach, the finest in Carolina for fish-
ing, surfing and beachcombing.

Welcome to LEWIS D. SHAW,
R/W Aide transferred from Shelby
to the Winston-Salem Office. Lewis
moved his wife Betty and daughter
Tammy Joan to our locale and are
most welcome to our department.

ROBERT BROOME, III, Judy and
Robbie vacated a week at their an-
nual vacation habitat, Cherry Grove
Beach. Robbie doesn't consider any
place else a vacation.

CLIFF WATERS and Ruth took
sons Gary and Wayne for a week of
surf and sand at Myrtle Beach.

LARRY CABE and Margie have
been hosts to relatives from the Ashe-
ville area.

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I DIVISION
L TEN

A speedy recov-
ery is wished for
R. L. ALLMAN
who has been in
the Veterans Hos-
pital for the past
few weeks. R. L.
I is a truck driver in
' . jf* the Road Oil De-
| partment.

' DOUG SASSER
Division Correspondent Maint. Foreman II
in the Road Oil Department recent-
ly spent a week's vacation enjoying a
few days at his cabin on the river,
and then going to Six Flags Over
Georgia for a few days.

MIKE CULP Clerk II in the Road
Oil Department recently spent a few
days in Princeton, West Virginia vi-
siting some friends of his who are
on construction work.

The Unit meeting of the North
Carolina State Highway and Prison
Employees Association was held July
10 in Monroe, N. C. Retirement cer-
tificates and thirty-five and forty
year service emblems were presented
to eligible employees by Mr. J. R.
WOODARD and Mr. CLOYCE AL-
FORD of the Highway Personnel De-
partment. During the business ses-
sion, Mr. JACK COLEY was elected
Chairman, A. M. BUCHANAN—
Vice Chairman and JOHN W. JON-
ES Secretary-Treasurer. After the
meeting, barbecue chicken supper was
served.

The Right of Way Department wel-
comes ANNA JANE JORDAN as a
temporary typist, who replaced PAM
NAPIER who is a "lady in waiting".

At least two of our Construction
personnel have announced recent ad-
ditions to their family — E. L.
LOCKART a son and GARY V.
POPLIN a daughter.

Many of our personnel have been
on vacations recently. Division Engi-
neer C. C. McBRYDE and Assistant
Division Engineer C. E. LAND va-
cationed at the beach; LORAIN
WELCH, Traffic Services, toured
Florida. C. S. HUNEYCUTT has vi-

Brice Darrell Page, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Brice G. Page of Midland and
a graduate of Central Cabarrus High
School, was awarded a Charles A.
Cannon Jr. memorial scholarship. He
has enrolled at Wingate College and
is planning to study mechanical en-
gineering.

sited the outer banks and the moun-
tains. J. D. YOW vacationed at the
beach.

Mr. BOB PAGOOTA was recently
transferred to this Division from Traf-
fic Engineering.

DIVISION ELEVEN

Get well wishes are sent to the. fol-
lowing employees who are out on
sick leave at this time: C. A. HIG-
GINS, S. W. JOHNSON, BERT
STURGILL, C. W. DRAUGHT, D.
W. HODGES, W. A. McCANN, A.
L. HOLLINGSWORTH, C. M. NI-
XON, LAWRENCE GENTRY, R.
B. WOOD, H. F. DAVIS, J. D. REA-
VIS and B. R. JESTER.

District I employee and Mrs. H. H.
ALLRED visited their daughter in
Pennsylvania during the month of
June.

DOUG MELTON, Clerk II in the
Elkin District Office, and wife, Bon-
nie, vacationed at Cherry Grove Beach
in July.

Maintenance Employee and Mrs.
A. D. HAMILTON and family visit-
ed with relatives in Rhode Island
during the month of August.

Maintenance Supervisor J. P. HIG-
GINS and family vacationed at Caro-
lina Beach in August.

Sympathy is extended the family of
J. G. ROYAL truck driver in Wilkes
County who passed away August 9th
due to a heart attack. He had been
with the Highway Commission 2x/2
years.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of J. W. REA-
VIS, retired main-
tenance employee
in Yadkin County,
who passed away
July 31st; also, to
the family of
HARVEY W. NI-
XON, Surry Coun-

Divis^CorrRe0srondentty Truck Driver,

who passed away after a short illness.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to SAM
BILLINGS, Machine Operator I in
Alleghany County, who retired on
disability July 1st. Mr. Billings came
to work for the Highway Commission
in 1940.

Miss Ann Rae Burge, daughter of
Maintenance Foreman and Mrs. Os-
car N. Burge was recently married to
Mr. Bill Dawson of Mount Airy. Ann
is a 1968 graduate of Appalachian
State University, Boone, and holds a
B.S. Degree in Home Economics.

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This lovely bride is the former Miss
Kathryn Mast who was married to
Mr. Bobby Joe Winkler on Saturday,
August 10th, at the First Presbyter-
ian Church in Boone. The bride is
the daughter of Assistant District En-
gineer and Mrs. G. F. (Smokey) Mast
and the bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Winkler of Boone.

Mrs. Winkler attended Appalachian
State University and completed the
commercial course at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. She
is employed by the Watauga County
Agricultural Stabilization and Con-
servation Service, United State De-
partment of Agriculture. Mr. Wink-
ler graduated from Appalachian State
University and teaches at Beaver
Creek High School in Ashe County.
The couple resides at Appalachian
South Apartments in Boone.

We extend deep-
est sympathy to T.
A. STRICK-
LAND, Engineer-
ing Aide in the
Construction De-
partment, in the
death of his Fa-
ther, Mr. T. C.
Strickland, Sr.

Jean cline Staff Engineer

Division Correspondent q BROOKS

and family vacationed in August,
getting a trip in to Georgia, prior to
the beginning of the school year.

The Division Office Building is tak-
ing on a "new" look inside w'th a
new paint job — a long awaited im-
provement!

BETTY JOHNSON, Stenographer
in the Division Office, is taking a
week's vacation the week of August
12th. The Johnsons have just com-
pleted an addition to their house,
which they are enjoying.

Traffic Services Supervisor CLYDE
G. POSTON, JR. will be hospitalized
in Charlotte for a few days this week
for tests and a check-up.

It's good to have COY YORK,
Road Oil Department employee, back
at work after being away about a
month due to sickness.

F. E. Schrum, Gaston County
Maintenance, and family spent two
weeks touring the Middle West and
to visit relatives in Phoenix, Arizona
. . . with the high spot of the trip be-
ing able to see that new granddaugh-
ter.

FRED SUMMERS of Traffic
Services Department and wife vaca-
tioned in Pennsylvania.

CHARLES DONALD STAMEY,
Maintenance Foreman I in District
I retired on Disability July 1, 1968
and WILLIAM JAMES McSWAIN,
Maintenance Foreman III in District
I retired on Disability June 1, 1968.
Best wishes go to these two faithful
employees.

M. L. HUGHES, Equipment De-
partment, is recovering nicely after
surgery on July 18th. We hope "Fuss"
will be able to return to work soon.

Mr. T. I. TOMLIN, Maintenance
Foreman 4 in Iredell County, is home
from the hospital and getting along
fine but will be away from work for
several months due to back surgery.

Mrs. JINX SNAVELY and son,
Kent, visited relatives in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, for two weeks during
the month of July. Jinx is Clerk II
in the Statesville District Office.

Miss MARY FRANCES COLES
and JOHN W. PENDILL, JR. were
married on June 8, 1968 in States-
ville, N. C. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Coles. Mr.
and Mrs. Pendill are making their
home in Reno, Nevada where they
are both employed at the Washau
Medical Center.

Mr. WAYNE EVERIDGE of the
Sign Department, and family have
recently vacationed at the beach and
the mountains.

Mr. T. O. MATLOCK, Shop Fore-
man in Alexander County, is shown
as he was presented a watch at a
dinner held in his honor at the El-
lendale Community Building. Mr.
Matlock recently retired after 38
years service with the Highway Com-
mission. Best wishes go to him in his
retirement.

CLYDE MOORE of Statesville
residency is a "Grandpa" as of Aug-
ust 7th. Jeffrey Wayne is the little
fellow's name. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Lockman of Statesville.

Right of Way Agent C. R. ACKER,
JR. and family vacationed at the
Beach in August.

(Left to right): N. W. Feimster, J.
H. Westmoreland and F. F. Warren.
These three Iredell County employ-
ees retired this year and, in their
honor, a dinner was given on June
28, at which time each was presented
a gift. We wish for them many happy
years of retirement as they have all
been loyal and dependable employees.

U9

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

MIKE WILHELM, DICK REED
and DAN MARTIN spent the week
of July 29 through August 2 on the
campus of U.N.C. Chapel Hill, study-
ing to become Radiological Monitor-
ing Instructors. Dick and Dan re-
turned to the "Land of the Ram" the
following week to take the Radiolo-
gical Defense Officer's Course.

We were all so sorry when RON
BUTLER left us. Ron was Assistant
District Engineer in the Asheville Of-
fice, and since leaving has become a
father again — this time to a bounc-
ing boy. We all wish him luck with
his new job.

We have been hearing a wild tale
about GEORGE PRESCOTT, Resi-
dent Engineer. Seems George was in
Raleigh attending a retirement din-
ner and lost his pants in a parking
lot — after midnight — no comment!

Welcome to Mrs. MARY SHIV-
ERS, new secretary in Resident En-
gineer Ed Paschall's office.

Sorry to report that DEDRICK
ROBERTS, Maintenance Yard Fore-
man in Marshall had an accident last
week — fractured his ankle and will
be out for several weeks. Hope you
make a speedy recovery Dedrick.

VERLON COATES, Engineering

Aide in the Disrtict Two office re-
cently went to the beach for the first
time in his life. He went to Florida
with his wife and another couple and
it seems he was very impressed with
the bikini bathing suits. Must say
this year would be a good one for a
first visit to the beach . . . quite a
revelation.

Congratulations to BOB ADAMS
on his recent promotion, and we all
certainly wish him the best of luck
in his new position.

It's hail and farewell to the two
summer Engineering Aides in the
District Two office. BILL BRAME
returns to Eastern Carolina Univer-
sity and "TREY" TINGLE, III, will
be a freshman at Brevard. It was
certainly nice working with them
these past several weeks.

News from Resident Engineer Paul
Robinson's Office is that JOHN C.
GOSSETT and wife have returned
from a delightful vacation visiting
their son and his family in Hartford,
Connecticut. Our sympathy goes out
to JOHN W. MILLS, JR., Assistant
Resident Engineer. A recent illness
caused him the loss of one eye, but
we are VERY pleased to have him
back working with us again.

Army Captain Eugene C. McKay,
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. McKAY of
Candler, N. C. has completed a tour
of duty as a helicopter pilot in Viet
Nam. His wife, the former Christine
Ray, has been living with her parents

Congratulations to Brenda Lank-
ford, wife of Paul Lankford, Land-
scape Specialist. Brenda, is a native
of England, and recently became a
U. S. citizen.

Mrs. Ruth Willis is the new steno-
grapher in the Right of Way office.
Ruth has a six months old son and is
a most attractive and welcome addi-
tion.

Andrew (Voice of Asheville) and Mrs.
Ray, while he was overseas. Captain
and Mrs. McKay expect to leave for
West Germany in the near future on
a new assignment.

News from the Right of Way De-
partment seems to be that everybody
took vacations — that must be the
rich section!

NANCY VALLANO left on June
21st to await the stork and now has
a 10 V2 pound girl, born on July 22.
The Right of Way Department gave
Nancy a wonderful send off party
and presented her with gifts for the
baby which included a high chair,
play pen, car seat and diaper bucket.
ALINE ALLMAN took a nice lei-
surely vacation going down through
Albany, Georgia, to visit with her
sister and then on to Cape Kennedy
for a few days of sand and sunshine.
DALLAS CLARK went comping for
a week with four adults, five children,
a dog and a cat. Yes, that's right —
his nephew, wife and three children,
plus their cat, on their way from Flor-
ida to Germany and all enjoyed Lake
Chatuge near the North Carolina-
Georgia line (we think!). MARION
JONES vacationed with his wife in
Virginia, while the boys went to the
beach with their Church group. KEN-
NETH ROBERTS spent a few days
in Cherokee with his wife and son.
Kenneth informs us that he had a fine
catch of about forty nice rainbow
trout. He has no pictures for proof,
so we will just have to believe he
wasn't telling one of those "fish tales".
One of the Right of Way Agents will
be missing for a couple of weeks. RO-
BERT CHRISTOPHER has gone to
Fort McClellan in Alabama for two

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weeks reserve training. We don't en-
vy him his vacation this year, as we
understand the temperature can real-
ly soar — not too good on Field
Training with "C" Rations! DICK
DILLINGHAM vacationed with his
family in Myrtle Beach. On their
way down they visited with his son
and new daughter-in-law at Shaw A.
F.B. where he is stationed. A. H.
WATSON vacationed at Ocean Is-
land with his wife, daughter and her
in-laws. Would you believe such lux-
ury as to have a cook and a maid for
a whole week? Nice. LOUISE NOR-
TON took her mother and father to
Clearwater and Daytona in Florida.
Says they all had a wonderful time,
except that Louise hates to drive, but
was the sole driver for the long, hot
drive down there and back. MARION
JONES, Right of Way Agent, we are
happy to say, has almost recovered
from his bruises obtained from a
motorcycle he says he "got a hold of
and couldn't turn loose". What's this
we heard about a mini-bike accident
a few weeks ago?

Cute little Stephanie is two years
old. She is the daughter of Ralph
Warnocke, Jr. Tech. II in the Dis-
trict Two office.

Dwifon g£2S£»hM been a h0SPital

Mrs. SUE ENS-
LEY entered the
hospital this week
for a series of test
— We hope Sue
will be back in the
office next week
anyway.

Mrs. ERLENE
MADDEN, secre-
tary in Personnel,

patient and is now at home recup-
erating — Looking forward for her
return.

Sympathy is extended to DON
RAXTER— His father, DILLY RAX-
TER, Cherokee County Foreman, died
June 28 of a heart attack. Mr. Rax-
ter was 64 years old and was to re-
tire soon.

Our sympathy goes out to Cathy
and Norris Barger in the death of
their father, RALPH N. BARGER
and to Ora, his wife. Ralph, who has
never ben sick in his life, died quiet-
ly in his sleep from an instant coro-
nary. Ralph was Right of Way Agent
and the department has felt this loss.

Seems our column this time is
nothing but sad. Maybe will receive
some more news that will be on the
bright side.

We have some of the college boys
working with us this summer. DAN-
NY FISHER, Western Carolina Uni-
versity graduate; GARY BISHOP,
Western Carolina University soph-
omore; GERALD GREEN, Haywood
County Tech; CARROLL BUCHAN-
AN, Western Carolina University,
freshman; TIM SNYDER, N. C.
State University. These boys are
working in Construction under the
supervision of Mr. George Clayton.

KENT DRIVER, who played "rab-
bit" for a couple of years in this train-
ee program hopping from place to
place, has landed in Sylva in Con-
struction Department, Kent, his wife
and small daughter live in Cullowhee.
His wife plans to take a few courses
at Western Carolina University this
fall. Good luck to both of you.

DON RAXTER had a couple of
weeks off but can't find out just
where he went this time. JOYCE
CLOER, Division Engineer's Office,
is on vacation at this writing — will
find out later what kind of vacation
they had. FRED LANGSTON, Right
of Way Department, went home to
Fayetteville for a week end and de-
cided was too far to drive so will
spend his time on Bear Lake skiing
and "baking" in the sun — JUDY
DENNIS, Right of Way Depart-
ment, and family spent a few days in
Atlanta sight seeing and taking in
couple of baseball games. AL COG-
GINS took a few days vacation with
his daughter in Long Island, N. Y.
doing some fishing and he says
caught a 200 lb. shark — asked for
pictures but didn't get any.

BILL RAY, Asst. Division Engi-
neer, spent week at Asheville-Bilt-
more College in Asheville taking a
course in Business Administrative

Management — With all these folks
going off to school from the division,
we ought to have some real sharpies
now.

Miss LINDA LONG, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Long of Franklin,
and a secretary at the 14th Division
Office, graduated August 24, 1968
from Southwestern Technical Insti-
tute at Webster, N. C. with an Asso-
ciate of Applied Science in the Exec-
utive Secretarial Curriculum.

How about those beauties? Fish, I
mean but could apply to the others
too. Those fish are known as groupers
and were caught in Saint Marks, Fla.
Pictured holding them are Mrs.
Mansfield and Mrs. Alice Coggins
(wife of AI Coggins, Landscape Dept.)
The Coggins have a place down at
Saint Marks and enjoy going down
to fish off and on. Don't blame them
when you get fish like this. Al said
the largest this time was only 12 lbs.
and they caught about six one morn-
ing.

Kimberly Susan McMinn has
reached the ripe old age of 2, and is
shown with her birthday cake. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
McMinn of Hendersonville. Her dad-
dy is with the Landscape Department.

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She was selected as the number one
student in her class while attending
Southwestern. CONGRATULA-
TIONS LINDA!

MARVIN WORLEY, Staff Engi-
neer, spent a week at Chapel Hill at-
tending the course in Radiological
Monitoring for Instructors at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina. Also at-
tending the course were R. G. RO-
BINSON of Bryson City and JON H.
LAUGHTER of Hendersonville.

MARVIN ADAMS, assistant to
the Staff Engineer, was recently in-
stalled by the Jackson County Jay-
cees as State Director. He was also
appointed by the club as the Jaycee
representative to the newly created
Jackson County Beautification Com-
mittee.

Maiden of
The Narrows

By EDGAR H. CASE

I threw a large tree branch into
the Narrows and watched the rush-
ing water tear it into a hundred
pieces. This was no place to grow
careless. It was a whole big river
running through a narrow channel
of solid rock. Lives had been lost
here. Men had tried to jump across
the roaring chasm and failed. The
merciless water had pounded them
to death and carried their bodies
away. A few men had made it across.
There was a tale of one stalwart
mountaineer clearing the channel with
a ten-gallon keg of moonshine liquor
on his shoulder, thereby escaping a
pursuing revenue officer. Other tales
galore were told up and down the
river about the Narrows.

I moved back and reclined against
a huge boulder to wait. The boys
would soon come down the river. Our
line crossed a mile further down.

The rising sun shot brilliant fin-
gers of light and warmth down
through the crowding tree tops that
reached out from both sides of the
Narrows. I seemed to hear a thous-
and harsh voices in the uneasy water.
I thought of the tale of the phantom
maiden who lured romance-minded
young men to their death in the
chasm. It was said that she always
appeared on the opposite side of the
river and tried to lure these young
men to her side. Her charm and
beauty was irresistable. But no one
ever reached her —

Suddenly a drowsiness was over-
coming me. I couldn't hold up my
head. Then I saw her, on the other
side of the Narrows, the most beau-
tiful and graceful creature I had ever
seen. She was looking at me, beckon-
ing with a dainty hand. "Come over,"
she called in a voice that thrilled my
whole being.

I got up and walked toward her. I
reached the edge of the rock chan-
nel. I didn't take my eyes off her
face. "Jump to me," she said. "Don't
be afraid of the water. You can make
it."

She was so near I could almost
reach out and touch her. I jumped
with all my strength. The maiden was
reaching toward me. My fingers
brushed hers sending a thrill through
me. But my feet did not land on the
rock edge. I went down into the
grasping water. I managed to look
up. The maiden was laughing satan-
ically. The water dashed me against
the side of the channel, turned me
over and over. My head hit a rock;
I knew I was gone —

Suddenly a heavy hand on my
shoulder was shaking me rudely.
"Wake up, Ed. We've got work to do."
Terry was standing over me.

I jumped to my feet and moved

toward the river. "Where did she
go?" I asked.

"Let's take him in, boys," Terry
said. "He's gone as crazy as a loon."

Bob laughed. "He'll be all right.
He's been dreaming about the phan-
tom maiden the old man told us
about yesterday."

I shook the sleep out of my head
and followed the boys down the river.
But I looked back at the Narrows
several times.

"YOU CftNFofiGBT THESE SUBTLE LITTLE HINTS, I'M QOIA/G TO MAKE
UP MY OWN MIND ON ELECTION PAY"

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RATTLESNAKE SEASON

By EDGAR H. CASE

It was sticky hot, the kind of
weather that brings rattlesnakes out
in families. We bumped along the old
Toll Road in our Jeep apprehensive
of one or more of the slithering devils
jumping down upon us from the rock
ledges above. We knew they were
there. This was rattlesnake country.
Yes, just ahead on the upper edge of
our narrow road was a big yellow
beauty. We stopped the Jeep, got out
and approached him. He saw us out
of bright, bead-like eyes and wound
himself into a menacing coil, his
flat head high above his fat body.
He knew that our intent was his quick
demise. His tail went up and his
twelve horny-looking rattlers gave off
that nerve-tingling zinging sound that
has no parallel for scaring folks. He
was giving a fair warning to stay
away.

Tatham approached him from the
lower side with a brush axe. "Don't
get below him," I yelled. "He can
jump twice his length downhill. Let's
get above him."

I had found a good throwing rock
and my old baseball arm still had a
lot of speed and accuracy in it. When
close enough, I cut loose at the old
buzzer with my Sunday pitch. The
rock almost took his head off. His
buzzing stopped and he began to
wriggle. In a minute more we had
several pounds of choice rattlesnake
hamburger meat, a beautiful skin for
a belt and twelve nice rattlers. We
took only the latter trophy and left
the rest for the hungry crows caw-
ing in the dead tree above.

It was only the beginning. At Pot
Cove Gap we had just stopped and
got out of the Jeep to carry our line
ahead when one of the fellows found
another rattlesnake only feet away.
"He's yours, boys," I said. "I'm going
on and set up the transit."

At the top of the rocky ridge our
trail crossed a long, sharp-toothed
rock. There we had one narrow fis-
sure to step in. My right foot was up
and hovering over the gap when I
saw him. Another big rattlesnake. I
turned on one foot, set the transit
down and secured a green oak stick
we had used for flagging line. With
careful aim I broke the neck of our

third rattler of the morning. I car-
ried him back to the fellows who had
finished number two. By that time
they were almost afraid to leave the
old Toll Road. "They're everywhere,"
Jones said. "They're fighting and
singing up there in the cliffs."

Nerves on edge, jumping at every
little noise in the leaves, we finally
got our line started. A few minutes
later we found our fourth big rattle-
snake, not thirty feet from where I'd
killed number three. We mashed his
head, got his ten rattlers and went
ahead with our line. We followed the
old Toll Road until lunch time, then
went into the shade to eat. Cabe
finished his sandwiches and reached
over into the brush to pick up a
stick. He jerked his hand back and
scrambled to his feet. "It's another
doggoned rattlesnake!" he exclaimed.

We killed the rattler and went back
to work. We knew there would be
more — today maybe. If not today,
tomorrow and the hot days to fol-
low. Pot Cove Gap was the route
the rattlesnakes used in crossing from
the hot mountainside to the cooler
slopes on the north side.

And Pm Not A
Cussin' Man

By a Friend of the Newhouse Family
SHYRL CRAIG — Lawrence, Ind.
(English Teacher)

I met her down by the dam site
Before they built the dam,

Her home was better by a dam site
Than the home she left in Siam

I courted her down by the dam site.
There was no question, our love
was true.

She was the prettiest girl by a dam
site

Of all the girls I ever knew.
Then one day bad news was
forthcoming.
They were going to build the dam,
And her folks were leaving the dam
site

And moving back to Siam.
I told her I'd buy the dam site,

So they couldn't finish the dam.
I said, "You're wkorth more by a dam
site

Than being away in Siam."
But before I could buy the dam site,

They sneaked in and built the dam.
Then to me she came crying and
asking,

"Oh please buy the dam that now
am."

I said "It's impossible, baby,

Go on with your folks to Siam.
To me you're worth more than a dam
site;

At the same time, you're not worth
a dam."

Chairman Hunt speaking at Jeffress Park Dedication. (Story on Page 21)

Recent photos of the Ferries, Silver Lake and Pamlico going from Cedar Island to Ocracoke.

(Gordon Deans, Photographer)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XIV
NUMBER XX

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

Operations of N.C.H.C. Attorney General's Office .... 1

Report on SASHO in Richmond 5

Governor Moore's Remarks At Dedication 6

A Family Plagued 7

Outstanding Young Engineer 8

T. Clarence Stone Highway 9

1968 Highway — Pictorial Coverage 10-12

Pigeon River Gorge 13

State Highway Commission On Road 14

Letter — The Chairman's Office 15

Pot Luck 17

35-40-45 Years Awards 18-19

Headquarters 20

Retirements — Divisions 1-14 24-25

Division News 30

DAN K. MOORE GOVERNOR

JOSEPH M. HUNT, JR CHAIRMAN

Imagine Killing Someone With Your Car 46

Civil Air Patrol 47

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr. John F. McNair, III COVER

W. W. Exum George L. Hundley „ _ , _ „ , „ , _ „ . ~

Our front Cover, Back Cover and Inside Back Lover
Ashley M. Murphy George H. Broadrick are all scenic views of the reoently opened 1-40; oar better

Carl Renfro Raymond Smith known to Highway Engineers as the Pigeon River Gorge.

J. B. Brame W. B. Garrison This stretch 0f highway is known to be the toughest

Carl Meares James G. Stikeleather, Jr. job tackled by Highway Engineers during the past 10

_ „ TT „, _ years. The day of dedication Ootober 24th was a memor-

Thomas S. Harrington W. Curtis Russ . ., . , , iji j

able one lor quite a lew who have worked so long and

diligently on this project.

W. F. BABCOCK .. .. State Highway Administrator We congratulate and salute each and every one who

C W. Lee Chief Engineer had a part in the design and construction of this road.

George Willoughby Secondary Roads Officer I* is beautiful and certainly an asset to North Carolina

William M. Ingram Controller Road History.

Operations of the North Carolina Highway Commission

Attorney General's Office

By HARRISON LEWIS

The State Highway Division of the North Carolina
Department of Justice has its main offices on the second
floor of the old Highway Building facing Wilmington
Street in the City of Raleigh.

Operating with an authorized staff of nineteen attor-
neys and eighteen secretaries, this Division provides the
legal assistance required by the Commission in all mat-
ters pertaining to highways in North Carolina.

Deputy Attorney General, Harrison Lewis, has adminis-
trative control over his division's organization and duties.
Among his many duties is his responsibility for seeing
that the policy of the Attorney General is carried out in
the Highway Division and for developing and administer-
ing policy, procedure and organization within the High-
way Division. He has the responsibility for the assign-
ment and coordination of all work within the Division and
acts as legal counsel to the full Commission in session. He
personally handles the research and writing of major
legal opinions relating to street, highway, and eminent
domain questions and reviews and approves as to legality
all construction contracts let by the Commission. In
1966, these contracts represented an expenditure of $112,-
500.00. He is frequently called on for advice or counsel
to the Administrator and department heads of the State
Highway Commission on the varied legal matters which
affect the operation of the State Highway Commission.

Under his direct responsibility are those attorneys as-
signed to two major units under his supervision. These
are the LANDS SECTION which deals with all facets
of right of way acquisition and the CONTRACTS AND
CLAIMS SECTION which participates in the determina-
tion of claims brought by highway contractors, tort
claims and other miscellaneous matters.

The case load now handled by the LANDS and CON-
TRACTS AND CLAIMS SECTIONS of the Attorney
General's office is a large one. A considerable increase
in work due to the $300,000.00 Highway Bond Program
in addition to the Federal Highway Aid Program and the
Appalachia Highway Program has accounted for this
gain. At the close of the previous biennium, one thousand
three hundred thirty-five (1,335) condemnation cases
were pending. During the biennium, nine hundred seven-
ty-four (974) suits were instituted either by or against
the Highway Commission. Nine hundred sixty-three (963)
suits were disposed of, one hundred twenty-two (122) of
which were terminated by jury trials in the Superior
Court. The balance were settled either prior to or during
trial. One thousand three hundred forty-six (1,346) con-
demnation and related cases are now pending. The State
Highway Commission has been represented in the Su-
preme Court in fourteen (14) cases during the past bien-
nium and four (4) cases were disposed of in the Court of
Appeals. In addition, the State Highway Division of the
Attorney General's Office takes on assignment from its
main office a significant number of criminal cases for
argument before the Supreme Court and Court of Ap-

Mr. Lewis' Secretary, Mrs. May Lib Green.

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Left to right are the following lawyers: Eugene Smith,
William F. Briley, I. B. Hudson, Fred Parker, Charles
W. Wilkinson, Jr., (standing), Harrison Lewis, Deputy
Attorney General, Thomas B. Wood, (standing), J. Bruce
Morton, Claude Harris, Jim Magner and D. M. Jacobs.

peals. During the biennium, the members of the Attor-
ney General's staff, also, assisted in the determination of
a large number of claims brought by highway contractors
arising out of contract work carried on by the Commis-
sion. At the close of the biennium, twenty (20) contract
cases are pending. The staff has, also, represented the
Commission in the adjustment of claims for damage to
Commission property and numerous other miscellaneous
matters. In addition, members of the staff have drafted,
reviewed or approved approximately sixteen thousand
(16,000) leases, deeds, right-of-way claims, encroachment
contracts, miscellaneous agreements with utilities, rail-
roads, municipalities and other governmental agencies, as

Mr. H. T. Rosser, Assistant Attorney General (Con-
tracts and Claims).

well as construction contracts. The staff has, also, render-
ed advice and assistance to the Commission in virtually
all of the legal functions of the Highway Commission and
all legal problems arising in which the Highway Com-
mission is involved.

A more specific study of the functions of the LANDS
and CONTRACTS AND CLAIMS SECTIONS reveals
their importance to the smooth operation of highway
acquisition, construction, and related matters. In discuss-
ing, first, the LANDS SECTION duties, will involve an
investigation of the jobs allocated to its personnel. The
attorneys in this section are superintended by Mr. An-
drew H. McDaniel, Assistant Attorney General. It is
presently composed of an assistant attorney general, nine
(9) trial attorneys making up the Trial Unit, and four
(4) staff attorneys making up the Office Unit, plus
secretarial help. Two of the authorized attorneys are as-

Above is Mr. Andrew H. McDaniel, Assistant Attorney
General (Lands Division).

signed to the Asheville field office which handles land
matters in the western part of the state. The section is
called upon to render many legal opinions to the Right
of Way Department and other officials relative to land
acquisition and disposition. The legal duty of the Trial
Division of this Unit involving the greatest amount of
their time is the preparation and trial, on behalf of the
Highway Commission, of civil actions instituted by it.
These cases are filed by the staff against those property
owners who will not agree to accept the appraised dam-
age of their property needed for highway construction. The
statutory authority for commencing actions, also, provides
for a procedure whereby property owners may bring an
action against the Highway Commission. These suits
brought against the Highway Commission are commonly
referred to as inverse condemnation actions and generally
involve alleged takings by reason of drainage, contested
existing right of way and similar matters. To properly
prepare for the trial of those cases instituted by the

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Commission and those inverse proceedings brought by the
property owners requires a great deal of time and study.
Much effort is spent in field preparations for trial in-
cluding inspection, interviews, examinations of records,
and pre-trial conferences with witnesses relative to their
appraisals. The actual trial of many of these condemna-
tion actions consumes two full days or longer. The Of-
fice Unit for the trial section is charged with the respon-
sibility of preparing necessary legal papers for the con-
demnation of properties, securing service of process on
the owners of these lands, and terminating by judgment
or right of way agreement those matters not coming to
trial. These staff attorneys do a great deal of drafting,
rendering of legal opinions for the Right of Way Depart-
ment and related legal research on questions involving
wills, trusts, new right of way ownership, etc.

The CONTRACT AND CLAIMS SECTION superin-
tended by Mr. H. T. Rosser, Assistant Attorney General,
has a primary duty of handling contractors claims against
the Highway Commission as provided in G. S. 136-29. The
Trial Attorney attends the Contractor's Hearings on the
claims before the Administrator under the procedure of
G. S. 136-29 for the purpose of obtaining additional infor-
mation, rendering advice, and making recommendations.

Mrs. Carolyn Lynam, Mrs. Marilyn Lee and Miss
Shirley White.

The claims, ordinarily, involve interpretation of highly
complicated and technical contract specifications and
technical construction and engineering methods. In cases
not settled after a hearing before the Administrator, the
contractor's procedure is to file a claim against the Com-
mission in the Superior Court. The trial attorney pre-

Miss Essa McBryde, Mrs. Sallie Steward and Mrs.
Susan Copeland.

pares all preliminary motions and participates in the
hearings on the motions. These cases are heard in the
Superior Court before a Judge without a jury. Also, un-
der Mr. Rosser's supervision is an attorney responsible
for handling Workmen's Compensation Claims and Tort
Claims on behalf of the State Highway Commission, in-
cluding investigation, preparation, negotiation, trial, and
appeals. Employees of the State Highway Commission

Mrs. Marie Wood, Mrs. Jan Kozma and Miss Irene
Holmes.

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Above are the following Secretaries in the Attorney
General's Office: Mrs. Candie Johnson, Mrs. Sylvia Tur-
ner, Mrs. Mary Ellen Merritt, Mrs. Sandi Jacobs, Mrs.
Jeannette Flowers and Mrs. Shirley Wilson.

who suffer personal injury or death while in the scope of
their duties are entitled to recover monetary damages
under the Workmen's Compensation Act, as set out in
Chapter 97 of the North Carolina General Statutes. This
attorney represents the State Highway Commission be-
fore the Hearing Commissioner. If the matter is appealed
by the Highway Commission to the full Industrial Com-
mission, and from that body to the Superior Court and
Court of Appeals, the Torts Attorney will represent the
State Highway Commission's interest throughout.

This division of the office handles the collection of
delinquent accounts the majority of which grow out of
damages to State property. Falling also under its jurisdic-
tion are preparation and review of consulting contracts,
revision of specifications, utility and railroad problem
and compliance with the ever increasing Federal regula-
tions relating to the above.

The State Highway Division of the Attorney General's
Office is fortunate to be assisted by many lovely and ac-
complished secretaries ably supervised by Mrs. Mary Lib
Green. With such assistance, the prospects for the con-
tinued efficient, successful operation of this Department
is assured.

Mrs. Sandra Frazier

Guy A. Hamlin and Secretary, Linda Snyder of the
Asheville office.

Giving advice is a very peculiar affair; and when one
has looked round the world for a time and seen how the
most cleverly designed enterprises fail, and how tihe
most absurb often turns out well, one becomes chary of
giving one advice.

There is, at bottom, a certain restraint in him who asks
for counsel, and an overweening feeling of superiority
in him who gives it. One should only advise about mat-
ters in which one is prepared to cooperate. — GOETHE

Adversaries in law strive mightily, but ©at and drink
as friends. — Shakespeare.

The complex is the artist rendering of the interchange
1-77 and Independence Blvd. in Charlotte. The drawing
was done by Zigrida Smith of Roadway Design.

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Report On SASHO

In Richmond

Well known southeastern states highway personalities
in attendance at the annual SASHO in Richmond October
6-9 included (left to right) Virginia's Highway Commis-
sioner Doug Fugate, West Virginia's Road Commissioner
M. R. Hamill and our own Administration W. F. Babcock.

Officials of the North Carolina State Highway Commis-
sion joined those from the other Southeastern States (all
the way from Alabama to West Virginia) in Richmond
October 6-7-8-9 for the annual meeting of SASHO.

In case you think the last word in that line just above
is a square dancing term, it stands for THE SOUTH-
EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY OF-
FICIALS and is the region arm of AASHO, the Amer-
ican Association of State Highway Officials.

Twenty department heads and engineers of the North
Carolina Highway Commission were delegates to the
meeting, with papers presented to various committees by

Highway construction was undoubtedly the topic of
this SASHO discussion involving (left to right) John
Thompson of Thompson-Arthur Paving Co., Greensboro,
N. C, S. N. (Sy) Pearman, S. C. Highway Commissioner,
Gene Robbins of ARBA and NCSHC's Chief Engineer
C. W. Lee.

Planning and Research Engineer Max Sproles, Equipment
Engineer L. H. Gunter, Assistant State Traffic Engineer
Harold Rhudy, Controller Bill Ingram and Public Rela-
tions Officer Keith Hundley.

The three day event included general session addresses
by Virginia Governor Mills Godwin, Jr., Phil J. Bagley,
Mayor of Richmond, US Senator Bill Spong of Virginia
and SASHO president Douglas Fugate, Virginia's High-
way Commissioner.

One of the outstanding features of the meeting was
a seminar on good community relations during which rep-
resentatives of highway departments and the construction
industry aired their views.

1,000,000,000,000 MILES

The President recently called attention to the fact that
American motorists will drive 1,000,000,000,000 miles this
yeair, setting a new record. He pointed out that highways
give the American people a personal mobility unequaled
in history; they permit more youth to obtain an educa-
tion; and they give workers greater opportunity for jobs.

At the same time, he noted, the planning and construc-
tion of highways involve "major social responsibilities".
Highway officials at every level of government must make
sure that highway development makes a positive contri-
bution toward meeting both the transportation and the
environmental needs of people.

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Governor Moore's
Remarks at
Dedication
of 1-40 1-26

This is an exciting day for the peo-
ple of Buncombe County, the Appa-
lachian Region, indeed for the whole
of North Carolina, and for travelers
throughout the length and breadth of
the United States of America. I am
pleased and proud to be a part of
this ceremony, dedicating the Junc-
tion of Interestates 40 and 26. This
is an imposing and useful link join-
ing North Carolina with the commer-
cial, residential and travel points of
the continental United States. 1-26
begins at this interchange and extends
to Charleston, South Carolina. 1-40
begins at Greensboro and extends all
the way to 1-15, over 3,000 miles away
in the State of California.

The City of Asheville is truly the
hub City of Western North Carolina
and this interchange is the hub of
the Asheville Area Expressway Sys-
tem. This is the only 3-level inter-
change in the State of North Caro-
lina today. It took almost four years
to the day to build it at a cost in ex-
cess of $5y2 million. The entire inter-
change area comprises over 200 acres.
There are 14 bridges either separat-
ing the various roadways or crossing
Hominy Creek.

Millions of people, many of them
yet unborn, will use this facility over
its lifetime. It will become an integral
and important part of North Caro-
lina's 74,000-mile highway network.
It will add to the convenience and
potential of industry, agriculture and
business, and become an important
thread in the fabric of daily life in
this area, and in the whole State as
well.

This administration has underway
the biggest road-building and road-
improvement program in the history
of North Carolina. As I have point-
ed out on previous occasions, approxi-
mately $1 million is spent on the
highwavs of this State every working
day. At our present pace, approxi-
mately 1,000 miles of new and im-
proved roads are added to ithe system
yearly. In recent years, one of the
greatest boons in highway improve-
ment for Western North Carolina has
been the Appalachian program. Fed-
eral funds, earmarked for this partic-
ular region of North Carolina, have
been a great asset in permitting us
to build new roads. I felt that a simi-
lar program should be inaugurated

for Eastern North Carolina; and with
this goal in mind, I helped form the
Coastal Plains Regional Development
Commission with the Governors of
South Carolina and Georgia. We are
now in the process of formulating de-
velopment programs, including high-
ways, for Eastern North Carolina,
similar to the Appalachian program.

Let me talk briefly about some of
the Western North Carolina highway
projects. This interchange will help
tie our highway network closer to-
gether and it will become an impor-
tant influence in the use of roads al-
ready existing and in those in the
planning and construction state.

The spur off this interchange into
Asheville is a project financed with
Appalachian funds. It provides an
important connection between Inter-
state 40 and Interstate 26 and the
Asheville Expressway at the Smoky
Mountain bridge.

Interstate 40 is now practically com-
plete all the way from Greensboro to
Old Fort. The acquisition of right of
way is in progress between U. S. 25
at Biltmore, just a few miles from
this interchange, to Old Fort. The
Highway Commission has given top
priority to the section between U. S.
25 and Azalea where a connection is
to be built to U. S. Highway 70. This
will provide an Asheville by-pass and
will help relieve congestion on the
Expressway and tunnel road. I was
pleased, and I suspect that Jim Stike-
leather was ever more pleased than
I, to hear that the Bureau of Public
Roads has approved the proposed ex-
tension of the Expressway through

Beaucatcher Mountain to connect
with Interstate 40, just east of Ashe-
ville.

Turning to Interstate 40, the Can-
ton by-pass has been completed and
has been in use for several years. Now
under construction and scheduled to
be completed and opened to traffic
this fall is the 20-mile section up the
Pigeon River from the Tennessee
line, which, along with four-laning of
N. C. 284 will allow travel between
Asheville and Knoxville, Tennessee,
on a modern highway. I am highly
pleased with the rapid progress of
this project.

Interstate 26 is complete from this
interchange to East Flat Rock and is
under construction all the way to N.
C. 108 in Polk County. It is complete
and open to traffic from N. C. 108
to the South Carolina line and on to
Charleston.

I know you are aware of major
construction in the Asheville area.
An additional bridge, adjacent to the
existing Smoky Mountain bridge
across the French Broad River, is
under construction and will soon be
completed. This project is also fi-
nanced with Appalachian funds. Also,
under right-of-way acquisition and
scheduled for letting this fall, is

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another Appalachian project between
the Asheville Expressway at the
Smoky Mountain Bridge, continuing
down the French Broad River and
connecting with the Newbridge- Wea-
verville project which was dedicated
about 18 months ago as one of the
first Appalachian projects completed
in the United States. This proposed
construction will be the last link in
the North-South Asheville Express-
way System.

I think that you can see that we
are moving rapidly ahead in the con-
tinuing modernization and expansion
of our highways. To a great degree,
we have succeeded and will continue
because of the dedicated and imagi-
native work of people like Jim Stike
leather of Asheville and Curtis Russ
of Waynesville over in the Fourteenth
Division. They have done outstanding
jobs and this project and many others
will stand as enduring monuments to
their labors. Chief Highway Engineer
Cameron Lee, Division Engineer F.
L. Hutchinson and Resident Engi-
neers George Prescott and K. W.
Rabb, richly deserve great credit for
their engineering and scientific inge-
nuity in building this mammoth and
complicated interchange. There aire
not words enough or time enough to
express gratitude to those deserving
persons who helped make this struc-
ture a reality, but I hope they will
always be confident of the deep ap-
preciation which we have for the con-
tribution they have made.

This is a great day for all of North
Carolina, and I thank you for letting
me share in this happy occasion.

"THE PICNIC TABLE"

By Henry H. Smith

The Picnic Table wants to invite you,
To spend awhile and not say adieu.
In North Carolina it's a welcome sign.
Awaiting you under the longleaf pine.
The Tarheel State will do it's best,
To provide a place to stop and rest.
The Picnic Table says "travelers
know,

They should stop often when on the
go."

Picnic tables sit on the mountains
high.

Where you reach up to touch the sky.
Up here you'll see a wonderful view.
Clouds down below, and a sky so blue.
To all visitors traveling far, or near,
The Picnic Table welcomes you here.
And want all tourists to understand,
They're always welcome in Funland.

A Family Plagued

The Earl Quesinberrys of 1255 Be-
thabara Road, Winston- Salem, enjoy
having company — but enough is
enough.

One morning this summer Mrs.
Quesinberry looked out her window
and saw a Greyhound bus, a trailer
truck and five cars in her back yard.

On another day, 58 cars turned
around in her driveway.

The motorists weren't visiting. They
were just trying to follow directions.

The story began last March. The
State Highway Department got per-
mission from the Quesinberrys to
grade their yard when the department
began building the four-lane Marshall
Street extension near their home.

Since then things haven't been the
same in the Quesinberry household.

The surveyors miscalculated how
much land they would need, and end-
ed up taking more than 50 feet of
the Quesinberry's yard. They left
them with a nine-foot high bank and
no driveway.

Mrs. Quesinberry built a driveway
through her neighbor's yard so both
of them would have access to the
road.

Bethabara Road was closed to traf-
fic, but someone had neglected to
take down a sign on Cherry Street
pointing down Bethabara to Wake
Forest University.

Unsuspecting motorists followed the
sign. They wound up in the Quesin-
berry's yard, where the road ends
and the woods begin.

"I spent all summer directing traf-
fic," Mrs. Quesinberry said. "It was
sort of funny. People would get out
of their cars, scratch their heads kind
of perplexed, look at that bank and
try to argue with it.

"I put a sign on a tree near the
bank saying 'No you can't. One night
two men drove their car up here,
knocked on my door and told me.
'We thought we could. Why can't
we?'

"So I took the sign down," she said,

The couple rents a garage apart-
ment behind their house. One even-
ing the tenant came home, and
another car followed him up the
driveway.

The tenant got out of his car and
so did the man. The man looked
around, laughed ashamedly, and said,
Well, it looks like we've gone as far
as we can go."

"Yeah, I guess so," the tenant re-
plied. "I live here."

One afternoon a drunk driver drove
into the yard, drove back and forth
a couple of times, then drove off the
bank.

A policeman who investigated the
accident asked him why he had driv-
en off the bank.

"Well, officer," he said, "I just ran
out of road."

All of it has not been funny. The
bulldozers struck rock beneath the
dirt, and now every time a road ma-
chine goes by the house, the Quesin-
berrys feel the vibration.

The Quesinberrys say the vibrations
have torn the door frames loose, pull-
ed shelves out of the wall, knocked
down pictures and crystal goblets,
pulled the furnace loose from the wall
and weakened the roof.

The highway department re-opened
the Quesinberry's claim and is offer-
ing monetary compensation for the
land and damage to the house, but
the Quesinberrys say they will pro-
bably have to move. The department
will also build a 1-foot driveway
through their yard to give people
along the way better access to the
road.

And that will leave the Quesinber-
rys with about 20 feet of yard.

Quesinberry retired recently from
20 years' service in the army. He had
been in Ft. Gordon, Ga. When he
came home to the visitors and the
vibrations, he had a letter awaiting
him from Governor Dan Moore.

The message was "sort of ironic,"
Quesinberry said.

It congratulated him on his military
service and said, "Welcome back to
North Carolina."

They were going to frame the let-
ter and hang it on the wall. But it
would just get knocked down, Quesin-
berry said.

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"Outstanding

Young Engineer"
Max Russell Sproles

Mr. Max Russell Sproles, Planning
and Research Engineer for the North
Carolina State Highway Commission,
has been selected "Outstanding Young
Engineer" of the year by the Eastern
Branch of the North Carolina Section
of the American Society of Civil En-
gineers. This Award was presented
Friday in Durham at the Branch's
annual meeting.

The Award is made to young engi-
neers who have proven themselves
worthy within their profession, as well
as within the community in which
they live. This is not an annual
Award, but it is awarded when there
is an acceptable candidate within the
region of the Eastern Branch of the
American Society of Civil Engineers.

Mr. Sproles is a Registered Profes-
sional Engineer and is active in both
Professional Societies and Civic Or-
ganizations. He holds an Undergrad-
uate Degree from the Virginia Poly-
technic Institute, and a Master's De-
gree in Civil Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology. His
professional experience has been one
of increasing responsibility in first
Federal and now State levels of Gov-
ernment. Prior to joining the North
Carolina State Highway Commission
in 1966 as Assistant Planning and
Research Engineer, he held positions
with the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads in both the North Carolina
Division Offices and the Southeastern
Regional Offices in Atlanta.

Mr. Sproles and his wife, Wanda,
and their two children reside in Ra-
leigh at 313 Westridge Drive.

Scenic Views — 1-40 — Over Jonathan Creek between Clyde and Fine's Creek

8

T. Clarence Stone Highway

Above is Ex-Senate Pro-Tern T. Clarence Stone.

Thomas Clarence Stone has been road minded since
he was a small boy. He used to play "convict" with a lift-
tie red wagon and he and his friends would catch a play-
mate and make him pull the wagon and they would fill
up the mud holes on his street by cleaning up the dirt
on the side ditches.

He helped his father drive a team and wagon to meet
the trains and get passengers to Leaksville over what is
now NC 770 (Clarence Stone Highway). Later his father
traded the mules for T Model Ford. He was the taxi
driver and knew what it was to be stuck on the mud
over those roads.

His father was a County Commissioner and helped to
start the good road movement. He helped to get the first
tar base road built in Rockingham County, which in-
cidentally did not come all the way to Stoneville.

Clarence came to the Legislature in 1935 and got his
choice Committee — Roads. He helped to keep the tolls
off of roads in North Carolina. He fought every attempt
for toll bridges and roads, and his opinion was, "when a
man pays for his gasoline he has paid toll tax."

A lot of misfortune has come his way; the main and
most tragic being the death of his daughter 21 years
ago in a highway accident.

A lot of good fortune has also been his. In 1963 he was
honored to be elected President of the Senate. (This due
to the untimely death of Lt. Gov. Cloyd Philpot). As
President of the Senate he created a new Committee —
"The Committee on Highway Safety." He has done

more than most towards highway safety and education for
the people of our State.

Recently in honoring him by naming a portion of NC
770 for him, he commented the wonder, the honor while
he was still on this earth — "you can't smell the roses
when you are 6 feet under." I'm sure his father would
have been doubly proud of this honor for his son, Clarence,
we are.

Will Rogers' Advice
To The Candidates

"Go Fishing Until Election"
By WILL ROGERS

There would be a moratorium called on candidates
speeches. They have both called each ether everything in
the world they can think of. From now on they are just
talking themselves out of votes. The high office of Pres-
ident of the United States has degenerated into two or-
dinarily fine men being goaded on by their political leech-
es into saying things that if they were in their right minds
they wouldn't think of saying. Imagine Mr. Hoover last
night "any change of policies will bring disaster to
every fireside in America." Of all the conceit. This coun-
try is a thousand times bigger than any two men in it,
or any two parties in it. These big politicians are so ser-
ious about themselves and their parties. This country has
gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of
it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we
have and still survived shows we are a super nation. If by
some divine act of Providence we could get rid of both
these parties and hired some good man, like any other
business does, why that would be sitting pretty. This
calamity was brought on by the actions of the people of
the Whole world and its weight will be lifted off by the
actions of the people of the whole world, and not by a
Republican or a Democrat. So you two boys just get the
weight of the world off your shoulders and go fishing.
Both of you claim you like to fish, now instead of call-
ing each other names till next Tuesday, why you can do
everybody a big favor by going fishing, and you will be
surprised but the old U. S. will keep right on running
while you boys are sitting on the bank. Then come back
next Wednesday and we will let you know which one is
the lesser of the two evils of you.

The difference between a politician and a states-
man is that .the politician thinks of the next
election while the statesman thinks of the next
generation.

1968 Highway Conve

lion Pictorial Coverage

u

Ladies Activities at the Convention

Photos by HAL REICHA, Correctional Employees Association (Photographer)

12

Pigeon River Gorge
Dedicated by Two Governor's

For more than 150 years, man's ef-
forts to slash a passage through the
rugged Pigeon River Gorge in North
Carolina's Southern Appalachian
Mountains ended in frustration.

The formidable mountain terrain
discouraged engineer after engineer,
depleted the coffers of at least two
surveying companies seeking a rail-
road path, and stopped a plank road
after it had encroached only six miles.

"Until 1956, man just stood off in
awe of it," said Curtis Russ, a Way-
nesville newspaper publisher and a
member of the N. C. Highway Com-
mission.

On October 24th, however, the con-
quest of Pigeon River Gorge will be
complete. Where once only Cherokee
Indians and handy frontier hunters
trod, ten-ton tractor trailers will be
moaning across a 23-mile stretch of
Interstate 40. Eventually 1-40 will
provide a path from Greensboro to
the West Coast.

One of the most expensive stretches
of highway ever built in the eastern
United States, the 23 mile link from
near Dellwood to the Tennessee line
cost $33 million, about a million and
a half dollars for each twisting mile.

The cost of the project resulted
mainly from the ruggedness of the
terrain, according to Robert E. Pless,
resident engineer on the job. The
mountains, some of the oldest in the
U.S., have been overturned many
times, creating jumbled rock forma-
tions.

"That's rough area up there," said
Pless. "Slides caused a lot of over-
run onto the road bed and there were
steep gorges to fill and deep cuts to
make. We made cuts up to 400 feet
and fills up to 350 feet. One project
alone cost $8 million."

The new highway winds through
the wilderness of Mt. Pisgah National
Forest, just skirting the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. Huge rock
formations jut out on one side of
the highway while on the other side
the Pigeon River can be seen at
times hundreds of feet below as it
cuts through the valley.

Pless explained why mountain high-
ways and railroads usually follow a
river bed.

"The river winds its way down a
good grade," he said. "Water always
finds the best way down. The used to
locate roads by driving cows. They al-
ways pick a good grade, too."

There are two rivers in the area the
highway could have followed — the
Pigeon and the French Broad. There
was a bit of mountain fueding when
the route was selected back in the
1950s.

"The locating engineers finally de-
cided on the Pigeon because in their
opinion it would be a cheaper and
more feasible, direct route to the Mid-
west," said Russ.

Some of the engineering facts kept
by Pless and the State Highway Com-
mission over the 10 years it took to
complete the project point up the
problems involved. For example, it
took 125 carloads of explosives to
blast through the mountains. There
were 21,758,887 cubic yards of exca-
vation, almost a million cubic yards
a mile.

Russ recalled the difficulty of sur-
veying the route. "In some of the
steep places, the man shooting the
line would have to be lowered down
steep cliffs on a rope, then pulled
back up when he was finished. Some
days they only made 500 feet and
considered themselves lucky at that."

Getting heavy equipment into the
rugged area presented another prob-
lem. Some of the machinery had to
be dismantled, carried in and reas-
sembled.

At one point, the road disappears
into a black hole in a wall of grey
gneiss — a tunnel through a forma-
tion engineers decided would cost too
much to cut down. There are twin
tunnels here — one for each two-lane
road. A few miles to the east a single
tunnel carries east-bound traffic while
the west-bound lanes move on a
ledge above.

As the motorist enters the tunnels,
three strands of modern lighting fix-

tures help his eyes adjust to the
change in light. Further inside, the
lights narrow to a single strand.

Unlike most interestate highways,
this stretch of 1-40 runs side-by-side
most of the way. The twin lanes are
separated by what Russ refers to as
the "Chinese Wall." Pless, with the
engineer's preciseness, calls it a (con-
crete curb) median barrier.

The 42 inch high wall is designed
with a curb which helps prevent ve-
hicles from getting hung on it. The
curb, says Pless, is designed to push
the vehicle off the wall when it scrapes
against it.

The engineer says the median bar-
rier was necessary so the road bed
could be kept at a minimum, thus
avoiding deeper cuts into the moun-
tains and more expense.

After more than 10 years of labor
through the grudging metamorphic
rock, rattlesnakes and thick mountain
timber stands, the sophisticated four-
lane highway will soon be completed.
Only clean-up work, installation of
guard rails, signs and other minor
jobs are left.

Dedication of the stretch from near
Dellwood to the Tennessee line was
held on October 24th with Governor
Buford Ellington of Tenessee and
Governor Dan Moore of North Caro-
lina on hand to cut the ribbons.

The highway won't be officially
opened until late this fall when pav-
ing on several miles in Tennessee is
completed. But when it is opened, it
will be a monument to the progress
of road building since a surveyor
stumbled out of the mountains many
years ago and declared it wasn't feas-
ible to build a wagon road throught
the rough area. Undoubtedly, he was
right then.

Governor Dan Moore of North
Carolina and Governor Buford Elling-
ton of Tennessee were principal
speakers at ceremonies beginning at
11 a.m. Thursday, October 24th at
the North Carolina-Tennessee border
near Waterville marking the official
opening of 38 miles of 1-40 in the two
states.

n

Highway officials of both states
were reluctant to say the 38-mile sec-
tion would be open to traffic imme-
diately after the dedication ceremo-
nies. However, officials of both depart-
ments said they expected the highway
would be open by the first of the
year.

Charles Speight, commissioner,
Tennessee Department of Highways,
said the 15.3-mile section of 1-40 in
Tennessee was not open at this time,
but would be open to traffic after the
dedication on a limited basis.

Speight said all four lanes of 1-40
in Tennessee would be open from the
intersection of State Route 22 at New-
port to the Foothills Parkway inter-
change.

From that point only two lanes
would be open to a point near Hart-
ford, Tenn., and from there on to the
North Carolina line four lanes would
be open.

He explained that slides in the
deep cuts have forced construction
crews to begin "benching" or terrac-
ing work which may not be complet-
ed before late in the year.

Speight said cost of the 15.3 miles
in Tennessee including right-of-way
grading and paving was $19.1 million.

W. Curtis Russ, state highway com-
missioner for the 14th North Carolina
Division, said the 22-mile section of
1-40 in North Carolina begins at Cove
Creek and runs 22 miles to the Ten-
nessee line.

Russ said the North Carolina link
cost $33 million and included three
tunnels.

One of the three tunnels involves a
unique engineering feature, highway
department officials said. Traffic
bound for Tennessee will use an open
cut, while Tennessee traffic going to-
ward North Carolina will be routed
through a tunnel.

Tar Heel highway officials also
said the 22-mile section is the larg-
est project ever undertaken by the
North Carolina department.

Building the 38 miles of interstate
highway in the rugged terrain of
East Tennessee and Western North
Carolina has been studied by highway
engineers throughout the world.

Delegations from Switzerland and
Austria as well as other mountainous
countries have visited the project.
They have agreed that highway con-
struction in this particular area is

probably the most difficult of any
similar project in the world.

They pointed out that the terrain
did not cause the major problems, but
the texture of the earth and rock
from which the highway was cut.

One Tennessee engineer said, "it
seemed like the rock and dirt had
been oiled. We would blast it out, lev-
el it, ditch it, and then it would slide
almost before we could get the ma-
chinery out of the way."

Engineers from boith Tennessee
and North Carolina said that slides
would probably be a major problem
along the route for many years.

In addition to the two governors,
members of the staff of both highway
departments, representatives from the
Bureau of Public Roads and state of-
ficials from Raleigh and Nashville,
Tenn., attended the dedication cere-
monies.

State Highway
Commission
On Road for
Two Meeting
in October

After conducting business in Ra-
leigh during August and September,
the State Highway Commission went
on the road again for two meetings in
October.

The first of these was in Hickory
on Thursday, October 3, and Friday,
October 4. The second revolved
around the dedication of Interstate
40 in the Pigeon River Gorge near
Waynesville, with activities set for
October 23-24-25 at Waynesville and
Cherokee.

The Highway Commission were
guests of the Waynesville Chamber
of Commerce on the evening of Oc-
tober 23; then, with Governor Dan
Moore, Tennessee Governor Buford
Ellington and Federal Highway Ad-
ministrator Lowell K. Bridwell head-
ing the list, joined dignitaries from
all over the southeast for the dedica-
tion of the $33-million Pigeon River
Gorge project on October 24. A spe-
cial luncheon was planned later in
the same day.

The Commission then went to
Cherokee where they were the guests
of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee
Nation on October 25. There, the
Commission conducted its business in
what would normally have been the
November meeting.

The Highway Commission was in-
vited to meet in Hickory after the
1967 General Assembly corrected a
1965 legislative error which prevented
the Commission from holding any of
its out-of-town meetings there.

The 1965 version of the Highway
Law required three out-of-Raleigh
meetings each year, with one to be
scheduled in a town or city east of
Raleigh, one in a town or city west
of Raleigh but east of Hickory, and a
third west of Hickory. This wrote
Hickory out of the picture, but the
oversight was corrected in 1967 when
the language was changed to indicate
a meeting to be held "in Hickory, or
west of Hickory".

After the correction was made, the
City of Hickory invited the road body
to meet there, and the invitation was
accepted. This meeting coincides with
the award of a $1.1 -million contract
for construction of Hickory's Eastern
Access Route. An apparent low bid of
$1,135,267.24 was received on the pro-
ject from Clement Brothers Company
of Hickory on Tuesday, September 24.

The Highway Commission in 1968
met the requirements that it hold at
least three out-of-town meetings by
conducting business at Nags Head in
May, at Greensboro in early June and
at Blowing Rock in late June.

There was no meeting din July, but
regular business sessions were con-
ducted in Raleigh during August and
September.

HAPPINESS

Happiness is a sunbeam which may
pass through a thousand bosoms with-
out losing a particle of its original
ray; Nay, when it strikes on a kin-
dred heart, like the converged light
on a mirror, it (reflects itself with
redoubled brightness — it is not per-
fected till it is shared — Jane Porter.

The really happy man never laughs
— or seldom though he may smile.
He does not need to laugh, for laugh-
ter, like weeping, is a relief of men-
tal tension — and the happy are not
over-strung. — F. A. P. Aveling.

Letters We Liked

from
"The Chairman's

Office"

North Carolina General Assembly
Senate Chamber
State Legislative Building
Raleigh 27602

October 1, 1968

Mr. Vernon Rollins

Division Traffic Engineer

N. C. State Highway Department

1429 Westover Terrace

Greensboro, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Rollins:

I wish to thank you and commend
you for the expedient and satisfactory
manner in which you installed the
stoplights at South Scales Street and
Parkway Boulevard here in Reids-
ville. They do an extremely efficient
job for all traffic concerned, but at
the same time are pleasing to the eye.

Thanking you again for your past
help, and offering my services when-
ever called upon, I am

Sincerely,

/s/ FRANK R. PENN

* $ $

North Carolina General Assembly
Senate Chamber
State Legislative Building
Raleigh 27602

October 1, 1968

Mr. Jack Bryant

Traffic Services Department

N. C. State Highway Department

1429 Westover Terrace

Greensboro, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Bryant:

I wish to thank you and commend
you for the expedient and satisfactory
manner in which you installed the
stoplights at South Scales Street and
Parkway Boulevard here in Reids-
ville. They do an extremely efficient
job for all traffic concerned, but at
the same time are pleasing to the eye.

Thanking you again for your past
help, and offering my services when-
ever called upon, I am

Sincerely,

/s/ FRANK R. PENN

♦ # ♦

Edgecombe- Martin County
Electric Membership Corporation
201 Wilson Street
Tarboro, North Carolina
September 27, 1968

Mr. Joseph M. Hunt, Jr.
Chairman

N. C. State Highway Commission
Raleigh, N. C.

Dear Mr. Hunt:

Some time ago it was necessary for
us to relocate five miles of our elec-
tric line adjacent to Highway #42
which is being reconstructed.

The people we dealt with locally
were Mr. J. C. Jernigan and Mr. R.
F. Coleman. The individual we dealt
with at the Raleigh office was Mr.
Bill Giles. We have completed relo-
cating our line and have been paid
for the non-betterment cost. Our busi-
ness relationship with these gentlemen
referred to was so completely satis-
factory, that I am forced to bring to
your attention the courtesy and
friendly cooperation that we received
from them. We wish all of our other
business dealing were as pleasant as
this one.

Congratulations on having such fine
men on your staff!
With best wishes, I am

Yours very truly,
Edgecombe-Martin County
Electric Membership Corp.
/s/ G. Leslie Rucker
Manager

* * *

Aluminum Company of America

Alcoa Building
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
September 27, 1968

Mr. J. M. Hunt, Jr.
Chairman

North Carolina State

Highway Commission
Highway Building
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602

Dear Mr. Hunt:

With all of the talk about our na-
tional highway death toll and the
many attempts to remedy the causes,
we think that the very effective job
our highway officials are doing to
save human lives has been grossly
overlooked.

It should be apparent to all of us
that the driver is most often at fault
in an accident. But that's a rather un-
popular statement to make to millions
of drivers. Nonetheless, it was time,
we thought, to voice our opinion,

Thus, the two-page national news-
paper advertisement that appeared
prior to the Labor Day weekend.
Here's a copy of that message for
your information.

We share your concern for safety
on the road, and we deeply appreciate
the splendid work that you are doing
to make our highways even safer.

Sincerely,

/s/ John B. O'Donnell
Manager, Highway Products

Future Highway
Chairman

Handsome little Joey Hunt
(J. M. Hunt, IV) , lies in his baby
2arriage and wonders what the
future holds ....

Well, if he takes after his
proud grandfather, Chairman
Joseph M. Hunt, Jr., he will
surely be a public figure. We'll
predict the year 2,000 will see
J. M. Hunt, IV in the limelight
either as Highway Chairman or
Governor of North Carolina.

Little Joey entered the world
August 7, 1968 and is the very
first grandchild of Chairman
and Mrs. J. M. Hunt, Jr.

His proud parents are Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Hunt, III, (Jody and
Annette) of 2814 George Street,
Winston-Salem.

Joey's father is supervisor
with Bell Labs in Winston-Sa-
lem and received his PHD in
Electrical Engineering at Duke
University last year.

15

A Message

(Editor's Note: The writer of the
following article is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. H. Best, 311 Windsor
Place in Goldsboro. He recently
was presented the Purple Heart for
wounds and the Army Commendation
medal for outstanding service in com-
bat.)

By PFC Robert Wayne Best

Co. B 3-22 Inf.

25th Division

APO San Francisco, Calif.

My name is Robert Wayne Best
and my family and I have lived in
Goldsboro for the last 18 or 19 years.
I am now serving in Vietnam.

While in the field I wrote this ar-
ticle which I think will be of interest
to the people. Therefore, I hope you
will print it for me. It is strictly my
opinion, but I am sure there are peo-
ple who will agree with me. I titled
it, "ARE YOU AN AMERICAN".

I have read in the newspaper about
the riots, thefts, and the murders of
our leaders. I firmly believe that the
people involved in these unjust acts
are doing nothing but destroying our
nation. These people want their opin-
ions heard. Therefore, they cause
riots which cause the death of inno-
cent bystanders. Also the burning of
buildings. They steal because they say
they have been dealt with unjustly.
These people also refuse to give our
leaders the one thing that they ask for
themselves. The right to voice their
opinions. Instead men like John F.

Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and
Martin Luther King are murdered.
The reason is because some conspira-
tor didn't want their opinions heard.

If I had but one request to ask the
people of our nation, it would be to
remember our flag and what it stands
for:

I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America and
to the republic for which it stand.
One nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

Let us remember that as intelli-
gent human beings, we should profit
by the mistakes of others. We have
read in history of the rise and fall of
other nations. They fell because of
violence and division within their na-
tion. Therefore, let us remember that
"United we stand, divided we fall."
Those words have been said many
times. Don't you think it is about
time we started practicing them?

Our nation was built on faith, truth
and love. This is what we are fight-
ing for now in Vietnam. So don't pro-
test this war, but unite together and
back us in order that we may soon
bring it to an end. I am only one
infantry soldier, but I believe that I
can speak for us all when I say that
we do not enjoy being shot at. We do
not like watching our buddies being
blown apart by a mortar or rocket.
And we do not like sleeping in mud
and jungles and rice paddies with
mosquitoes and red ants as bed part-
ners. Also you can rest assured that
we know that all of us are not going
back home to our families and loved
ones. Although, we know all these
things, we still keep on fighting. I'm
not going to tell you why. Because if
you are an American citizen and know
the heritage of our nation, then you
know why. However, if you do not
know, then I suggest that you find
out. After all, we are your sons,
aren't we?

House Wise
To Delay

Congress has backed away from
action this year on legislation that
would pave the way for heavier, wid-
er and longer truck rigs on the inter-
state highway system.

The legislation has become too hot
to handle a few weeks before election.

So the House leadership is letting it
die with the end of the 90th Congress.

This will surely not be the end of
efforts to increase federal truck limits.
But it is a good time and place to
stop and take stock of what is involv-
ed. There are a great many answers
that need to be found or publicized
about the effects of heavier, wider,
longer rigs before they are authoriz-
ed.

What Congress once seemed on
the verge of passing was not so dras-
tic in itself. Basically, the bill would
have changed the formula that states
must enforce for trucks in order to
get federal funds for interstate high-
way construction. The legislation was,
as truckers insisted permissive only.

But few states could have resisted
the truckers' pressure for this increas-
ed authority. Moreover, the federal
permissive authority for bigger trucks
would have had to be extended to
other highways, if only to allow the
bigger trucks to reach destinations off
the interstate system.

As truckers also argue, a lot of
study went into this new legislation
which passed the Senate in the spring
and was approved by a House Com-
mittee. Unfortunately neither the
study nor the legislation itself was
well publicized. Worse yet, there was
little mention of the hazards that
trucks meeting the revised formula
could create.

Perhaps trucks should not be limit-
ed to present weights, widths and
lengths. Truck technology and im-
proved roads may allow increases
without creating any serious risks to
the interests of other highway users.

But before the jump is made, there
should be more information on the
costs that the relatively few big new
trucks would add to the road con-
struction and maintenance bill shared
by all users. There should be a clearer
understanding of the safety factor in
legislation that would permit the op-
eration of multi-unit truck "trains"
as well as heavier, wider conventional
truck rigs.

These and other issues can expect
a thorough, well-publicized going over
when the truck legislation is taken up
in the next Congress. The bill will
have to go back through the entire
legislative process of both houses.

If and when it emerges again, the
public and state legislatures should be
in a better position to know what is
involved.

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NO ANSWER — No answer is exactly what you'll get
if you try to call Henry Hammond at the North Carolina
Highway Commission today. Just a few short months ago
we wrote here in this kol-yume that you'd better know
which Hammond, Henry C, or C. Henry, you wanted
when calling Henry Hammond around here. We tried
desperately to explain it all . . . got a headache, called it
quits. We, and the two Henrys sought a solution. Now,
by golly, it's all solved. No more Henry C. in landscape
getting C. Henry's calls about design matters. No more
confused telephone calls and notes. No more nothing.
There just ain't no more Hammond-hassle. C. Henry's in
Australia. Henry C.'s in business for himself in Raleigh.
That's a solution, fellows, but not the one we had in mind.
ARE YOU KIDDIN? — Prominent friend of ours says
he was eating (not by his own choosing) at a rather low-
class cafe the other day at the morning meal hour. He
ordered the blue plate special, and when it was served,
there was a good old southern-type breakfast. Said friend
listed the included items aloud while the waitress rear-
ranged things on the table ... he said, "fried eggs, sau-
sage, hominy grits . . ." To which the waitress replied in
an unmistakable Yankee accent, "Look, Buster, you want
to know how many grits . . . you count 'em."

SUITCASE SYNDROME — This has been the traveling
man's dream and the homebody's nightmare since back
in September. First of all, Big Jim Stikeleather set up
the dedication of that first of its kind tri-level interchange
at Asheville September 10th. Then it was on to Hickory
for the October meeting in that furniture center the 3rd
and 4th of the month. More hospitality than you could
shake a stick at. Back to Raleigh on Saturday the 5th
in time to pack to leave for SASHO at Richmond from
Sunday the 6th to Wednesday the 9th. But that's not all.
Coastal Plains Development Commission meeting at Wil-
son October 21. Grandfather Mountain and the Blue
Ridge Parkway October 22. Dedication of Pigeon River
Gorge 1-40 project 23 and 24. And the November meet-
ing of the Highway Commission at Cherokee on October
25th. Seems we'll get home just in time to check with the
great Punpkin' before starting to fatten the old turkey-
bird for Thanksgiving.

LIMITED SCOPE — Had the great and unexpected
pleasure the other day with good friend Jim Councill.
As we discussed the problems of the world over some
S & W food, the conversation got around to golf. (As
usual, did you say?) Well, when we told Br'er Jim
about the big golf tournament and about how Bill Moon
was Champ of the Highway Commission, Jim said, "In
Raleigh. You mean the Highway Commission in Raleigh".
He grinned, then chuckled, and said, "I'm proud of old
Bill, he's a good golfer, but you tell those tournament
planners to expand the scope of their project next year".

By KEITH HUNDLEY

FIELD INSPECTION — We've heard it said that High-
way Administrator W. F. Babcock is so snowed under by
the sheer volume of paper work involved in today's high-
way program he never gets out of Raleigh. Recently, we've
had a spy watching him with orders to get a picture of
his first trip into the "boonies". His handiwork is to be
seen on this page . . . and admired.

MAY I? — We noticed some spiffy cartoons in the last
issue of this mag, including one with strong political tones.
It'll be all right if we tell a political joke, won't it? We
mean if we say "may I", and all. This one came from
Senator William Spong of Virginia at the opening ses-
sion of SASHO in Richmond. Seems Senator Spong ac-
companied Louisiana's Democratic Jr. Senator Russell
Long and five other senators from the GOP on a flight
to a Space Agency complex near New Orleans. As they
circled the field to land, it became known that the landing
gear wouldn't come down and they didn't have a lot of
fuel left. As they circled things got more and more tense
until finally Senator Spong leaned over to Senator Long
and said, "It doesn't look good, does it, Russell?" To which
the man from Louisiana replied, "Now, don't you worry
none, Billy, if we go, we're taking five of them with us."
OVERHEARD — In the crowd at SASHO the other
day we heard a delegate allow as how speech is like a
wheel . . . the longer the spoke, the greater the tire. We
didn't ask what committee meeting he'd just been to.
We also heard one fellow say that he's getting concerned
about how his kid behaves in school. Seems he brought
home a note from teacher wanting an excuse for his
presence. And you can't talk long to anybody these days
without getting around to the cost of living. Friend of
mine says the cost of living is like mini-skirts, we can't
afford to have either go much higher. Someone else says
the cost of living is so high today dreamers are having
to use second hand materials to build castles in the air.
That's All.

BILL BABCOCK AT WORK ON HIS OFF HOURS

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Division I, L to R: W. H. Coleman (Asst. Div. Eng.), Henry C. Harris (35-
Year Award).

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Division II, L to R: James L. Overton (35-Year Award), C. W. Snell, Jr.
(Division Engineer).

Division III, L to R: Ashley M. Murphy (Commissioner), Luther R. Merritt
(35-Year Award), Paul J. DuPre (Division Engineer).

Division V, L to R: E. E. Faulkner (35-Year Award), Merle T. Adkins Division IX, L to R: Luther B
(Division Engineer). Vaughn (35-Year Award)

Division VI, L to R: K. C. Butler (Asst. Div. Engineer), Clarence R. Roberts
(35-Year Certificate).

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Division VII, L to R: C. B. Alford (Asst. Hwy. Personnel Officer), Ira 0.
Cooke (35-Year Award).

Division VIII, L to R: William G. Brooks (35-Year Certificate), Thomas B.
Hunt (35-Year Certificate), T. C. Johnston, Jr. (Division Engineer).

Ii;t. Division Engineer), Euby L. Division X, L to R: J. Raynor Woodard (Hwy. Personnel Officer) William E.

Woodruff (Suggestion Award).

Division XI, L to R: H. E. Kunce (Asst. Division Engineer), James Atwell
(45-Year Service).

Division XII, L to R: George D. McRee (35-Year Certificate), Jason H.
Westmoreland (35-Year Certificate)

Suggestion Award Members, L to R: G. A. Morton, D. S. Jones, J. F.
Abernathy.

Division XIII, L to R: Cloyce B. Alford (Asst. Hwy. Personnel Officer),
Philip M. Hensley (35-year Certificate) (Equipment).

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Division XIV, L to R: William C. Rogers (35-year service), A. J. Hughes
(Division Engineer)

Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

RIGHT OF

WAY — Happiest
girl in the Right
of Way Depart-
ment was MA-
LINDA POPE,
secretary to M. E.
WHITE — that
was the day her
husband [returned
from Vietnam!
Employees miss
DAN SHOEMAKER, TED SEA-
WELL and BUDDY CAGLE, who
resigned to accept other employment.
Welcome to TERRY HILL and
JAMES EINSTEIN, new (employees.

MR. AND MRS. HIPPIE OF
1968!!! Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Forrest
of the Right of Way Department stole
the show at a N. C. Motor Carriers
Convention in Asheville on October
8. This year's social night called for
guests to come as hippies. Though
no award was given for the best cos-
tume, we believe they could have won
first prize very easily.

Employees are glad to see JIM
MOORE back on the job after a re-
cent hospitalization. Oo-woirkers miss
PAT BEACH, temporary employee,
who resigned to return to school.

KATHERINE FORREST vaca-
tioned in Asheville the seoond week
in October, where she attended a
convention with her husband. JOHN
FIELDS and family enjoyed a trip
to Foirt Lauderdale, Fioirdda during
the month of August. ELEANOR
TAYLOR and family spent a nice
vacation at Nags Head. A. Z. WIL-
LIAMS and family spent a weeks
vacation in Myrtle Beach, S. C. dur-
ing August. Since the temperature
was 108 degrees, A. Z. (really enjoyed
his air- conditioned oar.

Employees are glad to have ELEA-
NOR BRANTLEY back in the De-
partment — she was transferred from
the Appraisal Section. Also, it's nice
to have BOBBY HEATH back in the
Raleigh Office.

Karen Jones, daughter of LU-
CILLE JONES, won "Miss Congen-
iality" in the "Miss Apex" Contest.
Jennie Lou Jones, sister of BECKY
JONES, won "Miss Twinkles" in
the same contest.

JUDY BISHOP, farmer secretary
to Mr. White, is the proud parent
of a baby boy, born September 7th.
Congratulations Judy and Jim! In the
Highway Commission Golf Tourna-
ment, out of seven place winners,
Right of Way won four — BILL
MOON— low gross; JOHN HOLMES
won 2nd place in a sudden death play
off; CLIFF CARROLL won 3rd
place; and BILL MOON won 5th
place.

The Clark Methodist Church in
New Bern was the setting for the
August 10th wedding of AYDREN
FLOWERS and Jeannette Phifer. Af-
ter a trip to the beach, the couple
are making their home in Raleigh.

ROADWAY DESIGN — W. A.
WILSON, JR. attended the SASHO
Convention in Richmond, Va. October
7-8-9. Good luck to Mirs. Peggy Bow-
ers, who recently iresigned. Welcome
to Miss CATHERINE BOYD, who
(replaces Peggy. It's nice to see HO-
WELL PEELE and JACK GRIFFIN
back at work after a bout with their
surgeons.

Congratulations to the following
new parents: Mr. and Mrs. MOTA-
MEN on the birth of a son, Mark
Andrew, September 10th; and Mr.
and Mrs. WILLIAM ALFRED TYN-
DALL, a son, William Allen, born
September 20th.

"Now that the election is over, I
just wonder how things will go in
Washington," ponders little Robert
Donald Hurlbut, II. Born June 25,
1968, Robert's dad is employed in
Roadway Design.

"I knew my candidate would win,"
laughed little James Elvin Jackson,
Jr. His proud dad, James E., Sr., is
an employee in Roadway Design.

Anthony M. Futrell, Jr., age 3, is
the son of Anthony and Ann Futrell.
Anthony's mom is an employee in
the Roadway Design Department.

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This precious little doll is Karmen
Britt Westbrook, daughter of Joe and
Hilda Westbrook, Karmen's dad works
in Roadway Design.

"You know, this election has me
puzzled", says William E. Betters, III,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bet-
ters, Jr. William's dad is employed in
Roadway Design.

New employees in the department
include: GEORGE W. BROWN,
GRADY DOYLE, WOODY JAMES,
MICHAEL B. JOHNSON, JAMES
D. LANE, ROBERT J. LEEDY,
JR., ROY C. McCANN, ERNEST
D. WALKER, JR., JOHN R. WIG-
GINS, JOHN WILLIAMS, and JO-
SEPH W. PEACOCK.

Welcome to Mrs. ANN STE-
PHENS, new secretary to W. A.
WILSON, JR. Ann replaces Mrs.
Carolyn Lee who resigned to keep
house.

Employees in the department miss
the following former fellow workers
who resigned recently: Barney Ro-
berts, Robert Roberson, Charles
Elam, Stephen Woodall, Laney Wil-
son and Terry Russell. ERNEST
MALLARD transferred to the Train-
ing Program and BILLY VEASEY
transferred to Construction.

JEAN DELL'ACQUA is all smiles
now that her husband. Ant, is at
home and getting along fine following
an appendectomy.

Mr. and Mrs. HOWARD CRIT-

CHER announce the adoption of a
daughter, Stefanie Joan. Howard is
a Project Engineer in Roadway De-
sign. (New father, Howard, admits
he has already spoiled little Stefanie) .

San Francisco, Hawaii and Las
Vegas were on the agenda for MAR-
THA and Charles ENSCORE in
June when they boarded a Trains In-
ternational Airlines jet in Charlotte
for a 14-day vacation. The tremen-
dous DC-8 jet held 250 people and is
often used to transport troops to Viet-
nam. In San Francisco, they visited
Fisherman's Wharf, strolled through
Chinatown, rode the cable cars, took
a bus trip to see the giant redwood
trees in Muir Forest and ate superb
food wherever they dined. "Hippies"
and "topless bars" were numerous.

In Hawaii, they stayed at the Hil-
ton Hawaii Village hotel, which is on
Waikiki Beach. One day was spent
visiting the Polynesian Cultural Cen-
ter where authentic reproductions of
six Polynesian villages have been
built. Another day, they flew 900
miles to see all 8 islands of Hawaii.
The last three days of their vacation
was spent in Las Vegas, where they
enjoyed the entertainment in the
nightclubs and spent lots of time put-
ting nickel? in the slot machines.

ADVANCE PLANNING — Wel-
come to ALEX HEKIMIAN, AL-

FRED AVANT and JOE OSBORNE,

new permanent employees in the de-
partment. It's nice to have JOHN
WILSON and JAMES T. NEWMAN
as trainees. Mr. Newman was mar-
ried to Sharon Thomas of Burlington
September 8th. Good luck to Fred
Pshyk and Wayne Shaw, who recent-
ly left for other employment.

The "fish tales" the men in the De-
partment brought back from their
fishing trip recently really came off
fish this time!

MAINTENANCE — The JIM
MORRISONS are the proud par-
ents of a fine baby boy, James O'Dell
Morrison, Jr., born September 11th.

It's nice to have Mrs. CAROLYN
JONES in the department as a new
Steno II.

LEE PHILLIPS transferred from
the Highway Training Program to
the State Maintenance Engineer's of-
fice as Highway Engineer I August
3rd.

State Maintenance Engineer GEO-
RGE BRINKLEY attended the
Southeastern Association of State
Highway Officials' meeting in Rich-
mond, Virginia October 6 -9th.

PURCHASING — Our heartfelt
sympathy to B. P. LAMBERT upon
the death of his mother September
30th, and to W. A. BENTON on the
death of his father October 2nd.

This glamorous little "Miss" in the cute sun hat is Amanda Lee Warlick,
age 2. Amanda is the daughter of Jim and and Joan Warlick, and mom is a
draftsman in Planning & Research,

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This precious little miss is the dar-
ling granddaughter of Leona Sidbury
(Purchasing Dept.)- Her name is
Shannon Leigh Sidbury and she lives
in Tennessee with her Dad and Mom,
but believe you me Leona and Mason
see her quite often.

Welcome ito the following new em-
ployees: MARY LOU CHRISMAN,
steno, from Portsmouth, Va.; JAN-
ICE BALL, steno, transfer from Mo-
tor Vehicles; CAROLYN BAILEY,
Typist II in order writing section;
and PAT LAMM, Typist I, in order
writing section.

It's certainly nice to see SUE DA-
VIS back at work after being hospital-
ized with pneumonia.

LOCATION — Our deepest sym-
pathy to NANCY ROUTH upon the
recent death of her father, Mr. Wal-
ter Gunter.

Norma Lynn McNeill was only two
days old when this picture was taken.
She was born July 23, 1968 to Mr.
and Mrs. Norman L. McNeill of
Monroe. Dad is with Location in
Monroe,

Wedding bells Jiang of September
21st for LAWRENCE PACKER,
(who married the farmer Annette
Darden of Meadow.

Employees welcome RICHARD
LEE CROUCH, JR., new member
of the Geology Section under the
supervision of FRITZ KOCH.

LANDSCAPE — Welcome to Mrs.
LINDA STRAUGHN, Steno II, who
replaces Mrs. Sandra Jackson in
Landscape.

MR. SAUNDERS, Area Landscape
Supervisor, attended the Ohio Short
Course in Columbus, Ohio the week
of October 7th.

MR. PHELPS, Area Landscape
Supervisor, attended the SASHO
meeting in Richmond, Va. the week
of October 7th.

BOBBY BOYETTE and FRANK
BOWEN accompanied Bruce Myers
and George Crumb of the Bureau of
Public Roads in the making of the
motion picture, "The Regeneration of
the North Carolina Roadside."

Get well wishes to AL KIRK-
LAND, Landscape Architect, who
has been ill in Watts Hospital, Dur-
(ham.

EQUIPMENT — Best wishes for
an early recovery to JUDY HALL,
who at this writing is a patient in
Wake Memorial Hospital.

Employees are glad to hear that
R. G. SETZER is steadily improving
after a lengthy illness and are hope-
ful that he will be able to return to
work in the near future.

ALMA NORTHCUTT and hus-
band, Ernest, along with four other
couples, attended "Rebel Round-Up"
(square dancing) in Fomtana Village
recently. Their daughters, Sylvia Eli-
zabeth land Donna Leigh, have return-
ed to college. Sylvia is attending
Campbell and Donna is 'at East Caro-
lina. Both came home for the N. C.
State Fair.

KATHLEEN UPTON attended the
wedding of Miss Sue Harrington and
Charles Greer in Wilmington Septem-
ber 28th.

Welcome to TERI TRUELOVE,
new temporary employee with the
Department.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Wel-
come to the following new employees:
Mrs. GRACE TODD, JAMES RO-
BERT WININGS, ROBERT LEE
MASON, GERALD ELLIOTT RAY,
ART MATTHEWS, W. C. WALK-
ER, LESTER HILDEBRAND, CON-
NIE PARKER, and PAUL LEWIS.

The engagement of Miss Audrey A.
Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
P. Price of Selma is announced to
Larry O. High, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Odell High of Wendell.

The wedding ceremony is planned
for 4:00 P.M., November 9, at Cor-
inth Baptist Church, Route One, Zeb-
ulon. The public is invited.

Recently hospitalized were REX
THOMPSON and J. E. HANNAH.

Our deepest sympathy to BILLY
BRIGGS upon the death of his fa-
ther, to CARL JESSUP on the death'
of his mother, to JOE LAMBERT
who also lost his mother, to REX
THOMPSON whose father-in-law
passed away and to HARVEY
STONE upon the death of his mo-
ther-in-law.

PLANNING & RESEARCH —
From the grapevine we heard that
CURTIS BATZDORFER had some
kin pitching for Detroit in the '68
World Series. His "cuz" Mickey Lo-
lich was a hero!

KEN J ARM AN is happy to an-
nounce for his collie, "Princess," that
she is the proud mom of three new
pups — "Raymond," "Billie," and
"Knight."

Vaoation time found employees
venturing to the mountains and sea-
shrores of Tarheelia. DON CORWIN
and family enjoyed camping trips to
Salterpath and announce they have
graduated from a tent to a camper.
Others in the department who have
"camping fever" are: BILL COFER,
BILL BURBAGE and LINDA MAX-
WELL. Bill Cofer believes in "do it
yourself." He's building his own
camper.

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SUM- ■

■

A lovely wedding ceremony was
held in the Highland Methodist
Church in Raleigh September 7, 1968,
uniting Miss Lorette Jeanne Person
and Kenneth Ray Shorter in mar-
riage.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Junius Watkins Person of
Whittier, California and the bride-
groom's parents are Mrs. Robert N.
Shorter and the late Mr. Shorter of
Salem, Virginia.

The new Mrs. Shorter attended
Santa Monica College, is a graduate
of Hardbarger Business College and
holds a position in the Payroll Section
of Finance. The bridegroom served in
the U. S. Air Force and is employed
by IBM in the Research Triangle.

After honeymooning in the moun-
tains, the couple resides in Cary.

The beaches lured some employees.
MARIE KIVETT and husband, Ed-
die, vacationed at Carolina Beach,
while Topsail was the choice of
MERTIE DIXON and family.

BRIDGE — It's nice ito have sev-
eral new employees in the Depart-
ment. DAN WOODALL recently
transferred from Permits to Bridge
Design. DON IDOL, former part-
time employee in the drafting room
and more recently on the training
program, is now a permanent em-
ployee. DONALD WALL is on the
training program. GREGORY WAL-
KER is a new trainee. In Final Esti-
mates, MARVIN STRONG is a pairt-
time employee and DAVE SCOTT
is permanent. Good luck to LLOYD
WALKER, who resigned to work in
"Land Surveying" in Columbus Coun-
ty, where he has plains to build a
new home.

SUE ROYAL'S six-year courtship
ended in marriage September 1st to
Glen Flowers. The newlyweds are liv-
ing in Benson.

EDDIE and Linda ETTEFAGH,
married about 18 months, recently
visited Eddie's parents in Tehran,
Iran. Linda was happy to meet her
new "in-laws" and to see their beauti-
ful country. The Ettefaghs were gone
about six weeks and visited places of
historical interest, the beach on the
Caspian Sea and enjoyed evenings at
several night clubs.

Our deepest sympathy to BEN
TERRELL, whose mother died in
September and to CRIS EASON, on
the untimely death of her husband.

CATHY LASSITER, trainee, re-
cently vacationed with her husband
in the mountains and at the coast,
deep sea fishing, before he left for 12
months of duty in Vietnam. BOBBY
POWELL drove "way out" to Wyom-
ing on a hunting trip. The party,
gone three weeks, bagged a deer and
an antelope.

J. L. NORRIS and L. C. DILLARD
attended the October meeting of SA-
SH O in Richmond, Va. Prior to this,
Mr. Norris and his wife, Jessie Ruth,
were in New York City for an inter-

national meeting regarding ortho-
tropic bridge floors and a few days
vacation.

CHARLIE KING and TOM DI-
XON enjoyed a recent trip to Myr-
tle Beach. They stayed at the Amer-
icana Motel and took their dates to
St. John's Inn for dinner and danc-
ing.

KEN CREECH claims that he and
LANDIS TEMPLE really got a
"work-out" during a weekend of touch
football and surfing with their Jun-
ior League baseball team at Landis'
beach cottage. Landis and Ken are
regular coaches for the team.

After his recent trip to New York
City, ROYCE CARROLL'S advice
for future visitors is to "button down
your wallet". His wallet was stolen
and the "slip-out" was so expertly
done, he has no idea when or where
it happened. Attention girls: Royce
claims he still has date money!

R. S. WICKER, who is ill at
home, is genuinely missed from the
office. Everyone in the Bridge De-
partment hopes he will soon be well.
Mr. Wicker was hospitalized for
some time at Wake Memorial and
Rex.

Craig Rhudy, son of Assistant State Traffic Engineer and Mrs. Harold C.
Rhudy, was selected from his class of 626 trainees at Lackland Air Force Base,
Texas, to receive the American Spirit Honor Medal. The award is given to the
trainee of each class who best displays the qualities of leadership. The base
commander wrote the Rhudys that their son "has been an asset to this or-
ganization and has proven himself an outstanding citizen in uniform."

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Division I, L to R: Atwood Askew, Floyd R. Gilden, Sammie D. Jones.

Division II, L to R: Alvin A. Beacham, William S. Clements, William F
Edwards, Stanley L. Mann, James L. Overton, Jake D. Ragan.

Division III, L to R: Robert A. Ashworth, Jr., Kedar Bryan, Cober L Burge
Ander Brance Faircloth, Franklin B. Hewlett, Oscar Lloyd Lanier.

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Division IV, L to R: Willie V. Byrd, Henry L. Hales, John E. Joyner, Charlie
L. Narron, William F. Taylor, Harry A. Turner.

Division V, L to R: David A. Grissom, Lonnie G. Murphy, Henry E. Shaw,
Weston L. Stephenson, Merle T. Adkins, Div. Eng.

Division VI, L to R: Robar B. Allen, Robert A. Averitt, Ben T. Bordeaux,
Alexander E. Cox, Albert B. Home, Lawrence Priest.

RETIR.
D1VL

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Division VII, L to R: Ollle N. Alley, T. A. Burton, Garland 0. Clodfelter,
Clarence I, Walters.

Division IX, L to R: Jay R. Basil'
A. Joyce, Raymond S. Kearns, Jos)

lf:k (Retirement Certificate). T. C.

Division X, L to R: John R. Brown, Zeb Vance Goodman, Charlie W. Hur-
locker, James R. L. Mills, John P. Thomas.

VENTS
\ONS

Division XI, L to R: Crom Monroe Dancy, Dallas S. Ingram, Charles A.
King, Clarence G. Livengood, Joseph A. McLean, Ermm E. Osborne.

Division XII, L to R: George D. McRee, Drather H. Spangler, Jason H.
Westmoreland.

| ah H. Cole, Fred R. Doty, Robert
I Schenk, Henry C. Sowers.

Division XIV, L to R: Amos D. Cabe, William V. Jenkins, Harve D. Lance,
Paul F. Lominac, Horace J. Morgan, John F. Shope.

Division XIV, L to R: Ralph T. Snelson, Jewel R. Thompson, William E.
West, Joseph C. Wilkey, Omer C. Elliott, 0. L. Wilson.

Unit 15 (Raleigh Area) L to R: Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hughes, Thomas R. Buch-
anan, Bryan Moore, Frank E. Godbold, William A. Tyson, James H. Good-
win, H. F, Waller, Rayford B. Gupton.

Division XIII, L to R: John B. Bright, Conley G. Hoi I if i e Id, Marvin W. Mc-
Clure.

JANICE MITCHELL and family
vacationed at Maggie Valley in Aug-
ust. The WALTER WILEYS also
visited the N. C. mountains.

BLANCHIE BRADLEY and
daughter, Linda, enjoyed a week in
New York City in August.

ANNE, "Woody", HARTSFIELD,
a June graduate of Duke will be leav-
ing this month. "Woody" has worked
in the department for the past five
years during the summer and is plan-
ning a wedding in Duke Chapel De-
cember 14th to William Bassett.

Congratulations to JOAN WAR-
LICK, recent award winner in a
poetry contest. Joan attended "Poe-
try Day" (sponsored by the Poetry
Council of N. C.) at Asheville in Oc-
tober. Her poem, "Reflections on a
TV News Report," won first prize
in the Charles A. Shull contest of the
council.

Welcome to new employees TONY
BATCHELOR and LARRY HIGH.

Miss Jacqueline Marie Britt of Ra-
leigh was married July 14, 1968 to
Grant Toneill Bridgers, Jr., also of
Raleigh.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Maxie Edward Britt and
parents of the bridegroom are Mr.
and Mrs. Bridgers of Ahoskie.

Mrs. Bridgers, Jr. attended Atlantic
Christian College where her sorority
was Phi Nu, and is a graduate of Ra-
leigh School of Data Processing.

The bridegroom attended East
Carolina University and is also a
graduate of Raleigh School of Data
Processing. He is a member of the
Data Processing Department with the
Highway Commission.

FINANCE — Cupid has been
working overtime in Finance. CATH-
IE WELLS was married to Ronnie
McLean August 25th. Ronnie is a

senior at State and Cathie is in Key
Punch. The couple lives in Raleigh.

On September 21st, LARRY PE-
TERS was married to Donna Lynn
Womble. Larry is with General Ac-
counting. The newlyweds reside in
Raleigh.

October 11th was the wedding date
of SALLY MOSS, who became Mrs.
Otis Richard. Sally is with the equip-
ment section.

LARRY WATERS is a new mem-
ber of the Tab section. ELVA JONES
recently joined the insurance sec-
tion. Betty Wheeler is home await-
ing the arrival of the stork. Betty
was a member of the insurance sec-
tion.

JUDY BRYANT and ED SOHO-
ENBORN, III, are new members of
the Payroll Section. JOHN JOYNER
of Payroll has transferred to General
Accounting. New faces in General
Accounting are GARY BLEVINS,
J. P. SHORTER, Accounting Clerk
I, F. L. RUBES and J. M. McAR-
THUR, Pro. trainees.

Friday, October 11th was the last
work day for Laura Blaylock in Key
Punch, who resigned to await the
arrival of the stork.

Employees are glad to see KAYE
SCARBORO back at work after a
short illness. Kaye reports she had
all four wisdom teeth removed at
one time!

BERTHA DANIEL, former secre-
tary to W. M. INGRAM, Controller,
has a new position in Finance as Ac-
counting Clerk IV. Mrs. EUNICE
MURPHY replaces Bertha as Mr.
Ingram's secretary.

PHYLLIS HARRISON of Key
Punch is beaming over her sparkling
new diamond, recently received from
Jimmy Parrott.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — The
Third Annual Photogrammetric Golf
Tournament was held September 20th
at Sippihaw Country Club, in Fu-
quay. Fabulous Hawaiian dancers
entertained at a dinner after the
Tournament. Trophies were awarded
the winner: 1st FHte: (1) FRANK
HOLDING, (2) ROBERT WOOD.
2nd Flite: (1) CHARLES McDON-
ALD, (2) TOM THROWER. BOB-
BY CAULBERG and HOMER UP-
CHURCH shared the exciting golf
play at Sippihaw.

Congratulations to FRANCIS R.
LEDFORD of the Stereo Section on
his marriage to Miss Lynn Gold of
Shelby, August 18th, at the Zion
Baptist Church in Shelby. Lynn is a
recent graduate of Pfieffer College,
where she majored in sociology.

JIM McCLOSKEY of the Editing

Miss Linda Faye Stone became the
bride of William Edward Haynes Sun-
day, July 14, 1968.

The bride's parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey A. Stone of Raleigh and
her father is employed with the
Equipment Depot. Linda is employed
with the Department of Materials &
Tests.

The bridegroom, employed in the
Equipment Depot, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Haynes of Raleigh.

Section enjoyed a week's vacation in
New York City recently. He attend-
ed a major league baseball game and
also did some sight- seeing.

Our deepest sympathy to FRANK
HOLDING of the Drafting Section
on the recent death of her father.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
The Bridge Builders Club held their

The Herman Johnsons are mighty
proud of little daughter, Jennifer, age
3, and her baby sister, Kelly Jean,
born June 4, 1968. Dad is a Tech II
in Materials and Tests.

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annual meeting ait the Point Harbor
Grill in Point Harbor August 30th.
Bridge Foreman W. R. TWIFORD
acted as host. H. E. GASKIN of
Washington was elected president and
S. E. WOLLARD of Washington, sec-
retary-treasurer. After the meeting
the group of approximately 35 mem-
bers and wives enjoyed a very fine
seafood dinner.

New employees include Mrs. GEO-
RGIA LEE MATTOCKS from Reids-
ville; GRADEN DAVIS, who trans-
ferred from Bridge Construction; and
TOM PATE of Bridge Design.

Employees miss MARVIN McKIN-
NEY, who transferred to Highway
Personnel. Marvin was honored with
a luncheon at the King of the Sea
Restaurant and also presented a gift
from fellow employees before leaving.

Congratulations to Bridge Mainte-
nance Superintendent L. M. MIT-
CHELL from Clinton on the birth of
his second granddaughter.

Mrs. Ronnie Warfield, the former
Miss Lois Ruth Shearin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Shearin, was
married August 31, 1968 in the First
Methodist Church in Cary. The cou-
ple are at home in Raleigh and the
bride is attending Hardbarger Busi-
ness College.

The bride's father is employed with
Materials & Tests.

MATERIALS & TESTS — Em-
ployees in the Department enjoyed
vacations and short trips to the beach-
es and mountains during late sum-
mer. NANCY FINCH and HAROLD
HOCUTT had a wonderful vacation
in New York City. They saw several
Broadway shows and did lots of sight-
seeing. Nancy visited relatives who
took her to many points of interest
around the big cdity.

HUBERT W ATKINS and family
spent an enjoyable vacation at Atlan-
tic Beach. Among those enjoying the
mountains of North Carolina and
Tennessee were LAWRENCE MAR-
SHALL and CARSON CLIPPARD.

SALLIE RHODES enjoyed having
her son and his wife and young son
"Trey" visit her this summer. At-
lanta was the destination of HER-
MUS LEONARD and his wife to
meet their first grandchild, a beauti-
ful little girl, born to his son and
daughter-in- law.

"LUCKY" and Laurie COOPER
became the proud parents of a new
son, Thomas Scott, born September
13th. This is their third son. A girl,
Kelli Dee, was born to RODNEY
GODWIN and his wife September
7th. The DAVID HOLLEMANS also
became parents for the f irst time with
the birth of a daughter September
11th. David is an inspector located in
Greensboro. Congratulations to all
the new parents!

Welcome to new typist, NANCY
THORNTON, who recently joined
the staff. Nancy replaces Brenda Da-
vis, who resigned after being with
the Department about seven years.

On June 29th, KAY JONES, typ-
ist in the Record Section, and Jerry
Phillip Best were married in Garner.
Best wishes and congratulations to
Kay and Phil. They are at home at
Route 10, Raleigh.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
The Raleigh office of Traffic Engi-
neering and their families enjoyed a
picnic at Pullen Park July 17th. Ham-
burgers and hot dogs were grilled to
perfection and very delicious. Games
were set up, but the greatest pleasure
came from the fellowship and getting
better acquainted with the new per-
sonnel and their families. EMILY

Roy Williams gives his young son,
Douglas, a tour of the family's new
home on Lundy Drive, Raleigh. Roy,
recently made Area Traffic Engineer,
was formerly Traffic Engineer for Di,
vision 8,

J

"Well, hello there," says little Gre-
gory David Carroll, son of David Ray
and Shirley B. Carroll. "Greg" was
born August 8, 1968 and his mom is
a stenographer in the Bituminous De-
partment.

BLOUNT, BRENDA PRICE and
JOHN ISLEY were in charge of the
arrangements.

The Department welcomes new
tenants at 122 N. McDowell Street.
GERALD FLEMING, Safety and
Emergency Planning Engineer, and
his office assistants, DOT HAYES
and MARY ANN JOBE, are well
settled in their quarters now. L. H.
BEAM of Construction and A. M.
KREEM from Roadway Design have
set up offices at 122 N. McDowell
also, under a special assignment to
rewrite standard specifications with
HELEN BAREFOOT as stenographic
assistant. The most recent addition at
122 N. McDowell is Mrs. John D.
Robinson, Executive Director of the
Governor's Beautifieation Committee,
who has her base of operations on
the third floor.

Congratulations to NEEDHAM
CROWE and his wife, Flora, on the
birth of a son, Samuel Dancey, July
16th. Another new member of the
Department, STEVE TANT, and bis
wife, Elaine, have a daughter, Sherri,
born March 16th. Congratulations to
JOHNNY WILSON, summer trainee
in the Department, who married Ma-
rian Dalrymple August 3rd.

H. C. RHUDY, C. C. SESSOMS,
W. A. WARD, and EMILY BLOUNT
attended the annual convention of
the Institute of Traffic Engineers im
Philadelphia the week of August
25th. HAROLD RHUDY attended
meetings of the Southeastern Associa-
tion of State Highway Officials in
Richmond, Va. October 7- 10th. JIM

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LYNCH attended the fall meeting of
the American Society of Testing Ma-
terials as a member of the skid-re-
sistance committee. HAROLD
STEELMAN and ROGER HAW-
KINS attended the Signal Applica-
tion School in Davenport, Iowa, the
second week in October.

Several changes and additions in
personnel have occurred recently.
JIM STAMP, former Traffic Engi-
neer for Division 3, became an As-
sistant Area Traffic Engineer under
ATE C. C. SESSOMS. Jim's replace-
ment in the Division 3 spot is
WAYNE HOWARD. JERRY
TWIGGS, transfer from the training
program, is now Traffic Engineer
for Division 11, with headquarters in
North Wilkesboro. Wayne and Jerry
are graduates from NCSU, both are
married and have one child.

DAVID WEBB has returned to the
staff after working with the City of
Charlotte and is Traffic Engineer for
Division 12, in Shelby. RAY GOFF,
who attended the Fayetteville Insti-
tute of Technology, is now Engineer-
ing Technician with ATE W. A.
WARD. KENTON BLUE, who went
to Central Carolina Technical Insti-
tute of Sanford, is a new addition in
the Signing Section. Kenton and wife,
Vernelle, have a daughter. BRENDA
JOHNSON is a new steno in the Ac-
cident Identification and Surveillance
Section. A coincidence — she is the
third "Brenda" in the department.
Her husband, Ronnie, works at NC-
SU, and they are parents of a baby
daughter, Rhonda Carol. FRED RO-
SENDAHL, transfer from Photo-
grammetry, is now with the Special
Studies Section. Fred and Lou have
a seven year old sen, Mark.

JOHN IS LEY was recently pro-
moted to an Assistant Traffic Signing
Engineer. It's nice to have two for-
mer co-workers back with the De-
partment: JOE WILKINS, returned
from private business to be an engi-
neering technician with the Signal
Section; .and DON BAKER, traffic
control technician, transferred from
Division 5 to the Signal Section.

ROBERT JONES, who entered the
SHC training program, has his first
assignment with Traffic Engineering.
LARRY STALLINGS has reason to
be proud of his wife, Lynn, who re-
cently passed her State pharmacist
exam.

Vacation news includes the follow-
ing persons and places: ROBERT
DODGE and family, Holden Beach;

GLENN GRIGG and family, Kings
Mountain; BRENDA PRICE, Atlan-
ta, Georgia, and the coast TOMMY
JEFFREYS and wife, Shelby, and
many tourist spots in Florida; PETE
DEAVER and family, Kure Beach
and the mountains; the JOHN IS-
LE Y family, Western North Carolina;
JAY OWEN and family, Tallahassee,
Florida; the C. C. SESSOMS family,
Boone; SHIRLEY WILLOUGHBY,
Long Beach; BETTIE MASSEN-
GILL and husband, John, also RO-
WENA KEITH and her family, Myr-
tle Beach; OLIVE DONAT and hus-
band, Win, Atlantic Beach JIM
BRYAN, Georgia and beach resorts;
ED SILER and his family, thanks to
their new camper, both the moun-
tain and shore areas and ROY WIL-
LIAMS and family, Bald Mountain,
for a late October vacation.

Four young women in the PACE
program worked in the department
during the summer: Mary Harris,
Winston - Salem College; Brenda
Smith, East Carolina University;
Becky Holland and Jean Giles, NC-
SU.

PUBLIC RELATIONS — Mrs.
FRANCES NEWHOUSE, with her

husband, Berg, flew to Hartford, Con-
necticut Halloween night to spend
several days with their daughter,
tGarolyn. While there, Frances, Berg,
and Carolyn went to New York City
to see several plays and the sights.
Highlights of the trip included seeing
three plays: Golden Rainbow, Lovers,
and Maine. Also, they enjoyed tour-
ing Radio City. The entire trip was a
gift from daughter, Carolyn, who is
an engineer with Pratt Whitney Air-
craft in East Hartford.

Sympathy is extended to JEWEL
ADCOCK who lost her brother re-
cently.

TERRI LEIGH WILLIAMS

T

JAY LOGAN WILLIAMS

Above are the two adorable chil-
dren of our receptionist Janie Wil-
liams and her husband, Jay. Janie has
done a good job of greeting the public
the last three years. These children
look like their attractive mother.

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Airman Perry
Graduates

With Honors

Airman Don Ray Perry, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse C. Perry of Kitty
Hawk, N. C, has been graduated with
honors, being third in his class, from
a U. S. Air Forces technical school at
Sheppard A.F.B., Wichita Falls, Te-
xas.

He was trained as a helicopter me-
chanic and has been assigned to a
unit of the U. S. Air Force Southern
Command at Albrook A.F.B., Panama
Canal Zone.

Airman Perry and Mrs. Perry were
home recently for 30 days visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Perry
of Kitty Hawk, and her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert W. Ambrose of
Manns Harbour before leaving for
the Panama Canal Zone.

The Airman attended Manteo High
School, also made his home with A.
R. Cherry of the Bituminous Depart-
ment in Raleigh, and attended the
Millbrook High School. In 1961 he
entered the U. S. Coast Guard, and
was assigned to the Cape Spencer
light station, Mt. Edgecombe, Alaska.
After his active tour of service in the
Coast Guard and two years in the re-
serves he entered the Air Force.

While in the Coast Guard reserve
he was employed by the N. C. State
Highway Commission as Ferry Me-
chanic at Hatteras, N. C.

"A

Letter

Liked"

2242 Pinewood Cr.
Charlotte, N. C.
October 1, 1968
N. C. State Highways Dept.
Raleigh, N. C.
Dear Sir,

My name is Alex Fellers, I live in
Charlotte, N. C. I go to Eastover
school. I'm in the 4th.

At school we are working on Social
Studies. I'm on Highways. I want to
know more about Highways. Why do
some Highways have train tracks go
under insteaded of oveT?

I think your men are very nice and
good workers. They keep up with the
Highways. And best of all they keep
it clean. Would you send me some
information.

My family and I drive on the
Highways a lot, and we thank you
for building them.

/%/ Alex Fellers

October 11, 1968
Master Alex Fellers
2242 Pinewood Circle
Charlotte, North Carolina
Dear Alex:

I'm very impressed by your letter
of October 1. It indicates to me that
you're a very alert young man and
that you're very interested in your
State and what goes on in it. As long
as there are children like you, I won't
worry too much that this nation of
ours will become dominated by tele-
vision watchers.

I'm going to see to it, Alex, that
your letter and your picutre get in
the next edition of ROADWAYS, the
Highway Commission's magazine fox
its employees. I want them to read
your compliments first hand and to
see what a fine looking young man
you are. Our construction people and
maintenance people and landscape
people work long and hard all year
round. Some of them have to stay
out all night in the snow keeping the
roads clear, and for some reason, not
many people are nearly so compli-
mentary about their efforts as you are.

I'm sending you, under separate
cover, all the information I have here
concerning highways in North Caro-
lina. I suggest you also tell your
teacher about the two volume set call-
ed NORTH CAROLINA ROADS

Alex Fellers

AND THEIR BUILDERS, published
by Superior Stone Company. I'll bet
you library has it. It is a very good
history of roads and streets in North
Carolina. On your own, write to Mr.
Randy Russell, Director of Public
Information, American Road Builders
Association, ARBA Building, 525
School Street, NW in Washington,
D. C. (20024), and ask him to send
you a copy of THE STORY OF
ROADS by James T. Jenkins, Jr.
This book has some very good infor-
mation in it concerning the growth
of roads in America.

Now, to your question about rail-
road tracks and the highways. Wheth-
er the tracks go over or under the
highway is determined mostly by the
surrounding countryside. Our men who
build roads and bridges have all kinds
of technical words they use, but all it
really means is that they have to
find out if it will cost more to build
a bridge for the trains (and you know
they have to be real strong to hold
up trains) or to tunnel underneath.
Sometimes it is better to go over the
tracks with the road (if the railroad
is in a little valley or low place) and
sometimes not, especially if the land
is flat. In that case, you would have
to build a real long bridge just to get
the highway over a railroad which is
not very wide. You can't make the
bridge too steep for the cars to go,
you know. In this case, the highway
goes under the railroad.

I hope, Alex, if you're ever in Ra-
leigh, you'll ask your mother and dad-
dy to bring you to see us here. I'm in
Room 132 in the Highway Building
on Wilmington Street. I'd like to dis-
cuss roads with you.

Are you thinking about being a
highway engineer?

Best wishes,

/s/ Keith Hundley

Public Relations Officer

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Mr. and Mrs.
JAMES DAUGH-
TRY toured Wil-
liamsburg and
Jamestown, Virgin-
ia, while camping
out at Jamestown
Beach Camping
Resort. Brenda is
a stenographer in
the Right-of-Way

M. G. Carawan
Division Correspondent Department.

Mrs. NEDRA HOLLOMAN visit-
ed with her son and his family, Dr.
and Mrs. Robert Vanderberry, Jr., in
Portsmouth, Virginia. They met with
Mrs. Vanderberry's parents in Chapel
Hill and all enjoyed seeing the North
Carolina — South Carolina Football
Game.

Mr. and Mrs. ROY WEST had a
pleasant time during their week's
stay in the mountains.

Mr. and Mrs. W. M. SMITH va-
cationed for a week in Bethesda,
Maryland visiting with their son,
Mason Smith and family.

Mr. E. E. BALANCE, truck dri-
ver of Elizabeth City, is very proud
of his new son and equally proud be-
cause it is his first child.

Among those attending camp at
Camp LeJeune, Jacksonville, N. C.
were CLIFFORD RAY ASKEW,
JIMMY RAWLS and G. C. HALL.

Mr and Mrs. LOCKWOOD PEELE
now have a new addition in their
household — a frisky and just-a-lit-
tle-bit spoiled puppy that answers
to the name of "Buffy".

Mr. and Mrs. COLEMAN and
Mr. and Mrs. GLENN CARAWAN
viewed the scenic beauty of the moun-
tains the fall days of middle October
during their four day excursion.

The stenographers in Right-of-Way
Department, Mrs. BRENDA
DAUGHTRY and Mrs. LINDA
VANN, were among the sight-seers
during the week of the State Fair in
Raleigh.

Mr. J. O. SELLARS attended the
American Right-of-Way Association
Convention held in Greenville, N. C.

Who is the Division Office employ-
ee "wearing" the proud smile of the
new owner of an avocado green, black
vinyl top Ford sedan????

R. C. BUNCH returned to work
on October 7th after being out of
work since July 19th, due to an acci-
dent on the job.

M. J. CHAPPELL was out of work
two weeks due to an accident on the
job but has now returned to his job.

J. S. STALLINGS, Supervisor re-
placing P. L. Jackson (deceased), has
returned to work after an illness of
three weeks.

Sympathy is extended the the fam-
ily of ROBERT H. DAVIS, Machine
Operator I, who passed away August
26th.

Get well wishes are extended to
JULIAN E. PRITCHARD, truck
driver, who suffered a heart attack
and is now recuperating at his home.

ROBERT A. MAXHAM and RO-
BERT NOWELL, Machine Operators
in District 2, are recuperating from
illnesses at their homes. A speedy re-
covery to you both.

Showing off his new camper, "Blue
Goose", with his dog "Tippy," is W.
C. Goodrich, Bridge Maintenance Su-
perintendent of Divisions One and
Two.

George Edwin Goodrich is a junior
at Atlantic Christian College and is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Good-
rich. His father is Bridge Maintenance
Superintendent of Divisions One and
Two.

ROBY HALL, Resident Engineer
in Ahoskie, has returned home after
confinement in Roanoke Chowan Hos-
pital. He has been "down and out"
for some time. We all are thinking of
you, Roby, and trust your recovery is
near.

LELAND BRI-
LEY, employee of
the Greenville
Equipment De-
partment is recup-
erating it Pitt
County Memorial
Hospital. We wish
him a speedy re-
A covery.

On September

Hazel Baker 1 t-,- ■ ■ t-i

Division Correspondent 14th Division En-
gineer C. W. SNELL, JR., FRED
EDWARDS, JR., H. A. JUSTICE
and C. L. HAISLIP took a fishing
trip out of the Beaufort Inlet. The
"Catch" was a good one — H9 Spa-
nish Mackeral and Blues.

DAVID L. McGOWAN and family
recently took a vacation down in
Florida. David is employed in the
Division Two Traffic Services De-
partment.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. J.
K. SMITH on their recent marriage.
J. K. is a Highway Insp. II with the
Kinston Construction Dept.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
ROBERT A. MERRITT on their
27th wedding anniversary October 8th.
Robert is the Resident Engineer in
the Kinston Construction Dept.

The Pitt County Chapter of the
N.C.S.H.&C.E.A. choral group pre-
sented selections at the Unit 2 yearly
meeting and banquet which was held
at the Greenville Moose Lodge.

The choral group consists of: Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. SHEARIN, JR., Mr.
and Mrs. JOHN SAWYER, Mr. JOE
HAYES, Mrs. MAE BRILEY, Mrs.
ALYCE CARROL, Mr. SIDNEY
SHEARIN, and Mr. C. P. SHAW, of
the R/W Department; Mr. DAVID
McGOWAN of the Traffic Depart-
ment; and Mrs. LOUISE HEARNE.
The group was accompanied by Miss
Linda Shearin on the piano.

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August was a popular month for secretaries in the Division Two Division
Office. Janice Moore, Katherine Bennett, Becky Sumrell and Hazel Baker
all celebrated birthdays. However, the writer won't go so far as to mention

"ages".

With the World Series just behind
us, it is not too unseasonal to men-
tion here another national competitor,
Byron Dickens.

The above picture shows Byron and
his proud parents, John and MARCE-
LYN DICKENS. Marcelyn is a
stenographer in the Appraisal Office
in Greenville.

We consider it quite an accomplish-
ment for a fifteen year old to compete
in the National Teener League Tour-
nament at Easton, Pennsylvania,
where he and his team walked off as
National Runner-ups.

Byron's team won the State Cham-
pionship on July 24, 1968, at Gastonia,

where they met Shelby in the cham-
pionship game. Earlier, Byron had
pitched a six-hitter against Elizabeth
City, bringing his Greenville All Stars
into the final games with Shelby.

The following week, the Greenville
All Stars returned to Gastonia for the
Regional Tournament. In the opener
against Petersburg, Indiana, Byron
fired a no-hitter for a score of 13-0.
In the second game, the Greenville
All Stars defeated favored Elgin, Illi-
nois, 8-0. The championship game of
the Regional Tournament on July 31,
1968, between Greenville and Elgin
showed Byron's team picking up four
runs in the sixth inning to win 6-4;
thus, gaining a berth in the National
Teener League Tournament at East-
on, Pennsylvania.

Congratulations, Byron, to you and
the other Greenville All Stars for a
job well done!

C. P. SHAW, Division Right of
Way Agent, returned to work on Oc-
tober 14th, after having suffered a
back injury on August 2nd. Mr. Shaw
was hospitalized for four weeks in
Pitt County Memorial Hospital and
spent several weeks at home recuper-
ating. Best wishes for a complete re-
covery!

JOSEPH BATCHELOR, of the
maintenance department, and Mrs.

Batchelor have returned from a vaca-
tion trip which covered almost 24,000
miles. While away they visited two
islands of Hawaii, Fiji Island, Sydney,
Australia, Auckland, New Zealand,
Tahiti Island and Samoa Island. They
were gone 28 days.

Joe describes the trip as being most
interesting, informative, and one he
will never forget because of the many
things he saw and experienced; such
as having two birthdays because of
crossing the International Dateline
while flying from New Zealand to
Tahiti.

The Batchelors took many colored
slides of their trip and returned with
mementoes, such as dolls dressed in
native costume of the different coun-
tries visited, Hawaiian shirt and dress,
and books written about the coun-
tries.

Miss Marveen Greta Garner, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Garner of
the Division Two Right of Way De-
partment was married Saturday, Aug-
ust 24th to Mr. Donnie Edward Ha-
ley. The couple will reside in Aycock
Dorm, East Carolina University, Col-
lege Hill Drive, Greenville.

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It's a little lone-
some around the
PAUL J. DuPRE
(our Div. Engr.)
home lately. Rea-
son, John Paul,
^ jj only child has gone

'i to college at
Boone. Expect the
roads between
Boone and Wil-
DiWsi^Co^dent^ington will be

travelled frequently.

Mr. and Mrs. TONY HEWETT
recently visited their daughter, Pa-
tricia, who is a Freshman at Appala-
chian State College at Boone. Mr.
Hewett is Maintenance Yard Fore-
man in Brunswick County.

Mr. V. G. ENGLISH, Maintenance
Supervisor in Brunswick County, en-
joyed a weekend recently in N. C.
mountains visiting in the Boone area.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. ROBINSON
and two daughter recently enjoyed a
weekend touring in the mountains of
N. C. and Virginia. Mr. Robinson is
Asst. Dist. Engr. in the Dist. Office
in Burgaw.

CAROLYN GURGANUS, Sec. in
Construction Dept., and family, re-
cently went deeper South to Cullman,
Ala. to visit her parents and other
relatives. Carolyn used to work with
the Alabama State Highway Commis-
sion.

The families of JOHN NAYLOR,
EVANS McCULLEN and JOYCE
LUCAS, also of Clinton Construction
Dept., have enjoyed camping this
summer. Some of the places visited
are: Surf City, Salterpat and White
Lake, N. C, Jamestown and Williams-
burg, Va., Myrtle Beach, S. C, and
Six Flags of Ga. The McCullen and
Lucas families recently took another
trip to the N. C. mountains.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. H. T.
WOOTEN whose wife died recently.
Mr. Wooten is a retired employee in
Sampson County.

John-John (Howard) Kilroy and
his parents, Air Force Captain and
Mrs. John Kilroy, recently returned
from Quito, Equador, where his dad
was Liaison Officer for the U. S.

John-John (Howard) Kilroy, son
of Capt. and Mrs. John Kilroy and
grandson of John Howard, Area Fore-
man in Sampson County.

State Department. After a short visit
with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
JOHN HOWARD in Sampson Coun-
ty, it's on to Cheyenne. John Howard
is Area Foreman in Sampson County.

J. E. BLANTON of Construction
Dept. in Clinton ds tranferring to New
Bern, N. C. on October 28th. Also, P.
G. WILLIAMSON of same Dept. has
transferred to the Final Estimate
Section in Raleigh.

RICKY JO STRICKLAND, Secre-
tary, has transferred from R-O-W
Dept. to Div. Office. Taking her place
in R-O-W is LANETTE KAY
WOOD, a pleasant addition we're
happy to have.

DONALD R. HUFFMAN resigned
in August to return to school at W.
W. Holding Institute in Raleigh. He
had been working with Construction
in Jacksonville.

A speedy recovery is wished for
W. H. (BILL) LUMSDEN, Maint.
Supervisor in New Hanover Co., who
is confined to Cape Fear Memorial
Hospital.

Congratulations to RUBY CAMP-
BELL, R-O-W Secretary, and her
family who have moved into a very
beautiful new home in Pine Valley.
Ruby isn't through moving yet, how-
ever, the entire R-O-W Dept. along
with Resident Engineer JIMMY Y.
JOYNER and his department are
moving into a recently completed
building adjacent to the Division Of-
fice.

TONY TAYLOR, located with
Const. Dept. in Jacksonville was
married to Miss June Oliver on Oc-
tober 11, 1968 at the home of the
bride. Congratulations.

We thoroughly enjoyed retired for-
mer Dist. Engrs. R. A. ASHWORTH

of Wilmington and BLOUNT
WHITESIDE of Clinton visiting the
Div. Office recently. It was nice they
both arrived at the same time as they
got in an enjoyable chat with each
other.

J. E. BLANTON of Const. Dept. in
Clinton, had a son, Craig Ferrell
Blanton, born September 27, 1968.
Mrs. Blanton is the former Cheryl
Clayton of Fayetteville. They have
another son, James E., Jr. 2V2 y^s-
old. R. S. CRUMPLER, also of
Const. Dept. in Clinton, had a girl,
Kelly Carlette Crumpler, born Octo-
ber 5, 1968. This is their first. Mrs.
Crumpler is the former Kay Butler
of Clinton. Also, her father, CARL
F. BUTLER, the proud grandfather,
works in Dist. 2 Maint. in Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. BILL MERCER had a
son born on October 6, 1968. Mr. Mer-
cer is M. O. in Brunswick Co.

We welcome LELAND R. DAVIS,
our new Traffic Services Supervisor,
who formerly worked at the Wilson
office.

Congratulations
to STEVE AMER-
SON on his pro-
motion to Building
Construction Sup-
erintendent and to
HUBERT GOD-
WIN on his pro-
motion to Bridge
Foreman. Both are
employees of the
D^STtaSS^W i 1 s o n County
Bridge Maintenance Department. Un-
derstand Steve will soon be working
out of the Raleigh Office.

Get well wishes are extended to
ANDY McMURRAY of the Land-
scape Department. Welcome back to
DAVID FINCH, also of Landscape,
who has been out sick.

LELAND DAVIS, Traffic Fore-
man in Wilson, has been promoted to
Traffic Services Supervisor in Wil-
mington. Congratulations! Leland, we
wil miss you, but we will all be down
to see you during our vacations next
Spring and Summer.

Get well wishes to Maintenance
Supervisor HARRY L. LIGHT, of

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Enfield, and Maintenance Supervisor
J. G. BROWN, of Tarboro. Also, to
JOSH WEBB, Maint. Foreman II, of
Pinetops, J. S. PITT, Machine Oper-
ator I, of Edgecombe County, and
Virginia Smith, wife of J. T. SMITH,
Machine Operator 3, of Tarboro.

Happy Birthday to all employees
celebrating birthdays in October: W.
J. BARNES, J. H. CARROLL, E. H.
CRAWLEY, S. L. CUMMINGS,
MACK HARRIS, E. E. MAYO, Z.
E. MOHORN, W. A. WORSLEY,
DAVID NICHOLSON, TROY RO-
GERS, and THOMAS STRICK-
LAND.

Also, Happy Birthday to those
celebrating in November: J. A. BIS-
SETTE, E. J. BUTLER, FRANCES
COCHRANE, GIFF DAVIS, RO-
BERT GARY, J. E. HARRISON,
LARRY HOLLAND, R. A. JENK-
INS, H. E. PERRY, MACK RHEA,
E. L. SMITH, and IRVING WOO-
TEN.

Service awards were awarded in
District Two as follows: Five year
pins to MARION JONES BARNES,
JAMES THOMAS BASS, JR., AL-
LISON WILEY GLOVER and WIL-
LIAM THOMAS WALSTON; a ten
year pin to CHARLES GRAY LEW-
IS; a fifteen year pin to PATTIE
DENTON ABERNETHY; twenty
year pins to COON PITTMAN, JR.,

Pvt. George P. King of the United
States Marines has completed his ba-
sic training at Parris Island. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. King.
George H. is Division Staff Engineer
at Wilson.

MILLARD WATSON and JAMES
JOSEPH WESTER; and twenty-five
year pins to WILLIE BRUCE BAR-
NES and LAUDIS WILBERT PER-
RY. A twenty-five year pin was also
delivered to Mrs. JIMMY STALL-
INGS for Mr. Stallings who died re-
cently.

Mr. JOHNNY KEMP has returned
to work following a recent illness. Mr.
Kemp is a machine operator with
Nash County Maintenance.

Mr. WOODROW DORSEY is re-
cuperating nicely following a recent
accident. Mr. Dorsey is a Heavy
Duty Truck Driver with Nash
County Maintenance.

We are delighted to welcome back
to work Mr. E. E. PARRIS who has
been incapacitated for several weeks
with a broken leg. Mr. Parris is a
Highway Inspector II with J. W.
VICK'S construction party.

Hearty Congratulations are extend-
ed to Mr. and Mrs. STANLEY
BRUCE MERCER upon the birth
of their baby daughter Melanie Dawn,
on August 10th.

Mr. J. L. WILLIAMS, Mr. DON-
ALD WOODARD and Mr. WALTER
LAMM, with the Equipment Depart-
ment were delegates to the N. C. State
Highway & Prison Employees Con-
vention held in Durham.

We wish to welcome BUDDIE
HAROLD PAGE back with the
Equipment Department. He has re-
cently returned from a tour of duty in
Vietnam with the U. S. Army.

We welcome also Mr. RAYMOND
KORNEGAY, Mechanic II, Golds-
boro District Shop, to the Equipment
Department.

We wish to express our sympathy
to the family of Mr. MARVIN OW-
ENS, Mechanic II, Division Shop,
who passed away September 26th.

Mr. B. J. STALLINGS, Mechanic
II, Sub Shop, Tarboro, is in the V. A.
Hospital, Durham. We wish for him
a speedy recovery.

Mr. H. L. LIGHT, JR., Mechanic
II, District Shop, Weldon, is recover-
ing from an operation. We wish him
the very best.

Mr. Marion Mercer, father of Mr.
ISIAAC MERCER, who is a Mech-
anic II, Division Shop, Wilson, is hos-
pitalized. We wish for him a speedy
recovery.

Cynthia Anne (Cindy Anne) Shear-
in, 22 months old, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert A. Shearin, of Lit-
tleton, granddaughter of Willie E.
Wagner, Maintenance Foreman II, of
Halifax County, and Mrs. Wagner.
Incidentally, Mr. Wagner has 45 V2
years of service with the State High-
way Commission.

Mrs. Zillie Lamm, wife of Mrs.
QUENTIN LAMM, Mechanic II, Di-
vision Shop, Wilson, is recuperating
after a recent stay in the hospital.

Mr. JACK DENTON, Mechanic II,
Sub Shop, Wilson, has two sons hos-
pitalized. We wish for them a speedy
recovery.

Get well wishes to RAY DENTON,
Engineering Aide with the Location
Department.

JAMES C. SELLERS, Machine
Operator IV in our Road Oil is retir-
ing on disability. Congratulations on
promotions in the Road Oil Depart-
ment to JOHN DEANS, Machine
Operator IV; W. E. WARREN, Ma-
chine Operator II; PERCY HUX,
Machine Operator I; D. E. FER-
RELL, Machine Operator I and E.
R. BOYKIN, Machine Operator I. W.
G. FLOWERS and MARVIN JOHN-
SON, also of Road Oil are in the hos-
pital. We wish for them a speeedy re-
covery.

Get well wishes are extended to the
following employees in District Three.

ROLAND WILLIAMS, who is re-
cuperating at home after hospitaliza-
tion. C. H. ODOM, who is recuperat-
ing from an injury received on the
job. WILSON Y. JONES, R. E. LIT-
TLE, WILBERT BRIDGERS of the
Johnston Co. Maintenance Dept., and

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the wives of JAMES C. MASSEN-
GILL and J. D. MINSHEW of John-
ston County.

Wayne County Maintenance forces
welcome back to work after lengthy
illness, Mr. PRENTICE E. GARRIS
and Mr. EDGAR DRIVER.

Best wishes for a happy retirement
to Mr. JAMES W. EVANS who re-
tired after 45 years service with the
Highway Commission in Goldsboro,
and to JOHN SLOAN, W. L.
DAUGHTRY, and E. R. EASON,
who have all retired recently due to
disability.

Those taking vacations recently in-
clude FRANK MORSE, who enjoyed
a trip to the N. C. Mountains and
then to the Outer Banks; RANDALL
JACKSON and wife, Jackie, who re-
cently enjoyed a few days vacation
in the Mountains of N. C. and Ten-
nessee.

Sympathy is extended to the fol-
lowing who have lost loved ones re-
cently. O. H. BAKER, whose father
passed away in September; J. G. CA-
NADA Y, who father died in October;
ELTON WATSON lost his mother,
Mrs. Victoria Lamm Watson, Sep-
tember 12. Mrs. Watson was 78 years
old. The brother of FRANCIS JON-
ES, Mr. Charles Thomas Jones, pass-
30 years. Mrs. George Garris, sister-
in-law of PRENTICE GARRIS, died
October 7, at the age of 66.

Mr. WADE WILLIAMSON, Eng.
Aide, resigned recently to accept a
position in a chair factory in Mount
Olive.

Mr. BEN WILLIAMS, a Truck
Driver, recently resigned to accept a
job with Kemp Furniture Factory in
Goldsboro.

MADDREY W. BASS of the Con-
struction Dept. in Goldsboro, reports
a wonderful time at the Convention
in Durham. He was one of the Dele-
gates from the Fourth Division.

J. E. SKINNER, Resident Engi-
neer, and family spent a weekend in
the mountains near Asheville.

Welcome back to JOE HERRING
after having surgery and being on sick
leave for several weeks.

DANNY HAYES and wife Barbara
have moved to Goldsboro and reside
at 612 Pittman Street.

The Golf-Pro of this office, JER-
RY THOMPSON decided to try his
hand at fishing. The weather was cold
going back to dragging the golf cart
again.

Now that the US 70 Project east of
Goldsboro is nearing completion C. B.
BULLOCK is taking a well deserv-
ed vacation trying to catch up on his
fishing.

DIVISION FIVE

LAWS, WAYNE THOMAS, ALTON
DEAN, VENCEN MORTON, ER-
NEST OAKLEY, CHARLES PLEA-
SANTS and LESTER REECE.

MARVIN SEAT
received a 15 Yr.
Service Pin recent-
ly. LESTER REE-
CE and JOHN
LOUIS WIL-
LIAMS received
20 Yr. service pins.

GEORGE BAI-
LEY, HENRY
HICKS and PEN-

Divisifn Correspondent DER WOODLIEF

were on vacation recently.

GEORGE WOODY was on sick
leave for a few days recently. He has
returned to work.

Granville County employees enjoy-
ed a supper of barbecue and bruns-
wick stew at the maintenance quar-
ters recently.

VENCEN MORTON has returned
to work after being on leave several
days while moving his home to a
new tract of land which he purchased
recently.

GILES CRUTCHER and CHAR-
LES PLEASANTS attended the Em-
ployees' Convention which was held
in Durham recently.

Good luck to SAM AVERETTE
who retired because of disability re-
cently. Sam was machine operator I
with the Maintenance Department in
Granville County. He had approxi-
mately eighteen years of service with
the Highway Commission.

ROBERT ENGLEBRIGHT raised
some nice watermelons on his farm
this summer.

ROBERT INSCOE has become in-
terested in bridge construction recent-
ly.

WILLIAM L. REAMS received a
10 year safety award recently.

WALTER RUTLEDGE has return-
ed to work after being on sick leave
for several weeks.

Bobby Blackwell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. ROY BLACKWELL of Route
4, Oxford, has returned home from
Vietnam where he has served with
the U. S. Army for the past year. Roy
is machine operation III with the
maintenance department in Granville
County.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded LEONARD CLAY, WIL-
LIAM ELLINGTON, FRANK

Mr. RONALD
W. LOFTIS, Resi-
dent Engineer in
Fayetteville, r e -
signed September
13th to enroll in
college and to be-
come a full-time
minister. Employ-
ees in this Division
Office had a cake

Ray Autry . .

Division Correspondent Cutting and pre-
sented Ronald with $100.00 as a go-
ing away gift.

We would like to welcome Mrs.
LYNDA BASS, who began working
with the Highway Commission on
August 31st as Typist II for Mr. B.
WHITESIDE, Resident Engineer in
Lillington. Lynda replaced Miss SUE
IVEY, who resigned to return to
teaching school.

The Construction Department in
Whiteville extends a warm welcome
to E. W. ODUM who has returned
after a two-year tour of duty with
the U. S. Army. Mr. and Mrs. Odum
are making their home in Lumberton.

Edward Porter Leatherbury, III,
and Miss Karen Elizabeth Milner
were married at St. John's Episcopal
Church, Fayetteville on August 17th.
The bride is the daughter of Col. and
Mrs. Robert Stanley Milner of Fay-
etteville, and the groom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. LEATHER-
BURY, JR. of Cerro Gordo. The
young couple are residing in Fayette-
ville where she is employed by Caro-
lina Telephone Co., and he is a senior
at Methodist College and also em-
ployed by First Union National Bank.
Edward's father is in the Resident
Engineer's office in Brunswick.

We are happy to report that Mr.
HILDRETH L. BRITT, Right of
Way Agent, is much improved and
returned to work on September 24th.
Mr. Britt was a patient in the South-
eastern General Hospital, Lumberton;

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Linda, Typist II in the Resident
Engineer's Office in Lumberton, and
Jimmy Floyd will celebrate their 7th
Wedding Anniversary on October
22nd. As results of these seven happy
years are pictured their daughters,
Cynthia (right) and Donna Kaye
(left).

and after returning home for a few
weeks, entered Cape Fear Valley Hos-
pital in Fayetteville, where he under-
went surgery.

We are sorry to lose one of our
Right of Way Aides by resignation.
Mr. JIMMY LEO JACKSON is leav-
ing us to enter private industry. We
will miss "Jimmy", but we wish him
well in his new work.

CLAUDE R. MOORE, JR., Right
of Way Aide, injured his back in a
fall on September 7th, and was in
Cape Fear Valley Hospital for a
week. We are happy that Claude is
able to be back at work with us.

The Division Six Equipment De-
partment Chapter had a meeting and
supper on September 6th in the Red-
wood Restaurant in Lumberton.

We had several births in our Divi-
sion and they are listed below:

Our congratulations to Mr. F. L.
SESSOMS and wife on the birth of
a baby girl, Vanessa Lynn, born July
12th. Mr. Sessoms is am Engineer
Tech. II with the Construction De-
partment in Fayetteville.

BLOUNT WHITESIDE, JR., Re-
sident Engineer, Lillington welcomes
a new addition to his family. Jennett
Ann was born September 28th, weigh-
ing in at 6 lbs. 14 oz.

Congratulations to WILLIAM
(BILL) BENTON and wife, Claudia,
who announce the birth of their first
son, William Matthew, born Septem-
ber 16th, weighing 7 lbs. 7ozs. The
Bentons have a daughter, Angela, who
is 3 years old. Bill is an Engineer
Tech. I in the Construction Depart-
ment in Lumberton,

Mr. and Mrs. JACK FAIRCLOTH
are the proud parents of a baby boy,
born September 23rd, weighing 8 lbs.
11 ozs. Mr. Faircloth is an Auto Parts
Clerk II with the Equipment Depart-
ment in Fayetteville.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
CLAUDE R. MOORE, JR., on the
birth of a daughter, Nancy Suzanne,
on October 7th. Mr. Moore is a Right
of Way Aide in Fayetteville.

Congratulations to Mr. A. E. DIX-
ON on the birth of his granddaughter,
Kelly Gay Petralia, on October 3rd in
Charlotte. Kelly's mother is the
daughter of Mr. Dixon, who is Right
of Way Aide in Fayetteville.

Jo Herring, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. J. HERRING and Johnny
Worthington, son of Mr. and Mrs.
MILTON WORTHINGTON, are en-
rolled as Freshmen in East Carolina
College, Greenville.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. HERRING
spent their vacation in New York,
visiting Mr. Herring's sister. The Her-
rings were accompanied by their two
daughters, Margaret and Mrs. Gene
Allen.

Get well wishes are extended to
CONNIE M. BERRY, SR., Right of
Way Aide, who has been a patient in
Cape Fear Valley Hospital, Fayette-
ville, for several weeks. We are still
pulling for you "CONNIE" and hope
you will soon be well and able to come
back to work.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM LLOYD
CRAWFORD in the loss of their nep-
hew, Sgt. E6 Charles Lloyd Freeman,
who died in Vietnam on September
18th, as a result of wounds received
while on a combat operation. Mr.
Crawford is a Right of Way Aide in
Fayetteville.

Our sympathy is extended to the
family of Machine Operator I, ROY
CRIBB, on the recent death of his
six year old son Randy. Randy died
on September 24th.

Our sympathy is extended to the
family of ALTON S. HAIRE, retired
employee who passed away on Sep-
tember 27th. Mr. Haire was employed
many years in the Maintenance De-
partment as Machine Operator. Due
to ill health, Mr. Haire retired on
August 1st.

Sympathy is extended to J. H.
(TOM) PARHAM of Lumberton Dis-
trict Office, and family in the recent
death of his brother, James A. Par-
ham, a veteran newspaperman. He
worked for several newspapers and
retired in 1951 after 47 years work.
For 25 years he turned out a Sunday

feature on Civic Affairs under the ti-
tle of "General Mecklenburg".

Get well wishes extended to AS-
BURY R. WILSON, Area Foreman
in Robeson County who is a patient
in Lumberton Hospital.

Mr. R. L. SMITH is presently at
home recuperating after breaking his
leg.

Mr. J. T. BUIE has returned to
work after a brief sickness. Glad to
have Joe back.

We are glad to have W. F. Mc-
QUEEN, Maintenance Foreman, and
ELLIS ANDERSON, Machine Op-
erator III, back at work after a brief
illness.

DIVISION I
SEVEN ~1

Recently the T.
S. MARTIN'S and
J. T. BULLARD'S
made a 2-car ex-
cursion from Bur-
lington to Mexico
— where they
watched a bull
fight and enjoyed
many other exotic
sights; including
Div^aorn°cyonrresrpaoVndent Bourbon Street in
ole New Orleans. They reported (in
English) that the trip was marvelous
but an additional week of leave was
desired (not granted) for recupera-
tion.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. TAYLOR
(Maintenance) visited New Orleans
recently. This trip included the Bour-
bon Street tour and a reading les-
son — Mr. Taylor parked in a "No
Parking at Any Time" zone and the
car was moved to a more legal park-
ing area by the "Guardians of the
Law". No doubt, this gives Mr. Tay-
lor another not-to-be-forgotten me-
mory of New Orleans.

Congratulations to R. E. (BOB)
HARDEN on his promotion to High-
way Inspector III.

JOHN LEE McPHERSON, Tech.
II, has transferred from Maintenance
in Graham to Construction — a long
move, just across the parking lot.
Welcome to construction, John.

Welcome back to R. V. PARROTT,
Hwy. Insp. II, who was out of work
about a month due to illness. Hope
your health continues to improve
'Tolly".

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The friends of J. B. CLIFTON will
be glad to know Jack is still making
progress in his recovery. Mrs. Clifton
reports that Jack likes to he on the
road so they spend a great deal of
time viewing our local scenery. The
Graham Residency Office enjoys hav-
ing Jack drop in for a visit.

GEORGE WEBSTER (Retired) is
back in the hospital at Chapel Hill
after a stroke but is winning his come-
back battle — and giving the nurses a
bad time we hear. Our sincere wishes
for a speedy recovery.

Get well wishes to MITCHELL
COLLINS who was kicked by a horse.

Those vacationing recently include
— The J. C. MARTINS to Long
Beach, T. C. PARLEIR'S to moun-
tains, H. W. JOYCE fishing trip to
Morehead, LEO PHELPS fishing
trip to the coast, The PAUL ALL-
REDS visited their daughter in Spar-
ta, Wisconsin, CLAUDE FLINCH-
AM wonderful week-end in the moun-
tains.

FRED WOOD'S wife is home after
a stay in the hospital. We wish for
her a speedy complete recovery.

We are happy to announce the ar-
rival of Angelia Michelle Holleman
at the home of DAVE and Dianne
HOLLEMAN — she weighed in at 5
lbs. 14 oz. on September 10th.

Others vacationing were — The R.
C. DICKS at Holden Beach for sev-
eral days, ESTEL HAYES and the
L. W. HANDYS a week at Topsaid
Beach fishing — report fishing was
good. The S. V. COINS a week at
Daytona Beach, Florida.

CAROLYN GRAVES and husband
had a wonderful trip to Connecticut
and Niagara Falls and other points of
interest, also visited friends along the
way.

Wendy Gail Mashburn — 9 months
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Mashburn. Mr. Mashburn works with
the Construction Department.

The old Maintenance Quarters in Rockingham County, which were part
of the Prison Department Complex, has been replaced by a new brick veneer
Maintenance Headquarters Building with new facilities.

The formal opening of this building was held on Friday, October 11, at
which time Mr. T. S. Harrington, Commissioner, presided. The Chairman, Mr.
Joseph M. Hunt, Jr., was present along with other personnel from the 7th Di-
vision.

Mr. T. A. Burton, retired Division Engineer, was there for the dedication
and barbeque, it being a few days between trips for him — He's been to Ha-
waii this summer and is now on his way to Mexico.

Understand the barbeque was very good and a wonderful time was had by
all. Other retired employees present were — O. N. Alley, Jim Morton, H. F.
Shearon, Jess Carter, W. N. Smothers, George R. Bouldin, E. E. Chism, E. C.
Hughes, and Bill Hudson.

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DIVISION
EIGHT

Among those en-
joying late vaca-
tions are Mr. and
Mrs. JAMES
STEWART who
vacationed at the
beach. Mr. Stewart
i s Montgomery
Maintenance Sup-
ervisor. Mr. and
Mrs. F. B. HAR-

Virginia Williamson rtc vacationed in
Division Correspondent1*1* vacationed in

the mountains. Mr. Harris is also a
Montgomery County Highway em-
ployee. F. H. BECK, District Engi-
neer vacationed with his family on
a camping trip. And they really did
go camping — they took in the sights
all the way to Mexico City, and just
had barrels of fun, as well as enjoy-
ing touring many places of interest
and beauty. FRED SYKES, Sanford
Construction party, vacationed with
his wife at Carolina Beach. JOE
MATTHEWS and family, also of the
Sanford Construction party, visited
Manteo and Williamsburg. J. E.
GREGSON, Division Equipment Su-
perintendent traveled by jet via Chi-
cago to Colorado Springs to visit his
sister. This must have been an inter-
esting and enjoyable trip.

Many of our readers will remem-
ber JOHN G. HALL, former District
Engineer, Asheboro; who was visit-
ing in North Carolina recently. It
was quite a treat for us in the Divi-
sion Office to have Mr. Hall come by.
He must have found the Fountain
of Youth for sure. I feel confident if
retirement approval were at stake
for him now — looking as well and
young as he does — someone might
question the validity of his eligibility
for retirement. He and Mrs. Hall en-
joy living in St. Petersburg, Fla. He
reports he still enjoys reading the
ROADWAYS.

We are sorry that W. H. SNEAD,
District III employee continues to be
away from work on account of illness.
We are glad to know that BUR-
LEIGH THOMPSON, Construction
employee is back at work after an
extended illness. We are sorry that
TRUBY CLARK, Construction em-

ployee, has been among those not
feeling well.

Our congratulations and very best
wishes to BILL and ELIZABETH
WOODLEY CHERKAS who were
married on September 13th. Mr. Cher-
kas is District Engineer in Asheboro.

Linda Patrick, daughter of Land-
scape Foreman DOUGLAS PAT-
RICK and the late Mrs. Patrick, was
married to Cecil Bridgers of Laurin-
burg on August 1st. They are living
in Maryland where Mr. Bridgers is
serving in the Navy.

Sympathy is extended to JOHN, J.
E., and WILL NALL in the loss of
their mother recently. These employ-
ees are with the Road Oil Department
in Carthage; Montgomery County em-
ployee L. G. DUNN lost his mother
in August and C. B. WILHOIT also
of Montgomery County lost his mo-
ther in August. Sympathy is extend-
ed to the families of each of these.

Employees and friends were sad-
dened by the death of CLAYBURN
WICKOER of the Department of
Correction. Clayburn had been a long
time friend of those in the Highway
Department in Division Eight.

BILL CAMPBELL, Assistant Dis-
trict Engineer, Rockingham, vacation-
ed with his family in Pensacola, Flor-
ida. (This was during our extreme
dry spell here — and as vacations
sometimes go, it rained every day
they were in Pensacola.)

Sympathy is extended to HENRY
and MURIEL JORDAN in the death
of Mrs. Jordan's father in Siler City.

Welcome to TERRY DEAN Mc-
INNIS, new employee in the Sanford
Construction Department.

We have heard that Mr. E. T.
BRAME, former Resident Engineer
in Sanford, was married recently, and
will be possibly moving to Chapel
Hill. We wish Mr. Brame and wife
every happiness.

Our very best wishes to ROBERT
G. SOUTHALL, who retired October
1st. Mr. Southall was Resident Engi-
neer in Laurinburg and has served
the State of North Carolina many
years in the capacity of Resident En-
gineer. He has not been well for the
past several months, and always en-
joys seeing his friends as they come
by.

Thomas K. Carter is shown receiving his promotion to 1st Lt. Mr. Car-
ter graduated from N. C. State University in June, 1967 with the Commission
of 2nd Lt. in the U. S. Army.

In July he was ordered to report to Fort Belvoir, Virginia for nine weeks
training, after which he spent ten months in the Panama Canal Zone.

After a thirty day leave, he left for Fort Lewis, Washington and on July
8, 1968 left for Vietnam where he is now stationed with the 172nd Engineer
Detachment.

Mr. Carter is the son of Maintenance Supervisor W. A. Carter and Mrs.
Carter.

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Jean Michelle Bailey, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bailey. This was
made at the age of six weeks. Lester
is with the Moore County Mainte-
nance Department in Carthage, and
Michelle's mother is a teacher in the
Cameron Elementary School.

Mr. EARL FOX, Moore County
employee, retired on October 1st. We
wish Mr. Fox many years of happy
retirement.

-■"Nr.

How is this for a pose? Jan Marie
Isley was born August 10, 1968, to
Joel and Shelby Isley. Joel is with
the Sanford Construction Department.
Jan was less than a day old when this
picture was made.

DIVISION
NINE

We extend our
deepest sympathy
to the R. L.
WARD Family at
the death of Mr.
Ward on Septem-
S ber 14, 1968. Mr.
Ward was employ-
ed as a Mechanic
II in the Division

Shop in Winston-
Dorothy Phelps c . Mr1
Division Correspondentfeaiem, JX.

We wish a speedy recovery for Mr.
L. A. SAFRIT who has been out fox
some time due to sickness. Mr. Saf-
rit is a Mechanic II in the District
Shop in Rowan County.

We wish a speedy recovery to Mr.
L. G. WALLACE who is a Mechanic
II in the District II Shop in Davie
County. Mr. Wallace is in the hospital
at the present time recovering from
an operation.

Mi. R. M. SHOAF, Parts Clerk
II in Rowan County, reported a won-
derful time he and his family had on
the Outer Banks recently. Shame on
Bob though for letting his son out-
fish him.

Mr. I. W. MORRIS reported a
fishing trip to the coast this past
weekend but we still haven't seen any
proof of this.

Welcome to SYLVESTER HOUS-
TON, Machine Operator I, and P. F.
KETNER, Truck Driver, who joined
the Forsyth County Maintenance
Forces on August 31st.

The "Welcome Mat" is out for
LINDA STEELMAN who has come
back to work as a Typist in the Resi-
dent Engineer's office. Linda was
the former Division Engineer's Secre-
tary who took a couple of years rest
to raise two cute little boys. Linda,
however, decided she liked us so
much that she came back, and every-
one here is read glad to have her
around again!

"Get Well Wishes and a Speedy Re-
covery" are extended to HARRY
RICKENBACKER who has been out
of work for sometime due a recent
lung operation. Harry is an Inspector
in the Construction Dept. Hope to
see you back on the job real soon!

LARRY CABE and Margie spent
a few days in Franklin due to the

illness of Mr. Cabe's father, who
shows no improvement. He is now
hospitalized at Baptist Hospital, Win-
ston-Salem.

We are happy to hear that JACK
CREWS' wife has recovered so well
after having back surgery. Jack is
with Materials and Tests Section.

Welcome to GAYE THOMPSON,
new Secretary in the Road Oil De-
partment. Gaye replaces JULIE
LARSON who resigned to become a
homemaker.

We are happy that BRADY L.
LEAZER is now able to return to
work. Mr. Leazer had surgery the lat-
ter part of February and returned to
work on September 23rd. Mr. Leazer
is a Machine Operator in Rowan
County Maintenance Department.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
BRADY LEAZER on the arrival of
their new son, John David Leazer, on
September 6th.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
JACK V. WALLER on the arrival of
their new daughter, Janel Leigh who
weighed in at 7 lb. -6 oz., on October
9th. Mr. Waller is a Machine Opera-
tor in the Maintenance Department
in Rowan County.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to W. G. MORRIS and family in the
loss of his wife, Mrs. Allie Reinhardt
Morris, who passed away on August
28th at the age of 58. Mr. Morris is
employed with the Forsyth County
Maintenance Department as a Main-
tenance Foreman II.

EDITH CARPENTER and hus-
band W. R. enjoyed a week's vaca-
tion by dividing the time for pleasures
at the beach and the mountains.

Right of Way is extremely proud of
our members who have been safe dri-
vers for THAT many years and SHC

Welcome back, Linda.

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The above picture is the new Stokes County Asphalt Plant which is now
in operation. The plant is located at the Stokes County Prison Camp at Mea-
dows, N. C. When producing on a full scale, expected capacity cf plant is ap-
proximately 100 tons per day.

pins were recently awarded to LAR-
RY CABE— 10 years; E. M. PAT-
TERSON, JR.— 10 years (plus a 10-
year Service Award); and ROBERT
H. BROOME, III— 5 years.

HAROLD G. PITTMAN was wel-
comed to Right of Way as a new per-
manent employee. Harold is a 1968
graduate of Pembroke State College
and his home is Wilson. We hope he
likes his new home and his new job.

Mrs. Tony Cornacchione and Mrs.
Paul E. Newell have opened the first
Montessori School in Winston-Salem.
It is named after the Italian educator,
Dr. Maria Montessori, whose ideas
have revolutionized preschool educa-
tion in the past two decades. The
Montessori materials include blocks,
sphreres, shaded panels, each darker
or lighter than the others, and cylin-
ders of different sizes which one must
fit in different-sized holes in a block
of wood. There are noise makers,
each louder or softer than the others,
and other exercisers designed to de-
xelop physical and academic abilities
in children.

The Montessori System originally
was developed to help retarded chil-
dren and worked so well with them
that it is now becoming used quite
extensively with more and more pre-
schoolers.

Anthony Ross Leftwich, pictured at
10 weeks is all smiles for his proud
and happy parents, Roscoe and Vir-
ginia Leftwich. Tony has been by the
Right of Way office for us all to ad-
mire.

LITTLE THINGS

WILLA HOEY

Its the little things we do and say
That means so much as we go our
way —

A kindly deed can lift a load

From weary shoulders on the road,
Or a gentle word, like summer rain,

May soothe same heart and banish
pain — '

What joy or sadness often springs
From just the simple little *hings!

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\ DIVISION (
U TEN ^

We welcome W.

E. WOODRUFF to

the Division Staff

as Staff Engineer,

replacing PAT

STOCKTON who

recently resigned.

Bill comes to us

from the position

o f Maintenance

Supervisor, Stanly
J. W. Jones
Division Correspondent County.

Mr. CLAUDE R. RIDENHOUR,
Road Oil Foreman, has been promot-
ed to Maintenance Supervisor, Stanly
County, to replace W. E. WOOD-
RUFF. Our best wishes to Claude in
his new position.

We welcome MARY HODGE who
began work in July as a Typist II in
Resident Engineer T. W. FUNDER-
BURK'S office in Charlotte. Mary
recently moved to Charlotte from Ra-
leigh where she was employed by the
Board of Paroles.

Mr. and Mrs. D. L. ALEXANDER
announce the birth of a son on Sep-
tember 7th. Dwight is an Engineer-
ing Aide in the Construction Depart-
ment in Charlotte.

Mr. and Mrs. ROGER EUDY
spent a week touring Florida on their
recent vacation. Kay is in the Divi-
sion Office in Albemarle.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
ORREN R. BULLOCK (Review Ap-
praiser in the Appraisal Section) on
birth of their third son, Michael An-
thony, 8 lbs. 7 oz., 21 inches long, on
September 28th.

Welcome to SYLVIA B. STINSON,
Sfceno II in the Appraisal Section, who
began work September 9th.

A speedy recovery is wished for
Mr. J. H. Lowder, M. O. II, who has
been out sick for some time.

We also welcome Mr. D. A. LAM-
BERT and Mr. J. C. MILLS, M. F.
IPs, back to work after being out sick
for some time.

Mr. J. H. HERLOCKER, Bridge
Foreman, is in the Stanly County
Hospital at present. We hope for him
a speedy recovery.

Our sympathy goes out to Mr. J. H.
HERLOCKER and family upon the
passing of his mother, Mrs. Ada Her-
locker.

Also, our sympathy to Mr. J. B.
AUSTIN upon the death of his step-
mother, Mrs. Rufus Austin.

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We welcome back to work GUS
LITTLE, M. O. II in Anson County
after being hospitalized for one week.

We wish a speedy recovery for
JAKE McCRAY, Truck Driver in
Anson County. He has returned home
after spending 22 days in Mercy Hos-
pital in Charlotte. He had a lung op-
eration.

Sympathy is extended to D. L.
GADDY and wife in the death of
their infant son. Mr. Gaddy was a
truck driver in Anson County until
he was drafted into the Army. He was
in Vietnam when his son died. He got
a 30 day leave and came home, and
visited his fellow employees while he
was home.

We wish a speedy recovery for T.
J. EVANS, Temporary Laborer in
Anson County. He had a hernia oper-
ation and has not been able to work
since August 23rd.

We express sympathy to Mr. B. D.
HERRIN, JR. with the death of his
father, Mr. B. D. Herrin, Sr.

We welcome Mr. H. J. HERLOC-
KER who recently went to work as a
truck driver in Stanly County Main-
tenance.

Dove season is in our county and
several of our employees have had the
privilege to do a lot of shooting, but
as to their bag limit, we won't reveal
that, it might embarrass them.

Congratulations to Mr. EARL HO-
WARD, Mechanic in the Equipment
Department upon the arrival of a
baby daughter.

Stanly County employees are pleas-
ed to welcome Mr. C. R. RIDEN-
HOUR who has assumed the position
of Road Maintenance Supervisor. Mr.
Ridenhour is a long time employee
with the Division Road Oil Forces.

Congratulations to Mrs. LOTTIE
PORTER, Steno II, in District I Of-
fice who was married on Sunday, Sep-
tember 29th, to Mr. Paul Brewer.

For our last note, we hear Mr.
LONNIE MABRY has quite a crop
of molasses and is very generous with
them, but after you taste them, you'll
understand why.

J. H. WHITE, Supervisor in Anson
County is spending a week at Kure
Beach fishing.

During vacation week Mr. J. A.
MILLS and family visited their son,
Mr. Joe Mills in San Francisco, Cal-
ifornia. While in California other
points of interest visited were Reno,
Virginia City, Nevada, and Disney-
land.

Mr. R. V. MEASMER and family
vacationed to Florida. While there
they stayed on both coasts of Florida.

One employee, Mr. MONTY R.

SIMPSON was married on September
7th. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson at the
present live in Concord. Mrs. Simpson
is the daughter of Mr. Luther McDon-
ald also of Concord.

Mr. Larry W. Black, son of Mr.
BEN B. BLACK, was married Aug-
ust 18th to Miss Linda Stoner of
Concord. Miss Stoner is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stoner also of
Concord. The newlyweds are making
their home presently at 1323 Chester
Road in Raleigh. Larry is a rising
senior at N. C. State University at
Raleigh. Mrs. Black is teaching in
Wake County schools.

We are happy to welcome Mr. K.
E. FORTE with the Right of Way
Department in Albemarle. He began
September 23rd.

Plans have been made for our an-
nual Christmas party. It will be held
December 20th at Piney Point Coun-
try Club and everyone is looking for-
ward to this occasion.

We are expecting at any time to
hear of a new addition to the family
of JOE CASHION. We know Joe is
looking forward to this event.

Mr. N. E. UNDERWOOD, JR., a
former Right of Way Agent of this of-
fice, has been transferred from Albe-
marle, to Durham as Area Relocation
Advisor and Property Manager. Nor-
fleet was given a going away party
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. HO-
WARD L. WOOTEN. We regret to
lose Norfleet as a fellow worker but
wish him success in his new position.

All the agents in this department
will be attending a negotiating oourse
at the University in Raleigh.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of C. V. JON-
ES, retired main-
tenance employee
who died Septem-
ber 25th. Mr.
Jones retired June
30, 1967 with 22
years of service for
the Highway Com-

Dolores Rogers mie,,;™
Division Correspondent m«sioii.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of JOHN THOMAS COOK, age 26,
an employee of the Boone Construc-

Lori Ann Water, 3Y2 year old
daughter of Vernon and Barbara Wa-
ters, smiles angelically for the photo-
grapher. Barbara is employed in the
Boone Construction Office.

tion Office who passed away in the
Baptist Hospital October 1st. He had
been critically ill for the past month.

Our condolences are extended to
ED PHILLIPS, Boone Construction
employee, whose father passed away
on August 8th.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: JAMES DANCY, GARRY
HENSON, DALE ADAMS, MIKE
WILSON, and SAM SW ANSON.

The Right of Way Department and
their families enjoyed a very nice
picnic at the W. Kerr Scott Dam and
Reservoir on August 28th. The de-
partment would like to express spe-
cial thanks to Right of Way Agent
BROOKE CRIST and wife, Martha,
who were kind enough to spend a day
of their hard-earned vacation prepar-
ing for the picnic.

Best wishes to BENNIE L. HUFF-
MAN and HERBERT TRANSOU,
Temporary Right of Way employees
who have transferred to the Con-
struction Department.

GEORGE and FRANKIE WOLFE
spent an enjoyable vacation in Kan-
sas and Alabama the first two weeks
of September visiting relatives. George
is employed in the Location Depart-
ment and Frankie is a stenographer
in the Right of Way Department.

Welcome to RAY D. CARTER,
new employee in the Right of Way
Department. Ray came to us from
East Tennessee State University and
we know he will make a fine addition
to our family.

Ray H. James, Maintenance Fore-
man IV for Ashe County, passed
away August 9th due to a heart attack.
Ray was 49 years old at the time of
his death and had been with the High-
way Commission for 15 years. We ex-
tend our deepest sympathy to his
family.

This photo was sent to us with the
notation "EDGAR WILCOX" — A
WORKING Right of Way Agent".
From the expression on Ed's face, one
might think that an irate property
owner has him "treed".

Sympathy is extended to Division
Right of Way Agent PAUL WEST
and family in the recent death of
Mrs. West's mother, Mrs. Wade Faulk
of Fairmont, and to Right of Way
Agent RONNIE TREECE whose
grandfather, Mr. D. A. Treece of Lo-
cust, passed away recently.

We are glad to have JOHN AT-
WELL back at work after suffering
a heart attack June 2nd and BAR-
BARA WATERS who has been a pa-
tient in Charlotte Memorial Hospital
due to surgery. Both John and Bar-
bara are employed by the Boone Con-
struction Office.

Get well wishes are extended to
MOZELLE BENTON, Stenographer
in the Equipment Department, who is
recovering at Davis Hospital in States-
ville following surgery. We wish her
a speedy recovery and are looking
forward to her returning to work.

Jean Cline t atjtjv

Division Correspondent 1

Deepest sympa-
thy is extended to
BILL BURGESS
of the Right of
Way Department
in the death of his
mother, Mrs. W.
A. Burgess, of
Polk County.

Congratulations
to Mr. and Mrs.

McEN-

TIRE on the birth of a daughter, Lori
Elaine, on September 16th. Mrs. Mc-
Entire is employed as Typist II in
the Shelby Construction Department.

Congratulations also go to Mr. and
Mrs. DON PENNINGTON on the
birth of a baby boy, Don Martin, III,
July 30th. Don is employed in the
Shelby Construction Department.

A. N. LEDFORD of the Shelby
Construction Department had an en-
joyable vacation in Florida a few
weeks ago.

R. A. QUEEN of the Shelby Con-
struction Department went to the
beach on a fishing trip a few weeks
ago, and believe it or not be came
back without any fish tales.

It's good news to hear that Traffic
Services Supervisor CLYDE POS-
TON, JR. is recovering nicely from
recent surgery. It is hoped he will
soon be able to return to work.

Mr. and Mrs. B. L. SMITH are
the happy parents of a son, born July
24th. Mr. Smith is Machine Operator
in Catawba County.

Miss Phyllis Annette McMurry and
John Lewis Tate, rising seniors at
Wake Forest University, were married
in impressive rites on August 25th,
in the University's Davis Chapel.

Miss McMurry is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Palmer McMurry
of 1309 Hunt Stret, Shelby. Her fa-
ther is employed in Division 12 Traf-
fic Services Department.

Mr. W. A. STARR is out of the
hospital after an eye operation. He
is Machine Operator in Catawba
County.

Mr. H. I. TOMLIN, Maintenance
Foreman IV in Iredell County, re-
turned to work on October 7th after
being out for quite a while due to
surgery. Also, H. I. has recently be-
come a Grandpa. Luin Todd Padgett
was born September 30th.

Temporary Engineering Aides JA-
MES CAVNEY ALLEN, JR., and
CARLOS WAYNE HAMILTON re-
signed their positions with the Com-
mission September 6th to reenter col-
lege.

GEORGE WAYNE BURNS, Co-
operative Education Trainee, was
placed on a leave of absence Septem-
ber 6th to reenter college.

JAMES RAY HEAD, Temporary
Engineering Assistant, resigned his
position with the Commission Septem-
ber 11th to reenter college.

OTHA WAYNE BRIDGES, Tem-
porary Engineering Aide, is a new
employee in our Department. We ex-
tend a welcome to him.

Congratulations to CHARLES RAY
BLACK, Temporary Engineering
Aide, who was recently classified as a
Permanent Engineering Aide.

hi

This adorable little Miss is Dana
Michele Winstead, daughter of Jo-
seph A. Winstead and Sarah H. Win-
stead of Hickory. Joe is employed in
the bridge maintenance department of
Hickory.

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Above is Glenda Johnson, 5 year
old daughter of the Glenn Johnsons.
Glenda is enjoying kindergarten this
year and looking forward to her first
year in school next year. Her father,
Glenn is employed in the Traffic
Services Department and her mother,
Betty, is Stenographer in the Divi-
sion Office.

1

David Trent is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tommy F. Richardson, born
January 24, 1988. Tommy is an Engi-
neering Technician II with the Hick-
ory Construction Party. David's
grandfather, C. H. Richardson, is a
Machine Operator III with the Main-
tenance Department in Lincoln Coun-

ty.

( DIVISION ^-7
V THIRTEEN /

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

Unfortunately,
our news this
month is mostly
bad, but sometimes
that is something
we can do nothing
about.

News from Traf-
fic Services is that
MERYL COMP-
TON is still out
sick. He has been
to Oteen V. A. Hospital for tests and
is hoping to be back with us soon.

Deepest sympathy to the family of
EUGENE ANDERS, who passed
away, after being badly hurt in an
accident, on September 29th.

Congratulations to a new bride-
groom — BRUCE FISHER married
Phyllis Kilpatrick on September 24th,
and I am sure our best wishes go to
them.

The Road Oil Department reports
that GEORGE COOK has been out
sick. Mrs. CLYDE FENDER has
been seriously ill for several months,
and is still in the hospital. ARTHUR
NORTON is back after a siege of
illness.

Sympathy to EARL CUTSHALL'S
family on the recent death of his
father-in-law.

We all wish Margaret Martin, wife
of Division Staff Engineer, DAN
MARTIN, a speedy recovery from
her recent surgery and hope she is
home and well soon.

District Two maintenance news is
that CLAUDE CHANDLER and
EVERETTE CHANDLER were hurt
in a serious accident. We are glad to
be able to report that Claude is
back at work, but we are hoping to
have good news soon of Everett, who
is still critically ill in Memorial Mis-
sion Hospital in Asheville.

Deepest sympathy to LAWRENCE
and Cheryl TREADWAY of Madi-
son County on the recent loss of their
infant son.

DICK DILLINGHAM of the Right
of Way Department is back with us
after being out of action for a while.
Says he is feeling fit as a fiddle. Good
luck Charlie!!

HARRIET GOSSETT of the Divi-
sion Office represented us at the As-
sociation Convention in Durham —
reports a good time was had by all.

That is all for this month and I
most certainly hope we have better
news to report for the next issue.

Another Fish Story

I get plumb disgustipated at these
here mountaineers fer their plain ig-
nerence on sich things as fishin. Now
you take this here Bill Sluder in this
here picture. Sumbody read to him
that people oould go deep sea fishin.
Well Bill ( a 13th Division Landscape
Ground Maintenance Man) jist didn't
know that you was supposed to lam
to fish before you caught any. What
did he do? He went down there to the
coast and caught this string of fish
and sum more big ones which won the
jack pot prize fer the day without
even bein perlite enough to ask how
to fish.

If I was that feller or fellers that
own the Atlantic Ocean, I jist would-
n't let Bill Sluder wet anuther hook
in my ocean until he has done and
lemt to fish.

Eulogy of Terry and Friend.

We have a beautiful new Miss Asheville for 1969 and a proud father too.
K. Wallen of the Traffic Service Department is the father of our new Miss

Asheville, Mary Dean Wallen.

Spec. 5 Rodney C. Wise, son of Mrs.
Hazel Wise, secretary in the Con-
struction Department, has recently
become a proud father to a darling
little baby girl who was born on Sep-
tember 29th.

DiTU^CoT.i7oXt^fused as to day

Bob and ALICE
MILLER are the
proud parents of
| Jan Michelle Mil-
ler — For the first
week after Mi-
chelle was taken
home, Bob came in
with droopy eyes -
Explanation: Mi-
chelle was a little

and night — she wanted to stay up all
night and sleep the next day. If she
keeps that up will just have to let
her be a "go-go" girl. Bob is Right of
Way Agent.

Your correspondent took in State
Convention in Durham. Met some
mighty nice people and renewed ac-
quaintances with others. Congratula-
tions go to those who made is a suc-
cess!

If you are wondering why HARRY
BIRCHFIELD, Engineering Aide in
Bryson City, is walking taller these
days, we'll just tell you why. He is
the proud "Papa" of a son born in
September. Congratulations to both
parents!

Those employees attending the
Convention from this Division were:
JACK JENKINS from Bryson City,
T. N. GEORGE from Robbinsville,
OTTI KITCHENS from Hayesville,
H. G. HARPER from Murphy, CARL
BALDWIN, GEORGE BYRD and
C. W. RINK from Franklin, W. C.
MANN and his wife from Brevard,
FRED LYDA from Hendersonville,
RENSO JONES from Tryon, JOHN
PLOTT and his wife from Waynes-
ville, VERLIN EDWARDS and his
wife and two children (Verlin said
they had a ball), they hailed from
Maggie Valley, T. M. AUSTELL
from Hendersonville, R. L. PATTIL-
LO from Bryson City, AL COGGINS
and CLINT SAWYER from Sylva
and RAY BISHOP from Cullowhee.
It is quite an experience and would
be good for each one to have a chance
to go see and hear all that goes on.
Quite a bit gets accomplished. I just
don't see how we employees would
get all the advantages we do without
an organization such as this and it
needs your support. Join today!

Cross my heart — the following are
sentences concerning allotments taken
from actual letters:

"Please send me my elopment as I
have 4 month old baby and he is
my sold support and I need all I can
get every day to buy food and keep
him in close."

"My husband had his project cutt
off two weeks ago and I havn't had
any relief since."

"In accordance with your instruc-
tions I have give birth to twins in
the enclosed envelop."

"I can't get my pay. I got 6 chil-
dren, can you tell me why this is?"

"Both sides of my parents is poor
and I can't expect nothing from them,
as my mother has been in bed for one
year with the same doctor and won't
change."

"I am a poor widow and all I have
is at the front."

There are more and think will just
save a few for the next month's issue.

FREDDIE DAVIDSON, Resident
Engineer, submitted news from his
area of the County. Thanks a lot
Freddie, maybe this will cause others
to help make our news column a suc-
cess.

The following men both had correc-
tive surgery which put them on the
ailing list for several days: Mr. T. H.
DYCUS of Brevard and Mr. J. B.

This handsome couple happens to
be Earlene Justina Wiggins with her
granddaddy Earl H. Smiley who
works with Construction in Bryson
City. Both seem to be getting
along just fine.

US

Gayle Ann Rhodes became the
bride of Gary Ray Bishop at Cullo-
whee Baptist Church. Gary was em-
ployed by the Highway Commission
during summer months for the past
three years under the supervision of
Mr. G. W. Clayton. Gary is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bishop. Ray is
Maintenance Foreman in Jackson
County. Gary and Gayle are living in
Cullowhee and attending Western
Carolina University as Juniors.

EDWARDS of Hendersonville. (One
was re-bushed and the other xe-groov-
ed).

The Summer boys have returned to
school or wherever Summer boys re-
turn to, but the work load has increas-
ed with the coming of Fall weather.
At long last we are about to crack
the bottle of champagne that has been
gathering dust and finger prints for
two years. If everyone shows up for
grand opening, the contents will be
dispensed with an eye dropper. The
aforementioned occasion will be the
completion of the Green River Bridge
and the contractor and engineering
personnel who worked on this pro-
ject are certainly to be congratulat-
ed on a job well done. There were no
lost time accidents directly connected
with this project, however two of the
Summer Engineering Aides were bad-
ly trampled during the passing out of
the checks one Friday.

The recently completed road by the
golf course at Maggie Valley was uni-
que in the following respects:

1. While screeding a bridge span
alongside hole No. 4 it was necessary
for the workmen to stop and allow
several foursomes to play across the

bridge. This worked out OK until
the caddy drove a golf oart thru the
green concrete. The effect on this
green concrete was to make the In-
spector turn red and the foreman to
turn the air blue.

2. It was necessary to drop the
"head-ache" ball in the creek several
times to cool it off and this caused
several trout to jump out of the creek
and into a lunch box under the seat
of a pickup truck. The game warden
didn't believe this the first time it
happened and the second time was
impossible in his opinion.

3. Two milk cows and a mule died
as a result of the MCO prime applied
to the roadway as the fumes from the
prime caused them to come down
with the "blue-goofus" which caused
them to fall out of the barn and into
the oncoming traffic of US 19 & 23.
The owners of these animals swears
this is the truth. The result of the
dead mule was rather interesting as it
died on the Haywood-Jackson Co.
line and the county foremen of these
counties didn't want to bury it. The
mule was dragged back and forth
across the county line until he was
completely worn out and finally each
county held last rites over two mule-
shoes each.

4. A Volkswagen ran into the swamp
by the sawmill and two mud turtles
raped it before it could be rescued.

Gladys Ann Sneed became the bride
of Michael Gerald Green in Septem-
ber at the Greens Creek Baptist
Church. Gerald is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Green and Jack works in
the Landscape Department in Sylva.
After a wedding trip to Florida,
the couple will live in Sylva.

Mrs. Jennie Garrett, typist in Hen-
dersonville Construction office, also
serves as Secretary for F. K. West-
wood, Area Construction Engineer.
Jennie is an attractive brunette with
blue eyes and quite a dancer, as was
in evidence at one of our Christmas
parties.

FERRY DIVISION

Joyce Spencer, Correspondent

AHOY THERE!
Requesting per-
mission to hoard
the ROADWAYS
with Ferry Divi-
sions' log, Six.

"You landsmen
really missed out
when hurricane
Gladys played
nursemaid. 'Cause
that hard beating
rain and howling wind, me hearty,
that's Mother Nature's best lullaby."

Mr. FRED H. McBRYDE, High-
way Office Manager, Morehead City
Ferry Office, is sick and expects to
be out of the office for a couple of
weeks — doctor's orders — be a
good boy, Mack. Take those pills and
hurry and get well.

Mrs. J. P. EDWARDS, Clerk II,
Morehead City Office, is bending
everyone's ear telling about her re-
cent vacation to Ohio, Michigan and
Canada — don't blame her — do
you?

The crew aboard the M/V South-
port — Ft. Fisher informed me that
the alligators have returned and all
seven appear to be in excellent health.
Just one more question, boys. Are
they "hungry"?

Congratulations to all Ferry Per-
sonnel on the successful completion
of one of the busiest seasons in the
history of the department. A hearty
"WELL DONE."

A sincere welcome to our new Fetr-
ry Equipment employees, ROGER
MIHOVCH and NICK SAPONE as
Mechanic II at Manns HaTbor, also
EBIN BELL as Mechanic II at Bo-
gue Sound.

Ferry Operations welcome Mr.
DAVID AUSTIN at Manns Harbor
as their new radio operator.

Thanks again to the Employee's
Association for voting the Ferry Unit
in as a separate unit.

Our heartfelt sympathy to the fam-
ily of Mr. ANSLEY O'NEAL of Oc-
racoke in the loss of their loved one.

Mr. O'Neal began work with the
Ferry Operations in April of '61 and
worked with us, until his illness be-
gan in February of '68, as Quarter-
master of the M/V Silver Lake.
Bon voyage.

Communications Technician III,
Robert J. Daniels, U.S.N., son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Daniels, of More-
head City, has recently been assigned
to duty at Keflevik, Iceland. After a
two year assignment in Hawaii all
Bob has to say about his Icelandic
assignment is Br r r r r r r!!!! Bob is
the son of Mrs. W. D. Daniels, Steno
II, at the Ferry Office in Morehead
City. Upon completion of his tour
of duty he plans to return to the
University of North Carolina to com-
plete his college education which was
interrupted during his Junior year.

1-40, 1-26 Interchange
Dedication

This is the only three-level inter-
change on the North Carolina High-
way System, although another is in

the design stage and will be construct-
ed as a part of the Charlotte express-
way system.

The upper level is the Interstate 26
connector to Interstate 40 West. The
second level is the connector from 1-40
west to the Expressway at the Smoky
Mountain Bridge. The lower level is
1-40 east.

Construction of this giant inter-
change complex required four years.
Work began July 27, 1964 and was
completed on July 31, 1968. Total
cost, including the Appalachia High-
way System connector, ran to more
than $7-million.

The entire interchange are com-
prises well over 200 acres, with a total
of 14 bridges separating the various
roadways involved or crossing Hom-
iny Creek, which meanders through
the interchange complex.

The interchange project was design-
ed under the direction of the State
Highway Commission by the consult-
ing engineering firm of Wilbur Smith
and Associates of Columbia, South
Carolina.

Contractors on the interchange pro-
ject and the downtown Asheville con-
nector were: Asheville Contracting
Company of Asheville, N. C; Wilson
Construction Company of Salisbury,
N. C; Foster-Creighton Company of
Nashville, Tennessee.

James G. Stikeleather, Jr. of Ashe-
ville is Commissioner for Highway Di-
vision Thirteen, in which the tri-level
interchange is located.

F. L. Hutchinson, Division Thirteen
Engineer, was in charge of overall con-
struction. Resident Engineers George
Prescott and K. W. Rabb provided
on-the-project supervision for the
State Highway Commission.

Luncheon — Grove Park Inn

IMAGINE KILLING
SOMEONE WITH
YOUR CAR.

IMAGINE
EXPLAINING IT.

Excuse #1: Bad roads.

When the first oar lurched into a
ditch, bad roads were the best excuse
for an accident. But that's no longer
so. Because today this nation has the
best roads in the world — and the
safest. Since 1937, we've pushed our
death rate per 100,000,000 vehicle
miles down from 14.7 to nearly 5.
And it's going even lower this year.
Here's what's been done: Lanes have
been widened and moire clearly mark-
ed at the center and the sides. Me-
dian and bridge rails have been de-
signed that don't stop you dead. A
new kind of light and sign pole
breaks away from its base under im-
pact, gives you a chance to regain
control. And perhaps you've noticed
the rest areas that now dot our coun-
tryside. They're no accident. Neither
is better highway lighting. Better ice
and water removal. Better traffic
control — tied to sensors and digital
computers. Today you often see max-
imum and minimum speed limits.
And a burgeoning number of people
watch the highway for you. On TV.
From the air. And from patrol cars.

Our highways are better designed,
better built, and better maintained.
They aren't perfect. But they are bet-
ter than anyone else's — and they're
constantly being improved. Think
about that this weekend. And about
the fact that 52,000 people still man-
aged to die on our roads last year.

Excuse #2: Bad cars.

As you pull into traffic tonight or
tomorrow, you might keep in mind
that your car is a remarkable ma-
chine made up of about 15,000 parts.
Weighing in at nearly two tons and
capable of great speed, it can be a
lethal piece of equipment. But also
know that cars are being made in-
creasingly safer through manufacture
and maintenance. It's interesting to
note that half the cars in the world
are in the United States. Yet in the

past 20 years we've seen a decline in
the death rate per 10,000 vehicles
from 10.9 to slightly over 5.

If you drive a new 1968 or 1969
oar, it will have side lights or Deflec-
tors, dual brakes, seat belts foir every
passenger, padded seatbacks, safer
windshield glass, collapsible steering
wheel. It will also have secure fold-
ing seats, armrests and instrument
knobs that don't protrude. And it
will have a little thing called non-
overriding door handles. Because of
them you may never again read of
a child who fell from a moving car.

If you drive an older car, much has
been done to make it safe, too. Since
1960, over 400 campaigns have [re-
called oars to American factories.
Potential troubles have been prevent-
ed. And right now 42 states require
vehicle inspection: Those that in-
spect seminannually can cut their
death rate dramatically — an eight-
year old oar is twice as deadly as a
new oar. 42 states permit safer stud-
ded winter tires. And those numbers
are rising fast ... as fast as safety
is in the same states.

Can you blame your oar if you
kill someone in the next few days?
You can, and you might be justified.
You might be. But consider the fact
that the American car is the safest
and best maintained in the world.
And think about those 15,000 parts
that cradle life as you step on the
gas this weekend. And about the
52,000 people who didn't make it
from last Labor Day to this Labor
Day.

Excuse #3: Bad you.

This is the excuse for killing that's
never heard — except when people
speak in hushed tones of other peo-
ple who have killed. But the simple
fact of the matter is that the nice
guy you saw in the mirror this morn-
ing could turn out to be a killer by
the end of this weekend.

Ask yourself if you could pass your
driver's test today. Or have you for-
gotten some of the answers — even
some of the questions?

Now ask yourself if you ever drink
and drive. And shock yourself all
weekend with the sobering fact that
drunk drivers are involved in more
than half of our 52,000 highway
death and 4,200,000 injuries yearly.

Ask yourself how good a driver
your son is. If he's 18 to 25 he may
not be very good. Because his age
group represents 6% of the popula-
tion, and nearly 28% of the killing
drivers. (He'd be twice as good a
driver if he took driver's education.)

Ask yourself if you ever drive
above the speed limit. 40% of all
driving killers do. And they kill 17,000
people doing it.

Ask yourself if you ever leave your
keys in your car. 650,000 cars will be
stolen this year. 100,000 of them will
cause accidents.

Make yourself wonder what causes
6,000 people to die yearly hitting fixed
objects like bridges and parked cars.
Ask yourself if, in the final creaming
moment of those 6,000 lives, the other
guy played any role at all.

Ask yourself if, in the final screaming
seat belts when they can reduce fa-
tal injuries by as much as 80%.
And why you won't make your own
children wear them.

You have a right at this point to
ask what we're trying to sell you. In
a word, nothing. Except a belief. A
belief that the responsibilities of this
world cannot be laid on any tech-
nology, but rather reside in the tech-
nician. A belief that few priorities of
this nation should take precedence
over 'highway safety — because few
of lour problems crush more irre-
trievable lives every year.

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Do something about it. Involve
yourself in political issues related to
highway safety. Demand research and
development that make cars even saf-
er. Push far lifesaving road structures.
More rest areas. Greater separation
of highway lanes. The elimination of
one-way bridges on two-way roads.
Support periodic reexamination of
drivers and strict vehicle inspection
laws. And any system that removes
bad drivers. Demand more money for
traffic patrols. And pay fo>r better
traffic systems.

When you drive, wear your seat
and shoulder belts. Stay sober. Check
the condition of your car, particularly
the lights and brakes. Watch out for
the other potential killer — especial-
ly at intersections, entrances and
exits. Rest often. And do one more
thing.

Do the one thing that only you
can do. Drive safely. And have a
good weekend.

Civil Air Patrol
27th Anniversary

For some 27 years now this community has been extremely fortunate to
have in its midst a band of dedicated citizens who maintains a constant vigil
of readiness to help their fellow citizens in time of distress and disaster. They
aire the men and women and youth who make up the North Carolina Wing of
the Civil Air Patrol.

Nation-wide, CAP volunteers have always stood ready to help wherever
disaster might strike. Cooperating with emergency and disaster relief agencies
at all levels of government and with other civil agencies such as the American
Red Cross, Civil Air Patrol is truly an asset to our community. Its trained and
competent pilots stand ready to fly search and rescue missions on instant
notice; 'its nation-wide communications network of over 21,000 radio stations
has become a vital element in Civil Defense planning for survival and recovery
in the event of national disaster. The more than 4,500 light aircraft available
to Civil Air Patrol forms an integral part of this nation's Civil Defense plan.

As this splendid organization enters its 28th year of valuable service to
the community and to the nation, we join with all the citizens of North Caro-
lina in a heartfelt salute and extend to members of the Civil Air Patrol our
sincere congratulations.

(Editor's Note) — We would like to thank Mr. Page and his Photogram-
metry Dept. for all the help he has contributed to the Magazine. Elise Speight
who so graciously did the drawings. Jim McCloskey who contributed the car-
toons and Bill Hood and Gordon Deans who have a hard time reading my mind
and know what ideas I have. Many thanks all of you.

An abstract drawing of fall and the Doesn't this picture remind you of fall and the months that follow? I think

leaves that come off the beautiful we all look forward to the change of seasons. One cannot be compared to the
trees. other. They each have their merits. So be it.

h7

Thanksgiving Day
in the United States

In the United States and Ganada, a
day is set aside each year as Thanks-
giving Day. On this day people give
thanks with feasting and pirayer for
the blessings they may have received
during the year.

The first Thanksgiving Days were
harvest festivals, or days for thank-
ing God for their plentiful crops. For

this season the holiday still takes
place late in the fall, after the crops
have been gathered. For thousands of
years many people have held harvest
festivals.

The American "Thanksgiving Day"
more than likely grew out of the
harvest -home celebration in England.

Thanksgiving Day in the United
States is usually a family affair cele-
brated with big meals and joyous
reunion. The very mention of Thanks-
giving usually brings to mind big
dinners and pantry's filled to the
brim.

Thanksgiving Day is also a remind-
er of serious religious thinking, church
services and religious prayers.

The first New England Thanksgiv-
ing was celebrated during the second
winter the Plymouth colonists spent
in the New World. The first dreadful
winter in Massachusetts had killed
nearly half the members of the Co-
lony, but new spirit grew up in the
summer of 1621. The corn harvest
brought rejoicing. Governor William

Bradford decreed that December 13,
1621 be set aside 'as a day of feasting
and prayer, to show the gratitude of
the Colonists.

The women of the Colony spent
many days preparing for the feast.
They boiled, baked and roasted. The
children helped by turning roasts on
spits in front of open fires. Everyone
ate outdoors at big tables. The peo-
ple spent 3 days in feasting, prayer
and singing.

In the United States, a woman,
Mrs. Sarah Joseph® Hale, the editor
of Godey's Lady's Book worked for
30 years to promote the idea of a
National Thanksgiving Day. She sent
out pleas through the oolumn of her
journal and wrote letters to the
various Presidents. In 1863 President
Lincoln issued a proclamation setting
aside the last Thursday of November
in that year "as a day of thanksgiving
and praise to our beneficial Father,"
but in 1939 President Roosevelt pro-
claimed Thanksgiving to be celebrat-
ed one week earlier. His purpose was
to help business by making the shop-
ping period between Thanksgiving
and Christmas longer.

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ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XIV
NUMBER XXl

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist J AN IE WILLIAMS

Photographer GORDON DEANS

DAN K. MOORE GOVERNOR

JOSEPH M. HUNT, JR CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr.

W. W. Exum

Ashley M. Murphy

Carl Renfro

J. B. Brame

Carl Meares

Thomas S. Harrington

John F. McNatr, III
George L. Hundley
George H. Broadrick
Raymond Smith
W. B. Garrison
James G. Stdkeleather, Jr.

W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chief Engineer

George Willoughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

The Christmas Issue of Roadways Magazine is
deviating from its usual form. Due to the press of
Christmas printing and the desire of the Roadways
staff to get you a good holiday issues delivered in
time for the season, our magazine contains no divi-
sion or headquarters news. In this issue we feature
only one departmental story. The Test of the maga-
zine is devoted to Christmas Things.

In following issues, you, the readers, will be ask-
ed -to make contributions of stories, poems, ait
work, etc., to be evaluated by the editor for possi-
ble publication.

Please pardon the Christmas issue as I have been
in the hospital 16 days the month of December.

—The Editor

Our cover for this Christmas issue was drawn
by our capable Elise Speight of the Photogram-
metry Dept. Thanks Elise.

Chairman's Christmas fretting

We -have observed the Christmases of 1965, 1966 and 1967 together.
And now we approach the Christmas Season of 1968, the last that I will
be able to share with you as Chairman of the Highway Commission.

My years with the Highway Commission have been some of the best
and most rewarding years of my life, mainly because of the association
and relationships with you folks who work with the Highway Commission.

I have had the opportunity to meet many of you over the past three
years, and I want you to know that I will treasure the memory of our
association.

To you and your families from Mrs. Hunt and me, a very MERRY
CHRISTMAS, the happiest and best of all New Years. And may the Good
Lord bless and keep you

WWWWWW

A

Christmas

Surprise

By KEITH R. HUNDLEY

"You better take that back, Johnny Alcorn".

Danny almost screamed the words. His face was
flushed and he clenched his little fourth-grader's fists un-
til the knuckles turned white.

"I will not," Johnny retorted. "Don't you know
nothin', Danny. There ain't no such person as Sanny
Claws. I ain't gonna take at back 'cause I'd be lyin' if I
did."

Skinny Massey and Gene Kirby and Junior Price all
giggled and looked at Danny. He eould feel his face get-
ting redder by the minute, and he knew he was too far
into this thing to back out now.

"You take it back, Johnny, or I'm gonna make you
take it back," Danny said, inching toward the bigger boy.

"You and who else is gonna make me take it back,"
Johnny said, and he nudged Junior with his elbow.

Skinny and Gene moved back a little and Danny
knew he was going to be in a fight, soon.

He looked up at the browning crab grass on the sides
of the old railroad cut which had never been used. He
saw the leafless branches of the oak trees in the school
yard beyond old man Thomases' store. He could feel the
sting of tears as they filled his eyes, and then with his
eyes nearly closed and his teeth clenched, he launched
his best left-hand punch.

It caught Johnny first on the shoulder and then on
the side of the head, and it hurt Danny clear to his el-
bow. He thought his knuckles were broken.

Johnny was caught off guard for a moment. He did-
n't think Danny Hart had the nerve to hit him, much
less toss the first punch. It hurt when he did dt, too, he
thought.

Danny's surprise punch was as big a surprise to him
as it was to Johnny, and while he stood there considering
it, he lost his advantage. Johnny bore it on him.

He hit Danny in the face, and Danny saw green
lights in his head. His head rang like a bell. Then another
fist hit him on the ear, and Johnny was on him like a
bear.

Danny hung on for dear life, and down they went in

a big heap with Skinny yelling, "Hit 'im, Johnny," and
Gene hollering "Don't let him get you down, Danny."

It was too late, though, Johnny had him down and
was stratching and clawing at him. Now, Danny's nose
was bleeding and Johnny was still punching and pummel-
ing away at him. Danny started to cry.

Johnny sat on him.

"You had enough, Danny," he said, holding up his

fist.

"You had enough, or do you want some more?"

Skinny and Gene and Junior wouldn't look at Dan-
ny. He knew they were ashamed that he had cried. That
he hadn't toughed it out even though they had know from
the start that Danny couldn't win.

Danny didn't say anything, he just crossed his hands
over his face and lay there crying softly.

Johnny got up and stood over Danny.

"There still ain't no Sanny Claws," he said, and
placing his foot under Danny, he shoved him over on his
side.

"You damned sissy," Johnny tauted him, "you don't
know nothin' and you can't fight. I know that Sanny
Claws ain't nothin' but your mama and daddy leavin'
presents for you under the tree, 'cause I've helped 'em
put out the presents since I found mine behind the couch
when I was in second grade."

Danny just lay there sobbing.

"I'm gonna tell your mama you said 'damn' ", he

said.

Johnny kicked him again and said, "Just do. You just

do."

Gene and Skinny and Junior and Johnny walked
away talking, but Danny couldn't hear what they were
saying.

Danny lay there for a while and then uncovered his
eyes. He sat up and put a piece of irolled-up notebook
paper under his upper lip to make his nose quit bleed-
ing. He was dirty and the pocket was ripped on his mac-
kinaw coat. What a way to start the Christmas vacation,
he thought, and mama's gonna tear me up when I get
home.

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All the way home he thought, "Why would mama and
daddy lie to me about there being a Sanny Claws. John-
ny was just trying to ruin my holiday, that's all."

But he kept remembering that Skinny and all the
others had sided with Johnny. Even Gene, Who was one of
his best friends. They had said, "Naw, there ain't," when
he said that there was a real Santa Claus. Had his ma-
ma and daddy been fooling him?

All these thoughts evaporated quickly when he rea-
lized he had already reached the branch that ran through
the field behind the house. He couldn't let mama see him
like this. But he knew he had to.

Danny walked slowly up the low hill, across the
railroad tracks and then up the sharply inclined path
into the backyard.

He walked up onto the back porch and went straight
to the table with the water buckets and the washpan on
it. He wet a hand towel and started dabbling at his nose
and the scratches on his cheeks and neck. He could hear
his mother humming softly in the kitchen and he could
hear and smell some meat frying.

The dipper clanked against the bucket, and his
mother called out, "Is .that you, Danny?" You come on
in here and get on that homework, you're late getting
home from school."

"I ain't got no homework, mama," Danny retorted,
"this is Christmas holidays. Don't you remember, we
ain't got to go back to school 'til January 5th and Miss
Vause didn't give us no homework."

"Well, get on in here anyway," his mother said as
she opened the door. She started to say something else,
but her voice trailed away When she saw him.

"Just look at you," she said. You get into this house
right now."

"I swear, your poor daddy works his fingers to the
bone in that mill to pay for your clothes and you don't
oare a thing about them. Just look at those overalls. And
look at your coat. And just look at those cuts and scratch-
es. You get undressed right now."

Danny knew what was coming next because he saw
her reaching for the yardstick.

After his mother had settled down, and with his
behind still tingling, Danny asked his mother, "Don't you
even want to know what I was fighting about?"

"What was it this time," she snapped, as she work-
ed a short, sharp paring knife around the potatoes she
would fry for supper.

"Well," Danny started, "now, don't get mad at me,
but ol' Johnny Alcorn said there ain't no such person as
Sanny Claws. It's just your mama and daddy." He had
blurted it our rapidly, and looked at the linoleum covered
kitchen floor as he did.

Danny raised his eyes slowly when he realized his
mother hadn't said anything. He looked at her and there
were tears in her eyes.

"Johnny told you that," she said.

"Yessum," Danny replied. "He did, and Skinny and
Junior and even ol' Gene said so, too."

Geneva Hart's mind raced quickly through Danny's
childhood. She remembered bringing him home from the
hospital. His first day at school. All the times with the
measles, mumps and even the whooping cough.

We should have told him, she thought. I know Ro-
bert was right, now. But he is our only child, and . . .

"Let me tell you something, Danny, she began,
"you know that we give each other presents at Christmas
time because we love each other, and because we're fol-
lowing God's example. He gave us Jesus many, many
years ago."

"Yessum, I know that," Danny said, "But, is there
a Sanny Claws?"

"You just listen to me another minute," his mother
said, and putting down the pot of potatoes, she stretched
out her arms and Danny moved easily into her embrace.

Geneva Hart's eyes glistened with tears as she start-
ed again, "As long as people on this Earth love each
other enough to give gifts to each other without any
thought of getting something in return, and as long as
there are children on this Earth who love their parents
and are loved by their parents, there'll be a Santa Claus."

"Don't let people tell you that there's no Santa Claus
just because you don't see him," she continued. You
can't see the wind, but it makes your kites fly, doesn't it?"

"Santa Clause is the Spirit of Christmas. He's our
way of saying that we love each other and you believe
in him just as long as you believe in people and in giv-
ing for the pure love of it."

His mother looked down at Danny and saw that she
had his rapt attention. She saw that his mouth had fallen
open slightly and that he was nodding his head slowly.

"I don't have anything else to tell you, Danny," she
said, "except that I love you and I want you to forget
any differences you have with Johnny."

Geneva smiled at her son, ran her hand lovingly
over his thick blond hair and looked into his blue eyes.

I still haven't answered all his questions, she thought.
I can tell.

Danny Hart tried to enjoy his Christmas holiday. He
played basketball in the gym at the YMCA. He played

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"kick-the-oan" and "rabbit and dog" in die big broom-
straw fields near the mill. He played football and literal-
ly bathed in the freedom from books and the discipline of
school.

He saw Skinny and Gene and Junior every day. They
never mentioned his fight with Johnny. He even saw ol'
Johnny, and on the fifth day of vacation got into a game
of basketball with him. Neither he nor Johnny mentioned
their fight. Neither talked about Sanny Claws, either.
There wasn't even the usual question, "What do you
want for Christmas?" It was pointedly avoided.

But all this time, there was a gnawing feeling in the
pit of Danny's stomach. He knew something wasn't right,
and it wouldn't be until he could do some investigating
and put his doubts to rest once and for all.

Just two nights before Christmas Danny made up
his mind. He knew what he'd do. He made his final re-
solve as he lay on his back in his bed with his hands be-
hind his head. Even with 'his eyes open, he could see vi-
sions of Santa Clans. Christmas was getting closer, but
it wasn't like all the other times before. The edge was
gone and Danny felt sort of empty inside.

"I'll do it," he whispered to himself, and then turn-
ing oveT onto his side and pulling the cover up around
his ears, he was soon asleep.

Christmas Eve found Danny keeping mostly to him-
self and rather quiet. He left the yard only once all day.
He was polite to his Aunt Maude, and to his grandpar-
ents when they came to call. He even helped his daddy
carry up some logs for the fireplace, carried several buc-
kets of water from the neighborhood pump and pulled
home a five-gallon can of kerosene for the cook stove
from Thomases' store in his Radio Flyer wagon. But most-
ly he just played catch by himself, throwing a little red
ball up onto the roof and catching it when it rolled off.

His mother asked him several times, "You all right,
Danny, you're awful quiet today."

"Yessum, I'm okay," he said.

"Just can't get the Christmas spirit, can you?", she
said, and he noticed a touch of sympathy in her voice.

"No m'am, I guess I can't," he said, and walked slowly
around the house toward the railroad.

Across the cut he saw old man Cooke taking his cow
from the big field where he'd had her stobbed out to the
rickety building he called a stable.

"Christmas gift," old man Cooke hollered to Danny.

"Christmas gift, Mr. Cooke," Danny returned. It
was an old saying and Danny didn't know exactly what
it meant, but when Mr. Cooke and Mr. DeHart and all
the other said it to him, he replied in kind, always smiling.

After chunking a few rocks across the railroad tracks,
Danny watched old man Cooke lead the cow into the
stable, and then he turned and walked back to the house.
It wouldn't be too long before it got dark now, and he
was going to bed early. He had a plan to put into oper-
ation.

Danny savored the almost medicinal smell of the
lifebouy soap he used in his bath. The kitcbren was
warm and steamy and he washed until he feared he might

get some of the hide off. Then he dried off on a big fluffy
towel and got into the pajamas his Aunt Maude had
given him.

It couldn't hurt to sleep in them one night out of
the year, even though he preferred sleeping raw in the
summer and in his long-johns in the winter. Aunt Maude
always said to sleep in your underwear was "disgusting".
He laughed to himself.

It was nine-o'clock now. Robert Hart had read the
Christmas Story from the Bible. Geneva had given him
hot chocolate and Moravian cookies and now Danny
yawned and stretched.

"Sleepy, son?", his father asked. Sleepy so soon?"

"Yessir, I sure am," Danny replied. Is it okay with
y'all if I hit the hay?"

"Sure, boy," his father said, and smiling added, "soon-
er you're in bed and asleep, the sooner ol' Santa Claus
will be here."

Then a knowing look passed betwen Robert and
Geneva Hart. Danny said nothing, but came across the
room to kiss his mother goodnight.

"Night, Mama. 'Night, Daddy," he said quickly, peck-
ing his mother on the cheek. His father hit him a light
tap on the shoulder and said, "See you tomorrow morn-
ing, Dan. Sleep tight."

Danny walked across the cold hall and into his bed-
room. It was a cold, crisp night and his teeth chattered as
he climbed into his bed. Boy, these covers sure feel good
in this unheated room, he thought.

I'm not going to sleep, he told himself over and over.

Way off in the distance he heard firecrackers going
off. He could hear the Mackston to Kenton train whis-
tle. It sounded mournful and alone, and Danny scrunched
deeper under the covers as a shiver ran through his body.

Somewhere closer by he could hear a group of carol-
ers. And from across the hall he could hear his mother
and father talking in quiet tones. Their voices came to
him muffled and he wondered what they were talking
about. He heard glasses and plates being put
down in the kitchen. He heard 'his mother say something
and his daddy say clearly, "no, dear, no more to eat
for me".

Danny strained to stay awake. He worked at it, but
the warmth of the bed was getting to him and so was
the dark. It seemed like ages since he'd heard anything
from across the hall. Then, suddenly, he heard someone
at his door. He closed his eyes tightly and pretended to
be asleep. Judging from the light step, it was his mother.
Whoever it was opened the door slightly, stood there for a
moment listening to his regular, steady breathing, then
closed the door and left.

Danny waited for what seemed an eternity, then,
throwing back the covers, he got out of bed. The cold floor
sent shock waves up his legs and his teeth chattered. He
shivered.

Quietly, Danny opened his door, moved across the
hall and slowly are carefully opened the door to the sit-
ting room. The fire crackled in the fireplace. The lights
winked on and off on the big cedaT tree. The room was
warm and inviting, but empty.

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Danny noticed with a start that there was not the
first present under the tree.

Puzzled, he walked as carefuly as he could back
into the hall and down toward his parent's bedroom. He
stopped and stood stock still for a long time when a board
in the hall floor creaked loudly. Then, he went on.

Knowing that he could get his backslide warmed plen-
ty good with that old army belt of his daddy's, Danny
opened the bedroom door anyway. His mother and father
were sound asleep. Or at least they appeared to be. He
stood there as long as he dared, then closed the door and
walked quietly back to the sitting room. It was still warm
and empty. Then, he noticed for the first time the milk
and cookies left as usual for Santa. The clock on the
mantel said 11:30. Danny walked back to his bedroom and
slid between the sheets.

He thought to himself, I'm not going to get anything
for Christmas. Mama's mad at me for what I said about
Johnny telling me that there ain't no Sanny Claws. She
knew I didn't really believe what she told me about it.
And she's mad about me fighting.

Danny felt as cold and alone as that train whistle had
sounded earlier. He hunched himself into a ball under
the covers and tried to shut out all the bad things that
had happened the last few days. Soon, he was drifted in-
to the never-never land between sleep and wakefulness,
and then, from across the hall, he heard a thump and
something tinkling Then, another thump. Danny came
wide awake.

As quickly as he could he bolted from his bed, ig-
noring the cold this time. He would know once and for
all, no matter what the consequences, whether there was
a Sanny Claws. Danny jerked open his door just in time
to see the front door closing, quickly but quietly.

Was that a flash of red he had seen? Was that the
heel of a black boot? He raced quietly to the front door
and opened it. The cold air swept into the hall and sent
a chill over Danny's body. He shuddered. Looking into
the clear, cold night, Danny could see no one. He heard
nothing. The mill village was quiet.

As he turned to go back into the house, Danny heard
a dog bark down toward the river, and somewhere a burst
of Chinese firecrackers sputtered into the night air. He
shivered again and hurried back into the house.

Closing the front door, Danny walked quietly back to
his parent's room. Opening the door, he saw that they
still appeared to be sleeping soundly. Then he walked
back to the sitting room, opened the door slowly and
stepped into the warm, inviting room.

In the shimmering warm, orangle glow of the fireplace
and the winking red, blue and green lights of the Christ-
mas tree, Danny stood entranced. There around the tree
were presents. Some were wrapped, some were not.

There was the set of Gene Autry capbusters he had
asked for, and his ukelele. And Mama had got her bed-
room slippers and Daddy had a new shotgun. There was
even a book of poems for Aunt Maude, and much more.

The milk and cookies! Danny looked at an empty
glass and an empty saucer.

Danny Hart was a thoroughly confused but very
happy young man. He went to sleep saying to himself

over and over, "Thank you . . . thank you . . . thank
you ..."

The next morning, after the traditional brains and
eggs Christmas breakfast, Danny bolted for the tree,
calling to his parents, "Come on Mama; Y'ali come on
and see what Sanny Claws brought us".

He was beside himself with glee, but not so much
so that Danny did not again see that knowing look pass
between his parents. But then Danny became too wrapped
up in his unbridled joy to bother with thinking.

A little later, Danny asked his parents if he could go
see what some of the othejr kids got. With a "sure, son"
from his father, Danny ran from the house and up the
street toawrd Gene's house.

Still later, after Mrs. Hart had yelled, "Dan-nee"
several times into the crisp December day, Danny was
sitting at the old round dinner table with his head bowed
as his father said grace over turkey with cornbread dress-
ing and all the other delicious food his mother had prepar-
ed for Christmas.

When his father had said "amen", they all raised
their heads and Geneva, looking at her son, said, "What's
the matter with you? You look like you're about to bust
to laugh."

The look on his face must have been infectious. His
parents both began to laugh, and so did he.

"Merry Christmas, son," his father said. His mother
nodded, her laughter subsiding.

"Merry Christmas to y'all, too," Danny said as he
choked back more laughter.

He ate with a big smile on his face and looked for-
ward to supper at grandma Hart's house and breakfast
tomorrow at grandma Gentry's.

Up the street Skinny Massey was asking Johnny
Alcorn, "What happened to your eye?"

"01' Danny Hart came up here a while ago," Johnny
said. "He ran up to me and yelled 'Christmas Gift', and
then hit me as hard as he could. He was gone before I
could catch him."

Skinny looked down the street and shook his head
slowly.

5

Newhouse Receives High
Honor from CAP.

On Tuesday, November 26 in his office in Raleigh,
Governor Dan Moore went about the serious business ol
presenting one of the Civil Air Patrol's highest awards to
1st Lt. James Orr Newhouse. The Falcon Award signifies
high achievement in the CAP.

In the brief but impressive ceremony, Governor
Moore handed young Newhouse a plaque and pinned a
medal on an already crowded chest. This is only the
33rd such award made in the 27-year history of the vol-
unteer air organization.

Newhouse, who holds a private pilot's lioense, is a
senior engineering student at North Carolina State Univer-
sity and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Newhouse
of 2331 Byrd Street, Raleigh.

Mrs. Newhouse is editor of ROADWAYS.

A Letter

State of Ohio
Department of Highways
Columbus, Ohio 43216
James A. Rhodes
Governor

P. E. Masheter J. W. Wilson

Director Chief Engineer

November 12, 1968
The Hon. Dan K. Moore, Governor
State of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602
Dear Governor:

I am writing you because of the
very fine treatment accorded my mo-
ther-in-law and her sisters while re-
cently traveling through your fine
state.

They were traveling near Waynes-
ville, North Carolina on Thursday,
October 24, 1968, when they had a
flit tire. They were unaware that they
were being followed by two of your
people, who had noticed that the tire
was about to go flat. When the tire
went, Mr. George S. Willoughby, Jr.,
Secondary Roads Officer and Mr.
Keith Hundley, Public Relations Of-
ficer, were on the scene and the la-
dies were in the good hands of two
fine gentlemen. Although they were
on their way to a meeting, they took
the necessary time to prove once
again that nothing can top "South-
ern Hospitality".

On behalf of the ladies, allow me
to extend my most sincere apprecia-
tion for a most courteous job well
done, and personal thanks to Messrs.
Willoughby and Hundley.

Respectfully yours,

/s/ Richard C. Crawford,

Director of Personnel

Ohio Department of Highways

We Liked

State of Noirth Carolina
Governor's Office
Raleigh

Dan K. Moore
Governor

November 15, 1968
Mr. Richard C. Crawford
Director of Personnel
Ohio Department of Highways
Post Office Box 899
Columbus, Ohio 43216
Dear Mr. Crawford:

In the absence of Governor Moore,
who is out of the country until week
after next, I am acknowledging your
letter of November 12.

Your letter will be brought to the
Governor's attention on his return,
and I know he will appreciate hearing
of the assistance which Messrs. Wil-
loughby and Hundley gave your mo-
ther-in-law and her sisters during
their recent trip in North Carolina.
He will be happy to learn of your
thanks and appreciation.

In order that Messrs. Willoughby
and Hundley may receive appropriate
recognition, a copy of your letter is
being forwarded to Mr. J. M. Hunt,
Jr., Chairman of the State Highway
Commission. The Governor's com-
mendation for these gentlemen will
go along with yours.
Sincerely,

/s/ Thomas H. Walker
Administrative Assistant
oc: The Hon. J. M. Hunt, Jr.

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N.C.H.C.E.A. ASSOCIATION NEWS
% MERRY CHRISTMAS

A HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
MAY 1969 BE THE GREATEST EVER!

Luther Berrier, President; C. L. ("Dick") Brewer, First Vice President; Lonnie F. Dail, Second Vice Pres-
ident; Virginia Williamson, Secretary-Treasurer; Otis Banks, Executive Secretary and David King, Administra-
tive Assistant.

Ghost Hounds of the
Siamese Ridges

By EDGAR H. CASE

You will not bear them when the
moon shines bright. They will not
race across those dreary nidges, hoi-
lows and flat stretches when (the night
sky is blue and the stars situd the
firmaments with a million twinkling
diamonds. They will not break a
serene quietness with their silver
voices in musical cadence as they
chase their quarry toward the moun-
tains. But let the night become the
blackest, let the weather put on its
most tempestous show, let the rains
or snows ride rampant on the wings
of a wild- wild wind not good for
man or beast, and you may venture
to stick your head out of the door and
listen. There is one chance in a hun-
dred that you wil hear the GHOST
HOUNDS of the SIAMESE RID-
GES.

The Siamese Ridges are as true
as God made them. A vast section of
a thousand ridges, hollows and flat
sections of thick-wooded lands that
have confused many a hunting man's
sense of direction and left him hope-
lessly lost until the rising of the sun.
Only the most daring fox hunters
have ventured far into these woods
on black nights when the Ghost
Hounds might run.

Old folks living near the Siamese
Ridges believe the tale told by one
of the earliest settlers. They keep
the legend alive. A long while ago a
stalwart man little known among his
fellowmen, and living in a shack
near the river, had six magnificent
fox hounds whose voices blended into
such beautiful cadence that the heart
of the most exacting fox hunters
thrilled to their chase. It was said
that the man who owned the dogs
had the strength of a bear and the
speed of a deer. He could run with
his dogs. However this be, the last
live race known of the Ghost Hounds
and their owner happened on a night
when a great storm raged and the
rain-burdened blackness was ripped
to shreds by lightning. The race
started back at the river and led
straight through the Siamese Ridges.
The dogs as black as the night itself,
were in great voice that night, and

the wary old fox was leading them a
merry chase. He was headed toward
an old mine at the foot of the hills.
There was hardly a break in the
thrilling music of the voices of the
hounds as they went from hearing
into the old mine. Then the tooting
of a horn wafted through the black
night, only to be shattered by a
mighty bolt of lightning that struck
near the mouth of the mine. There
was the sound as of falling dirt,
rock and timbers, then only the wail-
ing of the storm winds.

It was quite a while before the old
man who told this tale heard the
Hounds again. This time he saw
them on one of them stormy black
nights. They were snow-white and
seemed to literally float in perfect
order and timing through the ele-
ments as they followed their quarry.
Their owner, not far behind, was also
white like his hounds.

Years later the mine was re-open-
ed and beneath the fallen earth, rocks
and timber were found bones of both
dogs and a human being. The fox per-
haps escaped. But the Ghost Hounds
with their owner still run through
the Siamese Ridges — on nights
when man has no business to be out-
side.

New Building at
Holding Tech

Holding Technical Institute has
taken another giant step forward in
its development. On November 12,
1968 newspapers carried advertise-
ments for bids on a new building
scheduled to be completed in the
fall of 1969. Bids will be opened De-
cember 11, 1968 at 2:30 P.M. at the
Institute.

The new building, so necessary to
meet the student load currently en-
rolled at the institute, will alleviate
some of the overcrowded condition
now prevalent on the campus. It will
be the second large facility in the
long-range plans for the school, but
the fifth building to be constructed
on the campus.

Due to an 1100% increase in the
student enrollment since Holding
Tech opened in 1963 with 57 stu-
dents, the Board of Trustees and
the administration have been "hard
put" to keep up with the space re-
quirements of the ever increasing
student body. A full-time day curric-
ula student body of 617 taxes the
present facilities to the limit, and
classes this year had to be expanded
from a five-day to a six-day schedule.

The combination classroom and fa-
culty offices facility will be situated
on the southwest quadrant of the
school property, slightly forward and
to the right of the present main
building as you enter the campus.
Housed within this building, on the
first floor, will be a completely mo-
dern data processing center with tem-
perature and humidity controlled es-
pecially for the computers. The school
now has a 1401 computer complex and
looks forward to expanding into third
generation computers when this space
is available.

The second floor will house the Sec-
retarial Science and Business Admin-
istration Departments, and the top
floor will be given over to general
classroom space and faculty offices.
At the present time the faculty is
scattered throughout the school wher-
ever a few extra feet of space can be
found for a desk.

The new building is to have an
area of approximately 26,000 square
feet, is to be of concrete construction,
and will be financed with Federal,
State, and Local funds.

8

Where Roads Don't Run

By EDGAR H. CASE

A super highway spiraling reckless-
ly through our beloved hills is a
thing of matchless beauty, and it is
a blessing to humanity. But often such
a boon to man's ease and comfort
destroys the site of some legend held
dear in the hearts of old folks and
passed down through generations.
But this is a tale of a place of mys-
tery and much talk that will never be
touched by a highway. Call it Cedar
Cliffs, call it The Jangle Hole, or
even the Devil's Smokehouse. They
are all there. You will never go there,
unless you live in the rugged moun-
tains of western North Carolina and
have developed leg muscles of coiled
steel and a constitution to match,
along wiith a keen enjoyment of ex-
ploring the hidden, and almost for-
bidden, wonders of wild lature where
God had thrown down the remnants
of bis work sack when he finished the
parts of the world for man to inha-
bit.

Cedar Cliffs is a vertiable rock
mountain of conspicuous beauty and
awe-inspiring grandieur high in the
smokey blue elements of a mountain
range in Polk County. Tucked away
in heavy woodlands and a terrain
suitable only for mountain goats,
wild cats and rattlesnakes, you reach
this scenic spot through curiosity,
youthful dare and adventure. Or may-
haps to verify tales and legends of
this place you have heard since child-
hood. This factor sent Bill, Jake and
I on our trip.

Yes, almost exhausted from hours
of walking and climbing over one hill
after another along treacherous paths,
around narrow ledges through rat-
tlesnake country, we were on top of
a long, curving ridge. Just ahead and
below we saw the awesome cliffs. An
almost perpendicular rock face almost
a mile long and hundreds of feet high.
Only a fissure here and there broke
the smooth surface of the cliffs. In
one such seam a cedar grew, giving
the cliffs their name.

We stood and looked at the far end
of the rock range and talked of the
racoon hunter who fell from the very
top and lodged in the branches of a
huge oak far below. It was a miracle
that he lived. But he had never put
aside his wheel chair.

By a long, hazardous descent, we
went down to the foot of the cliffs to
see the Jangle Hole and the Devil's
Smokehouse. At the mouth of the
cave leading to those places a big
rattlesnake lay in our path, as if to
guard the cave. But we battered bis
head and moved forward. A swarm
of bats rushed out with a startling
whir. We paused to look into the dark
cavity to our left. "It's the Jangle
Hcle," Bill exclaimed. "Don't get
close to it. It has no bottom."

We had heard that men had explor-
ed the solid rock cavity to a depth of
a thousand feet and found no bottom.
There was a legend that a very small
Indian man had crawled far into the
cave far below and found the bottom
of the Jangle Hole. He reported
finding a large pile of bones, some
of humans, and pieces of clothes.
Bill, Jake and I toted rocks as large
as we could lift and dropped them
into the hole. They gave back a jang-
ling noise as they went out of hearing.
We went farther into the Devil's
Smokehouse. The fear of more rattle-
snakes and the whir of startled bats
turned us back.

We had enough adventure for the
day. We climbed back to the top of
the mountain and headed for home.
A black storm cloud was fast rising
in the southwest. Thunder was roll-
ing over the hills and lightning was
forking up the sky. An old wire fence
rank along out trail. In many places
the lightning had jumped off this
fence and plowed deep furrows in
the ground. We ran to get away from
the fence. "I don't want to be near
this fence when that storm gets
close," Jake said.

"Lightning strikes often where
there is gold," I said. "This moun-
tain has gold in it."

"Please, let's not dig for it today,"
Bill said. "Some other day."

"POWDER PUFF" MECHANICS
LEARN TO KEEP FAMILY CAR
IN GOOD REPAIR

Congressional hearings on the car
repair business have brought out re-
ports that "automobile repair opera-
tions prey on gullible women, pass off
rebuilt parts as new ones, jack up
prices. ..."

There are fourteen ladies in the Ra-
leigh area today who will not fall into
the "gullible women" category, for
they are students in Holding Techni-
cal Institute's "Powder Puff" Me-
chanics course being taught at the
school by N. H. Braxton of O'Neal
Motors. They are learning to recog-
nize the parts of an automobile, to
know proper repair procedures, and
to diagnose the most common prob-
lems of the family car. They will also
please their husbands and go easier
on the family poeketbook because of
a greater knowledge of the care a
car must receive in order for it to re-
main the faithful family bus. These
"powder puffs" will be able to spot
mechanical trouble areas and see that
they are properly repaired before the
problem goes too deep and more cost-
ly repairs are necessary.

When the course is completed these
mechanicettes will know what major
and minor tune-ups consist of, the
types of repairs that are necessary in
relation to mileage driven, tire care
and how to change that unexpected
"flat", and many safe driving points
that are now casually ignored.

"POWDER PUFF MECHANICS"
Class Roster
Ada L. Dupree, Angier
May A. Arnold, Cary
Cristel Burns Miller, Cary
Julia Rebecca Wilson, Gary
June Rose Barfield, Garner
Anne H. Lee, Garner
Mary E. Weaver, Garner
Josephine Morris Jeffreys, Raleigh
Sara Harper Jerome, Raleigh
Mary Rose King, Raleigh
Carol Jean Landis, Raleigh
Ila Mae Mishoe, Raleigh
Sara Gardner Seagle, Raleigh
Margaret D. Smith, Raleigh

9

The Making of an Engineer

There she was. A big broad white
and green ribbon of concrete and
grass gracefully swinging its way
down through Grubbers Cove and Pa's
sixty acres. A five million dollar man-
made ornament where once there was
only rugged ugliness. I stood with
head high and a bit of pride in my
heart when I thought of the part I
had had in bringing (this dream of
men, some long gone, to Grubbers
Cove. Yes, I had looked through that
transit and waved men around, I had
scaled the cliffs, I had swung the
brush axe in the thick laurels. I had
felt the sting of cold, the fatigue of
all-day climbing, the pride of seeing
the finish of our job.

But what would Pa say about it if
he stood here today? "Never saw
anything to beat it!" he'd twist his
long mustache. "She's a humdinger."
Or maybe, "It ain't worth a damn to
me. Split my sixty acres to hell-and-
gone, tore up my best still site, and
now I can't get my mule and wagon
on or off it! Only serves rich folks
with big cars on their way to New
York or Miami!" Well, Pa had his
ideas, I had some of my own.

It was a day almost fifty years ago
when I got a hankering to be the
man behind one of them three-legged
things called a transit. Pa walked
right up to that railroad surveyor at
the instrument and said. "Mister, let
me look through that dadburned
thing. Heard you could see a gnat's

— by—
EDGAR H. CASE

eyelashes a thousand feet away witih
it."

The man swung the instrument
around and pointed it at a dead tree
on a mountain four miles away. He
tightened some screws on it, turned to
Pa and said, "Take a look, fellow
and tell me what you see."

"I'll be dadblamed!" Pa said. "It's
a hawk in a dead tree watching my
chickens. Look, son."

I spotted the big bird. "Four miles
away," I said.

"Got to have me one of them
things," Pa declared. "I'd put Abe on
a ridge above my still with it and he
could see the revenue officers coming
six miles away." Pa always called me
Abe.

"Better send your boy to school,"
the man said. "He could leam to run
one of these things and make good
money."

"Exactly what I want to do," I
said. "It shore is."

Me and Pa talked about it all the
way to town. "Help me run off three
or four batches of corn mash, Abe,
and I'll give you part of the liquor
money," he finally broke down. "You
can go across the mountain to Stearns
with your oousin Clanny, and start
learning. "Maybe someday you'll get
a good road across my sixty acres."

"I will, Pa." I promised. "I shore
will."

Clanny came on an afternoon. I
had two big suitcases packed full —
but not many clothes. It was fifteen
miles across the mountains to Stearns
by trail. Wasn't many roads them
days. We lugged them suitcases up
and down hills and hollows until they
felt like two anvils. But we finally
reached Stearns. Clanny had a sort
of a stall in the corner of an old
abandoned school building. It had a
bed, a table and a chair. I threw down
a suitcase on the floor. It flew open
and out popped my five-pound dumb-
bells, Indian clubs, boxing gloves, wire
exercisers and a dozen books on phy-
sical development. My thirty-eight lay
exposed in the suitcase.

Clanny's eyes popped out on stems.
"Abe, you are the prize bone-head of
Grubbers Cove! Why did you lug that
stuff over them mountains? The gym
is full of it. And that gun — Are you
going to shoot teachers? There are
no revenue officers here!"

Yes, I was dumb, but they let me
enter school. I was on my way. In a
few years I'd be looking through a
dadburned transit, toting maps,
books and big Mowed up pictures. I'd
be rubbing shoulders with — Hell, I'd
be looking through that legged-ins'tru-
ment and telling fellows what to do.

Next day I whipped the bully of
the school with my boxing gloves. I
got in a basketball game, grabbed the
referee by the head and nearly
threw him through the basket. He was
the coach. Later they handed me a
baseball and sent me out to the
mound. The first team was going to
murder me. They didn't get a bat on
the ball. Looked like grandpa fighting
off hornets. But I threw the ball over
•the head of the catcher through an
open window into the girls' dormitory.
Big Bess threw it out, but she couldn't
sit on a bench natural for a week.
They tried me in the outfield. I made
a beautiful catch on the edge of a
twenty-foot deep ditch full of rubbish.
The bank broke off and it took the
team half an hour to get me out of
there. "Boys, let him bat once," the

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coach said. The pitcher threw me a
high, hard one. I swung, the next
minute the plate glass in the com-
munity store four-hundred and fifty
feet away was falling out. "That does
it, Abe. From now on you will stick
to your books!" the coach said.

I would have. I wanted to get be-
hind that transit. But Pet walked
right into my class and turned her
liquid brown eyes on me. Here was a
figure I'd never seen on a black-board.
Shapely without flaw, one beautiful
curve melting into another — perfec-
tion. Suddenly I was lost in her
charms. I was wafted into am atmos-
phere where I was weightless like a
feather in a breeze. I adored her fluf-
fy bobbed brown hair, the twist of
her hips. Her smile seemed only for
me. I was trapped. I could whip the
biggest boy in school, I could lift
the heaviest weight, I could throw the
fastest ball, but this I couldn't han-
dle. We became as attached as two
flies in a honey jar. I walked her
home, bought her candy and gum, let
her see my roll of liquor money. She
was mine, mine — I thought.

It was Friday the day before the
big party at the girls' dormitory. I
saw Pet in a T-Model Ford with a
curly-haired boy from Saluda. They
looked at me as they talked. I knew
those Saluda boys would tomahawk
me, but I thought that I had Pet las-
soed and tied to the gate-post. But
when she was alone I headed for her
to make sure I had a date with her
for the party. Her big brown eyes
seemed full of animosity. "Abe, you
didn't tell me the truth about your-
self!" she beat me to words. "You live
way - way back in the hills. You have
to swing down on a grapevine and
cross a footlog to get home! Your dad
runs a still. You've been spending
liquor money on me — !"

For a moment I was stunned. A
revenue officer couldn't have shot my
heart out any quicker. Then the fire
lit up in me. "You are nothing but a
flapper!" I said. "You're bold, you're
a teaser! That bobbed hair marks you!
I came here to get an education, you
lured me into your net. You had no
business turning them brown eyes on
me. You had no business shaking
them shapely hips like a hulu dancer
when near me. I've got red blood in
me! Go on to the party with that cur-
ley-haired romeo! He's a moma's pet,
never struck a lick of work in his
life— "

She started walking away from me,
big tears showing in her eyes. "Good-
bye, Abe," she said.

"Good-bye, Pet," I said.

I turned and walked away as fast
as I could. There was only one thing
to do now; go home and get hold of
some of Pa's hundred-proof conn li-
quor. I'd wash this stuff out of my
system. I didn't bother to tell Clanny
I was gone. My long legs ate up
ground like a hungry fox chasing a
fat rabbit. Soon I was on top of War-
rior Mountain where white men and
Indians had killed each other. It was
getting dark and there was an eerie
feel in the atmosphere. I hollered
just as big as I could to brace up
my sagging spirits. Something over in
the dark woods answered me back.
I didn't like the tone. I yelled again
as loud and mean-like as I could.
I wouldn't be out hollered by any-
thing. That thing came back with an
answering holler that made the hair
stand on my head. And it was getting
closer. I set out in a run. I didn't
want any more to do with that thing.

When I got to the grapevine me
and Olanny had used to get down
over a cliff it had been cut down. I
had to go way around. I reached the
river to find the footlog had washed
away. But nothing was going to stop
me tonight. I jumped in the icy water
and waded across. When in sight of
the house I saw a dim light through
the front window.

Ma called from the bed over in the
corner when I pushed open the
squeaky front door. Is that you,
Jake?"

I saw 'that there was only a tiny
spark of fire in the fireplace, and all
the younguns had gone to bed. "It's
Abe, Ma," I said. "Where is Pa? Why
is the fire out? Are you sick?"

"Jake's been off in the stillhouse
two days and nights," Ma said. "He
plumb forgot it was my time."

"Another baby, ma, and you ain't
got no doctor! I'll go fetch doctor
Golette. I'll start a fire first and get
Lana up to keep it going."

"You'll run your legs off, Abe. And
poor Lana is worn out."

I went out and grabbed anything I
could find that would burn, and soon
had a fire going. I put Ma's big cast-
iron pot by the fireplace and filled
it with water. With Lana watching, I
lit out to town after Dr. Golette. It
was six miles up and over a mountain.
I caught Dr. Golette coming home
in his buggy from another baby case.
"It's Abe, Jake's boy," he said.
"Know what you want. I'll tell my

old woman and we'll be on the way.
You can ride with me."

Me and the doc talked a lot about
the crooked road to Grubbers Cove.
I told him I was off in school study-
ing to be an engineer, and that some-
day I'l help put a good road into the
cove. "Fine, my boy," he said. "I can
just see you looking through that
transit." Made me feel proud.

Dr. Golette put his horse in the
stable and threw an armful! of Pa's
corn to it. He got right busy and his
job was soon over. He found a bottle
of Pa's liquor, had him a big drink
and sat down to smoke his pipe be-
fore the fireplace.

Pa came in about that time. He
was all red-eyed and smoked black.
He set a keg of moonshine down on
the floor and said, "Whose horse is
that eating up all my corn out there?
Oh, hello Doc. I plumb forgot about
Peggy—"

"You would, Jake. You've forgotten
to name all your younguns. What are
you going to call Big-baby?"

"I'll think of something," Pa said.
"Abe, why ain't you in school? Have
a big drink. You're wet."

Next day I headed back to Stearns
early. Wanted to get over Warmer
Mountain before that hollering thing
came out. I was going to keep my
head in my books from now on.

Well, I did for a while. Then Kitty
came to school and into my class. One
look at her reconstructed everything
in me that Pet had torn down. Tall,
willowy, dark, supple, blue eyes be-
hind long lashes. And those eyes
were for me. 'You are the new boy
who came to school with Clanny.
They have told me about you — "

"I'm glad to meet you," I mutter-
ed. Yes, I was gone again. A big corn-
fed country boy with his red blood
tempered with hundred-proof corn
whiskey has a tough time studying to
be an engineer — in a setting like
this.

No, I didn't make it to college. A
flash flood washed Pa's still away and
crippled his left leg. I bad to go
back to Grubbers Cove, but I got a
job with some surveyors on a water-
power project. It took time but I got
behind that dadburned transit. I wav-
ed men around, toted books and maps
and pictures. I rubbed shoulders
with —

Hell, I looked through that transit.
Yes, there she is gracefully voluptous-
ly, recklessly tearing up Pa's sixty
acres. I saw it happen.

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Requirements For Registration as Senior Member of the
American Right Of Way Association

Five (5) years specific experience
in right of way acquisition at the
journeyman level (journeyman level
is defined as being a level of educa-
tional and experience which enables
the agent to operate independently in
those areas of the field of right of
way except for supervision in policy
making and personnel administration
and requires 4 years).

Five (5) years general experience
in activities related to right of way
such as public relations, surveying,
real estate appraising, property man-
agement, title examination experience,
right of way clearance, or real estate
brokerage, (total years, 14).

AH right of way experience claimed
by the applicant must be verified in
writing by his employer.

Recommendations from three (3)
members of the American Right of
Way Association who know the appli-
cant personally and can attest to his
worthiness and his adherence to the
ethical standards prescribed in the
Code of Ethics of American Right of
Way Association.

South Carolina by Wilkens Norwood,
M. A. I, and a member of the Na-
tional Education Committee of the
American Right of Way Association
and are as follows:

J. G. Gibbs, Registration Number
191

W. J. Murray, Registration Num-
ber 274

J. P. Rae, Registration Number 279

H. K. Eades, Registration Number
304

Gone are the days of the "claim
adjuster". Back in the early 20's dur-
ing the Highway Commission's first
bond construction program, all right
of way claims through-out the State
were handled, first by one man and
then, later by dividing the State into
two areas and assigning two men to
this .task. These men were "claim ad-
justers" only. Today, the Right of
Way Department has grown to more
than 100 Right of Way Agents ac-

tually negotiating for right of way
throughout the State. No longer are
these men referred to as "claim ad-
justers". They are now considered to
be professionals. Today's negotiator
must be schooled in many fields. First
of all, the negotiator must have ade-
quate knowledge of the appraisal pro-
cess to be able to use an appraisal ef-
fectively in acquiring the right of
way. He, too, must be schooled in
the operation of businesses, farms,
non-profit organizations, residential,
shopping center, filling stations, and
many, many other properties that he
is called upon to acquire. The Amer-
ican Right of Way Association with
chapiters in all of the 50 states, as
well as Canada, recognizes that to-
day's Right of Way Agent must be a
professional. In recognition of the
professional status of the right of way
agent, the American Right of Way
Association has established senior
membership for right of way agents.
(The above requirements for regis-
tration as Senior Member will outline
how the agent can attain to the level
of Senior Member.)

The Applicant must have thorough
knowledge of: laws pertaining to se-
curing right of way, factors involved
in appraising property and principles
underlying the appraisal process, con-
demnation and real property law,
deed and tract restrictions, zoning or-
dinances, tax assessments, easements,
encroachments, effect of economic
trends on value and price of real
property, cost of construction of im-
provements, principles of effective su-
pervision, right of way and construc-
tion plans, successful right of way
negotiations with property owners,
proficient in appraising real property
including severance and consequential
damage, analyze situations accurately
and adopt effective course of action,
prepare clear and concise reports.

Registration numbers are awarded
on a National basis with Canada.

The awards for North Carolina
State Highway Commission employ-
ees were made recently in Greenville,

Left to right: H. K. Eades, J. G. Gibbs, W. J, Murray, John Vourden, J. P.
Rae, G. C. Watson and E. Z. White.

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Maintenance Department

By GEORGE BRINKLEY
MECHANIZATION FOR MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

Someone has said that industry
thrives or dies as a result of the fierce
competition which is a part of the
American way of life; perhaps this is
best illustrated in the story of the
chewing gum business. Throughout
the history of this business the costs
of materials and labor have maintain-
ed pace with other industry, and it
may be assumed that today's price
for a package of gum should range
between forty and fifty cents. Yet,
the price for the past fifty years has
remained at five cents. The reason:
The manufacturers have found a bet-
ter way to do the job. And so it is
with all industry if they are to sur-
vive.

Highway maintenance is a big busi-
ness, and although not dependent up-
on competition for actual survival, it
can become the albatross around the
neck of the taxpayer unless we as-
sume the attitude of industry in find-
ing better, more and efficient methods.
All too often we are content to follow
the procedures of our predecessors;
tradition is our worst enemy.

This article does not present any
spectacular changes in maintenance
needs. It does illustrate studies and
efforts to overcome conditions which
came as a result of progressive and
radical changes in the administration
of the Penal System in North Caro-
lina toward rehabilitation of inmates
which brought about drastic reduc-
tions in the number of prison inmates
for use in highway work. The basic
needs for maintenance are unchanged.
Pavement patching, drainage, vegeta-
tion control and other maintenance
functions remain the same, but some
of the methods have been changed
and improved. Most of the improve-
ments to be discussed are simple, but
now that progress can be evaluated,
the possibilities are almost unlimited.
For perspective, the following back-
ground material is offered:

North Carolina maintains more
than 73,000 miles of roads, of which
some 44,000 miles are paved.

This includes more than 750 miles
of four-lane divided highways and
3,400 miles of system streets in cities
and towns.

Comparison of paid field labor
forces, including Landscape, Signs,
Road Oil and Force Account Con-

struction, in June 1961 with June
1966, reveals the following:

June 1961 June 1966

Permanent employees 4,567 5,009

Temporary employees 1,255 2,667

Prison inmates 5,997 2,702

Total 11,819 10,388

Average mile per employee,

including foreman 6.13 6.98

Total reduction in field forces 1,431

On July 1, 1966, the prison labor
quota was revised to 2,500 inmates,
making a total reduction of approxi-
mately 3,500 since June 1961. We
have eliminated all prison labor in 41
of the 100 counties and employed 950
unskilled laborers to replace them,
and have moved the 2,500 to counties
where unskilled labor is not available,
mostly in the Piedmont section of the
State. Thus, the unskilled work force,
prisoners and unskilled laborers, now
total 3,450 as compared with 5,997
in June 1961. Fortunately, the decline
of available prison inmates was grad-
ual, averaging about 700 per year,
which allowed time for study and
evaluation of machinery for this
work.

Analysis of the work performed by
prison labor revealed that slightly
less than 90% were engaged in three
work areas, viz.; asphalt patching,
drainage (which includes pipe laying,
ditch cleaning, etc.) and vegetation
control (which includes cutting brush
on right of way). Others were assign-
ed work with garages, sign crews,
bridge crews, etc. Approximately 250
honor grade inmates were assigned
to operate mowers in company with
permanent employees in teams of two;
others operated patch rollers with
patch crews, and other small machin-
ery. With the establishment of the
new 2,500 quota, all prison labor has
been eliminated from machinery oper-
ation, from bridge crews, sign crews
and garages.

With the impending prison labor
shortage in 1961, after a study of pos-
sible means of mechanization, several
machines were purchased in modest
quantity, and we shall deal with them
under the work area in which they
were used experimentally.

ASPHALT PATCHING

Unfortunately, no one has yet in-
vented an asphalt patching machine.
However, a study of the procedures

and problems revealed two operations
which could be expedited and the
quality of the work improved:
1. Edge failures (or raveling edges):
These occur predominantly on
the Secondary System, particularly
where the pavement width is less
than 20 feet. Patching edges is te-
dious and time-consuming. One of
the District Engineers developed a
simple slide gadget which more
than quadrupled production and
improved the quality of work.
These slides are simple, easy and
inexpensive to build, and may be
built to any desired width. Origin-
ally, they were used for repair work
only, but now where repairs are
caught up, they are used to
strengthen flexible pavement edges
to prevent raveling or failures. In
many areas, usage of this gadget
is prerequisite to resurfacing or re-
sealing flexible pavements. Inci-
dentally, it works exceptionally
well on paved shoulders which have
settled. These edgers, although rel-
atively simple and inexpensive,
are capable of placing approxi-
mately one mile of material per
hour (on one side) if sufficient
haul trucks are available. Strike-
off blades are adjustable for desir-
ed thickness at outer edge. Periodic
inspections over a period of four
years indicate an edge failure rate
of less than five per cent (5%)
after this treatment.

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Shows condition of raveled edges.

Tack coat with hand spray.

Oiling slide surfaces.

Truck body raised to permit rake'
out with hand rake.

Hand rake deposits material in
front of slide. Raker keeps it evenly
distributed in front of strike-off. Hand
hooks steer front and rear of slide.

Roller stays immediately behind

Inner edge should be rolled first,
placing of material.

Finished edge is ready for traffic.

Five-foot edger with four strike-off
blades. Note first blade has saw-tooth
edge.

Side view showing skids and hopper.

Truck dumps directly into hopper.

u

Crew consists of: Flagman, 2 squee-
gees, 1 raker, 1 sweeper, and 1 utility
man.

Note comparison between two sec-
tions.

Crew consists of: Machine operator,
2 squeegees, 1 raker, and 1 roller
operator.

Note pavement failure in foreground.

Length and thickness of overlay de-
pends upon conditions at each loca-
tion.

Short overlays are more common.

Beginning of operation. Backhoe is
beginning excavation. One laborer is
mixing grout and the other is clean*
ing tail ditches.

Required Personnel and Equipment

Personnel — 1 Foreman, 3 Labor-
ers, 1 Roller Operator, Truck Drivers
as required.

Equipment — 1 Edger-Slide, 1 As-
phalt Kettle, 1 Portable Roller, Trucks
as required.

2. Progressive failures:

(Usually at the quarter-point and
usually due to weak base or drain-
age failure)

This problem is one of which
patch crews find it necessary to re-
turn repeatedly as the pavement
failures continue longituadinally
beyond the first patch. Often these
failures can only be corrected by
digging out unsatisfactory base ma-
terials. However, regardless of the
method employed, it is difficult to
obtain a smooth riding surface over
long patches. We have found that
in most cases, where the base ma-
terials are known to be satisfactory,
both a smooth riding surface and
a stable patch can be accomplished
faster and cheaper by placing a
hot-mix overlay across the entire
width of the paved surface. These
range in length from fifty (50)
feet to three hundred (300) fet,
depending upon the condition of
the surface. This is accomplished
through the use of a small rubber-
tired asphalt finishing machine
which is rotated among the coun-
ties. Planning and scheduling are
essential in order to achieve the
maximum coverage. Two of these
machines have been operated for
almost three years and the results
have been excellent.

In summary, it appears that no ad-
ditional manpower is required because
planned and scheduled operation has
reduced the need for conventional
patch crews in both divisions where
these machines have been used. The
quality of work is superior to hand
patching methods.

MECHANIZED PIPE LAYING

PROCEDURES IN
MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

A study of drainage pipe replace-
ment, or new pipe installation reveal-
ed that under the old procedures the
following personnel and equipment
were needed:

Personnel — 1 Foreman, 1 Truck
Driver, 1 Truck Crane Operation, 10
Prison Inmates.

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Equipment — 1 Truck, 1 Truck
Crane, 1 Trailer, 1 Air Compressor,
2 Pneumatic Tamps, Small tools as
required.

The average installation time un-
der favorable conditions was approxi-
mately four hours. In most cases it
limited the crew to one installation
per day because the trench could not
be left open over-night. Two lines per
day were the absolute maximum. Ex-
periments, time and motion studies
indicated that a three-man crew, us-
ing a backhoe, could excavate, lay the
pipe, grout, tamp and dress the road-
way in one hour and forty-five min-
utes; therefore, increasing production
to four lines per day if necessary. This
procedure was adopted by using the
following:

Personnel — 1 Machine Operator
II, 2 Laborers.

Equipment — 1 Truck, I Backhoe
(with attachments), 1 Air Compres-
sor, 2 Pneumatic Tamps, Small tools
as required.

The backhoe is equinned with Tnsta-
hitch attachments, including a loader
bucket (Photo 1) and a crane boom
(Photo 5). These attachments may
be switched in two minutes, making
the machine more versatile.

The production potential was quad-
rupled and costs were reduced by ap-
proximately fifty per cent (50%). The
procedure is illustrated in the follow-
ing photographs:

MAINTENANCE OF SIDE
DITCHES, TAIL DITCHES
AND LATERAL DITCHES

A review of methods and proced-
ures for the maintenance of drainage
showed that approximately four thou-
sand prison inmates were involved in
cleaning ditches during a large por-
tion of the year. This was usually by
ten-man squads, and generally relat-
ed to tail ditches, lateral ditches, and
cleaning out at the ends of the drain-
age pipe. Most of the side ditches, ex-
cept in the coastal plain regions, were
maintained by motor graders.

Experimental use of special buckets
on backhoes proved that hand labor
could be eliminated on more than half
of this type of work and that one Ma-
chine Operator II, working aune,
could produce approximately the
same amount as three 10-man squads,
or thirty (30) laborers, three (3) fore-
men and three (3) trucks. This is il-
lustrated in the following photo-
graphs:

As the backhoe progresses with ex-
cavation the two laborers begin level-
ing and fine grading.

Excavation fine grading carried out
simultaneously.

At the conclusion of the excavation
one laborer finishes the fine grading
and the other prepares chain and
pipe hook at pipe stockpile.

The first joint is picked up pre-
paratory to laving.

The first joint is placed in the ditch.

Grout is applied to the bell. As
each joint is placed the bell is grout-
ed.

Progressive laying and grouting.

The final joint is placed.

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Grouting is begun on the outside
of the joints. Note that one man has
placed grout at each joint ahead of
the grouting operation.

Grouting is completed and the line
is ready for covering.

The two laborers begin backfilling
and working the soil under the bottom
of the pipe.

Pneumatic tamping.

Pneumatic tamping.

Pneumatic tamping is completed.
Loader bucket has been attached and
backfilling begins.

The tractor is used as a pneumatic
roller.

Waste material is spread and road
is re-opened to traffic.

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Drainage has ceased to function.
(Secondary unpaved roads.)

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One operator and machine covers
drainage needs through entire route
systematically.

Cleaning partially-filled driveway
pipe. (Note special bucket attachment
made from discarded moldboard.)

Special bucket increases production.

Special template on bucket expe>
dites laying of half-pipe.

Sloper attachment on motor grader
has increased quality and production
in maintenance of side ditches.

MOWING AND
VEGETATION CONTROL

This study was divided into two
parts: (1) The problems of mowing
equipment and procedures; and (2)
the problems of brush control with
hand labor and the possible develop-
ment of machinery for this work.

Mowing Equipment consisted of the
conventional farm tractor with a six-
foot sickle cutter bar. Time and mo-
tion studies indicated that under the
most favorable conditions, continuous
mowing (not including travel time,
service time and down time) maxi-

mum production for three hours

averaged 2.9 acres per hour. To make
the shoulder cut, the machine and
operator were exposed to traffic un-
less it was operated against traffic.

The Interstate System and other
four-lane divided highways greatly
increased the acreage and mowing re-
sponsibility and pointed out the need
for considerable increase in machines
and operators.

Nine experimental machines were
developed by attaching a 90-inch ro-
tary mower to the rear of the tractor
on a 3-point hitch. This would appear
to be simple today, but at the time of
the experiment there were problems
in matching the equipment. Once the
experimental machines were proved,
specifications were written which
simplified the matching problems.
The experimental machines could cut
a 13-foot swath and time and motion
studies, as outlined above, indicated
production at 6.25 acres per hour.
This machine is operated completely
off the pavement, thus eliminating
most of the traffic hazards.

As additional segments of the In-
terstate System were completed, ex-
periments were started with a triple
mower, using two 6-ft. sickle cutter

Single sickle mower exposed to
traffic.

Single sickle mower operating
against traffic,

Dual Mower — 13-Ft. Swath

Rear view — 13-ft. mower. Reflec-
torized amber lights and reflectorized
sign.

Operation on secondary paved road.

Rear view — Secondary paved road.

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Mediam mowing trips were reduced
50% for 40-ft. width.

Interchange mowing shows increase
of 50% in production as compared
with dual machine and 200% over
single sickle machine.

Shoulder mowing 19-ft. swath. Sick-
les may be raised for narrower should-
ers.

bars and a 90-inch rotary with a cut-
ting swath of slightly over 19 feet.
Twelve of these machines were put
into service and time and motion stu-
dies indicated a production of 11.0
acres per hour under the most favor-
able conditions and not including tra-
vel and service time or down time.

SUMMARY

Findings indicate that if machines
are assigned according to the needs
of the area, the following comparisons
may be drawn:

The triple mower will produce in
6 days the equivalent of 17 days pro-
duction by the single sickle mower.

The dual mower will produce in 9
days the equivalent of 17 days pro-
duction by the single sickle mower.

Since manpower is perhaps the
greatest single cost factor in mowing
operations, the dual machine has been
adopted as standard for primary and
secondary roads and approximately
five hundred (500) are in operation.
The triple machine is standard for
Interstate and four-lane divided high-
ways and thirty-two (32) are in oper-
ation. Although 5,419 miles of paved
roads have been added to the System
since 1960 no additional mowers have
been required. More importantly,
had we continued the use of the sin-
gle sickle mower, approximately 135
additional machines and operators
would have been necessary for today's
operations.

The Problem of Brush Control With
Hand Labor And The Possible De-
velopment of Machinery For This
Work. Traditionally, the State has
cut vegetation on rights-of-way with
hand labor, utilizing the vast major-
ity of the 6,000 prison inmates dur-
ing the fall months. Surveys indicated
that since priority was on the primary
system, brush control was kept cur-
rent with the fall clean-up, generally
keeping sight distance, appearance,
etc., in fairly good condition; but on
the secondary system brush and
woody growth were cut on an average
of once every five years. Consequent-
ly, small trees had attained a size
which made vegetation control with
hand labor more difficult each year.
Since the right-of-way on the secon-

Attachment is hydraulically operat-
ed from pump on motor grader. Boom
folds for travel clearance.

Hard to reach vegetation may be
cut with machine on firm ground.
Cutter head will mulch small trees up
to 3 inches in diameter without dam-
age to the machine.

Shows boom extended to bottom of
canal bank. Extended reach is 20 ft.

dary system is generally limited to
sixty-foot (60') width, policy called
for brush cutting on the entire width
with exceptions for landscaping and
beautification wherever possible.

The problem was related to the de-
crease in hand labor which undoubt-
edly would increase the time required
to cut over each cycle, and the solu-
tion could be found only in some type
of machinery for this work. One of
the Division Engineers conceived the
idea of an attachment for motor
graders which impressed the Equip-
ment Engineer and in cooperation
with a local manufacturer one mach-
ine was produced and operated experi-
mentally for fifteen (15) months. The
attachment was mounted on a retired
(10-yr. old) motor grader and produc-
tion over the trial period indicated the
production was equivalent to thirty
(30) hand laborers or prison inmates.
Within two years thirty-nine (39) of
the machines were purchased and
have been operating in areas of dense
growth.

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Machine mulches vegetation, elimi-
nating blockage of drainage.

In areas of medium growth, a ma-
chine was developed with a five-foot
(5') sickle bar capable of cutting
back slopes and banks which were
previously out of reach of convention-
al mowers. The extended reach is six-
teen feet (16') and in most cases it
will meet the needs of the secondary
system with the tractor operating on
the shoulder. Four of these machines
were purchased and operated over a
full year. Finding them satisfactory, a
total of one hundred and twenty (120)
have been purchased.

Thus, with increased production
ability in the machines discussed
above, we began a program which
was designed to eventually cut all

Extension boom raised to cut top
of back slope.

Front view. Operator keeps tractor
on solid shoulder. Cab enables opera-
tion during rain showers.

Astron rotary, generally used on
primary system. Slope cover is serecia
lespedezia which grows to a height
of 18"-24" and should be cut only in
fall each three to four years.

right-of-way each year. This effort is
intended to prevent excessive size in
the growth, not necessarily for beauti-
fication. Forty-one of the one hundred
counties have reported that they have
cut over the entire mileage within
the past twelve months and the bal-
ance report they expect to meet the
goal this year. Time and motion stu-
dies and field reports indicate a pro-
duction of five to six miles produc-
tion per day, and that cutting is less
difficult after the first clearance.

Thirty (30) counties have utilized
section motor graders during dry
seasons, when they are not effective
for unpaved road machinery, to level
back slopes so that conventional mow-
ers can operate on the flat surfaces.
Preliminary reports indicate that this
procedure will expedite production
where the terrain is favorable.
SUMMARY

Preliminary estimates indicate a
need for one extension type mower for
each five hundred miles of roadway
which will require a total of approxi-
mately one hundred and fifty (150)
machines which we already have.

When the dense growth is under
control, it may be possible to substi-
tute the smaller and less expensive
tractor-mounted extension mowers for

the motor grader attachments. The
present annual cut-over represents ap-
proximately two hundred per cent
(200%) increase in production and
positive control of growth size. Thus,
in two years we may reasonably ex-
pect virtual elimination of hand labor
in the control of vegetation.

PERSONNEL TRAINING

As this and other equipment was
developed operator training became a
matter of prime importance, since all
of the equipment was new and there
was little background experience
among the personnel.

Discussions with field supervisory
personnel developed the consensus
that concentrated training was neces-
sary but that it should be kept sim-
ple, uncomplicated and on the job if
possible. Since the normal assignment
of mileage for Area Foreman was ap-
proximately five hundred (500) miles,
it appeared that training could be ef-
fectively directed at this level with
District Engineers and Maintenance
Supervisors observing the program
and evaluating progress. Each of the
one hundred and fifty (150) Area
Foreman began by selecting at least
one man from the lower ranks for
operator training (on the job) and
has followed his progress until he
was fully qualified, or until it was
found that he could not qualify. Fail-
ures were surprisingly low. A series
of 16mm color film were made which
illustrated proper methods of oper-
ation, time and motion studies, etc.,
and were shown to personnel during
six-hour instruction periods. During
the filming errors and mistakes were
included and were pointed out during
the instruction. The "talk back" dis-
cussions have been valuable, both to
the instructor and the trainees.

This program has now been ex-
panded to train operators for ascend-
ing grades with the ultimate goal of
developing at least two fully trained
operators for each machine in the
authorized equipment table. Reports
indicate that the program is 75%
complete, and that two main benefits
were derived:

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1. During snow or emergency per-
iods equipment is kept in con-
tinous operation; and

2. When a vacancy occurs because
of resignation, retirement, death,
etc., a trained operator is im-
mediately available for replace-
ment.

Record keeping and paper work are
kept at a minimum by a simple form,
kept in the Maintenance Supervisor's
office, which indicates the trainee's
progress. The Central Administration
may call for photo-copies of these
forms periodically as a means for
keeping up with the program.

CONCLUSION

1. Loss of prison labor virtually
forced the Department toward
investigation of improved meth-
ods of production by machinery.

2. Simple mechanization or im-
provement of existing machinery
in work areas of asphalt patch-
ing, drainage and pipe laying,
mowing, and vegetation control
has brought about a considerable
increase in production per em-
ployee performing these func-
tions, which has overcome the
hand-labor shortage and increas-
ed the overall production poten-
tial.

3. The simple training program has
challenged the Area Foreman
and has been proved to be suc-
cessful and stimulating.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR
AREA FOREMEN
OPERATOR TRAINING

1. The ultimate goal in the operator
training program is to qualify as
many of our employees as possible
to fill future vacancies for equip-
ment operators.

2. Each Area Foreman should select
from among the ranks of truck
drivers and temporary employees
at least one man whom he feels is
capable of advancing. The man
should be of good character, will-
ing to work, and able to learn. He
should be told that he is being giv-
en the opportunity to learn and
qualify for a better job, but that
he will not be promoted until a
vacancy occurs, and then only if
he is the best qualified of the
trainees.

3. Trainees should be given as much
"on the job" training as possible
without disrupting the scheduled
work. As they learn they should fill
in for operators who are out be-
cause of vacation, sick leave, com-
pensatory time, etc. However,
trainees should not be worked out
of classification more than thirty
per cent (30%) of the time.

4. As the trainee qualifies and you
are satisfied with his ability to pro-
duce, enter the date beside the ap-
propriate machine listed on the at-
tached sheet. Photo copies of train-
ee records will be called for per-
iodically as a means of reviewing
progress.

Division ; District ; Classification

Trainee's Name ; County

Item Date Date Training

Training Began Completed

Backhoe

Drill, Air Track

Drill, Wagon

Dumptor

Grader, Motor

Loader

Lowboy, Tractor-Trailer

Mixer, Self-Propelled

Mower, Regular

Mower, Contour

Mower, Motor Grader

Plant, Asphalt

Plant, Crusher

Plant, Pipe

Pump, Sand

Roller, Patch

Roller, Pneumatic, Self-Propelled

Shovel, Dragline

Sweeper, Self-Propelled

Tractor, Dozer

Tractor, Pan

Tractor, Wheel

Tractor-Trailer, 8-yard

Truck, 2-ton

Truck, Lube

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IDEALIZED THOROUGHFARE PLAN

A MAGAZINE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE HIGHWAYS COMMISSION

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1969

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XV
NUMBER I

Public Relations Officer Keith Hundley

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist JANIE WILLIAMS

Photographer GORDON DEANS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome New Chairman 1

Thoroughfare Planning 2

Grooving Treatment 7

A Safety Project 9

Can Beaucatcher Tunnel 12

Money Squeeze 14

Letters From The Chairman's Office 16

Headquarters 17

Pot Luck 26

N. C. H. C. E. A 27

Division News 28

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr.

W. W. Exum

Ashley M. Murphy

Carl Renfro

J. B. Brame

Carl Meares

Thomas S. Harrington

John F. McNatr, III
George L. Hundley
George H. Broadrick
Raymond Smith
W. B. Garrison
James G. Sthceleather, Jr.

W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chief Engineer

George Wflloughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

COVER

The underlying concept of the Thoroughfare
Plan is that it provides for a system of streets
which will permit movement of traffic from its
origin to its destination with reasonable direct-
ness and ease; that is, without undue delay or
congestion. On the cover is a schematic diagram
of an idealized thoroughfare plan which is used
by the Advance Planning Department to explain
the concept of thoroughfare planning and the
functional classification of streets and highways
in urban areas to the general public. Our cover
for this issue was prepared by Joe Hedrick of
Advance Planning.

Welcome New Chairman

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth took office Monday,
February 10th as chairman of the North Carolina High-
way Commission and promises to seek "a balanced pro-
gram" of road building.

The Clinton businessman said he intended to steer
clear of "the contention that traffic counts and the re-
lief of congestion" should determine construction priority.

By that system, "the rich areas get richer and the
poor get poorer," he said.

Faircloth spoke to several hundred persons after
being sworn in by Justice I. Beverly Lake of the North
Carolina Supreme Court in a ceremony at the capitol.

Governor Bob Scott, who picked Faircloth to succeed
Joe Hunt, Jr. in the new administration, said he has
instructed the new chairman "to give firm and effective
leadership."

"He is to make changes where needed," Scott said.

He said Faircloth "is a strong man with firm ideas
(who) can do the job, can run the department like I want
it run."

The governor commended Hunt "for his dedication
and hard work" and reiterated his intention to seek an
increase in the number of highway commissioners.

North Carolina's new highway commission chairman
stepped into the job his predecessor called a "pressure
cooker" amid indications he is prepared to generate
some heat himself.

Duncan M. (Lauch) Faircloth of Clinton, after tak-
ing the oath of office in the old House chambers at the
Capitol, immediately turned his sights to the General
Assembly and declared:

"When we look only at (the State's) road need of an
emergency nature we can find no alternative to the
pressing need for additional funds."

We Welcome Our New Chairman

D. McLauchlin Faircloth being sworn in by I. Bev-
erly Lake.

Governor Scott. Mr. Faircloth and Mrs. Faircloth
holding the Bible for the swearing-in ceremony.

The 40-year-old Sampson County farmer-business-
man-politician also said that philosophy of basing road
projects on traffic counts has run its course. He will,
he pledged, increase efficiency and serve the people of
this State better."

Faircloth pointed out that North Carolina is the
only state in the union where all county roads "and a
large percentage of city streets" are under the State
Highway Department.

"But I would hope we could also work together in
the development of the neglected areas so that they too
can move into the mainsteam of North Carolina's im-
proving economic life."

Governor Scott congratulating Mr. Faircloth.

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Thoroughfare Planning

Above, C. 0. White and W. F. Caddell, Advance
Planning Engineer. C. O. is Assistant Advance Planning
Engineer.

In North Carolina, as throughout the United States,
our population increase during the past three decades has
occurred in and around the urban areas. This urbaniza-
tion has already had, and will continue to have, a tre-
mendous impact on our urban highways. The modern
highway facility and the mobility provided by the auto-
mobile has permitted our new urban population to be de-
centralized from the industrial and commercial areas of
the city. This trend, together with the trend towards in-
creased vehicle ownership, has significantly increased
traffic volumes on our urban streets and highways. When
the present day cities were developed, the service facili-
ties, shops, businesses, offices, and governmental units
and industrial dvelopment were in the central area. Con-
sequently, most of our cities have a radial system of
highways emanating from the central area. With the ur-
ban dispersal that is characteristic of our modern times,
there is no longer a single centroid of economic activity,
but a tendency toward a decentralized type development.
The lack of a street system adequate in pattern and di-
mensions for the proper dispersal and distribution of traf-
fic is one of the main problems facing most cities.

Before discussing the approach to a solution of urban
traffic problems, let's consider why the Highway Commis-
sion has any responsibility for solving them. In simplest
terms, it is because we share with municipalities the
problem of moving traffic into, out of, and through towns

and cities. At the outset of statewide planning, highways
were rural in nature and the Highway Commission re-
sponsibilities tended to end at the city limits. Any traf-
fic movement that went on inside the municipal boun-
darys was taken care of by the city. However, it was
gradually realized that the Highway Commission should
share the responsibility for urban streets because much of
the urban traffic had an origin or destination outside the
city and a great deal of the traffic passed through the
city. Therefore, the State began to build and maintain
more and more routes into and through the cities. The
resulting urban highway system was a sometimes haphaz-
ard affair without an adequate framework for guidance.
Then the 1959 Legislature passed an act which clearly
defines the responsibility of the State for an urban high-
way system.

Generally this law says that the State Highway System
inside the corporate limits of municipalities shall consist
of "a system of major streets and highways necessary to
move volumes of traffic efficiently and effectively from
points beyond the corporate limits of the municipalities,
through the municipalities, and to major business and in-
dustrial, governmental, and institutional destinations lo-
cated inside the municipalities". The law further states
"each municipality with the cooperation of the State
Highway Commission shall develop a comprehensive plan
for a street system that will serve present and anticipated
volumes of vehicular traffic in and around the municipal-

Marie Chappel, Secy, to W. F. Caddell.

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ity''. In addition, the Federal Highway Act of 1962 es-
tablished the requirement that after July 1, 1965, urban
areas with a central city population of 50,000 or more
must be involved in a continuing comprehensive transpor-
tation planning process in order to be eligible for fed-
eral aid funds for the construction of highway facilities
in these urban areas. This is basically why we are respon-
sible for helping solve the urban traffic problems.

The thoroughfare planning approach to the urban traf-
fice problem is based upon the concept that different type
streets serve different purposes. There is the local ac-
cess street whose principle use is to give access to abut-
ting residential, commercial, and industrial property. It
is not expected to carry high volumes of traffic and is
not designed for high speed.

Another type of street is the collector street or minor
thoroughfare. It is for the purpose of collecting traffic
from the local access streets and distributing it to the
major thoroughfares. It is partly to serve abutting pro-
perty and partly to carry traffic.

Bob Booker, Highway Planning Engineer (left) and
John Richardson, Community Planner, examine land use
on aerial photograph.

The third type of street, the major thoroughfare, is
chiefly for the purpose of carrying traffic and only inci-
dentally to serve abutting property. In a good neighbor-
hood and street system design, the major thoroughfares
encircle the neighborhood rather than running through it.
This arrangement serves the heavy traffic movement and
preserves homogeneous neighborhoods.

In approaching the problem of planning a major thor-
oughfare system, it is important to remember that the
object is to develop a coordinated system which will tie
together the major traffic generators such as the downtown

business district, industrial areas, shopping centers, whole-
saling points, and residential areas. A major thoroughfare
system concept that is most adaptable to desire fines of
travel within an urban area and which is used as a guide
by the Thoroughfare Planning Section of the Advance
Planning Department is the radial-loop system. It has
the advantage that it is more adaptable to topography,
makes maximum use of the concept of a functional classi-
fication of streets, can be easily extended, and provides a
system on which a vehicle can move fairly directly to-
ward its destination in any direction.

Radial streets generally serve to bring traffic in from
outlying areas to the central business district which is
the focal point for most traffic movements. Their purpose
is to distribute traffic to the radial thoroughfare system
of the city and to allow traffic to interchange between ra-
dials for the most direct or convenient route between ori-
gin and destination. A trip is seldom made exclusively
on a loop but many trips will be made on a combination
of radials and loops. The bypass is considered a definite
part of the major thoroughfare system and its purpose is
to allow traffic which has no destination in the city to
by pass the urban complex without having to complete
with traffic on the local street system.

Felton Lowman, Highway Planning Engineer (left),
and Bill Riggs. Community Planner, examine geometries
of a thoroughfare plan.

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Edna Mohorn, Steno II

In simplified terms the procedure in thoroughfare
planning is to sketch tentative geometric system of thor-
oughfares to serve the urban area and to test and evaluate
the several systems. The testing and evaluation of a pro-
posed thoroughfare system involves the assignment of
existing and future vehicle trips on each segment of the
system and the evaluation of the plan on the basis of

Seated, Maureen Dunn and standing, Pam Litton

traffic service, cost, benefits, and community goals. The
geometric system of thoroughfares must remain flexible
until the complete system is dimensioned and the total
impact on the community is evaluated and alternative
networks of streets studied. Once a system of streets is
selected as a basis for future construction, a continuing
planning process must begin to monitor development and
traffic growth to identify significant changes that may
warrant reevaluation of the selected system or portions
of the system.

FIGURE I

IDEALIZED THOROUGHFARE PLAN

Idealized Thoroughfare Plan

Considerable inventory and analysis goes into thor-
oughfare planning studies. Among the inventory and
analysis items are: an inventory of the existing street
system to include roadway widths and right-of-way width,
an inventory of existing traffic volumes and traffic pat-
terns, and an analysis of the ability of the existing streets
to carry traffic. A detailed analysis is also made of the
existing land use, population, and economic character-
istics of the city.

Since the target date of the thoroughfare plan is usual-
ly 20 to 25 years in the future, it is necessary to do a
study of future economic and population prospects. This
includes estimates of total employment and population
expected in the city. A future land development plan is
required to determine the future distribution of this total
employment and population within the city. Future traf-
fic movements are then estimated according to the future
distribution of population and employment.

Once these forecasts of future travel movements are
made, the next step is to assign this traffic to the major
thoroughfare system streets, that is, to decide what
routes the traffic will take. From any one point in the
city to another, there are several alternate routes of tra-

Ron Poole, Thoroughfare Planning Engineer

vel and it is necessary to take the total volume expected
between two areas and select the most feasible route of
travel. When travel movements between all areas have
been assigned to the thoroughfare system, the system is
analyzed to determine the future dimensions of the
streets and feasibility of providing adequate capacity and
level of traffic service on the selected system. If it is
determined the selected system is inadequate, alternate
systems are tested. When the future traffic has been as-
signed to each of the major thoroughfares and when the
general standards of roadway and right-of-way have
been designated, the final step is to design the system.

Another element of thoroughfare planning which is
done after the thoroughfare is completed is to select the
priorities or the staging of projects. The improvements
indicated on most of the thoroughfare plans represent
many millions of dollars and obviously the thoroughfare
system could not be built all at once. Therefore, the stag-
ing becomes very important. The point is to build toward
a long range goal in a logical manner.

Although a thoroughfare plan is never completed and
must be continually updated to reflect changing condi-
tions, experience has proved that it is the only logical
approach to the solution of urban transportation prob-
lems. The development of a thoroughfare plan brings
about a mutual understanding of local transportation
problems and paves the way for municipal-state coordi-
nation in solving these problems. Following are some of
the major benefits to be derived from thoroughfare plan-
ning. A minimum amount of land will be required for
street and highway purposes. Each street can be designed
for a particular purpose which leads to stability of traf-
fice and land use patterns. Because each street is design-

ed for a specific function, a substantial savings can be
realized in street construction programs and street main-
tenance costs. Local citizens will know which streets will
be developed as major thoroughfares and thus will have
assurance that their residential street will not one day
become a major traffic carrier. Land developers will be
able to design their subdivisions so that the subdivision
streets will function in a compatible manner with the
thoroughfare plan. State and City officials will know ap-
proximately when improvements will be needed and can
schedule funds accordingly. School and park officials can
plan and locate their facilities in desirable places with
knowledge of land use and street system stability. By
understanding the thoroughfare plan and realizing where
and approximately when necessary street widening and
construction will occur much can be done to eliminate
irretrievable damage to property values and community
appearance as is sometimes associated with major street
widening and construction. For instance, new buildings
and new tree plantings can be located so as to permit
future street construction without damage to buildings
and trees.

The thoroughfare plans are prepared cooperatively
with local officials and the local municipalities participate
financially in the cost of comprehensive studies. A com-
prehensive thoroughfare planning study usually requires
approximately two years for completion.

After preparation of a thoroughfare plan, the plan is
mutually adopted by the local governing board and the
State Highway Commission. Prior to mutual adoption
of the plan, a public hearing on the plan is held by the
local governmental unit to insure that the public is fully
aware of the plan. Staff members of the Thoroughfare
Planning Section of the Advance Planning Department
attend the hearings to answer questions regarding the
studies and recommendations made.

Alex Hekimian, Highway Planning Engineer

Al Avant (left) and Mike Tewell, Highway Planning
Engineers, review traffic assignments.

As the thoroughfare planning process now operates in
North Carolina, the Highway Commisison will provide
the planners and the transportation planning engineers
to assist the municipalities in the development of these
thoroughfare plans. The general concept in the develop-
ment of the Thoroughfare Planning Section was to bring
as many disciplines as possible to bear on the develop-
ment of a thoroughfare plan. The staff of the Thorough-
fare Planning Section has developed a breadth of think-
ing so that they are able to analyze urban problems in
terms of their economic, social, planning, and engineering
facets and to seek solutions within the context of com-
prehensive planning.

Tom Hill, Highway Planning Engineer, (center),
explains thoroughfare plan report to Trainees Bruce Ja-
cobs (left) and Henry Black (right).

Groundbreaking- Ceremonies at
Holding Technical Institute

Groundbreaking ceremonies at Holding Technical
Institute were held Friday, January 31st which marked
the beginning of further expansion of the school, neces-
sary to meet the growing requirements for facilities for
the increasing student body. Bob LeMay, President of
Holding Tech, presided at the ceremony. W. H. Trent-
man, Chairman of the Wake County Commissioners and
L. E. Puoher, Chairman of the Trustees of Holding Tech,
also participated. The County Commissioners, the Trus-
tees, and other residents of the area were in attendance.

The new $632,000 structure is being financed by lo-
cal, state, and federal funds. The local commitment to
the new building amounts to $193,200; the state share,
from Vocational Education Act funds is $310,000; and
the federal share, from Higher Education Facilities Act
funds, is $128,000.

6

Grooving Treatment

Before grooving, this location pre-
sented the motorist with increased
driving hazards during wet weather.

Traffic Engineering Department

A significant reduction in the num-
ber of accidents at a hazardous loca-
tion on 1-85 in Davidson County is
credited to pavement grooving on the
basis of a "Before and After" study
recently performed by the Traffic En-
gineering Department.

The September-October, 1967 issue
of Roadways reported that grooves
were cut in the concrete surface of a
curve on Interstate 85 at its intersec-
tion with US 29-70-52— NC 150 just
north of the Yadkin River. The high
accident experience of the location
turned up in the Highway Commis-
sion's safety program and there was
strong indication that wet pavement
was the main factor. It was Mr. Hun-
ter D. Irving, Assistant Chief Engi-
neer for Construction and Mainte-
nance, who came up with the idea of
"grooving" as a possible treatment
at the location.

Although pavement grooving has
been used with success in other states,
this was its initial trial in North
Carolina. Placement of tread, or
grooves, on pavement improves the
coefficient of friction between the tire
and the road in all conditions thus
reducing the hazard of driving in wet
weather. The longitudinal grooves act
as "tracks", resisting lateral move-
ment and stabilizing the vehicle. They
also serve as quick surface drains to
minimize any water buildup on the
pavement,

EMMETT Y. STAFFORD

Accident Identification and
Surveillance Unit

The "Before and After" study
clearly showed the effectiveness of
the grooving project. Modification to
the road was begun June 9, 1967 and
completed June 27, 1967 for a total
cost of $6,670. During the fourteen
and one-half month "before" period
from March 22, 1966 to June 9, 1967
nineteen accidents occurred at the
intersection yielding an accident rate
of 4.86 accidents per million vehicles.
Eighteen of the nineteen accidents
(94.7%) occurred on wet pavement
in the curve on 1-85.

In the fourteen and one-half month
"after" period from June 27, 1967 to
September 15, 1968 there was only
one dry pavement accident and none
on wet pavement for an accident rate
of 0.25 accidents per million vehicles.
Total accidents were reduced 94.7%
while accidents on wet pavement were
reduced 100%!

A benefit-cost analysis, a method
for determining if the modification
has payed for itself in terms of safety
benefits gained in relation to the

US 29-52-70 - NCI50

ACCIDENT RATE • 4 .66 acc/ mv
% WET PAV'T ACC ■ 94.7%

COLLISION DIAGRAM

LOCATION: 1-85 8 US 29- 52-70- NC 150
FROM : 3-22-66 TO: 6-9-67

DAVIDSON COUNTY

AFTER

US 29-52-70 - NCI50

ACCIDENT RATE = 0.25 acc/mv
% WET PAV'T ACC. ■ 0.0 %
% ACC. REDUCTION ' 94.73%

COLLISION

DIAGRAM

LOCATION: 1-65 S US 29- 52-70- NC 150
FROM: 6-27-67 TO: 9-15-68

CRW

0AVIDSON COUNTY

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AFTER CONDITION DIAGRAM

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CRW

DAVIDSON COUNTY

modification cost, indicating that the
grooving project has more than pay-
ed for itself in its first year. Net
safety benefits accruing to the motor-
ist from this project through reduced
injuries and property damage amount
to over $10,000 per year!

The technique involved the cutting
of grooves 1/8 of an inch wide and
1/8 of an inch deep, 3/4 of an inch
apart in the roadway surface.

The Bridge Builder

An old man going a lone highway
Game at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight
dim,

The sudden stream had no fear for
him;

But he turned when safe on the
other side

And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,

"You are wasting your strength with
building here

Your journey will end with the end-
ing day,

You never again will pass this way;

John Boyd Hamilton,
Equipment Supt.
Retires

The State Highway Commission to-
day announced the retirement of John
Boyd Hamilton as Equipment Super-
intendent in Division 14 and the ap-
pointment of Richard Thomas Collins
as his successor. The announcement
was made by Chief Engineer Cam-
eron W. Lee and Highway Commis-
sioner W. Curtis Russ.

Hamilton, who was born at Andrews
in January of 1903, joined the State
Highway Commission as a mechanic
in July of 1931.

He was promoted to Mechanic Fore-
man on January 1, 1950 and held that
position until his promotion in July of
1953 to his current post, Equipment
Superintendent.

You've crossed the chasm deep and
wide,

Why build you this bridge at even-
tide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head,
"Good friend, in the path I have

come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth, whose feet must pass this

way;

This chasm, that has not been hard
for me,

To that fair-haired youth may a pit-
fall be;

He too must cross in the twilight
dim —

Good friend, I am building this bridge
for him."

Dromgoole.

Richard Thomas Collins currently is
serving the Highway Commission as a
Highway Equipment Inspector in Di-
visions seven, eight, nine and ten in
the Piedmont section of the State.

Collins was born in Guilford Coun-
ty in 1921 and was employed first by
the Commission as a mechanic in
April of 1951. He was later elevated
to Mechanic Foreman and assumed
his current position on October 30,
1965.

Russ and Lee noted that Mr. Ham-
ilton's retirement and the promotion
of Mr. Collins become effective Janu-
ary 1, 1969.

W.J. (Bill) Davis
Equipment Supt.
Retires

A well-known veteran equipment
employee of the State Highway Com-
mission in Division One stepped
down January 1, 1969.

The personnel changes were an-
nounced today by Chief Engineer
Cameron W. Lee and Highway Com-
missioner Don Matthews of Hamilton.

W. J. (Bill) Davis, who joined the
Highway Commission in December of
1922 is retiring as Equipment Super-
intendent in Division One after serv-
ing in that capacity since 1939.

Charles L. Brewer, currently serv-
ng as Mechanic Foreman in the same
division has been tapped to succeed
Davis.

Davis was born at Pendleton in
Northampton County on January 19,
1902, and joined the Commission as a
machine operator-mechanic at the age
of 20. This was in the formative stages
of the Highway Commission as we
know it today.

In 1926, Davis became Mechanic
Foreman and was promoted to Equip-
ment Superintendent, the position he
currently holds.

Charles L. Brewer, born in Per-
quimans County in 1925, joined the
Commission in September of 1952 as
an auto parts clerk. He became Auto
Parts Supervisor for the division in
1959 and became a mechanic foreman
in November of 1963.

Both men are active in the church
and civic areas of community life.

8

A Safety Project for

U. S. 1 (Moore County)

TYPICAL TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS
WITH RAISED MARKINGS
ON

USI-I5-50I-NC2II
(SOUTHERN PINES TO ABERDEEN)

An experimental raised marking, or mountable median,
for lane delineation has been constructed in the roadway
between Aberdeen and Southern Pines.

Local complaints and accident records clearly indicated
that more positive traffic control than could be achieved
with paint markings was required. Studies showed that a
median was needed to protect left-turning movements
both off of and onto the highway.

First, consideration was given to a barrier-type median.
However, it was decided that present and future develop-
ment in the area would be seriously handicapped if a bar-
rier median were used. For this reason, it was decided to
develop and construct a mountable-type median that
would channelize traffic, provide protected left turns, and
at the same time permit crossings at private driveways
and other low-volume demand entrances and exits.

The 2.8 mile-long section of US 1-15-501— NC 211 in
Moore County had been a matter of deep concern to lo-
cal citizens and the State Highway Commission alike be-
cause of its accident history. To be specific, between Jan-
uary 1, 1966 and January 31, 1968, 115 accidents occurred
along this portion of the highway. The accidents included
three fatalities, 73 injuries, and property damage totaling
$70,370.

Two fatal accidents occurred in the area of heavy com-
mercial development and both involved entering or turn-
ing vehicles. One of the fatalities occurred in a vehicle
entering the road from the shopping center west of the
roadway and proceeding north. The collision occurred in
the sixth lane northbound proceeding north. (The facility
was six lanes wide before the mountable median was in-
stalled.) In other words, the entering vehicle had crossed
five lanes before being struck by a northbound vehicle.

This section of highway is characterized by heavy resi-
dential and commercial developments, with frequent side
streets and driveway entrances, where local traffic tends
to create a fringe friction with the through travelers. Any
treatment of the highway would have to conform to safety
standards and traffic engineering concepts; and at the
same time it would be required to serve roadside business-
es and the public wanting access to and egress from these
developments.

Accidents experienced there indicated the need for posi-
tive measures of traffic control to help alleviate hazards
drivers had to confront in the area. Moreover, it was
evident that the usual traffic control devices were not
bringing the desired responses from the road user. Traf-
fic engineers would have to come up with some effective
new technique.

In studying the problem and investigating possible solu-
tions, the Traffic Engineering Department sent Robert J.
Dodge, then an Area Traffic Engineer, to Ocean City,
South Carolina, to inspect the rough median constructed
in that area by the South Carolina State Highway De-
partment.

Conventional markings and signing had not succeeded
in controlling the great amount of through driving, pass-
ing, and other misuse of the former left-turn lanes on
the six-lane road. It was decided to place the mountable
median, or raised marking in an effort to curb misuse of
left-turn lanes and prevent unlimited crossovers by pro-
viding a more prominent lane delineation.

The raised marking, installed by the Construction and
Maintenance departments, is made of white granite ag-
gregate, of pieces approximately one inch in size, which
were cemented to the road surface with asphalt cement.
The aggregate was applied at the rate of 40 pounds per
square yard. The difference in this median mat and the
standard specification mat is the application temperature,
the amount of bitumen applied, and the rolling procedure.
All rolling on this project was accomplished by a rubber-
tired roller to avoid crushing the aggregate.

Many people had a hand in constructing the marking,
including Mr. J. D. Walton, Bituminous Inspection Sup-
ervisor, who handled the specifications and application
procedures and Mr. J. L. Briley, Road Oil Supervisor for
Division 8, who had charge of work at the road site.

Because of its white color, the raised marking offers a
high contrast against the dark asphalt background. In ad-
dition to the visible contrast that alerts the driver to the
special function of this area of the roadway, an audible
hum is also noticeable when driving over the coarse ag-
gregate. This is designed to discourage the use of the
area for passing.

9

The median is not intended to prevent any turns either
to or from roadside streets or businesses, and familiarity
of the public in using the new pattern will make this evi-
dent. Especially designated left-turn lanes are provided at
those locations where traffic demand, either by volume or
type, require frequent turns. This is the case at major
side streets and at other prime traffic generators. The
marked areas may and should be used as a refuge for
motorists waiting to turn left or caught between the op-
posing traffic flows while entering the far side traffic
stream. Information on the use of the new marking was
disseminated through the press, and a series of signing
was developed to indicate the use of left-turn lanes.

Further treatment of this section of road provides for
the installation of a traffic signal at the intersection of
US 1 and US 15-501— NC 211. The southbound US 15-
501— NC 211 traffic will be rechanneled to enter US 1
at an approximate right angle to the traffic signal. The
existing overhead sign structure will be relocated and
lighted, at a point south of its present location. A second
traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of US 1
and Magnolia Drive. This location is on the south side
of the Howard Johnson Restaurant. The side street serves
the Town and Country shopping center, an existing resi-
dential subdivision, and a future residential subdivision.

There was a general concensus among Highway offi-
cials and some of the local citizenry that the 55-45 mph
speed limit should be reduced. Roy D. Williams, then
Traffic Engineer for Division 8, made a detailed study
of vehicle speeds and accident occurrence at the location
under investigation. In view of the accident picture, it
was considered possible that a change in the speed limits
might aid in reducing the severity of the accidents.
Speed studies were conducted; and based on analysis of
the data, a uniform speed limit of 50 mph was established
and has been working most effectively.

The mountable medians have elicited favorable com-
ments from the public; however, it is too early to correct-
ly evaluate the effect of this safety project.

A before-and-after study will be made later, but in the
meantime State Traffic Engineer J. O. Litchford wants
a close check kept on how effective the treatment ap-
pears to be, how it is holding up, and where the short-
comings are, if they exist. He has expressed his apprecia-
tion for all personnel in the Construction and Mainte-
nance departments for getting the project constructed.
He further stated, "I sincerely hope this work will ma-
terially increase the safety of the highway through this
area."

Dept. Of Materials & Tests

Conducts Training Course In
"Ultrasonic Testing Inspection"

During the month of January the Department of Ma-
terials and Tests conducted a two weeks training course
in "Ultrasonic Testing Inspection for Butt Welds in
Highway and Railway Bridges". The course was offered
to both Bureau of Public Roads Representatives and High-
way Personnel from adjoining states.

The Instructor for the Materials and Tests Depart-
ment was Mr. T. T. Kent, Materials Engineer. There
were three states represented by Department of Highway
Officials: Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, and five
states represented by Bureau of Public Roads Personnel.

Persons shown in the picture are (Front Row — Left
to Right): T. T. Kent, Instructor; Mr. David H. Hunter,
Assistant Division Structural Engineer, Bureau of Public
Roads, Montgomery, Alabama; Mr. Dominick Izzo, As-
sistant Division Structural Engineer, Bureau of Public
Roads, Raleigh, North Carolina; Mr. James Smith, Bridge
Fabrication and Erection Superintendent, Tennessee De-
partment of Highways, Nashville, Tennessee; (Left to
Right — Back Row): Mr. DeVohn D. Rhame, Jr., As-
sistant Division Structural Engineer, Bureau of Public
Roads, Tallahassee, Florida; Mr. J. H. Edwards, Depart-
ment of Materials and Tests, Alabama Department of
Highways, Birmingham, Alabama; Mr. Joseph H. Tate,
Assistant Division Structural Engineer, Bureau of Public
Roads, Nashville, Tennessee; Mr. Kaare L. Vatshell, As-
sistant Division Structural Engineer, Bureau of Public
Roads, Atlanta, Georgia and Mr. Harry Posner, Welding
Consultant, Georgia Department of Highways, Atlanta,
Georgia.

10

The following attended the course on part-time basis,
but were not present when picture was taken: Mr. S. S.
Yuzna, Assistant Structural Engineer, Bureau of Public
Roads, Atlanta, Georgia; Mr. Ted Mowatt, Welding Engi-
neer, Bureau of Public Roads, Washington, D. C; Mr.

E. P. Manion, Division Structural Engineer, Bureau of
Public Roads, Raleigh, North Carolina and Mr. J. E.
Thompson, State Materials Engineer, Raleigh, North
Carolina.

There were, also, two Manufacturing Representatives
for Electronic Pulse-Echo Testing Equipment present,
Messrs. Donn Costanzo for Branson Instrument Com-
pany and Thomas A. Sanders for Krautkramer Ultra-
sonics, Inc., Stratford, Connecticut. These representatives
demonstrated their Company's equipment and mainte-
nance procedures and that the sensitivity of the instru-
ment met Bureau requirements.

This testing procedure utilizes sound waves for deter-
mining the soundness of "butt welds" in structural steel
built-up plate girders; also, the soundness of the plates
used in fabricating plate girders.

Mr. Thompson is interested in the Ultrasonic test-
ing techniques because of its ability to detect detrimental
flaws in structural steel with greater accuracy and speed
than with Radiography. In addition, the health hazard
which accompanies Radiography is not present with Ultra-
sonic Testing.

Kenneth E. Mauney new Division 12 Engineer
James F. Warren to be Assistant

Kenneth E. Mauney

A Cherryville native, educated in
Florida and in this state, has been
named Division Engineer for the
State Highway Commission's Division
12, and a 16-year veteran of the High-
way Commission has been named to
the Division's second highest post.

Kenneth E. Mauney succeeds the
late Woodrow W. Wyke as Division

Engineer. He had served as Wyke's
assistant since 1961.

Forty-one year old James F. War-
ren has been named to fill the vacan-
cy created by Mauney's promotion.
Warren, who joined the Commission
in 1952, is currently working as a Res-
ident Engineer in the Charlotte area.

Mauney, who was born April 10,
1925, at Cherryville was educated in
the public schools of Fort Lauderdale,
Florida and at North Carolina State
University, with service in the Army
Air Corps in between.

Mauney joined the State Highway
Commission in 1950 after receiving
the BS Degree in Civil Engineering
at NCSU. He was named Resident
Engineer in 1951 and became Assist-
ant Division Engineer in 1961.

He is married to the former Nola
L. Cody of Robbsville, N. C. They
have three children; Eric, Debra and
Carla.

James F. Warren received his B.S.
degree in Civil Engineering from
Clemson University in 1952. After
working in the North Carolina State
Highway Commission's Roadway De-

James F. Warren

sign Department in Raleigh for a
short while, he spent two years in the
armed forces, returning in 1954.

Transferring to the Charlotte area,
Mr. Warren became first a Party
Chief in 1955, then Assistant Resident
Engineer in 1956 and Resident Engi-
neer in 1964.

Warren was married to the former
Mary Ann Jones of Easley, S. C,
August 9, 1952. They have two sons,
David and Mark and two daughters,
Joan and Gay.

11

Can Beaucatcher Tunnel
be the Same?

Wilmington Bridge
- Puts In Lift Span

Beaucatcher Tunnel may not lose
its enticing name, but any association
it merits with the Tunnel of Love
could be dispelled by a ligh ting-up
project of the underground portion
of US 70 in Asheville.

The tunnel presents certain prob-
lems that traffic engineers would like
to correct in order to provide greater
safety and increased capacity of the
road at that point.

A reflective liquid has been applied
to the interior walls in an effort to
brighten the tunnel, thus giving driv-
ers an impression of the true spa-
ciousness of the enclosed area and
also helping to throw the outlines of
approaching vehicles in silhouette.
Improvement in capacity is also ex-
pected, based on the premise that
drivers tend to slow down unneces-
sarily when entering an enclosed area
that is also darker than outside. This
slowing movement reduces the vehi-
cular load of the tunnel in a given
period of time.

Assistant State Traffic Engineer
Harold Rhudy. who instigated this
project, isn't trying to discourage
courting in Buncombe county; he is
only interested in improving driving
conditions through the tunnel. Mr.
Rhudy commends the Traffic Serv-
ices personnel in Division 13 for the
arduous work they performed in
cleaning and painting the tunnel,
working four nights from 9 p.m. un-
til 3 a.m. while there was less traffic.

(This bit of writing set off a
friendly argument in the office as to
the origin of the name "Beaucatcher".
Some were strongly of opinion that it
was of a famous personage — a Civil
War general, perhaps — as it is used
for several landmarks in the Asheville
area. A call to the State Library re-
vealed that a James W. Patton, in
1850, built a summer house, or arbor,
atop what is now Beaucatcher Moun-
tain, and that became a favorite spot
for courting couples.)

The State Highway Commission
had a "float-in" in Wilmington on
Wed, February 19. Would you believe
at 7:00 A.M.?

It's true. Time, title and all. That's
the day the lift-span of the state's
first bridge of that variety was float-
ed into place by the contractor,
American Bridge Company.

The giant lift-span structure across
the Cape Fear is nearing completion.
Its river piers and superstructure are
already becoming a familiar part
of the Wilmington skyline, and it's
the first lift-span bridge to be con-
structed on the state's highway sys-
tem, even though others are spotted
around the Southeastern United
States.

The lift-span, that is the portion
of the bridge which will move up and
down, has been constructed upstream
from the actual crossing point, and
in the early morning hours of Feb-
ruary 19 was floated down stream on
a barge for insertion.

This North Carolina highway giant
— the lift-span bridge and its com-
plex of approaches and ramps —
will have a total price tag of some
$16 million when it is completed.
Work started in the summer of 1966
and is expected to be finished by
May of this year.

When it is completed, many North
Carolinians will have their first op-
portunity to see a bridge which gets
out of the way of oncoming water-
borne traffic the way this one does.
The bridges over our rivers and
sounds now are raised and lowered
like draw bridges over the castle
moat, or they swing to one side, or
they have high elevation fixed spans.
But not this one. Its middle span
moves up and down like a giant
freight elevator. And its intricate
system of balances and counter-bal-
ances allows electric motors to get
the job done in a matter of minutes.

The new bridge, to be called offi-
cially "The Cape Fear Memorial
Bridge," in honor of the war dead in
the Cape Fear Valley area of the
State, is 3,033 feet long with a clear
(Continued on Inside Back Cover)

12

Transfers & Retirements

Promotions,

A. J. Hughes

The retirement of one veteran high-
way engineer and the transfer of an-
other has set up a chain of promotions
and transfers affecting Highway Di-
vision 14 and Western North Carolina.

Arthur J. (Red) Hughes, Division
Engineer for the Highway Commis-
sion at Sylva since October 1, 1964, is
leaving that post to accept a similar
assignment in central North Carolina.

His long-time friend, and assistant
since 1964, W. F. Ray of Sylva, has
been appointed to succeed Hughes.

R. Harold Thompson, currently
serving the Commission as an area
construction engineer at Asheville,
will become Ray's assistant.

These personnel changes which be-
come effective January 1, 1969, were
announced by Chief Engineer Cam-
eron W. Lee and Highway Commiss-
ioner W. Curtis Russ of Waynesville.

Hughes will succeed T. C. Johnston,
Jr., as Division Engineer in Division
Eight. Johnston is retiring after 44
years with the Highway agency. It
was from Division Eight that Hughes
transferred to the Bridge Department
in Raleigh in 1954 after serving the
Commission in various posts since
joining the agency in 1927.

From the bridge assignment.
Hughes was transferred to Sylva as
Assistant Division Engineer in 1960,
and was made Division Engineer in
1964 and has held that post until
the present time.

Hughes was educated at Oak Ridge
Military Academy and Guilford Col-
lege,

W. F. Ray was born in Savannah,
Georgia in 1923. He completed his
studies in civil engineering at North
Carolina State in 1949, after his edu-
cation was interrupted by military
service from 1943 to 1946. Ray served
as an aerial engineer with the Army
Air Corps.

Ray came to the Highway Commis-
sion in 1947, was promoted to resident
engineer in 1952 and then was trans-
ferred to Division 14 as Assistant Di-
vision Engineer in October of 1964, the
position he currently holds.

Robert Harold Thompson, who will
become Assistant Division Engineer
on January 1, 1969 joined the High-
way Commission as a rodman in July
of 1946, after attending Appalachian
State Teacher's College for two years
in the pre - engineering program.
Thompson became a registered pro-
fessional engineer in January of 1966.

Thompson moved steadily up
through the ranks of the Highway
Commission as a resident engineer
and as an area construction engineer,
the position he currently holds.

Thompson was born September 5,
1925.

When A. J. (Red) Hughes assumes
his duties, it will be a homecoming for
him. Hughes served as Assistant Di-
vision Engineer here before going to
Raleigh and an assignment in the
Bridge Department in 1954, and unti-
mately to Western North Carolina in
1960.

Hughes, born in Guilford County in
1907, joined the State Highway Com-
mission as a rodman in 1927.

Hughes' career with the Highway
Commission includes service as a rod-
man. Assistant Division Engineer,
service in the Commission's Bridge
Department and Division Engineer.

The veteran of 41 years' service was
named Division Engineer in the
State's far-western Division 14 in the
fall of 1964.

Mr. Johnston is married to the for-
mer Be'le Mathieson. is a member of
the North Carolina Society of Engi-
neers and is an Elder of the Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterian Church in
Southern Pines.

Hughes is married to the former
Helen Barham, is a former Senior
Warden of the Balfour Masonic
Lodge, an Elder of Sylva Presbyterian
Church and is a member of the North
Carolina Society of Engineers,

T. C. Johnston

A veteran of 44 years' service to the
State Highway Commission is step-
ping down as Division Engineer for
the Commission's Division Eight. He
will be succeeded by another veteran
engineer currently working in West-
ern North Carolina.

Johnston, who was born at Burling-
ton in 1902, joined the State Highway
Commission in 1924 after studying civ-
il engineering at North Carolina
State, and was assigned to Tarboro.
He worked as a rodman for the Appa-
lachian and Western North Carolina
Railroad during the summer months
while attending college.

In the spring of 1925, Mr. Johnston
was transferred to Charlotte by the
Highway Commission where he spent
the next ten years as a highway in-
spector. Then, from 1935 until 1937,
he served the Commission as a senior
highway inspector, returning to Tar-
boro in 1937 to become a junior resi-
dent engineer. Three years later, he
was made senior resident engineer.

In 1941, he was made senior right-
of-way engineer and in 1954 was ele-
vated to Assistant Division Engineer
and was promoted to his current post
in 1958.

13

Money Squeeze

In 1950 the State Highway Commis-
sion spent almost 22 million dollers to
maintain over 64,000 miles of primary,
secondary, and urban streets and
highways. This large expenditure
amounted to about one-third of the
highway budget of State funds.

The anticipated budget for 1970 in-
dicates that the State Highway Com-
mission will spend over 91 million dol-
lars for the maintenance of the High-
way System which will have grown
to over 73,000 miles. This expenditure
will represent over 55 percent of the
entire highway budget of State funds.

Thus, while the highway system has
grown in mileage only 13 percent, the
annual maintenance cost has quad-
rupled.

Looking at it another way, in 1950
it cost the State $340 per mile of all
systems for maintenance. In 1970, it
will cost $1250 per mile for mainten-
ance.

If present trends continue, annual
maintenance costs could well exceed
125 million dollars per year in 1975
and represent well over two-thirds of
the, entire State Highway budget of
State funds.

What then are the basic reasons
that such a dramatic increase in main-
tenance costs has taken place over
the past two decades? They are many
and varied and it might be well to
touch on a few of the more important
factors that have brought about this
increase.

By W. F. BABCOCK

State Highway Administrator
Seventh State Highway Confreence
January 28-30, 1969

In 1950 approximately 12 percent of
the secondary road system was paved.
We are now approaching 60 percent
of system paved. It has been demon-
strated many times that it costs ap-
proximately twice as much to main-
tain a paved road as contrasted with
an unpaved road. This taking place
because of the need for periodic resur-
facing, signing and marking, and the
need for improved drainage to pre-
serve the pavement structure.

Although the primary system has
increased only 15 percent in mileage
in two decades, in 1950 there were
only 25 miles of four-lane highways.
Today there are almost 1400 miles of
four-lane highways open to traffic or

under construction. It is again well
established that the cost of maintain-
ing a four-lane, divided highway va-
ries from three to five times as much
as the cost of maintaining a two-lane
highway.

There have been major changes in
the 3,000 miles of the State Highway
System within incorporated munici-
palities with many hundreds of miles
widened and four-laned, all of which
increases maintenance costs.

Over this period of time, traffic vol-
umes on the highways have almost
tripled. It is obvious that this increase
in traffic raises maintenance costs.

In this decade the driving public de-
mands a higher level of service than

u.

in the past. Pavements must be re-
surfaced more often, larger and more
informative signing requires heavy
maintenance, more adequate marking
and edge-lining increases the traffic
service budget, more and better rest
areas increase maintenance costs, the
demand for better litter pickup and
cleaner highways and better mowed
highways again accumulates this cost;
these and many other factors all work-
ing towards a higher level of mainten-
ance service push the cost up each
year.

Finally, and most importantly, in-
flation over the past two decades indi-
cates that the cost of labor and ma-
terials today is almost two and a half
times that of 1950; or putting it an-
other way, the 1950 dollar produces
about 40c worth of work in the 1969
and 1970's.

Putting all of these factors together,
the net result in that State revenues
for highway purposes will have almost
tripled during these two decades, but
yet the number of State dollars avail-
able for construction in 1970 will be
no greater than those available in 1950
with the dollar worth only 40c and the
number of drivers more than doubled.
This is the heart of the "money
squeeze", which indicates, according
to the Highway Study Commission,
that funds will not even be able to
match Federal-aid construction funds
by 1973, and that unless some form of

taxation increase takes place that
there will not even be funds for any
construction and hardly enough for
maintenance by 1978.

Many have asked Why is the High-
way Commission running out of
money while the number of drivers
and automobiles increases rapidly
each year? The answer is not as ob-
scure as one might think. Assuming
for the moment that there had been
no increase in population or no in-
crease in driving over a 20 year
period, one needs merely to look at
the General Fund type of taxation. If
in this period of time the cost of liv-
ing had doubled, the three percent
sales tax would bring in twice as
much money today as it did in the
1950's. On the contrary if one looks at
the gasoline tax and the registration
fee, and assuming no growth in auto-
mobiles, the same amount of money
would be collected today as in the
1950's. Thus the Highway Fund tax-
ation does not relate itself to the cost
of doing things as does the sales tax
or the income tax.

Critics will argue that with twice
as many vehicles on the road that this
increased income should be sufficient
This is just not so because as the
number of vehicles doubles, the de-
mand for more paved secondary roads
and more four-laned highways in-
creases almost in direct proportion.
The same is true for the need for
wider streets and expressways and
freeways in urban areas.

To further illustrate the "money
squeeze," national statistics indicated
that 20 years ago one-fifth or 20 per-
cent of your cost in owning, operat-
ing, insuring and depreciating an au-
tomobile went for the maintenance
and improvement of all city streets
and highways. Today, less than one-
tenth of your cost of owning and oper-
ating a motor vehicle goes for the
maintenance and improvement of

highways. If, over the past two dec-
ades, taxation was such that it related
itself to the cost of living and the cost
of owning an automobile and the
State and cities realized 20 percent of
this cost, there would be no serious
traffic problems or "money squeeze".

Nevertheless, the "money squeeze"
is very much with us today. The Gov-
ernor's Highway Study Commission
has recently released a report that in-
dicates the need for considerably in-
creased highway fund taxation if
North Carolina is to develop a high-
way system that will meet the needs
of its people and be effective in stim-
ulating greater economic development
of the State. It is to be anticipated
that the Governor and the General
Assembly will give this matter of the
need for added funds most serious
consideration in the light of the total
needs of the State.

Even if additional funds are made
available, we must return to the basic
problem of the spiraling of mainten-
ance costs which, as previously stated,
could take up to two-thirds of our
total State fund budget by 1975. It is
for that reason that we have brought
ference all of our supervisory person-
nel at various levels of management
that have to do with our maintenance
operations. Joining with us in this
effort to analyze our maintenance
problem are outstanding nationwide

specialists in all phases of mainten-
ance and management who will speak
to us, visit with us, and take part in
our Conference Workshops.

The goal of this Conference is ob-
vious. How can we find more effici-
ent approaches to maintenance, new
techniques for maintenance, better
overall planning for maintenance, and
the development of new ideas, all of
which when implemented will provide
the people of our State with an ade-
quate level of highway maintenance
at reduced costs.

Many say that our level of main-
tenance is inadequate today and that
we must have more money. It is my
belief, however, that the breadth of
knowledge assembled here today can
find ways of improving our overall ef-
fectiveness. There are times when I
am sure that we overlook the magni-
tude of this problem. To put it into
proper focus, if one could come up
with an idea that could reduce our
maintenance by only one percent, this
would result in a saving of almost a
million dollars a year.

It is my firm conviction that the
interchange of ideas throughtout
this Conference will result in savings
far greater than previously mentioned.
I welcome this opportunity to be with
you and look forward to the many
great benefits that will result from
this Seventh State Highway Confer-
ence.

IS-

Letters From The
Chairman's Office

Shelby, North Carolina
November 21, 1968

Mr. C. W. Lee,

CHIEF ENGINEER

N. C. State Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Lee:

The attached correspondence was
forwarded to me by Mr. P. L. Welch
in Greensboro.

This, of course, has reference to a
camera that Mr. James L. Stevens
left on a table in the Rest Area just
off US-70 east of Hickory. It seems
that Mr. Stevens had taken pictures
of the Bunker Hill covered bridge
which is located just a short ways from
the Rest Area and did not discover
that he had left the camera until he
was on the plane leaving Hickory Air-
port.

Our landscape employee, Mr. Steve
Morrison, who was cleaning up the
Rest Area at the time found the cam-
era and turned it in to us several days
later. We turned the camera over to
Mr. James E. Ellis, Executive Vice-
President of Hickory Chamber of
Commerce, who Mr. Stevens had writ-
ten concerning the loss of his camera.
I have been in contact with Mr. Ellis
several times in regard to this matter,
and I just wanted Mr. Hunt to know
that we had some good, honest em-
ployees in this division.

Yours very truly,
/s/W. W. WYKE,
Division Engineer
Twelfth Division

WWW:pm
Atta.

STEVENS FURNITURE CO.

SHerwood 5-2941
135 West Grand Escondido, Calif.

October 24, 1968
Chamber of Commerce
Hickory, North Carolina
Gentlemen:

When we were coming from High
Point Furniture Market 10/23/68 on
Highway 70, we stopped to take pic-
tures of Bunker Hill covered bridge
and came away and left our camera
on the picnic table. At the time there
was either a State or County crew
having lunch there. Their equipment
was yellow.

We did not discover that we did not
have the camera until it was about
time for our plane to leave. I tried to
contact the Highway Patrol, but could
get no answer.

I am wondering if you might con-
tact the road crew to see if they
picked the camera up. My name was
on it but no address. If you would
inquire for me I would appreciate it
very much as it was an expensive
camera with both wide lens and tele-
scope lens.

Yours sincerely,
/s/ James L. Stevens

JLS/dp

HICKORY CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
P. O. Box 1828
Hickory, North Carolina 28601

October 31, 1968

Mr. James L. Stevens

Stevens Furniture Company
135 West Grand
Escondido, California
Dear Mr. Stevens:

We received your letter advising of
the loss of your camera.

I am sorry to advise that we have
not received any information about it
being returned. However, I am for-
warding a copy of your letter to our
County Sheriff Department and to the
office of the Resident Engineer for the
State Highway Department. If the
camera is located, I feel sure that it
would be turned in at one of these
offices.

We shall immediately contact you
if we receive any information.

Cordially,
JAMES E. ELLIS
Executive Vice President

JEE/sh

November 7, 1968
Mr. James L. Stevens
Stevens Furniture Company
135 West Grand
Escondido, California

Dear Mr. Stevens:

I am delighted to advise you that
your camera was located and is being
shipped to you today, insured parcel
post.

A North Carolina State Highway
Department employee, Mr. Steve
Morrison, found your camera and
turned it in to the Highway Division

Offices. Mr. W. W. Wyke, Division
Engineer, North Carolina State High-
way Commission, Shelby, North Caro-
lina, then delivered the camera to our
offices today.

You might wish to express your ap-
preciation to Mr. Steve Morrison and
his home adress is Box 203, Lawndale,
North Carolina.

No doubt you will be visiting this
area during some future Furniture
Market and please do stop by our of-
fice if you have the opportunity.

Best regards,
JAMES E. ELLIS
Executive Vice President

JEE/sh

cc: W. W. Wyke
Steve Morrison
Tom Winkler

Mr. Hunt: You can be proud of
this employee. Enjoyed having you
visit Hickory. — Jim Ellis

Cost of Operating Car

Reprint — Carolina Financial Times

December, 1968

If North Carolina's General Assem-
bly should take the report of the
Highway Study Commission seriously
and grant the increases needed, the
cost of owning and operating a car in
the state will jump 8 per cent.

The commission has recommended
increasing car-registration fees an av-
erage of $15 per year; increasing driv-
er's license fees to $5 per renewal; a
special sales-and-use tax of 3 per cent
on autos; and upping tax on gasoline
three cents per gallon.

Based on figures from the Ameri-
con Automobile Association, this
would amount to an additional $100
per year per automobile.

The present cost of operating an
automobile, says the AAA, is $1,360
per year. This is based on a 1967
Chevrolet Impala with standard acces-
sories driven 10,000 miles per year for
10 years, and includes figures for gas,
federal and state taxes, depreciation,
maintenance, parking and insurance.

It does not include the cost of the
automobile. And it is not likely that
people would keep their cars 10 years.

The proposed increases would bring
the costs of operating a car in North
Carolina to about $1,460 per year. The
state's median family income is about
$4,500.

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Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

^^^^^^^ so ^

Golf Club. Since
Cloyce has kinda slacked off on golf
lately, we wonder if it's because of
the cold weather or maybe his game
hasn't improved to suit him!

Welcome to BRENDA TURNER,
new part-time employee in the Coop-
erative Office Occupations Program.
Brenda is a senior at Garner High
School and works in Personnel in the
afternoons. During the Christmas
holidays, Brenda received a lovely
diamond ring.

Several employees have been trying
to get the flu but it really pulled
MARVIN McKINNEY out of the
ranks. The "bug" knocked Marvin
out of work for almost two weeks.

During the Thanksgiving holidays,
GAIL STRICKLAND flew to Grand
Rapids, Michigan to visit her boy-
friend's parents for the first time.
Her boyfriend is currently stationed
in Viet Nam and will be returning
home January 30th. From the look in
Gail's eye, we wonder if marriage is
in the picture any time soon.

You never can tell what MARY
LEE GRIFFIN and BARBARA
STUSSIE are up to. Co-workers have
decided that "go" is their middle
name. First, Mary Lee headed to
Tennessee for the weekend and then
Barbara went to Washington, D. C.
for a weekend.

Lt. (jg) James A. Woodard, USNR.
son of Personnel Officer Raynor
Woodard and Mrs. Woodard, has his
wings of gold pinned on by his wife,
Phyllis, upon his designation as a Na-
val Aviator after completing flight
training at Helicopter Training Squad-
ron Eight at Ellyson Air Force Base
in Pensacola, Florida.

Mr. and Mrs. Raynor Woodard en-
joyed a trip to Florida November 8,
1968 for this special event, presenta-
tion of wings to their son.

Prior to his Air Force training, Lt.
Woodard graduated from North Caro-
lina State University and attended
Officers Candidate School. He is now
stationed at Point Mugu, California.

Official US Navy Photograph
by PH3 Rick A. Jacox

Never let it be said that the Per-
sonnel Department doesn't know how
to have a good time. They held their
Christmas party at the Angus Barn,
and what entertainment they did
have. Ted Austin and BETTY HOR-
TON pantomined "Has Anyone Here
Seen Sweetthing". Of course, this was
done especially for BARBARA STUS-
SIE as co-workers report this is her
favorite type music.

PURCHASING — It's nice to have
BETTY PEARCE back at work after
several days hospitalization at Wake
Memorial.

OLENE ENNOS enjoyed a recent
weekend in Silver Springs, Maryland
and Washington, D. C.

Welcome to Mrs. GENNIE R.
PEARCE, steno; Miss JO ANNE
McCABE Steno and Miss VIRGIN-
IA COUNCIL, temporary clerk.

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LOCATION — Employees will miss
R. T. MITCHELL who retired after
18 years' service with the Department.
Mr. Mitchell and his wife, Edna, are
residing in High Point, where they
manage the Travelodge Motel. F. E.
Daino replaces Mr. Mitchell. TONY
CORNACCHIONE replaces Mr. Dai-
no as Area Locating Engineer.

Good luck to NANCY ROUTHER
who recently resigned to accept a po-
sition at NCSU.

Our deepest sympathy to PAT
BRITT upon the recent loss of her
grandmother.

Congratulations to LYDIA and
Norvin CLONTZ, who became the
proud parents of an 8 lb., 3 oz. baby
girl January 8. Lydia was formerly
an employee in the Drafting section.

New citizens of the United States
are H. F. KOCH, employee in the
Geology Section, and his wife, Anna-
liese. The Kochs came here in 1962
from Germany.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — Wel-
come to two new trainees in the Engi-
neering Section: KATHY LASSI-
TER of Fayetteville Tech and AN-
GELA PRIDGEN of Holding Tech.

The Department held its annual
Christmas party December 14 at the
North Hills Steak House. A delight-
ful dinner was enjoyed and then danc-
ing to a combo.

Best wishes to Sharon and Joseph
Holloman who were married January
25th. Sharon is the daughter of
LEIGHTON ELLIOTT, the Depart-
ment's aircraft pilot. The bride and
bridegroom are graduates of East
Carolina University and he is in the
Air Force stationed at Travis Air
Force Base, California.

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. PAGE and son,
Pete, enjoyed a vacation to Jackson-
ville, Florida recently. They also
stopped over in Albany Georgia for
a visit with friends and relatives.
MURRIEL STIVERS and his wife
vacationed in Baltimore, Maryland
over the holidays.

Our sympathy is extended to JOHN
SHERBERT on the death of his
mother in Spartanburg, S. C. and to
GORDON DEANS upon the death of
his mother-in-law.

LANDSCAPE — RALPH W.
SNELL'S daughter, Sara, and family
were home during the holidays and
Mr. Snell got to see his grandson for
the first time. His daughter lives in
California.

We understand DICK FELTON'S
daughter and PHYLLIS SUGGS' son
are recovering nicely after surgery
and hope they continue to improve.

SUPERVISORY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING COURSE
The Highway Personnel Department has been busy arranging and pre-
senting after duty hour courses for the employees of the State Highway Com-
mission. One of the courses has been in Supervisory Development Training
offered at W. W. Holding. Through the cooperation of the Extension Depart-
ment Director, Mr. J. E. Fisher, and the Personnel Department of the High-
way Commission, a Supervisory Development Course began on January 7, 1969
and the first part of the course dealt with the fundamentals of supervision.
Those attending the course have received a Certificate of Participation for
completing the first part of the course. Plans are being made to continue the
course and other parts such as — Relationships on the Job, Communications,
How to Train Employees, Job Management, Work Improvements — all of these
may be offered.

Shown above are some of the students attending the training course with
the teacher and Highway Personnel Officer Raynor Woodard.

DARRELL KORNEGAY and wife
with Darrell's parents took a vacation
during the Christmas holidays tD
Roosevelt, Utah, where they visited
Mrs. Kornegay's parents. Darrell got
snowbound in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Co-workers miss ED EVANS, for-
mer temporary employee, who left
for a new job. Also, Ed got a new
bride about the same time. Employ-
ees wish the newlyweds much happi-
ness.

FRANK BOWEN attended the
Training Course in Highway Location
and Design given by the US Bureau
of Public Roads in Atlanta in Decem-
ber.

Reports are that BOBBY BOY-
ETTE had his usual luck deer hunt-
ing this season. Didn't even get a
shot!

RIGHT OF WAY — The Swift
Creek Baptist Church was the setting
for the January 26 wedding of
BECKY JONES, Stenographer in
Right of Way, and Albert M. Coun-
cil, Jr. After a trip to Hilton Head Is-
land, S. C, the couple are making
their home in Raleigh.

Congratulations to ALVIE O. PAT-
TERSON, JR. and his wife, who are

the proud new parents of a darling
baby girl, Jennifer Lynn, born Jan-
uary 11 in Rex Hospital. Little Jen-
nifer weighed in at 6 lbs., 8 oz.

Welcome back to Department Head
W. H. WEBB, JR., who was hospital-
ized with the Hong Kong flu.

ELEANOR BRANTLEY'S sister,
Debbie, has been nominated as one of
the seven best dressed girls at Peace
College.

The flu bug made a tour in Right
of Way, but reports are that all he
bit are now back at work waiting pa-
tiently for Spring to come again.

Employees are glad to see LU-
CILLE JONES back at work after a
stay in the hospital.

The Department misses JACK
BATCHELOR who resigned to go
into private business. LOUIS ALLEN
from the Waynesville office is Jack's
replacement. Welcome to ANN BE-
MIS, replacement for JENNY FER-
RELL. Jenny has a new position in
MR. MOON'S office.

BRIDGE LOCATION — C. R.
EDGERTON attended the Annual
Highway Research Meeting in Wash-
ington, D. C. January 13-17. Mr. Ed-
gerton is a member of the Surface
Drainage Committee. Best wishes are
extended RUPERT WEATHER on
his new job with the Construction De-
partment in Division Five. Co-workers
will miss Rupert and also WALTER

With over 31 years service with the State Highway Commission, Highway
Engineer Dewitt T. Rice is shown trying out his new smoking jacket while his
wife looks on, which co-workers presented him on his last workday before re-
tirement. December 31, 1968.

Fellow workers surprised Mr. Rice with a lovely office party in honor of
his retirement and refreshments, including a delicious cake, were served up in
fine style.

Mr. Rice was also presented a beautiful Western style square dancing
outfit which, we are sure, will come in real handy in his No. One hobby.

The occasion was enjoyed by all, and Mr. Rice will truly be missed by his
many highway friends.

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D. R. "Doc" McMichael, Area
Landscape Supervisor, is shown with
his wife, Patricia, and two children,
Alice and Doyle, at a dinner held Jan-
uary 10th in his honor at the College
Inn Restaurant, given by Landscape
Department Employees. Mr. McMi-
chael retired December 31st after

PARKER who resigned to return to
school, and JIM WIGGINS who has
accepted other employment.

It's nice to have DALE WIL-
LIAMS join the Department for three
months as a trainee.

BILL COOKE spent an enjoyable
Christmas vacation in Florida. CHES-
TER CALHOUN and his wife enjoy-
ed a weekend visit to Boone.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to GLENN JENKINS and his family
upon the recent death of his father;
to DON GREENE on the death of
his mother; and to HAROLD WIL-
SON, who recently lost his grand-
mother.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Congratulations to Sam and EMILY
BLOUNT on the birth of a daughter,
Dena Angel, December 21; and to ED
and Dee Dee BUTLER upon the
birth of their daughter, Elizabeth
Noel, Dec. 20th.

Sympathy is extended to T. JAY
OWEN and family on the death of
his father, B. Jay Owen of Tallahas-
see, Florida, January 2. Mr. Owen
was a retired Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral for the State of Florida.

Department personnel held their
Christmas party at Rogers Restaurant

serving over 33 years with the High-
way Commission. At the dinner he
was presented several gifts and a pla-
que commemorating his long and de-
voted service to the Commission. Best
wishes for a long and happy retire-
ment are extended to Mr. McMichael
and his family.

in Cary, Dec. 20. It was a dinner-
dance arranged by EMILY BLOUNT,
BRENDA PRICE and REILEY
CURTIS.

The Federal program in North
Carolina for Traffic Operations to
Increase Capacity and Safety (TOP-
ICS) for the Highway Commission
was recently made a responsibility
of the Department and is headed by
ROY WILLIAMS. Roy's former posi-
tion of Area Traffic Engineer is filled
by WOODIE WARRICK, formerly
an Assistant Area Traffic Engineer.

MIKE AUSTIN goes on active
duty with the U. S. Army, March 6.
His programmer's position will be
filled by DOT TURNER, who will
transfer from Planning and Research.

Recent additions to the staff are:
H. L. HOLSHOUSER, JR., who will
become Traffic Engineer for Div. 8
in Aberdeen in a few weeks; W. B.
COCHRAN, who is going to Asheville
as Traffic Engineer for Div. 13; R. G.
WELCH, formerly with the Division
office in Durham, who will be As-
sistant Areat Traffic Engineer for Di-
visions 7 and 9; GEORGE A. EAS-
ON, formerly Resident Engineer for
Division 4; D. E. HOLLOMAN, who
will be Traffic Engineer for Division
6; TOM GOULD, formerly in Con-
struction prior to serving in the arm-
ed forces, is Engineering Technician

Dwight Kelly brought his refresh-
ments with him to the picture taking
of the Accident Identification and
Surveillance personnel in Traffic En-
gineering when they honored their
supervisor, Robert Dodge.

Also in the group are Brenda

Johnson, who arranged the surprise
birthday party, Larry S tailings, John
Permar, Sarah White, Brenda Byrd,
Mike Austin, Irene Beddingield, Steve
Tant, Roger Hawkins, Chris Stafford,
Ed Siler, Chester West, Hap Crowe
and Don DuPree.

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to Area Traffic Engineer C. C. SES-
SOMS; TOM TURNAGE, Signing
Section; TOMMY THROWER, trans-
fer from Photogrammetry to the TED
Design Section; MARVIN OLDHAM
in the Signal Section; BILL COL-
LINS, Signal Section, who returns to
the Department after employment in
private industry. TERRY HARRIS
transferred from an Area Traffic En-
gineer's office to the Accident Inves-
tigation and Surveillance Unit.

ROBERT DODGE and family vi-
sited Mr. Dodge's relatives in Mis-
sissippi during the Christmas holi-
days. NEEDHAM (Hap) CROWE,
Mrs. Crowe, and another couple
chartered a sailing sloop out of North
Miami Beach for Christmas week and
sai'ed around the Florida Keys, serv-
ing as their own crew. RAY GOFF
attended Mardi Gras festivities in
New Orleans in February.

GLENN GRIGG attended meetings
of the Highway Research Board in
Washington, D. C. the third week in
January. ED FRAZELLE attended
a Highway Lighting School in Hen-
dersonville in November.

ED FRAZELLE and family ex-
pect to move into their beautiful new
home on Yadkin Drive Country Club
Hills, about March 1. STEVE TANT
is building a fine new home in Zebu-
Ion.

SARAH WHITE was matron of
honor in the wedding of her sister,
Evelyn Bell Kent, in Granite Falls,
January 25. An accomplished dress-
maker, as well as an engineering tech-
nician, Sarah made the gowns worn
by the attendants.

LARRY STALLINGS and DON
DUPREE may be looking for another
demolition job after successfully tear-
ing down a two-story house in Selma,
on property Larry bought for an in-
vestment.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT— Our deep-
est sympathy to MAGGIE LASSI-
TER on the death of her brother; to
LISBON A. JONES upon the death
of his mother; and to REDELL
BURT who also lost his mother.

Department employees were sorry
to hear of the recent deaths of retired
employees EMMETT PARKER and
RAYFORD B. GUPTON.

Get well wishes to ROGER NEV-
ILLE EARL WATERS N. C. MAS-
SENGILL, and WALTER JONES.
At this wriitng all four were hospital-
ized.

Welcome to new additions to the
Depot, MONROE COOKE of the
Carpenter Shop, and GOLDEN PHO-
PHET HALL in the Stockroom.

Walter Cochran, an Alabama na-
tive, is a recent newcomer ot the
North Carolina State Highway Com-
mission. He comes to the Commission
after spending 27 years with the U.S.
Army Corp of Engineers and Trans-
portation Corps. His military career
has carried him over much of the
Globe and our own USA. which in-
cludes Europe, North Africa and the
Far East, all of South and Central
America and such tropical places as
Hawaii and the Canal Zone. He also
spent some time in the Goose Bay.
Labarador region.

Mr. Cochran attended the Citadel
in Charleston, S. C. and received his
B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering at
N. C. State University. He later com-
pleted a graduate course in Marine
Transportation at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1952.

He and Mrs. Cochran are looking
forward to their move to Asheville and
Mrs. Cochran was the former Jane
Wilson of Raleigh and they have one
daughter, Mrs. Sharon Kenison, and
she has three children. Welcome to
the Traffic Engineering Dept.. Walt!

MISS EMILY NEWHOUSE work-
ed temporarily during the Christmas
holidays, and now has returned to
her studies at Lees-McRae College in
Western North Carolina.

Congratulations to REX G .
THOMPSON, who recently was pro-
moted to Equipment Inspection. His
new headquarters will be in Asheboro.

MATERIALS & TESTS — Friends
and co-workers of C. R. PENNY, Ma-
terial Engineer, extend their hearti-
est congratulations to "Penny" on his
recent marriage. Penny and Mrs. Sa-
rar Harrell of Co'erain were married
December 11, 1968 at the Cole rain

Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Penny
are at home on Litchford Road in
Raleigh.

ROADWAY DESIGN — W. A.
WILSON, JR., and W. G. MARLEY
attended the Highway Research
Board meeting in Washington, D. C.
January 13-17.

JOHN TAYLOR received the 1968
Citizen Soldier Award for Hq. & Hq.
Co. 39th Inf. Div., N. C. Army Na-
tional Guard. ROBERT W. BRAAM
recently completed a 10-week Armor
Officer Basic Course at Ft. Knox,
Kentucky.

MR. and Mrs. DALLAS SHEAR-
IN and daughter, Cathy, visited
Tampa and Ft. Myers, Fla. A high-
light of tht trip was a tour of Cape
Kennedy.

MARTHA and Charles ENSCORE
are geting to be continental travelers.
In November Martha and Charles
spent a week in San Juan, Puerto
Rico! They stayed at the beautiful
San Jeronimo Hilton hotel which of-
fers good food, Calypso music at the
poolside, wonderful Latin dance music
and an exciting floor show at the
Supper Club. Most of the larger ho-
tels have gambling casinos. Since it
is illegal in Puerto Rico, there are no
slot machines in the gambling casi-
nos. The Enscores especially enjoyed
playing golf on the Dorado Hilton
Golf Course, where the fairways are
lined with coconut palms.

And away out West went MAR-
GARET MILLS for an exciting two

"Having my picture taken is fun,"
says 10-months old James Douglas
Lane, Jr. Little Doug is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Lane, Sr. and his
proud pop works in Roadway Design.

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Alice Lorraine, age 5, and Mark
Ethan, one year old, are the young-
sters of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tri-
vette. Dad is a member of Roadway
Design.

weeks in December to visit her son,
Mike, and his wife, Carolyn, in Cali-
fornia. Highlights of the trip were
visits to Disneyland, Farmers Mar-
ket. Japanese Deer Park, Hollywood,
Huntington Library, Art Gallery and
Botanical Gardens, and a tour of the
Universal City Studio. The last two
days of Margaret's vacation were
spent in Las Vegas putting nickels in
the slot machines and enjoying the
entertainment in the nightclubs, espe-
cially Tony Martin's performance at
the "Flamingo Hotel".

The stork must have worked over-
time in Roadway Design recently!
Congratulations to the following new
parents and their arrivals: Mr. and
Mrs. AARON KREEM, a baby girl,
L;nHa Catherine; Mr. and Mrs. DON
MORTON, baby girl, Suzanne Mi-
chelle: the WAYNE BARNETTES,
babv girl, Renee Marie; the BOB
PEARSONS baby girl, Natalie Lyn;
Mr. and Mrs. DAVID PATTON,
baby boy. Michael David; Mr. and
Mrs. ALLEN ATKINS, baby boy;
AHen Kent; and the STEVE COLE-
MANS. baby boy, Shane Curtis.

HOWARD CRITCHER'S Squad
had a Christmas party at the N. C. O.
Club at the N. C. National Guard Ar-
mory. WAYNE (Candie) BAR-
NETTE was the guest of honor (of
course, a parking space and table were
reserved for him). BILL BETTERS
was in charge of serving beverages.
A good time was had by all, even
JIM MEARES has a faint recollec-
tion of the party.

Welcome to new employees in the
Department: AINSWORTH PRI-
VETTE, STEPHEN WOODALL,
DONALD DEAN and KAYE H.
WILSON.

BRIDGE DEPARTMENT — New
trainees in the drafting room are R.
J. JONES, J. T. NEWMAN, JOHN
WILSON, DALLAS SAFRIET and
RONALD JOHNSON.

GREGORY WALKER, a trainee,
left and LYMAN BRYANT left to go
to school.

PAT STRONG is part-time in
Final Estimates.

The Bridge Department was more
saddened than could be sincerely ex-
pressed at the death of R. S. WICK-
ER, December 19th. He was highly
regarded and is greatly missed.

Meet Kevin and Kyle Barger, ages
8 and 2 years. The proud parents are
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Barger. Dad is
employed in Roadway Design.

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Barbara Mitchell Crawley, age 13,
smiles as she holds her adorable six-
weeks old baby sister, Elizabeth Mon-
roe. Both are daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Bulla of Fayetteville —
their proud grandad is L. M. Mitch-
ell. Bridge Superintendent of Clinton.

A chain of "up the ladder" moves
was started when LANDIS TEMPLE
moved up to fill Mr. Wicker's posi-
tion when "Wick" retired. BUDDY
WIGGINS assumed Landis' duties,
DENNIS WILSON moved un to fill
Buddy's place and BOBBY POWELL
took over Dennis' responsibilities as
squad leader.

When MARGARET SHAW left,
ELEANOR TAYLOR became secre-
tary to J. L. NORRIS, BETSY LAN-
CASTER, from "Purchasing" took
Eleanor's place as secretary to
GEORGE PARKIN.

EDDIE NANCE is now among the
Gary residents.

Sympathy is extended to ROYCE
CARROLL whose father died Novem-
ber 24th, and to TIM HARWARD,
whose step-father died January 18th.

The KENNETH PRIDGENS han-
pily announced the birth of their first
child, a son, Scott, born December
18th.

The annual Christmas Partv was
again held at Apex in the CAREY C.
JONES Memorial Park club house.
JUDY BLEVINS did an outstanding
job of decorating. GARLAND MIT-
CHELL, who arranged for the party,
acted as "M. C." He received a "big
hand" for this as well as for singing
"Gentle On My Mind."

J. T. NEWMAN reports a sun and
fun ski outing at Boone.

Bridge Maintenance employees are shown at their annual Christmas of-
fice party, held December 20. Delicious refreshments were served and a good
time had by all.

ROYCE CARROLL and his mother
spent Christmas in Oklahoma City
with Royce's sister and her family.
They also visited Dallas and Fort Sill.

GERALD WHITE is bogged down
in 'finishing" his house. Can't get
past the plumbing. Any constructive
suggestions?

BEN TERRELL was married to
Mrs. RACHEL C. PARRISH, Janu-
ary 24th, in Red Oak, North Carolina
at the home of the Reverend HAR-
OLD STEEN. Other than her job of
keeping house at Country Club
Homes, Rachel works with the N. C.

Department of Revenue. She is from
Louisburg.

EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT —
Sympathy is extended to Mrs. ALMA
NORTHCUTT and family upon the
death of her father, Mr. H. J. Edger-
ton, December 20.

JO ANNE BASS and husband, Ro-
bert Earl, flew to Honolulu, Hawaii
via Standard Airlines for an exciting
two-weeks vacation in December. The
flight included stops in Las Vegas
and San Francisco for a tour of these
exciting cities.

Mrs. ALMA NORTHCUTT is

m

Pictured above is Pvt. E2, Carolyn
Jane Hayes, daughter of Bridge Fore-
man and Mrs. J. H. Hayes of Siler
City. Carolyn graduated June 5, 1968
from Jordan Matthew's High School
in Siler City. She was inducted into
the WACS June 10, 1968, took her ba-
sic training at Fort McClellan, Ala-
bama and is now stationed at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas.

glad to have Mrs. Gladys McGeary of
Asheville as a house guest.

REPRODUCTION — New em-
ployees since last press time are
CHARLES W ATKINS, AL GADDY
and GLENN JONES. Welcome, boys!

LARRY WATT reported Jan. 23rd
for a six-months tour of duty with the
Army in Missouri and Oklahoma.

WOODY REGAN has finally talk-
ed his girl friend into becoming Mrs.
Regan. She is a lovely co-ed attend-
ing UNC at Greensboro, Miss Debra
Britt, and her home is in Garner.
Debra received "the rock" Christmas
and will announce her wedding plans
soon.

Several Reproduction employees are
in somewhat of a diet, but if you
could have seen them at the cookout
recently, you would have thought dif-
ferently. The chief cooks were
JOHNNY STANCIL and GLENN
JONES, with BOBBY POOLE as
supervisor. Correspondent CHARLES
LASSITER reports, "best chicken
I've eaten since the last cookout, so
cooks let's do this more often."

Speaking of diets among the Re-
production crew, I wouldn't think that
in barbecued rabbit or porkchops, the
calories were few! Know what I mean,
boys!

Shown above are children of Bridge Maintenance employees who were also
invited to the annual office Christmas party. Needless to say, all of them had
a wonderful time.

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Lonely Voice

"Reprint — Durham Herald
December, 1968"

State Highway Commission Chair-
man Joseph M. Hunt, Jr. isn't the
kind of person who, when his point
is made against seeming odds, stands
around and says "I told you so." But
if he were, he would have occasion
now to issue such a reminder.

Mr. Hunt, it will be recalled, sound-
ed the warning note many moons ago
that the state's highway program was
heading on collision course with finan-
cial crisis. He called urgent attention
to the solemn fact that revenues
weren't keeping pace with expendi-
tures needed for construction and
maintenance. He warned that an in-
crease in gasoline taxes and license
fees would be needed.

But Mr. Hunt's voice, while loud
and clear, was crying out almost in a
wilderness. A tax increase proposal,
then as now, can be mighty unpopu-
lar. Mr. Hunt was a lonely man with a
controversial stand. But all of that
has changed now.

The Governor's Highway Study
Commission, after looking at the
needs and the wherewithal to do the
job, has gasped and proposed more
additional taxes than did Mr. Hunt.
The commission's report alone would
have vindicated Mr. Hunt's stand.

But that was not all, however. Gov-
ernor Moore, whose highway pro-
grams had been riding on a $300-mil-
lion bond issue cushion, has now come
to the conclusion, after indicating ear-
lier that the natural increase in the
economy would somehow see things
through, that the next General Assem-
bly would be wise to start increasing
Highway Fund revenue.

In addition, Governor-elect Scott
has joined the chorus, although he
hasn't sung the details. What he has
said, in essence, is that if Tar Heels
are to get the highways they need and
deserve, they will have to pay for
them — which has all the earmarks of
meaning, in highway-user language,
more taxes.

Mr. Hunt is not the kind of man
who claims credit, just as he is not
the kind to avoid an unpopular cause.
But he is an outspoken man when the
need arises for speaking out, just as
he did when he saw where the high-
way program was heading. His was a
lone voice then, but Mr. Hunt isn't
lonely anymore. The influential
spokesmen who have moved into his
corner haven't spoken of his foresight,
however, but he deserves public ap-
preciation for sounding the tocsin.

Golf Tournament Trophies

HEADQUARTERS (Cont.)

Shown above with their trophies are additional members of the Highway
Commission Summer Golf League. Left to right are Bill Brantley of the High-
way Lab "B" Team who won 6th place with a net score of 140; Bill Moon of
Right of Way, 5th place with a net score of 139; Ron O' Daniel. Roadway De-
sign, 4th place with a net score of 139; John Holmes, Right of Way, 2nd place
with a net score of 137; and John Permar, Advance Planning, who won 1st
place with a net score of 137. Cliff Carroll. Right of Way. was not present when
the pictures were taken. He won third place net score honors with a score of 138.

WINNERS HIGHWAY COMMISSION SUMMER GOLF LEAGUE

Pictured above are the members of the Highway Laboratory "B" Team
which won the Highway Commission Summer Golf League last summer. They
are. left to right, Billy Brantley, J. P. Pendergrass (Team Captain), E. H.
Curtis; second row — Jerry Wilder, Curtis Harrison, and Haywood Barham.

The league was divided into two parts with nine teams in each league.
The winners of League I played the winners of League II for the Champion-
ship Trophy pictured above. Highway Laboratory Team "B" winners of Lea-
gue II defeated the team from Staff, winner of League I.

Plans are underway for this tournament to be continued each summer.
Present rules are that the trophy will be rotated each summer to the winner
of the golf tournament; however, should one team win the trophy three suc-
cessive years the trophy would be awarded permanently to that team.

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W. T. Thompson Retires

Mr. W. T. THOMPSON, Soils In-
vestigator in the Soils Laboratory,
retired on December 31, after more
than 45 years of continuous service
with the Commission. Mr. Thompson
graduated from Salisbury High School
and attended Catawba College prior
to his beginning work with the High-
way Commission in October 1923. He
worked in Construction at various
locations from that time until he
transferred to the Soils Laboratory in
Raleigh in 1935, a few months after
the Soils Laboratory was organized.

Mr. Thompson was a field repre-
sentative for the Soils Laboratory and
his duties generally involved locating
and sampling of local materials to be
used in road construction and as-
sisting construction personnel with
problems encountered in utilizing
these materials.

Mr. Thompson is married to the
former Adelia Mae White of Win-
ston-Salem, and they are members of
Fairmont Methodist Church.

Upon retirement, co-workers pre-
sented him with a desk, chair, and
lamp. He is reportedly engaging in
some birdwatching when he has some
spare time away from his desk.

The following is a song composed
by W. T. (P-Nut) THOMPSON and
sung to us the day he retired:
"N. C. State Highway Blues"
When you money's gone
And your clothes are worn
Just a little bit shabby
Then you are getting those Highway
blues.

You wake up in the morning
Your breakfast is at eight
You hurry to the office just a little
bit late

Out about eleven, back home about
seven,

Go to bed, wake and then

The whole darn thing starts over
again,

Ain't that monotonous, say what you
choose

But 45 years up and down N. C.

Highways
Will give you those Highway Blues.

A lovely office party was given for
Mrs. Emily Sinsley on her last work
day, December 31, 1968, before her re-
tirement. Members of Commercial Ac-
counts in Finance, where Emily was
an Accounting Clerk, served up punch
and cookies in fine style. Many
friends and employees in Finance
contributed to Emily's gifts, a beauti-
ful bedspread, housecoat and a sum
of cash. With more than 33 years
service with the Highway Commission,
Emily will miss her many friends but
is looking forward to her retirement.

Shown above (I to r) are co-workers
F. M. Strock, Jr., Controller W. M.
Ingram, Beatrice Harrison, William
Heath, Emily and B. B. Ennis.

Earlier in December, Mrs. Bertha
Daniels and Mrs. Lena Morgan acted
as hostesses at a lovely luncheon for
Emily at the Velvet Cloak Motor Inn.
Many highway friends were present
and on this occasion, Emily was pre-
sented a handsome silver butter dish
and tray.

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

It's doing your work the best you can,
And being just to your fellow man;
It's making money, but holding
friends,

And staying true to your aims and
ends;

It's figuring how and learning why,
And looking forward and thinking
high,

And dreaming a little and doing
much;

It's keeping always in closest touch
With what is finest in word and deed;
It's being thorough, yet making
speed;

The Department of Materials and
Tests had another longtime employee
to retire recently. Mr. William Spicer
Williams retired December 31, 1968,
after coming to work in the Fayette-
ville Area Laboratory December 1,
1949.

Mr. Williams was born Dec. 2, 1902,
and resides with his wife, Mildred
Cooper Williams, in the very same
house in which he was born. The Wil-
liams' live on Main Street in Sted-
man, N. C.

Spicer is the son of the late Dr. E.
P. Williams and Lelia Dobbin Tha-
gard Williams of Stedman. His sis-
ters are Mrs. Addie W. Totten of
Chapel Hill and Mrs. Emma W. Max-
well of Rocky Mount.

We wish for Spicer a long and hap-
py retirement and may he work many
more crossword puzzles.

It's daring blithely the field of chance
While making labor a brave romance.
It's going onward despite defeat,
And fighting staunchly, but keeping
sweet;

It's being clean and it's playing fair;
It's laughing lightly at Dame Despair;
It's looking up to the stars above,
And drinking deeply of life and love;
It's struggling on with the will to win,
But taking loss with a cheerful grin;
It's sharing sorrow, and work, and
mirth,

And making better this good old
earth;

It's serving, striving, through strain

arid stress;
It's doing your noblest that's

success.

— Anonymous,

2h

Highway Engineer Honored

Mr. J. J. Powell, Bridge Maintenance Engineer was
honored by 90 fellow employees with a Retirement Lunch-
eon at the Cardinal Cafeteria on December 30th. Mr.
J. L. Norris presented Mr. Powell with a plaque and
color TV set, gifts from the more than 750 employees of
the Bridge Maintenance Department.

Mr. Powell is a native of Craven County and grad-
uated from N. C. State University in 1926 with a degree
in Civil Engineering. Upon graduation he went to work
with the Highway Commission as a rodman with the
Location Dept. working in Alleghany County. He says

"these were the rough days" since they had to sleep in
tents and do their own cooking. In 1926 he transferred to
Raleigh as a draftsman in the Bridge Dept.

In 1928 he left North Carolina and joined the Ken-
tucky Highway Dept. as a designer in the Bridge Dept.
While in Kentucky he met his wife, Eleanor. He returned
to Raleigh in 1932 as a designer in the Bridge Design
Dept.

With the war approaching in 1942 he went to work
for Tidewater Construction Co. in Norfolk, Virginia doing
design work on marine facilities. He returned to Raleigh
in 1944 as a designer in the Bridge Design Dept. He trans-
ferred to the Bridge Construction Dept. in 1951 as a
Bridge Construction Engineer in charge of bridge con-
struction in the western portion of the state.

Mr. Powell became State Bridge Maintenance Engi-
neer in July, 1960 and served in that capacity until the
date of his retirement, Dec. 31, 1968. While with the
Bridge Maintenance Dept. he was noted for his friendly
personality and progressive ideas. He was constantly
speaking for better methods and cheaper ways to build
and maintain bridges. For example, he pioneered the use
of corrugated metal fastened to beams by welded studs
as an economical bridge deck. This floor system is cover-
ed with an asphaltic wearing surface. He also promoted
the development and use of prestressed concrete cored
slabs as a bridge deck. Mr. Powell will be missed by his
many friends throughout the state in the Highway Com-
mission and business and professional organizations.

Here's hoping he and Eleanor will enjoy their leisure
time together and visit'ng with their family and many
friends. Pictured L to R: Max Collins, J. L. Norris Mrs.
Powell and Mr. Powell.

Planning and Advance Planning
Basketball Team

Pictured at right are members of the Planning and
Advance Planning Department, whose basketball team re-
cently won six consecutive games in the City League.

Front row, left to right: JOE OSBORNE, AL AV-
ANT, BOB TROXLER. ED SHULLER, JIM BECKOM.
ALEX HEKIM1AN. RICHARD SMITH, BILL RIGGS.
Back row, left to right: BOYD MATHEWS, GREG
COULSON, CHARLIE ADKINS, WAYNE ELLIOTT
(COACH). MICKY MANESS, GRADY DAWSON.
RON POOLE. Other team members are TED WATERS
and BRUCE JACOBS.

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THE CHANGING SCENE — Time really does change
things. We were talking to a friend who works for the
telephone company just the other day . . . remember
when your phone number (if you had a phone) was maybe
like three digits and a letter of the alphabet? The old
Hundley number in Spray (my apologies to Tom Har-
rington for not saying Eden) wasg 522-R. Anyway, back
then when you picked up the telephone to make a call
an operator came on the line and said, "Number, plee-
uhz". Then, along came the dial system. Then along came
DDD, the direct dialing system. Okay? Today with your
own little finger you can dial the number "1", an area
code, a seven digit number and get anybody anywhere
anytime. But when you get through dialing all those num-
bers, there's a pause, a little click and then what hap-
pens? An operator comes on and says "Number, plee-uhz".
Twenty years ago you gave her the number you were
calling. Today you give her your number. That's progress,
brother.

MORE CHANGING SCENE — Having gone to two in-
stitutions of higher learning, and having tried to stay
high at both of them, we were doing a little comparison
check of the two the other day. Here again, time changes
things. When we were at Western Carolina College ( Uni-
versity now) we were hicks. Real backwoods buggers at-
tending the only completely rural college left in America.
We wore levis and denim jackets and desert boots and
engineers boots. Plaid shirts, argyle socks and all the
rest of those corny get ups. This was after a year of
pharmacy school at UNC Chapel Hill where everybody
wore wool flannel, white shirts, repp ties, blazers, ivy
league caps and all that other clean cut jazz. A recent
visit to both campuses showed a turn around. At Cullo-
whee, they're wearing all that clean-cut jazz, and in
Chapel Hill where the flower children have taken over,
they're wearing levis and denim jackets and boots.

YETTHIR — Now the Pigeon River Gorge section of
Interstate 40 is at last reality and folks are driving
through that scenic area of North Carolina, some to get
to Tennessee and points west, some just to see it with
their own eyes. Folks came from everywhere to see the
ribbon cutting, and a1!, and they're still writing in for
information about it. A man who now lives in Cincinnati
called to ask if the road was open. "Yes," we replied, "it
has been since October 24th". "I'm certainly glad it is",
he said, "That's rough country up there, I hunted and
fished in there when I lived in Asheville several years

ago." Then he said, "Back then if you wanted to go to
Tennessee from North Carolina by way of the Pigeon you
had to be one". Amen.

UNUSUAL — It couldn't happen again in a million
years. A friend and I were trying to get in touch with
each other by telephone. I left a call for him, he did
likewise for me. I picked up the phone and called him.
Secretary said, "He's on the other line, would you like to
hold?" My phone rang. Jewel said, "Call for you on line
one". Get his name and number, Im holding for Mr. Col-
lie, said I. "This is a Mr. Bernard Collie calling you",
said Jewel. To the secretary on the phone I said, "Who is
Mr. Collie calling?' A pause. "Mr. Keith Hundley." I
switched over and took his incoming call. Later I told
Bernie the only thing we didn't do to make it even richer
was to have us both hang up.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY — Thought the world had
got and moved the other day around here. First, walking
into the hall, we bumped into Sam Wilson the erstwhile
District Engineer from Cumberland. Upon returning from
a trip to the print shop, bang, walked right into Kesler
Butler, the assistant Division Engineer. Not long after
that, we howdied with Rowdy Rayvon Autry, office man-
ager from the big "C", and then two days later talked
with Swain King who has moved down to Columbus
County. And I'll let you in on a little secret, I begged all
of 'em to get on Nat Day like Ugly on an Ape to set up
an oyster roast soon as possible. I think they can get a
rowd from Raleigh.

STATUS SYMBOL? — Dave Permar took leave of Ra-
leigh to watch his favorite football team, the BUCKEYES
of Ohio State, squeeze OJ in the Rose Bowl . . . and they
did it for him. Dave told the King Kong Koffee Klatch
here that he had seats on the 75th row. Listening to a
TV commentatory New Year's Day we heard, ". . . this
fine old stadium which houses the grand-daddy of all the
football bowls has 77 rows of seats ..." Right up front,
huh, Dave?

YOO HOO, THE FLU

By Keith R. Hundley

To Minnesota's cold climate they flew,
To AASHO to learn something new.

Just like to college,

they went to seek knowledge
But returned with that darned Hong Kong Flu.

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NC.H.C.EA. ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By: OTIS BANKS and DAVID KING

Major Medical Now In Effect

During January 1969 the permanent employees of the
North Carolina State Highway Commission were given
the opportunity to enroll in a new type of medical in-
surance. This new benefit known as Major Medical in-
surance was added to the basic group hospital and surgi-
cal plan of the Highway Commission and afforded the
employees and their families additional protection over
and above the coverage already present in their hospital-
surgical plan.

The Highway Commission's Major Medical program is
designed to provide benefits for medical expenses incur-
red in or out of the hospital. If the employee or his de-
pendents is hospital confined, his expenses are paid un-
der the basic hospital program first. When he has had
to pay out of his own pocket $100 of covered expenses
that has not been paid by the basic plan, then the Major
Medical program steps in and pay 80% of the remaining
covered expenses under Major Medical. This includes
hospital room and board charges up to $30 per day, phy-
sicians and surgeons fees, professional services of a reg-
istered graduate nurse, professional ambulance and medi-
cal and surgical expenses. Under the present basic hos-
pital plan, the employee does have to pay the first $20
of hospital expenses when hospital confinement is due
to a sickness. This $20 counts toward the $100 Major
Medical deductible.

The maximum payment under the Major Medical pro-
gram is $10,000. This is $10,000 in addition to any bene-
fits paid under the basic hospital program and it is
$10,000 for each separate disability than an employee or
his dependent may have.

Major Medical may be payable for expenses from an
accident or sickness where the insured does not go into
the hospital but receives treatment on an out-patient
basis. Under these circumstances, the insured must ac-
cumulate $100 of expenses from that accident or sick-
ness within a period of 90 consecutive days. These ex-
penses would be doctors, examination, x-rays and labora-
tory, prescription drugs, private duty nursing or medical
supplies. Once the $100 deductible is satisfied, then Ma-
jor Medical picks up 80% of the remaining expenses for
that accident or sickness until the $10,000 maximum has
been paid or benefits have been paid for three years or
the insured has a three month period during which he

incurs less than $50 of covered expenses. The 80% pay-
ment applies to all accident or sickness except the treat-
ment of mental illness or nervous disorders on an out-
patient basis. If treatment is given for a mental illness
or nervous disorder outside the hospital, then 50% of these
expense are reimbursed after the $100 deductible to a
maximum of $20 per doctor's visit and one visit per week.
If the mental illness is treated while a person is hospital
confined, it is treated as any other type disability.

There are several types of expenses which are not cov-
ered by Major Medical. These expenses include medical
expenses as a result of an occupational accident or sick-
ness. Expenses for normal pregnancies, expenses incurred
in a governmental hospital, expenses of cosmetic sur-
gery or dental work except as a result of an accident and
expenses incurred through any public program including
Medicare.

The following is an example of how Major Medical
would work. A serious automobile accident resulted in
an employee's dependent child being hospital confined
for 35 days and then confined at home for a long period
for recuperation. Her total expenses from hospital, sur-
geons, doctors, private nurses, special tests and medicines
total $4,580. The basic hospital program paid $1,585
leaving $2,995 unpaid. These expenses then came under
the Major Medical plan with the first $100 serving as the
deductible. This left 12,895 to be covered by the Major
Medical program and at 80% the Major Medical plan
paid $2,316 of these expenses. Between the two coverages,
the employee received $3,901 in payment having to pay
$679 of the expense.

During 1968, hospital expenses in North Carolina in-
creased over 25% the cost of these expenses during 1967.
Without a form of protection such as Major Medical, it
becomes extremely difficult to be able to meet medical
cost should an accident or sickness cause a long hospital
confinement or high expenses in and out of a hospital.
Many of the permanent employees in the State Highway
Commission elected this new form of medical insurance.
The new employees coming on a permanent status with
the Highway Commission will have the option to elect
this valuable form of protection at the time they are put
on permanent payroll.

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Congratulations to
BERNARD PEE-
BLES ROBERT-
SON and Myra
Jessup, who
were married the
28th of November.
Mr. Robertson is a
truck driver i n
District 2.
M. G. Carawan Congratulations to

Division Correspondent Mr. and Mrs.

RODNEY LeGATES on the birth of
a son and to Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
TILLEY, also, who have a new son.
Mr. Tilley is with the District 1 of-
fice and Mr. LeGates is with the
Right of-Way Department.

Best wishes are extended to HER-
MAN G. ARNOLD, SR., of Belcross,
Maintenance Yard Foreman at the
Currituck Maintenance Yard, for a
long and enjoyable retirement. Mr.
Arnold retired as of December 31,
1968, after 23 years with the Highway
Commission. Our best wishes go also
to CHARLIE D. WARD, mechanic
with the Equipment Shop in Eliza-
beth City, who retired in December on
disability.

Welcome to the new employees who
have recently joined the forces of Di-
vision One— Miss CLARA HOLL-
MAN Clerk in the District 2 Office;
and Mr. LEONARD DUBOSE, with
the Ripht-of-Way Department.

CLIFFORD ASKEW, Clerk II in
the District 2 Office, has resigned
from the Highway Commission and
accepted employment with the North
Carolina State Highway Patrol. We
wish you every success, Jack.

MISS SUE FELTON has returned
to Atlantic Christian College after
spending the Christmas Holidays with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. FEL-
TON. Mrs. NEDRA HOLLOMAN
spent the Christmas Holidays in
Portsmouth, Virginia with her son
and family. Mr. RAYMOND CON-
NER, Right-of-Way Agent, shared
his ho'idays with his sisters, who re-
side in Greensboro and Rocky Mount.
ROBY HALL enjoyed the Florida
sunshine this Christmas during his

W. J. "Bill" Davis, Division One
Equipment Superintendent, retired
January 1, 1969, after 48 years of
service. He started to work December
1, 1922 as a Division mechanic. Of
his 48 years with the State, he served
as a mechanic for approximately 17
years and in the capacity of equip-
ment superintendent for approximate-
ly 31 years.

Employees of Division One honored
him at a retirement dinner held at the
Perquimans High School December
19th. Special guests included Otis
Banks, executive secretary of the
North Carolina State Highway and
Correction Department Employees'
Association and Mr. J. L. McDonald.
Equipment Superintendent for Divi-
sion Two. To show their high esteem,
Mr. Davis was presented a retirement
gift by his fellow employees along
with best wishes for health and happi-
ness in his retirement.

Bill is married to the former Mary
Ballance and they reside in Hertford,
North Carolina.

Mr. M. C. Newbern (District Man-
ager) retired January 1, 1969. after
43 years of service with the Highway
Commission. He started work as a
field mechanic in September, 1925 and
was promoted to District Mechanic in
April, 1946.

Cad is married to the former Alea-
tha Early and they have one daugh-
ter and three grand-children. Cad
now resides in Ahoskie and we wish
him good health and happiness during
his retirement.

visit with his son. Roby, on his return
trip, brought back a new, 19 ft. fiber-
glass boat and reports that he plans
to take in a lot of deep sea fishing
this summer. We wish Skipper Hall
many "happy" hours and "lots" of
luck cruising on the High Seas!

Mr. N. R. BIVENS, Division Traf-
fic Engineer, has transferred to Dur-
ham. Best wishes as your new loca-
tion, Ned.

CLIFFORD ASKEW, JAMES
RAWLS and GARVAN HALL, Dis-
trict 2 employees, attended the Inau-
guration of Governor Scott in Raleigh
on January 3, 1969.

W. H. COLEMAN, GLENN CAR-
AWAN and FRANK SPRUILL en-
joyed hunting quail in Hyde County
Saturday, January 18th. They bagged
18 and if all the shells fired had con-
tained lead, they would have killed
more than their limit, for sure! It was
a most enjoyable hunt and they plan
to return soon because they left many
coveys that need thinning out.

E. A. WALKER, Supervisor of
Wanchese reported "good results"
from his duck hunting during the
Christmas Holidays.

G. H. JOLLIFF has been promoted
to Road Oil Supervisor to assume the
position formerly held by R. C.
SPEIGHT (retired). Jollif began
work in March 1951 as a gang fore-
man and since that time has worked
as a Road Oil Foreman and Mainten-
ance Foreman. He is married to the
former Blanche Howard of Ocracoke
and they now reside in Union, Hert-
ford County.

"Kust hsva lost his contact lensss agal

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Charles P. Vincent (Neighbor),
Highway Engineer, retired January 1,
1969 after 33 years of service with the
Highway Commission. Except for 6
years of self-employment, Charlie
worked with the Highway Commission
from March, 1930 until retirement.
During his employment, he worked
as a rodman, instrument man, sign
supervisor, maintenance supervisor,
statistics and planning engineer and at
retirement was a Highway Engineer.
He worked with the Statistics and
Planning Department involving map-
ping on roads on the State System
throughout the State.

Charlie is married to the former
Helen Reed of Halifax and they have
2 sons and 4 grandchildren. They now
live in Murfreesboro and will continue
living there throughout his retirement.
Our best wishes go for a long and
happy retirement.

Sicknesses —

We are glad to see JULIAN PRIT-
CHARD, C. G. HASTE, G. W. POW-
ELL and R. C. BUNCH back on the
job after being confined because of
illness.

As of mid-January, JOHNNIE
GREEN and DALLAS PRITCHARD
both are still patients in Albemarle
Hospital; JAMES WHITE, a patient
in the Louise Obici Memorial Hospi-
tal in Suffolk; and RAY JONES, M.
J. CHAPPELL and E. A. LEGGETT
still are confined to their homes with
sickness.

Division Office forces have now re-
turned after a bout with the flu. Ab-
sent with the "bug" were D. W. PAT-
RICK, MILDRED PEELE and
SHIRLEY CALLIS.

Condolences to Mr. TALMADGE

WILSON, Right-of-Way Agent, whose
father passed away January 9th.

Congratulations to JAY SMITH
on his promotion to District Mechan-
ic. He replaces M. C. Newbern who
retired January 1, 1969. Jay began
work as a blacksmith with the Main-
tenance Department in 1938, and
after 2l/z years, he was transferred to
the Equipment Department as a me-
chanic. We wish him the best of luck
in his new job.

Congratulations to CHARLES L.
"Dick" BREWER on his promotion
to Equipment Superintendent, Divis-
ion One. He replaces W. J. Davis
who retired January 1, 1969. We wish
Dick the best of luck in his new job.

R. C. Speight. Road Oil Supervisor,
retired January 1, 1969, after 47 years
of loyal and dedicated service. He
started work with the Maintenance
Department April 1. 1922 and was
transferred to Road Oil Department
in June, 1925, working on a State-
wide basis. In July, 1911, he was pro-
moted to Road Oil Supervisor and
worked under that classification until
his retirement.

During most of his career Mr.
Speight worked in Division One un-
der Mr. J. C. Gardner, T. J. McKim,
W. N. Spruill and D. W. Patrick. He
is married to the former Edna DeLo-
zier of Bryson City and they have
four married daughters. His greatest
pleasure are fishing and cooking cat
fish muddle, which is considered a
delicacy for anyone.

We wish him a most happy and
long retirement. Mr. Speight has not
decided where he will spend his re-
tirement, but at the present time, he
is living in Early Station in Hertford
County.

Hazel Baker
Division Correspondent the

NCSH & CPE
Craven - Pamlico
Chapter held a
fish fry at Head-
quarters Bldg. on
Dec. 13, 1968. Mr.
& Mrs. Otis Banks
were in attendance
and Mr. Banks
gave a brief talk
about the work of
Association
and goals we hope to achieve in 1969.
Bingo was played and enjoyed by all.
present. PAUL MERCER was in
charge of a.l activities and did a fine
job.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. JOHN LEE HUMPHREY
who passed away November 2nd.
The many friends and co-workers of
Mr. Humphrey will miss him greatly.
Mr. Humphrey had served the people
of N. C. for 45 years and was Road
Maintenance Supervisor in Carteret
County at the time of his death.

Mr. and Mrs. RAY ROUSE (Engr.
Aide in Ed Latham's Construction
Department) are proud to announce
the birth of their daughter Christi
Fay, on Jan. 3rd. Christi weighed in
at 7 lbs. 1 oz. Ray just came back to
work in Highway Comnvssion after
serving his tour of duty in the Army.

The flu bug has not been absent
from District 2 for the past few weeks.
Just to name a few of the victims —
L. T. TRIPP, NATHAN BOODLE,
PAUL MERCER, RICHARD JEN-
KINS, C. D. DeBRUHL, HUBERT
SIMPKINS, HEBREW WAYNE,
RALPH POLLOCK, and C. Y. GRIF-
FIN were just some of the many vic-
tims.

PAUL and SHIRLEY MERCER
accompanied by their daughter visit-
ed some relatives in the state of Ar-
kansas during the Christmas holidays.

Maintenance employees retiring as
of Dec. 31, 1968 are D. C. GOLDEN,
Maint. Fore. 2— Carteret Co., G. I.
COLLINS M. O. 3 in Craven Co.,
and W. P. SAWYER, Bridge Tender
in Craven Co. These men were each
presented a departing gift by their
fellow employees.

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'

Above are the latest pictures of the new bridge at Harkers Island with
the draw span. R. A. Pollock, Resident Planning Engineer.

On Dec. 31. 1968, a dutch lunch was
held at the Berne Restaurant in New
Bern honoring J. B. JENNETTE,
JR., Resident Engr., who retired as
of that date. Mr. Jennette was pre-
sented a TV set by his fellow em-
ployees consisting of supervisors, en-
gineering and maintenance personnel
from Division 2. Twenty-six employ-
ees were present.

MICHAEL ROWLETTE, Engr.
Aid in Ralph Pollock's Construction
Dept., resigned Dec. 31, 1968 in order
that he might further his education at
Hardbarger's Business College in
Raleigh.

Mr. POLLOCK'S sister-in-law, Mrs.
HARPER GREY of LaGrange, died
Nov. 4th. His brother-in-law, Voygt
Sutton of Fayetteville, died December
31st.

MICKY ROWLETTE resigned on
January 3, 1969 in order to attend
Hardbarger Business College. He was
married on December 28, in First
Baptist Church, Conway, South Caro-
lina to Linda Maria Brooks of New
Bern. Linda is continuing her educa-
cation at East Carolina University.

Irene Hewitt
Division Correspondent

The Construction
& Administration
Chapter of the As-
sociation had a
Christmas Party
on December 7th
at the Elberta Mo-
tel. There was
plenty of food, mu-
sic, people and a
good time. Every

thing went just fine except FLOYD
BASS'S camera; it just wouldn't
work, unless it was "the photogra-
pher", ha!

RICKY JO STRICKLAND, secre-
tary here in the Division Office, is

Airman James F. Coates, formerly
with Highway Construction, Wilming-
ton Office, has completed Basic Train-
ing with the US Air Force, at Lack-
land Air Force Base, Texas with an
overall rating of Excellent.

The Air Force is nothing new to
James as his father, James L. Coates,
presently the Maintenance Yard Fore-
man for New Hanover County, retired
from the Air Force in September,
1963. James was born at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina. He has been with his
family on a three and one half year
to Germany and another two year as-
signment to France.

James is being assigned to Keesler
Air Force Base, Boloxi, Mississippi
where he will receive training as a
Electronic Computor Operation Ana-
lyst, then who knows, possibly another
assignment overseas.

James being from a long line of
military personnel, that being his
great grandfather, two great uncles,
grandfather and his father all retir-
ing from the military he may well be
expected to follow the family tradi-
tion.

Miss Gail Balkcum, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wayland Balkcum, was re-
cently crowned Miss Union 1969. For
her talent, Gail did a skit entitled
"Initiation Night', and a vocal solo
of "Whistle a Happy Tune". Mr.
Balkcum is employed with the Equip-
ment Department in Clinton.

quite the sport in that lovely new
Toyota Santa Claus brought her.

P. G. (Philip) WILLIAMSON
completed his training program "stint"
and transferred back to Construction
in Clinton from the Final Estimate
Section in Raleigh effective Novem-
ber 25, 1968. We are glad to have him
back.

RUBY CAMPBELL, Secretary in
R-O-W, was a very wonderful hostess
when she had all the employees of the
Div. Office and R-O-W over to her
beautiful new home for a Christmas
get together. The beautifully appoint-

This good looking young man is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Starling,
Jr. Mr. Starling is Engineering Tech-
nician with the Maintenance Depart-
ment in Clinton.

SO

ed table held some mighty fine food
and we all had a real nice time.

The following are out sick: FLOYD
J. BASS, our Asst. Div. Engr., FRED
BENTON of Road Oil, and DEAMES
E. HAIRR of Dist. 2.

The following employees have re-
tired: CHARLIE L. DEVANE and
W. C. BASDEN of Dist. 1, E. C.
TYNDALL and COY C. WOOD of
Dist. 2. We wish them a long and
happy retirement and do hope they'll
remember to come by and see us
often.

The following have resigned to ac-
cept other employment: SIDNEY R.
WELLS of Dist. 1, EUGENE M.
SKIPPER and MICHAEL P. CAI-
SON of Construction. JAMES P.
COOK of Construction has gone on
Military Leave.

We welcome FAYE McDANIEL,
newcomer who is the Typist in the
Construction Office at Jacksonville.
Other new permanent employees are:
in the Road Oil Dept., E. D. SHIPP
and D. R. SMITH; in Clinton Con-
struction O. FRANK WILKERSON.

JIMMY ROYAL and JAMES
FAIRCLOTH of Clinton Construction
recently attended a two-day Density
School in Raleigh.

We extend our sympathy to the
families of ALL L. BASS (4iy2 yrs.
time), M. F. 2 in Dist. 2 Mainten-
ance who died on 12-25-68; W. H.
(Bill) LUMSDEN (44y2 yrs. time),
Rd. Maint. Supervisor of New Han-
over Co. who died on January 9, 1969,
and LUTHER R. MERRITT (35 yrs.
time). Division Traffic Services Su-
pervisor who died at work on 9-10-69.
Each of these employees had been
with us so long, as indicated, they
were well known to most all of us and
equally well known in their communi-
ties. Needless to say, there are no
words to express adequately how
much they are missed. Incidentally,
Mr. Lumsden had started to work
with the Commission at the age of
thirteen.

Sympathy is also extended to C. L.
DALE of Dist. 2 whose father died
recently.

Flash!! We are glad to see MAR-
ION WARLICK of Equipment Shop
back on duty after being in the hos-
pital very ill.

Mr. NORMAN
PRIDGEN, Mech-
anic II, Wilson, has
returned home af-
ter being hospital-
ized for some time
and is doing very
well. We wish him
a very speedy re-
covery.

Mr. ROYCE

Margaret Barefoot a a r> a

Division Correspondent BUNN, Auto Parts

Clerk II, Wilson, is back at work after

an operation. We wish for him the

very best.

We would like to welcome back Mr.
O. C. HOWELL, ANDRE LAMM,
and PETE BUTTS, who have been
out due to sickness. Nice having you
back, fellows.

MARIE B. GLOVER and her fam
ily have had a most enjoyable time
on their vacation visiting relatives in
Venice, Florida over the Christmas
Holidays. Marie is Steno II with the
Equipment Department, Wilson.

T. E. BARNES. Engineering
Aide in M. W. Moore's office, was
married on December 14th. Congratu-
lations to TOMMY and CAROL, may
they have a long prosperous life to-
gether.

S. P. CLARK and CHARLIE
WHEELER, Inspectors in M. W.
Moore's office, are feeling prosperous
as they and their families have re-
cently moved into new and larger
homes.

We wish a speedy recovery to
CHARLIE WHEELER who has just
had a serious operation.

Welcome back to BILL LONG, En-
gineering Aide in M. W. Moore's of-
fice, who has just returned to work
after a trip to Vietnam.

On Friday, December 20th, all em-
ployees of the Smithfield Construction
Office briefly enjoyed a Christmas
Dinner of Beef Tips with all the trim-
mings at Henry Johnsons. Had some-
one thought to bring a camera we'd
show you this happy gathering!

We know BRAXTON and ZELDA
WOOD were happy this Christmas —
Their only daughter, Deidre and hus-
band were home for the Holidays.

Above is the lovely Marie Glover,
Stenographer II in the Division Four
Equipment Department. Marie re-
cently became engaged to Everette T.
Davis, retired Army Sergeant. No
date has been set for the wedding.

HOWARD PEACOCK took a great
fall down a stock pile at the Asphalt
Plant getting a cut between the eyes
requiring sixteen stitches. We're proud
to say "Howard was so devoted to
Highway Work — He didn't miss a
day."

We know Mr. and Mrs. FRED
HETTINGER are enjoying their new
Pontiac. Just wonder if Santa brought
it!

CHARLES and LINDA MEDLIN
are the proud parents of a baby boy
born January 13th at Johnston Me-
morial Hospital, Smithfield. Charles
was seen around the building handing
out cigars! Congratulations! And by
the way, HARLEY DAVIS MED-
LIN, Granddaddy, is employed by the
Smithfield Maintenance Department.

Division Four Office Employees
held their annual Christmas Party,
December 20th at the Hotel Cherry
in Wilson. Employees from all over
the Division attended making a total
attendance of around 60. The Social
Hour and Buffet Dinner were enjoy-
ed by all. Afterwards we sang Christ-
mas Carols and danced. Door prizes
were won by Mrs. J. W. VICK and
Mrs. K. R. HILL. Mrs. R. F. COLE-
MAN also won a prize.

We have had several Division Of-
fice Employees out with the flu. All
are back now, but there is a lot of
barking going on.

Welcome to RONALD BONNE-
MA, Engineer in Training, who came
to work with us January 6th to re-

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ceive Staff Engineering experience.
Ronald will be with us approximately
three months after which he will re-
turn to Virginia Polytechnic Institute
to continue his education.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
HOMER M. BATCHELOR on the
arrival of Jennifer Ann, November
11th. Homer works with the Location
Surveys Party in Wilson.

Retiring after thirty years of ser-
vice is Mr. ZOLLIE HERMAN WIL-
LIAMS. Mr. Williams was a Main-
tenance Foreman II with Nash Coun-
to spend most of his time in Florida.
Nash County employees wish for him
a long and happy retirement.

Also retired on disability was Mr.
WILLIAM CHESTER PAGE. Mr.
Pas;e was a Machine Operator III in
Wilson County and had been em-
ployed by the Highway Commission
for twenty-five years. Our very best
wishes are extended to Mr. Page in
his ret;rement.

Mr. W. L. KEMP has returned to
work following a period of extended
illness. Mr. Kemp is Road Mainten-
ance Supervisor in Nash County.

Two Nash County employees, D.
L. MOSS and J. T. BRASWELL are
imoroving following recent accidents
and expect to return to work soon.

Mr. and Mrs. F. H. EDWARDS
spent the holidays visiting their son
and family in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Mr. Edwards is an Area Foreman in
Nash County.

Mr. WILLIAM T. PARAMORE is
receiving the Maintenance phase of
h:s Engineer in Training work in Dis-
trict Two located in Nashville. Mr.
Paramore's home is in Washington,
N. C.

Nash County employees welcome
the return of Daniel Earl Cooper who
has beei serving for four years in the
United States Air Force.

DivufoTco^rSondent SMOAK came by

Mr. R.A. SMITH
has replaced MR.
EDWARDS as
District Engineer
and will very soon
move his family
to Durham from
Aberdeen. We are
most happy to wel-
come Mr. Smith.
Mr. W. B.

for a visit recently and brought along
this little poem which was embroid-
ered on a sampler by his sister. This
was given to him as a tribute of his
sister's feelings and love for him. He
thought other retired employees
might enjoy reading it. Mr. Smoak has
recuperated from a lengthy illness
and has recently retired from the
Construction Department in Division
Five.

To realize you are growing old
Is sometimes most depressing,
To make it easier to accept
Stop and count each blessing.
Your work has been in paving roads
To make them smooth for travel,
And yet you've been inclined to feel
Your own has been all gravel.
You've had your share of illness
Endured a lot of pain.
With each of your recoveries
You knew 'twas not in vain.
Tho' life's problems have been many
'Twas oft times hard to bear them
How fortunate to have had someone
Willing to help you share them.
With courage to accept your age
And ability to foresee,
You'll find the truth within these
words

THE BEST IS YET TO BE.
(May each stitch herein be an ex-
pression of love for my brother, Wil-
liam B. Smoak.)

Bernice S. Sandiford

Grow Old Along With Me—

The Best Is Yet To Be ... .

CLARENCE WILSON had good
luck whi'e bird hunting recently.

GEORGE BAILEY was on sick
leave and hospitalized for a few days
recently.

JOE GREENWAY, HERBERT
HENLEY and FRANCIS HUGHES

were on sick leave for a few days re-
cently, also.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded ALTON ELLINGTON, WIL-
LIAM GRADY, PLUMMER
HAYES, WALDO MINOR,
EARNEST OAKLEY, WAYNE
THOMAS, R. G. WELLS, NELSON
WHITT and GEORGE W. WOODY.

Sympathy to VENCEN MORTON
in the recent death of his mother.

WILLIE COLE, BOBBY GRIF-
FIN and JOHN LOUIS WILLIAMS
were on sick leave for a few days
recently. They have all returned to
work.

WILLIAM REAMS sold his cham-
pion milk producer recently. He has
been culling the older stock from his
dairy herd in order to make room for
younger stock.

GEORGE BAILEY has been seen
around the stock market quite often
recently.

Employees on vacation recently in-
cluded EARNEST ADCOCK. GLEN-
WOOD BROGDEN, ALTON DEAN,
GARLAND ELLINGTON, ERNEST
HICKS, BRUCE HOCKADAY and
CLARENCE WILSON.

JOE GREENWAY and ALVIN
LAWS deer hunted for a few days
recently. They didn't have much luck
but hope to bag one before the sea-
son closes.

WILLIAM GRADY, ERNEST
OAKLEY, ALBERT MAY and
LESTER REECE were on vacation
recently.

WILLIAM REAMS told GEORGE
BAILEY that his (William's) fox
hounds are beginning to lose weight
because of the long fox chases re-

The above photo was made recently in the District Two Office when a
farewell luncheon was given for Mr. C. L. Edwards, District Engineer. Mr. Ed-
wards left the Highway Commission for other employment.

Left to right — (Seated: Mr. C. L. Edwards, guest of honor), B. F. Vaug-
han, Albert Pulliam, Giles Crutcher, Hilda Harris, Kirk Duncan, Nell Jones,
and R. J. Woody.

Mr. Edwards was presented a gift certificate and very best wishes from all.

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cently. George Bailey said that the
weight loss is due to other causes.

GLENWOOD BROGDEN is get-
ting ready for a good rabbit hunting
season this year. He has a pack of
rabbit hounds and he hopes to get in
a lot of hunting this season.

Sick: K. M. DUNCAN, S. E.
JONES, C. O. VAUGHAN, M. W.
CHAPPELL, G. M. WILSON, H. B.
TILLEY, H. V. MOORE, H. L.
WADE, W. R. HOLSCLAW.

Vacation: W. H. WALKER, W. W.
TILLEY, L. F. LUXTON.

KIRK M. DUNCAN is out sick.

W. H. WALKER attended Army
Old Buddy meeting in Indiana.

Sympathy to W. T. MOORE and
family in the death of his brother.
Sgt. JAMES MOORE, killed in
action overseas.

Sympathy to H. V. MOORE, wife
and family in the death of Mrs. H.
V. MOORE'S father, Mr. Marcus
Ball.

Ray Autry
Division Correspondent

Congratulations
to Mr. and Mrs.
ROBERT E.
PLEASANT in the
birth of a son, Ro-
bert, Jr., in De-
cember. Mr. Pleas-
ant is employed
with the Location
Dept. in Fayette -
ville.

Best wishes are

extended to Mr. and Mrs. HARVEY
R. TATUM of Elizabethtown who
were married in October. Mrs. Tatum
was the former Miss Ann Johnson of
Tomahawk. They will make their
home in Elizabethtown.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of DONALD D. McRAINEY who
was killed in a plane crash in Virginia
last December. He was formerly with
the Highway Commission in the Con-
struction Department.

Sympathy is also extended to the
family of Mr. A. R. WILKINS, re-
tired employee, who passed away in
December.

Mr. and Mrs. Mack Buie of Fay-

etteville spent the Christmas Holi-
days with relatives in Alabama and
Mississippi. Mrs. Buie is a Typist II
in the Construction Office.

A speedy recovery to Mr. JACK
SPELL who was hospitalized recently
due to an illness.

Best wishes to Miss Barbara
Smith, daughter of Highway In-
spector II and Mrs. LAWRENCE
SMITH of Fayetteville who be-
came Mrs. RONALD ALLEN on
January 25th. The wedding took place
at the Green Springs Baptist Church
in Parkton. The Aliens wil make
their horn in Lumberton.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mrs. Loula Smith who sustained
a broken hip in January. Mrs. Smith
is the mother of LAWRENCE
SMITH who is employed with the
Construction Dept. in Fayetteville.

Best wishes and a happy retirement
to Road Maintenance Supervisor, R.
N. WEAVER of Harnett County who
retired January 1st after more than
43 years of devoted service with the
Highway Commission. Mr. Weaver
began his career in July, 1925 as a
Gang Foreman. In 1941 he was pro-
moted to Supervisory Foreman, and
in 1943 to Maintenance Supervisor.
Mr. Weaver will be deeply missed by
all his fellow employees.

A most happy retirement to Mr.
CARL L. HOUGH who retired Jan
uary 1st after 34 years of outstanding
service with the Highway. Mr. Hough
was employed in June, 1934 on a
temporary basis. He was promoted to
Section Foreman in 1941 and to Ma-
chine Operator II in 1958. Best wish-
es to you, Mr. Hough.

Congratulations to Mr. H. K. AUT-
RY who was promoted from Mainte-
nance Foreman IV to Road Mainte-
nance Supervisor in Harnett County.
Best wishes are extended to Mr. Aut-
ry in his new job.

Also to Mr. W. W. HOLLAND
who was promoted from Maintenance
Foreman II to Maintenance Foreman
IV in Cumberland County.

Get well wishes are extended to
KENNETH LEWIS who sustained
a broken leg in an auto accident in
November. He is a Clerk II in the
Favetteville District Office.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Mr. FRED HALL in the death of
his brother, Carl.

Also, a speedy recovery to J. A.
ALLEN who recently underwent sur-
gery in Duke Hospital from a back
injury.

We all wish for a most happy re-
tirement for Mr. B. L. SESSOMS

The Sixth Division Sign Supervisor,
Mr. G. L. Coleman, retired effective
February 1, 1969 after more than 48
years of devoted service with the
Highway Commission. Mr. Coleman
started his career with the State on
April 21, 1921 as a Rodman in Robe-
son County, under the late Resident
Engineer, C. A. Lowe. He was trans-
ferred to Wilmington as a Stock Man
in the Equipment Department on Ap-
ril 22, 1922. Mr. Coleman remained in
this capacity until April, \1924, at
which time the Sign Department was
organized , and Mr. Coleman was
placed in this department as a Sign
Painter. Mr. Coleman was promoted
to Sign Foreman on July )1, 1931 and
was transferred to Fayetteville under
the supervision of the late W. F. Mor-
son, Division Engineer. He has served
as Supervisory Foreman and Sign
Supervisor in Fayetteville since 1931.

Mr. Coleman is married to the for-
mer Dorothy Jones of Lumberton,
and they have three children and
three grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs.
Coleman attend the First Presbyterian
Church in Fayetteville. Mr. Coleman
is a member of the Phoenix Masonic
Lodge No. 8 in Fayetteville.

The Colemans reside at 518 Long-
view Drive, Fayetteville.

We all wish Air. Coleman a very
happy and lengthy retirement.

who retired January 1, 1969. Mr.
Sessoms was employed in 1951 as a
Truck Driver in the Maintenance De-
partment, which was his classification
at retirement.

Best wishes to A. N. McINTYRE
who retired January 1st after 37
years of service. Mr. Mclntyre was
employed in 1931 as a Watchman. In
1944 he was changed to Truck Driv-

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er and in 1963 to General Utility
Man.

Our deepest sympathy is extend-
ed to Road Oil employees RALPH
and N. B. SINGLETARY in the re-
cent death of their mother.

Maintenance Foreman and Mrs.
JIM RENN are all smiles these days
after becoming grandma and grandpa.
Their grandson, James Thurlow, was
born January 9th in Jacksonville,
Florida. The proud parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Doyle of Jacksonville.

Highway Inspector and Mrs. J. W.
HERRING were recently notified
that they have a new granddaughter
Samantha Joe. The proud parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardee.

Our deepest sympathy to Engineer
Tech. II, WADE MORRIS, in the
recent death of his stepmother.

Get well wishes to Mr. B. G.
CASHWELL and Mr. SAM TYN-
DALL who have been out scik.

Mrs. LINDA BASS is very hap-
py that her husband, Paul, is back
from Viet Nam after a 13-month tour
of duty. He has completed his mili-
tary obligation and is now an em-
ployee of the North Carolina Depart-
ment of Corrections in Raleigh. Lin-
da is a Typist II in the Construction
Office in Lillington.

Mechanic Foreman I, WADE C.
OWEN, retired January 1st after
more than 19 years of outstanding
service with the Highway Commis-
sion. Mr. Owen began in May, 1949
as a Mechanic in the Sub-shop in
Fayetteville. In 1951 he was promoted
to Mechanic II which he held until
1961. At that time he was promoted
to Mechanic Foreman I, his position
at retirement.

The Equipment Department Per-
sonnel in Fayetteville are very happy
to welcome to their staff Mrs. SHIR-
LEY POPE, Stenographer I. We hope
you will enjoy your new job Shirley.

Congratulations to Mr. H. J. AL-
FORD who was promoted on January
4, from Clerk II to Maintenance Fore-
man IV in Bladen County.

Congratulations also go to KEN-
NETH HESTER who received a
classification change from Mainte-
nance Foreman II to Maintenance
Foreman 4 on January 4th.

Best wishes to Maintenance Fore-
man IV, G. W. ATKINSON, who
retired on January 1 after serving
over 26 years with the Highway Com-

mission in Bladen County. Mr. At-
kinson was first employed as a labor-
er in 1935. In 1936 he was promoted to
Machine Operator. Mr. Atkinson held
this postion until his resignation in
1941. He was reinstated in March of
1948 as a Machine Operator. In 1950
to Gang Foreman, 1958 to Mainte-
nance Foreman III, and in 1960 to
his position at retirement. We wish
you much happiness.

Mr. GEORGE E. KING, long time
employee in Bladen County, retired
January 1st. Mr. King began his
lengthy career in July of 1929 as a
Section Foreman Helper. He was
changed to Machine Operator in 1934,
this position he held until his retire-
ment n 1942. He was reinstated as a
Machine Operator in 1945. Mr. King
was up-graded to Patch Foreman in
August of 1955. In 1956, he was pro-
moted to his position at retirement of
Maintenance Foreman IV. We wish
Mr. King many years of happiness in
his retirement.

Columbus County lost a very de-
voted employee, J. C. SIBBETT. who
retired on January 1st. Mr. Sibbett
had been with the Highway Commis-
sion for more than 22 years. He was
employed in September, 1946 as a
Laborer in Columbus County, later he
was promoted to Section Foreman
Helper. In 1948 Mr. Sibbett was pro-
moted to Maintenance Foreman II,
his position at retirement. He will be
deeply missed by his fellow employ-
ees.

Another long time employee from
Columbus County has retired effec-
tive February 1st. He is Machine Op-
erator III, F. W. JACKSON of
Whiteville. Mr. Jackson's career start-
ed in April of 1948 as a Laborer. He
was soon changed to Machine Opera-
tor, his title at retirement. We wish
Mr. Jackson good health and happi-
ness in his retirement.

Two Landscape employees, VER-
ANDLE SESSOMS and BURLING-
TON PEACOCK, have returned to
work after an extended illness.

Best wishes and a happy retirement
to Mr. ROBERT P. TATUM, long
time employee of the Landscape De-
partment, who retired January 1st.
Mr. Tatum has more than 20 years
with the State Forestry Service and
the State Highway Commission. He
first began with the Forestry Service
in March, 1948 as a Laborer. He was
transferred to the Highway Commis-
sion in 1954 as a Truck Driver. Mr.
Tatum was later changed to a Gen-

eral Utility Man and remained in this
capacity until his retirement.

Get well wishes are extended to Mr.
A. P. SHROAT, Lab. Supervisor, who
was hospitalized recently from an ap-
parent heart attack.

Sign Erector, H. C. RICH, retired
effective January 1, 1969 after serv-
ing in hte Sign Department for more
than 38 years. Mr. Rich served as a
Rodman from 1928 to 1931 at which
time he was changed to Sign Painter.
He served in this capacity until July,
1968 and was then promoted to Traf-
fice Sign Erector. Mr. Rich will be
deeply missed by his fellow workers.

We are sorry to lose one of our
Stenos in the Rght of Way Depart-
ment, Mrs. SANDRA MALLOY,
who resigned effective December 13th.
Mrs. Malloy accepted employment in
the Claims Department of The State
Farm Insurance Company, Fayette-
ville.

LEE E. PERRY, Right of Way
Agent, resigned effective December
6th to enter private industry. We will
miss Lee, but we wish him the best
in his new work.

Richard Moore, son of CLAUDE
R. MOORE, JR., Right of Way Aide,
broke his collarbone a few weeks be-
fore Christmas. We wish Richard a
very speedy recovery.

Mitch Johnson, son of WILLIAM
L. JOHNSON, Right of Way Aide,
broke his arm in November. We are
happy to report that Mitch is get-
ting alone nicely now.

We are happy to report that Col.
MERRIT F. HARRISON, SR. of the
Right of Way Department, who un-
derwent surgery at Womack Army
Hospital in December, is on the road
to recovery and has returned to work.

The Right of Way Department of
Division Six welcomes two new em-
ployees, namely: Mrs. JUNE F.
COX, who has been assigned as a
Steno I; and MAX G. LOFLIN, who
was assigned to this office as a Right
of Way Aide, effective October 26th.

Marriage Announced — Mr. and
Mrs. David C. Wood of Fayetteville
announce the marriage of their
daughter, BARBARA TOLAR, to
Walter Clifton McNeil, Jr. of Rt. 1,
Hope Mills. They were married re-
cently at the Marriage Chapel in Dil-
lon, S. C. Both are graduates of Grays
Creek H. S. The bride is employed by
the State Highway Commission, and
Mr. McNeil is a student at N. C.
State University in Raleigh.

DIVISION
SEVEN

HON J

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Welcome to Mrs.
JENNETTE
BULLARD, who is
our new Clerk in
the Road Oil De
partment.

Area Foreman
R. C. DICK and
wife spent a week
recently at Holder
Beach fishing.

Carolyn Graves Thev reported fish-
Division Correspondent j

ing was good.

A speedy recovery is wish for T. E.
SHERRON who has been confined
to the hospital due to illness. We hope
he will soon be able to return to work.

Area Foreman, I. C. SNOW, spent
several days in West Virginia recent-
ly at a field trial.

Welcome back to work D. W. COL-
LINS, who has been out sick for sev-
eral weeks.

The VERNON MAYHEWS are
mighty proud grandparents — their
daughter's little girl, Candace Moore,
was born on November 6th.

Maintenance employees of Rocking-
ham County had a steak supper at
Family Dinner in Reidsville, honoring
three retiring employees, J. G.
DUKE, W. H. McCOLLUM and R.
H. F ARRIS. Mr. T. A. BURTON,
retired Division Engineer, was an
honorary guest. The three retiring
men were presented watches.

We are happy to report that J. H.
MURRAY and W. E. KALLAM are
back at work after having been out
for several days due to illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Warren Han-
dy (M. 0.2) are the proud grandpar-
ents of little Lonnie Ray Handy, born
Oct. 24th.

O n Saturday,
December 28, 1968,
more than a hun-
dred friends and
co-workers of Divi-
sion Engineer and
Mrs. T. C. JOHN-
STON gathered at
Whispering Pines
Restaurant, South-
ern Pines, North
Virginia Williamson p„roijnf, tr) honor
Division Correspondent ^arouna, to nonor

them on Mr. Johnston's retirement
from the N. C. State Highway
Commission, after more than 44 years
of continuous service with the Com-
mission. Commissioner JOHN F. Mc-
NAIR, Assistant Division Engineer,
HENRY JORDAN, J. H. CHAP-
PELL of the Location Department,
Assistant Chief Engineer JOHN H.
DAVIS, and Division Engineer A. J.
HUGHES remarked briefly of the
faithful and dedicated service of Mr.
Johnston. Mr. Jordan presented Mr.
Johnston with some remembrances
from a'l of the personnel of Division
Eight, and also presented Mrs. John-
ston with a small token of apprecia-
tion to be used as she chose. Mr. Mc-
Nair presented Mr. Johnston with a
plaque from all Division Eight per-
sonnel in honor of his years of serv-
ce, and appreciation for his many
deeds of kindness to each employee.
For those who may not have heard,
Mr. Johnston says he expects to
spend a great deal of time relaxing
in his recliner, watching television.
Mrs. Johnston, reports, however, that
she was thinking that he will pro-
bably spend a good bit of time pick-
ing up pine needles. As time goes on,
we will see how this works out. Mr.
Johnston was loved by all his em-
ployees and was held in their highest
esteem at all times. We shall miss
him, but we are mighty glad that he
and Mrs. Johnston are going to be
able to take life a little easier and
enjoy some of the things that time
has not permitted before. Our very
best wishes always to these two fine
people. Mr. McNair in his remarks
referred to Mr. Johnston as a "Man
of Principal at all times." How fitting

William Keith McNeill
Born August 12, 1968
Gregory Shane McNeill
Born August 12. 1968
(Father) Billy McNeill
Engineering Aide — Siler City
Construction Office

this is to all of us who know him.

Division Eight employees have a
hearty welcome to our new Division
Engineer Mr. A. J. (Red) HUGHES
who came on January first. This was
like a homecoming for Mr. Hughes
and many of our employees who have
worked with him previously. Mr.
Hughes and Helen have moved to
Whispering Pines, which he says is
probably about the nearest he will
come to playing golf. He does tell us
there is a pier leading from his door
right onto the lake, which Mr. Hughes
thinks has huge fish in it. In remark-
about returning to Division Eight, he
says "This is just like throwing B'rer
Rabbit in the brier patch." He feels
he has come home and is looking
forward to the challenge. We, in Divi-
sion Eight, welcome you, Mr. Hughes;
we are glad you have come home, too!

Retirements — Mr. D. M. KUNCE,
Landscape Supervisor, retired in De-
cember. Mr. Kunce had not been
feeling well for some time, and we
hope that more rest and relaxation is
going to be just what the doctor or-
dered for him. Mr. Kunce, we wish
you the very best in your retirement.
We are missing you at the office.

Mr. E. L. GUNTHER, Road Main-
tenance Foreman in Lee County, re-
tired at the end of last year after
more than 29 years of service with
the Commission. Upon his retirement,
fellow workers in Lee County pre-
sented him with a farewell gift and
also a gift of money. Friends predict
he will do more than his share of
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some extra time. Also, he is going to
be active in the new Cumnock rural
fire department.

Mr. H. T. BUNDY, Road Mainte-
nance Foreman in Hoke County, is
looking forward to having plenty of
time to catch the big fish now that he
is retired. Mr. Bundy has served the
State Highway Commission faithfully
for a long period of years. Anyone rid-
ing through the area under his super-
vision would know of his devotion to
his work, and would appreciate the
fine work given to the State of North
Carolina by this dedicated employee.

Mr. ERWIN GEORGE COLLIER,
Hoke County Maintenance Depart-
ment, also retired the first of this
year. Mr. Collier expects to do some
gardening and some fishing, too, we
understand. Since he and Mr. Bundy
have worked roads together for so
many years, they just might now
figure they can do some of their fish-
ing together. Best of luck to you, Mr.
Collier.

Mr. JOHN A. PATTERSON,
long-time dedicated employee, is re-
tiring from his duties with the Moore
County Maintenance Department, and
plans to play around on his little
farm — just stay around home and
do as he pleases, he says. Mr. Patter-
son was a part of Maintenance work
in Moore County about as far back as
anyone we have run into. Your fel-
low workers will miss you, Mr. Pat-
terson, but we are glad you are going
to get this long deserved rest.

Mr. GRADY B. EATON, Moore
County Maintenance employee, also
retired Jan. first. Mr. Eaton was a
Foreman II in Moore County. He
expects to work around home, do some
gardening, enjoy the family and
grandchildren. We hope Mr. Eaton, as
well as all of these retiring employees,
will be dropping by the office from
time to time so that we can hear from
them.

Mr. WILLIAM J. HARRINGTON,
of the Moore County Maintenance
Department, has retired after 23 years
of service with the Commission. He
expects to enjoy looking after his 700
acre farm with milk goats, ponies,
cattle, etc. Mr. Harrington used to
fox hunt a good bit but he says he
can't do much of that any more. We
hope that Mr. Harrington is going to
enjoy his well deserved retirement
from work.

Sympathy is extended to ROY
SMITH of the Landscape Depart-
ment whose wife died recently; Mr.
J. E. GREGSON, Equipment Super-
intendent, in the loss of his sister;

and to BILL GRANT in Richmond
County Maintenance Department in
the loss of his mother. Also, to the
family of W. B. WEBB, former Mont-
gomery County employee who passed
away recently.

Our very best wishes go to RO-
BERT SMITH who was Assistant
District Engineer in District Two,
and recently transferred to the Dur-
ham Division. We will miss you and
your family, Robert, but we do want
to congratulate you on your promo-
tion to District Engineer.

JUNIOR HARRINGTON, Lee
County Maintenance Department,
and his wife, Grace, are about the
happiest two parents around. They
recently adopted little Debra Grace
Harrington who is going to be two
years old in April. You would just
have to let Junior tell you about this
to know the joy this little girl has
brought into their home. Congratula-
tions to LARRY and Diane THUR-
MAN, District I, on the birth of their
baby; to the JAMES H. WOMACKS
of the Road Oil Department on their
baby boy. Probably about the proud-
est of all is grandpa BILL TOLAR,
Lee and Hoke Maintenance Supervi-
sor, on the arrival of their new grand-
daughter.

Our very best wishes to Robbie El-
len and Frederick Smith on their re-
cent marriage in the Lutheran Church
of the Living Word, Laurinburg. Rob-
bie Ellen is the daughter of R. A.
THAMES, Construction Department,
Laurinburg.

Welcome to J. L. STAMP and his
family who have moved to Southern
Pines. Mr. Stamp is Assistant Area
Traffic Engineer in this division.

DIVISION
NINE

Welcome to G.
G. ROGERS, new
Road Maintenance
Supervisor for Da-
vie and Stokes
Counties. Also to
J. W. HATCHER
who joined the
Forsyth County
Maintenance De-
partment as a

Dorothy Phelps , , , .
Division CorrespondenttrUCK driver On

January 4, 1969.
Get well wishes are extended to

R. H. FOSTER, Truck Driver for
the Maintenance Department in Da-
vie County Mr. Foster has been out
of work for several months due to a
heart condition.

Welcome back to R. L. JOHNSON,
Asst. District Engineer for the Dis-
trict 2 Office in Winston-Salem. Mr.
Johnson returned to work after
spending several days in the hospital.
J. BROWN, Machine Operator I for
Stokes County Maintenance Depart-
ment has resigned due to illness. Mr.
Brown has been out of work for ap-
proximately a year due to illness and
we hope he will improve soon.

A long and happy retirement to J.
W. CHEEK, General Utility Man
and C. G. HESTER, Truck Driver,
both employed with Forsyth Mainte-
nance Department, who retired Jan-
uary 1, 1969. Also to J. P. BULLINS,
Truck Driver with Stokes County
Maintenance Department who re-
tired on February 1, 1969.

Everyone in the Construction De-
partment, W. D. Rothrock's office,
got together for a dinner honoring re-
tiring employee, Mr. T. R. "Tom"
Fulghum, who retired effective De-
cember 31, 1968. Tom has been one of
the "old timers" with the State, and
he will certainly be missed by all of
his fellow employees; however, at pub-
lication time of this issue Tom and
his wife are enjoying a vacation and
fiesta in Mexico — so doubt if he
misses us too much! Tom, the very
best of health and happiness in the
years ahead!

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. CHEW, JR.
visited their son and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Chew, III and grandson,
Robert, IV, at Merrit Island, Fla.
during the holiday season. While in
Florida, they observed the launching
of Apollo 8 at Cape Kennedy. Mr.
Chew, Jr. is District Engineer at the
Winston- Salem Office.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. "Jake" CUT-
RE LL received quite a nice Christmas
present from their daughter and son-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mes-

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sick. It was a 6 lb. 12 oz. granddaugh-
ter, Angela Dawn, who arrived in an
Air Force Hospital, near Honolulu,
Hawaii, just in time to see Santa
Claus. Grandpa Cutrell, who is an
Inspector II in the Construction Dept.,
is reported saving pennies in antici-
pation of a trip to Hawaii — Wonder
Why?

We are very glad to see HARRY
RICKENBACKER back at his job
of Inspector in the Construction
Dept. Harry has been on extended
Sick Leave after three major opera-
tions. Hope 1969 holds no Hospital
Bills and Doctor's Scapels for you,
Harry!

Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Isaacs of Route
7, Windy Hill Drive, Winston-Salem,
N. C, announce the marriage of
their daughter, MARGARET JANE,
to Mr. David Franklin Phelps, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wade F. Phelps of
Route 7, Twin Oaks Drive, Winston-
Salem. The wedding was held at 2:00
P.M. on January 1.8, 1969, at Davis
Chapel on the Wake Forest Univer-
sity Campus in Winston-Salem. Mrs.
Phelps is employed as a Typist II
by Mr. J. E. LEFTWICH, Resident
Engineer, in Winston-Salem.

Mr. G. H. LEWIS, Mechanic II,
Dist. 2, Shop, Winston-Salem, and
wife visited their son and family in
Missouri during the Christmas holi-
days.

We extend our deepest sympathy
to the V. C. FREEMAN family at
the death of Mr. Freeman on Decem-
ber 28, 1968. Mr. Freeman was Equip-
ment Supt. up until his retirement on
June 30, 1967.

The Division and District II Shops
had their annual Christmas party
Friday, December 13, at the District
Shop in Winston-Salem.

Mr. L. G. WALLACE, Mechanic
II, Mocksville, returned to work De-
cember 2, 1968 after an operation at
the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Sa-
lem.

We welcome back to work Mr. A. L.
LOOKABILL who has been out of
work for a while due to an accident.

We wish a long and happy retire-
ment to the following employees who
retired effective January 1, 1969:
CARL W. GRAHAM, Heavy Truck
Driver in Rowan County, had 23
years of service; WILLIAM T. KIN-
CAID, Machine Operator in Rowan
County had 29 years of service; REU-
BEN S. TRANTHAM, Maintenance
Foreman in Davidson County, had 28
years of service; MARK H. CHAR-
LES, Machine Operator in Davidson
County, had 41 years of service.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Mr. and Mrs. DOUGLAS MOSS
and family on the death of Doug's
mother, Mrs. G. C. Moss, who pass-
ed away on January 16, 1969. Doug
is Resident Engineer with the Con-
struction Department in Rowan
County.

Congratulations to KELLY EL-
LER, who has completed the Equiva-
lency Test for his High School Di-
ploma at Rowan Technical Institute
on December 11, 1968. He is employ-
ed with the Bridge Maintenance De-
partment in Rowan County.

Mr. and Mrs. L. A. SAFRIT and
son, Roger Dale, of Route 2, Salis-
bury, N. C, enjoyed a nice Thanks-
giving holiday visiting with their son
and brother and family, Sgt. and Mrs.
Calvin Lee Safrit and little daughter,
Selena of Panama City, Fla. Sgt. Saf-
rit is stationed with the 4780th. Com-
munication and Electronics Mainte-
nance Squadron at Tyndel Air Force
Base at Panama City, Florida.

DIVISION
U TEN

J. W. Jones Taniinrv 7

Division Correspondent d <*nudry ' >

Best of luck to
F. W. DOUGLAS,
JR., who is leav-
ing for a two-year
hitch in the Army.
Mr. Douglas is a
M. O. I. in Anson
County.

Congratulations
to A. B. COVING-
TON who married
1969.

He married Miss Rebecca Diane
Hanne. Mr. Covington is a Truck
Driver in Anson County.

We wish a speedy recovery for the
following employees who are on the
sick list at "this time in Anson Coun-
ty: T. M. BOGGAN, J. W. AIRING-
TON, R. J. BURR, B. J. WILLIAMS
and R. G. TICE.

Mr. H. W. LOVE and wife visited
with their daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Tippit, during the
Christmas holidays, in San Antonio,
Texas. While enjoying Christmas to-
gether, they went to various places
sight-seeing.

Welcome back, Mr. C. L. PAR-
KER, from an extended illnes.

The employees, families and friends
of Cabarrus County Maintenance De-
partment met at the hut in Mt. Pleas-
ant for their annual Christmas Party.
After the evening meal of fried chick-
en, music was supplied by Mr. H. R.
Barbee for dancing and entertain-
ment. Everyone had an enjoyable
evening.

Have a very prosperous and Happy
New Year, from employees of Cabar-
rus County Highway Maintenance
Department.

Stanly County Maintenance De-
partment has had several employees
out sick: L. G. MABRY, GEORGE
SIMPSON, VIRGIL HUDSON, and
BOB MABRY. At this writing, we are
glad to note most of them are back at
work.

Several of our men have had some
interesting hunts during the Christ-
mas holidays, but it won't do to di-
vulge the bag limit for some of them.
I'm afraid they would be breaking the
game laws.

Stanly County Employees had a

The above picture shows local highway officials who attended the ground
breaking ceremony for the division office to be constructed in Albemarle.

Left to right — Mr. C. C. McBryde. Division Engineer; Mr. C. E. Land,
Assistant Division Engineer; Mr. W. E. Woodruff, Staff Engineer; Mr. T. L.
Patterson, Assistant District Engineer; Mr. C. R. Smith. District Engineer; and
Mr. George H. Broadrick, Commissioner.

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Smith Awarded Bronze Star

very delightful Christmas party De-
cember 19, 1968, with about 350 peo-
ple present. Everyone enjoyed it very
much.

We are glad to note that Mrs. LON-
NIE MABRY is at home at this writ-
ing, from Stanly County Hospital.

We are glad, too, that Mrs. BILL
CRUMP is better from the flu bug at
this time.

Mr. and Mrs. MARVIN BYRD en-
joyed having their grandboys home
with them, from Baltimore, during the
Christmas holidays.

Welcome to Mrs. JOYCE S. GO-
ERS, Stenographer II in the Apprais-
al Section in Charlotte. We certainly
are glad to have you with us, Joyce.

CAROL A. AUSTIN resigned, De-
cember 6th, as Stenographer II with
the Right of Way Department.

HELEN MELTON was employed,
December 16th, as secretary with the
Right of Way Department.

FRED W. CORN WRIGHT retired
effective January 1st.

W. Amzie Fincher
Retires

A combined Christmas and Retire-
ment Party honoring W. AMZIE
FINCHER, Area Foreman, in Union
County was held on December 14th,
by the Union County Maintenance
Employees. Mr. Fincher retired Jan-
uary 1, 1969, after 45 years service
with the N. C. State Highway Com-
mission in Union County.

Mr. Fincher was presented with
well wishes from all present dedicated
to the principles that Fishing and
Hunting led to long Retirement.

The Huntsville Maintenance Em-
ployees had an annual Christmas
Party on December 13th. Entertain-
ment was provide by a Quartet and
Dancing.

We extend condolences to the fam-
ily o f Union County Employee,
FRANK C. E. YOW, who passed
away January 14, 1969.

Retired employee, CHARLIE D.
TODD, of Mecklenburg County died
recently.

In two ceremonies during Decem-
ber, Charles Ross Smith, Jr., was pro-
moted to the rank of Major in the
United States Marine Corps and pre-
sented the Bronze Star medal with
Combat "V" for meritorious achieve-
ment in combat in Vietnam.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles R. Smith, Sr., of Melchor
Road, Albemarle.

Major Smith, then a Captain, won
the Bronze Star medal, the nation's
fifth highest combat award, for serv-
ice as set forth in the following ci-
tation:

". . . For meritorious service in
connection with operations against in-
surgent communist (Viet Cong) forces
while serving in various capacities
with the Third Amphibian Tractor
Battalion, First Marine Division,
from 31 August 1967 to 12 September
1968. Captain Smith performed his
demanding duties in an exemplary
and highly professional manner. Fol-
lowing his initial assignment as Exec-
utive Officer of Company B, he was
reassigned on 15 Oct. as Command-
ing Officer and displayed exceptional
tactical skill and leadership while pro-
viding outstanding support for opera-
tions Onslow and Pitt and numerous
small unit actions. When an amphib-

ian vehicle with nineteen Marines
aboard sank 200 meters from shore
while conducting training exercises
during December, Captain Smith un-
hesitatingly organized and directed
operations that saved the lives of six-
teen men. On another occasion, when
he observed five men being swept out
to sea after their rubber raft had cap-
sized 100 meters from shore, he im-
mediately led two amphibian tractors
into the water and skillfully directed
a successful rescue operation. Assum-
ing the duties of Commanding Officer
of Headquarters and Service Com-
pany on 11 February 1968, Captain
Smith immediately organized his per-
sonnel into an effective unit which
successfully conducted numerous coun-
teroffensive actions. Under his guid-
ance, elements of his company provid-
ed outstanding support for massive
land clearing operations which denied
the enemy ambush and rocket launch-
ing sites. Assigned the additional du-
ties of Officer in Charge of the Com-
bat Operations Center, he quickly re-
organized the internal defense of the
area and effectively established train-
ing and operational procedures that
ensured the security of the command
post. Captain Smith's professionalism,
superior leadership and steadfast de-

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votion to duty throughout were in
keeping with the highest traditions of
the Marine Corps and of the United
States Naval Service."

In addition to the Bronze Star med-
al, Major Smith has also been award-
ed the Navy Commendation medal
with Combat "V", the Presidential
Unit Citation Ribbon, the Marine
Corps Expeditionary Medal, the Na-
tional Defense Medal, the Vietnamese
Campaign Medal with three stars,
and the Vietnamese Service medal.

Major and Mrs. Smith and son,
Eric, are currently stationed at the
Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition
Depot, Earle, Colt's Neck, New Jer-
sey.

Since this ceremony, Major Smith
has been awarded the Silver Star
medal with Combat "V" for meritori-
ous achievement in combat in Viet
Nam.

Major Smith is the son of Mr. C.
R. Smith, District Engineer, Albe-
marle, N. C.

m—mm,

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Division Office
employees enjoyed
their annual Christ-
mas Party at the
Elks Club on De-
cember 18th.

Equipment De-
partment employ-
ees and families
held their Christ-
mas Party at the

Dolores Rogers TSTafjnnal finarH
Division Correspondent iN auonai UUara

Armory on December 19th. A good
time was had by all.

Welcome back to JOHNSON
CRANE, Mechanic, after several
weeks absence due to illness.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
WILBURN CARPENTER on the
birth of a baby girl, Ginger, on Janu-
ary 3rd. Wilburn is an Auto Parts
Clerk in the Division Stock Room.

Congratulations to TOMMY RAY
McCANN who was married to Miss
Carolyn Atkins on December 15th.
Tommy is employed in the Elkin Dis-
trict Shop.

W. E. Winstead, Right of Way Agent, seems to be beaming over something.
We wonder if he made an easy settlement with one of the property owners he
has to "deal" with.

Equipment Superintendent J. S.
ZIMMERMAN is beaming over the
birth of his new grandson, Joseph
Samuel Zimmerman, born December
12th.

Sympathy is extended to W. H. Mc-
GRADY, employee in the Division
Road Oil Garage, in the death of his
brother Claude on December 29th;
and to O. G. ADAMS, District I em-
ployee, whose sister passed away re
cently.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. HODGES on the birth of a baby
boy, born November 25th. Mr. Hodges
is a District I Employee.

Get well wishes are extended to T.
P. NICHOLS, P. D. FREEMAN, H.
F. DAVIS, D. W. HODGES, BERT
STURGILL and DON HALSEY, all
District I employees.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement to the following District I
employees who retired January 1st:
C. M. NIXON, Machine Operator 3
in Surry County with 36 years service
and T. L. LEWIS, Machine Operator
3 in Yadkin County, with 28 years
service.

We are all happy to have Mr. J. E.
DOUGHTON, Division Engineer,
home from the hospital recuperating
after a serious illness. We hope he
will soon be able to return to work.

Mr. James Atwell
Retires

Our District I Office had the fol-
lowing statement relative to the re-
cent retirement of one of their em-
ployees and I quote —

"Pot" Luck — After contending
with pot holes in State highways for
many years, Mr. James Atwell re-
ceived a different kind of pot. This is
a multi-purpose pot and can be used
for things other than it was intended.
Mr. Atwell recently retired after 45
years of service anl his many friends
and associates gave him this pot as a
going away present, filled with about
$90.00 in good hard cash. We wish Mr.
Atwell the best in his years of retire-
ment and if he ever gets too feeble
to go to "you know where", he can
always use this handy "pot".

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Congratulations
to R. J. ALBERT,
retired Area Con-
struction Engineer,
who was married
on December 5th.
Mr. Albert now re-
sides in Richmond,
Va.

It is good to
hear that CLYDE
. G. POSTON, JR.,

Division Correspondent

Traffic Services Supervisor, is recov-
ering satisfactorily from surgery he
underwent during the summer and it
is hoped he will soon be able to re-
turn to work.

E. R. McGIMPSEY. retired Office
Engineer, took his annual (winter)
trek to Florida this year and is ex-
pected to return to Shelby around
the middle of January.

A check with SAM BRINKLEY,
retired Road Oil Supervisor, reveals
he is staying pretty much "put" these
days but is getting along very well,
Mr. Brinkley lives at Turner's Nurs-
ing Home, on Fallston Road, Shelby.

Division Office folks welcomed vis-
its during the holidays from former
Division Engineers H. E. NOELL and
E. L. KEMPER.

Sympathy is extended to the famliy
of J. R. COSTNER, Road Oil Depart-
ment employee, who died January
15th.

It's good to know that LEONARD
HUGHES, of the Equipment Depart-
ment, is now able to be out following
a recent sickness. It is hoped he will
continue to improve and can soon be
back with us.

We welcome our new employee in
Construction Department, T. W.
GARDNER, Engineering Aide.

Employees of R. R. NICHOLS in
the Construction Department enjoyed
a New Year's party held at Swain's
Steak House in Charlotte, January
3rd.

Congratulations to WILLIAM
PATRICK, who has been promoted
to Area Landscape Supervisor and
also to CHARLES HUMPHRIES,
who has been promoted to Division
Landscape Supervisor. Best wishes to
these two deserving employees.

Jean Cline

Left to right: J. H. Poovey, W. A. Starr, J. W. Bean, L. D. Gaithers.
Messrs. Starr and Bean, who retired December 31, are shown being presented
gift certificates by Messrs. Poovey and Gaither at the Catawba County Christ-
mas dinner, from their fellow employees. These two men have been faithful
employees and we wish them the best of luck in their retirement.

The above picture of retired Highway employees was made at the Catawba
County Christmas dinner. Reading from left to right: W. A. Starr, C. A. Poo-
vey. W. G. Hunt, G. D. McRee, G. S. Henley, P. J. Corpening, F. E. Whitener,
R. R. Setzer and J. W. Bean.

Welcome back to MARSDON
BLANTON of the Right of Way De-
partment, who has been out sick for
sometime.

Also, welcome to VERNON
STOCKS of Right of Way Depart-
ment, who is back at work after a
short hospital stay.

MIKE BREWER of the Right of
Way Department enjoyed a trip to
Miami in November.

Happy Retirement Years to DUR-
HAM WHISNANT of the Right of

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Way Department, who retired Decem-
ber 31st.

EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT—

Retired January 1, 1969:

Mr. B. R. McLAIN, Mechanic
Foreman II, Dist. 2. Shop, States-
ville, N. C. 39 years service.

Mr. J. I. SPEIGLE, Mechanic II.
Dist. 2 Shop, Statesville, N. C. 20
years service.

Mr. BEN C. PALMER, Auto Parts
Clerk II, Division Shop, Shelby, N.
C. 24 years service.

Lester Smith is enjoying his retirement years on his farm, Route 3. Lawn-
dale. Mr. Smith retired September 1st as Foreman having been employed with
the State some 24 years. He particularly enjoys his herd of Angus cattle.

Above is a picture of R. V. Newton, Road Oil Department employee, show-
ing 9 point deer he killed at the opening of the season.

Kimberly Dean, above, is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Petty,
born September 16th. Jack is an En-
gineering Technician I with the Hick-
ory Construction Party.

Mr. E. V. TILLEY, promoted to
Mechanic Foreman II, to replace Mr.
B. R. McLain.

A speedy recovery is wished for
Resident Engineer W. H. MANLEY,
JR., who is a patient in the Kings

These cute little girls are the daugh-
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Campbell of Statesville. Lisa, on the
left, is years old and Carla is 5.
Charles is Engineering Technician in
Iredell County.

Mountain Hospital. Mr. Manley is
expected to be on sick leave for some
6 or 8 weeks.

LARRY GERALD WARE, Tem-
porary Engineering Aide, resigned his
position with the Commission as of
Friday, December 27th, to reenter col-
lege.

About the only news we have in
our district is that GARY W. LAWS
is leaving the State's employ. He will
be going into a new job and we would
like to wish him the best of every-
thing.

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We have an employee who has tak-
en that big step into marriage. G.
RALPH HOLBROOK, Engineering
Aide, was married November 23rd to
the former Beverly Jane
Potts. Congratulations to you both.

Welcome back to Mr. JACK
CREASY. He left a year ago in Oc-
tober to serve 2 years in the Navy
but as you can see he was lucky
enough to be sent home, one year
later, along with several thousand
other service men. It certainly is good
to have him back.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of HAROLD SIDNEY MILLER who
passed away on December 6th due to
an accident. Mr. Miller was a Ma-
chine Operator in Iredell County.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. J. T.
HENDERSON, Iredell County em-
ployee, in the recent death of his
father and mother.

I might add that Resident Engineer
W. H. MANLEY, JR., is a patient
at Kings Mountain Hospital, Kings
Mountain, N. C, this week for sur-
gery. He is expected to be away from
work some six weeks or so.

We welcome Mrs. Linda Seagle to
the Construction Department. Mrs.
Seagle, Typist II, replaces Mrs. Doris
McEntire who recently resigned.

Yolanda Kirstine, above, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll
Mason, born December 24th. Mrs.
Jean Mason holds the position of
Typist II in the Hickory Construction
Party.

Woodrow Wilson
Wyke Dies

Woodrow Wilson Wyke, 5 5,
died November 21, 1968 in
Cleveland Memorial Hospital after
suffering an apparent heart attack
while attending a Kiwanis Club meet-
ing.

Prior to his death, he served as
12th Division engineer for the State
Highway Commission in Shelby.

A native of Catawba County, he was
the son of the late Charles Baxter and
Ethel Dean Wyke.

He is survived by his widow, the
'former Martha Fulton; two sons,
Thomas F. Wyke of Charlotte and
David R. Wyke of Raleigh; one dau-
ghter, Martha Ann Wyke of Raleigh;
three brothers, Ralph Wyke of Stoney
Point, Emmett and Neil Wyke of Ca-
tawba; and five sisters, Mrs. C. C.
Cline of Catawba, Mrs. J. R. Stewart
of Hendersonville, Mrs. J. W. Clark of
Mt. Holly, Mrs. J. E. Smyre and Mrs.
James Thomas of Claremont.

He was a member and on the
Board of Trustees and Board of
Stewards at Aldersgate United Meth-
odist Church.

Wyke was born in Catawba County
in 1912 and graduated from Catawba
High School and Draughon Business
College. He went to work with the
State Highway Commission in 1932
as junior inspector. He came to Shel-
by in 1938 and stayed here until 1947,
when he was transferred. He returned
to Shelby in 1957 as assistant divis-

ion engineer for the State Highway
and Public Works Commission.

On July 1, 1961, he became Divis-
ion 12 engineer. His duties included
supervision of road maintenance and
construction.

Wyke was a member of the Kiwan-
is Club and the Elks Club.

At the Iredell County Christmas
dinner, Mr. Baxter McLain. right, of
Statesville is shown receiving a watch
from Mr. J. F. Abernathy of Shelby,
Division Superintendent of the Equip-
ment Department, as a gift from the
State employees. Mr. McLain, Shop
Foreman, retired December 31 after
37 years of continuous service with
the State. Mr. Abernathy paid tribute
to Mr. McLain's work and stated
that he would be missed very much
because men of this caliber are few
and far between. We wish for Mr. Mc-
Lain much happiness in his retire-
ment.

STATEMENT BY

J. M. HUNT, JR., CHAIRMAN

It was with a sense of great per-
sonal loss that I received word of
the death of Woodrow W. Wyke of
Shelby.

I had come to know Mr. Wyke
as a good personal friend over the
past three and a half years, and I
had come to admire him as a dedi-
cated employee of the State High-
way Commission. He has served
this State well and his years of
service as a Division Engineer
have been years of progress for
the counties he served.

My heart goes out to Mr.
Wyke's family.

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

District Two
welcomes DOUG-
LAS WATERS as
Assistant District
Engineer. Doug
comes to us from
the Durham Of-
fice, and we are
sure that Dur-
ham's loss is Ashe-
ville's gain. Doug
and his wife Doro-
thy welcomed a darling little baby
girl, Meg, to their family on January
15th.

Mr. A. H. Watson of the Right of
Way Department and George Prescott
must be congratulating each other on
their coming retirement. Both were
due to retire two weeks after this pic-
ture was taken.

District Two had a very welcome
visit from CLAUDE BROWN recent-
ly. Claude retired in 1959 with many
years of service and it is always so
nice to see old fellow employees.

News from the Morganton Con-
struction Office is that HORACE
TIPTON returned from three weeks
vacation. We understand he is glad
to be back — seems his wife had too
much "honey-do" work for him!!

During the month of October, Mr. H. W. Love, Mr. R. L. Burris, Mr. Ralph
Alderman and Mr. James Coley went to the coast for their annual fishing trip.
On their 10th year fishing spree, at Cape Hatteras, the men caught over 300
lbs. of flounder and drum. Good luck this year, men.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN WHISNANT
and their boys have moved into their
lovely new home. Congratulations! Al-
so welcome back to TOM GOWAN
who was on sick leave for several
weeks after having surgery.

Mr. and Mrs. DONALD DAWSON
welcomed a son on January 10th. Don
is an Eng. Tech. Ill in Ken Rabb's
office. BRUCE COTTON, Engineer-
ing Aide in Ken Rabb's office, is now
back at work after undergoing sur-
gery.

Several retired personnel from Division 13 came back when it was time to
have a farewell get-together for George Prescott, Resident Engineer. George
was with the Highway Commission for 39 years and started with us when he
was 18 years old (he wants us to be sure to get his age right, because the news-
paper had him starting at 14, which George considers child labor). Shown here,
left to right, are: Mr. J. G. Stikeleather, Jr.. Highway Commissioner; Roy Ka-
nipe; George; Jim Knight; Charles Verner; C. P. Reeves and F. L. Hutchinson,
Division Engineer. We all wish George a happy retirement and hope the Stock
Market does well by him.

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MERYL COMPTON, Traffic Eerv-
ice Supervisor, was recently honored
by being invited to become a mem-
ber of the N. C. Division, Southern
Section, Institute of Traffic Engin-
eers.

News from the Right of Way De-
partment this month is that they had
a farewell party at the Patio Supper
Club for Mr. A. H. WATSON on the
occasion of his retirement. He receiv-
ed a small memento from his fellow
workers and the party was a ball for
all who attended.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
JOHN BLAND, JR., on the birth of
a baby girl weighing 9 lbs, 10 ozs. on
January 13th. This certainly must
have been a good month for new ba-
bies.

Deepest sympathy to Mrs. NANCY
VALLANO, former Right of Way sec-
retary, on the recent death of her
father.

We were so sorry to see RUTH
WILLIS leave. However, we wish her
the best of luck in continuing her
education to obtain her teaching de-
gree. Also, welcome to our new sec-
retary, Mrs. MELBA ALEXAN-
DER, who will take Ruth's place.

Gary Miller and his wife welcomed
this lovely addition to their family on
December 4. Gary Keith Miller's dad-
dy is an Engineering Technician II in
Ken Rabb's Office.

Linda Kay Shuping became the
bride of Bruce Alan Pollard on Oc-
tober 26, 1968 at the Salem United
Methodist Church in Morganton. Kay
is employed in the Morganton Con-
struction office, and certainly made a
beautiful bride.

This is the Division 13 "GROUP" taken at the Christmas Party Mr. Hut-
chison so kindly gave for the second year. A good time was had by all, and the
charming hostesses, who did a very good job were Louise Norton and Ruth Wil-
lis of the Right of Way Department.

Mr. S. M. Sluder of the Traffic
Service Department retired after J3
years service with the Highway Com-
mission.

tmmgm

Miss Judith Ann Rice was married
on December 20, 1968 to Bobby Ran-
dall, in Greenville, South Carolina.
Judy is employed as a typist in Ken
Rabb's office.

Retirements
Farewell Parties
Weddings
and
Awards

Specialist Brewer
Highway Appraiser
Wins Guard Award

Two North Carolina Army Na-
tional Guardsmen were among the
top winners in the 1968 Freedoms
Foundation Letter Awards Program,
Major General Claude T. Bowers,
The Adjutant General, announced re-
cently.

Major Lloyd J. Skidmore, Jr., of
Raleigh, and Specialist Four Michael
A. Brewer, of Shelby, each won the
George Washington Honor Medal and
fifty dollars for their letters on the
subject "A Free Ballot — A Free
Country."

Major Skidmore, a Guardsman
since November 1959, is a member of
Headquarters Headquarters Detach-
ment, Selective Service Section, NC-
ARNG, in Raleigh where he resides
with his family at 1005 Vance Street.
He is on active duty with the Selec-
tive Service System in Raleigh.

Specialist Brewer, who joined the
National Guard in January 1965, is
a member of Company E, 105th Engi-
neer Battalion, in Kings Mountain.
Brewer, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie G. Brewer, of Rt. 2, Louis-
burg resides in Shelby. He is an ap-
praiser with the State Highway Com-
mission.

The Freedoms Foundation, at Val-
ley Forge, Pennsylvania, is an inde-
pendent, nonprofit organization and
is dedicated to building an under-
standing of the spirit and philosophy
of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, to inspiring love of freedom,
and to supporting the spiritual unity

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born of the belief that man is a dig-
nified human being.

The Letter Awards Program is part
of an annual program in which Free-
doms Foundation assembles outstand-
ing expressions, projects and pro-
grams from individuals, organizations
and schools throughout the Nation
that build an understanding of the
American way of life.

General Bowers will present the
Honor Medals and cash awards to
Major Skidmore and Specialist Brew-
er at a special ceremony in early
spring.

Smiling faces usually mean good
news and in this case it is true. Har-
old Thompson (on left) has left us to
become Assistant Division Engineer-
in the 14th Division and Paul Robin-
son moves up from Resident Engineer
to Area Construction Engineer. Our
congratulations to both of you.

Photograph by John Mills.

Don Anglin and Susan Bruton were
married on November 2 at the home
of his parents in Burnsville. Don is
the son of Virgil Anglin who is with
the Maintenance Department in Jan-
cey County. Don is employed by Capi-
tol Records and Susan by Kingsberry
Homes and they will be living in At-
lanta, Georgia.

DIVISION FOURTEEN

FRANK BRY-
SON, Sign Super-
visor, and wife,
Stella, spent the
Christmas holidays
in Dover, Dela-
ware with his son,
John, and family.
While there Frank
went duck hunting
and thoroughly

Alb ce Cunningham PT1invpfJ jt tip
Division Correspondent enjoyed It. tie

nearly froze to death but was a lot
of fun. He is beginning to thaw out
at this writing.

This little tale is for Ripley.
MARK WILLIS, Right of Way
Agent, has bantam hens and when-
ever brought in eggs per day there
was always a green egg with the
bunch. At first he thought he was
losing his eyesight but each day there
was one lone green egg. He began to
watch more closely and sure enough
he has one bantam that will lay just
one green egg. Now I doubted this
story and demanded proof. I actually
saw, the egg is a pale green and
Mark says the inside is just like any
other egg. I asked if he ate it and he
said of course. Have you ever? I
don't mean eaten a green egg (bet
you service men sure have!) but I
meant seen a green egg that was laid
by a hen and not dyed? Could it be
the hen that laid the golden egg and
what with gold the way it is today, is
a mite tarnished?

This division regrets very much to
see A. J. HUGHES leave us. He and
Helen have settled down in Aberdeen
and we miss them. I used that word
settled rather loosely for those two
are "go-go" kids — but at least they
have a house in Aberdeen for home
base. We wish you both happy times
in your new assignment.

W. F. RAY has stepped up into
Mr. Hughes place as Division Engin-
eer and it is nice they let us keep a
familiar face with us. We would hate
to lose BILL along with ROBERTA
and the twins, JANE and KATHER-
INE.

HAROLD THOMPSON replaced
Bill Ray as Asst. Division Engineer

W. F. RAY
Division Engineer

and this brings back another familiar
face. Harold was with this Division
quite a few years before going to Di-
vision 13. We will be glad to have
HAROLD and CHRIS and the kids
back with us again.

Division 14 Office celebrated with
a Christmas Party at Top of Square
in Asheville. It was quite a gay affair
with everyone in their pretty party
clothes. HAROLD STALLCUP and
wife joined us from Forest City and
what do you know — yep, right after
he arrived, it started snowing. There
is a name for someone like him.
Whenever he comes to Sylva it rains,
snows, sleets, hails, tornados — you
name it and it can happen. Yesterday
someone yelled, "It's snowing."
Away to the window I flew like a
flash, pulled up the Venetian blind —
and what did I see? Harold Stallcup
walking across the parking lot in the
snow. I knew it! But back to our
party. Mr. Hughes was presented gold
cuff links and tie clasp. So actually
we celebrated two occasions. And back
to the snow. It was beautiful watching
from the 17th floor and it falling on
the city below. Then the next thought
was, we have to drive 50 miles in it
to get back home. Wasn't bad, tho'.

Construction has started on new
addition to our building. They are
busy, busy, busy outside driving pil-
ings, scooping up dirt and having us
move cars out of their way.

STEWART SYKES. who is now
in Raleigh office in Training pro-
gram, came back to work a few weeks
in our Division. It was nice to have
him back with us. Stewart was here
to help us celebrate at our Christmas
party.

AL COGGINS and wife, Alice,
spent part of the Christmas holidays
in Florida enjoying the warm sun-
shine. Also found them in Raleigh at-
tending retirement party for D. R.
McMICHAEL.

A few more of the sentences taken
from letters of wives, mothers and fa-
thers of servicemen, concerning allot-
ments:

"I have already wrote to the Presi-
dent, and if I don't hear from you I
will write to Uncle Sam and tell him
about both of you."

"Sir, I am forwarding my marriage
certificate and my two children, one
is a mistake as you can see."

"I have no children as my husband
was truck driver and worked day and
night when he wasn't sleeping."

"I am glad to say that my husband
who was reported missing is now
dead."

"Please find out for certain if my
husband is dead as the man I am liv-
ing with won't eat or do nothing until
he nose for sure."

The Bryson City Construction De-
partment held their Christmas Party
in District II Highway Building with
the wives of employees catering. From
all reports, they did themselves proud.
It was delicious and enjoyed by all.
Guests attending were Mr. and Mrs.
ROY WELCH of Locating Depart-
ment; Mr. and Mrs. RAY SPANG-
LER, Mr. and Mrs. CARL AUVIL
of Construction Department in Mur-
phy. J. J. BLEVINS, Resident En-
gineer, and J. D. ROBERTSON, As-
sistant Resident Engineer, were given
gift certificates in appreciation for
being such good "bosses" this past
year.

The flu bug bit quite a few of our
employees. Hope the peak has been
hit and we can get back to normal.

Anyone interested in a "Lonely
Hearts Club"? Bryson City Construc-
tion Department have three good can-
didates lined up — TONY BOWERS,
BUD BREEDLOVE and EUGENE
SUTTON seem to be running around
over there on the loose. Take note,
you single ladies and if you are inter-
ested, come on up!

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WANDA JONES, Secretary in
Construction Office, brought her little
girl, Betsy, by office other morning.
It seems Betsy's Daddy, Marion, who
is License Examiner, has been teach-
ing Betsy her Nursery Rhymes. This
is one she repeated for me: "Little
Jack Horner sat in a corner eating
his cherry pie, he put in his thumb
and pulled out a plum and said, how
did that plum get in the cherry pie?"

Mr. PAUL N. HUTCHINSON, M.
O. 2 in Henderson County, is proud
that he has three sons serving in the
Armed Services. Sgt. VICTOR H.
HUTCHINSON left for Guam recent-
ly where he is assigned for 18 months
with the Air Force. Sgt. DON F.
HUTCHINSON has just returned
from the Philippines and is now sta-
tioned at Whitemans Air Force Base
in Missouri. Staff Sgt. LLOYD N.
HUTCHINSON is a 12 year veteran
and is stationed at Andrews Air Force
Base, Washington, D. C.

JAMES D. CLINGENPEEL, son
of Mr. and Mrs. PAUL CLINGEN-
PEEL of Henderson ville, N. C, has
returned to work with the Mainten-
ance Department as M. O. 3 after
serving two years in Viet Nam. While
there he was with the Army Engin-
eers operating heavy equipment in
the construction of airfields and Army
bases.

District I Office is happy to have
Mrs. NORMA JEAN GAILLARD as
a Clerk II. Her husband, Richard, is
employed by Olin Mathieson Corpor-
ation, Pisgah Forest, and they reside
on Stoney Mounatin Road in Hender-
sonville.

FERRY DIVISION

Joyce Spencer, Correspondent

Mr. and Mrs. E.
H. BAGGS spent
the Christmas hol-
idays in Tampa,
Florida with Mrs.
Baggs' mother.
Mrs. Edith
McLeod. Mr.
Baggs is Ferry Op-
erations Manager,
with his office lo-
cated at Morehead

John F. Wilson
"Mr. Ferry Operations" Honored

Left to right: George Fuller, John Wilson and Mrs. Wilson.

L. to R.: George Fuller; W. E. Baggs; John Wilson, retired; George Mack,
retired; Bill Spruill, retired; Dennis Patrick, and Miss Gard.

A Testimonial Dinner was held recently at the Carolinian Hotel on Fri-
day, November 22nd for J. F. Wilson, Ferry Superintendent who retired on
January 1st, with 22 years of service with the Highway Commission.

The dinner was a buffet and dance sponsored by the personnel of the
Ferry Operations and about 140 persons attended.

Ferry Operations Manager Mr. E. H. Baggs and wife attended and he
acted as master of ceremonies. The invocation was given by Warren B. Creef,
and George R. Fuller was called upon to present the gift, which was a lovely
Bulova Acrotron Watch inscribed "With respect and affection from the North
Carolina State Ferry Operations". A jewelry set was also presented to Mrs
Wilson.

Mr. Wilson better known as "Captain John" or "Mr. Ferry Operations"
was more than overwhelmed.

Photos by Aycock Brown

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City. The Florida weather ran true
to form and the sun shone bright and
clear for them while there, however,
their trip was marred by both of
them contracting the "Hong Kong"
flu, keeping them confined to the
house. Glad to report that both are
well on the road to recovery at this
writing.

Our sympathy goes out to MR.
WILLIE NELSON, JR., Clerk at the
Morehead City Ferry Office, whose
mother passed away January 8th, at
her home in Morehead City.

Mr. ROBERT FOWLER O'NEAL,
employee on the Ferry "Silver Lake"
is ill and in the U. S. Public Health
Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia. We wish
Mr. O'Neal a speedy recovery.

Mr. B. A. BOWEN, employee on
the ferry "Beaufort" at the Pamlico
River Operation is a patient at the
hospital in Wilson. We are sorry to
hear of his illness and hope he will
soon be well and able to return home.

Mrs. E. N. JONES, wife of Ferry
Superintendent, E. N. JONES, Mar-
shallberg, is a patient at the Craven
Memorial Hospital, New Bern, where
she has undergone surgery on her
eyes. Hope all goes well and she can
return home real soon.

Southport Ferry Operations reports
pet alligators still laying low, but
several others have been spotted play-
ing around in ferry slip.

Aren't they adorable'? These happy
children are the grandchildren of Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Baggs of Morehead
City, where Mr. Baggs is Ferry Oper-
ations Manager. They are Denise Mc-
Leod, age 5 yrs. and Harvey McLeod,
age 9 mos. Their home is in Tampa,
Florida.

Mr. Moody Rose
Ferry Quartermaster
Honored

The employees of the Cedar Island-
Ocracoke Ferry Operations, the More-
head City Ferry Office and their
guests gathered at the Driftwood Mo-
tel at Cedar Island, Friday night, De-
cember 13, 1968, to honor Mr. Moody
Rose, Ferry Quartermaster, who re-
tired December 31, 1968.

The invocation was given by Cap-
tain D. L. Beveridge. Mr. E. H. Baggs,
Ferry Operations Manager, welcomed
the members and their guest. He
congratulated Mr. Rose on his retire-
ment and thanked him for his loyalty
to the ferry service.

The crew members of the ferries
"Silver Lake" and "Pamlico" showed
their appreciation with a gift for Mrs.
Rose which was presented by Cap-
tain Stanley Golden.

Mr. Baggs introduced Capt. Irvin
Garrish who presented Mr. Rose with
a watch from the employees of Ferry
Operations at Cedar Island and More-
head City Ferry Office.

After dinner, music was furnished
by Mr. Roy C. Willis, a ferry employ-
ee. Everyone sang Christmas carols,
closing with the traditional "For He's
a Jolly Good Fellow".

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Miss Judy Nelson, attractive daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Nelson, Jr.
is a senior at West Carteret High
School, Morehead City, where she is
active in the Health Carer Club as
Candy Striper. She will graduate in
June after which she hopes to enter
Cabarrus Nursing School in Concord,
in the fall. Mr. Nelson is Clerk II at
the Morehead City Ferry Office.

WILMINGTON BRIDGE

(Continued from Page 12)

roadway width of 56 feet and two 18
inch curbs. The lift-span will provide
a navigational horizontal clearance of
350 feet, a vertical clearance of 65
feet in the closed position, and 135
feet in the opened position.

The bridge, when it is completed,
will carry Routes US 74, US 76, US
17 and NC 133 across the Cape Fear
at Wilmington.

The lift-span does not set any
records for length, width or height,

or weight, but is among the heavier
highway lift-spans on record.

Because of the proximity to the
sea coast and salt atmosphere, and
to minimize problems in future years,
a special epoxy paint system has been
specified for the lift-span and towers.
The color will be light green for the
lift-span and gray for the towers and
operator's house.

The operator's house will be in a
stationary location attached to the
east tower, rather than mounted on
the lift-span. Elevator service for
bridge operating and maintenance

personnel will be provided to the top
of each tower, with other possible
stop points should the span become
stalled between open and closed posi-
tions. A "catwalk" will be provided
across the top of the span for main-
tenance purposes. Because of the
tower and span bracings, which will
hinder visual observation of highway
traffic by the bridge operator, tele-
vision cameras will be mounted on
the towers to enable the operator to
see that traffic has come to a halt
before the span is lifted for the pass-
age of a ship.

Prayer On
The Square

There once was a time

when a square was okay
To play square with your fellows

was the right way to play.
To eat a square meal

meant really to dine.
To give a square deal

was a deal that was fine.
To be a square shooter

meant to be a right guy.
If your word was your bond

you looked square in the eye.
You stood four-square

if you stood for the right.
You were square with the world

if everything was all right.
And then something happened

to this finest of words.
It was twisted and warped

by some curious birds
And a slur was concocted

in a strange sort of way
To slap at the youth

who was saving the day.
And one was termed square

if he broke with the crowd.
If he chose to be quiet

when the gang became loud.
He was square if he worked

when the others sat down.
Even square if he swam

while the others would drown.
It is square to be different

it is square to aim high.
He's square if he's truthful

when it's easy to lie.
A square will drive slow

when the gang yells for speed.
A square will stick firm

to his beliefs and his creed.
And thus you will know

why this is my prayer
Oh, Lord, bring about

the Return of the Square!
by Robert Sanders
Assistant Superintendent
Louisville Public Schools

The Road Report

Skiing's
fun

for some

but...

BY ARBA

DRIVING FOR PLEASURE

is America's leading form
of outdoor recreation

AMERICAN ROAD BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION

Former Highway Chairman J. M. Hunt, Jr. smiles as he is presented the keys to a brand new LTD automobile on
his last day as Chairman of the State Highway Commission.

Luther Berrier, President of the NCHCEA does the honors. State Highway employees all over the State participated
in the handsome gift to show their esteem to Mr. Hunt for his four years of fine leadership and dedication as their
Highway Chairman.

ROADWAYS

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
RALEIGH, N. C. 27602

Return Requested

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U. S. POSTAGE

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ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XV
NUMBER II

Public Relations Officer Arch Laney

Assistant Public Relations Officer Gibson Prather

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon DEANS

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr.

W. W. Exum

Ashley M. Murphy

Carl Renfro

J. B. Brame

Carl Meares

Thomas S. Harrington

John F. McNair, III
George L. Hundley
George H. Broadrick
Raymond Smith
W. B. Garrison
James G Stikeleather, Jr.

W. Curtis Russ

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chief Engineer

George Wdlloughby Secondary Roads Officer

Wdlliam M. Ingram Controller

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From The Chairman 1

Welcome New Employees 2

Know Your Division 3

Highway Crews Always Ready 9

Letters We Liked 12

N. C. H. C. E. A 13

Pot Luck 14

Headquarters 19

Division News 25

Ferry Division 40

BRIDGE OVER NEWPORT RIVER ON US 70
BETWEEN MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT

The contract for this structure was mailed for execu-
tion December 5, 1962. Construction was started April
10, 1963; and was completed November 30, 1964. The
contractors were James T. Triplett, Inc. and L. R. Ryan,
Inc. of Chester, S. C. The Resident Engineer was Mr. R.
A. Pollock of New Bern, N. C. The cost of construction
was approximately $1,530,000.00 including engineering.

This structure connects the towns of Morehead City
and Beaufort and is the gateway to eastern Carteret Coun-
ty and the Outer Banks area of North Carolina includ-
ing Ocracoke, Hatteras and Nags Head. It replaces an
obsolete structure which was built in the early nineteen
twenties.

From The Chairman

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

I would like to salute a new pub-
lication that will be closely tied to
the North Carolina Highways, and
will serve as a potent new ally to
the Highway Commission.

I'm speaking of the NORTH CAR-
OLINA BEAUTIFICATION NEWS,
published by the Governor's Beautifi-
cation Committee, Mrs. John D. Rob-
inson, Executive Director. This is a
volunteer organization, supported
completely by public and private
contributions, and dedicated to the
concept of a more beautiful North
Carolina.

This committee came into being
during the administration of Gover-
nor Moore, and on April 14, 1969,
during its annual meeting, presented
Governor Scott and Mrs. Scott with
the first and second copies of their
fine publication.

Governor Soott told the annual
meeting that his office is pledging
its full support in efforts to beautify
North Carolina. In the keynote ad-
dress to the session, Governor Scott
praised the efforts of James B. God-

win, president ol the Beautification
Committee, Mrs. Robinson, and the
entire committee for their efforts in
behalf of a North Carolina free of
ugliness.

In noting that highway beautifica-
tion is one of the major areas in pre-
senting a clean, fresh appearance to
all, I would take this opportunity to
pledge the complete support of the
Commission and the over 10,500 em-
ployees of our vast highway system,
to the proposition that we will do all
we can to contribute to proper land-
scaping of our system, and re-double
our efforts in cooperating with all
agencies in all-out-war against high-
way littering.

It's refreshing to know that this
new agency, with its new publication,
"North Carolina Beautification
News", is at work in our great state
to further the cause of natural beauty.

HOW TO MAKE
YOUR WORK EASY

By NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

First: Don't get the idea that you
are Atlas carrying the world on your
shoulders. The world would go on
even without you. Don't take your-
self so seriously.

Second: Tell yourself that you like
your work. Then it will become a
pleasure, not drudgery. Perhaps you
do not need to change your job.
Change yourself and your work will
seem different.

Third: Plan your work — work
your plan. Lack of system produces
that "I'm swamped" feeling.

Fourth: Don't try to do everything
at once. That is why time is spread
out. Operate on that wise advice from
the Bible, "This one thing I do."

Fifth: Get a correct mental atti-
tude, remembering that ease or diffi-
culty in your work depends on how
vou think about it. Think it's hard.

and you will make it hard. Think it's
easy, and it will tend to become so.

Sixth: Become thoroughly profi-
cient in your work. "Knowledge is
power" over your job. It is always
easier to do a thing right.

Seventh: Practice being relaxed.
Easy always does it. Don't press or
strain. Take it in vour stride.

Eighth: Discipline yourself not to
put off until tomorrow what you can
do today. Accumulations make the
job harder than it should be. Don't
drag yesterday's burdens along with
you. Keep your work up to schedule.

Ninth: At the start of every day
pray about your work. You will get
some of your best ideas that way.

Tenth: Take on the "unseen part-
ner". It's surprising the load He will
take off you. God is as much at home
in offices, factories, and shops as in
churches. He knows more about your
business than you do. His help will
make your work easy.

GOD'S SPEED KEITH

Elsewhere in Roadways, you'll find
that "Pot-Luck" has run out — that
Keith Hundley the popular PIO for
the past several years, sings his own
"Swan Song". For the multitudes, not
only in Highway but in all agencies
around Capitol City, there's no joy
connected with this final performance.

Keith is off to Weyerhaeuser Corp.
and with headquarters in Plymouth,
N. C. with the challenging task of
initiating a "from-the-ground-up"
public relations department.

We of Roadways wish him only
the very best. We don't question
whether or not he will be successful,
but only how soon, and how great???

A sense of pride is always felt
when someone launches into a new
venture which is a promotion. So it
is with Keith Hundley, that we of
the Highway Commission have been
associated with, and thus a part of a
grand new and forward step, in what
we know to be the right direction.
"God's speed Keith — let "Pot Luck"
become a part of your heritage."

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Welcome New Employees

Public Relations Staff

J. ARCH LANEY

J. Arch Laney, 42, manager and part owner of a
Granite Falls radio station, has been named Public In-
formation Officer of the State Highway Commission. The
announcement was made recently by Commission Chair-
man D. McLauchlin Faircloth.

Laney, who was raised in Monroe, has also been asso-
ciated with radio stations in High Point and Monroe and
in Florida. He attended school in Union County and is
a graduate of Wingate College.

He is married to the former Rachel Flowe of Union
County and they have two children.

Although Laney started his duties Tuesday, April 1st,
the family will not move to Raleigh until June.

Other Activities

MONROE, N. C. — Jaycees, Ex-Pres. Monroe Little
Theatre, Brd. of Dir. Monroe-Union County Chamber of
Commerce, Optimist Club — Pres., 1956-57 (life member).
Jaycee "Young Man of the Year" 1955. TB Christmas
Seal Ch. 4 years, 1954-58. Co-Mgr. Sanford for Gov. 1960,
Pres. East Elem. PTA 1959, member and Sunday School
Teacher Central Meth. Church.

HIGH POINT — Pres. Optimist Club 1963-64; mem-
ber Mayors Com. to Employ Physically Handicapped.
High Point mgr. for Bob Scott for Lt. Gov. 1964, Brd.
Dir. YDC, First place award in radio editorials for UPI
1964-65. Has emeeed numerous beauty pageants, variety
shows, and meetings.

MT. DORA, FLA. — Narrated documentary film for
tourism distribution for Chamber of Commerce, member
Eustis, Fla., Optimist Club. Member Ice House Players
and winner of award for "Comedian of the Year" in "Tea-
house of the August Moon."

GRANITE FALLS, N. C. — Member and VP Hick-
ory Optimist Club (now 14 years perfect attendance) ;
member of Hickory and Lenoir Chamber of Commerce,
Board of Dir. Lenoir C. of C. and member of Hickory C.

of C. Human Relations Committee. Caldwell County Mgr.
for Scott for Gov. 1968. Residing in town of Rhodhiss,
elected to town Board of Commissioners (led ticket)
named Mayor Pro-Tern. First President of the Western
Piedmont Council of Governments, made up of Alexander,
Burke, Caldwell and Catawba, elected November 1968 and
resigned to take post with SHC. (This is new concept of
regional governments with contiguous areas joining forces
for development . . . many federal and state agencies are
funding through this new concept.) The officers are
drawn from the county and municipal governments. Mem-
ber 1st United Methodist Church, Granite Fall, Sunday
School Teacher, and member of official board, 2nd Vice
Ch., Caldwell Co. Democratic Exec. Committee, and dis-
trict delegate to 1968 Democratic Convention.

Major experience in radio announcing, sales, and
management. Wrote bi-weekly column in Monroe, N. C.
Journal for 5 years.

Hobbies: reading, football, basketball, and auto rac-
ing, all as spectator.

Enjoys eating, and likes to travel.

GIBSON PRATHER

A veteran North Carolina newsman has joined the
Public Relations staff of the State Highway Commission.

Gibson Prather, former executive editor of the FAY-
ETTEVILLE OBSERVER, assumed his new duties on
Monday, March 17, according to Highway Chairman D.
McLauchlin Faircloth.

Prather brings to his new position a background of
varied experience and knowledge of the communications
media and the operations of state government, having
served as a reporter and editor in the state for some 14
years, 12 years with the Fayetteville newspaper and two
years as editor of the Jacksonville DAILY NEWS.

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Know Your Division Engineer and it's Operation

Division No. 2

Pictured above are C. W. Snell, Jr., Division Engineer and Hazel L. Baker,
Secretary.

As Division Engineer, Administra-
tive Head, for Division Two, I ami
responsible for all roadway mainten-
ance and construction activities on
approximately 4700 miles of road in
Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Greene,
Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico and Pitt
Counties. At the present time, there
are 619 permanent and temporary
employees working in the Division in
Administration, Maintenance and
Construction.

In addition to being responsible for
the work of 618 employees, the Divis-
ion Engineer has to work very closely
with the Bridge Maintenance, Equip-
ment, Location and Prison Personnel
to make sure that their efforts are
tied in with the overall program of
the Highway Commission.

I review with the local Commiss-
ioner all highway and personnel
problems brought to his attention by
giving him a verbal or written report
and, in many instances, review the
problems with him on the ground,
such as requests for improvements,
additions to the System, drainage
complaints, etc. I also furnish the
Commissioner with suggested road
programs financed from the various
type funds showing the need, esti-
mated cost, location, etc. The Com-
missioner and I attend joint meetings

with the County Commissioners and
Municipal Officials for the purpose
of programming Secondary Road
Plans, Urban and Secondary Bond
funds.

Work also involves contacts with
School Officials and other State and
Federal Agencies. Contacts are also
made with the general public with
regard to complaints, proposed im-
provements and maintenance as the
need arises.

Educational Background

I am a graduate of Wake Forest
College with a B.S. degree in Mathe-
matics. Also attended Duke Univer-
sity Engineering School for one year
while on active duty in the Marine
Corps as a member of V-12 program
during World War II.

Hazel L. Baker, Stenographer III,
graduated from Greenville High
School in May, 1946, and was em-
ployed by the State Highway Com-
mission on June 17, 1946, giving her

DIVISION TWO DIVISION OFFICE PERSONNEL

C. W. Snell, Jr. — Division Engineer; R. D. Franks — Asst. Division Engi-
neer; Fred Edwards, Jr. — Office Manager; Hazel L. Baker — Secretary; Becky
Sumrell — Secretary; Katherine Bennett — Secretary; David Eastwood — Division
Staff Engineer; D. J. Woodcock — Landscape Supervisor; C. P. Shaw — Division
Right of Way Agent; Charles Clark — Right of Way Agent; Raymond Lowe —
Right of Way Agent; H. A. Justice — Asst. Area Traffic Engineer; R. F. Deanes
— Area Construction Engineer; Betty Paul — Secretary, Right of Way; Patsy
Corey — Secretary, Right of Way; Elijah Brown — General Utility Man and
John Banks — Right of Way Agent.

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a total of approximately 23 years ser-
vice with the Commission.

Miss Baker is Secretary to the Di-
vision Commissioner, Division Engi-
neer, Assistant Division Engineer and
assists other personnel in the Division
Office as the need arises. Duties also
consist of answering the telephone
and doing required filing.

Miss Baker is a very efficient, loy-
al and conscientious employee.

This is a view looking west of a
portion of Second Street in Snow Hill
as it now exists. The eastern end of
the proposed Snow Hill Bypass, re-
cently let to contract, will enter this
street just to the right of the power
pole.

Above is a view of a portion of a
recently completed urban bond pro-
ject along U. S. 13 and N. C. 58
looking west from Snow Hill in front
of the new West Greene Elementary
School. The proposed Snow Hill By-
pass which was recently let to con-
tract, will begin at a point on center-
line at the lower right hand corner
of this picture.

A survey made in District One in
late 1967 had shown that on primary
routes with wide pavements over 90%
of the dangerous pot holes near the
pavement edge were located in drive-
ways. These holes had to be filled
several times a year by hand and
machinery. This was costly and di-
verted labor from other needs.

In 1968 a program of placing 4' wide
strips of asphalt surfacing across
these entrances was begun. Over
3,000 were placed the first year and
over 1,300 have been installed this
year. Approximately 3,500 more are
planned this year to complete the
primary routes in Beaufort and Pitt
Counties.

A year's experience has proven
that by extending the pavement edge
further from passing vehicles, the
pneumatic effect on the soil in the
driveways has been sharply reduced.
It is estimated the initial cost of these
driveway lips can be amortized in 3V2
years with a net profit of several
years of life remaining and a bonus
of improved safety for the motorist.
Driveway lips were being installed on
N. C. 43 in Pitt County when the
photo was taken. W. H. "Dick" Wil-
son, MO II, is operating the Apsco
Spreader with L. L. "Fate" Cox, MF
II, at the screw controlling the eleva-
tion. Raymond McLawhorn is level-
ing soil in the drive. This crew, un-
der the direction of Mr. Cox, has
reached a high of 76 drives in one
day.

One could not know unless told that this picture is one showing the start
of a major bridge project in Eastern North Carolina. The picture was taken
from the north bank of Bogue Sound, west of Swansboro, looking south to-
ward Emerald Isle. The construction equipment seen is on barges floating in
and adjacent to the inland waterway.

The present contract for the substructure only was let November 26, 1968
with a completion date of March 1, 1970. T. A. Loving Company of Goldsboro,
N. C. is the Contractor. R. A. Pollock of New Bern, N. C. is the Resident En-
gineer.

Contracts for the approaches and for the superstructure are expected to be
let in the near future.

The completion of the bridge and approaches will fulfill a long awaited
dream of another access to Bogue Banks. The present access is a bridge from
Morehead City to Atlantic Beach, and a Ferry route from the Mainland to
Emerald Isle located approximately one mile east of this site. Upon completion
of the new bridge, the Ferry service will be discontinued.

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HISTORY OF PIT

Due to a lack of suitable base
course material in Craven, Jones,
Pamlico and Carteret Counties this
pit was located and acquired. Origi-
nally in August 1963, 4.1 acres was
acquired; in February 1965 an addi-
tional 4.8 acres was acquired, which
comprised all of the Simmons tract
of land. The Commission has recently
acquired an additional 23 acres ad-
jacent to and extending the existing
pit on the south side; the entire pit
area is bounded on the east side by
the Trent River.

Originally the pit was de-watered
by the use of centrifugal pumps run-
ning 24 hours a day. It soon became
evident that with the acquisition of
additional acreage and the close
proximity of the Trent River with its
changing tides and the depth of avail-
able material, that the centrifugal
pumping would not be adequate. In
early 1967 and with the assistance of
the Bridge Maintenance Department;
a 30' x 30' sump was excavated to a
depth of minus 50' (approx.) and en-
closed with steel sheet piling. A steel
"H" pile tower and pump house was
constructed and a 90 H. P. 8" sub-
mersible, float operated electric pump
was installed. This required 440 volt
three phase current which was sup-
plied by Carolina Power and Light
Company. This pumping facility has
proved satisfactory and pump oper-
ates about 25% of the time. The own-
ership of the pit has proved very
helpful as a source of soil type base
course material for use as stabiliza-

Draglines are necessary mainte-
nance tools in the eastern part of the
State. Shown is ditch cleaning in
progress on N. C. 32 in Beaufort
County with veteran operator, L. M.
"Pete" Gurkin, MO IV, operating the
dragline.

There are many miles of similar
ditches in this division that can only
be maintained economically with
draglines.

I ion and construction of roads in Dis-
trict II and III.

The Pit is located about 1.9 miles
north of Pollocksville on the Trent
River east of U. S. 17.

SUMP TOWER AND ELECTRIC
PUMP HOUSE— SIMMONS PIT

Picture shows sump tower and
pump house used to house 90 H. P.
8" submersible pump and electric
control panel. At time picture was
taken electric pump had been remov-
ed for repairs and pit was partially
filled with water. Pit is being dewat-
ered with centrifugal pumps prepara-
tory to re-installing repaired electric
pump. Picture also indicates depth

of fine sand overburden, coarse sand
and marl, and marl strata adjacent to
pump house. Centrifugal pumps are
approximately at coarse sand and
marl elevation, marl strata can be
seen beginning about ten feet below
this elevation. Marl strata extends to
minus 50 feet below natural ground
elevation.

Pictured above, Horace Vincent,
Maintenance Foreman IV, is super-
vising a grading project.

Erosion control work consisting of brush and commercial sand fences ad-
jacent to U. S. 70 in Carteret County between Morehead and Beaufort near
the Port Terminal. Upper left, behind sand fence is an experimental plot of
erosion control consisting of a loose mat of waste carpet trimmings. These sand
fences are necessary to keep the sand from building up on the roadway.

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A recent Landscape Project along U. S. 70 between New Bern and Have-
lock consisting of group plantings of approximately 2,550 plants was let No-
vember 26, 1968 and completed April 2, 1969. L. A. Reynolds Company of Win-
ston-Salem, N. C. was the Contractor. Mr. R. A. Pollock of New Bern, N. C.
was the Resident Engineer. Eleven different species of plants were set out in-
cluding Weeping Willow, Live Oak, Redbud, Fringe Tree, Dogwood Chain
Tree, Cleyera, Dahoon, Yaupon, Wax Myrtle and Loblolly Boy.

In the foreground one group plantings can be seen. The taller pines and
other natural growth forms a beautiful background. This picture was taken on
U. S. 70 just west of Havelock.

HOUSEKEEPING ON THE
HIGHWAYS

The Mobile Sweeper shown is op-
erated by the Landscape Department
and works throughout the Division.
It is used on bridges, in curb and gut-
ter sections, as shown in the picture,
and around median islands to reduce
hand labor.

This sweeper covers approximately
160 miles per month.

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District Two Headquarters at New
Bern situated on SR 1402 near West
city limits. District and Resident En-
gineers' offices left and right. Far
left is a private home.

Shoulder reconstruction on N. C. 55
in Craven County near Fort Barnwell.
F. H. Parker, Construction Foreman,
is shown beside truck and belt load-
er.

The loss of prison labor required
that mechanical methods be devised
to supplant hand labor. The backhoe
has contributed greatly to filling this
void. Shown in J. C. Ross, MO II
cleaning an outlet ditch in Pitt Coun-
ty. The bucket being used is "home-
made" from a section of motor grad-
er moldboard. Dennis F. Johnson,
Maintenance Supervisor, is observing.

A supplementary mower (animat-
ed) gives the photographer the "once
over" on Craven County SR 1256 be-
tween Cove City and N. C. 55. It
may be necessary to use more help of
this type in the future, due to the
shortage of personnel and funds.

6

G. A. TAYLOR, JR.
RESIDENT ENGR. SUPERVISING

G. A. Taylor, Jr., Resident Engi-
neer discussing with Mr. R. D.
Franks, Asst. Div. Eng'r. the place-
ment of Bit. Binder Course on CABC.

This is a widening project on U. S.
264 in Greenville. Finished roadway
will be 64' Face to Face, Curb and
Gutter. Contract is held by Barrus
Construction Co. of Kinston, N. C.

This facility is one of the roads
that the Commission has been able to
upgrade under the bond program.

SIMMONS MATERIAL PIT
(PERSONNEL)

Pictured are, left to right, C. Y.
Griffin, District Engineer, District II,
New Bern; J. H. Burruss, District
Engineer, District III, Kinston and
E. T. Bender, Road Maintenance
Supervisor, Jones County. Picture
shows equipment stripping fine sand
^overburden from coarse sand and
marl deposit to be used for soil type
base course on roads in adjoining
counties of Craven and Jones.

Clyde M. Ipock operates a Tractor
and Disc on shoulder reconstruction
on N. C. 55 in Craven County.

Albert H. Bangert Elementary
School on Craven County SR 1299
near New Bern. This road was con-
structed by State Forces in 1968 and
financed with access and public serv-
ice funds and regular secondary road
funds. This is just one of many ac-
cess roads built to serve new schools.

One of the greatest happenings
(traffic wise) around Kinston in many
years was the completion of dual
lane construction including the fly
over of U. S. 70 Bypass around Kin-
ston. Before this was completed, if
you were going west from Kinston
on weekends you could find yourself
on the end of a mile long line of traf-
fic at the intersection of U. S. 70 and
U. S. 70 Business. The design of this
interchange eliminates all stop situa-
tions going west from Kinston, there-
by aiding all persons concerned, es-
pecially if you were returning from a
trip to the beach and had some sun-
burned and worn out passengers.

The Resident Engineer on this pro-
ject was Robert Merritt, Kinston, N.
C, who is shown in the picture view-
ing the only project of this type in
the Second Division.

This photo was taken on a secondary road under construction in Pitt
County. Roadway ditches have been excavated by draglines and the material
piled to dry. This method allows construction to progress even during incle-
ment weather.

A combination of high water table and level ground makes draglines a vi-
tal part of road construction in this area. Contractors and the Commission
depend upon this machine to provide parallel and lateral drainage for roadways.

?

The picture is a Sand Pump, de-
veloped in Division 2 Equipment
Shop, for the purpose of moving from
one location to another. It is built on
two 8' x 30' pontoons tied together.

With its 220 H.P. Power Unit and
6" pump, it is capable of pumping 60-
65 years of sand per hour.

People involved in developing this
unit are L to R: J. L. McDonald, Ray
Ange, Kelly Tripp and L. B. Cox.

It is anticipated this dredge will
provide graded material for sand seal-
ing surfaces of low traffic roads. Also,
uniform material for the asphalt plant.
Material for stabilizing soil roads and
should replace draglines at the pit.

Left to right — Traffic Services Su-
perintendent J. C. Boyd shows a Post
Driver designed and made by J. R.
Turner, Sign Erector in Craven Co.
and J. A. Mitchell, Gen. Utility Man
with the assistance of the Equipment
Department. It was built from scrap
and salvage materials and is powered
by the motor on the power hole dig-
ger.

With the proper weight on the
driver and in normal road bed condi-
tions, a seven foot U-section post can
be driver down to four (4) feet above
the edge of the roadway in approxi-
mately three (3) minutes. The ma-
chine will also drive a metal post
through an average thickness of as-
phalt with a little added time.

This machine has speeded up work
production as well as taking most of
the tiring work out of the job.

Hundley Named Public Relations

Manager for
Weyerhaeuser's Paper Company

Keith R. Hundley, former Public Relations Of-
ficer for the N. C. State Highway Commission in Raleigh,
has been named Public Relations Manager for Weyer-
haeuser's North Carolina Operations. Hundley, a graduate
of Western Carolina University who also studied at the
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, assumed his
new position on March 31. The announcement of Hund-
ley's appointment was made by area manager Chapman
Hutchinson, to whom he reported.

Hundley has an extensive background in the public
relations and communications fields, having worked in
radio, the press, and for the highway commission. He was
news director for WPTF radio in Raleigh for over two
years and concurrently served as Raleigh correspondent
for the Norfolk Virginian Pilot. Prior to this he was news
director of WCBT radio in Roanoke Rapids.

Some of his honors in the communications field in-
clude: winner, first place award, "Best Documentary"
category, 1964, United Press International News Contest,
North Carolina; second place award, "Best Spot News
Story," State-wide, 1964.

He has been active in Jaycees, the Heart Fund, and
United Fund Campaigns. Hundley says his hobbies are
fishing, spectator sports, writing, reading, and model
making. He and his family, which consist of his wife,
Shirley, and two children, age 14, and 7, will move to
Plymouth in the near future.

Project 6.2010029 — Jones-Lenoir Counties — Additional Lane and Bridge on
US 70 from Kinston to Dover. Edward B. Latham, Resident Engineer, New
Bern, North Carolina.

8

Highway Crews Always Ready For Old Man Winter's Snowfall

Reprint — Asheboro Courier-Tribune

Randolph County has had three
snowfalls this season, all compara-
tively light.

But one of these days . . .

There'll come a heavy accumu-
lation.

When it comes, Randolph County
Highway crews will be ready to clear
it from the roads at an almost re-
cord rate.

The local manpower for the job
totals 75 men, all regular employees.
Equipment consists of 35 snow plows
to attach to trucks and 15 self-pro-
pelled motor graders. In addition, the
local department has tons of sand
and an even greater amount of salt.

But there was a time when Ran-
dolph County, or indeed any N. C.
County, could not cope with snow on
the highways except with the use of
a hand shovel.

"I was with the highway depart-
ment back in 1927 when we had the
really big snow, the 24-inch one, and
we all just went home and went to
bed," Ab Carter, local State highway
maintenance supervisor said recently.

"There was nothing we could do.
We didn't even know what a snow
plow was back in those days," he re-
called.

Carter knows what snowplows are
now, though, and he concedes that
they can clear roads of snow pronto.

"It only takes a few minutes to
mount a snow plow under a 2V2 ton
truck, and then the equipment is
ready to roll," he stated.

The local highway crews are well-
trained to install the equipment and
they do not necessarily wait until it
snows before going into action.

Carter said if the weatherman even
so much as starts to predict snow or
ice the crews get the word to start
attaching the snow plows.

In addition to clearing snow and
ice with the plows and scrapers, the
department uses sand and salt to
combat unsafe driving conditions.

"We salted Highways 220, 64 and
311 Monday night, Jan. 6th, when the
light snow began to freeze on the
roadbeds and cause slick spots," Car-
ter said,

By HENRY KING

Although salt is sometimes put on
roads at places far apart in the coun-
ty, if need be, a priority is given U.
S. Highways. Cost is a factor.

Carter said the salt costs about $15
a ton. It takes about 500 pounds to
cover a mile of road, hence the use
for priority highways.

"We also use a chemical called cal-
cium chloride, and mix it with salt
to put on places hard with ice to
make the salt work faster and more
efficiently," he said. The chemical
costs $40 a ton, and it too is used
sparingly.

Huge dunes of salt are kept on
hand at the highway department de-
pot on South Fayetteville Street and
several hoppers are also full. Trucks
drive under the hoppers and get
loaded in a very short time by this
method.

The key to snow clearance is still
manpower, though, Carter says, and
he feels he has excellent crews to do
the work.

There are three area foremen in
the county under Carter. They are
Charlie Williams overseeing the
southwest section, B. M. Richardson
with responsibility for the east and
southeast, and Cameron Morgan who
is foreman in the northwest.

An example of how the department
works was outlined by Carter as fol-
lows:

"On November 11th every man was
home in bed, I suppose, when the
snow started. I was alerted by a pat-
rolman about the snow, who had
called my home.

"I dressed, came to the office and
started my series of telephone calls.
Soon all the crewmen were notified
and on their way here.

"By midnight, everyone was ready
to roll out onto the highways and
start the job," Carter said.

"That was what we call a surprise
snow. Some people even called it a
'summer snow' because we don't gen-
erally have snow that early in the
season," he added.

"Someone once said it is nice to
lay in the bed and hear the snow-
plows go by," he mused.

What many people don't know is
that stalwart men who are doing the

hard work in such nasty weather are
men who are really going beyond the
call of duty.

Crews manning snowplows and
other emergency equipment to clear
highways of snow and ice are doing
it in addition to their regular days
work when they work at night.

"They do not get extra pay for it,"
Carter said. "The men work on a
compensatory time basis. They have
to take time off later to get credit for
it."

Although compensatory time is not
talked about much, off the record
even, it is a sore spot with same state
employees. The subject was even
campaign fodder during the recent
gubernatorial campaign when one
candidate said he thought state em-
ployees should be given pay instead
of time off for extra work.

Be that as it may, when snow and
ice strikes, the dedicated highway
workers are out there doing their
duty, extra time or not.

"And you have got to get the roads
cleared," Carter said, adding: "I'm
talking about everyone of them. If
you miss any you'll get calls about it
for certain.

Carter said even the "back roads"
are scraped, including the "dead end
roads."

"When we have a snow of several
inches it takes the best you can do
to cover the county. A good sized
snow can keep us going and it takes
as much as three or four days to
cover the entire county," Carter said.
"You must remember we have about
1,500 miles of roads here to plow."

In addition to the snow plows the
local crews have 18 salt spreaders.

Salting has been in use only about
four years in this area, but it has been
used for many years in the north.

The use of salt is known as the
"bare pavement treatment." It is one
of the biggest helps in keeping traf-
fic moving. People do not want to be
stranded somewhere for half the day,
or night, and salting the icy hills on
the highways keeps traffic flows al-
most normal.

Randolph County's snow operations
are coordinated by the use of two-
way radios. Extra equipment or man-
power can be directed to the places
that need help the most.

9

THE JOEL LANE HOUSE IN RALEIGH

An example would be the dispatch
of the 18 salters. Carter said 9 salters
are allocated to the southern part of
the county and 9 to the north sec-
tion. "We would send all the salters
to the north section, for instance, if
we had ice problems there and none
in the southern part of the county,"
he said.

Through the efforts of the local
snow crews the motorist can drive
all winter long, snow or ice, if he
takes care and also adds to auxiliary
equipment he should have, such as
snow or mud tires.

There are emergency times how-
ever when motorists should stay off
the highways. These times are gener-
ally when the snow and ice and ac-
cumulating and the crews needs the
highway clear so they can do their
job.

If possible, "stay in bed and listen
to the snowplows go by."

Joel Lane And His House

Though comparatively few of the
name now remain in the State, the
family of Lane was one of the most
numerous, as well as influential and
conspicuous in the province of North
Carolina. Sir Ralph Lane, the first
of the name, sailed with Sir Richard
Granville from England in 1585 and
founded the Colony of Roanoke of
which Lane became Governor, the
first English Governor in America.
Since this Colony had no permanent
existence, Governor Lane returned to
Great Britain and died in 1604. The
family springs from Joseph Lane who
lived in Halifax and died about 1776.
They played an important part in
settling Jamestown and later North
Carolina.

The Lanes lived principally in the
Eastern Section of this State where
they were useful members of society
and adherents to the Church of Eng-
land. In Halifax County where the
family settled was born Joel Lane
whose father was Joseph Lane and
mother Patience MacKinne. Her coat-
of-arms hangs in the house now.

Joel, one of five brothers, with Jo-
seph and Jesse were pioneer settlers in
the neighborhood of Raleigh in 1741.
Of these, Colonel Joel was the wealth-
iest and most influential and most
conspicuous. He conveyed to the State
640 acres of land; the site of the pres-

ent city of Raleigh. His dwelling
house at the period of its erection,
the best within 100 miles, is now the
property of the North Carolina So-
ciety of the Colonial Dames of Amer-
ica and is sponsored by the Wake
County Committee. This small group
of women purchased it in 1927 for
$5,000.00 with the generous gift from
the State Society of $1,000.00.

Many years before Wake County
was formed, Joel Lane settled at the
point which afterwards became its
County seat and was later the Capital
of the State. His place of residence
was at a cross-roads hamlet called
Bloomsbury and was then within the
territory of Johnston County. Land
was taken from Orange and Cumber-
land, as well as Johnston, for the for-
mation of Wake, and Mr. Lane was
one of the Commissioners who laid
out its boundaries. This new County
was established by the Colonial As-
sembly in 1770. Governor Tryon, for
whose wife (nee Wake and not "Es-
ther Wake") it was named, formerly
signed the Charter in May of the
later year. Copy of this Charter is
now in our Wake County Court
House.

The house was next owned by Wil-
liam Boylan who purchased it from
Peter Browne in 1818. They owned it

for many years and called it Wake-
field. Many happy days were spent
there by various members of the Boy-
lan family, including Miss Martha
Haywood and Mrs. Ben Baker. The
latter owns an early map of Raleigh
made from material of an old balloon
and shows the library of Peter
Browne. This was a small house at
the rear and was filled with valuable
books for which Peter Browne was
noted. Later, the little library burned.
William Boylan added the wing at
the left of house shown in some pic-
tures. It is now used as an apartment
at the rear of the house which was
later moved around the corner to its
present site. It is still on Joel Lane's
land. Mr. R. H. Merritt owned it at
the time of the purchase by The Colo-
nial Dames and made a nice contri-
bution to the price.

It was during the chairmanship of
Mrs. Henry M. London that she ask-
ed Mr. Marshall DeLancey Haywood
to review the above sketch of Joel
Lane and Mrs. Ivan M. Proctor then
made the motion to buy the property.

Through the untiring and wonder-
ful efforts of Mrs. London and with
the help of her husband, the house
was restored and made very lovely.
The idea was presented to the May-
or of Raleigh, and he was generous

10

in his help towards painting and re-
pairing the roof and house. The in-
terior was painted white and grey
and white paper was used. Later
when the National Youth Association
was working there, the natural pine
was left and not covered with paint.

Miss Mary Hilliard Hinton follow-
ed as Chairman and found a heavy
debt which we still owed and did a
fine piece of work in lifting it. She
was untiring in her ways and means
of raising the money and found fine
cooperation from the Committee
There were only a few pieces of fur-
niture, including an old Wake Coun-
ty secretary, a corner cupboard giv-
en by the Wayne County Committee,
a portrait of Phillip Ludwell, the first
Governor of North Carolina, loaned
by the Misses Cameron, a colored
etching given by Mrs. Peter Arring-
ton, and a bed and washstand for the
upstairs. Through Miss Hinton, a
friend in Tennessee, Miss Gentry,
gave some lovely small articles.

Several years later and during Mrs.
Marshall Haywood's chairmanship,
with Mrs. Hinkle, Vice-Chairman, the
Wake County Committee voted to
lend the apartment at the rear to the
N. Y. A. for sewing lessons. In turn,
the Government-backed organization
gave a great deal of labor and lovely
articles which the boys and girls
made, including, all of the dining-
room furniture made of old walnut,
the Windsor bench, huntboard, and
four gold-embossed chairs copied from
those formerly owned by Joel Lane
himself; pewter and copper sconces
and plates, and a large braided rug.
Mrs. Crawford Biggs gave the wall
paper for the parlor, dining room,
back room and halls, and Mrs. L. A.
Mahler headed the Committee for
the work.

Many fine chairmen have served
through these years of our ownership
of the Joel Lane House and each one
has left her mark on it.

More beautiful parties than could
be counted have been given there in
addition to the regular meetings held;
one unusual exhibit of old silver;
luncheons for meetings of County
Chairman, the showing of the house
on various occasions to out-of-town
people and to school children, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, and displays for
historic activities of all kinds.

This house makes for a fine inspi-
ration to our Wake County Commit-
tee, and we trust that for many years
more the Joel Lane House will stand
as a welding force to our members
and that they in the future will carry
the torch which was begun in 1760
when the house was built.

LANE GRAVE
HUNT IS OVER

The Joel Lane grave search ends
not with a bang, but with buckles.

On the la9t grave excavated on the
lot at 11 S Boylan Ave., Raleigh, Gar-
ry Stone, State archeologist, reports a
pair of silver alloy knee britches'
buckles were found. These are slen-
der, slightly decorated and perfectly
preserved, he says.

Usually, silver shows more disinte-
gration, he says. Also found was one
silver cuff link, composed of two little
silver discs with a silver link in be-
tween.

When asked what he can assume
from this, he says, it surely proves
that whoever was buried there was a
man of enough consequence to wear
silver buckles and cuff links.

This ends the mystery hunt for the
bones of Raleigh's founding father.
Stone says that the remaining open
graves of the nine that have been
unearthed will be filled in prior to
the paving of the lot by S. M. (Beau)
Crocker.

Albemarle, N. C.
April 29, 1969

Mr. C. W. Lee
Chief Engineer

N. C. State Highway Commission
Raleigh, N. C.

Dear Mr. Lee:

For your information the following
is a copy of a letter from Monroe-
Union County Chamber of Commerce
concerning our maintenance work in
Union County.

Yours very truly,
C. C. McBryde
Division Engineer
Tenth Division

April 22, 1969

Mr. C. C. McBryde

Division Engineer

State Highway Department

Albemarle, N. C.

Dear Mr. McBryde:

With the sun shining brightly and
the temperature soaring into the
70's, I felt this to be a good oppor-
tunity to say congratulations and "a
job well done" by you and your staff
on keeping our roads and highways
clear of frozen weather this winter.

It indeed makes us proud to live
in a county that receives such excel-
lent service as we do from you. Our
trips in the bad weather are much
safer because of the dedicated efforts
by you and your personnel.

Thanks again for your interest in
our community's safety.

Sincerely,
Aaron W. Plyler
President

Monroe-Union County
Chamber of Commerce

It

Letters We Liked

2579 Iverson St.
Washington, D. C. 20031
February 22, 1969

N. C. Highway Dept.
Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Sirs:

I should like very much to be put
on your mailing list for the highway
department magazine. I have been
sent the magazine in the past, but
strangely — the issues always dis-
continued after a few months. My
other home state, South Carolina, has
sent me Carolina Highways steadily
for years.

Roads and urban planning are spe-
cial hobbies of mine and I really do
wish to keep more fully informed on
our North Carolina progress. Won't
you put me on your long-time sub-
scription list?

And I urge you to have at least
one good-coverage article in each is-
sue on some major construction pro-
ject. That will keep us arm-chair
road builders happy.

Sincerely,
Jesse Roberts

P.S.— And please send a 1969 N. C.
road map!

224 Councill Street
Boone, N. C. 28607
March 13, 1969

Winter Maintenance Operations
1968-69

In the Western Area the first sub-
stantial accumulation of snow began
on the week-end of November 9, 1968.
This culminated on the night of No-
vember 11th with an accumulation of
12" to 16" over much of the area.

If my memory serves me right, we
have had recurring snows each week-
end since, excepting two, with new
accumulations varying from 4" to 26".

On one of the week-ends that we
had no snow, there was a general
thaw, resulting in a break through in
many of our unpaved roads.

This means that the majority of our
maintenance personnel in the area
have worked each week-end, except
one, since early November. In addi-
tion to week-ends, we have operated
night shifts much of the time.

I should like to commend each of
our employees who have participated
in this long and arduous task. They
have done a masterful job!

Yours very truly,

J. M. Councill

Area Maint. Engineer

Robert Hill

326 W. Marg. Lane

Hillsborough, N. C. 27278

Dear Sir:

I would like for you to send me
some information on state highways.
Please answer this question for me.
Do you think that enough money is
provided for state highways? Thank
you for this information.

Yours truly,
Robert Hill

(Reprint from Watauga Democrat,
April 3, 1969)

To the Editor:

There have been several letters
printed lately concerning the roads
in Wautaga, I thought you might like
this one intended for Gov. Scott.

Philip is 7 years old and a second
grader at Blowing Rock Elementary
School. He has had to walk to catch
his bus since the roads are too muddy
for the usual run.

Mrs. Jesse Dotson
Route 3
Boone, N. C.

Dear Scott

get you men out here or I will kus
some more. I'll get every kid on bus
40 60 and my bus to kus with me, so
get out here and get to work.

Philip

Second Grade
Blowing Rock

El em. School
Blowing Rock, N. C.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE

April 8, 1969

Dear Philip:

I saw your letter in the Watauga
Democrat which is a mighty fine
newspaper owned by some mighty
fine people.

I'll tell you one thing: I don't
want all the kids on busses Nos. 40
& 60 "kussing" me, so I'll get the
Highway Department to check and
see what can be done to improve the
situation.

My parents always told me not to
cuss and my preacher does too (al-
though in my job I get mighty close
to it sometimes). But if it will help
get your road improved and if you
don't say it too loud, maybe God will
understand this once.

My best wishes to you.

Cordially,
Bob Scott

Route 1, Box 307
March 26, 1969

Elk Park, North Carolina 28622

Mr. W. F. Babcock, Chief Engineer
North Carolina State Highway

Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Babcock:

This is to express my appreciation
to the State Highway Commission for
the excellent work of the Avery Coun-
ty Maintenance Department in keep-
ing the county highways cleared of
snow and ice. During the past few
years, I have travelled a distance of
more than fifty miles each day to
and from work, traveling across the
county lines and even across the state
line into Tennessee and it isn't neces-
sary to look at the county and state
line markings to tell when you leave
Avery County. The Avery County
roads are kept clearer of ice and snow
and are much safer to travel even
though our weather conditions pre-
sent more of an obstacle than those
in the surrounding areas.

It is reassuring to know we have
these dedicated and competent men
to maintain our highways, keeping
them safe to travel both night and
day during the most severe weather
conditions.

Sincerely,
Joanne M. Blair
(Mrs. F. L. Blair)

12

NC.H.CEA ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By: OTIS BANKS and DAVID KING

State Employees Statewide Fish Fry

DORTON ARENA — STATE FAIRGROUNDS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1969
6:00 P.M. until

$ $ $ ' $

HONOR GUESTS
THE GOVERNOR AND FIRST LADY
LT. GOVERNOR AND MRS. TAYLOR
THE COUNCIL OF STATE AND THEIR LADIES
THE MEMBERS OF THE 1969 GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AND THEIR LADIES

sfc $ 4 $

HOSTS

UNITS 15, 21 OF RALEIGH AREAS 7, 8, 11, OF

N. C. HIGHWAY AND CORRECTION N. C. STATE EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION

EMPLOYEE'S ASSOCIATION

* * * *

ADMISSION $1.25 — MAN, WOMAN, OR CHILD
WE PROMISE YOU AN EVENING OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP AND ENTERTAINMENT

PLUS NO SPEECHES
NO QUESTIONS — NO ANSWERS
YOU ALL COME!!! THAT INCLUDES FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!
BE SURE TO COME — IT'S YOUR OWN AFFAIR

GOVERNOR SCOTT TO PROCLAIM "STATE EMPLOYEES WEEK" — at a press conference in the
Governor's Conference Room of the Administration Building in Raleigh on May 7, at 11:00 A.M., the
Governor will issue his Proclamation as to the week of May 12-18 being designated as "State Em-
ployees Week". This will honor those dedicated and loyal State Employees over the State and will be
the Governor's way to let the citizens of North Carolina know of his interest in State Employees and
recognition of their work. The conference will be attended by press, television and radio media and
officials of the State Employees' Association and the Highway and Correction Employees' Association.

A LUNCHEON AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION will follow with the Governor and First Lady hon-
oring the Officers and Unit/ Area Chairmen of the two Associations.

A STATEWIDE FISH FRY will begin at 6:00 P.M. at Dorton Arena, State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, hon-
oring the Governor and First Lady, the Lt. Governor and Mrs. Taylor, the Council of State and their
Ladies, and members of the 1969 General Assembly and their Ladies. This, as stated in the reprint
above, is open to all on a ticket basis, the two Associations being hosts to the Honor Guests. A crowd
of 10,000 or more is anticipated since this will be an opportunity for employees all over the State to
honor their own Legislators, visit and fellowship with them — no speeches, no questions, no answers !

13

By KEITH HUNDLEY

SWAN SONG — I think I know now a little of how old
Jerry Elliott felt when he sat down to his typewriter for
the last installment of "THE ROAD-RUNNER". Is it
possible that that was three and half years ago? Well,
they say that time flies when you enjoy something. The
flood of memories and the tugging at the heart strings
really gets to you when you realize this is "it". This is
the last time you'll be conversing with friends through
the medium of POTLUCK, Hundley, so get it off your
chest.

MEMORIES — I don't want this thing to become maud-
lin, but the most difficult part of leaving the Highway
Commission is leaving the people I've come to know and
love. I remember the first day I came to the job, Joe
Hunt, who was then the chairman looked at me and said,
"What, no suitcase?" That was at the high-point of
campaigning for the $300-million road bond issue. I found
out what he meant, though, because starting in Burling-
ton we made every stop in the state between Raleigh and
Waynesville and then back home again. I remember re-
marking that I had eaten enough roast beef to build a
cow. The banquet circuit, you know.

I remember going to breakfast with the Division Engi-
neers and their assistants at the Governor's Mansion and
sitting between Tom Burton and Paul Welch. After the
meal Paul lit his pipe and I asked "What's that you're
smoking, Paul?" Burton didn't bat an eye before he
said, "He's smoking rabbit tobacco, as usual".

On one occasion, and I believe it was an out of town
Highway Commission meeting, we were all staying at the
Blockade Runner. As we arrived a big windstorm hit and
blew out window glasses and automobile windshieds in
the parking lot. Later, one of the local wags allowed as
how when you get that many people from the Highway
Commission gathered in one place you've got to expect
a lot of wind. That was also the time that I boldly asked
if there was a room reservation for "Mr. Hundley".
"Yes", came the reply, "he's in his room now and we've
marked his name off the reservation list two times."
Commissioner Hundley had registered and PIO Hundley
was without a room. Good old Bill Ingram shared his
room with me.

I remember the late B. Cameron Langston expounding
on three of his favorite subjects, barbeque, geese hunting
and roads. "I've never got enough of any of them", he
said. Cam allowed as how he had so few primary high-
way projects underway in his division they were calling
him "Old Double Naught".

I remember, too, riding along in the car coming back
from a trip to Eastern North Carolina and just in front
of me was Maintenance Engineer, George Brinkley. He

turned off at the Raleigh Beltline. I headed on in on
New Bern Avenue. The radio crackled into an inside
joke. George's voice said, "Goodnight, Chet". I picked up
the headset and replied, "Goodnight, David". From some-
where came Sig Hardesty's voice with an "Ugh!!" I
could just see him looking at the roof of his car.

Then there was the day that I ran into McKay Mas-
sey from our Reproduction Department. He said old
Ben Garner was complaining of a stomach ache and said
he couldn't figure out why. He quoted Ben as saying,
"I just can't figure that thing out, my stomach was o.k.
when I ate breakfast . . . and I only had thirteen dough-
nuts".

I remember George Willoughby telling his "Gotcha"
joke about a real tough golf match, and another story
about how former Highway Commission Comptroller
John Allen thought "shanking" meant hitting the golf
ball into your opponent's leg in a fit of anger. I had to
check with Jim Councill on that one.

Then there was the time when we were preparing a
little sign for use on "bond projects". One we had at
the Commission meeting identified the work as one fi-
nanced by bond money, built for better roads and the
governor's name. Not enough said some. Commissioner's
name, Chairman's name. All this and more was added.
The sign was gigantic. No one knows to this day who
said it, but from the back of that crowded little meet-
ing room on the second floor of the old wing came a
small voice admonishing, "Don't forget the night phone
number". Ho, boy!!

I could entertain you like this for hours, but I'd bet-
ter not. I might get around to trying to recall just exact-
ly how that "Bull story" told by Alyce Cunningham went.
(Hey, Bruce, get out the asbestos gloves.)

What I'm trying to say, or do, is to get the message to
you that I'm going to miss all the names and the faces
that I've grown very fond of from Cherokee to Dare and
everywhere in between, including Raleigh. Shirley, the
kids and I look forward to this new challenge in Eastern
North Carolina and working for a new outfit, but we
won't ever forget how much all of you and these last
three and a half years have meant to us.

Thanks for taking POTLUCK with us every two
months. Even meager rations are good when you share
them with good people, and for me, that's the way it's
been.

FINI

Editor's Note: We will all miss you, Keith, but our very
best wishes go to you, Shirley and children in your new
adventure. Best Wishes.

u

LITTLE BROWN
CHURCH IN

WILDWOOD

Famous as the birthplace of the popular old gospel
song, "The Church in the Wildwood," Iowa's Little Brown
Church in the Vale attracts 100,000 visitors every year,
some 2,000 of whom are altar-bound young men and wo-
men. Every month is orange-blossom time in The Little
Brown Church, where as many as ten weddings are per-
formed on a typical Saturday.

The Rev. Glenn L. Utterback, twenty-seventh pastor
since the church was organized about 1860, tape-records
each of the 1,000 or more weddings he conducts every
year. These recordings he presents to the delighted bri-
dal couple as a souvenir of their marriage ceremony.

The busiest marriage day that the pastor can recall
was November 29, 1958, when twenty couples desired to
be married in The Little Brown Church. This date was
the Utterback's twenty-fourth wedding anniversary, but
they were so busy hearing other people's vows all day
long that they had little time to recall their own, accord-
ing to Mrs. Utterback.

In the past thirteen years the Rev. Mr. Utterback has
married more than 35,000 couples. He first began taping
weddings in 1946 at the Chapel in the Garden, Angola,
Indiana, where he recorded 4,000 marriages a yaer. He
became pastor of The Little Brown Church in 1952. This
church is located at Nashua, Iowa, forty miles south of
the Minnesota border. It is truly a "little church," for
it seats only 125. It is maintained solely on revenues
from its weddings. Although Congregational in denomina-
tion, The Little Brown Church is administered as "a
house of prayer for all people." A plaque at the front
contains Sam Walter Foss's famous line, "Let me live
by the side of the road and be a friend to man."

Little did the Rev. John K. Nutting know what he was
starting when he officiated at The Little Brown Church's
first wedding in 1863. Since that time more than 50,000
couples have been married there. Each year on the first
Sunday of August as many as 350 couples re-visit the
scene of their weddings at the church to renew their mar-

riage vows in special ceremonies. Couples from many
foreign countries have come here to be married, as well
as those from all sections of the United States. There is
no discrimination. Anyone, regardless of race or religion,
is welcome.

"The Church in the Wildwood" was written in 1857
by a young schoolteacher, William Pitts, who was in-
spired by the beauty of the wooded site. Envisioned that
this would be a perfect spot for a rural church, he wrote
the hymn as though the church actually existed. Six
years later he again visited the site, and found to his de-
light that a church had been built there and painted
brown — not because of his song, but because the congre-
gation could not afford the traditional white of all Con-
gregational churches of that era. And when the brown
paint was donated, it was used! Immortalized in the
hymn as "The Little Brown Church," the structure has
never changed its color.

A typical wedding tape, which is the "Scotch" brand
magnetic variety, includes an introduction by the pastor,
who explains the circumstances surrounding the couple's
unique wedding; the actual ceremony itself, during which
the Rev. Mr. Utterback holds the microphone in his hand
to assure picking up the "I do's" distinctly; the appro-
priate background music for the ceremony, which, of
course, includes "The Church in the Wildwood;" and fi-
nally, the tolling of the church's century-old bell to pro-
claim happiness for the bridal couple. The new bride
and groom are invited to pull the bell rope themselves
at the conclusion of the ceremony, and years later this
is the part of their wedding that many couples remember
most distinctly.

"These valuable moments captured on tape make the
recordings invaluable in later years," says the Rev. Mr.
Utterback. Bridal couples treasure these recordings, for
they recall for them those precious moments in The
Little Brown Church when they dedicated themselves to
each other.

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The State Capitol

The North Carolina Convention of
1788 resolved that the permanent
seat of government would be located
within a ten mile radius of Isaac
Hunter's plantation. This was con-
sidered to be an ideal location as it
was generally in the middle of the
State and on a main north-south
road from Petersburg to Charleston.
There were seventeen sites consider-
ed and eight of them were on the
Neuse River.

On March 30, 1792, the land of John
Hinton, six miles east of Raleigh,
came very close to being selected for
locating the Capitol. Three of the six
commissioners voted for the Hinton
land, two for the Joel Lane tract and
one for the Nathaniel Jones place
near Cary. Since none received a ma-
jority, there had to be another voting.

In the meantime, Joel Lane is said
to have entertained the commissioners
lavishly and with strong punch, and
on the next vote the Joel Lane pro-
perty received five votes and the
John Hinton tract got only one.

Many people of North Carolina
thought a great mistake had been
made in selecting the Joel Lane pro-
perty. It was pointed out that the
John Hinton land was on the Neuse
River and would have provided abun-
dant supply and that Hinton Falls
would have furnished water power
for manufacturing. These hostilities
soon died down and in April 1792 the
Joel Lane tract of 1,000 acres was
purchased for 1,378 and William
Christmas laid off the Town of Ra-
leigh. A brick State House was erect-
ed on Union Square and completed in
1794. Some of the older towns such
as Bath, New Bern, Edenton and
Wilmington made fun of our Capitol
City as being one with laid off
streets but no houses.

The State House was used until
1831, when on the morning of June
21 of that year, it caught fire and

was completely destroyed. Many Tar
Heels mourned their great loss but
Gov. Montford Stokes claimed it was
a blessing in disguise as the building
was in bad repair and ready to tum-
ble down.

North Carolina was then faced with
a great decision of whether or not to
rebuild their Capitol. The era from
1815 to 1830 brought prosperity to
most of America but not to our State.
We suffered under a period of stang-
nation and North Carolina was called
the Ireland of America, the Second
Nazareth, and Old Rip Van Winkle.
There were many reason for our so
called backwardness and inertia, and
I am going to try to discuss some of
them. I do not think our modern his-
torians make any attempt to explain
the causes of our deplorable condi-
tions from 1815-1830, but they rejoice
in debunking our State and our va-
liant leaders.

To begin with, North Carolina is
three states — Eastern, Piedmont,
and Mountains, which are our great
assets today as the "Variety Vacation-
land." But in 1830, it was another
story as we had no road or river that
connected east and west; we had no
good harbors and our coast then as
now was rough and treacherous.
There was no way to market our
goods without going to another state.
North Carolina products helped make
Charleston and Norfolk become the
thriving ports they are today.

North Carolina also had land title
difficulties as the Carteret Family of
England laid claim to 2/3 of our
State by right of the Granville Grant.
Land titles were not clear and, as a
result of this situation, thousands of
our people left North Carolina to take
up land in Tennessee, Kentucky, and,
later, Illinois. In 1816 Adlai Steven-
son's ancestors left Iredell County
and went into Kentucky and so did
Alben Barkley's people. On one Sa-
turday the citizens of Raleigh saw
105 covered wagons leave town head-
ing west. North Carolina dropped in
population from fourth place in 1790
to seventh place in 1840. The tragedy
of this mass migration was that we
were losing many of our leading peo-
ple. Archibald D. Murphey was a
leader in trying to stop the migration
from our State.

After much controversy both pro
and con, yours and my ancestors de-
cided to rebuild the Capitol. When
the General Assembly convened in
November 1832, Senator Henry Sea-
well of Wake County introduced a

bill for the building of a new Capitol.
It was decided that the new build-
ing would be built on the same site
as the old one, and an appropriation
of $50,000 was made by the Legisla-
ture as a starter. This seems like a
paltry sum to us now when everyone
speaks of millions and billions of dol-
lars, but in 1832 North Carolina's en-
tire revenue from taxes was only
$100,000.

The commissioners appointed to
superintend the building of the new
Capitol were William Boylan, Dun-
can Cameron, Henry Seawell, Romu-
lus M. Saunders and William S.
Mhoon. Mr. Drummond was chief
architect for a time, but his services
did not prove satisfactory, and he was
later replaced by David Paton. The
$50,000 appropriation was exhausted
by the time the foundation was laid
and the Legislature then appropriat-
ed an additional $75,000.

David Paton was born in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, in 1801. His father,
John Paton, was a famous builder
there who constructed the well known
Dean Bridge across the water of
Leith. David Paton came to New
York in 1833 and was employed by
Mr. Ithiel Town who had a high
opinion of him, both as an architect
and as a gentleman, and recommend-
ed him highly.

Paton arrived in Raleigh in 1833
and soon found out that he was ex-
pected to superintend the masonry
and stone work in addition to keeping
the accounts for the operation and
prepare the necessary drawings for
all the other parts of the construction
work. I do not think that David Pa-
ton has ever received proper recog-
nition. He had many opportunities to
get better paying jobs during his
seven years of working on the Capitol
for the Federal Arsenal at Fayette-
ville and Fort Macon at Beaufort
were being built at the same period,
but he remained in Raleigh until the
end. We find that years later David
Paton was still trying to collect part
of the money due him from the State
of North Carolina.

I'll give you some of the statis-
tics of the building. The State Capi-
tol is 160 feet in length from north to
south and 140 feet from east to west,
and the height is 97^ feet in the
center. The Stylobate, which is the
continuous flat coping in which the
columns are supported is 18 feet in
height. The columns in the east and
west porticoes are 5 feet 2V2" in dia-
meter. Overall the building is a per-

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feet example of Greek Revival Archi-
tecture. The reason for Greek
Revival Architecture in the 1830 s
stems from the fact that little Greece
got her independence from the Otto-
man Empire in 1833 after 400 years
of subjugation. All of the western
world became fired with enthusiasm
for Greek liberty and like all popular
movements, it had its architectural
expression.

Paton employed Greek methods of
construction, stone cutting and finish-
ing. No color was applied, but an ad-
justment of light and shadow was ob-
tained by recessing the windows with
simple piers. The carved ornamental
detail in the halls and public rooms
is Greek, but the private offices show
touches of English Gothic.

Fortunately North Carolina had its
own rock quarry right here in Ra-
leigh, and David Paton said that the
stones from it were of the toughest
and hardest description — containing
less iron than any he had ever seen,
which made the stones a beautiful
cream color.

Through Mr. Paton, a number of
Scottish stone masons were sent to
Raleigh to work on the Capitol. One
of the well known ones was William
Stronach who arrived here in 1883
carrying with him a letter from
George McKay, a minister of the
parish of Rafford, Scotland, which
stated that Mr. Stronach was a man
of character and conducted himself
with undeviating propriety. Other
stone masons who came at the same
time were Mr. Campbell, Mr. Prim-
rose, Mr. Whitelaw and Mr. Burns.

If it had not been for Mrs. Sarah
Hawkins Polk, the wife of General
William Polk, we would not have had
our little experimental railroad which
hauled the stone for the Capitol and
was really the beginning of railroads
in North Carolina.

Mrs. Polk's step-son was in Boston
on a holiday, and he saw the rail-
way used for hauling stones for the
Bunker Hill Monument. This rail-
way was the first in the United States
and was built in 1826. Mrs. Polk in-
spired the General Assembly to build
an experimental railroad and incor-
porate it.

The Experimental Railroad of Ra-
leigh ran horse drawn wagons on
wooden rails which were covered with
flat iron straps of metal. It was 1V4
miles in length and ran from Union
Square to the quarry which was lo-
cated across from the Yankee Ceme-
tery. It's construction cost $2,760.00.

Before the end of 1832 the corpora-
tion advertised "The Railroad Com-
pany of the city expects to have their
road completed by New Year's Day
and also a handsome car upon it for
the accommodation of such ladies and
gentlemen who desire to take the
exercise of a railroad airing." Mr.
Daniel H. Bingham was engineer. The
railroad was successful from every
angle and in one years time it rea-
lized 300% profit. It became extreme-
ly fashionable to take the "railroad
airing" and people from the surround-
ing countryside flocked to Raleigh for
this purpose. The Experimental Rail-
road was responsible for the building
of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
which was the first standard gage
railroad in the state.

On July 4, 1833, the cornerstone of
the Capitol was laid and Governor
David L. Swain took part in the
ceremony and oratory. Enclosed in
the cornerstone in a lead box were
the following articles: a printed copy
of the journal of the proceedings at
the North Carolina Congress, Halifax,
1776; a copy of the Declaration of In-
dependence and the Declaration of
Independence of Mecklenburg citi-
zens; United States and North Caro-
lina Constitutions and the Rules of
Order for both houses of the North
Carolina Legislature; a Bible; a va-
riety of coins; one copy of each news-
paper published in the State; and a
silver plate engraved in English on
one side and in Latin on the other
side with the names of the Board of
Commissioners, the State Officers, etc.

The firm of Holderby and Mc-
Pheeters of Petersburg, Virginia, were
commission merchants and agents in
charge of obtaining and shipping ma-
terials to Raleigh to be used in
building the Capitol. Since Raleigh
was an inland town with no access to
navigable rivers, shipping was a ma-
jor problem. The cast iron linings
for the fireplace, the copper sheeting
for the roof, brass plates for the sun
dial, studs for the doors all came
from Philadelphia. I found that some
of these articles were sent by ship to
Wilmington and then by ox cart to
Raleigh. The chandeliers also came
from Philadelphia and two of them
cost $1,326.75. All the glass was or-
dered from Redford Glass Co. of Red-
ford, New York, and it was ox carted
to Raleigh. The Santo Domingo ma-
hogany used in making the furniture
was imported to New Bern as there
were many ships running out of there
to the West Indies in the rum trade.
David Royster built most of the fur-

niture in his cabinet shop on Hargett
Street.

From time to time Commissioners
were appointed to supervise the work
on the Capitol and also to keep a
check on expenses. There was one
period in which Dr. McPheeters, Mr.
E. B. Freeman, Mr. W. R. Gales, and
Dr. Beckwith were Commissioners.
They charged that Mr. James Briggs,
who was boss of the carpenters, did
not drive the men hard enough. Dr.
Beckwith said that he had actually
seen the carpenters sleeping and
reading newspapers while on the pay-
roll of the State. Dr. McPheeters,
along with others, agreed that this
situation could not be tolerated, and
Mr. James Briggs was relieved of his
job.

In February, 1838, Mr. William
Stronach, Mr. Robert Imrie and Mr.
John Kane held a meeting of the
stone masons and stone cutters and
threatened to strike if their wages
were not raised. They were getting
$2.24 for an eleven-hour day.

David Paton, always trying to help
the State save money, got a letter off
to Mr. Struthers of Philadelphia tell-
ing him about the threatened strike
Mr Stronach was leading. Much to
everyone's joy, and especially Dr.
McPheeters who did not believe in
lavish spending of any kind, Mr.
Struthers wrote back that Philadel-
phia was full of stone masons and
stone cutters who would be happy to
come to Raleigh and work for $2.25
a day. On account of an unusually
hard winter in 1838 there was wide-
spread unemployment in Pennsylva-
nia, and the stone cutters and stone
masons were ordered to report to
Holderby and McPheeters in Peters-
burg and then to proceed to Raleigh.
They arrived here on April 21, 1838,
and no doubt Mr. Stronach, Mr.
Kane and Mr. Imrie were outdone. I
imagine David Paton directed the new
workers to the Guion Hotel for it
was advertised board for one year for
$120.00.

I ran across numerous bills from
Mordecai and McKimmon which was
evidently a hardware firm for such
articles as nails, canvas, ax, files and
rope were listed. In looking over the
time books of the comptroller and
treasurer, I picked out some names
familiar to all of you.
Silas Burns — 43 loads of stone $11.25
Ruffin Tucker — 14 wagon loads of

stone 3.50
Alexander Blake — carrying stone on

Sunday 2.00

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William Stronach— 20 days work 36.87
William Peck — 18 loads of stone 4.50
William H. Haywood — 4 loads of
stone and 31 hours donated by slave
labor 9.50
Alfred Williams — stone and slave la-
bor 9.25
Major Hinton — 2 blocks and tackle
and rope 5.00
Romulus Saunders — 1 barrel of lime

4.75

Sherwood Haywood — lumber 3.85
James McKimmon — cabinet work

43.00

George Mordecai — pine poles 31.80

Finally through seven years of
blood, sweat and numerous problems,
the Capitol was completed in the
summer of 1840 at the total cost of
$530,000. The celebration was held up
a few weeks waiting for the comple-
tion of the Raleigh and Gaston Rail-
way, and a three day festival was
held commemorating these two mo-
mentous events.

On the morning of June 10, 1840,
the three day celebration commenced
and the morning was ushered in by
the discharge of the cannon — most
all places of business were closed.

A procession comprising about
1,000 persons was formed in front of
the Court House under the superin-
tendence of General Beverly Daniel
as Marshal, and Colonel Birdsall and
Colonel Wingate as Assistants. It
moved about three o'clock to the de-
pot of the railroad where a dinner
was prepared in very handsome style.

The following were officers of the
Day — Governor Dudley acted as
President, assisted by the following
gentlemen in the capacity of Vice
Presidents: Judge Gaston, Governor
Iredell, Governor Branch, John L.
Bryan, Charles L. Hinton, George W.
Mordecai, General S. F. Patterson,
Dr. Joseph Hawkins, Dr. J. O. Wat-
son, and Bernard Duprey. The toast
master was Weston Gales.

"The south end of the Capitol was
handsomely illuminated in the even-
ing and a large collection of both
sexes were entertained with excellent
band music. There was a ball on the
succeeding nights and the chambers
were thronged with company from
'gay fifteen to health fifty', a goodly
portion of which tipped it upon the
light fantastic toe 'till a late hour in
the night." THE STANDARD, June
24, 1840.

Never before within the recollection
of the oldest citizens of Raleigh had
there been any celebration as gay as
this one which marked the completion
of our beautiful Capitol building and

the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
which connected with the Petersburg
and Richmond. And with good luck,
one was able to make the trip from
here to New York in 60 hours!

A little later in 1840 the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad was completed
and no longer was North Carolina
isolated.

From this time on our State
launched into a period of progress and
prosperity, and no longer were we
the "Ireland of America", "The Sec-
ond Nazareth", or "Rip Van Winkle."

Virginia Pou Doughton
(Mrs. Haughton)

RAY WICKER OF
BRIDGE DESIGN DIES

Mr. Raymond S. Wicker who was
generally known by his many close
friends as "Wick", was connected with
the Bridge Department from 1924
until November 1, 1968, except for a
brief period during the second World
War. He had been scheduled to re-
tire January 1, 1969 but because of ill
health he elected to retire November
1, 1968. His health continued to de-
cline and he died on December 19,
1968 at the age of 66. He married
Ruth Braswell in 1928 who survives
him along with a son, Raymond, Jr.,
and a daughter, Beverly, each of
whom has one child. "Wick" was a
member of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church. He was a 2nd Lt. in the U.
S. Army Reserve from 1924 until
1934.

Except for three months in 1933
when he was an inspector during con-
struction of a bridge on U. S. 29
over the Catawba River west of Char-
lotte, "Wick" spent his entire career
with the North Carolina State High-
way Commission in the Bridge De-
sign Department. Starting as a drafts-

man he worked his way up through
promotions to Designer, Senior De-
signer, and on up to Bridge Design
Engineer IV. From 1958 until he re-
tired he was what is still known to
the office as Chief Draftsman. In
that position he was in direct charge
of the entire office force of Bridge
Designers, Bridge Design Techni-
cians, and clerical employees totaling
up to about seventy persons.

"Wick" had the admiration and af-
fection of the entire office He had
that unique natural ability, infre-
quently found in persons, to have
continuous and willing cooperation
from all even when working them un-
der extreme pressure. Frequently, in
order to "beat the deadline" in get-
ting plans ready for a given project
it was necessary to ask for even
greater effort when the pressure al-
ready appeared to be at a critical
level; yet "Wick" could get that extra
effort without causing irritation. Be-
cause of that natural ability, combin-
ed with his experience and knowledge
of the work, "Wick" was of more
value to the Highway Commission
than was generally realized. His con-
geniality and radiant personality
made him good company everywhere,
and a special group of close friends
looked forward daily to a lunch with
"Wick". He will be missed greatly
by the employees of the Bridge De-
partment and other friends.

The Sober
Second Thought...

Great men are they who see that
spiritual is stronger than any mater-
ial force; that thoughts rule the
world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Home is a mighty test of charac-
ter. What you are at home you are
everywhere, whether you demonstrate
it or not. — Thomas DeWitt Talmadge.

There can be no greater service to
mankind, and nobler mission, than
devotion to world peace. The course
has been charted. — Harry S. Truman.

Small faith will take you to heaven,
but great faith will bring heaven to
you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

Discontent is the first step in the
progress of a man and a nation. —
Oscar Wilde.

As the firefly shines only when on
the wing, so it is with the human
mind — when at rest, it darkens. —
L. E. London.

If you would thoroughly know any-
thing, teach it to others. — Tryon Ed-
wards.

The way to be nothing is to do
nothing. — Nathaniel Howe.

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Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

PHOTOGRAM-
METRY — The
Department wel-
comes two new
trainees: JAMES
MOORE, JR., with
the Field Party
and ROBERT
JONES of Dur-
ham Tech who
is working in the
Engineering Sec-
tion.

Congratulations
to the following
new fathers: ROBERT WOOD of
the Stereo Section, a son, Michael
Robert, 6 lbs., 15 oz., born March 19;
JOHN MARTIN of the Stereo Sec-
tion, a son, Allen Jeffrey, 9 lbs., 5
oz., March 6: and MICKEY FAR-
MER of the Drafting Section, a
daughter, Kellie Michelle, 6 lbs., V2
oz., born March 3.

Employees have enjoyed several
concerts during lunch hour by DICK
McCABE of the Engineering Section
who performs beautifully on a Mag-
nus Chord Organ.

DON HOLLOWAY of the Engin-
eering Section and his wife enjoyed
a five-day art tour of New York City.
They visited the United Nations,
Museums, and other points of inter-
est. The Holloways also saw several
delightful Broadway plays.

MURIEL STIVERS and wife vis-
ited his parents in Baltimore, Md.,
over the Easter weekend.

PLANNING & RESEARCH— Our
deepest sympathy to LOUISE
WHITE upon the recent death of her
father.

Congratulations to LINDA and
Jerry Edwards, who became the
proud parents of a 7 lb., 4 oz. boy

Elise P. Speights' Art Show spon-
sored by the Fine Arts Department
of the Raleigh Woman's Club. Water-
colors, drawings, and acrylics. Tea
and opening was held for Elise from
3:00 P.M. to 5:30 P.M., March 20th,
Show was on exhibit 2 weeks, at the
Woman's Club, Glenwood Ave.

March 26. Employees miss Linda,
who plans to return to work in the
near future.

DIXIE MOORE is a part-time
employee in Planning. It's nice to
have L. G. NICHOLS back at work
after several days hospitalization at
Rex. Also, welcome back to HAZEL-
ENE BARNES, who was ill with flu.

Best wishes and good luck to JAN-
ICE MITCHELL, DOT TURNER.
KAY KNOWLES, RICHARD BAD-
GER, and CURTIS BATZDORFER,

who left the Department for other
jobs.

Those attending the Azalea Festi-
val were GRAY and J. L. McGEE
and BARBARA and Halton MIT-
CHELL. BILL BURBAGE and fam-
ily spent the Easter holidays at At-
lantic Beach. DIXIE MOORE en-
joyed the holidays at Myrtle Beach

ADVANCE PLANNING — Wel-
come to BARBARA BENGTSON
who joined the Drafting Section re-
cently. Employees wish ELLIS
SPAKE lots of success in his new
job with Moore-Gardner and Asso-
ciates of Greensboro. Mr. Spake
worked with the Commission seven
years.

Everyone is looking forward to
summer vacations with lots of fish-
ing, golf and rest. The men in the
Department will form a golf team
this summer. Trophies are wished for
all!

PURCHASING— Our deepest sym-
pathy to Mr. B. P. LAMBERT on
the recent death of his young daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Kathleen Campbell
Lambert, who died Good Friday and
was buried Easter Sunday.

Purchasing welcomes temporary
employee DON BUSSEY— in a word,
Don is personality personified!

RIGHT OF WAY — The Depart-
ment welcomes Mrs. LA VERNE
RADFORD, new steno, and
CHARLES PEARCE!

Everyone misses Debbie Mooney-
ham, who resigned to continue her
studies at NCSU.

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PERSONNEL — Through the
Training Section of the Highway Per-
sonnel Department and in cooperation
with Fayetteville Technical Institute,
the Highway employees in Mainte-
nance and Construction in Division
Six attended a course entitled, "In-
troduction to Surveying & Related
Mathematics". The course began Jan-
uary 30 and ended April 17. The pri-
mary object of the course was to pro-
vide the students with an opportunity
to increase their knowledge of math-
ematics and to develop basic skills in
surveying. The classes were held one
night a week from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00
P.M. The field problem classes were
held during daylight hours. Mr. Wil-
liam L. Bryant is the Coordinator of
Educational Courses at Fayetteville
Technical Institute. The instructor
for the class was Mr. Gordon L.
Dwiggins, a member of the faculty at
Fayetteville Tech and also a regis-
tered professional engineer.

The Supervisory Development
Training class in the Raleigh area
has just completed its courses in Com-
munications and Job Management.
A new class was scheduled during Ap-
ril.

In Division One, an organizational
meeting was held during March to be-
gin a class in Supervisory Develop-
ment Training for the personnel in
the Ahoskie area.

Department Head RAYNOR
WOODARD and CLOYCE ALFORD

attended a ham and egg supper in Di-
vision Six, March 14. RON WOLFE,
FRED ADCOCK and TED AUSTIN
attended the annual Institute for Per-
sonnel Officers at the Institute of
Government, Chapel Hill, March 26-
27. RON WOLFE and CLOYCE AL-
FORD attended the GGO Golf Tour-
nament in Greensboro April 4.

TED AUSTIN attended a week-
long Seminar for Supervisors of Tech-
nical and Professional Employees the
week of March 30 through April 4 at
the Institute of Government on the
UNC campus in Chapel Hill.

PHYLLIS SUGGS attended the
races in Rockingham but was very
disappointed the "Buick" didn't win.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING— Best
wishes to BRENDA PRICE, former
employee in the Department and now
with the State Highway Patrol, and
JIM BRYAN on the TED staff, who
were married in Whitakers Method-
ist Church April 26. The newlyweds
are making their home at 2309 Sono-
ra Street in Raleigh.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of LARRY STALLINGS upon
the death March 21 of his father-in-
law, Stacy L. Canady, who made his
home with the Stallings in Selma.

Heartiest congratulations to LAN-
DIS SATTERWHITE and wife, El-
len, on the birth of their first son,
Landis, III, March 28. Landis is As-
sistant Area Traffic Engineer for Di-
visions 11 and 12 in North Wilkes-
boro.

JOHN ISLEY was ill for some
time this spring, undergoing surgery
for a kidney ailment.

ROY WILLIAMS is on the pro-
gram of the Southern Section, Insti-
tute of Traffic Engineers, at a meet-
ing in Virginia Beach May 4-7. He
will speak on a phase of the TOPICS
program. (Roy recently became ac-
credited as a Professional Engineer).
Others attending the SSITE meeting
will be EMILY BLOUNT, R. J.
DODGE, E. L. FRAZELLE, and
WOODIE WARRICK, JR. BUFORD
SMITH, Traffic Engineer for Div. 10,
attended a short course on traffic en-
gineering at Georgia Institute of

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Mrs. James Marvin Bryan, the for-
mer Brenda Joyce Price, whose mar-
riage to Mr. Bryan occurred at Whit-
akers Methodist Church, at 3:30 in
the afternoon of April 26. A reception
followed the wedding. Brenda, now a
steno with the Highway Patrol, was
formerly with Traffic Engineering
Department. Jim is employed by
Traffic Engineering.

Technology in Atlanta for a week in
late April.

EARNEST F. MALLARD assum-
ed duties of Assistant Design Review

Mrs. Andy Barefoot opens gifts re-
ceived at a stork shower given in her
honor April 11, her last day before
leave. Helen has been working for the
Specifications team located on the
third floor of 122 N. McDowell
Street. The 25 guests were personnel
from Specifications, Safety, and
Emergency Planning, and several
from Traffic Engineering. Cup cakes
decorated with booties, nuts, mints
and drinks were served from a beau-
tifully appointed table. Dot Hayes
was hostess for the occasion.

Engineer in April. Earnest finished
the Highway Commission's training
program following graduation from
NCSU with a BSCE degree. A na-
tive of Wilson, he is married to the
former Barbara Tritt.

WILLIAM J. HINDMAN, JR. is
the new Ass't. Traffic Research En-
gineer. Bill, a Clemson graduate with
a BSCE degree, served in Central
and South America with the Army
Corps of Engineers, Special Forces,
before coming to the Highway Com-
mission. A native of South Carolina,
he is married to the former Joyce
Quick.

Several other persons have been
added to the Department in recent
weeks. JEAN AGNEW is a clerk in
the Accident Identification and Sur-
veillance Unit. Her family includes
her husband, James, and their six-
year-old daughter, Tammy Lynne.
Jean's business experience includes
13 years with Westinghouse in Bur-
lington. BILL WILKINS, a graduate
of Holding Technical Institute, is En-
gineering Technician to ATE WOOD-
IE WARRICK; FRANK MURRAY,
a transfer from Permit, is Engineer-
ing Technician with AIS; and four
NCSU students are part-time em-
ployees with AIS. They are CHES-
TER WEST, MIKE PENNY, JOHN
CARPENTER and BOB PERKIN-
SON.

The following men have left for
their field assignments as Division
Traffic Engineers: GEORGE EAS-
ON, Div. 4, Wilson; DON HOLLE-
MAN, Div. 6, Fayetteville; HENRY
HOLSHOUSER, Div. 8, Aberdeen;
and WALTER COCHRAN, Div. 13,
Asheville.

Car racing enthusiasts in the De-
partment have been active lately.
REILEY CURTIS attended the Day-
tona 500 event; FRANK MURRAY
worked at flag and communications
stations at Virginia International
Raceway, near Danville, April 26-27;
and SARAH WHITE served as rally
master for a local sports car event in
late March. OLIVE DONAT and
husband, Win, visited their daughter
and her husband in Huntsville, Ala-
bama, stopping in Atlanta en route
for some sightseeing, April 7-12.

JEFFREY B. JENNINGS is
another new employee and is an En-
gineering Technician in the Signing
Section. Jeff is a graduate of Hold-
ing Technical Institute and partici-
pated in the Commission's training

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tippett stand
below a sign at the Stardust Auditori-
um in Las Vegas on a recent trip to
that dazzling city, which Mr. Tippett
won for his outstanding production of
life insurance for the year 1968 with
Farm Bureau.

Claude C. Crawford, III, son of
Mrs. Lucille Brown Crawford, left
Raleigh March 9, 1969, for Mel-
bourne, Australia, where he will
board the Oceanoghaphic Research
U.S.N.S. Eltanin for a 60-day re-
search cruise to the Antarctic Ocean.
The Eltanin is manned and operated
for the National Science Foundation
by the Military Sea Transport Ser-
vice.

Claude was invited to go on the
cruise by scientists at the University
of Georgia to study the activities of
marine bacteria using methods de-
veloped in collaboration wiht Dr. J.
E. Hobbie which involve radioactivity
labeled organic material.

He is engaged in research work
leading to his Ph.D. in the Depart-
ment of Zoology at N. C. State Uni-
versity. Research is being conducted
at the Pamlico Marine Laboratory at
Aurora, N. C, which is operated by
the Zoology Dept., N. C. S. U.

In January 1966 Claude received
his B.S. degree and was commission-
ed a 2nd Lt. in the U. S. Army, and
received his Master's Degree January
1968, also from N. C. State Univer-
sity.

Lucille is secretary to F. T. Wag-
ner, Acting State Materials Engineer,
in the Dept. of Materials and Tests.

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John, Eugene (Gene) Thompson,
Jr., 59, died March 18, 1969 in Rex
Hospital, Raleigh, after suffering a
heart attack on March 15.

Prior to his death he served as

State Materials Engineer. Born in

Jacksonville, Fla., he spent most of
his life in Hamlet and Raleigh.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Rosa Griffin Thompson, and two
sons — Ervin Thompson of Fairfax,
Va., and Robert Thompson of Ra-
leigh; two sisters — Mrs. H. H. Cobb
of Raleigh, and Mrs. J. E. Gilmore
of Durham; a brother, A. E. Thomp-
son of Hamlet, and four grandchild-

He graduated from N. C. State
University in 1932 and earned his
masters degree in chemical engineer-
ing in 1933. After teaching at N. C.
State for two years he became associ-
ated with the State Highway Com-
mission in 1935. He started as Jr.
Physical Testing Engineer, later serv-
ing as Chief Physical Testing Engi-
neer until he was made State Materi-
als Engineer in January 1960.

A member of Edenton Street Me-
thodist Church, he served on the offi-
cial board and taught in the Sunday
School Department, was a member
of the Men's Bible Class, the Engi-
neer's Club and the Wolfpack Club.
Mr. Thompson belonged to several
technical societies including the
American Association of State High-
way Officials and the American So-
ciety for Testing and Materials
where he held Chairmanship on Sub-
committees relating to road and pav-
ing materials.

Funeral services were conducted at
Edenton Street Methodist Ohurch
with burial in Restlawn Memory
Gardens.

program. He is married to the former
Beth Auman.

PATRICIA GAIL STRICKLAND
and Richard C. Hanson were married
Saturday, April 5, 1969 in Dillon,
South Carolina. Rich will be station-
ed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia until Oc-
tober of this year, after which they
will live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
All Personnel employees and friends
wish Gail the best best of happiness.

LEE GRIFFIN and BARBARA
STUSSIE were off again Easter
weekend. Along with some other
friends, they spent the weekend at
Myrtle Beaoh, S. C.

Our deepest sympathy to JOYCE
CLARK and her family on the death
of her father, March 11.

BANKS CLARK'S mother was
hospitalized for two weeks recently
and BARBARA STUSSIE'S mother
was in the hospital about a week. Get
well wishes are extended both.

Both of CLOYCE ALFORD'S chil-
dren were sick with chicken pox the
week of March 17. He said they real-
ly had a case of it and we are just
wondering how Cloyce survived get-
ting it himself.

LEE GRIFFIN and her parents
went to Nashville, Tennessee to visit
a friend of Lee's the weekend of
March 15. While there, they attended
the Grand Old Opry which they en-
joyed very much. They also went
sightseeing in Nashville and the
Whisper Jet flight caused much of
the excitement for the weekend.

EDWIN WILKERSON and his
wife, Delaine, really had an exciting
Easter weekend. They started out for
Williamsburg, Va. and ended up in
Washington, D. C.

BRIDGE — Congratulations to
TOM and Sue PATE on the birth of
a son, Stephen Rankin, Feb. 1; to
DON and Carolyn IDOL upon the

Miss Carole Edgerton is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Edgerton
of Cary. Her father is Hydrographic
Engineer with the Highway Commis-
sion.

Carole is an accomplished ballet
dancer and recently performed with
the Raleigh Civic Ballet at Memorial
Auditorium. She was one of five bal-
lerinas performing Pas de Cinq, an
original ballet by Walter Stroud,
choreographer and Director of the
company. Carole has been a member
of Raleigh Civic Ballet since its or-
ganization in 1967 and is a student at
Cary High School.

birth of their daughter, Sharon Ann-
ette, March 11; and to GUY and
Margaret ALFORD, whose daughter,
April Ann, was born April 6.

New permanent employees in
Bridge Design are JOEL JOHNSON
and RONALD FITZULA. LARRY

James F. Cole, Materials Technician in the Chemical Laboratory, Dept. of
Materials and Tests, died suddenly March 7, 1969. Funeral services were con-
ducted March 12 at Oak City Baptist Church with burial at Oak Grove Ceme-
tery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Pope Cole, his father, William
Cole, of Winston-Salem, four grandchildren and several sisters and brothers.
Mr. Cole was employed in the Laboratory Sept. 19, 1941.

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ROBERTS is on the training pro-
gram.

Trainees leaving are ERNIE MAL-
LARD, ROBERT JONES and DAL-
LAS SAFRIET. ROYCE CARROLL
resigned to go "back home" — Fay-
etteville, to enter the Realty business.
He bought a house and is enjoying
furnishing and decorating his "own"
home.

LARRY HOFFMAN'S daughter,
Nikki, was married March 22 to John
Anthony Ford in Charlotte.

W. J. BROWN, accompanied by
N. C. (Hap) CROWE of Traffic En-
gineering, attended the National Con-
ference on Rail - Highway Grade
Crossing Safety in Urban -Champaign,
Illinois, Feb. 11-12-13.

SUE FLOWERS left Feb. 4 to join
her husband, Gleen, in Louisiana.
Glenn is due to go to Viet Nam in the
near future.

JUDY BLEVINS and JANE Mc-
COTTER resigned to keep house.

TOM DIXON was really "low in
spirit" when he discovered the theft
of some valuable tools stolen from his
station wagon recently. Some of the
tools belonged to Gerald White, who
has almost completed construction on
his new home. Maybe, by Christmas.

Mr. and Mrs. LEROY V. JAY'S
daughter, Mrs. Dwight Wheless of
Manteo, presented them with a grand-
daughter, Shelle Elizabeth, Feb. 12.
Mr. Jay is Traffic Survey Engineer
in the Department.

PUBLIC RELATIONS — The De-
partment welcomes its two new addi-
tions to the PR staff, Public Relations
Officer J. ARCH LANEY of Granite
Falls, and Mr. GIBSON PRATHER
from Fayetteville.

We can add Mr. Laney to the list
of Highway Commission race car en-
thusiasts. He is a member of Darling-
ton Raceway Network Team which
broadcasts "Rebel 400" in May and
the "Southern 500" on Labor Day.
His position is in the Safety Car, the
first car on the track after a wreck to
broadcast the account.

Gib Prathe<r's son, Chris, is the new
President of the N. C. National Hon-
or Society. Christ goes to Terry San-
ford High School in Fayetteville. Not
only is Chris an honor student, but
he excels in sports, too! He run the
y<i mile in track at Terry Sanford
High School and has won several
races this year.

Miss Harriet Jane Tyser became
the bride of David Lee Russell on
Saturday afternoon, January 25,
1969, at Unity Baptist Church at
Gastonia, N. C.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wallace C. Tyser of Gas-
tonia, N. C. She graduated from Ash-
ley High School and attended Gaston
College.

Mr. Russell is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Luther O. Russell, Jr., of Gas-
tonia. He is a senior student at N.
C. State University and is employed
by the N. C. State Highway Com-
mission.

JANIE WILLIAMS was in New
York City from March 17-21. Janie
reports she saw three delightful
shows: "Plaza Suite", "Dear World"
and "Promises, Promises".

Mrs. FRANCES NEWHOUSE was
recently hospitalized for several days,
but is now doing fine.

Jim and JEWEL ADCOCK enjoy-
ed a picnic on their beach lots at

The Don McBrayers are mighty
proud of little daughter, Lavon, age
3, and her baby brother, Brian, 7
months old. Don is employed in the
Roadway Design Department,

Bayside Shores near Little Washing-
ton Easter Monday.

MATERIALS & TESTS — Em-
ployees of the lab were saddened to
learn of the recent deaths of two for-
mer employees, who both retired five
years ago: Mr. W. L. McCanless,
former assistant to the Physical Test-
ing Engineer in the Raleigh labora-
tory, and Mr. W. W. Evans, a Ma-
terials Inspector who lived in Stokes-
dale before retiring to Hudson, N. C.

Congratulations to the DAVID FU-
QUAYS upon the birth of a son, Da-
vid Arnold, March 1st. This is the
Fuquay's third child, they have two
little girls.

ROADWAY DESIGN — W. A.
WILSON, JR. attended a "Manage-
ment Seminar" at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March
31-April 4.

JOHN TAYLOR attended the U.
S. Army "Senior NCO Ground Sur-
veillance Orientation" at Fort Hua-
chuca, Arizona, March 16-22. He did
some sightseeing while there at
Tombstone, Arizona and Nogales,
Mexico.

LAUGH-IN— Which one has the
LAUGH-IN part? That's Janie Wil-
liams, our Highway Receptionist on
the left, who smiles at her desk all
day — and, yes . . . it's Jo Ann Wor-
ley on the right who stars in the tel-
evision program LAUGH-IN! Janie
met Jo Ann at the intermission of
"Promises, Promises" on her recent
week's vacation in New York City.

Welcome to two new employees:
EDITH GOODWIN and JAMES C.
DAVIS.

Good luck to JOHN TOWER,
LUIS WOLF, JAMES MEARES and
WOODY JAMES who recently re-
signed. EDWIN NIVEN is on mili-
tary leave.

On April 1, DAVE SQUIRES,
BOB BROWN, CLARENCE FRIZ-

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Mark Andrew Motamen is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Mahmood Motamen,
born September 10, 1968. Mahmood is
employed in the Roadway Design De-
parment.

ZELL and GEORGE WELLS went
Shad fishing to Lock No. 1 on the
Cape Fear River. The catch was very
good — 12 shad averaging 4 lbs. each.
Their tales didn't agree on who
caught the most, but they did agree
that a white shad was the most game
fish they had ever caught.

Becton Broughton made the Dean's
List at Atlantic Christian College in
Wilson, N. C, for the fall semester
1968. Before entering Atlantic Chris-
tian, Becton attended Elkin High
School. In his senior year he moved
to Merritt where he attended Pamli-
co County High School. He was pres-
ident of his class, sports editor of the
school's year book, was among the
top ten seniors in his class and re-
ceived the Parent Teachers Scholar-
ship for his outstanding service to
the school.

Becton is the oldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Broughton of Merritt,
N. C. Mr. Broughton is Materials In-
spector in Division II.

The employees of the Dept. of Ma-
terials and Tests were saddened by
the death of C. G. (Bozo) Phillips,
Feb. 27, 1969. Mr. Phillips was em-
ployed by the Highway Commission
Oct. 1, 1923, as a Laboratory Asst.,
and for many years was supervisor of
concrete pipe inspection. The past
two years he was Section Materials
Engineer working in the Fourth and
Fifth Divisions. He is survived by his

wife, Mrs. Rossie S. Phillips, a dau-
ghter, Mrs. Glynn P. Pickett of Ra-
leigh; and a son, Charles of Green-
ville.

Mr. Phillips was a member of the
First Baptist Church of Cary.

Good luck to JOE McSWAIN, who
recently resigned to accept a posi-
tion at Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill.

It's nice to have C. E. MILLS back
on the job after several days hospital-
ization at Rex Hospital.

LOCATION — Employees in the
Department miss DAVID O'NEIL,
who resigned to accept employment
with Humble Oil & Refining Com-
pany.

Our heartfelt sympathy to A. C.
DODSON whose father recently
passed away.

JOE CREECH attended a Nation-
al Guard Electronic Combat Ground

NOT MY WILL

By ANN HESTER
(Right-of-Way Dept.)

Jesus went into the Garden of Gethsemane with three disciples. He asked
them to wait and watch while he prayed. Jesus went further into Gethsemane
and prayed. He ended his prayer saying not my will but thine be done. He
returned to the disciples and found them asleep. He woke them and went again
to pray. Jesus ended his prayer saying, Not as I will, but as thou wilt. Once
again when he returned, the disciples were asleep. He went again to pray, end-
ing his prayer as he had the others.

Knowing the agony, suffering and humiliation to come, could any of us have
prayed — not my will but thine be done — and meant it?

2k

Captain John L. Woodard, son of
Highway Personnel Officer Raynor
Woodard and Mrs. Woodard is a
member of the U. S. Army Reserve
Evacuation Hospital Unit No. 312 of
Winston-Salem, which was called in-
to active duty in May of 1968 when
the entire unit moved to Fort Ben-
ning, Georgia. He left Greensboro-
High Point April 1, 1969 for service
in Viet Nam by way of San Francis-
co, California. Prior to being called
to active duty, Captain Woodard was
employed by Wake Forest University.

Surveillance School in Fort Huachu-
ca, Arizona. While there he visited
Lavendar Pit in Bisbee, Arizona, the
world's largest copper mine; Tomb-
stone, Arizona, and Mexico.

LOUISE HIGH is "all smiles"
these days. Her son, Roy, is home
after a 12 -month tour of duty in
Viet Nam. Billy, her youngest son,
and his wife are the proud parents
of a baby girl.

Representing the Location Depart-
ment at the American Commerce on
Surveying and Mapping in Washing-
ton, D. C, were BOYCE MID-
GETTE. HORACE JERNIGAN,
FRANK DAINO and HENRY
DRUM.

HORACE JERNIGAN was in
Chapel Hill the week of March 31-
April 4 attending the Management-
Development Seminar.

LANDSCAPE — Our sympathy is
extended to RAY PEARSALL on the
recent death of his mother in Rocky
Mount.

It's nice to have WILLIAM PAT-
RICK back at home after several
weeks hospitalization at Cleveland
Memorial in Shelby. All wish for him

John Mark Holland, age 10 years, and Clayborn Douglas Holland, age 8,
are the children of Mr. and Mrs. George Holland, Jr. George is employed in
the Roadway Design Department.

a speedy recovery and hope he can
return to work soon.

LINDA STRAUGHN and FRANK
BOWEN must have found that pot
of gold at the end of the rainbow —
they're both sporting new autos.

BOB BOYETTE again attended
the "Daytona 500" with some friends
from Wilson County. They really en-
joyed the camping and most of all,
the "last second" Ford victory.

FRANK T. WAGNER
Acting State Materials Engineer

Frank T. Wagner, 41, has been
named acting State Materials Engi-
neer, succeeding J. E. Thompson, who
died Tuesday, March 18th of a heart
attack.

Wagner, who first joined the High-
way Commission in 1950, has been
serving as Thompson's assistant in
the materials post. The announcement
of his new assignment was made re-
cently by John H. Davis, Assistant
Chief Engineer, Construction & Main-
tenance.

A native of Alexander County,
Wagner joined the Highway Commis-
sion after his graduation in civil en-
gineer from N. C. State University.
He has been with the roads body since
that time except for a two-year leave,
1951-1953, for military service.

Wagner, who is a licensed profes-
sional engineer, resides in Raleigh
with his wife and two children.

M. G. Carawan

ARVIN HUD-
SON of Elizabeth
City Construction
Office has under-
gone an operation
at Albemarle Hos-
pital in Elizabeth
City. He expects
to be confined for
approximately six
weeks.

Division Correspondent

We are glad to see back on the job
ERVIN CULLENS (confined with
pneumonia), W. R. SAWYER (con-
fined with a broken arm acquired
while on duty on the Pasquotank Ri-
ver Bridge), Miss CLARA HOLLO-
MAN (confined after undergoing sur-
gery for appendicitis) and M. J.
CHAPPELL (confined with sickness
for approximately 8 weeks).

M. C. MONDS plans to retire in
the near future. He has been with the
Commission since October 1, 1940.

Seen moving into his beautiful new
brick home located approximately 5

25

miles north of Elizabeth City on US
17 was ROBERT W. BIGGS.

Mrs. ELLEN WILLOUGHBY at-
tended a Fine Arts Meeting of the
Junior Women's Club in Greensboro
recently.

Mrs. NEDRA HOLLOMAN at-
tended a District Meeting of the
North Carolina Federation of Busi-
ness and Professional Women's Club
for District 10 held in Roanoke Ra-
pids March 23, 1969.

Mr. and Mrs. JAY SMITH have
returned home after vacationing in
Florida.

The D. W. PATRICKS departed
from their home March 31 for a va-
cation of approximately 2 weeks.
Their plans included a visit to Flor-
ida and New Orleans.

Pictured is Mrs. Dennis Ward Pat-
rick, Jr. Earley's Baptist Church was
the setting Sunday, March 2, for the
3:00 wedding of Miss Nancy Lynn
Minton and Dennis Ward Patrick, Jr.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Carlton Minton, Sr.,
of Ahoskie and the bridegroom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Ward
Patrick, Sr. of Aulander.

After a wedding trip the couple
will make their home at 3239 Justina
Terrace, Apartment No. 9, Jackson-
ville, Florida.

The bride is a graduate of Ahoskie
High School and attends Rex School
of Nursing in Raleigh. She plans to
continue her nursing education at St.
Vincent's Hospital. The bridegroom is
a graduate of Bertie High School and
attended Chowan College. He is an
employee of Dickerson, Inc., in
Jacksonville.

Would you say this father is glad to
see his son?

SP/4 Robert D. Briley, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Briley, has just ar-
rived home after serving a 13-month
duty tour in Korea. His mother, Mrs.
Mae Briley is a Steno II in the Ap-
praisal Section.

Words are inadequate to express the
feelings of this family when they met
their son at the Raleigh-Durham air-
port. After all thirteen months is a
long time. It was raining down "kit-
tens" the day Dail got off that plane,
but no one seemed to mind. God had
brought him home safe and this was
the important factor.

In expressing his appreciation of
being back in the States, he said "I
never realized how much I loved the
United States, I feel as though I could
kiss the ground". He spoke quite of-
ten of the beauty all around. War
has done extensive damage in Korea,
especially to the terrain, and left the
country, which was once beautiful
with all it's mountains, very ugly and
distorted. The United States is a
beautiful and free country. It's gran-
deur far reaches beyond the mental
faculties of the human mind.

Also, in hearing him talk of just
a few of the things he had seen and/
or come in contact with during his
absence from home, we began to
realize just how thankful we who are
in America should be. In so doing we
should become better people.

He was honored with a home com-
ing party sponsored by his Sunday
School Class with approximately 40
guests.

After a 30-day vacation at home,
Dail's next assignment, still a long
ways from home, sends him to Fort
Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Mrs. JANICE
MOORE, Secre-
tary in the Divi-
sion Office, resign-
ed March 14th,
for other employ-
ment. Best wishes
to Janice in her
new job with N. C.
Phosphate Com-

Hazel Baker Pany-
Division Correspondent

Congratulations to Mrs. BECKY

SUMREEL who was promoted to

Steno II to fill the vacancy created

by the resignation of Mrs. Janice

Moore.

We welcome DAVID EASTWOOD
to the Division Office as Division
Staff Engineer. David replaces Bob
Harding who was transferred to Con-
struction.

Congratulations to Mr. C. J. Pugh
on his recent marriage to Mrs. Eve-
lyn McCoy Wilkerson of Cove City,
N. C. Mrs. Pugh is Bookkeeper for
J. C. Penny Company in New Bern.
Mr. Pugh is employed in the Con-
struction Department in New Bern.

The Construction Party of Mr. R.
A. POLLOCK welcome Trainee
DANNY FORNES in their midst.
Danny is a trainee from W. W. Hold-
ing Tech.

Wouldn't you say "Action speaks
louder than words"?

Joe Hayes, Review Appraiser, with
the Appraisal Section of the R/W
Dept. is almost "snowed" under or
could it be "snoozing" behind that
OVER-LADEN desk?

You can rest assure there is a
straight road leading from "that desk"
to his secretary's desk.

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Where

from
this

Division?

Irene Hewitt
Division Correspondent

Irene tells me she sent out memo-
randums and no response. I wonder
did this Division fall in the Atlantic
Ocean?

We wish to wel-
come to our office,
H. E. HARDY,
JR., Highway En-
gineer I. Mr. Har-
dy was transferred
from the Weldon
Office and will be
our Assistant Resi-
dent Engineer. He
and his family

Margaret Barefoot have purchased a
Division Correspondentnew home in West-

wood.

Spring is here — all the college
kids are heading for the sunny Flor-
ida beaches and along with them
goes CHARLIE WHEELER and
family. They too, are spending their
spring vacation in Florida. Have fun
folks!

Mrs. Jean Thompson and family
will be awaiting the arrival of the
Easter bunny in Atlanta, Georgia; as
they will be visiting relatives there
over Easter week-end.

C. L. KEETER, Engineering Tech.

I, has also been transferred to our
office from Weldon. A hardy welcome
Skeet.

The employees in J. W. VICK'S
party have embarked upon a physi-
cal fitness program of their very own.
On a voluntary basis, the men in the
party meet at the recreation center
once or twice a week and play basket-
ball, handball, and ping pong, as well
as other indoor sports. Not only have
these employees noticed a marked im-
provement in their overall fitness,
they are deriving a great deal of
pleasure from these activities.

Best wishes are extended to Mr.
W. L. KEMP who is recuperating at
home following recent hospitalization.
Mr. Kemp is Road Maintenance Su-
pervisor for Nash County.

Mr. M. A. GARDNER has return-
ed to work following a period of ex-
tended illness. Mr. Gardner is a Ma-
chine Operator with Nash County
Maintenance.

Also back at work following hos-
pitalization is Mr. P. A. FULGHUM,
Wilson County Road Maintenance
Supervisor.

Welcome to a little newcomer, Wil-
liam Matthew Cary, born on Febru-
ary 16th. The proud father is W. R.
CARY, Machine Operator with Nash
County Maintenance.

In January 1969, Mr. C. J. BALD-
WIN, Division Right of Way Agent,
was promoted to the position of Area
Right of Way Negotiator for the area
consisting of Divisions 5, 7, 9 and 11.
Congratulations, Jack, on your pro-
motion, and we in the 4th appreciate
your extremely fine job here in keep-
ing this Division #1 in the State.

Mr. Baldwin and his wife, Sue,
and two children, Carolina and
Kathy, are making their home at
6500 Brandy wine Road, Raleigh, N.
C. Mr. Baldwin's office is located
with the Appraisal Section on US 401
and US 1 North in Raleigh.

We in the 4th Division know our
loss will be a gain for the 5th, 7th,
9th and 11th. Jack, we wish you con-
tinued success.

Replacing Mr. Baldwin as Division
Right of Way Agent in Mr. JOHN
C. COLVILLE, who came here after
closing the Waynesville Office. Mr.
Colville assumed the position as Divi-
sion Agent on February 5, 1969. He
and wife, Edith and two children,
Sandi — 11 yrs. and Tessa — 5 yrs.,

Mr. N. E. Pridgen, Mechanic II,
retired on February 28, 1969 after
serving eighteen years with the Equip-
ment Department. May your retire-
ment years be very enjoyable ones.

live at 1104 Parkside Drive, Wilson,
N. C.

Welcome aboard Mr. Colville and
family; we in the 4th know you will
like it here, and we are anxious to
work with you.

Mr. QUENTIN LAMM, Mechanic
II, with the Equipment Department
has returned to work after a brief
stay in the hospital.

Sympathy is extended to EDGAR
DRIVER and his family in the re-
cent death of his father, Mr. G. L.
Driver, of Nashville, N. C. Funeral
services were held March 17th.

Sympathy is extended to Mr.
HENRY WIGGINS and his family
in the recent death of a brother, Mr.
Floyd Wiggins of Bowden. Funeral
services were held February 20th.
Sympathy is also extended in the re-
cent death of Mr. Wiggins' stepmo-
ther, Mrs. Lizzie Wiggins, whose fun-
eral services were held March 9th.

Wayne County employees send
greetings and get-well wishes to Mr.
PRENTICE EARL G ARRIS, a re-
cently retired fellow employee, who
has recently returned to Veteran's
Hospital in Fayetteville, due to the
disability which forced his early re-
tirement.

Mrs. Lucille Morse, wife of Mr.
FRANK MORSE, is getting along
well after recent confinement in
Wayne Memorial Hospital. Best
wishes for a complete and speedy
recovery are sent to Mrs. Morse.

27

Best wishes are extended to Mrs.
Dorothy Barnes, wife of Area Fore-
man RALPH BARNES, who recent-
ly underwent surgery at Wayne Me-
morial Hospital.

Mr. ELMOND SMITH has re-
cently returned to work after suffer-
ing chest injuries in a serious auto
accident in which his wife received
extensive injuries, including a broken
arm and a broken leg. Best wishes
are sent to Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to Mr.
EARL SLOAN who retired from
State Highway employment Decem-
ber 31st after 23 years service; and
to Mr. JOHN SLOAN who retired
due to disability after 23 years serv-
ice.

Johnston County employees send
best wishes to Mr. E. B. LANE who
is on extended sick leave due to an
injury he received on the job in De-
cember, 1968, and to Mr. G. O.
RAYNOR who is on extended leave
due to illness.

Congratulations and best wishes to
Mr. MARVIN BAKER who retired
from State Highway Commission em-
ployment as a M. F. II in Johnston
County after 37^ years service in
the Maintenance Department.

Mr. D. M. ARNETTE was recent-
ly transferred from the Maintenance
Department in Wayne County to the
Traffic Services Department.

The Wilson County Chapter of the
North Carolina Highway and Correc-
tion Employees' Association met at
the Wilson Maintenance Building on
Friday, March 21, 1969, at 7:30 P.M.

The invocation was given by Mr.
R. W. DAWSON. A delicious barbe-
cued chicken supper was enjoyed by
the members and guests.

Our special guests for the evening
were Senator RUSSELL KIRBY,
Representatives, A. HARTWELL
CAMPBELL, JOE EAGLES and
BILLY BRITT, Mr. JIMMY HUNT,
Past President of N. C. Young De-
mocrats, Mr. OTIS BANKS, Exec-
utive Secretary of the Association, and
his assistant, Mr. DAVID KING,
Commissioner CARL RENFRO, and
Mrs. PAT ABERNETHY, Unit Four
Secretary. Each of the guests was

recognized by Mr. Dawson and each
expressed his appreciation for the
invitation and for the good work be-
ing done by the Highway Employees.
They stated that they are constantly
working toward better working con-
ditions and salaries for our employ-
ees.

Mr. Banks spoke to us briefly on
some of the bills which have been in-
troduced for legislation and sponsor-
ed by our Association. One is request-
ing a salary increase of 10% effective
July 1, 1969, plus an additional 10%
effective July 1, 1970. Another bill
has been introduced to improve our
present retirement plan and another
was introduced to provide a special
Study Commission to study retire-
ment, hospitalization, insurance and
other fringe benefits. Mr. King dis-
tributed leaflets announcing an in-
vitation to all State Employees to at-
tend a statewide fish fry to be held
at Dorton Arena on May 7 at 6:00
P.M. Tickets will be $1.25 per person.

Mr. Dawson related to the group
some interesting statistics he read
recently on the comparison of states
in the building of roads and the per-
sonnel employed. He pointed out that
North Carolina is one of the highest
ranked in the number of roads being
built with the smallest number of
personnel.

A cake raffle was held and a num-
ber of beautiful cakes were won by
several members and guests.

W. B. Little and his Orange Tree

The following article appeared in
the DAILY HERALD, Roanoke Ra-

pids, N. C, under the by-line of
THOMAS LYNCH:

"It is not unusual to see oranges
growing on a tree — unless, of course,
the tree is growing in this section of
the county!

W. B. Little of 1515 Fourth Ave-
nue (Roanoke Rapids) boasts about
something few others can in this par-
ticular area — he eats fresh oranges
which grew on his very own tree.

When the Little family vacationed
in Fort Lauderdale (Florida) last
summer, he decided to bring back a
live orange tree.

"It was a nice healthy looking tree
then and had tiny oranges about the
size of a peanut,' recalled Little. The
tree, purchased for approximately
$7.00, stood about two feet tall when
the family got it and look to be about
four feet tall now.

The owner describes the trunk of
the tree as being 'about the size of
a hoe handle.'

Last summer the tree was planted
out in the yard, but grew there only
until the arrival of fall. At the first
sign of cool weather, Little dug up
the tree, put it in a huge tub and
placed it on the back porch. In or-
der to keep the tree in at least 40
degree temperatures, Little installed
a heat light which burns at all times.

This year's crop yielded a total of
eight oranges. 'It's the best tasting
orange I've ever eaten,' smiled Little
as he juggled a couple of the juicy
golden-colored fruits.

When the weather gets warm, the
tree will again be planted outside.
This time it will be in a permanent
location and next fall the Littles plan
to build a protective shelter around
the tree to assure warmth.

Little doesn't claim to be a fruit
grower, but says it has been a real
challenge to see the crop reach ma-
turity."

Mr. Little is employed with the Ha-
lifax County Maintenance Depart-
ment as Truck Driver, with contin-
uous employment dating from Jan-
uary 1, 1944.

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DIVISION FIVE

recently. He hopes to return to work
soon.

Peggy Bright
Division Correspondent

Confined last
week in Duke Uni-
versity Hospital
was Mrs. Lettie
Cates, wife of MO
3 LEROY CA-
TES. When it
was learned that
Mrs. Cates requir-
ed blood transfu-
sions, the men of
Section #38 ral-

lied to the call. As blood donors were
need, one hundred percent, of those
eligible, volunteered. Mrs. Cates is
much improved and is at home.

Mrs. Ruby Hamlin is recuperating
at home after a stay of twenty-three
days in Person County Memorial
Hospital. Her husband M03 RO-
BERT W. HAMLIN, said that after
looking at her hospital bill, it seem-
ed that she had stayed twenty-three
YEARS rather than twenty-three
days.

MOl L. T. WRENN and family
traveled to Daytona Beach, Fla. to
see the running of the Daytona '500'
automobile race. We, as yet, haven't
learned the outcome of the race,
however, we did learn that the cost
of food sold in the infield track,
"broke all track records" and Wrenn
too. (

Recently joining the rolls of Per-
son County Section 38 is retired Ma-
jor DAILEY F. FREDERICK, JR.
Returning to his native Roxboro af-
ter twenty-three years in the U. S.
Army Transportation Corps, he along
with his wife Betty and daughter
Mona, will make their home at 213
Weslyan Heights in Roxboro.

Overhead . . . "Cap'n." B. F. VAU-
GHAN talking to his insurance agent.
Seems he's having to reinstate the
policy on his time-honored pick-up
truck. Now that he is the proud own-
er of a new (V2 mile long) Oldsmo-
bile, the truck is about all Mrs. "V"
permits him to drive. When asked if
the new "Olds" belongs to him, he
only smiles.

JOHN LOUIS WILLIAMS was
hospitalized and underwent surgery

People coming from far and near
to see the newly created VAUGHN
lake. It wasn't the idea of Person
County Hwy. Maint. Supervisor B.
F. VAUGHAN; the beavers did it
for him. The little four-footed engi-
neers seemed to think the 62 inch pipe
carrying a stream under SR 1305
would be a good place to construct a
dam . . . and it was too. Formed, on
the up-stream side of the road, was
a lake well suited for swimming,
boating, fishing and WASHING THE
ROAD AWAY ... In that "Finn"
Vaughan approves of NONE of these
past-times, the dam was ordered re-
moved. Area Foreman O. J. DAVIS,
with the aid of thirty-nine "sidewalk
supervisors" and one piece of equip-
ment, undertook the project. The dam
has been removed . . . Now only time
will reveal which are the better engi-
neers????? (Those betting on the
beaver have no faith in Division
Five) .

ROY BLACKWELL spent a few
days vacationing in Florida recently.

WILLIAM GRADY and HENRY
HICKS were on vacation for a few
days recently.

A

MM

!

Pfc. Bruce Oliver Hockaday, Jr.,
Mechanic serving with Helicopter As-
sault Co. in Vietnam since January,
1969. His father is Bruce Oliver
Hockaday, Sr., Machine Operator 3
with Maintenance Department in
Granville County.

GLENWOOD BROGDEN and
GEORGE WOODY had good luck
while rabbit hunting recently.

Several employees have been on
sick leave recently. They were ER-
NEST ADCOCK, BOOKER COLE,
ALTON ELLINGTON, WILLIAM
ELLINGTON, ERNEST HICKS,
ALVIN LAWS, ALBERT MAY,
WALDO MINOR, ROBERT RENN,
PENDER WOODLIEF and GEOR-
GE WOODY. They have all improved
and have returned to work.

Mrs. JOSEPHINE CRUTCHER
is recuperating from an operation at
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.
We all wish Mrs. Crutcher a speedy
recovery.

Other employees on sick leave re-
cently included JOE GREENWAY,
HERBERT HENLEY, HENRY
HICKS, VENCEN MORTON, MAR-
VIN SEAT, JOHN LOUIS WIL-
LIAMS, GEORGE WOODY, LAW-
RENCE ROYSTER and WILLIAM
REAMS.

HERBERT HENLEY has been re-
modeling his home recently. He also
added two new rooms, Herbert is
Machine Operator #3 with the Main-
tenance Department in Granville
County.

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GLENWOOD BROGDEN and
WALTER RUTLEDGE were on va-
cation for a few days recently.

Sympathy to GILES CRUTCHER
in the recent death of his sister.

Employees who received safety
awards recently were as follows:

20 Year Award— G. L. ELLING-
TON and W. A. LAWS.

15 Year Award— G. S. BAILEY

10 Year Award— H. L. HENLEY

5 Year Award— B. F. HINTON

ERNEST C. ADCOCK and ER-
NEST HICKS have returned to work
after being on sick leave for several
weeks.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of A. W. CARDEN and BILLY EL-
LIS who died recently.

Get well wishes are extended to M.
W. CHAPPELL, H. V. MOORE and
K. M. DUNCAN who have been out
recently on sick leave.

Congratulations Grandpa BILL
WHITE, Road Oil Supervisor on the
birth of his first grandson, William
Albert Smith. Little Bill is son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Smith.

The Right of Way Department
welcomes a new member, HARRY
W. LOCKLEAR, Right of Way Aide.
Mr. Locklear is from Pembroke. We

all wish WILHELMINA ELLIS, a

speedy recovery. Willie is a patient
at Highsmith Hospital.

Mr. RAY W. DAVIS has left our
Dept. to go with the State Bureau of
Investigation. The very best wishes
to you, Ray, in your new work.

Mr. and Mrs. MAX G. LOFLIN S
son, Brant, who underwent surgery
at Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill

is progressing satisfactorily.

DIVISION SIX

Above are two of our lovely steno-
graphers in Division Six. Left is the
lovely Alice Osbourne and right is
Shirley Pope. Both of these lovely
lasses are in the equipment depart-
ment.

In the Right of Way Department
also are two lovely ladies, left is
Becky Huffman and June Cox.

Get well wishes
are extended to
Harnett Co. em-
ployees SAM
TYNDALL and
D. W. WEAVER.
; Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
! ily of Mr. N. J.

McKOY who died
J recently. He was
DivUio?Corre" indent employed as a la-
borer in Bladen County. Also to the
family of Mr. J. E. DEW (retired)
who passed away in February.

We wish Maintenance Foreman
III, L. F. HAMMONDS a very
speedy recovery from his sickness.
Congratulations are in order for Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. HUBBARD on the
birth of a son, John Michael, on Feb-
ruary 14, 1969. Mr. Hubbard is em-
ployed in the Construction Depart-
ment.

Above is a picture of the new District Two Equipment Shop in Fayetteville.

30

Welcome to JOHN EDMUND AL-
FORD, a Co-operative Student Train-
ee, employed in the Construction De-
partment, Lumberton, for a few
months.

The Equipment Department, Fay-
etteville, would like to extend get
well wishes to Mr. JACK FAIR-
CLOTH, Auto Parts Clerk II; Mr.
MARVIN TOWNSEND, Mechanic
II; Mr. M. O. EDGE, Grounds Main-
tenance Man; Mr. DAVID STALL-
INGS, Mechanic II; and Mr. J. B.
FORT, Night Wachman.

We would like to welcome a new
employee in the Equipment Depart-
ment. He is ALSON BRIGMAN, JR.,
a Mechanic II in the District II Shop,
Fayetteville.

Congratulations are extended to
Mr. L. V. HUBBARD on his recent
promotion from Clerk IV to Highway
Equipment Office Manager.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude R. Moore,
Jr., are the proud parents of this lit-
tle girl, Nancy Suzanne. They also
have two sons, Claude III, and Ri-
chard.

Congratulations to Mrs. Joan H.
Dees, pictured above, wife of Dis-
trict Engineer, B. E. Dees, of Lum-
berton, who graduated from Pem-
broke State College in January, 1969,
with B.S. Degree in Elementary Edu-
cation. Among her many honors were:
College Marshal, Who's Who in
American Colleges and Universities
and Dean's List. Immediately upon
graduation Mrs. Dees began teaching
Sixth Grade at Tanglewood Elemen-
tary School with City Schools of
Lumberton.

Above, Mr. John F. Cannon re-
tired from the Highway Commission
on February 1st, after more than 43
years service. Mr. Cannon began
work in 1925 in Division I as a trac-
tor operator. In 1931 he was trans-
ferred to Sanford under District En-
gineer John Koonce as Gang Fore-
man. In 1938 he went to Harnett
County as a Section Foreman. He
was promoted to Area Foreman in
1969 and held this position until his
retirement. We wish Mr. Cannon a
very long and healthy retirement.

New Employees in Fayetteville

Left to Right: C. L. Nobles, District 2 Mechanic Foreman; Grady Jackson,
Mechanic Foreman I; Alison B rig man. Mechanic; R. H. Parker, Mechanic.
Not present were: W. J. Faircloth, Stock Clerk and Wilbur Tatum. All of these
are employees in Dist. 2 Shop in Fayetteville,

SI

DIVISION
SEVEN

HON I

W. W. (Bill)
EVANS, who re-
tired July, 1964,
passed away on
March 8, 1969. He
worked for 35
years with the
Highway Com-
mission and was
Materials Inspec-
tor when he retir-
Carolyn Graves •■ a:nr(1 retire-
Division Correspondent ea- »ince retire-
ment, he had made his home in Hud-
son, North Carolina. His daughter,
Margaret Robinson, lives in Stokes-
dale.

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL GRUBBS are
among our proud grandparents.

ARELENE RAY, secretary in the
Right of Way Department, has moved
to Guilford College while her new
home in Greensboro is being built.

MAC DELANCEY, Right of Way,
is the proud father — son Mac Almon
DeLancey, Jr., was born on March
14, 1969 — his first child.

Welcome to this Division BROOKE
CRISP, Right of Way, a loan for a
few weeks from N. Wilkesboro.

We are happy that PAUL ALL-
RED is able to be back at work af-
ter undergoing surgery at the Veter-
an's Hospital in Fayetteville.

We wish for L. J. GORDON a
speedy recovery after his hospital
stay.

Welcome back to work JAMES B.
SNYDER, Machine Operator in
Rockingham County, who has been
out sick for several months. Also,
THOMAS E. SHERRON has return-
ed to work after extended illness.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. DEWEY JOYNER
WASHBURN who passed away on
April 8th. He had worked with the
Highway Commission since 1934, and
was a maintenance foreman at the
time of his retirement in July 1967.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of DEWEY EDWIN STEPHENS
who died on April 6th. He was a
maintenance foreman in Caswell
County.

WILLIAM WRAY WHITE

William (Bill) W. White, District
Engineer for Guilford and Rocking-
ham Counties, retired on February
28th, after more than 47 years with
the State Highway Commission.

After graduating from Badin High
School in 1921, Mr. White worked
eight months as an instrumentman
with Southern Power Company in
Charlotte. He joined the Highway
Commission on May 22, 1922, as in-
strumentman in Greensboro, remain-
ing in that capacity until September,
1925.

He then joined Roller and Moore
engineering firm of Miami, Fla., as
survey and mapping office manager.
Five months later, in March, 1926,
Mr. White returned to North Caro-
lina as bridge and roadway construc-
tion instrumentman at Greensboro.
He was promoted to office engineer in
1931, and became maintenance super-
visor for Alamance County on De-
cember 1, 1932.

Mr. White was transferred to
Reidsville in July, 1934, to serve as
maintenance supervisor for Rocking-
ham and Caswell Counties. He was
promoted to District Engineer on
July 1, 1937, and has served in that
capacity over 30 years.

He and Mrs. Pauline G. White
were married December 21, 1960. Mr.
White has two children, W. W. White,
Jr., and Mrs. Jean B. Barker, by his
earlier marriage to the former Mattie
H. Burkehead, who died in 1957.

He is a member of College Place
Methodist Church, Greensboro, the
North Carolina Society of Engineers,
and is a Mason and Shriner.

TONGUE TWISTERS

Be careful, or you'll get your tang
all tongueled up as you rapidly read
these sentences:

A persnickety, persistent person per-
severes perpetually.

The frenzied Frenchman frequently
fretted over fickle freckle-faced Fred-
dy.

A cone-shaped, spiral-shelled sea
snail is called a periwinkle.

The charitable chaffeur chatted
with the cheery chary charwoman.

The weak, weary waif waked and
wailed wanting water.

The quaint queen quickly queried
the queer quintette.

Among those va-
cationing in Flor-
ida have been
TRUBY CLARK
and JOHNNIE
HARRING-
| TON of the San-
ford Construction
Party. Now that
we have survived

the ice storm of
Virginia Williamson „ „ j

Division Correspondent * ebruary, and

have everything in pretty good shape
again, most everybody is beginning
to think of getting to the beach or
some place for a little time. Mr. and
Mrs. HUGHES, and Little Beaver,
(their camper) took in the coast dur-
ing the Easter week end. I believe
Mr. Hughes is looking around for
good fishing territory. We will see if
we hear any reports from that. The
FRED WHITESELL'S have been to
the beach also, with daughter Sharon.

We are glad to report that GARL-
TON MOORE, of the Asheboro Con-
struction party, is improved following
an automobile accident several weeks
ago. Garlton continues to be away
from his work, and we do hope that
he is very soon going to be complete-
ly recovered. J. H. COLE, District
III, has had quite a bout with his
illness and we are glad to report that
he is about ready to go home from
the Sanatorium at McCain, North
Carolina. W. H. SNEAD, District
III, Scotland County employee, con-
tinues to be sick. We wish both of
these a very early return to their
work, as fellow employees are miss-
ing them. GARLAND MARTIN who
suffered a leg injury during the ice
storm is now ready to return to his
work, and we are very happy about
this. J. R. LOWRIMORE, of Sanford
Construction party who has been in
Veterans Hospital in Durham, and
we hope that he will soon be well
again.

Congratulations to J. D. and Phyl-
lis JOYNER of the Right of Way De-
partment on the birth of Brian Alex-
ander Joyner on January 28, 1969.
However, I must report that J. D. is

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one of those fathers who just doesn't
hand out pictures. Maybe I can get
that for the next issue.

Sympathy is extended to JAMES
SMITH, Truck Driver in the Road
Oil Department, whose wife passed
away recently. We were all saddened
to learn of this. Sympathy is also ex-
tended to W. M. CHERKAS, Dis-
trict Engineer, Asheboro, whose fa-
ther passed away in Oxford, North
Carolina. We will be remembering
the Cherkas family in their sadness.

HATTIE TULLOCH, Secretary in
the Right of Way Department, has
resigned her position and is opening
a pottery and crafts shop in Pine-
bluff. We will certainly be missing
Hattie, and wish her every success in
her new undertaking.

Welcome to HENRY HOLSHOU-
SER, Division Traffic Engineer, who
came with us on March 1. Henry and
his wife and young daughter are liv-
ing in Southern Pines. I know that

JIM STAMP, Area Traffic Engineer,
who came to this office on January
1 is welcoming Henry with open arms
too, now that he has some addition
help with the many traffic engineer-
ing problems that come up every day.

Mr. FRED HARRIS, Montgomery
County, reports that several of their
men have been out with the flu this
past few weeks, and that it is good
to have them all back at work again.
Fred was in the hospital himself, but
is now back on the job.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. A. T.
PARSONS in the loss of his mother
who passed away on January 7th.

Mr. W. T. ALCON retired on Ap-
ril 1 after serving with the Randolph
County Maintenance Department for
many years. Mr. Alcon has been a
very loyal and faithful employee and
we will certainly miss him. We wish
you a very happy retirement, Mr.
Alcon.

DIVISION
NINE

James Stephen
Brown, son of Mr.
and Mrs. EVER-
ETTE HUGH
BROWN of Route
4, Mocksville, and
husband of the
former Delaine
Koontz of Route 1,
Mocksville, has re-
cently made the
Dorothy Phelps , „ . .

Division Correspondent rank Ot Acting

Sergeant.

Sgt. Brown is a 1965 graduate of
Davie County High School and was
employed by Fiber Industries before
entering service. He is now stationed
at Long Binh, South Vietnam, with
the H. Q.'s Troop Command, USAD-
LB Security Guard Company. Sgt.
Brown works as a supply clerk Mili-
tary Police.

Sgt. James Stephen Brown

Randolph County Maintenance Supervisor W, A. Carter inspecting snow plows.

Sgt. Brown went into service on
September 15, 1967. He was first
stationed at Fort Bragg, North Caro-
lina, for his basic training. After
graduation he was sent to Fort Gor-
don, Georgia, where he took his train-
ing to become a Military Police. Af-
ter his graduation there he was sta-

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tioned at Redstone Arsenal, Alaba-
ma, where he worked as a supply
clerk official until the first part of
September when he came home on
a thirty day leave before leaving for
Vietnam on the 17th of October.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to ROBERT BROWN ANGEL in
the death of his sister, Margaret Ann
Middleton, who was killed in an au-
tomobile accident in March 5, 1969.
Robert was Sign Erector in the Traf-
fice Services Department.

Much happiness is wished for
LINDA WILLIAMS, Stenographer in
the Appraisal Section. Linda recently
received a diamond from Robert
Yates, and the two plan to be mar-
ried in May or June. Robert is affi-
liated with Yates Aluminum Com-
pany.

Congratulations are in order to Mr.
BENTZ C. PEAK who has just been
promoted from Division Staff Engi-
neer to Resident Engineer, with of-
fices in Thomasville. Not only does
Bentz have a new title, but also a
new office and a new Secretary, Mrs.
BETTY JOANNE WILSON.

We hope that Mr. THOMAS C.
HICKS of Salisbury will soon recov-
er after having suffered a light stroke
he is confined in the Rowan Me-
morial Hospital in Salisbury. Mr.
Hicks is a Machine Operator I in
District I.

V. C. FREEMAN DIES

28th. He had retired as Equipment
Superintendent, Division Nine, in
July, 1967, after having worked with
the Commission for forty-three years.

During these years he worked in
different parts of the State, begin-
ning in Swain County, moving to old
District One, transferring to Salis-
bury, and then to Winston-Salem.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lula
McHan Freeman, a daughter, Miss
Janet Lu Freeman, a student at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, one brother, and five
sisters.

We are glad that Mr. OSCAR L.
GOSS is now at home recuperating
after having had a leg amputated on
February 3rd, in Lowrance Hos-
pital in Mooresville. Mr. Goss is a
cook with the Road Oil Department.

His many friends were saddened by
the death of Mr. ED N. LYALL on
February 1, 1969, caused by lung can-
cer. Mr. Lyall was a Road Oil Fore-
man in Forsyth County.

DIVISION
TEN

Mr. Vernon Charles Freeman

Our sincere sympathy is expressed
to the family of Mr. VERNON
CHARLES FREEMAN of Winston-
Salem who died on December

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of KEITH
L E N N I L L E
HONEY-
CUTT who pass-
I ed away on Feb-
I ruary 28th. He
was Maintenance
Foreman II in Ca-

j. w. Jones barrus County.
Division Correspondent J

Welcome back from an extended
illness, Mr. W. D. HURLOCKER.
Mr. Hurlocker is with the Mainte-
nance Department in Cabarrus Coun-
ty.

Our deepest sympathy goes to the
family of JOHNNY B. RICE, in the
death of his mother. Mr. Rice is G.
U.M. in Cabarrus Maintenance De-
partment.

Welcome new employee, Mr. D. A.
HAHN, Truck Driver for Cabarrus
County.

We, the employees of Cabarrus
County, had deep regret and sorrow
for the death of an employee, Mr. K.
L. HONEYCUTT. He had been em-
ployed with the State Highway Com-

mission for over 25 years. Our deep-
est kindness and sympathy go to his
family.

We are glad to report JOHN
CRANFORD is back home after a
few days spent in the hospital. Mr.
Cranford is with the Stanly County
Maintenance.

ALBERT RICE is back to work
after surgery, better than 4 months
ago. Mr. Rice is with the Bridge
Maintenance.

Mr. JOHN HERLOCKER is back
at work after a short illness. He is
also with Bridge Maintenance.

We congratulate J. W. VANHOY,
being the father of a big boy. Mr.
Vanhoy is a M. O. I with the Stanly
County Maintenance.

We are glad to report Mr. G. H.
ROGERS is home from the hospital
recovering from surgery. Mr. Rogers
is Shop Foreman in Stanly County
Equipment Shop.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
C. R. RIDENHOUR on a big grand-
baby. Mr. Ridenhour is the Stanly
County Maintenance Supervisor.

Sympathy is extended to MAYO
PETERS in the death of his father.
Mr. Peters is with the Maintenance
Department in Anson County.

Our deepest sympathy goes to the
Faulkner family in the passing of
Mr. SAM FAULKNER, retired em-
ployee. He had been with the High-
way Commission for over 30 years
and had been retired since 1961.

Tenth Division Employees extend
their sympathy to SYRELLA PICK-
LER, Stenographer II in the Divi-
sion Office in the recent passing of
her father, Mr. T. D. Pickler. Syrel-
la has been with the Highway Com-
mission over 20 years.

Long-time Traffic Services Sign
Erector HOYLE EARNHARDT re-
tired March 1. Thanks from Hoyle's
successors for the many signs he has
erected in Cabarrus and Stanly Coun-
ties.

New Traffic Services permanent
employees include BILLY D. HAR-
RIS and ROY A. TUCKER. These
men are Machine Operators.

DIVISION ELEVEN

Sympathy is ex-
tended to F. D.
MOSS, Traffic
Signal Technician,
whose brother was
killed April 3rd
while serving with
the armed forces
in Vietnam.

Best wishes to

Dolores Rogers piy CARTER
Division Correspondent KA Y 1 £jtt'

Right of Way Aide, who was drafted
into the Army recently.

Best of luck to JERRY LACKEY
with his new job in the Construction
Department at Williamston, N. C.
Jerry had been working with the Lo-
cation Department here in North
Wilkesboro.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to the fol-
who retired recently:

R. N. OWEN, Machine Operator I
in Surry County, who retired April
1st; B. F. BAIRD, District 2 employ-
ee, who retired January 1st, with 28
years of service; A. G. JOHNSON,
District 2 employee, who retired Jan-
uary 1st, with 13V2 years of service;
CHOSS LUNSFORD, District 2 em-
ployee, who retired January 1st, with
26 years of service and F. A. MIL-
LER, Heavy Truck Driver in Wilkes
County, who retired March 1st, with
34 years of service.

Get well wishes are extended to D.
D. DUNCAN, District 1 employee,
who is on sick leave after undergoing
major surgery; and to the following
District 3 employees — W. W. BARE,
G. P. HAM, D. C. WYRICK and S.
C. CHURCH.

Congratulations to the following
District 1 employees who have had
new additions to their families: Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. LYONS, a baby boy;
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. BRANCH, a baby
boy; and Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
WRIGHT, a baby girl.

We extend our deepest sympathy
to the family of Mr. A. Q. HARTSOE.
Mr. Hartsoe passed away March 2nd
due to a heart attack. He was a Ma-
chine Operator III and had been with

THORNE whose mother passed
away recently.

Mr. C. G. JOHNSON, Bridge
Maintenance employee, passed away
March 24th. Our deepest sympathy is
extended to his family.

Mr. D. C. Bentley, District 2 Em-
ployee, retired March 1st, after serv-
ing with the Highway Commission
for 42 years and 8 months. We wish
him a long and happy retirement.

the Ashe County Maintenance De-
partment for 14 years.

Sympathy is also extended to Con-
struction employee J. K. HAW-

Mr. C. M. Davis, District 2 Em-
ployee, retired January 1st, with 18
years and 4 month service with the
Commission. Mr. Davis recently spent
two weeks visiting with a son in Ohio.
Our best wishes for a long and happy
retirement.

From left to right: C. H. Kemp, A. M. Lyalls and H. W. Little, District 3
employees. Mr. Kemp retired March 1st with 24 years service; Mr. Lyalls re-
tired March 1st with 38 years of service; and Mr. Little retired February 1st
with 29 years of service. We extend our wishes to all of these gentlemen for a
long and happy retirement.

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This pretty little miss is Sabrina
Ann Perry, 3l/2 year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Perry. Tom is an
Engineering Aide in the Boone Con-
struction Office.

Jean Clin*
Division Correspondent

Congratulations
to G. G. BESS of
Construction De-
partment on his
marriage to Selma
Daves on February
22, 1969.

W. K. SMITH
of the Construction
Department is
back at work after

Snow In Division II During The Winter.

having been on sick leave for some-
time.

T. W. GARDNER, Engineering
Aide resigned February 21, 1969 to
accept other employment.

Mr. and Mrs. RAY F. INGRAM
proudly announce the birth of a baby
boy, Stephen Ray, on March 25, 1969.
Ray is Machine Operator I in Iredell
County.

B. W. GIBSON and W. W. SHER-
RILL, Iredell County employees,
are back to work after being hospi-
talized.

We would like to welcome JAMES
RAY HEAD, Civil Technology
Trainee, as a new employee in this
Department. Mr. Head has been em-
ployed by the Commission in previous
years as a Temporary Engineering
Assistant.

We would like to welcome back W.
H. Manley, Resident Engineer, who
has recently returned to work from
an operation.

Asst. Div. Engr. J. F. WARREN
and family have moved to 338 Circle
View Drive, Shelby, and a big WEL-
COME is extended to each member
of the family.

We were very sorry to lose Mr. J.
S. PIERCE, JR. His last day of
work was Feb. 28, 1969. Mr. Pierce
resigned to accept other employment.

Believe it or not Mr. GILBERT
BOWLES and Mr. LEON PRICE
made a bet last December. The bet
was that both lose 30 pounds by April
1st. I am very glad to report that

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both men succeeded, so neither party
had to pay off. They both are very
trim now, it's just like having two
new employees. Just don't put it back
on again you guys, O.K.

FRANKLIN CAPPS of the Con-
struction Department is a 'Grand-
pappy" as of February 6th with his
first grandchild being a 8 pound y2
ounce girl and named Michelle Moody
Ingram Ahern.

Sympathy is also extended to
Franklin in the death of his mother
in March.

Happy retirement to R. G. BUT-
LER, Road Oil Dept. employee, who
retired March 14, 1969.

FRED SUMMERS, Traffic Serv-
ices employee, celebrated his 60th
birthday by taking his first skiing les-
son on March 12th at Beech Moun-
tain. Looks like Freddie, as he was
called by the Austrian ski instructor,
is going to be a real ski fan.

Division Office folks were happy
to see D. R. McMICHAEL, retired
Area Landscape Supervisor, on his
visit to Shelby — and to see he is
looking young as ever!

It's good news to hear that WIL-
LIAM PATRICK, Area Landscape
Supervisor, returned home from the
hospital March 11th and is recover-
ing nicely. We hope he will soon be
able to return to work, as he is cer-
tainly being missed.

Happy retirement years for ED
COOKE, of the Right of Way De-
partment, who retired March 14,

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1969. Right of Way folks honored Ed
at a supper on March 28th.

Sympathy is extended to RALPH
GREENE of the Right of Way De-
partment in the death of his father.

John Acker, son of the CARL AC-
KERS, celebrated his 1st birthday on
Feb. 23, 1969. Carl is Right of Way
Agent in the 12th Division.

Mrs. Stanley Morgan was named
"Young Career Woman of the Year"
at the Business and Professional Wo-
man's Club's award banquet and din-
ner Tuesday night, March 18th.

Mrs. Morgan, who teaches math,
science and health at Shelby Junior
High School, is the wife of Stanley
Morgan of the Right of Way Depart-
ment in the 12th Division. She is the
daughter of Mrs. T. B. Hollingsworth
of Spring Hope and the late Mr. Hol-
lingsworth.

She was presented an engraved pla-
que and an orchid corsage from last
year's winner, Mrs. Ned Hendrick.

The topic of Mrs. Morgan's speech
was "My Greatest Challenge — 91
Faces".

Reprint — Shelby Daily Star
By BILL DAVIE

While some Americans are rebel-
ling against the so-called "Establish-
ment," others are taking part in civic
endeavors aimed at strengthening this
country's basic democratic principles.

I

OVERWORKED ROAD MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR — DIVISION 12
This is the result of too many hours of emergency work during the snows
of past winter.

Take Michael A. Brewer for in-
stance, a 26-year-old Shelby resident
who works as a right-of-way agent
with the local State Highway Com-
mission office.

Brewer, a native of Louisburg, N.
C, is a member of the Kings Moun-
tain National Guard unit and last
fall noticed an announcement on the
bulletin board about the 1968 Free-
dom Foundation Letter Awards Pro-
gram.

Letters were to be on the subject
"A Free Ballot — A Free Country."
Brewer had majored in political
science at UNC-Chapel Hill where he
graduated in 1964, and decided to en-
ter the contest.

He recently was notified that he
and another North Carolina Guards-
men, a major from Raleigh, were
among the top winners in the nation-
al contest. Brewer will receive a $50
cash award and the George Washing-
ton Honor Medal.

In his winning, 500-word letter,
Brewer referred to the free ballot as
the "prime tool" of democracy and
said, "The free ballot to the individ-
ual is his one means of saying to his
fellowmen, his elected and appointed
superiors, his country and the world,
'This is the way I feel,' or 'This is
the way I would handle the situa-
tion.' "

If the free ballot is taken away or
restricted, Brewer continued, a can-
cerous growth would result and spread
"by means of apathy, discontent and
disbelief in the concepts of a free
society until a large segment of the
nation or country is internally des-
troyed at its own hands. . . "

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

Where is our

news from this

Division? Edna

tells me the

same thing. She

sent out notices,

no response!

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RONALD SUT-
TON, Engineering
Aide in G. W.
CLAYTON'S Of-
fice, is a proud
father of a 6 lb. 13
oz. girl, Rhonda
Ann, born Febru-
ary 28th.

Ron let MARV-
Allyce uunninKnam TNr Ar|AMo f
Dlviiion Correspondent 1JN A1JA1V1& Ot

Staff Engineer's office get ahead of

him — Marvin and Sue are the

proud (and sleepy) parents of twins,

Michael Deron and Sondra Leigh

Adams. Marvin says there is never

a dull moment at their house — get

one settled down and the other one

wants attention.

Our congratulations to FORREST
PONDER, Right of Way Aide. For-
rest smashed the maples for 199-265-
179 games and a 643 series for game
and set honors in the week's rolling
in the Friday Night Men's Bowling
League at Eastgate Lanes in Sylva.

We wish to offer birthday wishes
to G. W. ALLISON, R. C. THOM-
ASSON, T. M. ALLISON and J. C.
TATHAM, Construction Department,
although by the time they get this
it will be a little belated but nonethe-
less, hope it was a happy one and
many more.

JOHN C. COLVILLE, Division
Right of Way Agent in Waynesville,
has been transferred to Wilson. We
miss John in this area but don't let
too much sand accumulate in your
shoes and forget about us ole moun-
taineers. The boys working in John's
office were transferred to Sylva Divi-
sion office, including EUGENE TY-
SON, BILL WALLER, FRED CO-
THERN and HENRY T. MOON,
III.

KEN NORTON, Right of Way, has
accepted employment in Atlanta, Ga.
— in the shuffle of Appalachian boys
transferring to Sylva, we lost Ken.

JAMES ROBERT MILLER, em-
ployee in Right of Way Department
since last June upon his graduation
from Appalachian State University,
has enlisted in the Marines to report
to duty April 21, 1969. He will have

a training period at Parris Island, S.
C. and then report to Camp Lejuene
for a period before being assigned a
duty station. Robert is married to the
former Alice Jean Lewis of North
Wilkesboro and they one little girl,
Michelle.

Murphy Construction News

New Arrivals:

Mr. and Mrs. HARVEY PARKS
— a baby girl on January 22nd. Ne-
rissa Cayrn was premature at birth
weighing only 3 lbs. 4 oz. She stayed
in the hospital for seven weeks. She
now weighs 5 lbs. 9 oz. and is home
doing fine! Harvey transferred here
from Roaring River.

Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD CALD-
WELL — a baby girl on November
5th. Baby was named Kimberly Re-
becca and weighed 8 lbs. 3 oz at
birth.

Mr. and Mrs. AQUILLA PHIL-
LIPS — a baby boy on February
28th. Baby was named David Ray.
Arrived weighing 8 lbs. 2 oz.
Newlyweds:

JIM LUNSFORD, Engr. Aide, and
Floresa Belcher were married Feb.
21st. Congratulations to you, Jim!

TERRY HUNSUCKER is the only
single fellow left in our office and he

Above is a picture of the arch culvert under construction on project 8.306-
4108, Cherokee County, being built by Holland Construction Company for
Southeastern Construction Company, prime contractor on the project. Morris
Sawyer, shown in the foreground, is inspector on the culvert.

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In the above picture Dickie and
Kimberly Caldwell, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Caldwell, Murphy,
N. C. I don't believe Kimberly is very
happy being held by Dickie.

says he won't be that way much lon-
ger.

The JIM SHARPE'S of Robbins-
ville have moved into their new home.
We wish them much happiness in
their new surroundings!

We welcome the LLOYD CLARK'S
to our area. Lloyd transferred from
BOB PLESS' office in Waynesville.

A New Angel
in God's Heaven

By SAM STANCIL

A Tribute To His Late Wife, Diane

Now there is a new angel is God's
heaven. A bright new star in the
beautiful sky. This bright star's light
replaces the light from Diane's smil-
ing face to all those who knew her
on earth. To know her was to love
her. Everyone who ever met her lov-
ed her because her radiant personal-
ity seemed to draw people to her.
Even though it was very difficult to
hide pain and sorrow, she always wore
a beautiful smile. Behind this smile
was another world, hidden to the pub-
lic. A world of misery and pain, ex-
tremely difficult to hide.

Diane lived her last years accord-
ing to this verse —

It's the giving and doing for some-
one else, on this all life's splendor
depends.

And the joys of this life when you
sum them all up, are found in the
making of friends.

She even shed many tears when she
thought someone was not accepting
her as a friend. She loved people
more than anything in the world, and
her love laden heart reached far be-
yond that, because she loved every-
thing beautiful and everything liv-
ing. She loved nature.

Flowers were among her favorite in
beauty, and while she was physically
able, she helped me tend these.

Her birds, cats, dogs especially, and
every pet she ever owned were ex-
ceeding in beauty and health. She
spent most of her time caring for
these. They did not receive only the
right food at the right time, but
there was her tender loving care which
was dedicated to each and every one
she ever owned. This kind of love is
something every living creature needs,
but many do not receive it. What a
beautiful and wonderful place this
world would be if every living thing
received this kind of love.

Medical science proved her heart
was extremely large in size, and this
was indeed true spiritually also; be-
cause there was a part of it for each
member of her family, and a place in
it for everyone she knew.

She not only appreciated beauty,
she had it — an inward beauty. No
matter what the circumstances might
be, she was never too tired to give a
word of encouragement. You could
always depend on what she said.

She was never too tired or busy to
lend a helping hand. She enjoyed
helping others, and it seemed as if
she was not satisfied if she was not
doing something for someone else. No
matter what the job might be, she did
not mind. There was never a job too
big or too dirty.

Babies and shut-ins had a special
place in her heart. Caring for and
taking flowers or a treat of some type
to these meant more to her than any-
thing she ever did.

Her dog and all who knew her miss
her very much.

Her reign came to an end on April
28, 1968, one week after thoroughly
enjoying another happy Easter week
end.

At her passing away, there were
many tears shed. Not for her because
we know she has gone to a place
where there is only peace, joy, beau-
ty, happiness, and there is no pain,
but for ourselves because of such a
great loss — because she will be se-
parated from us. We will not have
her anymore, what she was, what she
meant and stood for, and to enjoy
her beautiful smile. This is indeed a
great loss for us, but a much deserv-
ed rest for her, because although she
helped in every way and all she could,
this cruel world does not have the
peace and comfort the soul searches
for, but if we follow her example, "we
shall meet on that beautiful shore, in
the sweet by and by".

Even though words cannot, I would
like to express my appreciation for
all donations from employees of the
Roadway Design Department and the
Planning & Research Department.
Every pint of blood (which was 22
pints) that was needed by Diane was
donated by Roadway Design.

BEAUTY AIDS
No matter how frigid you're feeling,

You'll find the smile more or less
healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth,

Thus preserving the face from con-
gealing!

Don't be one of those husbands
that go home and find fault with din-
ner. Take your wife to a restaurant
where you can both find fault.

Most folks who wake up famous
haven't ever been asleep.

The amount of sleep required by
the average person is about live min-
utes more.

Don't be a cloud because you can't
be a star.

Firsthand knowledge does not be-
come secondhand just because it is
used.

Correcting faults is like tying a
necktie — easier to do on yourself
than on anyone else.

Too much of the milk of human
kindness is often kept in a frozen
state.

Life begins at forty — to tell us
what a mess we already have made
of it.

Don't stay away from church be-
cause you have the idea that there
are too many hypocrites there.
There's always room for one more.

We don't understand how a watch
can keep good time, because time
flies, and a watch only runs.

Panting and perspiring, two boys
on a tandem bicycle at last reached
the top of a steep hill.

"Boy, that was a stiff climb, Mike!"
exclaimed Billy, breathing heavily.

"Sure was," agreed Mike. "If I
hadn't kept that brake on, we'd have
gone backwards!"

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FERRY DIVISION

D. E. SNOW
Correspondent

Our sympathy is extended to Mr.
C. H. BALLANCE for the recent loss
of his brother-in-law. Mr. Ballance is
a Ferry Pilot at Hatteras Inlet.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. E. R. BALLANCE, a for-
mer Ferryman at Hatteras Inlet. Mr.
Ballance died March 12, 1969 after
an illness of one year.

Captain MARVIN HOWARD, re-
tired Ferry Captain of Ocracoke, N.
C, died recently. He was one of the
first licensed captains to be employed
by the Ferry Division and came to
the organization with the purchase
of the former ferry "Sea Level",
which operated between Atlantic, N.
C. and Ocracoke, N. C.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mr. W. A. TAYLOR, Ferryman, Mr.
LORAN MIDGETTE, Ferryman and
Mr. L. P. PAYNE, Engineer. We
hope to have you back with us soon.

Our best wishes go with Mr. DA-
VID AUSTIN, Radio Operator at
Manns Harbor, who has resigned to
accept employment with the Nation-
al Park Service.

outstanding photography. Keep shoot-
ing, George.

Ferry Operations was recently or-
ganized and became officially Unit
16 of the N. C. Highway and Correc-
tion Employees Association. Officers
elected were Mr. BENJAMIN O'-
NEAL, Chairman, Mr. PRESTON
BRYANT, Vice Chairman and Mrs.
EDWARDS, Sec. & Treas. We are
very proud of this happening.

The welcome mat is out to our new
Typist in the Ferry Equipment office,
at Manns Harbor, N. C. Welcome
aboard Mrs. SIDNEY JONES.

We will not say good-bye to
JOYCE SPENCER, our Correspon-
dent and Typist, who resigned to con-
tinue her education at Brigham
Young University, Provo, Utah. Bon-
Voyage, Joyce, may you always have
fair tides and the wind at your back.

Otis M. Banks, Executive Secre-
tary, N. C. Highway and Correction
Employees' Association, and Emmett
W. Burden, Executive Director, N. C.
State Employees' Association, pre-
senting the Legislative Program on
behalf of State Employees to the
Joint Committee on Appropriations,
1969 General Assembly, on February
19 in the State Legislative Building.

Mr. LESLIE GARRISH vacation-
ed in Southport, North Carolina re-
cently.

Mr. RANDOLPH BARNETT was
a recent Florida vacationer.

Mr. GEORGE FULLER, Ferry Su-
perintendent, Hatteras, N. C, was
the recent recipient of an award for

Mr. Otis Banks, Executive Secretary of the N.C.H.&C.E.A. and Mr. David
King, met with employees of the Ferry Operations at the Morehead City Ferry
Office, Thursday morning, February 27, 1969, for the purpose of forming UNIT
16 — Ferry Operations, North Carolina Highway & Correction Employees As-
sociation. The following operations were represented at this meeting: Hatteras
Inlet, Bogue Sound, Pamlico River, Southport-Ft. Fisher, Cedar Island-Ocra-
coke and Manns Harbor Equipment Department.

Unit Officers elected were: B. L. O'Neal, Highway Office Mgr., M. City
Office — CHAIRMAN; Mrs. Virginia Edwards, Clerk II, M. City Office —
SECRETARY-TREASURER and Captain P. L. Bryant, Southport-Ft. Fisher
— VICE CHAIRMAN.

Annual Income Of North Carolina
Travel Industry

By BILL HENSLEY

The annual income of North Caro-
lina's travel industry nearly doubled
during the past decade, but the in-
crease in additional travel firms and
new jobs they created was less than
half as great, according to State Tra-
vel Director Bill F. Hensley.

The director said annual spending
by travelers in North Carolina in-
creased from $360 million in 1958 to
$696 million last year. During the
same period, he pointed out, the num-
ber of travel-related firms in the
State rose only 34 per cent — from
16,940 to 22,680.

There was a 43 per cent increase
in the number of persons employed
in the travel industry — from 67,547
in 1958 to 96,700 last year.

The comparisons are based on spe-
cial compilations in the 1968 North
Carolina Travel Survey, which shows
the industry's growth both on the
State level and by individual counties.

"The survey may indicate that the
increase in North Carolina's travel
economy has been due largely to the
general increase in the travel market
rather than to any significant effort
on the part of the industry to provide
additional travel facilities," Hensley
said.

He pointed out that only five coun-
ties increased their number of travel
firms by 100 per cent or more during
the decade and that five other coun-
ties actually had fewer persons em-
ployed in the travel industry last
year than in 1958. In the latter case,
however, each county realized at least
a 50 per cent increase in the amount
they receive annually from travelers.

In terms of total travel expendi-
tures, including the amount spent by
North Carolinians traveling within
their own state, thirty-one counties
had an increase of 100 per cent or
more during the period. Graham had
the greatest growth percentage (548
percent), followed by Swain with 237
per cent, Camden with 218 per cent,
Cherokee with 215 per cent and Dare
County with a 200 per cent increase.

Mecklenburg, the State's most pop-
ulous county, also was the county
which received the greatest amount
of income from travelers. In 1968,
travelers spent more than $74 million
in Mecklenburg, almost double the
amount spent in 1958.

Although the urban areas of the
Piedmont registered highest in total
travel expenditures, Hensley remark-
ed, a significant increase in travel
spending was also noted in the coastal
and far western counties. Buncombe
County received more than $43 mil-
lion from travelers in 1968, an in-
crease of 143 per cent over the amount
spent in 1958. Cherokee County's tra-
vel income rose 215 per cent, from
less than $1 million in 1958 to more
than $2.7 million last year. Swain
County had a 237 per cent growth
rate in annual spending, from $1.2
million to nearly $4.5 million.

Travel spending in both Dare and
Currituck counties, which comprise
most of the Outer Banks region, in-
creased substantially during the per-
iod. Dare's income from travelers in-
creased 200 per cent, from $1.2 mil-
lion to $3.6 million, while the $677,-
000 spent in Currituck last year repre-
sents an increase of 198 per cent over
the amount spent there in 1958.

Copies of the survey report, com-
piled by Dr. Lewis C. Copeland of
the University of Tennessee, may be
obtained by writing the Travel and
Promotion Division, Department of
Conservation and Development, Ra-
leigh, North Carolina 27602.

U. S. Road
Mileage Report

Roads and streets in the United
States, under the jurisdiction of all
levels of government, totaled nearly
3.7 million miles in 1967. The data
was compiled by the Department of
Transportation's Bureau of Public
Roads from information supplied by
the states.

The 3,704,914-mile total includes
521,203 miles of municipal roads and
streets, and 3,183,711 miles of roads
in rural areas. The municipal mileage
comprises 14 percent, and the rural
mileage 86 percent, of the U. S. total.

About 878,000 miles of all roads
and streets in the Nation, or 24 per-
cent of the total, are unsurfaced.
Some 1.31 million smiles, or 35 per-
cent of the roads, have surfaces of
granular material, gravel, crushed
stone or slag. The remaining 1.52 mil-
lion miles, or 41 percent, have sur-
faces ranging from bituminous sur-
face treatment to bituminous and
portland-cement concrete. This last
Ejroup includes the surfaces which the
public generally thinks of as "paved,"
although some of the lowest types,
if old and not well maintained, may
appear to be gravel roads.

Nearly 478,000 miles of roads and
streets, or 13 percent of the U. S. to-
tal, are on the state primary systems.
An additional 289,349 miles, 8 per-
cent of the total, are also under state
control. Roads and streets under lo-
cal control amount to 2.77 million
miles, or 75 percent of the total. Over
164,000 miles of roads in national
parks, forests, etc., are under federal
control, accounting for 4 percent of
the total U. S. mileage.

The road and street systems in the
Nation have grown, but little in ex-
tent, proportionately, in recent years.
The annual total increase since 1956
is less than 1 percent. In the same
period, municipal mileage has in-
creased an average of nearly 4 per-
cent per year. The Nation's needs lie
generally not in a large increase in
mileage, but in improvement or re-
placement of existing highways. One
indication of improvement is that the
mileage of unsurfaced roads and
streets has been declining at an aver-
age rate of 2 percent during recent
years.

The Federal Government has juris-
diction only of roads in national parks
and forests. The federal aid system,
constructed with federal funds, ob-
tained from federal highway-user tax-
es, are parts of the road systems un-
der the jurisdiction of state and lo-
cal governments. These governments
have sole responsibility for their op-
eration and maintenance. The federal
aid systems comprise 24 percent of
the total mileage.

BROCKS MILL POND ON N. C. 58 IN TRENTON

Brocks Mill Pond is located on N. C. 58 in Trenton, Jones County. Until about seven years ago a grist mill was operated
at this location but is no longer in operation. The pond extends through a portion of the Town of Trenton and is quite pictur-
esque with old cypress trees festooned with Spanish moss. Quite a few homes, two of which are shown in picture, have been con-
structed along the banks of the pond.

ROADWAYS

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FOR EMPLOYEES
OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

MAY-JUNE 1969

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

VOLUME XV
NUMBER III

Public Relations Officer Arch Laney

Assistant Public Relations Officer Gibson Prather

Editor Frances Newhouse

Associate Editor JEWEL ADCOCK

Receptionist J an IE Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From The Chairman 1

N. C. Welcome Centers 2

Know Your Divisions — Division I 3

N.C.H.C.E.A. Association News 9

A Letter We Liked 10

Raleigh Downtown Boulevard 11

Interstate Detours 12

Freewheelin' 13

Headquarters 14

Division News 22

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

Don Matthews, Jr. John F. McNair, III

W. W. Exum George L. Hundley

Ashley M. Murphy George H. Broadrick

Carl Renfro Raymond Smith

J. B. Brame W. B. Garrison

Carl Meares James G. Stikeleather, Jr.

Thomas S. Harrington W. Curtis Russ

COVER PICTURE

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chd3F Engineer FRONT VIEW OF WELCOME CENTER ON

George Willoughby Secondary Roads Officer INTERSTATE 95, NEAR THE VIRGINIA STATE

William M. Ingram Controller LINE — (SEE STORY INSIDE)

From The Chairman

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

Most businesses realize that their relationship with
the public is something to be worked for constantly, and
public relations has come to be regarded as a necessary
function.

The State Highway Commission is really a large
business with more than four million stockholders —
the people of North Carolina.

A part of our job is to educate the public and keep
it informed as to what is being done with the taxes which
are allocated for the building and maintenance of the
state highway system.

To help with this, we have a public relations depart-
ment located in the Highway Building in Raleigh. One
of its jobs is to produce this magazine.

Another one of its functions to keep the people in-
formed about their roads and to do what it can to in-
sure that the "image" of the Highway Commission is
presented favorably.

Often this last item calls for just basic, common cour-
tesy.

And this is where every employee of the Highway
Commission, from the top on down, can help.

All the work done in Raleigh to keep our relations
with the public smooth and calm can be damaged in an
instant by rudeness or discourtesy on the part of an
employee in the field. After all, it is the employee who

works out on the projects who is the real ambassador of
the Highway Commission.

We all know that people can be unreasonable at
times and it is tempting to give a short answer in many
cases. But we should all remember that it is the public
who is paying for our roads and who are the real stock-
holders in this road business we operate.

You people who work in the field, who are in con-
tact with the public on a day-to-day basis, can do the
Commission a lot of good by the way you deal with the
questions or complaints you receive.

It costs nothing to be courteous, but rudeness or
discourtesy can undo a lot of work of the public relations
department to see that the general public is kept inform-
ed and satisfied with its road program.

The Welcome Centers

The Welcome Center is located on Interstate 95 in
Northampton County just south of the state line and
serves southbound traffic. Construction on the center be-
gin in February, 1968 and was completed in August,
1968. The contractor was S. T. Wooten Construction Co.,
and the total cost was approximately $400,000.00. It
covers a land area of some 20 acres and the building has
approximately 2,800 sq. ft. of space.

The purpose of the center is to provide information,
direction, and other travel assistance to the many thous-
ands of tourists in this area. It is staffed by 4 lovely
uniformed hostesses under the direction of the Depart-
ment of Conservation and Development, and is open 7
days a week, year round from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.,
except during the summer months when it is kept open
from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. Inside the large reception
room are many travel brochures, depicting points of in-
terest in our State, official road maps, color transparen-
cies of vacation spots, etc. A Maintenance Man keeps
the buildings and restrooms spotless.

The grounds are maintained by the Landscape De-
partment of the N. C. Highway Commission, who pro-
vides a Grounds Maintenance Man, to clean picnic ta-
bles, outdoor cooking grilles, litter deposits, and to main-
tain the trees, lawn, and shrubbery. There are some 20
picnic tables, 50 litter deposits, 7 cooking grilles, and
many drinking fountains.

The parking area serves 50 cars, 10 car-trailers, and
15 tractor trailer trucks and is constantly full. Approxi-
mately 155,000 tourists have stopped at the Welcome Cen-
ter since its official opening and we believe that it pro-
vides a much needed and much appreciated service for
the traveling public. We feel certain that the image of
our great state will be further enhanced through the serv-
ice provided at the Welcome Centers.

1

Heading North Carolina's Welcome Center program
as Supervisor is attractive Mrs. Sara Harison of Atlanta,
Georgia. Mrs. Harison served in a similar position with
the Georgia Tourist Division for two years before coming
to North Carolina in August, 1967.

Mrs. Harison attended Georgia Southern College and
was a former public relations coordinator with Columbia
Nitrogen Corporation of Augusta. She is a member of the
American Advertising Federation and the Junior Lea-
gue of Augusta.

The State Highway Commission welcomed North
Carolina's first Welcome Center August 1, 1968, when it
was officially dedicated. A month later, in September
of 1968, the second center was opened. The centers are
located at 1-85 and 1-95 near the Virginia line. Built at
Highway Commission Rest Area sites, the Centers were
financed by the N. C. Department of Conservation & De-
velopment and are operated by the Travel and Promo-
tion Division of that agency, directed by William F.
Hensley and Welcome Center Supervisor Sara A. Hari-
son.

Both centers are identical in traditional design and
each contains about 2,800 square feet of floor space. Most
of the space is utilized by the reception area, where tra-
vel literature, weather information and scenes from var-
ious sections of the State are displayed. They are situated
on 16-acre sites in existing highway rest areas now main-
tained by the State Highway Commission. The cost of
each center was about $85,000, exclusive of paving and
grading.

The Centers were authorized by the 1967 General
Assembly at the request of Conservation & Development.
The overall program calls for a total of eight centers, all
stationed on the State's Interstate routes. Conservation
& Development has currently requested Appropriations
in the General Assembly for two new centers to be built
during the next biennium. Not only will the centers aid
the economic growth of the State, but it is a progressive
step in informing the traveler what there is to do and
see in North Carolina. Since the opening of the two cen-
ters on 1-85 and 1-95 last fall, statistics show that well
over 260,000 tourists were visitors.

Welcome Center Supervisor, Mrs. Sara Harison, said
that each center is staffed by a manager, senior recep-

N.C. Welcome Centers

By JEWEL ADCOCK

North Carolina's first Welcome Center located on
Interstate 85, two miles from the Virginia line, was offi-
cially opened and dedicated August 1, 1968.

The State's second Welcome Center was officially
opened September, 1968. It's located on Interstate 95
just one-half mile from the Virginia line.

tionist, two Junior receptionists and a custodian. They
will be open year-round from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., except
during the peak travel months of summer when longer
hours are required.

Known as hostesses, the attractive women employees
are smartly uniformed, well-trained in the State's his-
tory and travel attractions, and efficiently assist travel-
ers to plan their itineraries.

"But most important," Mrs. Harison pointed out,
"they suggest additional things for the traveler to see and
do while he is in the State."

The Highway Commission is glad to play an im-
portant part by providing the sites for these beautiful
Welcome Centers which are such an asset to our State.
And the State of North Carolina is fortunate to have
the able services of Bill Hensley as Director and Mrs.
Sara Harison as the Welcome Centers' Supervisor.

2

Know Your Division Engineer and its Operation

Division No. 1

DEPARTMENTS
MR. D. W. PATRICK, DIVISION
ENGINEER, DIVISION I

In terms of total land and water
area, Division One is the largest of
the fourteen highway divisions. The
terrain is generally flat, through
which flows many rivers and streams.
Its boundaries extend from the large
peanut and tobacco producing areas
of Martin, Northampton, and Bertie
Counties, eastward to the historical
Outer Banks.

Encompassed by these boundaries
are Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Curri-
tuck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde,
Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington
counties plus two large bodies of in-
land water, the Albemarle and Pam-
lico Sounds.

Division One has a total of 4,690,-
69 miles of primary and secondary
roads on the State Highway System.
This includes 1,155.30 miles on the
primary system and 3,535.39 miles of
secondary roads. Mr. D. G. Matthews,
Jr. of Hamilton, North Carolina,
serves as Commissioner and Mr. D.
W. Patrick serves as Division Engi-
neer.

As the administrative head of Di-
vision One, Mr. Patrick, is responsi-
ble for all highway maintenance and
construction activities within the Di-

BY GLEN CARAWAN

vision which now employs 623 per-
manent and temporary employees in
maintenance, construction, and ad-
ministration. The maintenance oper-
ation includes the Landscape, Traf-
fice Service, and Road Oil Depart-
ments. In addition to this responsi-
bility, Mr. Patrick, works closely with
Bridge Maintenance, Equipment,
Right-Of-Way, Location, and Depart-
ment of Corrections personnel to in-
sure the coordination of all efforts
with the overall highway program.
Mr. Patrick is assisted in this re-
sponsibility by Mr. W. H. Coleman,
Assistant Division Engineer, who is
primarily responsible for all contract
construction operations. The Division
is made up of three Districts, with
offices located in Ahoskie, Elizabeth
City, and Plymouth, plus four Resi-
dent Engineer Offices in Plymouth,
Ahoskie, Williamston, and Elizabeth
City.

FERRY

In addition to maintaining the
many miles of roads, Division One
has two ferries which are operated by
the Maintenance Department under
District Engineer, R. J. West. One
such ferry (pictured above) is Park-
er's Ferry which crosses the Meher-
rin River in Hertford County north
of Winton. Two employees aie as-
signed to this ferry, which operates
seven days per week with its daily
schedule beginning at 7:30 a.m. and
ending at 6:30 p.m. The ferry has a
gross load weight limit of three tons

and an average annual daily traffic
of twenty vehicles.

In the background of the picture,
a fish house is seen where many
thousands of herring are brought in
during the Spring and processed for
market. One other such ferry is the
San Souci which crosses Chashie Ri-
ver about ten miles south of Windsor.
Its operating schedule and daily traf-
fic volume are very similar to Park-
er's Ferry.

ENDANGERED BY OCEAN
WAVES AND BEACH EROSION

IS BUSINESS 158 IN KITTY
HAWK AND KILL DEVIL'S HILL
ON THE FAMED OUTER BANKS

The threat of the mighty Atlantic
continues to increase as it keeps mov-
ing closer to one half mile section
of pavement shown in picture above.
Beach cottages, which once stood on
this section of the beach, have been
undermined and tumbled into the
ocean. During certain wind and tide
conditions, the highway becomes
flooded with sea water as a result of
the narrow dune being too small to
hold back ocean waves. No extensive
damage has occured to the pavement,
at the present time, as a result of
this flooding. The small dune be-
tween the highway and the ocean
was constructed and is maintained by
the State Highway Commission. Due
to its closeness to the pavement, the
Highway Commission is making ef-
forts to attain agreements from pro-
perty owners to construct a sand
fence off the right-of-way and far
enough from the highway in order
that a larger sand dune may be creat-
ed under natural conditions which
will provide better protection.

S

RIGHT-OF-WAY

NEW SURFACED ROADS
VIEWS OF NEWLY
SURFACED ROADS

Personnel pictured above are rep-
resentatives from the Right-Of-Way
Department in Division One, although
some work is done by Division One
personnel in neighboring Halifax
County. The activities in Division
One are under the supervision of Mr.
J. O. Sellars, Division Right-of-Way
Agent. The staff, as pictured above
from left to right, includes: Mr. C. B.
Robertson, Jr., Right-of-Way Agent
I; Mr. Leonard D. Dubose, Right-of-
Way Agent; Mrs. Linda Vann, Secre-
tary; Mr. C. L. Beard, Right-of-Way
Agent; Mr. J. O. Sellars, Division
Right-of-Way Agent; Mr. Rodney E.
Legates, Right-of-Way Agent; Mrs.
Brenda Daughtry, Secretary. (Ab-
sent from picture are Mr. M. R. Con-
ner and Mr. T. B. Wilson, Right-of-
Way Agents).

The duties of the Right-of-Way
Department include the acquisition of
all Right-of-Way for new roads and
improvement of existing roads includ-
ing interstate, primary, and secon-
dary. The acquisition of all soil pits
or stock pile areas and arranging for
the move and/or adjusting of utili-
ties which become involved in high-
way projects. In addition to the above,
the Right-of-Way Department works
closely with the Attorney General's
Office Highway Division who hand-
les all legal matters for the High-
way Commission and also does a lim-
ited amount of work investigating
torch claims for Industrial Commis-
sion. The Right-of-Way Department

of Division One also works in close
cooperation with the Highway Com-
mission's advisory office in Greenville
in helping to relocate relocatees dis-
placed by highway projects.

ONE HAPPY FAMILY

DIVISION OFFICE STAFF, pictured above, left to right: Ted F. Willard,
Office Manager; Mrs. Shirley J. Callis, Stenographer II; W. H. Coleman, As-
sistant Division Engineer; D. W. Patrick, Division Engineer; Mrs. Mildred E.
Peele, Stenographer II; and M. Glenn Carawan, Division Staff Engineer.

UNUSUAL MAINTENANCE
PROBLEMS

SHIFTING SANDS ON OUTER
BANKS — Depicts almost constant
move of sands across US 158 By-Pass,
at times eroding as well as banking,
creating a perpetual maintenance
problem. The great sand dune, "Joc-
key Ridge", pictured at right is one
of the great tourist attractions. The
area between the highway and the
dune is being considered by the High-
way Commission for construction of a
scenic overlook of the ocean.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Pictured are new, wider bridges
that were constructed throughout the
Division, with funds from the Bond
Issue, which replaced outdated, very
narrow, and sub-standard bridges.
There were approximately twelve
(12) of these old bridges replaced.
We, in Division One, consider this
operation, to be the best use of bond
funds.

US 158 IN CONWAY,
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

Looking eastward, picture gives
view of recently completed Urban
Bond project of curb and gutter and
pavement widening in Conway. Con-
tractor for the project is Dickerson,
Inc., and Mr. R. F. Hall of Ahoskie,
Resident Engineer.

VIEW OF HERBERT C. BON-
NER BRIDGE ACROSS OREGON
INLET

Photo shows filling of inlet due
to winds and tides. When bridge was
constructed in 1963, party boats fish-
ed daily, taking an abundance of
fish, where now there is almost "dry
land".

US 258 IN NORTHAMPTON
COUNTY

View of portion of recently com-
pleted project of widening, paving,
replacement of bridges, construction
of paved ditches, and erosion control.
Paved shoulders added as safety fea-
ture and prevention of pavement
edge maintenance. Dickerson Incor-
porated was contractor on project,
under supervision of Resident Engi-
neer, R. F. Hall, of Ahoskie.

SHAPING SHOULDERS AND
RESTORING TYPICAL SECTION

This operation is taking place on
US 64 east of Robersonville in Mar-
tin County. Picture shows grader
rowing excessive material from shoul-
der on edge of pavement while equip-
ment follows behind loading material
on truck which will be used to widen
shoulders and flatten slopes on field
sections. This type of maintenancing
is widely used in this Division.

5

FORCE ACCOUNT,
MAINTENANCE,
AND CONSTRUCTION
TYPICAL BRIDGE MAINTE-
NANCE OPERATION

Photo shows removal of deteriorat-
ing wooden bridge on project on Ran-
kin Street in Plymouth, by Bridge
Maintenance Forces. The project is a
joint contract and Bridge Mainte-
nance project. Bridge Maintenance
Department will remove old bridge
and replace it and the contractor,
Dickerson, Incorporated, will con-
struct roadway. Resident Engineer,
A. L. Smith, of Plymouth is in charge
of construction.

CONSTRUCTING MIXED-IN-
PLACE BASE COURSE ON
SECONDARY ROAD 1304,
SCUPPERNONG ROAD, IN
WASHINGTON COUNTY

Graders are wind rowing sandy soil
which was hauled in from Borrow Pits
and placed on the Road Bed. Follow-
ing wind rowing operation, a wood
mixer mixes asphalt with the soil.
This type of base course construction
is used in this Division on certain
Secondary Road projects where local
material suitable for Mixed-In-Place
Base Courses are available.

CURB AND GUTTER AND
PAVEMENT WIDENING I N
AHOSKIE

Picture gives view of Con-
crete Curb and Gutter Construc-
tion on US 13 (Memorial Drive) in
Ahoskie. Inspecting this operation is
Ralph Whitaker (facing camera) in-
suring Highway Commission of a fin-
ished product which meets highway
specifications and standards.

US 17 PASQUOTANK-
PERQUIMANS COUNTIES

Picture shows early stage of con-
struction with heavy equipment strip-
ping unsuitable material from left
lane of the new section of US 17 by-
passing Woodville in Perquimans
County. Project involves dual lane
construction and is being financed
with Primary Bond funds. Construc-
tion begins at a point of approximate-
ly two miles south of Elizabeth City
and progresses southward for a dis-
tance of 5.6 miles. Dickerson, Inc. is
contractor and Mr. W. M. Smith of
Elizabeth City, Resident Engineer.

BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

In progress on Weyerhauser Company
access road in Plymouth. Dickerson,
Incorporated is contractor, under the
direction of A. L. Moore, Resident
Engineer. In background, is a por-
tion of the large Weyerhauser Pulp
Mill located in Plymouth.

ADDITIONAL LANE FOR US 13
AND 17 BETWEEN WINDSOR
AND WILLIAMSTON IN BERTIE
COUNTY

In its final stages of construc-
tion, contractor is shaping shoul-
ders for the seeding operation on this
8.4 miles project which consists of
grading, paving, and structures. Upon
completion of project, this section of
highway will be a dual lane facility
serving traffic between Windsor and
Williamston with new lane serving
north bound traffic and existing lane
serving south bound traffic. The pro-
ject is being financed totally by Pri-
mary Bond funds and contractor is
Dickerson, Incorporated. Mr. W. H.
Hofler of Williamston is Resident
Engineer.

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OREGON INLET BRIDGE

EQUIPMENT

Cleaning and painting Structural
Steel on Herbert C. Bonner Bridge
over Oregon Inlet. The work is a
maintenance function and is being
accomplished by contract under the
supervision of Resident Engineer, W.
M. Smith of Elizabeth City.

Contractor for the project is Ran-
dall H. Sharp of Oklahoma City. The
work involves sand blasting of steel
beams and three applications of paint-
ing. The first coat is a Self Curing
Inorganic Zinc Paint; the second coat
is Black Coal Tar Epoxy Paint; and
the third coat is Red Coal Tar Epoxy
Paint. It is hoped, this treatment of
painting will provide better protection
of Structural Steel against the salt
sea spray from the Atlantic Ocean.

Top picture was taken looking sea-
ward through channel span of bridge
with Inspector L. C. Askew standing
near ladder at pier left making rou-
tine inspection. Bottom picture shows
sand blasting and painting operations
and by close examination of steel
beams one can readily see the urgent
need of this maintenance operation.

Pictured right is the Division
Equipment Shop located on US 17,
three miles north of Hertford, North
Carolina. These headquarters are un-
der the supervision of Charles L.
Brewer, Equipment Superintendent,
and serves fourteen counties in Divi-
sion One with a total employment of
seventy. This Division has an assign-
ment of approximately 1,700 pieces
of rental and non-rental equipment.

In addition to the equipment super-
intendent, the Hertford headquarters
is staffed with M. E. Copeland, High-
way Equipment Office Manager; R.
E. Newton, Shop Foreman; and H. G.
Arnold, Automotive Parts Supervisor.

Since maintenance of equipment is
the responsibility of the Equipment
Department, Division One has three
district shops which are located in
Elizabeth City, Ahoskie, and Ply-
mouth.

The Elizabeth City shop is located
five miles north of Elizabeth City and
is under the supervision of C. C.
Pritchard, District Mechanic.

The Ahoskie shop is located at
Union and under the supervision of
J. W. Smith.

In Plymouth, the Equipment shop
is located near US 64 and is under
the supervision of H. F. Waters.

There is also a total of eight sub-
shops located throughout the Divi-
sion.

SUPERVISOR TRAINING — A group of Highway Employees in Divi-
sion One who recently participated in Supervisory Development Training course
at Roanoke-Chowan Technical Institute, shown with Instructor Frank Guttu
(standing right). Employees from Maintenance, Construction, Road Oil, Land-
scape, Traffic Services, Bridge Maintenance, Equipment, and Administration
Departments were involved. These employees devoted approximately 44 hours
of off duty time to this course and all were graduated and received individual
certificates of completion on May 21, 1969,

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8

NC.H.CEA. ASSOCIATION NEWS

A REPORT TO THE EMPLOYEES
By: OTIS BANKS and DAVID KING

ANNUAL STATISTICAL SUMMARY — TEACHERS' BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

and STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM wnwTXT rrn D , • u ^ • , ™

EDWIN GILL, Raleigh, Chairman (State Treasurer)

(As of December 31, 1968) Charles F. Carroll, Raleigh

1. Number of Members, including James H- Councill, Boone

those retired 159,431 (Highway Representative)

n xt u • • T3 i- i Donald R. Lineberger, Brevard

2. Number receiving Retirement 6 '

Allowances 12,078 E- °- Falkner, Henderson

. x T , . 0 . A Sterling C. Manning, Raleigh

3. Number of Person to whom other T , TTT _ _

■d . j • incQ John W. Pou, Greenville
Payments made in 1968:

Refunds 11,966 Mrs- W- H- Rooker, Monroe

Death Benefits 300 S. M. Gattis, Hillsborough

4. Amounts Paid in 1968: Guy Smith> Jr"' ^™burg

Retirement Benefits $ 17,496,778

Refunds ... 6'Zn'™l INVESTMENT COMMITTEE:

Death Benefits 1,760,700

Total Payments $ 25,329,790 CLYDE H. HARRIS, Salisbury, Chairman

5. Total Assets at end of the year $732,301,103 E- ° Falkner, Henderson

T. A. Upchurch, Raleigh

6. Rate of Yield on Investments in 1968 .... 4.74% „ T „ ... TT.„ , ,

S. M. Gattis, Hillsborough

John W. Pou, Greenville

BASIC LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM, 1969
ADOPTED BY BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

ANNUAL UNIT MEETINGS— 1969

1. Unreduced retirement at age 62 with 30 or more years

of creditable service. Unit-Day-Date Time and Place

1 Tuesday 6-24 Hertford High School— 7:30 P.M.

2. After age 60, a 3% reduction in retirement benefits 2 Thursday 6-26 Moose Lodge, Greenville —
(instead of present 4%) for each year of age short of 7:00 P.M.

normal retirement (62 with 30 years or 65 with less) 3 Wednesday 7-2 Division Shop, Wilmington —

(instead of present 4%) 7:30 P.M.

3. Improved disability benefits. 4 Tuesday 7"8 Parkex^ US 301, Wilson-

4. Cost-of-living increase in retirement allowances con- 5 Wednesday 7-9 Smith's Lake, off NC 98 from
ditioned on an increase in the Consumer Price Index Durham Bypass — 7:30 P.M.
and on the availability of funds. 6 Thursday 7-10 Holiday Inn, Lumberton, St. Int.

1-95, NC 211—7:00 P.M.
7 Friday 7-11 Division Shop, Greensboro —

INVESTMENTS OF THE SYSTEM: 6:30 P.M.

<V Averaee Book <V To 8 Tuesday 7"15 Sanford Fairground— 7:00 P.M.

/o average dook /o io g Wednesday 7_16 Ketner's Cafeteria, Town Mall

Description Yield Value Total Shopping Center, Salisbury Int.

_ , m A 1-85, US 52 East— 7:00 P.M.

County Bonds 3.17 $ 4,959,527 .68 10 Tuesday 7-22 Maintenance Club House,

Municipal Bonds 3.17 4,002,469 .55 Monroe— 4 00 P M

U. S. Treasury Bonds .. 3.54 138,820,989 19.02 n Friday 7-18 VFW Club, North Wilkesboro-

Corporate Bonds 5.14 448,844,815 61.50 ?.30 p M

U. S. Agency Bonds . 5.32 59,323,491 8.13 u Friday 7.25 Statesville Maintenance

Public Housing Quarters — 7:00 P.M.

Authority Bonds 3.45 347,279 .05 13 Wednesday 7.23 Lake Tahoma Steak House,
Farmers Home Marion-7:30 P.M.

Administration Notes 5/76 14,314,463 1.96 u Thursday 7-24 Normandy Restaurant, Franklin,
TOTAL BONDS US 64 in town-7:00 P.M.

AND NOTES 4.81 $670,613,033 91.89 15 Wednesday 7-30 Cardinal Cafeteria, Gateway

Common Stocks 3.95 59,225,684 8.11 Plaza, Raleigh 7:00 P.M.

^ . ^. -, . _ ~ 16 Friday 6-27 Rex Restaurant, US 70,

GRAND TOTAL 4.74 $729,838,717 100.00 (Ferry) Morehead City — 8:00 P.M.

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Plenty of activity surrounds an installation of paint-test lines according
to technical standards. At the test site above, on US 1 Business in Raleigh,
Traffic Services personnel carefully lay paint strips on the pavement and
across metal plates that will be used for measuring wet and dry film thick-
nesses. Records are made of pavement surface temperature and other factors
pertaining to the paint as applied. Man at far right shoulders a wheel for test-
ing drying time to traffic.

Keep Off Limited
for Traffic Painting

Where highway traffic is delayed
or restricted, which often happens
during maintenance work, hazards
tend to exist. Consequently, for safe-
ty's sake primarily, a fast-drying
paint is indicated in the installation
of pavement markings, such as lane
lines and crosswalks, in order to open
the roadway to full service as quick-
ly as possible.

Then too, an economic advantage
would occur with a quick-drying
paint not requiring a traffic blockade,
because it would save using a truck
and personnel to set out and pick up
cones or other wet-line protectors.

In an effort to find a traffic paint
with optimum drying time, weighed
with other desired qualities, the Traf-
fic Engineering Department is now
engaged in a field investigation of
various formulas of fast-drying paint.
The Prison Enterprises' Paint Plant,
a full partner in the project, develop-
ed a number of the paints being test-
ed, and performed laboratory work.

The Paint-test site — on McDowell
Street (US 1 Business) in Raleigh,
one block north of Hillsborough
Street — has an average daily volume
of 15,500 vehicles. Subjecting the paint
lines to a high concentration of traffic
will expedite the testing.

Ten different formulas of paint are
being tested. To insure a fair sampl-
ing, three lines of each paint type
were put down. Upon application,
paints were tested for drying time,
and records were made of the film
thickness and other conditions affect-
ing paint performance.

Periodically, an inspection team,
made up of State Highway personnel,
grades the paint strips on appearance,
durability, and bleeding, based on
standards of the American Society of
Testing Materials, Reflectivity is
checked by reflectometer readings and
night-time photography.

Assistant State Traffic Engineer H.
C. Rhudy, who promoted the paint
study, says this project on fast-drying
paint will be concluded when all test

lines fall to 40% of standard. (This
investigation is separate from a paint
test being conducted by the Traffic
Engineering Department on US 64
east of Raleigh, reported in ROAD-
WAYS, May-June, 1967.)

Rhudy is assisted by Traffic Re-
search Engineer Glenn G. Grigg.
Members of the inspection team are
Haywood Barham, Materials and
Tests Department; William J. Bur-
bage, Planning and Research De-
partment; Reiley Curtis, Tommy
Knox and Don Dupree, Traffic En-
gineering Department. Traffic Serv-
ices Department of Division 5 con-
tributed personnel and equipment for
applying the paint test lines.

A Letter We Liked

9039 Sligo Creek Parkway
Apt. 1701

Silver Spring, Maryland
May 19, 1969

State Commissioner of Highways

Raleigh,

North Carolina

Dear Sir:

I wish to express my appreciation
for an act of courtesy and kindness
on the part of one of your employees.

He is Mr. "Obie" Roughton, the
bridge tender of the long bridge across
the Alligator River (Highway 64),
who lives in Columbia.

I was working my sloop "Triton"
north on the Alligator River the
morning of the 27th of April this
year when I began to become con-
cerned about my fuel supply. I could
not sail her because of a broken
spreader, the result of a sea passage
from Miami to Charleston, South
Carolina.

We hailed Mr. Roughton as we
passed through the bridge and ex-
plained our plight.

He confirmed our suspicion that
the nearest marina was at Elizabeth
City, a run which would have ex-
hausted our fuel supply. Mr. Rough-
ton then allowed us to tie up at the
bridge and kindly lent one of us
his car to run into Columbia. He
then give us assistance in loading our
supplies and saw us safely on our way.

This sort of episode left my ship-
mate and me with very warm feel-
ings. Mr. Roughton is an outstanding
representative of the good and kind
people of your State. I would be
grateful if you would pass along to
him our thanks.

Sincerely,
/s/ Sven A. Bach,
Col., USA

North Carolina oar inspection laws
means that the automobiles you meet
should be in good shape. But they
are no guarantee for a long life if
the driver has left his common sense
back in his living room.

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Raleigh's Downtown Boulevard
Undergoes Change-

Downtown Boulevard in Raleigh
will undergo some changes in chan-
nelization to increase the capacity for
southbound traffic flow.

Under present operations, at cer-
tain times of the day in particular,
the heavy volume of inbound traffic
on the Boulevard becomes critically
congested, resulting in undue delay
and inconvenience to commuters and
other travelers.

The new traffic pattern has been
designed to use roadway facilities
to the fullest extent, according to the
Traffic Engineering Department of
the State Highway Commission. It is
expected to reduce congestion at the
juncture with Fairview Road and
facilitate the transportation of peo-
ple from the northern fringes of Ra-
leigh going to downtown areas.

Probably the most noticeable
change planned by the State traffic
engineers will occur where Fairview
Road, which has a comparatively
light vehicular load, feeds into US 1
Business - US 401 (Downtown Boule-
vard) .

At present, cars coming off the
Fairview Road flyover enter directly
onto the left southbound lane of the
Boulevard and may follow this lane
all the way into the downtown busi-
ness district. The mass of cars arriv-
ing at this point from the north are
limited to only the single right lane.
This situation creates a bottleneck
which frequently causes stoppages.
Traffic at times is backed up as far
north as the Wake Forest Road inter-
change. In turn, traffic inbound on
the Wake Forest Road may be back-
ed up to Whitaker Mill Road.

The new plan calls for the Fairview
Road traffic to yield to southbound
traffic on Downtown Boulevard; and
an acceleration lane will be provid-
ed for Fairview Road users, who will
be required to merge into traffic
coming from the right, thus allowing
two through lanes for cars already
progressing along the Boulevard.

As part of the treatment, changes
in lane lines are also planned for
another location — one at the off
ramp to Wade Avenue and another
at the turnoff to a service road.

Approaching the juncture with the Fairview Road overpass, southbound
traffic on the Downtown Boulevard, as seen above, is using to full capacity the
left lane to which it is restricted at this point, whereas the lane on the right
is practically empty. Reworking of the lane lines at this location will provide
a separate right-turn lane for westbound Wade Avenue traffic, and at the
same time give through traffic two lanes for moving past the Fairview Road
ramp and on into downtown areas.

Looking north (away from town) on the Boulevard from the Fairview Road
overpass, it is evident that southbound traffic is not using road facilities to the
fullest extent, because inbound cars are limited to the left lane. Under the
new plan, gaps seen in the right lane can be used for carrying traffic headed
downtown.

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Through traffic on the Boulevard will
be channeled away from the Wade
Avenue ramp and the Service Road
connection, to provide a deceleration
lane at those points on the road.

State Traffic Engineer J. O. Litch-
ford says that before the traffic
change goes into effect, traffic con-
trol devices will have to be installed
to warn and guide the motorists. For
instance, users of Fairview Road will
be warned of their required move-
ment by yield signs, one with a flash-
er as an extra attention-getter. Ar-
rows will be painted on the pavement
to further aid in keeping vehicles in
their proper lane.

Highway personnel have been erect-
ing signs and marking pavement for
the revised traffic plan to go into ef-
fect, probably early this week.

Until the public becomes more fa-
miliar with the new traffic system,
some uncertainty of movement may
occur. The State Highway Traffic
Engineering Department is using the
news media to apprise people of the
innovations in order to make the ad-
justment easier and to realize bene-
fits from the change as soon as pos-
sible.

NEW TRAFFIC PATTERN FOR DOWNTOWN BOULEVARD- FAIRVIEW ROAD FLYOVER

Because of the stricture of traffic on the Downtown Boulevard at the
Fairview Road interchange, cars entering the Downtown Boulevard from the
Wake Forest ramp are backlogged as shown in this picture.

Jean Benoy, head of the state attorney general's office consumer protec-
tion division, recently told the General Assembly House Judiciary I committee
that Tar Heels, and those traveling through North Carolina may be paying as
much as two cents a gallon extra for their gasoline. And it isn't due to a gas
tax either. Benoy stated that service station operators had admitted that the
cost of "give-away" games is being passed on to the customers.

Interstate Detours

1-26 Columbus (Polk County) to East Flat Rock (Hen-
derson County) 12.9 miles. Thru traffic go west on
NC 108 from Columbus to Tryon, thence westerly
on US 176 to 1-26 Connector. Complete Mid-1971.

1-40 Cove Creek to Clyde (Haywood County) . 6.4 miles.
Construction not started. Thru traffic take US 276
from Cove Creek to Dellwood, thence east on US
19 to 1-40 connector at Clyde. This is a multilane
roadway over the entire detour route.

1-40 Luther to West Asheville. 6.3 miles. Thru traffic
take US 19-23 to 1-40 interchange in West Ashe-
ville. Complete December 1, 1970.

1-40 Asheville to Black Mountain (Buncombe County).
14 miles. Thru traffic take US 25 northerly toward
Asheville to NC 81, thence easterly on NC 81 to
US 70, thence easterly to 1-40 at Black Mountain.

1-40 Hildebran to Conover, (Catawba County) 11.8
miles. Construction not started. Thru traffic take
US 64-70 from Hildebran to Conover.

1-40 Statesville to Hillsdale (Iredell-Davidson County)
26.0 miles. Thru traffic take US 64 from States-
ville easterly to Mocksville, thence easterly on US
158 to NC 801 (Hillsdale), thence north to 1-40.
Complete January 1, 1971.

1-77 Charlotte to Cornelius (Mecklenburg County) 16
miles. Thru traffic take US 21 thru Charlotte, North
to Cornelius.

1-77 Mount Mourne to Oswalt (Iredell County) 8.0
miles, Thru traffic take US 21 from Mount Mourne,

northerly to Oswalt. Complete October 1, 1970.
1-77 Statesville to Elkin Bypass (Iredell-Yadkin Coun-
ties) 20.0 miles. Construction not started. Thru
traffic take US 21 North from Statesville to El-
kin Bypass.

1-77 Elkin to Virginia line (Surry County) 22 miles.
Thru traffic take US 21 toward Wytheville, Virgin-
ia, or NC 268 to US 601, thence North on US 601
to US 52 at Mt. Airy, thence North on US 52 to
Virginia.

1-85 Charlotte to China Grove (Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-
Rowan Counties) 27.5 miles. Thru traffic take US
29 from Charlotte to China Grove. Charlotte to
Concord, complete mid-1971. Concord to China
Grove, complete December 1, 1969.

1-85 Durham to Henderson (Durham-Granville- Vance
Counties) 31 miles. Thru traffic take US 15 north
to US 158, thence easterly to 1-85 at Henderson.
Complete December 1, 1970.

1-95 South Carolina line to Lumberton (Robeson Coun-
ty) 13.5 miles. Thru traffic take US 301 from South
Carolina line to 1-95 at Lumberton.

1-95 Fayetteville Bypass (Cumberland County) 15.5
miles. Thru traffic take US 301 and US 301 Bypass
from South of Fayetteville to north of Fayetteville.

1-95 Kenly to Gold Rock (Wilson-Nash Counties) 37
miles. Thru traffic take US 301 from Kenly north
to Battleboro, thence westerly on 1-95 connector.
This entire detour route is a multi-lane road.

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By ARCH LANEY

The art of conversing through the end of one's fin-
gers is new among the many struggles of life. But, rook-
ie that I am, both at journalistic endeavor and as PR
worker in the Highway Commission, it is refreshing to
have reams of choice gabfest material to share with
ROADWAYS' readers.

Lest ye forget, the transition from private business
to government labor is something worth mentioning.
First in this comparison is responsibility. This aspect
weighs heavy on the shoulders of we public servants, —
or at least it should. We are laboring for a highly diver-
gent group of stockholders ... to wit — the tax paying
citizens of North Carolina. It's highly incumbent that
we be on our collective toes at all times with a real sense
of responsibility to our jobs and the five million stock-
holders, many of whom are waiting with baited breath to
point an accusing finger at us. In private life, there
should be a similar feeling of devotion to our economic
roles, but the difference comes into play when we an-
swer in many cases only to ourselves, or to a small group
that makes up the stockholders. So though the sense of
responsibility should be the same, this public life cer-
tainly points up the awareness, that if taken properly,
borders on the awesome.

Second, there is the ever-present fact of image build-
ing. This is where we in Public Relations come into play.
What each member of the 10,500 employees of the High-
way Commission does, reflects an attitude of the whole.
So, as Chairman Faircloth states in his message else-
where in this publication, we are all public relations spe-
cialists, and we can do much to upgrade the image of
all. But just coming from private business in the sales
and promotion, and advertising field, image making
takes on many other aspects. For instance patronizing
a variety of service stations, grocery stores, clothing es-
tablishments, and right on down the line, in an effort
to placate all, keeping that door open to possible future
sales of services.

Thirdly and here's where special kudos go to the
men and women of the Highway Commission, is the
tremendous dedication of everyone. Call it bad image-
building, public relations, or what have you, when I was
on the outside looking in, I visualized all governmental
agencies as a place to put someone . . . that's all. But
the sincere dedication of the folks in highways is not
only satisfying but awe-inspiring. This is the story that
needs to be taken to the five million stockholders in
North Carolina, and I intend to put this one fact at the
top of my priority lists so long as I have an opportunity
to do so.

Pre-Construction Engineer R. W. McGowan who
doubles as the SHC's Chaplain for Commissioners meet-
ings plus any other affair calling for his services pro-
bably had anxious moments about the June 6 Commis-
sioner confab, because he was away basking in the hot
springs of Arkansas, whilst he wasn't participating in the
National Pre-Construction business at hand.

But his anxieties were for naught, because The Par-
son of Harnett, Brother George Willoughby was sterling
in his sub-Chaplionic duties for the opening prayers of
the meeting, even though one member of the 4th estate
peeped only to find that Brother George was reading from
his prepared text.

Be that as it may, I'd like to un-officially dub him,
"George Willoughby, Assist, to The Chaplain". Well
done my good and faithful 2ndary Roads Officer!
* * *

Consider yourself a member of an efficient organ-
ization. When adviseries begin putting you down about
roads in Tarhellia, let go with these pacts. North Caro-
lina maintains more mileage (74,000 miles) of roads
than any other state in the nation. In fact 10% of all
roads maintained by state systems are in North Carolina.
And we manage this with only 3% of the total funds.
That, my friend, is a good buy in any store.

1$

Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

Employees miss
MICKEY MANESS who left the
department for a position with Pe-
den Steel. It's certainly nice to have
LINDA EDWARDS back at work.
Linda is a proud new mother.

The LEE WEBSTERS visited their
son who attends Leheigh University
in Bethlehem, Pa., during May. He
will work in Washington, D. C. this
summer.

MAX SPROLES and his family
spent a weekend in May at Wrights-
ville Beach, and in June the Sproles
visited Atlanta. BARBARA MITCH-
ELL and her husband attended the
N. C. Industrial Safety Convention in
Asheville May 21-23.

ROSEMARY HOOKS enjoyed a
flying trip to San Francisco, El Paso
and Mexico in May. LEROY JAY's
daughter' Lou Wheless, and her two
children visited the Jays the first
week in June.

In May, PHYLLIS NELSON at-
tended the Atlanta Classic Golf tour-
nament. Besides seeing such greats
as Bert Yancey, the winner, Nicklaus,
Player, Trevino, Archer, she met Pat
Boone, Andy Williams, Phil Harris,
Joe Namath, Danny Thomas, and
Mickey Mantle. She also saw the
Braves beat the Mets in the Atlanta
Stadium one night, had dinner at
the Abbey (a restaurant that was
formerly a church) and attended

her niece's graduation from kinder-
garten!

CENTRAL FILES — LENA and
Gilbert MORGAN with their daugh-
ter, Sharon, vacationed at Wrights-
ville Beach for a week the last of
May. During the week, the Morgans
entertained several of Sharon's friends
as house guests.

RIGHT OF WAY — WITHERS
DAVIS, who retired January 1, 1969
after 42 years service with the Com-
mission, was a special and honored
guest at the Saturday evening ban-
quet of the Annual Right of Way De-
partment Golf Tournament at Oak
Island Golf Club April 19-20. About
one-half of Mr. Davis' tenure was
with the Right of Way Department,
as was his last assignment. He had
also served the Commission in engi-
neering capacities and as Highway
Personnel Officer. As an expression
of devotion and esteem, the Tourna-
ment Committee and those in attend-
ance presented Mr. Davis a silver
tray and a gift of cash. In accepting
the honor, he expressed surprise,
along with deep appreciation, and re-
lated fond memories and his devotion
to Right of Way and its employees
throughout the State. All in Right of
Way wish for Withers and Annie, his
wife, many enjoyable years of re-
tirement.

Congratulations to ERNIE
RANDSDALL and wife, who became
the proud parents of a 7 lb., 8 oz.
baby boy, May 26.

Employees miss BILL BEDDING-
FIELD, who transferred to Advance
Planning; and also BILL GILES and
DOUGLAS SMITH, who resigned to
accept other employment.

JENNIE FERRELL resigned to
devote full time as a housewife. Em-
ployees will miss working with Jennie.

COL. HOUSE is walking around
with a wide grin since he recently
became a grandfather — does it make
you feel any older, Colonel?

ELEANOR TAYLOR and girls
spent a few days at Atlantic Beach
celebrating Debbie's graduation from
high school — congrats Debbie!

Congratulations also to Karen
Jones, daughter of Right of Way em-
ployee, LUCILLE JONES, who re-
cently graduated from Apex High
School.

EQUIPMENT — California was
the destination of MARY FRANCES
FERREL'S exciting vacation trip!
The trip out was made by car along
the southern route with tours of many
scenic attractions, including a 3*4
mile trek through the Carisbad Ca-
verns in New Mexico. In Arizona the

Miss Teresa Whitfield Thomas is
a June graduate of Broadway High
School, and was salutatorian of her
Senior Class.

Teresa won two college scholarship
awards, amounting to $1,000 and also
was winner of the "Woman of To-
morrow" Award.

She was a member of the Beta
Club, Literary Club, Monogram Club
and Glee Club, and was Assistant
Editor of the school's annual, "Sen-
iorogue".

Among her other honors, Teresa
was Broadway High's 1969 Home-
coming Queen.

She will attend the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro this
fall where she plans to major in Home
Economics and Interior Decorating.

Teresa is the daughter of Mrs.
Lawrence K. Thomas of Broadway
and the late Mr. Thomas, and the
niece of Associate ROADWAYS Edi-
tor Jewel Adcock.

Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater with
all its volcanic eruptions, Petrified
Forest and Painted Desert, added col-
or to an exciting trip. Breakfast was
enjoyed at the Four-Queens in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Highlights of the
California trip included a tour of
Disneyland with its beautiful flowers
of every kind in bloom, an impressive
view of the Tike Room by United Air-
lines and "It's a Small World" by
Bank of America — almost unbeliev-
able! Santa Monica Beach, where the
mountains meet the beach and there
are no seashells, was also enjoyed.
The return trip was by plan via At-
lanta.

Best wishes to R. G. SETZER,
who retired March 1, 1969 with forty-
five years service.

u

MISS NEWHOUSE IS
THE BRIDE OF
KENNETH KRATZ LANDIS

Miss Carolyn Andrea Newhouse
became the bride Saturday May 31st
at the Edenton Street United Meth-
odist Church of Kenneth Kratz Lan-
dis of Manchester, Connecticut. The
Rev. T. Marvin Vick officiated. The
bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roland B. Newhouse (Frances New-
house, your Editor) and the bride-
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul S. Landis of Mainland, Pa.

The bride was given in marriage by
her father and Mrs. Clark E. Cramer
was matron of honor. Bridesmaids
were her sisters, Miss Emily Sue
Newhouse, Miss Dana Debra New-
house, Miss Frances Marion New-
house and Mrs. William S. Tindall,
sister of the groom.

William S. Tindall, brother-in-law
of the groom, was best man. Ushers
were Merrill Kratz and Robert Wil-
liams, both of Manchester, Connecti-
cut; Roland B. Newhouse, Jr. of Ex-
ton, Pa., James Orr Newhouse and
Robert Leroy Newhouse, all brothers
of the bride.

A reception was held at the church,
given by the bride's parents.

Following a trip to Myrtle Beach,
S. C. and the North Carolina moun-
tains the couple will live in East
Hartford, Conn.

The bride is a graduate of N. C.
State University and is employed at
Pratt Whitney Aircraft Corporation
as an Engineer. The bridegroom is a
graduate of Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity where he was a member of
Sigma Gamma Tau Honorary Engi-
neering Fraternity. He is also em-
ployed at Pratt Whitney Aircraft Cor-
poration as an Engineer.

Welcome to IRVIN W. MORRIS
of Winston-Salem who replaced Mr.
Setzer.

It's nice to have Mrs. JEAN WIN-
STEAD back in the department.

BEN GIBBS, Administrative As-
sistant in Equipment, took his wife,
Karen, and their two children to San
Antonio, Texas during May for a va-
cation with Karen's parents.

LOCATION — Cypress Lakes Golf
Course in Fayetteville was the scene
of this year's Location Department
Spring Golf Tournament. A total of
thirty-six players and guests from all
across the state tried for trophies and
special awards on the course May 10.

Guests included C. W. LEE, Chief
Engineer; K. C. BUTLER, Assistant
6th Division Engineer; J. E. ALLEN,
Area Construction Engineer; and
BLOUNT WHITESIDE, JR., Resi-
dent Engineer. The Location Depart-
ment was led by H. BOYCE MID-
GETTE, State Locating Engineer,
and HORACE JERNIGAN, Assistant
State Locating Engineer.

In the evening golfers and their
wives attended a charcoal steak sup-
per with all the trimmings, after
which trophies and awards were pre-
sented.

Trophy winners in order were E.
RAYMOND UNDERWOOD of Lin-
oolnton, first place, with a net score
of 73. Second place went to JOHN
M. FAULKNER, who won over Geo-
logy's CARTER DODSON in a play-
off, both finished with net 74's. Fourth
and fifth place was also settled with
a play-off with JOE CREECH win-
ning fourth spot and AL CHILD-
RESS of Sanford placing 5th, both
had net score of 75. Losing the play-
off was W. L. SULLIVAN of Fay-
etteville, who also finished regulation
play with a net 75.

The guest trophy went to Mr.
Doyle Cunningham, father of W. R.
CUNNINGHAM of Asheville, who
came in with a net 72. The Callaway
System of scoring was used for this
tournament.

Special awards went to CHUCK
DAVIS of Asheboro for the longest
drive on hole number 17. Closest to
the hole with his tee shot on hole
number 9 was CARTER DODSON.
The crying towel went to FLOYD
SUITT of New Bern, who failed in
his quest for a trophy this year, but
who was heard saying "Wait until
next year."

Door prizes were won by Mrs. A.
Poe Cox, Mrs. F. D. Rohrbaugh, Mrs.
Robert Pleasant, Mrs. Carter Dodson,

ADMINISTRATOR
W. F. BABCOCK'S
DAUGHTER MARRIES

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Miss Susan Forbes Babcock, lovely
daughter of Administrator and Mrs.
Willard F. Babcock of 2611 Wells
Avenue, Raleigh, N. C, was married
Saturday, April 26, 1969 at the Hill-
yer Memorial Christian Church in
Raleigh to James Albert Humphrey
of 729 Sardis Drive, Raleigh. The
Rev. T. J. Youngblood, Jr., officiated.

The bride was given in marriage
by her father and Miss Judy Young-
blood was maid of honor. Bridesmaids
were Miss Susan Smith of Stoney
Point and Miss Pat Humphrey of
Durham.

The bridegroom's father was best
man. Ushers were John Brazer Bab-
cock, James O. Litchford and David
Glover.

The couple will make their home
at 729 Sardis Drive, Raleigh, N. C.

Mrs. Jerry Maddox and Mrs. Pitt-
man.

F. D. ROHRBAUGH wishes to
thank each and everyone who attend-
ed along with those fine employees
in Fayetteville and Lumberton who
extended their help in making this
tournament a success.

Congratulations to the L. T. PAC-
KERS, who became the proud par-
ents of a 7 lb. baby girl on April 14.

Employees miss SHARON RIGS-
BEE, who resigned to travel with her
husband.

Welcome to ROBERT ALLEN, a
new summer employee in Property
Survey.

Carolina Beach was the recent scene

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Several highway girls, all members of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, were
on hand for the signing of the proclamation for Beta Sigma Phi Week in North
Carolina April 23-30.

Assembled in the Governor's Office with Governor Bob Scott, they are
left to right: Mrs. Ruth Curlee, Dist. 1, Div. 5 steno, President of the Raleigh
City Council, governing eight chapters; Mrs. Ruth Small, Photogrammetry De-
partment; Miss Jean Riggan; Miss Shirley Messer; Miss Becky Pittman, steno
in Highway Pre-construction; Miss Carol Timberlake; Miss Barbara Stussie.
steno in Personnel; and Mrs. Gayle Glenn.

of a vacation for MARY TRIPP and
her husband.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING -
Best wishes to ELAINE H. GLOSS-
ON on her recent engagement to
STEWART SYKES of Maintenance.

Congratulations to TOMMY
THROWER and wife, Dianne, on the
birth of a son, Thomas Jeffrey, May
30.

State Traffic Engineer J. O.
LITCHFORD and Assistant H. C.
RHUDY went to Cheyenne, Wyom-
ing the middle of June for AASHO
committee meetings: the operational
committee on traffic and the national
joint committee on traffic control de-
vices.

H. C. RHUDY, PETE DEAVER
and GLENN GRIGG attended semi-
nars on manager development at
UNC-Chapel Hill, which were spon-
sored by the Personnel Department.

Temporary employees in the Acci-
dent Identification and Surveillance
Unit are CORA INEZ SHORES,
HENRY F. VICK, OROON D. PAL-
MER, JOSH TALTON, RITCHIE
POPLIN, BILL THOMPSON, AR-
THUR LINVILLE BREECE, WAY-
NE USSERY, and JAMES WIN-
STON KELLENBERGER. Thomp-
son and Kellenberger are graduates
of Holding Technical Institute; a ma-
jority of the others are students at N.
C. State University.

ROBERT DODGE was in charge
of arrangements for the meeting of
representatives from the Southern
Section, Institute of Traffic Engi-
neers, in Raleigh June 30-July 1. The
purpose of the meeting was to make
recommendations on proposed chang-
es in the "Manual on Uniform Traf-
fic Control Devices."

RAY WELCH, Assistant Area
Traffic Engineer for Divisions 7 and
9, has moved his family from Dur-
ham to Greensboro, where he will be
working out of the Division office.

LAURIE M. LEFLER, formerly
an employee with the General As-
sembly, is now with the Specifications
Office at 122 N. McDowell Street.
Laurie and his wife, Vince, have two
children, a boy and a girl.

Captain CHARLIE SESSOMS at-
tended National Guard Camp at Fort
Stewart, Georgia July 5-20. Captain
BILL HINDMAN (U. S. Army Re-
serves) will participate in the train-
ing of recruits at Ft. Bragg for two
weeks in August.

IRENE BEDDINGFIELD's daugh-
ter, Debra Lane, a member of the
1969 graduating class of Wakelon
High School, was married to Joseph
L. Woodlief, also of Zebulon, in Pine
Ridge Baptist Church June 5.

SARAH WHITE'S husband, Len,
received his B.S. Degree in engineer-
ing operations at NCSU in May.

NEEDHAM (HAP) CROWE, with
his wife and sister as crew, placed sec-
ond in the handicap class of the
Shanghai Cup Regatta at Morehead
City, June 1.

GEORGE EASON, Division Traf-
fic Engineer at Wilson, has recovered
from a recent operation.

TERRY HARRIS and family vi-
sited relatives in Savannah, Georgia
and Chattanooga, Tenn. the last week
in May. FRED ROSENDAHL and
family took a trip to Atlanta, Geor-
gia early in the season to visit an aunt
and do some sightseeing. ROGER
HAWKINS and wife, Pat, spent Mo-
ther's Day weekend with his mother
in Newark, New Jersey.

GLENN GRIGG and family spent
the week of July 12 at Long Beach.
Others taking beach vacations include
TOM GOULD and family, PETE

DEAVER and family and JEAN AG-
NEW and family.

LANDSCAPE — Our deepest sym-
pathy is extended A. L. KIRKLAND
on the recent death of his mother,
Mrs. A. L. Kirkland, Sr., of Durham.

Mrs. Joseph L. Woodlief, the
former Debra Lane Beddingfield,
whose marriage took place June 5.
Her mother, Irene Beddingfield, is
with the Traffic Engineering De-
partment.

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Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
A. RAY PEARSALL on the birth of
little daughter, Nelda Renee, May 5.
Mr. Pearsall is an employee with
Landscape.

Welcome to JEROLD BAILEY,
who joined the Department June 9.
Jerold is a student at W. W. Holding
Technical Institute.

FRANK BOWEN and wife enjoy-
ed their vacation at Kure Beach, but
Frank reports the fish weren't in a
biting mood.

Employees are glad to see WIL-
LIAM PATRICK back on the job
after an illness of several months.

PHYLLIS W. SUGGS and family
have returned from Silver Springs,
Florida where they vacationed. Phyl-
lis says the weather was just great
and the fishing would have been, too,
if they had only had a pole.

BOB BOYETTE and family en-
joyed several days relaxation down at
White Lake. Bob says he really en-
joys the camping life.

Most every weekend LINDA
STRAUGHN goes down Atlantic
Beaoh way.

Congratulations to JAMES A.
SAUNDERS on his recent promotion
from Area Landscape Supervisor in
Burgaw to Assistant State Landscape
Engineer in the Raleigh Office.

REPRODUCTION — It's nice to
have LARRY WATT back in the
Department after a 6-months stint
with Uncle Sam. Also it's good to
have WILLIAM GLOVER and RAN-
DY DENTON back as summer help
again and LYNN HALES as a new
summer employee.

The stork paid a recent visit to
the BILLY STEPHENSONS and
left a darling baby girl; then flew on
to the GLENN JONES' residence
and delivered a cute baby boy.

Recent vacationists and their des-
tinations were: BETTY CARTER,
VERNON BRANCH and CLAUDE
SUGG — the beach; McKAY MAS-
SEY — Florida; BEN GARNER —
Cornith; and JOAN CREEKMORE
took several days off to move into her
new home.

As manager of the "Fastbacks,"
JOE SANDERS is not too proud of
his won-lost record (1-4), but says
"just wait until tournament time."

AL GADDY recently presented
Miss Janice Jousnigan of Wake For-
est a beautiful engagement ring.

Champion fish - catcher PAUL
PEARSON has had terrific good

luck recently. To date, Paul has
caught about two boat loads of fish,
crappies, bream, etc., and this ain't
no fish tale! Seriously, folks, if you
need any fish, just call Paul!

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Re-
cently hospitalized but now back at
work were CARLTON ROCHELLE,
JOE LAMBERT and JAMES
EVANS. B. J. ABBOTT was also
hospitalized, but at this writing is
still on sick leave.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to RALPH HONEYCUTT, SHER-
WOOD THORNTON and W. P.
KING. All three lost their fathers
recently.

BRIDGE LOCATION — Our
heartfelt sympathy is extended to
BOBBY SPENCE and his family on
the recent death of his father. Mr.
Spence died suddenly of a heart at-
tack May 25.

The Department misses two for-
mer employees. DELBERT DeBER-
RY resigned to attend school, and
WILLIAM BOONE has accepted a
permanent position with the Seventh
Division.

Welcome back to former employee
ALLEN KEEL. Allen has been work-
ing in the Second Division since his
transfer there but now will return to
Raleigh to live.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
It's good to have Mrs. KAY
BRANCH and Miss RITA REAVIS
as new employees. Mrs. Branch was
formerly with Edwards and Brough-
ton. Miss Reavis is a summer employ-
ee and will attend East Carolina this
flail.

Congratulations to the William
Freeman upon the birth of William
Curtis April 24. New mother, SUE,
has been with Bridge Maintenance for
the past year.

Congratulations also to Mr. and
Mrs. FRED HABEL who are proud
grandparents of Elizabeth Stuart
Thompson — their very first grand-
child! Little Elizabeth is now five
months old.

Mrs. BEDIE HOLLAND took an
exciting trip to Honolulu, Hawaii in
April for two weeks to meet her hus-
band, Benny, who is stationed in
Thailand with the U. S. Air Force
until September, 1969.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and
Mrs. MAX COLLINS, JR. and fam-
ily on the recent death of Mrs. Col-
lins' mother, Mrs. Nannie Waddell.
Funeral services were held May 29.

During February HAROLD K.

Clinton Gower of the Equipment
Depot and his son, Robert Gower of
Bridge Design, are shown with the
trout they caught while fishing at
Chokoloskee, Florida in the Gulf of
Mexico on a recent vacation. They
visited Clinton's oldest son, Nolan
Gower, at Pompano Beach. Nolan is
Assistant General Manager for the
Woolco Store at Fort Lauderdale.

STALLCUP, Bridge Maintenance
Superintendent, took a trip to San
Juan, Puerto Rico, to assist in the
building of a church. The trip must
have been enjoyable, as reports are
he had to take two weeks sick leave
to recuperate.

MATERIALS & TESTS — Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. LANDRUM are the

This handsome June graduate is
Carl J. Kiger, Jr., age five. Carl at-
tended Ridoutt's Kindergarten in
Garner this year.

His proud parents are Carl J. Ki-
ger of Bridge Design and Linda B.
Kiger, who works at N. C. State.

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James Pendergrass is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Pendergrass, 4235
Arbutus Drive, Raleigh. James is a
June graduate of Sanderson High
School and received a Naval ROTC
Scholarship Award from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
where he plans to enter school this
fall. His father is a member of Mater-
ials & Tests.

proud parents of a baby boy, Mark,
born May 16.

Our deepest sympathy to T. T.
KENT on the recent death of his
father.

Welcome to CAROLYN MARTIN,
new summer employee. Carolyn grad-
uated from Cary High School June
2nd and will attend Peace College this
fall. It's nice to have VIVIAN RO-
BERTSON back again for the sum-
mer. Vivian will be doing the work
of Mrs. KAY BEST who is on ma-
ternity leave. It was a pleasure hav-
ing CATHY LASSITER as the De-
partment's first female Engineer
trainee for three months. Employees
wish Cathy lots of luck in her new
position in Roadway Design. ANGE-
LA PRIDGEN is a new trainee from
Holding Tech.

A speedy recovery is wished H. L.
SEARS who underwent recent sur-
gery, and R. S. JIVATODE who was
hospitalized at Mary Elizabeth. Co-
workers are glad to have Mr. WHIT-
TINGTON, Mr. HUBERT WAT-
KINS and Mr. ALBERT BROUGH-
TON, JR. back at work after recent
hospitalizations.

ROYCE BEACHAM and family
spent an enjoyable vacation at Kitty
Hawk with relatives.

Congratulations to the following
boys and girls who graduated from
Cary High School June 2nd: Gary
W. Moras, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
P. MORAS, who will enter Chowan
College at Murfreesboro this fall;
Ann Daniels, daughter of the J. E.
DANIELS, who will enter Louisburg
College; George M. Brannon, III, son
of the G. M. BRANNONS, who will
attend NCSU; and Betsy M. Jordan,
daughter of the H. B. JORDANS,
who will enter Wayne Community
College at Goldsboro this fall.

PERSONNEL — Employees in the
Department gave GAIL HANSON a
party and wedding gift since she was
recently married in Dillon, S. C. The
Department also gave BRENDA
HINTON, part-time employee, a
graduation party to celebrate her
graduation from Garner High School.

BANKS CLARK has already be-
come a beach bum. Almost any week-

end lately would find Banks and his
wife at Carolina Beach.

MARY LEE GRIFFIN took a
short vacation to Panama City, Flor-
ida to visit a friend.

BETTY HORTON's mother has
been hospitalized recently, but we
hope by now she is well on the route
to recovery.

MARVIN McKINNEY took a few
days vacation to visit his home in
the mountains. Marvin said it had
been so long since he had been home,
he was about to be disowned, so he
decided it was time to make an ap-
pearance.

RON WOLFE is really breaking
in his new car. The first weekend he
tried it out by going home and the
next weekend Ron and family head-
ed for Crescent Beach, S. C.

Personnel employees wish EDWIN
WILKERSON the best of luck in
his new venture. Edwin left the De-
partment June 4 to return to the
University of North Carolina at Cha-
pel Hill to become a pharmacist.

This group of Highway employees is receiving their Certificate of Com-
pletion for the "Fundamentals of Supervision" part of the Supervisory De-
velopment Training Program. The Certificates are being presented by Mr.
Kohner, the instructor. The students will complete another part of the Super-
visory Development Training Course entitled "Effective Communications" be-
fore terminating the program for the summer months. Additional courses will
be scheduled to begin in September. Two Rapid Reading classes are under-
way at the present time and additional classes of this type are also scheduled
for the fall.

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The Department's annual golf
tournament was held May 12. To hear
RON WOLFE and TED AUSTIN
tell it, they really clobbered CLOYCE
ALFORD and FRED ADCOCK and
Vice versa. Well, no one really knows
the outcome of the tournament, so
we'll just have to draw our own con-
clusions.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — CHES-
TER GRAY attended the Manage-
ment-Development Seminar the week
of March 31-April 4 at The Institute
of Government in Chapel Hill.

DON HOLLOW AY of Engineering
attended National Guard summer
camp for two weeks in June.

Congratulations to WAYNE RO-
BEY and his wife, Judy, on the birth
of a son, William Kelly, June 2nd.
Kelly weighed 9 lb., 4 oz., and was
22 inches long at birth.

SHORTY THORNBROUGH and
family enjoyed a two-week vacation
in June. They visited friends and
relatives in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tex-
as and other places of interest.

CHESTER GRAY was called to
Florida for a week in May due to ill-
ness in his family.

JIM McCLOSKEY and family
spent a few days camping at Myrtle
Beach, S. C. in their new Cox Camp-
er.

MARLENE and Bobby CAUL-
BERG attended the Carolina Ready
Mixed Concrete Association Conven-
tion at Myrtle Beach, in May and
enjoyed golfing, swimming and sun-
ning.

GORDON DEANS and HAROLD
BISSETTE of the Photo Lab enjoy-
ed a week of fishing and camping at
Kerr Lake June 9-15.

JACK MATTHEWS of the Edit-
ing Section, with his wife and son,
vacationed in Atlanta, Ga. where they
saw the Cardinals play the Braves.
While there they also visited Six
Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain,
Grant Park and the Cyclorama. It
was a fun-packed week for the Mat-
thews.

Congratulations to Susan Martin,
daughter of JOHN MARTIN in the
Stereo Section, who recently grad-
uated from Sanderson High School
in Raleigh. Susan plans a career in
the Air Force.

The marriage of Miss Marsha Lynn
Shepherd, daughter of Mrs. Louise
Shepherd of Highway Purchasing,
and James E. Shepherd of Garner,
to Pritchard Sylvester Carlton, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton of Salis-
bury, took place May 28 in Holland's
United Methodist Church.

The private ceremony was perform-
ed by the Rev. W. Nelson Fulford.
After a brief honeymoon, the couple
went to Kannapolis, where they will
make their home. The bridegroom is
employed by Cannon Mills there. He
is a recent graduate of North Caro-
lina State University. The bride, a
laboratory technician, was trained at
Holding Technical Institute.

The golfers of Photogrammerty got
together May 10th and had a golf
tournament at the Sippihaw Country
Club in Fuquay. Winner of the first
flight was FRANK HOLDING and
LEIGHTON ELLIOTT won the
second flight. Afterwards the golfers
and their families enjoyed a dinner
at MacGregory Downs County Club
in Gary.

CARL LUSK of the Photo Lab is
proud of his son, Steve, who recently
graduated from Sanderson High
School in Raleigh and was awarded a
scholarship to Campbell College.

MAINTENANCE — State Main-
tenance Engineer GEORGE BRINK-
LEY has returned to work after sev-
eral days in the hospital and is get-
ting along fine.

ETHEL JONES and her husband,
Fred, entered roses in the Raleigh
Rose Show and won prizes. Ethel won
a blue ribbon on an old-fashioned ar-
rangement and a red ribbon on a
"casserole" arrangement. Fred won a
blue ribbon on his football arrange-
ment of red Crimson Glory roses, the
best arrangement in the Men's Divi-
sion, and received another rose bush
as his prize. Congratulations Ethel
and Fred!

W. G. Reaves, Highway Purchasing Agent, is to be doubly congratulated!
His two handsome sons are both June graduates.

That's Leonard Alston on the left. He graduated from William G. Enloe
High School in Raleigh and plans to enter school this fall at East Carolina at
Greenville.

On the right is Lacy Hill Reaves, a recent graduate of UNC at Chapel
Hill. Lacy received his BS Degree in Political Science and Economics and
will enter Law School there at the University this fall.

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ROADWAY DESIGN — Roadway
Design is proud of its "Roadway C
Golf Team." After four weeks of
play, they lead League "C" competi-
tion. Members of the team are BILL
HUDSON, WAYNE BARNETTE,
LEROY SMITH, FRED O'NEAL,
DOUG LANE, LARRY CHASAK
and RAMEY KEMP.

Congratulations to DAN and Joan
McPHERSON on the birth of a son,
David James, June 4; and to CARL
and Linda McCANN whose son, Mi-
chael Carl, was born May 14.

The DICK PAWLIKOWSKIS had
as their house guest recently, Mr. L.
A. Wilson, from Claygate, England.
He is Mrs. Pawlikowski's father and
she has not seen him in four years.

New home owners are Mr. and Mrs.
CHARLES BARNDT, JR., Green
Pines, Knightdale, and Mr. and Mrs.
MARVIN PARRISH, Lakeside
Drive, Garner.

Good luck to ANN FUTRELL who
recently resigned. The employees in
Room 558 have really missed Ann's
charming personality.

TERESA COLEMAN recency re-
turned from West Point, New York,
Where she attended the June week
festivities and the Commencement
exercises at the U. S. Military Aca-
demy. Her brother, Bill Damon, was
a member of the graduating class.

W. A. WILSON, JR. attended the
AASHO Design Committee meet-

ing in Hot Springs, Arkansas, June
3-6.

ANN STEPHENS had a wonder-
ful trip to Lawton, Oklahoma, where
she visited her brother.

Sheryl Lynn Crouse with her white
pony, named "Blackie" and Blackie's
2 day old colt, named "Prince".

Sheryl Lynn is the daughter of
Martha and Raymond Crouse. Her
dad is employed in the Roadway De-
sign Department.

It's nice to have KATHY LASSI-
TER, RONALD JOHNSON and
KENNETH CLARK back in the de-
partment.

The annual Roadway Design Fish-

ing Tournament was a big success
over Memorial Day weekend. There
were 17 participants, including BOB
WALKER, AL AVANT, DOUG
LANE, DOUG MATTHEWS,
FRANK STARNES, JOHN WHITE,
ED COX, MIKE SCOTT, RALPH
TRIVETTE, GEORGE BROWN,
WAYNE BARNETTE, BOB PEAR-
SON, JOHN TAYLOR, FRANK
SCOTT, BILL GILBERT, LARRY
WATERS and BOB WELLS. The
trophy for the largest fish was won
by none other than AL AVANT wifth
a 21 lb. barracuda, and the trophy for
the smallest fish went to BOB WAL-
KER, who caught a black bass so
small that he could not be weighed
or couldn't swallow the hook (he
choked to death on the bait). P. S.
LESTER BROWN and LEROY
SMITH served "stump water" at the
docks upon arrival of the fishing
boats.

BRIDGE — Welcome to BLAKE
NORWOOD, new trainee; JUDY
BLEVINS has returned to work;
DOUGLAS SCOGGINS is also a new
trainee; and JAMES MOORE, for-
merly on the training program is per-
manent.

DAN WOODALL left for the army
in May. JOHN WILSON, III, is do-
ing a two-year stretch of active duty
with the Corps of Engineers. DOUG
MATHESON and DEWEY PHIL-
LIPS are in summer school at NC-
SU.

Yes, that's Lisa Kay, behind those
"foster grants' 'on her way to Holly-
wood. Lisa is the daughter of Kay
and Pete Fish. Pete is employed in
Roadway Design.

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Former employee, JANE McCOT-
TER, announced the birth of her son,
William Edward, Jr., April 11.
"Mack" weighed in at a husky 9 lbs.

MARGARY PEARSALL resigned
to join the DeVan Barbour Insurance
Company as a secretary and to serve
part-time as hostess at the Velvet
Cloak.

Regulars competing in the High-
way Commission Summer Golf Lea-
gue are BOB LILLEY, JIM WILD-
ER, ARCHIE HANKINS and MAC
UNDERWOOD on the "A" Team,
and BOB GOWER, RANSOME
BENNETT, DON IDOL and RAL-
PH UNDERWOOD on the "B"
Team. The report is that they are
running about 500 in the matches,
but are having a lot of fun and expect
to come in on the home stretch win-
ning.

ARNOLD MOORE is sporting a
new green, vinyl top, Grand Prix. Ar-

Before digging into his duties as
Public Relations Officer for the High-
way Commission, J. Arch Laney did
his "spade work" and got his "off
the job" training in the town of Gra-
nite Falls.

He is shown above with John A.
Forlines, Jr., president of the Bank
of Granite, starting the sidewalk and
curbing improvement in front of the
new bank building under construc-
tion, following a going-away party giv-
en in his honor by a number of pro-
minent Granite Falls citizens. While
Arch's aim and timing were a bit
off in transferring the sand to the
wheelbarrow, his good intentions were
commended by the bank president.

Assoc. Editor's note: The above pic-
ture and write-up was contributed by
the Reverend Kenneth A. Horn, First
United Methodist Church, Granite
Falls. If the Reverend ever gets tired
of preaching, we think maybe he'd
make a good PR man!

nold's friend further report that his
private pond offers "great fishing"
and that he has been generous with
invitations of "y'all come".

LANDIS TEMPLE supplied the
cottage — his own at Ocean Isle —
for a recent "stag" weekend. Those
going were DENNIS WILSON, BOB-
BY POWELL, GUY ALFORD,
GERALD WHITE, NEILL SAL-
MON, CHARLIE KING, ARNOLD
MOORE, JOHN SMITH, GEORGE
PHILLIPS and LANDIS. Included
in the fun was a birthday celebration
at Calabash for CHARLIE KING.
When the cake was presented, every-
one in the restaurant joined in sing-
ing "Happy Birthday" to Charlie, and
some congratulated him with a pat on
the back as they left. The question is,
who was the "hippie" included in
the group at Landis' cottage. Not
one of them will own up to "letting
his hair down".

RANSOME BENNETT is proud
of his new 16 ft. sailboat. He is plan-
ning to sail his boat at Lake Wheeler
for a start and then off to wider hori-
zons.

TOM DIXON was married June 7
to Dorie Atkins. The wedding took
place at Hayes Barton Baptist Cha-
pel, followed by a luncheon at the

Statler-Hilton. They took a short
wedding trip to Gatlinburg, Tennes-
see, then left on the following week-
end for a trip to Nassau.

BETSY LANCASTER and her
husband had a wonderful vacation at
Daytona Beach, Florida. Betsy enjoy-
ed sun bathing while her husband
fished.

JOHN SMITH'S squad had their
annual picnic June 3 at the Green-
brier Sub-Division Park. "Cook" TOM
PATE turned out some great ham-
burgers and hot dogs. The "home-
made" ice cream went over big also.
Volley ball was the game of the even-
ing.

In May, BUDDY WIGGINS and
REINHARD MARTIN were among
the visiting parties from various states
observing full-scale loading tests on a
pre-stressed girder bridge near Win-
chester, Tennessee. All test equip-
ment was owned by the Bureau of
Public Roads and operated by its per-
sonnel.

Also in May, J. L. NORRIS, G. T.
PARKIN and LANDIS TEMPLE,
attended a regional meeting of the
Bridge Committee of AASHO in Nor-
folk, Virginia.

Left to right are Percy Atkin's, key punch operators. It looks like he has
a wonderful group. On the front row are Carolyn Creech, June Bullock, Mil-
dred Tippett, Mary Zimmerman and Percy; 2nd row: Brenda Horton, Pat Nip-
per, Gail Tant, Kay Scarboro, Wanda Goodwin; 3rd row: Mary Leonard, Hilda
Perdue, Lucy Upchurch, Mary Gregory, Judy Morris, Joan Crawford; 4th
row: Jean Shearin, Mary Price, Emma Parrish, Cathie McLean and Phillis
Perrott.

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Div

M. G. Carawan
ision Correspondent

Mr. LINWOOD
RAWLS, Assistant
District Engineer
in Division 1-Dis-
trict 2, attended
Scottish Rites at
New Bern Consis-
tory No. 3 recent-
ly. He was accom-
panied by Mrs.
Rawls.

Mrs. ANNE WHITE, Stenograph-
er in Division 1, is on leave for sev-
eral months.

Get well wishes to Mr. TALMAD-
GE WILSON, Right of Way Agent
in Division 1, who is recuperating at
Sanatarium Hospital in Rocky Mount
following an automobile accident.

Condolences to Mrs. ALBERT
VANN, Stenographer in Division 1
Right of Way Department, who was
called to Myrtle Beach, S. C. due
to the death of her grandmother.

Miss CLARA HOLLOMAN, Clerk
in Division 1 ^District 2, visited recent-
ly in Suffolk for horseback riding and
also visited at Virginia Beach and
Nags Head.

Dr. Robert C. Vanderberry, Jr. of
Portsmouth, Va. was a guest of his
mother, Mrs. NEDRA M. HOLLO-
MAN, Monday night and attended
the graduation of his cousin, Howard
James Holloman, at Ahoskie High
School. Mrs. Holloman is Stenogra-
pher in Division 1-District 2.

Condolences to J. L. SCOTT, Ma-
chine Operator III, on the death of
his son and his mother-in-law. Mr.
Scott is employed in Division 1-Dis-
trict 2.

Condolences to M. R. PARKER,
Machine Operator II, Division 1-Dis-
trict 2, on the death of his sister-in-
law.

L. GLENN PERRY— Machine Op-
er. 3 of Roduco plans to retire July
1st. He began work with the Commis-
sion May, 1935 in Gates County.

Pictured above is Miss Clara Hol-
loman, Clerk, who began work in
the District Office in Ahoskie on
November 12, 1968. We are fortunate
to have Miss Hollomon as a replace-
ment for Mr. Jack Askew, who re-
signed to go with the Highway Pat-
rol and is now stationed at Morehead
City, N. C.

J. CARSON MONDS— Maint.
Foreman I of Belvidere plans to re-
tire on July 1, 1969. He began work
with the Commission Oct., 1940 in
Perquimans County.

Pictured above is pretty Miss Lin-
da Mulder who joined the Division
Staff Family on May 26, 1969 as
Stenographer II. We are most happy
to welcome Linda and hope she will
enjoy her job.

ARVIN W. HUDSON of Hertford,
who is employed with the Con-
struction office in E. City returned to
work on May 13th after being out of
work sick for 8 weeks. During the
time underwent operation in Albe-
marle Hospital, E. City.

Bridge Dept. have moved into their
new quarters at the Maint. Yard 5
miles north of Elizabeth City on US
17. The Equipment Dept. will also
be in their new quarters at the Maint.
Yard on US 17 near E. City very
shortly.

DURWOOD COPELAND and W.
B. CHAPPELL both have resigned
from the Construction Dept. in E.
City for employment with Union-
Camp Bag Co. of Franklin, Va.

Get well wishes are extended to G.
M. BLAKE and E. D. CUTHRELL
who have been out recently on sick
leave.

Pictured above is maintenance fore-
man, C. L. Liverman, and wife, Alice,
of Murfreesboro. As one can see
from their facial expression, the fish-
ing trip was a pleasant one with a
large catch. Fish were caught on a
recent fishing trip near Elizabeth
City.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
L. J. WHITE, JR. on the birth of a
daughter May 31. Mr. White is em-
ployed With the Construction Depart-
ment.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. SESSOMS
have just returned from a vacation
trip to Alabama.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of HARRY PEELE, in the death
of his father.

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Welcome mat is
out to RONALD
E. DAVENPORT,
HE II, recently
joined the Mainte-
nance Department.
He had been on
the Training Pro-
gram, last assign-
ment was with the
Hazel Baker Construction De-

Division Correspondent partment.

Hope R. J. DOWNES a lot of
luck on his new career, he resigned
May 1st to accept other employment.

On the Sick List: Hope J. W. DA-
VIS, E. N. SPARROW and WALT-
ER JARVIS out on extended illness
are feeling much better and back to
work soon.

Congratulations to Mr. DENNIS
FORNES on his recent marriage to
Miss Lola Collins. Mr. Fornes is em-
ployed in the Construction Dept. in
Kinston.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
WILLIAM HARRISON on the birth
of a daughter. Mr. Harrison is em-
ployed in the Construction Dept. in
Kinston.

Best wishes to Mr. AARON H.
WADE, JR., who resigned to enter
Military Service.

Robert Earl, age 3y2 and Katrina
Danielle, 7 months, are the children
of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Foster. They
live at Fernandina Beach, Fla.
Their proud grandad is Earl Daniels,
Maintenance foreman at Kinston.

Miss Gloria Lee Fussell, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Fussell of
New Bern and senior at New Bern
High School, has been notified that
she was among nine students who
have been pronounced winners in
competition for Meredith College
Honor Scholarships. She was selected
from 32 young women finalists and
will enter Meredith College, Raleigh,
N. C. in September, 1969. Her schol-
arship is for $1,000.00 per year, which
is renewable for four years.

Miss Fussell's father is a Bridge
Electrician in Division 2.

Miss Fussell graduated as Valedic-
torian of her class of 283 Seniors —
is a member of the Honor Society,
French Club, Glee Club and Choir,
secretary of the High School Parent-
Teacher-Student Association and a
majorette.

She is a member of National Ave-
nue Baptist Church and the Young
Women's Auxiliary of her church.

23

June is a good month for weddings,
or so it seems to be around the Ap-
praisal Section.

This lovely "Little Lass" is Miss
Shelby Jean Barber, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Barber. She became
the bride of SP/4 Robert Dail Briley
on Sunday afternoon, June 1st at
the Grace Free Will Baptist Church.
The Rev. Chester Phillips, pastor of-
ficiating.

Philip E. Carroll of the Appraisal
Section, Greenville and formerly of
Raleigh is the proud father of a new
son! Fletcher Patrick joined the fam-
ily on April 7th, weighing in at 6V2
pounds and looking just as handsome
as his dad whom he resembles. (He
also shows great promise of having
his dad's "gift of gab" — he's trying
to talk before he's two months old.
The other children are Laura — age
12 (shown in picture), and David —
age 7.

Well, so Mrs.
New house will
know that Division
Three has been re-
trieved back from
the "Atlantic
Ocean", we have
tried to gather up
a little news.

R. O. POWELL,
Dist. Engr. in Dist.
DlTi.iIornnCofr«p"nde„t1 is at present va-
cationing in Illinois visiting his sis-
ter and points of interest. Also,
CARL PARKER of R O W has re-
cently returned from vacation. PAUL
J. DuPRE, our Div. Engr., took a
few days vacation visiting relatives in
Boone and picking up son John Paul
at college. RICKY JO STRICK-
LAND, Secretary in Div. Office, has
just returned from a wonderful vaca-
tion in Hawaii. Her boyfriend who is
stationed in Viet Nam got a few days
leave and met Rick and his family
for the vacation on the islands. On
the way back, Ricky stopped in Los
Angeles, Calif, and visited Chinatown
and other points of interest. Since
this was her first major flight she
wrote "honest, I was so scared my
knees were knocking". She brought
back many beautiful color pictures
and slides to show us. CAROLYN
GURGANIOUS, Secretary in Con-
struction, recently took a few days
vacation to be with her guests from
Cullman, Alabama, her Mother and
Brother. Mrs. CHARLOTTE WAL-
LACE, Secretary in Div. Office, took
a few days vacation to attend the
wedding of her nephew in Washing-
ton, D. C. and visit other relatives
while there. NELL STRAUGHAN,
Secretary in R-O-W, took a few days
vacation to visit her daughter Joan
iin Kingsport, Tenn.; then take son
Edward to school at Appalachia State.

IRA J. ROBINSON has recently
moved from Clinton to Kenansville
where he has been promoted to Main-
tenance Supervisor.

We are glad to have the following
employees back from sick leave:
LAURIE MATTOCKS of Dist. 1 —

UNIQUE GESTURE — Retired Army General Herbert Brand (L) pre-
sents a complete set of golf clubs to Wilmington youngster Bruce Davis recent-
ly at the Wilmington Golf Club while retired city manager J. R. Benson (R)
looks on. Brand, a member at Cape Fear Country Club and the Congressional
Club in Washington, D. C. had two sets of clubs and after retirement last
summer notified Wilmington Golf Club pro Lawrence Cook that he would like
to give one of the two sets to a deserving area youngster interested in golf.
Brand asked Cook to find the youngster. After approximately seven months,
Cook located the youngster in Davis, and arranged the presentation after the
recent completed Azalea Golf Tournament. Needless to say, young Davis, who
was unaware of the gesture until Brand informed him, was shocked and elated.
Cook estimated the value of the clubs at $400. General Brand also donated a
few balls and the lone item young Davis needed was a tee to play.

(SECO Photo)

J. O. WILLIAMSON, E. T. CRUM-
PLER, A. G. MUNN of Dist. 2 —
FRED BENTON, E. O. INMAN of
Road Oil. We hope the following who
are out sick will have a speedy re-
covery and be back soon: C. D. AN-
DREWS, W. D. WATKINS of Dist.
1 — G. E. McOLENNY of Dist. 2,
and RICHARD BASS and E. J.
PRIDGEN of Traffic Services, also
H. L. "BUCK" SEARS of Division
Office.

We miss the following former em-
ployees who have resigned: JOHN
D. WETHERINGTON, D. W. RIV-
ENBARK, FERNIE J. WILLIS
(Disability Retirement), NORWOOD
WILLIAMS (Service Retirement) of
Dist. 1 — LEROY HALL (Service
Retirement), CHAS. F. RIVEN-
BARK (Service Retirement), MEL-
VIN A. SHIP of Dist. 2 — R. N.
YANDLE, H. R. SUTTON, H. L.
SMITH of Road Oil — C. D. RIV-
ENBARK and P. V. ROGERS of
Construction. E. G. TURLINGTON
has transferred from Construction in
Clinton to Durham. VANCE C. EN-
GLISH, formerly with the resident
engineer of the New Cape Fear Me-
morial Bridge in Wilmington was call-

ed to active duty on April 10, 1969.
Vance is presently at Parris Island,
S. C. for basic training with the Ma-
rine Corps. Vance is the son of V. G.
ENGLISH, Maintenance Supervisor
for New Hanover and Brunswick
Counties. The first note received from
Vance was, "don't worry Dad, I am
big enough to take it". (204 lbs.) We
are sure Vance will do as fine a job
helping to bridge the gap of peace
in the world as he did on the new
bridge. RUBY CAMPBELL, Secre-
tary in R.O.W. has resigned to be
home with her children for the sum-
mer.

Our sympathy is extended to the
families of the following deceased em-
ployees: A. R. HALL of Dist. 1 who
was drowned on May 17, J. F.
HOBBS who died on June 5 and P.
T. SIMMONS, JR., who died on
June 2 of Dist. 2. Our sympathy is
extended to DURWOOD BOSTIC
who recently lost his sister and GOR-
DON BORDEAUX who lost his fa-
ther-in-law. Both Durwood and Gor-
don work in R.O.W.

Also on the vacation list was BIL-
LY B. ISOM, Div. Staff Engr., who
spent a few days at home vacationing

BEAUTY AND WORK

In memory of her late husband,
W. H. "Bill" Lumsden, Mrs. Lums-
den make her annual visit to the New
Hanover maintenance yard to view the
beautiful azaleas in full bloom. All
the men of the maintenance section
as well as Mrs. Lumsden are real
proud of the flowers surrounding the
maintenance yard. Prior to his death
Mr. Lumsden could be seen before
and after working hours watering and
pruning the plants that there might
be beauty as well as labor at the
maintenance section. In addition to
the over 100 azaleas in the yard there
is a dogwood, a cedar, a crepemyrtle
and several holly.

with his parents and other relatives
from home in Tennessee.

Congratulations to Vickie Banner-
man daughter of JOE BANNER-
MAN, our Hwy. Office Manager.
Vickie recently graduated from Bur-
gaw High School. Vickie plans to en-
ter Wilmington College this fall. Su-
san Anne Hewett, daughter of yours
truly, recently completed the 6th
grade and was put on the list of the
top five of a class of 150 in scholastic
average.

Congratulations to Norkie Edger-
ton and David Hines who were mar-
ried in Hillsborough on May 31. Nor-
kie is the daughter of B. H. EDGER-
TON of Landscape in Burgaw.

We surely miss ROBERT A.
(BOB) JENKINS of Construction
Department who retired on April 30,
1969.

Airman Joseph H. Gupton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. NED GUPTON, Route
#1, Shallotte, has completed basic
training at Lakeland AFB, Texas. He
has been assigned to Chanute AFB,
Illinois, for training in aircraft main-
tenance. Airman Gupton is a 1966
graduate of Shallotte High School.

SMILING MOTOR GRADER
OPERATOR

Above is the lovely daughter of J.
D. Banner, Miss Vicky Banner. Mr.
Banner is the highway office man-
ager in division three.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boswell are
both all smiles over the birth of their
new daughter, Bonnie Lynn on March
31, 1969, weighing in at 6 lbs. and 13
ozs.

Mr. Boswell is a motor grader op-
erator for the maintenance depart-
ment, New Hanover County.

Although little Lynn is peacefully
sleeping at the moment this picture
was taken, there are times she re-
minds her proud parents of her pre-
sence. Mr. and Mrs. Boswell have
two other children, Nancy, 15 years
and Robert, 11 years.

Mrs. Brenda Tew Honeycutt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott
Tew, Clinton, N. C, was one of the
314 students to graduate from Camp-
bell College on May 30, 1969. Mrs.
Honeycutt, while enrolled at Camp-
bell was a participant in such activi-
ties as the B.S.U., Y.W.A.'s, S.N.E.A.,
Collegiate Choir, Touring Choir, In-
tramurals, and the Epsilon Pi Eta
Honor Society. Last summer, Mrs.
Honeycutt toured Europe with the
Campbell Touring Choir. She receiv-
ed her B.S. Degree in Elementary
Education. She graduated with hon-
ors of Cum Laude. She will be affi-
liated with the Cumberland County
School System this fall. Her father,
Elliott Tew, is Maintenance Yard
Foreman in Sampson County.

OBEDIENCE

If you're told to do a thing.
And mean to do it really,

Never let it be by halves;
But do it fully, freely.

Do not make a poor excuse,
Waiting, weak, unsteady;

All obedience worth the name
Must be prompt and ready.

Anonymous.

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DIVISION
FOUR

Mi - .

Margaret Barefoot

It's vacation
time again and
many of our em-
ployees have al-
ready begun their
vacations or are
looking forward to
them in the near
future. Heading
the list in the Di-
vision Four office

Division Correspondent^ oujr Division
Engineer, Mr. R. W. DAWSON,
who has just returned from an en-
joyable week's stay at Topsail
Beach. MARGARET BAREFOOT,
our regular Division Correspondent
is enjoying a two-week vacation dur-
ing which she planned a beach trip
with her family and other wise "tak-
in' it easy."

Welcome to Miss LINDA OS-
TRUM, our new PACE Student, who
will be with us in the Division Office
for the summer months. Linda is a
rising senior at University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. I'm sure
your services will be a great help
during "vacation time" this summer.

Welcome to TOM SHEARIN, En-
gineer in Training, who will be with
us for three months in the Division
Office. Tom is a recent graduate of
N. S. State University.

June has brought about several
graduations and we would like to
congratulate these students and their
parents. Jack Overman, Saratoga
Central High School, son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. T. OVERMAN, our Ass't.
Division Engineer; Miss Ann Tur-
lington, UNC-G, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. HUGH TURLINGTON, Div.
Four Office Manager; Jimmy King,
Atlantic Christian College, son of Mr.
and iMrs. GEORGE KING, our Staff
Engineer, Tim Holmes, Atlantic
Christian College, son of Mr. and
Mrs. SIDNEY HOLMES, our Road
Oil Supervisor.

Mrs. MARY POYTHRESS, Steno
II in the Right of Way Department,
has just returned from an enjoyable
vacation in Mineral Wells, Texas

Congratulations to Martha Ann
Butler, daughter of District Engineer
E. J. Butler and Mrs. Butler, of Wel-
don, who graduated from Weldon
High School as class Valedictorian,
winner of the Faculty Scholarship
Cup, and a National Merit Scholar-
ship finalist. Martha plans to attend
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill where she will use the
Alston-PIeasants Scholarship she won
earlier this year. Nominated by her
school as "Outstanding Teenager of
America for 1969", Miss Butler at-
tended the 1968 Governor's School.
Miss Butler was also awarded a Beta
Club Scholarship.

and Mexico. She visited her daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Balkcum, who are stationed
at Fort Wolters Helicopter School
in Mineral Wells, Texas.

DON BAISE, Right of Way Agent,
is enjoying a vacation with his fam-
ily in sunny Florida. Hope you don't
get too much "son" while you're
away, Don!

We extend our very best wishes to
Mr. W. H. EVERETTE, Right of
Way Agent, who is retiring as of
June 1. We will miss you in Division
Four!

We wish to extend our sympathy to
Mr. ROBERT WOODARD and fam-
ily due to the death of his mother.

Mr. W. A. LAMM has returned
from an enjoyable vacation in Missis-
sippi. Enroute home, he also enjoyed
a couple of baseball games in Atlanta,
Georgia with the Phillies and Mets.
Welcome back.

We hope Mr. and Mis. J. G. MAT-
THEWS will enjoy the new Buick

they have been sporting recently. May
the fishing be good.

Mrs. ANN P. GRIFFIS, Clerk in
the Weldon office, spent a "long"
Memorial Day weekend in Corning,
New York, with her sister, Mrs. John
Klein.

Service Emblems were recently
presented to the following District
One employees: J. M. BOHANNON
and W. C. BROWN, 5 years; W. A.
BRILEY, R. A. JENKINS, B. A.
MAYO, A. L. PROCTOR, MATT
SLEDGE, and EDWARD STANS-
BURY, 15 years; R. V. BRETT, S.
L. HARLOW, J. C. PARKER, and
J. M. WILLIAMS, 20 years; W. B.
LITTLE, R. B. SPAIN, and B. N.
ROBERTSON, 25 years; J. H. CAR-
ROLL, A. C. HARLOW, and Z. E.
MOHORN, 35 years. A 45-year Serv-
ice Emblem and Certificate of Serv-
ice were presented to Mrs. JOHN P.
UPTON as a posthumous award to
the late Mr. Upton. Also receiving
awards are: R. G. JENKINS, 35
years, and W. E. WAGNER, 45 years.
Congratulations to all these employ-
ees for their many years of faithful
service!

Safety Awards presented to District
One employees were as follows: J. H.
CULLOM, JR. and V. W. LEWIS, 3
years; A. G. CRICKMORE, T. W.
WILSON, and J. T. SMITH, 5 years;
CICERO NETHERY, I. L. WOOT-
EN, and J. G. BROWN, 10 years; W.
E. WAGNER, SPENCER EPFS,
and R. B. BURNETTE, 15 years;
M. D. BRADLEY, B. H. CRAW-
LEY, R. G. JENKINS, M. T. HAR-
RIS, RAYMOND McWILLIAMS,
and J. L. HYDE, 20 years. We're
proud of you, men!

Granddaughter of C. H. Odom, M.
O. 3, Maint. Dept., Wayne County.
Lisa Rene' Outlaw at age 3 months.

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Get well wishes to ELLIOTT H.
CRAWLEY, who is away from work
due to eye surgery; WILLIE M.
WHITLEY, who has been on the dis-
abled list for several months; and
FRANK ARRINGTON, also on the
"disabled" list for quite a while.

Best wishes go to Mr. TOMMIE
JONES, of Pinetops, N. C, whose re-
tirement from service is effective July
1, 1969. Mr. Jones has been unable
to work, due to illness, for some time.
We hope that he will enjoy good
health and have a happy retirement!

LEONARD MOHORN, Mainte-
nance Yard Foreman at Halifax, who
has been ill and hospitalized in Rocky
Mount, is reported to be on the "im-
proving" list — surely hope he'll be
well soon!

Congratulations go. to the following
Weldon High School graduates:

John Richard Harlow, son of Main-
tenance Mechanic LINDBERGH
HARLOW and Mrs. Harlow. "Ricky"
was awarded a Student Council
Scholarship and plans to major in
electronics at the Halifax County
Technical Institute.

Ronald Lancaster, son of Mechanic
GEORGE ("BOB") LANCASTER
and Mrs. Lancaster, of Weldon.

Elizabeth Landen, daughter of Ma-
chine Operator RANDOLPH LAN-
DEN and Mrs. Landen, of Halifax.

William Earl Little, son of Truck
Driver WILLIAM B. and Mrs. LIT-
TLE, of Roanoke Rapids; William
plans to major in Industrial Arts at
Western Carolina University.

Elliott Pope, son of Bridge Main-
tenance Foreman J. S. POPE and
Mrs. Pope, of Halifax; Elliott was
awarded a Deca Club Scholarship
and will major in business at East
Carolina University.

Congratulations, all!

DivuKoBrr,ipond.nt t^™S in Virginia
recently.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of Mrs. LET-
TIE L. CATES
who passed away
on May 5th at
Duke University
Hospital.

GILES CRUT-
CHER had good
luck while herring

ALTON DEAN has returned to
work after being on sick leave and
being hospitalized for a few days re-
cently.

MARSHALL A. MANGUM of
Person County has been framed. Who
should do such a thing? None other
than his own doctor. To aid his re-
covery after a major surgical oper-
ation, Marshall was fitted with a
metal frame about his head to sup-
port his neck. The device is so fitted
as to come up under his chin. Mrs.
Mangum reports that the brace is of
greater value to her, than him; it
helps keep his mouth shut. His oper-
ation for a spinal problem was very
much a success and after a few weeks
rest, Marshall should be good as new.

Rest at home seems to be just the
thing for M. M. CHAMBERS. Fol-
lowing doctors orders, Monte is com-
ing along well after suffering a heart
attack. We all had some anxious mo-
ments when first he was hospitalized.
Our hopes were fulfilled and Monte
came through with flying colors. If
Monte has any more trouble with
the "ol ticker" we're gonna get him
one of those self-winding jobs.

Welcome back to work after being
out on sick leave: W. H. WALKER,
F. G SHENON, C. O. VAUGHAN
and G. P. HESTER.

Vacations at the beach and in Flor-
ida are: K. M. DUNCAN, and J. W.
MITCHELL, JR. and family.

Sympathy is extended to the wife
of W. A. WALKER who lost her
father recently.

Employees receiving service awards
recently included:

30 Year Award
LEONARD W. CLAY

25 Year Award
WILLIAM L. REAMS
20 Year Award
BRUCE O. HOCKADAY
FRANK H. LAWS
15 Year Award
ERNEST C. ADCOCK
GEORGE S. BAILEY
JOE S. GREENWAY
ALBERT S. MAY
5 Year Award
CHARLES W. PLEASANTS
ERNEST HICKS has been on sick
leave and hospitalized for several days
recently.

GEORGE WOODY was on sick
leave for a few days recently.

Wayne County employees welcome
back Mr. EARL WARREN who has
just returned to work following sur-
gery.

Sympathy is extended to JOSEPH
LEE SMITH and his family in the
recent death of his brother-in-law,

William Earl Core, of LaGrange, N.
C. He died April 12, 1969.

Best wishes to Mrs. Lucille Morse,
wife of Area Foreman FRANK
MORSE, who is convalescing after
surgery at Wayne Memorial Hospital.

A speedy recovery is wished for
ROLAND WILLIAMS who is out of
work due to illness.

Wayne County employees recently
elected the following officers for their
unit of N.C.S.H.&C.E.A. Chairman:
J. W. BROCK, JR; Vice Chairman:
PAUL J. ANDERSON; Sec. and
Treas.: RALPH BARNES; Dele-
gates: GROVER MITCHELL, RU-
DOLPH ANDERSON and EDGAR
KEARNEY; Alternate Delegates:
ELTON WATSON, WALTER DAN-
IELS, and R. M. BEST.

Best wishes to Mr. FRANK W.
MORSE, Area Foreman in Wayne
County, who will retire from State
Highway employ on August 1, 1969
after 48 years service in the Mainte-
nance Department.

Mr. CHARLIE TURNER, an M.
O. I in the Wayne County Mainte-
nance Dept., also plans to retire Aug-
ust 1, 1969. We wish for a long and
happy retirement for Mr. Turner.
Mr. Turner has 21 years service with
the Commission.

When a fire destroyed the home
and personal belongings of the father
of an employee, G. R. ROSS, the
men of Section #38, Person County
came forward with aid in the form of
cash donations, to assist the family
in relocating in a temporary mobile
home. Much to the relief of all, there
were no personal injuries.

Person County Maintenance Super-
visor B. F. "FIN" VAUGHAN has
been called upon by the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service for his advice
and support in the planning of the
Maho Creek Water-Shed. In the area
of the water-shed is several roads in
the State Highway Maintenance Sys-
tem. Mr. Vaughan has met in plan-
ning sessions, made field trips and
supplied much timely information to
help speed this project to an early
completion.

Seven men of Section #38, Person
County, received Safety Awards for
the year 1968: B. F. VAUGHAN, H.
G. HARRIS, R. H. OLIVER, LE-
ROY CATES and M. A. MANGUM
were awarded pins honoring each for
twenty years of performance of duty
without an accident. This represents
approx. 200,000 man hours worked
with no time lost because of accident
or injury. Receiving awards also were
A. L. PARHAM, fifteen years and
G. T. WHITLOW, three years. The

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awards were presented by Mr. B. F.
VAUGHAN, Maintenance Supervisor
during the Monthly Safety Meeting of
all personnel.

THE DATE IS LATE FOR "38"
Mother Nature has ibristled and

come alive;
So have men and machine of

Division Five.
The Spreaders already in summer

store;

The tractors all primed and
ready with mower.
We've come through a winter of
ice and glaze;
Now come on Lawmakers,
how-about-that-raise.

Fynns Menn

Get well wishes
go to LEO H.
SUGGS, Mainte-
nance Foreman 2,
Columbus County,
who has been in
the Columbus
County Hospital
recently; W. P.
SMITH, Machine
. J Operator 4, Colum-
Division Correspondent bus County, who
was taken ill while visiting his daugh-
ter in Decatur, Georgia.

Mrs. JUNE F. COX, Secretary in
the Right of Way Department, re-
cently spent a weekend with her
daughter, Mrs. N. J. Sojka and fam-
ily, in Charlottesville, Virginia, to
celebrate her grandson's (Thomas
John Sojka) first birthday.

Mrs. BECKY MOORE HUFF-
MAN, Secretary in the Right of Way
Department, has resigned her posi-
tion, effective June 6th. We will cer-
tainly miss "Becky" but wish her
every success and happiness for the
future.

CLAUDE R. MOORE, JR., our
deepest sympathy on the recent death
of his father, Claude R. Moore, Sr.

Brant G. Loflin, son of MAX G.
LOFLIN, of the Right of Way De-
partment, is progressing satisfactor-

ily; however, he is still in a cast and
will be in a cast for some time.

We are happy that Miss WILHEL-
MINIA ELLIS, Secretary in the
Right of Way Department, is out of
the hospital and back at work. She
is progressing well.

Above are Lynda and Ruthie Buie,
daughters of Mrs. Dorothy Buie, Sec-
retary in Division Six. Lynda is a
contestant in the Miss Rhododendron
Festival. Dorothy plans to chaperon
Lynda to this contest at Roam Moun-
tain June 22nd through June 28th.
Ruthie is 9 years old and is a 4th
grade student.

WADE OWEN, retired Machine
Foreman I, with the Equipment De-
partment, is in the hospital. We wish
Mr. Owen a speedy recovery.

Mrs. Becky Moore Huffman, Sec-
retary in the Right of Way Dept. who
resigned her position effective June
6th.

Congratulations to Miss Donna An-
nette Blalock, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. D. E. Blalock, upon her grad-
uation from Lumberton High School
May 30th. Donna has enrolled at W.
W. Holding Technical Inst. She will
be in training at Wake Memorial Hos-
pital as a Laboratory Technician As-
sistant. Dad is the Locating Party
Chief at Lumberton.

We would like to welcome Mrs.
MARILYN SMITH who was em-
ployed recently in Division 6.

We are happy to see Mrs. ELIZA-
BETH MELVIN back at work after
having surgery.

Welcome to Temporary Employees:

J. T. ATKINS and R. L. WIC-
KER, JR., joined the Construction in
Harnett County. They will be working
with the Survey Party.

Summer Happening:

P. G. WEEKS, Highway Engineer
I, has tuned his boat and spring
cleaned the cottage for another new
summer. P. G. Weeks and family at-
tended the N. C. Blue Berry Festival.

Also attending the Blue Berry Fes-
tival was TRUITTE JOHNSON,
Maintenance Foreman, and family.
The Johnson's camped out. They are
very steady going campers.

LINDA BASS, Typist II, and hus-
band are enjoying the summer to-
gether at various lakes and beaches.

W. J. BYRD and family spent May
30th week-end fishing with retired
Maintenance Supervisor, Roger N.
Weaver, at Moore's Creek.

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Graduation Exercises:

Virginia Lee Renn, daughter of J.
G. RENN, Area Foreman, will be
graduating from East Carolina Col-
lege June 1st. She will receive her B.
S. Degree. She will begin her elemen-
tary teaching at a Garner Elementary
School.

Sylvia LaRue Byrd, daughter of W.
J. BYRD, Heavy Equipment Oper-
ator, will be finishing her studies at
Hardbarger Business College on June
20, 1969.

Vacation Days:

J. G. RENN managed to slip away
for a few days to Florida to see his
grandson, daughter, and son-in-law.

Sympathy: Mr. J. Q. RAYBORN,
Highway Inspector II in Const., bro-
ther died in Louisiana after a long
illness.

Get Well Wishes: Little Miss Mar-
garet Whiteside, daughter of B.
WHITESIDE, JR., Resident Engi-
neer of Harnett, entered Cape Fear
Valley Hospital for a tonsilectomy
June 7th.

S. W. GILES, Machine Operator
II, is in Wake Memorial Hospital
seriously ill from a heart attack.

Mrs. SAM TYNDALL has recent-
ly been in the hospital at Wake Me-
morial. Fortunately, she is home do-
ing quite well.

John G. Lanier, Truck Driver, is
in Duke Hospital in serious condi-
tion. He is expected to return to work
in a few weeks.

Welcome Back to Work:

W. F. RYALS, Maintenance Fore-
man II, has returned to work after
being out for eight weeks from an
operation. We are glad to see Mr.
Ryals back with us.

The Fayetteville based Location
Survey Party has some new faces this
summer. They are HENRY MUL-
LEN who is attending Fayetteville
Tech. Inst, and ERNEST W. PAR-
KER who is completing his in serv-
ice training program with Location
before being permanently assigned.

W. L. SULLIVAN, Eng. Tech. II,
with Location is looking forward to a
visit from his father-in-law and rela-
tives from FULDA, Germany this
summer. FULDA is located ten miles
from the East German border. This
will be a welcome visit for the Sulli-
van's who haven't seen the folks since
1964.

Congratulations are in order for J.
S. (SAM) CAIN, JR., Eng. Tech.
with Location on his election as vice
president of the Stedman, N. C. Jay-
cee's for 1969-70.

Grandson of Ed and Mrs. Rowland — his parents are the Kenneth Row-
lands. Ed is Area Foreman in Caswell County.

DIVISION I
SEVEN ~~j

We are so hap-
py for the D. F.
LEFLERS who
adopted a beauti-
ful baby girl re-
cently. Her name
is Kelly Ann and
she was born on
March 4.

MELBA WEB-
STER and her

Carolyn Graves huahanrl ar*» Viav-
Uivision Correspondent nu9Dana are nav

ing a wonderful week-end at Wrights-

ville Beach with friends.

Get well wishes go to JAMES
MONTI who has been a hospital pa-
tient for several weeks — We hope
that by the time you read this he will
have been back on the job for a while.

JACK BRAME is happy to have
his wife home after a stay in the
hospital — said he was getting dish-
pan hands.

Welcome to all the college boys
who are working with us this summer.

RAY WELCH, who is with Traffic
Engineering, has moved in his new
office and we hope he likes it here
with us.

RAY D. DAVIS, Division Right of
Way Agent, is back on the job after
being out sick for several days.

The Oscar Lambeths are proud of
their son, Julius, who graduated from
Wake Forest University, June 9th
and will attend Graduate School, ma-
joring in Religion next year. Julius
is a licensed minister and he and his
wife, Marlene, have been active in
religious work for the past five years.

Have you noticed that the folks
who know the least seem to know it
fluently?

There's a line on the ocean where,
by crossing it, you can lose a day. But
there's one on the highway where
you can do even better.

Nowadays it's hard to tell whether
a girl is wearing a mini-skirt or a low
lobster bib.

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Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
i 1 y of ROY
SMITH, who died
on June 8th, fol-
lowing a very short
illness. Roy was a
Landscape Special-
ist, and had been
associated with the
Highway Gommis-

Virginia Williamson • f aiknllf fif
Division Correspondent slon tor aDOUt tll-

teen years. Roy's brother GENE is
employed by the Commission, and we
extend sympathy to him in the loss
of his father also on June 5. Also,
employees were saddened by the
death of ARCHIE M. WATTS,
Truck Driver, Rockingham, N. C,
Who died in April. Sympathy is ex-
tended to GRAY SEAWELL of Traf-
fic Service Department in the death
of his brother in Fayetteville.

Highway employees of the Eighth
Division were honored by the Town
of Aberdeen at the Annual Shad
Bake. This was a most enjoyable oc-
casion for those attending.

Congratulations to Alan Delong,
son of Mr. and Mrs. WALTER DE-
LONG on receiving the Eagle Scout
Award. Mrs. Delong is secretary in
the Division Office in Aberdeen.

It is good to hear from our retired
employees. Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
JOHNSTON have recently spent
some time at Cherry Grove Beach.
Mr. Johnston comes by to see us
occasionally, and we are always hap-
py to see him. Not too long ago,
JIMMY and Nell STEWART came
by on their way from the beach and
showed up part of quite a large
"catch". They do enjoy fishing and
boating. You will remember Mr. Ste-
wart retired from Lee County Mainte-
nance two years ago. Sometime re-
cently Mr. JOHN HALL, formerly
District Engineer in Asheboro, "sent
word" he was still receiving the Road-
ways Magazine and enjoying it, and
that he and Mrs. Hall were fine.

The HENRY JORDANS have re-
cently spent some time at Wrights-

Margaret Elaine Robinson, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Robin-
son of Route 3, Mt. Gilead was award-
ed a Wingate College Trustee Scho-
larship for the 1969-70 academic year.
The awards were based on merit
without consideration of need, and is
a scholarship for undergraduate stu-
dents leading to a college degree. Con-
gratulations Margaret. We know your
parents are very proud of you. Mar-
garet's father works for the High-
way Commission in Division Eight.

ville Beach; the FRED WHITE-
SELLS to Long Beach. KEN Mc-
FADDEN al90 took his family to the
beach.

Above Janie McColIum, daughter
of Dewey McColIum, Machine Oper-
ator in Montgomery County. Janie
graduated from West Montgomery
High School this year.

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Above is the lovely bride of Harold
Dewey Matthews, former Miss Linda
Sue Phillips who was married June
1st in the Glendon Christian Church
of Glendon. Harold is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dewey B. Matthews of
Star Route, Carthage. He is a grad-
uate of Carthage High School, a
member of Masonic Lodge No. 181,
and is employed in the office of Divi-
sion Eight Highway Commission Of-
fice. Congratulations newlyweds.

William N. Siler (Billy) son of
RICHARD and Lib SILER has re-
cently been home for a visit with the
family. Billy returned to Fort Lewis,
Washington on June 2 on his way to
Korea, where he will be with the
Army Signal Corps. Sharyn Siler,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Siler, grad-
uated from Jordan Matthews High
School recently, is working with Unit-
ed Telephone Company as an oper-
ator this summer. She will enter
North Carolina State University in
the fall, where she expects to major
in English.

NORMAN CADELL, District II,
Moore County, has retired and we
wish Mr. Caddell much happiness in
this retirement. He says he is mostly
staying around home, gardening, etc.
GRADY SKEEN of District I re-
tired on May 30th and we certainly
wtish him much happiness in retire-

ment also. Both of these have render-
ed the State much valuable service
in their employment with the High-
way Commission.

Congratulations to Roy Stephen
Robinson, a junior at Pembroke State
College, who made the Dean's List
for the recent semester. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT R.
ROBINSON, of Mt. Gilead. Mr. Ro-
binson is with the District III Main-
tenance Dept.

Linda Presley, who graduated from
Appalachian State University in June
with a BS degree in Elementary Edu-
cation will be teaching in the Moore
County School System in the fall of
1969.

Jimmy Presley graduated from Un-
ion Pines High School in June. Dur-
ing his senior year, he was president
of the Student Council and Co-Cap-
tain of the football team. Jimmy will
enter North Carolina State Univer-
sity in the School of Engineering this
fall. Both are the fine children of J.
C. Presley, Maintenance Department,
Carthage, who is mighty proud of his
son and daughter. We congratulate
them both.

George Wallace Patrick, son of
Douglas Patrick of the Landscape De-
partment, Division 8. George grad-
uated from Hamlet High School and
will enter the armed services. Our
prayers go with you.

DIVISION
NINE

When FRANK
GRIZELLE flew
to California to vi-
sit his brother dur-
j ing his vacation
last summer, he
i was talking with a
young lady by
whom he was sit-
ting. Frank had
told her that he

Dorothy Phelps . . , ,

Division Correspondent was retired, but

later during their conversation he
mentioned his work. When she did
not understand this, to her what
seemed contradictory, statement about
his being retired, yet working, she
questioned him. As usual, Frank had
a ready answer for the lady. His ex-
planation was that although he was
retired, the State of North Carolina
was retaining his services as a Main-
tenance and Sanitary Engineer until
such time as they found someone
capable of replacing him. Frank's
picture is shown with this account.

We hope that Mr. O. L. GOSS,
Cook I with the Road Oil Depart-
ment, will enjoy his retirement which
is to become effective June 5th. Mr.
Goss was employed by the Highway
Commission on October 30, 1961.

The following Road Oil personnel
have been ill: Mr. H. L. MYERS, M.
O. I, since April 25th; Mr. W. C.
MUSGRAVE, Truck Driver, since
April 28th; and Mr. T. C. HICKS,
M. O. I, since February 28th. It is
sincerely our wish that these em-
ployees will be able to return to their
respective jobs at an early date.

We are glad to say "Welcome
Back" to Mr. LARRY CABE, Divi-
sion Right of Way Agent, who was
ill in Forsyth Memorial Hospital,
Winston-Salem, from May 18 to
May 24th.

Mr. and Mrs. JIM S. USSERY
celebrated their first wedding anni-
versary on Sunday, May 25th. Mr.
Ussery is a Right of Way Aide.

We are happy to welcome back
Mr. HAROLD PITTMAN, Right of

Wedding bells rang early this year
for Dave Lewis and his bride, who
was the former Gertrude Elizabeth
Bramlett of Winston-Salem, N. C.
The couple were united in marriage
on March 2, 1969, at Konnoak United
Methodist Church, and are now re-
siding at Clemmons, N. C.

Dave is an Engineering Technician
in the Construction Department, and
Mrs. Lewis works for the Hunter
Publishing Company in Winston-Sa-
lem. Congratulations, and many hap-
py years ahead.

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Above is Frank Grizelle at work as Maintenance Engineer.

Way Aide in the Right of Way De-
partment, from Fort Polk, Louisiana,
where he completed eight weeks of
basic training. He also had five weeks
of Advance Individual Training as a
Clerk Typist before being released
from active duty on March 26th, and
returning to work on April 14th.
Harold is presently serving in the U.
S. Army Reserves.

We welcome new employee, Mrs.
Wanda B. Miller, who has been em-
ployed as a Typist II in the Construc-
tion Office of W. D. Rothrock. Wanda
is a graduate of Reynolds High
School and has worked at Wachovia
Bank and Trust Company, and Bene-
ficial Finance Company here in Win-
ston-Salem.

The picture above of Jeffrey Scott
Steelman typifies the thousands of
students who graduated this spring
from schools throughout North Caro-
lina. Jeffrey graduated on May 22,
1969 from Salem Baptist Day School
in Winston-Salem. He is the son of
Robert and Linda Steelman.

The Construction Department and
all of Division 9 personnel said "Good-
bye" one more time to Linda Steel-
man (son pictured above) who resign-
ed as a Typist II in W. D. Rothrock's
office to become a full-time mother
and wife. Linda has previously work-
ed for the Division 9 Office Manager,
Mr. Lowry, and the Division Engi-
neer, Mr. Fitzgerald.

Linda's first two resignations pre-
sented her with two permanent jobs
— looking after sons Jeff, now age 6,
and Timmy, age 3. This time Linda
promises no announcements from her
resignation — but anyway, here's to
HAPPY HOUSEKEEPING!

Linda and Bob in front of foun-
tains at Six Flags over Georgia.

Linda H. Williams, secretary in the
Appraisal Section, was married on
May 10, 1969, to Mr. Robert Yates,
who is with Yates Aluminum here in
Winston- Salem. Linda and Bob spent
a two-week honeymoon at Atlanta,
New Orleans and Gatlinburg. Best
of luck to the newlyweds!!

Junius Preston Foster, 30, of Santa
Cruz, California, a native of Mocks-
ville drowned in the ocean near San-
ta Cruz. His body was recovered on
April 23rd. A California Sheriff said
that Mr. Foster had drowned approxi-
mately a week before his body was
found.

Surviving are his parents RAY-
MOND and Louise Davis FOSTER
of Mocksville. Mr. Foster is employ-
ed as a Truck Driver with the Davie
County Maintenance Department.

Miss Vicki Leftwich, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. JAMES E. LEFT-
WICH of 109 Karen Circle, has been
elected to the Santa Filomena na-
tional nursing honor society at Grace
Hospital School of Nursing at Lenoir
Rhyne College. Miss Leftwich, a sen-
ior, is president of the Baptist Stu-
dent Union, and president of Dis-
trict One of the North Carolina Stu-
dent Nurse Association. Vicki's fa-
ther is Resident Engineer.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
GERALD V. HILTON on the birth
of their child, a son, Timothy Vance,
who was born on April 29, 1969. Mr.
Hilton is employed with the Construc-
tion Department in Rowan County at
Salisbury, N. C.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to JAMES O. ERVIN and family on
the recent death of Mr. Ervin's fa-
ther. J. O. Ervin is employed with the
Maintenance Department in Rowan
County.

We wish a long and happy retire-
ment to JAMES O. OROTTS, Main-
tenance Foreman in Davidson Coun-
ty, who retired on April 25, 1969, with
20 years of service.

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/ DIVISION (
U TEN ^

J.

Division

W. Jones
Correspondent

We wish for ER-
NEST BARBEE,
of the Bridge De-
partment, a speedy
recovery, who fell
from a load of hay,
breaking his ankle.

Welcome back to
C. A. MABRY, of
the Equipment De-
partment. He was
out of work due
to a cut foot by a
lawnmoweT.

Congratulations to R. R. POPLIN,
Machine Operator I in Stanly Coun-
ty, on the arrival of a 6 lb. baby
boy — May 11, 1969.

Get well wishes are extended to
W. P. CRAWLEY, Truck Driver in
Stanly County, who was thrown from
his horse, breaking some ribs and
fracturing his collar bone.

Also, we wish for W. V. HUDSON,
Machine Operator II in Stanly Coun-
ty ,a speedy recovery, who is out of
work due to on-the-job accident.

HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN

Highway to heaven — how sweet it
is to me,

To walk in the road where Jesus
leads me.

Highway to heaven — we can choose
our own way,

And keep leading others day by day.

Some will not listen and some will
fall,

By not leaning on Jesus who can help
us all.

As we grow older, the path is so clear,

That highway we travel brings Jesus
so near.

So let us keep smiling and traveling
on,

Down the road that leads to home.

Let us be happy and always pray,

That we will be guided to heaven's
highway.

Written by Mrs. Hoyle F. Connell
— During her husband's last illness.

The above picture was sent in by Mr. J. D. Bebber of Taylorsville. This
picture was taken in 1913 of a grading crew on NC 90 near Warren's Garage
in Alexander County. Would you look at those clothes????

Robert Lane Moss, Mechanic II
in Stanly County, Sub-Shop, Div. 10,
was awarded a 30 year pin award.

Maria Smith, daughter of Terrell
R. Smith, E. T. Ill, Monroe, N. C.
Age: 16 months.

Above, reading left to right, Char-
les Allen Steward, Mechanic II, Char-
lotte Div. Shop, Div. 10 was awarded
a five year pin, Fredrick Bowen Pay-
ne, Mechanic II, Charlotte Div. 10
was awarded a 20 year pin award,
and Ted Rhoad Sikes, Mechanic II,
Charlotte Dist. Shop, Div. 10 was
awarded a 5 year pin award.

Harris Lamar Efird, Mechanic II
in Stanly County, Sub-Shop, Div. 10
was awarded a 5 year pin award.

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Dolores Rogers
Division Correspondent

employee, whose
ril 26th.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to W. A.
MOSER, District
I employee, whose
mother died April
9th, to D. F.
MENDENHALL,
District I employ-
ee, whose mother
died April 20th,
and to H. D.
WELLS, District I
step-son died Ap-

D. D. DUNCAN, Machine Opera-
tor 3 in Alleghany County, died May
21st after a long illness. Mr. Duncan
had been employed by the Highway
Commission for 30 years and will be
greatly missed by his fellow employ-
ees and friends. We would like to ex-
tend our deepest sympathy to his
family.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. POINDEXTER who have a
new baby girl. Also, best wishes to
Mr. Poindexter who has resigned his
position with the Highway Commis-
sion to accept other employment.

District Engineer and Mrs. R. M.
RRADSHAW attended graduation
exercises at the University of Georgia
on June 7th. Their son, Morris, was
a member of the graduating class.

Get well wishes are sent to the
following District I employees who
are out on sick leave at this time: J.
G. BARKER, J. H. CLODFELTER,
P. D. FREEMAN, J. F. HANES, O.
G. ADAMS, L. G. HUTCHENS and
J. F. B LEVINS.

Welcome back to D. W. HODGES
who returned to work June 2nd after
almost a year's leave due to an on-
the-job accident.

Welcome to ALVIN ALEXAN-
DER, new employee in the Traffic
Services Department.

Congratulations to Claudia Jean
Hayes who was chosen by the Inter-
national Lions Club to be a foreign
exchange student in France this sum-
mer. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. EVERETT HAYES. Mr.
Hayes is employed by the North
Wilkesboro Equipment Shop.

Jean Cline
Division Correspondent

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of SHELBY
RAY STUTTS
who recently pass-
ed away. Mr.
Stutts was a Ma-
chine Operator III
in Iredell County,
and we were all
saddened by his
death.

Mr. J. WATT ALEXANDER, our
Asst. Dist. Engineer here in States-
ville is a Grandpa for the first time
— a baby girl, Andrea Lee Helms,
was born to Mr. Alexander's daugh-
ter and her husband on April 29th.
Mr. and Mrs. Helms live in Lawton,
Oklahoma.

Two Catawba County employees W.
H. CHAPMAN and R. M. BARN-
TEET, have returned to work after
illnesses and we are glad to have
them back with us again.

We have a wedding to announce in
Iredell County — our Iredell County
Maintenance Supervisor, R. WAYNE

Above is Kimberly Dawn Dish-
mond. This was taken when she was
2 months old. Kimberly is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dishmond
of Union Grove. Mr. Dishmond is a
Machine Operator I in Iredell Coun-
ty.

CONNOLLY, was married to Reba
F. Hoke on June 1, 1969. Best wish-
es and lots of happiness to Wayne
and Reba!

We would like to welcome the fol-
lowing Temporary Engineering As-
sistants who will be working in this
Department during the summer
months: DONALD K. STACEY,
WILLIAM R. SHEARIN, and JA-
MES R. LEWIS.

We would also like to welcome
EARL H. LUTZ, JR., Temporary
Engineering Aide, who has worked
with the Highway Commission for
the past two summers.

Division Office folks welcomed the
visit from EDDIE JOE RECTOR of
Marion recently. Mr. RectoT was for-
merly Sign Supervisor in the Twelfth
Division until his retirement some 9
or 10 years ago.

Congratulations are in order for
Miss Jeanne Bowen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Forrest Bowen, who grad-
uated from Shelby High School this
year and to attend Mars Hill College
next year. Jeanne's mother is MAR-
GARET BOWEN, who is Secretary
in the Right of Way Office, 12th Di-
vision.

STEVE HUTOHENS has been
working hard getting his apartment
in Troutman ready to move into af-
ter he is married to Miss Beverly
Winecoff. The wedding is set for
June 21st. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchens
will honeymoon in the mountains of
North Carolina and Tennessee.

JOHN BURNS has been riding
around town quite a lot recently.
John is the proud owner of a brand
new Rambler.

We are happy to welcome four new
employees to our department. They
are: JAMES EDWARD McLAIN
from Statesville, RALPH BARRY
MORROW from Troutman, WALT-
ER RONALD ELMORE from
Troutman, and JOHN RALPH
BOONE, also from Troutman.

M. W. RUNYAN of R. R. NICH-
OLS Engineering Party is back at
home after undergoing surgery May
22. We're glad to hear that he is re-
cuperating and hope he will soon be
back at work.

We want to welcome the following
summer employees: S. R. ALLEN,
L. E. GREENE, J. K. APPIAH, R.
T. QUEEN, and M. E. SELF. Also
H. J. DILLINGHAM, III.

Above picture of Dennis Corne-
lius Pharr, the grandson of Mr. Willis
Pharr, our Yard Maintenance Fore-
man in Iredell County. Dennis' par-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Pharr.
(This picture was taken when Den-
nis was 15 months old.)

EDNA RAMSEY
Division Correspondent

Mr. A. L. NEAL,
Resident Engineer
in Marion has a
new Engineering
Assistant, DAN
FERGUSON, as a
summer employee.
Dan is a rising sen-
ior at N. C. State
University and is
majoring in Engi-
neering. This is
Dan's third summer with the State
Highway Commission and he tells
us that he is enjoying working with
us and hope to be a full time employ-
ee when he has completed his educa-
tion.

Congratulations to NATHAN
WEST, Engineering Aide in CLYDE
BALL's Office. Nathan recently mar-
ried Priscilla Price. Congratulations
too, to Mr. and Mrs. C. L. KEN-
DALL on the birth of a baby boy on
May 19 weighing 7 lbs. 15 oz. Mr.

Kendall is a Tech. II in Clyde Ball's
Office.

The Weaverville construction office
has a new Engineering Aide — Mr.
WILLIAM MACK REVIS. Also wel-
come to ROBERT HARRISON
GREER who is working with us tem-
porarily during the summer months.

Clyde Orr's poodle "Puddles" be-
came a mother recently and the pic-
ture shows her three darling puppies
with Clyde's daughter Becky and his
wife Jane.

Congratulations to Eddie Paschall,
who graduated June 6, 1969 from Lee
H. Edwards High School. Eddie, who
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Pas-
chall, will attend Asheville-Biltmore
College next fall. Or is it UNC-Ashe-
ville?

MAURICE YOUNG and boys at-
tended the World 600 Automobile
race in Charlotte on May 25 and
BILL JENKINS spent a week at
Fontana Lake — he tells us there
are no fish left in Fontana!!

The FRED PENNELLS went to
Moriavian Falls to visit in-laws the
weekend of May 24. His brother-in-
law, who is a dragracer, took home
the "money" from Elk Creek, Virgin-
ia, Drag Strip. Fred is Asst. Resident
Engineer in ED PASCHALL's office.

KEN RABB, Resident Engineer,
welcomes DAN MARTIN, who trans-
ferred from Administration to Con-
struction and also DAVID PATTON,
who comes from Roadway Design in
Raleigh back to his home here in
Asheville. Also welcome to Engineer-
ing Aides K. M. JARRETT and D.
A. BARNETT; Engineering Assist-
ants S. D. PETERSON and K. A.
EARWOOD, JR.

Morganton Construction news is
that they welcome GARY PARKER
as a summer employee. He is attend-
ing North Carolina State University
and majoring in Civil Engineering.
Everyone misses MICHAEL PAR-
ROTT who has resigned to serve Un-
cle Sam.

The EARL PAYNES are mighty
proud of their son, Edgar, who is
working full time this summer as a
photographer for the local paper. Earl
is Resident Engineer in Morganton.

If anyone needs a water boy for
their elephants, just contact HORACE
TIPTON. We understand he has had
some experience in that kind of
work!! Hear the BILL DANBER-
RY's really enjoy their new camping
trailer. We are always wondering
where he'll be going the next week-
end.

Morganton Location. — Get well
wishes to BURGIN ORDERS who is
on sick leave. Employees miss BOB
BUM GARNER who is working in
Asheville as a Party Chief. Also wel-
come to DOUG WRIGHT, a new
employee.

Sympathy to JIM JARVIS, Road
Oil Foreman on the death of his fa-
ther, who was a Maintenance Fore-
man for many years with the High-
way Commission before his retire-
ment in 1946. JIMMY WALLEN of
Road Oil recently married — con-
gratulations Jimmy.

News from Right of Way this
month is that NELSON BOWDEN
took a trip down to Wilmington for
some fishing over the May 10 holi-
day weekend. ROBERT CHRISTO-
PHER and JACK ARDLEGE de-
cided to seek the sun in South Caro-
lina, but the word we got was that it
was pretty cold that weekend, even
at Myrtle Beach.

35

Congratulations to Lois Piercy,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Pier-
cy (party chief) on her recent grad-
uation from High School. Lois plans
to attend Western Piedmont Com-
munity College come September.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery
to LOUISE NORTON'S mother, who
recent spent some time in the hos-
pital, and to Richard Clark, young
son of J. DALLAS CLARK, Division
Right of Way Agent, who entered the
hospital for surgery recently.

I started to have
Frances use big
black letters for
IN MEMORY OF
and when you
wondered in mem-
ory of what —
you could just
think of all the
things that have
happened you did-
Allyce Cunningham n't write me about
Division Correspondent

— all the things that could have been
said that you didn't say — Any is-
sue now we just might have to drape
this column in black for it died for
lack of your news!

Had to dig way back for this one
but thought was cute enough to share
with all of you — LOUIS ALLEN,
who is now in the Raleigh Office, re-

ceived the following letter a couple
of years ago which pertained to pro-
perty owners who had to move im-
provements from the right of way —
Reads like this: Dear Sir:

We have moved the house,

But we left our pet mouse.

We packed our goodies in a sack,

So we are looking for our fifty dol-
lars back.

KEN DRIVER is leaving the con-
struction party in this area and join-
ing up with FREDDIE DAVIDSON
in Hendersonville — Ken don't let
Freddie lead you astray over that
way.

We welcome L. H. HIGDON back
to the Right of Way Department. It's
good to see old faces around again.
Now "H" I didn't mean you were old
but comparing it to our new friends
coming in.

C. L. McGEE wouldn't say just
where he was when he saw the follow-
ing but we have a pretty good idea.
Just said was a sign hanging some-
where — "Don't ever argue with a
topless waitress . . . you may get a
bust in the mouth!"

Grandpa AL COGGINS and Alice
have been baby sitting while daugh-
ter and husband from Long Island, N.
Y. spend some time at High Hampton
in Cashiers. Al says he is expecting
son and his family from St. Louis,
Mo. soon too and will really have a
"full house". Oh well, that's what we
get for living in these beautiful moun-
tains.

F. K. WESTWOOD, after a siege
of illness, has returned to work look-
ing pert and sassy. It's good to have
him back.

Phyllis M. Driver, wife of KEN
DRIVER, Construction Engineer,
graduated from Western Carolina
University with honors in June. Phyl-
lis plans to teach in Buncombe Coun-
ty this next year. Phyllis interrupted
her education for marriage, a child
and moving to this section of the
State with Ken. We offer our con-
gratulations for a job well done.

Catherine and Jane Ray, twin
daughters of W. F. RAY, Division
Engineer, completed their high school
work this year with honors. Catherine
will enter University at Greensboro
and Jane will enter Western Carolina
University this fall.

Hugh Raxter, son of DON and Mil-
dred RAXTER, Division 14 Office
Manager, completed his high school
work also this year. Hugh will enter
N. C. State University this fall.

The Nomad, published at Western
Carolina University by the Student

English Seminar, carried a poem by
Lillian Wyatt Hirt of Cullowhee.
Needless to say the title caught my
eye. I talked with Mrs. Hirt and
found that she has had articles and
short stories published in various State
and National magazines. Has written
three or four plays and has written
poetry for years and years. Within
this mountain area we have quite a
bit of construction going on and she
thinks road building the most fasci-
nating thing happening today. Loves
to watch the machinery move moun-
tains and streams and rearrange the
scenery. This probably prompted her
Poem, Super Highway and although
she prefers rhyme, this poem just

Isn't she cute? This is Melissa Dar-
lene Crisp, 3y2 month old daughter of
J. H. Crisp. Her mother is one beau-
tiful gal and looks like Melissa is
taking after her instead of James.
Melissa's daddy works in Construc-
tion Department under George Clay-
ton, Resident Engineer.

SUPER HIGHWAY

Move over, you people,
Make ready for progress!
Leave your houses and rose gardens,
And go to join the cliff-dwellers,
For a great giant is coming this way!
Take with you years of memories,
And when the giant's footstep
Has covered the land of your home,
You may yet see again the corner
Where sweet peas climbed a trellis.
The picture of a mountain road and
waterfall

May be clear in your mind as through

a window.
The giant is kind. He will give you

money

36

LLOYD CUTTING DIES

Highway employees were sad-
dened by the death of Lloyd Cut-
ting April 18. Mr. Cutting had been
with the Highway Commission for
35 years before his retirement in
July of 1963. He was 74 years old
at the time of his death in the
Veterans Hospital in Salisbury,
following a lingering illness.

A member of the Bridge Main-
tenance Department for many
years, Mr. Cutting made his home
in Statesville.

Immediate survivors are his
wife, the former Cora Belle Mc-
Hone, whom he married in 1920,
and one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy
Roueche Cutting Schroeder of
Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Mr. Cutting will be long re-
membered by his many friends in
the Highway Commission. He al-
ways had a good word and a bright
smile for everyone and was very
capable and skilled in his work.
One year he won the honorary
"McCrary Award" for outstanding
work with the Commission. W.
Lloyd Cutting will not be forgot-
ten. He was an outstanding man!

To buy another house, or rent a cage,
And give you time to gather up the
objects

You have bought and broken and
mended and dusted

And used them for your home sym-
bols.

Then some day you will sense, or see,

or hear,
One gossamer instant in time,
And know that home is in your heart.
Then you'll drive your hundred horses
Over the hardened footprint of the

giant

And never know that home was there
beneath.

—Lillian Wyatt Hirt

FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Miss MILDRED HOLT, Highway
Records Analyst, whose office is lo-
cated in Raleigh, was in the Ferry
Office, Morehead City, on May 21,
22 and 23, reviewing files. Miimi was
a pleasure to have around and we
hope she will come back and visit us
in the near future.

We welcome back to work, after
being out due to extended illness,
Mr. C. E. Bell, Port Captain at the
Pamlico River Ferry Operation, A.
B. BOWEN, Ferryman, aboard fer-
ry "Beaufort" and R. F. O'NEAL,
Ferryman, aboard ferry "Silver
Lake".

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
KENNETH WATERFIELD on the
birth of a baby boy. Mr. Waterfield
is employed at the Hatteras Ferry
Operation.

We welcome back to work, after
being out on extended illness, Mr. W.
A. TAYLOR, LORNE MIDGETT
and L. P. PAYNE, employees at the
Hatteras Inlet Ferry Operations.

Mr. WILLIE NELSON, Clerk at
the Morehead City Ferry Office,
along with his family, are spending
their vacation in New Jersey, visiting
relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Davis, Beau-
fort, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Abeta Joy, to Mr.
Robert T. Norris, son of Mr. R. T.
Norris and the late Mrs. Norris,
Beaufort. The couple plan a Sept. 5
wedding. Mr. Davis is Chief Engineer
aboard the ferry "Silver Lake" at the
Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry Opera-
tion.

Mrs. E. H. BAGGS, wife of Ferry
Operations Manager, E. H. BAGGS,
has returned from Tampa, Florida,
where she has been visiting her mo-
ther, Mrs. Edith McLeod.

EMMITT E. SMITH and ROGER
C. MIHOVOH received awards for
15 and 5 years service.

NICHOLAS F. SAPONE, JR., at-
tended a Chevrolet Motor Division
School, Charlotte, North Carolina, in
connection with transmission mainte-
nance.

Mr. and Mrs. IVEY EVANS spent
some time with their son and family
in Charlotte, North Carolina recently.

We welcome back Mr. JULIUS R.
BUTLER who has been out sick.

ALLEN LEE MANN, JR., Office
Manager, celebrated his birthday
June 3rd. Many more, Allen.

Mr. E. H. BAGGS and Mr. R. L.
ETHERIDGE recently received 15
year Safety award. Mr. E. W. BEAS-
LEY, C. H. BALLANCE, L. P.
PAYNE, J. W. AUSTIN, E. S.
PUGH and C. S. AUSTIN, were re-
cipients of 10 year Safety Award.

FINAL VIEW of old steel swing span bridge across Chowan River at Winton, N. C. Bridge was constructed in 1923 by
Highway Commission forces and connects Hertford and Gates Counties. A new bridge, now in planning stages, will soon re-
place it and will be located north of old bridge. The new bridge will be concrete, high level, with approx. 35' vertical clearance.
The old bridge is to be removed.

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JULY-AUGUST
1969

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XV
NUMBER IV

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

J. F. (Jeff) Allen Jack B. Kirksey

Robert G. Barr W. Frank McCray

Clifton L. Benson E. Gwyn McNeil

W. G. Clark, III Charles K. Maxwell

J. Boyd Crisp Joe W. Nowell, Jr.

Charles R. Dawkins David R. Parnell

Roy D. Dedmon Hugh A. Ragsdale

Thomas W. Ellis, Jr. James M. (Jim) Smith

Carroll H. Gillam Lynwood Smith

Novile C. Hawkins W. Arthur Tripp

W. B. (Bill) Joyce E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams. Jr.

W. F. Babcock State Highway Administrator

C. W. Lee Chief Engineer

George Willoughby Secondary Roads Officer

William M. Ingram Controller

Public Relations Officer Arch Laney

Assistant Public Relations Officer Gibson Prather

Editor Edith Johnson

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Glenn Carawan

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations Robbie Daniels

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Highway Commission
Public Relations Department

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Chairman 1

By D. McLauchlin Faircloth

Freewheelin' 14

By Arch Laney

N.C.H.C.E.A 27

Letters We Liked 26

ROADWAYS Cheers 28

Headquarters 31

By Jewel Adcock

Division News 35

Features:

Meet Your New Commissioners 3

Wilmington Bridge 8

By iG. T. Parkin

North Carolina's Central Highway 15

By Ernest Badgett

The State Highway Patrol 18

Interchange 20

If Interstates Were NASCAR Sanctioned 24

By Lee Roy Yarbrough

ROADWAYS' New Editor 25

1969 State Fair 26

New Traffic Manual in the Making 30

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From The Chairman

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

We now have a Highway Commission composed of
23 new members and are ready to get to work on build-
ing some roads in North Carolina.

Governor Bob Scott, who asked for the larger com-
mission, did so with the idea that this plan would bring
the state's highway program closer to the people. He is
confident, and so am I, that this will prove true.

Each of the new commissioners has a smaller area
to serve than did the members of the 14-man commission
which we have had for the past four years. Each one will
thus be able to devote more time and attention to the
wants and needs of the counties in his area of respon-
sibility.

We plan to make as much progress as we possibly
can during the next four years in North Carolina's high-
way system. With the additional money which the 1969
General Assembly granted us by the rise in the gaso-
line tax, we should be able to do a great deal.

The people of North Carolina, who are paying the
bill for the highway program, will be watching to see what
we do with the money that goes into roads. They are go-

ing to expect results, and they have a right to expect to
see their roads improved.

In great measure, the progress of our highway pro-
gram depends on the 10,000 employees who work for the
Highway Commission. This is no small responsibility and
no small assignment.

As chairman of the Highway Commission, I am ask-
ing that each employee work with and cooperate with
the commissioner in his area. These 23 men serve with-
out salary and have accepted their posts that they may
help North Carolina live up to its potential.

They are prepared to give of their time, with no
thought of personal compensation, to contribute some-
thing to their state.

These commissioners deserve your cooperation and
help, and I am sure that you, as employees, are ready and
eager to give them this.

The next four years can be exciting times in North
Carolina.

Prospects for new industry and expansion of existing
industry, which mean more jobs for our people, seem
very encouraging. Already since this administration took
over state control, there have been significant announce-
ments of industry coming to our state.

Highways play an important role in industrial pro-
gress.

And we can all help in this by giving that little extra
effort that means so much to our jobs and by cooperating
with our commissioners and our fellow employees.

This is really a privilege we have — to be a part
of this progress that is coming to our state.

I'm sure we are all aware of this and we'll all do our
parts in the days and weeks that lie ahead.

The 23-man State Highway Commission appointed by Governor Scott shown here on the steps of the Highway
Building after the swearing-in ceremony in Raleigh, Wednesday, July 30, 1969. Front row, left to right: J. M. (Jim)
Smith; J. F. (Jeff) Allen; Jack Kirksey; Governor Scott; Chairman D. M. Faircloth; Clifton L. Benson, Sr.; Robert G.
Barr. Second Row: Joe W. Nowell, Jr.; E. Gwyn McNeil; Novile C. Hawkins; W. Frank McCray; Roy D. Dedmon;
Charles R. Dawkins; J. Boyd Crisp; W. Arthur Tripp. Back Row: Carroll H. Gillam; W. S. Williams, Jr.; Hugh A. Rags-
dale; Lynwood Smith; David R. Parnell; Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.; W. B. (Bill) Joyce; Charles C. Maxwell; W. G. Clark,
III; E. J. Whitmire.

2

Meet Your New Commissioners

Jeff Allen

W. G. Clark,

Before he assumed his duties as High-
way Commissioner for Anson, David-
son, Montgomery, Richmond, and
Stanly Counties,
former State Sena-
tor Jeff Allen serv-
ed on the State
Democratic Execu-
tive Committee. A
life-long Democrat,
he became active
in the Party short-
ly, after his return
to business life
from his tour of
duty with the U. S. Navy during
World War II.

Mr. Allen graduated from high school
in Star, N. C, the town of his birth,
where he and Mrs. Allen, the former
Jean Maness, attend church. Mr. Al-
len is an Elder in Star Presbyterian
Church where he is also Clerk of the
Session.

He is involved in a variety of business
enterprises which include building
contracting, farming, and owning and
operating a rest home.

Mr. Allen is a member of the Elk's
Club, the Masons, and the Shriners.

The Aliens have three children: sons
Fred and Ray who live in Biscoe;
and a daughter, Mrs. Kerry Ander-
son, lives at Chapel Hill.

Robert G. Barr

A life-long Democrat and member of
the Ashe County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, Mr. Barr represents
Ashe, Alleghany,
Watauga, and Wil-
kes Counties on
the State Highway
Commission.
He and Mrs. Barr,
' / the former Charity
>r Vannoy, attend the
*fc Presbyter-
i^fl ian Church in
■ West Jefferson.
Mr. Barr is also a
member of the Elk's Club, the Ma-
sonic Lodge and the Shriners.

Although Mr. Barr is retired from
his former business as a furniture
manufacturer, he is still very active
in the business community in real
estate and insurance.

* * *

Clifton L. Benson, Sr.

An active Democrat and leading Ra-
leigh businessman, Mr. Benson has
been given charge of the road work
in Durham, Frank-
lin, Orange, and
Wake Counties as
their representa-
tive on the State
Highway Commis-
sion. Mr. Benson
was Finance Chair-
man of the State
I Democratic Party
| in 1960, a High-
m^Bm wav Commissioner
under the Sanford Administration,
and was a key member of Governor
Bob Scott's campaign.

He is president of Carolina Builders
Corporation and is on the board of
directors of Branch Banking and
Trust Co. in Raleigh. Mr. Benson
also serves on the Executive Commit-
tee of the Raleigh Chamber of Com-
merce, as a director for the Southern
Railway System, and on the board
of directors of the N. C. State Uni-
versity Student Need Association.

Mr. Benson is a member of the Elk's
Club, the Civitan, and the Sphinx
Clubs. He and Mrs. Benson, the for-
mer Nell Goodwin of Roseboro, are
active in Edenton Street United
Methodist Church where he is Chair-
man of the Board of Stewards.

The Bensons have three sons: Bax-
ter, Clifton, Jr., and William Allen,
all of Raleigh.

Edgecombe, Greene, Wayne, and Wil-
son Counties have been assigned to
Highway Commissioner W. G. Clark,
III, able and ex-
perienced Tarboro
businessman. Mr.
Clark was a dele-
gate to the 1968
Democratic Na-
tional Convention
in Chicago.

He graduated from
the University of
North Carolina in
1956 and served
three years as a lieutenant in the U.
S. Air Force. He and Mrs. Clark, the
former Elizabeth Gray Procter, at-
tend Calvary Episcopal Church. He
formerly served on the Vestry.

Mr. Clark is president of W. G. Clark,
Incorporated, a farm equipment and
supply firm. He is also active in a
variety of other businesses and organ-
izations. He is a Rotarian and a di-
rector of Edgecombe General Hospi-
tal.

The Clarks have two boys, Gray, 8,
and Bill, IV, aged 5.

J. Boyd Crisp

Cherokee, Clay, Graham, and Swain
Counties are represented on the State
Highway Commission by J. Boyd
Crisp, owner of J.
B. Crisp Construc-
tion Company. Mr.
Crisp is the former
Chairman of the
Graham County
Democratic Party
/*H^ Executive Commit-
H tee, a post he has
I held for the past
flWH four years.

He has served as
Sheriff of Graham County. Mr. Crisp
is a member of the American Legion
and a veteran of World War II, dur-
ing which he served in the U. S.
Navy "Seabees."

S

He and Mrs. Crisp, the former Eli-
zabeth Phillips of Robbinsville, at-
tend the First Baptist Church of Rob-
binsville where Mr. Crisp has taught
the adult men's Sunday School Class.
The Crisps have two children, Mitch-
ell, 16, and Tammy, 11.

Charles R. Dawkins

Mr. Dawkins, owner of a Fayetteville
real estate company, is the State
Highway Commissioner for Cumber-
land, Bladen, and
Hoke Counties. He
spent thirty years
in the lumber busi-
ness in Cumber-
land County before
he opened his real
estate firm.

He attended Stan-
^gStt Sk ley High School in
Mm Gaston County,
and graduated
from Wake Forest College in 1934.
Mr. Dawkins is a charter member
of the Fayetteville Exchange Club
and has been active state-wide in
that organization and its benevolent
undertakings.

He and Mrs. Dawkins, the former
Louise Stephens, attend Snyder Me-
morial Baptist Church where he is
Past President of the Brotherhood.
Mr. Dawkins is a Mason and a Shrin-
er. He is active in the support of
Falcon Orphanage.

The Dawkins family also includes two
children, Sarah and Frank.

Roy D. Dedmon

An active force in both the Moore
and the Scott gubernatorial cam-
paigns, Mr. Dedmon will have charge
of the roads in
Alexander, Cataw-
ba, Cleveland, and
Lincoln Counties
during the next
four years on the
State Highway
Commission.

Mr. Dedmon, a
cattleman and auc-
^^Iba. JaB tioneer from Shel-
by, received his
training at Reppert School of Auc-
tioneering in Decatur, Indiana. He
graduated from Fallston High School
in Fallston, North Carolina.

Mr. Dedmon spent two years in the
U. S. Navy during World War II.
With his tour of duty and his training
behind him, he returned to Cleveland
County where he became affiliated
with the Cleveland Auction Company,
president of the North Carolina
Shorthorn Association, director of
the North Carolina Cattlemen's Asso-
ciation, and director of an insurance
firm in Shelby.

He and Mrs. Dedmon, the former
Ruth Spangler of Cleveland County,
attend Ross Grove Baptist Church
where Mr. Dedmon is a Deacon. He
is also a member of the Lions Club
and the V-F.W. He is Vice-Chairman
of Shelby Planning and Zoning
Board, and director of Upper Cleve-
land Recreation, Inc.

The Dedmons have a son, Rodney.

Thomas W. Ellis

To his impressive record of service,
Mr. Ellis adds the job of State High-
way Commissioner for Caswell, Gran-
ville, Person, and
Vance Counties.
A native of Hen-
derson, he graduat-
ed from Henderson
City Schools, Mars
Hill College, the
h« University of
^ * /, J— North Carolina —
I Chapel Hill, and
1 ni' pursued addi-

■MH m mmmm f10na\ studies in
production chemistry at N. C. State
in Raleigh.

Mr. Ellis left his position with the
DuPont Company in 1949 to become
Vice-President and Treasurer of Ellis
Motors. While at DuPont, he entered
the U. S. Army and served for two
years in Europe during World War
II.

He and Mrs. Ellis, the former Doro-
thy Marie Wiggins, attend the First
United Methodist Church in Hender-
son where Mr. Ellis has served as
Lay Leader, as secretary of the Men's
Bible Class, and as a member of the
Board of Stewards.

Mr. Ellis is Area Chairman for both
the North Carolina and the National
Automobile Dealers Association. He
has been very active in county govern-
ment, serving as a member of the
Steering Committee on Finance and

Taxation for the National Association
of County Officials. He has been
equally active in the Lions Club.

The Ellis family also includes twins,
Dorothy and Diane, both students at
UNC-G, and son, Thomas William,
III, of Henderson.

Carroll H. Gillam

A gentleman-farmer in the finest
"down-east" tradition, Mr. Gillam of
Windsor has Bertie, Hertford, Mar-
tin, Northampton,
Tyrrell, and Wash-
ington Counties as
™ his primary re-
sponsibility on the
State Highway
Commission.

He is the product
of Windsor High
School and Oak
Ridge Military
Academy. Mr. Gil-
lam is a Methodist and a Democrat,
and has been active in his church and
in his government and its politics
for a number of years. He was active
in the successful gubernatorial cam-
paign of Robert W. Scott.

He and Mrs. Gillam, the former Eli-
zabeth Rascoe Fearing, attend Wind-
sor United Methodist Church. Mr.
Gillam is involved with the Bertie
County Farm Bureau and was a
member of the Seashore Commission.

The Gillams have a son, Rascoe Bond
Gillam, and three daughters, Mrs.
John H. Hall, III, Constance Brad-
ford Gillam, and Penny Fearing Gil-
lam.

Novile C. Hawkins

The highway needs of Haywood, Ma-
dison, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties
are the responsibility of Mr. Novile
C. Hawkins, mer-
chant-farmer o f
Mars Hill, North
Carolina.

Mr. Hawkins is
county director of
the Farm Bureau
and he served as
ASCS State Com-
mitteeman from
March, 1961-Mar-
ch, 1969. He was

appointed during the Kennedy Ad-
ministration and also served during
the Johnson Administration.

He is a farmer, and, for the past
twenty-five years, has been in the
retail business with a service station,
a grocery store, and an automobile
dealership.

He and Mrs. Hawkins, the former
Jane Bucker, are members of the
Baptist Church in Mars Hill. Mr.
Hawkins serves on the Church Build-
ing and Grounds Committee.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have one
daughter, Mrs. Billy English.

Bill Joyce

Prominent Lee County businessman
Bill Joyce has jurisdiction over the
highway needs of Chatham, Harnett,
Lee, and Moore
Counties as their
representative on
the State Highway
Commission.

Mr. Joyce, a grad-
uate of Sanford
City Schools, also
attended Campbell
College. He and
Mrs. Joyce, the
former Sarah Gun-
ter, attend First Presbyterian Church
in Sanford.

Mr. Joyce is involved in a variety of
business enterprises. He is president
and treasurer of Sanford Tobacco
Company, is a member of the San-
ford Airport Authority, a Trustee of
Central Carolina Technical Institute,
and also serves on a number of
Boards of Directors. He is Vice-Pres-
ident of the Atlantic and Western
Railroad.

Politically, he is a Democrat and a
former Lee County Commissioner, a
post from which he resigned in order
to devote more time to the Highway
Commission position.

Mr. Joyce is a member of the Elks,
the Moose, and the American Legion.

The Joyces have three children: Bill,
Jr., 13; Pat, 11; and Christy, 7.

Jack Kirksey

Morganton businessman Jack Kirk-
sey assumes his duties as Highway
Commissioner for Avery, Buncombe,
Burke, Caldwell,
McDowell, and
Rutherford Coun-
ties with consider-
able experience be-
hind him.

He was a Highway
Commissioner un-
der Terry Sanford,
and had served un-
der Governor
Scott's father, the
late W. Kerr Scott, on the State
Board of Public Welfare.

Mr. Kirksey, a former Democratic
National Committeeman, has also
served as State Young Democratic
Club Vice-President, and County
Chairman.

He is a member of the Administrative
Board of the Methodist Church in
Morganton where he and Mrs. Kirk-
sey, the formor Lena Buff, attend.

Mr. Kirksey's business interests cen-
ter around a hardwood lumber firm
in Morganton. He is also a member
of the City Board of North Carolina
National Bank and of the Board of
Directors of the Western Piedmont
Foundation.

The Kirkseys have two sons, Charles
and Edgar.

W. Frank McCray

Well-known Kannapolis groceryman
and livestock dealer, Frank McCray
is responsible for the road needs in
Cabarrus, Rowan,
and Union Coun-
ties on the State
Highway Commis-

Born in Chester-
field County,
South Carolina,
Mr. McCray grew
up in Union Coun-
ty where he is still
engaged in cattle
farming. Since 1933 he has been a
resident of Kannapolis, near the Ro-
wan and Cabarrus County line.

He and Mrs. McCray, the former Nell
Goldston of Kannapolis, attend the
West Point Baptist Church in Kanna-
polis where Mr. McCray serves as an
Usher, the Chairman of the Building
and Grounds Committee, and a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees.

Mr. McCray also served as a mem-
ber of the Democratic Executive Com-
mitte in his county. He has served on
a number of committees and boards
of directors in the Cattlemen's Asso-
ciation, the Lions Club, the Masons,
and the Shrine Club.

Mr. McCray was selected Kannapolis
Senior Man of the Year in 1955.

* * *

E. Gwyn McNeil

Taking in portions of three Engineer-
ing Divisions, the territory overseen
by Mr. McNeil includes Davie, For-
syth, Iredell,
Stokes, Surry, and
Yadkin Counties.
Mr. McNeil has
wide-spread know-
ledge of the area
he serves on the
HI State Highway
■/■ A Commission. He
jfcr Jf/k returned after four
^JK| jJImH and a half years in

^mm the u s Army

Air Corps during World War II to
the area of his birth. He was educat-
ed at Reynolds High School in Win-
ston-Salem. He is an active member
of Jonesville United Methodist
Church, and he is director of the
YMCA in Elkin, N. C.

Mr. McNeil is president of Motor
Parts Supply Company of Jonesville
in Yadkin County. He is a member
of the Oasis Temple in Charlotte and
of the Elkin Masonic Lodge.

He was a delegate from the Fifth
Congressional District to the 1968
Democratic National Convention in
Chicago. Mr. McNeil also served as
Yadkin County compaign manager for
Governor Robert W. Scott.

He and Mrs. McNeil, the former Ar-
denia Hogan, have two children,
Dwayne, 9, and Marion, 6.

* * * — " '

Charles K. Maxwell

Former State Senator Charles K.
Maxwell of Huntersville, Mecklenburg
County, has charge of the roads and
highways in his
home county and
adjoining Gaston
County. He repre-
sents the Charlotte
— Gastonia urban
area as well as the
out-lying rural dis-
tricts within the
two counties he
serves on the State
Highway Commis-
sion.

Mr. Maxwell attended the public
schools of Whiteville and Wilmington
before going to Davidson College for
his higher education. He and Mrs.
Maxwell, the former Doris Jane
Moore, attend the Presbyterian
Church.

He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Ma-
son, a Shriner, and a member of the
Charlotte Rotary Club. Mr. Maxwell
is president of Carolina Developers,
Inc., is a member of the Charlotte
Board of Realtors and the North
Carolina National Board of Realtors.

The Maxwells have three children:
Tom, 20, Catherine, 10, and John, 4.

Joe Nowell, Jr.

An active Democrat and civic leader,
Joe Nowell represents Camden, Curri-
tuck, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank, and
Perquimans Coun-
ties on the State
Highway Commis-
sion.

He was Scott's
campaign manager
in both the pri-
mary and the gen-
eral election in
Perquimans Coun-
ty. Mr. Nowell is
Treasurer of the
Perquimans County Democratic Com-
mittee.

Mr. Nowell is vice-president of Wind-
fall Chamber of Commerce and chair-
man of its membership and medical
committees. He turned down a career
in professional major league baseball
to grow corn and peanuts on his 400-
acre Perquimans farm.

He and Mrs. Nowell, the former Anne
Atkinson of Elizabethtown, are active
in Hertford United Methodist Church.
Nowell, a World War II veteran, is a
member of the American Legion and
past president of the Parksville Ruri-
tan Club.

He served five years on the School
Board in his home county, and was
secretary-treasurer of the Albemarle
Soil Conservation District for six
years.

The Nowells have three sons: War-
ren, 13, Keith, 11, and Stephen, 9.

David R. Parnell

Prominent Robeson County merchant-
farmer David R. Parnell represents
Brunswick, Columbus, Robeson, and
Scotland Counties
on the State High-
way Commission.
Mr. Parnell, a born
Democrat, has
been Chairman of
Parkton Precinct
Committee since
1964. He is pre-
sently Mayor of
Parkton, and a
member of the Ro-
beson County Industrial Development
Commission, an organization of which
he was Chairman from 1968 to 1969.
Mr. Parnell was active in his county
in Governor Scott's campaign.

He is president of Parnell Oil Com-
pany, Executive Vice-President of J.
Q. Parnell, Inc., and he is on the
Board of Directors for St. Pauls
Bank.

Mr. Parnell attended public schools
in Parkton, attended Oak Ridge Mili-
tary Academy, and West Point. He
received his degree from Wake For-
est University.

He and Mrs. Parnell, the former Bar-
bara Johnson of Benson, N. C, at-
tend Parkton Baptist Church where
Mr. Parnell teaches the Men's Sun-
day School Class and serves as Chair-
man of the Board of Deacons and
Church Treasurer.

The Parnells have three children, Da-
vid, Jr., 16, Anne, 13, and Timothy,
3i/2.

Hugh A. Ragsdale

Former State Representative Hugh A.
Ragsdale, a four-term veteran legis-
lator, now represents Carteret, Jones,
New Hanover, On-
slow, and Pender
Counties on the
State Highway
Commission.
Mr. Ragsdale was
a key member of
the Scott Cam-
paign team. He
was educated in
the public schools
of Smithfield, N.
C, and at the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Mr. Ragsdale has interests in a va-
riety of business enterprises includ-
ing automobile dealerships, farming,
and food merchandising.

He and Mrs. Ragsdale, the former
Annie K. Sutton of Richlands, are
active members of Richlands United
Methodist Church where Mr. Rags-
dale has served in numerous capaci-
ties over the years.

The Ragsdales have three sons: Hugh,
Jr., a PhD. at the University of Ala-
bama; Carl, an automobile dealer in
Jacksonville, N. C; and Mike, a stu-
dent at the University at Chapel Hill.

J. M. (Jim) Smith

Duplin, Sampson, and Lenoir Coun-
ties have as their representative on
the State Highway Commission Mr.
Jim Smith, a pro-
minent merchant-
farmer from Chin-
quapin.

Mr. Smith is a for-
mer member and
Chairman of the
Duplin County
Board of Elections
and a Democrat.
He is a partner in
a general mercan-
tile business and the director of the
Southeastern Farmers Grain Associa-
tion.

The Smith family attends Shiloh Bap-
tist Church where Mr. Smith is a
Deacon. He has also served as Gen-
eral Superintendent, Department Su-
perintendent, Sunday School Teach-
er, and Treasurer of the church.

6

He is a graduate of Lee Woodard
High School and also attended Wake
Forest College. Mr. Smith has served
as a member of the Board of Trustees
for Wilmington College.

He and Mrs. Smith, the former Au-
line Lanier, have two sons, Kent, a
student at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and James
Brian.

Lynwood Smith

Life-long Democrat and Precinct
Chairman Lynwood Smith is the rep-
resentative for Alamance, Guilford,
Randolph, and
Rockingham Coun-
ties on the State
Highway Commis-
sion. Mr. Smith
was a Presidential
Elector in 1940.
Mr. Smith is vital-
ly connected with
several of the Pied"
mont's business in-
terests including
the Adams-Millis Corporation, Wa-
chovia Bank and Trust Company in
Asheboro, State Capitol Life, and
Highlands Cotton Mills.

He is an active member of the High
Point Chamber of Commerce, the Ro-
tary Club, the String and Splinter
Club, and the Furniture City Club.
Mr. Smith also belongs to the Emery-
wood Country Club.

Mr. Smith received his formal educa-
tion from the Maxton City Schools,
Georgia Military Academy, and Wake
Forest University.

He and Mrs. Smith, the former Sarah
Elizabeth Armfield, attend the Meth-
odist Church where Mr. Smith is
Chairman of the Board of Stewards.
He also serves on the Board of Trus-
tees for Methodist College in Fayette-
ville as well as holding similar posts
for Woodward Academy in Atlanta
and Oak Ridge Military Institute.

The Smiths have two children: Mrs.
Edward L. Pell, III, and Lynwood,
Jr.

* * *

W. Arthur Tripp

Beaufort, Craven, Hyde, Pamlico, and
Pitt Counties have Arthur Tripp as
their representative on the State
Highway Com-
mission in Raleigh.
Mr. Tripp is one
of the state's lead-
ing tobacco ware-
housemen, having
served as Presi-
dent of the Green-
ville Tobacco
Board of Trade,
the Eastern Caro-
lina Warehouse
Association, and the Bright Belt
Warehouse Association.

He is active in the Greenville Ki-
wanis Club, an organization he has
served as president. A native of Pitt
County, he attended Campbell Col-
lege High School and received a de-
gree in chemical engineering from
North Carolina State University.

He and Mrs. Tripp, the former Anice
Harding of Washington, N. C, are
members of the Episcopal Church in
Greenville.

The Tripps have one daughter, Mrs.
Donald R. Patrick of Greenville.

Edward J. Whitmire

Former Chairman of the Macon
County Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, Edward J. Whitmire repre-
sents Henderson,
Jackson, Macon,
Polk, and Tran-
sylvania Counties
on the State High-
way Commission in
Raleigh.

Mr. Whitmire is a
graduate of North
Carolina State
University, and he
has served on the
Board of Trustees of Western Caro-
lina University since his appointment
to that post by the late Governor
Kerr Scott. He is a two-term member
of the State Board of Higher Edu-
cation.

He is president of Macon Construc-
tion Company, Inc. and Macon

Equipment Company. Mr. Whitmire
is also an active farmer. He is a
former Master Teacher of Agricul-
ture, and he ranks high in both the
North Carolina Cattlemen's Associa-
tion and the North Carolina Short-
horn Association. Mr. Whitmire has
been a member of the Rotary Club
for 30 years.

He and Mrs. Whitmire, the former
Genevieve Helen White, are active
members of the Methodist Church in
Franklin where Mr. Whitmire is
both a Steward and a Trustee.

The Whitmires have four children:
Genevieve Elaine; Edward, III; Ste-
ven, and David.

W. S. Williams, Jr.

Halifax, Johnston, Nash, and Warren
Counties are represented on the State
Highway Commission in Raleigh by
W. S. Williams,
Jr., a prominent
Middlesex gentle-
man farmer.

Mr. Williams is a
graduate of Mid-
dlesex High School
and North Caro-
lina State Univer-
sity. He served on
the Nash County
Board of Educa-
tion for 12 years, and was Chairman
of that organization for six years.
Mr. Williams also has served on the
State Board of Education.

Mr. Williams served in the U. S. Air
Force during World War II. After
the war, he returned to Nash County
to farm. He served three years as
President of the North Carolina Cot-
ton Promotion Association.

He is a Mason and a past president
of the Middlesex Rotary Club. Mr.
Williams is an active member of the
Middlesex United Methodist Church
where he is Lay Leader.

He and Mrs. Williams, the former
Mazel Stilwell, have two children: a
daughter, Emily, 17 and a son, Kelly,
12.

7

The Wilmington Bridge

North Carolina's First Lift Span Bridge

By G. T. PARKIN

North Carolina's first lift span
bridge has now been completed. The
structure is located at Wilmington
across the Cape Fear River. Routes
US 17, 74, 76 and 421, and NC route
133 cross the bridge. The structure
carries four lanes of traffic with two
27-foot roadways separated by a me-
dian barrier rail. The lift span alone
has a span of 408 feet center to cen-
ter of bearings, and provides a 350-
foot horizontal clearance between fen-
ders for navigation. Two through-
trusses at 62-foot centers provide
strength for the span. When in posi-
tion to carry highway traffic the span
provides 65-foot vertical navigational
clearance which is the same as the
standard now used for fixed spans
over the Intracoastal Waterway.
When raised for the passage of large
ships 135-foot vertical clearance is
provided. The total length of the
bridge is 3040 feet.

First work done was this framework for the cofferdam of the East Main
Pier. October 15, 1966.

proaches on west end were revised Aerial View. Note lift span being erected on two barges, crosswise the

somewhat. bridge and back of main pier. January 1, 1969.

S

Aerial View. Note battleship, "North Carolina", in background, and ship
at dock. March 28, 1969.

"Before constructing a bridge, eith-
er movable or fixed, across a naviga-
ble waterway, it was necessary for
the State Highway Commission to ob-
tain a Permit from the U. S. Corps
of Engineers who have jurisdiction
over all navigable waters. (At the
present time the U. S. Coast Guard
has such jurisdiction.)

"The first application for the new
proposed drawbridge at Wilmington
was filed in April, 1962, and a public
hearing was held in Wilmington on
May 23, 1962. This application pro-
posed the construction of a double
leaf bascule bridge providing 55 feet

A view looking upstream at East
Main Pier and Tower. Note height
of crane mounted on barge and height
of tower. August 26, 1968.

of vertical clearance in the closed
position and 250 feet of horizontal
clearance between fenders. There w*f>
so much opposition to this application
that the Commissioner later with-
drew its request for a Permit based
on the above clearances.

"A second application for a Permit
was filed by the Commission to the
Corps of Engineers in March, 1963.
This application was based on the
construction of a vertical lift bridge
which would provide 65 feet of ver-
tical clearance in the closed position
and 135 feet of vertical clearance in
the open position. 350 feet of horizon-
tal clearance would be provided be-
tween fenders. A public hearing was
held April 23, 1963, in Wilmington
and, again, considerable opposition
was registered by the many naviga-
tion interests. However, the repre-
sentative of the Bureau of Public
Roads recommended strongly that
the application be approved. Subse-
quently, the U. S. Corps of En-
gineers issued a Permit favoring the
construction of a vertical lift bridge
over the opposition of many local
groups."

The size and massiveness of the
lift span, two main piers and towers,

9

tend to dwarf the remainder of the
bridge to the extent that it appears
insignificant that the structure spans
over Surry Street, Queen Street, Front
Street, and a track of the Seaboard
Coast Line Railroad on the east bank,
and over SR 1300 on the west bank
of the river.

Before construction of the lift span
bridge all traffic south, west and
northwest to and from Wilmington
was routed over bridges spanning the
Cape Fear River and the Northeast
Cape Fear River at a location about
a mile upstream from the new bridge
and just above the confluence of the
two rivers. These bridges were built
in 1928 and have a roadway width of

only 24 feet between curbs. Each of
the two bridges includes a double leaf
bascule span for navigational pur-
poses. The structure carried an aver-
age daily traffic of 16,000 vehicles.
Needless to say the structures were
overworked. The machinery in both
of the bridges was in such condition
that the possibility of a serious break-
down was not at all unlikely.

Although the need for a new cross-
ing had been realized for many years
the cost dictated postponement of
positive steps until 1960 when old
cost estimates were retrieved from the
files and new estimates prepared.
Serious consideration was given to a
location adjacent to the old struc-

ture locations and skirting from there
around the north edge of the main
part of Wilmington with a southward
swing through the Winter Park area.
However, such a route would not well
serve the large volume of highway
traffic to and from the port terminal.
The chosen location of the lift span
bridge provides a more direct route
for through traffic and also provides
a more practical route for the fleet
of tanker trucks carrying petroleum
products. Since fewer city streets need
now be used by the tankers, the al-
ways present major fire hazard re-
sulting from such traffic within ci-
ties has been reduced.

(Continued on Page 12)

10

WILMINGTON BRIDGE

Opposite Page. Left:

Top Left. Ship's view looking up-
stream. April 3, 1967.

Middle left. Cranes handling con-
crete delivered by trucks. Note at
least 5 concrete trucks in view. May
1, 1967.

Top right. East Main Pier. Note
timber forms and rock fill between
pier and fenders. July 7, 1967.

Middle right. Placing concrete us-
ing concrete bucket. Note both plat-
form and bucket suspended from
crane. September 5, 1967.

Right:

Top. Lift span being erected back
of main pier and at a height to per-
mit floating the span to its final posi-
tion. January 1, 1969.

Middle. Lift span nearing its final
position. Note size of the "midget"
workmen.

Cam

t ... Vl _

Bottom. Placing concrete in an ap-
proach span. Note length of screed
covers entire span. January 29, 1969.

11

Studies were made comparing costs
of a tunnel under the river, a fixed
span structure providing 135-foot ver-
tical clearance for navigation, and a
lift span as selected. A double leaf
bascule span was also considered but
dropped because of the 350-foot width
of channel required for navigation.

Since the design of a lift span
structure is a specialty it was decid-
ed that the work of preparing design
and plans should be awarded to a
consultant. The consulting firm of
Parsons, Brinkerhoff, Quade and
Douglas of New York City was se-
lected to do the work, and it was also
decided, primarily because of the in-
tricate machinery and electrical sys-
tem, to have the consultant provide a
resident engineer and a small field
force to supervise construction of the
bridge. An agreement for the consul-
tant to do the proposed work was
signed in April, 1965.

Three contracts were awarded for
the bridge structure, another pre-
liminary contract was awarded for
obtaining foundation information, and
two other contracts were required for
the east and west roadway approaches
including one highway separation
structure and a bridge over Alligator
Creek. The total length of the pro-
jects including roadway and struc-
tures is 2.5 miles. Factual data con-
cerning the contracts, listed in chron-
ological order are as follows:

Advance Information Contract —
Foundation Information. Bids were
opened August 24, 1965, and work
was awarded to Froehling and Robert-
son for $11,689.

Bridge Contract No. -1- Two main
piers, fender system and four other
piers located in the river between
stream banks. Bids were opened Aug-
ust 2, 1966, and work was awarded to
B. F. Diamond Construction Com-
pany for $1,811,237.

Bridge Contract No. -2- Main lift
span, lift span supporting towers, ma-
chinery, and electrical equipment.
Bids were opened May 23, 1967, and
work was awarded to American
Bridge Division of U. S. Steel Cor-
poration for $4,139,182.

West Roadway Approaches and
Secondary Structures — Roadway on
the west end of the main bridge, in-
cluding one highway separation
structure and a bridge over Alligator
Creek. Bids were opened August 22,
1967, and work was awarded to Ga-

hagan Dredging for a total of $3,185,-
269. The two smaller structures in
this contract amounted to $344,457
of the total.

Bridge Contract No. -3- Remainder
of main bridge including structure ap-
proaches to the lift span except for
the four piers included in Contract
No. 2. Bids were opened December
12, 1967, and work was awarded to
Bowers Construction Company and
Inland Bridge Company for $3,357,-
036.

East Roadway Approaches. Bids
were opened on April 2, 1968, and
work was awarded to Lincoln Con-
struction Company, Inc., for a total
of $417,770.

Summarizing, the cost of the com-
plete project was as follows:

Main Bridge $ 9,319,144

East and

West Approaches 3,603,039

$12,922,183

These costs are based on contract
prices, not on final estimate costs
which are yet to be determined, and
they do not include the cost of right
of way and engineering.

Much of the cost of the approach
roadwork resulted from the necessity
of removing muck up to a depth of

about 20 feet between the bridge and
the west end of the project, and re-
filling with sand placed by hydraulic
dredging and pumping.

Several types of construction make
up the bridge. These include through-
trusses for the lift span, simple com-
posite prestressed concrete girders,
simple composite plate girders, and
continuous composite plate girders.
The lift span weighs approximately
1,450 tons. Machinery for lifting the
span is housed in steel towers at each
end of the span. The east tower also
includes a control house from which
the span is operated.

An elevator has been installed in
each of the two towers for use by the
bridge operators, and for maintenance
purposes. The span is operated elec-
trically and two diesel operated gen-

Part of the machinery. March 26,
1969.

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erators were installed for use in case
of interruption of commercial electric
power.

Since the maze of structural steel
members in the lift span make it im-
possible for the bridge operator to see
highway traffic on the bridge proper-
ly, a closed circuit TV system was in-
stalled to enable the operator to mon-
itor the vehicular traffic on the bridge
when the span must be opened for
ships.

Because of the size and complexity
of the structure special paint systems
were used in order to reduce future
maintenance problems and costs. The
lift span and towers were painted with
an unsterfied Epoxy Catalyzed Res-
in Coating System, and the steel ap-
proach spans are painted with a Vinyl
Coating on Inorganic Zinc Silicate.
The towers and appurtenances are
light gray in color and the lift span
and steel approach spans are light
green.

Lift Span showing steel truss
framework. June 23, 1969.

The two main piers support the
lift span and one end each of two
approach spans. Wind loads on the
lift span when in raised position add
considerably to the size of the pier
footings required. In order to con-
struct the foundations a steel sheet
pile cofferdam was constructed which
was designed to be left in place as a
part of the fender system to protect
the bridge from ships passing under
the structure. In water about 35 feet
deep, excavation was carried down to
50 feet below water surface to marl,
which is rock of shell formation. Each
of the two main pier footings is 56
feet wide and 107 feet long. Con-
crete 24 feet thick, called seal con-
crete, was placed under water. When
this seal concrete had cured, the cof-
ferdam was unwatered and a rein-
forced concrete footing 56 feet x 107
feet x 10 feet thick was placed on
top of the seal concrete. Thus one
pier footing includes a total of 7,540

cubic yards of concrete, 5320 cubic
yards of which is in the seal. Once
the seal concrete was started it was
required that the entire 4320 cubic
yards be placed without interrup-
tion. This required 361/2 hours of con-
tinuous concrete placement. Each
main pier footing, including the seal
concrete, weighs 30,500,000 pounds.

In order to maintain river traffic
at all times except for a pre-arranged
48-hour period, it was necessary to
erect the steel truss lift span on two
barges and float the span into posi-
tion. This was a spectacular operation
and attracted widespread interest. To
take advantage of the small ebb and
flood tide differential the contractor
chose to erect the 408 foot span at an
elevation slightly above the 65 foot
elevation required for the bridge in a
closed position. The weight of the
span as it was being moved was about
2,900,000 lbs. However, the gross
weight of the two barges, the false-
work, and the span was about 6,440,-
000 lbs. The tremendous weight made
it necessary to use extreme caution
during the moving procedure. With
one movie camera, single shots at ir-
regular intervals were obtained. The
effect was to show the span being
moved in a few minutes whereas it
was actually an all day operation.
One of the contractor's employees in
a small outboard motor boat almost
stole this show, however, with appar-
ent jet-like movements back and forth
across the river.

Major contract items built into the
bridge include 43,070 cubic yards of

Unusual view from top of the West
Tower looking westward. Note grade
separation structure in background
and west approaches.

concrete, 9,190,000 pounds of struc-
tural steel, 2,880,000 pounds of rein-
forcing steel, 13,008 linear feet of pre-
stressed concrete girders, and 42,870
linear feet of steel H piles. Including
the concrete in the prestressed con-
crete girders the bridge includes
enough concrete to pave 14.4 miles of
road 24 feet wide and 8 inches thick.

The engineering contract with Par-
sons, Brinkerhoff, Quade and Doug-
las included both design and plans,
and construction. The design and
plans were prepared under the direc-
tion of Mr. Milton C. Shedd; and Mr.
L. L. Sutcliffe served as resident en-
gineer for the consultant. Mr. J. L.
Norris, Assistant Chief Engineer,
Bridges, Mr. Paul DuPre, Division
Engineer, Mr. J. Y. Joyner, Resident
Engineer, Mr. L. C. Dillard, State
Bridge Construction Engineer and
Mr. R. E. Noblin, Area Bridge Engi-
neer, were responsible for looking af-
ter the interests of the State High-
way Commission.

Lift Span in raised position. 135 feet clear above water. March 26, 1969.

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By ARCH LANEY

One of the more interesting aspects of the office
of Public Information so far, has been the traditional
"changing-of-the-guard". Out with the old, and in with
the new.

In this case, the "new" are the 23 Highway Com-
missioners appointed by Governor Scott, replacing the
14-man commission that served during the "Moore Years".

Of course, after attending four meetings of the pre-
vious commission, a bit of fondness had welled-up inside
me for these dedicated men. For instance my first exper-
ience, after coming with the Commission on April 1, was
a journey to Wilson on April 2 for one of the out-of-town
meetings, and quickly I became attached to the "good-
will-ambassador" of the august body, Mr. Carl Remfro.
(More on his fish stories later.)

But now we have 23 new men to work with, — vet-
erans, yes, of the game politic; but, with a few notable ex-
ceptions, rookies in the road-building profession.

The exceptions: Clifton L. Benson of Raleigh, who,
although his age doesn't indicate it, is the real senior
citizen of highway commissioners, serving a short time
under the Hodges Administration, and during the entire
Sanford Administration.

Then there's the warhorse of the foothills, one Jack-
son Bristol Kirksey of Morganton, whose political foot-
steps trace back to the Kerr Scott Administration. Jack,
too, served on the Highway Commission during the San-
ford Administration.

Running down the list of other new commissioners,
a real cross-section of Tar Heel Citizenry comes forth.
It is true that the media gave a big play to the fact that
10 are farmers, but this is far from the true picture. Roy
D. Dedmon of Shelby, for instance, who is listed as a
farmer, in addition is a professional auctioneer.

Frank McCray has varied interests including the
management of weekly cattle markets in Marshville and
Pageland, S. C. Others, such as Jeff Allen of Biscoe,
although not listed as farm-connected, do have interests
which include agriculture.

All in all, it would be difficult to obtain more of a
cross-section of the business community. With the many
varied interests amongst the new Commission, it would
seem that all areas are in for a fair shake, road-wise.

The dedication of the Topsail Bridge in Onslow
County on August 8 was a real bash! Well over 1,000
were in attendance to hear former Governor Moore, and
Governor Scott tell them that new vistas in recreation
are opening up as a result of this sparkling new high-
rise structure.

Representing the Highway Commission were Chair-
man Faircloth, Chief Engineer Cam Lee, 3rd Division
Engineer Paul Dupre, and Max Collins of the Bridge
Department.

With the lift span bridge at Wilmington set for
opening September 11, the gaps are truly being bridged
in North Carolina.

The evernpopular official N. C. Highway maps have
been moving like the proverbial hot cakes, according to
our Mr. Virgil Taylor, Chief Cartographer of the Map
Section.

The first run of over 300,000 is almost depleted and
Boyce Midgette and Gibson Prather (of Location and
Public Information) took off to proof the final run of
450,000 in Baltimore, Maryland. The only difference will
be the listing of the 23 new Commissioners, and, in order
to get them in, the state-house picture has been scrub-
bed. But that's progress.

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NORTH CAROLINA'S
CENTRAL HIGHWAY

By ERNEST BADGETT

Back in 1915 when the State Highway Commission was
organized, one of the first projects it undertook was
that of assuming responsibility for one of the oldest, and
certainly the longest, road corridors in North Carolina,
the Central Highway.

Of course, it no longer exists under that name; in fact,
that was not its official name for very long. The corridor
through which the Central Highway passed was already
extremely old when it was named in 1911 by the Gen-
eral Assembly.

The name, Central Highway, gradually disappeared
from the official documents of the Highway Commission
during the 1920's, but the corridor, and, in many places,
the actual roadway of the old Central Highway are still
in constant use. Through it run some of the state's most
heavily traveled highways.

Some other portions of it, many of them isolated by
later realignments, are still called "Central Road," "Old
$10," or "Central Street," by local people who prefer
the old names to the somewhat less romantic secondary
road numbers they bear today.

The story of the Central Highway is not so much the
history of an old road, nor is it merely a chronicle of
the State Highway Commission's achievements, although
they are many. It is in large measure the history of
North Carolina's birth, her struggle, and her growth and
development.

Most of the state's early settlers lived along the banks
of the eastern rivers and navigable streams and relied
primarily upon these for transportation and commerce.
There was little need for roads. As settlements pushed
farther into the hinterland, passageways through the
vast wilderness developed. Then, as now, people traveled
where the way was best.

The Indian once traveled where Interstates have
been constructed. (A Theodore De Bry engraving after a
watercolor by John White. 16th Century.)

These early pioneer paths from the eastern seaboard
into the mountains and beyond followed well established
trails already worn smooth by centuries of use as Indian
trading and hunting paths. These in turn had developed
from the traces beaten out by the hooves of countless
herds of game animals during the thousands of year3 that
came before the white man and the Indian alike.

Animals, with their strong sense of direction and their
instinctual ability to seek out the course of least resist-
ance, naturally made their trails where the obstacles were
fewest and the grades easiest. In the high country, they
generally followed the ridges where there is good natural
drainage and a minimum of obstruction to either travel
or vision. They followed the stream banks where they cut
through the high mountain passes and gaps.

Early "engineer" on the Central Highway.

In the piedmont, the animal trails were usually along
the banks of rivers and streams and out of the way of
the thick forest tangles and undergrowth. Fast-moving
herds, like the buffalo and the elk, generally preferred
to travel in straight lines to accommodate their high speed.
Aside from the necessary detours to avoid marshes and
bogs, fallen trees, and the like, their trails showed con-
siderable location skill.

The Indian hunter, like the game herds he followed,
preferred the single-file path which disturbed the nature
of things to the smallest possible degree.

With the coming of the white man, these trails were
at first little improved, but later, with the increase of
wagon traffic, trees and underbrush were cut to widen
them into roads. Little else was done until the beginning
of the present century.

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The rough outlines of the route of the old Central Cor-
ridor began to become visible on maps from as early as
1775. By 1805, the route from the coast near Morehead
City to New Bern, thence to Hillsborough and points
west is clearly shown well into the Appalachian region.

A portion of the old Rutherfordton Trail formed a
part of what was later to be known as the Central High-
way from Asheville via Pigeon River Gorge to the Ten-
nessee line. Another important link in the Corridor was
the famed Jonesboro Road from Knoxville and Jonesboro,
Tennessee. It joined the North Carolina road at "Mor-
gantown," present-day Morganton, N. C. From there it
followed the Central Corridor to the port. According to
the accounts of travelers from the period, the road was
intolerably poor in many places, but passable, if you
were in no particular hurry.

Early maintenance was the responsibility of those who
lived along and used the road. Obviously this system did
not promote much uniformity or reliability. This condi-
tion remained the case until a time well within the
memory of many senior citizens who still live along the
way. The road was kept open reasonably well during the
Colonial Period and for a time thereafter, but with the
coming of the railroad, the so-called "common roads" fell
into a dark age of neglect.

In many rural areas across the state the old east-west
artery practically vanished. In some places it became so
overgrown that the young folk doubted grandpa's memory
when he told them that the path "from the pack-house
to the spring" had once been part of a road that went
from Beaufort Harbour to Knoxville and, by way of
Boone's Wilderness Road (itself a buffalo trace) to the
fabled Cumberland Gap.

Paradoxically, it was also the railroads that helped keep
the ancient Corridor more than an old man's dimming
memory. During the earliest days of railroad building in
North Carolina, a company known as the North Caro-
lina Central Railroad laid its tracks from Goldsboro via
Hillsborough, Greensboro, and Salisbury to Charlotte, in-
corporating the midstate arc of the old roadway corridor
in its right of way.

Today the tracks of the Southern Railway Company
follow not only the midstate arc, but nearly the entire
length of the Corridor. The elk and the buffalo chose
their paths well.

With the advent of the bicycle and later the automo-
bile, demands for better roads increased sharply. Before
the formation of the present Highway Commission, the
state's road system was under the care of the State Geo-
logist. It was to him that the General Assembly of 1911
gave the job of locating and establishing the Central
Highway.

According to the "Act to Provide for the Construction
and Maintenance of a Central Highway," the road was to
be located as much as possible along roadways already
in existence. These pre-existing roads were essentially the
primitive pathways described above.

The Highway was to pass through Carteret, Craven,
Jones, Lenoir, Wayne, Johnston, Wake, Durham, Orange,

An all too familiar scene along the state's rain choked
roads. Conditions such as this prevailed from the Colo-
nial Period until the early part of the present century.

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Typical view of the Central Highway in the North
Carolina mountains shows the condition of the road be-
fore improvement in the early 1920's. Picturesque, yes,
but hardly a highway in the modern sense.

Alamance, Guilford, Davidson, Rowan, Iredell, Catawba,
Burke, McDowell, Buncombe, and Madison Counties, and
terminate at the Tennessee line. An alternate route at
the western end of the project would follow the trail along
the Pigeon River in Haywood County. A later extension
sent a spur from Greensboro to Winston-Salem.

Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, the State Geologist at that
time, and the newly appointed Board of Trustees for the
Central Highway set out on May 8, 1911, to conduct a
first-hand inspection tour of the existing roads on the
route. The maintenance and construction was to be the
responsibility of the counties, townships, and villages
through which the Highway ran.

The quality of the road varied alarmingly from one
jurisdiction to the next. Some portions were hard-sur-
faced 18-foot macadam roadways, others were little more
than forest trails. Much of the route away from the cities
looked very much like our old sawmill roads of today.

On such a road, rain was the most dreaded adversary,
for one heavy downpour could, and frequently did, make
the road a death trap for man and horse alike. It was
not unheard of for a man to shoot his horse which was so
hopelessly mired that to try further to pull him free
would permanently injure him.

The situation was slowly improving when in 1915 the
State Highway Commission began its continuing pro-
gram to "get North Carolina out of the mud." But North

Carolina was still in the mud in many rural areas until
quite recently.

In 1923 the name of the old Central Highway was
changed to Route Number 10. Grading, resurfacing, and,
in some places, paving were added to the old road. In
1929, the road became jointly known as Number 10 and
US 70 on the popular maps of the day. Although the
Highway was officially recorded under the new number,
the old one continued to be used until the 1930's. The
strip of road known today as NC 10 is only partly the
same as old Number 10. In fact, the only portion of it
that is the same is the stretch from Newton to SR 1826
(which, along with SR 1004, is still known to Catawba
County natives as "Old $10"). There were some realign-
ments along the route, but the road was still essentially
where the Indians and the herds had left it.

The growth of such urban centers as Raleigh-Durham,
Burlington-Graham, Greensboro-High Point-Thomasville,
Salisbury, Hickory-Newton, Morganton, Marion, and
Asheville owes much to the fact that they are all on the
old Central Corridor. It is difficult to say and a little use-
less to speculate about whether these and other cities and
towns are important because of the road, or whether the
road is important because of the towns.

But, one fact stands out; those earliest "engineers,"
most of them four-footed, who laid down the almost exact
corridor which today carries Interstates 40 and 85 as
well as a main line of the Southern Railway and US 70
could hardly have cared much for "urban centers."

Paved section of Route 10 between Azalia and Black
Mountain in 1923.

Full-directional, tri-level interchange on 1-40 at 1-26,
Southwest of Asheville, N. C.

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The State Highway Patrol

40 Years After

Those 37 men who stood on the
steps of the State Capitol for the
State Highway Patrol's first swear-
ing-in ceremony had reason to be
proud. They were the "cream of the
crop" from more than 1,800 appli-
cants.

That historic ceremony was con-
ducted on July 1, 1929. Today, as the
Patrol observes its 40th anniversary,
the opportunity to serve in the organ-
ization doesn't draw a great number
of applicants.

The screening is just as rigorous,
though, and most of the men who are
selected come to feel that the uniform
of the Highway Patrol imposes on
them a special responsibility for pro-
fessional conduct.

Veteran members of the Patrol re-
member when they gained celebrity
status just by riding their motorcycles
down the drowsy Main Street of a
Tarheel village.

That was when the patrol was
new, and North Carolinians weren't
quite sure what it was or what Troop-
ers were supposed to do.

In the remote areas of the state,
those early day Troopers were known
as "road sheriffs" and "state men".
Lawbreakers and those who resisted
driving rules and regulations might
have used names much less compli-
mentary.

Ask one of those veterans how it
was way back "when" and the ques-
tion opens a floodgate of memories.

Sergeant W. W. Stone of Greens-
boro, the only charter member still
on active duty in the Patrol, doesn't
believe young men today "would put
up with what we had to go through
with."

"Why, not long ago, a young Troop-
er came into the headquarters and
told me that most of the drunks he
arrested complained about being tak-
en to jail in a Patrol car that was not
air-conditioned."

All the patrol cars today are air-
conditioned and as modern as the lat-
est technology can make them. The
Trooper himself has an easier time of
it, too. No longer is he required to
put in a seven-day work week of 16
hour days.

Troopers today don't become over-

joyed discussing their salaries, but
the pay scale has risen enormously
since those $100-a-month days of a
generation ago.

Sergeant Stone who was the young-
est man on the force 40 years ago is
today the oldest member. He has serv-
ed at eight different posts throughout
the state, a result of early patrol
policy which specified that men be
shifted to different territories every 90
days.

"Troopers today are better educat-
ed than they used to be," he says,
"and they're more sophisticated than
they used to be, but they seem to
have the same kind of education that
marked the early day Trooper."

Patrol Commander Colonel Charles
Speed joined the patrol in 1935.
Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Guy, exec-
utive officer of the Patrol, joined the
Patrol in 1939. The director of the
Patrol's training and inspection divi-
sion, Major E. W. Jones was in the
same Patrol training school with Colo-
nel Speed. Major John Laws, director
of the Enforcement Division, donned
his Patrol uniform in 1937 and Cap-
tain O. R. Roberts, assistant director
of the Communication and Transpor-
tation Division, was sworn in two
years later.

The six Troop commanders are also
long-time members of the organiza-
tion who worked their way up from
the bottom. They are Captain R. F.
Williamson, Troop A, Greenville, Cap-
tain R. E. Sherrill, Troop B, Fayette-
ville; Captain J. B. Kuykendall,
Troop C, Raleigh; Captain William S.
McKinney, Troop D, Greensboro;
Captain R. H. Nutt, Troop E, Salis-
bury and Captain Ernest S. Guthrie,
Troop F, Asheville.

Although Colonel Speed's position
as commander involves a multiplicity
of duties, he feels he may have had
a more varied job back when he was

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patrolling two and a half counties in
Western North Carolina on a can-
tankerous motorcycle that "threw
him every chance it got."

The commander feels that one of
the primary differences between law
enforcement then and now is public
attitudes.

"Back then, there was very strong
sentiment against crimes of violence
and the entire community would seek
to help the law enforcement officer
solve a crime and bring the criminal
to justice."

The attitude carried over into the
realm of court activity also, Colonel
Speed recalls.

unit to enforce traffic laws four de-
cades ago.

The furor raised by the suggestion
that such a unit be formed was in-
tense. The argument was carried on
for many months in newspaper col-
umns and in the State's General As-
sembly. Those who argued against
creation of the Patrol feared it would
become a political police force such
as had emerged in other states.

That fear proved to be unfounded,
and today the Patrol seeks less, not
more, involvement in cases unrelated
to traffic law enforcement.

supports the activities of the Patrol
in the field.

Of particular pride is the Patrol
Training School conducted in coop-
eration with the Institute of Govern-
ment at Chapel Hill. The 16-week
training program is designed to de-
velop the highest standards of pro-
fessionalism in the individual.

Veteran Motor Vehicles Adminis-
trator Joe W. Garrett has helped to
formulate and implement many of
the policies which have brought the
Patrol to its present status.

As state motor vehicles commis-
sioner, Garrett feels that much great-
er challenges await the patrol in the
future as traffic becomes denser on
Tarheel highways.

"People seemed to take a more in-
tense view of their responsibility to-
ward jury duty and on court days,
people from all over would come into
town to observe court proceedings."

Two factors that greatly influenced
the role of the Highway Patrol, the
Colonel feels, are the massive secon-
dary road program from 1949-1952
and the increase in teenage drivers
after World War II.

"The Kerr Scott Road program
enabled people to work in town and
live on the farm, thus creating a
whole new mobile society.

"The great numbers of young peo-
ple who began driving after World
War II brought a problem that was
entirely new in the state."

No one today seriously questions
the need for the highway patrol in
coping with the complexities of mod-
ern automotive travel. And the Pa-
trol's many national awards for pro-
fessional excellence has vindicated
those who argued for the establish-
ment of the special law enforcement

From that original band of 37, the
Patrol has grown in number to 877.
No longer under the supervision of
the State Highway Commission, the
Patrol is the largest division of the
vast Department of Motor Vehicles.

Modern data processing equipment,
an extensive driver education pro-
gram, a public information program
and an army of clerical personnel in
the Department of Motor Vehicles

COL. CHARLES SPEED

"The Patrol will continue to be the
first line of defense in preventing
death and injury on the highways,"
says the commissioner. "In the years
ahead we will have more vehicles and
more drivers. The job of controlling
this tide of traffic will become more
difficult each year."

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INTERCHANGE

THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENS WITH

THE NEW
CONFLUENCE AT
INTERSTATE 77

AND
INDEPENDENCE
BOULEVARD
CHARLOTTE, N. C.

This Interchange was let to con-
tract in April, 1968, with construction
beginning in June. The contractors
for this project are Blythe Brothers,
Inc., and Crowder Construction Co.
In addition to the Interchange as
shown by the picture of the perspec-
tive drawing which is located on a
billboard east of the interchange on
Independence Boulevard, the scope of
work extends southerly from the Sou-
thern Railway shown on the left side
of the picture, a distance of 3.5 miles.

1-77 was originally conceived to
terminate at the junction of 1-85
about four miles north of Indepen-
dence Boulevard. Preliminary design
was begun in 1961 with a proposed
north-south route through Charlotte
from the South Carolina Line to 1-85
which was a proposed relocation of
U.S. 21. A freeway concept was used
for preliminary design for this entire
section with the anticipation that
someday 1-77 would possibly be ex-
tended southerly to Columbia, South
Carolina. In October, 1964, the Bu-
reau of Public Roads approved an ex-
tension of 1-77 to Independence Bou-
levard. Then, only last year, Congress
authorized the extension of 1-77 from
Independence Boulevard, to Colum-
bia, South Carolina.

The make-up of the Independence
Boulevard and Walnut Avenue inter-
change with 1-77 consists of eleven
ramps and loops of different config-
urations, four bridges (two for Inde-

pendence Boulevard over 1-77, Wal-
nut Avenue over 1-77, and Walnut
Avenue over Independence Boule-
vard), four reinforced concrete box
culverts (three quadruple 13' x 15'
and one quadruple 16' x 15'), and
collector-distributor roads which serve
all turning traffic for 1-77.

All pavement throughout the inter-
change will be concrete (9" and 10")
with the exception of a short portion
of Walnut Avenue which ties to Sum-
mit Avenue on the south side of the
interchange. Only paving for Inde-
pendence Boulevard, Walnut Avenue
and two ramps serving the aforemen-
tioned is in the present construction
contract which is scheduled for com-
pletion in October, 1970. The paving
for 1-77 and the remaining nine
ramps and loops is tentatively sched-
uled for July, 1970, along with sign-
ing.

Traffic has been maintained
through the interchange by use of
temporary detours throughout the
construction for Independence Boule-
vard traffic. Four-lane detours have
allowed the 25,000-30,000 vehicles per
day on Independence Boulevard to
move through the limits of construc-
tion with minimal restricted flow.
Walnut Avenue traffic has been de-
toured to Independence Boulevard.
Intricate phasing of construction and
the contractors' cooperation have re-
sulted in good traffic movement
through the construction of the inter-
change.

Photographs 1-9 show construction
completed as of the first week of May,
1969. A key for location of the photos
is shown on the perspective drawing
of the interchange with numbers and
arrows pointing to the direction of
the center of each photograph.

It is anticipated that the present
contractor will have the relocation of
Independence Boulevard and Walnut
Avenue completed to a sufficiently
terminal stage so that traffic may be
safely routed over its permanent loca-
tion in July, 1969. This does not mean
that all grading and drainage in this
area will be completed at this time,
but detours through the interchange
will be obsolete and the traveling pub-
lic will have freedom of movement
along Walnut Avenue and Indepen-
dence Boulevard.

These photos show a sampling of
the intricacies which were and are
involved in this particular inter-
change of both design and construc-
tion, even though many facets of cri-
tical design and construction are not
elements which could readily be pick-
ed up by use of a camera.

The total construction and right-of-
way costs for the interchange includ-
ing future paving, signing and light-
ing will be about seven million dollars.

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Photo 1 is a view looking west along
the permanent location of west-bound
Independence Blvd. In the back-
ground you can see the west-bound
Independence Blvd. Bridge over 1-77,
and to the left you can see traffic
still utilizing a portion of existing
Independence Blvd. and bridge for
east-bound Independence Blvd. over
1-77 and Walnut Avenue over Inde-
pendence Blvd.

Photo 2 shows the partially graded
roadway and elements looking to-
wards the west-bound Independence
Blvd. structures over 1-77. Walnut
Avenue detour traffic can be seen
moving through the signal slightly
right of center.

- ^I*"1

Photo 3 was taken from the same
vantage point as Photo 2 (south-east
quadrant of the interchange). In this
pho'o by swinging the camera to a
different point, you are looking at
the east-bound Independence Blvd.
structure over 1-77. In the back-
ground the west-bound Independence
Blvd. structure over 1-77 can be seen.

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Photo 4 gives a view of the road-
way fills being placed for Walnut
Avenue, and the left side of the photo
shows Walnut Avenue bridge over In-
dependence Blvd. To the extreme
right a portion of Walnut Avenue
bridge over 1-77 is visible.

Photo 5 is a view of 1-77 from the
top of the Southern Railway Bridge
which shows on the upper left cor-
ner of the perspective. This view
shows the three structures which
cross over 1-77 in this Interchange.

Photo 6 was taken from the west
side of Independence Blvd. looking
east. In this photo you see a portion
of relocated Independence Blvd.,
which has recently been paved. In the
center of the picture Walnut Avenue
bridges are shown nearly completed.
Traffic can be seen utilizing existing
Independence Blvd. on the right side
of this photo between the roadway
fills adjacent to the structures.

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Photo 7 was taken from near the
center of relocated west-bound Inde-
pendence Blvd. The direction is east-
erly. A good view of traffic operating
through the signalized intersection is
shown here. This view also affords an
excellent outline of the skyline of
modern skyscraper buildings in the
heart of Charlotte as can be seen
from the left side of this photo.

Photo 8 was taken from the same
position but swings about ninety de-
grees to a southerly view. You are
looking at the bridge which will car-
ry east-bound Independence Blvd.
traffic over the Interstate. In the
background you can see a portion of
the huge retaining wall which is in
the south-east quadrant of the inter-
change between the loop which will
take traffic from Independence Blvd.
to 1-77 north, the ramp for Walnut
Avenue traffic to enter Independence
Blvd. east and between the loop and
Walnut Avenue. The entire retaining
wall is curvilinear following the align-
ment of the loop.

Photo 9 is also taken from the same
location as 7 and 8, but this view is
westerly or 180 degrees from photo 7.
The center of the photo gives a good
view of Walnut Avenue over Indepen-
dence Blvd. West-bound Indepen-
dence Blvd. has been paved, but con-
siderable grading is yet to be accom-
plished for east bound Independence
Blvd. as it splits off under the struc-
ture and will be on the extreme left
of this photo.

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IF INTERSTATES
WERE NASCAR

SANCTIONED \SH?

By LEE ROY YARBROUGH

(Lee Roy Yarbrough speaks out for a significant minority group
on our highways, the NASCAR's. An outstanding racing driver from
South Carolina, Lee Roy takes us on an imaginary trip, a Grand
Prix, beginning at the new interchange of 1-77 and Independence
Boulevard in Charlotte.)

Ever stop to wonder why so many stock car drivers
fly their own airplanes? We're scared silly when we get
on the highways. You folks are nuts! The "Great Ameri-
can Road Race" is no place for me. I'd rather run 185
mph on the backstretch at Charlotte than try to find a
slot in a shopping center parking lot.

I think NASCAR needs to sanction the Interstate
Highway system and let caution cars replace the highway
patrol. We're penalized during a race if we pass a cau-
tion car and the same system could very easily work on
the highway.

As a matter of fact, I think more race drivers would
use the highways if racing rules prevailed. The cars would
have to be inspected, fuel cells and fire extinguishers
would be required ... so would seat belts and shoulder
harnesses. All the tires would have to be uniform and con-
tain innerliners. I think it would be okay to waive the
rules on helmets and fireproof suits.

The same flags we use in stock car racing would
work, too. We could have a passing flag for loaded trucks
and Volkswagens, a black flag for junkers, red flags for
bad wrecks and icy bridges, green flags when the road is
clear. Every time the yellow flag comes out a caution
car comes zipping out of a rest area to control the flow
of traffic while track and wrecker crews clear up the
situation. It wouldn't even be too ridiculous to make new
drivers and little oF ladies have yellow bumpers.

Consider a typical trip, say from Charlotte to Day-
tona, on NASCAR's Great American Road Race circuit
ten years from now (it would take ten years for the In-
terstate system to meet NASCAR's safety specifications).

You'd pull out of the Charlotte pit area around 10
a.m. (or whenever the green flag falls after a parade lap
down Independence Boulevard) and head South down
1-77 at a pretty good clip. More than likely you won't
see a caution until you approach Columbia (some rookie
probably spins out going onto the 1-26 ramp and gets one
of Columbia's famous "third turn stripes"). Since the cau-
tion's out, Columbia is a good place for your first pit
stop. Gas up and check the tires. You're getting good

wear on the right-side rubber, huh? Be sure the gas cap's
back on and don't run over the airhose pulling out of the
pits. That would cost you a lap.

Swing out of the Columbia pits (wave to the crowd)
onto 1-26 and head for 1-95, keeping your eye on the
water temperature and oil pressure, natch! Give the
"thumbs up" A-OK sign to the Orangeburg pits and
keep getting it. Notice how much those passing flags
help? The independent couple in that old station wagon
just pulled right over. What's that moving in to the 1-95
flow pattern? Ha! Pete Keller's got him . . . he's black-
flagging a '66 Chevy with a slick right rear tire.

I though you'd smile when you hit this new Hardee-
ville stretch of 1-95 . . . it's a dream since they've resur-
faced the Savannah turn. Think you might need to pit in
Savannah? Nope. There's the pit signal. "GO BRUNS-
WICK." Ever wonder what happened to the economy in
all of those little Georgia towns with the speed traps
since NASCAR decided to sanction the Charlotte-Day-
tona run? Some guy said the other day that Richmond
Hill and Ludowici were practically ghost towns until
NASCAR's poverty crews moved in with food stamps.

Oops! Caution ahead. Looks like debris. Yep. A
watermelon truck has dropped part of its cargo. What a
mess. Here comes the caution car. You must be paying
the preacher ... a caution just when you needed a pit
at Brunswick. Beautiful. You can get a cheeseburger and
a tank of gas and won't have to pit in Jacksonville. Those
Florida toll pits get too crowded and they're always shov-
ing oranges in the window.

Should you play it safe and pit in St. Augustine or
try to make it all the way! The fuel consumption was
pretty good on that first pit stop, so don't stop unless the
caution's out. No problem if you can a good draft down
the Marineland straightaway.

Hey, wonder why Bill Gazaway's flag-flagging that
GTO? Oh yes . . . that guy's hair is too long and he's got
a beard. He'll be back on the farm-to-market circuit if he
doesn't get cleaned up.

Ahhh! That's the white flag at the Bunnell 'gator
farm. Oughto be smooth sailing from here if those camp-
ing trailers will pay attention to the passing flag.

Slip right off the "I" at the Highway 92 ramp. Ex-
cellent. Hey, Bill France is even waving the checkered
flag out of his office window. What a race . . . only two
cautions and the pit work was perfect. Just coast right
on into the winner's circle at the motel, you driving son-
of-a-gun.

Before you go to the bar would you just glance over
toward the airport. Have you ever seen so many planes?
They're all over the place. Those folks have got to be
nuts to fly in all that traffic.

(Reprinted with the permission of the Charlotte Motor Speedway.)

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the Industrial Building. And the annual flower show, one
of the fair's most popular favorites, will be housed for
the first time this year in its own greenhouse.

The annual art show again will attract lead-
ing Tar Heel artists in the competition for the
State Fair purchase awards of $1,000 for the
top three places. And a new non-competitive
show in the Dorton Arena will feature the works
of U. S. Marine combat artists in Vietnam.
Many of the combat artists will be on hand to
talk about their work during the exhibit.

Danny Sailor, the daredevil lumberjack whose antics
on the high pole caused hearts to flutter in 1967, will
be back this year. And a group of paratroopers from Fort
Bragg will set up a special rig and offer free parachute
training jumps — guaranteed safe — to youngsters whose
parents can stand the strain.

The Wildlife exhibit, improving every year, will be
housed in more permanent type quarters this year. And
the third annual horse show is expected to attract over
700 entries, ranging from Appaloosas to Welsh breeds.
Horse show competition, featuring halter events and per-
formance classes, will be held on each of the nine days
of the fair, and a special Youth Show will allow young-
sters who own horses to compete with each other.

The eighth annual Fun Festival for Senior
Citizens will be a highlight of opening day.
Another will be a motorcycle race sanctioned by
the American Motorcycle Association.

Another big first comes on the second day of
the 1969 fair — a NASCAR-sanctioned Grand
Touring race. Top drivers from the United States
Grand Touring Circuit will compete for a big
purse.

In the Dorton Arena top name entertainment will be
featured Friday through Monday, and the ever-popular
rodeo will round out the week. In addition, two gospel
songfests will take top billing in the Arena on Sunday.
Both performances will feature the famous Thrasher
Brothers, the Oak Ridge Boys, and the Singing Rambos.

Daily shows by Jack Kochman's Daredevil Drivers
again will be the main Grandstand attraction each day.
And new in the Grandstand will be the Hanniford Circus.

Other attractions will include band concerts, sky
divers from Fort Bragg, the big midway featuring the
James E. Strates shows and rides, and spectacular fire-
works displays every night.

ROADWAYS'
NEW EDITOR

EDITH JOHNSON

New member of the Public Relations Staff of the
Highway Commission and editor of ROADWAYS, Edith
Johnson assumed her new duties on July 28, 1969. She
is a native of Wake County, attended Raleigh's Hugh
Morson High School, and is a graduate of Meredith Col-
lege with an A.B. in English. She worked for the North
Carolina Museum of Art as manager of the Museum's
unusual bookshop and general information center for
eleven years and she worked as a personnel placement
advisor for the past year. She is working toward a grad-
uate degree at N. C. State University in Raleigh.

Miss Johnson, among myriad other interests, has
been active in scuba diving and water safety, hiking and
conservation, literature, art, and politics. She is a mem-
ber of the American Association of University Women,
Raleigh Branch; secretary of the Wake County Chapter
of the North Carolina Symphony Society; and secretary-
treasurer of the newly-formed Conservation Council of
North Carolina. She is also a member of the North
Carolina State Art Society, the North Carolina Diving
Council, and a member of the executive committee of the
newly-formed Carolinas Group of the Sierra Club. She
is past-president of the Wake County Young Democrats
Club.

Edith Johnson hopes to add new themes, tones, and
perspective to the format of ROADWAYS.

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1969 State Fair Will Be Longest And Best

When the harvest is in but hog-killing time is still
around the corner, when school is back in but young feet
are still brown from the shoeless days just ended, when
the night air tingles with a sweater nip but the daytime
sun is shirtsleeve warm, then it is October in North
Carolina — and State Fair time.

For upwards of a million youngsters of all ages,
from pre-schooler to senior citizens, the 102nd North
Carolina State Fair at Raleigh promises to be the big-
gest and best ever.

It will be the longest ever — from Friday, October
17 to Saturday, October 25. If the weather is good, Fair
Manager Art Pitzer expects close to a million Tar Heels
to click the turnstiles during the nine days of the 1969
event.

More than $90,000 in premiums are being
offered this year to competitive exhibitors in 32
categories. From remote mountain hamlets to
isolated Outer Banks villages, the exhibitors will
come to the fair, showing the products of their
skills and talents, vying for the coveted ribbons
that mark the best of the lot.

Along with scores of the perennial favorites of fair-
goers, the 1969 State Fair will offer a variety of new at-
tractions, many of which will be included in the price of
the fair ticket.

The 22nd annual State Fair Folk Festival will fea-
ture three performances a day, with entertainment like
that enjoyed by our great-grandparents — string bands,
singing and dancing groups and instrumentalists. Between
Folk Festival performances, the Come Alive Singers will
make their first appearance in the Dorton Arena. This
spiritedgroup of 200 young singers from Durham makes
toes tap and hearts come alive.

The Village of Yesteryear, a popular favorite since
it was first established in 1951, will feature craftsmen
demonstrating skills that go back centuries in time. And
on the black-top area in front of the Dorton Arena, the
Ponderosa ranch house, a replica of the Cartwright fam-
ily home on TV's "Bonanza," will be exhibited for the
first time.

The Fieldcrest Mills style show, which attracted
thousands in its first appearance last year, will return
with a new edition. Daily performances will be given in
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LETTERS
WE
LIKED

Benson, N. C.
July 30, 1969
Mr. Lauch Faircloth, Chairman
N. C. State Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Faircloth:

The members of the Benson Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Merchants
Committee join with me in express-
ing our great appreciation to you and
the Highway Commission for rushing
the completion of the overhead
bridge on the Highway 50 crossing at
Interstate 95 and for the opening of
traffic there yesterday.

This was almost one month ahead
of the target date which you gave our
Committee in the office right after
the overhead bridge was demolished.

We sincerely appreciate the fact
that the Highway Department Em-
ployees were working six days a
week, ten hours per day to accom-
plish this.

With best regards always.
Yours truly,

Benson Chamber of Commerce
Clyde N. Proctor, Manager.

H. Clay Howell
2008 Sutton Drive
Raleigh, N. C. 27605
July 25, 1969

Mr. Arch Laney
Public Relations Officer
State Highway Commission
Raleigh, N. C. 27602
Dear Sir:

On Friday afternoon July 18 while
my daughter was driving me to New
Bern, we had a flat tire in a sparsely
populated area along Route 70 just
west of Dover.

Your Mr. Latham, who was driving
State car license PB4806, out of the
New Bern Engineer's office I believe,
saw our predicament and, in spite of
the extreme heat, stopped and put
our spare tire on for us.

We wish to commend him to you
for his courtesy and thoughtfulness.

Yours very truly,
H. Clay Howell

Dear Sirs:

We recently vacationed in North
Carolina for the first time, on Cape
Hatteras, and we feel your excellent
roads and maps helped in making our

vacation enjoyable. We were espe-
cially impressed with the free ferry
to Ocracoke, with the cold water pro-
vided while you wait, a nice touch.

Mr. and Mrs. Christian Rendeiro
5 Hill Top Road

Hamden, Connecticut 06514

* * *

6612 Huntsman Blvd.
Springfield, Virginia 22150
1 August, 1969

Director

Dept. of Highway Maintenance
State Capitol
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Sir:

On July 30th my car broke down
near the rest area on Interstate 85
just east of Greensboro. Through the
kind assistance of a state maintenance
employee, Mr. Horace Doggett, a
mechanic was obtained and the car
was repaired with minimum delay.

On behalf of my family and my-
self, would you please pass on our
sincere appreciation to Mr. Doggett
for his helpfulness.

Sincerely,
Robert N. Smith
Major, USAF

* * *

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N. C. H. C. E. A. ASSOCIATION

TENTATIVE PROGRAM — 1969 ANNUAL CONVENTION

WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

9:30 A.M.- 5:00 P.M.— Registration — Lobby of Hotel Robert E. Lee,

Convention Hotel

7:00 P.M. — Buffet or Special Dinner — place to be announced
9:00 P.M.-10:30 P.M. — President's Reception — Presidential Suite

Honoring General Officers, Board of Directors,

Past Presidents

10:00 A.M. — Resolutions Committee Meeting — Forsyth Room
11:00 A.M. — Finance Committee — Winston Room

1:00 P.M. — SHC Insurance Committee — luncheon meeting —

Salem Room

3:00 P.M. — Board of Directors — Winston Room

OTHER COMMITTEES MEET AT CALL
OF COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
8:00 A.M. — SDC Insurance Committee — Breakfast Meeting —

Winston Room
8:30 A.M.- 9:00 A.M.— Registration — Hotel Lobby
9:15 A.M. — Convention convenes — Ballroom
Invocation

Address of Welcome by Mayor, City of Winston-Salem
Report of Credentials Committee
Roll Call

Minutes of 1968 Convention

President's Annual Report

Secretary's Annual Report

Report of Committees

Regular Business
12:00 Noon — Adjourn for lunch

2:00 P.M. — Convention Reconvenes

Address by Hon. William F. Babcock, Highway Administrator

Annual Safety Award by Safety and
Emergency Planning Engineer

Convention Business
4:30 P.M. —Adjourn

7 :00 P.M. — Annual Banquet — place to be announced

Principal Speaker — Hon. Edmund Harding of Washington
10:00 P.M.- 1:00 A.M.— Cabaret Dance — Ballroom of Hotel

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
8:00 A.M. — Breakfast Meeting Nominating Committee — Winston Room
9:15 A.M. — Convention Reconvenes
Invocation
Convention Business

Report of Time and Place Committee for 1971 Convention
Report of Nominating Committee
Election of General Officers
Installation of Officers
Conclusion of Convention Business
Memorial Service
ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE
LADIES' ENTERTAINMENT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
3:30 P.M.- 4:30 P.M.— Informal Reception — State Room
7:00 P.M. —Buffet or Special Dinner

9:00 P.M.-10:30 P.M.— Reception — President's Suite

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
10:00 A.M. — Tour of Old Salem — special busses provided
1:00 P.M. — Luncheon — Hotel State Room

7:00 P.M. — Annual Banquet
10:00 P.M.- 1:00 A.M.— Cabaret Dance — Ballroom

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ROADWAYS CHEERS

FORTY AND FORTY-FIVE YEAR
SERVICE AWARD WINNERS, 1969

FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE

PAUL W. ALFORD
CHARLES B. BULLOCK
JESSE E. CANN
BERNARD S. CONNELLY
LLOYD A. COOKE
WILLIAM B. EVANS
ROBERT A. GASH
DELMAR C. GOLDEN
ELDON L. GREEN
KNEEVER E. GURGANIOUS
JOHN H. HANES
IVAN HARDESTY
HERMAN D. HORNE
SHOBER W. KEARNEY
HARRISON H. LEDBETTER
BOB L. LEE
MURRAY C. LIVERMAN

CURMAN E. MARTIN
ANDREW J. MAYNARD
JOHN G. MORROW
FRANK R. NEVILLE
ROBERT L. ROYSTER
JESSIE L. SAUNDERS
CARL B. SEABOCK
ELMER R. SETZER
MARGARET L. SHAW (MRS.)
JAMES A. SINCLAIR
CHARLES R. SMITH
MONTGOMERY S. SMITH
JAMES C. STEWART
JAMES A. TATE
LEE A. THOMAS
ROBERT L. WAYNICK

FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE

EARL D. BERRY
WILLIAM A. FINCHER
JAMES J. FOSTER
PAUL H. HAYNES
ROBERT K. JEWELL
DENNIS F. JOHNSON
JOHN W. MEADOWS
JAMES S. RILEY

LESTER M. ROBERTS
HENRY A. SESSOMS
DUNCAN W. STEWART
WILLIAM T. THOMPSON
EUGENE C. TYNDALL
WILLIE E. WAGNER
JOSEPH V. WALTERS
CHARLES F. WILLIAMS

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mmmmmmM.

Pictured above on the steps of the Highway Building in Raleigh are the
distinguished recipients of forty and forty-five year service awards after they
received them at a program held on July 16, 1969. Participating in the program
were W. F. Babcock, Administrator, D. McLauchlin Faircloth, Commission
Chairman, C. W. Lee, Chief Engineer, and Rev. David H. Moylan, Chaplain
of the State Department of Corrections. The Honorable Robert W. Scott,
Governor, presented the certificates which recipients can be seen holding in the
picture.

NORTH CAROLINA CAN POINT WITH GREAT PRIDE, TO THE
DEVOTED SERVICE RENDERED BY YOU, THE RECIPIENTS OF THE
FORTY AND FORTY-FIVE YEAR SERVICE AWARDS. I AM HONORED
TO BE YOUR GOVERNOR AT THIS HONORED MILESTONE IN YOUR
LIFE. I SPEAK FOR ALL NORTH CAROLINIANS IN EXPRESSING OUR
HEART-FELT GRATITUDE FOR YOUR DILIGENT SERVICE.

ROBERT W. SCOTT
GOVERNOR, NORTH CAROLINA

JAMES ATWELL

The Post Office has got a motto
that says something about "neither
rain nor snow nor dark of night" can
stop the mails.

That's not exactly the way it goes
but that's the idea.

It was pretty much that way for
James Atwell of Elkin who retired as
a Highway Commission employee on
January 1 of this year.

JAMES ATWELL

It was recently learned that from
the time he joined the Commission
as a rodman in April, 1923, until the
day he retired, Mr. Atwell did not
miss a single day due to illness.

A native of Salisbury, Mr. Atwell
went up the ladder with the Highway
Commission and at the time of his
retirement he was an assistant dis-
trict engineer. During his career, he
served as an instrument man, road
maintenance supervisor and an engi-
neering technician.

He received his 45-year award in
1968 and on July 18 of this year was
presented his retirement certificate
in North Wilkesboro.

There may have been other high-
way career employees who served for
over 45 years without staying home
with a bad cold, but if they did they
certainly didn't beat Mr. Atwell's re-
cord.

The best anybody could do in his
case would be a tie.

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JEFF JENNINGS

Jeff Jennings of the Traffic Engineering Depart-
ment has been named winner in the "Down The Crane"
contest, sponsored by The E. C. Worley Erection Com-
pany. Jennings won a $250.00 cash prize for offering the
best solution for bringing the crane down from atop the
new Wake County building on Fayetteville Street in Ra-
leigh.

Thousands of suggestions were received from all 50
states and several foreign countries, but one of our own
from right here in Raleigh submitted a detailed plan, in-
cluding drawings, whereby the crane was lowered on
Saturday, August 16, utilizing its own power with the
use of wenches.

Jennings has been working full time with the State
Highway Commission since March of 1969. Prior to that
he was working with the Commission on a job-training
basis while attending W. W. Holding Technical Institute
in Raleigh. The Garner native is a graduate of Garner
High and attended Louisburg Junior College. His duties
with Traffic Engineering include plans for signing of
Expressways and Freeways, sign-face designs, engineering
drawings for signs and supports for contractors, field trips
gathering sign data, and other related duties.

Mr. W. F. Babcock, Highway Administrator, joined
in the salute to Jeff Jennings at the "DOWN THE
CRANE for CYSTIC FIBROSIS" Banquet at the Statler
Hilton Inn in Raleigh on the evening of August 16, 1969.

All monies raised for the dinner, and other events
went to the North Carolina Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
State Attorney General Robert Morgan was the featured
speaker.

JEFF JENNINGS

GEORGE T. PARKIN

On July 31, 1969, George T. Parkin, State Bridge
Design Engineer, retired after almost 40 years of service
with the Commission. Mr. Parkin is a native of Beaufort,
N. C, where he lived until he entered the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated from the
University in 1928 with a degree in Civil Engineering. He
was first employed by the Commission while a student
at UNC and worked on a co-op program in Structure
Surveys. Upon graduation from UNC, Mr. Parkin worked
as a bridge designer with the Georgia Highway Depart-
ment and attended night classes at Georgia Tech, obtain-
ing a Masters Degree in 1930.

In April, 1930, Mr. Parkin returned to North Caro-
lina as a draftsman in the Bridge Department for the
Commission. Except for a 3-month period in 1946, he
served continuously from that time until his retirement
in various capacities in both design and construction work
in the Bridge Department. During the war years he
taught several courses at N. C. State College. In 1958 Mr.
Parkin was made head of the Bridge Design Department.

Mr. Parkin never lost his love for living near the
sea. A few years ago, he purchased a cottage at Topsail
Heights on the Intracoastal Waterway overlooking Top-
sail Inlet. He and Mrs. Parkins are now looking forward
to spending much of their time at this coastal home from
which they will make boating excursions into the Atlantic
Ocean and gather seafood from creeks and sounds of that
area.

On Mr. Parkin's last day of work, 77 fellow employ-
ees honored him with a retirement luncheon at the Car-
dinal Cafeteria. Several gifts were presented him, includ-
ing a silver letter opener, a hand compass, a set of un-
breakable dishes and a check to use as he wishes. Re-
marks of praise, high regard and esteem were made by
Chief Bridge Engineer J. L. Norris, Landis Temple and
many others.

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LAUCH FAIRCLOTH

Mr. and Mrs. D. McLauchlin
Faircloth announce the birth of a
daughter, Ann Bryan, on July 7,
1969, at New Hanover Memorial
Hospital in Wilmington.

E. J. WHITMIRE

Commissioner E. J. Whitmire al-
most missed the swearing-in cere-
mony for the new Highway Commis-
sion. As manager of the Western
Carolina All-Stars, he was busy help-
ing his team win the State Champion-
ship in the Senior Babe Ruth League,
the 16 to 18 year olds. They went on
to play for the Southern Region
Championship at Asheville. They
played last-year's Southern Winners,
the Cape Kennedy, Florida, team.
The score . . . According to Commis-
sioner Whitmire, "we were winning,
but we made some errors."

MRS. CARL RENFRO, JR.

Mrs. Carl Brown Renfro, Jr. is the
former Rebecca Carroll Bryan of
Goldsboro, and she is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Eugene Bryan.
Mr. Renfro, Jr. is the son of former
highway commission Carl Renfro of
Wilson.

CARL RENFRO

Carl Renfro of Wilson, former
Highway Commissioner, has been ap-
pointed by Governor Bob Scott to
the 27-member Board of Conserva-
tion and Development.

The board is composed of outsand-
ing citizens who have proven their
interest in the state. And Carl Renfro,
as Commissioner of the Fourth High-
way Division for the past four years,
is a good example.

The WILSON DAILY TIMES,
noting Carl's service, made the fol-
lowing statement:

"Carl Renfro did such a creditable
job as Highway Commisioner we
know he will give the present posi-
tion the same enthusiasm and effort
he gave to the Highway Commission.
And the two jobs dovetail. You can-
not have progress without highways
and to build highways you must have
industrial growth. So we are looking
forward to another fruitful four years
for the state from the services of Wil-
son County's Carl Renfro."

New Traffic Manual in the Making

A formal hearing on the proposed
new MANUAL ON UNIFORM
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
(MUTCD) was conducted by the
Southern Section, Institute of Traf-
fic Engineers, in Raleigh, June 30-
July 1. The Manual is a national
standard for traffic control devices,
such as signing, signalization, and
pavement marking.

Twenty-seven delegates experienc-
ed in traffic control problems from
municipal governments, State agen-
cies, and consultants in the Southern
Section met at the Plantation Inn, a
part of two days, to review proposed
changes in MUTCD. The Southern
Section, ITE, encompasses nine
states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and
West Virginia.

Discussions on MUTCD proposals
were monitored by W. S. Derrick,
Traffic and Safety Engineer, Georgia
State Highway Department, and Di-
rector of the Fifth District, ITE; John

D. Edwards, president of the Traffic
Planning Association, Atlanta, Geor-
gia; and J. E. Lema, manager of
Peat, Marwick, and Livingston, Con-
sultants, Washington, D. C. These
men have been conducting similar
meetings throughout the Fifth Dis-
trict — Southern Section, Florida,
and Texas — to acquaint local traf-
fic engineers with alterations in pros-
pect for MUTCD.

Limited by a prescribed agenda,
each organization in Southern Section
had a single spokesman to voice the
members' combined opinion on revi-
sions in MUTCD. A composite of
recommendations prepared by the
North Carolina Division was present-
ed by the president, R. V. Moss, Traf-
fice Engineer of High Point.

Delegates made recommendations
where their experience showed meth-
ods and techniques other than those
proposed for MUTCD were more ef-
fective. Points of controversy appear-
ed in the areas of signalization and
pavement marking, primarily.

Robert J. Dodge, past president of
Southern Section, ITE, who heads
the Accident Investigation and Sur-
veillance Unit of the Traffic Engi-
neering Department, North Carolina
iState Highway Commission, made
arrangements for the meeting. Other
State Highway Commission person-
nel who attended the proceedings
were Assistant State Traffic Engi-
neer H. C. Rhudy, Area Traffic En-
gineers W. A. Ward and Woodie War-
rick, Jr., Traffic Signing Engineer
Pete Deaver, Assistant Traffic Sign-
ing Engineer E. L. Frazelle, Traffic
Signal Engineer Gwyn Sanderlin,
Traffic Research Engineer G. G.
Grigg, Accident Investigation Engi-
neers Needham Crowe and J. F. Per-
mar, and Design Review Engineer
Dwight B. Kelly.

Harold Rhudy expressed the hope
that "information gathered at the
hearings over the nation will form the
basis of a final draft of the new MUT-
CD, which should be ready for review
early next year".

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Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

wBm Sports have their

learn ha-f an 0 and

and lost 2. Plans
HHL are to improve

their average when
they play Commu-
nity Planning.

The golf team is presently first in
the "A" League. The "B" team would
rather just forget the whole thing.

NATE BENSON will direct the
"Miss Apex" Beauty Pageant next
fall. His latest discovery, Miss Mo-
dene Gunch, will surely win. Raleigh
should be a gathering place for all
eligible bachelors during the next
"Miss North Carolina Pageant."

The department welcomes ARUN
iCHATTERJEE, TOM NEWMAN
and BILL BEDDINGFIELD as new
employees. Arun worked in the de-
partment last summer before return-
ing as a permanent employee. Tom
came from the Training Program and
Bill transferred from Right of Way.

Congratulations to the AL AV-
ANTS, recent proud parents of a
darling baby boy.

LANDSCAPE — Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. KIRKLAND have returned
from a wonderful two-week vacation
to Canada and Cape Cod. They also
explored the Expo Site at Montreal.

J. A. SAUNDERS and family are
enjoying their lovely new home in
Raleigh.

The W. R. PHELPS vacationed at
Wrightsville and Carolina Beaches
recently. They also enjoyed a visit
from Mr. Phelps' nephew who is
from California.

RIGHT OF WAY — Congratula-
tions to W. J. MURRAY, who was
elected Chairman, and to HERMAN
SHAW, who was elected Secretary
of Unit 15 of the Highway Employ-
ees Association.

A new addition to the clerical staff
is KITTY CRANFORD, who trans-
ferred from Equipment.

It's nice to see ALVIE PATTER-
SON back at work after two weeks
at summer camp.

W. J. MURRAY and family spent
a recent week at Nags Head. Others
taking beach vacations include LAU-
RA JONES, LIB TALTON, BETTY
RADFORD, JOHN HOLMES and
family, and BOBBY HEATH and his
family.

Employees were glad to see C. E.
MILLS and BOB SHEETS return to
work after a stay in the hospital.

The W. D. MOONS enjoyed a re-
cent vacation in the mountains.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
HAL ENGLISH, who became proud
parents of a new baby boy, Matthew
Starnes, July 3rd.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — It's
that time again. Vacations, vacations.
DIANE LLOYD of the Engineering
Section enjoyed several days with
her family at Myrtle Beach and Blow-
ing Rock. Diane's aunt, who was visit-
ing her from Alabama, accompanied
them.

Mark's proud parents are Jerry
and Linda Edwards, and Mom is a
member of Planning and Research.

"The bare truth of the matter is
that my name is Mark Emory Ed-
wards and I made my first appear-
ance March 26, 1969."

MURIEL STIVERS, of the Stereo
Section and his wife motored to Mon-
treal, Canada, where they vacationed
for a week in one of Canada's famous
ski lodges.

FRANK DENNY of the Photo
Lab spent a 10-day vacation visiting
relatives in Wilson.

CONNIE WESTER and his wife
drove to Washington, D. C. in July
for a long weekend of sight-seeing and
fun. Connie is in the Engineering Sec-
tion.

ELISE SPEIGHTS of Drafting at-
tended the annual painting class at
Oriental the third week in July. The
group is taught by Joe Cox of the
NCSU School of Design.

AL TATUM of the Stereo Section
took his family to Holden's Beach
for a weekend of fishing and swim-
ming recently.

LEIGHTON ELLIOTT, Pilot, at-
tended National Guard summer camp
at Ft. Stewart, Ga. the last two weeks
in July.

ROADWAY DESIGN — Congrat-
ulations to the following proud par-
ents on their new arrivals Mr. and
Mrs. JOHN D. WILLIAMS, a baby
girl. Lesa Michelle, born July 16;
Mr. and Mrs. FRED BEY, a baby
boy, Frederick Charles Bey, III, who
arrived July 22; and the RAMEY
KEMPS, a boy, Brian Robert, born
July 15.

Employees on vacation recently
were: FRANK and Alice PAGE, who
visited Mobile, Ala., New Orleans,
La., and Pensacola, Fla.; PRISCILLA

Rhonda Carol Johnson is the 14-
month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Johnson. Her mother, Brenda,
is a steno in Traffic Engineering.

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HILLARD and husband, a week at
Carolina Beach; DON McBRAYER
and family, also ORVAL RIFFE and
family, several days at Myrtle Beach;
ED COX and family, Windy Hill, S.
C; GEORGE BROWN and his fam-
ily spent a week visiting places in
New Orleans, Houston, Texas and
visited the Astrodome, the home of
the Houston Astros; the CLARENCE
FRIZZELL family, a week in Sylva,
N. C. and Sneedville, Tenn.; and
GERALD SMITHERMAN took his
family for an enjoyable visit of sev-
eral days with relatives in Jemison,
Alabama.

Welcome to Mrs. MARGIE JOY-
NER, new secretary, who replaces
Mrs. Kay Wilson.

The following employees took two-
weeks military leave during July and
August: JOHN TAYLOR, EARL
WILLIS, ROBERT WALL, GEOR-
GE HOLLAND, BOB BRAAM,
MIKE PARKER — Ft. Stewart,
Georgia; KEN CLARK, Ft. Sill, Ok-
lahoma; ALLEN ATKINS, New
Mexico; and JIM DAVIS, Ft. Jack-
son, S. C.

Our sincere sympathy is extended
to Mr. and Mrs. HENRY CLEGG,
JR., in the recent death of Mrs.
Clegg's mother.

HARRY and Sarah THOMPSON
are the proud owners of a new home
at 509 Harvard Street in Lakemont.

BRIDGE — VILIS KEGLER, for-
mer highway employee, is a trainee
in the Department. Vilis graduated

William Allen Tyndall has a big
smile for the cameraman. His proud
parents are Peggy and William Al-
fred Tyndall, and dad is a member
of Roadway Design.

from NCSU in June with a B.S. de-
gree in Civil Engineering. FRANK
MIMMS, graduate of Holding Tech.,
is a permanent employee. TOM
PATE resigned to join the American
Defender Life Insurance Company.

RALPH UNDERWOOD and Mrs.
Martha Belo Hudson of Lynchburg,
Virginia, were married in Lynchburg
on July 19. They are enjoying their
newly purchased home at 1236 Som-
erset Road. Martha formerly lived in
Raleigh and we know she'll like be-
ing here again.

LANDIS TEMPLE is proud of the
Jr. League baseball team he has been
coaching. They wound up a success-
ful season by winning the field cham-
pionship.

Vacation time always yields a var-
iety of trips and interesting topics:
ROBERT and Sarah GOWER left
the children behind and ran off to
Cape Hatteras, staying at the Outer
Banks Motel. They had a fine time
"being lazy" and enjoying excellent
seafood.

BILL ROGERS is enthused about
"Six Flags over Georgia" since he and
his family visited in Atlanta recently.
The historic significance is foremost
in importance, but the shows, rides
and other features are in abundance
and the "tab" is reasonable. Bill says
it's a "must go" for everyone.

BEN and Rachel TERRELL are
on a new venture — "rockhounding"
— in the mountains around Franklin
in Macon County and other locations.

Little Michael Carl McCann is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. McCann.
His father is a member of the High-
way Commission's training program.

Ben has shown a few of their "finds"
— glittering rocks with traces of
emeralds and rubies.

BOB HALE and his family met
with other family members for their
annual "togetherness" at Topsail
Beach. With a total of eight chil-
dren, how could the week be any-
thing but lively?

SILVIO and Olga SANTO-THO-
MAS and their daughters visited for
two weeks with Olga's sister in Chi-
cago, Illinois. Silvio reports, glowing-
ly, that this city is quite beautiful
and the people warm and friendly —
just like in Raleigh.

There is never a dull moment with
the RANSOME BENNETT family.
They spent a week at Wrightsville
Beach and are now off to Kerr Lake
every chance they get with their new
16-foot sailboat for camping and sail-
ing.

JIM and Jean WILDER vacation-
ed at Atlantic Beach, sharing a cot-
tage with another couple — friends
of theirs. They had a lot of fun and
enjoyed the privacy and relaxed liv-
ing offered by the cottage.

Upon GEORGE PARKIN'S retire-
ment July 31, LANDIS TEMPLE
was promoted to the position of State
Bridge Design Engineer and BUD-
DY WIGGINS moved up as Assist-
ant State Bridge Design Engineer.
Mr. Parkin was deeply touched by
the friendly gestures and attention
extended him at the time of his re-

Shane Coleman, age six months, is
all smiles for his happy parents, Te-
resa and Steve Coleman. Mom is em-
ployed in Roadway Design.

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tirement — he expressed surprise
"that anyone would give him any
special thought". It was no surprise to
others as "George", in his quiet, mo-
dest way, has endeared himself to the
Bridge Department and to the Com-
mission by his competence, friendli-
ness and regard for his fellow work-
ers.

PERSONNEL — It seems like
everyone in Personnel favors the
South Carolina beaches. CLOYCE
ALFORD and family enjoyed a vaca-
tion at Crescent Beach, S. C, the
week of July 20-27. BANKS CLARK,
his wife and several friends, soaked
up the sun and fun at Myrtle Beach
for a week in June. The TED AUS-
TIN family reported that the seafood
was delicious at Cherry Grove, S. C.
during the week of July 4. Ted has
just recently returned from his two-
weeks summer camp with the Air Na-
tional Guard in Badin, S. C.

MARY LEE GRIFFIN and BAR-
BARA STUSSIE took off a few
weekends ago to Cheraw, S. C. to
visit some friends of Mary Lee's. The
next week they took a long weekend
and headed for Washington, D. C.
You never can tell where they'll go
next!

The Personnel Department extends
a note of sympathy to the JIM WHE-
LESS family in the loss of Jim's fa-
ther July 14.

Mr. RAYNOR WOODARD is cer-
tainly all smiles these days. His son,
John R. Woodard, Jr., was in the
Winston-Salem unit that was sent
home from Viet Nam. Upon Johnny's
separation from active duty, he will
return to work with Wake Forest
University.

MATERIALS & TESTS — Miss
NANCY THORNTON, typist at the
Lab, and Bill Beyer, Jr. were married
July 3 at St. Johns Baptist Church in
Raleigh. Best wishes and congratula-
tions to Nancy and Bill. They are at
home, 567 Rose Lane, Raleigh.

Gene Curtis, Jr., son of E. H. CUR-
TIS, Dept. of Materials & Tests, was
married Saturday, August 2 in Char-
lotte. Mrs. Curtis is the former Sally
Meacham.

Phil and KAY BEST announce the
birth of their first child, a son, Jerry
Todd, born July 15. Kay is a clerk
in the Lab.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
BILLY BRANTLEY on the birth of
a son, Keith, July 21.

The H. G. LEONARDS and daugh-
ter, Betty, spent an enjoyable vaca-
tion visiting their son, Clifton and
his wife, Martha, and one-year old
granddaughter, Maria, in Atlanta, Ga.
recently.

HUBERT W ATKINS and family
spent a nice vacation at Morehead
City and Atlantic Beach. Hubert
works in the Bituminous Laboratory.

DURWOOD BARBOUR and wife
spent a weekend of sight-seeing
around the Charleston, S. C, area
recently.

CARSON CLIPPARD, MIKE
MITCHELL, DOUGLAS YOUNG,
DURWOOD FAISON, and BILL
LOVING report a nice fishing trip to
Butner Lake.

DANNY BROCK has been work-
ing with the Bituminous Dept. dur-
ing the summer months.

ALBERT BROUGHTON, JR., who
worked with Bituminous for more
than a year has resigned to join
Piedmont Airlines.

Above are the three adorable chil-
dren of Bill and Jeannette Yopp. Left
to right: Robbin, Jenny and Gregg.

Dad is a member of Roadway De-
sign, and the family resides at 807
Brookgreen Drive in Cary.

PURCHASING — Our deepest
sympathy is extended to W. G.
"BILL" REAVES, Purchasing Agent,
upon the death of his father, W. T.
Reaves, July 25. Mr. Reaves lived in
Fayetteville, where he was in the
Sand and Gravel business. Although
he was born in 1888, he had not re-
tired, and until the time of his death
was very active in his business.

MAINTENANCE — ELIZABETH
STANLEY of Magnolia, N. C. is a
new employee in Maintenance as
Steno II. Welcome to the Depart-
ment, Elizabeth.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Con-
gratulations to ROGER NEVILLE,
Machinist at the Equipment Depot,
upon his completion of 45 years' serv-
ice with the Highway Commission.

Get well wishes to SHERWOOD
THORNTON, who at this writing, is
hospitalized in Rex with an eye in-
jury.

BILLIE and Henry LOWERY
with daughter Miriam vacationed in
the North Carolina mountains at
Cherokee during July.

IRVIN W. MORRIS, Parts Inven-
tory Supervisor, has purchased a
home in Cary and recently moved
from Walkertown to his new resi-
dence. Mr. Morris replaced Mr. R. G.
Setzer, who retired on March 1, 1969.

PLANNING & RESEARCH —
Congratulations to Pat Austin, hus-
ban of secretary JUDY AUSTIN,
who graduated from Campbell Col-
lege May 30. Pat will be teaching
English and Drama at Enloe High
School in Raleigh this fall.

It's nice to hear that BILL COF-
ER'S wife is doing well after an ex-
tended illness.

Vacationists abound in this De-
partment. GRAY and J. L. McGEE,
BARBARA and Halton MITCHELL
with their family, spent a week at
Topsail Beach.

Virginia Beach was fun for a week
for LOUISE WHITE.

Ocean Drive, S. C, was the choice
of JO WARLICK and her family
during a recent week.

L. G. NICHOLS took his family to
Crescent Beach, S. C, for a week.

JUDY AUSTIN and husband en-
joyed a recent weekend at Manteo
where they saw the "Lost Colony".

WALTER WILEY and wife visited
Shenandoah Valley while vacation-
ing in Virginia.

BLANCHIE BRADLEY and
daughter, Linda, enjoyed a two-weeks
vacation touring Florida.

Florida was the site of DORIS
HALL and husband's vacation also.

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LEGAL — The summer months
have certainly been busy ones for the
secretaries and attorneys in the At-
torney General's Office. There are
now three new brides in the office.
The former Miss SHIRLEY WHITE
exchanged vows with Mr. Bobby
Hathaway of Raleigh, July 12. On
their honeymoon, the Hathaways
took a trip to the mountains and also
to Atlantic Beach.

On July 26, Miss MARY CATH-
ERINE HINTON was married to
Mr. Patrick Henry, both of Raleigh.
The Henrys had a short honeymoon
at Myrtle Beach.

The Department was sorry to lose
one employee by marriage. Miss
GAIL THOMAS of Garner, Mr. RO-
BERT WEBB'S secretary, was mar-
ried August 2 to Mr. Stacy Mar-
shall. Gail and her husband will live
in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is
stationed in the Air Force. Congrat-
ulations to the newlyweds.

Vacation time is here! Mrs. MARY
LIB GREEN, secretary to Mr. HAR-
RISON LEWIS, spent a week at At-
lantic Beach with her family.

Mrs. MARILYN LEE and family
plan to visit the Lost Colony on their
vacation. Miss ESSA MoBRYDE va-
cationed at Myrtle Beach with Mr.
Mike Fulenwider and his family.

Miss IRENE HOLMES attended
the graduation of her sister, Carolyn
Holmes of Charleston, S C„ who grad-
uated from Charleston Medical Col-
lege.

Welcome to Miss VICKIE MIT-
CHELL, new employee. Vickie is a
secretary in the pool.

Mrs. SYLVIA TURNER and her
husband are in the process of mov-
ing into a new home in South Shores
subdivision.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Sincere sympathy is extended to the
family of ROBERT J. DODGE upon
the death of his brother, Major J.
David Dodge, USAF (Ret.), July 31.

J. O. LITCHFORD and R. J.
DODGE attended the Highway Re-
search Board's Second Western Sum-
mer Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah,
August 11-14.

ROBERT DODGE, wife Nurry
Ann, and children took the history
trail on their vacation. Their itinerary
included stops at Bath, Wright Me-
morial, The Lost Colony, Cape Hat-
teras Lighthouse and Ocracoke, re-

turning to the mainland by ferry.
They then visited Beaufort, Ft. Ma-
con, Caswell Museum, the Confeder-
ate Ram "Neuse", and Bentonville
Battlefield, where Bob's great grand-
father fought.

NEEDHAM (HAP) CROWE, a
fleet captain of the Tanzer-16 class
of sailboats, and wife, Flora, have
won first prize at several regattas:
the Oriental Sailing Social at New
Bern, the Washington Yacht and
Country Club-Pamlico Sailing Club
event, and the Governor's Cup race
at Kerr Lake, to name a few.

MARVIN OLDHAM had a chance
to try out his self-made metal detec-
tor while visiting Ft. Fisher this sum-
mer, discovering a fragment of a 15-
inch cannon ball buried eight inches
in the ground at the Confederate for-
tification. Is uranium next, Marvin?

BETTIE MASSENGILL and hus-
band, John, spent several days in
Florida visiting relatives in Panama
City and stopping at some of the pop-
ular tourist spots. JAY OWEN and
family spent a weekend in Uwharrie
National Park in Randolph County.
FRED ROSENDAHL, wife Lou, and
son Mark attended performances of
"Unto These Hills" in Cherokee and
"The Lost Colony" at Manteo with-
in recent weeks. JOE WILKINS and
wife June vacationed at Wrightsville
Beach. DON DuPREE, wife Brenda,
and daughter Donna spent a few days
in the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, area re-
cently.

ED and Helen FRAZELLE, with
their two children, traveled to Wash-
ington, D. C, Charleston, S. C, and
Atlanta, Georgia, the second week in
August. The prime objective of the
trip was to visit art museums and an-
te-bellum homes to gather ideas for
furnishing their lovely new home.

GWYN SANDERLIN and his
wife, Sue, vacationed at Hilton Head
Island, S. C, where they had a chance
to play lots of golf on the fine courses
which are a feature of this resort.
REILEY CURTIS attended the
"Firecracker 400" auto races at Day-
tona Beach, Florida, July 4.

KEN MILAN and family have
moved into their new home in Brent-
wood, and BILL HINDMAN and his
wife, Joyce, now reside in their new
home in the Greenwood Farms sec-
tion.

Recent additions to the staff are
JOHN SHAW, a graduate in math

from UNC-Chapel Hill; JIM KEL-
LENBURGER and BILL THOMP-
SON, graduates of Holding Tech; and
GRADFORD BARBOUR, a compu-
ter programmer, graduate of Holding
and formerly employed by a Ralaigh
bank.

The group of summer employees
has been increased by JOHN BUR-
TON, who will be teaching at the
new Raleigh Collegiate School this
fall; JOSEPH MIDDLETON, recent
graduate in applied math from
NCSU, who will soon begin graduate
work in the field of religion at Wike
Forest University; and CARL BAR-
NES and JOEL CARTER, who plan
to continue studies at NCSU in Sep-
tember. ED SYKES, who holds a
B.S. degree in applied math from
NCSU, is a temporary employee.

LOCATION — Recent vacation-
ists were VIRGIL TAYLOR, A. P.
COX, DURWOOD STEPHENSON,
A. C. DODSON, LOUISE HIGH,
HORACE JERNIGAN and BOYCE
MIDGETTE.

Employees miss ELAINE RO-
GERS who resigned to get married.
Elaine and her husband, Brian Lang-
ley, live in Smithfield.

JOE CREECH attended National
Guard summer camp at Fort Stewart,
Georgia, July 5-20.

GINNY CONYERS and family
have moved into their new home in
Chestnut Hills Estates.

PROJECT CONTROL — GRACE
MAHLER and David Evans were
married in the Chapel of the historic
Christ Church, located on Capital
Square just opposite Headquarters,
August 25, 1969. Grace and David
are residing in Durham where he is
with Wachovia Bank.

Miss GLORIA POWELL enjoyed
a recent week of vacation with
friends in the North Carolina moun-
tains.

Mrs. ANN FOLLIDAIRE was
married July 11 in Dillon, S. C, to
Willie Junior McLamb of Benson.
Ann and her husband live near Ben-
son, where he is in business.

CORRECTION
Debra Lane Beddingfield was
married to Joseph L. Woodlief
June 5, instead of July 5. ROAD-
WAYS regrets this error.

Raymond Crouse, Roadway Design
Department, won the Grand Aggre-
gate Third U. S. Army Rifle Cham-
pionship. He is the first reservist in
the history of the TUSA matches to
win. He set a record of 1,884 points
to beat the existing record of 1,872.

Lt. Gen. J. L. Throckmorton pre-
sented Raymond with the winner's
prize, a Model 70 Winchester Rifle.

Coffee break — Delegates at the
MUTCD hearing discuss some side-
lights of the new Manual. Left to
right, standing: Glenn Grigg, Pete
Deaver, Joe Lema, Ed Melchen, and
John Per mar; foreground, Harry
Burns.

Miss Mary Florence Rushing and
Roland Warren Robinson, Jr. ex-
changed marriage vows in a ceremony
held July 12 at 4 o'clock at the First
Baptist Church in Richfield, N. C.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Albert B. Rushing of Raleigh and the
late Mr. Rushing. The bridegroom's
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Roland W.
Robinson, Gastonia, N. C. He is em-
ployed in the Roadway Design De-
partment.

Mr. George W. Denton retired July
1, 1969, after 35 years' service with the
Highway Commission's Equipment
Depot. The above photo shows Mr.
Denton as he was presented a check
from the Depot's employees. Left to
right: Lloyd Young, Equipment De-
pot Superintendent, Mr. Denton, and
Howard Gupton, Assistant Equipment
Depot Superintendent.

North Carolina -
Vacation Land for
Division I — Mr.
and Mrs. M. E.
COPELAND have
made Kill Devil
Hills a home away
from home on
weekends this sum-
mer. Mr. Copeland

Divig"o„GCoCrarre:pWoa„de„ti« Office Manager
for the Equipment
Department in Hertford. Mr. C. L.
BREWER, Equipment Superinten-
dent, and Mrs. Brewer also find Kill
Devil Hills a fascinating vacation
spot. Nags Head is apparently "tops"
for Mr. CLAYTON BEARD, Right-
of-Way Agent, who spent several
days on a fishing expedition. Mr. and
Mrs. RODNEY LEGATES and fam-
ily find our Capitol City fascinating
while vacationing with their parents.
Mr. Legates is a Right-of-Way Agent.

Division I Welcome Wagon — A
cordial "welcome home" is extended
to the following persons: Mr. JIMMY
RAWLS, Engineering Technician II,
and Mr. G. C. HALL, Engineering
\ide, who have finally decided to re-
turn after having vacationed in that
notorious Boot Camp at Fort Stew-
art, Georgia; Mr. WILLIAM JER-
NIGAN, who is now employed as
temporary truck driver after an ab-
sence of three months; Mr. ERVIN
CULLENS of the Elizabeth City Con-
struction Office, who attended a
church conference of young people
in Kentucky recently; DOROTHY
GARD of the Elizabeth City District
Office, who has been out thirty days
sick; Mr. DAVE CARTER, Carpen-
ter II, with the Equipment Depart-
ment in Hertford, who was out as a
result of injuries received while
working at home; BEVERLY EL-
LIOTT, who is working with the
Equipment Department this summer
and will return to school in the fall
— Sure will miss you, Beverly.

Extra Special Wishes for Extra
Special People — Get well wishes for

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MRS. LACY MERLE WHITE

Mrs. White, the former Terry
Elaine Hoggard, was married on
June 20, 1969, at Merry Hill Parson-
age. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. David Hoggard of Windsor. Mr.
Hoggard is Machine Operator III in
Division I — District 2. Mr. White is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
White of Windsor. They will make
their home in Windsor where Mr.
White is employed by Sunbeam
Bread Company.

a speedy recovery are extended to
the following persons: Miss Lisa Sel-
lers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
SELLARS, who underwent Open
Heart Surgery at Duke Hospital re-
cently; Mr. Sellars is Division Right-
of-Way Agent; Mr. RAYMOND
CONNER, Right-of-Way Agent, who
is recuperating, at his home in Rich
Square, from a recent illness; Mr.
WILLIAM B. SAWYER, Machinist
II with the Equipment Department in
Hertford, who was injured on the 4th
of July in a freak accident, which re-
sulted in a broken kneecap.

Division I saves the best for last,
which is a poem written by Miss Lisa
Sellars, age 13, one week after under-
going heart surgery on July 8, 1969.
(Lisa has previously written several
other poems.)

Sympathy — Condolences are ex-
tended to the family of J. A. SMITH,
who passed away on June 8, 1969. Mr.
Smith was Machine Operator I in

District II. Deepest sympathy is ex-
tended to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM
L. ROGERSON on the death of their
son, Terry Glenn. Mr. Rogerson is
Machinist II with the Equipment De-
partment in Hertford.

Interesting Facts — Mrs. NEDRA
VANDERBERRY HOLLOMON at-
tended the graduation of her son, Dr.
Robert Carroll Vanderberry, Jr., as
an intern at the Naval Hospital in
Portsmouth, Virginia, on June 30,
1969. Mrs. Hollomon is a Stenograph-
er in District II. Congratulations to
Mr. M. E. COPELAND, who won a
color television from the J. B. Hunter
Store in Norfolk, Virginia, during a
recent drawing. Mr. and Mrs. THO-
MAS DAIL and family spent some
time visiting Mrs. Dail's family in
June.

Wedding Bells Ring — Mr. E.
TROY LANE, Maintenance Yard
Foreman of Currituck County, and
Mrs. Dorothy Dozier of Poplar
Branch were married August 1, 1969,
in Poplar Branch.

MRS. MARVIN GORDON JONES

Mrs. Jones, the former Rebecca
Jean Baggett, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert M. Baggett, was married
June 15 to Mr. Jones, son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. K. Jones. The bride's father
is Maintenance Foreman IV in Divi-
sion I District 2. The bride is a grad-
uate of Ahoskie High School and
Chowan College and is employed at
Roanoke - Chowan Mental Health
Service. The bridegroom is a graduate
of Ahoskie High School and is em-
ployed by D. M. Weatherly Co. The
couple will make their home in Union,
N. C.

RECOVERY ROOM

The hall was quiet, each door was closed,
The clock ticked on as each patient dozed.
The big wooden door to the recovery room
Slowly opened, like a flower in bloom.
The rumble of the wheels under the table,
Each arm was stretched out; one had a label.

There was the glucose, drip by drip,
And a line of stitches near the hip.
There was a mask, giving out air,
And a bandage put on with care.

Then came the step, the clamp, the pound,
A herd of "white elephants" coming around.
All dressed in white from head to toe,
Everything known — they think they know.

Throw open the door, turn on the light,
After you've already told them goodnight.
"Your heart is beating, your coloring is better,
Drink this, eat that, you're a chart setter".

The lights are out, you lie back down,
Heave a sigh, and pull down your gown.
You're now awake, sleepiness to defeat,
But there's no place like the hospital
To get you back on your feet!

Lisa Sellers

$6

The Welcome
Mat is out for Mrs.
FAYE MOORE
who returned to
work for the High-
way Commission
on June 19, 1969,
as Secretary to Mr.
Fred Edwards, Jr.

in the Division Of-
Hazel Baker ..
Division Correspondent lice.

Miss HAZEL L. BAKER, secre-
tary in the Division Office, vacationed
in Virginia and Western North Caro-
lina. There is an old covered bridge
which she took time out to examine
This bridge is located near Pembroke,
Virginia, and was built in 1912.

JAMES C. BOYD, Traffic Services
Supervisor, vacationed in July in the
mountains.

Welcome Mat is out to ROY L.
BUMGARNER, assigned to the
Maintenance Department. Roy trans-
ferred from the Training Program,
Division 12. He and his wife are re-
siding near Dover. Roy is catching-up
on his fishing and crabing.

Welcome back to work. W. E. WE-
THERINGTON was hospitalized at
Duke Hospital for some time.

WALTER JARVIS is retiring with
30 years service and EUGENE
SPARROW is retiring on disability.

ODE TO RETIREMENT
By CLYDE T. MALLISON

When I was young my slippers were
red

I could kick my heels over my head.
As I grew old my slippers were blue
Still I could dance the whole night
thru.

Now I am old, my slippers are black
I walk to the corner and puff my

way back.
The reason I know my youth has

been spent
My "get-up and go has got up and

went."

But I do not mind when I think with
a grin

Of all the places my "get up" has
been.

Since I have retired from life's compe-
tition

I busy myself with complete repeti-
tion.

I get up each morning and dust off
my wits

Pick up the paper and read the obits.
If my name is missing, I know I'm
not dead

So I eat a good breakfast and go back
to bed.

Wedding Bells have been ringing
in Division Two — Miss Carolyn Nel-
son, Secretary in the Right of Way
Department was married on June 28,
1969, to Mr. Dalton Knox of Green-
ville. Congratulations and best wish-
es to the "Newlyweds".

The Supervisory
Employees' Divi-
sion Office and
Construction Chap-
ter of the Associa-
tion sponsored a
T 4 dinner at the

Shrine Club in
Clinton on June 20
and honored our
former Commis-
Divuton corr^pondent sioner Ashley
Murphy by presenting him a plaque
in appreciation for his services and
for his working so co-operatively with
the employees in our Division. We
shall all miss him very much and
hope he will continue to stop by and
visit us.

We are glad to have B. H. PIER-
CE, Machine Operator in District 1,
and G. E. McGLENNY, Machine
Operator in District 2. We wish a
speedy recovery to J. E. TODD and
J. W. LONG of District 1.

We surely miss LISTON SMITH,
of District 2, who resigned on July 2
due to ill health and A. E. YOW of
Traffic Services, who resigned on July
3 to accept other employment. Also,
we miss L. J. PORTER, of District
1 Maintenance who has resigned to
accept other employment.

We would like to express our sym-
pathy to the family of FLOYD CAN-
NON, District 1, who died on June
16. We miss Mr. Cannon very much.

Mrs. MARIE FERRELL, Secre-
tary in the District 1 Office, has re-
cently returned from a vacation in
the mountains with her family and
friends. MARIAM MARLAR, Sec-
retary in the Construction Office, has
just returned from vacation. Vance
English, of the U. S. Marine Corps,
was recently home on leave. Vance
worked in the Construction Depart-
ment prior to "Uncle Sam's" call and
Dad, GRAHAM ENGLISH, is Road
Maintenance Supervisor for Bruns-
wick and New Hanover Counties.
FLOYD J. BASS, our Assistant Di-
vision Engineer, had a wonderful

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vacation going to points of interest
in Florida. WILL DAVIS, "ROW",
went to Florida and Georgia.

We would also like to express our
sympathy to Mr. T. J. McKIM and
family. Mr. McKim was former State
Construction Engineer and our for-
mer Division Engineer prior to his
retirement. He recently lost two
grandsons when they were struck by
lightning and killed instantly while
on vacation at Wrightsville Beach, N.
C.

CARL PARKER, Right-of-Way
Agent, "lost his pants" negotiating re-
cently. A dog in the owner's yard tore
them off. The owner rescued him with
a new pair.

DIVISION
FOUR ,

MHPm Congratulations
to Mr. G. T. WIL-
KINS, Division
Landscape Super-
visor, on the com-
pletion ol 35 year-;
, I service. Mr. Wil-

' {H I kins received his 35
^W^^. year pin in Ra-

* leigh on July 8th.

~ J The Wilson

Margaret Barefoot r-i ±. r*s\~ ±. e
Division Correspondent County Chapter of

N.C.H.&C.E.A. met at Parker's Bar-
becue on June 27, 1969, for a business
meeting. New officers elected for the
coming year were: WALTER LAMM,
Chairman; CARL FULGHUM, Vice-
Chairman; and SHIRLEY HAYES,
Secretary and Treasurer. Twenty-six
members turned out for the barbecue
and chicken supper.

Some of the employees in Resident
Engineer Frank Coleman's office had
vacations in June and July. VIRGIL
JONES and family visited Washing-
ton, D. C, and also enjoyed camping
at Morehead. J. C. JERNIGAN and
wife, Eloise, had a few days relaxa-
ation at their cottage at Pamlico.
RONALD WOOTEN and friends vi-
sited Florida. R. F. COLEMAN and
family tried the fishing at Morehead
City and also visited Florida. HADIE
SKINNER and family enjoyed sight-
seeing in Georgia. ARLENE RI-
CHARDSON and husband, George,

visited the John H. Kerr Dam and

Lake Gaston and also enjoyed a few
days stay at Atlantic Beach.

PRESTON LANE and LAW-
RENCE CAMERON have been tem-
porarily assigned to Division 10. They
both say the people in Division 10
are very friendly, but "there's no
place like home".

We are glad to have RONALD RI-
CHARDS back with us. He has just
returned from a temporary assign-
ment in Division 5 at Henderson.

We welcome D. W STEHLEY
back to work. He has been out due to
a lengthy illness.

BOBBY McBRIDE and wife, Bec-
ky, plan to move into a new home
soon.

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. MATTHEWS
and daughter, Bonnie, toured the
coast of North Carolina on their re-
cent vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. ERNEST PHIL-
LIPS and family have returned from
the coast.

Mr. and Mrs. THURMAN PAR-
RISH really went far out of the state.
They visited El Paso, Texas and Mex-
ico. What a wonderful trip that must
have been!

We wish to extend our sympathy
to the family of Mr. MOSE RACK-
LEY, Mechanic II, Nashville, N. C.

We would also like to express our
sympathy to Mr. N. R. SULLIVAN,
Mechanic II, Smithfield, N. C. and
family in the loss of their son.

■ill:.

The Goldsboro Office acknowledges
the 40 years of loyal service that C.
B. BULLOCK has given to the
Highway Commission and his fellow

Fred and Bonnie Boone at Estes
Park in the Rocky Mountains in Co-
lorado. With son Fred they also vi-
sited Wichita, Kansas (where their
daughter lives with her family), Abi-
lene, Kansas, Dodge City, Kansas,
and the notorious "Long Branch Sa-
loon."

employees both here in the 4th Di-
vision and State wide.

Mr. Bullock is presently serving as
project inspector on the four-laning
of U. S. 70 from Princeton to Golds-
boro. His experiences and deep devo-
tion to his job make him a valuable
employee. We join with our Governor,
Mr. Scott, in honoring him for his
loyal service and are looking for-
ward to working with him for years
to come.

J. E. SKINNER, Resident Engi-
neer and family spent a week visiting
friends and relatives and vacationing
in the mountains.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mike Thompson who broke his leg
recently and will be in the hospital
for six weeks. Mike is the son of
JERRY THOMPSON, Assistant Re-
sident Engineer in Goldsboro.

Welcome back to DANNY HAYES
and FRANKIE PARRISH who have
been to National Guard Summer
Camp.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
FRED SIMMONS on the birth of a
daughter, Leigh Angonette, born July
18, 1969.

Mrs. Geraldine B. Outlaw, wife of
GILBERT OUTLAW is ill at her
home. Wayne County employees
wish her a speedy recovery.

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Motor Grader Operator, Aaron
Waddell, is the proud grandfather of
little Theresa Jo Waddell, age three
months.

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Best wishes for a speedy recovery
to Mr. JAMES D. DAVIS, who has
been out of work due to illness since
June 30.

Mrs. Ethel E. Bryant, wife of
Truck Driver, IRA BRYANT, is get-
ting along well after having surgery
in Wayne Memorial Hospital.

Wayne County employees send
best wishes to their Maintenance
Supervisor, Mr. HENRY WIGGINS,
who is recuperating at home after un-
dergoing surgery in Wayne Memorial
Hospital.

Mrs. HILDA SKINNER, Clerk in
the Goldsboro District office, reports
that she had a wonderful vacation
with her husband, J. E., who is Resi-
dent Engineer in Goldsboro, and boys,
visiting friends and relatives in North
Carolina and Virginia and touring
points of interest in the N. C. moun-
tains and in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Assistant District Engineer PAUL
ANDERSON of Goldsboro recently
en'oyed a vacation at White Lake
with his family.

LARRY HOLLAND of the Golds-
boro District office reports that his
two weeks away from the office could-
n't be termed as "vacation". Larry
spent the two weeks in the July heat
in National Guard training at a
Georgia camp. He was glad to return
home where he could catch up on his
favorite pastime, fishing for bream and
crappie. Larry enjoys this so much
he sometimes gets carried away and
has been known to fall overboard
from his small boat. He says he's be-
ing more careful now.

Johnston County employees wel-
come MATTHEW PRICE and WIL-
LIAM B. JOHNSON, JR., back to
work after a lengthy illness.

Best wishes are sent to GASTON
O. RAYNOR who has been on ex-
tended sick leave for several months.
We hope Mr. Raynor will soon recov-
er and be able to return to work.

Congratulations to Maintenance
Supervisor Mr. J. V. WALTERS who
was awarded a 45 Year certificate for
service with the Highway Commission
in ceremonies held in Raleigh, July
16. Mr. Walters came to work with
the Highway Commission at the age
of 14 in 1924 and has served faith-
fully these 45 years. At the time of
this report, Mr. Walters is undergoing
surgery in Johnston Memorial Hos-
pital and he has our sincere best
wishes.

Mr. Frank Wilson Morse ended al-
most a half-century of service to the
State of North Carolina as an em-
ployee of the N. C. Highway Commis-
sion, when he retired July 31, 1969.
Mr. Morse began work with the
Highway Commission April 1, 1921,
as a foreman at 15i per hour, work-
ing twelve hours a day, six days a
week. He continued working in a
supervisory capacity with the Wayne
County Maintenance forces for the
next 48 years and four months and
retired as a Maintenance Foreman
IV at the age of 65 years. He was pre-
sented a 45 year service award at
ceremonies held in Raleigh, June 28,
1966.

On Sunday afternoon, July 27, 1969
Mr. Morse was honored at an open
house given by his wife and children
at his home in Goldsboro on the oc-
casion of his 65th birthday and up-
coming retirement. Some 150 guests
including friends, relatives, and fellow
highway employees visited to wish
him Godspeed.

We take this opportunity to again
thank Frank for his most devoted
service and to wish the very best for
him and Mrs. Morse in "their" re-
tirement from Highway service.

Best wishes are extended to W. L.
KEMP, Nash County Maintenance
Supervisor, who has been out due to

extended illness. Mr. Kemp is re-
ported much improved and we hope
that his progress toward good health
will continue.

District Two was very saddened by
the recent deaths of two long time
and loyal employees, Wilson County
Maintenance Supervisor, PAUL FUL-
GHUM, on July 3, and Nash Coun-
ty Maintenance Foreman GEORGE
GRIFFIN, on July 1. Mr. Fulghum
had been employed by the Highway
Commision for more than 35 years,
beginning on January 11, 1934, and
Mr. Griffin had been employed by
the Commission for 21 years. Their
presence and dedicated service will
be greatly missed in both counties.

r

PAUL FULGHUM

PHILLIP BRADSHAW, Techni-
cian II in the Nashville District Of-
fice recently spent two weeks at the
summer camp of the National Guard
at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

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Service awards were presented in
District Two: 35 Years awards —
ZOLLIE HERMAN WILLIAMS
and PAUL ANDERSON FUL-
GHUM; 20 Year awards — JAMES
MILLARD ABERNATHY, DEW-
EY THOMAS BASS, RUFUS
JOHNNIE BROWN, GEORGE
HUNTER GRIFFIN, GEORGE
JONES, ALBERT MERCER, ROY
CLYDE WALLACE and WILLIE
THURSTON WILLIAMS, JR.; 15
Year awards — MACK THOMAS
BATCHELOR, JR., HENRY LEE
BRASWELL, JAMES WILLIAM
LUCAS, DOTHA LUTHA MOSS,
DONALD CARLOS SMITH and
JAMES HAROLD YOUNG; 5 Year
awards — FELTON GARVIS BOW-
DEN, JIMMY ROGERS BROOKS,
WILLIAM RANDOLPH CARY and
JOSEPH LEE RICHARDSON.

Safety awards were also presented:
20 Year awards — W. T. WIL-
LIAMS, JR., ROBERT AMERSON,
(GEORGE JONES, and ALBERT
MERCER; 15 Year awards — W. L.
KEMP, PATTIE D. ABERNETHY,
HENRY MURRAY, L. W. PERRY
and ARCHIE MURRAY; 10 Year
awards — M. A. GARDNER, MIL-
LARD WATSON and E. C. MER-
CER; 5 Year awards — J. R.
BROOKS, W. R. CARY, T. M.
MOSS, M. T. BATCHELOR, JR.,
F. G. BOWDEN, KENNETH PEAR-
SON and W. T. WALSTON; 3 Year
awards — ANNE M. FISHER and
P. R. BRADSHAW.

The Englewood Baptist Church in
Rocky Mount was the scene of a love-
ly wedding on July 13, 1969, when
JOHNNY ELLWANGER HODGE
and Paula Jeanne Dunn were united
in marriage. After a honeymoon on
the coast the couple left for Kaiser-
slaughern, Germany, where they will
live. Johnny is serving there in the
armed forces. He was employed in the
Construction Department prior to his
induction. Home for the wedding was
JIMMY HODGE who is a Specialist
5 with the Missile Program at Fort
Bliss, Texas. Jimmy was also em-
ployed in the Construction Depart-
ment prior to his induction. They are
the sons of J. A. HODGE, District
Engineer in Nashville.

Greetings to the new arrivals and
congratulations to the proud parents
in District Two. The latest arrivals
are a son, Michael Alton Gardner, to
M. A. and Ruby GARDNER on June
24, 1969; a son Jerome Joe Richard-
son to J. L. and Joann H. RICH-

ARDSON on May 22, 1969; a son,
Robert Mitchell Bryant to PERVISE
and Esther P. BRYANT on June 29,
1969; a daughter, Lisa Faye Whitley,
to H. M. and Faye B. WHITLEY on
May 29, 1969; and a son Jerome Blair
Sessoms, to GARLAND and Eloise B.
SESSOMS on May 24, 1969. Mr.
Gardner is a Nash County employee
and the others are employed in Wil-
son County.

Mr. Charlie William Turner retired
from his position with the Wayne
County Maintenance Department on
August 1, 1969, after some 21 years
service. Mr. Turner began his ca-
reer with the Highway Commission
April 1, 1948, as a truck driver. We
wish for him a long and happy re-
tirement.

D. L. OVERBY,
Maintenance Me-
chanic I, in Vance
County, recently
spent several
weeks visiting his
daughter and son-
in-law, Sergeant
and Mrs. Oliver D.
Ellis, Jr., and new
grandson, Dorsey

Division Correspondent LJcUe r> 1 1 1 S , in

Stuttgart, Ger-
tmany.

At the State Highway and Correc-
tion Employees Association Meeting
held at Maintenance Quarters in
Granville County on July 3, 1969,
the following officers were elected
for the year 1969-70:

Chairman: E. ALTON DEAN;
Vice-Chairman: BRUCE O. HOCK-
ADAY; Secretary and Treasurer:

ELVIN A. LUMPKIN; Delegates to
Unit Meeting: GEORGE S. BAIL-
EY, ALBERT S. MAY, GARLAND
L. ELLINGTON, 3 at-large from De-
partment of Correction, 1 at-large
from Bridge Department and 1 at-
large from Equipment Department.

To Serve on Nominating Committee:
G. E. CRUTCHER; Delegate to Con-
vention: CHARLES W. PLEAS-
ANTS and HENRY R. HICKS.

ERNEST HICKS has returned to
work after being on sick leave for
several weeks.

WAYNE CURRIN was on sick
leave for a few days recently.

WAYNE THOMAS had good luck
while trout fishing in the mountains
of western North Carolina recently.

N. G. (GRADY) WHEELER and
family spent several days vacationing
with relatives in New Jersey recently.

R. PLUMMER HAYES and
FRANCIS HUGHES attended the
"Singing On The Mountain" at
Grandfather Mountain recently.

GEORGE WOODY has returned
to work after being away due to ill-
ness for several weeks.

NELSON WHITT plans to be
married soon. He is with the Mainte-
nance Department in Granville Coun-
ty.

Nancy Carol Wilson, a recent grad-
uate from Webb High School at Ox-
ford, N. C. is now enrolled at Rock-
ingham Technical College at Went-
worth, N. C. She plans to major in
business administration.

Her father is Clarence P. Wilson
who is Machine Operator 2 with the
Maintenance Department in Granville
County.

V. V. MORTON has been ill.

The boss of the Right of Way De-
partment, Mr. R. G. GREGORY, is
enjoying a new 1969 Plymouth,
equipped with air conditioning. It is
not hard to guess who has the most
offers of riders when lunch time rolls
around.

They say what happens two times
usually happens three times. We cer-
tainly hope that is not true with
DON SELLERS. About last Novem-
ber Don and his wife got a new car.
Sometime in June Mrs. Sellers had
a horse to walk into the path of her
car while she was going to work,

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damaging the car considerably. The
Sellers were on their way to the
beach to enjoy the nice sunshine over
the 4th and it happened again —
their car was involved in an accident
and was damaged again considerably
in the same section. We are happy to
report that none of the people got
hurt.

The Right of Way Department is
losing one of their "fixtures". Yes, af-
ter 15 years with the Right of Way
Department (34 years altogether
with the State of North Carolina)
JOHN HOYLE THACKER (some-
times known as Tacker) is retiring
effective July 31, 1969. THE VERY
BEST OF LUCK ALWAYS. Oh yes,
Mr Thacker has another grand-
daughter now to take up some of his
retirement time (the newest addition
arrived June 6, 1969).

Those of the Right of Way Depart-
ment who have enjoyed a few days
off from work include: RUTH MAN-
GUM (resting around home); DON
SELLERS, R. G. GREGORY, and
R. O. PASCHALL (enjoying the
beach); N. E. UNDERWOOD, JR.
(enjoying that Florida sunshine) ; and
SHIRLEY CHAPPELL (visiting
Eastern North Carolina).

It has finally been revealed — the
Right of Way Department has some
"professional" (?) baseball players —
R. G. GREGORY and R. O. PAS-
CHALL have been playing on the
team at Parkwood.

WALTER WOOTEN has been en-
joying his new sailboat.

The wedding of Miss Mary Lynn
Klien, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Klein, of Fayetteville, and
James Ira Sutton, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sutton of Fayetteville, took
place Saturday, June 21, at 6:00 P.M.
at Victory Methodist Church. The
Rev. Charles Carpenter performed
the double ring ceremony. Mr. Sut-
ton's father is employed as a Me-
chanic II in the Equipment Depart-
ment, Fayetteville.

Welcome back to work to J. J.
ODOM, who was a patient at Veter-
ans Hospital in Fayetteville and
WAYNE R. BARNES, who was a
recent patient at Veterans Hospital
in Durham. Both are Maintenance
employees in Robeson County.

Resident Engineer B. WHITE-
SIDE, JR., and family spent the July
4th weekend at their cottage at Long
Beach.

Highway Inspector II, W. C. BYRD
and family spent some time recently
enjoying the sun and water at White
Lake.

Highway Inspector II, J. W. HER-
RING and family soaked up plenty
of sunshine and did a great deal of
swimming at the beach for a few
days.

Mrs. LINDA BASS spent a week
enjoying the company of her cousin
and daughter while on vacation.

TRUITTE JOHNSON and family
will be spending their vacation at
Presley's Camping Ground in Maggie
Valley the first week in August.

Mr. and Mrs. G. W. MITCHELL
spent a few days at both Myrtle Beach
and Carolina Beach.

Mr. and Mrs. HURLEY ASH-
WORTH enjoyed a week of sun, fun
and water at their cottage at Carolina
Beach.

Mr. and Mrs. THURMAN COL-
LINS spent a few days in the moun-
tains on their vacation.

Since Mr. R. N. WEAVER retired,
he has put in a lot of hours fishing
at Black River and enjoying his days
of leisure at his cottage.

DIVISION SIX

Division1 Correspondent July 1, 1965.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of EVANDER
HARDIN who
died July 12, 1969.
Mr. Hardin, who
was a Machine
Operator 3 in Ro-
beson County for
29 years, retired
under disability

Kelly Gay Petralia, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Petralia, seems
to be enjoying life at the age of six
months. "Kelly Gay", who is the
granddaughter of A. E. Dixon, Right
of Way Agent in Division Six, was
born in Charlotte, N. C, on October
3, 1968.

Rambling "LIB" MELVIN and
family recently toured fourteen states
during their vacation in July. High-
lights of their trip were visiting the
Rockies, Grand Canyon, Yellow Stone
National Park and many other places.
Mrs. Melvin is a Stenographer in the
Fayetteville Division Office.

W. W. Holland, Maintenance Fore-
man IV in Cumberland County, is
the grandfather of this baby girl. Her
name is Constance Renee Holland
and she was born April 9, 1969, to
Ward and Susan Holland.

Mr. G. E. HOLDER sees to be get-
ting along quite well since his retire-
ment.

Mrs. SAM TYNDALL returned to
Wake Memorial Hospital to under-
go more treatment. Mr. Tyndall works
with the Maintenance Department in
Lillington.

Mr. C. L. SPENCE was involved
in an automobile accident July 11,
1969, and is in serious condition. He
is a patient at the V. A. Hospital in
Durham.

Get-well wishes go to D. T. LEE,
Maintenance Foreman IV, of Harnett
County, who is suffering from a heart
condition.

Mr. A. C. GILBERT has been con-
fined to Wake Memorial Hospital
following an accident which damag-
ed his back.

Mr. M. D. MESSER is recuperat-
ing from a kidney operation and is
doing quite well. We wish him a
speedy recovery.

Mr. S. W. GILES has been releas-
ed from the hospital and is recover-
ing nicely from his heart condition.
We are looking forward to having him
back at work with us.

We wish Mrs. R. E. RAYNOR a
speedy recovery from injuries receiv-
ed in an automobile accident.

Mr. J. R. LANIER is back at work
after undergoing surgery at the V. A.
Hospital.

We wish to express our deepest
sympathy to Machine Operator II,
L. C. DEAN, of Harnett County,
whose wife, Vaida Dean, died July
19, 1969.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to the family of J. G. LANIER who
died in June after a long illness. Mr.
Lanier was a Truck Driver in Harnett
County.

Assistant District Engineer W. S.
KING and family vacationed in July
at Long Beach.

R. H. DAVIS and J. L. McLEL-
LAND recently spent two weeks at
National Guard Camp at Columbia,
S. C.

L. H. SUGGS is recuperating at
home after an operation in Columbus
County Hospital.

To L. J. RUSSELL, Maintenance
Foreman 2 in Columbus County, we
wish a happy and lengthy retirement.

D. S. ROYAL, Maintenance Fore-
man II in Cumberland County, is
back at work after an extended ill-
ness.

RUTH MURPHY and husband,
Craig, enjoyed a nice trip to Canada
and Niagara Falls in early June. Ruth
is a Stenographer in the District Of-
fice for Cumberland and Harnett
Counties.

D. L. COOPER and family recent-
ly enjoyed a vacation to Washington,
D. C. and visited many points of in-
terest. Mr. Cooper is Assistant Dis-
trict Engineer for Cumberland and
Harnett Counties.

Division Right of Way Agent, S. J.
SMITHERMAN and his wife have
just returned from a vacation at Ba-
din Lake. Mr. Smitherman reports
that he had an enjoyable time fishing
and caught a lot of fish. Their daugh-
ter, Joan, and their son, Sam, accom-
panied by Mr. Smitherman's sister,
have just returned from a trip to
Nassau.

W. L. JOHNSON, Right of Way
Agent, and his family have just re-
turned from a vacation at Sunset
Beach. They report that they had a
wonderful time at the beach.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to CUTLAR L. BALLANCE, Right
of Way Aide, and his family in the
recent death of his brother, J. T.
Ballance, of Fremont, N. C.

Mrs. JUNE F. COX, Secretary in
the Right of Way Department, re-
cently spent a week of vacation with
her daughter, Mrs. N. J. Soyka of
Charlottesville, Va., at Ocean Isle
Beach, N. C.

J. G. Renn's grandson, daughter
and son-in-law are visiting him from
Florida. Picture is of Mr. Renn's
daughter, Ann, and grandson, James
Doyle. Mr. Renn works with the
Maintenance Department in Lilling-
ton.

CLAUDE R. MOORE, JR., Right
of Way Agent, and his family have
had several enjoyable trips recently.
They traveled by plane to Yeardley,
Pa., the first weekend in July; spent
the third weekend with his mother,
Mrs. C. R. Moore, Sr., in Burlington,
N. C; and spent four days at Kure's
Beach.

Sympathy is extended to District
Engineer SAM M. WILSON on the
death of his wife, Lucille, July 29,
1969. Mr. Wilson is District Engineer
in Fayetteville.

DIVISION
SEVEN

ilON J

We were all sad-
dened by the pass-
i n g of JOE
HOUGH on July
17. Joe, who retir-
ed July 1, 1968,
was enjoying tra-
velling and spend-
ing time with his
grandchildren. We

shall all miss Mr.
Carolyn Graves Tt i_ i , •
Division Correspondent Hough and his Vi-
sits to the office.

We are happy to report that J. V.
MONTI, Highway Inspector, is now
out of the hospital and recuperating
at home. We are looking forward to
his return.

Congratulations to the three men
in our Division who received certifi-
cates on July 16 for 40 and 45 years
of service. They are JAMES TATE
(45 years), ROBERT L. WARNICK
(45 years), and EARL D. BERRY
(45 years).

Congratulations to employees re-
ceiving awards and certificates: 35-
year award to O. L. KIRKMAN and
ALFRED B. McPHERSON; retire-
ment certificates to ROOSEVELT
BARTS, RAYMOND BOONE, J. E.
CANN, I. O. COOKE, J. G. DUKE,
R. H. F ARRIS, J. F. HICKS, W. F.
McCOLLUM, R. T. MITCHELL, R.
V. NELSON, J. E. PICKETT, W.
W. WHITE and K. R. WILLIAMS.

Wishes for a speedy recovery are
extended to C. C. SMITH who suf-
fered a heart attack. He is a patient
at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital.
Get-well wishes to W. E. KALLAM.
A speedy recovery for M. C. CLY-

Mrs. Coy Mills is the former Miss
Frances Coleman of Rockingham. Mr.
Mills is Landscape Specialist, in
Rockingham. They were married
June 28.

DIVISION

EIGHT

MEN. We welcome back to work
MELBA WEBSTER who was out
several weeks.

Sympathy, is extended to W. M.
GUNN in the death of his mother,
Mrs. Mae D. Gunn, of Eden, N. C,
and to C. M. McGEHEE in the death
of his brother, Earl, on July 14.

The W. E. KIRKMAN family have
their son, Sgt. Douglas E. Kirkman,
at home from Vietnam. He will re-
port to New Jersey for reassignment
to Germany.

The H. H. HARVELLS are the
proud parents of a son, Howard, Jr.,
born July 23. The LARRY HUGH-
ES are the proud parents of a baby
girl, Lisa, born June 16, 1969. Larry
is with the Construction Department.

Some who vacationed recently in-
cluded the BERNARD MAYHEWS
who went to Fontana and other
places in the mountains of North
Carolina, the C. B. WILSONS to the
beach, the J. H. MITCHELLS to
White Lake and the W. L. FRENCH-
ES to White Lake, the S. A. WAT-
KINS' to the mountains, the J. C.
MARTINS to Long Beach, the W. F.
ANGELS and the OSCAR WIL-
SONS to Myrtle Beach, the J. A.
RACHES, the H. M. COLLINS' the
J. P. WILSONS and the W. R.
KNIGHTS to White Lake, the D.
M. HAWKINS' and the L. W.
SHARPS to the mountains, the O. D.
ROBERSONS to Miami, Florida, the
H. G. RUDDS to Yaupon Beach, the
J. D. BRANFILLS to Cherokee, and
the F. C. RIDGES to New Orleans.
The RUDY WALKERS visited their
daughter, Mrs. Bob Wooder, who lives
in Oklahoma. Maintenance Supervi-
sor C. M. JONES escaped for several
days to the mountains of North Ca-
rolina with his wife.

Virginia Williamson p„..i|n„
Division Correspondent ground

Sympathy is ex-
tended to Mr. JOE
MATTHEWS of
the Sanford Con-
struction Depart-
ment in the loss of
, his brother recent-

FRED SYKES
and wife recently
spent some time at
Beach;

JIM GARNER and TRUBY
CLARK, Sanford Construction, have
also been on vacation; the KEN
FUNDERBURKS enjoyed a long
weekend at Kerr Lake.

Mrs. LINDA TARLTON BRANT-
LEY, Typist II, has joined the staff
of the Resident Engineer's office in
Sanford.

Welcome to JOHN LAWRENCE
MoDONALD, Staff Engineer, in the
Division Office, who will be with us
for a few months on the training pro-
gram.

We are glad to report that DOUG
EDGE, Materials Inspector, is out of
the hospital now and feeling much
better.

We are sorry to hear that RUFUS
CUM MINGS and JOE GREGORY,
Hoke County employees, have both
suffered heart attacks. We certainly
hope that both are going to soon be
much improved and back on the job.

LYNN CRISSMAN, Siler City
Construction Party, recently spent a
week at Cherry Grove with his fam-
ily. Others vacationing at the beach
from this Construction office were
RUSSELL WEBSTER and family,
CLYDE WEBSTER and family,
DON JOHNSON and family, and
BOBBY TEAGUE.

NAYTHELLE WILLIAMS, Sec-
retary in the Siler City Construction

US

office, spent a week in Florida with
friends.

Congratulations to PHILLIP
HUMPHRIES in the Right of Way
Department who recently was mar-
ried. We wish this fine young couple
much happiness.

Our best wishes to GRADY
SKEEN, Machine Operator II, in
District I, who retired May 30. We
wish him many years of rest and
happiness.

We are glad to report that Mrs.
Humphries, wife of F. M. HUMPH-
RIES, Equipment Department, San-
ford, is much improved following a
long stay in the hospital and at home.
She is now beginning to get out some,
and we are most happy to hear this.

MIKE JUSTICE and JERRY
WHITE, Maintenance Department,
Asheboro, recently spent two weeks
at Fort Stewart, Georgia, on annual
military training.

We are glad to hear that FRED
BALL, Sign Shop Foreman, Ashe-
boro, is back at work, following sur-
gery.

JIM HOSKINS, Assistant District
Engineer, Asheboro, recently visited
the Ocracoke-Kitty Hawk area with
his family.

We are glad to hear that Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. (AB) CARTER are now
situated in their new home. Perhaps
in several months when the grass
and shrubbery gets underway, Mr.
Carter will send us a picture.

Mr. T. K. SMITH, Resident Engi-
neer, Asheboro, remains ill at his
home. Mr. Smith has devoted many
years to highway construction and we
certainly want Mr. Smith to know
that we are thinking about him in
this illness and wishing him the very
best.

BRENDA HALL, Asheboro Con-
struction Office, and her husband are
vacationing at Atlantic Beach.

Mrs. AUDREY DELONG, and her
family, spent several days vacation-
ing at the river down at Pamlico, and
from there went on to Yorktown,
Virginia, to visit with relatives. Mrs.
Delong is secretary in the Division
Office.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. HUGHES
spent a few days on the Sandbridge
Beach in Virginia.

KEN McFADDEN and his family
vacationed at Carolina Beach. The A.
L. NELSONS spent their vacation in
Alabama.

DIVISION
NINE

Way Agent, and
LEWIS D.
SHAW and his
family just return-
ed from vacation-
ing a t Myrtle
Beach, S. C. Mr.
Shaw is a Right of
Way Aide.

CLIFF WALT-

Dorothy Phelps ERS, a Right of
Division Correspondent hig famjly ^ ^

returned from Myrtle Beach, S. C.
His son, Gary, now has his driver's
license and Cliff was a spectator the
whole trip.

ROBERT BROOME, III, and his
family just returned from vacation-
ing at Cherry Grove Beach, S. C.

HAROLD PITTMAN and JIM
USSERY, both Right of Way Aides,
spent July 9 thru 11 in school at Ra-
leigh under Phase II of the Right of
Way Training Program.

HAROLD PITTMAN, Right of
Way Aide, spent 2 weeks of Summer
Camp in the U. S. Army Reserves in
Ft. Jackson, S. C, from June 22-July
5, 1969. He celebrated his 23rd birth-
day on July 6, 1969.

Miss NANCY LEONARD, Clerk
in the District Office in Salisbury,
recently enjoyed a vacation at Cherry
Grove Beach with her family.

Unit 9 of the N.C.H.&C.E.A. held
their Annual Meeting at Ketner's
Cafeteria in Salisbury, N. C, on July
16, 1969. A delicious supper preceded
the business meeting. New officers
elected for the coming year were:
LARRY T. WILLIAMS, Chairman,
from the Traffic Engineering Depart-
ment in Forsyth; GORDON ROG-
ERS, Vice Chairman, from Mainte-
nance Department in Stokes County;
Mrs. CAROLINE B. HONEYCUTT,
Secretary and Treasurer, from the
Maintenance Department in Rowan
County. Among the special guests at
the meeting were Mr. Luther H. Ber-
rier, Jr., President of the N.C.H.&
C.E.A.; Mr.. Otis Banks, Executive
Secretary; Mr. David King, Assistant
Secretary; Mr. Cloyce Alfoxd, Assist-
ant Highway Personnel Officer.

Congratulations to Mr. L. A.
COOKE, Road Maintenance Supervi-
sor in Rowan County, and Mr. J. H.
HANES, Maintenance Foreman in
Davidson County, who recently re-
ceived their 40-Year Service Awards
from Governor Robert W. Scott. We
appreciate the years of fledicated serv-
ice they have given to our organiza-
tion.

Best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. WIL-
LIAM W. BOSTIAN who were mar-
ried July 13, 1969, at Stallings Me-
morial Baptist Church in Salisbury.
Mrs. Bostian is the former Miss Mar-
tha Fellows, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Fellows of 1224 South Fulton
Street in Salisbury. After a wedding
trip to the South Carolina coast, they
are residing at 120 West Steele Street.
Mr. Bostian is employed in the Con-
struction Department, District I, in
Salisbury, N. C.

Captain Racine Van Dusen, Win-
ston-Salem Squadron, Civil Air Pat-
rol, was selected by National Head-
quarters as Escort Officer to Great
Lakes Region August 5 through Aug-
ust 16. Accompanying the outstand-
ing female CAP Cadets from the Mid-
dle East Region, she will have girls
from the States of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland and Delaware and
National Capital Wing, Washington,
D. C.

This Inter-Region Exchange will
have indoctrination and orientation at
Glenview Naval Air Station and Glid-
er School at Coles County Airport,
Illinois. Also, CAP Cadets will have
an opportunity to learn more of the
cultural and historical background of
the United States. Included in this
will be a tour of the Capitol and Lin-
coln Museum at Springfield, the Illi-
nois State Fair, Eastern Illinois Uni-
versity at Charleston, tours of North-
side, China Town, and Maxwell Street
in Chicago, United Airlines' Hostess
School, and O'Hare Airport. On the
social side will be formal dinners, visit
to Ravinia State Park to see Ella
Fitzgerald, Zion State Park and Zoo,
and boating and sailing on Lake Mi-
chigan.

Airlift will be accomplished by pi-
lots and aircraft from Shaw Air Force
Base, South Carolina.

The employees of District I have
finally moved into their new office.
We will give you a picture of the
new building as soon as the landscap-
ing has been completed. We are all
proud of it, and will be happy to give
you a tour of it if you are in the
Salisbury area.

Roscoe Leftwich, Right of Way
Agent, and his family just returned
from vacationing at Myrtle Beach, S.
C. This is his 14-month old son Tony
at the beach.

Randy Garland Carriker and Chad
Stuart Mabry are grandsons of Mr.
Lonnie Mabry, Maintenance Foreman
II, in Stanly County. Their birthday
is one week apart, Randy's birthday
was June 29 and Chad's was June 22
and they were both one year old.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
[ m I ily of J. H. WIN-

- - «T KLER, Construc-
1 tion employee who
died July 22 af-
ter a short illness.
Known to his
hKv, , . 1 riends as "Doc",

' ]|, Mr. Winkler was
a Highway Inspee-

Dolores Rogers x tt j l j

Division Correspondent tor 11 ana nad

been with the Commission for 14

years. "Doc" will be missed by his

fellow workers and friends.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of J. H. CLODFELTER, Alle-
ghany County Maintenance employ-
ee who passed away June 9th.

G. R. UPCHURCH, Machine Oper-
ator I in Alleghany County, was kill-
ed in an automobile accident on July
19. We extend our deepest sympathy
to his family.

We also extend our sympathy to
the following: A. D. HAMILTON,
Yadkin County Maintenance employ-
ee whose wife died July 29; the fam-
ily of J. C. BRAY, retired employee

who died July 10. He was the father
of J. P. BRAY, Maintenance Fore-
man II in Yadkin County.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to Machine
Operator III, A. L. HOLLINGS-
WORTH, Surry County employee,
who retired July 1 after 37 years of
service with the Highway Commission.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. HOBSON on the birth of a
baby girl June 10. Mr. Hobson is a
Maintenance Foreman I in Yadkin
County.

We are happy to have ALLEN
HENSON, Boone Construction em-
ployee, back at work after being out
on sick leave due to surgery.

BARBARA WATERS, husband
Vernon and daughter Lori spent their
vacation recently visiting with his
mother in Mentor, Ohio. Barbara is
employed as a typist in the Boone
Construction Office.

Maintenance employee E. E. JOIN-
ES spent several days recently tour-
ing in Canada.

Maintenance employee G. L. GO-
INGS and family vacationed at Long
Beach, N. C, recently.

Unit 12 of the
State Highway and
Correction Em-
ployees Associa-
tion Meeting was
held in Statesville
j on July 25. A bar-
jrjfc^. I becue dinner with
flHH&M^HL all the trim minus
mm highlighted the
gathering. 35- Year

Diyision'corresp'ondentA^3^3 were Pre"
sented to employees as well as Re-
tirement Certificates. New officers
were elected: L. D. GAITHER,
Chairman; C. R. ACKER, Vice-
Chairman; MARTHA S. ALLEN,
Secretary-Treasurer; and JOE D. RO-
BERTS, Asst. Secretary-Treasurer;
35-Year Service Awards were present-
ed to JOHN F. ABERNATHY,

JAMES D. BEBBER, THOMAS L.
CHERRY, CLYDE W. FISHER,
JESSIE E. LATTIMORE, HAY-
DEN W. MORRISON, VANCE B.
REAVIS, and OTTIE L. SETZER.
Retirement Certificates were present-
ed to the following employees, who
are to be commended for their years
of faithful service: JOHN W. BEAN,
EDGAR W. LIPSCOMB, JR., BAX-
TER R. McLAIN, BENJAMIN C.
PALMER, HAROLD F. SETZER,
LESTER L. SMITH, JAMES L.
SPEIGLE, WILLIAM A. STARR,
DURHAM WHISNANT and GEOR-
GE F. WILSON.

DEBBIE EDNEY

Debbie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Edney, recently joined "The
Generation" which is a group of girls
from the First Baptist Church of Shel-
by who sing for various civic organi-
zations and church groups.

Willie H. Tomlin and Willard W.
Sherrill, two Iredell County employ-
ees, went on a fishing trip from
Southport, 68 miles out on the Conti-
nental Shelf, on the 4th of July and
caught 570 pounds of fish. Among
those caught were King Mackeral,
Tuna, Barracuda, Red Snapper, one
Shark and a White Marlin which was
6' 9" long. That's quite a fish when
you consider that the world record
for a White Marlin is 6' 9".

Mr. Tomlin and Mr. Sherrill are
the two men together on the far right
of the picture.

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Mr. M. E. Sprinkle and Miss Rita
Carol Brown were married July 6,
1969. Mrs. Sprinkle is a student at
Appalachian State University and
Mike is a Technician in Statesville
Construction. Congratulations to the
newlyweds and our very best wishes
for the future.

CLYDE G. POSTON, JR., Traffic
Services Supervisor and Mrs. Poston
vacationed in Tennessee. Office En-
gineer M. W. HUGHES and family
enjoyed their stay at Myrtle Beach
in July. Assistant District Engineer
C. W. SELF and Mrs. Self spent sev-
eral days at White Lake. California
was the destination of JOE D. RO-
BERTS, Engineering Technician in
District 1. Joe flew to the West Coast
and then drove back to North Caro-
lina. Instead of going strictly West,
he went Country and Western; when
he boarded his plane in Charlotte the
hostess seated him next to a man
who was Glenn Campbell's Manager.
The Grand Canyon was the highlight
of the drive back to North Carolina.
MICHAEL GREEN, Clerk in the
District 1 office, vacationed with his
wife at Myrtle Beach. Mike also went
for a three-day fishing trip to Santee
Cooper with a party of six. Mike says
that they caught around 200 pounds
of striped bass averaging from 10 to
12 pounds per fish. They were so in-

volved in fishing that they forgot to
take any pictures. The ARNOLD Mc-
CURRYS vacationed at Myrtle
Beach. EDWARD T. COLES, Iredell
County Maintenance employee, flew
out to visit his daughter, Mrs. John
Pendill, Jr., in Reno, Nevada. He vi-
sited those great cities of the Old
West, Virginia City and Carson City.
He also visited two great natural
areas, Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake.
The GLENN JOHNSONS vacation-
ed in August with a trip to the beach,
returning in time for their daughter,
Glenda, to begin her first year in
school.

Above is the lovely bride of Earl
Kevin Biddy, the former Miss Paul-
ette Adel Millsaps. The couple was
married June 21, 1969, at the First
Baptist Church in Taylorsville.

Paulette, a May graduate of Tay-
lorsville High School, plans to enter
school in Morganton this fall. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Millsaps of Taylorsville. Mr. Millsaps
is employed as a foreman by the N.
C. State Highway Commission in
Alexander County.

Earl, also a graduate of Taylorsville
High School, and a rising sophomore
at Lenoir Rhyne College, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. George Biddy of
Taylorsville.

The couple will reside in Morgan-
ton.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
JERRY L. RUPPE who are the
proud parents of a son, Trevor Lee,
born June 7, 1969. Mr. Ruppe is Resi-
dent Engineer in the Statesville Con-
struction Office. A new member in
a Highway family is the baby boy
born to Mr. and Mrs. COY E.
BLACK, JR. Mr. Black is a Cleve-
land County Maintenance employee.

Sympathy is extended to W. W.
LATTIMORE, retired Maintenance
employee, in the death of his wife in
June. Worth was one of the Commis-
sion's most dedicated and faithful em-
ployees. Sympathy is extended to W.
H. BARRETT, Construction Depart-
ment employee, in the death of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Eva Baxter, who
recently passed away. Mr. Charles A.
Sprinkle, father of HAROLD SPRIN-
KLE, Inspector in Statesville, passed
away recently. Mrs. Frank Lackey,
mother of Mr. ROBERT J. LACK-
EY of Statesville, passed away, also.

Mr. M. W. RUNYAN has returned
to work following recent surgery.

Congratulations to L. E. GREENE,
who married Pat Sigmon on July 27,
1969, at the First Baptist Church in
Cherryville, North Carolina.

"Twelve" welcomes Roy D. Ded-
mon, E. Gwyn McNeil, and Charles
K. Maxwell, the three newly-appoint-
ed Highway Commissioners for coun-
ties in this Division.

Stanley Morgan, Right of Way
Agent, states that he has noticed sev-
eral changes in the 12th Division
since the gas tax increase. He sent
along this photo to verify his obser-
vations. This photo was taken on U.
S. 321, south of Gastonia but within
the city limits.

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Mr. B. S. CON-
NELLY, District
Engineer, District
Two, retired June
30 of this year. Mr.
Connelly had been
with the Highway
Commission for 41
years and was pre-
sented with a por-
table TV from his
friends.

Edna Ramsey
Division Correspondent

Mrs. HARRIET GOSSETT retir-
ed after 48 years with the Highway
Commission. A farewell luncheon
was held at Bucks Restaurant in
Asheville and Harriet was presented
with a color TV from her friends and
colleagues.

Welcome to FRANCES LOUISE
GRAY, new secretary to the Office
Manager in the Division 13 office.

Congratulations to BART BRY-
SON, who was recently elected to
membership in the American Insti-
tute of Real Estate Appraisers. He is
Division Appraiser for Division 13.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
KENNETH ROBERTS on the birth
of their big baby boy born June 21,
1969.

There must be something about the
beach, because ROBERT CHRISTO-
PHER headed for Myrtle Beach for
a week, and NELSON BOWDEN
went to Virginia Beach for a week to
visit with his daughter, who we un-
derstand is expecting an addition to
her family in August.

Come August 2, we are going to lose
another of our batchelors, as JACK
ARLEDGE is to be married to Edie
Scott of Arden.

DALLAS CLARK, Division Right
of Way Agent, decided to spend his
vacation in Daytona, Florida, this
year. He and his family had a fine
time seeing the sights, including
Cape Kennedy and Apollo Eleven.

All our sympathy is extended to
LOUISE NORTON who lost her fa-

ther in an automobile accident June
14, 1969.

The Right of Way Department had
its first picnic on July 12 and the
only thing wrong was that everyone
ate too much. However, they all had
a "ball" and plan another before sum-
mer ends. Welcome guests at the pic-
nic were Mr. and Mrs. A. H. WAT-
SON. Mr. Watson retired in Decem-
ber and tells us that this is really the
life! The picnic was held at DICK
DILLINGHAM'S home. Everyone
was kidding him about his built-in
breeze, even in all this 90 degree
weather we have been having here in
the mountains.

Goodbye to BARRY FULMER,
who moved on to Construction. His
stay here was short, but it was nice
having Barry with us. VERLON
COATES and his family had a good
time at Myrtle Beach this year. At
the present time, RALPH WAR-
NOCK and his family ■ — which has
increased by one baby boy since the
last edition — are visiting their fami-
lies in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. AN-
DREW RAY became very proud
grand parents on July 2, when their
daughter Christine presented them
with a lovely little girl, who weighed
in at 7J/2 pounds. Christine and her
husband, Captain E. McKay, are pre-
sently stationed in Germany.

Lewis Gurkin, son of L. M. Gurkin
of District I Maintenance Depart-
ment, and Mrs. Gurkin, was selected
for the Governor's School in Natural
Science. The field of physics and the
Flame Speaker in particular is Lewis'
field of investigation. He will also
study in the areas of philosophy and
psychology.

News from Division Landscape is
that Brenda Lankford, wife of PAUL
LANKFORD, recently spent two
months in her native England visit-
ing with her mother, brother and
friends. It had been 15 years since
Brenda has been back home. We
know someone who was glad to see
her return.

Welcome back to work to RICH-
ARD ROBERTS and GUS HED-
DEN, who have both been ill recently.

Seems that Mr. A. H. ALLEN,
Landscape Supervisor, is spending
lots of time on a mountain just above
Reems Creek. We hear by the grape-
vine that he is planning a summer
cabin well away from everyone and
everything. Get your shotgun oiled

up good — the bears might not all
be friendly.

We had some very sad news this
week when we heard of GEORGE
PRESCOTT'S death. George was em-
ployed with the Highway Commission
for more than 35 years and his most
recent project was the second Smoky
Park Bridge which runs parallel to
the original one he built 20 years pre-
viously. We extend deepest sympathy
to his loved ones.

Congratulations to EDD SPARKS
of Ed Paschall's office on his new son.
Also T. J. McKENZIE is still recup-
erating at Western Carolina Sanitor-
ium and we all wish him a speedy re-
covery.

DAN MARTIN and DICK REED
recently were promoted to Acting
Resident Engineers. Dan will super-
vise the widening of US 19-23 and
Dick will have a project concerning
1-40. Sorry to see CLYDE BALL
leave us after 15 years, but we all
wish him every success in his new
venture.

JOHN MORROW, B. S. CON-
NELLY and S. W. KEARNY recent-
ly received 40 year service awards.

F. L. HUTCHISON has been at-
tending a Management Development
Seminar at UNC-Asheville this past
week.

Andrew Wilkerson is a recent grad-
uate of Glenwood High School and
was Salutatorian of his Senior Class.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Wilkerson. Mr. Wilkerson has been
with the Commission for 20 years.
Andrew will enter the University of
North Carolina at Asheville in the
fall.

We welcome W. V. HUDSON back
after being out several weeks from in-
juries he received in an accident. Mr.
Hudson is a Machine Operator II in
Stanly County Maintenance.

ERNEST BARBEE, of the Bridge
Department, is still out from injuries
he received from an accident.

U7

Congratulations to Mr. J. R.
HATHCOCK and Mr. J. H. LOW-

DER, for a job well done. These two
men from Stanly County Mainte-
nance have just recently retired. We
wish for them the best of everything
in their retirement.

A group of our Stanly County
Maintenance men went on an old
time fishing trip a few weeks ago.
They went seining and cooked their
catch out under a shade tree. All had
a most enjoyable time.

We wish for JAKE McCRAY a
long and happy retirement. Mr. Mc-
Cray will retire August 1 on disabil-
ity. He is 59 years old and has work-
ed with the Commission approximate-
ly 30 years as Truck Driver in Anson
County.

We wish for J. N. WALL a long
and happy retirement. He is retiring
August 1st. He is a Machine Oper-
ator II in Anson County and has
worked with the Commission 32 years.

R. G. TICE and his wife are attend-
ing a Woodman Convention in Cali-
fornia. They will be there about two
weeks.

Mr. T. M. BOGGAN is vacation-
ing in Florida. Mr. Boggan is a Patch
Foreman in Anson County.

Sympathy is extended to W. A.
CARPENTER and J. C. THREAD-
GILL in the recent death of their

sisters.

Henderson Coun-
ty Maintenance
employees, includ-
ing District 1 Of-
fice personnel, re-
cently had a steak
supper with all the
trimmings. Wives
and children also
attended. Credit is
due to Mr. J. M.

Allyce Cunningham n a a.„„
Division Correspondent BAKJiK. Area

Foreman; FAIN BROOKS, M. F. 1;
SAMMY BRITTAIN, M. F. 11, who
really went all out in making the ar-
rangements and cooking the supper.
Also, ALONZO McGRAM, Powder-
man, even surprised everyone by en-
gaging a "Combo" and everyone en-

Miss Carol Cunningham and Char-
les Edward Kirkpatrick were married
in June in the Sylva Presbyterian
Church, Sylva, N. C. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Cunningham of Sylva and the bride-
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Kirkpatrick of Cullowhee,
N. C. Mrs. Kirkpatrick attended the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, graduated from the At-
lantic Airline School in Kansas City,
Mo., and is now employed in Win-
ston-Salem. Mr. Kirkpatrick grad-
uated from Wake Forest University,
cum laude, and will do graduate work
for the next year at Wake Forest Uni-
versity. Mrs. Kirkpatrick is the
daughter of Allyce Cunningham, Di-
vision 14 Correspondent.

joyed round and square dancing af-
ter the delicious meal. It was a most
enjoyable occasion and we highly
recommend these more often. You
should see what a nice group we have
when they are "all dressed up" and it
was a pleasure getting acquainted
with their wives. The supper and
dance was held at the Mills River
Community Center, and our thanks
go to everyone who helped in all the
arrangements.

A well-dressed group of employees
from District 1 attended the Asso-
ciation Unit meeting and supper at
Franklin, N. C, July 24, 1969. Re-
port: they enjoyed it very much —
even said it was fabulous.

Mr. R. L. Landreth who retired
in December, 1968 received his 35

years Service Award. He was working
in Transylvania County before his re-
tirement.

Mr. and Mrs. LLOYD CLARK
have a new addition to their family
— Douglas Neal. Mr. Clark is in con-
struction under Ray Spangler.

Vacation time is upon us and num-
erous families are taking advantage
of it. The GEORGE CLAYTONS
vacationed at Myrtle Beach, S. C;
WANDA JONES, typist in Sylva
Construction, and family vacationed
at Virginia Beach and surrounding
areas; JAMES CRISP and wife, Tarn,
vacationed at Myrtle Beach also.

JUDY DENNIS, Steno in Right
of Way Department, has transferred
to the Department of Conservation
and Development. We hope Judy will
like her work with them but we miss
her.

Danny Lee Proffitt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Proffitt, plans to enter
Western Carolina University this fall.
Danny was very active in High
School. He was president of the Sen-
ior Class, voted Mr. Golden Eagle,
played football receiving scholastic
trophy, voted Young Lion of the
Year, Senior superlative and was a
member of numerous clubs. We wish
Danny the best of luck in his college
career. C. L. Proffitt works in the
Construction Department under
George Clayton, Resident Engineer.

A8

Think the whole State of North
Carolina has experienced hot weather
this summer. For the first time in the
memory of our oldsters in the moun-
tains, it has been the hottest they can
remember. When we have to discard
our blankets in the summer you know
it is hot!

FRED LANGSTON, Right of Way
Department, and wife, vacationed at
Atlantic Beach. Fred said he did
some serious fishing, pulling them in
weighing 15 to 20 lbs. He remarked
that it was "hot, but fishing good."

DON RAXTER and family spent
a week at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Miss Mary Helen Huggins has been
selected to attend the School for Gift-
ed and Superior High School Stu-
dents at Western Carolina University,
where she will study college-level
chemistry this summer.

Miss Huggins, a rising junior at
Rosman High School, received the
school's biology award. She is a mem-
ber of the Beta Club, a teacher as-
sistant, and a First Class Girl Scout.
As winner of the State representa-
tive's essay contest, she served as a
pagette in the House of Representa-
tives in May, 1969. She is currently
representing North Carolina on the
Baptist Intermediate Training Union
Advisory Staff.

She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. VAN BUREN HUGGINS of
Rosman. Mr. Huggins is a Mechanic
Foreman II in District 1 of the Four-
teenth Division.

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL N. HUT-
CHINSON recently toured several
states and visited with sons who are
in the Air Force. Donald who is a
Sergeant stationed at Whitman A.F.B.
in. Missouri and Lloyd, who is a Ser-
geant stationed at Andrews Air Base
in Idaho. Another son, Sgt. Victor
Herman Hutchinson is stationed in
Guam. Some of the other states they
visited were Tennessee, Missouri,
Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia and
West Virginia. Paul who had his first
experience driving on the Pennsyl-
vania turnpike, says "that was some
traffic". They are very proud of their
three wonderful sons who are serving
their country. Mr. Hutchinson is a
Machine Operation 2 in Henderson
County.

Mr. and Mrs. C. R. JACKSON an-
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Evelyn Jane to Johnny Turner
on July 25, 1969. Mr. Jackson is a

Machine Operator 2 in Henderson
County.

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. MAXWELL
recently took a trip to Jacksonville,
St. Augustine and Flagler Beach,
Florida. He did some fishing in the
inter-coastal waterway and caught
a couple of small ones. Mr. Maxwell
is a Maintenance Foreman 2 in Hen-
derson County.

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL HEiNSLEY
are the proud parents of a new baby
girl born July 17, 1969. They also
have three other lovely children.

Marilyn DeHart has joined the
Right of Way Department as Steno.
Marilyn is from Bryson City and the
wife of Larry DeHart, Testing and
Materials. They have two children,
Martin and Dana Lynn.

FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Mrs. Edith McLeod of Tampa,
Florida, is visiting her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
BAGGS, at their home on Moyes
Avenue, Morehead City.

Miss Brenda Nelson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. WILLIE NELSON, has
accepted a job in Raritan, New Jer-
sey.

This happy bride is the former Miss
Nettie Lee Daniels, who was married
to Mr. Dale Smith, on June 20, 1969,
at the United Methodist Church, Ce-
dar Island, N. C. The bride is the
daughter of Captain and Mrs. Floyd
Daniels. The groom is the grandson
of Mr. Joseph W. Smith of Cedar
Island.

Captain Daniels, father of the bride,
is employed as master aboard the M/
V "Silver Lake" at the Cedar Island-
Ocracoke Ferry Operations.

The two happy youngsters pictured
here, reading from left to right are
James and Edward Golden, shown
aboard their boat the "Pook and
Bud" in Marshallberg Harbor. These
boys don't have any trouble keeping
cool these hot summer days. They are
the sons of Captain and Mrs. Stanley
B. Golden, Marshallberg, N. C. Cap-
tain Golden is Shore Supervisor at
the Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry Op-
erations.

49

Miss Judy Nelson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. WILLIE NELSON, More-
head City, has been a patient in the
Carteret General Hospital for the past
week. Sorry to hear of her illness and
hope she will soon be well and able
to return home. Mr. Nelson is the
clerk in the Morehead City Ferry Of-
fice.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to the family of Mr. and Mrs. HAR-
VEY L. ROPER, who were killed in
an automobile accident at Bath, N. C.
on June 13, 1969. Mr. Roper was em-
ployed as Ferryman aboard the ferry
"Beaufort" at the Pamlico River Op-
eration.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Mr. MARVIN R. LEWIS, who
died suddenly at Carteret General
Hospital, Morehead City, June 10,
1969. Mr. Lewis was employed as Fer-
ry Engineer at the Bogue Sound Op-
eration.

Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
LOUISE GODFREY upon the loss
of her mother Mrs. Sara Sell. Mrs.
Godfrey is clerk at the Southport-Ft.
Fisher Ferry Operation.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of Mr. ELMO GILGO, who died at
the Craven County Memorial Hospi-
tal, New Bern, N. C. Wednesday, July
30. Mr. Gilgo was ferry pilot aboard
the ferry "Beaufort" at the Pamlico
River Ferry Operation.

Unit 16 (Ferries) of the NCH&
CEA held their annual meeting at
the Rex Restaurant in Morehead City
on Friday night, June 27, 1969, with
Mr. Otis Banks, Executive Secretary,
presiding. Business was transacted as
usual and the officers were installed
for the coming year, 1969-70. They
were Mr. B. L. O'NEAL, Chairman;
Captain P. L. BRYANT, Vice-Chair-
man and Mrs. VIRGINIA ED-
WARDS, Secretary-Treasurer. Visi-
tors included Mr. Woodard and Mr.
Alford of the Personnel Department,
Raleigh, Mr. David King, Assistant
to Mr. Banks and Mr. "Dick" Brew-
er, Vice-President, NOH&CEA, and
a representative of Connecticut Gen-
eral Life Insurance Company.

The 32 members present enjoyed a
dutch supper.

Mrs. VIRGINIA EDWARDS, clerk
in the Morehead City Office, recently
enjoyed a visit from her daughter and
son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Leary, of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Next time you take a ferry ride on
a toll ferry take note of the lady
clerks in their new uniforms, which
proudly display the North Carolina
State Highway Commission emblem
— very neat and attractive girls.

Mr. W. C. MOORE and C. G.
LEWIS of Harkers Island and em-
ployees aboard the ferries at the Bo-
gue Sound Operations were involved
in a wreck, Monday, July 21, on
Highway 70, east of Beaufort, while
proceeding to their jobs. Neither was
injured seriously, however, both were
shook up pretty badly and will be
unable to return to work for a while.

Get well wishes go to Mr. WIL-
BUR GASKILL who is recuperating
at his home in Ocracoke after being
confined to the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City, N. C, for several days.
Mr. Gaskill is employed as cook on
the new state-owned dredge "Caro-
lina".

We're sorry to hear that Mr. WAL-
LACE A. TAYLOR, Ferryman at
the Hatteras Inlet Operation, has had
to return to the hospital for further
treatment. Hope before long he will
be well and able to return home.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. GLYNN of
Manteo, N. C, recently attended the
graduation exercises at Georgia Tech.
Mr. Glynn is a Port Captain at the
Hatteras Inlet Operation.

Mr. and Mrs. ERVIN GRAY of
Avon, recently vacationed at Black
Mountain, N. C. Mr. Gray is Ferry
Engineer at Hatteras Inlet.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. I.
G. SCARBOROUGH on the birth of
a baby girl. Mr. Scarborough is Fer-
ry Engineer at Hatteras Inlet.

Mr. LORAN MIDGETT recently
resigned from Ferry Operations to
accept other employment. We wish
for Mr. Midgett success in his new
undertakings.

Get well wishes go to Mr. W. E.
DOUGHTIE, Ferry Pilot at the Cur-
rituck Sound Operation, who is a pa-
tient in the hospital at Norfolk, Va.

Mr. GEORGE LAWRENCE, Port
Captain at the Bogue Sound Opera-
tion recently visited his son, Denny
Lawrence in Arlington, Va., and Bob-
by Lawrence at New London, Conn.

Mr. STEVE R. CAMPBELL, Fer-
ryman at Bogue Sound Operation re-
cently visited his grandmother in
Pennsylvania.

THE LIFE OF A
RIGHT OF WAY AGENT

The anonymous author of this poem
is all too familiar with the role-con-
flicts which are in every public offi-
cial's job. We hope he did get a good
vacation.

If he is usually in the office, he should
get out more often.

If he gets out or is out when you call,
he isn't on the job.

If he is at home nights, he is neglect-
ing outside contacts on his project.

If he isn't home nights, he is wasting
his time on frivolous things.

If he talks on a subject, he is trying
to run things.

If he is silent, he has lost interest or
he has an inferiority complex.

If he agrees with you, he lacks ori-
ginality or conviction.

If he doesn't agree with you, he is ig-
norant.

If he is too busy for casual talk, his
job has gone to his head.

If he engages in casual talk, that is
all he has to do.

If he can't give you an immediate an-
swer, he is incompetent.

If he can give you an immediate an-
swer, he doesn't think things
through.

If he appears cordial, he is playing
politics.

If he appears aloof, he should be
trimmed down to size.

If he has a strong opinion, he is bull-
headed.

If he tries to see both sides of the
question, he is pussyfooting.

If he is on the job a short time, he
lacks experience.

If he is on the job a long time, he is
in a rut!

If he is well dressed, he is a big shot.

If he isn't well dressed, he is not a
proper representative of his de-
partment.

If he takes a vacation, he's been on
one all year.

If he doesn't take a vacation, he is
trying to give the impression that
the office can't get along without
him.

Aerial view showing the entire Wilmington Lift Span Bridge. This view was taken looking upsteam toward the old bridge
and the battleship "North Carolina". The City of Wilmington is in the right background. Industries are in right foreground.
On the left is Eagle's Island. Note that the approaches to the bridge span streets and railroads.

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Raleigh, N. C.
Permit No. 287

From The Chairman

An open letter to all employees of the Highway Commis-
sion:

Allow me to use this means of communicating with
you, since it is completely beyond the realm of reason
to write each of you personally.

As you probably know, we at the Commission level
are in the midst of setting up one of the most ambitious
highway construction programs in the history of our
state. This, of course, is not easy. And with this effort
come many problems, organizational and otherwise.

It is completely understandable that there has been
some restlessness among our people at all levels. Be-
cause, in setting up our vast programs, changes have been
necessary at various levels of operation. This has con-
stituted some lost motion in many departments.

I want to bring you right up to date, and tell you
that we are ready to get on with the job at hand, that of
providing the citizens of North Carolina with a road
system second to none in the nation.

First, there was a temporary freeze put on hiring.
With the extremely lengthy session of the General As-
sembly, we were not in a position to commit ourselves
on the future of our construction program or the size of
our working force. So, rather than cut-back by releasing

our employees, our policy has been not to replace those
employees who left the Commission through retirement,
change of jobs, or whatever reason. This amounted to
a statewide average of some 40 to 50 people per week
being dropped from our roster. As a result, many areas,
especially maintenance, were shorthanded.

Second, a cut-back in construction was implemented
because of the uncertainty of the budget for the Com-
mission. In other words, we were waiting for the Legis-
lature to approve or disapprove the additional revenues
needed to carry on our program. To say our future was
uncertain was putting it mildly. The 300 million dollar
bond money of 1965 had been either used or committed.
So the "Wait and See" policy was adopted.

After passage of the gas revenue measure, we were
faced with the fact that a new slate of highway commis-
sioners would soon be appointed by the Governor. Na-
turally, more time must be consumed here to give these
commissioners an opportunity to evaluate their needs,
and establish priorities in the counties they served. This
aspect is now being finalized.

Our next action was reorganizational change within
the Commission. Here, again, with time needed for orien-
tation of those involved in these changes, there was bound
to be some lost motion.

Now, this is the thrust of what I would like to re-
late to you.

All these important facets of doing business are be-
hind us. So we can get on with the most vigorous high-
way program ever. And I want each of you to be a part
of it.

The freeze on hiring key personnel has thawed. In
the area of maintenance, where we have lost so many
skilled people to private business, we have recommended
to the state personnel board and we should get their ap-
proval shortly, that a two to five step increase be grant-
ed. As I told many of you in Winston- Salem, this raise
has already been approved by the Highway personnel
department.

In sum, we have the revenue coming in, we have 23
hard-working, dedicated commissioners, we have lifted
our freeze on hiring practices, we're going to be able
to compete with private business in obtaining and keep-
ing our skilled people in maintenance. We have complet-
ed reorganizational changes and we are ready to move
into high gear with the building of roads in our great
state.

Thank you all for your patience.

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XV
NUMBER V

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

E. Gwyn McNeil
Charles K. Maxwell
Joe W. Nowell, Jr.
David R. Parnell
W. T. Phillips
Hugh A. Ragsdale
James M. (Jem) Smith
Lynwood Smith
W. Arthur Tripp
E. J. Whitmire

Robert G. Barr
Clifton L. Benson
W. G. Clark, III
Charles R. Dawkins
Roy D. Dedmon
Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.
Carroll H. Gillam
Novele C. Hawkins
W. B. (Bill) Joyce
Jack B. Kirksey

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Welloughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chief Engineer

Jack Murdock Acting Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Relations Officer Arch Laney

Assistant Public Relations Officer Gibson Prather

Editor Edith Johnson

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer GORDON DEANS

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Glenn Carawan

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations Robbie Daniels

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Public Relations Department

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From The Chairman Inside Front Cover

By D. McLauehlin Faircloth

Freewheelin' Inside Back Cover

By Gibson Prather

ROADWAY Cheers 14

Letters We Liked 18

Headquarters 23-28

By Jewel Adcock

Division News 28-40

By Division Correspondents

Features

The Highway Commissioners at Work 3

J. Boyd Crisp 13

The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge Completed

and Opened to Traffic October 20, 1969 17

By Jewel Adcock
Former NCHCEA President Appointed to

Engineering Post 15

By Edith Johnson

Second Summer of Golf 15

By Ben Brown

Highway Employees Meet in Winston-Salem 19

Retired Highway Engineer Dies 12

From Drafting Board to Poetry Award 22

By Jewel Adcock

The Rules of This Establishment 40

Anonymous

Special: Traffic

North Carolina's Heaviest Traffic

Repairs to Busy Overpass Accomplished

in Record Time

By Gibson Prather
Public Officials Confer on Traffic Problems

"PEOPLE-TRAFFIC" in the State Highway

Commission Building

By Janie Williams

Special: Highway Commission Picture Map

North Carolina State Highway Commission:

A Picture Map Showing Geographic Areas of
Highway Commissioner-County Assignments
and Highway Divisions Centerfold 20-21

By Poe Cox, Gordon Deans, and Pat Marshall

COVER PICTURES

Cover: Traffic in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Down-
town Boulevard, can be viewed in this vertical aerial
photograph. This photograph, on the front and back
cover of ROADWAYS, is taken from the archives of
the Photogrammetric Department, headed by Edgar
J. Page.

The story is on page 9.

Edgar Page runs a "beltline" operation so credits are
hard to pin down. However, Leighton Elliott was prob-
ably flying the plane, and Carl Lusk probably clicked
the shutter. The processing was done by the lab team.
The contact print for the cover was done at some later
date by the lab team.

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10-11
.. 12

.. 13

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO.
RALEIGH, N. C.

After an informal briefing session on procedure, the State Highway Com-
mission, the largest in the history of the Commission, settled down to work at
its meeting on September 11. Pictured above are the 23 Commissioners with
the Chairman presiding.

At the briefing session on August 26, Chairman Faircloth announced the
appointment of two vice-chairmen, both experienced in the proceedings of the
Commission, Clifton L. Benson of Raleigh and Jack Kirksey of Morganton.

At the September 11 meeting the Chairman announced the appointment
of committees to deal with the various road systems. They are as follows:

Primary Roads, Jack Kirksey, Chairman, W. B. Joyce, Vice-Chairman,
Thomas W. Ellis, Novile C. Hawkins, and W. S. Williams, Jr.; Urban Roads,
Cliff Benson, Chairman, Charles Maxwell, Vice Chairman, Charles R. Daw-
kins, E. Gwyn McNeil, and W. Arthur Tripp; Secondary Roads, David R. Par-
nell, Chairman, J. F. Allen, Vice-Chairman, Robert G. Barr, W. G. Clark, III,
and W. Frank McCray; Ferries, Hugh Ragsdale, Chairman, Joe Nowell, Vice-
Chairman, Jim Smith; and Maintenance and Equipment, Linwood Smith,
Chairman, E. J. Whitmire, Vice-Chairman, Boyd Crisp, Roy D. Dedmon, and
Carroll H. Gillam.

All committees have met. Reports from the Secondary Roads Committee
and the Ferries Committee were presented at the last meeting, on October 2.
The next meeting of the Commission is on November 6t

Commission Names Willoughby

George S. Willoughby

George S. Willoughby, who has served the State
Highway Commission as Secondary Roads Officer since
1965, has been named acting Highway Administrator.

Willoughby, 37, succeeds W. F. Babcock, who recent-
ly resigned and is now on the Engineering Faculty at
North Carolina State University.

Willoughby was nominated for the top administrative
highway post by Chairman D. McLauchlin Faircloth, and
the nomination was approved by the full commission in
its meeting on October 2.

A native of Harnett County, Willoughby is a grad-
uate of Dunn High School, Campbell College and Atlan-
tic Christian College, finishing at the last school with
a degree in Business Administration.

He joined the State Highway Commission in 1958
as an administrative assistant in the Secondary Roads
Department and was named Assistant Secondary Roads
Officer in 1961.

He is currently president of the Atlantic Christian
College Alumni Association and is a member of the
Board of Trustees of that institution. He is a member of
Hillyer Memorial Christian Church. A veteran, he serv-
ed in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955.

Willoughby is married to the former Blanche Wil-
liams of Siler City and they live, with their two chil-
dren, on Julian Drive in Raleigh.

Garriss Named Controller

William Phillip Garriss

William Philip Garriss, a career state employee who
has served since 1950 with the State Budget Division,
has been named Controller of the State Highway Com-
mission.

Announcement of Garriss's appointment was made
recently by D. McLauchlin Faircloth, State Highway
Commission Chairman.

Garriss is a native of Anson County and attended
Wadesboro public schools and Duke University, grad-
uating from the latter in 1948 after having had his col-
lege career interrupted by World War II. He served in
the Philippines with the 89th Field Hospital during the
war and was discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant.

He came to state government in 1950 as an assist-
ant auditor with the Budget Division and rose through
the ranks there to the post of budget supervisor for
General Government, Public Safety, Agriculture and
Highways.

Mrs. Garriss, the former Phyllis Weir of Hastings,
Nebraska, is on the music faculty at Meredith College.

Together with their three children, they reside at
3400 Merriman Avenue.

John Davis - New Chief Engineer

John H. Davis

The newly appointed Chief Engineer for the State
Highway Commission is John H. Davis, 48, whose service
with the Commission started in 1941 and was interrupt-
ed a year later when he entered military service for
World War II.

A native of Stantonsburg, Davis succeeds Cameron
W. Lee who resigned to enter private business, in the top
engineer's post.

Davis started as a rodman while a student at North
Carolina State University in 1941, but entered service in
September, 1942, interrupting his college career. After
serving with the Corps of Engineers in Europe, he was
discharged as a Technician, 3rd Grade, and re-entered
State.

He was graduated from N. C. State in 1948 and
that year came back to the Commission as an instrument-
man. He progressed through the ranks, serving, among
other places in Wilson, Durham and Fayetteville, until
he was named Construction Engineer.

Davis, a Methodist, is married to the former Marian
Waddell and they are the parents of three children.

He is starting his service as chief engineer on No-
vember 1.

Frank Wagner - New Materials Engineer

Frank Teague Wagner now fills the vacancy caus-
ed by the death of the late J. Eugene Thompson, Jr. as
State Materials Engineer with the Materials and Test
Department of the North Carolina State Highway Com-
mission.

Wagner and his wife, the former Mary Ethel Laney
of Catawba County, have two children: a daughter, Joy
Linda, 13; and a son, Frank, Jr., 8. The Wagners are
Baptists and attended Front Street Baptist Church be-
fore Mr. Wagner's recent transfer to Raleigh.

Wagner graduated from Taylorsville High School in
Taylorsville, North Carolina, in 1945. He then attended
North Georgia College at Dahlonega, Georgia, for a year.
He then served in the U. S. Army.

He continued his education at North Carolina State
College where he received his B.S. in Engineering in 1950.
He worked as an Instrumentman with the State High-
way Commission in the western part of the state for a
time before becoming a part of the Army Corps of Engi-
neers in France.

At the conclusion of his military duty, Wagner re-
turned to work for the State Highway Commission. He
has come up through the ranks to his present position
as head of the Materials and Test Department.

5

W. F. Babcock

Lee Joins A.G.C.A.

Cameron W. Lee, who has served as chief engineer
for the State Highway Commission for the past 10 years,
announced last month that he was resigning to take a
post outside government.

Lee will join the Carolina Branch of the Associated
General Contractors of America as head of the High-
way and Bridge Divisions. He will have his office in Ra-
leigh at the Sir Walter Hotel.

Lee is a native of Asheville and attended public
schools there and took his engineering degree at the
University of South Carolina.

In 1935, he joined the Highway Commission as a rod-
man and worked his way up through the ranks to Divi-
sion Engineer and then to Chief Engineer.

During World War II, Lee volunteered for active
duty in the U. S. Navy and was commissioned a Lieu-
tenant in the Civil Engineering Corps in 1942. He was
stationed at Charleston, S. C, at the Naval Base where he
served as a transportation officer.

He attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander and
was released to inactive duty in 1946, but was later re-
called during the Korean War and given command of a
Seabee unit maintaining and constructing air fields in
Korea. In 1953, he was promoted to the rank of Com-
mander and released, returning to the Highway Commis-
sion.

The departing Chief Engineer is married to the for-
mer Helen Lawhon of Union, S. C, and they have four
sons. They live in Wake Forest.

Babcock Appointed by N.C.S.U.

The man who had served for 12 years as the top
administrative officer in the State Highway Commission
in September returned to the faculty of North Carolina
State University and the career of teaching which he left
in 1957.

W. F. Babcock, the peppery engineer who served as
State Highway Director and Administrator, rejoined the
engineering faculty as a visiting professor after resigning
his post with the Commission.

Babcock, a native of Massachusetts, was selected
from the State faculty by Governor Luther Hodges to
head up the state road program during an administration
in which the Commission had no fulltime chairman.

He served during the administrations of Governor Terry
Sanford and Dan Moore, after Hodges left office.

A graduate, with both a bachelor's and master's degree
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bab-
cock came to North Carolina as an instructor at State in
1941. He rose to a full professorship in 1952 and was
placed in charge of undergraduate and graduate work in
Highway Transportation and Engineering.

He also served as a consulting engineer from 1950
to 1957 and helped develop traffic studies and thorough-
fare plans for 50 towns and cities in North Carolina.

He is a member of a number of honorary and profes-
sional engineering organizations and served a term as a
regional vice president and member of the executive com-
mittee of the American Association of State Highway
Officials.

He and his wife, the former Jane Sweet, have three
children.

Cameron W. Lee

6

Temple Succeeds Parkin

Landis McNeill Temple is the new Bridge Design
Engineer, succeeding G. T. Parkin who recently retired.

Temple has been with the State Highway Commis-
sion since 1947, joining the department as a temporary
laboratory aide in Soils Testing even before he was
graduated from North Carolina State University as an
engineer in 1948.

Upon receiving his degree in Civil Engineering, Tem-
ple came to the Commission as a junior draftsman and
worked his way up in the bridge department to his
present rank.

Temple is a native of Sanford and graduated from
Sanford High School. He is 46 years old.

He served in the Infantry during World War II and
was discharged in 1945. He was awarded the Combat
Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart.

He is married to the former Dorothy Reade and the
couple resides in Raleigh with their three sons: John Wal-
ter, Stephen Landis, and Allen Richard .

Siler Promoted

R. L. Siler, a career employee with the State High-
way Commission, has been named district engineer for
District One, Division Eight, with headquarters in Ashe-
boro.

Siler, who now resides in Siler City, succeeds W. M.
Cherkas, Jr., in the position. Cherkas is being transferred
to the Construction Department in the division, with the
shifts taking place on October 1.

Siler joined the State Highway Commission in 1957
as an engineering aide and has worked his way up
through the ranks.

Cherkas has been district engineer since 1963 when
he succeeded John G. Hall upon the latter's retirement.
He joined the Highway Commission as a rodman in 1949.

Ingram Returns

A veteran career engineer with the State Highway
Commission is returning to a department he formerly
headed, as William M. Ingram, Jr., returns as Project
Control Officer.

Ingram, controller for the Commission since Febru-
ary 1, 1969, will be succeeded as controller by William
Garriss, who comes to the Highway Commission from the
Budget Division.

A native of Duplin County, Ingram joined the High-
way Commission shortly after receiving his Master of
Science degree from North Carolina State University.
Earlier he had graduated there in Civil Engineering.

He started with the Commission as Assistant Secon-
dary Roads Officer and was named Project Control Of-
ficer in 1961.

Ingram is married to the former Polly Ong and with
their three children they live on Medway Drive.

7

General Hardesty Retires

Ferry Operations Manager

Hugh Salter, who assumed the job of Ferry Oper-
ations Manager for the State Highway Commission on
August 16, 1969, has always been a man who has lived
close to the sea. Salter grew up at Sea Level in North-
east Carteret County which is on Core Sound. He learned
to sail on a "sharpie," a large commercial boat with
three sails used for dredging oysters in the Pamlico
Sound — Neuse River Area.

When he went into service in World War II, he
joined the Coast Guard, serving on the USS Alexander
Hamilton. That ship was the first to be torpedoed and
sunk after war began. After that he served on a destroyer
escort and on L.S.T.'s. At one time he was stationed at
Reykjavik in Iceland and also in Northern Africa, but
most of his time in service was spent on the high seas
in the North Atlantic.

Ivan Hardesty is retiring as assistant Chief Highway
Engineer, as of October 31.

General Hardesty, who is leaving the Commission
after more than 40 years of service, started as a rodman
with the road body in 1928. He rose steadily through
the years to achieve the post which he is leaving, to re-
tire to private life.

A native of Raleigh, General Hardesty was born in
1909. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University
with a degree in engineering. During his highway career
he has held the posts of Right of Way Engineer, District
Engineer, and State Equipment Engineer before reach-
ing his present position.

A recently retired Major General in the National
Guard, General Hardesty served his Country in combat
in World War II. He entered service as a Second Lieu-
tenant and after 21 months which he spent in the Euro-
pean Theater, he emerged a full Colonel and a Regimen-
tal Commander.

After the war, he rejoined the North Carolina Na-
tional Guard's 30th Division as a Lieutenant Colonel
and in 1964 was appointed Commanding General of the
Division with the rank of Major General. He retired in
April, 1969.

Among his decorations are the Legion of Merit, the
Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantry Badge,
the American Defense Medal and the Russian Order of
Alexander Nevsky.

General and Mrs. Hardesty reside at 630 Woodburn
Road in Raleigh. They have one son, Ivan, Jr.

Even as U. S. Marshal serving as the duly authorized
representative of the Attorney General and as disbursing
officer for the Federal Court System in the Eastern Dis-
trict of North Carolina with headquarters in Raleigh,
Hugh Salter again confronted the sea for he was respon-
sible for enforcing vessel-arrest in North Carolina ports
and for enforcement of maritime law. He served in that
job from 1961 to July, 1969. He was appointed by Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy.

Returning to Carteret County after military service,
Hugh Salter became a barber and plunged into com-
munity life. He had married Blanche Daniels of Cedar
Island. He was elected Sheriff of Carteret County in
1953. Before that he served as a County Commissioner
from 1949 to 1952. In 1957 he attended the F.B.I. Na-
tional Academy in Washington, D. C. for three months.

In his home county down in Carteret, he has seen
how good roads can cause the economic reawakening of
an area. But Hugh Salter also remembers vividly the first
time he saw a car, an Overland, at Sealevel. Roads, then,
were unpaved, and they were mostly for horses, not cars.

As Ferry Operations Manager, he is concerned now
with providing more and better services to motorists. He
finds that people think of ferries as a reception center.
He would like to make them even more so. "If airlines
have hostesses, why not on ferries, too?" he asks. He is
dedicated to improving ferry operations but he already
knows that it is a "terrific job to satisfy the public."

For recreation, Hugh Salter returns to the sea. He
keeps a boat, a fiberglass runabout at Beaufort, and also
hunts and fishes. His daughter, Janet, sails. On Sunday
mornings, however, you are likely to find him at the Ann
Street Methodist Church, involved in heated discussions
as leader of the Adult Men's Sunday School Class.

His son, Jeffrey, is now a Special Agent with the U.
S. Secret Service and is living in Oklahoma City, Okla-
homa.

8

North Carolina's Heaviest Traffic

Interstate 40 at Winston-Salem looking east from Broad Street.

The Winston-Salem Expressway, a portion of Inter-
state 40 within the city, is the heaviest travelled road in
North Carolina, records at the State Highway Commis-
sion reveal.

With 52,000 cars passing over it daily, the express-
way leads Downtown Boulevard in Raleigh by 1,000
vehicles.

The traffic counts, made by the Highway Commis-
sion's Planning and Research Department, shows figures
for 1968, the latest that are available.

Here are the 10 highways with the heaviest traffic
counts and their daily totals:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

7.
8.
9.

Winston-Salem Expressway — 52,000
Downtown Boulevard, Raleigh — 51,000
Independence Boulevard, Charlotte — 42,500
West Asheville Bridge on US 19 — 42,500
Interstate 85 (Death Valley) , Greensboro
— 38,100

North-South Boulevard, Winston-Salem —
38,000

Bragg Boulevard, Fayetteville — 37,200
U.S. 29-601, north of Concord — 34,500
Camp Lejeune Boulevard — 31,000

10. Interstate 85, east of U.S. 21, Charlotte
— 30,500

On closer examination, traffic counts on the two
routes give different indications for future planning.
Traffic on the Winston-Salem Expressway is both com-
muter-type and interstate, whereas traffic on the Down-
town Boulevard in Raleigh is primarily communter-type.
Raleigh's Downtown Boulevard used to carry interstate
traffic on U. S. 1. Recently a beltline has taken this
traffic around the city. Also two Interstate routes, 1-85
and 1-95 have replaced U. S. 1 as major New York-Flor-
ida routes. When missing links in the Raleigh beltline
system are completed, additional traffic will leave the
Downtown Boulevard.

"Interstate traffic has a tendency to grow at a faster
rate than other traffic," says Max Sproles, Head of Plan-
ning and Research for the Commission. Whereas traffic
on Raleigh's Downtown Boulevard is expected to de-
crease, traffic on the Winston-Salem Expressway is ex-
pected to increase. Now, however, no other road in North
Carolina can approach these two arteries for traffic.

Recently, the Planning and Research Department
published a traffic map showing, graphically, traffic vol-
umes on the primary highways in North Carolina. The
map is available on request from the Highway Commis-
sion,

P

Repairs to Busy Overpass Accomplished in Record Time

By GIBSON PRATHER

Engineers in the Bridge Maintenance Department
of the State Highway Commission were concerned, if not
out-and-out worried.

So were officials of the City of Raleigh, and so were
people in the Traffic Engineering Department at the
SHC.

They had a bridge to repair and while such a task
would ordinarily be a routine matter, this was no ordi-
nary bridge.

HEAVY TRAFFIC POSES PROBLEM

This bridge just happened to be the span over Peace
Street on Downtown Boulevard in Raleigh, and Down-
town Boulevard just happens to be the second most
heavily traveled point in North Carolina. More than
52,000 cars a day travel the boulevard.

What happens to traffic on a street carrying that
many cars when a portion of its six lanes are closed,
forming a bottleneck for the stream of vehicles to pass
through?

This was on everyone's mind who attended a meet-
ing at the Highway Building in Raleigh to discuss fix-
ing the bridge, which had had no repairs since it was
constructed in 1953.

Max Collins, state bridge maintenance engineer, told
the group which crowded into a conference room, that
the repairs were imperative. The constant pounding re-
sulting from heavy traffic volume which the span has
taken over the years made the work necessary.

Now the Peace Street Bridge, like the rest of Down-
town Boulevard, has six traffic lanes, and they are all in
use most of the time as the 52,000 cars and trucks daily
cross the span.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE PLANS CAREFULLY

Collins and his associates in Bridge Maintenance
had figured that by removing the concrete median, they
could work on two lanes at one time and leave four
lanes open to traffic at the same time.

This plan would cause traffic to pass close to the
workmen but the safety margin was considered sufficient.

Asked how long the work would take, Cooper Glenn,
area Bridge Maintenance Superintendent, indicated five
weeks.

Glenn, incidentally, won some fame and appreciation
from the public and his fellow workers in the Highway
Commission as the man who supervised the repairs to
the bridge at Benson over Interstate 95, after a truck had
practically demolished the bridge's supports. That job
was finished more than a month ahead of schedule. Glenn
said he'd rely on the same crew he used at Benson to do
the Raleigh work.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERS ASSIST

J. O. Litchford, SHC Traffic Engineer, and Don
Blackburn, Raleigh City Engineer, were concerned about
possible traffic pileups on the Boulevard when the traffic
was forced off two of the lanes at the bridge.

1953 was comple-
tion date for the
Downtown Boule-
vard I-Beam and
concrete grade sepa-
ration over Peace
Street. This photo
shows the name
plate.

Traffic controls routed traffic onto certain portions
of the bridge so that the repairs could be made without
closing the bridge. This photo shows the bridge with
northbound traffic in the foreground.

This view was taken facing south on the Boulevard.
A Highway Commission truck is visible in the center
through the traffic controls, and another truck is parked
on the right.

10

This view under the bridge shows the reason for the
work. See the crack at left in the concrete diaphram.
Workmen are installing a steel beam in the center where
old, failed concrete beam has been removed. The repair is
completed and new steel beam is shown at right.

A % inch metal plate in foreground was used to al-
low traffic to come back on the bridge before the con-
crete in the new construction had cured, in this case a
3-day process. The use of this technique, a technique in-
vented on the job, according to Max Collins, State Bridge
Maintenance Engineer, contributed to the early comple-
tion of the repair of the bridge.

Everyone agreed that the help of the motoring pub-
lic would be needed if congestion of major proportions
were to be averted.

So, even though the repair job was only a $6,000
item, it was decided to call a press conference and enlist
the aid of the news media.

NEWS MEDIA PARTICIPATE

Radio, television and newspapers were all represent-
ed at a conference called for Tuesday morning, Septem-
ber 3, the day after Labor Day.

W. F. Babcock, the State Highway Administrator,
opened the session with a statement as to why the con-
ference had been called, and frankly told the reporters
that their help was needed in a matter which affected
the public interest.

Then Collins told the group just why the bridge re-
pairs were necessary. After Collins' remarks, Charles Ses-
soms, of the Traffic Engineering Department, explained
just how the lanes would be closed and showed charts of
the traffic flow patterns in each stage of the repair.

Blackburn, the City Engineer, then listed several
alternate routes which motorists could take during the
time the bridge work was in progress.

Reporters were then asked for questions and in 30
minutes it was all over.

The news media responded even beyond the hopes of
the engineers.

Stories, accompanied by maps, appeared in the
papers and were given prominent treatment. Television
newsmen used maps to illustrate their reports. Radio
gave the story an in-depth treatment which radio sel-
dom employs.

The bridge was closed on Thursday, September 5,
two days after the news conference and after the pub-
lic had been thoroughly informed.

And there was watchful waiting, with some tension,
to see just how this partial closing of the bridge would
work out.

PUBLIC RESPONDS

After 24 hours, everyone breathed more easily.

Traffic was flowing smoothly on Downtown Boule-
vard as many motorists turned to alternate routes, as
suggested by the city engineers.

Police, who had cooperated, said the whole opera-
tion was running evenly after the first two days.

It continued to be smooth right until the end, when
Cooper Glenn and his men, living up to their Benson
reputation, finished the job in not five weeks, but three.

Everyone in the State Highway Commission con-
nected with the matter agreed that a great deal of cre-
dit should go to the news media and to the public, who
read, listened and cooperated.

The Peace Street Bridge on Downtown Boulevard
is open now and traffic flows on all of its six lanes.

It was a triumph for the Bridge Maintenance Sec-
tion, who finished ahead of schedule.

It was also a triumph for communications, because
the news media, by informing the public prevented what
might have been a catastrophic situation.

11

Public Officials Confer on Traffic Problems

"Historically, state and local gov-
ernments have been responsible for
carrying on many of the activities re-
lating to highway safety." Mayors,
city traffic officials, representatives
of the State Highway Commision and
the State Highway Patrol, and con-
sultants in the field gathered from all
over the state to confer on these traf-
fic problems and search for solutions
at the First Annual Governor's Con-
ference on Traffic Safety at Pine-
hurst, North Carolina, September 25-
27, 1969. "Getting the most out of
our city streets" is the problem they
confronted.

Keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Bren-
ner, Acting Director of the National
Highway Safety Bureau, Washington,
D. C, addressed the group in full ses-
sion.

Sponsoring agencies were the Gov-
ernor's Highway Safety Program and
the North Carolina Traffic Safety
Council, Inc.

Other speakers were John J. Ryan,
Vice President of Southern Bell Tele-
phone Company, Charlotte, North
Carolina, who is head of the N. C.
Traffic Safety Council, and R. V.
Moss, Traffic Engineer for High
Point.

Technical speakers were:
John E. Baerwald, Director, Highway

Traffic Safety Center, University
of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

R. J. Dodge, Accident Identification
and Surveillance Engineer, State
Highway Commission.

John T. Hanna, Director, Highway
Safety Division, Commonwealth of
Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

John W. Horn, Executive Vice Pres-
ident, Kimley-Horn and Associates,
Raleigh, North Carolina.

Teddy J. Morawski, Division Engi-
neer, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads,
Raleigh, North Carolina.

Elbert L. Peters, Jr., Coordinator,
Governor's Highway Safety Pro-
gram, Raleigh, North Carolina.

William S. Pollard, Jr., Harland Bar-
tholomew and Associates, Mem-
phis, Tennessee.

Larry E. Thompson, Regional Direc-
tor, National Highway Safety Bu-
reau, Atlanta, Georgia.

E. L. Walker, Jr., Vice President,
Wilbur Smith and Associates, Co-
lumbia, South Carolina.

Roy L. Wilshire, Pinnell-Anderson-
Wilshire and Associates, Dallas,
Texas.

Chairing the discussion sessions
were Rudy L. Griffin, Director of
Traffic, City of Durham, for Organ-
ization and Efficiency; James O.
Litchford, State Traffic Engineer for

the State Highway Commission, for
Engineering; and Max R. Sproles,
State Planning and Research Engi-
neer, State Highway Commission, for
financing.

Speaker hosts included:
Donald P. Ingold, Associate Traffic
Engineer, Wilbur Smith and Asso-
ciates, Winston- Salem
Robert J. Kimley, President, Kimley-
Horn and Associates, Raleigh.
Don Blackburn, Traffic Engineer,

City of Raleigh
Bruce G. Leonard, Project Engineer,
Harland Bartholomew and Asso-
ciates, Raleigh.
Paul D. Cribbins, Professor of Civil
Engineering, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh.
Herman J. Hoose, Traffic Engineer,

City of Charlotte.
Harold C. Rhudy, Assistant State
Traffic Engineer, State Highway
Commission.
James M. Dawkins, Traffic Engineer,

City of Greensboro.
Robert J. Dodge, Accident Identifica-
tion and Surveillance Engineer,
State Highway Commission.
E. L. Peters, Jr., and the staff of
the Governor's Highway Safety Pro-
gram, arranged the conference.

Resolutions

(Continued from page 18)

Recommend that method of earn-
ing annual leave be on a graduated
basis and increase amount earned for
service past 5 years.

Endorse Highway Commission ac-
tion in recommending salary upgrad-
ing for Maintenance Personnel to the
State Personnel Department.

Increase personnel in subsidiaries
of State Department of Corrections
to eliminate "sleep-in" duty and to
allow officers to take earned leave
more readily.

Petition an increase in the liability
of the State in accidents involving
personnel from present $15,000 to full
liability.

Grant payment of tuition fees for
extension courses taken and com-
pleted by employees when courses
are directly connected with their
work.

Request that the Department of
Correction furnish seasonal hats for
custodial personnel, straw for sum-
mer and appropriate hat for winter.

Retired Highway Engineer Dies

John L. Morson, retired Roadway Planning Engineer with the State
Highway Commission, died Tuesday, October 21, 1969.

Mr. Morson, 81, was a native of Raleigh and the last surviving son
of educator Hugh Morson. Raleigh's Hugh Morson High School was
named for him.

Graduating from N. C. State in 1907 with a Civil Engineering de-
gree, Mr. Morson began work with the Commission in 1922 as a senior
draftsman. After several promotions, he was appointed Roadway Plan-
ning Engineer in 1933, the position he held until his retirement August
1, 1958.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, October 24, 1969, at
the Church of the Good Shepherd by the Rev. Louis C. Melcher. Inter-
ment was in Oakwood Cemetery.

Survivors include two cousins, Mrs. Emmy Lightfoot Brockway of
San Diego, California, and Mrs. James S. Patton of Washington, D. C.
His brother, William died in 1964, and a sister, Harriet Morson, died in
1966.

Mr. Morson was a highly respected and capable engineer and had a
total of 36 years service with the Commission upon his retirement. He
had many friends in the Highway Commission and was a frequent visi-
tor to the Highway Building after retiring.

12

"PEOPLE - TRAFFIC" in the

State Highway Commission Building

By JANIE WILLIAMS

There are no tourist attractions at the State High-
way Commission building, but the traffic is steady. You
would be surprised to know the number of visitors, who,
for various reasons come to the building on the corner
of New Bern and Wilmington Streets in downtown Ra-
leigh.

Usually visitors are on highway business, to get a
road paved, to ask for a traffic count or to request ac-
cess to a road. There are also many tourists who stop by
to pick up a map or ferry schedule or who want to know
the best route to a destination charted on a map. Some
are just plain lost. They inevitably say that all the State
Buildings look alike, and that they have to start some-
where to find the information they need. Much of the
time the information which they want is not related to
the Highway Commission at all.

That is my job: To try to see that people — whether
on business with the Highway or otherwise — feel wel-
come to the Building, to Raleigh, and to the State of
North Carolina.

Surprisingly, many who come into our building have
never even been to Raleigh before. But people who pass
my desk more frequently ask, "Are you still telling peo-
ple where to go?"

I well remember the first time (and I was new as
Receptionist) a man came in who wanted a passport.
Well, since I have only been out of North Carolina a few
times and never out of the country, it took me a few min-
utes and a couple of telephone calls to start him on his
way to the Post Office.

I am sure that my experiences as a Receptionist are
no different from others in similar positions. The Capi-
tol, the Administration Building, the Motor Vehicles
Building, and the Agriculture Building, to name a few,
also have receptionists. We all have people who come in
every day and remark, "How did they ever get along
without you?" Their question really is, "How do strang-
ers get to where they are going without assistance from
someone who will take time to answer their questions?"

The telephone, of course, is another way people
seek information. One day a man called and asked a ques-
tion which did not pertain to Highways. I told him I did-
n't know and gave him another number to call. He did-
n't like this one bit and said I should know, because
"After all, you are information, aren't you?"

People like anything "FREE," and we feel so lucky
to be able to hand out the NORTH CAROLINA OFFI-
CIAL HIGHWAY MAPS. They are published once a
year by the Location Department. Much hard work and
thought goes into the making and distribution of these
maps. We have two different types, the difference being,
one is printed in color. This is more for tourists. The
other is black and white which some people (such as

salesmen) prefer. They can chart their own courses, us-
ing different colors for each direction. These maps are
both beautifully illustrated with picturesque scenes and
places of excitement in our State. The Conservation and
Development Department is consulted concerning the
covers and pictures used. We are proud of our maps and
we know they are helping to prove that North Carolina
is indeed a variety vacationland.

Ferry schedules are also available in the lobby of the
Highway Commission Building. We have six ferries own-
ed and operated by the State. Probably the Cedar Island
to Ocracoke Ferry is the most popular, especially in the
summer. This is a toll ferry, as is the Southport to Fort
Fisher Ferry. Anyone who has never made a trip on a
ferry has missed a treat and should include this in his
next vacation jaunt.

Regardless of all I have written here, the main in-
terest of all of us here at the Highway Commission is the
planning and building of roads and bridges and then
making sure that they are properly maintained and are
as safe as we can make them. We are happy that each
one is helping to make the people of North Carolina more
proud and aware of our efforts to please them and our
visitors.

J. Boyd Crisp

J. Boyd Crisp of Robbinsville,
a member of the State Highway
Commission, was killed October
15 when his light plane crash-
ed in the western North Caro-
lina mountains.

Crisp was on his way to Ra-
leigh to attend a meeting oi
the Equipment Committee
when the accident occurred. He
had taken off from the An-
j. boyd crisp drews-Murphy Airport in heavy
fog.

A former sheriff of Graham County, Crisp was
named to the 23-member Highway Commission in
July by Governor Robert W. Scott. He was also
formerly chairman of the Graham County Demo-
cratic Executive Committee.

A land clearing contractor, Crisp used his air-
plane in his business, flying from one project to
another.

He is survived by his wife and by five children.

Funeral services were held October 21, 1969, in
Robbinsville with burial there.

13

CHEER-UP, LYNWOOD

Tommy Harrington, left, former
highway commisioner, and new com-
missioner, Lynwood Smith.

"Now Lynwood, that's the way it
is — phone calls at all hours of the
day or night with complaints ranging
from stopped-up culverts to 111' ole
ladies who supported everybody from
FDR to HHH, and from Clyde R.
Hoey to Robert W. Scott, and is still
eating dust in front of her home."

No wonder Highway Commissioner
Lynwood Smith looks so forlorn as
ex-Commissioner Tommy Harrington
tells him of the woes that befall a
commissioner.

This picture from the Eden news-
paper was just too graphic to pass up.

Career Development

Roadways cheers K. C. Butler, P.
J. DuPre, J. M. Greenhill, B. P. Lam-
bert, Arnold W. Moore, D. T. Over-
man, Orval R. Riffe, and J. A. Saun-
ders. They were among forty super-
visors of technical and professional
employees who took part in a man-
agement development seminar held at
East Carolina University from Au-
gust 10 to August 15.

Eleven Highway Commission em-
ployees attended a similar conference
held at the University of North Caro-
lina at Asheville July 27 to August 1.
Those who attended the Asheville
meet included M. T. Atkins, J. E.
Doughton, A. C. Dodson, R. B. Fitz-
gerald, W. A. Garrett, A. J. Hughes,
F. L. Hutchinson, C. E. Land, W. D.
Moon, R. H. Thompson, and P. L.
Welch.

Since this program started in 1968,
eight conferences have been held.
The Highway Commission has been
one of the main participants in this
program sponsored by the State Per-
sonnel Department. Gardiner Parker
is coordinator of the program for the
Department. John Davis has acted as
co-ordinator for the Highway De-
partment.

ROADWAYS CHEERS

SHC Summer Golfing Champs

THE WINNING TEAM — Grady
Dawson, Jack Ward, Jimmy Beckom,
Bill Beddingfield, Ormond Bliss and
Bob Booker.

INDIVIDUAL WINNERS — War-
ner Powell presents Championship
Flight Trophy to Cameron Lee, the
winner.

Other individual winners, left to
right, below are: Bill Moon, Joe Pen-
land, George Sakas, Cliff Carroll, and
Larry Waters; back row: Bob Wells,
Gene Murray, John Joyner and Tony
Bridgers.

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Second Summer of Golf

By BEN BROWN

The Second State Highway Commission Summer
Golf League has now drawn to a successful close. This
year there were three leagues with eight teams playing
for the championship of each league which would earn
that team a spot in the championship playoffs. All of the
matches were played on the beautiful, but tough, Lake
Shore Country Club in Durham with a handicap sys-
tem established for each individual match. There were
numerous close and exciting matches throughout the
season. At the clubhouse at the end of a match, it was
not unusual to hear such statements as, "I would have
won if I hadn't missed that two foot putt," or "the lake
got me on that last hole" or "I just couldn't get much
distance out of my shank today."

At the end of the season, these three teams won
their respective leagues, Finance "A", Advance Planning
"A" and Right of Way "C". On September 6th, these 3
teams met at Lake Shore for the championship playoffs
and after all the scores were in, the winner was the Ad-
vance Planning "A" team with a score of 268. Members
of this strong team were David Modlin, Grady Dawson,
Jim Beckon, Bob Booker, Ormond Bliss, Jack Ward
and Bill Beddingfield and they now get to keep the huge
"roving" trophy for a year. However, if the same team
wins this trophy three years in a row, they become eli-
gible to retire it. Finishing in second place with a score
of 283 was the Right of Way "C" team composed of
Russ Johnson, Charles Pearce, Sam Pearce, Gene Frank-
lin, Ben Brown, and Lindsey Gould who shot the low
gross score of 79. Finance "A" then finished third with
a 286 score and members of this team were Larry Peters,
Hugh Pearce, DeWitt Perry, Phil Yarbrough, Bob Ni-
chols and Percy Adkins.

On September 14, the Sippihaw Country Club in
Fuquay-Varina, N. C, was the site of the individual
tournament as 92 golfers turned out for this event.

The Championship Flight was won by Cam Lee with
a 78 gross score with a 10 stroke handicap for a net
score of 68. Bill Moon was runner-up with a 69 and he
and Jack Murdock tied for the low gross with 73's with
Murdock playing to a zero handicap. Other results were:
1st Flight — Joe Penland, winner, and Jack Baldwin, run-
ner-up; 2nd Flight — George Sakas, winner, and Bob
Wells, runner-up; 3rd Flight — Gene Murray, winner
and Cliff Carroll, runner-up; and the 4th Flight was won
by B. Norwood with J. Joyner, runner-up. T. Waters
with a gross of 98 to go with his 36 stroke handicap for
a net 62 managed to win the last flight as Tony Bridg-
ers was the runner-up. Walter Cherry claimed the Duf-
fers Trophy by having the highest score. Everyone en-
joyed the tournament which was organized by Warner
Powell and Bob Booker and they are already looking
forward to next year.

The teams will tee it up again in the Spring of 1970
as new competition begins; so we will all wait until then
to see who will be the 1970 winner.

LUTHER BERRIER

Former NCHCEA President
Appointed to Engineering Post

By EDITH JOHNSON

Luther Berrier, new Assistant Chief Engineer of Con-
struction and Maintenance, will officially assume his
duties on November 1, 1969. "I'm coming back home,"
says Luther, who began his career as laboratory techni-
cian in the Materials Testing Department of the Com-
mission located at Raleigh.

A graduate of N. C. State University in Civil Engi-
neering, Luther started out as a tranportation buff with a
real enthusiasm for steam engines. When the electrically
operated diesel engine came along, Luther lost interest in
a railroad career.

Luther Berrier has now been with the State Highway
Commission for 20 years. He served as Assistant Division
Engineer in the Ninth Division, Stokes, Forsyth, Davie,
Rowan, and Davidson Counties, before accepting his cur-
rent assignment. He was Resident Engineer at Asheboro
and Sanford.

In this 20 years with the Commission, Luther Berrier
has seen major changes in the areas of Construction and
Maintenance. The size of roads and the elaborateness
of their design are two areas of change. Limited access
roads were not built then like they are now. This of

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course necessitates the use of the larger earth-moving
equipment by the Commission. Twenty years ago 11,000
to 12,000 prisoners of the State were used by the Com-
mission in road maintenance. Now only about 2,500 per-
sons are used. Maintenance has been mechanized to a
large degree.

Luther Berrier has relinquished the presidency of
the State Highway and Correction Employees Association
to C. L. Brewer of Hertford. Serving as president of the
Association, Luther Berrier travelled extensively over
the state. He spent a lot of time just talking to people
who work with the highways. He became increasingly
aware of the problems, of the strengths and weaknesses
of this operation. He gained insight into methods of solv-
ing some of these problems.

An active member of the Association since 1949, he
considers the main achievement during his term of office
to be the change in the retirement age from 65 to 62
with no penalty if a man has served 30 years. The 10%
salary increase in 1969 and the 2% increase due in 1970
are also significant benefits. A plan now under study is
a hospitalization insurance policy for Highway Employees
underwritten by the state.

Mrs. Luther Berrier, the former Evelyn Thompson
of Lexington, is currently teaching at the Arcadia Grade
School in Davidson County. The family, Luther and his
wife and children, reside at Welcome. Anna and Jane
are both college students and both National Honor So-
ciety members. Judy, age 12, will soon be moving to
Raleigh with the family.

Rose Confers with Commissioner McCray and
Representative Quinn on Roadbuilding Project.

Area Highway Commissioner Frank McCray, left, is
shown with Rep. Dwight Quinn of Cabarrus County, go-
ing over plans for the rebuilding of US 601 from NC 27
to Concord. Discussing the plans with them at the High-
way Headquarters in Raleigh is Billy Rose, seated, As-
sistant State Highway Administrator.

Dodson, Personnel Head

Troy Dodson, new Personnel Officer for the High-
way Commission, settled down to confer with his staff on
his first day at work. C. B. Alford is at left. Next is Fred
Adcock, Personnel Analyst, Troy Dodson, Ted Austin, in
charge of Recruitment and Training Program, and Ronald
Wolfe, Personnel Analyst.

Troy B. Dodson, a Greenville businessman, has
been named personnel officer for the State Highway Com-
mission. He succeeds J. Raynor Woodard, whose depart-
ure from the Commission was announced recently. Dod-
son's appointment was announced by Chairman D. M.
Faircloth.

Dodson, 48, has owned and managed the Southeastern
Adjustment Bureau in Greenville for the past 14 years.

A native of Mississippi, Dodson is a graduate of
Western Carolina University and is presently a member of
the board of trustees of East Carolina University, having
been named to the board by former Governor Dan K.
Moore.

He is a Methodist and has served on the board of
trustees and the board of stewards for his church in
Greenville.

He is married to the former Hazel Brown of Green-
ville and they have three daughters.

Dodson assumed his new post on September 1.

Rachel Spears Joins Commission

Mrs. Rachel Spears, secretary to Commission Chair-
man D. M. Faircloth, is used to the hustle and bustle of
an executive office. She had no problems with getting to
know the 23 new Highway Commissioners, having pre-
viously "mastered" the names of 50 senators, and also of
two or three hundred department heads in state govern-
ment.

She served as appointment secretary to Dan Moore
when he was Governor. She also served William B. Um-
stead, both as Governor and as Senator. More recently
she served as secretary to Lt. Governor H. Pat Taylor
during the 1969 session of the General Assembly.

Rachel is enthusiastic about the people she has met
working for the Highway Commission. She is also en-
thusiastic about her "work" as Chairman of the Harnett
County Library Board and as a member of the Board
of North Carolinians for Better Libraries.

Rachel makes her home in Lillington and commutes
to Raleigh on 401. She admits that she pushed very hard
to get an extra lane on that route. Her son, John W.
Spears, Jr., is a junior at Duke.

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The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge

Dedicated, Opened To Traffic
October 20, 1969

By JEWEL ADCOCK

The day, bright, sunny and some-
what hot, was a perfect day for the
magnificent Cape Fear Memorial
Bridge Dedication down at Wilming-
ton on Monday, October 20, 1969.

At times a nice and welcome breeze
touched the crowd permeating the air
with the sweet smell of molasses,
which came from a nearby molasses
plant just across the river.

The crowd was generous with spec-
tators, dignitaries, city and state of-
ficials and celebrities who turned out
in full force to celebrate the com-
pletion and opening to traffic of the
beautiful new Cape Fear .ift-span
bridge. After four years, construction
having begun in December of 1965,
traffic was at last ready to roll over
this colossal new crossing of the Cape
Fear.

Connecting the counties of New
Hanover and Brunswick, the majes-
tic structure will carry traffic on
Routes US 17, 74, 76, 421 and NC
133. The 3,040-foot span has four
lanes for traffic with two 27-foot
roadways separated by a median bar-
rier rail.

The hour-long ceremony featured
a dedicatory address by Chairman D.
M. Faircloth, band music by a local
high school band and the attendance
of Frances Farmer, "Miss Wilming-
ton". Chairman Faircloth and "Miss
Wilmington" cut a red, white and
blue ribbon officially opening the
bridge to motorists. Named Cape
Fear Memorial, the new bridge will
serve to honor the memory of the
heroic men and women of North
Carolina who gave their lives in the
service of our country.

Able master of ceremonies for the
historic event was the Honorable J.
J. Burney, Jr., State Senator.

The Naval Junior ROTC Color
Guard of the John T. Hoggard High
School presented the colors. Brief
remarks were made by V. A. Creech,
Jr., Brunswick County Commission-
er; J. M. Hall, Jr., Chairman of the
New Hanover Board of Commission-
ers; Mayor of Wilmington, Luther M.
Cromartie; Ashley M. Murphy, for-
mer State Highway Commissioner;
Hugh Ragsdale and David R. Parnell,
Highway Commissioners, and Merrill
Evans, former State Highway Com-
mission Chairman.

In Chairman Faircloth's address,
he termed the bridge "a symbol of
the things we seek". Recalling how
both Governor Bob Scott and the
Highway Commission have pledged
to make US 74 four lanes from Wil-
mington to Charlotte and beyond dur-
ing this administration, Faircloth
said: "This bridge will bring North
Carolinians closer together and speed
our efforts to bring a better way of
life to all of our people."

"Nowhere in the state is there an
area changing more rapidly from an
agrarian economy to industry than
Wilmington," Faircloth said. "The in-
dustrial growth in your area has been
viewed with amazement."

Stressing the broad responsibility of
the Highway Commission for the eco-
nomic well-being of all, Faircloth
added: "We must be concerned with
those cities without industry. We
can't neglect them. We must provide
for them."

Dedications come and go, but this
was not like the rest, it was an extra
special one. The dedication of a
monumental bridge which is a major
accomplishment of the State High-
way Commission, made it so.

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Letters We Liked

September 19, 1969
Commissioner Faircloth
N. C. Dept. of Highways
Raleigh, N. C.
Dear Mr. Faircloth,

I would like to know how many
miles of paved roads there are in
North Carolina. My teacher asked me
to get this information for our class.

When I get to be a man I hope that
I can work for the people of North
Carolina to make it even a better
state than it is now.
Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,
Dickson Bridger
Bladenboro, N. C. 28320
* * *

Dear Sir,

I'm sure very few take the time to
let you know that the work your road
side mower people do is appreciated.
One particular man and his machine
have been coming by here for years
and often I felt like speaking to him
but haven't. These men should be pat-
ted on the back for their efforts.

I appreciate the work they do and
am thankful for every blade of grass
and weed they take down.
Again Thank You.

Sincerely,

Ernst Laursen

Farm Manager

Warren Wilson College

Swannanoa, N. C.

Mr. W. J. Murray

North Carolina Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Murray:

My cousin, Mrs. Janice Meadows,
and a friend of hers were traveling to
Dalton, Georgia, recently when they
had car trouble near Hillsborough.
Mrs. Meadows has told me of your
assistance to her, and your gracious-
ness in seeing that everything was
taken care of before she continued
her travels.

I am most appreciative of your
kindness and am writing simply to
say that we shall remember this
"Good Samaritan Act" always. You
certainly made a wonderful impres-
sion on the two ladies and influenced
their thinking about the wonderful
people who live in my adopted state.

My thanks, again.
Sincerely,
William R. Cannon
Resident Bishop
United Methodist Church
Raleigh, N. C. 27605
RESOLUTIONS, Continued
in group insurance premiums as done
in other States.

Grant compensatory time for over-
time earned by Supervisory Person-
nel as now granted to others.

Increase Longevity Pay Allowance
from present 2y2% annually to 5%.
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Faircloth Brings Good News
For Maintenance Employees

This picture accidentally caught three different types of trainees in one
shot. From left to right: Jerold W. Bailey, Architectural Technology student
from W. W. Holding Technical Institute; Roy C. McCann, graduate Civil En-
gineer from NCSU on the Highway Engineer In-Training Program; and Ro-
bert Jones, Engineering Technician from Durham Technical Institute on the
Civil Technology Training Program. That's Oroon Palmer in the background,
a summer employee.

18

A speech highlighted the serious
deliberations of the State Highway
and Correction Employees Associa-
tion Meeting at Winston-Salem in
September. Chairman, D. McLauch-
lin Faircloth, brought good news
when he announced proposed salary
increases for maintenance employees.
He asked for the cooperation of all
employees to move ahead in main-
taining and developing the largest
state highway system in the nation.

Division 12 is 7-Time Winner

Division 12 of the State Highway
Commission has received the annual
Safety Award, given for the lowest
frequency of accidents among state
highway employees during the past
year.

Gerald Fleming, State Highway
Safety Engineer, presented the award
to K. E. Mauney, Division Engineer,
and cited the 12th Division, which is
headquartered in Shelby, for an out-
standing safety record, at the State
Highway and Correction Employees
Association meeting in Winston-Sa-
lem, Friday, September 26, 1969. This
is the seventh time Division 12 has
won since the award was first given
in 1946.

Resolutions

Resolutions passed by the Associa-
tion from a group of 51 submitted at
the convention are summarized below:

Recommend cost of living salary in-
crease to 1971 General Assembly.

Request that Retirement System
report to each member annually his
contributions.

Endorse favorable action by Gov-
ernor's Employee Benefits Study
Commission as to State participation

(Continued above left)

The Finance Committee deliberates, with the executive
secretary, Otis Banks, in attendance.

Highway Employees
Meet In Winston-Salem

Commissioner Joe Nowell, left, and Commissioner No-
vile C. Hawkins, back to camera, enjoyed the formal
dinner on Friday evening.

The Resolutions Committee relaxes after their chores.
Resolutions passed by the Association were chosen from
a group of 51 submitted at the Convention. Carl Wilkins
served as Chairman.

7-time winners of
the Annual State High-
way Safety Award for
the Lowest Accident
Frequency, Division 12.
K. E. Mauney, Division
Engineer is holding the
plaque.

Hospitality. Charles
Self and John W. Wat-
kins visited the Amer-
ican Defender Life n-
surance Suite.

m

That's Luke Graham tipping his hat. Luke and his
wife and the staff of Vulcan Materials Company, were
hosts at Oak Summit Farm for a beef barbecue.

Layton Gunter, (left), administers the oath of office to
C. L. Brewer, president; Capt. L. F. Dail, vice-president;
Ralph Bradshaw, 2nd vice-president, and Margaret Bare-
foot, Secretary-Treasurer.

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The North Carolina Sta

D. MCLAUCHLIN FA1RCLOTH

Chairman
CLIFTON L. BENSON

Vice-Chairman
JACK B. KIRKSEY

Vice-Chairman
ROBERT G. BARR

NOVILE C. HAWKINS
E. J. WH1TMIRE

J. BOYD CRISP (DECEASED)

ROY D. DEDMON

E. GWYN MCNEIL
W. FRANK McCRAY
CHARLES K. MAXWELL
J. F. (JEFF) ALLEN

NOE\

GEOGRAPHIC
AND HIGHWAY

b Highway Commission

LYNWOOD SMITH
THOMAS W. ELLIS. JR.
W. B. ( BILL) JOYCE
CHARLES R. DAWKINS

W. S. WILLIAMS. JR.
W. G. CLARK. Ill
JAMES M. (JIM) SMITH
DAVID R. PARNELL

JOE W. NOWELL. JR
CARROLL H. GILLAM
W. ARTHUR TRIPP
HUGH A. RAGSDALE

7 CAROLINA

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From Drafting Board to Poetry Award

By JEWEL ADCOCK

Awards-winning poet, writer, mo-
ther and housewife — that's Joan
Warlick! Besides all this, Joan holds
down a full-time job as a Draftsman
in the Planning and Research De-
partment. She first began work with
the Commission in 1961. Five years
later, in 1966, she resigned to become
a mother; and baby girl, Amanda Lee,
was born to her that year. After a
two-year interlude, Joan returned to
the Commission in June of 1968, to
her former position. Prior to joining
the Commission she did engineering
drafting with L. E. Wooten and Com-
pany, Consulting Engineers, in Ra-
leigh and was a former cartographer
with Deere and Company of Moline,
Illinois.

In her first stint as draftsman with
the Commission, she contributed to
and was author of a crossword puzzle
for ROADWAYS entitled "Carolina
Crossword." She commented, "it was
fun to do and the words involved
places and things in North Carolina."

Just recently Joan received an ex-
citing letter stating that she was first-
place winner for poetry in the James
Larkin Pearson Contest. The contest
is sponsored annually by the Poetry
Council of North Carolina. When
they celebrate "Poetry Day" in Ashe-
ville October 11, Joan will be guest
of honor at their luncheon. Besides
this, she will receive honorable men-
tion in the Charles A. Shull Contest,
in which she was a first-place winner
last year.

Note: Since it is impossible at this time to
print Joan's award-winning poem, here is
one of her most popular ones.

REPENT AND BE SAVED

From the pulpit that purple face
Tells me I am evil and unclean
I tremble

And wonder what my sins are
Others know

Shuffling red-eyed to meet that
raging preacher,

While "Just As I Am" is pumped

and wailed.
I am eight years old and have to
Get me some sins.
Then I can join those not afraid
To get up in front of folks.

— Joan Warlick

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JOAN WARLICK

Joan has been writing poetry for a
number of years. Inspired and encour-
aged by Sam Ragan, former Executive
Editor of the Raleigh News & Ob-
server and present Editor of The Pi-
lot at Southern Pines, she enrolled in
his Writers Workshop at North Caro-
lina State University in Raleigh in
1967. From that time on, she has
returned each year to the workshop
which she enjoys so much, with Mr.
Ragan as instructor.

"Do you know," Joan beamed,
"that a group of his students from
the first class I attended decided to
band together and form a writers'
group. We are now incorporated, and
call ourselves the Longview Writers.
Meeting weekly, we have an active
workshop. Among other things, we
publish a literary magazine, The
Longview Journal, of which we're
very proud. In 1968 we received a
thousand dollar grant from the North
Carolina Arts Council. AH of our
members are published writers and
quite a diversified group. Science-
fiction, poetry, fiction, history, dra-
ma.

"Why, two of our members have
books coming out in a few weeks.
Peggy Hoffman's My Dear Cousin,
a very interesting historical novel
published by Harcourt, Brace and
World, Inc.; and Jack Kearin's A
Yankee Revenooer, an exceedingly
funny autobiographical account of his
days chasing bootleggers through
North Carolina, published by Moore
Publishing Company of Durham.

And, incidentally, Peggy Hoff-
mann also has a children's book just

out called 'The Money Hat', publish-
ed by Westminster Press. It is based
on an Hungarian folk tale."

"Honestly," Joan went on, "I owe
any ability I have for writing to the
help and encouragement received
from Mr. Sam Ragan and the Long-
view Writers."

During the past four years, Joan
has sold feature articles (about in-
teresting people) and has won sev-
eral poetry prizes. She also writes
book reviews for the News & Obser-
ver and enjoys writing short stories.
Recently Joan had her first short
story published in The Longview
Journal.

Smiling, Joan said: "I write about
people, their foibles, their infirmities,
their happy moments, the sadness
... I try not to preach but 'tell it
like it is,' as the cliche goes."

Her favorite writers include Sand-
burg, Frost, Jarrell, Dickey, McEwen
and Truman Capote.

Another interesting hobby which
she finds time to do is buying and fix-
ing up old houses, converting them
into apartments for rental purposes.
Currently she and her husband, Jim,
with little daughter, Amanda, live in
a big Dutch Coloniel residence
which they are remodeling at 310 E.
Park Drive in Raleigh. Laughingly,
Joan commented, "When this one is
completely renovated, we'll stop mov-
ing so much and make it our perma-
nent home. And when everything is
finished, it will be quite elegant," she
added.

Listed among other interests "when
I find the time" were cooking — try-
ing out new recipes — and oil paint-
ing. And to top all this, Joan admit-
ted she began working on a novel a
year or so ago entitled Shade of
the Kudzu Vine".

"However," she laughed, "at the
rate I'm going on this — only five
chapters so far — and my many other
time-consuming activities, this novel
will have to wait for quite a while.
One needs to work on it every day
— do research and all of that."

As we wonderingly looked at this
energetic and talented woman with
her short cropped hair and intense
brown eyes, we thought: Hurry up,
Joan, for we are sure Shades of the
Kudzu Vine will be well worth wait-
ing for.

Headquarters

By Jewel Adcock

PHOTOGRAM-
METRY — The
Department of
Photogram-
metry held its an-
nual handicap golf
tournament o n
September 19 at
the Sippihaw
County Club. Fol-
lowing the tourna-
ment, the golfers,
their wives, and several guests gath-
ered in the Steer Room of the College
Inn for dinner, Afterward trophies
were awarded to the following: Oarl
Lusk, Championship Flight Winner;
Val Trask, runner-up; Francis Led-
ford, winner First Flight; and Jack
Matthews and Leighton Elliott who
tied for second. John Sherbert re-
ceived the award for the golfer who
had the pleasure of swinging the club
the most often.

We're glad to hear that Gordon
Deans' wife, Willa, has recuperated
from a recent operation at Rex.

Jim McCloskey of the Editing Sec-
tion attended the Highway Employ-
ees Association annual meeting in
Winston-Salem September 25-27.

Welcome to Sally Webb of the
Stereo Section. Sally is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro and has been teaching
school in Pitt County. Her husband
is in the Navy and presently station-
ed in New York.

Wayne Robey and family enjoyed
a late summer weekend at Myrtle
Beach, S. C.

Murriell Stivers of the Stereo Sec-
tion and his wife spent a recent week-
end golfing and gem mining at High-
lands. They also visited Ghost Town
and Cherokee.

Charlie McDonald of Editing at-
tended the Turtle Festival in Lilling-
ton, October 2-4.

Joan Hill, Stereo Section, proudly
saw her oldest son, Shawn, off to his
first year at Kindergarten in Septem-
ber.

PLANNING & RESEARCH —
Our deepest sympathy is extended to
Mr. Ivey W. Fields of Kenansville
upon the recent death of his father.
Mr. Fields is Traffic Recorder with
the Department.

Welcome to Elizabeth Stanley from
Magnolia, new secretary in the De-
partment. Elizabeth previously work-
ed in Maintenance as a steno.

Planning and Research recently
lost a long-time secretary, when Lin-
da Edwards decided to resign and
stay home with her baby. Don't work
too hard, Linda.

Gray McGee and her family enjoy-
ed a recent weekend at Atlantic
Beach.

EQUIPMENT — Welcome to
Bruce M. Poole, Jr., who has re-
turned to work with Equipment
again.

Billie and Henry Lowery with
daughter, Miriam, enjoyed a tour of
historic sites in Colonial Williams-
burg during September.

L. E. "Buck" Wood and family
have moved into their new home lo-
cated near Holly Springs.

Sylvia Northcutt has returned to
Campbell College, and sister, Donna,
is teaching at Pamlico Community
Schools in Washington, N. C. Both

are daughters of Mrs. Alma North-
cutt of the Central Inventory Section.

PURCHASING — Our heartfelt
sympathy is extended to J. R. Ray,
Assistant Purchasing Agent, upon the
death of his mother, Mrs. Alice
Johnson Ray, September 19.

Posing seriously for the camera is
cute little Duane Partin at the ripe
old age of six- months.

Duane is the baby son of Marquita
and Richard Partin. Mom is a menv
ber of the Finance Department.

Lovely Miss Grace Eleanor Brant-
ley became the bride of Thomas
Brent Taylor of 3939 Old Wake For-
est Road in the Calvary Baptist
Church in Raleigh, Saturday, Aug-
ust 30.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Nora Brantley of 2209 Timber Drive
and the late H. H. Brantley. The
bridegroom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert S. Taylor of Aiken, S. C.

The Rev. Johnny J. Smith offi-
ciated.

After a honeymoon in Florida, the
couple resides at 3939 Old Wake For-
est Road, Raleigh.

The bride is a stenographer in
Right of Way with the Highway
Commission.

The bridegroom is a graduate of
The Citadel and holds a position as
Insurance Adjuster with The Travel-
ers' Insurance Company.

MATERIALS & TESTS — Ken-
neth Michael Hall, ET-2, son of Mr.
Kenneth W. Hall, has finished a
cruise on a Nuclear Submarine in
the Pacific and has been transferred
from Pearl Harbor to shore duty in
Norfolk for the next two years.

The Highway Lab defeated Ad-
vance Planning in a softball double-
header. Behind a strong hitting as-
sault, the Lab won by scores of 13-0
and 10-6.

Sympathy is extended to Charlie
Seay, whose mother passed away in
August.

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Congratulations to the Wayne
Lamms on the birth of a daughter,
Audrey Ann, September 15.

The Bituminous Lab welcomes a
new employee, Dalton Warden, for-
merly with Materials Research and
Development, Inc.

It's nice to hear that Johnny Bak-
er is now out of the hospital and re-
cuperating at home. Johnny was in
a train-truck accident in Fanchen,
New York. He is the son of Richard
Baker who works in the Soils Lab.

Those taking vacations recently
were Rose Bryan, who reports a nice
trip to Indiana and Peoria, Illinois,
to visit her son, Bill, and relatives;
Harold Hocutt, who spent a week in
New York City; Mrs. Alma Cone and
family, Carolina Beach; and Mrs. Lu-
cille Crawford, who flew to Albu-
querque, New Mexico, for a visit with
her sister and brother-in-law, Peggy
and Ward Honeycutt.

A number of the men at the Lab
have the fishing fever. Hermus Leo-
nard and Al Fulger had a nice fish-
ing trip on a recent weekend; Bob
Peele and C. G. Stephens went to
the coast fishing. Reports are that
Bob caught a total of three fish. Is
this correct, Bob? N. B. Lee, Hubert
Jordan and Raymond Jones also went
fishing, with poor results, but report-
ed having seen a sea gull wearing sun
glasses. Upon close examination, it
was discovered someone had tied a
beer can tab to the gull's head.

On the list of recent vacationists
were Linda and William Haynes,
who spent several days in Washing-
ton, D. C. And on another jaunt,
they report an enjoyable camping
trip to Myrtle Beach.

This good looking young man is
Anthony Clifford, age 18 months. His
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Braam. Dad is employed in Roadway
Design.

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EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Our
deepest sympathy to Boots Joyner
upon the recent deaths of her mother
and brother.

Recently hospitalized, but we hope
by now well on the road to recovery,
were: Boots Joyner, Monroe Cooke,
James Nowell and Lynn Powell.

LOCATION — Wedding Bells
rang, September 26, for Patricia Ann
Britt and James Olan Marshall. Pat
is a Draftsman in Property Survey
and her husband, Jim, is an employ-
ee at First Citizens Bank.

New faces in the Department are
Charles Eddins and Larry Carriker.

These three handsome youngsters are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Smitherman. Left to right, that's Monte, age 9; Todd, 7 years old; and Heath,
age 2 Dad is a member of Roadway Design.

RIGHT OF WAY — Our sincere
sympathy to Sammy Jackson, whose
father passed away recently.

Congratulations to Mrs. Eleanor
Taylor, who was presented a silver
tray award as the most outstanding
Opti-Mrs. member for the past year
at the September 22 Opti-Mrs. Club
meeting of Raleigh.

Laura Jones reports she has been
on two successful deep sea fishing
trips to Morehead City recently.

Trulah Page spent a week during
the month of August in Norfolk, Va.

Catherine Forrest spent a few days
in Southern Pines recently at a con-
vention with her husband.

Co-workers held a luncheon at the
Cardinal Cafeteria recently for Elea-
nor Brantley, bride-elect. The honor-
ee was presented a corsage and many
useful and lovely gifts.

Cliff Carroll vacationed in Alabama
recently visiting relatives.

The Right of Way "C" Golf Team
won the championship of the "C"
League in the annual Highway Com-
mission Summer Golf League. In the

overall play-offs, they finished in sec-
ond place. Members of the team
were: Sam Pearce, Gene Franklin,
Russ Johnson, Charles Pearce, Lind-
sey Gould and Ben Brown. Congrat-
ulations, men.

Ask W. H. Webb, Jr., how he feels
about dogs now? He was at home sev-
eral days after being bitten by his
daughter-in-law's pet poodle.

J. G. Gibbs is the proud grand-
father again. His daughter in Wil-
mington gave birth to a son, Eric
Sondergaard, September 9, who weigh-
ed in at 5J/2 lbs.

Welcome back to Buddy Cagle and
Jack Batchelor, who recently return-
ed to Right of Way. And it's also
nice to have Robert Pratt back in
the Department. Robert transferred
from the Appraisal Office.

PROJECT CONTROL — It's
nice to have Mrs. Helen Smith as a
member of the Department.

Welcome, also, to Miss Donna
Henderson, who recently transferred
from Revenue to Project Control as
File Clerk.

A lovely double ring ceremony was
held Saturday, August 9 in the Wen-
dell Christian Church when Jo Ann
Burnett Fristoe became the bride of
Monroe Franklin Starnes.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Henry Burnett of
Wendell, and the bridegroom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfonzer Frank-
lin Starnes of Wendell.

Afier a wedding trip to the moun-
tains and the Bahamas, the couple
now lives on Fowlkes Lane in Wen-
dell. Frank is employed by the High-
way Commission's Roadway Design
Department.

LEGAL — An increase in staff
members occurred during the past
few weeks. New staff attorneys are
Howard Satisky and Buddy Murray.
Welcome to Miss Jane Butts, who
joined the office pool October 6.

The Division Office in Asheville is
proud to announce that Mrs. Linda
Snyder, secretary to Mr. Guy Ham-
lin and Mr. Ladson Hart, became the
mother of a baby girl, September 19.

Mrs. Shirley T. Wilson wishes to
express her appreciation for the love-
ly flowers sent her son, Rod, when he
had a recent tonsillectomy. Shirley
works on the MTST machine.

Mrs. Marie Wood spent some vaca-
tion time moving and getting settled
in her lovely new home recently.

Correction: In the last issue of
Roadways it was reported that Mrs.
Sylvia Turner, secretary to Mr. Eu-
gene Smith, had moved to South
Shores Subdivision. The name of the
subdivision should have been North
Shores.

ADVANCE PLANNING — The
Advance Planning "A" golf team won
the Highway Commission golf tour-
nament team trophy this year by
drubbing the Finance "A" and the
Right of Way "C" golf team with a
total net score of 268.

The Highway Lab "B" team,
which won the coveted trophy last
year, reluctantly gave it up. In fact,
it was rumored that the Lab team
had lost the trophy; however a
check with Mr. Prince Pendergrass,
captain of the Lab team, negated the
rumor. Mr. Pendergrass said they
tried to pawn the trophy but could
only get $3.00 for it and had to turn
the deal down.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Department Head W. F. Caddell,
Jr., and family upon the recent death
of his father, Mr. W. F. Caddell, Sr.

Miss Margaret Wilkerson Flint be-
came the bride of William Robert
Brown, Saturday, September 13 at
the Edenton Street United Methodist
Church.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Ashe Flint of 215
W. Park Drive, Raleigh, and the
bridegroom is the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Lee Brown of Bat
Cave.

Both the bride and bridegroom are
graduates of N. C. State University.

The couple resides at 1885 Bell-
wood Drive in Raleigh where the
bridegroom is employed by the Road-
way Design Department of the High-
way Commission.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
Congratulations to Tom and Con-
stance Boykin, whose little baby girl,
Tonia Lynn, arrived June 13. The
Boykins are already parents of anoth-
er daughter, Tracey, age 3.

Bedie Holland is beaming now that
her husband, Benny, is a civilian once
more. He was stationed in Thailand
this past year.

Georgia Mattocks and her husband,
Nash, enjoyed a "cool" week at At-
lantic Beach on a recent visit.

Transferring from Bridge Location
to Bridge Maintenance recently were
R. L. Spence, Ned M. Perry and J.
J. Edgerton. Welcome all of you.

BRIDGE DESIGN — Dewey
Phillips, former employee, graduated
from NCSU after attending summer
school and has returned to the De-
partment.

It's nice to have Lee Howell, Jr.,
from Apex and a recent graduate of
Chowan College and Holding Tech
join the Department. Welcome also
to Kenneth Bridges from Baltimore,
Maryland.

Keith Parrish recently transferred
from "Construction" in Statesville.
Keith, formerly a trainee in Raleigh,
likes it here and so does his wife.
Patsy.

Terry Russell of Fayetteville is
another new addition to the staff. He
was a former employee in Photogram-
metry and Roadway Design. Terry
and his wife, Glinda, have a three-
year-old son.

Welcome also to Craig Martin of
Apex. Craig is a graduate of Holding
Tech. He and his wife, Sharon, are
the proud parents of a three-month-
old son.

New employees on the training pro-
gram are Carl McCann, David Moore,
Walker Armistead and Fred Mehfar.

Diane Bagwell, Steno, resigned to
join the SBI.

Gerald White finally moved into
his new home. Some of the finishing
touches are incomplete, but we know
that everything will be "top shape"

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in snort order. Gerald's wife, Lou,
new "construction boss", can now
keep a mighty close watch on work
progress.

Recently retired George Parkin in-
vited a few friends for a weekend of
fishing and relaxing at his cottage
on the Intracoastal Waterway. Lan-
dis Temple was declared "Fishing
Champ" after reeling in a three
pound "big blue."

Ben and Rachel Terrell bought a
home in Rolesville and recently
moved there — commuting daily to
Raleigh. Ben invited his fellow squad
members to "come fishing" in his
nearby private pond.

Jim Wilder is enthusiastic about
duck hunting. Pamlico Sound is one
of his favorite spots and at Swans-
boro, he bagged Clapper Rail, getting
five birds in six shots.

Bob Lilley is coaching a midget
league football team at Quail Hol-
low. They are having fun and are
not at all discouraged over their
three-game losing record.

J. A. Saunders and E. C. Orr at-
tended the Demonstration of Serrat-
ed Soft Rock Cut Slopes Meeting
held the week of September 8 in Gat-
linburg, Tennessee.

Linda Straughn has taken up a
new hobby, or so it seems. She and
several friends went up to Grand-
father Mountain and had an exciting
time mountain climbing.

Jimmy Saunders and family enjoy-
ed their Labor Day weekend at their
cabin on the Outer Banks. Jimmy re-
ported that he caught his first speck-
led trout of the season.

Phyllis Suggs and family ventur-
ed up to Williamsburg, Virginia, and
toured the historic sites there on a
recent trip, which also included a
jaunt to Jamestown.

It was nice to see D. R. (Doc) Mc-
Michael, Retired Area Landscape
Supervisor, and family again. They
attended the recent retirement din-
ner of J. R. Felton. The McMichaels
remained guests of J. A. Saunders
and family over the weekend.

Convention time again, and this
time it was in Winston-Salem. Those
in attendance were Phyllis W. Suggs
and Linda Straughn. They remained
in Winston-Salem over the week-end
and were the guests of D. R. Mc-
Michael and family Saturday even-
ing at a cookout.

LANDSCAPE — Frank Bowen
took his family to Kure Beach Labor
Day weekend where they tried their
luck at fishing and crabbing, which
Frank reports was rather good.

A pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow! Several Landscape employ-
ees must have found it. Katherine
Davis, Jimmy Armstrong and Bobby
Boyette all are the proud owners of
new cars.

Congratulations and best wishes to
Bobby Boyette on his promotion to
Area Landscape Supervisor. Bobby's
new office is in Wilson.

The marriage of Miss Hilda Gray
Byrd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
lis W. Byrd of Clayton, to Eugene
Keith Franklin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. B. Franklin of 506 Jones Franklin
Road, took place Sunday, September
21 in Shiloh Baptist Church in Gar-
ner.

The Rev. L. E. Godwin of Garner
officiated and the bride was given in
marriage by her father.

After a trip to the mountains, the
couple is residing at 1209 Trinity
Road in Raleigh.

The bridegroom is a graduate of
Wake Forest University and holds a
position with the Right of Way De-
partment in the Highway Commis-
sion.

FINANCE — Wedding Bells will
ring for Judy Bryant on November
22, when she plans to marry Joseph
Revill. Judy is a member of the Pay-
roll Section.

Doug O'Neal of the Payroll Sec-
tion and Mr. Tom Ammerson of In-
surance attended the meeting of the
Highway Employees Association held
recently in Winston-Salem.

Judy Morris and Mary Gregory,
members of Key Punch, recently
spent an exciting weekend in Rich-
mond, Virginia, visiting relatives and
attending the Virginia State Fair.

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tippett and
son spent an enjoyable weekend in
Long Island and Manhattan.

New faces in Key Punch are Jan-
ice Cruden, Louise Shirley, Jean
Shearin and Brenda Horton.

And a new addition in the Tab
room is Mrs. Bobbie Larrison.

Larry Waters and his wife are real
proud of their new baby girl, Kim,
born September 8. Larry is in the
Tab Section.

In the Highway Commission golf
contest were Larry Waters, 5th Flight
winner; Gene Murray, 3rd Flight
runner-up; Johnny Joyner, 4th Flight
runner-up; and Tony Bridges, 5th
Flight runner-up.

Congratulations to Judy Morris,
who has been selected as one of the
two Community 4-H leaders in
State Leaders Forum in Reidsville at
the Betsy Jeff-Penn 4-H Camp. Judy
is a member of Key Punch.

Mary Leonard, Supervisor of Key
Punch, took a flying trip to Michigan
recently with her mother and two
children, Jeff and Diane. They visit-
ed her sister and also journeyed to
Canada for sight-seeing.

Cathie McLean and her husband,
Ronnie, are new parents of a son,
Jeremy, born September 10. Cathie
is a member of the Key Punch Sec-
tion.

PERSONNEL — Several employ-
ees took advantage of late summer
vacations. Mary Lee Griffin and
family took off the second week in
August and headed for Atlanta, Geor-
gia. They roomed at the famous Re-
gency Hyatt House in Atlanta and
really had a week to remmeber.

Since Barbara Stussie had never
been to Florida, she decided to blow
up a storm when she did go. Hurri-
cane Camille went by Pensacola
about the time Barbara arrived, but
we don't think it dampened her fun.

Cloyce Alford and family enjoyed
a long weekend to visit Six Flags
Over Georgia.

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Ron Wolfe and family visited rela-
tives in the Whiteville area for a
Weekend.

The Ted Austin family toured the
Virginia mountains a day or two be-
fore the floods. We wonder if they
could have caused all that trouble!
We are glad to hear that Ted's
youngest son, Todd, is getting along
fine since a recent hospitalization for
tests.

Have you noticed Fred Adcock's
dishpan hands lately? It seems he
got some good experience while his
wife was in the hospital for a few
weeks.

The Personnel Department wel-
comes Mr. Troy B. Dodson, new
Highway Personnel Officer. Another
new face in Personnel is that of Kay
Bondurant, Steno II. Kay replaces
Gail Hanson who recently moved to
Michigan. The Department misses
Gail and wishes her the best of luck
in her new home.

These three children belong to Wil-
liam and Sue Freeman. From left to
right they are: Beth, age two; Curtis,
five months; and Wendy, age seven.
Mom is a member of Bridge Main-
tenance.

A number of new trainees on the
Career Development Programs of the
Highway Engineers and Civil Tech-
nology areas are among the new faces
appearing in the various departments.
The following Highway Engineers in
Training have joined the Highway
Commission since June: Eugene W.
Armistead, Jr., Joseph E. Blair,
George L. Gettier, Robert D. Jenkins,
Vilis Keglers, Roger S. Lance, Roy
C. McCann, John L. McDonald,
Blaine A. Mills, Arnold B. Norwood,
Jr., William F. Rosser, Douglas R.
Scoggins and George T. Shearin.

The following Civil Technology
Trainees have entered the program
since June: Ralph W. Edwards, Jr.,
John T. Furmage, James C. Grayson,

Timothy L. Johnson, Nelson L. Lon-
don, Larry W. McPherson, Lonnie
S. Peacock, Ronald T. Queen, Ralph
E. Short, James H. Stroupe, and
Barry W. Willis.

This handsome twosome is Chris
Walker, age 16 years, and her broth-
er, Mike, age 6. They are the chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Walker.
Bob is employed in Roadway Design.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Congratulations and best wishes to
Bill Thompson and Betty Bevacqua
who plan to marry in a four o'clock
ceremony at Hayes-Barton Baptist
Church in Raleigh, Saturday, October
25. Bill's parents are Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Thompson of Warrenton, and
Betty is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Bevacqua of Raleigh.
Betty's father is a member of Plan-
ning and Research.

Wedding Bells will also ring for
Elaine Glosson and Stewart Sykes at
the Christian Church in New Hill,
Sunday, October 19. Elaine is a mem-
ber of Traffic Engineering and Stew-
art is with the Maintenance Depart-
ment.

The award of $250 which Jeff Jen-
nings won in the "Down the Crane"
contest was in good time for the ad-
vent of Jeff and Ruth's daughter, An-
gela Lynn, August 20.

Misfortune struck the family of
Jim Kellenburger the night of Sep-
tember 12 when their residence on
Durham Drive was destroyed by fire.
TED personnel have contributed $100
to help them replace personal and
household possessions lost in the fire.

J. O. Litchford attended the AA-
SHO-NHUC National Highway Man-
agement Conference in Airlie, Vir-
ginia, September 14-19.

With expansion of the Accident
Identification and Surveillance Unit,
there have been some promotions
among TE personnel. Ken Milam is
now a Highway Engineer II; Reiley
Curtis and Chris Stafford are in
Highway Engineer I positions; and
Roger Hawkins has been raised to
an Engineering Technician III grade.

Ken and Reiley are transfers from
the Design Section and Roger was in
the Signal Section.

Other additions to the AIS staff
are Dallas Safriet, graduate of VPI
and a former trainee; Benny John-
son, a graduate of Holding Technical
Institute, whose family includes wife,
Bennie Jean, and their two-year old
son, Michael Anthony; Cliff Stuekey,
former student at N. C. State Univer-
sity; Gail Grant, a graduate of
Franklin High School; and Judy
Moffitt, a graduate of Vaiden-Whit-
ley High School in Wendell.

Six other employees have joined
the department in recent weeks:
Frances Johnson, steno, has had
considerable experience in State gov-
ernment work, including two sessions
of the General Assembly. Frances and
her husband, Gene, Garner residents,
have two children, Gene, Jr., age 8,
and 12-year old Debbie.

Olivia Edmondson, another steno,
has worked with the General Assem-
bly three terms and with the NCEA.
Phillip Dickerson, former trainee and
graduate of NCSU, is now being pre-
pared to be Traffic Engineer for Di-
vision Two, stationed in Greenville.
Phil and Sonia have one son, Phillip,
Jr. Robert Jones, graduate of Dur-
ham Technical Institute and former
trainee, is in the Signal Section. Bob
and Barbara have a five-month old
daughter, Camille. Joel Carter and
Gene Wilkinson are working on a
part-time basis. Joel, a junior in
architecture at NCSU is married and
his wife's name in Tanda. Gene is

Greg and Chris Glosson go for the
trimmings on their second birthday
cake, August 20. The twins' mother,
Elaine, is a member of Traffic En-
gineering.

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working toward his doctorate in me-
chanical engineering at NCSU, and
he and his wife, Linda, have a son,
Bryan.

Tom Turnage has returned to his
old job in the Signing Section after
four months of service with the Na-
tional Guard at Ft. Jackson, South
Carolina. (Just don't offer him any
chocolate chip cookies like the ones
found in his locker during inspection).

Tommy Knox, Reiley Curtis, Ken
Blue, Ernie Mallard, with Jim Mor-
rison of the Maintenance Department,
went on a September weekend fish-
ing trip to Long Beach and Kure
Beach. They report a good catch of
mullet and spot.

ROADWAY DESIGN — W. A.
Wilson, Jr., and Henry C. Clegg, Jr.,
attended the mid-year meeting of the
Highway Research Board in Salt
Lake City, Utah, August 11-14. Mr.
Wilson was accompanied by Traffic
Engineer, J. O. Litchford. They drove
in order to observe the different high-
way designs being used by other
states. Mr. Clegg went by air to get
an aerial view of the highways and a
bird's-eye-view of the "cute" steward-
esses. One thing we "ain't sure about
though" — why did Bill Wilson do
all that traveling without a mishap
and then return and have all "them"
wrecks?

Ziggie Smith and her mother va-
cationed in Hawaii the last two weeks
of July. They were greeted at the
Hilo Airport with orchid leis and
Hawaiian music. While there they
took in the highlights of beaches.
Then they flew to the Valley Isle of
Maui and just missed seeing Charl-
ton Heston who was making a movie.
Their last stop was Waikiki Beach on
the island of Oahu, where they took
a short rest from the mad rush of
sightseeing to spend the day lounging
in the "liquid sunshine" of Hawaii
and the night indulging in "Mai Tai"
and the magical music of Arthur Ly-
man. They left Hawaii just in time
to miss the most recent eruption of
the Kilauea Volcano. Ziggie had a
wonderful trip and one that she will
always remember.

Ziggie is appearing in The Raleigh
Little Theatre play, "A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum".
She plays the exotic Tintinnabula in
the production which also features
the famous "Sally Rand and her
Fans."

Congratulations to the Garry Lees,

who became the proud parents ol a
baby girl, Amy Michele, August 24.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: Antonio Aja, Clyde J. Ball,
Jimmy A. Bell, Bryce Clodfelter, An-
gus W. Currie, Jr., Clarence Deans,
Jacky Jarman, Clay Maulden, Jr.,
Charles Mullen, Gale Parker, Barba-
ra Stoughton, Enoch Turner, John
Wiggins, Dexter Langley, James F.
Draper, Tony Robert Gray, and Ro-
bert Dennis Mann.

Hap Crowe and wife, Flora, at-
tended the Carolina Sailing Regatta
at Kerr Lake in September. Dot Tur-
ner and family took a sightseeing
trip to Atlanta in late summer and
visited "Six Flags Over Georgia".

In the same building with Traffic
Engineering, Aaron Kreem has a new
stenographer, Vivian Robinson, on
loan four afternoons a week from Ma-
terials & Tests to help in the pre-
paration of highway specifications.
Aaron and family were recently visit-
ed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil-
ip Kreem of Watertown, Massachus-
etts.

The Governor's Beautification Com-
mittee is also a neighbor with a new
Executive Director — Mrs. Lee Wil-
der. Mrs. Verna Helms is currently
on the staff of this program.

Little Janet Dawn Zimmerman is
shown giving her very best smile at
the age of 4V<> months. Pretty Janet
Dawn is the baby daughter of Mary
F. Zimmerman and her husband,
Don, and was born April 15 of this
year. Her mother is a member of
Key Punch in the Finance Depart-
ment.

GLENN CARAWAN
Division Correspondent

Division I starts the ball rolling by
congratulating Mr. J. E. Benton,
Landscape Specialist I, on complet-
ing the High School Equivalency
Test. Mr. Benton graduated at Roa-
noke Chowan Technical Institute.

Mr. J. O. Sellars, Right-of-Way
Agent, Mr. Gilbert Williams, Equip-
ment Department in District 2, Mr.
Bobby Greene, Construction Inspec-
tor, attended the North Carolina State
Highway Employees Association Con-
vention in Winston-Salem.

Get well wishes for a speedy re-
covery are extended to the following
persons: Mr. Glenn Outland, Truck
Driver in District 2, who is a patient
in McGuire Hospital in Richmond,
Virginia; and Mr. Simon Bridgers,
Maintenance Foreman III in District
2, who is convalescing at his home in
Ahoskie.

Mr. and Mrs. James Daughtry, who
vacationed in Florida recently, found
it fascinating this time of the year.
Mrs. Daughtry is a Stenographer in
the Right-of-Way Department.

Mr. M. Elwood Copeland, High-
way Equipment Office Manager at
the Hertford Division Shop, was a
candidate for graduation at the Col-
lege of the Albemarle at Eliizabeth
City in June. He received the Associ-
ate in Arts Degree.

Ellen, 3^2 years and Renee, 14
months, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Benton of Woodland, N. C. Mr.
Benton is Landscape Specialist I in
District 2.

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Those attending the annual State
Highway Employees Convention
from the Division Equipment Shop
were Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brewer, Mr.
and Mrs. M. Elwood Copeland, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert E. Newton, Mr.
and Mrs. H. G. Arnold, Jr., and Joe
W. Nowell, Highway Commissioner
from Division 1.

[mi' ,f*»1

Hazel Baker
Division Correspondent

We are happy to
welcome Paul Ful-
cher back to work
after being hospi-
I talized in August.
Hj Mr. and Mrs.
fJH Ray Setzer enjoy-
ed a week of vaca-
tioning at Myrtle
Beach, S. C. in
August.

Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Averette and family spent the
week of August 18 at Atlantic Beach,
N. O, and had a delightful vacation
relaxing and resting.

Mr. and Mrs. Lex A. Kelly are
happy to announce the arrival of
their first child, a daughter, Tracy
Lynn, on September 7, 1969.

Sympathy is extended to Miss Lin-
da Bright, Secretary in the Washing-
ton District Office in the recent death
of her father.

We miss Lee
Foster and Wil-
liam Holt of Dis-
trict One and Jim-
S my Ray Vann of
District Two who
Y > resigned for other

' employment. Cecil
Freddie Edwards,
a trainee in the

Construction De-
Irene Hewett .1

Division correspondent partment recently

had to go on Military Leave. Charles
G. Barber has transferred from our
Construction Department to Division
Ten Construction. We miss them also.

We welcome Bobby Sherrill Bass
who has recently gone to work with
District Two in Clinton and Joe
Zack Butler who went to work in the
Construction Department in Clinton.

We would like to express our sym-
pathy to Charles C. Parker, Road Oil
Supervisor, who lost his mother on
October 2, 1969.

Best wishes are extended to
George E. Rackley who retired Octo-
ber 1, 1969, after 47 years of service.
He has been Maintenance Supervisor
in Sampson County since January 13,
1962. His fellow employees presented
him with a reclining chair so that he
can "retire in comfort." A steak din-
ner at the Country Squire was held
honoring Mr. Rackley and his wife.
Mr. Rackley has asked that we ex-
press his thanks to the employees in
Sampson County for the kindnesses
shown to him and to Mrs. Racklev.

G. E. Rackley, Sampson County
Road Maintenance Supervisor in Dis-
trict 2 who retired on October 1, 1969.

C. E. Jernigan was promoted from
Maintenance Foreman 4 to Mainte-
nance Supervisor. He has been em-
ployed with the Highway Commission
in Sampson County since May 1,
1945. F. W. Sutton is being promoted
from Maintenance Foreman 2 to
Maintenance Foreman 4. He has
been employed with the Highway
Commission in Sampson County
since January 1, 1951.

Mr. Vance Graham English, Road
Maintenance Supervisor, in New

Hanover and Brunswick Counties of
District One was married on Septem-
ber 14 to the former Mrs. Vera Gar-
ber. They recently returned from a
honeymoon that took them 3,100
miles. While traveling they visited his
brother in Maryland and her par-
ents and other relatives in Maine.
They even took time "away from
honeymooning" to inspect the high-
way system in Canada. They report
a fine time. Congratulations to them.

V. Graham English and his bride
at the wedding reception on Septem-
ber 14, 1969. He is Road Maintenance
Supervisor of Brunswick and New
Hanover Counties.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Brown an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Donna Sue, to John White
Askew. The couple will exchange
marriage vows at 4:00 p.m., Novem-
ber 29, 1969, at Winter Park Baptist
Church. Miss Brown attended the
University of North Carolina at Wil-
mington, where her fiancee is major-
ing in Biology. Donna's father, Roy
D. Brown, is Division Right of Way
Agent.

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by taking a day off the first day of
deer hunting season, however, Major
Allen Whitefield of the Correction
Department got a head start the day
before, even if it was using his car
instead of a gun.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Sutton
shown at wedding reception of Mr.
and Mrs. Graham English. Mr. Sut-
ton works in the Division 3 Equip-
ment Department in Wilmington.

Carolyn Yvette Naylor, daughter
of James Ralph Naylor, of Traffic
Services Department, recently grad-
uated from the School of Nursing at
North Carolina Baptist Hospital. She
received her diploma and pin in cere-
monies at Wait Chapel on the Wake
Forest University campus. She join-
ed the nursing staff of Baptist Hospi-
tal, September 1. She was a 1966
graduate of New Hanover High
School where she was second vice
president of the Junior Class, treas-
urer of the Senior Class and was
elected to Santa Filomena, a senior
honorary society in the nursing
school.

Office Manager Joe Bannerman
thought he was getting a head start

Division Engineer Paul J. DuPre,
presenting former Highway Commis-
sioner Ashley Murphy a plaque of
appreciation from employees of Divi-
sion 3.

Carolyn Naylor, daughter of J.
Ralph Naylor, of Traffic Services De-
partment. Carolyn recently graduated
from the School of Nursing at North
Carolina Baptist Hospital.

Several of our
employees attend-
ed the State Con-
vention in Win-
ston-Salem, includ-
ing your correspon-
dent; R. W. Daw-
son, Division En-
gineer; John C.
Colville, Division
Right of Way
D^&SES&rtAgent; Mrs. Mary
Poythress, Secretary in Right of
Way; Carl Fulghum, Landscape Spe-
cialist; Walter Lamm of Equipment
Department. Everyone from Wilson

had a good time. Our Unit Chairman,
Wade Pridgen, Unit Secretary, Pat
Abernethy, and many others were
there. All I have heard is what a
good time everyone had.

Mrs. Shirley Hayes, Stenographer
in the Division Office, recently spent
a week in Florida. She had a wonder-
ful time.

Staff Engineer, George H. King,
also spent a week in Florida. He at-
tended the Region Three E.H.T.R.
Conference held in Clearwater, Flor-
ida. He took his wife, Madge, and
they reported a wonderful time.

Welcome to C. A. Gardner, Jr..
who is with us for Staff Engineer
Training. Mr. Gardner is a 1968 grad-
uate of N. C. State University, mar-
ried and has two children. His next
assignment will be in the Traffic En-
gineering Department in Raleigh.

J. E. Skinner, Resident Engineer,
and Fred Boone, Highway Inspector
III, and their wives attended the Em-
ployees N. C. H. C. E. A. Convention
held at the Robert E. Lee Hotel in
Winston-Salem.

C. B. Bullock spent a week fishing
on the coast and around Mt. Olive.

Congratulations to R. S. Boyette
on his promotion to Area Landscape
Supervisor. Mr. Boyette has his head-
quarters here in the Division Office.
He replaces J. R. Felton who recent-
ly retired.

Best wishes for a quick recovery to
Mrs. Woodrow Williams, who is
presently in Wilson Memorial Hospi-
tal, Wilson, N. C. Woodrow is a Me-
chanic II with the Equipment Depart-
ment.

Mrs. Lala Williams, mother of
Woodrow Williams, has returned
home after being hospitalized.

Mr. Walter A. Lamm, Machinist
with the Equipment Department was
a delegate to the N. C. Highway and
Correction Employees' Association
Convention held in Winston-Salem,
N. C.

We wish to extend our congratula-
tions to the family of Mr. and Mrs.
Doug Matthews, former State High-
way employees, who had a son, Mi-
chael Douglas, born on September
28, 1969. This is the grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Matthews. Mr. Mat-
thews is Equipment Superintendent,
Wilson, N. C. Doug is now Personnel
Manager with Collins Aikman Auto-
motive Division, Albemarle, N. C.

Welcome back to work John Paul
Hardy, Jr., Machine Operator in
Halifax County, who has been hospi-
talized for surgery; and Frank Arring-
ton, Laborer in Halifax County, who

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has been on extended sick leave fol-
lowing hospitalization.

Best wishes to Dorothy Boysworth,
wife of Wilbur Boysworth, Edge-
combe County Maintenance Foreman;
Joseph T. Smith, Machine Operator
in Edgecombe County; Arthur E.
Morris, Halifax County Maintenance
Foreman; and Archie Lee Morris, Jr.,
son of Archie Lee and Mrs. Morris, of
Scotland Neck; all of whom have had
recent visits to a hospital for illness
or injury.

Congratulations to Hubert Earl Al-
len, Engineering Aide in the District
Office at Weldon, who was recently
married to Miss Rebecca Ann Hux,
of Roanoke Rapids.

September birthdays were celebrat-
ed by: Jack Alston, W. L. Ballard, B.
H. Crawley, Roger Jenkins, W. W.
Manning, Archie Lee Morris, Joe
Neal, Ben Robertson, Ed Stanbury,
Robin Turner, Isaac Whitaker, and
Joe Young.

Ann Griffis, Clerk in the District
Office at Weldon, recently returned
from a trip to the mountains of
North Carolina and the beaches of
North Carolina and Virginia; W. M.
Mashburn, Clerk in Equipment Shop
at Weldon, and Mrs. Mashburn tra-
veled to Canton and Murphy, in the
North Carolina mountains, visiting
relatives there and in Polk County,
and also spent a recent weekend in
Annandale, Virginia.

Best wishes for an early recovery
from a back injury sustained in an
automobile accident go to Bob Lan-
caster, District One mechanic. Bob
was the victim of a rear-end collision.
Mrs. Lancaster and Bob's sister re-
ceived minor injuries in the same
accident.

Nicole Rowland, age 3V->, daughter
of Gerald and Louise Alston Row-
land, and only grandchild of Machine
Operator Jack Alston and Mrs. Al-
ston. Nicole's birthday is, appropriate-
ly, Valentine's Day.

Durham County
Maintenance Em-
ployees who were
on vacation during
the month of Aug-
ust were K. M.
Duncan, G. W.
Justice, M. E.
Brogden, F. S.
Mangum, F. B.
Pendergraph, V. L.
Di.r.toTcoBrrrifPtond.„t Day, L. F. Luxton,
V. R. Overton, W. T. Moore. W. H.
Walker and his family spent their
vacation in Georgia. While there they
visited Six Flags Over Georgia. Other
employees vacationing during the
month of September were: M. G.
Keith, K. M. Duncan, G. C. Riley,
S. E. Jones, J. W. Ferrell, G. P. Hes-
ter, L. F. Luxton and H. V. Moore.

Sympathy to Mr. J. W. Mitchell,
Jr., whose mother passed away.

Employees on sick leave recently
were V. L. Day and Ralph Johnson.

Mattie Hall, Steno in the Division
Office, is all smiles these days. Her
son, Danny, is home on leave. Dan-
ny spent two years in Puerto Rico
and is being sent to the Air Force
Base in Denver, Colorado.

Curtis Williams, Division Office
Manager, his wife, Johnnie, and son,
Greg, spent part of their vacation
mining for precious stones in Frank-
lin a few weeks ago. They had real
good luck. Greg found a geniuine
ruby. Curtis says it's a lot of fun but
he sure would hate to do that for a
living!

Get well wishes to Larry Parrish,
Road Oil Clerk, who was in the hos-
pital recently.

Folks in the Office enjoyed help-
ing Robert A. Smith, District Engi-
neer, District Two, celebrate his
birthday. Mrs. Smith baked a beau-
tiful birthday cake — but there was
only one candle . . . Robert still has-
n't explained that. Also present for
the celebration were the two little
Smiths — Sterling and Tanya. Mrs.
Smith said that when she picked
Sterling up at Kindergarten one of
his little classmates asked Sterling
about the one candle — he couldn't
understand it because he said his
Daddy was twelve.

Nellie Barnes and family spent
a weekend with friends at Virginia
Beach recently. Nellie reports that
the weather was great and the fish-
ing too.

Sympathy to Alton Ellington in
the recent death of his brother.

Charles Pleasants attended the
Employees' Convention which was
held in Winston-Salem recently.
Charles is Machine Operator 2 with
the Maintenance Department in
Granville County.

Vencen Morton continues to im-
prove after being quite sick for sev-
eral weeks. All employees wish him
a speedy recovery. He hopes to re-
turn to work soon.

Nancy Carol Wilson is now attend-
ing Rockingham Technical College.

Roy Blackwell and family enjoyed
spending some time this summer at
their cabin at Kerr Lake. Roy is Ma-
chine Operator 3 with the Mainte-
nance Department in Granville
County.

Joe Greenway had good luck while
fishing for bass recently. Roy Black-
well also had good luck fishing.

Nelson Whitt was on sick leave for
a few days recently. He has improv-
ed and has returned to work.

Maintenance Supervisor B. F.
Vaughan and Mrs. Vaughan are en-
tertaining a house guest from Drum-
right, Oklahoma. Their guest is Mrs.
Inez Jamieson, Mr. Vaughan's sister.
It is rumored that Roxboro Police
Chief Page Brooks says that Mrs.
Jamieson visits each year, about this
time, to show "Finn" how to
straighten out the mess he has made

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in his garden. Area Foreman O. J.
Davis looked in to this matter and
now he is wondering too. It seems
that he saw "Finn" mowing the grass
between two rows of butter beans.

As of the 22nd of August, 1969,
Maintenance Foreman Harvin G.
Harris will be 732 months old. When
it was learned that Mr. Vaughan was
giving Harvin a Mammoth Cave as
a gift, all thought, how nice; Harvin
is getting a Tourist Site in Kentucky,
for his birthday present. Lo-and-be-
hold the truth came out — Mam-
moth Cave is CHEWING TOBAC-
CO. Tourist Site or Chewing Tobac-
co .. . Happy Birthday, Young Fel-
low.

Mr. D. T. Lee, Maintenance Fore-
man IV of Harnett County, has made
a tremendous recovery and has re-
turned to work.

Mr. W. F. Ryals,
Maintenance Fore-
man II, of Harnett
County, and wife
visited their son in
Nashville, Tennes-
see for a few days.
While there, they
attended the
"Grand Ole Opry"
and enjoyed var-

Divi.ionBCorrMpondent ioUS sight-seeing

events.

Mr. J. Q. Rayborn, Highway In-
spector II, of Harnett County, and
family enjoyed a nice vacation in
California, Nevada, and Texas.

Mr. Truitte Johnson and family
spent an exciting Labor Day week-
end at Emerald Isle.

Mr. S. D. Tyndall, Maintenance
Yard Foreman of Harnett County,
and Mrs. Tyndall made a quick get-
away to New York and New Jersey,
over the Labor Day week-end visiting
their daughters. While there, they
flew up to Canada. The girls had a
most enjoyable sight-seeing schedule
planned for Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall
which they carried out to the letter.

Mr. H. K. Autry, Maintenance
Supervisor of Harnett County, and
wife spent several days visiting rela-
tives in New York.

Ready f or bed! These are the
children of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Davis.
Daughter Alisan is holding her baby
brother, born August 23, 1969. Mr.
Davis works in the Resident Engi-
neer's Office in Lumberton.

A note of sympathy is extended to
Marvin Earp, of Harnett County
Maintenance, in the loss of his broth-
er.

Mr. J. W. Herring, Highway In-
spector II of Harnett County, an-
nounces the birth and death of his
grandchild, September 29, 1969.
Everyone wishes to express their
warmest condolences to the family
and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Hardy.

Samuel J. Smitherman, Division
Right of Way Agent in Division Six,
has just returned from a successful
deep sea fishing trip out from More-
head City, N. C.

Claude R. Moore, Jr., Right of
Way Agent, and his family spent La-
bor Day weekend with his wife's par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. McKinney,
in Augusta, Georgia. Also, the
"Moores" spent the last weekend of
September, 1969, at Sunset Beach.
They had a wonderful time at the
beach and a good time eating sea
food at Calabash. They also had a
marvelous time visiting friends at
Myrtle Beach, S. C. The Moores' two
sons "Richard" and "Tri" had a new
experience watching the fishing boats
come in with the nets filled with a
variety of fish.

Lynda Buie, daughter of Dorothy
Buie has returned to East Carolina
University where she is a sophomore,
majoring in Elementary Education.

Welcome to Ernest Parker, Engi-
neering Technician II, to the Divi-
sion 6 Construction Department.

Congratulations to M. G. Hall, Jr.,
a Construction employee, who mar-
ried Judy Parker, September 14, 1969.

Best wishes and a happy retire-
ment to J. A. Fowler, who is retiring
from the N. C. State Highway Com-
mission on January 1, 1970, after
more than 47 years of devoted service.

Mr. Fowler began his career with
the Highway Commission back in
1921, shortly after his graduation
from the Nashville Auto School in
Nashville, Tennessee. His first assign-
ment was with the Engineering De-
partment at the State Hospital in
Raleigh, where he was employed as
a mechanic.

In 1934 he transferred to the High-
way Commission as Shop Foreman
in the School Bus Shop in Jackson-
ville. In 1936 he was transferred to
the Division Shop in Fayetteville,
where he continued to serve until his
retirement.

Mr. J. A. Fowler
47 years of service.

Mr. Fowler is a member of the
Massey Hill Church, where he has
served as Deacon and Sunday School
Teacher. He is married to the for-
mer Myrtle Lee Kernpson of Co-
lumbia, South Carolina. They have
one daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Fowler plan to re-
tire in Fayetteville.

The State employees of Division
Six wish Mr. and Mrs. Fowler many
happy years of retirement.

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Mr. S. W. Giles has rejoined the
Maintenance crew in Harnett Coun-
ty after being out sick for several
weeks.

Mr. A. C. Gilbert was greeted with
familiar smiling faces when he re-
turned to work, after being out for
several months with back trouble.

Mr. R. E. Raynor has returned
home from the hospital and is recup-
erating nicely from injuries received
in an automobile accident.

Get-well wishes go out to Mrs.
Wade Norris, who was confined in
the hospital for a few days. Mrs. Nor-
ris is out now and is recuperating
quite well.

Cheerful get-well wishes go out to
Mrs. W. C. Byrd, who has been in
the hospital for surgery.

Mr. D. W. Weaver is in the hospital
doing well and we all wish to extend
a hardy get well to him and a speedy
recovery.

These four young men rescued
two injured men from a wreck re-
cently in which both cars burned.
Six others were killed in this acci-
dent. These men work out of the
Resident Engineer's Office in
Lumberton. They are, left to right:

C. E. Melvin, C. J. McArthur, W.

D. Pittman and R. F. Hall.

Women In Construction

On Project 8.1592505 (Rockingham
County), which is the paving of U. S.
29 Bypass from existing U. S. 29
south of Reidsville northerly to U. S.
158, the contractor, Ballenger Paving
Company, has employed some women
for use in tying the steel bars with
wire ties in reinforcement for the
concrete pavement. This may be the
first in the state; at least, it is a first
in this Division to have women ac-
tually working on a roadway under
construction.

DIVISION 1
SEVEN ~1

Mr. and Mrs. J.
Walter Hooper,
Sr., of Yanceyville,
recently returned
home after spend-
ing two weeks in
Woodland, Califor-
nia, visiting bheir
son, John, Jr., and
his family. While
there they toured

Carolyn Graves l nf northern

Division Correspondent mucn 01 nonneni
California, including the Delta Re-
gion, Sacramento and San Francisco.
They reported having a most enjoy-
able time. Mr. Hooper is Mainte-
nance Supervisor in Caswell County.

We are happy to report that Rufus
D. Green, who has been very ill in
the hospital, is much improved.

Sympathy is extended to W. L.
French in the death of his mother
and illness of his father.

Ernest Lundvall has been a Me-
chanic with the Highway Commission
for 20 years. He is always ready to
serve with a smile the many employ-
ees who stop for automotive repairs.

The following men are attending
a Survey School at Rockingham
Community College for eleven weeks
- 44 hours. Chris Speros Koumpara-
kis, Engr. Technician 3 with the
Commission is the instructor, and
students are W. F. Angel, Paul All-
red, W. N. Duke, Julian Gilliam, Bill
Severance, Robert Aswell and Ralph
Short. There are a total of 20 stu-
dents in the class.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Martin spent
a most enjoyable week at Myrtle
Beach in September, fishing and re-
laxing.

H. W. Joyce reports the fishing
fine at Morehead.

Williard Kallam and Charlie Smith
have returned to work after having
been out sick for several days.

Carolyn and Ed Graves did some
traveling on their vacation, going
thru the mountains of North Caro-
lina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes-
see, and stopping to visit interesting
sights such as the Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky and the Homestead in Ten-
nessee.

Sympathy to the family of Ervin F.
Cross, Road Oil employee, who was
killed in an automobile accident on
September 13.

Welcome back to J. V. Monti who
has been out on the sick list for sev-
eral weeks this summer.

Jamaica is now on the list of the
many places visited by Mr. Tom
Burton, retired Division Engineer.

Was good to see A. W. Ellington
in the office recently after his stay
at Duke Hospital having an opera-
tion on his hand.

Henry Manley, Ronnie Hamby,
and Bill Lemly, left to right. These
employees posed for snapshot at the
Division Equipment Shop, when Bill
Lemly, Right of Way Agent, stopped
by for service to his automobile. Mr.
Lemly is a new employee with the
Commission from Burlington.

Henry Manley, General Utility
Man with the Equipment Depart-
ment, has been employed by the
Commission for 8 years.

Mr. Hamby, Utility Man with the
Equipment Department, has been
with us for one year.

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DIVISION
EIGHT

Arnold Lassiter, Landscape Special-
ist, Aberdeen, is shown holding travel
case presented to him by his fellow
employees on August 27, when he en-
tered the Armed Services. Fresh coco-
nut cake and coffee, along with the
usual good advice to those going into
service, made his departure a little
more pleasant. Arnold has been with
the department for four years, and
we look forward to his being back
as soon as his tour of duty is finish-
ed. We hear he is stationed at Fort
Bragg.

DIVISION
NINE

Congratulations
to Mr. Robert H.
Broome, III, for-
mer Right of Way
Agent in Winston-
Salem who was
promoted to Divi-
sion Right of Way
Agent in Greens-
boro.

Dorothy Phelps Jim S. Ussery
Division Correspondent celebrated his

birthday, September 10. Jim is a
Right of Way Aide. Jim and his
wife, Linda, spent Labor Day week-
end with another couple at Myrtle
Beach. Jim and Cliff Waters, Right
of Way Agent, attended Communica-

tions Course I School in Hickory,
August 25 through 27.

Edith Carpenter, Secretary in the
Right of Way Department, and her
husband spent several days in More-
head City fishing. "Petite Edith" had
to use an electric line to reel in a 20-
pound fish.

Racine Van Dusen has recruited
two "Actresses" from R/W Depart-
ment for the Little Theater's produc-
tion "The Women"; Beverly Pfohl
and Linda Ussery will be taking
their curtain calls October 8 through
19.

If you see Mary Ann Bessellieu
with a wrench in her hand it is not
a substitute for the old fashioned
rolling pin. There is nothing old
fashioned about the petite spouse of
Owen Bessellieu; she is soon to grad-
uate "cum laude" from the Small En-
gine Repair Course at Forsyth Tech-
nical Institute.

The Construction Department ex-
tends deepest sympathy to the fam-
ily of Harry L. Rickenbacker who
passed away on September 9, 1969,
after a long illness. Harry was an
Inspector II in the office of W. D.
Rothrock, Resident Engineer, Win-
ston-Salem.

"Twice as much fun as last year,"
said Charlie and Jane Rumple, after
they revisited the PLAYBOY CLUB
in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Charlie
declared that there was no way to
stand up on a stainless steel dance
floor even if you have a Bunny hold-
ing you up.

Odell T. Neal, Coach and Teacher,
passed away on August 3, 1969. He
was also a Lay Leader and Member
of the Executive Board of Stokesburg
United Methodist Church; a Sunday
School Teacher, a former Superin-
tendent of Sunday School, and a
member of the Walnut Cove Rotary
Club. He was the brother of John Al-
ton Neal, Equipment Department. J.
W. Stone, a Maintenance Foreman
IV, with the Stokes County Mainte-
nance Department, is his brother-in-
law.

A long and happy retirement to R.

H. Foster, Truck Driver, Davie Coun-
ty Maintenance Department, and De-
Witt Brown, Maintenance Foreman
II, Stokes County Maintenance De-
partment. Both retired on September

I, 1969.

Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Rogers are the
proud parents of a baby girl, Ste-
phanie Anne, born August 30, 1969.
They also have a son, Anthony Evan,
who is 4V6 years old.

"Get well wishes" are sincerely ex-
tended to James C. Johnson, Traffic
Control Technician, who suffered a
heart attack on July 17, 1969.

William F. Tomlinson, Appraiser

11, resigned his position with the Ap-
praisal Section effective September

12, 1969. Bill is now Director of Real
Estate with the Housing Authority of
the City of Winston-Salem. Raymond

B. Atkins, Review Appraiser with the
Appraisal Section here in Winston-
Salem, has been transferred to our
Raleigh Office as Area Appraiser.
Congratulations, Raymond, and we
wish you the best of luck in your new
position. Linda Yates, Stenographer
in the Appraisal Section, is excited
and she has good reason to be. Linda
is flying to Chicago to visit her hus-
band, Bob, who is in school there.

Vacationing recently was: James
E. Moore, Area Appraiser, who had
a nice trip to Kentucky and the
mountains, where he took in some
golf at Beech Mountain, N. C. Alice
Greene spent her vacation in New
Orleans and Mexico. Carol Doty en-
joyed a trip to the mountains and
Tweetsie Railroad where her children
enjoyed themselves. Jayne Jones en-
joyed a trip to the good old state of
Georgia. Linda Yates enjoyed a trip
to the beach. James Bradford and M.

C. Byrum enjoyed a fishing trip to
Morehead City. What's this I hear
about that big fish that J. D. Brad-
ford caught? and Frank Morgan and
his family enjoyed a camping trip to
the mountains.

/ DIVISION (
U TEN ^

Get well wishes
are extended to C.
L. Burris. Mr.
Burris is home af-
ter an illness in
the Stanly County
Hospital. Mr. Bur-
ris works in Stanly
County Mainte-
nance.

Congratulations

Division Cor/espondeat tO Mr. J. C. Glov-

er, with Stanly County Maintenance,
who is the proud father of a new
baby girl.

We are glad to have some new em-
ployees with us: J. W. Vanhoy, J. E.
Simpson, W. H. Treece, and J. H.
Kendall.

Stanly County Maintenance em-
ployees are enjoying their new build-

ing, which they have been waiting
for, for a long time.

We welcome Mr. E. H. Baggs as
Assistant Division Engineer. Mr.
Baggs has moved to Charlotte from
Morehead City.

We extend condolences to the fam-
ily of L. J. Biggers of the Charlotte
District who passed away recently.
Mr. Biggers had been with the High-
way Commission for 18 years as a
Maintenance Foreman II. We also
extend condolences to the family of
P. J. Plummer of the Charlotte Dis-
trict who died suddenly on July 18,
1969. Mr. Plummer had been with the
Highway Commission for 12 years, as
a Machine Operator I.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Butch Kindley of Charlotte upon the
arrival of a son on Friday, October
3, 1969. Diane is Typist II in Resi-
dent Engineer L. P. Allman's office.

Mr. J. Paul Thomas grows collards
as well as other garden vegetables
now that he has retired as Mainte-
nance Foreman for Anson County.
C. R. Smith and T. L. Patterson have
just stopped by for a visit. Paul won't
let them leave without a sampling
of the pleasures of his garden. We
guess that everybody in the District
must call on Paul. He enjoys their
company almost as much as they en-
joy his vegetables.

Sympathy is ex-
tended to the fam-
ily of James
Woodrow South,
age 43, who died
August 31, 1969,
due to a heart at-
tack. Mr. South
was a Machine
Operator 3 in
Wilkes County
DiTulo0nc"^r.nd.ntand had been with
the Highway Commission since Jan-
uary of 1962.

Sympathy is extended to Howard

E. Koontz, Assistant Division Engi-
neer, whose father, John H. Koontz,
passed away September 9, 1969, at
the age of 79.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mrs. Grady Sue Doughton, wife of
Division Engineer J. E. Doughton;
A. E. Henson, Boone Construction
employee, who is out of work due to
a heart attack; and to Greg Norris,
son of Boone Construction employee
E. P. Norris, who is recovering at
home after undergoing surgery for
a brain tumor.

We are glad to have T. W. Perry,
Boone Construction employee, back
at work after being on sick leave due
to injuries sustained in a motorcycle
accident; also, Jack D. Gwyn, Boone

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winkler, Sr.,
celebrated their 50th wedding anni-
versary on Sunday, August 24. They
are the parents of George Winkler,
employee in the Boone Construction
Office.

Eager Beavers in Anson County

In Anson County the Highway Commission has a bridge, on S. R. 1148,
which is located upstream from a favorite dam-location for beavers. The
dam the beavers built has been destroyed several times because it causes
water to back up under the bridge. However the beavers build it back in a
few days.

(Apparently this is a very unusual occurrence in North Carolina be-
cause beavers tend to stay away from roads and people. Also, there are very
few beaver in North Carolina. They once were native to this area but dis-
appeared about 1900 due to over-trapping and destruction of habitat. They
were reintroduced back into the Sandhills area from Pennsylvania. How-
ever, the beaver is noted for being persistent in a habitat he likes. Duane
Raver, of the Wildlife Resources Commission, says that Commission Game
Biologists prefer to live-trap beavers and relocate them when they inter-
fere with human activities. Ed.)

This picture shows recently com-
pleted project at Smith's Cross Roads
in Lenoir. This modern intersection
replaces an old traffic circle which
carried a heavy load of traffic at the
junction of N. C. 18 and 90 and U. S.
321.

Construction employee, and Resident
Engineer E. Ford King, Jr. are back
at work after being out due to illness.

R. W. Ashley, District 3 Mainte-
nance employee, and family recently
spent their vacation at Chinteage,
Virginia, Cape Hatteras and the Out-
er Banks.

Another view, Smith's Cross Roads.

Widening project on Duke Street
in Granite Falls now under construc-
tion and scheduled for completion
November 15, 1969.

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We would like to welcome Mrs.
Katherine B. Bauguss, Clerk 2, who
came to work in August for the Di-
vision Eleven Road Oil Department.

The Rumple Memorial Presbyter-
ian Church in Blowing Rock was the
setting Saturday, September 6, for
the wedding of Miss Mary leather-
ing Duly and Mr. Michael Wilson.
The Rev. Murray Coffey was assist-
ed by the Rev. Richard Holshouser in
performing the double-ring ceremony.

Given in marriage by her father,
the bride wore a gown and train of
bridal satin and lace appliqued with
seed pearls. A lace and satin bow
accented with seed pearls held her
short nylon net veil and she carried
a white Bible topped with white roses
and white satin streamers.

After a wedding trip to Atlanta,
Georgia, the couple will reside in
Boone. Mike is an engineering aide
in the Boone Construction Office.

We welcome our
two new construc-
t i o n employees,
Fred E. Brackett,
Engineering Aide,
and Lonnie S.
Peacock, Civil
Technology Train-
ee.

The following
Engineering As-
DWUion'corrispondent sistants in this De-
partment have resigned their posi-
tions with us to return to school: J.
R. Lewis, W. R. Shearin, and D. K.
Stacey. Earl H. Lutz, Jr., Temporary
Engineering Aide, has also resigned
his position to return to school.

We would like to extend our best
wishes to James Ray Head who has
recently transferred from our De-
partment to the Materials and Tests
Department in Raleigh.

G. I. Pearce, Highway Inspector
III with the Hickory Construction
Party, has returned to work after an
illness of 12 weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Crigler spent
their vacation traveling through Cali-
fornia and visiting their son, H. T.
Crigler, Jr., who is with the United
States Navy. Mr. Crigler is an En-
gineer with the Hickory Construc-
tion Party.

Some of our employees have been
on vacation during the summer. Mr.

C. C. Mauney enjoyed a trip to Ok-
lahoma with his family and Mr. J.

D. Sprinkle spent a week at White
Lake with his family.

This pretty little girl is Sharon La-
Rae Teague, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Larry R. Teague. Larry is a
Maintenance Foreman I in Alexan-
der County. Sharon was 20 months
old when this picture was taken in
August of 1969.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Briggs flew
in from Oakland, California, for a
three week visit with Mrs. Briggs'
family, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rector.
Mr. Rector is a Highway Inspector
with the Hickory Construction Party.

Mr. and Mrs. Allison week-ended
in Nashville, Tennessee, and while
there attended the Grand Ole Opry.
H. L. Allison is an Engineer with the
Hickory Construction Party.

This little sweetheart is Alisa Gai-
ther, the 18- month old granddaugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Gaither of
Statesville. Mr. Gaither is our Dis-
trict Engineer.

Sandra Gail Lowery was married
August 23, 1969, to James Frederick
Oehler. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Lowery of Ellenboro
and her father, Dewitt, is employed
in the Construction Department.

Mrs. Linda Seagle, Typist II in
the Shelby Construction Department,
went on maternity leave September
26, 1969. We wish Linda much happi-
ness on this occasion.

We would like to welcome Mr. Lee
E. Ledbetter and Mr. Michael K.
Hamrick, Engineering Aides, to R.
R. Nichols' engineering party in the
Shelby Construction Department. We
also welcome Terry Queen, Civil
Technology Trainee, to our Engineer-
ing Party. Terry has worked with us
for the past two summers.

Mr. R. R. Nichols, Resident Engi-
neer in the Shelby Construction De-
partment, took a much deserved va-
cation to Florida the last week in
September.

We are happy to welcome a new
permanent aide to our department,
Mr. Guy Stamey Jones of Route 4,
Statesville.

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Deepest sympathy is extended to
Jim Parker of Traffic Services in the
death of his mother in September.

The newest member of the "grand-
parents set" are Martha and Carl
Allen. Their first grandchild was
born September 19, 1969, a 9 lb. 4
oz. boy. Parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Hord.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Lee Kemper on their Fiftieth
Wedding Anniversary, which they
plan to celebrate on October 18. Mr.
Kemper was Division Engineer in the
Twelfth Division prior to his retire-
ment.

Former Division Engineer H. E.
Noell was looking fit as a fiddle on
August 29, his birthday. He is hale
and hearty at 84.

E. R. McGimpsey, retired Office
Engineer, just returned from a tour
of the New England states and Nova
Scotia.

Miss Patricia Anne Sigmon became
the bride of Lamarr Edmund Greene
on July 27. Mrs. Greene is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Marshall
Sigmon of Cherryville, and Mr.
Greene is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph E. Greene of Shelby. Ralph is
employed in the Right of Way De-
partment in the 12th Division.

Pictured above is Trevor Lee Rup-
pe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L.
Ruppe of Statesville. Trevor Lee was
born June 7, 1969, and his father is
Resident Engineer.

( DIVISION ^-7
V THIRTEEN /

Edna Ramsey

Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Horton made
a vacation trip to
Florida recently.
They visited all
around the state,
including Cape
Kennedy. Mr. Jack
B. Kirksey, State
Highway Commis-
sioner and Mr. F.

Division Corespondent L- Hutchinson, Di-
vision Engineer, both gave talks to
the Asheville Lions Club on Septem-
ber 24. Welcome to Alden Whitmore,
Jr., as new Division Staff Engineer.
Alden comes to Division 13 from the
training program in Charlotte.

Madison County reports that Mon-
roe Merrill is still out sick. Hope he
gets well soon. Welcome back to
Weaver Allison who has returned to
work after an illness. Verlon Coates
transferred from the Asheville District
office to take over the Maintenance
Yard Foreman job in Madison Coun-
ty. We all wish Dedrick Roberts luck
in his new career. Welcome from Dis-
trict Two to Don Dawson, who is
new acting Assistant District Engi-
neer and Mickey Swann, Engineering
Aide.

The lovely bride is the former Glor-
ia Jean Lawrence, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Deaver Lawrence. Mr. Law-
rence is a mechanic in the Division 13
Equipment Department. Miss Law-
rence became the bride of Lowell Hol-
lars of West Palm Beach, Florida, on
August 9, 1969. We all wish the new-
lyweds every happiness in the future.

Gene Edmonds, Assistant Traffic
Engineer, recently represented his
Church at a Laymen's meeting in
Akron, Ohio. Meryl Compton took a
trip to Wilmington, Ohio.

Joe Riddle, Bridge Inspector, suf-
fered a heart attack. We all hope he
makes good progress and is able to
come back soon. Carolyn McMahan
who is in Dan Martin's office was in-
volved in a car accident and has been
hospitalized. Millard Huntley and
James Stevens of Buncombe Main-
tenance are also on the sick list.

Welcome to Frances Louise Gray,
new secretary to the Office Manager
in the Division 13 office.

37

Daniel Burnett and Linda Kay
Maney of Leicester were married on
August 30, 1969, at Victory Baptist
Church. Daniel is the son of A. L.
Barnett, Area Bridge Construction
Engineer, and both he and his new
bride will be juniors at UNC-Greens-
boro.

Our deepest sympathy to Mr. An-
drew Ray on the recent loss of his
wife, Huguette, and to the family of
Charles Naylor, who passed away
unexpectedly on September 27. Also
to Tommy Brooks who is with Main-
tenance in Madison County and who
lost both parents within days of each
other last month.

Congratulations to Bart Bryson,
who was recently elected to member-
ship in the American Institute of
Real Estate Appraisers. He is Divi-
sion Appraiser.

Mr. B. S. Connelly, District Engi-
neer, District Two, retired June 30 of
this year. The picture was taken at a
retirement party given for him and
several retired employees came along
to let him know what to expect. Pic-
ture shows, left to right, Claude
Brown, Herbert Roberts, Ben Snyder,
Lewis Roberts, B. S. Connelly, Paul
Clay, J. J. Foster, J. T. Knight and
H. D. Aiken. Sid Connelly had been
with the Highway Commission for 41
years and was presented with a por-
table TV from his friends.

Mrs. Harriet Gossett retired after
48 years with the Highway Commis-
sion. A farewell luncheon was held at
Bucks Restaurant in Asheville and
Harriet was presented with a color
TV from her friends and colleagues.
Shown in the picture, taken at the
luncheon are: J. G. Stikeleather, Jr.,
Commissioner; F. L. Hutchinson, Di-
vision Engineer; Harriet Gossett; Mr.
J. T. Knight, former Assistant Divi-
sion Engineer and W. Corkill, for-
mer Division Engineer.

Pvt. Ray Calvin Edwards will grad-
uate from the Ft. Bragg Army Train-
ing Center on October 10. Ray was
formerly with the Maintenance De-
partment in Buncombe and his wife
Patsy is in Dan Martin's office.

Allyce Cunningham i k i x i.

Division Correspondent looKea at tne man.

One of the Right
of Way men was
going over the pro-
perty lines with an
owner and in the
course of conversa-
tion the man re-
marked that he
had 21 children.
With raised eye-
brows the agent

"Oh," said the man, "I would have
had more but I am only home on
Saturdays and rainy days!"

Doug Bowers and Verlin Edwards
have passed the N. C. State Profes-
sional Engineers exam and are now
registered engineers. Our congratula-
tions to them.

Bob Pless, Resident Engineer, re-
ports that his men, riding along NC
110, noticed trees in a right of way
that obstructed the view. Since no
cultivation can be in a right of way,
they had the trees cut down and re-
moved. Next they noticed that the
property owner had gone right back
and planted petunias in the same
spot. Evidently this property owner
decided we needed a little beautifi-
cation "on that spot."

The State convention in Winston-
Salem was quite a nice one and our
thanks go to those who made it a
success. Those attending from this
Division were: Ray Spangler, Grady
Shook, R. H. Thompson, Allyce Cun-
ningham, John Robertson, Otti Kit-
chens, George Postell and wife,
Vaughn Rhinehart, C. W. Rink, Bob
Pattilli, J. W. Pittillo, Joe Edwards,
Columbus Ashe, Bill Ray, T. M.
Austell, Conrad Burrell and wife, E.
J. Pullium and wife.

The
untaxables.

No state or local
income tax

Take stock in America

But U.S. Sarins* Bond* & Freedom Share*

38

Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Hutchinson
of Hooper's Creek are the parents of
three fine sons who are serving their
country: Buck Sergeant Don F. Hut-
chinson, Buck Sergeant Herman Hut-
chinson and Staff Sergeant Floyd N.
Hutchinson.

Sgt. Don F. Hutchinson

FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Congratulations to Mr. J. E. Jen-
nette, Ferry Engineer, at Hatteras,
who is retiring.

Sgt. Herman Hutchinson

Sgt. Lloyd N. Hutchinson

Along with the recent changes made
in the Highway Commission the Fer-
ry Operations said good-by to their
former Operations Manager, E. H.
Baggs and welcome to Hugh Salter,
former U. S. Marshal. Mr. Baggs
will be located in Division 10. Mr.
Baggs was Ferry Operations Manager
for five years and made his home in
Morehead City. He and Mrs. Baggs
had many friends in this area and
will be missed. We wish for them suc-
cess and happiness in their new ap-
pointment.

Mr. Salter is a native of Carteret
County. He and his family live in
Beaufort, N. C. We also wish him suc-
cess in his new job.

The Ferry Division was well repre-
sented at the recent convention of Hie
N. C. Highway and Correction Em-
ployees' Association held at Winston-
Salem during the week of Septem-
ber 25 through 27. The following em-
ployees reported that a very informa-
tive and enjoyable meeting was held:
B. L. O'Neal, Unit Chairman, More-
head City Office; H. V. Willis, Bogue
Sound Operation; Preston L. Bryant,
Unit Vice Chairman from the South-
port Ferry Operations; A. W. Cutler,
Pamlico River Operations; G. R. Ful-
ler and Maurice Ballance, Hatteras
Inlet Operation; and D. E. Snow and
Henry Edens from the Equipment
Department.

Do you know what is causing that
broad smile on Graham Buskirk's face
these days? It is a brand new baby
boy for Mr. and Mrs. Buskirk, nam-
ed James Bryant, born on September
5, weighing in at 8 lbs., 8V2 ozs. Looks
like you've got a heavy weight champ
on your hands there Buskirk.

Bernie Guthrie, ferry pilot at Bo-
gue Sound has been out due to a
serious back injury.

Port Captain George Lawrence, at
the Bogue Sound Operation recently
spent several days in New London,
Connecticut, with his son, Bobby
Lawrence, who had to undergo serious
surgery. We were glad to learn from
Mr. Lawrence's last reports that he
was improving.

The ferry employees at Bogue
Sound report that many passengers
these fall days are headed for the
beach side with blood in their eyes.
They are going to catch those fish
they have been hearing so much
about. They're bound to catch some,
because from all reports, fishing is
good this fall.

Captain Bryant tells us that their
pet alligators at the Southport Fer-
ry Terminal docks have gone into
hibernation. Personally, I think I
would choose a pet with a smaller
mouth.

Chief Barnhill and George Rabon
have kept the crew at the Southport
Ferry well fed with nice, juicy water-
melons this summer. It's always nice
to have a few farmers in the crowd.

Mr. Pluman E. Sawyer retired
August 1, 1969, after approximately
20 years of dedicated service. The
Equipment Department Personnel
honored him with a dinner on August
7, 1969, at Spencer's Cafe. Approxi-
mately 40 guests attended to show
their deep respect and admiration.
We wish you a very happy retire-
ment, Mr. Sawyer.

39

It seems that Thomas deVaux
Fredericks, Clerk II, at the South-
port Ferry Office, has had an active,
exciting, and rewarding past. We read
an item which appeared in a local
newspaper just recently that tells us
that Mr. Fredericks, a pioneer Pali-
sade, New Jersey, resident, was the
proprietor of a restaurant and cocktail
lounge known as "The Vat". Many
famous people frequented "The Vat"
in the 1930's and 40's, including Bing
Crosby, Bob Crosby, Hal Le Roy and
Peter Lind Hayes, also big band men
such as George Olsen, Will Osborn,
Fred Waring and many of the music
men and their bands. Eddie Condon
and his men played four times a year
at the establishment. Mr. Fredericks
played trombone in the regular band
that played at his restaurant. In or-
der to preserve the sound of the "mu-
sic of those day as reflected by "The
Vat" sound one of Mr. Fredericks'
most recent non-profit projects was
to make a recording. The edition of
the album has been limited to 200,
making it a collector's item. After
Mr. Fredericks retired from his busi-
ness in Palisade, New Jersey, he and
his wife moved to Southport, and,
being the active man that he is, he
found employment with the N. C.
State Highway Commission at the
Southport Ferry Terminal where he
has been performing the duties of
clerk for nearly two years.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mrs. Nettie Salter, mother of our
Ferry Operations Manager, Hugh Sal-
ter. Mrs. Salter had to undergo sur-
gery at the Sea Level Hospital, Mon-
day, September 29.

Best wishes to Mr. Randolph
(Bucky) Barnette, Ferry Engineer,
at Hatteras, who recently resigned.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Creef on the birth of a lovely
baby girl, Wendy Kay Creef, who
was born on September 10. Warren
is Administrative Assistant at the
Hatteras Inlet Ferry Office.

Julian C. Harris was injured while
on the job last month.

Welcome to W. M. McCaskill who
is now back at work after an illness.
Mr. McCaskill is Cook aboard the
Dredge "Carolina".

We wish to extend best wishes to
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Crane who
were married in the Mount Olive
Methodist Church last month. Law-
rence is Ferryman at Hatteras Inlet.

U0

He married the former Miss Holly
Simpson.

Mr. Gerald Price is hospitalized in
the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Vir-
ginia.

Mr. D. E. Snow, Equipment Super-
intendent, and wife have returned
home after vacationing in the west-
ern part of the state.

Ivey Evans, Mechanic Foreman II,
has just completed having his boat
"Keydet" drydocked and is ready for
the striped bass season.

We wish to welcome Mr. Lawson
Abrose, Mechanic II, back with the
Equipment Department at Manns
Harbor Shipyard.

Felton Retires
Boyette Named

DICK" FELTON

J. R. "Dick" Felton, Area Land-
scape Supervisor, retired on August
29 after more than 41 years service
with the Commission. Employees of
the Landscape Department honored
him with a dinner held at the Planta-
tion Inn Restaurant and presented
him with several remembrances. Mr.
Felton states that he plans on playing
a little golf; not every day — just
every other day! Attending the din-
ner with him were his wife, Hazel
Carter Felton, and his daughters, Sue,
Mollie and Emly. They reside in
Winton and we wish him good health
and happiness during his retirement.

R. S. Boyette has been named Area
Landscape Supervisor with headquar-
ters at the Wilson Division Office. He
replaces J. R. Felton who retired.

(From an unknown 19th Century
printing shop)

Employees working here shall
dust the furniture, clean their
desks and sweep the floor regular-
ly.

All windows shall be cleaned
once a week.

Each employee shall bring his
own bucket of water and scuttle of
coal for the day's work.

Lamps shall be trimmed and
chimneys shall be cleaned daily.

Working hours shall be 7 a.m.
to 8 p.m. every evening but the
Sabbath. On the Sabbath, everyone
is expected to be in the Lord's
House.

Employees are expected to trim
their own pen nibs to suit them-
selves.

It is expected that each em-
ployee shall participate in the ac-
tivities of the church and contri-
bute liberally to the Lord's work.

All employees must show them-
selves worthy of their hire.

All employees are expected to
be in bed by 10 p.m. Except: Each
male employee may be given one
evening a week for courting pur-
poses and two evenings a week in
the Lord's House.

After an employee has been with
our firm for five years, he shall
receive an added payment of 5<t
per day, providing the firm has
prospered in a manner to make it
possible.

It is the bounden duty of each
employee to put away at least
10% of his wages for his declining
years, so that he will not become a
burden upon the charity of his
betters.

Any employee who is shaven in
public parlors, frequents pool
rooms or uses tobacco, shall be
brought before management to give
reasons why he should be contin-
ued in employment.

By GIBSON PRATHER

There was this truck driver on the telephone at my
office in the Highway Commission Building and he was
somewhat upset, if you want to understate the case.

He was calling from Benson.

"I was driving, not fast, on 1-95," he said, "and an
oil drum which was being used to channel traffic at that
Bridge that is being fixed blew in front of my truck. I
hit the oil drum and almost turned over and ended up
in the median between the road strips."

"Were you hurt?" he was asked.

"No, I wasn't hurt, but I'm plenty sore," he said. "No
sooner had I got my truck stopped than this foreman runs
up to the truck and says, "If you s.o.b.'s would just slow
down ..."

"What did you say to him?" I asked.

"Nothing much," said the driver. "But when I start-
ed thinking about it, I started getting madder. Now I
want to know two things."

"What are they?"

"I want to know who is going to pay to get my truck
fixed," he said, "and I want to know the name of the
man who called me a s.o.b."

This clear statement of his position made everything
a lot simpler because here was a man of simple tastes,
and you knew where you stood with him.

His answer to the question about what he had said
to the Foreman seemed a little devious, however, and
reminded one of the story of the construction worker
who was charge with profanity.

The workman, who witnesses said had cussed some-
what, took the stand in his own defense.

He testified that he was working on this office build-
ing when someone from up above had dropped a red
hot rivet and it had hit him in the back of the neck and
gone down his shirt.

"And what did you say when this happened?" asked
the prosecutor.

"I said to the man who dropped it to please not do
that again," said the defendant.

Anyway, the truck driver's story was referred to Gen.
Ivan Hardesty, who has charge of bridges generally.

Whether the driver ever found out who called him an
s.o.b. is not a matter of record.

However, I met one of the crew who had worked on
the Benson bridge and asked him if he knew anything
about the matter.

"As a matter of fact," he said, "I am the one who
called him that." He reflected for a moment.

"But you ought to have heard what he called me."

Recalling that telephone conversation started thoughts
about people who have "ungovernable tempers".

It has always seemed to me that there really is no
such thing.

A person who may rant and stomp in the presence
of one individual might very well completely control
himself when he is being observed by a three-star gen-
eral or his preacher.

There was a story once about this hardware store
owner who had a temper he couldn't seem to control
and since he was always taking it out on his clerks he
couldn't keep any hired help.

One day a young farm boy came to answer an ad
for a clerk and the store owner thought maybe if he
got matters straight at the start it would help.

"Look," he told the boy, "I have a temper I can't
control. Some day I will get mad at something you have
done and will give you a good cussing. But I hope you
will take it the way it is. I just can't help it and I won't
really mean it."

The boy studied a minute.

"All right," he said, "I'll take it like that if you will
do something for me. The first time you start cussing me
I am going to pick up one of those axe handles and hit
you in the head. But please don't think anything about
it because I won't really mean it."

The sequel to that conversation was 20 years of as-
sociation between the two with hardly a cross word.

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A MAGAZINE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE HIGHWAYS COMMISSION

From The Chairman

As we enter a new year and a new decade, we can feel
confident that great things are in store for North Caro-
lina's highway program.

The year just ended has been one of change and tran-
sition, such as occurs every four years when a new admin-
istration takes over the state's government. But despite
this, there has been steady progress in improving our
highways.

Figures obtained from the finance department showed
that road contracts in force in October were $10 million
higher than at the same time last year and higher on that
date than during the last four years.

So we have managed to be busy and keep our program
going in spite of changes and distractions.

Now we should really be able to move ahead.

Much of the planning that has been going on during the
year that is ending should be translated into actual con-
struction in the 12 months to come. I believe that 1970
can be one of ithe most significant years in the Highway
Commission's history; whether it will be, in large meas-
ure, depends upon you, the people who work with the
Commission. I have no doubts as to how you will perform.

We have set some very ambitious goals for highway
construction during the next three years, but we can meet
these goals. The loyalty and dedication shown by Com-
mission employees since I have been here makes me be-
lieve that the task ahead will be done, and done well.

Let us, then, enjoy the holiday season that is upon
us and come back after the New Year resolved to make
it a truly banner year in Highways.

And may I take this opportunity to wish for each of you
and your families a very happy holiday — both at Christ-
mas and on New Year's Day.

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XV
NUMBER VI

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners
J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

Robert G. Barr E. Gwyn McNeil

Clifton L. Benson Charles K. Maxwell

W. G. Clark, III Joe W. Nowell, Jr.

Charles R. Dawkins David R. Parnell

Roy D. Dedmon W. T. Phillips

Thomas W. Ellis, Jr. Hugh A. Ragsdale

Carroll H. Gillam James M. (Jim) Smith

Novile C. Hawkins Lynwood Smith

W. B. (Bill) Joyce W. Arthur Tripp

Jack B. Kirksey E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Willoughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chief Engineer

Jack Murdock Acting Secondary Roads Officer
W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Relations Officer Arch Laney

Assistant Public Relations Officer Gibson Prather

Editor Edith Johnson

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist JAND3 WILLIAMS

Photographer GORDON DEANS

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Glenn Carawan

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations Robbie Daniels

Published bi-monthly for employees of
The North Carolina State Highway Commission
By the Public Relations Department

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Continued from page 6)

From The Chairman Inside Front Cover

By D. McLauchlin Faircloth

Freewheelin' H

A Letter We Liked 13

Headquarters M>

Division News 19

Features

North Carolinians Participate At American Association

Of State Highway Officials Meeting in Philadelphia 3

By Arch Laney

Computer Application For The Administration

Of Highway Legal Affairs 3

By Harrison Lewis

Brinkley, DuPre, Bass, Move Up 5

Ex-District Attorney Joins SHC Employment Staff 7

Parkway Open This Winter 7

Historic Preservation Becomes Good Business 8

By Elizabeth Culbertson Waugh

N.C.H.C.E.A. Report 10

Back To School At The Velvet Cloak 12

Back To Work On The Golf Course 12

Awards And Festivities In The 3rd Division 13

By Arch Laney

The Perfect Christmas Eve Inside Back Cover

By Janie Williams

Moravian Christmas Customs Inside Back Cover

By Racine Van Dusen

The Silver Forest 28

By Jewel Adcock

Special

Highway Holidays And Events, 1970 Centerfold

By Elise Speights

COVER PICTURES

Frank Daino, Property Survey
Engineer in the Location Depart-
ment, designed the front and back
covers. He is an accomplished art-
ist, restorer of old architecture,
and collector of antiques. Electron-
ics is another interest.

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO.
RALEIGH, N. C.

breakdowns for distribution among
the staff. We would also anticipate a
printout during the latter part of a
week of all cases in which certain
action needed to be taken the follow-
ing week such as trial, filing of an-
swers, docketing of appeal, argument
in appellate court, etc. Estimates de-
veloped by Central Data Processing
are somewhere in the neighborhood of
an initial cost of $11,000.00 with an
annual maintenance cost of $15,000.00
to $20,000.00.

An on-line-system would probably
cost us somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of an initial cost of $25,000.00,
with $100,000.00 a year maintenance
cost. These costs, of course, could be
considerably reduced if the system
were integrated with some other on
line system such as the PIN system.

Our major effort at the present is
to locate financing. Central Data
Processing provides these services
and, of course, charges the agency to
which it is provided. The Attorney
General's office does not have the
budget to cover this; however, a con-
siderable portion of the Attorney
General's operations aTe financed by
other departments. The Highway
Commission pays all of the High-
way Division's operational expenses
and we anticipate no difficulty in fi-
nancing that portion which (relates to
the Highway Commission. As to those
cases relating to Federal Aid pro-
jects, we anticipate Federal partici-
pation as a part of the cost of right-
of-way acquisition. We also anticipate
financing from other agencies for
which the Attorney General's office
renders substantial legal services.
Federal grants are available for law
enforcement and we anticipate secur-
ing funds to cover a portion of the
project.

Properly integrated, the cost of any
one system is greatly reduced.

This pretty well covers what we
are trying to do and what we have
accomplished to date in North Caro-
lina. I hope that it may have given
you some ideas, and I hope that as
more of us get into the computer
field we can coordinate our efforts
and share our experience. Computer-
ization in the legal field, particularly
in government, is inevitable. It is the
only way we can keep from being
buried alive in paper.

2

North Carolinians at Meeting of American
Association of State Highway Officials

By ARCH LANEY

The North Carolina State Highway Commission was well represented at
the AASHO Convention in Philadelphia by 16 members of the Headquarters
staff. Ted Morawski, Division Engineer for the Federal Highway Administra-
tion in North Carolina, also attended.

The week-long confab was held at the Sheraton Hotel, October 26-31,
with representatives from all 50 states and Puerto Rico on hand. Committee
meetings on every phase of the business of highways, from planning and de-
sign and research to Legal Affairs, were held.

The two major committees of AASHO are the Administrator and Execu-
tive Committee and the Standards and Planning and Design Policies Commit-
tee. Other primary committees are Legal Affairs; Public Information; Ad-
ministrative Practices; Urban Transportation; Socio-Economic and Environ-
mental Factors; Emergency Planning; Uniform Accounting; Design; Electron-
ics; Maintenance and Equipment; Highway Planning; Right-of-Way; Bridges
and Structures; Secondary Roads; Communications; Construction; Traffic;
Roadside Development; Finance; and Materials.

While there were papers presented and panel discussions in each of the
committee sessions, probably the mo9t interesting and heated discussions de-
veloped in the Legal Affairs and in the Right-of-Way meetings. Most of the
agenda in both committees dealt with relocation advisory assistance. There
was plenty of discussion between participants representing state highway ad-
ministration and those representing the Federal Highway Administration on
interpretation of policy memoranda published by the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration in conjunction with the 1968 Highway Act.

The meeting afforded an opportunity for an exchange of ideas and for up-
dating concepts of the role of highway transportation in the United States.

Participation from the North Carolina delegation was highlighted by Har-
rison Lewis, Deputy Attorney General, Highway Division. Lewis spoke to
the Committee on Legal Affairs on the subject, "Application of Computer Pro-
grams to Department of Transportation Legal Affairs."

Others attending from North Carolina were L. H. Gunter, Equipment En-
gineer; J. L. Norris, Chief Bridge Engineer; C. W. Lee, Chief Engineer; Lan-
dis M. Temple, Bridge Design Engineer; W. H. (Buck) Webb, Chief Right of
Way Agent; Max R. Sproles, Planning and Research Engineer; W. M. Ingram,
Project Control Engineer; W. A. Wilson, Jr., Design Engineer; Boyce Mid-
gette, Locating Engineer; W. F. Caddell, Jr., Advance Planning Engineer;
Arch Laney, Public Information Director; J. H. Davis, Chief Engineer; W. E.
Latham, Construction Engineer; Henry C. Clegg, Jr., Assistant Design Engi-
neer; G. R. Fleming, Safety and Emergency Planning Engineer, Lewis, and
Morawski.

All the N. C. delegates had some free time to shop and sight-see in the
City of Brotherly Love. Generally speaking, however, time and space will not
allow this writer to delve into the extra-curricular activities of our group. Not
only, could I not keep up with them, but if I started on one, then I must re-
late the activities of all, and that includes this writer.

DOUGLAS B. FUGATE

Virginians will provide the leader-
ship for the American Association of
State Highway Officials (AASHO)
during the coming year.

Douglas B. Fugate, Commissioner
for the Department of Highways,
Commonwealth of Virginia, was nam-
ed President of the organization at
its annual convention in Philadelphia
October 26-31. He succeeds Ross G.
Stapp, Superintendent of Highways
for the state of Wyoming.

Fugate, a native of Pulaski County,
Virginia, has been connected with the
Old Dominion Highway Department
since 1927, shortly after receiving his
Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil
Engineering.

He was appointed Commissioner of
Highways on February 1, 1964. He is
past president of the Southeastern
Association of State Highway Offi-
cials, (SASHO), and the Virginia
Section of the American Society of
Civil Engineers.

We can be justly proud of the ser-
vice rendered to the cause of hitler
highways by Mr. Fugate from our
neighbor state.

Highway Attorney Presents Paper at A.A.S.H.O.

Computer Applications for the Administration of Highway Legal Affairs
(This is an abridged version of Mr. Lewis' presentation. Ed.)

My only qualification to talk to
you on this subject other than pure
nerve and a fairly long-standing in-
terest in computer applications to
the law is that the North Carolina
Attorney General's Office, under the
leadership and direction of our At-
torney General, Robert Morgan, is
one of a few states that is in the pro-
cess of trying to put a computer to

work for us in the administration of
the Attorney General's office, includ-
ing the Highway Division, and I have
been reasonably closely associated
with the program, since the Attorney
General initiated it back in the
Spring.

When our Attorney General took
office the first of January of 1969,
there was no central index of all

cases being handled by the Attorney
General's Office and the High-
way Division had the only fairly
comprehensive cross index card file
of cases handled by that Division.

The Attorney General also discov-
ered that the file of official Attorney
General opinions and its index was
not in the best possible shape. The
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Attorney General found that it was
entirely possible for two staff attor-
neys working on the same opinion to
each find diametrically opposed pre-
vious opinions without either finding
the previous opinions which the other
had found, thus ending up with two
conflicting new opinions being issued
on the same day. Obviously something
had to be done and it appeared

that a computer was probably the
best answer.

There are about twenty-five hun-
dred (2,500) open active cases in the
Attorney General's office, about fif-
teen hundred (1,500) of which are in
the Highway Division. A brief check
reveals that by the time a Highway
condemnation case is closed it con-
tains on the average of three hundred
pages of material. With fifteen hun-

dred open cases this is four hundred
and fifty thousand pages of written
material or a total of about two hun-
dred and fifty million (250,000,000)
words. In the Highway Division alone
there are about seventy-five hundred
(7,500) closed cases which represent
two and a quarter million pages or
one billion one hundred twenty five
million words (1,125,000,000).

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... it is necessary to understand something about what a computer is and
what it can do.

In order to understand why a
computer might be the answer to
the problem, it is necessary to un-
derstand something about what a
computer is and what it can do.
Although a computer is not a
thinking machine and although it
can perform the functions of a cal-
culator, it can do a great deal
more. A computer performs four
basic operations: in-put, storage,
processing, and out-put. It has the
capacity to store tremendous quan-
tities of data and to process and
retrieve data extremely rapidly.

A washing machine, a telephone,
and a stop light are computers in
their own right. They have the
same basic elements of operation:
in-put, processing and out-put. For
the washing machine, in -put is
dirty clothes and detergent, the
processing is the washing and the
out-put is the same clothes clean.
The telephone in-put is a number,
processing is the decoding of that
number and the opening and clos-
ing of switches; out-put is the com-
pleted connection to the person
you dialed. The stop light on the
corner's in-put is a coded timing
mechanism, processing is its acti-
vation and out-put is the contin-
uing cycle of red, green and am-
ber lights. For the computer in-put
consists of a program and data.
Processing is the computer's mani-
pulation of the data by the pro-
gram. Out-put is the answer or so-
lution to the problem. Basically a
computer does reading, writing and
arithmetic. In order for a compu-
ter to handle, store, and process
data, it must be reduced to mathe-
matical terms. Components used
for storage and processing work on
a simple principal. They have only
two possible stages, pust an an or-
dinary light bulb, on or off. In
computers "on" represents a "one"
and "off" represents an "O". Var-
ious combinations of ones and ze-

roes can represent numbers and
letters. If you have been attempt-
ing to help your children with so
called "Modern Math" you pro-
bably know that this is known as
the binary system of numbers. The
main memory storage of a compu-
ter is made up of tiny ferrous
doughnuts called cores, each of
which can be in an "on" or "off"
magnetically charged position.
Magnetic tapes are another storage
device. There are magnetic spots
with "on" and "off" polarization
which, grouped together, represent
words or numbers. Stacks of mag-
netic discs are also another type
of storage in which data is instant-
ly accessible. In addition to a
computer being able to add, sub-
tract, multiply and divide, by using
proper instructions, a computer
can sort data, arrange data, and
store it away. With proper instruc-
tions, the computer can compare
two numbers to find out whether
one is larger than, smaller than, or
equal to the other. By comparing,
it can sort. A program is a list of
orders to a computer and upon
proper instructions, a computer
has the ability to jump around in
a program when certain situations
arise. There are also other com-
puter instructions used for in-put,
out-put operations, which instruct
the computer what to do with the
data when it is received and what
to do with it after it is processed;
whether to store it, whether to
print it out, etc. The heart of the
computer is the central processing
unit (CPU) which contains the
main memory core consisting of
the tiny iron doughnuts previously
referred to, as well as a great deal
of other electronic equipment. To
the CPU may be attached various
in-put devices such as a punch
card reader, magnetic tape and
disc drives, a paper punch tape
reader, a magnetic tape selectric

typewriter tape reader, a visual
scanner which can read certain
types of print and a typewriter
keyboard in-put. The various types
of out-put may consist of storage
on a tape or disc, a high speed
printer, typewriter terminal or a
visual display on a cathode-ray
screen.

There are two or three other
computer terms which we need to
understand in order to know what
a computer can do for us. These
are the terms "batch processing",
"on line system", "teleprocessing"
and "direct access". Data can be
fed into a computer in batches,
processed in batches, and fed out
in batches; or in an "on line sys-
tem", individual pieces of data
may be fed into a computer sepa-
rately. Small items of individual
processing can be done at any
time with immediate out-put. In
on-line processing, direct access in-
puts, such as a typewriter console,
are used; and it is necessary for
the computer to be equipped with
direct access storage devices such
as a magnetic disc or strip where
the information can be imme-
diately located without the neces-
sity of running through an entire
tape. Direct access out-puts are
generally in the nature of a type-
writer console, video tube, or a
combination. An ordinary touch
tone telephone can serve as a di-
rect access. In-put can be keyed
in and out-put can be verbal
through a device that selects re-
corded words. "Teleprocessing" in-
volves in-put, processing and out-
put of data through direct access
to devices from remote stations
connected to the CPU by phone
lines and it generally is used in an
on-line system, although I am sure
batch processing can be done re-
motely.

Brinkley, DuPre,

Bass, Move Up

George A. Brinkley

George A. Brinkley, who is presently State Mainte-
nance Engineer, became Assistant Chief Engineer on No-
vember 1.

Brinkley is a native of Wilmington and started work
with the Highway Commission in 1924. He has served
in Wilmington, Fayetteville and Wilson, as well as in
Raleigh. In 1959, he came to Raleigh as State Equipment
Engineer and was elevated to State Maintenance Engi-
neer in 1962.

Brinkley is a graduate of Atlantic Christian College,
served as a captain in the U. S. Army Engineers in
North Africa and France during World War II, and is a
member of the Masons and Kiwanis. In Fayetteville, he
was president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
and Mrs. Brinkley live at 6813 Holly Drive, Raleigh.

Brinkley succeeds General Ivan Hardesty, who retired
October 31.

"George Brinkley is a dedicated highway employee who
has served well in any area where he has been assign-
ed," commented George Willoughby, Highway Adminis-
trator. "While he was State Maintenance Engineer, it
was due largely to Mr. Brinkley that the number of
maintenance employees remained constant since 1961.

"While he was serving as Division Equipment Super-
visor in Wilson, Mr. Brinkley took it upon himself to

complete his college education. He exemplifies the type
of employee that the State and the Highway Commis-
sion can be proud of."

Paul J. DuPre, Division Engineer at Wilmington, has
been named State Maintenance Engineer. DuPre suc-
ceeds George Brinkley in the maintenance post.

The new Third Division Engineer in Wilmington will
be Floyd J. Bass, who was assistant to DuPre.

DuPre has been with the Highway Commission since
1936, having started as instrumentman. He served with
the Corps of Engineers in World War II in the Burma,
India, China Theatre.

He returned to the Commission after the war and
served in Division 14 with headquarters at Sylva and has
been a District Engineer, a Division Assistant Engineer
and a Division Engineer, advancing to the latter post
in 1962.

Bass is a native of Clinton who has served as a Road
Maintenance Supervisor, a District Engineer and Assis-
tant Division Engineer. He will head the Third Division
staff from his office in Wilmington in his new position.

Floyd J. Bass

5

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Current annual volume of Attorney
General's opinions is in the neighbor-
hood of 700 and it is estimated that
over the past 20 years 10,000 opinions
have been written, representing a to-
tal of 25,000 or 10 billion words. I
would imagine that North Carolina
is probably somewhere around the
median as far as volume is concern-
ed. I am sure that the case load of
California is many times greater.

What do we expect the computer
to do for us in North Carolina?

Our first project is to develop a
computer index of all case files. Hope-
fully this will eventually be an on-
line system with direct access in-put
and out-put terminals in the Attor-
ney General's Office. In developing
such a system, it is first necessary to
determine what it is you want the
computer to do for you. Once these
decisions have been made they dic-
tate the data which it is necessary to
collect concerning each case. From
this computerized index of cases we
of course want to be able to locate
the case by any of a number of iden-
tifiers, such as the name of any party
to the case, county, project, parcel
number (in a Highway case), or file
number. We also want rapidly to re-
trieve certain information about a
case such as its nature, the court it is
pending in, its current status, the at-
torney and the division handling the
case, and the location of the case file.
This is the minimum, and if it were
all we planned to do, the use of a
computer would hardly be justified.

In addition, however, we would like
to retrieve certain other information
about the case such as the name of
the opposing attorney, the name of our
associate attorney, date filed, amount
of deposit, names of witnesses, the
asking amount of the property owner,
pleadings which have been filed, or-
ders entered and other transactions
which have occurred.

If the data stored in a computer is
put in in the proper manner, the
computer has the ability to process,
analyze and compare the data and
perform a great many other applica-
tions.

Sometime back, I made a list of
applications for Highway cases. These
examples . . . may give you some
idea of the applications we propose.

Analysis of jury results of individ-
ual trial attorneys.

Analysis of verdicts by county.

Analysis of settlements by county.

Automatic print out of monthly
case summary.

Automatic print out of notice to at-
torneys on various critical dates such
as deadline for filing map, time to
determine issues, time to move for
default judgment, case pending too
long and requires extra attention.

Analysis of case related costs.

Comparison of verdicts and com-
parison of pending cases on various
types of properties.

Analysis of jury's makeup (ratio of
sex, race, age, etc.) to verdicts.

Quick retrieval of special type prob-
lem cases, i.e., drainage, minerals,
blasting, etc.

An efficient secretary cannot per-
form the above tasks in a few min-
utes' time but the computer can do
this in a few milliseconds.

Our second priority project is to
store all current Attorney General
opinions beginning with January 1,
1969, in a total text retrieval system
and eventually to store previous At-
torney General opinions for a period
of somewhere between five and twen-
ty years on this same system. This
will involve converting all opinions to
a machine readable form. The goals
of this program are to locate all opin-
ions on a given subject or all opinions
concerning a particular statute, to lo-
cate conflicting opinions and obsolete
opinions, to prepare manual indexes
to opinions, to provide a rapid print
out of any given opinion, and to com-
pose an annual or semi-annual publi-
cation of all opinions with opinions
arranged and indexed. AH of these
applications are entirely feasible.

The first step would be conversion
of the 1969 opinions.

One bid to convert the 1969 output
of opinions and store them on com-
puter would provide us with an un-
limited number of searches of opin-
ions, together with twenty-five search-
es of the North Carolina statutes,
which they already have on their
computer, plus furnish us with either
an annual or semi-annual computer
produced offset master ready to go
to the printers for publication with
opinions indexed, arranged, etc. The
initial cost would be around $30,000
.00 and the annual cost of mainte-
nance of the system would probably
be $3,000.00 to $5,000.00 per year.

Beginning with our last legisla-
ture, which ended this Spring, a com-
puterized system for the introduction,
storage, and updating of all legisla-
tive bills was initiated in North Caro-
lina. All bills are entered on an on-
line computer prior to introduction.
All data relating to a bill and its pro-
gress in that legislature is entered in-

to the computer down through ratifi-
cation. Any legislator could retrieve
from any number of terminals, var-
ious data such as all bills effecting a
particular statute, status of any giv-
en bill, all bills effecting a particular
county, etc., etc. Although, there were
a number of bugs to iron out, as there
always is in any conversion to a com-
puter system, I predict that it will
ultimately be highly successful.

Implementation of a state-wide po-
lice information network (Pin Sys-
tem) is under way under the direc-
tion of the Attorney General and the
State Bureau of Investigation. Devel-
opment proposals have been received
and I believe an award has been
made. The police information net-
work involves terminals in all law en-
forcement agencies throughout the
state connected to a computer which
can provide immediate criminal in-
formation continuously up-dated. This
computer in turn will be connected
with the National Crime Information
Center in the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation in Washington, D. C,
which in turn is connected with po-
lice information networks, and nation-
al crime information terminals
throughout the country. Already in
existence in North Carolina is a com-
puterized driver's license and automo-
bile registration system which will
probably eventually be tied in with
the police information network. In
addition, progress is being made to-
wards securing computerized total
text statutory retrieval in North Caro-
lina and I understand our court ad-
ministration is interested in computer
applications.

I have told you what some of our
immediate goals are and it may be
of some interest to you as to what
steps we have taken and where we
are at the present time.

We will probably have to settle for
a batch process, at least to begin with,
because of the costs involved and the
lack of other on-line systems, except
during sessions of the Legislature,
which we could use on a time shar-
ing basis. We visualize that on a
batch system, weekly or biweekly we
would get computer printouts of all
the oases with certain selected infor-
mation. We could have this put out
in a number of ways such as a list
of cases in each division with new
cases instituted, cases closed, list of
cases pending in any court that week,
list of cases assigned to given attor-
neys, cases opened, and closed in var-
ious categories, and similar other

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6

Ex-District Attorney Joins SHC Employment Staff

The State Highway Commission has moved to
strengthen its Equal Employment Opportunity policy
with the hiring of a former United States assistant dis-
trict attorney, George Tillett, who will be assistant coor-
dinator of the EEO program. Tillett, formerly of Eden-
ton, came to work on Monday, November 24.

Tillett, 46, was a member of the staff of Robert Cowen,
U. S. attorney for the Eastern North Carolina District.

Tillett is working with Curtis Collier, a career engi-
neer with the Highway Commission, who is coordinator
of the EEO program. Present plans call for the establish-
ment of an EEO division within the Highway Commis-
sion, staffed by commission employees and for further
expansion of this division.

Collier has been handling the work alone as a mem-
ber of the administrator's Staff.

Federal law now requires that contractors doing work
where federal money is involved must not discriminate
in hiring workers. Collier and Tillett will work closely
with contractors to see that hiring practices meet federal
regulations.

Sometime ago the Highway Commission moved to im-
plement Federal law involving its departmental hiring
practices. In October of 1966, Collier was named coordi-
nator.

The policy of the Highway Commission is to coop-
erate to the fullest extent with the applicable regulations
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order No.
11246, the Appalachian Regional Development Act of
1965 and the Highway Act of 1968. This policy pertains,
as far as the Commission is concerned, to any arrange-
ment under which employees, including apprentices and
trainees, are seleoted or referred for work.

Six areas in which no discriminiation is permitted are:

1. Hiring, placement, upgrading, transfer or demotion.

2. Recruitment, advertising or solicitation for employ-
ment.

PARKWAY OPEN THIS WINTER

GEORGE TILLETT

3. Treatment during employment.

4. Rates of pay or other forms of compensation.

5. Selection for training or apprenticeship.

6. Layoff or termination.

The National Park Service, at the request of Governor
Bob Scott, has agreed to keep the Blue Ridge Parkway
open this winter except when weather conditions make
it impassable.

Announcement of the decision was contained in a letter
written to Scott by Granville Liles, Parkway Superin-
tendent. Scott had writtten Liles asking that the parkway
be kept open during the winter months. Last year some
250 miles were closed, Liles said, because of curtailment
of personnel and funds.

"We do not anticipate that such controls will be en-
forced this winter," his letter to the governor said.

Scott had pointed out to Liles the increased tourist
interest in the mountain area in asking that the parkway
be kept open.

Liles said he agreed, and said that for the first time
the Doughton Park Campground near Sparta and the
Crabtree Meadows Campground near Little Switzerland
will be open for winter camping.

The State Highway Commission maintains snow clear-
ing operations for part of the parkway, under an agree-
ment between the Park Service and the North Carolina
State Highway Commission.

7

Historic
Preservation

Becomes

Good Business

By ELIZABETH OULBERTSON WAUGH

It is a heartening phenomenon these days to note
that everybody is getting into the script of preservation
and restoration. Even highway right-of-way procurers
and private enterprise, these two, who have sometimes
been called the villains of heritage preservation in the
U. S. A. — while operating under the mask of "Pro-
gress" — have become preservation-restoration conscious.

A fine case in point is the rescue of North Carolina's
first State Bank, located at 11 New Bern Avenue in Ra-
leigh, and chartered in 1810. It was recently saved by the
skin of its hand-fired brick by the North Carolina Na-
tional Bank which is headquartered in Charlotte. The
salvaging came about when a Raleigh church, which
owned the old bank property wished to demolish it in fa-
vor of using the land for church- complex expansion.
Though the congregation was sharply divided on the
preservation question, the building was all but scheduled
for demolition when the North Carolina National Bank
bought the structure for branch office use, 1969.

N.C.N. B. then moved the old building about seventy-
five feet east and twenty-one feet south, off the church's
land onto a former parking lot. The firm of Crouch
brothers of Mooresville was hired for the moving; John
C. Williams of Raleigh became general contractor for
the job; and the Raleigh architectural firm of McKim-
mon and Rogers was retained for actual restoration.

The architects were extremely successful in their re-
search as to what the original building actually looked like
and contained. And insofar as it was possible, they have
with fidelity, restored the decor and special arrangement.
The exterior remains faithful to the original in nearly
every detail.

It is well known that, there being no policemen when
the old bank was built, the custom was for the bank pres-
ident and his family to live in the building. These family
quarters were used by Col. William Polk, Revolutionary

8

War hero and first State Bank president. It is fortunate
that most of these living-quarter mantels, cornices, and
other embellishments could be saved and remain intact.
The floors were too badly neglected over the years to be
saved and old timbers of the same vintage were found to
replace them.

Research indicates that during the War of 1812 North
Carolina justifiably feared that the British navy would
attack our coast and all money was therefore transferred
inland to the State banks of Raleigh and Tarboro. The
Raleigh bank then became rich enough to afford this
brick building, 1813. In 1832, for reasons too detailed to
recount here, the bank changed hands and was success-
fully operated as a banking institution until the Civil
War sent it, like everything else in the South, into bank-
ruptcy.

After the War, on January 13, 1873, the U. S. District
Court ordered the bank and all of its remaining "sol-
vency," plus vaults, to be turned over to Christ Church,
nearby. The sale was consumated for $9,925.

Subsequently the building was kept in relative repair
until its recent transfer. Of course, moving it from its
original site destroyed some of its historical validity.
But be that as it may, it had already been declared by
the U. S. Department of the Interior's Historic Amer-
ican Buildings Survey as "worthy of the most careful
preservation for the benefit of future generations." North
Carolina National Bank did just that.

1. Original rendition sketched by Hope Summerell
Chamberlain which appears in her book on Wake
County published in 1922 by Edwards and Broughton.

2. One of the original remaining doors which is now on
the second floor of the building. It leads out to the
portico.

3. An original mantlepiece used in the living quarters of
the bank. The neo-Greek influence is clearly obvious
here.

4. Small portion of the originally curved stairway, elo-
quent in its form, and still preserved within the
building.

5. Although the building is "Federal," the dental work
in the pediment and the quasi-Doric columns indicate,
again, the unique feeling which 1813 Americans em-
bodied in various adaptations during this period.

6. Without structural members of steel, weight-bearing
elements were simple brick walls. Note the width of
this interior weight-bearing wall.

9

N. C. H. C. E. A. ASSOCIATION

REPORT TO EMPLOYEES

EXPERIENCE

OF THE HIGHWAY

GROUP INSURANCE

PLAN-

-October, 1969

Coverage

Premium
Amount

Claims
Amount

Deaths

Percentage Return
Policy

1969-70 1968-69

1.

2.
3.
4.

Employee Medical

Employee A & S

Dependent Medical

Employee D & D

36,779.74
22,922.30
77,265.43
6,632.55
143,600.02

43,576.95
20,625.59
68,997.96
0

133,200.50

0
0

118.48
89,98
89.53
0

92.76

138.38
94.43
90.57
0

97.52

5.

Employee Life

39,795.30

27,000.00

4

67.85

47.93

6.

Retired Life

3,261.00

6,000.00

6

183.99

116.73

7.

Total Life

43,056.30

33,000.00

10

76.64

52.54

8.

Total

186,656.32

166,200.50

10

89.04

85.79

Active Employees

Life Coverages:

(a) Lives Insured

(b) Carrier Liability
Lives Insured

(c) Average Life Claim

1969-70

7,808

44,217,000
6,750

October

1968-69

8,358

46,406,000
6,666

Retired Employees
October
1969-70 1968-69

1,098

1,087,000
1,000

1,011

999,500
875

RETIREMENT SYSTEM INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO AS OF JUNE 30, 1969:

Description % AVERAGE YIELD BOOK VALUE % TO TOTAL

County Bonds 3.17 $ 4,962,723 .64

Municipal Bonds 3.17 4,011,543 .51

U. S. Treasury Bonds 3.57 116,596,937 14.91

Corporate Bonds 5.25 506,032,181 64.71

U. S. Agency Bonds 5.32 59,358,966 7.59

Public Housing Authority Bonds 3.45 348,840 .04

Farmers' Home Administration Notes 6.37 22,453,998 2.87

TOTAL BONDS & NOTES 4.99 $713,765,188 91.27

Common Stocks 3.92 68,246,827 8.73

GRAND TOTAL 4.90 $782,012,015 100.00

PRESENT YIELD FOR NEW INVESTMENTS — 7.88%

Prepared by Mr. T. L. Amerson, Compensation Officer, and distributed by Mr. W. P. Garriss, Comptroller.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH OF YOU — AND TO YOUR FAMILIES — AND A MOST HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!

OTIS BANKS, Executive Secretary
DAVID KING, Assistant

10

By ARCH LANEY

An editor in Abilene, Texas, (recently wrote: "You can't
fool all the people all the time, but those highway inter-
change signs come pretty close." This is by no means a
complaint or an attack against the great work being done
by Jimmy Litchford, Harold Rhudy and the crew at Traf-
fice Engineering, or the many municipal traffic coordina-
tors around the state and nation. But it is a good opening
for some facts and figures regarding top-priority frustra-
tions on the part of motorists that the Carolina Motor
Club has published.

With speed limits increasing on our Interstates, with the
number of vehicles in operation increasing, and with
highway interchanges being designed to move great vol-
umes of traffic without reducing speed, I'm sure head-
aches abound on all sides for the traffic engineer.

It is obvious why a survey by the American Automobile
Association (AAA) shows that 66% of those surveyed
asked for better techniques in the designing and placing
of signs, signals and markings. I hasten to add that no
concrete formula was given in the AAA report for solv-
ing this problem.

While 66% of the people surveyed were pleading for
better techniques to be used in designing and placing of
signs, they failed to note the great and dramatic strides
in road signing. Remember the leaning, black-and-white

sign considered to be adequate just a few years ago. Com-
pare this with the floor-lighted green-and-white direc-
tion markers stretching overhead on our major thorough-
fares today.

In the runner-up position of "highway complaints" in
the AAA publication was an expression of distaste at
the manner in which many roadside conveniences are
maintained.

Other major highway annoyances noted traffic conges-
tion in urban areas, large trucks and buses on the high-
ways, billboards on scenic highways, lack of service on
freeways, very large house trailers on the road, and the
motoring habits of other drivers.

But where can we, as taxpaying citizens, exercise such
an unfettered opportunity to let off steam as we do in
the privacy of our cars on the public-supported highways
where we are shareholders, and where it is really sim-
ple to point the accusing finger at anything and everyone
with absolutely no fear of reprisal.

Highways are "Frustration Outlets."

We always thought newspaper reporters were eager
for news until last week when we were reporting on the
November letting. The Public Information office staff,
in an effort to get maximum coverage in the small town
weekly papers and on local radio stations, placed a call
to a small Western Carolina weekly paper to inform
them of the apparent low bidders on two projects in
their county.

The sweet, young thing on the news desk asked us to
hold for a moment after we told her that we had this
good news. Minutes later she returned to the phone to
inform us that it was their policy never to accept news
involving figures from any government agency, for fear
of making an error . . . that if we would be so kind as to
write it out, they would try to use the story in their next
edition a week later.

We sighed. We said we understood and that we would
comply with her wishes. Meanwhile, we told her, most of
the daily papers and radio stations serving the area might
have this story next day.

I hasten to add that our spirits weren't dampened. We
thanked the sweet voice and mailed her the release for
the next issue.

Now if that's not Public Relations . . .

In the last issue of ROADWAYS, we forgot to men-
tion the Hee Haw Room . . . and we said we would.
"Hee Haw."

Also, we wanted to tell you that the January-February
issue of ROADWAYS will carry the name of our new
editor, oops, we mean the new name of our current edi-
tor. Edith Johnson will marry Rolf W. Seifert, architect,
of Raleigh and Medellin, Colombia, South America, on
December 26, 1969.

It's everywhere throughout this issue of ROADWAYS,
so may I simply say to you: "Peace to all, may good will
abound, and may your holidays be joyous."

It

Back to School at the Velvet Cloak

Back to Work on the Golf Course

Traffic control technicians from the various highway
divisions and traffic engineers of the State Highway Com-
mission, plus similar personnel from several cities, attend-
ed a solid state maintenance school in Raleigh at the
Velvet Cloak, November 4-7. Local arrangements for the
school were made by Traffic Engineers Supply Corpora-
tion (TESCO).

Engineers from Crouse-Hinds Company of Syracuse,
N. Y., presented the solid state theory and logic as they
pertain to traffic controllers and demonstrated solid state
equipment coming into use now and predicted for exten-
sive application in the future.

In addition to the 28 technicians and engineers attend-
ing the full session, Area, Assistant Area, and Division
Traffic Engineers were given a half-day indoctrination on
the application of solid state controllers as well as general
information on the theory of such equipment.

TRAFFIC SIGNAL TECHNICIANS,
ENGINEERS AT SOLID STATE SCHOOL

In attendance at the solid state maintenance school
were, left to right: First row — TCT Herman Sherron, Di-
vision 7; TCT Don Moss, Division 11; TCT Bob Taylor,
Division 3. Second row — Don Blaisdell, senior design en-
gineer with Crouse-Hinds; Steve Bailey, TESCO; TCT
James Casey, Division 5; TCT Jim Hall, Division 6; TCT
Don Baker, Raleigh signal maintenance shop; Tom Jeff-
reys from Traffic Engineering Department; Ron Goodin,
general sales manager, TESCO. Third row — TCT Harvey
Lewis, Division 1; TCT Jim Parker, Division 11; Joe
Wilkins from Traffic! Engineering Department; TCT
John Chamblee, Division 4; TCT Stan Moody from Ra-
leigh signal maintenance shop; William B. Ivie of Jack-
sonville, Florida; and Nick Ryjkoff, applications engi-
neer, TESCO. Fourth row — Ernest Hostetler, sales engi-
neer, TESCO; TCT Pete Edwards, Division 2; C. L.
(Bud) Liverman, City of Raleigh employee; TCT Paul
Knight, Division 8; Bill Collins from Traffic Engineer-
ing Department; Dillard Thorne, City of Raleigh em-
ployee; and Traffic Signal Engineer Gwyn Sanderlin.
Fifth row— TCT Ken Barnes, Division 10; TCT Monrow
Lindsey, Division 14. Sixth row — Assistant State Traffic
Engineer H. C. Rhudy; and TCT Kirby McLamb, Divis-
ion 13.

The Location Department held a top level Instructional
Meeting in the basement of the District Office at Salis-
bury on November 13, 1969. Following the business meet-
ing the engineers were invited to attend a buffet dinner
in honor of Mr. J. Herbert Chappell, Area Locating En-
gineer who is retiring from the Highway Commission as
of December 31, 1969. A private dining room at the Holi-
day Inn was chosen for the occasion.

Mr. H. Boyce Midgette, State Locating Engineer, acted
as master of ceremonies for this grand celebration. He
went on to narrate a very descriptive story of Mr. Chap-
pell's 40 years of service. This was followed by the pres-
entation of a token gift which turned out to be a "gag"
that brought much fun and laughter. The box contained
bits of nostalgic survey equipment such as a worn out
hand level, a broken plumb bob, survey tacks, busted
pencils and keel, including a 1929 road map.

The gathering subsided to a more serious atmosphere
when Mr. R. J. Wilson, Area Locating Engineer, present-
ed Mr. Chappell with a unique hand lettered linen docu-
ment, appropriately framed, which proclaimed him "LO-
CATING ENGINEER EMERITUS". The bottom half
of the handsomely executed certificate contained the sig-
natures of all those present.

There was more in store for the deserving servant who
was being eulogized — for then came a group of ushers
bearing a beautiful set of golf clubs, golf bag, golf shoes,
umbrella, golf shirt, balls, tees, golf cart, etc. Numerous
testimonials were thence offered by individuals amongst
the group of approximately 50 Location Department En-
gineers.

The program concluded with a humorous finale when
Mr. Midgette gave Mr. Chappell a survey assignment
which is to take effect on January 1, 1970. The objective
of the pending project is to make a complete survey of
the Lakeshore Golf Course with no completion date
necessary.

Midgette . . . golf clubs . . . Chappell . . . miscellaneous

12

Awards and Festivities in the 3rd Division

By ARCH LANEY

Old fashioned barbecue and old fashioned fellowship
teamed-up to serve as the main ingredients for the an-
nual meeting and presentation of awards in Division 3.

Floyd Bass, new Division Engineer, presided over the
meeting and festivities.

Paul DuPre, formerly Division Engineer, who still
feels and acts like he is "home folks", suddenly found
himself in the role of an invited guest. DuPre, now as-
sistant chief engineer and now located in Raleigh, was
showered with affection in the form of a complete en-
semble for golfing — clubs, bag, balls, and wood covers.
He received everything but a written guarantee that the
new team of DuPre and Golf Equipment would perform
on a par basis. Rumor has it that DuPre can guarantee
that.

800 members of the Division 3 staff and invited
guests heard remarks by Highway Commissioners Hugh
Ragsdale and Jim Smith. 20 members of the Highway
Commission Staff at Raleigh attended. N. S. Day, Divi-
sion Chief in the 6th Division, came from Fayetteville
for the occasion.

The meeting was held in the maintenance shop of the
Highway Commission at Wilmington.

The highlight of the event, as it is every year, was the
presentation of service awards. 74 people in Division 3
received awards for service ranging from 5 years to 45
years. Those receiving awards were:
Five Years

Richard Davis Bass, Waymond Edward Beard, Ovral
(NMI) Beasley, Dewey Stanley Byrd, Arthur Gerald
Caddell, Rodney Lewis Clayton, Homer Bryan Clemmons,
Sam David Fulford, William Elkins Mercer, Herbert
(NMI) Richardson, Dewey Walker Rivenbark, Jesse Ed-
ward Shepard, Harrell Laverne Smith, Arthur Lewis
Webber, John Daniel Wetherington and Forest Nixon
Yopp.

Ten Years

William Wayne Hardee and Marion Calhoun Vestal

Fifteen Years

George Benford Brown, Ernest Keith Core, Roy Cos-
by Faircloth, Marie Bordeaux Ferrell (Pin), Marvin A.
(I.O.) Futrell, Rosco James Hemby, Charlie Elvirson
Home, Lott H. (I.O.) Huffman, Clayton Earl James,
Frank (NMI) Murphy, Robert Odell Powell, Andrew
Durwood Riley, Gabe Morris Shepard, Ivey Van Shepard,
Robert Willis Sommersett, Charlotte Montgomery Wal-
lace (Pin) and Fernie James Willis.

Twenty Years

James Lee Arnette, John Albert Ballance, James
Franklin Batson, Charles Brantley Creech, Ivey Robert
Eason, Grover Reed Grady, Mantie Elwood Hewett, Da-
vid Henry Johnson, Joseph Franklin Moore, Allison Ken-
neth Murray, John Floyd Murray, Floyd Shepard Park-
er, Grover Manly Sellers, Edward Lucian Tharp, Elton
Gray Turlington, Donal Ray Walton and Harry (NMI)
White.

Twenty-five Years

Richard (NMI) Bass, Bernice Elmo Bowen, Albert Lee
Boyd, Paul (NMI) Godwin, Joseph William Hamilton,
Jr., Earnest Garland Harris, Ronald Eldridge Hubbard,
Sr., Jesse Willard Long, Delbert A. (10) Naylor, An-
drew Johnson Patterson, Lee Roy Whitfield and Garland
Davis Whitman.

Thirty Years

Victor Franklin Johnson, Jr.
Thirty-five Years
Charles Fitzhugh Rivenbark and Grove Allen West-
brook.

Forty Years

Willie Rodolph Morton and Montgomery Sloan Smith.
Forty-five Years

John Wesley Meadows, *Willie Rodolph Morton, Hen-
ry Alvin Sessoms, Duncan Washington Stewart, Eugene
Carton Tyndall.

* Certificate of Prior Service qualifies Mr. Morton for
the 40 and 45 years awards at this time.

A Letter We Liked

Mr. J. Arch Laney
Public Affairs
State Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Laney:

The new highway commissioners
appointed by Governor Scott are
certainly following the Governor's in-
structions. The Governor told the
new commissioners to go to the peo-
ple and determine their road needs.
Our Seventh Division Highway Com-
missioner, Lynwood Smith, came to
Rockingham County on Thursday,
September 11 for an open meeting
with the people of our County. Our
County Courthouse, like the other
counties Commissioner Smith visited,
was packed to capacity.

While it is obvious that every road
problem cannot immediately be solv-
ed, the people genuinely appreciate
this approach. We wanted your office
to know about the reactions of the
people. Therefore, I enclose some of
the clippings.

I feel certain that the people of
this State are grateful to the Gover-
nor, Chairman Faircloth, Commis-
sioner Smith and the other commis-
sioners for their efforts in going to
the people and hearing their prob-
lems.

Sincerely,

Allen H. Gwyn, Jr.

Reidsville, North Carolina

Book Review

Have You Seen Roads? by Joanne
Oppenheim, published by William R.
Scott, New York, $3.95 (reinforced
binding) .

If this book is about roads, then
roads are city streets, country roads,
super-high-speed thru-roads, roads on
ramps, bridges, tunnels, even railroad
tracks, rivers, locks, the seas, and
the sky. This book for young child-
ren is a collection of visual and verbal
experiences which conveys one of the
significant aspects of our civilization,
our transportation.

Highway buffs would enjoy the
photographs, collected from highway
departments around the country.
Gerard Nook is the designer.

It would make an excellent gift for
a young roadbuilder type.

E. B. J.

13

Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

With the com-
ing of winter, the
holidays ap-
proach with anti-
cipation of buy-
ing gifts, plan-
ning and attend-
ing parties. The
festivities of the
Christmas season
will be celebrat-

ed by office par-
ties, as well as various parties given
by the employees at their homes.

As the leaves change their colors
and the weather gradually turns cold-
er, some people venture to the moun-
tains for a short winter vacation.

LEGAL — Boone seems to be the
favorite mountain resort area for
many employees in the Legal Depart-
ment. Vickie Mitchell went to Boone
and Blowing Rock one Saturday in
October. In November, Essa McBryde
spent a weekend at the Cliff Dwell-
ers Motel just outside Boone. Mrs.
Shirley Wilson and family spent their
two-week vacation first in the moun-
tains and then traveled to Windsor to
visit her relatives.

Best wishes to Susan Copeland, At-
torney Charles Hensey's secretary,
who became Mrs. Billy Crocker on
November 15. All employees wish the
newlyweds much happiness and hope
they enjoy their new home in Hen-
derson.

The department welcomes two new
additions to the staff. R. Bruce White,
Jr., is an Assistant Attorney General,
and Lester B. Chalmers, Jr., is a staff
attorney.

The entire Legal Department wish-
es everyone a MERRY CHRIST-
MAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

LOCATION — Congratulations to

Dave Bingham upon winning a Blue
Ribbon on a wildlife exhibit at State
Fair.

Welcome to new employee J. N.
Cothran, an Engineering Aide with
the Fayetteville location survey party.

New employees in Property Survey
are Larry Carriker, Charles Eddins,
Wayne Meades and David Lake.

Best wishes to Mir. and Mrs. David
S. Ganady, Jr. David married the for-
mer Miss Edna Virginia Willis at the
United Methodist Church in Lilling-
ton November 1. Dave is an Engin-
eering Aide with the Fayetteville lo-
cation survey party, while his bride
attends Campbell College at Buies
Creek. Both are from Tar Heel and
now reside at Buies Creek.

Congratulations to J. A. Dermid
and wife upon the birth of baby
daughter, Amanda, who arrived Octo-
ber 1. Little Amanda weighed in at
6 lbs., 8 ozs.

Barbara and Clifton McNeill are
the proud parents of a son, Walter
Clifton, III, born August 30. Little
Cliff weighed 7 lbs., 13 ozs.

Larry Helms of Monroe was re-
cently elected Deacon of Mill Creek
Baptist Church. Larry has the dis-
tinction of being the youngest mem-
ber of his congregation selected for
this position.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Our
deepest sympathy to Lenzo Royster
upon the recent death of his mother.

Recently hospitalized were Bill
Manly, Bill Perry and Clinton Gower.
We hope by now all three are well on
the way to recovery.

MAINTENANCE — Lee Phillips
was recently promoted and transfer-
red to the Assistant Chief Engineer's
office as an assistant to George Brink-
ley.

George Brinkley, Jimmie Brown,
Paul DuPre and Irving Lynch at-
tended the dinner party honoring Mr.
J. H. Councill, Area Maintenance En-
gineer, who is retiring January 1,
1970.

Mrs. Betty Fussell Byrd has joined
the Maintenance staff, replacing Miss
Elizabeth Stanley, who transferred to
Planning.

Wedding bells rang for Mr. Stewart
Sykes and Mrs. Elaine Holt Glosson
October 19 at New Elam Christian
Church in New Hill.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE— Wel-
come back to Constance Boykin, who
has returned to work after several
months' maternity leave.

Employees are glad to see W. C.
Goodrich back on the job. Mr. Good-
rich was recently hospitalized.

Our deepest sympathy to Depart-
ment Head Max Collins, Jr., and
father, Max Collins, Sr.

Sympathy is extended the family of
Milton H. Howard, former Bridge
Maintenance Foreman at Elizabeth
City, who recently died after 23 years
of service with the Commission.

Kerr R. Scott, retired Bridge Main-
tenance employee, has recently taken
a trip to Spain.

RIGHT OF WAY — Odell Penny
and her husband enjoyed a very nice
weekend in the Tennessee mountains.

Welcome to three new employees:
Ken Land, Donnie Hickman, and
John Stewart.

The Warner Powells are enjoying
their lovely new home in Garner.

Employees are glad to see C. E.
Mills back at work after his recent
operation.

Brantly Murray and family attend-
ed the Jaycees' midyear convention at
Wrightsville Beach, November 22-23.

Warner Powell won the champion-
ship flight of Garner Civitan Club
golf tournament at Oak Island, Long
Beach, N. C, Nov. 8-9. John Holmes
came home with a trophy, too, but he
says that Warner's is a little larger
than his.

John Holmes, W. H. Webb, Jr., M.
E. White and W. D. Moon attended
the Region Three National Right of
Way Conference in Nashville, Tenn.,
Sept. 25-29. Mr. White, we under-
stand, made a great speech.

Miss Pat Wilkie spent the Thanks-
giving holidays visiting friends in At-
lanta, Georgia.

EQUIPMENT — Dot and Jack
Stephens have returned from an ex-
citing vacation trip to Majorca,
where they spent several days. The
trip was made via Overseas National
Airlines and included a tour of Ma-
drid, Spain, with a fun-filled day in
Algiers. They also enjoyed a visit
aboard the USS Saratoga, which was
in dock at Majorca, and talked with
several fellow North Carolinians. It
is fast becoming a small world to Dot
and Jack, who have previously toured
several European countries and Paci-
fic Islands.

Welcome to Ann Johnson and Dai-
sie Whitehurst, new members of the
clerical staff.

Get well wishes to Lina DuPree,
currently hospitalized in Fayetteville.
She is a sister of Mrs. Kathleen D.
Upton.

16

Tom Shearon, trainee, is a 1969
graduate of NCSU, and Raymond
Moore is a 1968 graduate of Fayette-
ville Tech. It's nice to have Jim
Barnhill as a transfer from Bridge
Location. Welcome to Carolyn Nob-
ling, a new steno in the department
from Garner.

Good luck to Silvio Santo-Tomas
who recently resigned to join an agen-
cy for State Farm Mutual Insurance.

R. H. Wiggins, Assistant State
Bridge Design Engineer, attended a
Highway Bridge Seminar sponsored
by Portland Cement Association in
Chicago. "Buddy" reported that the
busy sessions during the five-day
meeting left little time for sightseeing,
but he enjoyed being in the city that
is certainly "different".

Celebrating Veterans Day weekend
Landis Temple, Ken Creech and Bob
Ellis went on a trip to Cape Lookout
to catch fish any way they could.
They ended up with 170 "Blues," one
of which was caught with a Vienna
sausage. As it was told, Landis pick-
ed up a Vienna sausage he had pre-
viously dropped to the ground, baited
his hook with it, threw in the line and
reeled in a "big blue." The trio left
the Cape exhausted but happy.

Hazel and John Smith also cele-
brated Veterans Day by going to At-
lantic Beach. They did some fishing,
but mostly just enjoyed being at the
beach.

Lynn Shearin

MATERIALS & TESTS — Our
deepest sympathy is extended to Hay-
wood Barham upon the recent death
of his father.

R. R. Baker has been released from
the hospital and is recovering nicely
from a back operation. Employees are
looking forward to having Mr. Baker
back at work soon.

It's nice to see Danny Blalock back
on the job after a few days at Rex
Hospital.

Get well wishes to N. B. Lee who
recently had pneumonia, and to Ri-
chard Layton who was recently hos-
pitalized.

This pretty lit-
tle girl is Stefa-
nie Critcher, 2-
year old daugh-
ter of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard
Critcher. Dad is
a member o f
Roadway Design.

Welcome to Frank Holt and Justice
Barnette, new employees in the Phy-
sical Testing Lab.

Good luck to H. O. Hocutt who re-
signed from Materials and Tests to
accept a position with the Depart-
ment of Social Services.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
The annual Christmas party will be
held at Roger's Restaurant in Cary
Friday night, December 19. The pro-
gram will feature a steak dinner and
dancing.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Hoyle, who became parents
of a little baby son November 10.
Johnny is Traffic Engineer for Divi-
sion 14 and lives in Sylva.

Jim Lynch presented a paper on
"North Carolina Urban Accident Lo-
cations by Computer-Development
and Use of the Street Name Direc-
tory Technique" at the 28th Annual
Convention of SASHO officials in At-
lanta December 7-10.

Herbert A. Justice, former Assis-
tant Area Traffic Engineer for Divi-
sions 1, 2 and 3, now assists with the
TOPICS program for the State High-
way Commission, replacing Roy Wil-
liams who resigned to become Traf-
fic Engineer for the City of Winston-
Salem, November 15. George A. Eas-
on, former Traffic Engineer for Divi-
sion 4, succeeds Justice, with head-
quarters in Greenville. Larry N. Stal-
lings leaves the Accident and Investi-
gation Unit to be trained for Eason's
former post. Ned Bivins moves up
from the position of Traffic Engineer

Master William
Nolan Goodwin,
Jr. was two years
old November 17.
His dad, "Bill,"
is a member of
Bridge Design.

for Division Five to be Assistant Area
Traffic Engineer for Divisions 4 and
5, working out of the Raleigh office.
Bill Smart with the AIS Unit will
take the Division 5 position left va-
cant by Bivins after a period of
training.

Jerry Twiggs, who has been in
North Wilkesboro as Traffic Engi-
neer for Division 11, resigned Decem-
ber 5 to become Director of Public
Utilities for the City of Hickory.

New employees include the follow-
ing people: Harry Thomas Morris,
former party chief with Rummel,
Klepper and Kahl, is with the AIS
Unit's Accident Investigation Section.
The Morris family, residents of Route
1, Rougemont, include Tom's wife,
Jerline, and their ten children.

Joe G. Wise, formerly with Stack-
pole Components, an electronics firm,
and a past employee of Location has
joined the staff of Signing. Joe and
Sarah have a son and daughter.

Kenneth P. Sessoms of Erwin, for-
mer student at W. W. Holding, is
working in the Design Section.

Linda Maynard, graduate of Enloe
High School and former student at
Averett College, Danville, Va., is a
new engineering technician with the
Accident Identification Section of
AIS.

Donna Marie Strickland and Bill
Rudd are part-time employees. Don-
na, a junior at Enloe High School, is
helping out in Accident Identifica-
tion; and Bill, a student at NCSU, is
with the Signing Section. Bill's wife
recently was hospitalized for injuries
received in an auto accident.

Laura, Sara, David and George will
be carrying the Christmas message
on cards from the Glenn Grigg family.

Glenn, who manages to have his
lively children look so angelic once
a year, is Traffic Research Engineer.

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Lorraine Carter has been nomin-
ated for biographical inclusion in "In-
ternational Who's Who in Poetry" to
be published in London in January,
1970. Her poetry and articles have ap-
peared in several leading publications
both in this country and in England.
Lorraine is a member of "The Poetry
Society of Texas," and is currently
a student in Creative Writing through
the Extension Division of UNC at
Chapel Hill, under the instruction of
Doris Betts, North Carolina novelist.

William and Margaret Warren with
son, William, Jr., vacationed in the
Smoky Mountains of Tennessee in
early October. They enjoyed the
beautiful fall foliage at its most col-
orful stage.

BRIDGE LOCATION — The De-
partment will miss Pauline House
who recently transferred to the Chief
Engineer's office.

Welcome to D. R. Henderson and
Ruby Jones Johnson. Ruby is a for-
mer employee in Bridge Mainte-
nance.

Good luck to James C. Lipscomb
and James R. Wiggins who recently
resigned. Mr. Lipscomb resumed
farming and Mr. Wiggins returned to
former employment.

ROADWAY DESIGN — The Dal-
las Shearins, who were recently pre-
sented a free trip to Europe by their
airline stewardess daughter, Lynn, re-
port a wonderful and exciting time
while over there. Their overseas trip
included stops in London, Rome,
Paris, Milan, Geneva and Frankfort.
In Rome they went on three conduct-
ed tours which covered the Coliseum
and ancient Roman ruins, modern
Rome, Basilica of St. Paul, Old Ap-
pian Way, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon,
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican,
and many other places. In Geneva,
Switzerland, they took a 62-mile (tour
along Lake Geneva and through a
beautiful valley to Chamonix, France,
and Mt. Blanc. At Chamonix they
rode a cable car up to the top of
snow covered Mt. Blanc, elevation
12,600 feet. In Paris the Shearins vis-
ited the Arch of Triumph, Eiffel Tow-
er, Notre Dame and the Louvre. They
took a night tour of Paris which, of
course, included the three-hour mid-
night show "Moulin Rouge." On their
overseas trip, which was entirely with
Alitalia Airlines, they flew directly
over Mt. Blanc and the snow-covered
Alps six times, each trip being fantas-
tic. The most outstanding place visit-
ed in the following order were 1) ca-
ble car to Mt. Blanc, 2) St. Peter's
Basilica in the Vatican; 3) the Lou-
vre in Paris, 4) Parliament Buildings,

London, and 5) Eiffel Tower, Paris.

Miss Brenda Gayle Byrd and Lin-
wood Payton Hicks were united in
marriage Saturday, October 18 in a
double ring ceremony at Middle
Creek Baptist Church. Elder S. J.
Sauls of Garner officiated.

The bride's parents are Mr. and
Mrs. H. F. Byrd of Route 1, Smith-
field. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hicks of
Wilson's Mills are parents of the
bridegroom.

The bride attended Mount Olive
Junior College and Hardbarger Busi-
ness College. She holds a secretarial
position with the Highway Commiss-
ion's Purchasing Department.

The bridegroom graduated from
Wilson's Mills High School and is
employed by Fay's Sandwich Com-
pany in Smithfield.

After a honeymoon to the moun-
tains of North Carolina, the newly-
weds are living in Smithfield.

Mrs. Linwood P. Hicks

W. A. Wilson, Jr., and Henry C.
Clegg, Jr., attended the annual meet-
ing of AASHO in Philadelphia dur-
ing the week of October 27-31.

A farewell party was given and sev-
eral nice gifts presented by co-work-
ers to Miss Cherle Harrison who re-
signed November 7 to move home
near Greenville to get ready for her
approaching marriage to Lawrence
Humphrey, student at East Carolina.
The party was attended by many of
her friends in the department to wish
her luck and happiness for the future.

Mr. and Mrs. Mahmood Motamen
and 14-month old baby son, Mark An-
drew, took an eight-week vacation to
visit the home country of Mahmoods'
wife, Zurich, Switzerland. Several
days were spent there visiting rela-
tives. They made short trips to West
Germany to sightsee and visit the
Rhine River. From there they flew to
Rome, Athens, and finally to Tehran,
Mahmood's home town, where he was
reunited with his father, brothers and

sisters whom he left ten years ago to
come to the United States to further
his education at NCSU. Mahmood is
working in Pavement Design and
likes it very much.

Congratulations to LaRoy and Judy
Smith on the birth of a son, Kevin
LaRoy, November 1; and also to Al-
fred and Peggy Tyndall on the birth
of baby daughter, Valerie Rose, Oc-
tober 26.

Max Sennholtz is all smiles over
the birth of his first grandchild, Greg-
ory William Sennholtz, October 27.
And, of course, come Thanksgiving
Max will be heading to Florida to
start spoiling him.

Sympathy is extended to Kathy
Lassiter whose brother passed away
recently.

Roy Williams

Roy Williams was honored at a
cake cutting on his last work day with
the Traffic Engineering Department
on November 14. Roy resigned to ac-
cept the position of Traffic Engineer
for the City of Winston- Salem.

Welcome to the f ollowing new em-
ployees: Larry F. Harrell, Allen W.
Lamm, Lee H. McCrory, James W.
Mulkey, Alice C. Murphy, Otho
Badger Poole, and Ann Futrell.

BRIDGE — Tsong-(Paul) Ching
Lee, new engineer in the Department,
is from Taiwan, Republic of China.
Paul received his Masters Degree
from the Civil Engineering Depart-
ment of the University of Missouri at
Rolia in 1968. He more recently
worked in Maryland.

Herb Stout is back in Bridge De-
sign after being with the Armed
Forces for three years. For one of
these years Herb was Company Com-
mander of a Combat Engineering
Company. While stationed in Ger-
many for two years, he was joined by
his wife, Lewanna, and small daugh-
ter, Lara. The Stouts considered their
stay in Germany a wonderful oppor-
tunity and a happy experience.

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Emily Blount took a brief trip by
plane to New York City in November
to see some of the hit plays. Gradford
Barbour and family visited some of
the mountain counties this fall. Ro-
bert Dodge and family spent the
Thanksgiving holidays at Holden
Beach. Brenda Johnson and family
have moved from Lillington to Fu-
quay Springs.

Hap Crowe won the Carolina Sail-
ing Club's championship trophy for
the season in the Tanzer-16 class.

Dwight Kelly has taken up sailing
as a hobby, making trips to the coast
to try out his new boat. Dwight was
guest speaker at a recent meeting of
the Zebulon Lions Club and chose
"Traffic Safety" as his subject.

Steve Tant won the Zebulon Coun-
try Club's championship golf tourna-
ment this year.

Terry Harris, an inveterate sports-
man, is coaching the Minit Burger
basketball team in the Industrial
Open League. In games won this
year, his team has doubled the scores
made by opponents and has a 3-1 re-
cord so far.

Blue - eyed
Shawna De-
Wayne Cabe is
the four-month
old baby daugh-
ter of Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny
Wayne Cabe.
Her grandfather,
Wayne M. Cabe,
is a Location De-
partment em-
ployee located in
Waynes ville.

Miss Lynn Shearin, the attractive
daughter of Dallas Shearin of Road-
way Design, is a chief stewardess for
American Flyers Airlines, charter
specialists. She joined the airline in
October 1968 after graduating from
East Carolina University with a BS
degree in art.

Miss Shearin was on overseas jet
service during the past summer, and
last August was promoted to Chief
Stewardess, now covering the states
and surrounding areas. Her most fre-
quent trips are to Jamaica, Acapulco,
Bermuda, Miami, Las Vegas, Los An-
geles, Niagara Falls, and, of course,
Harrisburg, Pa., her home.

Just recently Lynn presented her
parents a free all-jet 13-day trans-
portation trip to Europe.

THANK YOU!
To all my Headquarters corres-
pondents for ROADWAYS, I wish
to express my deep appreciation
for the splendid help and cooper-
ation you have given me during
1969.

I look forward to working with
each of you in the New Year and
anticipate many exciting news
events during 1970.

For you and yours, I wish a
very MERRY CHRISTMAS and
the HAPPIEST NEW YEAR
ever!

Jewel Adcock

GLENN CARAWAN
Division Correspondent

Division One ex-
tends get well
wishes to Mr. J.
E. Rogerson, Me-
chanic II, who is
recovering from a
recent operation.
We sincerely look
forward to his
return.

Our deepest

t • 1 &

sympathy is extended to the families
of Ralph Messer Outland, Mainte-
nance Foreman II, who passed away
on October 20, 1969; and Worth Bag-
ley Askew, Maintenance Foreman IV,
who passed away on November 11,
1969. We also extend our deepest
sympathy to Mr. Thomas A. Dail,
Auto Parts Clerk II, on the recent
death of his mother.

The Equipment Department em
ployees in Hertford are happy to wel-
come Elizabeth B. Ward in their
midst, and hope she will enjoy being
with them.

Employees in Division 6 who
will be retiring January 1, 1970,
are as follows:

B. D. Jackson G. B. Owen
H. D. Home O. W. Braswell

H. C. Jackson S. D. Tyndall
J. H. Parham

G. T. Wilkins,
Division Land-
scape Supervisor,
has wound up his
fishing for the
year, brought his
boat home and
has it already
winterized and
ready to go next
year. He says he

Di^r„a CoXondent had a fairly good
season.

A. L. Turnage, Landscape Special-
ist II, retired effective November 1st.
We wish you much happiness in your
retirement.

We were saddened by the death of
W. H. Everette of the Right of Way
Department. Right of Way has two
new employees. Welcome to Ben
Manning of Middlesex and Allen
Benson of Nashville.

We're glad to have Clifton Barnes
back after being out two weeks with
an injured hand. Also glad to have
Norman Holland back after a stay
in the Wayne Memorial Hospital.
Both are from the Wayne County
Maintenance Department.

Congratulations to G. A. "Buddy"
Eason, our former Division Traffic
Engineer. Buddy has been promoted
to Assistant Area Traffic Engineer
and has his headquarters in the
Greenville Office.

E. B. Wallace and family recently
vacationed at Six Flags Over Georgia
and the mountains of Georgia and
North Carolina.

J. V. Walters, J. L. Massengill and
J. C. Massengill recently spent a few
days fishing at the Outer Banks.

Randall Jackson and wife and J.
R. Baker and wife and other friends
spent a few days at the Outer Banks
where they had lots of fun and good
luck catching trout, mullet, etc.

J. L. Bailey, H. D. Medlin, and J.
C. Massengill recently took a trip to
the Outer Banks. Their fishing luck
wasn't too good, but they enjoyed
getting the beach buggy stuck in the
sand and getting it out.

H. D. Medlin and wife spent a day
f ishing at Surf City.

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Randall and Jackie Jackson and
daughter recently enjoyed a vacation
taking in Six Flags Over Georgia,
Cape Kennedy, and the State of Flor-
ida.

Mr. D. C. Poole, a retired Truck
Driver from Johnston County passed
away in September. He had been re-
tired from Highway Commission serv-
ice three years.

Johnston County employees send
regards to the family of R. J. Lee on
the death of his son, and to J. W.
Crocker on the death of a brother.

Birthday greetings to these John-
ston County people celebrating birth-
days in September: James C Massen-
gill, Randall Jackson, Percell Hol-
land and to J. O. MassengiU's son,
Lee.

We wish to welcome to the Equip-
ment Department, Mrs. Mittie Lamm,
who began work October 13, 1969. We
are happy to have her and hope she
enjoys her employment with us.

Wayne County employees wish
you and yours a "Merry Christ-
mas" and a "Happy New Year."

Jo Anna Lynne Brooks

Jo Anna Lynne Brooks is the
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade
R. Brooks, Jr. Mr. Brooks, Jr., is an
inspector with construction. Yeoman
and Mrs. Wade R. Brooks, III, f.re
Jo Anna's parents. Yeoman Brooks is
with the Navy stationed aboard the
Nuclear Submarine Daniel Webster.

Joan Smither-
man, attractive
daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel
Jones Smith er-
man, Fayetteville,
North Carolina,
and Lt. Ronald
Everett Osborne,
son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Os-

DivisionaCo«"spyondent bome of Dallas,

Texas, were married at 4 o'clock Sa-
turday afternoon November 8, 1969,
at Haymount United Methodist
Church, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
They will reside at 4214 South Dan-
field Road, Fayetteville, North Caro-
lina. Lt. Osborne is currently serving
in the United States Army as aide-
de-camp to the CG, XVIII Airborne
Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Mr. Smitherman is Division Right
of Way Agent of the Right of Way
Department in Division Six.

Samuel D. Tyndall is retiring from
the Highway Commission after almost
twenty-five years of devoted service.
He first began his employment with
the Prison Department on August 25,
1946, at Camp 603. On March 1, 1948,
he was transferred from the Prison
Department to the Maintenance De-
partment in Harnett County as a
Truck Driver. He was promoted from
Truck Driver to Gang Sub-Foreman
on September 1, 1949, and in 1951
he was promoted to Gang Foreman.
Mr. Tyndall remained a Gang Fore-
man until later in 1953 when due to
ill health he was not able to carry on
in this capacity. He was changed
back to Truck Driver and later was
changed to a General Utility Man.

Mr. Tyndall is married to the for-
mer Ona Bradshaw of Clinton. They
have four children and eleven grand-
children. The Tyndalls attend the
Church of God in Erwin where Mr.
Tyndall has served as past Sunday
School Teacher of the Men's Class
and also Superintendent of Sunday
School. Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall reside

at 104 N. 16th Street in Erwin, N. C.

Right of Way Agent, Claude R.
Moore, Jr's. oldest son, "TRI", re-
cently won a Black and Decker Elec-
tric Power Drill at a Halloween Car-
nival. Claude seems to be more ex-
cited over the electric power drill
than his son.

Machine Operator Bainbridge D.
Jackson was first employed with the
county on June 3, 1929, as a tractor
driver. In 1931 he was promoted to
Machine Operator (Motor Grader)
and in 1958 to Machine Operator III,
his position at retirement.

Mr. Jackson is married to the for-
mer Marine West of Cedar Creek.
They have two children and seven
grandchildren. The Jacksons attend
Cedar Creek Baptist Church where
he served as a deacon. They reside at
Route 5, Fayetteville.

B. D. Jackson

Hilbreth L. Britt and his wife
spent a few days vacationing at the
beach recently. Mr. Britt reported
that they had an enjoyable time fish-
ing.

An Equipment Department em-
ployee promoted in the U. S. Army
Reserve recently is Major Kenneth
Porter. Mr. Porter is employed by
the Equipment Department in Fay-
etteville as Division Shop Foreman.

Major Porter

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Maintenance Supervisor, Herman
D. Home began his career with the
County in October, 1928, as a Prison
Guard. He was promoted to Gang
Sub-Foreman on September 11, 1929,
and continued in this capacity until
July 1, 1941, when he was changed to
Gang Foreman. Mr. Home was un-
der the Supervision of the late Don
Davis, Maintenance Supervisor in
Cumberland County. He served as
Gang Foreman until December 1,
1949, when he was promoted to Su-
pervisory Foreman. He remained in
this classification until November 5,
1960, when he was promoted to his
present classification of Road Main-
tenance Supervisor in Cumberland
County.

Mr. Home is married to the for-
mer Novella Phillips of Fayetteville.
The Homes have five children and
ten grandchildren. They attend the
Stedman Church of God of Prophecy
in which Mr. Home is a Sunday
School Teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Home
reside at Route 1, Fayetteville, N. C.

Max G. Loflin and his family have
just moved into their new home, lo-
cated at 1921 Glenwick Drive, Fay-
etteville, North Carolina 29304.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Hilbreth L. Britt on the birth of their
granddaughter, Joy Brigman on No-
vember 14, 1969, at Cape Fear Valley
Hospital, Fayetteville, North Caro-
lina. Joy's mother, Mrs. Bobby Brig-
man, is the daughter of Mr. Britt,
Right of Way Agent in Division Six.

June F. Cox, secretary in the Right
of Way Department recently spent a
few days vacation with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. N. J. Soyka, and children in
Charlottesville, Virginia, while her
son-in-law, Dr. N. J. Soyka, attend-
ed The American Association of Lab-
oratory Animal Science Meeting in
Dallas, Texas.

Maintenance Foreman II, Oscar W.
Braswell started with the Highway
Commission in September of 1947 as
temporary Truck Driver. In 1948 he
was changed to permanent Truck
Driver and served under the late L.
D. Hubbard, Road Maintenance Su-
pervisor in Cumberland County. Mr.
Braswell was promoted to Gang Sub-
Foreman June 1, 1949, and to Section
Foreman on March 1, 1954. He was
later changed to Maintenance Fore-
man I and then to his present classi-
fication of Maintenance Foreman II.

Mr. Braswell is married to the for-
mer Mittie Baggett of Fayetteville.
Mr. Braswell has six children and
four grandchildren from a previous
marriage. Mrs. Braswell has one
daughter and two grandchildren.

The Braswells attend Calvary
Methodist Church in Fayetteville.
They reside at 1720 Harper Street,
Fayetteville, N. C.

This nice looking couple is Mr. and
Mrs. James Thomas West. Mrs. West
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
B. Nordan. Mr. Nordan is employed
with the Equipment Department in
Fayetteville. Mr. West is the son of
Mr. F. T. West, who is employed with
the Prison Department in Lillington.
Mr. and Mrs. West were married Oc-
tober 5, 1969, at Pleasant Union
Christian Church in Lillington.

Maintenance Foreman George B.
Owen was first employed on March
20, 1936, as a Truck Driver under the
late Don Davis, Maintenance Super-
visor in Cumberland County. In 1939

he was promoted to Gang Sub-Fore-
man and in 1942 to Gang Foreman.
In 1958 he was promoted to his pres-
ent classification of Maintenance
Foreman III.

Mr. Owen is married to the for-
mer Annie Byrd from Bunnlevel.
Each has three children by a previous
marriage. They have seventeen grand-
children and one great-granddaughter.

The Owens attend Cumberland
Baptist Church in Cumberland Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen reside at Route
3, Fayetteville, N. C.

John H. Parham began with the
Highway Commission on May 7, 1945,
as a temporary tractor operator. On
February 1, 1947, he was changed to
permanent status and promoted to
Road Machine Operator. He was un-
der the supervision of Road Mainten-
ance Supervisor Roy McKeithan. In
1952 Mr. Parham was transferred to
the Lumberton District Office and
served as a Clerk I and later as a
Clerk II under District Engineers E.
L. Green and B. E. Dees until his re-
tirement.

Mr. Parham is married to the for-
mer Ada Anderson and they have one
son, William, who resides in Wilming-
ton.

Mr. Parham is a Veteran of World
War II and was a part of the invasion
of North Africa in 1942. The Parhams
attend Godwin Height Baptist Church
in Lumberton. They reside at 823 E.
6th Street in Lumberton, N. C.

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The Construction Department in
Division Six is losing one of its long
time employees, Howard C. Jackson,
who is retiring December 1, 1969. Mr.
Jackson started his career with the
Highway Commission on July 1, 1936,
as a temporary Truck Driver. He was
promoted to Rodman in October of
1940. He resigned from the Commis-
sion in 1941 for Military Service and
served in the U. S. Army from 1941
to 1947. After his discharge he was
reinstated with the Highway Commis-
sion as a Rodman. He was promoted
in 1950 to Highway Inspector I, in
1954 to Highway Inspector II, and in
1961 to Highway Inspector III, his
classification at retirement. Mr. Jack-
son has served in and around the
Fayetteville area during most of his
career.

Mr. Jackson is a bachelor and re-
sides at Route 4, Box 70, Fayetteville,
N. C.

Truck Driver in Caswell County, who
died on October 21, 1969.

Shown here with his first birthday
cake is Larry Holloman. Larry's
birthday was November 2, 1969. Larry
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Hol-
loman. Mr. Holloman is employed as
Division Traffic Engineer in Fayette-
ville.

DIVISION I
SEVEN ~~)

We extend a
friendly welcome
to new construc-
tion employees
K. E. Cain, M.
D. Burley, Jr.,
and J. J. Riven-
bark, Jr.

We're glad to
see Mr. Walter
Hooper, Mainte-
nance Supervisor
in Caswell Coun-
ty, back on the job after an extended
illness.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Hilliard W. Roberts, retired

Carolyn Graves
Division Correspondent

Penny Sue Pringle

Miss Penny Sue Pringle, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Pringle, is a
student nurse in her senior year at
Watts Hospital in Durham. She has
just completed three months of psy-
chiatric training at Dorothea Dix
Hospital in Raleigh and will be re-
turning to Durham November 20th.

Miss Pringle has received two
scholarships during the calendar year.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Cockerman
are the proud parents of their first
child, a girl, Heather Renee, who
weighed in at 7 lbs., 11 oz. John is a
Right of Way Agent.

Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie W. Handy
are proud grandparents of their sec-
ond grandchild, Donald Ray Collins,
Jr., born October 29, 1969. Mr. Han-
dy is in maintenance in Guilford
County.

Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Berry spent a
week at Ocean Isle fishing. "Great",
they said.

R. C. Dick, Area Foreman, and his
wife spent a week at Southport fish-
ing and reported that fishing was
good.

Get well wishes go to Thomas E.
Sherron who suffered a heart attack
on November 3rd and to L. J. Gor-
don, who is out of work due to sick-
ness and also to M. C. Clymer who
has been out of work due to sickness.

Sympathy is extended to I. C.
Snow, Area Foreman, in the death
of his brother, William Snow, in
Asheville, N. C. on October 2.

We wish for Roy C. Biggs a long
and happy retirement after 13 years
of faithful service to the state, and
also to Henry D. Fuqua.

Welcome to our new clerk in Dis-
trict 2 office, Carolyn Cooper.

Sympathy is extended to Paul
Lemmons, mechanic in Guilford
County, in the death of his father on
October 29 and the death of his
father-in-law on October 28.

Welcome mat is out for Roy R.
Hall, Traffic Control Technician, who
began work in this Division on No-
vember 8, having previously lived in
Iowa. He and Mrs. Hall and 3 daugh-
ters have moved to Greensboro.

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

Division Engi-
neer and Mrs. A.
J. Hughes are
now happily set-
tled in their love-
ly new home at
102 Canterbury
Road, Southern
Pines, North Ca-
rolina. Carpenter
First Class Hugh-
es was in charge
of all major operations, with Carpen-
ter's Helper, Mrs. Hughes, assisting
in the final details. They have seem-
ed to thoroughly enjoy the planning
and construction of their new home,
and we wish them every happiness.
Since returning to the division as
Division Engineer last January, they
had been living at Whispering Pines,
while planning their new home.

Congratulations to these on addi-
tions to their families:

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wesley Wo-
mack, Sign Department, a baby boy;
Linda and Fred Whitesell, Resident
Engineer, Sanford, a baby girl, Leigh
Alison; Mr. and Mrs. Ken Funder-
burke, Assistant Resident Engineer,
Sanford, baby boy, Jeffrey Allen; Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Sykes, Sanford Con-
struction, a baby boy.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Joe W. Gregory, Truck Driver,
in Hoke County, who died on Sep-
tember 18; also, to the family of
Jesse Chavis, District III, Mainte-
nance, who died on September 5. We
were saddened by the death of Carl
Tucker, Maintenance Foreman III,
Montgomery County, and sympathy
is extended to his family. We were
saddened to learn of the death of G.

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H. Parrish, Sr., of Asheboro, father
of G. H. Parrish, Jr.; and W. F. Par-
rish, of the Road Oil Department.
Sympathy is extended to E. C. Fields,
District II, in the death of his wife,
and to Paul Brown, Sanford, in the
loss of his mother at the age of 93.

T. K. Smith, Resident Engineer,
Asheboro, continues to be in the hos-
pital in Siler City. All of us miss him
in our work.

Among those vacationing have been
James Stewart, Maintenance Super-
visor, Montgomery County; the Z.
V. Tolars took an extended trip cov-
ering much of the United States vi-
siting friends and relatives along the
way; Bill Farlowe and Eddie Davis
of the Traffic Service Department
vacationed in Michigan; Graham
Cheek, Sign Supervisor, went to the
mountains.

Welcome to Bill Rosser in the Di-
vision Office. Bill is Division Staff
Engineer in Training. He was for-
merly in the Construction Office in
Sanford.

J. P. White, maintenance in Anson
County. He catches these fish out of
ponds in Anson.

Stanly County Supervisor, C. R.
Ridenhour, Maintenance Yard Fore-
man, B. L. Mabry, County Area
Foreman, J. M. Byrd, and County
Area Foreman, W. B. Crump.

The Rev. Oather H. Wood retired
from the N. C. State Highway Com-
mision on November 1, 1969. Rev.
Wood began work for the Commission
in 1944 as a truck driver. He and his
wife live at Route 1, Danbury, N. C.
He is pastor of the Hartman Baptist
Church and a member of the Dan-
bury Voluntary Fire Department.

Arnold Lassiter of the Landscape
Department completed about three
months in the Army and has return-
ed to us, looking none too unhappy
about his release from the Army. Ar-
nold suffered a foot injury earlier in
life, and the doctor thought the rigid
Army training was too much for this
condition, and recommended he be
returned to civilian life. We are hap-
py to welcome him back in the of-
fice.

Monroe Burke, janitor in the Di-
vision Office, was in the hospital for
several days recently. He will soon
be returning to the hospital for fur-
ther treatment. Monroe wears a
mighty broad smile these days, any-
way, on the fine football record of his
son, Monroe, Jr., at Fayetteville State
Teachers' College. The coach says
this 19-year old, 280-pound tackle, is
already pro material. Congratula-
tions, Monroe, Sr., and Jr.

DIVISION
NINE

Our deepest
sympathy is ex-
tended to the
family of Charles
Wilburn Whick-
er, 64, who died
October 13, 1969.
He was employ-
ed as a General
Utility Man with
Forsyth County

Dorothy Phelps MninrPTifmr-o T~Ia

Division Correspondent Maintenance ue-
partment, and had been with the
Commission for 44 years. He was a
member of the Gospel Light Baptist
Church. His brother is William J.
Whicker, Maintenance Foreman 4,
Forsyth County Maintenance De-
partment.

We are happy to welcome back Mr.
Harold Pittman of the Right of Way
Department, who has returned to
work after being hospitalized for a
week.

Mr. Jim Ussery, of the Right of
Way Department, and his wife, Lin-
da, have left for Miami for a vaca-
tion.

We're all glad to see Jake Cutrell
return to work after an absence of
about 2Y2 months. Jake is an Inspec-
tor in the Construction Office of W.
D. Rothrock.

Deepest sympathy to the family of
Mrs. Maggie Goins, who was the
mother of Lester Goins, who is an
Inspector in the Winston-Salem Con-
struction Office.

Arnold Myers, Inspector III, has
been doing a lot of fishing lately,
around the State, and in Florida. So
far, the members of the Construction
Department have not been invited to
a big Fish Fry . . . but we're still
waiting.

We were sorry to see our Assistant
Division Engineer, Mr. Luther H.
Berrier, leave, but we do wish for
him much success as a new Assistant
Chief Engineer.

Another face we shall miss is that
of Miss Beverly Pfohl who is leav-
ing the Highway Commission on No-
vember 21, 1969, to further her educa-
tion at Appalachian State University.
Beverly has been with the Right of
Way Department.

Welcome to Mr. K. L. Horton, for-
mer Assistant Division Engineer in
Asheville, who has replaced Mr. Ber-
rier in the Ninth Division. We hope
that Mr. Horton and his family will
enjoy working and living in Winston-
Salem.

We wish for J. N. Wall a long and
happy retirement. Mr. Wall was a
Machine Operator II in Anson Coun-
ty. He retired August 1, 1969, and
had been with the Highway Commis-
sion approximately thirty years.

We wish for R. J. Burr a long and
happy retirement. Mr. Burr is a
Truck Driver in Anson County and
will retire December 31, 1969.

We wish for Jake McCray a long
and happy retirement. Mr. McCray
was a Truck Driver in Anson Coun-
ty. He retired on disability August
1, 1969.

Get well wishes to W. A. Carpen-
ter. He has been on the sick list since
August 25, 1969.

J. W. Jones
Division Correspondent

Before and After — These pictures
are of the Barrier Mill Bridge in Ca-
barrus County which has been a land-
mark in that county for many years.
It was the last narrow truss bridge
and was taken down by the Bridge
Maintenance crew supervised by Mr.
J. W. Herlocker, Bridge Maintenance
Foreman in Stanly and Cabarrus
Counties. The new bridge has a steel
plank floor and has a 24-foot road-
way.

2U

Attn: Commissioner Maxwell

Mecklenburg County Maintenance
Supervisory Personnel would like to
express their thanks to Highway
Commissioner Charles K. Maxwell for
his effort in obtaining thirty-two
Work Release Inmates to fill vacant
Truck Driver, Machine Operators
and Laborer Classifications. Out of
the thirty- two men we were able to
obtain several qualified Machine Op-
erators and others are now being
trained to operate machinery which
has stood idle for more than a year.

If this type program could be ini-
tiated in other industrialized counties,
where employees are difficult to ob-
tain, it would probably be a great
asset to all concerned, as it supplies
employees where employees are need-
ed and at the same time provides
work opportunity for inmates who
would not otherwise be self-support-
ing for themselves and their families.

These are the children of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Jones of Stanly Coun-
ey. Cynthia is 14 and is a freshman
at North Stanly High School. Harry
is 17 and is a senior at Albemarle
Senior High School. Their father,
John, is Office Manager in Division
10.

Yvonne Thomas, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe F. Thomas, Anson
County, was chosen "Miss Eagle of
1969" in the annual Homecoming
Game at Anson High School, October
9, 1969. Joe is Landscape Specialist
II in the Tenth Division.

BEFORE

Mitchell Todd Kindley, born Oc-
tober 3, 1969, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. Kindley. Mickey weighed
7 lbs., 14 ozs. and was 20" long at
birth. His mother, Diane, is Typist
II in Resident Engineer L. P. All-
man's office.

Starla Kay Eudy is the 4^2 year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger
D. Eudy of Albemarle. Her mother,
Kay, is Typist II in the Tenth Di-
vision Office.

AFTER

A retirement
party was held
on Friday night,
November 14, at
the North Wilk-
esboro Elks Club
for Mr. J. H.
Councill, Area
Maintenance En-
gineer, who plans
to retire January

Dolores Rogers 1 1970 Approxi-

Division Correspondent ' 11

mately 80 people were in attendance,
including Mr. Robert G. Barr and
Mr. Jack B. Kirksey, State Highway
Commissioners; Mr. Raymond Smith,
Sr. and Mr. C. Watson Brame, Ex-
State Highway Commissioners; Mr.
G. A. Brinkley, Assistant Chief Engi-
neer; Mr. P. J. DuPre, State Main-
tenance Engineer; Mr. J. P. Brown
and Mr. Irving Lynch, Area Mainte-
nance Engineers from the Raleigh
area, and also, several people were
present from the 9th, 12th and 13th
Divisions.

Mr. Councill was presented with a
set of golf clubs, club covers and a
golf bag. Due to illness, Mrs. Councill
was unable to attend. However, we
wish her a speedy recovery and hope
that she and Mr. Councill have many
happy years of retirement.

Smiling handsomely for the cam-
eraman is Ricky, age 12 and a sev-
enth grader at Union Elementary
School. He is the son of Mrs. Jane
Canter who is employed as a stenog-
rapher in the District 3 Office.

Mr. Ervin Shepherd, Bridge Main-
tenance employee, suffered a broken
foot in an on-the-job accident on No-
vember 18. We wish him a speedy
recovery.

This bright eyed little boy is Jef-
frey, age 7, and a second grader at
Mountain View Elementary School.
He is the son of Mrs. Peggy Ellis
who is employed as a stenographer in
the Division Office.

H. I. Tomlin, Maintenance Fore-
man IV in Iredell County, is a
Grandaddy for the second time. Rod-
ney Harold Tomlin was born Sep-
tember 8, 1969.

W. H. Tomlin, H. H. Austin, W.
R. Blankenship, T. H. Cranfill and
W. G. Myers, Iredell County em-
ployees, recently enjoyed a fishing
trip to Cherry Grove.

Acker and Burgess

The two Wild Indians of Cleveland
County — Big Chief Carl Acker and
his Brave, Bill (Rat Man) Burgess.

Congratulations to C. H. Sprinkle
and family on their recent move in-
to their new home in Chipley Park,
Statesville. Mr. Sprinkle is with the
Statesville residency.

Welcome to the two new employ-
ees in the Statesville residency, D.
E. Slagle and T. A. Guy.

Ronnie Ledford and E. H. Hoyle
report a most unusual and enjoyable
trip to Pennsylvania where they
went pheasant hunting.

This beautiful little girl is Sheri,
age 2, daughter of Mrs. Grace Miller.
Grace is employed as a Clerk in the
District 3 Office.

Sympathy is extended to J. L.
Swisher, District I Maintenance em-
ployee, whose brother passed away
recently.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Brannock on the birth of a baby
boy. Mr. Brannock is employed in
District 1.

Edwin H .
Hoyle of the
Shelby residency
and Mrs. Hoyle
are all smiles
over the birth of
their first grand-
child on Novem-
ber 10, a boy,
born to Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny Carl
Hoyle. Papa
Johnny Carl is Division Traffic En-
gineer in the 14th Division.

Jean Clina
Division Correspondent

Brenda Cobb

Above is a picture of Mrs. Bren-
da Cobb, who just began her High-
way career as Typist II in the Shelby
Engineering Party.

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Welcome to L. E. Ledbetter and
M. K. Hamrick, Engineering Aides,
who have transferred to the Nichols
Engineering Party in Shelby from
Traffic Services Department. Wel-
come also to R. T. Queen, Engineer-
ing Technician Trainee, a recent
graduate of Gaston College.

Congratulations to Mrs. Linda Sea-
gle and John on the birth of an 8 lb.,
10 oz. boy on October 19, 1969. Lin-
da is Typist II in Nichols Engineer-
ing Party.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Kemper

Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Kemper
were feted on their Golden Wedding
Anniversary on October 18 at North
Lake Country Club by their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Warren Jones and Mr.
Jones of Swannanoa; their sons and
daughters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward H. Kemper of Calabasas, Cali-
fornia, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard B.
Kemper of Cleveland, Ohio. Calling
hours were from 4 until 6 o'clock.
Also present for the reception were
Mrs. W. H. Brooke of Alexandria,
Virginia, and Richard H. Kemper
of Alexandria, Virginia, sister and
brother of Mr. Kemper. Mr. Kemner
was Division Engineer, Twelfth Di-
vision, prior to his retirement.

The welcome mat is also out for
the new employees in the Shelby
Construction Party — Fred Brack-
ets Lonnie Peacock, and Harold Bie-
leski.

( DIVISION ^-7
Y THIRTEEN /

The Blue Star
Memorial Mark-
er, located in the
Westbound Lane
of the 1-26 Rest
Areas in Bun-
combe - Hender-
son Counties, was
the site of a Vet-
erans Day Dedi-
cation Program.

Edna Ramsey rpi mark at was

Division Correspondent 1 ne marKer was

installed earlier in the year through
efforts of the Kenilworth Garden
Club of Asheville, N. C, who under-
took this project to honor all service-
men who have served our nation.
Approval of this project was finalized
when the State Highway Commission
authorized the Kenilworth Garden
Club to place the sign in the 1-26
Rest Areas and designated the whole
of 1-26 in North Carolina as a Blue
Star Highway. Assistance in install-
ing the sign came from State High-
way Commission Personnel.

11th District Congressman Roy A.
Taylor made the dedicatory address
to a crowd of over 200. Congressman
Taylor was presented to the gather-
ing by Vice- Mayor Webster Ander-
son of Asheville, N. C. Members of
the Kenilworth Garden Club taking
part were Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Spen-
cer and North Carolina Garden Club
President, Mrs. Byrd. Mr. Jack Kirk-
sey and Mr. E. J. Whitmire, State
Highway Commissioners, represented
the Highway Commission on the pro-
gram, along with Mr. F. L. Hutchin-
son, Division 13 Engineer, and Mr.
W. F. Ray, Division 14 Engineer. Mr.
Hutchinson and Mr. Ray accepted
the Memorial from the Kenilworth
Garden Club. The Memorial Mark-
er rests in the center of a 22-
foot granite star with white gravel
providing the background.

The T. C. Roberson High School
Band provided patriotic music while
the Naval Reserve Unit of Asheville
presented the National and State
Flags.

The entire program was well pre-
sented. It was inspiring to have our
Congressman, Vice-Mayor, Highway
Commissioners and others present for
the ceremonies.

Welcome aboard to Leon Boone,
new temporary employee of the
Landscape Department. Mr. Boone
was employed in October.

Mr. A. H. Allen, Division 13 Land-
scape Supervisor has begun building
a new home in north Buncombe
County. He hopes to be able to move
into his new home early in the com-
ing year. Fresh meat should be no
problem to Mr. Allen, as both deer
and bear roam the area where he is
building. Looks like he'll have lots
of company during deer and bear sea-
son — seems some of his employees
are looking for such a place to hunt.

A welcome addition to the District
Two office is Don Dawson, acting As-
sistant District Engineer, who was
previously in Construction. Also wel-
come to a new trainee, Ralph Wil-
liamson and Mickey Swann, Engi-
neering Aide. A. L. Neal, Resident
Engineer at the Marion Construction
Office, reports that things are look-
ing better there with the painting of
the outside and inside of the office
under way.

Stroud and Williams

ALL DAY RIDE! Terrell A. Stroud
and Arthur Williams, Jr., of McDow-
ell County, when they rode from
Marion, N. C. to Erwim, Tenn. and
back, did just that. The trip was on a
Clinchfield Old Steam Engine and
the ride started at 10:00 A.M. and
lasted until 6:00 P.M. with Kentucky
fried chicken for lunch.

Kenn Rabb's Construction Office
welcomes a new Aide, Zebulon W.
Wells. Also Mir. and Mrs. Gordon
Ramsey became the proud parents of
a baby boy in October. Dan Martin's
construction office welcomed three
new employees recently — Assistant
Resident Engineer William J. Krick-
man, Tech. I Leonard B. Carter and

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a charming new Typist II, Rita Rhy-
mer. We all wish Patsy Edwards a
happy stay in Delaware, where she
has gone to join her husband, Ray,
who is in the Army there. Ed Pas-
chall's office reports that Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Hutson welcomed a new
addition to their family on October
1 — a son who has been named Jeff-
rey Bryant. We understand wedding
bells will be ringing in the Weaver-
ville Office for R. G. Gibbs in the
near future. T. J. McKenzie is back
in the hospital and we all wish him
a speedy recovery.

Congratulations to Ivy C. Nesbitt
of Buncombe Maintenance on his re-
cent wedding.

Also they welcome new employees
Ronald Tipton, Samuel Hall, Jr. and
Devaney Putnam, Engineering Aides.
A speedy recovery is extended to Joe
Riddle, Highway Inspector III and
John Weaver, Highway Engineer I,
who have been on sick leave for sev-
eral weeks. They are sorry to lose a
good employee. Carroll Walker who
joined the Navy Sea Bees to fulfill
his military obligation.

Right of Way congratulates Dick
Dillingham who is now a grandfather.
His son and daughter-in-law, who
live at Myrtle Beach, S. C. are par-
ents of a baby boy. We are sorry to
be losing Nelson Bowden to Proper-
ty Management in the central office
in Raleigh. We all wish the Bowdens
the very best as they move on to the
Capital City. Welcome to Mr. Wentz
Mcintosh and V. E. Anderson as
Temporary Right of Way Aides.

Congratulations to Earl Mclntire
on his appointment as Assistant Divi-
sion Engineer in Division 13 and best
wishes to Ken Horton who has left
to go to Winston-Salem. We all wish
them both every success in their new
jobs. Esta Lee King, Secretary in the
Division 13 office was hostess at a
very nice farewell party for Ken at
which time he was presented with a
lovely 6-Band radio from his friends
and colleagues.

Listed below is the 1970 holiday
schedule adopted by the State Per-
sonnel Board and approved by
Governor Scott:

New Year's Day — January 1, 1970
Easter Monday — March 30, 1970
Memorial Day — May 11, 1970
Independence Day — July 6, 1970
Labor Day — September 7, 1970
Veteran's Day — November 11, 1970
Thanksgiving Day —

November 26, 1970
Christmas — December 24, 25, 1970

This picture was taken at the end
of a three day trip with a Wagon
Train that started at the edge of the
Buncombe County line through San-
dy Mush, back across the mountain
into Canton and joined the Labor
Day parade. Billy Shook, Sherri
Green and Shelli Green are grand-
children of Grady Shook, Division
Right of Way Agent, Sylva. Mary
Shook, grandmother of the children,
made the two little girls' outfits. The
gentleman driving the team is none
other than Vaught Rhinehart, great-
grandfather of the children and re-
tired State Highway employee.

The Division
14 Office has
been under con-
struction and re-
novation since
March and we
are just begin-
ning to get set-
tled. Road Oil,
Landscape and
Testing and Ma-
Allyce Cunningham t&ria\s have been
Division Correspondent

working out of a house trailer. They
have now moved into the new addi-
tion, which comes with heat. The Di-
vision Engineer, W. F. Ray and his
Secretary, Joyce Cloer, have moved
down into their new rooms and the
rest of us have just shifted around
here and there. I'm doing a lot of

walking for I sometimes find myself
at my old office and have to turn
around and go all the way back down
the hall to my new office. The Land-
scape Department has plans for the
outside grounds.

Plans are under way for a real
"bang-up" Christmas Party to be
held at Maggie Valley Country Club
and we have even engaged an orches-
tra. (Would you believe a combo?)
Freddie Davidson, we heard, has
been practicing all the new dance
steps to really show us up.

Sue Ensley, Road Oil Department,
has been out sick for a couple of
weeks. We miss Sue and hope she will
be able to return to work before too
long.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Ray visited
in Winston-Salem recently and were
joined by their daughter, Catherine,
who is a freshman at the University
at Greensboro. Their other daughter,
Janie, is at Western Carolina Univer-
sity.

Quite a nice size package was de-
livered to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hoyle
on November 10, 1969. Something
like 6 lbs., 9 oz. None other than Gre-
gory Todd Hoyle. We offer them our
congratulations. Both Mama and
Daddy are doing fine. Johnnie is Di-
vision Traffic Engineer and resides
in Waynesville. Gregory is also the
grandson of Edwin Hoyle of Shelby
who is a Construction Engineer with
the Highway Commission.

Another addition to employees of
our Highway Commission is one John
Cothern, born October 9, 1969. Fred
is Right of Way Agent in Division 14.

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Pressley an-
nounce the arrival of an 8 lb., 13 oz.
baby girl, named Michelle Loraine,
on August 23, 1969. Michelle came on
Ron's birthday.

New employees: We welcome two
new employees to our office. They are
Richard A. Gillenwater and George
Lyle Martin.

Summer employees returning to
school: Roger Millsaps, Ronald Bax-
ter, Robert Jordan, Porter Owen and
Anthony L. Rogers.

Wedding bells ring out for Julie
Morris and Dennis E. Curtis who
were married recently. We extend
congratulations to these newlyweds
and wish for them much happiness.
They are living in the Peachtree sec-
tin of Cherokee County.

Congratulations to our boss, Ray
W. Spangler. He made the Murphy
League All Star Softball Team.

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FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

If you happen to be riding along
the waterfront or out boating these
beautiful fall days and see a ferry-
boat go sailing by, don't get excited,
she's not off her beaten path from
one terminal to another; she's on her
way to the shipyard for annual over-
haul. This type scene will be re-
peated until after the first of the year
when all ferries should have had
their face lifting job completed.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mrs. Janet Daniels, mother-in-law of
Mr. Salter, Ferry Operations Man-
ager. Mrs. Daniels has been in Sea
Level Hospital with pneumonia.

Bob Daniels, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Daniels, has returned home
after serving four years in the U. S.
Navy. He plans to return to the
University of North Carolina at Cha-
pel Hill to continue his education
where he left off in 1965.

Miss Jessica Edwards, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Edwards will
attend data processing school in Kin-
ston, beginning on December 1, 1969.
Mrs. Edwards is Clerk in the More-
head City Ferry Office.

Royce V. Emory and Miss Donna
Marie Styron were married in a
double ring ceremony October 10, at
7:00 o'clock at the Cedar Island Unit-
ed Methodist Church. The newlyweds
will make their home at Cedar Island.
Mr. Emory is employed with the
Ferry Operations at Cedar Island
aboard the vessel "Pamlico". Our
best wishes to this young couple for
a long and happy married life.

Get well wishes to Captain Floyd
Daniels of Cedar Island. Capt. Dan-
iels and J. B. Goodwin were involved
in a boating accident on October 27,
while off duty from their jobs aboard
the ferries at Cedar Island and Oc-
racoke. Captain Daniels received a
fractured skull and had to be flown
to Duke Hospital by helicopter for
emergency treatment. Mr. Goodwin,
however, did not have to remain in
the hospital.

We are glad to welcome Mrs. Irene
Hamilton back to work after being
out due to illness. Mrs. Hamilton is
Clerk I at the Cedar Island Ferry
Terminal.

Crews of the ferry "Southport-Ft.
Fisher" report that some rather spa-
cious yachts are wending their way
down the Cape Fear these days head-
ed for the warm climates of Florida.

Congratulations are extended to
Douglas O'Neal, former employee at
the Hatteras Inlet Operation, who re-
cently married Miss Debra Styron of
Ocracoke. The newlyweds are pres-
ently making their home in More-
head City, where Mr. O'Neal has ac-
cepted employment.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and
Mrs. Ervin Hines in the recent death
of Mrs. Hines' mother. Mr. Hines is
radioman at the Manns Harbor ship-
yard.

Get well wishes are extended to
Mr. E. E. Smith, Mechanic II, who
was hospitalized recently.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Oreef on the arrival of a son,
Wesley M. Creef, October 29, 1969.

Mr. A. R. Johnson, Mechanic Fore-
man I, Manns Harbor Shipyard, and
family have returned home after va-
cationing in Indiana.

Employees of the Ferry Oper-
ations would like to wish for you
all a happy and prosperous New
Year.

Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hines and
family vacationed in the western part
of the state recently. Mr. Edens is
Parts Supervisor at Manns Harbor
Shipyard.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. Hor-
ace Pigott, whose wife died Novem-
ber 2, from injuries sustained when
the motorcycle on which she was
riding was involved in a collision with
an automobile on Highway 74-76 near
Brunswick River. Mr. Pigott is Fer-
ry Engineer I at the Southport-Ft.
Fisher Ferry Operations. Mrs. Pigott
worked as temporary Clerk in the
ticket office at the Ft. Fisher Ferry
Terminal during the summer months.
Employees of the Southpoirt-Ft.
Fisher Ferry Operations served as
pallbearers for the funeral services.

We hear there's a certain Engineer
I walking around the operations at
Southport with a big grin on his face.
This must be grandpa Bill Jenkins
who has a brand new granddaughter.

It will pay you golf lovers to keep
a sharp eye out for Mrs. Louise God-
frey, Clerk I at the Southport Ferry
Ticket Office. We hear she will chal-
lenge you to a golf game FORE you
know it, and she's pretty good.

Port Captain Harry Willis and his
wife, Helen, recently made a trip to
New Jersey to visit relatives. Mr.
Willis is employed at the Bogue
Sound Operation.

Get well wishes are extended to
Roy Merrill, Ferry Pilot at the Bo-
gue Sound Operation. Mr. Merrill
was hospitalized at the Cherry Point
Hospital for several weeks.

THE SILVER FOREST

The silver-gray forest was still
There was a certain air, almost

ethereal
The woodland animals bent a

listening ear
An inner voice whispered that

Christmas was near

Every year at this time and date
The forest and its creatures prepared

to celebrate
The trees got ready for a coating of

ice

Snow on the ground would be extra
nice

Christmas Eve night the elements

were just right
A soft snowfall made the Christmas

scene bright
Ice formed crystals on all the trees
And the heavens above drew stars

on the leaves

The animals came out in sheer
delight

Merry Christmas they chanted —
What a beautiful sight!

Jewel Adcock

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Christmas Eve. How great I feel. The turkey, in all its
splendor, is in the oven, stuffed with oyster dressing.
Everyone will love it. I followed the recipe to the letter —
didn't leave out a thing.

The table, set for twelve, is enticing. I'll wait just a
little longer before lighting the candles. It is perfect — just
perfect. Tonight I'll have my family and friends scattered
over the house. And even with six children in the kitchen,
plates piled high, giggling, and talking excitedly about the
events ahead, I refuse to press the panic button. This is
my night.

Looking around me, I see the huge Christmas tree. If
I do say so, it is the prettiest tree we've ever had — a little
different this year. I splurged and bought the long ele-
gant strands of pearls I wanted so badly last year to drape
around the green tree, with large red satin balls, and
tiny twinkling lights. Under the tree are large and small
gifts, all wrapped in red and silver foil.

Once again, I pat myself on the back. For the first
time in my life I feel satisfied, and I am sure that every-
thing is going to be just as I planned.

Mentally, I run through the gift list again. Earrings for
my best girl friend (the tiny pierced ones they like so
much). Sweaters, in very bright colors, for my sisters,
gold cuff links, initialed, for their husbands. My mother
and father will love the electric blanket. There are a
few cold nights in Central Florida, but not enough so
they would buy one for themselves. Oh, almost forgot,
shirts for my brothers. The children, as always, are well
taken care of — each gift chosen so carefully and lovingly.

I am dead tired. Shopping, decorating and cooking were
exhausting, but it was worth it. A nap would be nice,
but there isn't time. I'll have to settle for a leisurely hot
bubble bath. My new red Hostess Pajamas will be just
right for the occasion and very comfortable.

I don't feel too badly about spending that pile of
money for such an impressive evening. Maybe Jay won't
mind just this once.

Oh! Look at the time! I must hurry. My guests will be
here in thirty minutes, and I'm a mess.

Right again, the red "pj's" are Teally something. I just
got dressed in time.

"Jay, get the door, please. I'm going to check the
turkey."

OH, MY GOD! Frozen Solid!

Did I forget to turn the oven on?

"... Hot dogs, anyone?"

^tmrtitmt (Uijrtstmas Customs

Dear ROADWAYS Staff:

At Christmas I am writing to explain some of the
traditional Moravian ways of celebrating the holidays
which are customary here in Winston- Salem.

One is reminded of the significance of this season by
our Moravian friends who initiate the activities here with
the Candle Tea.

These Moravian Candle Teas have become tradition in
this City since its inception in 1929. This yearly event
is an occasion which combines hospitality and fellowship
and marks the opening of the Christmas Season. It also
serves to link the present with the past through the var-
ious phases of beeswax candle-making, the putz (man-
ger scene) and the sugar cake and coffee. In this way
it gives emphasis to the religious significance and the
timeliness of Christmas — 'the birthdate of Christ.

This Moravian ceremony reminisces of customs of
the Nordic Countries where the Christmas Season is
actually begun on December 13 by Santa Lucia who
comes to each home on this morning bringing coffee and
special cookies. Santa Lucia wears a long white dress, red
sash and crown of greenery which holds seven candles.
She is said to bring the light to the dark winter up North.

The Love Feast is usually held on Christmas eve by
all Moravian churches. It again consists of serving sugar
cake and coffee. All persons of Christian faith hold tra-
ditional ceremonies at home and church here in our
City of Winston-Salem commemorating the birth of
Jesus.

Our downtown lights are White Moravian Stars en-
circled with green lights — not spectacular but significant
for our City.

Not to be overlooked is the red-topped Reynolds Build-
ing which is lighted by normal lighting except during the
Christmas season when Ted is the color.

There appear to be two factions here. East Carolin-
ians who do not want snow and West Carolinians who
cannot believe in Santa Claus without snow — how else
can he travel?

May I remind you, two great men will have their birth-
days soon: Christ (4 B.C.) and Caesar (44 B.C.) and
perhaps some of you of less significance. So

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Sincerely,

RACINE VAN DUSEN

Right of Way Department
Stenographer II

JANIE WILLIAMS

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CONTENTS

Features

Highway Summary — 1969 2

By D. McLauchlin Faircloth

Charrette — New Concept
in Planning 16

By W. H. Riggs

The Raleigh Thoroughfare Plan .. 19

By W. H. Riggs

Airport Development 5

By Roy G. Sowers, Jr.

Should State Highway Boards

Oversee All Transportation 5

By Porter Munn

New Executive Leadership,
New Commissioner, Highlight
Commission Meeting 14

Departments

Prom the Chairman

20

Freewheelin' Inside Back Cover

ROADWAYS Cheers

36

Division News 20

Headquarters 9

Letters We Liked 9

Griffith S. Marchant (right) is pictured with Project Engineer Owen
Reagan at a luncheon in honor of his retirement December 31.

Mr. Marchant had served with the Commission for 24 years and was a
design engineer in the Bridge Design Department since December, 1945. He
first came with the Commission as a temporary employee during the sum-
mer of 1936. A native of Matthews, Virginia, and a Civil Engineering grad-
uate of Virginia Military Institute, he worked with the Kentucky and Ala-
bama Highway Departments and for a while with the federal government be-
fore coming with the N. C. Highway Commission.

Seventy-five fellow employees along with the guest of honor and special
guest, Mrs. Marchant, were present for the luncheon, which was held at the
Cardinal Cafeteria. Mr Reagan presented "Griff" an engraved silver pocket-
knife and a check, gifts from his fellow employees. Appreciation for his fine
ability and valuable assistance to others through the years was expressed by
many, amid wishes of "good luck" and a "happy future" to the Marchants,
who plan to continue living in Raleigh.

Departments Merge,

Caddell Named Head 4

Promotions 4

S.A.S.H.O., Atlanta, 1969 4

John Holmes Appointed to Commission

to Study Employee Benefits 35

Road Building Equipment
Goes Sky-High 6

Your Retirement System, How It Works .. 35

North Carolina's Capitals 8

A Recent Visit to South America 7

Troy Dodson, Personnel Office for SHC, has an-
nounced that the study and recommendations made for
Highway maintenance classifications, have been com-
pleted and approved by the State Personnel Council.

The new pay classification became effective Jan-
uary 31, 1970. Dodson stated that the Finance De-
partment is working to make the pay raises effective
for the proper pay period which will be the second
period in February.

The action was taken by the State Personnel
Council at its regular session Friday, January 23, 1970.

FRONT COVER

Map showing current land use in Hendersonville, N. C, which is the basis
for the thoroughfare plan in preparation by the State Highway Commission.
Highway Commissioners just allocated $144,300 for secondary road construction
in neighboring Henderson County.

BACK COVER

The view from US 321 between Lenoir and Blowing Rock during the re-
cent snow, Tuesday, January 20, 1970. The picture is the result of a recent
jaunt by our photographer, Gordon Deans, and Public Information boss, J.
Arch Laney.

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 1
January - February, 1970

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners
J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

Robert G. Barr E. Gwyn McNeil

Clifton L. Benson Charles K. Maxwell

W. G. Clark, III Joe W. Nowell, Jr.

Charles R. Dawkins David R. Parnell

Roy D. Dedmon W. T. Phillips

Thomas W. Ellis, Jr. Hugh A. Ragsdale

Carroll H. Gillam James M. (Jim) Smith

Novile C. Hawkins Lynwood Smith

W. B. (Bill) Joyce W. Arthur Tripp

Jack B. Kirksey E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Willoughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chief Engineer

Jack Murdock Acting Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Information Officer Arch Laney

Ass't. Public Information Officer Gu3SON Prather

Editor Edith J. Seifert

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Linda Mulder

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations Robbie Daniels

Published bi-monthly for employees of
the North Carolina State Highway Commission
by the Public Information Department

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO., RALEIGH, N. C

HIGHWAY SUMMARY -1969

(Governor Bob Scott selected the last three days of
1969 to report to the citizens of North Carolina on the
progress of the state in 1969 and also on what to ex-
pect in 1970. He covered, in depth, all of the areas of
North Carolina state government in a statewide news
presentation on the Monday after Christmas, December
29. The Governor announced that comprehensive reports
from all state agencies would be presented during the
days following his report.

On Tuesday, December 30, 1969, Highway Commis-
sion Chairman Lauch Faircloth gave such a report on
the progress and goals of our ambitious highway pro-
gram.

Here is a transcript of that report.)

TO: The Honorable Robert W. Scott

Governor of North Carolina

FROM: N. C. State Highway Commission

D. McLauchlin Faircloth, Chairman

SUBJECT: Governor Scott's Report to the People

GOALS OF THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

Governor Scott pledged to the people of North Carolina
during his campaign that highway problems and needs
should and would be taken back to the people of the
state. Rather than have decisions of construction and
highway improvements made from the central offices in
Raleigh, he felt priorities should be determined where
they existed.

This concept is now a reality. The last General As-
sembly approved the administration proposal to enlarge
the commission from 14 to 23 members. These dedicated
men have a considerably smaller geographical area under
their personal jurisdiction, and these areas are contigu-
ous to that particular section of the state.

These 23 commissioners have gone directly to the
people. Public meetings have been held by some in town-
ships and county seats. Others have appointed key liason
groups to report back to them on the real needs of their
areas. County Commissioners have been brought into
play on a much larger scale.

Chairman Faircloth also wanted the taxpayers of the
state to know more about the technical aspects of high-
way construction. He gave the Public Information Office
the task of setting up and operating a "Speakers Pool."
Since July 1, some 85 members of the headquarters staff
and division engineering areas have related their parti-
cular aspect of highway planning and construction to
civic and service clubs throughout the state. This has been
done in addition to the regular speaking engagements of
the individual commissioners.

The thrust of the desire of both Governor Scott and
Chairman Faircloth is to let the taxpaying citizens of
North Carolina know how and why their revenues are
being allocated in the most ambitious road program in
the state's history.

In order to attain its many goals, and make North
Carolina's highway system second to none in the nation,
the administration asked for an additional 2 cents per
gallon gasoline tax. By voting this tax, the General As-

sembly not only allowed the highway commission to main-
tain the programs of the past five years, resulting from
the 1965 $300 million bond program, but also to step
up the pace and allow for cost increase at the same
time.

After the commissioners took office, they got down to
the serious business of priorities. By October, after evalu-
ating the information they had gathered from their many
sources, a list of 177 major highway projects were placed
on the priority list and approved by the commission at
its November meeting. This list will be reviewed and ex-
tended at the beginning of each fiscal year so that we
will have a continuing, orderly highway construction pro-
gram.

MAGNITUDE OF THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM

Many North Carolinians do not fully understand the
scope of our Highway System. Ours is, by far, the larg-
est highway system in the United States under state con-
trol. This is brought about by the fact that North
Carolina is one of the few states that maintains primary,
urban, and secondary roads. By contrast, in most states
the counties, and in many cases the municipalities, main-
tain their own system. This is done with ad valorem,
property, and other taxes.

North Carolina's' system is over 74,000 miles long.
This is 10% of all state-maintained roads in the nation,
and we spend only 3% of the total money.

As an example, North Carolina has 13,000 more miles
in its system than South Carolina, Tennessee, and Geor-
gia combined.

The magnitude of our maintenance program is also a
tremendous task. For instance, it costs some $40 million
dollars a year just for maintenance of our secondary
roads. And as these roads are improved, the cost goes up.
It costs about $500 a mile to maintain an unpaved second-
ary road. When it is paved, the cost goes up to about
$1,000 a mile.

THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM
IN NORTH CAROLINA

Of the 838 miles of interstate mileage allotted North
Carolina by the U. S. Government, we now have 482.5
miles open to traffic. On December 23, the latest section,
11.5 miles of 1-85 from China Grove to Concord, was
opened to traffic.

In 1970, 64 additional miles will be opened including
26 miles on 1-40 from Winston- Salem to Statesville.

In December, of the $20 million contract letting, $10
million went for a section of the Interstate 40 bypass
south of Asheville. Included in the January, 1970, letting
will be two critical interstate projects, 1-95 from the South
Carolina line north toward Lumberton and 1-85 near
Henderson.

At one time North Carolina was one of two states with-
out interstate highways by its capital city. Now the
Bureau of Public Roads in Washington has approved the
extension of Interstate 40 from Greensboro to the vicinity
of Smithfield, bypassing Raleigh to the south. It will
intersect with 1-85 in the Durham area.

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THE PRIMARY HIGHWAY SYSTEM

THE APPALACHIAN HIGHWAY SYSTEM

The primary highway system is the real arterial road
system of North Carolina, connecting the state's cities
and towns and serving as the prime mover of people
and freight.

There are some 13,000 miles of highway in North
Carolina's primary system, and about 1,000 are more
than two lanes wide. There is a critical need to four-lane
another 750 miles to meet present and immediate fu-
ture demands.

One of the most sought-after highway projects in the
state has been multi-lane highways to connect the east
and the west. We now have a chance to make this a
reality and plan to make every effort to bring it about.

We have committed ourselves to push both the four-
laning of US 74 from Wilmington to Charlotte and be-
yond and US 70 from Morehead City to Durham, where
it can connect with the interstate.

Other east-west highways which have been given priori-
ties are US 158 across the northern tier of counties, and
US 64 and 264, in central North Carolina.

All of the commissioners have studied the needs in
their areas, and after consulting with engineers, have
placed the priorities where they are needed most.

THE SECONDARY ROAD SYSTEM

North Carolina has almost 60,000 miles of secondary
roads, all of which are under state control, and all of
which must look for finances to user taxes, such as the
tax on motor fuels and vehicle registration fees. Not
one cent of ad valorem taxes is levied for highways in
North Carolina.

At the request of Governor Scott, this year, the High-
way Commission doubled its original budget for second-
ary construction, raising it from $16 million to $32 mil-
lion.

Each commissioner has toured his particular area and
has arrived at his decision as to what roads have the
most pressing needs.

We can do a great deal to improve our secondary
system during 1970 with the extra money we have
available.

THE URBAN ROAD SYSTEM

North Carolina's Highway Commission and the state's
cities and towns are partners.

Under the Powell Bill, a certain percentage of the
gasoline tax is returned each year to the municipalities
and this past year the amount exceeded $11 million.

The state also has the responsibility for its num-
bered highways which run through the cities and towns.
In 1969, about $79 million was spent on urban projects.

Some of this construction is the most sophisticated and
expensive that we have. For instance, some freeway pro-
grams have cost as much as $5 million per mile, not in-
cluding right of way.

But the urban program is vital to our future, as more
and more people move from the farms to the cities and
larger traffic problems are created. To date, more than
100 cities and towns have entered into thoroughfare agree-
ments with the Highway Commission, and the work of
building bypasses and belt lines is a continuous one.

During 1970, the state will participate with the cities
and the federal government in the TOPICS Program,
which is aimed at eliminating critical traffic problems
within our cities.

This system of corridors throughout the Appalachian
Mountains, which was set up by the U. S. Government
as a bonus to the regular matching funds, is moving as
fast as federal funds become available.

Inflation and the high cost of construction, especially
in mountainous terrain, has handicapped this program in
the western part of North Carolina.

However, several miles were completed in the Ashe-
ville area in 1969, plus the Waynesville by-pass. Now
some 43 miles are under construction. Right-of-way ac-
quisition is underway for bypasses around Sylva, Frank-
lin, and Bryson City.

BRIDGES

As of January 1, 1969, there were 2,500 sub-standard
bridges in North Carolina. Many of these, especially on
our secondary road system, need to be replaced.

In the summer of 1969 Governor Scott ordered 23
bridges in 19 counties to be replaced at a cost of over
$2 million dollars. Most of these bridges carry both mail
and school buses. These bridges will be completed in 1970,
and plans are already in the mill creating priorities on
other much-needed bridges.

The $15 million Cape Fear Memorial Bridge was
opened in October of 1969. This is the largest bridge ever
built in North Carolina, and has opened new avenues to
our coastal resort area.

THE WORK RELEASE PROGRAM

One by-product of the state's highway program came as
the result of one highway commissioner's problem and
his solution to that problem.

Charles K. Maxwell, who is commissioner for Meck-
lenburg and Gaston counties, had many projects that need-
ed to be done by state work forces; but there was a
shortage of men who could operate machines and do
other specialized jobs.

Senator Maxwell didn't let this stop him. He figured
that there must be men in prison who could do these
things, so he met with Lee Bounds, Commissioner of the
Department of Corrections, and told him his problems.

The upshot was that men with these skills were made
available to the Highway Commission under a work-re-
lease program and the work went on.

However, the Highway Commission is paying these
men for their work, and the money is being used to sup-
port their families, getting the families off the welfare
rolls in many instances.

The Corrections Department likes the program, en-
dorses it and probably will extend the idea into other
areas.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT

As a partner with the Federal Government on many
construction projects, the Highway Commission is re-
quired to insist upon equal opportunity policies on the
part of contractors.

This section was strengthened during 1969 when ad-
ditional personnel was added to the staff. These employ-
ees will be busy during 1970 checking with contractors to
see that equal opportunity practices are followed.

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S.A.S.H.O., Atlanta, 1969

Twenty officials of the State Highway Commission were
present for the annual meeting of the Southeastern As-
sociation of State Highway Officials, which met in De-
cember in Atlanta, Georgia.

The meeting was held at the Marriott Hotel in Down-
town Atlanta, December 6 to December 9.

At the opening session the officials were welcomed by
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen and Georgia Governor Lester
Maddox.

Also speaking during the convention were Francis
Turner, Federal Highway administrator; A. E. Johnson,
executive director of the American Association of State
Highway Officials and Phil Landrum, congressman from
the Ninth Georgia District.

Those attending from North Carolina were George
Willoughby, R. W. Dawson, N. S. Day, K. E. Mauney,
W. A. Wilson, Jr., J. D. Walton, W. M. Ingram, Troy B.
Dodson, John H. Davis, J. P. Brown.

Also, R. W. McGowan, M. R. Sproles, Max Collins,
J. L. Norris, W. P. Garriss, J. M. Lynch, M. T. Adkins,
Harrison Lewis, C. E. Collier, and Jack Murdock

During the sessions, each member of the delegation at-
tended assigned committee meetings.

Departments Merge,

Caddell Named Head

William F. (Bill) Caddell, Jr., was named January 2
to head the Planning and Research Department, replacing
Max Sproles who resigned to go with the Association of
American Railroads.

Caddell was formerly head of Advance Planning, which
has now merged with Planning and Research. Both de-
partments receive their budget from the same highway
fund.

Caddell grew up in Aberdeen and attended public
schools there. He graduated from N. C. State University
in 1953 with a degree in Civil Engineering. In 1954 he
entered the Army as a Second Lieutenant and graduated
first in his class in Army Aviation. He flew light aircraft
and helicopters during his time in the service and was dis-
charged with the rank of First Lieutenant.

While a student at State, he began working for the
N. C. Highway Commission as a rodman in the Location
Department. In 1957, Caddell joined the Advance Plan-
ning Department as a trainee, becoming a permanent
member of the department in 1958. He was named de-
partment head in 1968.

Caddell is a member of Hudson Memorial Presby-
terian Church and also serves as a Deacon. He is the
immediate past president of the Civitan Club and enjoys
camping as a hobby.

He is married to the former Anne Marie Trent of Ra-
leigh. The Caddells have two children, William F. Cad-
dell, III, 15 years old, and Anne Trent Caddell, 14. They
reside at 5024 Lakemont Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Promotions

Kenneth L. Horton, 45, has been named division engi-
neer for the State Highway Commission's Ninth Engineer-
ing Division. He assumed the position on January 1.

Horton will succeed R. B. Fitzgerald, veteran engi-
neer who has held the post for the past 10 years. Fitz-
gerald retired on December 31, after more than 40 years
with the Commission.

A native of Raleigh, Horton was recently transferred
from Asheville to Winston-Salem to take the post of
assistant division engineer, succeeding Luther Berrier Jr.,
who was promoted to assistant chief engineer for con-
struction and maintenance with headquarters in Raleigh.

Horton is a graduate of N. C. State University and has
been with the Highway Commission since 1946.

Willoughby also announced that E. J. Butler, who has
been a district engineer at Weldon, will be the new as-
sistant division engineer in Winston-Salem.

Butler, a native of Bertie County, is also a graduate of
N. C. State and has been wth the Commission since 1950.

G. F. Mast, who has been serving as assistant district
engineer, has been promoted to district engineer with
headquarters in Boone. He succeeds J. T. Winkler who
was recently named area maintenance engineer.

In other changes in the 11th engineering division, F. D.
Blevins was named assistant district engineer at Boone
and J. H. Taylor was named maintenance supervisor for
Watauga and Avery counties.

W. M. (Bill) Cherkas, Jr., new resident engineer in
the 8th Division, Siler City office, stopped by the Public
Information office when he came to Raleigh on October
23. 8th Division Inspector Robert Glenn Shepherd, re-
tiring after 44 years with the Commission, came along
to arrange details of that event.

Ted Harrison, Raleigh Correspondent for WFMY-
TV in Greensboro, happened to be making his rounds in
the daily search for news in the Capital city. Arch Laney
greeted all of them.

Left to right: Ted Harrison, Bill Cherkas, Jr., Arch
Laney and Bob Shepherd,

Airport Development

By Roy G. Sowers, Jr.

(The State Highway Commission has been involved,
ever since it was created, in improving ground transpor-
tation in both urban and rural areas. Not until 1967 did
the state become involved in aiding these areas in de-
veloping their air transportation systems.

Now, in a report to the people, Conservation and De-
velopment Director Roy G. Sowers, has revealed that
his agency has funds to aid in the improvement of air-
ports in the state.

The C&D Director said that this has been made pos-
sible by cooperation between local, state and federal gov-
ernment.

Because the public interest is best served by the im-
provement of all types of transportation, his report should
be of interest to the people who work with the Highway
System and we publish with that thought in mind.

The Sowers report follows:)

We meet today to add the final touch to a pleasant
chapter of happy cooperation between Local, State and
Federal Government.

In just a few minutes, it will be my pleasure to pre-
sent to John Nelms, chairman of the Aeronautics Au-
thority of the Cities of Henderson and Oxford, and the
Counties of Granville and Vance, a check for $60,000 as
North Carolina's share of the cost for a new airport.

We decided to have this ceremony, rather than just
mail the check, because we felt that there is some special
significance about this project on several points.

First, the $60 000 grant is the largest single grant made
to a local airport group since the inception of the State
assistance program in 1967.

Further, the new airport project is a splendid example
of co-operation between four units of local government —
an example of co-operation that many other communities
in North Carolina would do well to emulate in any num-
ber of ways.

(Continued on next page.)

ROY G. SOWERS

Should State Highway Boards
Oversee All Transportation

By PORTER MUNN

(Who will coordinate transportation? This is the ques-
tion now being debated all over the country.

A Federal official has suggested that the State Highway
Commission move into that role.

In an editorial in the Charlotte Observer, Monday, De-
cember 22, 1969, Porter Munn had these comments to
make:)

A time bomb might be ticking away under the Highway
Commission in Raleigh and the other commissions of the
nation.

F. C. Turner, head of the Federal Highway Adminis-
tration, plonted it. In a recent address he called for
states to make their highway commissions responsible
for all transportation.

He said, "The time has come for highway policy-mak-
ing to expand beyond the highway mode alone to include
the total transportation system.

"This means the states should possibly consider re-
constituting their highway commissions making them
responsible for all urban and statewide transportation."

Turner tossed the potential bomb at the December
meeting of the Southeastern Association of State Highway
Officials in Atlanta.

The Federal administrator said, "State highway offi-
cials themselves should take the initiative in developing
this broadened role as a matter of their public respon-
sibilities.

"I say to you that it is time for state administrators to
take a major step forward and outward."

Turner's proposal would involve establishing state de-
partments of transportation. The federal government in
1967 did it when Congress created the Department of
Transportation, headed by a secretary of transportation,
a new member of the President's cabinet.

The action brought cars, trucks, railroads, airlines and
both ocean and inland waterway shipping under the de-
partment's umbrella. Congress also gave the department
wide powers for enforcing its regulations.

In North Carolina a department of transportation pre-
sumably would take over such agencies as the Department
of Motor Vehicles, State Utilities Commission, Ports Au-
thority, the vast Highway Department and possibly others.

The General Assembly would have to authorize creation
of a Department of Transportation since it would involve
major changes within the state government.

The 1969 legislature established a commission to study
reorganization of the N. C. government. State Senator
John Henley of Hope Mills in Cumberland County heads
the commission.

The commission will make its recommendations to the
1971 legislature. Preliminary reports indicate one of the
recommendations might call for combining the highway
and motor vehicles agencies to form a department of
transportation and safety.

Florida, New York and one or two other states have
already gone to the total transportation concept.

Turner said, "We need such large amounts of trans-
portation that we can not afford to build any facilities
that merely provide duplicating or competitive services.
What we do need is facilities designed to complement
each other."

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Road Building Equipment Goes Sky-High

The State Highway Commission has purchased a new
airplane to replace the 10-year old plane which is now
used for aerial photography.

The new plane, an Aero Commander which will carry
eight persons, was purchased from Carolina Aiimotive
of Spartanburg, S. C, for $226,900. The South Carolina
firm was one of six bidders, and its bid had been approved
by the State Board of Awards.

The old plane will be sold through the State Property
Officer.

The new aircraft, delivered last month, is a twin-engine
model ithat cruises at a speed of 200 miles per hour and
has a range of 1,000 miles. It is a high wing plane which
is suitable for its principal job, that of taking aerial pic-
tures used in road construction.

SOWERS (Continued from page 5.)

As you know, the new airport is being built jointly by
the Cities of Oxford and Henderson, and the Counties of
Granville and Vance.

And, in addition, as I mentioned earlier, this project
represents the best in co-operation between all three
levels of government in our Country — Local, State and
Federal Government.

And finally, we felt that this would be a good time
to give a brief summary of the success of our State aid
program for local airports.

Although North Carolina is the birthplace of modern
aviation, not until the 1967 General Assembly did we
decide that local airport development was worthy of State
assistance.

The 1967 General Assembly appropriated $250,000 to
provide some portion of the cost for new and improved
airport facilities in the smaller communities of our State.

The 1969 General Assembly provided $300 000 for
State assistance.

Under the statute creating the program, these State
dollars are used to match local and Federal funds in air-
port development projects.

Since July 1, 1967, a total of $341,253 in State funds
have been allocated to assist with airport development
in 16 different North Carolina communities.

In all, however, approximately 45 communities have
requested State assistance totaling $1.5 million.

As you can see, then, more needs to be done.

Aviation is rapidly growing in our State.

At present, there are a total of 182 airports and/or
airstrips.

One hundred and twenty-seven of them are privately
owned.

There are 40 publicly-owned, general aviation airports
in our State.

And there are 15 publicly-owned ports served by regu-
larly-scheduled airlines.

In North Carolina today, there are more than 2,500
privately-owned airplanes.

It is estimated that by 1980, that number will have
more than doubled to 5,400 private planes.

In our State today, there are more than 10,000 licensed
pilots. That number is expected to grow to almost 30,000
by 1980.

The number of flight hours reported by aircraft reg-
istered in North Carolina exceeds 427,000 today. By 1980,
private aircraft will register more than 1.2 million light
hours each year.

In addition to the private pilots and planes, the pub-
lic carriers are increasing the number of flights in and
out of North Carolina each year. The number of pas-
sengers boarding planes in North Carolina grows by leaps
and bounds each year.

As our flying public grows, so does the pressure for
improved facilities grow.

With that in mind, I have emphatically endorsed leg-
islation now pending in committee in the United States
Senate that would dramatically help our efforts for
better air facilities.

Further, I am asking of our two United States Sena-
tors, Sam Ervin and Everett Jordan, that they lend their
support to getting the bill out of committee and on to the
Senate floor for vote when Congress re-convenes.

Under the bill already approved by the U. S. House of
Representatives, "the Aviation Facilities Expansion Act,"
it is estimated that North Carolina would receive more
than $2.8 million during the 1970-71 fiscal year for air-
port development.

Included in those funds would be $99,235 to begin the
development of a needed state-wide, airport system plan.

Airport growth and development in our State for too
long has been haphazard and uncoordinated. The Federal
legislation, when enacted, would help us to develop a
long-range, coordinated program of airport development.

6

A Recent Visit To
South America

By EDITH JOHNSON SEIFERT

Raleigh-Atlanta, one hour, then
change planes; long wait. Atlanta-
Miami, one hour and forty-five min-
utes, change planes; wait again. The
crowd in the waiting room takes on a
different look. As many conversations
in Spanish as in English.

"Special flight number so and so
now loading at gate 22."

"Flight number two now boarding
at gate 23."

Again the loud speaker, this time
callng for Miss Irene Papas, the
Greek movie actress. A figure in our
waiting room pocket rises and walks
out. Yes, we are traveling with a mo-
vie star.

We wonder what happened to Mr.
Conception. He was one of three sol-
diers traveling together going home
to Puerto Rico for the holiday. They
were young kids, talking in Span-
ish mostly about girls.

Miami, Florida, U.S.A., to Carte-
gena, Colombia, South America, two
hours and thirty minutes. Miss Pa-
pas departs with her friend. Carte-
gena to Medellin, Colombia, South
America, six hundred miles, forty-
five minutes.

Roads in Colombia, in the city of
Medellin, are like most roads every-
where, built before there was an ef-
fort to achieve a total design solution
with some attention to aesthetic po-
tential. Medellin is situated in a val-
ley of the Andes Mountains. The
River Medellin runs down the Andes,
through Medellin and into the Cauca
River. This river flows into the migh-
ty Magdalena River and into the At-
lantic side of the Colombian coast.
Just thirty years ago we would have
had to take this river route up the
Magdalena to get to Medellin. The
industry in the city now, the huge
textile mill wth smokestack spewing
day and night, the distillery under
construction, the multitude of manu-
facturing plants, lines the river on
both sides and employs a large por-
tion of the million who live in this
valley.

Not the roads but the people on
the roads is the big shocking thing
about roads in this South American

city. They treat a car like another
person when they meet you in the
street. It's a test of manhood. It's my
road, too.

The trip from the airport to the
home of my husband's family was
crisis-ridden. Hoards of people would
appear in front of the car. Stop the
car. No, just continue at same rate
of speed, and suddenly, just before
we plow into them, they begin moving
off. There is hardly an inch between
us as the car moves on. Let's not kill
somebody now, on the way to spend
this most important week here.

Later on, I learned to play the
game with the people, the women,
the children, the strolling boys, the
solitary man standing on the roads.
Yes, they would move. But only after
silently telling me their story as
they disappeared from under the
wheels of my vehicle.

On Sunday afternoon as we drive
to tea with Mrs. Boll, there are
mostly young girls, 13, 14, strolling
on the roads. "Look at us, aren't
we cute. Soft skin, budding breasts,
round, plump hips, and no place to
go. So we walk on the road and
hope somebody will notice us."

Early of a Saturday night, it is
still light here for we are still in the
tropics though high up in the moun-
tains where the heat is not so swel-
tering, the young men are every-
where on the roads, joking, laughing,
headed for a night of . . . who knows.
Too young for bars. Too young to
have their own families and homes,
too poor to get an education.

One evening, when we went out at
about 8:30 to go across town to visit
friends, our car lights suddenly re-
vealed a crowd of young men all
dressed in black carrying a coffin,
dead in front of the car, yelling at
us. We stopped. Not the usual. What
next.

"Esta muriendo. Esta muriendo."

"He is dying. He is dying." They
were chanting.

"He" was 1969. And the young
men were really asking for money
for themselves.

On New Year's Day we drove up
into the mountains. There were lots
of people on the roads, not just stand-
ing but walking and carrying picnics.
It is a beautiful sunny day.

In Medellin, a live-in maid can be
hired for $20 a month. Food is rela-
tively inexpensive. Oranges, bananas,
are growing in abundance. But an
automobile is something else. Since
there are no Colombian-made auto-
mobiles, all that you see there are
imported.

The cars on the streets of Medellin
could be the nucleus of a collection
of early Detroit products. One of the
more prosperous families here has a
1956 Packard. The one-seated cars
of the World War II era abound.
Not only are cars hard to get in
Medellin, but also cars are heavily
taxed. Whereas Federal and state
taxes here amount to about 12 or 13
percent, in Colombia they are about
230 per cent of the total value.

The price of gasoline is not ex-
orbitant as it is in some South Am-
erican countries. Gasoline tax? We
forgot to ask.

Nevertheless, the car is the car. It
brings mobility. It is highly desir-
able. Those who are sufficiently af-
fluent have them. We even met one
family who had four cars.

Public transportation in Medellin
is by bus, and it works. In the little
village where we were, there was a
bus every ten minutes going down
town or to the next village.

One day I had some free time. I
wanted to see Bogota, the Capital
city of Colombia. Impossible. The
road through the mountains is third
class at best. Parts of it are impass-
able in rainy weather. This close, and
I couldn"t go to Bogota.

When we went to catch our plane
to the States at the difficult hour
of 7:30 a.m. we were greeted by
friends who came to the airport to
wish us a safe journey. Regretfully
we bade them farewell, looked up
at the Andes once more. As we start-
ed to board the plane, we were halt-
ed by armed guards who searched
our luggage, and frisked my husband.
Although slightly miffed, we were
grateful for the assurance that we
wouldn't be stopping in Cuba. How
could we publish Roadways?

7

North Carolina's Capitals

By Ann Hester

Ann Hester, who is secretary to A. Z. Williams in the Right of
Way Department, enjoys doing research on subjects of state interest.
Her's is a familiar face at the Olivia Raney Public Library in Ra-
leigh and at the new State Library.

Ann has been living in Raleigh for four years. Originally from
Dublin, the "capital" of Bladen County, she attended high school in
Tar Heel and business school in Lumberton.

Ann has also studied art and hopes to continue. — Ed.

The first General Assembly of North Carolina met at
the home of Richard Sanderson in Perquimans County in
1715. Little River, in the northeastern part of the Pro-
vince, was the next meeting place. It moved to "Central
Court House" five years later. This was located in Cho-
wan Precinct at Queen Anne's Creek. The seat of gov-
ernment in 1723 was Edenton.

In 1741 the General Assembly convened in Wilmington
and then went back to Edenton. Except for one meeting
in Bath in 1752, New Bern was the location used during
the years of 1745 through 1761. The Assembly met in
Wilmington in 1761.

Wilmington and New Bern began to compete with each
other for the location of the capital. The General As-
sembly passed an act in 1761 authorizing the building of
a State House in New Bern which became known as
Tryon Palace in honor of Governor William Tryon who
held the office at that time.

Tryon Palace was the first and only mixed capital of
Colonial North Carolina. Construction began in 1767 and
was completed in 1771. Most of the Palace was destroyed
by fire in 1798. In recent years the Palace has been re-
stored.

The Assembly met in Hillsboro (sic) in August, 1788,
and Smithfield, Wake Court House (in front of the present
penitentiary), Hillsboro and Salem during the eight
years of the Revolutionary War. After the war, the As-

sembly met at Hillsboro, New Bern, Fayetteville, Tar-
boro and again in Fayetteville in 1788.

The Assembly met in Hillsboro in August, 1788, and
decided that the seat of government should be as follows:
"It shall be left to the discretion of the General Assembly
to ascertain the exact spot — provided, always, that dlt shall
be within ten miles of the plantation whereon Issac
Hunter now resides in the County of Wake."

In a session at New Bern in 1791, the Assembly en-
acted a law to put in effect the decision of the 1787 con-
vention. It named ten men to locate and lay off the "City
of Raleigh" and five men to build the State House at a
cost not to exceed $50,000.00.

On April 4, 1792, this committee met at the home of
Joel Lane in the western part of the present city of
Raleigh. The committee was composed of Willie Jones,
Joseph McDowell, Thomas Blount, William J. Dawson,
James Martin and Frederick Hargett.

One thousand acres was purchased from Joel Lane
on April 5. A city covering 400 acres was laid out setting
apart four squares of four acres each — Burke, Caswell,
Nash and Moore — and in the center of these, Union
Square for the State House. They laid out 276 lots, each
of one acre, to be sold to raise funds with which to build
the capital.

The first State House at Raleigh was begun in 1792
and completed in 1796. This building was destroyed by
fire on July 21, 1831.

The original name of Raleigh was Wake Court House
and it was changed to Raleigh by an act of the General
Assembly which was passed in 1792. The term "State
House" was changed to "Capitol" in 1832.

The present State Capitol cornerstone was laid July
4, 1833. The building was completed in 1840 at a cost of
$531,674.46.

8

Letters We Liked

Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

January 9, 1970

Dear Mr. Faircloth,

I wish to thank the Highway Com-
mission for its help especially with
the Plymouth and New Bern mill ac-
cess roads. All of us here at Weyer-
hauser are grateful for the coopera-
tion your people have shown.

Perhaps it might be possible for
you to come to Plymouth when your
schedule allows so we could show you
our operation.

Many, many thanks . . .

Chapman Hutchinson
Plymouth, North Carolina 27962

Free Will Baptist Children's Home
Middlesex, North Carolina 27557
January 20, 1970

Mr. Arch Laney
Public Information Officer
State Highway Commission
Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Sir:

On behalf of the Free Will Bap-
tist Children's Home, its Board of
Trustees and its sponsors, I wish to
extend to you the deepest measure
of appreciation for your kind atten-
tion concerning the paving of the
street on the north side of the cam-
pus. The value of the street to the
campus is immeasurable and the
school bus now has no difficulty in
getting in and out.

Again, I thank you.

Yours in Christ,

Bruce Dudley

Secretary Board of Trustees

December 29, 1969

Dear Editor:

Thanks so much for the Roadways
Magazines. I have disbursed them to
the proper officers throughout our
bank, and have kept one for our
scrapbook . . .and want to thank you
for a job well-done.

Sincerely,

Catherine Barnes
NCNB
Raleigh, N. C.

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High School.

It could never be said that people
from Personnel do not know how to
have a good time. Two Christmas
parties were enjoyed by the depart-
ment. The family party was held at
the Angus Barn. Delicious steaks
were served and everyone received a
very appropriate gag gift. The office
party was another food affair, of
course. Everyone brought a dish and
delicious food was enjoyed. Cloyce
Alford played Santa Claus for the
exchange of gifts.

Several people from the depart-
ment attended the wedding of Mary
Lee Griffin to Russell Cooper on
January 3, 1970. Co-workers are sor-
ry to lose Mary Lee, and she was a
beautiful bride. Mary Lee and Rus-
sell will be living in Cheraw, South
Carolina, where he is employed with
Kaiser Roth. The bride is really
looking forward to just being a house-
wife for a while.

Welcome to Ann Johnson, new re-
ceptionist. Ann transferred from
Equipment to replace Mary Lee.

Our depest sympathy to Fred Ad-
cock upon the recent loss of his
father-in-law.

Department Head Troy Dodson is
wearing a big smile these days. He
will become a grandfather for the
first time in early spring.

New faces on the Training Pro-
grams are: Stanley Hyatt, highway
engineer in training in Asheville;
Harlan Britt, highway engineer in
training in bridge design; Donald
Miller, Highway Engineer in training
in Traffc Engineering. Joseph Anders
returned to the Highway Commission
from military service to continue the
Civil Technology Training Program
in Winston- Salem, Sidney Autry is a
Civil Tech Trainee in Fayetteville,
and Duke Woodlief is a Civil Tech
Trainee in Greensboro.

Congratulations to personnel of
Division Four who have recently com-
pleted a forty-hour course in Super-
visory Development Training.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY— Welcome
to Philip Joyner of Spring Hope. Phil
is a graduate of Wilson Tech and
was previously employed by Omark
Industries in Zebulon. He is in the
Drafting Section. It's nice to have
Judy Blevins in Drafting, also. Judy
transferred from Bridge Design. An-
gela Pridgen of Raleigh recently join-
ed the Engineering Secton. Angela
is a graduate of Holding Tech in Ci-
vil Engineering Technology.

Photogrammetry held its annual
Christmas party the middle of De-
cember in the National Guard Arm-
ory. A delightful time was had din-
ing and dancing.

Marlene and Bobby Caulberg spent
an exciting weekend recently skiing
at Beech Mountain.

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Sympathy is extended to Cecil Hin-
nant of the Survey Section, upon the
recent death of his father.

PLANNING AND RESEARCH—
Winter vacations are nice. Among
those enjoying the sunny climes of
Florida were: My r tie Dixon and
husband, Sherrill; Maxine and Stan
Rupy; and the Bill Burbage family,
wife Janet and daughters Becky and
Cindy.

How would you like to spend
Christmas on Sanibel Island? That's
where the Burbages were for eight
days, living in their travel trailer. For
the past four years, they have been
taking their winter vacations in Flori-
da.

Some prefer a white Christmas,
and Phyllis Nelson had just that
while visiting family and friends over
the holidays in New York. She didn't
mind one bit being snowbound either.

Joan Warlick, husband Jim, and
little three-year old Amanda enjoyed
a long weekend before Christmas
visiting Jim's relatives in Greenville,
South Carolina, and Shelby.

There's nothing like an Atlantic
Beach weekend to cure those post-
Christmas blues. That's where Gray
McGee and family, along with Myr-
tie Dixon and husband, went right
after the holidays. It must be nice
to have a beach house for a summer
or winter retreat as do the McGees.

Marie Kivett had as her house-
guest over New Years her sister,
Glenda Allen, of Ft. Campbell, Ken-
tucky. Glenda is with the Red Cross
and serves in the Army Hospital
there. She has volunteered for duty

Charming Heather Leigh Kyler of
Newport News, Virginia, is the five-
months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Kyler of that city. She is the
granddaughter of Mrs. Doris Hall of
Planning and Research.

in Viet Nam again, having served
there for a year during 1967-68. All
wish her the best of luck.

Welcome to Donna Simpson, Tom
my Asbury, Maylon Cooke, Judy
Faircloth and Durwood Pegram, all
new employees.

Farewell to former Department
Head, Max Sproles, who resigned in
January to join the Association of
American Railroads in Washington,
D. C. Welcome to new Department
Head Bill Caddell, who replaces Max.

MAINTENANCE— Get well wish-
es to Mrs. Ethel Jones, who has had
a siege of back trouble for the past
several weeks.

PUCHASING — Wedding Bells
rang for Sue Davis and James L.
Mizelle December 28, 1969. The cere-
mony was held in Hayes Barton
Methodist Church, Raleigh, and the
Reverend J. W. Page officiated. The
newlyweds are living at 2419 Glas-
cock Street, Raleigh.

RIGHT OF WAY— The Depart-
ment held its Christmas Party De-
cember 19 at the Plantation Inn. A
good time was had by all.

Several employees and their fami-
lies spent several days out of town
during the Christmas holidays. J. D.
Croom and his wife visited friends
and relatives in Florida. Terry Hill
and his wife went to Cataloochee for
a weekend of skiing. Charles Timber-
lake and his wife toured Florida. Tru-
lah Page spent Christmas with her
sister in Williamston. Nelson Frye
and his wife visited friends in Wash-
ington, D. C. Last, but not least,
Ken Land flew to California to visit
a friend.

Gail Armstrong returned from the
Christmas holidays sporting a shiny
diamond. Joe Osborne is the lucky
boy. Definite wedding plans have not
yet been set.

After 20 years of marriage, Evelyn
Partin's husband surprised her with
a great big, beautiful diamond at
Christmas.

Congratulations to the Gene Fri-
zelles on the birth of a son, Eugene
Frizelle, II, December 18.

Everyone misses Herman Shaw,
who resigned December 12 to accept
other employment.

Welcome to Bob Jenkins, new
trainee.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Lavern Radford upon the recent
death of her grandmother.

M. E. White taught an appraisal
course at Chapel Hill for two days
in December. It was sponsored by
the Realtors Institute.

In a double ring ceremony, Friday,
December 12, 1969, Janice Hart Ball
was married to Connie Mack Price,
Sr.

The bride is secretary to Mr. R. G.
Johnson in Purchasing. The bride-
groom is owner of Price's Atlantic
Garage in Angier.

The newlyweds will reside in Ra-
leigh.

EQUIPMENT — Sympathy is ex-
tended to H. G. Long upon the death
of his father, Mr. Curtis Long, of
Charlotte, January 7. Mr. Long was
a retired Highway Commission em-
ployee.

Bruce Poole, Jr., entertained em-
ployees of the Department at a ham
and eggs luncheon, December 22,
which was a great treat to all pres-
ent.

Employees will miss Irvin Morris,
who was recently promoted to Equip-
ment Superintendent in Division
Nine at Winston-Salem. Mr. Morris
will assume his new duties February
1. Welcome to Howard D. Gupton,
who is replacing Mr. Morris as Parts
Inventory Supervisor.

Mary Jane and Bob MacGillivray
vacationed in Boston, Massachusetts,
with Bob's family during the first
week in January.

Former co-workers miss Ann John-
son, Steno II, who recently transfer-
red to Personnel.

It's certainly nice to have Linda
Dorsett as a new clerk in Central
Inventory.

EQUIPMENT DEPOT — Our
heartfelt sympathy to A. C. Sparks
upon the recent death of his father;
to Richard Tharrington in the death
of his mother; and to Ronald Stell,
whose sister passed away recently.

Get well wishes to Clinton Gower,
who was hospitalized recently.

Good luck to Ralph S. Layton, who
retired January 1, 1970.

New employees at the Depot are
Christopher Pierce with the Yard
Gang, Jesse McConnell with the
Machine Shop; and Jesse Earl Simp-
son with the Service Station.

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PROJECT CONTROL— Welcome
to two employees in the Department.
Miss Janice Thomas joined Project
Control December 4 as secretary to
the Department Head, W. M. In-
gram. Janice is from High Point and
received her education at Virginia
Intermont College and the University
of Mississippi. Janice replaces Mrs.
Carolyn Garriss, who recently resign-
ed to keep house, after serving as
Mr. Ingram's secretary for several
years.

Mrs. Rita Medlin joined Project
Control December 14 as draftswoman
in the Department. Rita is from Mon-
treal, Canada. She replaces Mrs.
Gwen Parham who resigned recent-
ly.

Friends and former co-workers
will be pleased to hear that Gwen
and husband, Bill, are new parents
of a darling baby boy.

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BRIDGE MAINTENANCE — C.
E. (Clyde) Joyner retired from the
State Highway Commission after 34
years of service with Bridge Main-
tenance in Wilmington on December
31, 1969. He has been located at Bur-
gaw since April, 1967. Prior to 1946,
he was in a floating crew working in
the Second and Third Divisions. Mr.
Joyner and his wife, Lena Francis,
will continue to make their home at
1944 Carolina Beach Road in Wil-
mington. All employees wish for the
Joyners many years of happy retire-
ment.

Good luck to Pearly B. Watkins,
who also retired December 31, 1969.
Mr. Watkins had served 14 years
with Bridge Maintenance as a semi-
skilled bridgeman at Burgaw.

Congratulations to R. E. Rivenbark
at Burgaw who was promoted from
Bridge Sub-Foreman to Bridge Fore-
man I. Mr. Rivenbark succeeded Mr.
C. E. Joyner who retired December
31, 1969.

LOCATION — Welcome to Ray
Catlette and John Martin, new mem-
bers of the department.

Congratulations to Poe Cox for
being named to the 1969 edition of
the "Outstanding Young Men of
America."

Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Summers are
the proud new parents of little Mi-
chael Troy Summers, born Decem-
ber 11, 1969. Michael's father is with
a location survey party in Asheboro.

Cartographer Virgil Taylor really
gets around. His latest adventure was
a trip to New York City where he
enjoyed the sights as well as three
Broadway plays.

Little Clifton McNeill, III, is the
4V2-month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clifton McNeill, Jr. His mother, Bar-
bara, is a stenographer in Location.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without our annual Christmas party.
Each employee is asked to invite the family to our party and we all start the
holidays with exchanging gifts and food.

These are the famous Musicians of the Bridge Maintenance Department.
Friday night is the night they get together to practice. They claim that one of
these days, they will be great.

1. The Boss (Max Collins, Jr.) gets to play Santa Claus as he hands out
the gifts from under the Christmas tree. Jimmy Lee just happened to get the
first gift.

2. This is the best time of all, eating. Just ask Constance Boykin and her
daughter Tracey. There was some good Christmas eating. This is the one time
we really get to socialize with friends and their families.

3. We have already welcomed our three newest employees, and here was
time to welcome their wives and children. Left to right: Mrs. J. J. Edgerton,
Mrs. R. L. Spence, and Mrs. Ned M. Perry.

4. Freddie Bray, Jo Lee, Max Collins and Judy Mead.

5. (At Left) — Mack Underwood, Jimmy Lee and Sam Usry.

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BRIDGE — Welcome to the fol-
lowing new permanent employees in
Bridge Design: New employee Sarah
Meadows Disney from Garner is also
a new bride of six months. She met
her husband, Bob, at Holding Tech-
nical Institute where she was a stu-
dent and he was Co-op Coordinator.
They live near Fuquay and Bob is
working on his Masters Degree at
NCSU.

Carlton Taylor is a transfer from
Bridge Construction. Carlton and his
wife, Elaine, have two sons — Bruce,
five years old, and Robert, three
months old.

Haran A. Judeh, from Jordan,
graduated from Holding Institute in
Civil Engineering Technology. He
has been in this country three years.
Haran's wife, Huda, also from Jor-
dan, has been here ten years.

John B. Wool wine graduated from
V.P.I, in 1965, and was structures
engineer with the Department of De-
fense in San Francisco for 2V2 years
before joining the Bridge Depart-
ment recently. He and his wife, Nan-
cy, who graduated from Radford, said
they decided to settle in Raleigh so
they could raise their eleven-month-
old daughter, Susan Elizabeth, ac-
cording to the standards of a bona
fide "southern belle".

David Hodgin is from High Point
and attended Holding Technical In-
stitute.

Bridge Design has two new train-
ees: John McDonald transferred from
Bridge Maintenance. He is a May,
1969, graduate of NCSU. Henry
Black, formerly in Construction, is a
1968 graduate of NCSU.

Doris Brooks replaced Carolyn
Clark as secretary to L. C. Dillard,
State Bridge Construction Engineer.
Carolyn resigned to be full-time mo-
ther to daughter, Tammy Sue, who
will be three years old March 3.
Doris is not new to the Commission
— she formerly worked in Roadway
Design. Husband, Vance, is with C.
P and L. They have two children,
Vince, six years, and Michelle, three
years old.

Gordon Parrish transferred from
Constructon to Final Estimates with-
in the Bridge Dept.

Tom Shearin and Fred Mehfar,
trainees, went to "Traffic."

Lee Howell transferred to Roadway
Design.

Sympathy is extended to Joel
Johnson, whose father died in De-
cember.

Tsong (Paul) Ching Lee was mar-
ried in December. His bride is also

from Taiwan, Republic of China,
Paul's native country. Best wishes for
much happiness to the "newly" weds.

The Bob Lilleys had '"open house"
during the holidays. Everyone en-
joyed the gracious hospitality of Bob
and Patty, especially the delicious
food.

The annual Christmas Party was
again held at the Carey C. Jones Me-
morial Park Club House in Apex
with a record attendance of 96. Gar-
land (Crooner) Mitchell, M. C. for
the event, sang a duet with Joan
Mills, Miss Apex. Reports are that
Worth Bailey and Charlie King, with
their dancing dexterity, are being
sought by "Arthur M." And Carolyn
Nobling, by persuasion or coaxing,
got every male present on his feet
to dance at least once.

Wedding bells will ring in June for
Mrs. Connie Gordon of Virginia
Beach, Virginia and Charles A. King,
Jr. of Raleigh. Charles is a member
of Bridge Construction.

Annie Ruth Sugg and husband,
Howard, drove up to New York City
with friends for a few days vacation.
As always, they had a great time
and recommend "Promises, Promis-
es" and "1776" as plays to see.

The Larry Ketchum's December
camping trip to Nags Head was fun,
in spite of the prevailing 30-mile
winds. They pitched a tent on Pea
Island, two miles from Oregon Inlet,
walked on the beach looking for shells
and had a real outing.

Ned Chapman is sporting a new
red station wagon and giving it a
real work-out on the mountain roads
up to and around Morganton. On
these frequent trips to visit his moth-
er, Ned really enjoys the comfort
and easy driving.

Art Noble and his wife, Dorothy,
visited her brother in Florida on a

recent trip. Art said he took a com-
plete tour of the Jacksonville Naval
Station. He and Dorothy were espec-
ially delighted to see her new nep-
hews, four-month-old identical twins.
Also, the oysters there make for
"real eating."

FINANCE — Best wishes to Judy
Bryant, who was married November
22 at Rosemary Baptist Church in
Roanoke Rapids to Joseph Albert
Reveill of Durham. Gail Tant of Key-
punch was a bridesmaid. After a
honeymoon in Florida, the couple is
residing in Durham where the bride-
groom is in construction work with
his father. Judy was a member of the
Payroll Section before her marriage,
but now is enjoying her role as
housewife.

Mildred Tippett of the Keypunch
Section resigned January 2 to await
the arrival of the stork.

Best wishes to Janice Cruden of
Key Punch, who was recently mar-
ried to Hammond Godwin of Ala-
bama. The couple moved to Fayette-
ville.

Judy Martin is a new face in Pay-
roll. Welcome, Judy.

All members of Commercial Ac-
counts had lunch together at the
Hickory House during Christmas.

Loxinie Johnson is a trainee in Com-
mercial Accounts and a transfer from
General Accounting.

Dale Joyner is a transfer from the
Audit and System Section to Gen-
eral Accounting.

Joe Allen of Commercial Accounts
transferred to the Agriculture De-
partment recently.

Van Privette is a new programmer
in the IBM Department.

Faye Jordan from Angier is a new
member of Commercial Accounts.

Good luck to Doug Carter, who re-
cently transferred from General Ac-
counting to the Wildlife Depart-
ment.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING De-
partment's annual Christmas party
held on December 19 was quite a
success and a good time was had by
all. A combo, known as "The False
Alarms" and composed of Mary
Hines' son and two other teenagers,
entertained throughout the evening.

Our Traffic Engineering employees
were mostly "homebodies" over the
holidays; not even one trip to Eu-
rope or other faraway places was
reported. However, Ned Bivens did
attend his ten-year high school class
reunion in Kannapolis.

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Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
J. O. Litchford, who became grand-
parents on December 9. The new ar-
rival is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. O. Litchford, Jr., who reside in
Hickory. Congratulations also to
Area Traffic Engineer W. A. Ward's
son Bobby, who was recently mar-
ried. He is in the U. S. Naval Re-
serves and is employed by Southern
Bell here in Raleigh.

Our sympathy is extended to the
family of Bill Smart, whose wife's
father died recently. Mr. C. C. Ses-
soms' father is in the hospital and
we wish for him a very speedy re-
covery.

W. T. Paramore has taken over as
Division Traffic Engineer for Divi-
sion 1 in Ahoskie. P. G. Dickerson as-
sumed a similar position for Division
2 and is located in Greenville. Don
Dupree was named Division Traffic
Engineer for Division 6 in Fayette-
ville. He replaces D. E. Holloman,
who resigned December 19 to become
Assistant City Traffic Engineer for
the City of Winston-Salem.

New employees in the Department
include Denise Mitchell, an ICT stu-
dent and senior at Ligon High School.
Denise works part-time in the Ac-
cident Identification and Surveillance
Unit. Chatry Perry, a senior in elec-
trical engineering at N. C. State Uni-
versity, is a part-time employee as-
signed to the Signing Section. David
Moore is completing a two-year train-
ing program and will become a per-
manent employee in the Accident
Identification and Surveillance Unit
January 19.

ROADWAY DESIGN — Depart-
ment Head W. A. Wilson, Jr., with
Henry Clegg and Frank Pace, at-
tended the 49th Annual Highway Re-
search Board Meeting during the
week of January 11-16 in Washing-
ton, D. C.

Roadway Design was saddened by
the death of Sam H. Hall on January
11. Sam had many friends in the
Commission and will be long re-
membered for his vibrant personality,
friendliness and his love for life. His
devotion to his church and friends
was outstanding. He had been re-
tired from Roadway Design for sev-
eral years and had moved to Char-
lotte to be near his son. All employ-
ees extend their deepest sympathy to
the Hall family in the loss of Sam.

Martha Enscore and husband,
Charles, began their vacation in Se-
ville, Spain, where they walked
through the Cathedral of Seville,
third largest Cathedral in the world.

Next they saw the Giralda — a five-
story bell tower built in 1184 and
the Tower of Gold. Then traveling to
Algeciras via car, the driver stopped
in Jerez to allow them to visit the
Sandeman Winery, where they sam-
pel excellent sherry. A two-hour

Spanish pigeons perch atop Martha
Enscore's head and hand while she
was vacationing in Spain for three
weeks the latter part of October and
first of November.

The above two handsome young
gentlemen are Scott, age 14, and Rus-
sell, age 6, children of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Barndt, Jr.

Their dad is a member of Road-
way Design.

ferry ride took them from Algeciras
to Tangiers, Morocco. In Tangiers,
they visited the Casbah, the Royal
Palace and shopped in the Souks.
Casablanca was the next city they
visited. It is a very large cosmopoli-
tan seaport. Marrakech was their
last stop in Morocco. There they saw
snake charmers, sword swallowers
and fire eaters at the Djamma-el-Fna.

The last week of the Enscore's va-
cation was spent in Portugal, at Es-
toril, with side trips to Cascais, Fa-
tima, Nazare, Lisbon and Obidos.
Martha is an engineer in Roadway
Design.

Jean Dell'Acqua, her husband,
and five-year old daughter, Vivian,
flew to Guatemala, Central America,
to spend Christmas with parents-in-
law in Mazatenango. While there,
they visited the Pacific Port of
Champerico. They went to the Basi-
lica of the Black Christ of Escipulas,
an international Roman Catholic
shrine, high in the dry, arid moun-
tains of Eastern Guatemala. They
spent two days at the fabulous Lake
Atlilan. This lake is considered one
of the most beautiful in the world.
It is situated at a height of about
6,000 feet, surrounded by lush moun-
tains and volcanic peaks. The view
alone is worthy of the trip. The
Christmas celebration differs from
the familiar one here. There the fes-
tivities are on Christmas Eve, start-
ing with fireworks, dancing, gift
opening, and then a banquet after
midnight. The fireworks are inde-
scribable. The air reverberates with
sound and the towns are enveloped
with a gigantic cloud of smoke. Jean
attended dances and parties, saw a
volcano erupt and went to an Indian
celebration beginning with Indian
bullfighting, a soccer game, and then
an Indian dance with the Indians
donning costumes and masks imitat-
ing the Spaniards' conquest of the
Indian Civilization. Jean says that
Guatemala is a beautiful country.

All departments in the Highway
Building will miss the cheerful per-
sonality of Dan S. Allen, who retired
at the end of 1969. Dan had been an
employee of Roadway Design since
1927, and it is going to seem strange
not having him to brighten the day
for every person with whom he had
contact during the working day. Best
wishes are extended to Dan for good
hunting and good health for the
future.

A Christmas vacation in Califor-
nia was exciting for Margaret Mills
who flew there to visit her son, Mi-
chael, and his wife.

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New Executive Leadership, New Commissioner, Highlight Commission Meeting

New Commissioner takes the oath of office. Left to
right, Mrs. Phillips, Commissioner Phillips, Governor
Scott.

Host Commissioner, Joe Nowell of Winfall, N. C,
greets Chairman Faircloth.

The Highway Commission meeting at Nags Head on
November 6, 1969, began with a presentation by Frank
Gaboon on behalf of the Southern Albemarle Association.
All commissioners were present. Some fifteen representa-
tives of various news media were present.

Representatives of Colington Harbour, a 750-acre re-
sort development located ithree miles west of the Wright
Memorial on U. S. 158, were also present. Graduate stu-
dents in landscape design from a North Carolina Univer-
sity attended the meeting to obtain information for a
presentation on Carteret County.

Action taken by the Commission at the meeting is
now a matter of public record.

The meeting was adjourned by Chairman Faircloth in
memory of Boyd Crisp, Highway Commissioner from
Clay, Cherokee, Graham, and Swain Counties, who lost
his life in serving the Commission.

The Chairman is flanked by four recently-appointed
officers of the Commission, the Administrator, the Con-
troller, the Chief Engineer and the Acting Secondary
Roads Officer.

Left to right, Ingram, Lewis, Murdock, Willoughby,
Chairman Faircloth, Rose, Davis, and Garriss.

Controller Garriss reports. Chief Engineer Davis is at
left. Commissioner Jeff Allen is visible in the foreground.

I, WILLIAM TED PHILLIPS do solemnly swear
that I will support the Constitution of the United
States, and do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will
be faithful and bear true allegiance to the State of
North Carolina and to the constitutional powers and
authorities which are or may be established for the
government thereof; and that I will endeavor to sup-
port, maintain and defend the Constitution of said
State, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the
United States, to the best of my knowledge and ability,
and do swear that I will well and truly execute the
duties of my office as a member of the STATE HIGH-
WAY COMMISSION according to the best of my skill
and ability, according to law, so help me, God.

/s/ William Ted Phillips

Robbinsville

North Cairolina

Sworn to and subscribed bef ore me, this

the 5th day of November, 1969.

/s/ William E. Graham, Jr.

Judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals

u

Scene of the meeting, the Carolinian, well-known Nags
Head resort, noted for serving regional-style cuisine and
fresh seafoods of the region.

Frank Cahoon, President of the S.A.A., who made the
group's presentation, talks with Edith J. Seifert, Road-
ways editor. Another member of the association is in the
background.

Shaded area on this map of the N. C. coast marks
member-counties of the Southern Albemarle Association,
Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell, and Washington.

Members of the Southern Albemarle Association.

"... and the Commission shall meet once in each sixty
days . . . provided, however, the Commission shall hold
each year at least one meeting in a town or city east of
Raleigh ... at which meeting the Commission shall, in
addition to its other business, be available to the members
of the public who wish to be heard regarding highway
matters." Article 1, Section 136-2,

General Statutes of North Carolina

Southern Albemarle Association Asks
Commission for Bridge, Ferry

Honorable Chairman, Members of the Commission:

The Southern Albemarle Association was started some
34 years ago as an association dedicated to progress and
well-being of our people, particularly in the matters of
getting bridges, highways, better roads, and ferries for
our area of North Carolina.

Our Association has two primary projects:

1. A bridge across the Pamlico River in Beaufort
county to replace the present ferry which operates from
Lee's Creek on the South side to Gaylord's Bay on the
North side.

2. A Ferry to connect the mainland of Hyde county
with Ocracoke. We agree that the route of such a ferry
should be determined by engineering knowledge insofar
as the points of entry and departure at both ends is con-
cerned.

Then gentlemen, we have many other projects, some
immediate and some long range: another ferry from Hat-
teras to Ocracoke, a highway from Nags Head to the
Virginia line, our inland waterways dredged and improved
in many areas.

We look forward to the day when the four-lane East-
West highways shall eonneat one end of our state with
the other, and a North-South four-lane route is along the
coast. We understand that the right-of-way negotiations
from Aurora to Lee's Creek to serve (the phosphate in-
dustry have been successfully consumated. Drainage con-
tinues to be a problem here in our part of the state. We
seek greater industrial development and continuing con-
servation and development of our natural resources.

Now, gentlemen, let me assure you (that with another
bridge, another ferry or two, and better highway connect-
ing links, our Southern Albemarle area can do more for
itself ably than it can do under our present circumstances.

Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Frank Cahoon
President

15

CHARRETTE

New Concept in Planning

By W. H. RIGGS

A unique event took place when Shaw University offi-
cials initiated discussion of community problems with
community leaders and with residents of the Southside
Community. Experts, community leaders, students, and
a charrette staff sat down together to try to identify and
solve their problems. Meetings and discussions continued
day and night for ten days.

Charrette, as the process was called, was sponsored by
the U. S. Office of Education, Construction Service, who
granted $10,000 to Shaw University to conduct the
Charrette.

Participants gathered in a former automobile sales,
service, and repair shop, located in downtown Raleigh
near the University and the urban renewal neighborhood.

At the opening session key participants were intro-
duced; Bill Riddick, Shaw University official, who served
as chief group dynamic leader, J. D. Lewis, of Raleigh,
and Don Shriver, of N.C.S.U., at Raleigh, group leaders
or referees, Peter Batchelor, of the School of Design,
N.C.S.U., at Raleigh, Charette chairman for facility prep-
aration, demographic data, and other display material,
and five officials of the U. S>. Office of Education, Con-
struction Service, Dr. Charles Trotter, Jack Hurley,
Henry Stanton, Carson Boone, and William Black.

"Input" during the discussion consisted of information
on housing, education, transportaton, community services,
employment, power structure of the community, finance,
and the whole aspect of urban renewal.

It was pointed out that approximately forty percent of
the redeveloped Southside Urban Renewal Area would
be used to accommodate streets and highways. Herein lay
the problem as expressed by Southside residents attend-
ing the Charrette. They felt they were squeezed into a
small area in disproportion to their numbers.

Housing was listed as their greatest need and the hous-
ing available in the black community is inadequate in
terms of both quantity and quality. They felt white re-
sentment precluded their breaking out of the existing con-
fines of the black community. They said they needed ade-
quate housing today and were of the opinion that white
or black prejudices were not likely to dissipate in the
foreseeable future. Consequently, as expressed in the
Charrette, black people have concluded they must re-
build in the existing community.

Enmity to proposed highway improvements in South-
side by Southside residents at the Charrette led to the
organization, within the Charrette, of the Transportation
Committee. This Committee consisted of an architect
Leon Allain, from Atlanta, Georgia; city planners A. C.
Hall, Jr., Director of Planning, City of Raleigh, and
Larry Gerkins of Ohio State University; educator, Mrs.
Willie High of Shaw University; highway planners H. R.
Teets, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, M. R. Sproles and

W. H. Riggs, State Highway Commission; and repre-
sentatives of Harland Bartholomew and Associates, the
firm who prepared the Raleigh thoroughfare study.

Other committees were formed to deal with other prob-
lems. These included a housing committee and an edu-
cation committee. In the last few days of the Charrette,
the need for a committee to deal with rent problems and
pest problems led to the formation of the Rat, Roach
and Rent Committee.

The discussion of highways within the Transportation
Committee proved complex as well as controversial. Con-
sequently, ground rules were laid down by the Commit-
tee as follows:

1. That the area studied in committee be limited to the
Southside Urban Renewal Area plus two blocks be-
yond.

2. The transportation plan developed for Southside
must leave sufficient land to accommodate 500-plus
housing units within the renewal area.

3. The Southside Community would be designed as an
open opportunities community.

4. Land not used by highways and streets must be
sufficient to accommodate low and moderate income

housing, some of which would be single-family-de-
tached.

5. The plan for Southside must include an adequate
transportation solution.

6. Land not used for street and highway improvements
must be sufficient to accommodate some black-owned

businesses.

(Continued on page 35.)

About The Author

A native North Carolinian, William Howard Riggs
was born August 8, 1932, at Bayboro in Pamlico Coun-
ty. Upon graduation from Alliance High School, Pam-
lico County, in 1950, Bill began a four year stint in the
Air Force.

He received his Bachelor's Degree from East Caro-
lina University in 1957 and received his Master's De-
gree in 1959 from the University of Missouri.

Since graduation. Bill has been employed by the
State Highway Commission, in the Advance Planning
Department, as a Community Planner. He is respon-
sible for preparing long range street and highway
plans for selected urban areas and for coordinating
continuing transportation studies in Raleigh and Char-
lotte.

He married the former Harriette Harris of Bay-
boro. They have four children and reside at 5008
Lakemont Drive in Raleigh.

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A charrette is a two-wheel hand cart. What is the con-
nection between this and the term internationally applied
to those hectic moments in the life of an architect when
he is completing a project, working day and night; or the
same term, currently used to describe a "technique for
intensely studying community problems in open public
forum to achieve creative solutions?"

A distinctly obvious one. A charrette or cart can be
rented by the day in Paris. Architecture students, who
prepare their work on large sheets of paper stretched on
wood frames, pile their work onto these carts and rush
madly from their atelier to the School just barely meet-
ing the deadline.

The charrettes in their broadest sense are moments
of intense life in the atelier or studio. Everybody is busy
— the people doing the design, their friends who have
come to help them, the younger students who must an-
swer the summons of their seniors. The charrette goes on
throughout the night. It finally reaches its peak before
noon when the work is due.

Until recently, the use of the term in this area has
been restricted to special professional circles. At least
one newspaper was caught unaware when a headline
writer in the Raleigh News and Observer changed the
word to "Charlotte."

H. Palmer Edwards, executive director of the Raleigh Redevelopment Commission, answers questions of Southside
residents and visiting experts regarding the effect of plans developed within the Charrette on previous plans by the
Redevelopment Commission. Some of the plans developed within the Charrette for housing and transportation are
shown in the background. Seated in the right foreground, left to right, back-to-camera: J. W. Guyton, associate part-
ner, Harland Bartholomew and Associates; H. R. Teets, planning and research engineer, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads;
and W. H. Riggs, coordinator for the Raleigh Thoroughfare Study for the North Carolina State Highway Commission.

Seated, also, are reporters, Glenn Roberts of the Raleigh Times and Gene Marlowe of the News and Observer. Facing, left to right, are
Bill Riddick, J. D. Lewis, Edwards, Wilhemina Taylor, a Southside resident, and a representative of the Shaw University radio station.

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THOROUGHFARE PLAN
RALEIGH, CARY
GARNER

Adopted by the North Carolina
State Highway Commission, Novem-
ber 3, 1967.

Pictured above is a replica of the mutually adopted Raleigh, Cary, Garner
Thoroughfare Plan. It is used as a guide in the programming and develop-
ment of the local highway and street system. The Southside Community is
but a small, albeit important, part of the overall plan.

The Thoroughfare Plan is a balanced network of streets and highways.
The effectiveness of any portion of the plan is largely dependent on the even-
tual development of the entire plan.

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The Raleigh Thoroughfare Plan

The Raleigh thoroughfare plan was
the culmination of a three year study
involving both a comprehensive
home - interview, origin - destination
survey and an inventory of major
streets and highways within the Ra-
leigh, Cary, Garner urban area. These
data were analyzed; and, based on
that analysis, roadway improvements,
capable of serving projected future
(1985) traffic demand, were recom-
mended.

The recommended highway and
street improvement plan, called the
"Raleigh, Cary, Garner Thoroughfare
Plan," was presented at a public
hearing on February 15, 1967. Local
news media were notified one week
in advance and announcements con-
cerning the public hearing were car-
ried on radio and in the newspapers.
The hearing itself received television
coverage.

After the public hearing the thor-
oughfare plan was displayed in the
Raleigh Municipal Building and pub-
lic comments were invited. Persons
officially registering complaints about

By W. H. RIGGS

the proposed plan were personally in-
vited to air their grievances before the
City Council at another public hear-
ing on July 26, 1967. This hearing
was announced in the news media
and all interested citizens were in-
vited to attend.

Hearings on various segments of
the plan were scheduled at different
hours of the day. Anyone desiring to
add another part of the plan to the
agenda for discussion was invited to
do so. All complaints were document-
ed and later investigated and re-
ported-on by the consultant.

The recommended plan was subse-
quently adopted by the City of Ral-
eigh, The Town of Garner, and the
State Highway Commission, (The
Town of Cary had adopted the plan
earlier.)

The urban renewal plans for
Southside were developed simultane-
ously with the functional drawings
for the thoroughfare plan for the
City of Raleigh. The urban renewal
area, with the excepton of a few
buildings was to be razed.

The 600-plus families now residing
in Southside were to be resettled in
low income and public housing sites
in other sections of the City. The re-
maining land in Southside was set
aside for sites for the construction of
some 220 housing units, as well as
for business, industrial, and trans-
portation uses.

A combination of traffic congestion
and frequent traffic accidents in and
near Southside caused the thorough-
fare study consultant, Harland Bar-
tholomew and Associates, and the
Raleigh City Council to place a high
priority on highway improvements in
that area. Improvements recommend-
ed by the consultant and subsequent-
ly adopted included the eastern ex-
tension of Western Boulevard and
the southern extension of the Daw-
son-McDowell Street one-way pair
through the urban renewal project.
An interchange was proposed to han-
dle the anticipated high volume of
traffic where there two arteries cross-
ed. (See photo below.)

Southside area scheduled for urban renewal in Ra-
leigh. Shaw Univeristy is at right. Proposed interchange
is at lower center.

A second phase of the Raleigh thoroughfare study
was the detailing of selected roadway improvements

shown on the thoroughfare plan at left. This involved the
preparation of functional roadway drawings so that the
construction limits of proposed improvements could be
approximated and future right-of-way reserved. This
phase of the study was concluded in 1968.

FUNCTIONAL DESIGN

RALEIGH URBAN

AREA

THOROUGHFARE

STUDY

Harland Bartholomew

S Associates

October

1968

SOUTHSIDE

AREA

From The Chairman

One record which was set on our highways during 1969
offers some encouragement. For the first time in several
years, the number of traffic fatalities dropped below that
of the previous year.

Of course, any year when 1,793 persons die on North
Carolina's highways is not a good year, as far as safety
is concerned. Still, it was below the 1968 figure of 1,869
deaths.

The newspapers gave a great deal of the credit to law
enforcement officers and to stricter laws governing driv-
ers. This was proper and certainly these contributed to
the decline.

However, the Highway Commission is also working on
this matter of safety and has been for a long time.

For one thing, we are constantly striving to construct
safer roads by better engineering methods and by experi-
menting with the use of new safety tools such as rumble
strips and collapsable signs.

We are also, in our Traffic Division, watching our
highways to see just where accidents occur and investi-
gating points where there is a high number of wrecks
to see what can be done to make these places safer.

Only recently, Traffic Division engineers released a
list of the most accident prone places and what has been
done by the Highway Commission to cut down the possi-
bilities of accidents at those points.

So perhaps we have contributed something to the fact
that the death toll was lower this year than last.

But one other factor, which is perhaps the most impor-
tant of all, seemed to be completely overlooked in any
newspaper I saw. The best way, and perhaps the only
way, to reduce traffic accidents is for people to start
driving more sensibly.

We can have all the law enforcement we want, and
all the engineering we can get, but the operator of the
vehicle is the real key to fewer highway deaths.

But in the meantime, we will continue our efforts to
give the driver all the help we can with safer roads and
corrective measures at points where they seem needed.

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

FERRY DIVISION

The employees at Hatteras Inlet
Ferry Operations held their 5th an-
nual Christmas party December 12th
at the Atlantic View Restaurant,
which is managed by Mr. and Mrs.
Monroe Stowe. Approximately 150
were in attendance. Music was furn-
ished by the Dick Jordan trio. Out-of-
town guests included Highway Com-
missioner Joe W. Nowell, Jr., and
Mrs. Nowell, Ferry Operations
Manager, Hugh Salter and Mrs.
Salter, Ferry Operations Office

Manager Ben O'Neal and Mrs.
O'Neal, former District II Ferry
Superintendent, John Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. Stan-
ford White, along with many others.
A wonderful time was had by all.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Etheridge
spent the Christmas holidays visit-
ing relatives in South Carolina and
Ohio. Mr. Etheridge is Dredge Sup-
erintendent aboard the state owned
dredge "Carolina."

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ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Mr. and Mrs. Erving Gray vaca-
tioned in Florida during the month of
December. Mr. Gray is Ferry Engi-
neer on the Hatteras Inlet ferries.

Congratulations to Mr. Wayland
Jennette, Ferry Engineer at Hatteras
Inlet, who was recently married to
Letitia Phillips Lum of Chattan, New
Jersey. We wish for you both much
happiness. The couple will make their
home in Buxton, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Norvie Day recently
visited their daughter and son-in-law
in Smithfield, N. C. Mr. Day is Ferry
Engineer at the Bogue Sound Oper-
ation.

Division One
begins the New
Year with an in-
teresting item.
Mr. David L.
Harrell, son of
Mr. J. L. Har-
rell, Sign Erector
in Plymouth,

took a CrOSS-
Linda Mulder country trip from
Division Correspondent piy^^ North

Carolina, to Longview, Washington,
traveling by car through Tennessee,
Ohio, Nebraska, and Wyoming. He
reported to us, "Nowhere, in any
state that I've traveled, is the sign-
ing to be compared with that of
North Carolina."

We would like to pause a moment
and reminisce about a few holiday
events. The Division Office in Ahos-
kie held a Christmas Party on Fri-
day, December 12, 1969, at Barry's
Restaurant in Ahoskie. Administra-
tive personnel and their wives, hus-
bands, or escorts participated. A buf-
fet dinner began the evening and
dancing followed. It was surely a
great success, with a combination of
congenial people, an atmosphere bub-

bling with Christmas spirit, delicious
food, and "groovy music."

The Equipment Department em-
ployees, wives, and husbands enjoy-
ed a Christmas party held at the
Shrine Club in Elizabeth City with
W. J. Davis, Commissioner Joe Now-
ell and Mrs. Nowell as special guests.

The Elizabeth City Construction
Office held its Christmas party at
the Elizabeth City Shrine Club on
Thursday, December 18, 1969. A buf-
fet dinner was served to employees,
their wives and special guests, includ-
ing Commissioner Joe Nowell and
Mrs. Nowell. After dinner, Christmas
carols were sung and door prizes
were awarded. Dancing was enjoyed
by all. If you don't believe us, ask
that "Swinging Steno" in the Dis-
trict One Office. Speaking of parties,
it brings to mind one Mr. Gary Hobbs
of the Elizabeth City District Office
who took in all the parties during the
holidays, including several in Ahos-
kie.

In all the gaiety, we shall not for-
get those who are less fortunate than
we, those who are ill and those who
are bereaved. We wish to extend our
heart-felt sympathy to the family of
Mr. J. A. Wynn, Machine Operator
II in Currituck County. Mr. Wynn
passed away on December 7, 1969.
We also extend our sympathy to the
family of Mr. H. M. Spencer, truck
driver in Hyde County, who
passed away on December 29, 1969;
and to Mr. H. S. Peele on the death
of his brother. Mr. Peele is Mainten-
ance Foreman II in Martin County.

We send a bushel of get-well wish-
es to Miss Dot Gard, who has been
out since November 26, 1969, and
to Mr. W. W. Newbern. Area Fore-
man in Elizabeth City, who has been
out since October 8, 1969. We under-
stand "Captain Willard" plans to re-
tire in 1970 and we want him to know
that we shall miss him.

After twenty-six years of service to
the State Highway Commission, Mr.
James White, Machine Operator I
in Gates County, retired on January
1, 1970.

District One extends a hearty "wel-
come" to Mr. W. C. Sanders as En-
gineering Aide with the Elizabeth
City survey party.

Get-well wishes are extended to
Mr. Ralph Landed, Mechanic II, who
is out sick.

New Correspondent Named
In Division One

Linda Mulder, new division cor-
respondent for the 14-county first
district will have a large territory to
cover. As secretary to Glenn Cara-
wan, Staff Engineer and former di-
vision correspondent, Linda got some
experience to prepare her for her
new duties.

20-year old Linda lives in Powell-
ville, near Ahoskie, and commutes
to Highway Commission headquar-
ters each day. She attended Chowan
College.

Mr. J. E. Rogerson, Mechanic II,
retired on January 1, 1970. Mr. Rog-
erson has worked out of the Chowan
Area for quite some time. He began
work with the state in 1936. This is
a total of 23 years with the State
Highway Commission. On retiring,
Mr. Rogerson was presented a rod
and reel and tackle box from his
fellow employees of the Equipment
Department and Maintenance De-
partment.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rogerson

District Two extends a hearty
"welcome back" to Mr. R. J. West,
District Engineer, after having an
operation on his left eye in McPher-
son Hospital in Durham, North Caro-
lina. Sure did miss you, Mr. West,
and hope you are now recovering.

"With knowledge of the past and
faith in the future," we, the Division
One Personnel, shall strive to help
make this year the Best Year in
North Carolina State Highway Com-
mission history. Will you?

21

(Division 3

Continued from page 23.)

We surely miss S. D. Fulford and
D. W. Stewart, Bridge Tenders, who
retired January 1. Mr. Stewart had
around 45 years of service. E. G.
Harris and A. G. Munn also retired
on January 1 as did Clyde E. Joyner
who had 40-plus years of service.
Some of the employees had a supper
for Clyde and presented him an out-
board motor. That should help make
a " happy retirement." Henry Smith
retired on October 1, 1969. Mr. Smith
has been employed as Machinist II
since 1954. He was presented a shot-
gun and shells from the employees
and we wish him many happy hours
rabbit hunting. He will surely be
missed by everyone as he was such
a pleasant person.

Bob Trevatham is surely being
missed since he transferred to Char-
lotte.

We wish to extend our sympathy
to Marion Warlick who recently lost
his brother.

"Hunter Joe Bannerman" did get
one "deer" during the season. Con-
gratulations.

At our Annual Supper meeting
Paul J. DuPre, was presented a set
of golf clubs by the employees to
remember our very pleasant associa-
tion together.

J. S. White
(Jake) retired
December 31,
1969, after nearly
44 years of serv-
ice. Mr. White
has been Main-
tenance Supervi-
sor in Beaufort
County for the
past 23 years. At
a dinner in his
honor, fellow employees presented
him with several gifts to aid him in
that occupation for which he has
been in training, FISHING.

Mr. White will be missed not only
by those with whom he worked but
also by the citizens of Beaufort
County whom he served. All our good
wishes for a long and happy retire-
ment go to this dedicated highway
employee.

Hazel Baker
Division Correspondent

Mrs. James Shelton Payne

Miss Virginia Arlene Craft, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Craft
of Greenville, N. C, was married
Thursday afternoon November 27,
1969, at 3 P. M. in a double ring
ceremony to James Shelton Payne in
the Hollywood Presbyterian Church.

The bridegroom is the son of Mrs.
Bessie Payne Gunther and the late
Joseph Brown Payne of Greenville,
formerly of Fuquay Varina, N. C.

The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Roy Sharrett, pastor of the
bride.

The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a gown designed and
fashioned by her mother. The skirt
of satin "peau" fell from a high waist
of lace peau de ange defined by a
band of "peau" and lace sleeves end-
ing in calla points over the hands.
The chapel train was attached with a
crushed bow. Her elbow length veil
was of silk illusion arranged from a
bow of matching satin "peau." She
carried a cascade of pom-poms, carna-
tions centered with a white mum,
and green spring and ivy.

Mrs. Payne graduated from Rose
High School and is now enrolled as
a junior in the ECU School of Nurs-
ing.

The bridegroom was graduated
from Fuquay Springs High School
and attended East Carolina Univer-
sity. He is an assistant manager of
Zales's Jewelry in Greenville, N. C.

Best wishes to Eugene N. Sparrow
who retired on disability effective
July 1, 1969, also to Mr. R. P. Pitt-
man and Walter Jarvis who retired
on service retirement.

The welcome mat is out for David
M. Phillips, Right of Way Agent,
who recently joined the Right of
Way Department in Greenville.

Welcome to William H. Potter of
the Relocation Division.

The Right of Way Department en-
joyed a Christmas Dinner Party at
the Elks Club on December 19, 1969.

The Relocation Department held
an office Christmas Party on the
afternoon of December 19, 1969. Gifts
were exchanged and punch and cake
were served.

John Sawyer of the Appraisal
Section enjoyed the Christmas holi-
days in the warm sunshine of Florida.

Welcome to Mr. M. A. "Mike"
Brewer who is joining the Appraisal
Section. He is transferring from Shel-
by.

Congratulations, Fred Edwards, Jr.
He was promoted to Highway Engi-
neer I, effective January 3, 1970.
Also, Charles Clark who was pro-
moted to Highway Office Manager re-
placing Mr. Edwards.

Congratulations, David R. East-
wood. He was promoted to Resident
Engineer and transferred to Golds-
boro.

The welcome mat is out for Mrs.
Bratha Abee who transferred from
the Equipment Department to the
position of Secretary for the Land-
scape and Road Oil Departments.

A. J. Williams, Jr. has a big smile
in appreciation for the watch recent-
ly presented him by O. S. Denby,
Mechanic Foreman, on behalf of em-
ployees in District I. Now a retiree,
Mr. Williams spent approximately 32
years in the employ of the Highway
Commission as a Mechanic.

Mr. A. J. Williams

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Mrs. John White Askew, formerly
Donna Sue Brown, daughter of Divi-
sion R-O-W Agent Roy D. Brown
who was married on November 29,
1969.

Well, we are
all back from the
holidays. We
have now recup-
erated frotm the
numerous wed-
dings, Christmas
and JMew Year's
Eve parties.

Donna Sue
Brown, daughter
Di^c^pondent °f R-O-W Agent
Roy D. Brown, was married on No-
vember 29, 1969, at Winter Park
Baptist Church in Wilmington to
John White Askew. Donna was love-
ly in her lace wedding gown.

Another lovely wedding was that
of Ricky Jo Strickland, former sec-
retary here in the Division Office,
to Shepard B. Broadfoot, Jr., on De-
cember 20, 1969, at Pine Valley Bap-
tist Church in Wilmington. Ricky
wore a Juliet style gown, and the
wedding reflected the motif of Christ-
mas with attendants wearing green
and white gowns and carrying red
bouquets. Pam Howard, daughter of
Wayne Howard, our Traffic Engi-
neer, was a charming, poised flower
girl. Ricky is now living in Fayette-
ville. Her husband is stationed at Ft.
Bragg.

Leslie Campbell, daughter of R-O-

W Secretary Ruby Campbell went on
a tour immediately after Christmas
with the Roland-Grise Junior High
School to New York City. She went
to three broadway plays, saw the
Statue of Liberty and the United Na-
tions Building, and shopped at some
of the large department stores. Les-
lie, naturally, reports having a
grand time.

Joe Hamilton, Resident Engineer,
has a grandson, his first grandchild,
born last August. Since I'm still wait-
ing on a picture from Joe, I thought
I would go ahead and get him "an-
nounced" and wish the family a hap-
py 1970.

Leslie Campbell, 14-year-old daugh-
ter of R-O-W Secretary Ruby Camp-
bell.

We miss Graham English, who has
been very ill following major surgery.
We hope he'll be well enough to be
back at work soon. Also on the list
are G. E. Simmons and Fred Benton.
Clayton Carter, of Pender County, is
hospitalized due to injuries he re-
ceived in an automobile accident
while on the job. Hope he will be
able to be back soon.

Mrs. Shepard B. Barefoot, Jr., for-
merly Ricky Jo Strickland, secretary
in Division Office, who was married
on December 20, 1969.

Everyone riding through Pine Val-
ley during the Christmas Season real-
ly enjoyed the lovely decorations at
the home of Floyd J. Bass, our Di-
vision Engineer. I understand Chief
Designer was Mrs. Bass who is very
artistic.

Johnny Campbell, 9-year-old son of
R-O-W Secretary Ruby Campbell.

Mrs. Eleanor Norris Bradshaw
New Clerk, Clinton Office

Henry Smith, Equipment Shop em-
ployee, who retired on October 1,
1969.

(Continued on page 22.)

23

FIRST BABE OF 1970

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Creech, Jr.,
of Kenly, N. C, have welcomed
into the world their new baby
daughter, Tracy Renee. Tracy ar-
rived on January 1, 1970, at Wil-
son Memorial Hospital. She was
the first baby to be born at the
hospital in the New Year and in
the New Decade. Mr. Creech is
an Engineering Technician II with
J. W. Vick, Resident Engineer,
in Wilson.

Mr. and Mrs.
Junius Guy Mat-
thews announce
the engagement
of their daugh-
ter, Bonnie Suz-
ette, to Robert
Franklin Lyerly,
Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert
Franklin Lyerly
Sr., of Badin,
North Carolina.
A March 7 wed-
ding is planned.
Bonnie's father, J. G. Matthews, is
Equipment Superintendent, Fourth
Division, North Carolina State High-
way Commission, Wilson, North Car-
olina.

We wish to welcome to the Equip-
ment Department, Mr. Thad Cale,
Jr., who transferred from the Road
Oil Department on December 8, 1969,
as a Mechanic I. We hope he en-
joys his employment with us.

Margaret Barefoot
Division Correspondent

Miss Irene Stehley became the
bride of Patrick Bryant Webb on
Saturday, November 15, 1969. The
bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald W. Stehley of Saratoga,
and the bridegroom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Julius E. Webb of
Route 1, Pinetops.

The bride is a graduate of Sara-
toga Central High School and is em-
ployed by S. T. Wooten Construction
Co., Inc., of Stantonsburg. The bride-
groom was graduated from South
Edgecombe High School and is cur-
rently associated with his father in
farming.

Mrs. Patrick Bryant Webb

The Goldsboro Construction Office
welcomes David R. Eastwood as the
new Resident Engineer. Mr. East-
wood graduated from N. C. State
University in 1963 and became a reg-
istered engineer January 31, 1969.
He is transferring from the Green-
ville office where he was the Divis-
ion Staff Engineer. We also extend
our welcome to his wife, Carol, and
two children, Tonya and Bo, and
hope they will soon be calling Golds-
boro their home.

Mrs. Larry Russell Price

The marriage of Miss Brenda Faye
Bordeaux, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar E. Bordeaux of Mount Olive,
and Larry Russell Price, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew G. Price, of Route
2, Seven Springs, was solemnized
Sunday, December 28, 1969, in the
First Baptist Church of Mount Olive.
Mrs. Price's father is employed by
the Highway Commission in Wayne
County.

Miss Bonnie Suzette Matthews

Mrs. Roger Lewis

Miss Wanda Daniels became Mrs.
Roger Lewis in ceremonies held De-
cember 27, 1969, at the Clingman
Street Church of God in Goldsboro.
Wanda is the daughter of Walter
Daniels, who works with the Com-
mission in Wayne County.

Mr. George W. Taylor, Mechanic
II, has returned home after under-
going surgery. We hope for him a
very speedy recovery.

Mrs. Zillie Lamm, wife of Mr.
Quentin Lamm, Mechanic II, Divis-
ion Shop, Wilson, N. C, has returned
home after being hospitalized. We
hope for her the very best.

(Continued on page 26.)

2U

Mr. A. J. Maynard

Mr. Ernest Hicks

Mr. Giles E. Crutcher

In June of 1928 Mr. A. J. Maynard
came to work for the State Highway
Commission. On December 31, 1969,
Mr. Maynard retired from his posi-
tion as a machine operator in Wake
County. Mr. Maynard resides on
Route 1, Holly Springs, N. C.

Peggy Bright
Division Correspondent

"A good time
was had by all."
That is the re-
p o r t received
from the barbe-
quers, the square
dancers, and the
brunswick stew-
eaters. The oc-
casion was the
annual ladies'
n ig h t gathering
of Durham County maintenance em-
ployees.

On December 5, Mr. Duncan en-
tertained friends and fellow workers
at a Christmas supper.

V. L. Day and B. P. Lacy who
have both been on the ailing list are
wished a quick recovery.

Although W. W. Tilly took off to
go rabbit hunting, no one has heard
or seen any sign of a hare . . .

J. W. Mitchell, Jr., has recently
become a "grandpa." His daughter
is in Alabama where her husband is
serving in the army. John recently
visited them.

Joe Greenway and family had an
enjoyable time while sight-seeing in
the mountains of Virginia recently.

Sympathy to Walter Rutledge in
the recent death of his brother.

Garland Ellington had good luck
bird hunting recently.

Robert Inscoe and Pat Tingen, on
sick leave recently, have both im-
proved and have returned to work.

Mr. Hilton Smith, Jr.

Recently appointed as News Edi-
tor of The Technician, is young Hil-
ton Smith, Jr., son of Hilton Smith
in the Right of Way Department.
The Technician is the official stu-
dent publication of N. C. State Uni-
versity at Raleigh where Hilton, Jr.,
is in his third year.

Wayne Currin was hospitalized for
several days recently. He has return-
ed to work.

Roy Blackwell and his family spent
the Christmas holidays visiting rela-
tives in Florida.

Granville County employees and
their families and guests met at Ox-
ford Armory at Oxford recently to
honor Giles E. Crutcher and Ernest
Hicks who are retiring after many
years of service with the State High-
way Commission. Gifts from fellow
employees were presented to retiring
employees by Mr. M. T. Adkins, Di-
vision Engineer. Pork barbecue and
brunswick stew were served with 186
in attendance. Giles is Road Main-
tenance Supervisor and Ernest is
Maintenance Foreman 3.

Alvin Laws had good luck while
deer hunting recently. He bagged a
5-point Buck.

Mr. Alvin Laws

25

Mrs. Henry Jackson Edmund

Portia Diane
Bullard, daugh-
ter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward
Bullard, C had-
bourn, North
C a r o 1 i na, and
Henry Jackson
Edmund, son of
Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Edjmund

DwJXr^ondent °f Chadbourn,

North Carolina, were married at 3:00
o'clock Sunday afternoon, November
23, 1969, at Corinth Baptist Church,
Chadbourn, North Carolina. They
will reside at 223 Colleton Road, Ral-
eigh, N. C.

The bride is a senior at Wilson Me-
morial Hospital, Wilson, N. C. The
bridegroom attended Southeastern
Community College, Whiteville, N. C,
and is employed with the Singer
Company, Raleigh, N. C.

The father of the bride is a High-
way Inspector III with the Construc-
tion Department in Lumberton, N. C.

Hilbreth L. Britt's sister, Mrs. R.
P. Dawson and her husband of Wil-
mington, Delaware, spent Christmas
with Mr. and Mrs. Britt. Mr. and
Mrs. Dawson also visited Mr. and
Mrs. Britt's daughter and her hus-
band, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Brigman
and their two children, who live in
Fayetteville, N. C, during the Christ-
mas Holidays.

William L. Johnson, Right of Way
Agent, and his wife, Mavis, spent
Thanksgiving in Philadelphia. While
they were in Philadelphia, they at-
tended the Army-Navy Football
Game. "Bill" reported that he and
his wife had a most enjoyable trip.

A. E. Dixon, Right of Way Agent,
and his son, Freddy, spent Christmas
with his daughter and her husband,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Petralia, and
their little daughter, Kelly Gay.

Claude R. Moore Jr., Right of Way
Agent, and his wife, Nancy, had as
their guests for the Christmas Holi-
days, his mother, Mrs. C. R. Moore,
Sr., of Burlington, N. C, and Mrs.
Moore's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
MeKinney, of Augusta, Georgia.
They also made several trips to Bur-
lington during the Holidays.

June F. Cox, Secretary in the Right
of Way Department, had as her
guests for the Christmas Holidays,
her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. and
Mrs. N. J. Soyka, and their two sons,
Nickolos and Thomas, of Charlottes-
ville, Virginia.

(Division 4

Continued from page 24.)

Welcome back to J. E. Skinner
who has replaced Mr. Butler as Dis-
trict Engineer in District One. Mr.
Skinner was our Assistant District
Engineer prior to his promotion to
Resident Engineer in Wayne County.
Mr. and Mrs. Skinner and their two
sons, Jerry and Kenny, will move
their residence from Goldsboro to
Roanoke Rapids in the near future.

Good luck to J. T. Smith, Machine
Operator in Edgecombe County, who
resigned to go into self-employment.
He will be missed by his co-workers
and supervisors.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to the family of the late Jesse Calvin
Parker, Machine Operator in Halifax
County, who was fatally injured in
an automobile accident in November,
1969.

Much happiness and good health is
wished for O. C. Robertson and Mack
Harris, who retired recently after 42
and 34 years, respectively, of service
with the Highway Commission, in
Halifax County.

All our best wishes go with Mr.
Skinner, Resident Engineer, who is
moving to Weldon to be the District
Engineer. We hope you like your
new job.

Newton Grove was the scene for
our combined Christmas and going-
away party for Mr. Skinner. We ate
dinner, family style, presented a sil-
ver tray to Mr. Skinner and later
journeyed to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Maddrey Bass where we en-
joyed refreshments.

Best wishes to Mr. Irvin Davis
who has been on extended sick leave
and who underwent surgery at the
Veteran's Hospital recently.

Sympathy is extended to Leon
Newsome in the recent death of his
father, Mr. Wiel Newsome, age 72.

Also, sympathy is extended to Mr.
Edgar E. Bordeaux in the death of
his borther, Mr. Corley A. Bordeaux,
age 62, of Raleigh, who died Decem-
ber 12, 1969.

Sympathy is extended to Mr.
Henry Wiggins, whose brother, Frank
L. Wiggins, age 60, of Goldsboro, died
December 8, 1969.

The Nashville Construction office
welcomes Mrs. Betty Kellum as Typ-
ist II.

Mrs. Kellum and her husband,
State Highway Patrolman W. W.
Kellum, have recently moved to
Rocky Mount from Elizabeth City,
North Carolina.

Congratulations to Machine Oper-
ator Randolph Page Strickland and
Mrs. Strickland, the former JoAnne
Barnes, who announce the birth of
a son, Michael Page, on December
29, 1969. Michael weighed in at a
healthy 7 lbs. 3 oz. and brought a tru-
ly Happy New Year to his parents.

We were sorry to have to "give
up" our former District Engineer, E.
J. Butler, to the 9th Division, to re-
place Mr. Luther Berrier as As-
sistant Division Engineer at Winston-
Salem. We wish for Mr. Butler much
happiness and success in his new
assignment. Mr. and Mrs. Butler and
their daughter, Martha, and two sons,
Clark and David, are house-hunting
in Winston- Salem and expect to move
from Weldon there as soon as they
find a home.

26

The John K. Walker triplets were
3 years old on January 4 — Samuel,
John and James are three lively boys
as their picture would indicate. Mr.
Walker is M. O. 3 in Orange County.

DIVISION
SEVEN

HON I

Welcome to
Rachel G u n d-
lach, Secretary
in the Resident
Engineer's office
in Greensboro.

We hope for
T. E. Sherron.
in 1970 improve-
ment in his
health after re-

Carolyn Graves tiring on disabili-
Division Correspondent

ty.

A long and happy retirement is
in store for C. M. McGehee, Main-
tenance Foreman, who retired on
January 1, 1970, after 22 years of
service. His fellow workers presented
him with an engraved watch as a
token of their love and appreciation
of a job well done.

Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Clapp spent
the Christmas holidays visiting rela-
tives at Long Beach, N. C,

Welcome to Duke Woodlief who
is assigned to the Career Develop-
ment Program and working with the
construction department in Greens-
boro.

We are happy to have Richard W.
Reaves with us for a few months
again during his quarter away from
VPI.

Sympathy is extended to Robert
P. Newman, Road Oil Supervisor, in
the death of his father on January
3. His mother is also seriously ill
at this time.

Sympathy is extended to T. S. Hun-
ter in the sudden death of his bro-
ther during the Christmas season.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hooper took
a trip by plane to Newark, New Jer-
sey the 22nd of December and spent
the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Thompson. While there, they
went into New York City and saw
many places of interest.

R. T. Laws, M. O. 3, in Caswell
County, has returned to work after
an extended illness.

We extend our deepest sympathy
to R. E. Newcomb, Truck Driver in
Caswell County, in the loss of his
mother. Also, to A. R. Parnell, M.F.
2 in Alamance County, in the loss
of his mother. J. B. Taylor, Asst. Dis-
trict Engineer, is also extended sym-
pathy in the loss of his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Delia H. Moser.

Right of Way employees had a
wonderful time at their Christmas
party at the Showboat Dinner The-
atre.

On December 7, 1969, Santa Claus
visited the Masonic Eastern Star
Home. The part of Santa was played
by Harvey R. Boyette, Right of Way
Department in the Seventh Division,
Greensboro.

(Division 13

Continued from page 33.)

Employees and families had a very
enjoyable time at the Christmas party
this year which was held at the Hush
Puppy Fish Camp. Earl Payne, Resi-
dent Engineer and Tom Gowan, As-
sistant Resident Engineer, were pre-
sented with gifts from the employees.
We welcome as new employees Ron-
nie Fleming, Randy Jenkins and How-
ard Rich. Larry Taylor is no longer
a free man for he presented his girl
with a diamond for Christmas. Get
well wishes go to Larry Humphries,
who is hospitalized as of this writing.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Ho-
ward Rich on the birth of a baby
girl. John Piercy and his Location
party have moved to South Sterling
Street. They welcome Mr. Bob
Chapman and his property survey
crew, who are sharing the office.

A retirement party was held for
Trannis M. Clark and David Chat-
ham, who retired from the Landscape
Department. Mr. E. C. Orr, Area
Landscape Supervisor, presented each
with a wrist watch from their fellow
employees, who wish both of them
many happy and carefree years
ahead. Gus Hedden went to Texas
to visit his son and family during
the holidays and, other than some
car trouble in Tennessee, Gus reports
he had a very enjoyable trip. Rich-
ard Roberts and his wife were well
pleased with their Christmas. Both
their daughters, Helen Louise and
Sarah Sue were with them at home
and Richard says that was Santa
Claus enough for him.

After spending several days chasing
a big bear, Elzie Duncan and Birditt
Dayton were highly disappointed
when they saw another hunter go in
and get their prize. Both said it was
the biggest bear they had seen in the
Western part of this State.

Division office welcomes S. T. Us-
ry, Resident Engineer from Waynes-
ville, who will be in charge of the in-
terchange complex at US 19-23, US
70 and NC 191 on the east side of the
Smoky Park Bridge. Mr. F. L.
Hutchison, Division Engineer, gave
us a very nice Christmas party again
this year and everybody in the build-
ing drew a name and exchanged gifts.
We all had a very nice time and our
thanks go to Louise Norton for mak-
ing all the arrangements and being
such a good hostess. Welcome guests
were Mr. Novile C. Hawkins, High-
way Commissioner, and Mrs. Harriet
Gossett, who retired as Secretary in
the Division office last June.
(Continued on page 29.)

27

Leigh Alison Whitesell, daughter
of Fred and Linda Whitesell. Leigh
is three months old. Fred is Resident
Engineer in Sanford.

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

Sympathy is extended to Joseph
W. Adams of the Road Oil Depart-
ment in the loss of his father; and to
Raymond Harris, Scotland County
Maintenance employee in the loss of
his brother.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of T. K. Smith, Resident Engineer,
Asheboro, who died in December. Mr.
Smith's cheerful smile and soft, quiet
voice were very admirable, and we
shall long remember his friendship.

Congratulations to the Lonnie J.
Fields on the birth of their baby
daughter. Mr. Fields is with the
Wagram Construction party.

A. L. Nelson, Resident Engineer,
Wagram, and his family spent the
Christmas holidays in Mobile, Ala-
bama, visiting relatives and friends.

Kenneth McFadden, who had been
working out of the Division office for
several months, has returned to Ashe-
boro as Resident Engineer. We wish
him the very best in this new position.

DIVISION EIGHT LOSES
TEN EMPLOYEES
TO LEISURE LIVING

These will be retiring on January
1, and we wish them a very happy
and prosperous retirement: C. N.
Moore, Maintenance Supervisor, in
Chatham County, having served for
38 years with the State Highway
Commission; Lewis Atlas Hilliard,
Maintenance Foreman in Randolph
County, having served 42 years;
Charles F. Williams, Maintenance
Foreman in Randolph County, 45
years; George H. Smith, Maintenance
Foreman, in Randolph County, 12
years; Glenn Hays Duncan, Machine
Operator in Chatham County, 38
years; Ira C. Flinchum, Maintenance
Foreman, Moore County, 21 years;
A. J. Douthit, Machine Operator,
Richmond County, 27 years; Jessie
L. Saunders, Maintenance Foreman,
41 years; W. C. Williams, Mainte-
nance Foreman, Montgomery County,
40 years; Robert G. Shepherd, High-
way Engineer, Siler City, 24 years;
and our many good wishes to each of
these our fellow employees. Much
praise is due these men for many
years of faithful and devoted service
to the people of North Carolina.

Mrs. William Gilbert Fields

Among our sick has been Bob Lee,
Scotland County Maintenance Fore-
man; W. H. Snead, Scotland County
Maintenance employee; Horace Led-
better, District III, continues sick at
McCain Sanatorium. We are happy
to report that Julian Guinn, Scotland
County Machine Operator, has re-
turned to work following an extended
illness.

Becky Ruth Yancey, daughter of
Sam Yancey, Right of Way Depart-
ment, has returned to her home in
Raleigh, following being a patient in
Rex Hospital.

Congratulations to Pat Yancey,
daughter of Sam Yancey, Right of
Way Department, who was chosen
as the outstanding high school grad-
uate from the North Carolina School
of the Arts to enter the college di-
vision of the School, and was award-
ed a $500.00 scholarship for four
years. She is majoring in piano and
organ.

Sympathy is extended to Sam Yan-
cey of the Aberdeen Right of Way
Office in the loss of his father on
January 1.

The Aberdeen Office personnel
held their usual Christmas party be-
fore going home for Christmas on
Tuesday, December 23. Following an
exchange of gifts, refreshments were
enjoyed by the Division office person-
nel, Right of Way Department, and
District Two personnel.

Our congratulations to Alan De-
Long, son of Audrey DeLong, Secre-
tary in the Division Office, on re-
ceiving the Vigil Award in the Order
of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca.

Miss Ruby Naythelle Williams and
William Gilbert Fields were united in
marriage Friday, December 19, in a
double ring ceremony in the home of
the bride's sister, Mrs. Phillip Gilliam
in Sanford. The Rev. Charles Fields
officiated.

The bride's parents are Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Williams of Route 4, San-
ford. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fields of
Route 3, Pittsboro, are parents of the
groom.

After a wedding trip to the coast,
the couple now resides on Route 3,
Pittsboro.

Naythelle is secretary for Mr. W.
M. Cherkas, Resident Engineer, Siler
City Construction Office.

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DIVISION
NINE

R. B. Fitzgerald, Ninth Division Highway Engineer, retired January, 1970.
after more than 40 years of service with the Highway Commission. "Fitz",
as he is known to engineers and officials throughout North Carolina, took early
retirement to which he became entitled over 10 years ago. He is a native of
Asheville, attended Asheville City College, and was at the North Carolina State
College when the depression forced him to halt his studies in 1929.

It was at this time that he took a job with the Highway Department as a
Rodman at Rainbow Springs, in the mountains between Franklin and Murphy.
He rose rapidly through the ranks, serving in most all of the Divisions in the
western part of North Carolina.

He became the Ninth Division Engineer in 1959, after the retirement of
Mr. Z. V. Stewart.

All of the employees under his supervision during the past ten years
would no doubt all agree that as a boss man, he was tops; as a friend, he was
kind and understanding, and as an engineer, enthusiastic and devoted.

To you, Mr. Fitz, we all wish for you the very best of health and happiness
in your retirement, some good vacations with your lovely wife, Gill, and many,
many good golf scores, plus lots of fun and games with your grandchild, your
friends, and all of those who have had the genuine pleasure of working and be-
ing associated with you during your career with the Highway Commission.

(Division 13

Continued from page 27.)

Right of Way Department wel-
comes Larry Wright, from Melbane,
N. C. The Right of Way Annual
Christmas party was held atop Beau-
catcher Mountain at the Sky Club
and the report is that they all ate
and danced until the wee hours. Dal-
las Clark was Santa.

District Two held a retirement
party for Mr. Andy Ray, the Voice
of Asheville. Mr. Ray was presented
with a multi-band radio, so that he
won't be completely out of touch with
radios now, but we shall all miss him
very much and hope he keeps his
promise to "come around" often. Also
retiring from District Two recently
were Marvin Edwards and James
Stevens. We wish them all a very
happy retirement. Welcome back to
M. J. Merrell after his recent illness.
We welcome Louise Blythe to the
District Office. Louise will be taking
over from Mr. Ray, and it will be
mostly her voice you will be hearing
over the radio from Asheville from
now on.

W e wish t o
welcome to our
State forces the
following: R. R.
Lawson and G.
W. Gentry,
Truck Drivers; J.
Knight, F. D.
Flinchum and J.
R. Hooker, Ma-
chine Operators,

Dorothy Phelps stokes County
Division Correspondent ^
Maintenance Department; and G. H.
Ibraham, Forsyth County Mainten-
ance Yard Foreman. All were em-
ployed December 6, 1969.

A long and happy retirement is
extended to E. W. Ashby, Stokes
County Machine Operator I, who re-
tired effective January 1, 1970. Mr.
Ashby had been with the State High-
way Commission for approximately
40 years.

Best wishes for a long and happy

retirement to C. R. Burrell, Machine
Operator in Rowan County, who re-
tired on Disability on September 30,
1969, and to O. L. Hoffman, Truck
Driver in Davidson County, who re-
tired on Service on December 31,
1969.

We wish a speedy recovery to
James O. Ervin, Machine Operator
in Rowan County, who had surgery
recently.

We are happy that Clay B. Harkey
and James A. Basinger, Maintenance
Foremen in Rowan County, are now
able to return to work after being
hospitalized for surgery.

We were sorry to hear of the death
of Kelley Eller's father, Mr. Lee
Eller of Warnersville, N. C, on Nov-
ember 30, 1969. Mr. Kelly Eller is a
Highway Inspector I with the Con-
struction Department in Salisbury,
N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. O. G. McLaughlin
announce the birth of a baby girl,
Tracey Leigh, on November 25, 1969.
Mr. McLaughlin is a Highway In-
spector II with the Construction De-
partment in Salisbury.

December 19, 1969, employees,
friends of the Commission, and rep-
resentatives of several contractors,
came by the Division Office to say
good-bye to R. B. Fitzgerald prior
to his retirement. The "Open House
Coffee" was attended by approxi-
mately 125 of Mr. Fitz's well-wishers,
and likewise served as an opportunity
to meet and greet our new Division
Engineer, Mr. K. L. Horton, Jr., and
his new Assistant, Mr. E. J. Butler,
who come to us from Asheville and
Weldon, respectively. A special "Wel-
come Mat' is rolled out for the new
Division successors, and we look for-
ward to many good and eventful
years under their leadership and as-
sociation.

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Ellwyn G. Glenn

Henry V. Edwards

Harry L. Link

Ellwyn G. Glenn retired January
1, 1970, and his entire time of em-
ployment since November 4, 1929,
was spent in the quarry operation of
the Maintenance Department in Un-
ion County.

Henry V. Edwards of Union Coun-
ty retired effective January 1, 1970.
Mr. Edwards began his work with
the Highway Commission August 21,
1937, and served most of his career
as a Maintenance Foreman II and
Maintenance Foreman IV. He did
grading and relocation of secondary
roads as well as widening of primary
highways in Union County.

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\ DIVISION (
U TEN W

We wish all three of these Union
County employees a most enjoyable
retirement and thank them for their
service. These three men have a com-
bined total years service with the
State Highway Commission of 120
years.

Phase I of the
construction of
the new Division
Office in Albe-
marle has been
completed and
the Division Of-
fice and District
Office personnel
have moved into

the new building.
J. W. Jones puas,„ tt „f +>i<»

Division Correspondent rnase XX OI me

construction will include additional
office space and file and storage space
and is expected to be completed with-
in several months.

The annual Christmas party for
Stanly County employees and their
families was held Monday night, De-
cember 22. A large crowd enjoyed a
barbeque dinner, a visit from St.
Nick, and dancing.

These are pictures of Garret Lee
Canipe, Jr. and Tammy Elizabeth
Lambert, grandson and granddaugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude R. Rid-
enhour. Mr. Ridenhour is Mainten-
ance Supervisor in Stanly County.

Tammy Elizabeth Lambert

Congratulations to Mr. H. L. Efird,
who is the proud father of a new
baby girl. Mr. Efird, also, works with
the Equipment Department.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
W. V. Hudson, who are the grand-
parents of a new grandson. Mr. Hud-
son is a Machine Operator in Stanly
County.

Harry L. Link was a Maintenance
Foreman IV in Union County until
his retirement effective January 1,
1970. Mr. Link began his work with
the State Highway Commission June
1, 1924, as a Section Foreman on Pri-
mary Highways in Anson, Union, and
Mecklenburg Counties. In 1931, he
began his work in Union County and
spent his entire time maintaining
roads in Union County.

We are glad to hear that B. L.
Mabry, Maintenance Yard Foreman
in Stanly County, is improving after
a short sickness.

We are happy to hear that Mr.
Ray Hathcock is home after suffer-
ing a heart attack in Miami. Mr.
Hathcock is a retired employee with
the State Highway Commission.

Congratulations to Mr. C. A. Ma-
bry, who is the proud father of a
new baby boy. Mr. Mabry is with
the Equipment Department.

Garret Lee Canipi, Jr.

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Shown here is one of our Right of
Way Agents and his Trainee. For
those who can't tell by looking at the
picture, the open-mouthed character
is Right of Way Agent Ronnie Treece
and the other gentleman is Trainee
Harry Byrd.

Snow removal has been the main
subject in Division Eleven for the
past few days. Snow began falling
on Christmas Day and provided us
with a White Christmas.

Five hundred and three men
had to give up their holidays to start
the removal operations. The accum-
ulation ranged from 2 to 3 inches in
our eastern counties to nearly 2 feet
in Avery County. District Engineers
have estimated the total cost of re-
moval operations at $114,260.00, in-
volving 22,953 extra hours put in by
our hard working employees.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to W. C.
Williams. Mr. Williams came to work
December 9, 1967, as a Laborer in
Yadkin County and will retire Jan-
uary 1.

DIVISION ELEVEN

Dolores Rogers
Division Correspondent

Division 11 Of-
f i c e Employees
had their Christ-
mas Party at the
North Wilkes-
boro Elks Club
on Tuesday
night , December
23. Division En-
gineer J. E.
Doughton and
Assistant Divis-

ion Engineer H. E. Koontz were pre-
sented gift certificates from division
employees. Commissioner and Mrs.
Robert Barr and Commissioner and
Mrs. E. Gwyn McNeil also attended
the party and were presented with a
set of sterling silver candlesticks from
the division.

The new District Three Shop lo-
cated in North Wilkesboro was open-
ed for business last month. We are
sure that this new facility will help
the District Maintenance forces to
operate more efficiently.

Snow Removal — Shown here dur-
ing snow removal operation in Alle-
ghany County are District 1 Main-
tenance Employees, from left to right,
F. L. Casstevens, K. E. Edwards and
F. D. Trivette.

The Division Eleven Right of Way
Department would like to thank Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Wilcox for having
their Christmas party in the recently
completed recreation room of their
home. The party was held on De-
cember 18 and a delicious covered
dish supper was enjoyed by all.

Division Eleven's Equipment De-
partment had their Christmas Party
at Cheetwood's Steakhouse on De-
cember 17.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Ronnie J. Treece on the birth of a
7-pound daughter, Elishia Gayle,
born December 2. Ronnie is employed
in the Division Right of Way Depart-
ment. Also, congratulations to Mr.
and Mrs. Len Cable on the birth of
an 8-pound, 14-ounce baby boy, born
December 28. Len is an Engineering
Aide in the District 2 Office.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to the fol-
lowing employees who retired on Jan-
uary 1:

Kyle E. Edwards is retiring with
38^2 years of service with the High-
way Commission. Mr. Edwards was
a Maintenance Foreman II in Alle-
ghany County.

Simon S. Shermer, Maintenance
Yard Foreman in Yadkin County, is
retiring with 24 V2 years service with
the Highway Commission. Mr. Sher-
mer worked as Clerk II in the Elkin
District Office from 1959 through
1963.

Collier R. Key will retire from the
Highway Commission with 20Y2 years
of service. He was employed as a
Machine Operator II in Yadkin
County.

Sympathy is extended to District 1
Maintenance Employee C. Z. Crouse
whose mother passed away recently
and to District 1 Maintenance Em-
ployee W. O. Cave whose father pass-
ed away on December 26.

We would like to welcome the fol-
lowing new employees in the Divis-
ion Right of Way Department — Har-
ry Lee Byrd and J. B. Myers. Also,
we are happy to have Bennie L. Huff-
man working with the Right of Way
Department again.

Pictured here is Jerry Allen Dan-
cy, 2 month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Dancy. James is an Engi-
neering Aide in the Boone Construc-
tion Office.

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District Engineer L. D. Gaither and
P. J. Corpening, retired District En-
gineer.

The Division
1 2 Equipment
Department held
their annual
Christmas party
in the recreation
building at Shel-
by, N. C, on De-
cember 12, 1969,
at 7:00 P.M. An
unusually good
DivisioJ„ecnorrlLpond.nt time was had by
everyone. As the photo indicates 109
people were feeding their faces with
delicious barbecue. For entertainment
we had a thirty-minute program by
the quick hand of the Magic Magi-
cian, Sgt. Vanhoy of the State High-
way Patrol.

Our guests were our retired employ-
ees: Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Laidlaw,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Whiteside, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Tilley, Mr and Mrs.
Ben C. Palmer, and Mr. and Mrs.

Amy Dawne Law

Dewey S. Jones. Mr. Jones who re-
tired September 1, 1969, was present-
ed a South Bend Rod and Reel and a
fishing net to catch all the big ones
that get away.

To conclude our program Old San-
ta Claus came in with bags of as-
sorted candies for all the children.

Spending a week in Florida for
Christmas were:

The Joe Barrett Family, the Carl
Allen Family, the J. D. Wortman
family, and the Bill Lattimores.

This year there were held the usual
Christmas dinners in Alexander, Ca-
tawba and Iredell Counties. The din-
ner in Iredell served a double pur-
pose in that it was honoring two of
our employees who retired as of De-
cember 31, 1969, namely R. L. Guy

R. L. Guy and W. G. Meyers, Ire-
dell County employees who retired on
December 31, 1969.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barnes are hap-
py over the birth of a son, Colon Lee,
on December 23, 1969. Mr. Barnes
is employed at the Statesville Equip-
ment Shop.

Sympathy is extended to Willis C.
Pharr, Maintenance Yard Foreman
in Iredell County, in the death of his
brother on December 28.

Carl and Martha Allen and son,
Steve, spent the Christmas Holidays
in Florida.

Everyone in C. C. Mauney's Con-
struction Office enjoyed a White
Christmas. The snow and ice kept a
few of us from traveling, but provided
a quiet, restful Christmas at home.
We hope everyone had a safe and
joyful holiday. We would also like to
wish everyone a Prosperous and Hap-
py New Year.

(Continued on page 34.)

Old Santa is Right of Way Agent
R. Stanley Morgan. Here he says
"Hello" to everyone at the Shelby
Christmas Parade on December 4.
Stanley made a magnificent Santa.

Iredell County Christmas Party

and W. G. Myers. These men have
put in many years working for the
State and have been loyal employees.
We wish for them the best of every-
thing in their retirement. Mr. Guy
was presented a radio and Mr. Myers
a watch from their fellow employees.
Commissioner E. Gwyn McNeil was
a special guest at the dinner and
made a short talk.

W. A. Hight and L. R. Teague,
Alexander County employees were
hospitalized in December in N. C.
Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.
We wish for these men a speedy re-
covery.

Catawba County Christmas Party

Left to right, R. R. Setzer, P. J.
Corpening, J. W. Bean, W. A. Starr,
F. E. Whitener, W. G. Hunt, G. D.
McRee, and G. S Henley.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Morgan on the birth of a son,
Ronald Jay, on December 31.

We are glad to have Joe Riddle
back at work after a long absence.

Trannis M. Clark retired from the
Landscape Department on December
31, 1969. See related story.

Wouldn't you know that Clyde Orr
would do his "thing" and shoot at
least one deer this season. Clyde had
his picture taken to prove that this
eight-point, 150 pound buck was his
"bag".

( DIVISION ^-7
\ THIRTEEN /

John T. Reel,
Jr., was installed
as master of Ma-
rion Masonic
Lodge, Mystic
Tie Lodge No.
237, AF and
AM, December
18, at the Lodge
Hall. Mr. Reel is
a Motor Grader
operator in Mc-
Dowell "County, and we all extend our
congratulations to him on this honor.

Equipment Department employees
had their annual Christmas party on
Saturday night, December 20, at the
Division Shop with more than 100
attending. Pershing Wilson and Har-
ry Grindstaff were chief cooks, ob-
viously good ones, too, from the way
the country ham and turkey disap-
peared. Tom Crooke and Paul Griffin
took care of the grocery shopping and
the treats for the children. Country
music was furnished by Oakley Fend-
er, Mechanic, and Bob Moss of the
Road Oil Department, who together
with others in the band sang Gospel
songs and Christmas Carols. A "real
good time" was had by all; and the
very welcome guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin McClure, retired; and
Mr. and Mrs. R. Lowell Hollars of
Riviera Beach, Florida — Mrs. Hollars
is the daughter of Deaver Lawrence;
also, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pruitt.

We regret that Mrs. Grace Lytle
was unable to attend because of ill-
ness.

Edna Ramsey
Division Correspondent

Mr. John Cairns Weaver, Assistant
Resident Engineer at Marion, retired
December 31 after 32 years of service
with the Construction and Location
Departments. He began his career
with the Commission in 1928 as a
rodman and worked on construction
and location until 1940, when he left
the Commission to work with the
Federal Government. He returned to
the Commission in 1950 and was as-
signed to Location, where he served
as Instrumentman on numerous lo-
cation surveys. In 1954, John was
assigned to the Construction Depart-
ment, where he has performed con-
struction engineering on various road
and bridge projects in the Western
part of the state.

John is married to the former
Madeleine Mashburn and they reside
in Old Fort. They have one son,
John, Jr., who is a Captain in the
USAF and is currently with SAC in
the Far East. John hopes to visit
John, Jr.'s wife and three children in
California in the near future. We are
proud to have been associated with
John Weaver over the years and
wish him the very best in the future.

John Cairns Weaver and A. L. Neal

Heartfelt sympathy to Mr. Elmer
Parham, Mechanic, on the recent
death of his mother, Mrs. Cassie
Sluder Parham and to Mr. Phil
Hensley, APC at the Burnsville Shop
on the death of his mother, Mrs.
Margaret Burton Hensley. Welcome
to new employees, Bill Hawkins,
APC, Division Stockroom, and to
James O. Rice, Mechanic at the Mar-
shall Sub-Shop. Mrs. Elaine Brewer,
Clerk III, Biltmore Shop, recently
received the degree of Order of the
Rose for fifteen years of membership
in Beta Sigma Phi Sorority.

(Continued on page 27.)

I

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Airman David M. Chapman has
just completed basic training at Lack-
land A.F.B., Texas. David has been
assigned to Sheppard AFB for train-
ing in the Civil Engineering, Mechan-
ical and Electrical fields. Moran
Chapman of Morganton Location De-
partment is his proud father.

A wonderful honor was bestowed on
Tim Barnett for the second year in
a row. This year he was chosen by the
Senior class at Clyde A. Erwin High
School as Good Citizen of the year,
together with Lynn Hamlin. Tim is
the son of a proud father, A. L. Bar-
nett, Area Bridge Construction Engi-
neer.

33

W. C. Laney proudly shows the 4
lb., 21% inches-long brown trout he
caught in Cherokee. Mr. Laney works
with a location survey party in Bry-
son City.

Allyce Cunningham
Division Correspondent

Bryson City
Construction had
their annual
Christmas party
right near
Christmas and
everybody seem-
ed to have a
good time. Gifts
were presented to
the Resident and
Assistant Engi-

neers. So Santa came a little early.

J. D. Welch with the Construction
Department has moved into his new
home. All he is asking for, now, is
for summer to come. It seems he is
having trouble with the furnace.

Jim Stroupe, Trainee in Bryson
City Construction, has been trans-
ferred to the Maintenance Depart-
ment. He is single and available, so
you gals take heed. He even sports
a new Dodge Charger.

Our sympathy is extended to
George Oliver in the death of his
Father.

Frank Bryson, Sign Supervisor, is
in the hospital. They are ranning a
"mess of tests and stuff" and Frank
hopes to be able to go home soon. We
wish him a speedy recovery.

Bill Ray, Division Engineer, had

as guests his brother and his family
from Florida for the Christmas holi-
days. They had never seen snow.
Know what happened? It started
snowing Christmas morning and was
the most beautiful snow ever. This
kept up all day long and most of the
night, I believe. Wasn't that a nice
Christmas present for them?

This is a "believe it or not" item:
Gene Tyson came to work (this was
after New Year's Eve) wearing a
grey shoe and a tan shoe. The funny
thing about it is, he has another pair
just like those at home.

The annual Christmas party this
year for Division office and Con-
struction was held at Maggie Valley
Country Club. We really did it up
"brown" this year. A cocktail party
with the prettiest hors d'oeurves, fol-
lowed by dinner in the main dining
room, ending with a dance with a
combo in front a big roaring
fire. Now the fire was provided by
the club, it wasn't of our making but
if you could have seen some of those
"cats" dancing, we could have started
one. At the conclusion each remarked
"it was the best one yet, of course,
we say that each year.)

F. K. Westwood and wife, Judy,
were there from Brevard, and Fred-
die Davidson and wife, Nancy, along
with a number of his construction
party members with their wives.
Phyllis Driver was called "Santa" all
night for she looked so cute in her
mini with white fur around it. Ray
Spangler and wife were there from
Murphy, R. L. Pattillo and Virginia
and Bobby Robinson and his wife
from Bryson City. We all had such
a good time that we decided to have
another Christmas party in January.

Steve Jones, 12 year old son of C.
M. Jones, Sylva Construction office,
is showing off a medium size spike
buck he and his dad killed at Bryson
Branch in Macon County.

This young lady is Connie Bishop,
4 month old daughter of Roger D.
Bishop who works in Construction,
Sylva Residency. Roger has just re-
turned to work from a year in Viet-
nam.

(Division 12

Continued from page 32.)

Construction employees Ralph Mc-
Carter, Eugene Wilson and Edwin
Hoyle vacationed in Florida at
Christmas.

Lonnie Peacock transferred from
Construction to the Photogrammetry
Department in Raleigh.

Construction fellows Walter H.
Manley, G. D. Tucker, Ralph Har-
rill, Eugene Wilson and Ralph Mc-
Carter enjoyed a fishing trip to San-
tee Cooper in late November — with a
total catch of eight stripers.

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Jones re-
ceived a special six pound Christmas
gift on December 5. Their baby son
beat the Christmas rush by arriving
early. Mr. Jones is Highway Engi-
neer I with C. C. Mauney's party.

We know a little girl who had a
merry Christmas. She is Amy Dawne
Law, two year old daughter of Mrs.
Ruth Law, Typist II in Resident
Engineer C. C. Mauney's office. Mr.
and Mrs. Law also have another little
girl who enjoyed Christmas very
much, four year old Leslie.

Mr. F. P. (Pat) Poovey, retired
Inspector with the Construction De-
partment of the Highway Commis-
sion, died in November of 1969.

Kenneth F. Baxter, Jr., and L. C.
Price are welcomed to the Landscape
Department. They began work on
December 6.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Boyles on the birth of a baby
girl on January 5, 1970. Jack is em-
ployed in R. R. Nichols' Engineer-
ing Party.

Your Retirement System, How It Works

By CLOYCE B. ALFORD

A new publication "Your Retirement System — How It Works" interpret-
ing and illustrating the benefits under the Retirement System is now available.

This new brochure replaces "Facts About Your Retirement System" which
was rendered obsolete by the many improvements in the Retirement Act auth-
orized by the 1969 General Assembly.

Prepare yourself for retirement by learning the facts. If, after reading the
brochure, you do not understand certain parts, ask your supervisor, district
engineer, office manager, or division engineer. If you are unable to get an
answer, write to your Highway Commission personnel officer.

On Tuesday, December 2, 1969, at 2:00 P.M. a meeting was held in the
highway auditorium for division engineers, department heads, office managers,
stenographers, and others who are in a position to assist highway personnel
with retirement problems. J. E. Miller, Director of the North Carolina Teach-
ers' and State Employees' Retirement System, reviewed the new brochure
in detail.

For answers to questions concerning retirement ask first at the local level.

John Holmes Appointed To Commission
To Study Employee Benefits

A meeting of interest to all Highway employees took place on January 20,
1970, the organizational meeting of the Commission to study various hos-
pitalization and medical benefit plans for state employees.

John Holmes, Assistant State Right of Way Agent for the State High-
way Commission, was appointed by the governor to represent the North
Carolina Highway and Correction Employees Association on this commission
charged with making an exhaustive study of benefits and their relationship to
employee-efficiency and employee-competency in North Carolina.

The Teachers and State Employees Benefits Study Commission is charged
with suggesting legislation to implement the findings it shall report to the
governor not later than October 1, 1970.

The Commission has the authority to employ consultants and research
assistants and to use State Records and the services of officers of State Agen-
cies.

There are eleven members of the Study Commission.

FORMER ASSOCIATE
EDITOR OF
ROADWAYS DIES

Highway friends were saddened
to hear of the death Monday, Jan-
uary 26, 1970, of former ROAD-
WAYS Associate Editor Ann Cat-
lette Foster of New Cumberland,
Pennsylvania .

She was a member of the Com-
mission Public Relations staff from
1961 to 1964.

Ann will always be remembered
for her friendly, gracious manner
and lovely smile.

Funeral services were held at
the Church of the Good Shepherd
in Raleigh, Thursday, January 29.

Immediate survivors include her
husband, Karl S. Foster of New
Cumberland; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Catlette; a brother,
Ray Catlette; and her maternal
grandmother, Mrs. M. R. Norris,
all of Raleigh.

ClUrrOttO (Continued from page 16.)

The Transportation Committee professionals were asked
by residents to prepare models showing each of the fol-
lowing:

1. Take the highways out of Southside.

2. Tighten up the originally proposed interchange and
roadway to conserve land.

3. Redesign proposed roadway improvements to maxi-
mize joint development.

4. Redesign as in (3) but use Southern Railway cor-
ridor for both improvements where possible.

Design students constructed models showing each of
the four schemes as directed by professionals. (See photo
on page 17.) Each of the models was discussed at some
length within the committee. Committee members real-
ized that engineering feasibility and cost studies must be
made and that these studies could not be undertaken with-
in the time scheduled for the charrette. No particular
scheme was endorsed by the Committee; instead, all four
schemes were presented in open forum.

One of the recommendations of the forum was that
those participating would periodically call upon those pub-
lic officials responsible for the various phases of the
Southside Plan to give a status report, thus creating a
continuing Charrette. When feasibility studies for the
various alternate roadway proposals are completed, they
could then be presented to the continuing Charrette.

The principal advantage of the charrette technique as
viewed in Raleigh is that neighborhood residents them-
selves become an integral part of the planning process.
Their desires and aspirations are actively sought before
actual planning and design of physical facilities begins.
They are kept informed as design progresses. Professional
expertise assures that the best interests of both the im-
mediate neighborhood and the community at large are
served. The charrette educates the people so that plans
can be made with the people rather than for the people.
Each individual, whatever his status, can have a voice
among the forces that most assuredly will shape his des-
tiny.

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ROADWAYS Cheers

When Giles Crutcher and Ernest Hicks retired on De-
cember 31, 1969, they set something of a record by com-
manding some fifty column inches in the Oxford Public
Ledger. The two men have served the Highway Commis-
sion for a total of 75 years, in road maintenance and con-
struction.

Both Crutcher and Hicks are looking forward to having
greater opportunity for leisure living. Both have grand-
children. Mrs. Crutcher and Mrs. Hicks are both around
to enjoy the retirement years with their husbands, too.
Mr. Hicks has a son, Henry, who is also with the High-
way Commission.

Snacking and coffee-breaking in the basement of the
State Highway Commission is now a "treat instead of a
treatment" as a result of remodeling of the facility oper-
ated by the Bureau of Employment of the State Blind
Commission.

Although the space used for the facility is the same,
improved design has allowed for enlarging the variety
of foods available. Now several varieties of canned hot
soups and stews are available. There is also ice cream
and milk as well as a variety of fountain drinks, sweet
rolls, crackers, and chips. Coffee is now made fresh, on
the spot, instead of using instant coffee as before.

W. G. Reaves, Purchasing Agent for the Highway Com-
mission, was responsible for having the area painted a
pleasant light color. Vernon Rogers, General Services
Representative in the Highway Commission Building, co-
operated by trying to stop the cold drafts created by
trash operations near the snack bar.

Eunice Pollard and Carolyn Henson operate the snack
bar for the Blind Commission Employment Bureau. Mr.
Braxton Griffin is the Bureau Supervisor for the Raleigh
Area.

The snack bar area was remodeled on the weekend
of December 13, 1969, so that food service would not be
interrupted for Highway Employees. Kermit Williams
was in charge of this operation.

Highway Commission employees who attended recent
Management Development Seminars sponsored by the
State Personnel Department were:

William Jones Mayberry, Guy C. Farmer, Marion Ron-
ald Poole, Troy B. Dodson, David Shelton Brown, Wil-
liam Francis Sessoms, Clinton Leslie Haislip, James Hu-
bert Medlin, Jr., Milton Leon Phillips, John Irving Lynch,
Jr., Wade High Pridgen, Jr., Robert Alford Smith, Jr.,
Hubert Robert Jenkins, William Matthew Cherkas, Jr.,
Thomas Anderson Winkler, Jr., and Earl H. McEntire.

Pictured above are the employees who participated in
the Rapid Reading Course held recently. This was one
of the many self-improvement educational courses which
has been offered by the Highway Commission to its em-
ployees in cooperation with W. W. Holding Institute. Dr.
J. Carroll Trotter professor at Southeastern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, conducted the course for a duration of
5 weeks with 10 class meetings. The success of the course
is obvious by the rate of improvement from a class aver-
age of 239 W.P.M. to 800 W.P.M.

The employees are from left to right: Frank Starnes,
Fred Mehfar, John Birdsall, Bob Moore, Verlus Mason,
Ron Willis, Phyllis Nelson, J. T. Newnam, Clarence Friz-
zell, Walter D. McFarling, Alex Hekimian, David Vance,
John Shaw, Lawrence Colbert and Lorraine Carter. Seat-
ed is Dr. Trotter showing the tachistoscope.

"Look what I caused with this short skirt!"

Janie Williams, playing her role of receptionist to
the hilt, appears to be telling the world about this taxi
driver trying to build a new highway right through the
Highway Building.

Even though a flat tire caused the cabbie to lose
control, who is going to deny the fact that, indeed, Janie
could have been chief detractor of attention.

Standing by the crumpled front end of the cab, with
back to camera, is Purchasing Agent Bill Reaves. Ap-
parently he is trying to figure out who it was, downstairs
in the Department of Photogrammetry, who might have
called a cab.

Probably the engineering department is still working
with their slide rules, trying to identify the two north-
bound lady pedestrians.

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By ARCH LANEY

With some five months under it's belt, the SHC
Speaker's Pool is very much alive and doing very well.

Since July 1, 1969, some 85 members of the staff of
the commission from the divisions to headquarters have
gone from Chinquapin to Cherokee spreading the word of
the commission to Rotary, Optimists, Lions, Kiwanis, and
Chambers of Commerce. They have spoken to some 8,000
North Carolinians. These figures do not include the
many talks by members of the 23-man Commission, and
by Division and District Engineers. This figure repre-
sents only speaking engagements cleared through the
Office of Public Information as a direct result of the
concept of a Speaker's Pool.

It all began when both Governor Scott and Chairman
Faircloth made known their wishes that more people
to people confrontation should be realized.

Mr. Faircloth first sent a memo to all Department
heads and Division and District Engineers asking them
to make themselves available to speak to groups. He em-
phasized that they volunteer only if they felt they would
enjoy making these appearances.

Some 40 responded. So, the Speaker's Pool was born.

Then, in Public Information, we wrote to each Chamber
of Commerce in the state, requesting that they mention
the Speaker's Pool in their newsletter.

In almost no time requests began coming in. Mr. Fair-
cloth was, of course, the most frequently requested
speaker. But many organizations didn't mention prefer-
ences.

As a result, highway folk from all over the state began
going out and spreading the word on the multi-faceted
state highway complex. George Willoughby, Jack Mur-
dock, Jim Norris, Max Sproles, Mac McGowan, Boyce
Midgette, Horace Jernigan, Carter Dodson, Billy Rose,
all were among those from Raleigh Headquarters filling
speaking engagements. Division people included "Red"
Hughes, F. L. Hutchison, Bill Ray and others. We
even went to the Bureau of Public Roads for some aid
(not financial this time) and Herb Teets told the story
of state-federal cooperation in highway construction.

All the while, of course, the Commissioners were busy
back in their bailiwicks filling more engagements. In
spot checking, each commissioner averaged speaking once
a week, so that would add thousands more Tar Heels
hearing the story of our vast highway system.

Gov. Bob Scott stated in his campaign that he wanted
road building problems and decisions brought back to
the people. The speakers pool has provided one of the
vehicles for doing just that.

The Public Information Department is in the process
of asking again that the Chambers of Commerce refresh
the memories of their members so that citizens of North
Carolina will know of the work and scope of the NCSHC.

And if anyone, anywhere, in the SHC would like to
become a part of this venture, let's get your name in the
pot. Just drop us a line or call us at Highway Public In-
formation in Raleigh, and your name will be added to
the list.

You will note from the inside that it appears we have
a new editor. Well, we do, but in name only. She's chang-
ed the name, but the frame's the same. Our Edith John-
son of Christmas Day, became Mrs. Rolf Seifert on the
day after Christmas.

Elsewhere in RW's I'm sure she'll tell us all how she
and Rolf spent their entire honeymoon in Colombia, South
America, studying road conditions. Best wishes to Editor
Seifert.

Our Chairman, D. M. Faircloth, celebrated a birthday
recently, and doing my PR-best to keep all informed, I
have been given permission to give the following facts
concerning the Chairman. He was somewhere between
21 and 60, somewhere between January 1 and 31, 1970.

"Happy Birthday Mr. Chairman, whenever and what-
ever it was."

While we're dishing out assorted kudos, let us not
forget Commissioner Lynwood Smith. He has been hon-
ored as High Point's' "Man-Of-The-Year", a most de-
serving tribute.

While the main thrust of his achievement has been
his devotion to the role of highway commissioner, his
contributions to High Point go back many years. He's
been active in civic, Church, school, and political affairs
in Guilford County for years in addition to his regu-
lar role as legal counsel for Adams-Millis Corporation, one
of the country's largest hosiery manufacturers.

A new approach, when meeting someone you haven't
seen in some time, expressed recently to this writer by
J. W. Lee of A and I, here at HQ, to quote: "Hey,
Arch. Man, I haven't seen you in so long that I thought
I'd been fired."

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A MAGAZINE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

Letters We Liked

Gentlemen: (And Ladies)
THANK YOU!

In recent weeks, I have had to
telephone various offices at the High-
way Commission in connection with
writing news stories pertaining to
the public roads in Johnston County.

In every case, from the switchboard
to the completion of the transaction,
I have received prompt, courteous,
and efficient attention.

You folks are fully aware that
you are employed by the citizens of
North Carolina to serve the citizens
of North Carolina and you are doing
a commendable job.

I just want to let you know that I
appreciate your being so nice.
Yours truly,
Peter T. Hulth, Jr.
Smithfield Herald

ROADWAYS ^

FRONT COVER

A view of a live oak, a typical one
on the North Carolina coast, shaped
by years of exposure to gusty winds
carrying salt spray from wind-whip-
ped ocean waves.

Ocean. Ocean Highway. Ocean
Highway 17. Archie Hathcock of the
Department of Conservation and De-
velopment discusses roads and sea-
shore in North Carolina.

Story, page 5.

BACK COVER

"WOMEN'S LIB", NO.
BEAUTIFICATION, YES!

This is Lee Wilder, head of the
Governor's Beautification Committee.
Story, page 17.

Dear Sir:

Recently I traveled from Norfolk,
Virginia, destined for Savannah,
Georgia, via U. S. 17. On the city
limits of Wilmington, North Carolina,
we experienced automobile difficul-
ties that would require a minimum
of two (2) days to order parts and
repair the vehicle. This is a prologue
to our encountering a North Carolina
Highway employee, Mr. Al Simmons,
working as a Bridgetender in Dis-
trict No. 3.

You can imagine our distress at
being stranded in a strange locale
with an inoperable vehicle and a
meeting to attend in Savannah early
that evening. Mr. Simmons, who was
on his way to work and may have
been late as a result of his assis-
tance, overheard our discussion with
the service station owner and put he
and his vehicle at our disposal to be
taken to the bus depot or airport.
He refused any gratuity. His as-
sistance eased our tensions and per-
mitted arrival at our destination on
time.

My purpose in writing is to com-
mend Mr. Simmons and the North
Carolina State Highway Department
for having employees of this gentle-
man's calibre in their employ. It is
gratifying to know that "Southern
Hospitality" is an action in your
good state and not an advertising
cliche.

I would sincerely appreciate your
passing this "thank you" along to
the proper district supervisor so Mr.
Simmons will know how much of a
help he was to us.
Very truly yours,
ROBERT W. JANZ
Travel Director and Chief of
Personnel

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel
District

Cape Charles, Virginia

Dear Sirs:

I hope I can express in these few
words how much I appreciate the
maintenance department of our state.

This past weekend me and my 14-
year-old daughter traveled from Cha-
pel Hill to Salisbury. After leaving
Highway 85, we had hardly driven
one mile until my daughter remark-
ed, "Isn't it nice to look on either
side of the highway and see no lit-
ter." This remark stayed with us the
entire trip.

We would like to thank your de-
partment for a wonderful job, and
service you have rendered.
Sincerely,

Mrs. W. C. Ludwick
Chapel Hill, N. C.

Dear Sir:

Congratulations on your article in
"Roadways" about the recent Char-
rette held in Raleigh. It is certain-
ly rewarding for me to see almost
daily newspaper reports indicating
that the city has included some of
the Charrette recommendations in
their renewal plans.

Your interest, enthusiasm, and
participation in the Charrette contri-
buted greatly to its success. I have
requested your editor to send me an
additional copy of "Roadways" to be
sent to our Regional Office.
Sincerely yours,
Carson H. Boone, Jr.
Dept. of Health, Education and
Welfare
Region III
Raleigh, N. C.

Dear Sir:

On behalf of the Bertie County
Board of Education, I would like to
express our appreciation for your
time and interest and assistance that
was offered to the driver and stu-
dents on the activity bus that broke
down near your office on Tuesday,
February 24. Any assistance is great-
ly appreciated when you have chil-
dren stranded on the highway.

Again we thank you.
Sincerely,

Richard W. Baker, Jr.
Bertie County Schools
Windsor, North Carolina

Dear Mr. Faircloth,

We are happy beyond words! Your
letter of February 9, informing us of
your plans to construct the turn lane
at the entrance to Eastern N. C.
School for the Deaf on US 301 at
Wilson, is deeply appreciated. Truly
we do appreciate each effort put
forth by the Highway Commission to
make this entrance more safe for
each motorist who travels that route.

Best wishes we extend to you and
your entire staff as you labor to pro-
vide safe, convenient and comfortable
travel for all.
Sincerely,

Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Wells
Stedman, N. C.

Dear Chairman:

Just seen your new Roadway's
Magazine, several have said its the
best that's been in several moons. If
it's no trouble I would appreciate
receiving this through the mail.
Sincerely,
J. P. Crawford
Winston-Salem, N. C.

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 2
March -April, 1970

PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS-
SION BY THE PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT.

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners
J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

Robert G. Barr
Clifton L. Benson
W. G. Clark, HI
Charles R. Dawkins
Roy D. Dedmon
Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.
Carroll H. Gillam
Novile C. Hawkins
W. B. (Bill) Joyce
Jack B. Kirksey

E. Gwyn McNeil
Charles K. Maxwell
Joe W. Nowell, Jr.
David R. Parnell
W. T. Phillips
Hugh A. Ragsdale
James M. (Jim) Smith
Lynwood Smith
W. Arthur Tripp
E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Willoughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chief Engineer

Jack Murdock Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Information Officer Arch Laney

Ass't. Public Information Officer Gibson Prather

Information Assistant Edith J. Seifert

Administrative Secretary Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Janie Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

Stenographer Linda Hill

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Linda Mulder

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations _ Robbie Daniels

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO., RALEIGH, N. C

From The Chairman

Frequently, as chairman of the Highway Commission,
I am invited to speak in various parts of the state about
our road construction program.

Practically everywhere I go, I tell our fellow North
Carolinians something that I have learned since I assum-
ed this office more than a year ago. I tell them how im-
pressed I have been with the dedication of the employees
of the Highway Commission — a dedication I have come
to respect during the last several months.

Certainly in an organization that contains more than
12,000 persons, every employee is not going to be the
ideal person for his job. Doubtless, we have some posi-
tions that are filled with persons who give something
less than their best efforts.

But by and large, the highway personnel with whom I
have come in contact are people who are conscientiously
trying to do the best job they can and who are interest-
ed in functioning as a team.

What I have observed in the Highway Commission is
a far cry from the views of cynics about public employ-
ees and the way these employees do their daily jobs.

And this summer it is good that this spirit prevails.
We are now in the midst of a tremendous construction
program, made possible by the extra funds granted to us
by the 1969 General Assembly.

With the spirit that prevails among us in the Com-
mission, I am confident that an outstanding contribution
will be made this year to our highway system.

And I think that you who are engaged in this task
should know that your attitude and your cooperation is
recognized and appreciated.

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

CONTENTS

Features

An Ocean Highway For North Carolina

5

By Archie Hathcock

Lee Wilder Is New Director of Governor's

Beautification Committee

17

Uniform Multi-County Regions

For North Carolina

18-19

By Paul F. Judson, Jr.

Departments

Freewheelin' 16

Headquarters 23

Division News 27-36

Obituaries 26

N.C.H.C.E.A 20

ROADWAYS Cheers 12-13

Letters We Liked Inside Front

and Back Covers

2

Re-Cap Of Construction In North Carolina

By WILLIAM A. WILSON, JR.

During the past year the North Carolina Highway
Commission has let to contract many different items of
construction.

During the year approximately 4,113,000 tons of coarse
aggregate base coarse was let to contract. This amount
of stone would construct approximately 775 miles of sec-
ondary roads which carry an annual traffic of 50 to 800
cars per day. This would also construct approximately
500 miles of primary roads which carries an annual traf-
fic of 800 to 2,000 cars per day. On high type primary
roads carrying 2,000 cars per day, this would construct
approximately 400 miles of this type road.

Approximately 2,865,000 tons of plant mix asphalt was
let to contract. This amount of asphalt would pave ap-
proximately 4,400 miles of secondary roads which carry
50 to 800 cars per day. If this were used to construct
heavier type primary roads, approximately 1,100 to 1,300
miles of two-lane pavemnt could be built.

During the year approximately 473,000 linear feet of
curb and gutter was let to contract; that amounts to ap-
proximately 45 miles of curb and gutter type streets that
could have been constructed.

Approximately 1,530,000 square yards of concrete pave-
ment was let to contract and if this pavement was used
for construction of 24 ft. pavement, it could have built
approximately 110 miles of highway. Approximately 631,-
000 linear feet of pipe culvert was let and if laid end to
end this would amount to approximately 120 miles of
pipe, or enough pipe to build a line from Asheboro to
Wilson, Durham, to New Bern, Lumberton to Rocky
Mount, Asheville to Asheboro, or Cherokee to Hickory.

Also approximately $2,500,000 was spent for erosion
control and landscaping which has improved the over-all
environment in the vicinity of projects by making them
more pleasing to the eye in riding along these
facilities.

KIRK, NO. LITCHFORD, YES — This is not the
Governor of Florida at the door of a Manatee County
School, but rather J. O. Litchford, state highway traffic
engineer, displaying a road sign at a recent meeting.

Highway News

Faircloth Reports At Traffic Meet 8

By Olive Donat

Re-cap Of Construction In North Carolina b

By William A. Wilson, Jr.

Three New Professional Hat9

For Highway Attorney 11

By Edith Johnson Seifert

Highway Commission Campaign: Youth Opportunity .. 21
By Edith Johnson Seifert

Your Retirement System 14

By Otis Banks and David King

Features

There Is An Air Bag

In Your Future 4

Architect Comments On

Highway Design 10

Improvement Planned In

Vehicle Controls 4

Highway Attorney Joins

Consumer Group 15

Ring-Ring . . . Giggle, Giggle 36

8

There Is An Air Bag In Your Future

N. C. ARTS COUNCIL SPONSORS
PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

The North Carolina Arts Council is sponsoring a
photographic competition and exhibition in an effort
to foster the art of photography throughout the state.
The competition is to be used as a source for an exhi-
bition which will tour appropriate exhibition halls
throughout Tarheelia. Over 100 photographs will be
selected and enlarged to random super-sizes and ar-
ranged on specially designed free-standing mounts.

By EDITH JOHNSON SEIFERT

The Federal Government is going all out in develop-
ing a new safety device which should cut down signifi-
cantly on the severity of personal injuries in automobile
accidents.

This new safety device which is being tested by the
National Highway Safety Bureau is known as the air
bag. The air bag would be used in automobiles as an
adjunct to the seat belt.

William E. Scott with the Research Institute of the
National Highway Safety Bureau presented a film on
the new safety device at a recent meeting at the High-
way Building. He was introduced by Ted Morawski who
represents the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads in North
Carolina.

The air bag system seems to have potential as a safety
device in easing the problem of injury and fatality of
driver and passengers immediately following the impact
of a crash.

How? When the automobile senses a jolt a plastic bag
(or series of bags) would fill up within 2 seconds with gas
stored in a high pressure container. It would be electrical-
ly triggered. The bag would remain inflated for just a
few seconds to protect the driver from the gravitational
impact of crashing against the interior of the automobile.

The air bag, a passive system, operates to protect the
driver without the necessity of action on the part of the
driver. The seat belt, which was also designed to prevent
some of the personal injury which occurs in collisions, is
unfortunately, not universally used. Two-thirds of U. S.
drivers do not use their seat belts.

The highway audience at the air bag presentation were
concerned that the device could be accidentally actuated.
However, the device will be designed so that it would not
easily actuate. The time between actuation and deflation
would be only 2 seconds.

A great deal of research has gone into the development
of this new safety device at the federal government level.
Also, General Motors, the world-leader in car manufac-
turing, is developing its own air bag system. Japanese
car manufacturers are also experimenting with this de-
vice. Some close observers are predicting that within
five years every car that is manufactured will have the
air bag system built-in. The use of the system will require
the strengthening of other safety features, too, like im-
proved front seat construction, to allow use of the air
bag for rear-seat passengers.

If you are among the millions of citizens who drive an
automobile, get ready for the air bag. Unless research
fails or Detroit balks, there is an air bag in your future.

Improvement Planned
In Vehicle Controls

The Department of Transportation wants to make it
easier for drivers of motor vehicles to safely identify and
reach essential vehicle controls.

A Notice of Proposed Amendment, issued by Douglas
W. Toms, Director of the Department of Transportation's
National Highway Safety Bureau, would make key
changes in Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 101, deal-
ing with motor vehicle control location and identification.

The proposed amendment would extend applicability
of the requirements of Standard No. 101, which present-
ly cover only passenger cars, to multipurpose passenger
vehicles, trucks and buses. It also would specify certain
new requirements which would apply to passenger cars,
multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks and buses manu-
factured on or after January 1, 1971.

These new requirements would include identification of
the following controls, where provided on a motor vehicle:
engine start and stop, emergency spring brake release
valve, spring brake valve, tractor protection valve, vehi-
cular hazard warning flasher, clearance lamps, identifica-
tion lamps, hand throttle, and automatic speed mainte-
nance.

The amendment also proposes to achieve effective il-
lumination of many of the specified controls without ad-
versely affecting the driver's performance under night
time driving conditions.

Toms said internal illumination, spot illumination ox
equivalent techniques properly engineered from the stand-
point of safety might satisfy this proposed objective. The
Safety Bureau Director also noted that the requirements
would specify accessibility of controls to a driver re-
strained by safety belts.

4

Gull's-eye view. Rodanthe, on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

An Ocean Highway For North Carolina

By ARCHIE HATHCOCK

Ocean! The word excites the fisherman, the fun -sun
lover, the young and the old.

Now let's try Ocean Highway! Loses something, doesn't
it? Still a bit exciting though, feeling the closeness of it.

But how about Ocean Highway 17. Those feelings
conjured up by the word "ocean" get lost when you add
"highway 17." Why?

If you've traveled it, you know. And if you haven't,
take a look at a highway map of North Carolina.

See Ocean Highway 17? No? You're looking too close
to the ocean. And that's a natural thing to do. But move
your eyes westward. At one point on the map you'll have
to move them over one hundred land miles west. Ah!
There it is!

Now that you've found it, go North and trace it from
Virginia to South Carolina. See the ocean along the way?

Not only did you not see the ocean you saw precious
little water.

A first-time traveler through the state could easily get
the impresion that there is no ocean nearby, that North
Carolina is an inland state.

And that's unfortunate, for North Carolina as well as
the traveler. Even if the traveler is aware of that magni-
ficent ocean to the East, there isn't much along Ocean
Highway 17 that tempts him to make that long side trip.
And that's unfortunate, too, for North Carolina.

North Carolina, with its 320 miles of majestic ocean
shoreline and over 3,500 square miles of water area, is the
third largest state in terms of inland coastal waters, ex-
ceeded only by Alaska and Louisiana. We haven't even
shown it to our citizens, much less the hundreds of thou-
sands of tourists who would come if they could see a part
of it.

And because we don't show our magnificent ocean, a
great number of them don't stop to spend some time —
and dollars — with us.

North Carolina has fantastic resources for fishing,
boating, swimming, water-skiing, and hunting. It's unfor-
tunate, indeed, that so few passersby recognize it.

Coastal North Carolina is rich in early American his-
tory. And there's no real easy access to what it has to
show and tell.

5

Arohie Hathcock is a na-
tive of Oakboro in Stanly
County. Upon graduation
from Oakboro High School
in 1943, Hathcock served a
four-year Navy enlistment in
the Pacific Theater of Oper-
ations.

He attended North Caro-
lina State University, gradu-
ating in Agricultural Engi-
neering in 1956.

Following graduation he was employed by the rural
electric cooperative organization in Wadesboro for
four years and in Raleigh for 10 years.

Now employed as Seashore Promotion Officer in the
Department of Conservation and Development, Hath-
cock is responsible to the Seashore Advisory Board for
promoting tourism, recreational development, and
other activities affecting the economic interest of the
coastal area.

He is married to the former Eloise Plyler of Marsh-
ville. They have three children and reside at 1429 Ge-
neva Street in Raleigii.

In this serene coastal area one can live with or without
it, take it or leave it, and not feel out of step with the
world ox the community. One does not rush to work in a
crowded, ill-smelling subway; one is not on the telephone
all day; one is not confronted with picket lines; one
doesn't have to buy a television set for the children.

May it forever remain this way.

Here, in a climate the early settlers recorded as the
"goodliest land under the cope of Heaven" people could
forget all about the more immediate, and sometimes super-
ficial, lures of that kind of industrial development which
results in destruction of the bountiful resources of the
state.

Here, in this gloriously beautiful coastal region, as yet
relatively unspoiled by smoke-belching industry, we al-
ready have a solid base on which to build a thriving
economy.

The acceptance of tourism and recreation as "industries"
is now virtually a foregone conclusion. As a matter of
fact, tourism and recreation now holds a solid third place
in terms of gross national product in the U. S. economy.
Personal income and leisure time are increasing and pop-
ulation is expanding. While this is taking place, the re-
sources available for recreational development are shrink-
ing. Thus the tourism and recreation potential for coastal
North Carolina becomes massive.

By keeping intact the productive marshlands and estu-
aries, the undeveloped beach areas and the beautiful
natural landscape, we can, with planned development,
"have our cake and eat it, too."

Recreation unlimited! Camping enthusiasts flock to
the Outer Banks to satisfy that urge to "get-away-from-it-
all."

Unfortunately, the "fast-buck artists" are at work. And,
again unfortunately, they're working faster at helter-
skelter development than are those charged with the
responsibility for orderly development. The increasing
problems of conflicting uses and fragmented political
jurisdiction make comprehensive planning more difficult.
But these problems must be overcome if the bountiful re-
sources of the coastland are to be preserved for gener-
ations yet unborn.

Productive marshland — the marine-life "factory" —
is being filled to create land on which houses are built
that contradict rather than adhere to the lay of the land.
Protective dunes are being leveled which, under the slight-
est of storm conditions, allows the ocean to come in the
front door. Such practices if continued indefinitely, will
irreversibly preclude other more desirable and profitable
development.

When piecemeal planning efforts are finally coagulated
into an overall, all-inclusive master land-use plan, and
when 'this well-conceived plan is initiated, coastal North
Carolina will be a mecca for tourists and a stopping place
for their dollars. Again, there is no more solid a base on
which the economy of the area can be built.

But tourist dollars will have a hard time finding their
way into the area from the existing Ocean Highway 17.

Why not a highway that skirts the great mass of in-
land water North to South? Why not a highway that
bridges enough of what we have there to tempt, entice
and beckon?

S<uch a highway would be costly, to be sure, and per-
haps impossible for now.

But highways are only a part of the answer. Since
water is one of the natural resources in such abundance,
why limit our thinking to land travel only? Why not ori-
ent our thinking and direct our planning toward a com-
bination of transportation facilities that will take into
account, and be compatible with, the tremendous water
resources of the area?

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Governor Scott dedicates the new bridge to Topsail Island and the beach area there.

Water transportation equipment, maybe an aquabus,
could be used to quickly transport vacationers and trav-
elers across the masses of inland water to the gleaming
beaches of the outer banks.

Whatever the method, the area must be made more
accessible so that people can come to enjoy those quali-
ties and resources the area has in such abundance. If it
isn't developed for the purposes for which it is so ideally
suited, then it will almost surely be undesirably developed.

And another great part of our heritage will be lost
forever.

Flowers And Gardens

NORTH CAROLINA STYLE

Even before THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF
NORTH CAROLINA was available, the public demand
was apparent. Now that it is available we know why. The
beautiful gardens of the state are pictured in color, and
how exciting it is to see all together the dogwood, the
azaleas of the lower Cape Fear region, the rhythmical
patterns of the Maude Moore Latham Memorial Garden
at Tryon Palace, as you can in this booklet with five large
color plates.

The bird-in-the-hand of it is the garden guide on the
back. Why not see the natural gardens of purple rhodo-
dendron on Roan Mountain when they are at their peak
in late June. Did you know about the Bethabara Wild-
flower Park in Winston-Salem? Or the orchid green-
houses in Southern Pines with more than 70,000 plants?
Or the Natural Habitat tract of 330 acres in Chapel Hill
off 15-501 By-Pass? Tarboro's Calvary Episcopal Church
Gardens have 78 types of plants and shrubs, including the
Spanish Cork Tree. This list gives exact locations of
these and of other gardens in the State.

This free guide was produced for the Travel and Pro-
motion Division of the N. C. Department of Conservation
and Development by Charles Crone Associates and The
Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc.

Copies are available from the Conservation and De-
velopment Department at Raleigh, N. C. 27611.

7

Fantastic view of the North Caro-
lina coast. Drawing by Frank Daino.

Traffic Services Supervisors, their assistants, and Area, Assistant Area and Division Traffic Engineers held their an-
nual meeting in Raleigh, March 3-5.

Faircloth
Reports

At Traffic Meet

By OLIVE DONAT

Chairman Lauch Faircloth gave a favorable report on
the State Road Program to members of Traffic Services
and Traffic Engineering Departments at their annual
meeting in Raleigh, March 3-5.

The Chairman, speaking impromptu at the opening
session, Tuesday afternoon, stated, "We do have a high-
way program underway, and for the first time in a long
time the Highway Commission is adequately funded."
He referred specifically to the additional "2 cent" gas tax
which, along with changes in other Highway Fund taxes,
is expected to bring in around $55 million per year and

State Highway Administrator
George Willoughby, at the speaker's
stand, and Highway Commission
Chairman Lauch Faircloth, seated
right, were featured speakers at the
Traffic Services meeting. State Traf-
fic Engineer J. O. Lichford, left pre-
sided over the opening session.

5

could bring in as much as $60 million in new revenues
each year.

In his opinion, the fact that Washington has recently ap-
propriated a similar tax for highway purposes should re-
lieve the pressure on the North Carolina legislature to
reduce or change the gas tax in this State. In our pres-
ent financial condition, Faircloth said, it is possible to
make long rang plans, plans that are more continuous and
sensible.

Turning to another matter that plays a big part in his
administrative duties, he said, earnestly, "I hope that we
would always be cognizant that we work for the taxpayers
and that regardless of the nature of requests we should
always exercise extreme patience and courtesy in dealing
with the public."

State Highway Administrator George Willoughby was
next on the program. He told the group that they were a
vital part of the highway operations, particularly from a
safety standpoint. He commended them for their traffic
control services, saying that many people have compli-
mented North Carolina on its road signing and pavement
marking. He spoke of the growth of the Traffic Engineer-
ing Department, commensurate with the increase in
services. He called State Traffic Engineer J. O. Litchford
one of the top men in the country in his field.

Controller W. P. Garriss reported that the projected
funds from the gas tax are "on target," which, combined
with other new tax revenue, should produce at least $109,-
000,000 for highway work for the biennium.

Paul J. DuPre, Maintenance Engineer, stressed the im-
portance of communicating within the Commission, of
informing the local Commissioner and Division office of
any change in traffic controls or traffic services in their
area. He told the Traffic Services Supervisors and their
assistants that more efficient methods of work must be
found to make up for the increased expenses falling upon
their departments. He discussed at some length the limi-
tation of maintenance funds.

Gerald Fleming, Safety and Emergency Planning En-
gineer, made a plea for the utmost caution and observance
of existing conditions on the part of Highway equipment
operators. He warned that there is a natural hazard in
operating slow-moving equipment on or along roadways
used by fast moving traffic and that new equipment com-
ing into use is more complex and therefore presents a
greater chance of injury.

Harold Rhudy, Assistant State Traffic Engineer, who
arranged the three-day meeting, illustrated on the black-
board some of the signing symbols expected to be in-
cluded in the proposed "Manual on Uniform Traffic Con-
trol Devices" and that will be coming into use gradually
on North Carolina highways.

It was brought out that the meaning of the symbols is
easily recognized. Panels with the duplicate message in
words will be used until the public becomes familiar with
the symbols, and a news campaign to educate motorists
will be launched at the same time.

Other officials appearing on the program of the opening
session were Public Relations Officer J, Arch Lamey,

Highway Personnel Officer Troy Dodson, Assistant
Highway Personnel Officer Cloyce Alford, Assistant Chief
Engineer L. H. Berrier, Jr., and Power Pole Master
Walter Allen.

J. O. Litchford presided over the afternoon meeting.

More than 60 Traffic Services Supervisors and their
assistants from the 14 Divisions and the Area, Assistant
Area, and Division Traffic Engineers registered for the
series of meetings.

Colonel E. C. Guy, Commander, and Major J. B. Kuy-
kendall, Director of Field Operations, from the Highway
Patrol were special guests at the final session, Thursday
morning.

These annual meetings serve a very practical purpose,
as they provide a means for Traffic Services personnel
from all sections of the State to air their common prob-
lems, learn how other Divisions are doing their work,
and receive instruction on certain procedures. Depart-
ments of the Commission and other State agencies with
which Traffic Services are closely associated are repre-
sented to answer questions and give information on
their respective operations. For instance, W. G. Reaves,
Purchasing Agent, with Raoul Maynard and John Lam-
beth, Assistant Purchasing Agents, were there to answer
questions on ordering supplies to insure prompt and cor-
rect delivery.

Prior to coming to Raleigh, Traffic Services Supervisors
were asked to send in questions they would like to have
answered or problem areas to be discussed at the meet-
ing. These items — more than 75 of them — were grouped
under general subjects and assigned for panel discussions.
The separate topics and the people who handled the
panel assignments were as follows:

(Continued on page 10)

r

Assistant State Traffic Engineer Harold Rhudy ex-
plains gore markings.

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Architect Comments On Highway Design

By EDITH JOHNSON SEIFERT

North Carolina State University, an institution which
has provided our state with technical expertise in many
instances, recently presented a speaker who claimed that
urban highways can be built without upsetting the peo-
ple who dwell there. "Highway engineers have done a
tremendous job when it comes to putting roads across
the countryside," said Paul Rudolph, planner and achi-
tect.

"But," he added, "when they come inside the city with
their roads they don't do quite so well."

Rudolph's answer to the problem of the freeway in the
urban community is "imbedded" in his thesis of the
"megastructure." He expanded on this thesis in a lec-
ture entitled "Toward A Megastructure," presented on
Monday, March 9, 1970, in the auditorium of Nelson Hall
on the campus of N.C.S.U.

Rudolph, who is red-nosed, freckled, and tweedy, ques-
tioned the building concept which is prevalent in this
country and in the state, that of the single-structure build-
ing, isolated from all forms of transportation, including
walking.

The whole scale of living, in the urban environment,
has changed. The magnitude of the individual building
has changed.

Building concepts, for offices, homes, schools, shops,
and transportation must change, too. Creating multi-pur-
pose structures which can accommodate these things is
what we should be looking for, says Rudolph. With this
concept of multi-purpose structures, which Rudolph call-
ed the megastructure, the throughway or automobile cor-
ridor would be a part of the city, or even the major struc-
ture of a city. Airways could go over throughways, and
throughways (as vehicle corridors built within the city)
would also serve as the first stage for other transporta-
tion systems, e.g. railways or other forms of mass tran-
sit, added as the need arises. The throughways could have
conveniently imbedded in it, the utilities for the city.

Rudolph showed some slides of work he is doing on a
grant he has from the Ford Foundation to study freeway
location in an urban section of Manhattan, an area which
consists of two and V2 miles of buildings in a solid rock
area where tunneling costs would be prohibitive.

Rudolph, speaking of his profession as an architect,
stated that his prime responsibility was to make the en-
vironment meaningful. "The architect is not responsible
for the population explosion, but as architects we must
work toward solving the problems created, namely weld-
ing the freeways into a better whole."

There seems to be a 40-year lag, however, Rudolph
pointed out, between what is generally known to be desir-

able and what gets built. He said that he, himself, of
necessity, worked on two levels in designing. On one level
he designs that which could be built tomorrow morning,
On the other level he is trying to accomplish what would
be an ideal solution.

His reputation as an architect was established when he
designed a parking garage in New Haven, Connecticut.
In his lecture he complained that in designing for the
car, he could not locate a book which dealt with geo-
metry in relation to the automobile, which really cover-
ed the subject.

Paul Rudolph began his career in the southern United
State. Born in Kentucky and educated at Auburn Uni-
versity, he began his architectural practice in Sarasota,
Florida. Now he practices from an office in New York
City, on 57th Street. He used to be head of the Art
and Architecture Department at Yale University.

He is currently the architect for one of the largest
structures now being built in North Carolina, the inter-
national headquarters of Burroughs Wellcome, Inc., a
multi-million dollar pharmaceutical complex which is
being built at the Research Triangle Park west of Ra-
leigh. When he spoke at Raleigh, he was on his way to
Saudi Arabia where he is designing a sports palace, one
of the first such structures in that part of the world.

FAIRCLOTH REPORTS . . .

(Continued from page 9)

Safety programs — Robert J. Dodge, Accident Identi-
fication and Surveillance Engineer, moderator; Forrest
Council of the Highway Research Center, UNC-Chapel
Hill; James M. Lynch, Accident Identification Engineer;
Needham Crowe, Accident Investigation Engineer;
Dwight Kelly, Design Review Engineer.

TOPICS — Herbert A. Justice.

Traffic Signals and related matters — Harold Rhudy,
moderator; Gwyn Sanderlin, Traffic Signal Engineer;
Tommy Jeffreys, Assistant Traffic Signal Engineer; Stan
Moody, Traffic Control Technician; Ben F. Wheeler, Di-
vision 5 Traffic Services Supervisor.

Equipment — Harold Rhudy, moderator; Harry Long,
Assistant State Equipment Engineer; Ralph Stanberry,
Equipment Engineer I; Wake J. Watts, Division 11
Traffic Services Supervisor.

Signing and related matters — Harold Rhudy, moder-
ator; Pete G. Deaver, Traffic Signing Engineer; David
Spell, Division 6 Traffic Services Supervisor; W. Andrew
Ward, Area Traffic Engineer; and Ed L. Frazell, Assis-
tant Traffic Signing Engineer.

Pavement marking and related matters — Harold
Rhudy, moderator; M. C. Henderson, Jr., Director, Prison
Enterprises; L. B. Powell, Assistant Director, Prison En-
terprises; Landis Satterwhite, Assistant Area Traffic En-
gineer; G. G. Grigg, Traffic Research Engineer.

During the final session, the meeting was thrown open
for general discussion.

10

Three New Professional Hats For
Highway Attorney

By EDITH JOHNSON SEIFERT

Harrison Lewis recently accepted
an appointment to the executive com-
mittee of the Legal Studies Group of
the Highway Research Board.

Harrison Lewis, recently appointed
to a 4-year term on the Highway Re-
search Board's legal committee, serves
on the body which directs all legal
research done by the Highway Re-
search Board. In addition to this he
will be chairman of the Highway
Laws Committee. This is one of seven
standing committees. Others include
Urban Metropolitan and Transporta-
tion Law, Motor Vehicle and Traffic
Law, Highway Contract Law and
Highway Environmental Law.

Mr. Lewis is planning the annual
summer workshop on highway law
which will be held in North Carolina,
on the grounds of the Asheville
branch of the state university. 125
lawyers from 40 states will attend the
workshop running from July 27 to
July 30.

State Attorney Robert Morgan will
address the group. Other speakers in-

clude Cliff Enfield, Minority Counsel
for the House Public Works Commis-
sion, the former assistant attorney
general for Highway Affairs for Ore-
gon, the former general counsel of
the Bureau of Public Roads, and Da-
vid Wells, General Counsel for the
Federal Highway Administration.

He also became chairman of the
Legal Studies Group Highway Laws
Committee.

masmxm mam

Other nationally prominent attorneys
in this field as well as Congressional
representatives will attend.

Joe Busher, Chairman of the Exec-
utive Committee of the Legal Studies
Group and Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral for Maryland, will also attend
the workshop which is geared to high-
way legal matters of current interest
on the Federal and State levels. This
year a portion of the program will be
for highway attorneys who have re-
cently joined the field.

Lewis, who is a Deputy Attorney
General, became head of the Highway
Division of the State Attorney Gen-
eral's Office in October of 1960.

Now, as chairman of the Ad Hoc
Committee for the Summer Highway
Law Workshop he is in charge of ar-
rangements for a nationwide gather-
ing of highway lawyers at Asheville,
July 20-27, on the campus of the Uni-
versity there.

11

ROADWAYS CHEERS

Governor Bob Scott is shown accepting the Accident Frequency Locations study, made by the Traffic Engineering
Department, from Chairman Lauch Faircloth. Shown looking on at the presentation made in the Governor's office is
J. O. Litchford, State Traffic Engineer, Robert J. Dodge, Accident Identification and Surveillance Engineer, and Jimmy
Lynch, Accident Identification Engineer, chief architect of the report.

Peak On Blue Ridge Parkway To Be Named For R. Getty Browning

Appropriately, the mountain in
Western North Carolina which will
be named for R. Getty Browning,
former State Highway Commission
Engineer, is a good half-mile hike
from the parking lot just off the Blue
Ridge Parkway. This is a fitting me-
morial to the man who was most in-
fluential in locating the Parkway in
North Carolina rather than in Ten-
nessee, Browning, who is repudiated

to have walked every mile of the lo-
cation of the Parkway.

On June 12, 1970, Browning Knob
will be dedicated. This peak, which
is 6,225 feet high, is located twelve
miles east of Cherokee, N. C, in the
Maggie Valley, just east of Water-
rock Knob. George Hartzog, Direc-
tor of the National Park Service, and
Granville B. Liles, Superintendent of

the Blue Ridge Parkway, will speak.
Governor Scott has been invited to
attend.

When Federal officials decided on
the peak to be named for Browning,
they must have remembered a five-
year right-of-way and route selection
problem which took place here. It
involved obtaining right of way over
the Cherokee Indian Reservation.

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Winkler Named

J. T. Winkler, who recently assumed new duties as
Area Maintenance Engineer in the western counties, be-
gan a career with the SHC in 1940 as a Rodman. He
served with the 169th Field Artillery Battalion in the
South Pacific in World War II. Following the service he
rejoined the Commission. He became a maintenance
supervisor in 1949. In 1958 he was promoted to District
Engineer.

A long-time resident of Boone, Mr. Winkler is active
in civic affairs in that community. A Rotarian, he is also
a member of the Boone Methodist Church and a member
of the Board of Directors of First National Bank of
Boone. He and his wife, the former Jean Absher, have
two children, John Thomas, Jr., and Margaret Ann
Marsh.

(Right)

Planning and Research Basketball Team — Left to
right, front row: Richard Smith, Wayne Elliott (coach),
Jim Beckom. Back row: Al Avant, Charles Adkins, Gale
Parker and Ron Poole.

Highway Sports

After planning and researching all day, some of the men
in that department like physical activity. Basketball has
been their sport during the winter months. The past sea-
son, nobody knows whether it is the 4th, 5th, or 6th, has
been an active one with the team participating in twenty-
six games and two tournaments.

The two tournaments were sponsored by the City of
Raleigh with the 50 teams, who are a part of the City
Basketball league, playing among themselves until a
winner emerged. The "Highway Team" lost out in the
first tournament by 30 points to a local automobile sales
company team and in the second tourney to "The Sports-
men." Coach Elliott says, however, that their best games
were those played with teams whose skills are on a level
with the SHC team.

In Coach Elliott's opinion, the opportunity to partici-
pate in intramural sports even makes employment more
attractive. It could be a factor in staying on the job in-
stead of moving to a new one.

At the end of the 26-game season Coach Elliott figured
up team leaders as follows:

Points: Parker— 247, Avant— 233, Coulson — 87, El-
liott—75

Rebounds: Parker— 135, Avant— 103, Adkins — 62,
Beckom — 61

Field Goals: Avant— 110, Parker— 106, Coulson— 38,
Beckom — 31

Field Goal Percentage: Parker — 45%, Avant — 35%,

Smith— 33%, Elliott— 32%
Free Throws: Parker— 35, Elliott— 17, Avant— 13,

Coulson — 11

Free Throw Percentage: Beddingfield — 83%, Coulson
58%, Elliott— 54%, Riggs— 50%
Team members, in addition to Elliott and those in the
picture, were Ed Shuller, Ron Fitzula, Bill Riggs, Bill
Beddingfield, Mike Tewel, and Greg Coulson.

13

New Employee Booklet

Summary of Benefits

A new .booklet entitled "Your Retirement System: How
It Works," has been prepared by J. Everett Miller, di-
rector of the system, and by the retirement system staff.
This has been distributed to the various agencies and
it now available to every employee. It is a most compre-
hensive and informative booklet, now designated as "The
Blue Book." Read it thoroughly in order to understand
more completely the Retirement System which affects
your own welfare. If you have not as yet received a copy,
ask for one in the office where you work. They are dis-
tributed by administrators and supervisory personnel of
the Highway Commission.

Let's explore the "Blue Book" for some of the major
and most important features.

Your

Investment Portfolio as of June 30, 1969

A total of $782,012,015 has been invested for your
benefit, $713,765,188 in Bonds and Government-secured
Notes, and $68,246,827 in common stocks. The average
yield on the total was 4.90%. Your investments are pro-
tected. The common stocks investment is limited by law.

You might wonder as to the yield on total investment
as compared to the total payments of $25,329,790 in 1968
land feel there is a "profit." It must be remembered that
against this total fund is a definite liability, for those
presently retired, set aside; also, a definite liability for
prior service not yet paid. All of these funds are not
actually liquid funds.

We must be actuarially sound, which we are, and lia-
bilities must be assumed to assure all that their own funds
are intaot and that upon retirement we are assured of
regular payments, not "promises." The System is fund-
led to date by the Legislature; you are protected.

Your Contributions

You pay 5% of your salary up to $5,600; you pay 6%
above $5,600.

The State's Contributions

These are now at the rate of 8.95% of payroll. They go
into the Pension Fund for your benefit at retirement.
You receive your benefit at retirement. You receive your
benefit from the State's funds upon retirement, but the
money is there regularly.

After one year of creditable service, the death benefit
is payable, should you die in service, to your beneficiary
equal to compensation you earned in the preceding cal-
endar year (not to exceed $15,000).

'Disability retirement is paid after ten years of credit-
able service upon recommendation of the Medical Board
of the Retirement System. Because of the "vested right"
benefit, after twelve years of creditable service, you may
separate from the job you have, leave your funds intact
(i.e. not withdraw them), and be eligible for a reduced
retirement allowance at age sixty. Early retirement is
available after age fifty with twenty or more years of
service.

Early election of options at age fifty-five or after
thirty years of service regardless of age is another exam-
ple of the flexibility of the system. You may designate a
beneficiary who, should you die in service, would re-
ceive monthly benefits for life; or, you may grant the
beneficiary the choice of either monthly benefits or a
lump sum return of contributions plus interest. This is
a protection to your beneficiary, without cost to you, and
should be filed by every qualified employee. You may
change the designation of option at retirement if you
wish.

Unreduced service retirement comes at age sixty- two
with thirty years or more of service, figured on your
"AFC" (average final compensation) and service at the
age. However, if you retire with less than thirty years
of service, your income is reduced by 3% for each full
year under age sixty-two. With thirty years of service,
your income is reduced if you are under age sixty-two by
3% for each full year you are under that age. Full re-
tirement comes at age sixty-five. Cost-of-living increases
after retirement are based on the annual Consumer Price
Index increases.

Service Retirement Allowance

When you receive your retirement allowance it will be
based on your Average Final Compensation and your cred-
itable service. Your "AFC" is the average annual com-
pensation during the sixty consecutive calendar months

Retirement System
How It Works

By OTIS BANKS and DAVID KING

in the last 120 calendar months which produce the high-
est average. Creditable Service, the years of employment
for which you will receive credit in determining your
retirement benefits, includes membership service for
which you have contributed, plus prior service or service
prior to establishment of the Retirement System in 1941,
paid by the state; also it includes sick leave credited at
the rate of one month credit for each twenty days or
portion standing to your credit at retirement; it includes
credit for military service if you are eligible.

Formula for Retirement Benefits

To calculate your maximum benefits, take 1 and Vi%
of your AFC up to $5,600, add 1 and V2% of your AFC
above $5,600, then multiply this by the total years of
service you have. If you are under age sixty-five with
less than thirty years of service, deduct 3% per full year
under sixty-five. If you have thirty years of service, but
you are only sixty-two, deduct 3% for each year you are
under that age. Credit is given for each month to the
date of your retirement, and any applicable reductions
are figured to the exact month if they do not constitute
a full year. Options can reduce the amount you receive
according to your age, and your beneficiary.

Disability Retirement

After ten years of creditable service you may retire, if
certified by the Medical Board, on disability even if you
are under age sixty (service retirement at or after age
sixty). Your disability retirement allowance will be the
amount you would have received if you had continued
working to age sixty-five without any change in compen-
sation, minus the actuarial equivalent of the contri-
butions you would have made during the time of disability
to age sixty-five.

Optional Payment Arrangements

Consider which one of five retirement options you
want for your retirement years. Option 1 provides for a
reduced allowance (small reduction) during your life-
time with provision that if you die within ten years
after retirement date the beneficiary will receive a lump-
sum payment of your contributions less 10% for each
year you have received your allowance; if the benefi-
ciary dies within the ten-year period you may designate
another or you may change the beneficiary within the
ten-year period; payments continue in the same amount
to you beyond the ten-year period but there is no pay-
ment then to the beneficiary since you have used your
total contributions.

Option 2 is a reduced allowance during your lifetime.
In the event of your death the same amount goes to the
designated beneficiary (one beneficiary only) provided
the beneficiary survives. The beneficiary may not be
changed after retirement.

Option 3 provides for a reduced allowance to you and,
in the event of your death, a payment of one-half the
amount to the designated beneficiary if surviving. Only
one beneficiary can be designated even if you are pre-
deceased.

The Social Security Option provides for a level life
income. It must be selected prior to the age of receiving

Social Security and is determined by the amount esti-
mated by Social Security. Higher payments will come
to you from your state retirement from the time of your
early retirement until you reach the age at which your
Social Security begins. Your state retirement benefits
will be automatically reduced then. This option should
be discussed by you and the Retirement System.

Option 5 is a special Option. It should be designated
by you, approved by the Board of Trustees, figured as
to your wishes on what you might forego in monthly
payments and leave in the State System for certain
benefit to your designated beneficiary. Percentages can-
not be figured here. You must personally discuss this with
representatives of the System at the time of retirement
and then make your own arrangements.

Read the Blue Book

After you have read this new publication on the state
retirement system, ask questions about anything you do
not understand. The system is for your benefit, and it is
one of the most actuarially sound systems in the Nation.
It has been steadily improved by unified efforts in your
behalf.

Don't wait until retirement to get your records of serv-
ive and of birth date straight. Do it now. Then sit back
and wait until retirement. If you are not certain as to
your records, make inquiries now. Mr. Miller and his
staff stand ready and willing to assist, as does this office.

A Flood of Applications. A Flood of New Enrollments

Your Retirement System was under a terrific strain
following the changes effective July 1, 1969. They are
gradually coming "out from under" and will be caught
up by the end of 1970. Be patient bcause they did have
a terrific load thrust upon them with 160,000 active ac-
counts.

Highway Attorney Joins
Consumer Protection Division

Tom Rosser, veteran Highway attorney, has moved over
to the Consumer Protection Division. He joined the
Highway Commission in July, 1961. He was an assistant
attorney general in the highway division in charge of
contracts and claims. He is a graduate of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a law de-
gree from the University also.

Eugene A. Smith has been named to succeed Rosser as
head of the contracts and claims division. Other attor-
neys in that division are James Magner and Howard
Satisky.

Smith also attended U.N.C. Law School. He joined the
State Highway Commission in 1963. He served in both
the lands division and in the contracts and claims division
before assuming his present position.

Harrison Lewis is Deputy State Attorney General in
charge of Highway Commission Legal Affairs.

15

By ARCH LANEY

Up in the foothills of our great State an area known as
Catawba Valley comprised of Alexander, Burke, Caldwell
and Catawba Counties, friendship, hospitality, and scenic
beauty abound. The Caldwell County-Lenoir Chamber of
Commerce opened their collective arms to the members
of the Highway Commission, Headquarters and Division
Eleven staff. The occasion: the second out-of-town meet-
ing of the Commissioners for the current year.

Jim Cheek, Executive Secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce and man behind the scenes, arranged for
everything from golf to tours for the ladies. Apparently
Mother Nature hadn't paid her dues to the chamber . . .
anyway she didn't cooperate, and the rains came, chasing
would-be golfers to various and sundry indoor-type games.

The Wednesday evening reception for the visiting high-
way men was toastmastered by glib John Forlines, local
bank president, who introduced host Commissioner Jack
Kirksey as "Beaucatcher Kirksey." Other notables help-
ing to make the occasion one to be remembered included
Chamber prexy Charles W. Johnson, Dr. Ed Beam, pres-
ident of Caldwell Technical Institute, and Lenoir Mayor
Joe Steele.

The Thursday morning meeting, held in the spacious
Lenoir Country Club got underway with a brief presen-
tation by the Chamber on behalf of N. C. 18 from Le-
noir to N. Wilkesboro, and Mr. Kirksey suggested that
Commissioners simply ride over this stretch going home.

After the regular meeting, a bit of politics filled the
air with help from the eager media corp. Murmurs of
"Faircloth for Governor," and Lynwood Smith for Lt.
Governor cleared the air of highway matters in short
order.

The complementary part of it all however was the fact
that highway commissioners were extolling the virtues of
their counterparts for future political aspiration. So come
1972 — Who Knows!!

Word from Boyce Midgette in Location is that the
1970 official Highway maps should be ready by mid-
May. On the pictorial side will be some horn-tootin' for
the SHC with a super shot by Gordon Deans of Photo-
grammetry of the Cape Fear (we finally got it dedicated)
Memorial Bridge. Also a shot of the Pigeon River section
of 1-40.

In all fairness, I feel I must refer to the last issue of
ROADWAYS before getting on with the things at hand.

I made only a brief note of the fact that the name of
our Editor had taken on an additional word. That being
on the right end of said name, meaning that some vows
had been said. So, — Edith Johnson had become Edith
Johnson Seifert. Now two months or so later, Mr. and
Mrs. Rolf Seifert are alive and doing well in Raleigh.

But, one glaring fact was omitted. On page 7 of the
last issue, appeared a thought-provoking cleverly written
account of "A Recent Visit To South America" with an
Edith Johnson Seifert by-line. What wasn't made clear
was the fact that this article was written, in spite of, on
account of, because of, or whatever, the ordeal, the trials,
and tribulations of a great institution, with a most unlike-
ly name of THE HONEYMOON.

So may I suggest that you go back — re-read this
journalistic-epic. With the above mentioned facts in mind,
I'm sure that you'll savor the true artistry under extreme
if not trying circumstances.

Some new and appropriate theme songs for SHC in
light of recent publicity could very well be: "They Cut
Down The Old Pine Tree", "On Top Of Old Beaucatch-
er", and "O'er The Environments We Watch" and, of
course, D. W. Patrick's favorite, "Gull Of My Dreams,"
But no matter, Good Roads are Good Business.

16

Lee Wilder Is New Director Of Governor s
Beautification Committee

Lee Wilder, the first salaried director of the Governor's
Committee on Highway Beautification, was the first to
question her title when she came into the job and imme-
diately found that the old idea of beautification was no
longer applicable to the problems confronting the Gover-
nor's Committee.

Background

Organized four years ago, the committee is appointed
entirely by the Governor. At the present time, there are
31 committee members, but an ultimate membership of 44.

In the Spring of 1969, the General Assembly of the
State appropriated $25,000 for the biennium to help fi-
nance a state office.

This office opened September 1, 1969, in the highway
building known as the Thompson Building on McDowell
Street. On October 13, the committee sponsored a state-
wide conference on beautification at Charlotte, with
speakers from several states. More than 250 interested
civic leaders attended.

In October, the staff was increased to two when Mrs.
Jewel Higgins became office secretary. Since the office
was opened, nearly 150,000 letters and brochures have
been mailed and hundreds of personal requests have been
answered. Offices are now located at 310 N. Blount
Street, headquarters for the Department of Local Affairs.

Statewide Beautification

Now, the committee is sponsoring a statewide com-
munity beautification competition in which winners will
be announced next year. Over 200 communities have en-
tered the contest. Another contest, with awards of $1,500,
is being conducted in cooperation with the State Depart-
ment of Public Instruction. More than 500 individual
schools have indicated that they would compete in school
beautification programs.

The Environment

"Involvement with environmental affairs was inevi-
table", says Mrs. Wilder. "I am serving on an environ-

mental task force planning group for the Department of
Public Instruction, which is aimed at determining whether
adequate special instruction about environmental prob-
lems is being given, and at determining needs of the
future. In addition, the state itself is examining its own
activities to determine whether state agencies may be
contributing to pollution problems in air and water, as
well as visually."

Litter

"The problem of litter affects many state agencies, but
none more closely than the highway department. More
than $2 million a year is spent in trash pickup, and it is
acknowledged that this is not enough to meet the need.
People are tossing out litter faster than it can be re-
moved."

"The answer," and Lee firmly believes that there is
one, "is close cooperation of all state agencies that are
involved, as well as amendment of the state law on lit-
ter. The present general statute does not cover parks or
beaches, and only to the city limits of a municipality."

"A litter campaign, statewide, would clean up the state
for a while, but what is needed is more realistic legisla-
tion, better enforcement, convictions, and publicity about
all of it. Then, an organized business-like campaign
should be mapped out on a long-range basis."

"As an example, I'd like to see the entire state com-
plex featuring attractive litter containers (can you find
one?) ; flowers in the landscaping, if at all possible; flow-
ering trees and shrubs used in preference to the eternal
boxwood type of bush; specimen trees and hollies; and
the dogwood for which our state is famous. Every agen-
cy in state government throughout the state should be
encouraged to beautify buildings and grounds."

"Sometimes it isn't money that is needed — it is in-
terest and energy, and perhaps most of all, vision."

GOVERNOR'S BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE

17

Uniform Multi-County Regions for North Carolina

By PAUL F. JUDSON, JR.

In years past, much interest and
activity has been centered about the
concept of creating special-purpose,
multi-county districts to perform
functions of planning and develop-
ment more efficiently and effectively
than individual cities or counties
could accomplish.

More recently, interest has focused
on dividing the entire State into such
districts, and giving these districts
authorization to accomplish all plan-
ning and development stimulated by
the wide variety of Federal, State and
local programs.

Current Districts in North Carolina

1. Multi-county regional planning
commissions — 2 which contain
17 and 3 counties respectively.

2. Multi-county councils of govern-
ment — 4 which contain a total
of 20 counties.

3. Appalachian region — 29 coun-
ties divided into seven districts.

4. Economic development districts
— 3 in eastern North Carolina
which contain 6, 9, and 10 coun-
ties respectively.

5. Resource Conservation and De-
velopment district — which con-
tains 5 counties.

6. Area-wide comprehensive health
planning agencies — 11 which
contain a total of 48 counties.

7. Cooperative Area Manpower
System areas (CAMPS) — 19
which contain a total of 100
counties.

8. Local law enforcement planning
units — 22 which contain a total
of 98 counties.

9. Community action agencies —
40 in all, 20 of which contain
more than one county.

10. State agency division — more
than 70 different divisions by
agencies involving the entire
State for special purposes.

This virtual hodge-podge of differ-
ent regions, areas and districts for
various special purposes creates an
unwanted and unnecessary demand
upon the time, energy and resources
of Federal, State and local agencies
in administering their various pro-
grams. In addition, it has created
glaring gaps and undesirable overlaps
in overall planning and development
efforts.

The State of North Carolina is vi-
tally interested in working cooper-
atively with involved agencies to de

problem. The following guidelines
were used to establish proposed multi-
county districts in the State of North
Carolina:

1. Primary consideration will be
given to existing multi-purpose
regional organization forms,
with particular emphasis on
Councils of Government and
Economic Development Commis-
sions.

lineate districts, and to assist those
districts with their planning and de-
velopment efforts. The Federal gov-
ernment has indicated a great willing-
ness to gear its programs to a set of
districts that would be uniform, pro-
vided they are established and func-
tioning on an orderly basis.

In general terms, the following cri-
teria have been offered for use in de-
termining multi-county districts in
North Carolina:

1. County lines should be followed.

2. Cities should not be split or di-
vided.

3. The entire State should be in-
cluded.

4. Consideration should be given to
geographic and topographic fac-
tors, as well as transportation
links.

5. Patterns of economic activity.

6. Population.

7. Travel time.

8. Continuity of people, cities and
counties within an area.

Heretofore, no definite action has
been taken toward solution of this

2. Each proposed district shall con-
sist of an urban concentration
surrounded by interdependent
areas which fall within the
sphere of said urban center.

3. In sparsely-populated areas of
the State, each proposed district
shall contain a minimum popula-
tion of 60,000; and in densely-
populated areas of the State a
minimum population of 200,000,
based on 1969 population esti-
mates.

4. All parts of a proposed district
shall be generally accessible in
that no area of a proposed dis-
trict generally shall be located
more than 45 miles from its ur-
ban center.

The 1969 General Assembly enact-
ed legislation directing the Depart-
ment of Administrator through the
State Planning Division to work co-
operatively with other public and pri-
vate organizations in preparing a uni-
form set of regions covering the entire
State.

Because the process is of such vital
importance to elected and appointed

18

Why Do We Need Them and What Will They Do

officials of our cities and towns, Mr.
G. Irvin Aldridge, Director, Depart-
ment of Local Affairs included a dis-
cussion of the basic concepts at a ser-
ies of meetings held over the State in
November and December. He invited
suggestions and recommendations as
to which counties would most effec-
tively work together, and distributed
forms to achieve that purpose. Hun-
dreds of reactions were received by
way of forms, letters and telephone.

These officials were requested to
study the preliminary proposal and
transmit their suggestions, comments
and recommendations to the State
Planning Division, Department of
Administration by a deadline of Mon-
day, March 9, 1970. These comments
are being analyzed, studied and con-
sidered in determining a final pro-
posal for uniform multi-county re-
gions to be submitted to Governor

gional Commission, to serve as
Chairman of the special committee.
Others serving as committee members
are:

William G. Roberts
Extension, NCSU

University

Ronald Scott
Planning

Division of State

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile
opposing recommendations.

In the latter part of January a ten-
tative map showing the proposed mul-
ti-county regions was mailed to more
than 10,000 elected and appointed of-
ficials of local government and con-
stituent agencies.

Paul F. Judson, Jr., is Informa-
tion and Communications Officer
for the North Carolina Department
of Administration. He was former-
ly associated with that depart-
ment's Division of State Planning,
and with the Department of Con-
servation and Development.

Scott for final action, hopefuly in
April of 1970.

A later development came in early
February when Director of Adminis-
tration, Dr. W. L. Turner announced
formation of the Advisory Committee
for Regional Planning and Develop-
ment. The Committee will serve in an
advisory capacity to the Department
of Administration in developing and
implementing the system of statewide,
uniform multi-county regions for
North Carolina.

Turner named Dr. Leigh H. Ham-
mond, North Carolina Field Office
Director of the Coastal Plains Re-

Irvin Aldridge — Department of
Local Affairs

Leigh Wilson — N. C. League of
Municipalities

John Morrisey — Association of
County Commissioners

John Sanders — Institute of Gov-
ernment

Elmer Johnson
Planning

Division of State

The ultimate goal of the system of
uniform multi-county regions is to
provide a framework for the organ-
ization of local government for inter-
governmental cooperation and plan-
ning.

19

N. C. H. C. E. A. ASSOCIATION

REPORT TO EMPLOYEES
BY OTIS M. BANKS and DAVID W. KING

Legislation sponsored by this Association jointly with the N. C. State Employees' Association was enacted by the
1969 General Assembly to provide a study of all fringe benefits, to report to the Governor in 1970 and hence to the
1971 General Assembly. Our primary interest is Hospital- Medical insurance premiums paid by the State for the em-
ployee.

The Commission members are as follows:

Members at Large: Wills Hancock of Oxford (former member of House)

John Winfield of Pinetown (retired, Department of Agriculture)
Dr. A. C. Barefoot, Chairman (N. C. State University)

House Appointees: Rep. Claude DeBruhl of Candler

Rep. William K. Mauney, Jr., of Kings Mountain

Senate Appointees: Sen. Edgar Gurganus of William ston
(1 more to be made)

N. C. State Employees' Association: James S. Stevens, Jr. (Recreation Commission)
N. C. Teachers' Association: Mrs. Leila Laws of Rocky Mount (Teacher)
N. C. Education Association: Lloyd Isaacs of Raleigh (NCEA)

N. C. Highway and Correction Employees' Association: John A. Holmes, Jr., of Raleigh

(State Highway Commission)

The first meeting of the Commission was held in Raleigh on January 20 for organizational purposes and general
discussions. The Institute of Government rendered a report to the Commission on February 26 as to benefits now grant-
ed to State Employees, comparisons with industry and other states.

The following is the full text of the House Joint Resolution 460, Resolution 80:

A JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A COMMISSION TO STUDY VARIOUS
HOSPITALIZATION AND MEDICAL BENEFIT PLANS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES

WHEREAS, the conditions and benefits attendant to employment are beneficial and stabilizing
factors in recruiting and maintaining a competent supply of teachers and State employees; and

WHEREAS, it is advantageous to both the State and said employees to assess and evaluate the
benefits now available and to compare these benefits with those available to employees of industry,
business, and other sectors of non-public employment; and

WHEREAS, there is much interest in establishing a comprehensive and unified program of bene-
fits which would best serve the needs of teachers and State employees and which would be compa-
tible with the economy of the State;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

Section 1. There is hereby created a commission, to be designated as the "Teachers and State
Employees Benefits Study Commission" to make a detailed and exhaustive study of the following bene-
fits as they relate and contribute to employee efficiency and competence in North Carolina:

a. Hospital and medical coverage.

b. Life insurance.

c. Salary continuation for disabled employees.

d. Allowances and membership privileges available under the various retirement systems and
pension funds established by the State.

e. Holidays and scheduled vacations.

f. Leave policies, including provisions for annual leave, sick leave, sabbatical leave, and such
professional leave as would improve employee efficiency through in-service training.

g. Any and all other comparable or related benefits which might accrue to the welfare of teach-
ers and State employees in the performance of public service.

(Continued on page 22)

20

Highway Commission Campaign
Youth Opportunity

By EDITH JOHNSON SEIFERT

With summer approaching everybody's daydreams are
accelerating. Some think of good days on the golf course,
others of gardening, or even scuba diving.

The disadvantaged young man, aged 17 to 21, has no
daydreams because he has nothing to look forward to.
He is probably a high school dropout and his family sit-
uation, i.e. his environment, offers him almost no guid-
ance and no opportunity.

Federal officials, remembering summer riot problems,
know that meaningful summer employment can help all
young people. Our Federal Highway Administration is
participating in a national effort to provide summer em-
ployment for them. The State Highway Commission and
road building contractors who work on North Carolina
projects are cooperating.

Both the State Highway Commission and road building
contractors are concerned about employment for all
young people. Troy Dodson, Head of Personnel for the
Commission, has spearheaded the effort by the State
Highway Commission. Curtis Collier, Equal Opportunity
Employment Coordinator, is responsible for encouraging
this program among contractors who do work for the
Commission.

North Carolina contractors and the State Highway
Commission contribute supervision and work sites for
disadvantaged young people. They, in turn, provide a
lot of good labor (a commodity much in demand by the
Commission). The Neighborhood Youth Corps organizes
these groups and provides financial support. The Corps
first approached the Commission on this project in 1965.
In 1966 the Bureau of Public Roads asked the Commis-
sion to extend its efforts to encourage summer employ-
ment of all youth as well as the disadvantaged. This pro-
gram became known as the Summer Youth Opportunity
Campaign.

Hiring the disadvantaged requires a great spirit of co-
operation on the part of supervisory personnel and on the
part of all those who work with these young people. In-
deed, the training and education of our youth has never
been an easy job. But the rewards are great. Sometimes
this summer employment program helps develop good
permanent employees for the Commission and for the
contractor. Curtis Collier has pointed out that many of
the disadvantaged youth who worked in construction last
year may return this year. With the opportunity of two
summers in a supervised construction situation, the disad-
vantaged youth can change his lot in life.

In order to measure the effectiveness of this summer
program, all road building contractors have been asked to
report to Curtis Collier on April 1, in July, and again in
September. Highway personnel will report to Troy Dod-
son.

582 young people worked for the Highway Commission
and highway contractors in the summer of 1969. 44,596
were employed nation-wide. 45% of those employed in
North Carolina were disadvantaged. The Federal High-
way Administration has set a goal of 50,000 summer jobs
for youth in 1970, and applications for jobs with the
State Highway Commission are still being received.

Coming- Events In North Carolina

MAY

13- 17 Fontana — Fontana Conservation Roundup, 11th

Annual

14- 16 Southern Pines — Elks National Golf Champion-

ship, 9th Annual
14-16 Winston-Salem — N. C. Division, Travelers Pro-
tective Association of America, Convention

14- 17 Winston-Salem— N. C. Chapter, Telephone Pio-

neers of America, Convention

15- 17 Winston-Salem — -Carolina Gun Collectors Conven-

tion

16- 17 Nantahala Gorge — Rock Swap at Gorgarama Park,

11th Year
16- Taylorsville — Horse Show

16- 17 Burlington — North-South Outboard Boat Races
17 Elizabeth City — Registered Quarter Horse Show

17- 23 New Bern — New Bern Festival

20-22 Winston-Salem — N. C. Statewide Safety Confer-
ence, 40th Annual

22-23 Lake Norman — First Annual N. C. Championship
Bass Tournament

22-24 White Lake — North Carolina Blueberry Festival

22-24 Winston-Salem— N. C. Chapter, National Secre-
taries Association, Convention

22- 25 Pinehurst — National Annie Oakley Trap Shooting

Competition

23- 31 Fontana — Spring Square Dance Fun Fest

24 Charlotte— "World 600" Grand National Stock Car

Race, 11th Annual
24 Williamston — Horse Show

24 Concord — NASCAR Grand National Auto Race

24- 27 Pinehuret — N. C. Oil Jobbers Ass'n. Convention
■24-28 Charlotte — Carolina-Virginia Fashion Exhibitors

Trade Show

24- July 12 Charlotte — Piedmont Painting and Sculpture

Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, 10th Annual

25- 27 Highlands— Golf in the Clouds Classic, 13th An-

nual

29- 30 Burlington— N. C. Special Olympics

30 Wilmington — Memorial Day Program, U. S. S.

North Carolina Battleship Memorial, 4th Annual
30 High Point— Horse Show, 26th Annual

30- 31 Morehead City — Shaghai Trophy, Morehead City

Yacht Club

30-Sept. 7 Chapel Hill — "From Platforms in Space",
Morehead Planetarium

21

This is one vessel on the coast of North Carolina which the Ferry Division
doesn't have to worry about. She is permanently in port at Wilmington, and
she is one of the top tourist attractions in the U.S.A. It takes about 700 gallons
of paint a year to keep her that way.

Look for her, the U.S.S. North Carolina, just south of the eastern approach
to the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge at Wilmington. Visit her.

NCHCEA ASSO. NEWS

(Continued from page 20)

As a result of its study of the afore-
mentioned benefits, the Commission
shall submit to the Governor and the
General Assembly, not later than Oc-
tober 1, 1970, a report:

a. Reflecting the benefits which are
now available, their costs, and
the methods by which the bene-
fits are administered and financ-
ed.

b. Recommending the benefits
which should be made available,
their costs, and the methods by
which they should be adminis-
tered and financed,

c. Proposed policies and programs
which should be adopted by the
State and its agencies and insti-
tutions, and

d. Suggesting legislation which
would be needed to implement
the recommendations of the
Commission.

Section 2. The Commission shall
be composed of eleven members,
broadly representative of public serv-
ice and knowledgeable in areas such
as employee benefits, insurance per-
sonnel management, and retirement
benefits, who shall be appointed by
the Governor as follows:

a. two members from the Senate
as recommended to the Gover-
nor by the Lt. Governor;

b. two members from the House of
Representatives as recommend-
ed to the Governor by the
Speaker of the House;

c. four members from the associa-
tions of teachers and State em-
ployees by each of the following
associations: The North Carolina
Teachers Association, the North
Carolina State Employees Asso-
ciation, the North Carolina
Highway and Correction Em-
ployees Association, and the
North Carolina Education Asso-
ciation; and

d. three members, at large, desig-
nated by the Governor.

From the membership of the Com-
mission, the Governor shall designate
the Chairman.

Section 3. The Commission shall
be authorized to employ such consul-
tants and research assistants as it
feels necessary for its work and the
members of the Commission, with
the exception of those representing
teacher and State Employee Associa-
tions, shall receive per diem, subsist-
ence, and travel allowances as other

boards and commissions of the State
while engaged in the performance of
their duties. All expenses of the
Commission, including the cost of
preparing and printing the report of
its findings and recommendations,
shall be paid from the Contingency
and Emergency Fund.

Section 4. The Commission shall
have authority to examine State re-
cords and documents and to call
upon all officers and agencies of the
State for information and assistance.

Section 5. This Resolution shall
become effective on and after July 1,
1969.

In the General Assembly read three
times and ratified, this the 16th day
of June, 1969.

/s/ H. P. Taylor, Jr.
President of the Senate
/s/ Earl W. Vaughan
Speaker of the
House of Representatives

LUNCHEON
FOLLOWS "LETTING"

Mr. Bill Rogers, former Chief En-
gineer, Mr. "Zeb" Stewart, former
Division Engineer in Winston-Salem,
and Mr. Bill Ellis, formerly with our
bituminous paving section, joined the
crowd who gathered for lunch fol-
lowing a recent highway "letting" at
the State Highway Commission.

We sat next to Mr. John Graham
of Superior Stone, who pointed out
that the three active, lively, involved
men sitting opposite us were all for-
mer highway employees, retirees, if
you will.

Their combined service represent-
ed one hundred and twenty years of
work for the State Highway Commis-
sion.

The buffet luncheon consisted of
the traditional fried chicken, baked
ham, and the trimmings.

E. J. S,

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Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

C.

PHOTOGRAM-
METRY — Wel-
come to the follow-
ing new employ-
ees. Bill Parcells
ol Raleigh is a
new trainee in En-
gineering and a
graduate of VPI.
Dave Bailey of
the Photo Lab is
from Raleigh and
State University.

attended N.
Stereo Plotter, George Alencastro, is
also a graduate of NCSU and comes
from Venezuela.

It's nice to have Guy Blanton back
in the Stereo Section after gradua-
ting from Western Carolina Univer-
sity as a math major. Guy was with
the department several years ago
before resigning to finish school.

Best wishes to Angela Pridgen
upon her marriage February 15 in
the Hillcrest Baptist Church, to John
Williams of Clayton. Angela is in
the Engineering Section and she and
her husband, John, will reside in
Clayton.

Our deepest sympathy to Robert
Wood, Stereo Section, upon the re-
cent death of his father in Raleigh;
and to Chester Gray on the recent
death of his mother in St. Peters-
burg, Florida.

Pilot Leighton Elliott recently flew
to Oklahoma City to pick up the
Department's new aerial photography
airplane. The plane is an Aero Com-
mander 680 FL.

EQUIPMENT — The staff wel-
comes Mary Lois Ennis, new employ-
ee in Central Inventory.

Robert Earl and Jo Anne Bass are
the proud parents of a new baby
daughter, Cynthia Kathleen Bass,

who arrived February 3.

LEGAL — The Attorney General's
Office has been quite busy since the
Christmas season despite the spring
weather which sometimes gives a
case of spring fever. Two new em-
ployees have been added. Carol Mc-
Lawhorn recently joined the secre-
tarial pool and Mrs. Beth Leary is
new secretary to Mr. Fred P. Parker.

Mrs. Steve E. Wilson, who oper-
ates the MTST machine, entered
Wake Memorial Hospital on Febru-
ary 12 for surgery. Mrs. Carolyn
Lynam entered Wake Memorial Hos-
pital February 15 for various tests.
All staff members wish Mrs. Wilson
and Mrs. Lynam a speedy recovery.

Sympathy is expressed to Miss
Jane Butts and to Mrs. Mary Ellen
Merritt for the loss of their grand-
mothers, who both passed away last
month.

PLANNING AND RESEARCH—
The flu bug bit a few employees
during January and February, but
no one mentioned "Hong Kong."

Welcome back to Mike Coats who
returned to work after a year at
N. C. State University. Mike is in
the drafting room in Mapping.

It's also good to have Joyce Nor-
ris back after the birth of her little
daughter, Maria Ann, last Novem-
ber.

Travelers in the department are:
Rosemary Hooks, Grey McGee and
Barbara Mitchell. Rosemary returned
from a weekend in Atlanta raving
about the lovely food at Pittipat's
Porch. Barbara and Grey, along with
their families, enjoyed a weekend at
Atlantic Beach.

Wedding bells will ring for Ed
Schuller in July. Good luck, Ed.

Highway Planning Engineer Fuad
Rihani has recently joined the Plan-
ning and Research Department per-
manent staff. Fuad and his wife, Ka-
thy, live on Tartan Circle in Ral-
eigh. He is a native of India.

Three new draftsmen have joined
the Advance Planning Section. They
are Tom White, Todd Roberts and
Frank Vick.

R. J. (Bob) Booker is hoping for
another golf championship this year.
He considers this fair warning to
other teams. "If they want the tro-
phy, they'd better get hopping," says
Bob. Advance Planning "A" Team
expects most members back and new
ones are welcome. For more infor-
mation, contact Warner Powell.

Ormond Bliss reports that he had
a swinging weekend in Washington,
D. C. the last of February. "Strictly
pleasure," says Ormond.

Members of the department have
begun practicing for another softball
season. A Highway Commission team
will be entered in the City Slow-
Pitch League. Practice games are de-
sired during March and April with
any team or group in the Raleigh
area.

Congratulations to Joe Osborne.
Wedding plans are in the making and
Gail Armstrong is the lucky girl.

PERSONNEL— Department Head
Troy Dodson graduated from the
Dale Carnegie Course March 14. You
can believe the Personnel Depart-
ment has been full of enthusiasm
lately. Mr. Dodson also recently re-
turned from a trip to Houston, Tex-
as, where he attended a convention.

Cloyce Alford and Ted Austin
went to South Carolina and Atlanta,
Georgia, recently for a week of re-
cruiting. Banks Clark has also been
on the road lately recruiting Civil
Engineers and Civil Engineering
Technicians.

Diane Upchurch is sporting a big,
shiny diamond these days. It isn't
every girl who takes a break and
gets a diamond in the hall of the
Highway Commission. Diane will
marry Bobby Bridges on June 7.

Everyone in Personnel certainly
does miss Kay Bondurant who left
recently. Kay's husband, Jim, grad-
uated from State. They have moved
to Gastonia.

RIGHT OF WAY— The latest vic-
tim of Cupid, in Right of Way, is
starry-eyed Pat Wilkie. The week-
end after Valentine's Day, Pat re-
ceived a beautiful diamond ring from
Tommy Veal of Greensboro. Pat and
Tommy are planning a summer wed-
ding.

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Odell Penny and her husband
spent a week during the month of
February in sunny Florida.

Employees are glad to see Sammy
Jackson back at work after recuper-
ating from a recent operation.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING— Pre-
spring fever has hit the Traffic En-
gineering Department. One marriage
has already taken place, and another
is planned for the near future.

Frank Murray of the AI&S Sec-
tion and Judy Moffitt, also of AI&S,
were married February 6 in the
Knightdale Baptist Church. Judy is
now employed by the Department
of Community Colleges. A surprise
office party complete with refresh-
ments and appropriate gifts, was
held Thursday afternoon before the
Friday night wedding.

Another recent AI&S addition,
Linda Maynard, has received a love-
ly diamond ring and plans a spring
wedding in Raleigh to Charles Ed-
dins, another Highway Commission
employee.

Presentation of the Department's
1963 Rural Safety Program report to
Governor Scott was made by Chair-
man Lauch Faircloth in the Gover-
nor's office in the Administration
Building January 30. Attending from
the Department were J. O. Litchford,
R. J. Dodge and J. M. Lynch.

The Department has had several
new employees, as well as two promo-
tions and a resignation. Don Helms, a
senior at NCSU, began work in the
Signals Section January 28. Connie
Bass, a Millbrook High School grad-
uate, is a new employee of AI&S. Carl
Barnes, Jr., also a senior at NCSU,
began work February 16 in the De-
sign Section. Roy McCann completed
the training program and became Di-
vision Traffic Engineer in Division
11, North Wilkesboro, February 28.
He replaces Jerry Twiggs.

L. T. Williams, Division Traffic
Engineer in Winston-Salem, has been
given the position of Assistant Area
Traffic Engineer. H. A. Justice was
promoted to Traffic Engineer for
Urban Coordination January 31, and
Susan Batts became an Engineering
Aide February 28. Jeff Cummings of
the Signing Section resigned Febru-
ary 12.

Everyone wishes a speedy recovery
to Bettie Massengill's brother, who
is confined to Duke Hospital.

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BRIDGE LOCATION — Welcome
to the following new employees in
the Department: Michael A. Harris
from Oxford, Thomas F. Airrington,
Oxford, Edward B. Oakes, Oxford,
and W. J. Debnam, Jr., from Ra-
leigh.

BRIDGE — Ross Kubeny, Tom-
my Clegg, Frank Stanley, Cliff Car-
ter and Ramesh Fofaria are new per-
manent employees in Bridge De-
sign. Benton Payne is on the train-
ing program.

Ross attended NCSU and is a na-
tive of Raleigh. Tommy and his
wife, Doni, are "newly marrieds" as
of October. They came here from
Sanford. Frank was married in Jan-
uary to Donna Lynn Smith, who
works with the Employment Security
Commission. Frank attends NCSU
part-time and expects to graduate in
May. Cliff and his wife, Edith, live
in Pittsboro. He commutes daily.
Ramesh, a native of India, has been
in this country 18 months and re-
ceived his "Masters" at NCSU. Ben-
ton, an NCSU graduate, recently left
the Virginia Highway Department.

Herb Stout has returned to NCSU
as a full-time student.

Tom Dixon resigned to work with
the Utilities Commission. Good luck,
Tom.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Ned Chapman, whose mother died
February 11.

Welcome to Thomas Collins Sulli-
van, a new permanent employee in
Encroachments. He is a graduate of
Holding Tech and was recently mar-
ried to Cathy Falsone of Raleigh.

MATERIALS AND TESTS— De-
partment employees extend their
heartfelt sympathy to the family of
Clyde L. Smith, Concrete Engineer,
who died February 1. Mr. Smith had
43 years of service with the Commis-
sion at the time of his death.

All employees wish a happy retire-
ment to the following recent retirees:
Mr. R. S. Jivatode, Mr. George Bray
and Mr. R. L. Shearin.

Get well wishes are extended to
Larry Pleasants who entered the
hospital January 21 with an infected
spinal cord. Employees hope that
Larry will be back at work soon.

Our deepest sympathy to J. P. Pen-
dergrass upon the recent death of
his stepmother, Mrs. Agnes Pender-
grass.

Welcome to Johnny McGrady, Ma-
terials Engineer. Johnny is a grad-
uate of N. C. State University and
will be working in the Nuclear Den-
sity Department.

All employees were saddened by
the death February 13 of former
State Materials Engineer C. E.
Proudley. Mr. Proudley was with
the Commission many years before
his retirement several years ago.

Friends and former co-workers in
Materials and Tests will be pleased
to learn that former chemist, Her-
bert C. Guthrie, obtained his D. D. S.
degree from UNC last June at Cha-
pel Hill and is now a full-fledged
dentist out in North Hills Profes-
sional Park on Computer Drive.

Dr. Guthrie joined Materials and
Tests in 1961 and was a chemist for
several years before returning to
school to become a dentist. He is
married and makes his home at 209
Ramblewood Drive in Raleigh.

PUBLIC INFORMATION — It
was nice to see former Highway
Chairman Merrill Evans from Ahos-
kie pay the Department a visit re-
cently. It was good, also, to see
Jerry Elliott, former Public Rela-
tions Officer for the Highway Com-
mission, come by for a chat.

Another nice visitor was retired
former Chemical Testing Engineer
C. T. Carmichael. Mr. Carmichael
served the Commission over 45 years
before his retirement in 1967.

ROADWAY DESIGN — Congrat-
ulations to Mr. and Mrs. Roland
Robinson on the birth of a baby
boy, David Warren, January 21.

Best wishes to Nellie Keglers who
is away on maternity leave. On her
last work day, Nellie received many
nice, useful gifts from her co-workers.

Ann Futrell resigned in February
to devote full time as a housewife
and mother. Employees will miss
working with Ann.

Congratulations to Bryce Clodfel-
ter who was married to Miss Ellen
Fritts recently. Everyone wishes them
lots of happiness.

Gale Parker and his wife, Myra,
are the proud new parents of baby
boy, Paul Winston, born January 26.

Welcome to new employees David
M. Clayton and Donald Bailey.

The Public Information Depart-
ment is delighted to have Miss Lin-
da Hill as a new addition to the
staff. She joined the department
January 5 and previously worked
temporarily with Public Instruc-
tion.

A Stenographer I, Linda serves
chiefly as secretary to Mr. Gib-
son Prather.

A June 1969 graduate of North
Johnston High School, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Hill of Kenly.

Her chief hobbies are dancing,
swimming, and going to the beach.

And for your information, boys,
Linda has an identical twin, Bren-
da, who is a stenographer in the
Division of Forestry over in the
Department of Administration.

Little Maria Ann Norris, age three
months, smiles and waves gaily as the
photographer snaps her picture.

Maria Ann is the daughter of Joyce
and Corbie Norris and Mom works
in Planning and Research.

An office romance terminated in a
February wedding for Judy Moffitt
and Frank Murray of Traffic En-
gineering.

Judy and Frank are shown admir-
ing wedding gifts received at a sur-
prise office party for them.

Frank plans to remain in Traffic
Engineering and Judy will join Com-
munity Colleges.

Much happiness is wished the new-
lyweds.

Shown before her very first birth-
day cake, little one-year old Kathryn
Moore poses proudly. Kathryn's dad,
James, is an engineer in Bridge De-
sign.

HELLO there, says handsome lit-
tle David James McPherson. Blue-
eyed David James is the four-month
old son of Dan and Joan McPherson.
His dad is employed in Roadway De-
sign.

The Beta Sigma Phi International
Sorority met in January at a tea for
Mrs. Robert Scott, where she was
presented an honorary membership
pledge pin. The Greek letters stand
for life, learning, and friendship and
the organization seeks to expand the
"life, learning, and friendship" of
members.

Shown left to right in picture are:
Judy Martin, Payroll section; Mrs.
Scott; Ruth Curlee, president of the
Raleigh Council; and Donna Bon-
kowski.

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WINNER OF
POETRY AWARDS

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock
received two awards at the District
Eight Fine Arts Festival, sponsor-
ed annually by the North Carolina
Federation of Women's Clubs,
which was held in Apex, March 7,
1970.

Jewel won first place and a
blue ribbon in the Creative Writ-
ing category with her lyric poem
"Leaves."

She was runner up and took sec-
ond place with her sonnet, entitled
"The Silver Forest", published in
the Nov.-Dec. issue of ROAD-
WAYS.

Jewel has been very active in
civic affairs in Cary, is a Past
President of the Cary Junior Wo-
man's Club and a charter member
of the Cary Arts Guild.

OBITUARIES

HEADQUARTERS

Retired Engineer Dies

Hunter D. Irving, 67, retired Assistant Chief Engineer
of the Highway Commission, in charge of Maintenance
and Construction, died Sunday, March 22, 1970.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, March 24 at West
Raleigh Presbyterian Church and interment was in
Montlawn Memorial Park.

Mr. Irving served the Commission for 48 years and
was an outstanding, dedicated engineer. He joined the
Commission in 1921, its first year of existence, and served
every Chairman the Commission has ever had until his
retirement in August of 1969.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Howard-Morning Brooks
Irving of Raleigh; a daughter, Mrs. Tom W. Lambeth
of Annandale, Virginia; a sister, Mrs. Layton Gunter of
Raleigh; two brothers, Robert S. of Greensboro and Col.
John William Irving, Vietnam; and three grandchildren.

Clyde Linwood Smith, 62, Materials Enginer in the
Field Inspection Unit of the Highway Materials and
Tests Division, died on Sunday, February 1, 1970.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Hunter Smith, a
daughter, Betsy Rodwell Smith of the home; a brother,
James Bryant Smith, Jr., of Fit. Pierce, Florida; and
two sisters, Mrs. A. D. Fuqua and Mrs. J. T. Franklin
of Raleigh.

DIVISION 2

Henry Leland Briley, Mechanic 2, passed away on
January 17, 1970.

Leland Leroy Linton, Mechanic Foreman 1, died on
January 29, 1970.

Henry Barrett, General Utility Man (temporary), died
in December, 1969.

* # *

DIVISION 6

A. Turner Hight, 66, of Fayetteville, retired Road Oil
Supervisor, died on March 30, 1970. He worked with
the Commission for 43 years. He had served as president
of the State Highway Employees' Association. Honorary
pallbearers at his funeral were active and retired em-
ployees of the State Highway Commission.

A. A. (Casey) Jones, 73, a retired Maintenance Employ-
ee of Harnett County, died in November of 1969. Mr.
Jones made his home in Lillington.

O. C. Holder, 46, a Machine Operator in Harnett Coun-
ty, died on February 7, 1970. Mr. Holder lived in Lil-
lington and had been employed by the Highway Commis-
sion since 1948.

* * *

DIVISION 10

Curtis Long, who retired from the Commission in 1956
after serving in the Mecklenburg County area as Mainte-
nance Foreman, died on January 7, 1970, in Newell,
where he lived. His son, Harry G. Long, is Assistant
State Equipment Engineer.

Thomas J. Russ, General Utility Man with the Com-
mission, died on January 23, 1970.

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DIVISION NEWS

"Florida or bust"
is apparently a
i familiar tune in
Division One, with
none other than
Mr. Clayton
f Beard, Right - of-

fjfo Way Agent and

W flj Mrs. Beard lead-

^M^^ra Jng (lu, way Mi-
Linda Mulder j RAorr|
Division Correspondentana ivlrs- oeara

vacationed in Naples, Florida, tour-
ing Cyprus Gardens and Silver Spring
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
James M. Joyner. One must not
fail to mention these vacationers did
do a "little" fishing. Needless to say
more, particularly should the reader
know the Beards, for it is apparent
they never have a dull moment; how-
ever, to really top matters, these love-
ly people ran into a freak ice storm
in South Carolina on the way home.

Mr. R. W. Hasty, Maintenance
Supervisor, District Two, and Mrs.
Hasty visited their children in Jack-
sonville, Florida, recently.

It appears one couple is not allow-
ing anyone to get so far ahead of
them they cannot catch up. Mr. Jay
Smith, Mechanic Foreman, District
Two, and Mrs. Smith left for Florida
on February 15. Anyone else for
Florida?

The Welcome Wagon extends a
hearty welcome to Mr. Don Fergu-
son, Right-of-Way Agent, who came
to the Division Right-of-Way De-
partment from Washington, North
Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson are
residing in Ahoskie. The Welcome
Wagon also welcomes Mr. Worley
Minton, Right-of-Way Agent, to the
Division Right-of-Way Department.
Mr. and Mrs. Minton are residing in
Lewiston, North Carolina.

Happenings are going on in Hert-
ford. The Hertford Equipment Shop

employees and their wives or hus-
bands enjoyed an Oyster Roast and
Steak Supper in January! Sounds
like fun — wonder if it's catching? It
is also understood that Mr. C. L.
"Dick" Brewer is back at his desk
after having attended the Ruritan
National Convention in New Orleans,
Louisiana. Welcome back, Mr. Brew-
er!

Wedding Bells have rung loud and
true, for the former Linda Baggett,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M.
Baggett, who was married December
7, 1969, to Mr. John L. Jenkins, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh Jenkins.
The bride's father is Maintenance
Foreman IV in District Two. The
bride is a graduate of Ahoskie High
School and Chowan College, and is
employed with Orkin Exterminating
Company in Ahoskie. The bride-
groom is a graduate of Aulander High
School and is employed with Union
Camp Corporation in Franklin, Vir-
ginia. The newly-weds are making
their home in Aulander.

Mr. and Mrs. Willie Mayo Gard-
ner of Jamesville announce the en-
gagement of Mrs. Godwin's daughter,
Rachel Lloyd Waters, to Louis Pres-
ton Craddock, son of Mrs. Louis
Henry Craddock of Edenton and the
late Mr. Craddock. Miss Waters is
also the daughter of the late Mr.
Guy R. Waters. She is a graduate
of the College of the Albemarle
School of Nursing and is employed
with the Albemarle Hospital. Mr.
Craddock is a graduate of Wilson
Technical Institute and is employed
as Engineering Aide with the Eliza-
beth City Construction Office.

Mrs. John L. Jenkins

Rachel Waters

r m

John M. Hodges, Jr.

Like father, like son; like son like
grandson . . . This is the picture of
John M. Hodges, Jr. He loves hunt-
ing as well as his daddy, John M.
Hodges, who is with the Construction
Department in Plymouth. His "grand-
daddy", J. S. Hodges, has been in the
Maintenance Department in Wil-
liamston since 1934. John, Jr., loves
motor graders the best of any of his
toys.

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Welcome to Mrs.
Elizabeth Forbes
Toothman, Stenog-
rapher II, in the
Division Equip-
ment Office. Mrs.
Toothman replac-
I es Mrs. Bratha
I Abee who trans-
\ ferred to Road
„ , „ , Oil-Landscape De-

Hazel Baker
Division Correspondent partment.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spain are
happy to announce the birth of a
son, Frank Bryan, on November 26,
1970. This is the first child for Mr.
and Mrs. Spain. Frank is a High-
way "Tech" with Mr. C. Y. Griffin
in New Bern.

Mr. O. D. Stilley, Maintenance
Supervisor in Craven County is at
home recuperating from an operation
he had in February. We will be look-
ing forward to welcoming Mr. Stilley
back to work shortly.

Mrs. Betty Walston, Steno in Mr.
Ralph Pollock's construction office in
New Bern, has returned to work
after a bout with the flu.

The Welcome Mat is out for
Terry Ash, Right of Way Agent.
Terry is employed in the Greenville
Right of Way Department.

Three generations. Baby S. A. Guy,
Jr., is the son of S. A. Guy, Machine
Operator with Maint. Dept. in Ke-
nansville. C. J. Guy, grandfather, is
an Inspector with the Construction
Department in Clinton,

The flu has
really taken its
toll among us. We
especially welcome
back Graham Eng-
lish, Road Main-
tenance Supervisor
for Brunswick and
New Hanover
Counties, who has
just returned after

Irene Hewett h P e n

Division Correspondent Having Deen

confined sometime due to major
surgery and extended illness.

Larry Hicks, Civil "Tech" Trainee,
recently returned from military
leave. He is presently assigned to
the Clinton Construction Department.

Frank Wilkerson and Dan Cottle
attended the two-day Density School
in Raleigh January 28 and 29.

We surely miss Will Davis of
Right of Way who has transferred
to Shelby Office. We especially miss
Will since he can always come up
with a little "quip" at the right
time that will bring a smile and
lighten the day. His fellow employees
presented him with a watch, a token
of their pleasant association with
him.

Larry Hicks and wife Vickie be-
came the proud parents of a daugh-
ter, Angela Michelle, on January 12.
This is their first child. Larry is a
Trainee in the Clinton Construction
Department.

Darroll Hairr and wife Betty also
have a daughter, Vickie Lynn, born
on January 4. She is their first child.
Darroll is also with Clinton Construc-
tion.

Phillip and Peggy Rivenbark had
their first child, son Phillip, Jr., born
on January 10. He is with Clinton
Construction.

Rose Duncan, a former secretary
in the Division Office, has a 9V& lb.
son, Michael Allen, born on January
30. This is her first child. Rose is
now living in Wilmington, Delaware;
her husband who is with Allied
Chemical, was recently transferred
there,

Glad to have
Hilda Harris back
at work. Also,
Jack Woody. Hil-
da attributes her
absence to the flu,
but we hear that
Jack has been
jumping too many
fences . . . not so

Feggy Bright nimhW
Division Correspondent nimDiy.

Others who suffered from the flu
were Q. L. Sorrell, Albert Pulliam
and B. F. Vaughan.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to Hilda Harris who lost her brother,
T. J. Sloan, recently.

A speedy recovery is wished for
Robert J. Murphy, Road Oil Super-
visor, who recently had a knee oper-
ation. Robert is out of the hospital
but unable to return to work just
yet.

If anyone has information on the
care and control of roving rabbits
please contact C. R. Williams. We
hear he has been having a little
trouble keeping the family pet in his
cage.

Glad to have B. F. Wheeler back
on the job after a bout with the flu.

(Division Three)

We wish to extend our sympathy
to Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Brown, Div.
R O W Agent, Mrs. Brown recently
lost her Mother, Mrs. H. Simpson,
of Beulaville.

We wish a happy Retirement to
Raymond Troy West, Road Oil Fore-
man, who retired effective February
1. Mr. West has been with the High-
way around 40 years. Henry Preston
Matthews, also of the Road Oil De-
partment retired on January 1 after
spending over 20 years with the Com-
mission. O. H. Massey, M. O. II in
Road Oil, resigned recently to accept
other employment. We welcome Sher-
wood Ray Dudley, a new employee,
to the Road Oil Department,

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(Division Five)

Mr. Robert L. Royster took over
as Granville County Road Mainte-
nance Supervisor January 3, 1970,
when Mr. G. E. Crutcher retired. Mr.
Royster has 40 years service with the
Highway Commission.

Mr. Elvin A. Lumpkin was pro-
moted to Area Maintenance Foreman
IV and he has been with the Commis-
sion in Granville County since 1952.
Congratulations to both of these de-
serving employees.

Robert L. Royster

Elvin A. Lumpkin

The '"flu bug"
has really made
it's round in Di-
vision Six. Six em-
ployees have re-
cently had the
"bug": Paul
Weeks, Truitte
Johnson, H. K.
Autry, and in the
Right of Way De-
Ra£oXondentPartment, Hilbreth

E. Dixon and Max G.

Division

L. Britt
Loflin.

Get-well wishes go to R. L. Sen-
tor, of the Harnett County Mainte-
nance Department, and his wife who
are in Rex Hospital recuperating
from pneumonia; L. M. Knight,
Truck Driver for the Harnett County
Maintenance Department, who is in

This very pretty little girl is Me-
lissa Anne Sellers, the new "boss" at
the DON SELLERS' home. Melissa
arrived on November 2, 1969, and
weighed 8 lbs., 15 ozs. Don is an
Agent in the Right of Way Depart-
ment.

Robert Earl Hardee, Engineer's
Aide in Cumberland County's District
Office, was married on January 30,
1970, to the former Linda Lane of
Orrum, N. C. They enjoyed a honey-
moon to Myrtle Beach and other
points in North and South Carolina.

Conrad Pope, Jr., right, is the son of
Mrs. Shirley Pope, Stenographer I,
with the Equipment Department in
Fayetteville. He is shown here with
the other two members of their new-
ly-formed band, Spectrum, at their
first performance.

the Veterans Hospital in Durham as
a result of an automobile accident;
David Weaver, of Harnett County,
who recently had an operation; A. C.
Gilbert and C. L. Spence, of the
Harnett County Maintenance De-
partment and Marvin Townsend,
Mechanic II, Equipment Department
in Lumberton.

Mr. and Mrs. Truitte Johnson and
family spent the Christmas holidays
camping at Jacksonville, N. C. Camp-
ing is their hobby, and during the
year 1969, the Truitte Johnson family
camped at a different site and loca-
tion each month.

Division Office Personnel would
like to welcome Mrs. Rickie Broad-
foot, who was employed as a Clerk
II in the Road Oil Office in January.

The Right of Way Department wel-
comes Wilson Jenkins McNeill
("Mutt") who has been assigned to
this office as a Right of Way Aide,
effective November 22, 1969.

Welcome to the new employees of
the Location and Property Survey
field parties in Fayetteville. They
are Dennis Jernigan of Fayetteville
and Talmage S. Baggett of Godwin
assigned to E. E. Cain's party; Wil-
liam P. Puryear of Spring Lake, O.
L. Powell and V. L. Davis of Lilling-
ton, assigned to A. P. Spence's party.

Miss Mary Frances Ballance, at-
tractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Cutlar Lee Ballance of St. Pauls,
N. C, and Charles Milton Wheeler,
son of the Rev. and Mrs. Kermit
Wheeler, of Laurinburg, N. C, were
married at twelve o'clock noon at the
St. Pauls Presbyterian Church on
Saturday, January 31, 1970. Mrs.
Wheeler received her B. A. Degree
in biology from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, where
she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
She is a research technician in the
Biochemistry Department of Duke
University, Durham, N. C. The bride-
groom is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel

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Hill, N. C, where he majored in
journalism. He is a reporter for the
News and Observer in Raleigh, N. C.

Mr. Ballance is Right of Way Aide
in the Right of Way Department of
Division Six.

Mrs. Onie B. Tyndall, 68, a re-
tired Burlington Mills employee, died
in December, 1969. She was the wife
of Mr. Sam D. Tyndall, General
Utility Man of the Harnett County
Maintenance Department. Mr. and
Mrs. Tyndall made their home in
Erwin, N. C.

Mrs. Imogene Townsend, wife of
Auto Parts Supervisor Arthur R.
Townsend, of the Equipment Depart-
ment in Division 6, died suddenly
on January 17, 1970. Mr. and Mrs.
Townsend made their home in Fay-
etteville.

Our best wishes
are extended to
Bob Canada after
his operation and
hospital confine-
ment.

Welcome to Lar-
ry Williams, Area
Traffic Engineer,
who has recently
been transferred to
DWiSr corespondent this Division from
the Winston-Salem area to replace
Ray Welch who has been employed
by the City of Greensboro.

Congratulations to the G. R. Shir-
leys on the birth, on February 10, of
their daughter.

Must be great, Ray Shelton, to be
in Florida playing golf while the
rest of us are here freezing.

Our sympathy is extended to Ro-
bah Walters, Machine Operator in
Orange County, in the death of his
wife.

Our sympathy to the J. V. Monti
family in the death of his father-in-
law, C. B. Compton, on February 11.
Mr. Compton was a retired employee
of the Sign Department in this Di-
vision.

Welcome to V. E. New, "Coop."
student.

DIVISION
EIGHT

Douglas Patrick, Division Land-
scape Supervisor, spent several days
in Washington, D. C, visiting with
his children.

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

Sympathy is ex-
tended to W. I.
Arnette, Sanford
Construction party
in the loss of his
brother. F r iends
and employe es
were saddened by
the sudden death
o f Arthur Lee
Davis, Sign Paint-
er in the Traffic

Service Department, who died on

January 20. We extend sympathy to

his family.

We are sorry to hear Harvey

Snead continues to be ill at his

home.

We hear Danny Hugh Wright is
back at work after being hospitalized;
and happy to report M. V. Sloan, of
District 2, is able to be back at work,
following an extended illness.

Friends will be glad to hear the
Thomas C. Tapp family is improving
following an automobile accident.
Mr. Tapp is a Scotland County em-
ployee.

A. O. Patterson, Highway Inspec-
tor in the Wagram party, is the envy
of everybody. He is vacationing in
Hawaii. Glad to hear this, just wish
all of us could have gone.

We are happy to report that Henry
Holshouser, Division Traffic Engi-
neer, is getting along nicely following
his hospital stay. In fact, he is about
the "fastest" to get well of anybody.

Welcome to Kathy Martin, Clerk
in the Division Office. Kathy is cer-
tainly an added attraction to this
office. It is a real joy to have her
working with us.

Our best wishes to George Willett,
Truck Driver, District I, who retired
on February 1; to Ralph Lawrence,
Landscape Department; A. T. Par-
sons, District 3; and J. W. Kirk, Dis-
trict 3. We wish each of these a hap-
py and rewarding retirement, after
many years of faithful service to the
people of North Carolina.

Sgt. William N. Siler, son of Dis-
trict Engineer and Mrs. R. L. Siler,
was assigned to the 51st Signal Bn. in
South Korea in June of 1969 as a
radio relay operator. He entered the
armed forces in April of 1968 and
took his basic training at Fort Bragg.
He received further training at Fort
Gordon, Ga., and Fort Lewis, Wash-
ington.

Sharyn Siler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Siler, is a freshman at
N. C. State University in Raleigh,
was placed on Dean's List for the
fall semester for scholastic achieve-
ment. She is a 1969 graduate of Jor-
dan-Matthews High School, Siler
City.

SO

Listen to this happy retired em-
ployee: Jimmy Stewart, retired
Maintenance Supervisor, Lee Coun-
ty, writes from Hot Springs National
Park, Arkansas, "Having grand time,
going to night clubs. Looking at the
girls, etc., will be back soon. Mrs.
Stewart and I are really enjoying our
trip."

Also, we enjoyed hearing from
former District Engineer John G.
Hall at Christmas time. Mr. and
Mrs. Hall are in Florida, and we
hear they are getting along fine. We
do miss them, and hope they can
come this way again soon.

Glenn H. Duncan, Machine Op-
erator III, retired December 31 after
nearly 43 years of service with the
State Highway Commission Main-
tenance Department.

On April 13, 1927, Mr. Duncan
began work with the Chatham Coun-
ty highway system. He was a driver
for the section foreman, the late Latt
D. Poe. After two years Mr. Poe
was transferred to the Bear Creek
section of Chatham County and Mr.
Duncan became section foreman.

When the state took over main-
tenance of all county roads in 1931,
Mr. Duncan and his wife, the form-
er Clarice Lewis of Burlington, mov-

BELOW

Fellow workers presenting lounge
chairs to retiring employees Atlas
Hilliard, Charlie Williams, and
George Smith, Maintenance Depart-
ment, Asheboro.

ed to Silk Hope community where
they presently reside. They have
four children; Glenna, (Mrs. Vernon
Lewis of Burlington) ; Betty (Mrs.
W. G. Friddle, Jr., of Greenville, N.
C.)i Avery of North Wilkesboro; and
Arnold of Wallace. There are nine
grandchildren. Mrs. Duncan has been
a teacher in the Silk Hope School
for the past 24 years. Both are mem-
bers of Rocky River Baptist Church
and active in church and community
affairs.

Mr. Duncan's hobbies are hunting
and gardening, and he plans to spend
a lot of time with both activities
now that he has retired.

Mr. Glenn H. Duncan

}

I DIVISION
L TEN

W i 1 1 a r d W.
Morris, Inspector
1 of the Construc-
tion Department
in M e c klenburg
County resigned
January 30, 1970,
to accept employ-
ment with the U.
S. Post Office in
' 11 Charlotte. G o od

j. w. Jones luck Willard.

Division Correspondent

MAX E. LOWDER, Inspector III
of the Construction Department in
Mecklenburg County underwent
emergency surgery January 5, 1970.
He is at home now recuperating nice-
ly and planning another fishing trip.

L. A. BROWN, Resident Engineer,
underwent a thorough physical check-
up at Charlotte Memorial Hospital
January 11-15, 1970.

HUBERT P. GRIFFIN, of the
Construction Department, Mecklen-
burg County attended the Density
School conducted in Raleigh Febru-
ary 4 and 5.

L. L. ASKEW, Highway Inspec-
tor III, on leave to Division 10 for
five months has returned to his home
office.

Our sympathy is extended to the
family of Mr. Curtis Long upon his
passing on January 7. Mr. Long had
been a life-long resident of Mecklen-
burg County and a faithful Highway
Commission employee, having retired
on August 1, 1956. Mr. Curtis Long's
son, Harry G. Long, is our Assistant
State Equipment Engineer.

Condolences are extended to the
family of Thomas J. Russ. He had
been employed for a short time, as
General Utility Man.

Horace W. Goodrum, Foreman II,
in Mecklenburg County, retired ef-
fective February 1, 1970, after more
than 20 years of service. We hope
he will enjoy going places and do-
ing the things for which he has not
had time.

Mr. C. J. Biggers, retired from the
Cabarrus County Maintenance De-
partment, on December 31, 1969. Mr.
Biggers will be missed by his fellow
employees and we wish him the best
of luck.

H. W. Love spent the Christmas
holidays in San Antonio, Texas, with
his daughter and family, Dr. and
Mrs. Joe Tippett.

SI

This pretty little "Miss" is Rhonda
Elaine Howell. She was three March
4, 1969. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Conley L. Howell. Mr.
Howell is a Machine Operator in the
Road Oil Department.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Murray Os-
borne were married June 29, 1969,
at 11 o'clock in the Poplar Hill Meth-
odist Church, Polkton, N. C. Mrs.
Osborne, before her marriage, was
Miss Catherine Allen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Allen. Cath-
trine's father is a Machine Operator
2 with the Road Oil Department. Mr.
Osborne is employed by the Wades-
boro Police Department, while she is
employed by Wade Manufacturing
Company, Wadesboro. They are mak-
ing their home in Wadesboro, N. C.

We also wish to welcome N.- F.
Menius, Jr., D. W. Goodman and
Jessie Cook as new employees with
the N. C. State Highway Commis-
sion Maintenance Department, Mt.
Pleasant, N. C.

Sick list for Stanly County Main-
tenance: R. R. Poplin, R. H. Cran-
ford and J. H. Kendall. We hope
these men will soon be back at work.

Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Furr are home
from the Mercy Hospital, Charlotte,
N. C.

B. L. Mabry is back at work after
an operation.

We're glad one of our retired em-
ployees, J. R. Hathcock, has returned
home from Florida, after suffering a
heart attack.

All hunting tales have calmed
down, but we're expecting bigger
tales when fishing starts.

Best wishes for
a long and happy
retirement are ex-
tended to Charlie
M. Hollar who
retired November
1, 1969, after 38
years of service
with the Highway
Commission. Mr.
Hollar is married
DM2£S£S3-tt° Margaret B.
Hollar and 'they have one daughter.
They make their home in Boone.

Get well wishes are extended to
Martin R. Gray who is recuperating
at home from recent surgery. Mr.
Gray is employed as a Highway In-
spector in the North Wilkesboro Con-
struction Department.

Congratulations are in store for
several employees in Division Eleven
who recently received promotions.
Mr. J. T. Winkler was promoted from
District Engineer to Area Mainte-
nance Engineer, replacing J. H.
Council who retired effective January
1, 1970.

G. F. (Smokey) Mast was pro-
moted from Assistant District Engi-
neer to District Engineer, replacing
Mr. Winkler. He will be in charge of
maintenance activities in Avery,
Caldwell and Watauga Counties. Mr.
Mast started work with the Commis-
sion in 1935 on the Parkway from

G. F. Mast, District Engineer

Laurel Springs to Asheville. He
worked with the Construction De-
partment from May of 1936 until
May of 1942 when he resigned to do
defense work at Durham, Wilming-
ton and Oak Ridge. He returned to
work with the Commission in March
of 1946 and remained with the Con-
struction Department until March of
1958 when he became Maintenance
Supervisor and served in that ca-
pacity until June of 1967 when he
was promoted to Assistant District
Engineer. Mr. Mast is married to the
former Olive Triplett and they have
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Lou Pres-
lar of Charlotte and Mrs. Katherine
Winkler of Boone.

F. D. Blevins, Assistant District
Engineer

F. D. BLEVINS was promoted
from Maintenance Supervisor to As-
sistant District Engineer, replacing
Mr. Mast. Mr. Blevins worked with
the Maintenance Department in
Ashe County before moving to Boone
in June of 1967 as Maintenance
Supervisor for Avery and Watauga
Counties.

S2

J. H. TAYLOR was promoted from

County Foreman to Maintenance
Supervisor for Avery and Watauga
Counties, replacing Mr. Blevins.

All of these men are long time em-
ployees with the Commission and
we wish them the best of luck in
their new positions.

1

It

J. H. Taylor, Maintenance Supervisor

Looking rather dismayed and di-
sheveled is Donald Wall, Parts Clerk
with the Equipment Department in
Elkin. Donald and wife, Brenda, be-
came the parents of a baby girl, Le-
Don Brenda, weighing six pounds and
2 ounces, on January 24. Because
of this, some of his fellow employees
left him practically "Pantless". Best
wishes to the Walls and their new
baby.

These proud parents are Scott and
Karen Hinson. The baby, Ruby
Dawn, arrived at 4:12 a.m. at Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital in El-
kin, N. C, weighing eight pounds
and two ounces, and became the first
new arrival of 1970 in Elkin. Daddy
Scott is employed by the Landscape
Department. The grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brown of Ronda
and Mr. and Mrs. Esker Hinson of
Poplar Springs. We wish the Hinson's
and their new baby the best of every-

> jf|Hr j Construction Par-

ty. Mrs. McEntire
Kb*, worked with this

BKftMBKraSM^ party prior to go-

jMHM ing on maternity
leave and is re-
Divi»ioJ„Torr«pondent Pacing Mrs. Lin-
da Seagle, who resigned Decem-
ber, 1969.

We welcome Ronald Terry Queen,
Civil Technology Trainee, to the
Statesville District. He reported for
work February 5.

L. R. Teague, Maintenance Fore-
man in Alexander County, returned
to work on February 3 after being
away due to illness.

The following employees have been
away from work for quite awhile:
O. L. Setzer, Iredell County, due to
illness; W. A. Hight, Alexander

County, due to an automobile acci-
dent; and B. K. Barnes, Alexander
County, due to an eye operation. We
hope these men will soon be able to
return to work.

This is probably belated news but
during the deer hunting season, Steve
Watts, Alexander County, went hunt-
ing around West Jefferson and killed
a 6-point deer. Hal Fox, Carl Milhol-
land, and Perry Bentley, Alexander
County employees, also went deer
hunting but were not so lucky.

Karen Fox, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Fox, has been chosen by
her classmates as a Senior Superla-
tive. James is maintenance employee
in Alexander County.

David Robinette, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Robinette, (he is an
Alexander County employee), was
awarded two high honors during the
1969 football season. The first was
a trophy awarded to him for out-
standing playing during a football
game against Wilkes Central. The
second and highest honor came to
him at the end of the season when
he was voted "All Conference." He
has been playing football for the past
four years and was a starting-letter-
man-halfback and substitute quarter-
back for the Taylorsville "Bears."

Besides playing football, David is
also a letterman in track and has
played basketball during his high
school years. He is Vice-president of
the Monogram Club and President of
the Botany Club. He is editor of the
school yearbook.

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A view of the Pedestrian Bridge
built for student use at Frank L.
Ashley School, Gastonia, N. C. The
structure spans between 2nd floors
of the school for construction of Gar-
rison Boulevard beneath — a 60-Ft.
arterial highway. Contractor for the
ll/4 million project is the Rea Con-
struction Company, Charlotte, N. C.
Division Engineer is K. E. Mauney,
supervised by Resident Engineer
Walter H. Manley, Division 12.

Another section of Garrison Blvd.
being built in Gastonia, N. C, by
Neal Hawkins, Contractor of that
city. As a part of Gastonia's thorough-
fare plan, this facility, when com-
pleted, is expected to relieve traffic
from Franklin Ave. and downtown
Gastonia. Named for former Highway
Commissioner W. B. Garrison, Gas-
tonia, N. C. Work is under supervision
of K. E. Mauney, Division Engineer
and, at the project level, Walter H.
Manley, Resident Engineer.

( DIVISION ^-7
V THIRTEEN /

We welcome the
following new En-
gineering Aides to
Ken Rabb's office:
J. H. Hamlin, L.
W. Wells, M. S.
McElroy and B.
E. Gentry.

Mr. J. A. Daves,
Structure Inspec-
tor with Dan Mar-
Dh*&» CoSndent tin's construction
office took a vacation recently and
went on a four day fishing trip to
the Florida Keys, where he caught
several King mackerel.

job they did deserves commending
again and again.

We are talking about the employ-
ees of the North Carolina State High-
way Department.

With one of the heaviest snowfalls
in recent years to contend with they
kept the main highways open so that
the flow of traffic hardly stopped
during the entire holiday period.

It was a tremendous job.

As they have done many, many
times through the past years, the
maintenance crews in Macon County
lived up to the reputation of being
the best in the state.

This is a tradition that we join
them in being proud of, and we hope
they continue it through the years
to come.

Once again, "Congratulations and
thanks to all the state highway men
in Macon County." As usual, you
really did a tremendous job.

The Franklin Press

James Ray Head, Eng. Tech. II,
has transferred from the Design De-
partment in Raleigh to Division 12.

Tommy Royster is Engineering
Aide with the Shelby Construction
Party having recently been discharg-
ed from the U. S. Army, serving in
Viet Nam.

Gary Edgar Parker, Highway En-
gineer Trainee, is now working with
the Shelby Construction Party. Mr.
Parker is a graduate of N. C. State
University.

Gary L. Rollins has returned to
work in the Hickory Construction Of-
fice as an Engineering Aide after a
two-year tour of duty with the U. S.
Army, with one year of service in
Viet Nam.

The new face in Right of Way is
Will S. Davis who recently transfer-
red to Shelby from the Wilmington
Office.

This cute little fellow is four
months old Roy Todd Laughter, son
of Lee Roy Laughter, Eng. Tech. 1
in A. L. Neal's office.

The following article appeared in
The Franklin Press, Franklin, N. C.
— Our western counties really had
the snow over the Christmas holidays
and on, and on — It is rewarding to
know that the extra time and hard
work put in by our highway men
does not go unappreciated.

A FINE CHRISTMAS Present.
We have said it before, but the

This picture, taken February 3,
1970, of the rear wheel of a State
Highway pickup, shows that Mother
Nature can create beautiful things
even from such things as the sloppy
mess on the highways which always
results from traffic in partly melted
snow. The truck is assigned to Ben-
nett C. Arvey, Highway Inspector II
in the Murphy Construction office.
If you look closely, you can still see
the Chevrolet emblem in the center
of the wheel.

The Right of
Way Department
was sorry to see
Mark Willis and
Fred Cothern move
away from our
division. Mark
transferred to Di-
vision 13 as Re-
location Adviser

and Fred Cothern
Allyce Cunningham i. f __„ J t t-v-
Division Correspondent transierrea 10 U\-

vision 9. Fred and Carol are living in
Winston-Salem. We hope they will

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like their new assignments. We know
they will miss us.

From our division we have three
young men who have retired. Willie
H. Walker after 21 years of service
with the Highway Commission re-
tired January 1, 1970. His home town
is Columbus, N. C. and has been
working in District 1. John Roy Stal-
cup with 23 years of service retired
January 1, 1970. His home town is
Andrews, N. C. He has been work-
ing in Construction in Polk County.
Garnet Dewey Henson, with 12 years
service, retired January 1, 1970. He
worked in Landscape and lived in
Horse Shoe, N. C. We wish for them
a long and happy retirement.

We wish to extend our deepest
sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. George
Clayton in the death of her father,
Mr. Judd Morgan of Franklin, N. C.
George is Resident Engineer with
offices located in Division 14 office
building.

We received word of the death of
C. L. McGee's father in Lenoir, N.
C.

Altho Lewis is not working with
us any more, Lewis is now Principal
of a school in Cashwell County

The Right of Way Department has
had another transfer recently.
Charles Bumgarner has joined Di-
vision 13 in Asheville. Charlie has
been working on projects over that
way, off and on. We will miss him but
Asheville isn't too far away.

S. T. (Fuzz) Usry, Resident Engi-
neer in Waynesville, has been trans-
ferred to Division 13 in Asheville. He
will handle the US 19-23-NC 191 in-
terchange east of the Smoky Moun-
tain Bridge. Mr. Bob Pless, also a
Resident Engineer in Waynesville,
will take over the construction pre-
viously handled by Mr. Usry.

A welcome addition to the Con-
struction Office in Murphy is Billy
Ray Palmer, Engineering Aide. Billy
Ray is a local resident and in addi-
tion to his job, is enrolled as a
student at Western Carolina Univer-
sity.

Our little town of Sylva made
headlines all over the country during
our water shortage that was very
critical. Even made the Anchorage,
Alaska, paper. It certainly took the
work of our citizens, both night and
day to help us at all and just saying
we appreciate their efforts is mighty
weak compared to what they did.
Believe that we have had the coldest
weather in many a year — For a per-
iod of 60 hours we didn't get above
0 degrees.

The numerous snows this winter
sure have played havoc with golfing
in this area (writes one golf fan,
Harold Thompson) One person was
seen teeing up snowballs (wonder if
that was Harold or Jack Beck). May-
be things will get better "come spring
thaw!"

Gene Davis, Resident Engineer at
Columbus, was host to the Construc-
tion-Division Office Chapter dinner
meeting at the Rustic Kitchen in
Maggie Valley. Although Gene was
out with the flu and could not at-
tend, approximately 30 employees
did get there, and it was a very
successful meeting.

"One of the boys in our office who
was writing about his activities in
his diary asked Fred Langston —
"Fred, if you didn't do anything yes-
terday, what would you write in your
diary?" — Fred thinks this over a
minute and says, "I'd say I accom-
panied Forrest Ponder."

Best Wishes to our Editor — Noted
the change in her name and assumed
she had taken the fatal step into the
sea of matrimony. May all the tur-
bulent waves be small ones and you
and yours can ride the crest for
years of happiness.

The Sylva-Webster Marching Band
was invited to the Mardi Gras in
New Orleans to represent North
Carolina. They will march in the
Greatest Bands in Dixie Contest and
King Rex Parade. In the band are
Randy Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
G. C. Collins; Karen Burrell, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Burrell;
Mike Lyons, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey Lyons and Janet Millsaps,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Millsaps — all these work in the
Equipment Department, and Mary
Sue Clayton, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Clayton. George is
Resident Engineer in Sylva. We
know there is a lot of hard work
involved in just being there and per-
forming, but also know they had a
ball at the Mardi Gras.

FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Robert S. Creef, General Utility,
transferred to the Ferry Department
and is performing the duties of Ra-
dio Operator.

We welcome back Roger Mihovch,
who has been hospitalized recently.

Employees are glad to see Emmitt
Smith back at work after his recent
operation.

There will be a new look to the
ferries from Bogue Sound to Emer-
ald Isle this summer. These are be-
ing "jumboized," and converted to
twin-screw propulsion. Numerous
other minor changes are being made.
Be sure to take a trip this summer.

Seems that a certain party at the
Manns Harbor Shipyard nearly com-
mitted a faux-pas on February 2. He
started outside when the sun tried
to shine. I hope we stopped him in
time.

E. L. Bell seems to be some kind
of water lover. He breaks ice 2 inches
thick to take a swim. I'll bet his goose
pimples had goose pimples.

Henry Edens quit smoking. We ad-
mired his fortitude until someone saw
him puffing away. His explanation,
he had quit while he was near us.

I wonder why E. L. Bell's boat
sank.

E. E. Smith has lost his automo-
bile privileges. His son just celebrat-
ed his 16th birthday.

Wonder what certain people at
Hatteras Inlet are doing now that
it's so cold; no shorts, mini's, etc.,
no need for sun shades.

Mr. G. D. Henson, District I, Hen-
dersonville Landscape Department,
who retired December 31, 1969, has
already started relaxing. A retirement
party in his honor was given at the
South Mills River Community Build-
ing. He was presented this reclining
chair by his fellow workers.

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We wonder why Mr. A. L. Mann
has that smile on his face (even
though it's sickly), could be maybe
because they are acquiring a horse
for him to care for.

We sure hope that they will soon
build a private clam and scallop
buster for the sea gulls. Their use of
the highway for a dining room has
us already in next year's budget for
tires. Maybe the Air Force could use
them as bombardiers. It is possible
that their accuracy would make the
service personnel jealous.

GET WELL WISHES ARE
EXTENDED TO:

Mrs. Marie Nelson, wife of Willie
Nelson, Jr., Clerk in the Morehead
City Ferry Office, Mrs. Nelson re-
cently underwent surgery at the Car-
teret General Hospital in Morehead
City.

Mrs. J. A. Salter, wife of James
A. Salter, Ferry Engineer at Bogue
Sound, who recently fell and broke
her shoulder and arm.

Mr. Fred Barnhill, Chief Engineer
aboard the Southport-Ft. Fisher Fer-
ry, who is a patient in the Marine
Hospital, Norfolk, Va.

A. W. Cutler, Port Captain at the
Pamlico River Ferry Operation who
has been fighting the flu bug.

Mrs. J. M. Miller, wife of J. M.
Miller, Ferry Pilot aboard the fer-
ry "Beaufort" at Pamlico River Op-
eration. Mrs. Miller is suffering from
a sprained back.

Mr. Roy Merrill, Ferry Pilot, at
Bogue Sound, who recently had to
undergo surgery at the Cherry Point
hospital.

Mr. Robie Salter, Ferry Engineer
at Bogue Sound, who is recuperating
at home after undergoing surgery at
the Sea Level Hospital.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. and
Mrs. B. L. O'Neal in the recent
death of Mrs. O'Neal's father, Mr.
Needham Simpson. Mr. O'Neal is
Highway Office Manager at the
Morehead City Ferry Office.

Many of our ferry employees have
recently taken vacations to various
cities and states:

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Glynn, of
Hatteras vacationed in Washington,
D. C. Mr. Glynn is Port Captain at
Hatteras Inlet.

Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Miller vaca-
tioned in Florida. Mr. Miller is Fer-
ry Pilot at Hatteras Inlet.

Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Hines vaca-
tioned in Florida. Mr. Hines is a
radio operator at the Manns Harbor
Shipyard.

Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Fuller and
family vacationed in Raleigh and
Pollocksville, N. C, and Norfolk, Va.
really putting their new Buick Elec-
tra to the test. Mr. Fuller is Ferry
Superintendent at Hatteras Inlet.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Willis vaca-
tioned in Florida. Mr. Willis is Port
Captain at Bogue Sound Ferry Op-
eration.

Jo Ann Salter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Thurman Salter, Beaufort, N.
C, recently graduated from Camp-
bell College and is now teaching Bus-
iness Education at West Carteret
Consolidated High School. Mr. Salter
is Port Captain at the Bogue Sound
Ferry Operations.

JoAnn Salter

Ring - Ring . . . Giggle, Giggle

Ring-ring

"Highway Commission, Mrs. Williams speaking."

"Yes, Miss Phelps, I'll be glad to read a ferry schedule to you."

"I'm sorry. Miss Phelps, that must be a privately owned ferry; I've never
heard of it."

'Oh, you are sure there is a State Owned Ferry there?"

"Would you repeat the names of the towns again, please?"

"O.K., Hold on, I'll check with my Boss, Mr. Arch Laney."

"No, Miss Phelps, he has never heard of those places either. And neither
has Mr. Taylor, who is in charge of maps. Maybe you could give me the
County in which they are located."

"Oh, now we are getting some place . . . You think the ferry crosses the
PAMLICO RIVER? It leaves the South Shore at (giggle-giggle) and (giggle-
giggle) I'm so sorry, Miss Phelps, may I please mail this (giggle-giggle) ferry
schedule to you? (giggle)"

* * *

Miss Pat Phelps
P. O. Box 3036
Raleigh, N. C. 27602
Dear Miss Phelps:

I have finally recovered from my case of hysterics enough to send you
the ferry schedule which you requested.

I must admit you had me in a tizzy trying to find information on the two
places you mentioned when you called. If you hadn't remembered, finally, that
the ferry was located on the PAMLICO RIVER, I might still be looking.

Please observe the schedule carefuly and you will notice the towns you
mentioned to me are Gaylord's Bay and Hudle's Cut not GALLOWAY'S BAY
AND HUNTER'S GUTS.

Yours very truly,

Janie Williams (Receptionist)

N. C. State Highway Commission

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Letters We Liked

Dear Mr. Faircloth:

Your very helpful letter of Octo-
ber regarding district signs was pre-
sented to the Board of Commission-
ers at a recent meeting, and I was
directed to advise you of the great
appreciation of the Board for your
aid in this matter.

Thanking you, and with highest
regards and best wishes, I am,

Yours very truly,

Ben O. Jones, Clerk

Board of Commissioners for the

County of Craven

New Bern, N. C.

Dear Sir:

Have been wanting to thank you
and express my appreciaton for the
outstanding job your highway divi-
sion did during the stormy period. I
drive from my home in Pittsboro to
my job in Raleigh every day.

David Dionne

Manager, K-Mart Shoe Department
Raleigh, N. C.

Dear Governor Scott:

A few months ago the State High-
way Commission began to resurface
and widen N. C. 41 (west) between
Wallace and Harrells. Needless to
say the road was really in a mess
and has been for sometime. It is now
finished and it really is a nice road.
We also have a new bridge over
Rockfish Creek which we are en-
joying so much.

Mr. Clarence Whaley from Ke-
nansville, N. C. really went out of his
way to help us and the other people
in the community. Mr. Whaley is
the finest and most helpful person
that we have ever met that works
for the Highway Commission. The
State of North Carolina needs more
people like he is, a man who is will-
ing to help the people.

Any time we may be of any help
to you let us know.

Thanking you for the nice Road
and Bridge . . .

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dixon, Sr.
Wallace, N. C.

Dear Mr. Rose:

It is indeed my pleasure today to
thank you for the very fine job in
working out the Smith Crossroad
bottleneck on the approach to Le-
noir, N. C.

For a number of years this bottle-
neck has been a serious problem, not
only for our city and county, but for
the N. C. State Highway Department.

The traffic layout and the lights
have done the job well, not only for
the convenience of the public, but
it is a beautiful design and network
for the approach to Lenoir.

I hope that you will receive other
letters of praise, although, I realize
the Commission receives all of the
headaches and very few thanks; but
I do want the Commission to know
that our city and county officials and
everyone with whom I have talked
are most appreciative.

Thank you very much for a job
well done.

Yours very truly,

Coit F. Barber

Fairway Supermarket, Inc.

Hudson, N. C.

Dear Sir:

The latter part of October, we
were driving through Carolina, when
I blew a tire beyond repair. I had a
rented car, without tools, and we
were really in bad shape far from any
town.

A car passed me, turned around
and came back. A finer gentleman I
have never seen. He changed my
tire, and would not take any com-
pensation of any nature. He insisted
that it was his line of duty.

You may be assured, I will always
have a great respect for Billy B.
Isom. Also for the State Highway
Commission, who hires a great per-
son like him, and also for the State
of North Carolina.

Yours truly,

Earle J. Collins

Vice-President,

Quinlan and Tyson, Inc.

Glenview, Illinois

Mr. Ben Black

North Carolina State Highway Com-
mission

Maintenance Department
Mt. Pleasant, N. C. 28124

Dear Ben:

My wife and I want to thank you
and your force for the prompt serv-
ice in clearing our road of the snow
and ice the other Monday (January
12th).

We greatly appreciate the efforts
of your department.

Very truly yours,

Warren and Christine Manus

Concord, N. C.

Dear Mr. Black,

We are most grateful for the sand
spread on the drive leading to the
home of Elmer L. Barrier prior to
his funeral. With the falling snow
and some ice on Monday and Tues-
day, it certainly made access to the
home much easier for the approxi-
mately three hundred who called at
the home.

Our most sincere thanks to you
and those who assisted you in this
project.

The Children of Elmer L. Barrier:
Mrs. Virgil Hahn
Mrs. Ray C. Lipe
Mrs. George L. Plott
Marvin W. Barrier

Dear Mr. Black:

I want to express my appreciation
to you, Mr. Love, and all others in
your department who responded to
my urgent plea for help in cleaning
up unsightly spots on my property
near Bethpage Presbyterian Church
off Mooresville Highway on Road
1616 and others including the one
near Buffalo Creek on Old Bethpage
Road. I have struggled for years to
keep this cleaned up myself. But it
had become so heavily abused that
I could not pick up myself all that
heavy litter. I can do just "so much"
without equipment. I have only my
car.

Again, thanking you very much.
Sincerely,

Miss Johnsie L. McKinly
Kannapolis, N. C.

ROADWAYS

MAY-JUNE 1970

A MAGAZINE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

From The Chairman

A recent news release listing the 10 most heavily traveled roads in
North Carolina contains, it seems to me, a forthright argument for
continuing to have a viable, active highway construction program
in the state.

Some of these roads, now carrying 50,000 cars or more each day,
will carry more in the future.

Fortunately, from a highway standpoint, we do not have traffic
volumes here that equal those around such metropolitan centers as
New York and Los Angeles. But that doesn't mean we aren't going
to have problems.

By 1975, it is estimated that there will be 25 per cent more cars
on the nation's highways than there are today. This means that
there will be 120 million motor vehicles operating just five years
from now, and they will travel over a trillion miles a year.

North Carolina will get its share of this heavier volume of traffic.
And if we relax our highway construction efforts, we will not meet
the challenge that this growth situation will surely create.

It is imperative that we get more traffic lanes open to handle these
extra thousands of cars that will appear each year. Many roads that
are two-lane now need to be four-laned to meet the demands, not
only of the future, but of right now.

We must push plans for bypasses of our cities, so that persons who
live in the cities will be able to drive about freely.

We must complete the interstate system.

Faced with these facts and the challenges they present, North
Carolina has no choice, it seems to me, other than to pursue an
ambitious highway construction program in the years ahead.

This is no time to relax our efforts.

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XVI

NUMBER 3
May -June, 1970

PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSION BY THE PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT.

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. MoLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

Commissioners
J. F. (Jeff) Allen
Robert G. Barr
Clifton L. Benson
W. G. Clark, ni
Charles R. Dawkins
Roy D. Dedmon
Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.
Carroll H. Gillam
Novtle C. Hawkins
W. B. (Bill) Joyce
Jack B. Kirksey

CHAIRMAN

W. Frank McCray
E. Gwyn McNeil
Charles K. Maxwell
Joe W. Nowell, Jr.
David R. Parnell
W. T. Phillips
Hugh A. Ragsdale
James M. (Jim) Smith
Lynwood Smith
W. Arthur Tripp
E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Willoughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chef Engineer

Jack Murdock Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Information Officer Arch Laney

Ass't. Public Information Officer Gibson Prather

Information Assistant Edith J. Sed?ert

Administrative Secretary Jewel Adcock

Receptionist Jand3 Williams

Photographer Gordon Deans

Stenographer Linda HrLL

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One

Division Two

Division Three

Division Four

Division Five

Division Six

Division Seven

Division Eight

Division Nine

Division Ten

Division Eleven ...
Division Twelve ...
Division Thirteen
Division Fourteen
Ferry Operations .

Linda Mulder

, Hazel Baker

Irene Hewett

. Margaret Barefoot

Peggy Bright

Ray Autry

Carolyn Graves

Virginia Williamson

Dorothy Phelps

J. W. Jones

Dolores Rogers

Jean Cline

Edna Ramsey

Allyce Cunningham
Robbie Daniels

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO., RALEIGH, N. C.

LETTERS WE LIKED

CONTENTS
FEATURES

Coastal Plains Commission
Proposes Highway System .... 24

Commission Meets
at Charlotte 9

Employees Ask,
Personnel Answers 15

Planning for the Land:

the New Frontier 15

Department of Local Affairs .... 18

Take a North Carolina

Highway To Our State Zoo 20

George Washington

Came by Truck 22

In the Driver's Seat 27

Departments

Letters We Liked 4

Obituaries 7

Freewheelin' 8

Division News 10

N.C.H.C.E.A 11

Headquarters 12

1970 Highway Map of North Caro-
lina. Cover for black and white edi-
tion. FREE. Write SHC at Raleigh,
zip 27611.

FRONT COVER

A Proposed Developmental
Highway System for
Eastern North Carolina.
Story, page 24.

Dear Sir:

Just want to state our appreciation
for the hard surfacing of State Road
1808 near Hamlet and extend our
thanks to Mr. Caddell, Mr. Darden,
Mr. Campbell and Mrs. Betty Thomas
for their patience and understanding
(in response to) our many inquiries
as to the progress and prospects dur-
ing and after the right of way pro-
ceedings.

It is indeed a pleasure to look
forward to another dust-free summer
with the thought that this too is
another small step towards the solu-
tion of air pollution.

Robert L. Withers

P. O. Box 226

Hamlet

Sirs:

I want you to know that the young
lady in your office who is mailing me
two maps (Richmond and Montgom-
ery Counties) today is about the most
delightful person to deal with I've
conferred with lately.

I have some dealings with state and
local government, . . . and it is a joy
and pleasure to even talk to a person
who had an immediate answer and
solution.

Praise God!

R. V. Liles

Liles Insurance Service,

Inc.
Wadesboro
Gentlemen:

I am writing this letter to show my
appreciation of kindness extended to
my husband and me on March 12,
1970, by David Finch.

On March 12, 1970, we were stopped
at a rest area on Route 95 about 30
miles south of Rocky Mount, North
Carolina, when our car would not
start. We were really concerned be-
cause it was already dark and foggy,
and our six month old daughter was
with us.

Mr. Finch . . . drove by and tried
to help get the car started. Finally,
he drove to a service station and told
a mechanic about our situation. The
mechanic helped us get the car going.

Mr. Finch was courteous and kind.
I have encountered many state and
park workers, but, as a rule, he ranks
much higher in thoughtfulness than
most.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Carolyn E. Deavers
Forrestville, Maryland

Dear Mr. Faircloth

I am writing to congratulate your
department for having individuals
connected with it such as the one it
was my pleasure to meet today.

His name is Levi Roberts, who
works out of the White Lake district,
under a supervisor by the name of
Durwood Clark. I had the misfortune
of having a flat tire in the middle of
nowhere, in pouring rain, and Levi
was fortunate enough to be working
close by on equipment. Without any
hesitation, he came to my aid imme-
diately. The help he gave he was
impressive enough, but it was his
attitude of being of some service, plus
his pride in being a member of your
department, that made me write you
this letter. My job in travelling from
one end of our state to the other is in
somewhat of a supervisory capacity,
so I appreciate these qualities in a
man in days when I am sad to see
them slowly ebbing away.

Yours truly,

C. Marvin Kelly

Liberty Life Insurance
Company

Fayette ville

Dear Sirs:

Your highway force came up today
and cleaned the side ditches on the
one highway through our village and
I'm writing to express my sincere
thanks. . . .

Very sincerely
Jesse Christian
Danbury
Dear Mr. Chairman:

I wanted to bring to your attention
an incident which occurred recently
along NC 12 on Hatteras Island in
Dare County. The automobile in which
I was traveling became mired in deep
sand covering an access road leading
onto the highway.

A short time later a highway em-
ployee, known to me only as D. Willis
of the community of Frisco, happened
upon the scene. Mr. Willis offered
help, . . .

If you could convey my appreciation
to Mr. Willis's immediate superiors,
I would be most obliged. I am sure
this incident is not an isolated one,
but I did not want it to go unno-
ticed.

Sincerely,
Howard F. Jones
Administrative Assistant
to Congressman
Nick Galifianakis
4th District

SHC News

Highway Commission Assists Ethiopians

The traditional bond between those who build and main-
tain roads in all parts of the world reached all the way
from Raleigh, N. C, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, several
months ago, when the N. C. Highway Commission sup-
plied that ancient kingdom in Africa with an assortment
of manuals and publications. This came about when W. D.
Coleman, en route to Addis Ababa as a management con-
sultant assigned by the World Bank to assist the Imperial
Ethiopian Highway Authority in reorganizing and mod-
ernizing its program, stopped by the Raleigh office in
quest of materials that would be of help in the manage-
ment assistance program. Coleman first called at the
Public Information office. He was referred to Billy Rose,
who promptly sent out the word to fellow employees, and
by next morning a stack of material about a foot thick
had been rounded up.

Coleman reports that the material was gratefully re-
ceived by Imperial Highway Authority officials and has
proven to be of great assistance in the preparation of
similar material for use in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia's Emperor, His Imperial Majesty Haile Se-
lassie I, has pioneered many programs to modernize his
empire, and in 1951 issued a proclamation establishing a
Highway Authority to administer the nation's highway
maintenance and construction program. Since that date,
rapid strides have been made in improving the highway
program and the Authority is presently undergoing a
complete reorganization in order to cope with the prob-
lems of an expanding system. As in other developing
countries in Africa, Ethiopia is taking advantage of avail-
able aid programs offered by the more affluent nations
of the world and has also obtained substantial loans from
the World Bank. The management assistance program
on which Coleman is working is a requirement of the
World Bank as a protection for their investment.

Coleman is no stranger to highway officials in North
Carolina, having served as city manager of Albemarle
from 1962 through 1967, during which period a number
of joint city-state highway projects were constructed and
the city also contracted with the State to accomplish a

W. D. Coleman presents material from the State
Highway Commission to Ethiopian Imperial Highway
Officials. Left to right: Ato Abeshawl Woldemariam,
General Manager of the Imperial Highway Authority,
Coleman, and Ato Shiffaraw Bizuneh, Chief Engineer,
Imperial Highway Authority.

master highway plan. He joined the consulting firm of
Public Administration Service of Chicago in ear-ly 1968
and has since that time been assigned to projects in
Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Tennessee as well
as accomplishing a twenty month tour for the Government
of Ghana in West Africa. His present assignment in
Ethiopia is expected to continue until some time in 1971.

W. D. Coleman (a native of Virginia where he began a
career in public life as a Civil Engineer with the Virginia
Department of Highways) now claims to be an adopted
Tarheel. He maintains a home in Raleigh and claims a
further kinship with North Carolina's Highway Commis-
sion. His daughter-in-law, Teresa D. Coleman, works in
the Roadway Design Division.

Turkish Bridge Engineers Visit Commission

Turkish Bridge Engineers Ozer Ersoy and Ahmet Unlu
recently spent five weeks in the Bridge Department study-
ing the design and construction procedures for the various
types of bridges we have in North Carolina. They also
visited construction sites and were able to observe first
hand construction methods used here in our state. North
Carolina was the first of four states they will visit in a
six-months training period in the United States. The
purpose of their visit is to use the knowledge gained
during their training period in the states to help solve
some of the problems they have in bridge work in
Turkey.

Left to right, front row: R. E. Noblin, Area Bridge
Construction Engineer, with Turkish Bridge Engineers
Ozer Ersoy and Ahmet Unlu. Back row: S. B. Usry,
Area Bridge Construction Engineer, O. W. Reagan and
N, C. Spivey, Bridge Design Engineers.

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Hubert Gill Wins Naval Recognition

New Radio Show Features SHC

A State Highway Commission employee who is a Naval
Reservist was top student in Naval Signalman's School at
San Diego, California. He was named Seaman Sailor for
the quarter year and was presented the Shivers Award.
Gill's score was the fifth highest in the history of the
school.

Hubert Seaton Gill, III, is an Engineering Technician II
in Division 5 Construction. He joined the Commission in
1966 and he has participated in the Highway Cooperative
Education Program. He holds the Associate Degree in
applied science from W. W. Holding Technical Institute.

Gill goes on active duty with the Navy in September.
He plans to marry Miss Sue Kelly of Garner in June.

These members of Roadway Design recently completed
a 44-hour course in Surveying and Route Location co-
ordinated through the W. W. Holding Technical Institute.
The In-Service Training Course was designed to acquaint
the students with the specifics of surveying as it applies
to the positions in the Roadway Design Department.

Pictured kneeling are Ainsworth Privette and David
Cochran. Standing are Enoch Turner, Arnold Kelly,
George Holland, Tony Aja, Gary Jessup, Jess Sullins (in-
structor), Sam Pippin, Harry Thompson, Joe Tolbert,
George Brown, Bill Betters, Paul Macon, Herman Lan-
caster and Gary Lee.

Arch Laney, Public Information Officer for SHC, plans
to inaugurate a weekly radio program featuring in-depth
interviews with Highway Commission folk on Highway
Commission news.

The first program, beginning on July 13, will probably
feature the Chairman of the Highway Commission, D. M.
Faircloth.

The following radio stations will carry the weekly radio
series: WABZ, Albemarle; WPYB, Benson; WPTL, Can-
ton; WWIT, Canton; WVOE, Chadbourn, WBT, Charlotte;
WSOC, Charlotte; WEGO, Concord; WAAK, Dallas;
WCKB, Dunn; WSSB, Durham; WBLA, Elizabethtown;
WFAG, Farmville; WBBO, Forest City; WGNC, Gas-
tonia; WGBG, Greensboro; WMDE, Greensboro; WOOW,
Greenville; WYNG, Goldsboro; WKJK, Granite Falls;
WKDX, Hamlet; WKVO, Havelock; WHKP, Henderson-
ville; WHKY, Hickory; WIRC, Hickory; WSPF, Hickory;
WHPE, High Point; WMFR, High Point; WNOS, High
Point; WJNC, Jacksonville; WKTE, King; WELS, Kins-
ton; WEWO/WSTS, Laurinburg; WJRI, Lenoir; WKGX,
Lenoir; WLON, Lincolnton; WYRN, Louisburg; WMYN,
Madison; WMNC, Morganton; WPAQ, Mt. Airy; WKRK,
Murphy; WNNC, Newton; WKBC, North Wilkesboro;
WPNC, Plymouth; WRXO, Roxboro; WCAB, Rutherford-
ton; WADA, Shelby; WMPM, Smithfield; WDBM, States-
ville; WMSJ, Sylva; WSTH, Taylorsville ; WJRM, Troy;
WTYN, Tryon; WLSE, Wallace; WHCC, Waynesville;
WKSK, West Jefferson; WGNI, Wilmington; WSJS,
Winston-Salem; in addition WHIP, Mooresville; WLOE,
Eden; WDNC, Durham; WDJS, Mt. Olive; and WMAP,
Monroe.

The Tar Heel delegation to the 13th Highway Users
Transportation Congress in Washington, D. C, April 20-22,
1970, were welcomed to Capitol Hill by Sixth District
Congressman L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro.

Shown in front of the Congressional Hotel with Con-
gressman Preyer are: (1. to r.) — Carl Anderson of Lenoir,
President of the N. C. Motor Carriers Association; Arch
Laney, Public Information Officer, SHC; Charles Russell,
N. C. Farm Bureau; Representative Preyer; Thompson
Greenwood, Chairman of N. C. Highway Users Federation
For Safety and Mobility; Tom Outlaw, Executive Vice-
President, N. C. Motor Carriers Association; Carl Lowen-
dick, Executive Director of the N. C. Petroleum Council;
and L. C. Bruce, Public Relations.

6

Mr. Dillard, on right, is pictured reading congratulatory
cards with Sam Usry who assumed his position.

State Bridge Construction Engineer
L. C. Dillard Retires

Chalking up more than 43 years of service with the
State Highway Commission, Bridge Construction Engineer
L. C. Dillard retired June 1.

He is a native of Spring Hope, and was educated at
NCSU where he received a B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering
in June of 1925. Joining the Highway Commission upon
graduation, he worked as a draftsman and inspector on
bridge construction until March, 1928, when he left to
become a designer-draftsman with the Tennessee Highway
Department.

Mr. Dillard returned to North Carolina and the
Highway Commission in May, 1929, as a bridge designer.
He became Chief Draftsman in April, 1940, and Assistant
to the Bridge Engineer on design and construction in
August, 1949. He was promoted to the position of State
Bridge Construction Engineer in November, 1958.

He is a member of the N. C. Society of Engineers and
the Raleigh Engineers' Club. He served on the Committee
on Bridge Design and Construction of the Southeastern
Association of State Highway Officials, and was chairman
of this committee in 1959. He is also a member of the
committee on Construction Practices-Structures, Highway
Research Board.

He and Mrs. Dillard, the former Nancy Hinton Steel,
were married October 27, 1950, in Wilmington.

OBITUARIES

Assistant Division Engineer Dies

Charles E. Land, Assistant Division Engineer in Divi-
sion 10, died on Wednesday, June 3, 1970, at the age of
51, following a brief illness. Mr. Land enjoyed an ex-
cellent reputation among his co-workers as well as con-
tractors and city officials because of his extraordinary
leadership capabilities. As one fellow worker said, "If I
thought I had the biggest and toughest problem on my
hands, Mr. Land could make me laugh about it and
that made it easier to solve."

Mr. Land joined the Commission in 1949. He came up
through the ranks, and in 1965 was named Assistant Di-
vision Engineer.

(Continued on page 19)

Hughes Leads Construction Safari

On March 17, 1970, at 8:15 A.M., Mr. A. J. Hughes,
Eighth Division Engineer, and Mr. H. H. Jordan, Assistant
Division Engineer, met with the District and Resident
Engineers for the Eighth Division at Troy, North Carolina,
for a trip to Western North Carolina. Making the trip
were District Engineers Richard Siler and Fred Beck;
Assistant District Engineer Bill Campbell and Resident
Engineers Fred Whitesell, Bill Cherkas and Buddy Nelson.

Mr. Hughes, who was the Fourteenth Division Engineer
from 1963 to 1969 before coming to the Eighth Division
at Aberdeen, organized the trip to acquaint Division Eight
Engineers with highway construction methods and
problems experienced in the mountainous regions of North
Carolina.

The party arrived in Landrum, South Carolina, at noon
where they met Bill Ray, Fourteenth Division Engineer,
and Mr. Harold Thompson, Assistant Division Engineer,
for lunch at the Church Restaurant. While at the
restaurant Resident Engineer Gene Davis joined the group.

After a very good lunch, the party proceeded to 1-26
and on to visit grading projects on 1-26 between Columbus
and East Flat Rock. Mr. Ray and Mr. Davis were guides
for the group and, along with Mr. Hughes, contributed
much useful and interesting information concerning the
projects. There was almost a mile of partially graded
roadway here where severe slides and siltation problems
were being encountered. Also on this section was the
beautiful Green River Bridge which is 230 feet high and
is constructed of Corten steel that never needs painting.
The party spent some time inspecting this structure and
then continued on to Waynesville by way of US 64 and
NC 215 through Beach Gap. Along the way, Mr. Hughes
and Mr. Ray conveyed numerous historical facts concerning
construction of these highways. Mr. Ray had to leave the
group at Waynesville that night to fulfill previous
commitments the next day but promised he would rejoin
the group on the following evening.

The next morning, Wednesday, May 18, the party got
an early start for a tour of the recently completed section
of 1-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge. Mr. Hughes is
familiar with all aspects of this construction and many
stops were made to inspect interesting points and
conditions of construction. After returning to Waynesville
for lunch the group proceeded on US 19 to Murphy. As
before, Mr. Hughes related information concerning the
highways such as location, design and construction fea-
tures. At one point the group photographed a dogwood
tree which is said to be 1,150 years old.

Mr. Ray and Mr. Thompson rejoined the group at
Murphy and Resident Engineer Ray Spangler joined the
group for supper at Duke Lodge near Murphy.

The following morning, the group, with Mr. Ray and
Mr. Thompson, continued on US 64 west of Murphy to
the Tennessee line. A portion of this highway is under
four lane construction. The group then back-tracked to the
District Office at Bryson City and departed for home.
Mr. Hughes expressed appreciation to Mr. Ray and Mr.
Thompson for making lodging arrangements and hosting
this construction safari.

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By ARCH LANEY

In our ever-changing times, there are, constantly,
forces at work to change, disrupt, upgrade, downgrade,
and even eliminate various and sundry programs at all
levels. And, as most of you probably know, the highway
program is no exception.

In fact, the program for building and maintaining our
vast highway system, both nationally and on a statewide
basis, comes under as much fire for change and revision
as education, social service or any other.

Right now, volleys are being fired from all quarters —
volleys that would certainly tend to cutback on the much-
needed highway construction.

First, the large oil companies keep hammering away for
the removal of all or part of the two cent additional gas
tax levied by the General Assembly last year. This battle
will be carried into the 1971 General Assembly. The
recent "Fact Sheet" compiled by the Highway Commission
tells the highway construction story in North Carolina
just like it is, with all the facts left in, and shows a
favorable comparison to our neighboring states. (Any
readers desiring copies of the Fact Sheet, should write us,
the Office of Public Information, State Highway Com-
mission, in Raleigh. Your requests will be promptly filled.)

Then on January 29, 1970, Secretary of Transportation
John A. Volpe indicated in a New York Times story that
the Federal Highway Trust Fund, which is the 4-cent fed-
eral tax you pay on each gallon of gasoline, should be
changed to a "national transportation trust fund" that
would be all-encompassing to finance all forms of trans-
portation. When properly translated, this means that we
in North Carolina could be helping to finance a rapid-
transit monorail system in New York. This idea tends to
destroy the concept of the entire system of highways
under Federal Aid as a self-supporting "users" program.

Furthermore, the abolition of trust funds, including the
Federal Highway Trust Fund, has been recommended in
a report by the Congressional Subcommittee on Economy
in Government.

And, finally President Nixon requests that 2.3 cents
per gallon be added to leaded gasoline prices, to sup-
posedly encourage rapid development of lead-free gaso-
line. But he made no bones about the fact that this levy
would bring in an additional $1.6 billion to help balance
the budget. The monies would be earmarked as an "en-
vironmental control tax."

But as Eric Sevareid quipped about the proposed tax:
"Maybe, it will at least cause the major oil companies to
'Get-The-Lead-Out.' "

So your highway system in North Carolina is under
constant attack, but you also have many sincere and
dedicated people working to keep North Carolina's high-
way system second to none. You certainly have, not only
the privilege, but also a clear obligation to write your
elected representatives with your views of the highway
program and any other governmental programs in which
you have a special interest.

* * *

The new 1970 Official North Carolina Highway maps
are receiving compliments galore. And well they should.
Boyce Midgette's crew in the Location Department, which
put the 1970 edition together, have come up with an "easy-to-
read" map side plus mileage distances within the state,
along with blow-ups of city maps of our 10 largest cities.
Virgil Taylor is the master map-maker who somehow
manages to keep up with every minute change in every
road from Manteo to Murphy.

Nancy Allen did the mural-type layout on the picture
side featuring two products of SHC. Gordon Deans de-
serves special kudos for his two great shots of 1-40 at
Pigeon River, and the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge at
Wilmington. Other back cover photos give a cross section
of attractions across the state.

Boyce Midgette passes on the "info" that these beauti-
ful maps cost about 7% cents each. Certainly ... no better
promotion anywhere and the price is right. A. Hoen Com-
pany of Baltimore prints the maps, and in case you won-
der why this is not done in our own state, there is no
company in North Carolina who can offer a competitive
bid.

As if we weren't already, we're now doubly proud of
Mrs. John Wesley (Rachel) Spears. The world's most
gracious secretary, the highly effective "right-arm" to
Chairman Faircloth, Rachel was recently honored as a
"Distinguished Alumna" during annual Alumnae Day
activities at Peace College. The award is given to Peace
alumnae who have honored Peace College by contribu-
tions to home, church, and civic activities.

Here in the Highway Building, her winning smile,
gracious manners, and charm, coupled with natural ef-
ficiency, serve as a morale booster to all.

8

Commission Meets At Charlotte

The commission meeting in its
monthly business session in Charlotte
in the penthouse atop the North
Carolina National Bank Building.

It is more than possible that mem-
bers of the Highway Commission and
their wives, as well as members of the
staff, were a little bit spoiled at the
May meeting- in Charlotte, because
certainly officials of North Carolina's
largest city made every effort to see
that everything was done on the grand
scale.

Under the leadership of business-
man Pat Hall, head of the committee
named by the city and county govern-
ments to arrange the affair, the pro-
gram was one of the most outstanding
in Commission history.

Headquarters were at the Red Car-
pet Inn, but that was merely the
jumping off place as the Charlotte
group provided helicopter flights over
the area, bus trips to see current high-
way construction projects and country
clubs for golf and meals.

This was one of the Commission's
out of town meetings which must be
held in a city other than Raleigh each
year.

This time, Charlotte outdid itself.

Gibson Prather

Host Pat Hall, left, and Charlotte Commissioner Charles
Maxwell flank Highway Chairman Lauch Faircloth at the
Charlotte meeting.

Reporter Rod Cockshutt of Raleigh, foreground, and
Arch Laney, Highway Commission, walk around safely
after a helicopter ride over the Charlotte area. This was a
part of the entertainment provided at the May meeting
of the Highway Commission.

By Executive Order, Governor Rob-
ert Scott created the 17 multi-county
planning regions designated at right.

The March-April issue of ROAD-
WAYS carried an article explaining
the reason for establishing these,
however the map used was not offi-
cially adopted.

9

DIVISION NEWS

Linda Mulder
Division Correspondent

being people, and
ing.

It's summer and
"things" are hap-
pening in Division
One: Employees
working, new ar-
rivals, employees
working, students
graduating, em-
ployees working,
children celebrating
birthdays, employ-
ees working, people
employees work-

Bryan Sawyer is 1 year old.

Birthdays: Bryan Keith Sawyer
celebrated his first birthday on May
15. Bryan is the son of Machine Op-
erator IV and Mrs. Nelson B. Sawyer
of Ahoskie. Michael Alan Stone cele-
brated his second birthday on May 26.
Michael is the grandson of Foreman
II and Mrs. Lee Roy Barrow of
Edenton.

New Arrivals: Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Vann announce the birth of a daugh-
ter, Wendy Carole, on May 13, 1970,
in Roanoke Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie,
North Carolina. Mrs. Vann is a
stenographer in the Right-of-Way De-
partment. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Newton are the proud grandparents
of a baby girl born to their daughter,
Ella, on May 23, 1970.

Graduates: Mr. Leroy Howell Bar-
row and Mrs. Delores Barrow Stone,
son and daughter of Foreman II and
Mrs. Lee Roy Barrow of Edenton
became College Graduates in May.
Leroy received his B.A. Degree from
Southeastern Bible College in Lake-
land, Florida. He majored in Elemen-
tary Education and is currently em-
ployed with the Bertie County School
Board. Delores received her Master's
Degree in Education, with a concen-
tration in Library Science, from the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, North Carolina. She is
currently employed with the D. F.
Walker School in Edenton as Primary
Librarian.

Leroy Barrow

Edward Byrum, son of George By-
rum, Jr., Heavy Duty Truck Driver,
and Doris Newton, daughter of Mr.
R. E. Newton, Shop Foreman, gradu-
ated from Perquimans County High
School May 29, 1970.

Delores Barrow Stone

Vacationing: Mr. C. L. Brewer,
Equipment Superintendent, and Mrs.
Brewer plan to attend the Eastern
Star Convention in Raleigh the week
of June 8. Mrs. Mary W. Cobb, of
the Equipment Office, and her family
began their vacation on June 5.

"Making the Nags Head scene"
early are Clara Holloman, Clerk II in
District II, and Gary Hobbs of Eliza-
beth City, District I. Also "making
the scene" are Mr. and Mrs. James
White. Mrs. White is a stenographer
in the Right-of-Way Department.

Miss Nancy Pritchard, Typist in the
Elizabeth City Construction Depart-
ment, decided to get away from it all
May 7 through May 12, 1970. She
spent several days in New York City.
Nancy is ready to return and tomor-
row couldn't be soon enough.

Mr. James E. Rawls, Engineering
Technician II in District II is sort of
vacationing, but at Summer Camp in
Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Mrs. Annie Horton
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N. C. H. C. E. A. ASSOCIATION

REPORT TO EMPLOYEES
BY OTIS M. BANKS and DAVID W. KING

June 24

UNIT

14

June 25

UNIT

13

June 25

UNIT

20

June 26

UNIT

12

June 30

UNIT

19

July 1

UNIT

11

July 2

UNIT

9

July 8

UNIT

8

July 9

UNIT

10

July 10

UNIT

6

July 14

UNIT

5

July 15

UNIT

4

July 16

UNIT

3

July 17

UNIT

16

July 22

UNIT

1

July 23

UNIT

17

July 24

UNIT

2

July 29

UNIT

18

July 30

UNIT

15

July 31

UNIT

21

August

7 UNIT

ANNUAL UNIT MEETINGS FOR 1970

Heath Lodge, Waynesville
Lake Tahoma Restaurant, Marion
Ham House, Drexel (SDC)
Employee Recreation Building,
Shelby

Travel Host of America, Winston-
Salem (SDC)

VFW Hall, North Wilkesboro
Ketner's, Salisbury
Samarcand Manor
Employee Club House, Monroe
(4:00 P.M.)

Downtowner, Fayetteville
Smith Lake, Durham
Parker's, Wilson
SHC District Shop, Clinton
(Ferry Division), Manson's Oyster
Bar, Morehead City
Perquimans High School, Hertford
(SDC), site not selected at
printing date

Respess Brothers, Greenville
Downtowner, Fayetteville (SDC)
Cardinal Cafeteria, Raleigh
Site not selected at printing date
(SDC)

7 Division Shop, Greensboro

DIVISION RETIREMENT CONFERENCES

These will be held within the Divisions on the same
dates as the Annual Unit Meetings. Morning sessions will
be only for employees age 60 or over and employees
planning to retire this year will meet during the afternoon
s9ssions. We plan to provide complete information on all
phases of the Retirement Program, the Retirement
System, tax matters and Social Security. Representatives
from the Highway Personnel Office, the Retirement
System, and Social Security will present various parts of
the program and be available for questions and answers.

Full information for those planning to retire about their
service records will be available. Mr. Troy Dodson,
Highway Personnel Officer, will provide full information
on these planned meetings through the Division Engineers.

We look forward to these meetings as the first of this
type. The Association has worked for them during the
past several years, so that employees can gain a more
complete knowledge of their own Retirement System.

SILVER ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION

Our 25th annual meeting will convene at the Durham
Hotel and Motel in Durham September 24-26. Arrange-
ments for a full and interesting program that will be
beneficial and enjoyable to all attending are in the works.
We anticipate our largest, most successful, Annual Con-
vention.

Our tentative program for the Convention:

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1970
Registration all day, Hotel Lobby
Committees Meet
Board of Directors Meets
Ladies' Informal Reception
Buffet Dinner
President's Reception

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Business Sessions (entire day)
Committees Report
Resolutions
Ladies' Luncheon
Safety Awards
Address by SHC Chairman
Annual Banquet
Cabaret Dance

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Business Session

Address by Commissioner State Department of Correction
Nomination and Election of Officers; Installation
Selection of Site for 1972 Convention
Memorial Service
Adjournment

Governor Scott and Lt. Governor H. P. Taylor, Jr., will
be special guests at the annual banquet on Friday evening,
along with Congressman Nick Galifianakis and other digni-
taries. The final program arrangements will be completed
at a later date. We plan to have every facility for the
comfort and convenience of our guests and our delegates,
to provide them with worthwhile business sessions for the
consideration of all matters pertaining to our common
welfare, and to provide entertainment that will be long
remembered. Your Association Officers look forward to
this SILVER ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION with pride
and anticipation.

NEW OFFICE QUARTERS

Association officers are now at a new location, still in
the American Legion Building at the corner of New Bern
Avenue and Blount Street in Raleigh, now, we are on the
second floor in Room 32. The telephone number remains
the same, or 834-8112, (Area Code 919). The Post Office
box number remains the same or Number 1625, Raleigh,
Zip Code 27602. Our new quarters are larger and much
more comfortable than the old, where we were too crowded
to work properly. We urge our members and friends to
come by and visit with us to see how our work is carried
on from the Raleigh Headquarters.

Membership reports at press time sound encouraging.
We look forward to a minimum of 10,000 members this
year, an increase over the 9,800 for the current fiscal
year. Every employee needs the Association, and the
Association cannot exist without our employee-members.
Remember, this is YOUR ASSOCIATION, working for
you every hour.

(Continued on page 23)

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Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

PURCHASING—

^Hf^|gf .jjk cently retired. Mr.

^^m/^^Kk : Johnson served for
26 years as Traffic

IfiP " Wm Manager in Pur-

^CmL ^ • ijwW* chasing and will

^Tk^T^^ j be greatly missed

jM^^T '»>' «H- -lust before

'm^ Hl^k partment gave him
a surprise dinner
party at Balentine's Restaurant and
a gift of luggage.

Jo Ann McCabe has returned to
work in Purchasing. Jo Ann's smile
is as bright as her lovely new dia-
mond ring, which she received recent-
ly. She plans to marry Douglas Tart,
who just graduated from East Caro-
lina University.

Sandra Johnson is sporting a sun-
tan after several days of vacation at
Carolina Beach.

New employees in Purchasing:

Andra Slater, secretary to Vance
McDaniel; Robert Marion Cooper, Jr.,
Assistant Purchasing Agent, former-
ly with the Retirement System; and
Cathy Medlin, new secretary in the
department who just graduated from
Peace College.

Congratulations to Raoul Maynard,
who assumed the position of Traffic
Manager.

LOCATION — Department Head
Boyce Midgette and Cartographer Vir-
gil Taylor went to Baltimore the last
of April to edit the new edition of the
1970 State Highway Map.

Lee Gulledge recently transferred
from Winston-Salem to Raleigh to
become a Location Survey Party
Chief.

Welcome to new employee Anne
Ake.

Congratulations to Joe and Carolyn
Johnston, proud parents of new baby
daughter, Jennifer Carol, who ar-
rived May 5. Little Jennifer weighed
in at 7 lb., 5 oz.

Recent vacationists were: Virgil
Taylor, Carter Dodson, Louise High
and Jane Finch. Mr. Taylor toured
Longwood Gardens and Winterthur
Gardens in the Wilmington, Dela-
ware area, Annapolis, Maryland, and
Williamsburg, Virginia. Mr. Dodson
vacationed in Ohio. Louise High en-
joyed a delightful week visiting her
son and family in Memphis, Tennes-
see, and Jane Finch enjoyed an ex-
citing trip to Six Flags Over
Georgia.

MAINTENANCE — Welcome to
Donald Wayne Bailey, new Highway
Engineer in Training.

Mrs. Carolyn Jones spent a delight-
ful vacation the last of May in Day-
tona Beach, Florida, with her hus-
band, Andy.

EQUIPMENT — Co-workers miss
Margaret Warren, who recently re-
signed to devote fulltime to her home
and family. Jean Blinson replaced
Margaret as secretary to R. M. Stan-
berry; and Linda Dor sett, new per-
manent employee, has assumed Jean's
former duties.

Congratulations to Billie and Hen-
ry Lowery, who became the parents
of a son, Clay Burton, May 22.

Mary Jane and Bob MacGillivray
enjoyed a weekend of sun at More-
head in May. Bob is employed with
Vocational Rehabilitation and attend-
ed a staff meeting while there.

Jo Anne Bass has returned to work
from maternity leave. Little baby
daughter, Cynthia Kathleen, is re-
portedly doing fine.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — New
draftsmen are Jessie Clayton and Don
Morton. Jessie is from Roxboro. He
finished Bethel High School and was
a draftsman in the Air Force. He and
his wife and daughter live in Came-
lot. Don is from Durham and was a
former employee of Lewis Clarke and
Associates in Raleigh.

Three new engineering trainees
have joined the Department. Donald
S. Miller is from Hickory and is a
civil engineering graduate at NCSU.
He and his wife and daughter live on
Vick Charles Drive in Raleigh. Law-
rence Gettier is from Charlotte, and
Andy Mills and his family live in
Raleigh.

Jim McCloskey had celebrities vis-
iting him recently. During the Cer-
ebral Palsy Telethon, recently held
in Raleigh, Jim's sister-in-law, Dean-
na Lund and her new husband, Don
Matheson, stars of the TV series,
"Land of the Giants," visited with
the McCloskey family at their home
in Brentwood. Jim is in the Editing
Section.

Connie Wester's son, Chris, is re-
cuperating after having a recent
tonsillectomy and ear operation. Con-
nie is the supervisor of the Drafting
Section.

Photogrammetry held its semi-an-
nual handicap golf tournament at Sip-
pihaw Country Club May 11. Winner
of the first flight was Charles Mc-
Donald. Winner of the second flight

Jeff Winstead, June graduate from
Cary High, is the son of Mrs. Jean
Winstead in the Equipment Depart-
ment, and the late Jack Winstead, who
was employed at the Equipment
Depot.

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was Francis Ledford. The golfers,
guests and other members of the De-
partment were invited to a victory
banquet at the College Inn May 15.
Following the presentation of prizes,
Charlie McDonald announced that he
was a double winner . . . since he is
going to be a proud papa later in the
year.

Leighton Elliott, pilot, attended
National Guard summer training at
Fort Bragg for two weeks in June.

PERSONNEL — Department Head
Troy Dodson recently attended a uni-
versity convention in San Francisco.
On the way out, he stopped in Las
Vegas for a couple of days. While
there, he was entertained by Tom
Jones, Dean Martin and Johnny Car-
son. The Dodsons report a delightful
time.

DIANE UPCHURCH's marriage to
Bobby Bridges was solemnized on June
7, 1970, in the Christian Missionary
Alliance Church in Raleigh. Diane is
a part-time employee of the Personnel
Department and will be working per-
manently in Personnel after their
return from the mountains. Bobby is
employed by Watson Electric in Ral-
eigh. The couple will make their home
in Raleigh.

Martha Williams has joined Per-
sonnel. Martha is a March, 1970, grad-
uate of Hardbarger's Business Col-
lege.

There have been quite a few birth-
days in the Department recently.
Martha Williams, Joyce Clark and
Cloyce Alford celebrated birthdays
but would not admit their age. Con-
gratulations, folks.

Cloyce Alford and Ted Austin at-
tended a Co-op Conference in Biloxi,
Mississippi in early May. (There
were reports their plane blew in a
tornado.)

Personnel's annual golf tournament
was held May 11. Reports are that the
best team lost due to a technicality.

Joyce Clark and her family spent
several recent weekends at their cot-
tage on the Pamlico River below
Aurora. Joyce should be an expert
skier by the end of summer.

Jim Wofford made a quick flight to
Florida recently when his father had
a heart attack. Employees wish Jim's
father a speedy recovery.

Joyce Clark's husband, Dennis, is
recovering from a minor operation.

Fred Adcock took his family to the
beach for a week's vacation in early
June.

BRIDGE — Several new employees
have joined the Department recently.
Gus Neville is an NCSU graduate,
formerly with Bigger and Agnew.
Greg Walker, after completion of a
two-year training program, has re-
turned to Bridge Design. Greg was
married April 4 to Barbara Ann Walk-
er of Greensboro. Richard Floyd is a
Holding graduate. He and his wife,
Darlene, are natives of Raleigh. Norm
Miller, graduate of Youngstown State
University in Ohio, formerly worked
with Rummel, Klepper and Kahl,
Consultant Engineers. Norm and his
wife, Charlene, live in Cary.

Dale Newton Lee recently received
his "Masters" at NCSU. He lives with
his wife, Allison, and two children on
Duplin Road.

Carl Zacny is back with the Bridge
Department in the Encroachments
Section, after working with the steel
industry for 15 years. He lives with
his family in Cary.

Good luck to Dewey Phillips and
Ken Bridges who recently resigned.
Dewey is now working in Charlotte.
Benton Payne, trainee, went to Ma-
terials and Testing. Harlan Britt's
leaving concluded his employment on
the training program.

Upon the June 1 retirement of L. C.
Dillard, Sam Usry became State
Bridge Construction Engineer. Jim
Walker replaced Mr. Usry as an Area
Bridge Construction Engineer.

John Smith is now a Project Engi-
neer and was replaced by Bill Rogers
as a squad leader.

Hasan Judeh graduated from Hold-
ing Institute after recent completion
of some courses there.

Pat Strong in Final Estimates was
married March 28 to Sonia Sawyer
of Kinston.

Bridge Design boasts of five new
arrivals in the "safety pin" division:

Chuck and Sandy Cato welcomed a
very important addition to their fam-
ily March 16. That's when little son,
Robert Marion, arrived, The, Catoes
have two daughters.

Tim and Bobbie Harward are proud
of their baby daughter, Christy
Faith, born March 17.

Mary and Beth Broome are equally
proud of their son, William Gary,
born May 5.

Tommy and Doni Clegg boast of
"two at a time." Their twin daugh-
ters, Ashley Paige and Traci Michele,
were born May 10, "Mother's Day."

John and Frosty Ledbetter, accom-
panied by another couple, vacationed
in New York City and visited
friends in Connecticut. They enjoyed
the plays "Coco" and "Butterflies Are
Free," toured art museums and
were impressed by the J. P. Morgan
Library with its rare books and
paintings.

Sympathy is extended to Bill Rog-
ers, whose father died March 28. Mr.
Rogers was Bridge Maintenance Fore-
man for Jackson and Swain counties.

Governor Scott proclaimed April
23-30 as Beta Sigma Phi Week in
North Carolina. There to receive the
proclamation from the Highway Com-
mission were Ruth Curlee, Method
Maintenance Office; Judy Martin,
Finance Department; and Barbara
Stussie, Personnel Department. Beta
Sigma Phi is an international social,
cultural and service sorority repre-
sented by eight chapters in Raleigh.

Jack Murdock, Secondary Roads
Officer, spoke for the State Highway
Commission at a Fayetteville Kiwanis
Club meeting. Left to right: Murdock
and Claude I. Burkhead and Bill Ju-
lian of Fayetteville.

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Sympathy is also extended to Sarah
Disney, whose father died March 1.

Bill Rogers' Squad No. 5 had their
annual picnic at Greenbrier Park May
28. The 25 members present enjoyed
hamburgers and hot dogs, cooked by
"Chef" Craig Martin, and ice cream
and good fellowship.

Bill Langston, Royce Kirby and Art
Noble went on a three-day fishing
trip to Nags Head and stayed at
Art's cottage. They reeled in 80 the
first day and 95 the second, catching
a few crabs on the side.

A picture of Jim Wilder hitching
John R. Parker's light utility rig to
his compact wagon was featured in
the April "Wildlife in North Caro-
lina" magazine. The two men were on
a fishing trip and the article by
Parker was on types and operation
of hitches.

The Bridge "boys" took off again
May 15 for a weekend at Landis
Temple's cottage at Ocean Isle. Those
going, in addition to the host, were
J. L. Norris, Arnold Moore, Guy Al-
ford, Charlie King, Gerald White,
Worth Bailey, Bobby Powell, George
Phillips, John Smith and Chuck Cato.
The reports were that they all be-
haved, or maybe they just aren't
talking.

Standing beside his new Piper TrL
Pacer Carribean airplane is Allen
Long of Bridge Design who has been
flying since the age of 19. This is his
13th plane.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE — Wel-
come back to Rita Reavis. Rita is
taking a break from East Carolina to
work for the summer with Bridge
Maintenance again.

Now that warm weather has final-
ly arrived, Mack Underwood can be
found practicing for the Highway
Golf Tournament.

Warm weather also means one can
find the Jimmy D. Lee and the Max
Collins families at Breezy Point swim-
ming, sailing and eating.

Sympathy is expressed to Mrs. Sue
Freeman and her family upon the
recent death of her father.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of Fred R. Sturges who recently pass-
ed away.

Employees extend sympathy also to
the families of I. A. Willis and J. W.
Adaway who were killed recently on
an on-job accident in Gaston County
on 1-85.

It's good to hear that W. C. Good-
rich is doing much better since a re-
cent illness.

Get well wishes to Kenneth Goode
and J. D. Henderson, who were re-
cently injured on 1-85 in Gaston
County.

This is farewell to the Highway
Building from the Bridge Mainten-
ance Department. As of July 1, 1970,
they will be at 1330 St. Mary's
Street on the fourth floor.

Teddy Branch

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Branch. Kay Branch is on the office
staff of Bridge Maintenance.

REPRODUCTION — Cupid has
struck two employees in the Depart-
ment. Woodie Ragan will marry Miss
Deborah Britt, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Britt of Route 3, Ra-
leigh, on July 12. Chip (Charles)
Watkins wed Miss Ruby Leigh Denton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Denton
of Zebulon, June 7.

Larry Watt has taken up water
skiing along with E. G. Eakes, Woodie
Ragan, Glen Jones and Claude Sugg.
The boys enjoyed the May 10 holiday
at Kerr Lake, and believe it or not,
they didn't fish at all. The crew said
Glen really "digs" the ski-board.

Garland Johnson has started wear-
ing neckties since he eats lunch with
his wife every day.

Paul Pearson went fishing at Lake
Marion in South Carolina for two
days. Reports are Paul and his crew
had very poor luck.

Charles Lassiter is not doing too
much fishing these days. He says they
just aren't biting.

Henry Hailey was blessed with a
new addition to his family, a son,
born April 1. Just a little later, Henry
came out with a new 1970 auto and
everyone is wondering what will be
new next time.

Ben Garner is still running rabbits
with help from the young hounds
(Beagles). Somebody should tell Ben
that rabbit season is out.

Vernon Branch missed a new car
by $1.38. Better luck next time,
Vernon.

Joe Sanders is playing softball
again after an operation in April.
However, the boys just can't get Joe
to tell them the scores.

Joan Creekmore and Betty Carter
spent a weekend in April at Atlantic
Beach.

Billy Stephenson is growing wa-
termelons again. Maybe he'll bring
in some samples.

Johnny Stancil and Larry Watt are
partners in a garden, and from all
reports, vegetables will be plentiful
soon.

Wallace Jones is camping frequent-
ly this time of the year at Kerr Lake.

The boys say that when Larry Liles
has trouble starting his auto, he just
calls on his wife to fix it.

Claude Sugg is happy that his old-
est son, Richard, has returned from
Vietnam and has completed his serv-
ice obligation. Also, his youngest son,
David, graduated from Enloe High
School and plans to attend Methodist
College in Fayetteville this fall. Con-
gratulations, boys.

Welcome to new employees Curtis
Satterfield and Fred Benton.

LANDSCAPE— Tony Hawley has
transferred to Charlotte.

Sympathy is extended to the family
of H. A. Coggins, former Division
Landscape Supervisor at Sylva, who
died recently.

Phyllis Suggs and her family are
really enjoying their weekends in
their trailer at Bogue Inlet.

Frank Bowen took his family to
the coast for a nice weekend re-
cently.

In attendance at R. W. SnelPs re-
tirement dinner were Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. (Doc) McMichael. Mr. Mc-
Michael is retired Area Landscape
Supervisor. Also, J. R. (Dick) Felton
was present. Mrs. Felton is retired
Area Landscape Supervisor from
Ahoskie.

(Continued on page 28)

Employees Ask, Personnel Answers

Planning For The Land

Q. I am a permanent, full-time employee with the SHC
subject to the Personnel Act. I have been with the SHC
for fifteen years, paid at the maximum annual rate of my
classification for the last three. AM I ELIGIBLE FOR
LONGEVITY PAY?

A. Since you have served the last three years of
employment at the maximum salary for your classification
(or if you had served at a salary less than one longevity
step above the maximum) as a permanent, full-time
employee subject to the Personnel Act, you are eligible
to be recommended for longevity pay.

Q. Can annual leave be used as petty leave?

A. Yes. Upon approval of your department head, you
can transfer annual leave in units of one-half day to your
petty leave account if you have exhausted that.

Q. Can I transfer sick leave to annual leave ?

A. No, because sick leave is non-transferable to any
other type of leave.

Q. If there is a death in my immediate family can I
use sick leave?

A. Yes, you may use three days for this purpose.

Q. Do I earn leave on a regular basis while on
Workmen's Compensation?

A. Yes. For a period not to exceed twelve months.

Q. Why can't more employees receive merit increments
during the year?

A. At the beginning of each fiscal year, only two-
thirds of the amount of money required to cover all merit
increments for that year can be requested.

Q. I have been called for jury duty. Must I take annua]
leave to fulfill my obligation?

A. No. You are entitled to leave with pay. You are
also entitled to any fees you receive for jury duty.

Q. Are tuition refunds available?

A. Yes. Submit your "Request for Educational Leave"
form asking for a tuition refund. If the head of your
department recommends your request, it will be sent to
the State Personnel Department. Note that the Personnel
Policy is to grant refunds for career-related study with
preference given to those with total family income under
$7,000. $50 is the maximum you can receive for tuition
and books per academic period.

Q. Are trainees on the Civil Engineering, Civil Tech-
nology, and Cooperative Education Training Programs
considered permanent employees?

A. Yes. Trainees receive the employee-benefits of a
permanent employee.

Q. What is the Cooperative Educational program?

A. The cooperative educational program is designed
to alternate between course-related work at a technical
institute or university and employment with the SHC.
A student will gain valuable work experience and earn a
considerable portion of his educational expenses.

Q. What are the entrance requirements for the Cooper-
ative Educational programs?

A. An individual must apply and be accepted by one
of these four institutions: Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
N. C. State University, W. W. Holding Technical Institute,
or Fayetteville Technical Institute. Then he can apply for
the Cooperative Educational program.

Q. Are draft deferments available for Highway em-
ployees ?

A. The answer is no.

The New Frontier

By WAYNE MAYNARD

Recently senior landscape design students at N. C.
State University reviewed four planning procedures for
evaluating land use potential. Recreation planning in
Carteret County was the purpose of the project.

The intent of the project, however, was to allow the
students to evaluate the relative merits of four special
planning procedures. Each procedure we used, however,
had an essential ingredient: to honor areas with intangible
or non-economic values such as historic sites or unique
ecologies.

As a study area, Carteret County offered unique oppor-
tunities. It is part of the Coastal Plains Planning Region
with the development of recreation and tourism activity as
a high priority planning objective. Cape Lookout National
Seashore is soon to be established there. Estaurine areas,
the breeding grounds for fishes and shellfish, are showing
the signs of damage caused by population increase and
development. Also Carteret County is a county with great
visual beauty.

Each of the four procedures required the mapping of
data considered relevant to the location of recreation
activities with the range of activities extending from
swimming and picnicking to second homes and urban
recreation. Basic to all our procedures was the premise
that best locations for these activities were being sought,
not best possible uses for each piece of land.

All the procedures use an overlay of transparent sheets
to graphically determine site choice location. This process
requires that site choice factors, such as vegetation, soils,
ecosystems, accessibility, existing land use, be mapped
for their relative suitability for the land use being con-
sidered.

For instance, the presence and quality of vegetation,
suitability of soils for structures and on-site sewage
treatment, ability of ecosystems to sustain development,
nearness to major roads, and quality and type of existing
land use, all relate to site selection for camping, second
homes, and resort complexes.

The next step is to overlay these factors to find what
the combined effect is on site choice. Therefore, a site
having high accessibility and attractiveness for second
home development may receive a low ranking because of
low ecological or septic tank suitability. Or suitability
may be high while accessibility may cause a low priority
ranking. An obvious criticism of this procedure is that
these factors may not be of equal importance or may be
dependent on certain economic variables such as intro-
ducing improved access or sewage treatment plants. How-
ever, the factors can be weighted for their relative im-
portance and development cost can be included to define a
range of acceptable sites. To use the process requires the
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Carteret
County

Composite map comes from single-factor maps on transparent overlays (left).
Dark areas are least suited for recreation development.

experience and background necessary to make valid judg-
ments about land use factors and also an ability to re-
consider previous decisions when new data such as land
availability or changing social patterns becomes available.

Two of the land planning approaches were based on
studies done by Philip H. Lewis, Jr., and Ian L. McHarg.
The third was based on a project carried out under the
direction of Richard R. Wilkinson, who is currently head
of Landscape Architecture Studies at N.C.S.U., and the
last procedure is based on a filter map method developed
with the aid of Professor W. P. Dinsmoor White.

Both Lewis and McHarg have been leaders in the de-
velopment of land planning methods that emphasize the
consideration of visual landscape quality and ecological
limitations on development. Ian McHarg has been out-
spoken for years on the subject of environmental quality
and he has warned about the needless destruction of our
American landscape. As growth and prosperity occur,
physical change in our surroundings is inevitable, but an
overall planning approach can lead to locational choices
that do not initiate self-destructive processes.

Ian McHarg, in his studies, stresses the importance of
social value as opposed to economic value. His studies
show that the social value of these unique visual and
ecological areas is disregarded only by short range eco-
nomic interests, but that the proper development of these
areas generally contributes greatly to long range economic
interests.

Each of these contrasting criteria, visual quality and
ecological limitations, have been, in the past, little con-
sidered in land planning processes. But they are essential
for a new kind of stewardship of the land. Accelerated
growth in the form of highways, residences, industry,
and recreation facilities are demanding an equal right to
each piece of land that remains within urban environs and
with the increase of leisure time with pay, those environs
are extending to every wilderness in America.

The advent of urbanization over large areas of land is
magnifying the problems. The increased complexity re-
quires an extension of man's eyes and knowledge through
maps and recorded facts. In the case of ecological data,
much basic locational and qualitative information is lack-
ing. As for visual data, it was found that it takes a large
amount of labor and subjective judgment to map it. This,
however, does not minimize the need for these data in
the planning process.

With the advent of computer-stored data and visual
mapping programs, it is possible to record, recall, and
analyze large quantities of data quickly and accurately.
To make maximum use of this high speed aid requires
the storage on electronic discs of immediately available
facts, the gathering of facts not currently available, the
objectifying of subjective data, and the development of
planning processes that can make use of it. (This activity
is currently going on in the Department of Landscape
Architecture, School of Design, in the hope that future
land development has the best possible opportunity to
produce a visually attractive and useful environment.)

The comparative evaluation of these four procedures
indicated that each could adapt and gain something from
the other, and that all of them need a more objective
basis for making qualitative judgments. However, they
all commonly demand that a land use ethic be followed
which values ecological and visual attributes, and pro-
vides a means to assess land use priorities in light of
changing social contexts.

Change and increasing urbanization are inevitable and
it is now a question of where it will occur least and last.

(Students participating in the Carteret County Project
were: Guy Angster, Robert Ballou, Larry Best, Robert
Covington, Brad Davis, Larry Deese, Joseph Hill, Ken-
neth Martin, Richard Paton, Henry Pope, Jr., Samuel
Reynolds, and Alexander Vane under the supervision of
Professor Wayne Maynard.)

17

New Agency In State Government

Department of Local Affairs

By SYLVIA ROBERTSON

There's an old adage that campaign promises are made to be broken. It's one
that North Carolina's Governor Bob Scott obviously doesn't believe.

He campaigned on a platform that would bring the Government of this
State back to the people. New directions within the State Highway Department
and creation of the Department of Local Affairs are just two examples of
promises kept.

The State Highway Commission has been enlarged to include more localized
representation. By enlarging the commission to 23 members, area commissioners
are able to be closer to the people, and to be more responsive to their wishes.

North Carolina's greatest resource is its people. The Department of Local
Affairs, under the direction of G. Irvin Aldridge, is designed to insure North
Carolinians in rural areas and urban centers fair value from their investment
in North Carolina.

It is a major attempt to bring State government back to the people.

"We will strive to make this a department which will respond to the needs
of local people. We will establish a partnership between state and local
government in North Carolina and, by so doing, will establish a true local-state-
federal partnership," said Aldridge.

The Department provides technical know-how, planning assistance and other
services necessary to establish this partnership. There are five divisions within
the organization: community planning, law and order, human resources,
recreation and governmental relations.

This is the first time North Carolinians have had a central department to
direct them toward solutions of their local problems by providing technical
assistance in obtaining financial assistance and advance planning for total
community development.

Within the Department of Local Affairs, the Division of Human Resources
is the central reference point of information related to "anti-poverty" programs
in North Carolina. Federal poverty programs and pilot programs for idea-
oriented social and economic improvements are implemented.

North Carolina was first in the nation to recognize the need for State
government recreation services. It created the State Recreation Commission
in 1945.

The Division of Recreation, an outgrowth of that 1945 commission, is
designed to aid communities in the development of recreation complexes
through governmental, private, and commercial resources.

The Division of Community Planning assists local planning boards in the
smaller North Carolina cities (cities with 50,000 population and less) in their
efforts to study existing conditions in their communities and to prepare plans
that show the way to logical, orderly and economical development.

The Division provides base maps, recommends necessary ordinances, makes
surveys and does research designed to devise community development plans.

The Division of Law and Order involves the entire scope of criminal iustice
in North Carolina. It administers Federal funds allocated through the 1968
Omnibus Crime Bill.

It has already allocated over $4.5 million for the improvement of law
enforcement in this State. Junior police and sheriffs' leagues have been funded.
The first consolidated jail will be built by the Eastern counties through these
funds.

North Carolina is a national showcase for the Model Cities program. The
Department of Local Affairs operates the State's technical assistance programs
for Model Cities. North Carolina is one of the four states in the Nation which
has federal funds for this assistance program.

The State's housing programs are operated through the Department.

In the past year, HUD has approved $218 million for low income housing.

All housing efforts, however, are not being centered around the cities. Some
$40 million will be channeled into low income housing during the year in
cooperation with 48 local housing authorities in 53 areas across the State.

A staff of housing specialists works
with local governmental units to up-
grade housing conditions across the
State.

Brand new in the State, is the Di-
vision of Governmental Relations. A
computerized inventory of all available
Federal, State and private funds and
services is contemplated.

It is establishing a continuing as-
sistance program to aid communities
in the development of local projects.
Research technicians and field repre-
sentatives are available.

Mrs. Marsha Wilson and Mrs. Bar-
bara Cantrell arrive for work at 310
North Blount Street, headquarters for
the Department of Local Affairs.

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Governor Scott and Irving Aldridge meet with local government officials
to discuss Operation Breakthrough. (Scott stands to right of center, Aldridge to
left of center.)

Upstairs is the Division of Governmental Relations. In conference, left to
right, reviewing yesterday's conference and preparing for tomorrow's action
are Harry DeVanney, Chief of Program Planning for the Bureau of Elementary
and Secondary Education of the U. S. Office of Education from Washington,
D. C, Robert Hayward, Assistant to Associate Administrator of Environmental
Health Services of the Public Health Service, also from Washington, Susan
Hardy with the Local Affairs staff, and Sam Geek, Office of Program
Coordination of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Region 3,
Charlottesville, N. C.

This Division will act as a clear-
inghouse of information; it will chan-
nel community requests to the most
likely source of aid, and keep local
governing bodies abreast of the latest
funds and services available from
public and private sources.

The Department of Local Affairs is
just beginning its program of serv-
ices. It is the one place in State gov-
ernment where North Carolinians can

go with a problem and solicit assis-
tance. If the Department cannot solve
the problem itself, the staff will aid
in finding other sources.

The Department of Local Affairs
is the public's door to State govern-
ment and it is always open.

(Sylvia Robertson is Public Infor-
mation Officer for the Department of
Local Affairs.)

OBITUARIES

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He was a 1940 graduate of N. C.
State University in Civil Engineer-
ing. He belonged to the N. C. Society
of Engineers and to several civic or-
ganizations. He was also a member
of the State Highway Association for
employees.

Funeral services were held at the
First Presbyterian Church in Albe-
marle and graveside services were
held in Chadbourn where he was bur-
ied.

He is survived by his wife, Marga-
ret Lewis Land, one daughter, Nancy
Jean of Greensboro, and one son Ro-
bert Lewis, who is serving in the
Navy.

HEADQUARTERS

Mr. Clyde L. Smith, Concrete En-
gineer, with 43 years of service, died
on February 1, 1970.

Miss Flora McDonald, secretary to
James S. Burch, head of the Planning
and Research Department, died on
Friday, March 13, 1970.

DIVISION 4

Jesse William Hall, Highway In-
spector II, died on February 17 after
14 years of service with the Commis-
sion.

DIVISION 6

H. Marvin Townsend, 55, Mechan-
ic II, Lumberton, N. C, died Febru-
ary 10, 1970.

Wade Cornell Owen, 66, retired
Mechanic Foreman I, Fayetteville,
died May 8, 1970.

Exum D. Lanier, 63, died May 13,
1970. He was a Machine Operator IV
in Harnett County and he had been
employed by the Highway Commis-
sion for 25 years.

Preston A. Coleman, 52, died May
14, 1970. Mr. Coleman was a Sign
Erector with the Traffic Services De-
partment in Cumberland County and
had been with the Commission for 30
years. He was a veteran of World
War II.

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19

Take A North Carolina Highway To Our State Zoo

By NORWOOD POPE

Hopefully within the next very few years some five
million Tarheels and three times that many tourists will
have the pleasant opportunity to travel North Carolina
highways to a large, well-planned State zoo within our
own borders.

A special State Zoo Authority is diligently working
towards providing this educational, recreational facility
somewhere in North Carolina, providing millions of
people with a unique chance to view a wide variety of
animals in natural habitats enhanced by beautifully-
landscaped grounds. The Authority, and its predecessor,
the North Carolina Zoological Garden Study Commission,
have been at the task of developing a zoo that can become
world-renowned.

Currently, there is no State Zoo in the United States
although there are hundreds of private and municipally-
owned zoo facilities. Further, more people attend zoos
than attend all college and professional athletic events
in the country each year. In fact, there is probably no
other attraction in the entire world so compelling to
people of all ages and descriptions as a really good zoo.
Attendance figures bear this out year after year.

North Carolinians must travel to see exotic species
(and some rather common North American species for
that matter) since no major zoo lies within our State or
the two States to the North and South. The closest zoos
of any prominence are the National Zoo in Washington,
D. C, the Atlanta Zoo and the Overton Park Zoo in Mem-
phis. While all of these have some excellent species and
interesting exhibits, none is termed by experts as a really
modern zoo by today's standards.

In the modern, contemporary zoo where ecology is
practiced and the well-being of animals is primary, there
are no bars or fences or cages except in rare situations.
Prey and predator are shown in natural surroundings as
if they were in the wilds of their native area and are
separated by ingenious use of wet or dry moats, natural
barriers or unusual landscaping.

This is an African continental grouping.

The modern zoo of today provides for human enjoyment
of the area as well. Vehicular traffic within the exhibit
areas is forbidden, wide paved walkways meander through
the exhibit areas for maximum comfort and viewing, care-
fully planned concession areas greet the visitor periodic-
ally, great expanses of shade trees and blooming flowers
embrace the walkways and hundreds of isolated picnic
areas are spotted throughout the ground. Great buffer
areas surround the zoo, protecting animal and human
from noise, traffic and encroaching impedimenta of civ-
ilization. Every practical anti-pollution device and prac-
tice is used to maintain comfortable, clean and sanitary
conditions within the zoo.

And what is there to see in a really good modern zoo?
Continental groupings of live animals in authentic sur-
roundings of Africa, Asia, South America, North America
and Australia. Special reptile houses or aviaries for free-
flying birds or monkey islands offer dramatic and thor-
oughly enjoyable presentations.

A zoo is never the same two days running, for animals,
like humans, change in character and attitude, as well as

size, shape and disposition. It is planned for the North
Carolina Zoo to offer a large number of family groupings,
showing the infants, the young and the parents in logical
situations, and herd groupings as well, perhaps illustrated
by an entire herd of zebra on a grassy plain.

Although the primary purpose of a zoo is to entertain,
there are many other vital purposes for a good zoo. For
example, conservation of animals is very much needed in
a World where nature is shrinking and civilization is tak-
ing over vast forests and wilds previously inhabited by
animals. Surprisingly, of all animals lost to mankind
through extinction since the days of Christ some 2000
years ago, 50% of them have been lost since 1900!

In a State where education and good roads are always
listed among the priorities, a quality zoological facility
built with education in mind as a major segment of the
park, would be of inestimable value. Static exhibits
featuring zoology displays, classroom instruction for
varying elementary and secondary grade levels with
modern audio-visual equipment readily available, field
trips within the zoo and a center for zoological study and
research for graduate students would be a major step
forward toward providing a unique education opportunity
and experience. This would complement those formidable
schools of life sciences or animal husbandry at N. C.
State University and our medical school at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bowman Gray School of
Medicine affiliated with Wake Forest University in Wins-
ton-Salem and the Duke University Medical School.

Further, many of the technical schools and community
colleges are offering courses in the curriculum which
would produce various technicians who could train in the
zoo in such fields as nutrition, sanitation, veterinary
medicine, biology, horticulture, landscaping, and many,
many more.

And a zoo is indeed for research as a secondary feature.
Pharmaceutical firms provide research grants to zoos for
testing purposes under controlled and human conditions,
paving the way for improving the health of mankind and
the animal kingdom as well. How can a giraffe pump
blood up that long neck and yet have few heart problems?
The answer to that riddle, perhaps to be learned in a zoo
research project, may well be a major medical break-
through towards eliminating heart troubles among hu-
mans. It is in this context, and broader, that zoos play
key roles in man's improved living conditions.

Strangely, psychiatrists reveal that the treatment of the
mentally disturbed is enhanced through research in zoos.
And, the mental patient can find numerous worthwhile
and productive job opportunities in zoos as well. The
blind can enjoy the touch of a baby elephant or the touch
of a small chimp with the same thrill as a sighted person.
The deaf can enjoy watching the animals even though the
sounds are never heard.

Economically a State Zoo would mean much to North
Carolina. Obviously in a State such as ours where tour-
ism is our second largest industry we would benefit from
the two million people who would travel on our highways
to visit the zoo. There would be an immediate need for
more motels and hotels, restaurants and service stations in
the area of the zoo. Of course, at the outset, in the con-
struction period, there would be a need for all types of
contractors, building and equipment suppliers, laborers of
every type and vendors of diverse descriptions. And a
continuing improvement, expansion and maintenance pro-
gram would necessitate the need for many services sup-
plied locally.

The elephant takes a stroll at the Milwaukee Zoo.

(Photographs, courtesy of the Milwaukee Zoo, Mil-
waukee, Wisconsin.)

North Carolina produces more peanuts than any other
part of the World and both animal and man love peanuts
in zoos. One of the staple foods for primates such as
gorillas and other monkey-like animals is raw sweet po-
tatoes, which North Carolina produces in abundance. And
there is a great need in the zoo for tons of vegetables
and fruits and grains constantly. Trucks are needed to
transport these commodities into the zoo which gives fur-
ther business to shippers, both surface and rail.

The North Carolina Zoo would provide permanent jobs
the year round for perhaps 130 people with an additional
100 or more needed during summer months. School teach-
ers find employment in zoos as guides or research assist-
ants or to do work on graduate degrees. In short, the
economics of a zoo is well-known and substantial.

Today when the family seeks recreation and entertain-
ment that excites every member of the group, that is clean
and wholesome, that provides education as well and that
is inexpensive, the opportunities are few. But with a
major zoo, there would be no problem for an outing packed
with fun at a price virtually all could afford.

Where this zoo will be located is yet to be determined,
but it will be located on or near major highways, near
population centers where North Carolinians from all 100
counties can easily reach it. And certainly there will be a
large paved parking area especially for those school and
activity buses that transport the million school kids to
exciting and interesting places within our borders.

If every North Carolinian gave $1.00, Phase One of the
zoo could be built and the doors would be opened within
18 months. Obviously, this method of raising money is im-
practical and other methods must be found and used suc-
cessfully. Naturally, the State has provided a small start-
up budget but more State involvement is required if a
really good zoo is to be a reality.

The giant step forward has been taken. A zoo is waiting
for North Carolina. Time and interest on the part of Tar
Heels everywhere will tell just when we have our zoo.

u

George Washington Came By Truck

Back in 1821, some North Carolin-
ians, eager to express their love for
their Country and their pride in their
State, as well as their post-Revolu-
tionary enthusiasm, finally succeeded
in acquiring what they considered to
be a beautiful statue of the father of
our Country, George Washington. The
statue was created by Antonio Ca-
nova, Italian sculptor, (born 1757,
died 1822). The consultant on the
project was none other than Thomas
Jefferson. Jefferson told the State to
hire Canova, who had an international
reputation, who would do it in "the
Roman Style," or as we call it now,
the neo-classical style.

The statue came by ship to Boston;
the Schooner Mary Ann brought it
to Wilmington. It came by water
transportation to Fayetteville, and
by wagon to the capital at Raleigh.
"The badness of the road and the
weight of the packages rendered it an
arduous task to preserve the statue
and pedestal from injury; . . ." ac-
cording to the newspaper account in
1821.

A fanciful ceremony was held when
the statue arrived. Col. William Polk
was one of the North Carolinians who
spoke out to convey the pride of the
people in this fine Carrara marble
sculpture "without equal among the
monuments of the world."

Alas the Capitol building burned.
Efforts were made to save the Ca-
nova Washington and when plans for
a new Capitol were made with Towne
and Davis, architectural firm of Phil-
adelphia, it was decided to keep steps
out of the rotunda to enhance this
space for the placing of the Canova
statue of George Washington.

Alas, again, when the new Capitol
was completed, being then as now a
fine example of the Neo-Classic Style
with extraordinary fine proportions,
our patriotic forefathers discovered
that the Canova Washington had de-
teriorated due to damage in the fire.

On Saturday, May 30, 1970, the
George Washington of Canova's im-
agination was returned to its rightful
place in the center of the Capitol
rotunda.

This time, "he" came by motored

By EDITH JOHNSON SEIFERT

It took five months to get the original statue to Raleigh in 1821, by ship
from Boston, Massachusetts, to Fayetteville and then by "16 or 20-mule power"
to Raleigh.

In 1970. Moss Trucking Company picked up "George" in Norfolk and
brought him to Raleigh, through Tarboro and Rocky Mount, in an afternoon.

freight from the port of Norfolk,
Virginia, to Raleigh. At no cost to
the people, "George" came by low-
boy tractor trailer. T. Bragg McLeod,
president of Moss Trucking of Char-
lotte, whose company specializes in
moving unusual cargo, moved the
statue. (They moved "Tweetsie," too.)

Old time stone carvers of the Cac-
ciatori family in Carrara, the village
in Northern Italy where Canova work-
ed and where the current replica was
recreated, had carefully crated the
work and sent it, by train, to the
coast where the U.S.S. Neosho, a
Navy vessel, picked it up.

In ceremony which duplicated the
one held in 1821 George Washington
was carried by truck, however, from
the Memorial Auditorium to the Capi-
tol. Members of the George Wash-
ington-Canova Commission and others
gathered for brief speeches and the
firing of the guns to herald the long
awaited arrival of this great symbol
of our Country's founding father.

Afterwards, Carolina Crane Cor-
poration moved in with a fork lift
truck and started the two-hour proc-
ess of putting "George" in the ro-
tunda where he belongs.

Speaking of the Capitol, Earl John-
son, Jr., president of Carolina Crane,
said "the building is ideal for moving
purposes since it is open at both
ends." He and his crew placed the
statue on greased steels bars at the
east door and attached it to a crane
parked at the west door. One of his
men cranked it by hand. "We used a
tried and true technique," he said,
"like they used on the pyramids."

It took a lot of work to get
"George" back where he belongs.
People are still not convinced about
it. But those who spearheaded this
effort have history on their side.

It is indisputable that the people
of North Carolina suffered hardship
to acquire this monument. And they
did so out of the highest motives,
love of Country and pride in our gov-
ernment.

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Fork lift truck is used by Carolina Crane Corporation to place Carrara marble replica on Capitol steps.

Times have changed and the pub-
lic taste has changed. Neo-Classicism
has long since been replaced by the
International Style, the New Brutal-
ism, etc. The Capitol itself has now
been abandoned by the General As-
sembly for larger quarters.

Our political leaders who must pay
great attention to their image pre-

OBITUARIES

fer the serious dark suit and tie. Some
dress more casually than others be-
cause styles have changed, but none
of them has, hanging in his closets,
a Roman Soldier's uniform. A leader
of the people, these days, stays away
from a military image.

"George" now has to be mounted
on a pedestal. The Canova Statue

N.C.H.C.E.A.

(Continued from page 19)

Commission, which has spent about
$20,000 in private funds to date, now
has to find the money for a pedestal.
Carolina Crane is devising a method
for getting it up there when the ped-
estal arrives.

And then George Washington, the
symbol of national pride, will be there
for all to view.

(Continued from page 11)

DIVISION 11

H. M. Bledsoe, retired Maintenance employee.

DIVISION 12

John Wilbert Adaway and Ira A. Willis, Bridge
Department employees, were killed in an accident on May
19 while working on bridge repairs on 1-85.

DIVISION 13

Richard Roberts, landscape department, was killed in
an accident.

Charles William Briggs, Sign Shop Foreman, died April
20, 1970.

DIVISION 14

H. A. Coggins, age 60, of Sylva, died unexpectedly on
March 5. He was Landscape Supervisor.

Daniel A. (Red) Stewart, 59, of Franklin, died unex-
pectedly on February 24. He was Highway Inspector in
the Construction Department, District II.

Clay Rogers, 63, Whittier, N. C, died in an Asheville
Hospital on March 28. He was Bridge Foreman in Jackson
and Swain counties.

We are working constantly, through your member John
Holmes, with the Employee Benefits Study Commission
with the hopes of going into the 1971 General Assembly
with positive support for a State-paid hospital-medical
insurance program.

Our 1970 Convention will complete our other legislative
program, with thoughts of a cost-of-living salary increase
with other matters of importance. Remember also, we
gained the additional 2% general salary increase effective
July 1, 1970, only through constant effort and hard work
of the Association during the 1969 General Assembly.
2% was not a huge increase, but it was more than was
requested in the Biennial Budget, and we are the only
group to receive more than the Governor and the Advisory
Budget Commission recommended. KEEP UP THE
MEMBERSHIP — AND GET NEW MEMBERS — CON-
TINUE THE SUCCESSFUL ASSOCIATION YOU NOW
HAVE, with the prestige and reputation built up over the
years for YOU.

(Otis Banks, veteran highway employee, serves the
Highway Employees association in an executive capacity.
David King is his assistant. — Ed.)

23

Coastal Plains Commission
Proposes Highway System

On May 13, 1970, officials of the Coastal Plains Re-
ional Commission and highway officials of North Caro-
na, South Carolina and Georgia met in Columbia, South
iarolina, to review and discuss the status of planning
nd the prospects for implementing the proposed develop-
lental highway system within this tri-state region.

The Coastal Plains Regional Commission was estab-
shed by Congress in 1967 to administer those programs
squired to promote the economic development within a
jgion covering some 159 counties in North Carolina,
outh Carolina, and Georgia.

As the initial step in the development of a regional
lan, these areas were selected for initial study: (1) in-
ustrial development; (2) education and manpower train-
lg; (3) tourism; (4) agriculture; (5) marine resources;
nd (6) transportation. The basic objectives of these stud-
ss were to identify and estimate the cost of programs
eeded to boost or accelerate the economic growth of the
;gion.

Two major transportation studies were completed prior
> the recent meeting in Columbia, South Carolina. The
rst of these, The Coastal Plains Regional Transporta-
on Study, completed in July, 1969, by Wilbur Smith
id Associates, recommended a complete transportation
/stem for the region. This study covered railroads, pipe-
nes, highways, air transportation, and water transporta-
on. Perhaps the major conclusion drawn from the study
as: "If the Region is to experience accelerated growth,
le highway improvement program must be accelerated."
he study recommended a 5,000 mile developmental high-
ay system for the tri-state region (see center fold) es-
mated to cost approximately $2,600,000,000. The portion

the system with each state is as follows:

orth Carolina $ 900,000,000 1700 miles

juth Carolina 600,000,000 1100 miles

eorgia 1,100,000,000 2200 miles

REGION $2,600,000,000 5000 miles

Highest priority was placed on two multi-lane control-
d access freeway corridors. One, called the Central Geor-
a Corridor, would extend from Interstate Route 20 at
ugusta to Macon to Columbus to connect with Interstate
>ur Route 85. The other, called the Coastal Corridor,
suld extend from Interstate Route 95 in the vicinity of
ivannah, Georgia, and generally follow the corridor of
. S. 17 north to Norfolk, Virginia; it would connect with
larleston, Georgetown, and Myrtle Beach in South
irolina, and with Wilmington, New Bern, and Elizabeth
ty in North Carolina.

The second study, A Study of the Potential Economic
lpact of Proposed Developmental Freeways in the Coas-
l Plains Region, was completed in April of 1970. This
idy concentrated on the economic characteristics and
onomic impact of the two freeway corridors (the Cen-
d Georgia Corridor and the Coastal Corridor) which
>re previously recommended as having high priority for
plementation. The following excerpts taken from the
7ort summarize both the need for these two corridors
d the potential benefits to be derived from these free-
iys:

LEGEND !

PRIMARY -CENTER CONNECTORS
SECONDARY- CENTER LINKS (III ECHELON)
SECONDARY- CENTER LINKS (2nd ECHELON)
RECREATION - ORIENTEO ROUTES
INTERSTATE ROUTES

RECOMMENDED DEVELOPMENTAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM

COASTAL PLAINS REGION

"The existing highway systems serving both corridors
are inadequate for the present traffic load. The low-grade
corridor highway systems increase accident rates, dis-
courage the development of tourism, cause manpower and
training programs to endure low participation rates, and
impede industrialization.

Although some increase in tourism and industrialization
is taking place in both corridors, it is occurring mainly in
the urban areas along the western part of the Coastal
Corridor, and in the three cities of Augusta, Macon, and
Columbus in the General Georgia Corridor.

The per cent of the population in the Region and in
both corridors, below the high school diploma level, is
high and particularly so in non-metropolitan counties.
This factor alone is a major contributor toward establish-
ing and perpetuating the "income gap" which exists. The
number of persons in the Region and in both corridors
who fall into the functional illiterate class is a problem
which must be attacked realistically and soon. Migration
of the higher skilled toward the urban areas of the cor-
ridors and out of the Region altogether implies a widen-
ing of the educational gap, particularly in the rural sec-
tions. The proposed highway improvement plan will help
make education and training facilities more accessible
and wil ltend to make commuting more desirable than
migration.

The economy of the Region and the corridors can be
described as a rural economy in process of transition to a
rural-urban economy. The urban areas will serve as the
focal points of industrial development, education and
training, cultural activities, merchandising and distribu-
tive efforts, and simply as "the city" where one goes for
just about everything. In such an arrangement, trans-
portation routes of top quality are needed to allow the
city to satisfactorily perform its function of serving the
urban-rural area it nurtures. The transportation system
must link the central cities to their urban areas of serv-
ice, to other central cities in the Region, and with the
rest of the nation in all directions via all modes of trans-
port.

The present deficiencies of the Region and the two
corridors are:

1. Declining argicultural employment with the resultant
migration of former farm workers to urban areas for
employment in relatively low-wage industries or out-
migration;

2. The absence of 'high-wage," "rapid growth" indus-
trial complex;

3. The low education attainment level of the available
work force;

4. A relatively low expenditure per pupil from kinder-
garten through graduate school in the universities;

NCSHC Administrator, George Willoughby, Jr. attend-
ed a meeting recently in Columbia, South Carolina, of
the Coastal Plains Regional Commission. Shown above
are: (1. to r.) South Carolina Chief Highway Commission-
er Silas N. Pearman, host for the meeting; Emory Par-
rish, executive assistant director of the Georgia Highway
Department; Willoughby; and Charles Coss, executive di-
rector of the Coastal Plains Regional Commission, from
Washington, D.C. Others attending the session from North
Carolina were Assistant Highway Administrator Billy
Rose, Chief Engineer John Davis, and Bill Caddell, Ad-
vance Planning and Research Engineer. Leigh H. Ham-
mond, North Carolina Coastal Plains Director also at*
tended,

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5. Internal and external isolation of communities in-
side the Region; and

6. A relatively poor total transportation system with
particular emphasis upon highways and airports.

The Region and the corridors have assets. They are:

1. People who can be trained to work in high-tech-
nology industries;

2. Existing and planned training facilities within the
Region and corridors;

3. Deep water ports, inland ports, and many desirable
industrial sites;

4. Abundant existing recreational sites with unlimited
future developmental possibilities;

5. Huge supplies of water for industrial use;

6. Enormous timber and agricultural land reserves;

7. A developing industrial base with a core of high-
technology industries already in place; and

8. A healthy tourist business in the Coastal Corridor
and an emerging one in the Central Georgia Corridor
— both with plenty of room for expansion.

Although industrial expansion is taking place at a
steady rate, the rate is not sufficiently rapid to elevate
the Region and its corridors to the income level being
enjoyed by their geographic neighbors.

The planning and development personnel in districts in
both corridors feel strongly that the highway improvement
plan will be beneficial to the developmental plans which
they envisage.

The generation of additional income from tourism and
industrial development is the most likely means to close
the income "gap."

The tourist industry will be stimulated by the imple-
mentation of the recommended highway improvement
plan in both corridors with the greatest impact in the
Coastal Corridor.

The two highway corridor improvements which have
been recommended will bring into being industrial site
locations of a more desirable nature through the provi-
sions of an additional adequate mode of transportation.

As 'high-technology" industrial development progresses
along with improved education and training, the corridors
and the Region should be able to close the income gap.

Extraordinary benefits should result from improving
the two highway corridors discussed in this report. As
east-west connector highway improvements are effected,
the two corridors will become even more valuable as a
tool of economic development."

Based on the studies made to date, the portion of the
Coastal Corridor freeway in North Carolina would be
approximately 258 miles long and would cost an esti-
mated $235,516,000. The benefits it would provide are
conservatively estimated to be over six times greater
than its construction and maintenance costs.

Direct benefits to the road user are anticipated to ex-
ceed $27,650,000 annually. Indirect benefits for the eco-
nomy of the area are anticipated to exceed $73,365,000

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annually. Thus, it is evident, from an ecomonic develop-
ment point of view, that the construction of the recom-
mended freeway is essential and urgent for eastern North
Carolina.

Will the highway improvements proposed in these
studies by consultants to the Coastal Plains Regional
Commission become a reality, or will they become a plan
for the bookshelf?

No one can really answer the question at this time.

However, this much is known. Congress has not yet
appropriated funds required to initiate construction. Suf-
ficient funds are not now available in the regular Federal-
aid and State highway programs to meet critical needs
throughout the State; thus, it would appear to be un-
realistic to assume that the Coastal Plains proposals can
be accomplished within this existing framework in the
immediate future.

All of North Carolina, and especially the eastern part of
the State, will greatly benefit from these proposed high-
way improvements if this program is funded.

Governor Robert Scott, right, and Governor Robert Mc-
Nair, Governor of South Carolina, at a recent meeting
of the Coastal Plains Regional Commission.

In The Driver's Seat

By GIBSON PRATHER

Even if one has been through it before, there is still
something a bit chilling about seeing a 16-year-old son of
yours getting a driver's license that will turn him loose
upon an unsuspecting public.

It is, of course, a matter of record that more Americans
are getting killed upon the nation's highways than are
dying in Indo-China. But if you try to point out to a
16-year-old with a brand new driver's license, when he asks
for the family car, that he would be safer if he were
drafted and sent to Viet Nam, don't — it won't work. He
simply won't buy that line of reasoning.

In the first place he is no more in sympathy with what
is going on in Viet Nam than he is with what people over
30 years old think, anyway. In the second place, although
he doesn't come out and say so, it is just possible that he
wants the car to get to a peace rally or more certainly a
place where there will be no over-30 thinking or talking.

Well, you think, his older brother made it all right with
the car, although you can remember the fears in the liv-
ing room the first few times he drove off alone after he
got his license.

And the current new driver is a much better driver than
his sister, with whom you have refused to ride during the
six years she has been driving, even though she hasn't had
a wreck. She may have frightened a few people who have
encountered her on the highway but she has never actual-
ly hurt or maimed anyone.

And the second son, now 18, had a perfect driving rec-
ord, which is surprising in that he drives with a sort of
rhythm to that under-30s music that comes from the
radio. Because of this there is a certain tendency on the
part of his passengers to be afflicted with something
akin to seasickness. The car doesn't actually roll from
side to side, but the driver does, and the result is sort of
a seasickness which descends on the unsuspecting pas-
senger, especially if he is past 30 and not particularly
charmed by Bob Dylan or such groups as the Chicago
Transit Authority. (You will notice an occasional refer-
ence to transportation terms to qualify this for inclusion
in Roadways.)

Recalling these three more or less successful former
experiences with newly licensed drivers, however, doesn't
dispel the chill the first time the youngest asks for the
car at night.

It's no good telling him you planned to use the car
yourself. He knows perfectly well that all you want to do
is to come home after a day at the office and think up any
excuse you can if someone suggests that you go out
somewhere.

And if you weren't going to let him drive the thing, why
did you permit him to get a license in the first place —
even to the point of paying the registration fee as a part
of his birthday present?

You begin to realize, as you reach for the keys, that you
have had it. The die is cast, the Rubicon was crossed on
the day he got the license, and there is nothing, ab-
solutely nothing that you can do about it now except dig
for those keys.

"I won't need your keys," he says, "I had some made of
my own."

And he produces a set of keys which has on the chain
a round disk upon which is etched one of those peace
symbols one sees everywhere these days.

So he drives off, and as you sit listening to Walter
Cronkite or Eric Sevareid talking about all of the may-
hem, and confrontations and general ills of the day, you
keep one ear cocked for the sound of crash on metal some-
where outside or perhaps the wail of an ambulance.

"He's probably a better driver than you are," you tell
yourself. "Certainly at his age his reflexes are quicker and
you know — or know as well as one can know these days —
that he's not on pot or even beer."

And the hours stretch out or seem to, until along about
10:30 you hear the car pull up and he walks in, full of
confidence and the pride of accomplishment in having
gone out alone and returned safely for the first time in
the family car.

Then you wonder why you had any doubts in the first
place, and you are proud of him, too, at being able to do
this and the pride will stay with you for awhile.

Until, in fact, the next time he asks to drive off alone.

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Headquarters, continued.

D. R. McMichael and family were
the guests of the J. A. Saunders
family on the weekend of Mr. Snell's
retirement dinner.

Linda Stiaughn and friends va-
cationed at Myrtle Beach for several
days recently.

Congratulations to Frank Bowen's
wife, Frances, who just graduated
from N. C. State University.

Linda Straughn entertained Mr. and
Mrs. D. R. McMichael and family,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Saunders, Mrs.
Katherine H. Davis and Mrs. C. R.
Harper at a spaghetti dinner while
the McMichaels were in town.

The Department welcomes Dennis
Mercer, who recently joined the staff.
Dennis is from Jacksonville.

Mr. J. A. Saunders had the pleas-
ure of going down "Old Mexico Way"
for the week of May 25-28. He at-
tended the Highway Research Board
Committee Meeting in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.

MATERIALS AND TESTS— Wel-
come to the following new employees:
Johnny Potter and George Dean at
the Soils Lab; Marlon Brewer and
Richard Greene at the Concrete Lab;
J. H. Lanford at Charlotte, and D. R.
Ledford at Asheville; Jim Bennett,
Record Section; and Brenda Johnson,
Typist. Brenda is replacing Nancy
Beyer, who accepted a position at
NCSU.

Several employees have become new
fathers. Congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Raybon upon the birth of
baby son, Stuart Glenn, May 31; the
Wyatt Shearons on the birth of baby
girl, Edith Annette, May 18; and
Mr. and Mrs. Frankie Gardner upon
the birth of baby daughter, Nancy
Lee, May 5.

The Department recently held its
Annual Memorial Golf Tournament,
and Jerry Wilder won first place.
J. T. Norton won second place, and
Curtis Harrison, third place.

The fishing bug is in full force. The
following employees had a nice trip
to Morehead recently: Billy Andrews,
Haywood Barham, Curtis Harrison
and Judson Burnette. The crew went
out on Burnette's cruiser.

Correction: In the last issue of
ROADWAYS, it was stated that R. L.
Shearin had retired. It was W. H.
Shearon, instead. Mr. Shearon is en-
joying a happy retirement and R. L.
(Bobby) will be around for quite a
while.

Our deepest sympathy to Dalton
Warden and his family upon the re^
cent death of his mother.

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The Dale Easterbrooks enjoyed a
recent vacation at Fort Walton
Beach, Florida, visiting their daugh-
ter and her family who will leave
soon for a three-year stay in Ger-
many.

Congratulations to Robert R.
(Bobby) Baker of the Concrete Lab
on his recent marriage to Grace
Elizabeth Hamm of Franklinton. The
wedding took place at the Ebenezer
United Methodist Church in Frank-
linton on April 26. The newlyweds
are making their home at Route 1,
Louisburg.

Buddy Mitchell, 6 ft. 1 in. and 160
lb. sophomore, helped lead the Youngs-
ville Phantoms to the State Class 1-A
Basketball championship. Buddy made
all conference, and received all-East
honors. He played guard and averaged
16 points per game. His father, Calvin
Mitchell, works for Materials and
Tests out of Raleigh.

Kathy Jordan is a rising senior at
th* University of North Carolina
School of Nursing, Greensboro. Kathy
will serve as the President of the
Student Nurse Association of North
Carolina for the 1970-71 school year.
She represented North Carolina at the

R. W. Snell, Landscape Design
Supervisor, retired March 31, 1970,
after more than 27 years of service
with the State Highway Commission.

Employees of the Landscape Depart-
ment honored him with a dinner at the
Angus Barn, March 27, and presented
to him a plaque, luggage, and a gift
certificate from Taylor's Nursery.
Attending the dinner with him were
his wife, Felicia, and his son and
daughter-in-law, Sammy and Dianne.

Linda Watson of Wilson became
the bride of Charles Ryon Harper of
Knightdale in the Evansdale Metho-
dist Church in Wilson, Sunday, May 3.

National Student Nurses' Association
Convention in Miami Beach, Florida.

Kathy is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Jordan of Cary. Her fath-
er is a member of Materials and Tests
with the Commission.

FINANCE — David Tyndall, Gary
Blevins and Willie Hinnant spent two
weeks at summer camp at Fort
Bragg.

Walter Haynes took his family on
a camping trip to Lake Arrowhead,
South Carolina.

Wedding bells rang May 8 for
Faye Jordan and T. H. Mangum of
Angier. The ceremony was held at
Oak Grove Baptist Church. Faye is
an employee in Commercial Accounts
and her husband is with U. S. Pipe
and Company. The couple will live in
Angier.

Larry Norris is a new Accountant
I in General Accounts.

It's nice to have Mrs. Nan Moore
as a new accounting clerk. Nan was
formerly with the Department of
Revenue and worked in the 1969 ses-
sion of the General Assembly.

Willie Hinnant transferred from
General Accounting to Internal Audit-
ing.

Bill Ennis is a transfer from Com-
mercial Accounting to the General
Accounting Section.

John White of Data Processing re-
cently went fishing in a private pond
with Bill O'Neal. They caught a "17%
oz." brim.

Judy Morris of Keypunch attended
the National 4-H Club Adult Leader
Forum in Washington, D. C, recently.
Judy was selected to represent Johns-
ton County and was appointed at the
forum to serve as a leader at 4-H
Camp in Manteo June 29-July 4. Con-
gratulations, Judy. The group also
enjoyed a tour of the nation's capital.

Pat Rea who worked in the insur-
ance section several months has re-
turned to Virginia to resume her
work with Union Air Lines.

Employees extend sympathy to
Mary Price upon the loss of her
father, and to Emma Parrish upon
the recent loss of her mother.

David Harrison is a new account-
ing trainee. David is from Henderson
and is planning to be married June
27.

Lonnie Johnson is the new super-
visor of Commercial Accounts.

Jean Owen is the new secretary to
Eugene Baskett.

Lewis Boykin is the new assistant
payroll manager.

E. H. Phillips is a new systems
analyst.

DeWitt Perry is the proud father
of a new son, Bryan DeWitt Perry.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Nichols are proud
parents of a new little girl.

Ronnie Wilson is a new program
trainee.

Larry Peters of General Account-
ing transferred to the first floor as
Assistant Secondary Roads Officer.

David Tyndall and Bobby Bradley
have recently completed a course in
scuba diving. The course was offered
by the Lions Club and staffed by the
Underwater Service Group.

Congratulations to the following
who recently received service pins:
Vera Jeffreys, 25 years; Lib Grimes,
10 years; Carolyn Creech, 5 years;
and Helda Purdue, 20 years.

Finance participated in the Annual
Golf League and entered three teams.
Members of Team "A" are Bob Nich-
ols (Captain), DeWitt Perry, Phil
Yarbrough and Bob Wells. Members
of Team "B" are Percy Atkins (Cap-
tain), Charles Macon, Larry Norris
and Harvey Strother. Members of
Team "C" are Norman Paschall (Cap-
tain), John Joyner, Larry Waters and
Gary Blivens. The pooled alternates
of the Finance teams are Eugene
Phillips, Gene Murray, Jimmie Spell,
Mallory Hunt, Tony Bridges, Howard
Moore, Frank Stokes, Bill Ennis,
Lonnie Johnson and Louis Boykin.

RIGHT OF WAY — The Depart-
ment welcomes the following new
employees: Isabelle Coats, Ben J.
Robinson, John Corbett, Ann Gonder
and Jenny Ferrell.

Employees miss Becky Council, who
resigned to become a mother and a
housewife. Good luck in Greensboro,
Becky.

Our deepest sympathy to Rebecca
Council upon the recent death of her
father, David Lee Jones, of Apex.

Travelers in the Department are
Tommy and Eleanor Taylor who flew
down to Aiken, South Carolina, to at-
tend the wedding of his sister. Ann
Hester visited friends in Charlotte.

Vacations are plentiful in Right of
Way. Laura Jones took a Carribean
Cruise to Jamaica for a week and
reports that ship life is wonderful.
John Honbarrier and his wife spent
two weeks touring the New England
states. The Nelson Fryes and Terry
Hills spent four days in Nassau. Ray
Crawford took his family to Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, for a week. Gene
Granklin and his wife spent a nice
week in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pat Wilkie and Tommie, Malinda
and Charles, and Aydren Flowers and
wife spent a nice long weekend at
Kure Beach. Lib Talton went to Kure
Beach for a recent weekend and so
did Betty Radford. Odell Penny toured
Florida during a nice vacation and
Robert Pratt reports a successful
fishing trip at Morehead.

Laura Jones won the City Bowling
Tournament held in Smithfield re-
cently with a great 598 scratch.

Kitty Cranford and Laura Jones
went on a recent deep-sea fishing
jaunt at Morehead.

The Department welcomes back Al-
vie Patterson and John Stewart from
two weeks military leave.

Lavern Radford's daughter, Pam,
graduated from Louisburg College
May 17. She will enter East Carolina
in the fall.

Sam Jackson and family took an
early vacation and spent a week at
Kure Beach.

Both Eleanor Taylors in this De-
partment took in the Masters Golf
Tournament in Augusta, Georgia,
during April. They didn't go together,
but both have relatives there.

Attending the NASCAR races in
Atlanta, Georgia, in April was a
"first" for Lavern Radford.

Sympathy is extended to Lou Jones
in the death of her brother-in-law,
Ray Jones.

Wedding bells rang for Gail Arm-
strong and Joe Osborne May 9. Since
they both are employed by the High-
way, Gail had to find another job. She
will be working with the Consumer
Protection section of the Attorney
General's office. Employees will miss
Gail, but hope to see her once in
awhile since Joe is in the building.

PUBLIC INFORMATION— We are
glad to hear that former Public In-
formation Officer C. A. (Abe) Up-
church, Jr., has returned to the news
department at WRAL-TV on a part-
time basis after a long illness. Abe
tells us his only son, John, who is
completing work on his doctorate at
the University of Tennessee, is a
member of the faculty at Appalachian
State University at Boone.

Congratulations to former Public
Information Officer Keith Hundley
upon his recent promotion to Eastern
Public Relations Manager in Wash-
ington, D. C, with Weyerhaeuser
Company. Since leaving the Highway
Commission a little over a year ago,
Keith has been the Public Relations
Manager for Weyerhaeuser at Ply-
mouth, starting a "PR" program at
their plant in Plymouth from the
ground up.

Linda Hill is keeping the roads hot
to the beaches every possible weekend.
Since returning from her most recent
jaunt, we're not sure if she's not a
descendant of Pocohontas.

Congratulations to Christopher Pra-
ther, son of our Assistant Public
Information Officer Gibson Prather.

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Chris is a June 5 graduate of Terry
Sanford High School in Fayetteville
and plans to enter UNC at Chapel
Hill this fall. Chris is a track star and
has taken many honors during his
tenure at Sanford High.

And while we're mentioning the
Prathers, Gibson (better known as
"Gibs") has bought a home at 1811
Park Drive in Raleigh. He and his
lovely wife, Mary, moved in the sec-
ond week in June and will have their
three unmarried children with them
all summer. The youngest, 16-year
old Jimmy, will be a Junior at Brough-
ton High this fall. Daughter Ashley
is a June graduate at UNC-Greens-
boro and will be working with the
Raleigh Recreation Department this
summer. Ashley plans to be married
in August.

Janie Williams is really enjoying
playing golf with the Women's High-
way Golfers, but hasn't made a birdie
yet.

Boss Arch Laney travels so many
places, we'll stop right here ... or
we'd fill up the page. However, at
this writing, Arch left the office at
breakneck speed with highway en-
gineers to attend a public hearing in
Lumberton.

Jewel and Jim Adcock celebrated
their eleventh wedding anniversary
Saturday, June 6. After a nice steak
dinner with all the trimmings in the
College Inn's Steer Room, Jim pre-
sented Jewel with a beautiful starter
set of golf clubs. Now it looks like
Jewel is "gonna hafta" get out there
and putt! We just hope she won't
"splice" the ball too much.

We'll conclude from Public Infor-
mation with a favorite quote: "If you
find a mistake in this issue, please
consider that it was for a purpose.
We publish something for everyone,
including those who are always look-
ing for mistakes."

Gail Grant, seated, was honoree at
a stork shower and farewell party
prior to leaving Traffic Engineering
May 22.

Standing, left to right, are Bettie
Massengill, Rowena Keith, Dot Hayes,
Jean Agnew, Annett Branton, Emily
Blount, Mary Hines, Frances Johnson,
Brenda Johnson, Elsie Proctor and
Irene Beddingfield.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

Congratulations to Terry and Vickie
Harris on the birth of a son, Terrence
Arnett, Jr., May 22.

Robert Dodge was on the program
for the Traffic Safety Seminar in
Wilmington, at the Timme Plaza Mo-
tel, May 14-15. Others from this
Department assisting with the seminar
were J. 0. Litchford, H. C. Rhudy,
and Jim Lynch.

Harold Rhudy and Bruce Harrod
attended a Traffic Control and Sys-
tems Engineering Seminar in Daven-
port, Iowa, May 18-20. Don Dupree
and Reiley Curtis attended a short
course on traffic engineering at
Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, Georgia, in late spring. J. O.
Litchford, H. C. Rhudy, Pete Deaver,
and Jim Lynch attended the annual
meeting of the Southern Section, In-
stitute of Traffic Engineers in Bir-
mingham, Alabama, April 26-29. Jim
gave a paper on the "Importance of
and Technique for Accident Identifi-
cation and Analysis."

Several additions to Traffic engi-
neering personnel were made recently.
Bruce Harrod, who holds a masters
degree in civil engineering at N. C.
State University, is Assistant Traffic
Signal Engineer. For the past two
years he worked with the Lancaster
County (Pennsylvania) Planning Com-
mission. His family includes his wife
Katharine and their two-year-old
daughter. Joseph Clendenin, a gradu-
ate of NCSU, is Assistant Accident
Investigation Engineer. He is mar-
ried and his wife's name is Veronica.
Bonnie Bass, a Millbrook high school
graduate, and Annette Branton, who,
with her husband Jesse and their four
children, live in Cary, have joined the
Accident Identification Section. Troy
Peoples, a former member of the
junior class at NCSU, is working in
the Signing Section. Troy's wife is
named Susan. Denise Mitchell, who is
a 1970 graduate of Ligon High School,
has become a permanent employee
after working in the Department part-
time for several months.

Fred Rosendahl transferred from the
Special Studies Section to the Acci-
dent Investigation Section. David
Moore transferred to Winston-Salem,
June 19, to assume the position of
Division Traffic Engineer there. Don
Dupree is now in Fayetteville hand-
ling duties of the Traffic Engineer
for Division 6.

The annual two - week National
Guard field exercises have claimed

Cpt. C. C. Sessoms, Jr., at Fort Bragg,
and Tom Turnage, at Fort Gordon,
Georgia. Ed Sykes and Kenneth Ses-
soms are reporting to Lackland Air
Force Base, Texas, this summer for
regular service with the armed
forces.

Vacationists are being lured to for-
eign lands this season. E. Y. (Chris)
Stafford and wife Louise have re-
turned from a tour of France, Austria,
Switzerland, Italy, Germany, England,
and Scotland. They report the Grand
Prix race at Monaco as one of the
highlights of their trip. Bill Hindman
and wife Joyce were down Mexico
way late in May, and David Webb and
friends journeyed south of the border
early in June.

Other vacation schedules include
the following names and places: Pete
Deaver and family, Washington, D. C,
and the North Carolina and Virginia
mountain regions, visiting friends in
Arlington and Lynchburg, Va., en
route. Glenn Grigg and family, Long
Beach. Rowena Keith and family, Al-
bemarle Beach, returning in time for
son Jerry to begin his summer work
with the Materials and Tests Depart-
ment June 8; Robert Dodge and fam-
ily, Holden Beach.

Emily Blount was matron of honor
in the wedding of her sister, Mary
Clayton Brown, to Robert Edward
deGrouche of Portsmouth, Va., in
Wrightsville Beach, May 23. The bride
and her attendant are daughters of
Mrs. Clayton Brown and the late Mr.
Brown, a former Division Engineer.
Another wedding of interest is that
of Dot Turner's nephew Neil McDon-
ald, a former SHC employee, who was
married to Miss Fae Lyons in Sa-

Charming Dena Angel and Clayton
Blount are the lovely children of
Emily and Sam Blount. Emily is a
Traffic Design Engineer.

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vannah, Georgia, with Dot's daughter
Linda as an attendant. After the
wedding Dot and Linda took in the
tourist attractions in Florida before
returning home.

Jean Agnew's husband James re-
cently was made associate pastor of
the Midway Baptist Church. Tom
Morris was hospitalized in Oxford for
injuries received in a car accident.
Connie May, who has been with the
Department for a few months, re-
ceived her diploma from Louisburg
Junior College in May. Jay Owen's
mother, Mrs. Rachel M. Owen of Tal-
lahassee, visited here in May. Cliff
Stuckey underwent surgery for a leg
ailment in the spring.

Reporting for those in the Safety
Department, who share the same
building facility, we extend our sin-
cere sympathy to Gerald Fleming and
family upon the death of his father,
B. G. Fleming of Greenville, April 21.
Mary Ann Jobe, a member of Flem-
ing's staff, will join with the Meredith
College Alumni on a European tour
leaving in July to visit England, Den-
mark, Germany, and Switzerland.

Little kindergarten graduate, Dale
Delane Hayes, is the son of Dot and
Madison Hayes. His mother is an
employee of the Safety Department.

PLANNING AND RESEARCH —
It's nice to have Bill Cofer back on
the job after a foot operation that
kept him out of commission for a
couple of weeks in April. He has
given up his crutches now and is
using an interesting looking shillelagh.

Get well wishes to Barbara Mitchell
who was hospitalized in May for major
surgery.

It's good to have Hazel Barnes back
in the Department after an illness
and hospitalization.

Douglas Chappell, son of Marie and
Billy Chappell, won a trophy recently
from Knightdale Junior High for ex-
cellence in all sports. His mother,
Marie, is secretary to Planning De-
partment Head, William Caddell.

Judy Sutton and her husband are
real proud of new baby son, Troy
Dean, born May 23.

George Frising vacationed for two
weeks in Florida.

Jeannette and Larry Tysor enjoyed
a weekend fishing at Atlantic Beach
in May.

Welcome to new employee Nell
Lewis. Nell is a key-punch operator
and a native of Kenly.

Sam Stancil was married May 3
to the former Mrs. Joyce Permenter
of Cary. Sam and Joyce live in Park-
wood in Durham.

Durwood Pegram went to summer
camp at Fort Bragg for two weeks in
June.

Joe Osborne is back from honey-
mooning in Florida. Other travelers
are Elizabeth Stanley and Pam Litton,
who enjoyed recent trips to Atlantic
Beach and Myrtle Beach.

Marty Dunn had a great time in
Nassau in April. Mike Tewell and Al
Avant journeyed to Washington for a
two-week traffic assignment school
sponsored by the Bureau of Public
Roads.

Congratulations to proud parents
Jimmie and Susan Beckom, on the
birth of little son, Jamie, in April.

Congratulations to Nathan Benson
upon being elected the new president
of the Apex Jaycees.

Our deepest sympathy to Richard
Smith on the recent death of his fa-
ther.

BITUMINOUS— Congratulations to
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Bobbitt, Sr.,
of Smithfield, who were honored on
their fiftieth and Golden Wedding
Anniversary at a reception given by
Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, Jr., of Raleigh
in the Smithfield Woman's Club Build-
ing April 19. Ernest, Jr. is employed
in Bituminous.

James A. McQueen, Jr., left, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McQueen (Mr.
McQueen is in Bituminous), graduated
with high honors in Mechanical En*
gineering at North Carolina State
University May 30. He received the
Outstanding Engineering Citizenship
Award for 1970.

RIGHT OF WAY GOLF
TOURNAMENT

The Ninth Annual Right of Way
Golf Tournament was held the week-
end of April 25-26 at the Oak Island
Championship Golf Course at Long
Beach. About 50 participants, includ-
ing several guest players, teed off
early Saturday morning in quest of
low scores and trophies. Although not
all were able to win trophies, every-
one came out a winner due to the keen
competition, good sportsmanship, fine
weather, and excellent hosts of the
Wilmington Right of Way Office.

To the surprise of no one, Bill Moon
again walked off with the honors in
the Championship Flite. First and
second runners-up were Bill Dillon
and Warner Powell. The Second Flite
champion was Jack Baldwin, followed
by Tony West and Buddy Cagle as
first and second runners-up. Winners
and the first and second runners-up
respectively, in the other flites were:
Third Flite — Russ Carter, John
Holmes, and Roscoe Leftwich; Fourth
Flite — John Banks, Bobby Heath, and
Jim Rae; and Fifth Flite — Gene
Tyson, Fred Langston, and Jack
Batchelor. The Duffer's trophy this
year went to Robert Broome, a true
sportsman. Mrs. Bill Davenport was
low scorer among the guests in the
tournament.

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Many families and guests attended
and everyone enjoyed the many social
activities of the weekend, highlighted
by the seafood feast and dance Satur-
day evening. The Wilmington hosts
deserve a pat on the back for again
staging an annual weekend event en-
joyed tremendously by all present.
Our hats are off to you, fellows.

The ghost in the above photo is a
Riffe Original Bird Frightener. This
exotic bird frightener can be seen now
thru September in the garden of its
creator, Orval "Casini" Riffe.

LaRoy Smith of Roadway Design
holds son Kevin LaRoy, age 5'/2
months.

Winners of the "Roadway Five"
bowling team, of the Tar Heel Indus-
trial League, who bowl at Fairlane
Bowling Alleys in Raleigh.

From left to right (front row) are:
LeRoy Smith, Tony Hamerka, Jim
Graham, Don Hurlbut and Joe To-
bert. Back row: George Wells, John
Bowman and Ramey Kemp.

George Brown, left, and Richard
Lee, were in the group who went deep
sea fishing out of Morehead City May
22 for the annual Roadway Design
Fishing Tournament. The fish caught
were King Mackerel, Albacore, Hound
Fish and black bass.

In the fishing tournament group
were LaRoy Smith, John Taylor, Ed
Cox, Leon Oliver, Wayne Barnette,
Mike Scott, Frank Scott (Mike's fa-
ther), David McFarling, Larry Cha-
sak, Wilbur Efird, Lee Howell, Bob
Walker, and Bill Gilbert, Bob's father-
in-law. George caught the largest
fish and Richard caught the smallest.

Rhonda and Renee are the daugh-
ters of Wayne Barnette in Roadway
Design.

The team, all members of Roadway
Design, won first place in the second
half of the league season and were
second place winners of the league.

All members of the "Roadway Five"
received trophies and cash prizes in
the 12-team league, sanctioned by the
American Bowling Congress.

Rhodes Peele, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howell Peele of Cary, is a June gradu-
ate of NCSU in applied mathematics.
He earned a 3.8 average for his final
term of work and will attend gradu-
ate school at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. His father
works in Roadway Design.

Paul Winston Parker, four-month
old son of Gale and Myra Parker.
His father is in Roadway Design.

Second In League "Roadway Five'

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Michael Stone is 2 years old.

The Hertford Equipment Shop em-
ployees invited their families to a
cook-out on May 25, 1970.

The Hertford Division Shop held its
annual Association Meeting and
elected new officers, which are as
follows: Mr. M. Elwood Copeland,
Chairman; Mrs. Mary W. Cobb, Vice
Chairman; and Mr. Joe P. Perry, Jr.,
Secretary. Delegates elected to the
Unit Meeting were Mr. C. L. Overton
and Mr. W. B. Sawyer, with Mr. Frank
Ward elected as an alternate.

Welcome Wagon: The Elizabeth City
District One Office welcomes Mrs.
Annie Horton as stenographer to its
staff. Mrs. Horton joined the staff on
March 23, 1970. She has four girls to
help fill her spare time, is very active
in her community and attends College
of the Albemarle two nights a week.

The employees of the Hertford Di-
vision Shop welcome back Mr. Gran-
ville Taylor, after having an operation
at Albemarle Hospital. Mr. Taylor is
a Machinist II.

Mr. A. 0. Hall of the Elizabeth
City Construction Department is now
back in the hospital after being out
since the last of January. Mr. L. R.
Jones of the Elizabeth City Mainten-
ance Department was involved in an
accident on May 13, 1970. We under-
stand Ray is now home from the
hospital.

Mr. D. A. Carter took time to
reminisce as he revisited his old home
town and brothers and sisters in Wal-
lace and Wilmington, North Carolina,
the last week-end in May. Mr. Carter
is Carpenter II in the Hertford Shop.

Hazel Baker

On Monday morn-
ing May, 25, as the
work day began,
Mr. H. E. Gaskins
gathered his crew
of Bridge Mainten-
ance men together
for their usual in-
structions for the
day. However, this
time was a little

Division Correspondent different, as each

employee was introduced to a new
addition to the Bridge Maintenance
Crew. The thing that made it unusual
was that this introduction was not to
a new man, as all previous introduc-
tions had been, but to a lady who was
to assume the office duties. So, we
welcome to our department and office
Mrs. Faye Corey.

Mrs. Corey is married to Charlie
Corey, who has been employed with
National Spinning Company in Wash-
ington for the past 15 years. They
have three children, a son Phillip who
is 14 years old and twin daughters
Darlene and Marlene who are 6 years
old.

Mrs. Corey worked with the A&P
Tea Company and the Shipyard in
Newport News, Virginia. She states
that her work here has been very
interesting and she seems impressed
with our method of operation.

John Q. Adams, retired Maintenance
Supervisor, is the proud grandfather
of a baby boy. Congratulations to Mr.
and Mrs. Adams.

Division 2 Basketball Team. Team
members: Carlos Cannon, Smith
Worthington, Wiley Brown, Preston
Mills, Clyde Elks and Ronnie Foster
(not in picture).

Mable Lynette Worthington

Mr. R. Markham, retired Division
Engineer, has been sick for sometime.

Kinston District Office had the
pleasure of a visit with Mr. J. D.
Parker, Sr., retired Sign Supervisor.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dawson and
family recently visited Six Flags over
Georgia.

Mr. and Mrs. William Harrison and
family recently vacationed in Atlanta,
Georgia.

Bernice Pittman is a new employee
in the Kinston Construction Depart-
ment.

James Edward Corey has joined the
Equipment Department, Division
Shop, as a Mechanic II.

Still recuperating after having been
hospitalized are: L. B. Cox, Shop
Foreman, and C. L. Gray, Mechanic
II. Our best wishes for a speedy
recovery.

Vernon Colin Everett has been pro-
moted to Mechanic I at Dist. 1 Shop.
He replaces Leroy Linton who passed
away in January.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery
for Mills A. Pruden who works in the
Appraisal Section.

Denise Price

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Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Worthington,
«»r., announce the birth of a daughter,
Mable Lynnette, who weighed 7 lbs.
2% ozs. on February 17, 1970, at 6:41
A.M. Mr. Worthington is employed in
the Construction Office in Greenville.

J. R. Martin retired June 1, 1970,
after 40 years of service.

J. R. Martin, who recently retired
from SHC after 40 years of service,
has spent his entire time of service
in the Pitt County area.

Mrs. Ruby Camp-
bell, Secretary in
our Rights of Way
Department re-
cently resigned to
become a full-time
housewife and
"MOM." We wish
to welcome Ruby's
replacement, Mrs
Hermania Spender.

Irene Hewett
Division Correspondent She has two little

girls whom Dad is going to mind
while he is away from his school
teaching chores this summer. Also,
we miss Don Lamb, Right-of-Way
Aide, who has transferred to Wilson.
Hope he'll be back to visit us often.

We express our sympathy to the
families of G. W. Riggs and Ledford
Sumner; both worked in District One
Maintenance. Mr. Riggs died on May

29 after being ill for some time and
Mrs. Sumner died suddenly following
a heart attack. Also, we miss Lonnie
R. Rochelle and Samuel C. Varnum
who recently resigned for other em-
ployment. Lonnie Gibbs is still out
sick.

Carolyn Gurganious, secretary in
the Division Office, has had a little
boy, Brad Curtis, born on May 23.
Three year old David Gurganious will
help keep him company.

Mr. and Mrs. Clement Wesley
Batchelor. Mrs. Batchelor is the for-
mer Linda Joyce Johnson, daughter
of David H. Johnson, who is employed
with District 2 Maintenance in Clin-
ton.

The camping fever is spreading
among the employees in the Clinton
Construction Department. Those ac-
tively participating already this year
are the families of John Naylor, Evans
McCullen, Robert Crumpler, Wayne
Jackson and Joyce Lucas. Places vis-
ited so far are White Lake, Salter
Path, Carolina Beach, Myrtle Beach,
Lake Norman and Holden's Beach.
Also Surf City.

Larry Hicks, Civil Technology
Trainee, has been transferred to Di-
vision Four Maintenance for further
training.

Murry Phillips, Engineering Aide,
has been granted permanent status.
He is with the Clinton Construction
Department.

Chuck Clements, ROW Aide, has
transferred to Sylva. Chuck has lived
here at the seashore for years; he
says he thinks the mountains will be
a nice change.

Vickie Lynn Hairr, daughter of
Darroll and Betty Hairr, born on
January 4, 1970. Darroll is an En-
gineering Technician II in the Clinton
Construction Department.

Lee Ann Nunnery, 3 month old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benny
Nunnery. She is grandchild of Elliott
Tew of District 2 Maintenance.

Philip Ray Rivenbark, Jr., son of
Philip and Peggy Rivenbark. Philip-
Sr. is Engineering Technician I in
the Clinton Construction Department.
Philip, Jr. arrived January 10, 1970.

Michael G. Hewett a student in the
School of Mechanical Engineering,
was placed on the Dean's List for
both semesters of his Freshman year
at N. C. State University at Raleigh.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Tony Hewett of Supply, N. C. His
father is Maintenance Yard Foreman
at Shallotte, N. C.

Dennis Ray Vick,
son of Resident
Engineer and Mrs.
J. W. Vick, is a
senior at East
Carolina University
where he is a star
baseball player.
The East Carolina
team won the
Southern Confer-

Margaret Barefoot . -.i vpar

Division Correspondentence lllle ZmS year

and Dennis led the team in hitting,
total base hits, and runs batted-in.
He has received state-wide recogni-
tion, having been selected for the All-
State team. Dennis will play ball in
Gastonia on May 28, 29, and 30 when
his team will compete in the North
Carolina AA Tournament.

Royce R. Matthews and Arthur E.
Ferguson recently enjoyed a brief
visit to New York. Arthur, a native
New Yorker, showed Royce the sights.

James Rhondy "Luke" Lucas, who
works with Resident Engineer J. W.
Vick, recently underwent surgery at
Wilson Memorial Hospital.

Dennis Ray Vick

Katherine Devon Bradley

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Jones

C. A. Gardner, Jr. has assumed the
position as Mr. Frank Coleman's as-
sistant. He and his wife, Faye, and
their two children live near Nashville.

Malcom Jones Morgan, Engineering
Aide, was married to the former Miss
Linda Owens in Dillon, South Caro-
lina, on Friday, May 22, 1970.

Virgil Jones and his family spent
the Memorial Day weekend camping
out at Atlantic Beach. Frank Coleman
recently spent the weekend fishing off
the piers at Atlantic Beach.

J. G. Barnhill enjoyed a week of
rockfishing recently.

J. G. Brown, Edgecombe County
Road Maintenance Supervisor, has re-
turned to work following illness and
surgery.

Mack Rhea was injured during a
road paving operation.

George M. Wooten, son of Mainten-
ance Yard Foreman Irving Wooten,
and Mrs. Wooten, of Pinetops, was
injured during a road paving opera-
tion.

Kathryn Devon Bradley, daughter
of Maintenance Yard Foreman Milton
D. Bradley and Mrs. Bradley, of Hali-
fax, who will graduate from Weldon
High School on June 5, is the school's
1970 Betty Crocker Homemaker of
Tomorrow. In addition to receiving a
specially designed silver charm from
General Mills, sponsor of the annual
homemaking education tests, Kathryn
is eligible to compete for the state
title. The winner will be in competition
with other state winners and the 51
finalists will be judged on the basis
3f original test scores, personal obser-
vation and interviews. A scholarship
worth $5,000 will be awarded the
winner. Kathryn expects to enter
Halifax County Technical Institute in
the fall to major in business education.

Recently promoted from temporary
to permanent positions with Mainten-
ance in Halifax County are: S. T.
Lyles, W. F. Pittman, and Jeremiah
Sneed; and in Edgecombe County,
Melvin Glover. Permanent employees
receiving promotions are: M. D. Brad-
ley, H. M. Boyd, B. H. Crawley, W. E.
Wells, and C. W. Tillery, in Halifax
County, and J. L. Hyde, V. W. Lewis,
and W. O. Warren, in Edgecombe
County.

Alison Jones

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Rachel Pate, Steno II in the Divi-
sion Office, recently vacationed in
Florida with her husband.

New Division Traffic Engineer is
Larry N. Stallings.

The Landscape Department has
three new employees: Rhemus H.
Chase, Jr., George R. Parrish and
James W. Parris. These men will be
working as General Utility Men. Mr.
Chase is being promoted to Rest Area
Custodian on June 6, 1970.

Mr. Eugene Woodring, Mr. V. E.
Woodard and Mr. G. M. Williams have
joined the Equipment Department.

Mrs. Mildred Manning, wife of Mr.
M. D. Manning, Shop Foreman, Wil-
son Division Shop, has returned home
from the hospital following an opera-
tion.

The marriage of Miss Pamela Lou
Brantley and Donald Ray Jones was
solemnized Friday, May 1, 1970, in
the White Oak Free Will Baptist
Church. Mr. Jones will be an Engi-
neering Aide and his father, B. C.
Jones, is employed by the Sign De-
partment as a Sign Erector.

Mr. Paul Anderson, Assistant Dis-
trict Engineer at Goldsboro, is the
proud grandfather of Allison Letitia
Jones, the 6-months old daughter of
Linda and Dewey S. Jones of Smith-
field.

Wayne County Highway employees
extend sympathy to:

Marion F. Jones in the recent death
of his brother, Earl Coleman Jones of
Route 2, Clinton, who died March 18,
1970, at the age of 49.

Jarvis B. Sutton, who has lost two
brothers in the last five months. Wal-
ter Sutton of Fremont, N. C, died
January 12 at the age of 64, and
William Sutton, also of Fremont,
N. C, died May 7 at the age of 62.

Jim Berry Smith in the recent
death of a son, William (Billy) Stan-
ley Smith, of LaGrange, February 22,
as a result of an automobile accident.
He was 34 years old.

Wayne County employees who have
returned to work:

Fred Simmons returned on April
6, after having surgery at Wayne
Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro.

Elmond Smith returned on April 6
after having surgery in Wayne Me-
morial Hospital, Goldsboro.

We extend best wishes to the fol-
lowing employees who have recently
retired from Highway Commission
service:

William Grover Wilson, a Machine
Operator, retired April 30 due to dis-
ability, after 18 years' service with
the Highway Commission.

Stacey Cortez Fulghum, a Machine
Operator, retired May 29 after 26y2
years' service.

Lawrence Vernon Beasley, a Main-
tenance Foreman, retired March 31
after serving the Highway Commis-
sion for 26 years.

Mrs. Geraldine B. Outlaw is recup-
erating from illness at her home. She
is the wife of Gilbert W. Outlaw, a
truck driver in Wayne County.

SERVICE AWARDS
25 Years

B. H. Brawley

J. R. Edmondson
Raymond McWilliams
Cicero Nethery

20 Years
S. H. Conner

C. G. Webb

15 Years
Frances P. Cochrane

5 Years
Ann P. Griff is

D. A. Little
SAFETY AWARDS IN

DISTRICT 1

15 Year Award
Frances P. Cochrane
Ed Stansbury

10 Year Award
J. E. Skinner
R. A. Jenkins

E. E. Mayo

5 Year Award
Ann P. Griffis
W. A. Briley
W. C. Brown
J. M. Bohannon
D. A. Little

3 Year Award
W. R. Walston

The following em-
ployees have been
out sick: Mainten-
ance Foreman J. W.
Ferrell and M. O.
II Eulis Weaver.

Mr. W. H. Wal-
ker is wearing
Kirk D u n c a n's
shoes. They might
not fit but he
Divut^Co^espondent wears them well.

B. B. Sumner is trying W. H. Wal-
ker's shoes but they are too small.

Mr. Kirk Duncan retired April 1
and was honored at a supper at the

General Sherman Restaurant by fellow
employees and friends. Kirk was
presented a watch, an easy chair and
a "Retirement Kit."

Durham County Ladies' Night for
the SHC was held recently. Some who
were responsible for making this a
great success were Fred Luxton,
Howard Moore, Kirk Duncan and
Herman Walker.

Hilda Harris and her family en-
joyed a weekend of fishing and fun at
Morehead recently. The fish were
biting and the weather was perfect.

We all hope Cornelius Perry is
enjoying his retirement. Mr. Perry
retired February 28, 1970. He came to
work with the Highway Commission
in November, 1945. Mr. Perry was
responsible for placing and maintain-
ing flambeaus for maintenance and
construction work done by mainten-
ance forces in Durham County, along
with his other duties.

Larry R. Grimes, son of Wilton C.
Grimes, Assistant District Engineer
in Wake County, a Junior at N. C.
State University and Zoology Major,
has mad a the Dean's List. Larry
someday hopes to become a veteri-
narian.

Ladies' Night?

Congratulations to Mrs. Nell Ste-
gall, wife of Resident Engineer Earl
Stegall of Henderson. Nell was per-
sonal page at the State Federation of
Women's Clubs Convention in Win-
ston-Salem during April for Mrs. J. W.
Weathers, 2nd Vice President of
NCFWC. Nell was also elected to the
position of Junior Fine Arts Chair-
man for NCFWC for 1970-72.

Mrs. Nancy H. Bobbitt of Hender-
son, wife of Ruxton Bobbitt in the
Henderson office Construction De-
partment, also attended the NCFWC
Convention in Winston-Salem. Both
Nell and Nancy stayed for the entire
3-day convention and reported having
a wonderful time.

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Left to right: M. T.
Adkins, G. C. Riley,
V. C. Overton, Kirk
Duncan and Marvin
Mangum.

KIRK DUNCAN RETIRES

Mr. Duncan was born October 5,
1905, in Granville County. He is
the son of the late Junious F.
Duncan and Betty S. Duncan, who
now live in Fayetteville, N. C. His
career with the Granville County
road forces was begun in 1926 as
a truck driver and road machine
operator. Granville County road
forces were taken over by the
North Carolina State Highway
Commission in 1931. From that
date until July 1, 1936, Mr. Duncan
was Assistant Floating Gang Fore-
man and on July 1, 1936, he became
Floating Gang Foreman. He held

this position until June 1, 1946,
when he was transferred to Dur-
ham County and promoted to Road
Maintenance Supervisor. He has
served in Durham County with the
State Highway Commission in that
capacity until the present time.

Mr. Duncan married Mamie How-
ell of Granville County on January
25, 1929. They have one daughter,
Mrs. Gilbert Dickerson, who now
resides in Granville County. Also,
Mr. Duncan has two granddaugh-
ters, Teresa Currin, who attends
Wake Forest University in Win-
ston-Salem, N. C, and Becky Lynn
Currin, who is a student at Webb
High School in Oxford, N. C.

C. R. Dawkins,
Highway Commis-
sioner, presented
the Man of the
Year Award of the
Cape Fear Engin-
eers to Sam Wilson,
District Engineer
of Fayetteville. The
presentation was
made on April 24,

Ray Autry
Division Correspondent li) IK).

The wedding of Miss Rachel Sue
Home, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Home of Roseboro, and William
Franklin Townsend, son of Mr. Arthur
R. Townsend of Fayetteville and the
late Mrs. Townsend, took place Sat-

urday afternoon, February 21, 1970,
at 5 o'clock at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. D. K. Strother. Mr. Townsend is
the son of Arthur Townsend, Auto
Parts Supervisor, Division Six Equip-
ment Department, Fayetteville, N. C.

Best wishes and happy retirement
to two Division Equipment Depart-
ment employees, J. C. McCaskill, re-
tiring after 35 years of service and
M. O. Edge, after 23 years. Mr.
McCaskill began work with the High-
way Commission in 1945 and Mr.
Edge began in 1949. Mr. Edge was in
the hospital recently.

The Right of Way Department of
Division 6 welcomes an attractive new
employee, Margaret Ann McAlpine,
who has been assigned to this office
as a Stenographer I, Temporary, ef-
fective May 18, 1970.

Claude R. Moore, Jr., Right of Way
Agent, and his family spent the week-
end of May 23 at Kure Beach, N. C.
Claude reported that the weather was
beautiful at the beach and they had a
wonderful time. Also, Mr. and Mrs.
Moore went to South of the Border
where the children had a "gay-o-
time" taking in the rides. Claude also

spent a weekend with his mother in
Burlington recently. We regret to
report that Mr. and Mrs. Moore's
4 year old son, Richard, had to have
another operation on his eyes around
June 1, 1970, as the first operation
was not successful.

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Townsend

We are happy to report that Col.
Merrit F. Harrison, Sr., Relocation
Advisor and Division Property Man-
ager in the Right of Way Department
of Division 6, who underwent surgery
at Womack Army Hospital, Fayette-
ville, N. C, has returned to work.

Welcome back to Cutlar L. Ballance,
Right of Way Aide, who has been a
patient at Southeastern General Hos-
pital in Lumberton, N. C.

"Aloha" from June F. Cox, Secre-
tary in the Right of Way Department,
who recently visited her son and
daughter-in-law, Captain and Mrs.
John A. Cox, Jr., at Hickam Air
Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii. June
reports that her trip was wonderful
and Hawaii is just as beautiful as she
expected it to be. Some of the high-
lights of her trip were visiting the
Pearl Harbor Memorial, the Luau, the
Kodak Hula Show, the Zoo, the
Beaches and the International Market
Center.

Left to right:
Wilson.

C. R. Dawkins, Sam

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J. C. McCaskill, 35 years of service

S. J. Smitherman, Division Right
of Way Agent, A. E. Dixon, Right of
Way Agent, C. L. Ballance and H. W.
Locklear, Right of Way Aides, at-
tended the Annual meeting of Chap-
ter No. 31 of the Right of Way Asso-
ciation at Atlantic Beach near More-
head City on May 15 and 16, 1970.
They reported that the meeting was
informative and that they had a won-
derful time.

H. T. Herring, Area Foreman in
Robeson County has been out sick
since February. Also, Mr. K. C.
Morgan is still recuperating from an
off job injury in late 1969.

J. F. Pate injured in an off job
accident in 1968 returned to work re-
cently.

Margaret Ann McAlpine

Linda F. Floyd has been employed
in the Lumberton District Office to
replace J. H. Parham who retired in
January. Linda was formerly employ-
ed with the Resident Engineer's Of-
fice, resigning last summer for priv-
ate employment.

The brother of M. M. Cade, Truck
Driver for Cumberland County, died
recently.

The mother of Mr. J. C. Autry, Ma-
chine Operator II for Cumberland
County, also died recently.

Mary Jones

Congratulations to J. E. Peacock,
Mechanic II, Equipment Department,
Fayetteville, N. C, on his graduation
May 7, 1970, from Cumberland Coun-
ty High School at Alexander Graham
High School in Fayetteville.

Paul G. Weeks, Highway Engineer
I, was away the last two weeks in
May taking part in the National
Guard Summer Camp. Mr. and Mrs.
Truitt Johnson and girls attended the
North Carolina Blueberry Festival
May 21 through May 24 at White
Lake.

Ray R. Stone has joined the Har-
nett County Construction Office as
an Engineer Technician II. He is
planning to be married on June 19.

M. J. Stanley and R. L. Belfast, Jr.,
were a big part of the Survey Party
for the Harnett County Construction
Office. They were taking part in the
Co-op program.

Located in the Harnett County
Construction Office for Training is
Mr. Andy R. Lee.

M. O. Edge, 12 years of service

Ruth Murphy, Steno in the District
Office, and her husband enjoyed a
week-end at Hilton Head Island, S. C,
during a Ready Mix Concrete conven-
tion. Golfing claimed their attention
while there.

Marilyn Smith recently visited
Carolina Beach. Mrs. Smith is em-
ployed in the Division Office.

Elizabeth Melvin and family recent-
ly visited Pennsylvania, Amish Coun-
try and other points of interest.

Summer employees working in the
Harnett County Construction Survey
Party are E. Earl Cain, Michael F.
Mahan, Douglas L. Kennedy and
George M. Hargrove, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Lamb are par-
ents of a daughter, born January 16,
1970. Mr. Lamb is a Technician I
with the Construction Department in
Lumberton.

DIVISION I
SEVEN j

Many engineering
students are work-
ing with us this
summer.

The following em-
ployees are retiring
on June 1: W. R.
Westbrooks, Ma-
chine Operator
with the Road Oil
Department is re-
Divisirc^esprdent «ring after eight
years of service.
M. C. Clymer, Truck Driver in Dis-
trict 2, is retiring after twenty-eight
years of service.

C. S. Walker, Maintenance Yard
Foreman at Sandy Ridge Maintenance
Yard in Guilford County. Mr. Walker
has been employed by the State High-
way Commission for 22 years.

William E. Payne, Truck Driver in
District 1, has eight years of service.

John H. Workman, Machine Op-
erator in Orange County, has return-
ed to work after having had success-
ful bilateral cataract operations.

Retired employee, Luke H. Wilson,
Traffic Services Supervisor, is in
Cone Hospital.

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On the left is Ralph Kirkman, Shop
Foreman, at Sandy Ridge Equipment
Shop in Guilford County, and with
him is Paul Lemons with the Equip-
ment Department.

Jake Chappell remains confined to
his home at 2822 Rockwood Road,
Greensboro, after being in Moses H.
Cone Memorial Hospital for a while.

Walter Cooper, who recently un-
derwent an operation in Burlington
Memorial Hospital, is out of the hos-
pital but unable to return to work.

Kent Thompson has just added an-
other title to his list, that of Car-
penter V. Kent has just added a new
carport and utility room to his home.

Judy Little

Charles Little, Auto Parts Super-
visor, has a daughter, Judy, who grad-
duated from Northeast Senior High
School on June 1, 1970, and who is
planning to attend Rockingham Tech
in the fall.

J. Van Ingold and Alton Younger
took a fishing trip to the coast re-
cently. They reported a good catch.

Yunoka Coleman is a new clerk in
the Equipment Department Office.
Yunoka is the daughter of Fred G.
Wood, Maintenance Foreman IV in
Guilford County.

Yunoka Coleman

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

A new addition to the John Buie
family — William Robert Buie, a son,
born April 25; and according to John,
this is the best baby of all, doesn't
cry — well, just a chip off the old
block. Our congratulations, John and
Dulane! Proud grandfather is Doug-
las Patrick, Landscape Supervisor,
who has twin granddaughters born
March 6 — Cathy Ann and Angela.
Mr. Patrick says these two little girls
are about the finest things about.

Our best wishes to Mrs. Tessie
Troutman Hall, and husband, Jerry,
who were married in the Methodist
Church in Aberdeen on April 10. Fol-
lowing the wedding ceremony, Tessie
and Jerry went to New Orleans and
several other interesting places on
their wedding trip.

Welcome to new employees Martha
Garrison and Harold Miller. Mrs. Gar-
rison is clerk in the Road Oil Office,
and Harold is Staff Engineer in train-
ing in the division office.

A good time was reported by all
from the Shad Bake held on April 24
— this is an annual outing given by
the Town of Aberdeen honoring High-
way employees. Those from the Ra-
leigh office, as well as the local high-
way employees, look forward to this
occasion.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Dannie Hugh Wright who died
on May 13. Dannie Hugh was em-
ployed by the Maintenance Depart-
ment in Scotland County. Also, to the
families of G. E. Willett and Troy E.
Smith of the District One Maintenance
Office, who died this spring. We ex-
tend sympathy also to Ab Carter in
the death of his mother on March 1.

The small daughter of Phil Pugh of
the Asheboro Construction Office,
was injured in a lawn mower ac-
cident.

George Parrish of the Road Oil
Department and W. H. Snead, Scot-
land County Maintenance Department,
continue to be out of work due to
illness.

C. N. Moore, 40-plus years of service

C. Newton Moore, Chatham County
Road Maintenance Supervisor who re-
tired on December 31, 1969, after more
than forty years of service, was hon-
ored at a dinner in January at Bill's
Good Food. More than one hundred
fellow employees attended.

Mr. Moore began with the Highway
Commission as a truck driver and rose
steadily to achieve the post which he
is now leaving. He is active in civic
affairs as well as in the First Baptist
Church. Mrs. Moore is the former
Sadie Johnson and they have three
children. Sara, Mrs. Larry W. Wilson,
teaches school in Iredell County, and
twins Ronald and Donald are seniors
at East Carolina University.

J. L. Riley

Mr. J. L. Riley, Road Oil Supervisor,
Division Eight, who retired on April
1, following more than 45 years of
service with the State Highway Com-
mission, received a rod and reel from
Division Engineer "Red" Hughes on
behalf of fellow employees in the
division. Shown also are Joe Adams,
Z. V. Tolar, Tom Collins, and Louis
Murrow who have worked very closely
with Mr. Riley in the Road Oil De-
partment. All good wishes for a happy
retirement to this very faithful and
loyal Commission employee. Mr. Riley
is truly "one of the greatest" in every
respect, and we wish him the very
best.

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The Thomas C. Tapp family are
able to be home from the hospital.
Tom, his wife, Ann, and their two
children were involved in an accident
and badly hurt. Tom is with the
Maintenance Department in Scotland
County.

Bob Lee, Machine Operator IV,
Scotland County, retired June 1, after
serving the Highway Commission for
more than 40 years. Mr. Lee has not
been well for the past several
months. Fellow workers presented
him a gift in recognition of his faith-
ful and loyal work.

Ralph H. Lawrence of the Land-
scape Department retired on Feb-
ruary 1, 1970.

Another who is now in retirement
is Mr. T. C. Johnston. Mr. John Hall,
former District Engineer in the Ashe-
boro area, and his wife, Mary, visited
the office recently.

DIVISION
NINE |

Mr. and Mrs.
Richard G. Hill are
the parents o f
Mark Anthony
Hill, their first-
born, who arrived
on February 1,
Mark's father is a
Sign Erector for
Traffic Services
Department in

thy Phelps Winston-SalpTYl
Correspondent vv ln!^on Odtem.

Dorothy Phelps
Division

Sympathy is extended to William
Thomas Snow in the death of his
mother, Mrs. Bertie Snow, on Feb-
ruary 20, 1970. William Thomas Snow
is a Sign Erector with Traffic Serv-
ices Department.

Max Shepherd has been in Forsyth
Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem
for four weeks, and he is now con-
valescing at the home of his mother-
in-law in Sparta. Mr. Shepherd, who
is a Maintenance Foreman II with
the Road Oil Department, suffered a
heart attack in February.

We were sorry to hear of the pain-
ful burn which Mr. Mack D. Ham
suffered on his leg. He was hos-
pitalized at Forsyth Memorial Hos-
pital for a week but is now con-
valescing at his home. Mr. Ham is a

Machine Operator III with the Road
Oil Department.

Mr. A. B. Crisp, Road Oil General
Utility Man, hospitalized for a period
of one week, has now returned to
work.

Mr. E. M. Neal, Road Oil Main-
tenance Foreman II, who had an
appendectomy, has now recuperated
and returned to work.

Walter Leonard Pugh, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter B. Pugh of Win-
ston-Salem, has received an Aubrey
Lee Brooks Scholarship for study at
any one of three branches of the Con-
solidated University of North Caro-
lina. A senior at R. J. Reynolds High
School, Len plans to study engi-
neering at North Carolina State Uni-
versity. Len's father is Road Oil Sup-
ervisor of the Ninth Division.

R. L. Chew

Mr. R. L. (Bob) Chew has been
practicing for his retirement long be-
fore he actually retired February 1,
1970. Bob is shown here with his lit-
tle grandson during a visit to see him
in Florida. Mr. Chew began employ-
ment with the North Carolina State
Highway Commission on June 1, 1927,
and came to Winston-Salem as Dis-
trict II Engineer on July 1, 1963.

R. L. Johnson was promoted from
Assistant District Engineer to Dis-
trict Engineer to take the position
vacated by the retirement of Mr.
Chew.

Bobby Johnson (R. L.) was succeed-
ed by Trainee Bruce C. Jacobs who
became Assistant District Engineer
of District Two in Winston-Salem,
after having been in the Training
Program in Division Three. Bruce,
his wife and young daughter have
moved to Winston-Salem.

Mrs. Mickey Smith transferred to
District II from the Relocation De-
partment as Clerk II.

Gray Lawson, Foreman IV, Dis-
trict II, shows that he is still a
Ranger who is not afraid to tackle a
tough job.

Lay Inman

The Relocation Department of the
Right of Way Department welcomes
a new employee, Mr. Ronald L. Abbott
who comes to the office from Chapel
Hill, N. C. Ron is married and orig-
inally hails from Pennsylvania. He is
a graduate of the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Racine Van Dusen has transferred
from the Right of Way Department
to Relocation Department as secre-
tary to Mr. E. M. Patterson, Jr.

Racine Van Dusen

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We would like to welcome three new
employees to the Winston-Salem
Right of Way Office. They are James
K. Suits and R. A. Griffin, Jr., Right
of Way Aides; and our new secre-
tary, Mrs. Kay F. Inman.

The Right of Way Department in
Winston-Salem also welcomes Brooke
Crist. Brooke was recently transferred
back home to Winston-Salem from
North Wilkesboro.

Harold Pittman recently reported
to Fort Jackson, S. C, for summer
camp.

We understand that the following
employees in the Right of Way De-
partment had a great time at the
Right of Way Association meeting at
Atlantic Beach recently: Larry Cabe,
Cliff Walters, Brooke Crist and Har-
old Pittman.

Miss Barbara Jean Waller of Lex-
ington, and Larry Lee Barnes were
married at 3:00 p.m. May 10, 1970, in
Mocks United Methodist Church. The
Rev. Carl Hair of Thomasville offic-
iated.

Her husband, a graduate of Davie
County High School, works for the
State Highway Commission in Win-
ston-Salem. His parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin L. Barnes.

Mrs. Larry Barnes

M. C. Byrum, Jr., Staff Appraiser
for the Right of Way Department of
the N. C. State Highway Commission
stationed at Winston-Salem, N. C,
has recently been designated a Resi-
dential Specialist and has subse-
quently been selected as a Senior Res-
idential Appraiser. The designation
was received from the national of-
fice of the Society of Real Estate Ap-
praisers in Chicago, Illinois.

SRA membership in the Society of
Real Estate Appraisers is limited to

/ DIVISION
TEN

Mark Hill

appraisers of recognized ability hav-
ing many years of active experience
in appraising residential property.

Appraisers are admitted to SRA
membership in the Society only by
action of the SRA Admissions Com-
mittee, whose regulations require
that applicants meet rigid minimum
requirements of appraisal experience
and demonstrate a high quality of
appraisal work as well as knowledge
of fundamentals, tested by an ex-
amination.

The general community standing
and professional conduct of applicants
for SRA membership have been in-
vestigated and they pledge their ad-
herence to the Code of Ethics formu-
lated by the Society.

Senior Residential Appraisers, be-
cause of their training, experience
and high moral principles, are consid-
ered outstanding appraisers of resi-
dential property.

In addition to his duties in Winston-
Salem, Mr. Byrum has worked as a
Staff Appraiser for the Highway
Commission in both the Charlotte and
Asheville areas. Mr. Byrum's parents
are Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Byrum, Sr.,
of Salisbury, N. C.

Lewis D. Shaw - Man of Action

Division Equip-
ment Superintend-
ent P. R. McCorkle
retired recently
and was honored
by a group of fel-
low employees at
a supper held in
Stanly County. All
of the Division
Equipmsnt em-

Division Correspondent PlQyeeS Were PreS"

ent as well as other Division Ten
personnel. Mr. Harry Long, Assistant
State Equipment Engineer, addressed
the group. Also present was Thir-
teenth Division Equipment Super-
intendent J. M. Kistler. Both Mr. Long
and Mr. Kistler had been associated
with Mr. McCorkle for many years
and expressed appreciation for his
guidance while under his supervision.
The Equipment Department em-
ployees presented Mr. McCorkle with
an engraved watch and a self-level-
ing hitch for his camper.

Mr. McCorkle began his career
with the Highway Commission on
January 13, 1922, and, except for a
few weeks, was associated entirely
with the Equipment Department of
the Highway Commission. We wish
Mr. McCorkle a long and satisfying
retirement.

Jim Cochran, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Cochran, Sr., of Tenth Division
Construction, is a man with a full
time job and driving desire and in-
terest in the state organization of
the Jaycees. He is in the Industrial
Engineering Department of the Ba-
din Works of Aluminum Company of
America but spends all of his off-duty
time working for the Jaycees. In 1969
Jim was voted by his fellow Jaycees
as Stanly County Jaycee of the year.
We congratulate Jim on his success
in this organization.

E. C. Shinn has retired with 35
years of service with the Mainten-
ance Department in Cabarrus Coun-
ty and we all wish him the best in the
coming years. He began working for
the county in 1930 and retired March
1, 1970.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mills of Ca-
barrus County spent the Easter holi-
days with their daughter and fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sylvia, of
Brunswick, Georgia.

W. E. Calloway spent an extended
vacation with his brother and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Don Calloway, of Falls
Church, Virginia, and also with his
sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Daniels, of Crofton, Maryland.

Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Menius, Jr.,
are proud to announce the birth of a
son, James Alson Menius, February
20, 1970.

James Menius

Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Smith spent the
week-end at the beach.

Those on the Stanly County sick
list are: G. L. Simpson, W. V. Hud-
son, and J. T. Lowder.

B. G. Kirk, Jr., is now in Stanly
County Maintenance as a Temporary
Machine Operator I. L. C. Smith has
joined the Equipment Department as
a mechanic.

J. B. Austin, M. 0. I, and Oscar
Furr, Bridge Tender, are really catch-
ing the fish, or they say they are.

Ted W. Funderburk, Resident Engi-
neer, recently transferred from "Con-
struction" in Charlotte to "Adminis-
tration" in Raleigh with promotion to
Construction Staff Engineer. On May
1, 1970, Ted was honored with a lunch-
eon at The Amber House Restaurant
with forty-five state employees at-
tending.

Mary G. Hodge resigned May 22
with the "Construction" Department
in Charlotte. Prior to this, she had
worked one and one-half years with
State Board of Paroles in Raleigh.
Mary is resigning to devote full time
to family responsibilities, and she is
looking forward to her hobby which is
gardening.

Larry Warren Godfrey graduated
from West Mecklenburg High School.
He is the 18 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Godfrey, and his dad is a
Machine Operator in Mecklenburg
County.

Larry Warren Godfrey

Horace W. Goodrum, Mecklenburg
County foreman, retired February 1,
1970.

Horace W. Goodrum

Judy Kendall, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Kendall, Jr., a rising
Senior at South Stanly High School,
has been selected as one of 38 high
school students to study advanced
science and mathematics at the Uni-
versity of Georgia at Athens,
Georgia. This six weeks of study,
sponsored by the National Science
Foundation, begins June 15 and con-
tinues through July 24. All expenses
will be paid by the Foundation. While
at Georgia, Judy will study the math-
ematics of group theory, attend group
seminars, attend group outings, and
participate in group research work.

/ DIVISION I

ELEVEN

Sympathy is ex-
tended to C. W.
Draughn, Surry
County Mainten-
a n c e employee
whose wife passed
away March 20;
and to George
Winkler whose
father, Robert
Winkler, Sr., pass-
Div^otcorfesrondented away on Febru-
ary 21. George is employed in the
Boone Construction Office. Sympathy
is also extended to the family of H. M.
Bledsoe, retired District Maintenance
employee, who died recently.

W. W. McMillan, Ashe County
Maintenance employee, was out of
work due to a heart attack; and
Barney E. Brown, Wilkes County
Maintenance employee, is out on ex-
tended illness.

Judy Kendall

Paul M. West saying "farewell' to
Brooke Crist.

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William Clarence Hall, Wilkes
County Maintenance employee, retired
May 1. Mr. Hall retired with 38 years
and 5 months of service.

Robert W. Church, Wilkes County
Maintenance employee, has come back
to work after being out almost two
years due to an on-the-job accident.

Carl McCann is new Division Traf-
fic Engineer for the Eleventh Di-
vision.

Brooke Crist has recently trans-
ferred to the Winston-Salem office.

Project 6.7410019 in Surry County
— US-52 between Mount Airy and
Pilot Mountain — Some of North Caro-
lina's first long span bridges are
being built on US-52 between Mount
Airy and Pilot Mountain. Note that
no center beams are being used. The
beams used here are one piece and
are 158 feet long. The elimination of
the center beams are a safety factor.
Mr. T. E. Gwyn, Dobson, N. C, is
Supervisor on this project.

Graduation days
are once again here
and Division
Twelve is full of
proud parents.
Among those sen-
iors in Alexander
who graduated
from high school
on May 29 are six
young ladies and

DWiaion* Corr" pondent two young men.

The first of these young ladies is
Miss Patsy Jane Robinson. While in
high school Patsy has served on the
TAHIAN staff. She has been a mem-
ber of the Dramatics Club, Arts and

Crafts Club and the Literary Club of
which she was Program Chairman.
Patsy was also an assistant in the
library. After graduation Patsy plans
to get married.

Patsy is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Robinson of Taylorsville.
Mr. Robinson is a Machine Operator
in Division Twelve.

Next is Mrs. Annie R. Robinette.
Annie is the daughter-in-law of How-
ard Robinette who works at the Tay-
lorsville branch of the State Highway.
While in school Annie was a cadet
teacher.

Miss Judy Gail Dyson is the daugh-
ter of Flake Dyson who is a mechanic
for Division Twelve, Taylorsville.
Judy was a member of the FHA.

Nita Karen Fox is the daughter of
James Fox, a machine operator at
Taylorsville. Karen has served as
homeroom secretary. Karen was chos-
en "Wittiest" senior girl.

Lea Denise Price is the daughter
of Lindsay Price of Taylorsville, a
Foreman II for Division Twelve. De-
nise plans to attend Beauty School.

Charlene Elizabeth Bentley is the
daughter of Perry Bentley, who is a
Foreman II for Taylorsville's branch
of the State Highway Commission.
She plans to major in Physical Educa-
tion at Lees-McRae College.

Junior Lynn Jolly is the son of
W. D. Jolly. Mr. Jolly is a loader
operator for the State. While in school
Junior was a member of the FFA,
Science Club.

David Edward Robinette is the son
of James B. Robinette, who is Yard
Foreman for Division Twelve, Tay-
lorsville. David plans to attend U.N.C.
at Chapel Hill in the fall.

Also graduating from high school
are Debra Kay Edney, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Edney, and Eric
Mauney, son of Division Engineer
K. E. Mauney, and Kenneth Brooks,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Brooks.

Deborah Jean Queen, daughter of
R. A. Queen, and Richard Albert Ded-
mon, son of A. P. Dedmon, Jr., will
graduate from Shelby High School
May 29, 1970. Debbie will attend Mars
Hill College, Mars Hill, N. C, and
Ricky will attend Gaston College, Gas-
tonia, N. C.

Richard Albert Dedmon

John Henderson, Bridge Foreman,
is recovering from injuries sustained
in an accident on Interstate 85 in
Gaston County on May 19. Mr. Hen-
derson is a patient at Charlotte Me-
morial Hospital.

Enr mm

Deborah Jean Queen

Denise and Regina King of Route 1,
Hickory and David Richardson of
Route 2, Vale, are grandchildren of
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Richardson of
Lincoln County. Mr. Richardson is
District 1 maintenance employee.

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30 Year Service Award Winners

Four state employees received their
25 year service award in May, 1970,
Talmadge McDaniels, Zeb Speece,
H. I. Tomlin, and Hayden Rhyne.

James William Wray received his
30 year service award in May, 1970.

James William Wray

"At ease" here are four who have
earned 25 Year Service Awards.

Congratulations, on the arrival of
a new baby girl, to Mr. and Mrs.
Larry Teague of Taylorsville. The
Teagues now have two daughters.
Larry is a Foreman I at Taylorsville.

Mr. Lynn Marshall was honored at
a bachelor's shower at the home of
Perry Bentley. Members of Taylors-
ville Division Twelve were present.
Lynn was married in April to Mima
Jean Hayes.

Mrs. John Marshall was a patient
at Iredell Memorial Hospital in States-
ville.

May seemed to be the month for
new babies. On May 6, 1970, a baby
girl, Amanda Elaine, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. M. K. Moss, and on May 15,
1970, Christopher Mark was born to
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Peeler. The Peelers
have another son, James Donald, four
years old.

G. G. Bess recently was hospitaliz-
ed after an accident on a lawn mower.
We hope his confinement will not be
too extensive and that he will soon
be back in construction.

Summer employees in the Con-
struction Department are Stephen Mc-
Neeley, Clyde Ledbetter, John More-
head and Ted Mclntyre.

A. N. Ledford enjoyed a few days
vacation in California during the
month of May.

New employees in the Manley Con-
struction Party are Eric Greene,
Doug Farmer, Ronnie Stacey and
Randy Shearin.

Harold D. Fieleski of Manley Con-
struction Party recently resigned to
return to Alaska.

E. R. McGimpsey, retired Office
Engineer, enjoyed immensely his re-
cent European trip. He remembered
the folks in the Division Office with
picturesque post cards.

Charles Anderson of the Shelby
Construction Party is back at work
after being on sick leave for quite
awhile.

E. W. Champion, Road Oil Super-
visor has completed 25 years of serv-
ice with the Highway Commission.

R. Terry Queen has transferred to
R. R. Nichols' Construction Party at
Shelby from the Statesville Mainten-
ance Team.

C. W. Benfield, an employee of
Alexander County, recently caught a

14-pound catfish in Lake Norman.

Clay Lunsford is in the Maintenance
Department. He transferred to the
Construction Department in April
where he will be working with C. C.
Mauney.

Puerto Rico was the destination of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Carpenter's ex-
citing vacation trip in April. Lewis
is Foreman in Gaston County Main-
tenance. The trip was made by car to
Miami, Florida. After spending a few
days there with relatives, the Car-
penters took their first plane flight
to San Juan to visit their son and his
family, Lewis, Jr., who is employed
by Chadbourn, Inc., of Charlotte, N. C.
Their one year old granddaughter
was the main attraction while in
Puerto Rico.

These maintenance employees are
to be congratulated: Frank Blanton,
who earned a 30 Year Service Award
this year; O. C. Carpenter, R. J.
Goins and C. H. Richardson, who
earned the 25 Year Service Award.
J. W. Jolly also earned the 30 Year
Award.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack B. Creasy are
parents of a son born on February
7, 1970, Jack Landon Creasy.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther P. Nicholson
are parents of a son, Doyle Wayne,
born on April 5.

Dave C. Jones is helping tempo-
rarily on the Statesville construction
crew.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Heavner on the birth of a baby
boy. Mr. Heavner is Machine Opera-
tor in Lincoln County.

Thurman Runyans, Cleveland Coun-
ty Maintenance Foreman, was hos-
pitalized at Oteen Hospital.

Amy Jean Cline, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ambrose Cline, with her
road pony which she shows in the
roadster classes. "Mama" Jean (Mrs.
Ambrose) is steno in the 12th Divi-
sion Office.

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Kdn a Ramsey

I Mrs. Elaine Brewer
was a delegate to
the Beta Sigma
Convention held re-
cently at the Sir
Walter Hotel in
Raleigh. Mr. and
Mrs. Deaver Law-
rence spent a week
| visiting their
*"" daughter and her

himhanrl Mr jirul
Division Correspondent "lUSDana, IVir. ana

Mrs. Lowell Hollars, at their new
home in "Juno Isle," North Palm
Beach, Florida. Deaver is the ignition
man at the Biltmore Shop. The fol-
lowing employees of the Equipment
Department have been ill: Mr. T. J.
Jones, who is a patient in Memorial
Mission Hospital for surgery to cor-
rect a slipped disc; Wilson Hensley,
who is recuperating at home in Burns-
ville following surgery for a back
ailment at St. Joseph's Hospital in
Asheville; Herman Condrey, mechanic
at the Marion Shop, is recovering at
his home from a broken leg suffered
in an accident. Heartfelt sympathy is
expressed to Mr. Jennis Sluder, Wel-
der, on the recent death of his father,
the Reverend Ervin Sluder, who was
a well known Baptist Minister for 43
years.

Mrs. Dallas Clark, of the Right of
Way Department, is recovering at
home from recent surgery.

Two new Engineering Aides in the
District 2 office are Joey Allen and
Phil Layton. Also back this summer
is "Trey" Tingle.

Commissioner Novile Hawkins con-
gratulates Paul Lankford on his recent
promotion to Landscape Supervisor
for the 14th Division. Friends and
co-workers presented him with a
farewell gift at a coffee, hostessed by
Melba Alexander and Aileen Allman.

Linda Cabe has joined the Right of
Way Department, where she works as
a secretary.

This very lovely bride is the former
Carol Elaine Hensley, daughter of
P. M. Hensley of the Equipment De-
partment in Burnsville. Carol became
the bride of John Michael Jones on
May 2, 1970, at the Cathedral of Christ
the King in Atlanta, Georgia.

District Two office personnel re-
cently enjoyed picnicking at the
camp belonging to Louise Blythe's
father, in the heart of the Pisgah
National Forest.

Dan Martin and Dick Reed, Resident
Engineers, have passed their Profes-
sional Engineer exams. Mr. and Mrs.
William J. Krickbaum are parents of
a daughter, Caryn Leah, born on April
1, 1970. Jimmy Wheeler has joined
SHC as an Engineering Aide in Dan
Martin's office. The Weaverville con-
struction office welcomes back Jay
Shuford, who has been on leave of
absence in the armed forces. R. G.
Gibbs was married April 1, 1970. He
and his wife spent their honeymoon at
Myrtle Beach. Gary is a Highway
Inspector.

Mary Shivers received a ring set for
her anniversary. Frances Gray re-
cently enjoyed a long week-end at
Myrtle Beach and came back with a
lovely tan. Shober Kearney, Jack Beck,
Jim Councill and Harold Stallcup
spent a day on the golf course on
Confederate Memorial Day. Kenneth
Driver has transferred from the 14th
Division where he worked as Assis-
tant Resident Engineer to Freddie
Davidson. Ken's new job is Division
Staff Engineer in Asheville. While the
Drivers live in Arden, wife Phyllis
teaches at West Henderson High
School and daughter Liesl attends
nursery school in Hendersonville.
Stanley Hyatt, who has been on the
Training Program since he graduated
from Ohio State University last De-
cember, has been in construction and
is presently assisting Ken Driver. He
and his wife will move to Raleigh in
July, where he will complete the
Training Program while Judith will
teach school.

Alden Whitmore, Jr., former Divi-
sion 13 Staff Engineer and now As-
sistant Resident Engineer in Mr.
Usry's office is being transferred to
Charlotte as Assistant Resident En-
gineer in the 10th Division. He re-
cently married Miss Katherine L.
Cody of York, South Carolina.

Specialist 4 Eddie Baskerville, Jr.,
stands outside the barracks at Tan
Son Nhut Air Force Base in Saigon,
where he is stationed. Eddie, who is
the son of Road Oil Supervisor Eddie
Baskerville, plans to be married very
soon, in Hawaii.

45

Jim Givens, Construction, was help-
ing to clear right of way with a bush
ax. He had a pencil in the pocket of
his shirt (point up) and as he swung
down with the ax, he stabbed the
pencil into his left arm. The wound
required two stitches.

This little doll is the adopted daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Rader. Mr.
Rader is a Highway Inspector working
for Dan Martin's office.

In an accident at Craggy, Harley
Honeycutt and Garrett Robinson of
the Landscape Department were very
seriously injured. Richard Roberts was
killed. Harley and Garrett are now
out of the hospital and recovering at
home.

In the Road Oil Office, Mrs. G. E.
Baskerville is making a splendid re-
covery from recent surgery. Alonzo
Franklin and Clyde Ramsey have been
ill for quite some time.

Meryl Compton is back at work
after a long absence due to a heart
attack. Meryl is already looking like
his old self again. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Carter became parents of a new son
on April 26. Clyde is a Sign Erector
in Madison. Miss Mary Dean Wallen
was a recent bride. She is the daugh-
ter of Landon K. Wallen, Traffic Sign
Painter and a former Miss Asheville.

John D. Robertson, Assistant Resi-
dent Engineer, has acquired the mo-
torcycle fever along with several oth-
ers who have purchased new motor-
cycles, Ray Branton, Don Early, John
Willie.

Rhonda Ann Sutton, age one year,
daughter of Ronald Sutton with Sylva
Construction.

Stephen Cooper, son of Donal Cooper
with Bryson City Construction.

Joe Deitz, with
Construction i n
Sylva, is attending
classes on the In-
Service Program at
Western Carolina
University to earn
a degree in Busi-
ness Administra-
tion.

Carroll Tatham

Allyce Cunningham , . . . .

Division Correspondent ana niS Wlie,

Jackie, have returned from a week of
vacation in Miami and Fort Pierce,
Florida. Carrol is with Sylva Con-
struction.

46

An eye witness to this event told
us that he saw a guy, slightly inebri-
ated, driving into Clyde, N. C. He
made the wrong turn, got on the rail-
road track and drove for a con-
siderable distance. The cops who
caught up with him were told: "You
got the roughest d . . . roads in
North Carolina!"

Wanda Jones, in Sylva Construction,
and family spent a week at Wrights-
ville Beach at Wilmington soaking up
Vitamin C, commonly known as "sun-
shine."

G. W. "Jeep" Owen, Engineering
Technician in Construction, came
walking rather stately into the office
one morning. Asked what was the
matter, he replied, "I broke two ribs
playing softball."

Summer boys working in the Sylva
Construction Office for Resident G. W.
Clayton are Richard Davis Bagnall,
Ronnie Dan Buchanan, Marion Neil
Enloe, Charles Donald Seagle, Michael
Anders and Dale Thomas Turpin.

We extend sympathy to two em-
ployees of the Sylva Construction
Office: R. D. Bishop, in the death of
his grandmother and R. M. Allison in
the death of his brother.

C. D. Clements has been transferred
from the Right of Way Department
in Wilmington to the Sylva Office.
His family will be moving to our
area soon.

G. B. Woodard, after serving in
Viet Nam, has rejoined the Highway
Commission. Previously he worked for
S. T. Usry in Waynesville.

Boyd Ayers lost both his father and
father-in-law within a month of each
other.

Peggy Jean Vinson was married to
Terry Lane Bradley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Bradley of Franklin on
March 28, 1970, in Newman Baptist
Church, Macon County. Peggy is a
graduate of Western Carolina Uni-
versity and Terry graduated from
N. C. State University in May. Joe
works in Construction in the Sylva
area.

FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Hugh Salter, Ferry Operations
Manager, addresses a personnel meet-
ing at the Hatteras Marlin Club, Hat-
teras, N. C. Fifty-four employees
from Ocracoke, Hatteras and Curri-
tuck Operations attended. D. E. Snow,
Equipment Superintendent and his
assistant, Arthur Johnson, joined the
afternoon session to address the group
on matters associated with the
Equipment Department.

Carr Roger Shelton, Equipment De-
partment, when he killed this rattler,
was on Shoal Mountain on NC 107,
Jackson County. The rattler area was
crushed and the number of rattlers
could not be determined.

Remember, we told you they were
going to "jumboize" the ferries from
the Bogue Sound Operation, well,
here's a picture of the first finished
product, the "Governor Cherry" being
launched at Coastal Boat Works,
Morehead City, May 21, 1970.

T".

Thomas A., age 6, and Elizabeth Ann
Bostic, age 8, children of Thomas and
Vera Ann Bostic, Reiglewood, N. C,
are also grandchildren of Chief En-
gineer Willis.

The pirates, above, are Irvin Gar-
rish, Captain of the "Pamlico" and a
friend, Monk Garrish, of Ocracoke,
who stopped by the Ferry Office at
Morehead City on their way to Wil-
mington to the Shriners' Convention.

Robert Taylor Willis, age 1, son of
Robert O. and Carolyn Willis is the
grandson of Orville Willis, Chief En-
gineer aboard the ferry "Southport-
Ft. Fisher."

The Ferry Operations Office, located on Highway 70, west of Morehead
City, has recently undergone a new face lifting job under the supervision of
Ben L. O'Neal, Highway Office Manager.

The building has received a fresh coat of paint, the old sign indicating
"N. C. Ferry Operations Office" has been revised, utilizing art work done by
one of our employees, W. M. Gaskill. A flag pole has been erected.

Shown in the picture at the flag raising ceremony, held May 22, 1970,
left to right, are Hugh Salter, Ferry Operations Manager, raising the flag,
Ben L. O'Neal, Office Manager, and Hubert Davis, Chief Engineer on the
"Silver Lake."

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New Ferries For
Ocracoke Run

Our Highway Commission "Navy" was strengthened
recently when two new ferries, the "Herbert Bonner"
and the "Ocracoke" were officially christened in cere-
monies at the New Bern Shipyard at James City.

Now in operation, and greatly needed, the two 122-foot
ferries increase the capacity of the Hatteras Inlet Ferry
operation by 30 percent.

Our two Highway Commission "Admirals", George
Brinkley and Hugh Salter, looked on proudly as Gover-
nor Scott addressed a large group, with the sleek new
boats in the background. Scott told the gathering that
the ferry operation is a very important part of the North
Carolina system. The Governor expressed the hope that
by next summer there will be another inland ferry oper-
ation to connect Minnesott Beach and Cherry Point
across the mouth of the Neuse River.

Mrs. Herbert C. Bonner, widow of the veteran Con-
gressman from the First Congressional District, christen-
ed the "Herbert C. Bonner," and Miss Janet Salter,
daughter of ferry operations manager Hugh Salter, broke
the traditional bottle of champagne on the bow of the
"Ocracoke."

Mrs. Herbert C. Bonner christens
the new Ferry.

The new ferries are well-designed for their purpose,
with little wasted space and increased manuverability.
Without our Highway Commission Ferries, the people on
the island of Ocracoke would be isolated from the main-
land except for the few who own boats capable of plowing
the waters of Pamlico Sound. And the rest of us, includ-
ing tourists who come from all over the U. S., wouldn't
have access to the island.

Governor Scott stressed the importance of SHC ferry
operations.

FRONT COVER

Governor Robert Scott (right) is
shown on the bow of the new High-
way Commission Ferry, "The Her-
bert C. Bonner" with Highway
Commissioner Arthur W. Tripp of
Greenville (left) and Janet Sal-
ter, daughter of Ferry Manager
Hugh Salter, and Mrs. Herbert C.
Bonner, widow of the late Con-
gressman Bonner.

CONT

Features

Capacity Workshop Held: Others Planned 3

"Most Needed Project" 6

40 and 45 Year Awards 8

SHC Softball Team 9

Browning Honored

by National Park Service Inside Back Cover

State Fair, 1970 . . . Bigger and Better 10

In the Driver's Seat 28

NTS

Departments

From the Chairman 2

Obituaries 3

Freewheelin' 4

N.C.H.C.E.A. Association 5

Division News 12

Headquarters 23

Letters We Liked 5, 28

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XVI
NUMBER 4
July - August, 1970

PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSION BY THE PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT.

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

Robert G. Barr
Clifton L. Benson
W. G. Clark, HI
Charles R. Dawkins
Roy D. Dedmon
Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.
Carroll H. Gillam
Novtle C. Hawkins
W. B. (Bill) Joyce
Jack B. Kirksey

E. Gwyn McNeil
Charles K. Maxwell
Joe W. Nowell, Jr.
David R. Parnell
W. T. Phillips
Hugh A. Ragsdale
James M. (Jim) Smith
Lynwood Smith
W. Arthur Tripp
E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Whxoughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chef Engineer

Jack Murdock Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Information Officer J. Arch Laney

Editor Edith J. Seifert

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Photographer GORDON DEANS

Contributors Gibson Prather,

Janie Williams. John Van Hecke

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Linda Mulder

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations Robbie Daniels

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO.. RALEIGH. N. C.

From

The Chairman

We now have our summer construction program in full swing and cer-
tainly we intend to keep it that way as long as the weather will permit us to
build highways. Almost anywhere one looks in North Carolina he will see
needed highway construction in progress.

This is the first full construction season which the present Highway Com-
mission has had, and we certainly want to make the most of it. Of course, we
won't get everything done this year that needs to be accomplished, but we
must make every day count.

What we are really doing is racing the clock, because the predictions are
that there will be 25 per cent more cars on the highways in 1975 than there
are today. This is going to challenge any highway system that we will have
in that year.

It is certainly imperative that we have bypasses of many more of our
cities completed in the next few years to combat the heavier urban traffic that
is bound to come in our centers of population.

In the meantime, we must maintain a balanced highway construction pro-
gram that will carry better roads into counties which badly need them to at-
tract new industry and new payrolls.

Our interstate system, if there is no substantial cutback in federal funds,
should be completed in the next few years, which may allow more federal
money to meet the problems in and around our urban centers.

But as members of the state's highway team, the most important thing
we can all do right now is to see just how much can be accomplished between
now and this winter, when weather will force us once again to halt building
highways for a season.

Knowing the calibre of people who make up our highway department, I
am sure that each one will do his best to see that a maximum amount of pro-
gress is made in the immediate future.

D. McLauchlin Faircloth

2

Capacity Workshop Held, Others Planned

The group attending the Highway Capacity Workshop, pictured above, at the Holiday Inn, Raleigh, March 16-20,
included the following State Highway Commission personnel: Kelly Barger; Emily B. Blount; William R. Brown; Ho-
ward J. Critcher; Ronald R. Davis; R. Grady Dawson, Jr.; Robert J. Dodge; William J. Hindman, Jr.; Dwight Kelly;
James M. Lynch; Ernest F. Mallard; William G. Marley; Daniel J. McPherson; Joseph T. Peacock, Jr.; Franklin R.
Price; Gwyn K. Sanderlin; Charlie C. Sessoms, Jr.; Gary L. Summer; W. A. Ward; Woodie Warrick, Jr.; George E.
Wells; and Norman H. Willey. Also in the group picture are the instructors, nationally known traffic engineers from
Northwestern University; members of the NCSU faculty who appeared on the program; and others attending the
school from state and city governments and from consulting firms.

A second Highway Safety Workshop on Capacity will be held in Raleigh this fall, again sponsored by the Gover-
nor's Highway Safety Coordinating Committee and the N. C. Division, Southern Section, Institute of Traffic Engineers.

Other events sponsored by these two organizations and arranged by the Technical Training Committee of the N. C.
Division, SSITE, have been announced by the Committee Chairman, Roy Williams, Traffic Engineer for the City of
Winston-Salem, as follows: Traffic Engineering Technician School, Statler-Hilton Inn, Raleigh, September 21-25; Sec-
ond Governor's Conference on Traffic Safety, Timme Plaza, Wilmington, October 14-16 (tentative). Also underway is a
study for a traffic engineering technology program at W. W. Holding Technical Institute.

Obituaries

Lewis Wilson, Division 7

Mr. Lewis H. Wilson, former Sign Supervisor (Traffic
Services Supervisor) in Division 7, died on July 1, 1970.

He was employed by the state in September of 1921
and worked continuously until his retirement in 1961.
During his years with the state, he was Office Manager,
Maintenance Supervisor and Sign Supervisor.

He is survived by his widow, Margaret Phoenix, and
two sons, Lewis H. Wilson, Jr., and W. F. Wilson.
Headquarters

Preston Steadman, Bridge Maintenance Foreman in
Williamston, died on June 30, 1970.

Jesse Markham of Raleigh, retired Warehouse Man-
ager, died on June 26, 1970. He served with the Bridge
Maintenance Department.
Division 4

W. D. Batts of Wilson died of a heart attack on June
17, 1970. He had been with the Road Oil Department in
a permanent position for 17 years.

Division 6

James Earl Buckner, 23, died on June 28, 1970. As a
summer employee he was working as an Engineering
Assistant in Fayetteville. He had been a student at
Southwood College at Salemburg.

Worth B. Martin, 71, of Lumberton, retired Mainte-
nance Foreman 2, died on June 8, 1970. He worked in
Robeson County for thirty years before retiring in Oc-
tober, 1961.

Division 10

Paul R. Norkett died on May 25, 1970, after a linger-
ing illness. He had been with the Maintenance Depart-
ment in Mecklenburg County.

Division 11

E. O. York, Maintenance employee in Surry County,
died on July 10, 1970, of drowning.

S

By ARCH LANEY

Heading into the second full year of this administra-
tion, each and everyone of you 11,000 plus employees
should take satisfaction in a few of the accomplishments
of this group of 23 commissioners, who, at the request
of Governor Scott, vowed to take the road building needs
to the people.

Just to mention a few:

Over $280 million under contract, the most ever, by
far.

Some 1,550 miles of secondary roads under work or-
der, either being paved or destined to be paved
by next summer.

Some 75 miles of Interstate to be opened by June
30, 1971, the end of the new fiscal year.

22 sub-standard bridges replaced by funds allocated
from the Governor's surplus, plus several major
bridge projects in various stages of construction.

An across-the-board pay hike for maintenance peo-
ple across the state.

blares out with its name, "Hardees." That's known in dip-
lomatic circles as "Covering the Waterfront."

3|E $ 4s $

SAFETY TIP OF THE MONTH: Do not join an
Archery Team until you're sure that Spiro's NOT on it.

$ :s|r. $ $* $

Two great losses in the 10th Division: First, the un-
timely death of Assistant Division Engineer Charlie Land
in June. Charlie was a professional, dedicated to his job,
and a strong right arm to Claude McBryde. His passing
leaves a big gap in Division 10.

Then on June 30, Mr. Nice Guy, Charlie Smith hung
up his slide rule as District Engineer. Charlie doesn't
need a PR man — he does his own. He has been around
the Albemarle area a long time. American Legion base-
ball buffs who care to remember back when Albemarle
won the world title in 1935 with Lefty Lisk and crew,
please note that Charlie was on the coaching staff.

Put this all together, add the staff team in Raleigh
headed up by Chairman Faircloth, George Willoughby,
Billy Rose, and John Davis, and you come up with a
plus morale factor all across SHC-land.

Don't know if this is the time and place to "praise the
General Assembly" for the two cents gas tax or not, but
being on a "pay-as-you-go" basis for the first time in our
history sure is giving our planners some plannin' time.
They can plan into the future with a knowledge that
with proper conditions, economically, we can actually be-
gin with some "catchin-up."

Mucho kudos to Ed Rankin, Bill Armstrong, Joe El-
kins and crew of the magazine "North Carolina" pub-
lished by the N. C. Citizens Association. The July issue
was devoted to transportation in North Carolina with
emphasis on the highway system.

The photos and stories are great, all covered by a beau-
tiful color cover of 1-85 with big Burlington Industries in
the background, proclaiming their theme, "Where there
are good roads, there is economic development."

The publication is completely non-political as proven
on that front cover. While alluding to progress in indus-
try and road building, the great big tractor-trailer right
smack in the center of the photo, in glorious yellow,

Finally a problem solver: If the SHC could work out
a deal with C and D to trade Beaucatcher Mountain for
Baldhead Island, we could put in a ferry at Asheville, and
C and D could tunnel under Beaucatcher without dis-
turbing its natural environment, and tropical marine life
could spawn there in complete protection. Now you un-
derstand why Bill Caddell is Advance Planning Engineer
instead of me.

A SHADY TRICK
— There's nothing
like improvising and
this roller operator
on a Gates County
road has contrived
to take his own
shade with him.
Each morning he
cuts a fresh sapling,
ties it behind his
seat, and helps beat
the heat on his job.

4

N. C. H. C. E. A. ASSOCIATION

REPORT TO EMPLOYEES
BY OTIS M. BANKS and DAVID W. KING

ANNUAL CONVENTION TIME in Durham in Sep-
tember promises to be the biggest Association meeting
yet, since this is our Silver Anniversary Convention. Spe-
cial guests will include the Governor, the Lt. Governor,
Congressman Nick Galifianakis, and many others.

The principal speaker at the banquet will be a nation-
ally known figure. Business promises to be very brisk,
with many resolutions to consider.

A special report concerning the possibility of a mer-
ger between the two existing state employee associations
(N.C.H.C.E.A. and the State Employees Association) is
anticipated.

There will be other business (our delegates always at-
tend to this faithfully), there will be fun and frolic for
those in attendance after "working hours," and there will
be entertainment for the wives.

We look forward to this Silver Anniversary Convention
with great anticipation and enthusiasm.

INSURANCE has been one of our major problems in
the past few months. At one time, it appeared that pay-
roll deductions might be eliminated for Occidental Life
and for American Defender Life due to complications that
had arisen. Other companies were pushing to "get into
the act."

Now, however, these problems have been resolved after
a series of conferences with the Chairman of the Commis-

sion, the Adminstrator, the Controller and others, follow-
ing meetings of the Insurance Committee of the Associa-
tion. They gave many hours to consultation and proposals.

At present the payroll deductions are to be continued
for the programs of the three insurance companies now
included, the basic Group Program (including Group Per-
manent) of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company,
the Salary Continuation Plan of Occidental Life Insur-
ance Company, and the Salary Savings Plan of life in-
surance administered by American Defender Life Insur-
ance Company.

EXPERIENCE of our Basic Group Insurance Plan is
considered to be fair, but on the borderline, as to the
guaranteed return to us of a specified percentage of pre-
miums paid. Many of our employees do not realize that
an insurance company will not pay out more than it col-
lects for very long. To keep our program in sound finan-
cial condition, we depend on a balance between claims
paid and premiums collected, changes in benefits or pre-
miums, and many other factors.

We can easily talk of an increase in daily room and
board in our hospital insurance, more extras and other
items. However, it is "money in and money out" that
governs the premiums.

To keep premiums as low as possible but still keep
the best coverage for the premium dollar, is what your
Committee has done and will continue to do.

LETTERS WE LIKED LETTERS WE LIKED LETTERS WE LIKED

Maintenance Department
33 Orange Street
Asheville, N. C.

Dear Mr. Rhymer:

The E. C. Waller Memorial Church
Board, and church membership,
would like to express their apprecia-
tion to you for your efforts, and the
accomplishment of completing the
road work before this large convoca-
tion came to our campus. Do accept
our sincere "thanks" for a job well
done.

Sincerely,

Pastor Robert G. Beck
E. C. Waller Memorial
Seventh-Day Adventist

Church
Mount Pisgah Academy
Candler

Dear Mr. Faircloth:

I am sure I speak for many motor-
ists, parents of teen age drivers,
school bus officials and others when
I say thank you for the new stop light
now operating at the intersection of
Garrett Road and the Durham-Chapel
Hill Boulevard.

Your Department has been ex-
tremely prompt in meeting our re-
quest and what was a desperate need.
You and all members of your staff
should take pride in this one further
step toward highway safety.

Sincerely,
B. B. Olive
Patent Attorney
Durham, N. C.

Dear Mr. Litchford:

On Sunday night, 19 April 1970, I
had occasion to observe the new type
raised delineators which were recent-
ly installed on 1-40 in Haywood and
Buncombe Counties. This was during
a heavy, blinding rain storm and
visibility was at a bare minimum.
These delineators were very beneficial
and made it possible to see the center
line when you would not have been
able to do so with ordinary marking.

I would like to commend the State
Highway Commission for using these
new delineators. Also, we have a lot
of fog and smog in this area and our
office has received numerous favor-
able comments on this new type
marking from the motoring public.
Yours very truly,
C. H Long, First Sergeant
District IV, Troop F
State Highway Patrol

5

"Most Needed Project"
Now Under Construction

When Highway Commissioner Gwyn McNeil was joined by Chairman
Faircloth and the mayors of Jonesville and Elkin, in spading the first dirt for
the new bridge across the Yadkin River, a dream was becoming reality.

Since being appointed to the road body just over a year ago, McNeil, a
dynamo among highway commissioners, began pressing for the replacement
of this old structure. Commissioners are always alleged to have their "pet"
projects. Oft-times the term "pet" takes on a misleading connotation. As in
McNeil's case the term should be "most-needed" project.

The existing bridge is only 17 feet wide and carries some 2,500 vehicles
per day. But the old bridge should not be demolished without proper honor
paid to its usefulness in the years past.

Mrs. Lexa Groce of Jonesville has gathered data on the history of previous
bridges beginning in 1872. So we offer her brief history along with photos both
old and new.

"THE OLD BRIDGE—
ELKIN-JONESVILLE"
By MRS. LEXA GROCE

An interesting point in the history
of Elkin and Jonesville is the "Old
Covered Bridge" which connected the
two towns.

This bridge was built in the winter
and spring of 1871-1872, and was
opened in May, 1872, over 98 years
ago. It was built by a company of
stockholders, among whom were R.
R. Gwyn, and Alexander Chatham of
Elkin.

The original covered bridge built
in 1872 served for 41 years, until 1913.

This steel structure was constructed
in 1913 and was completely destroyed
by the flood of 1916.

The undertaking was a ticklish en-
gineering task and several times
floods carried away parts of the tres-
tle work on which the bridge was
temporarily supported in the course
of construction.

An engineer named Lindsay was
brought here from New England to
supervise the work because he had
had experience with similar bridges
in his part of the country.

The bridge was built of wood and
was entirely covered like a house. The
stone that went to make the pillars
was furnished by Gordon Howell,
who was given free passage over the
bridge in payment. This was a toll
bridge until 1904, when Yadkin and
Surry Counties purchased it from the
Stock Company and made passage
over it free.

HISTORY TELLS US THAT
WHEN THE "OLD WOODEN
COVERED BRIDGE" WAS COM-
PLETED IT WAS THE LONGEST
SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE
WORLD.

The existing bridge. At far left is a portion of the original stone foundation built in 1872. At right the groundbreak-
ing ceremonies are in progress. Chairman Faircloth addressed some 200 people from the Jonesville-Elkin area, and high-
way and governmental officials in that locale. Faircloth was introduced by Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, former chair-
man of the State Democratic Executive Committee.

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The Wooden Bridge was torn away
in 1913 and replaced by a modern
structure of steel, which was swept
away in the flood of 1916.

Local history tells us that the Steel
Bridge which replaced the wooden
structure was erected by the Roanoke
Bridge Company at an approximate
cost of $5,000.00. Compare this with
the contract price of the new bridge,
$323,000.00.

The steel bridge was in use a little
over two years when it was swept
away by the 1916 flood. A ferry was
used up stream from here for cross-
ing the river until the bridge was re-
placed.

The "Old Bridge" as it is now call-
ed, was built in 1916-1917 by the
State of North Carolina. The bridge
was damaged in the 1940 Flood when
the approach on the Elkin side was
washed away. It was soon rebuilt and
has served this area well for its day.
The new Kerr Scott Dam ameliorat-
ed more loss by floods.

Progress and traffic deem that a
new and larger bridge is now needed.

Not W.P.A. workers of the 1930's, but (left to right) Highway Commis-
sioner Gwyn McNeil, Chairman Lauch Faircloth, and the mayors of Jonesville
and Elkin, Leon Martin and Dr. James Harrell.

Blasting and rock removal opera-
tions at "The Jumping Off Place" lo-
cated on N. C. 16 near the Ashe-
Wilkes County Line. Efforts are being
made to remove a rock overhang
which has created a hazard to the
traveling public due to slides. The
rock shown here was blasted from the
top of the cut in order to make a trail
for the air track. W. J. Brookshire,
District Engineer for District 3, said
that all work should be completed by
mid-October.

Powderman and Hammer Opera-
tors working on blasting operations
on "The Jumping Off Place" on N.C.
16 — from left to right: K. A. Roland,
W. R. Richardson, F. W. Severt, W.
V. McNeil and Joe Denny. Mr. Ri-
chardson is the powderman on this
job and is considered an expert in his
field.

The State Highway Commission
will test a "snowplowable reflective
marker on a five-mile stretch of
1-40 at Canton which manufactur-
ers claim will resist the rigors of
mountain winter weather. Right,
J. F. Bryson, Traffic Services
Supervisor, places one of the raised
two-way reflectors in a bed of
epoxy after a cutting crew made a
groove for the device in the pave-
ment. The manufacturer says that
the lane markers, in addition to
their high degree of reflectivity,
create a rumble effect which re-
duces dangerous unnecessary lane
changing. Comments on this device,
since installation, have been favor-
able.

New Bridge over Bogue Sound.
View from South Side.

Photo by Greg Howell

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32 Men Are Honored For 40 And 45 Years Of Service

Here are the men who have established distinguished service records with the State Highway Commission. 450
people gathered to pay tribute to those who received the award on June 22, 1970, with George Willoughby, Highway
Administrator, presiding. Governor Robert Scott addressed the group.

"We are grateful to you for your service to the state and for your contributions as citizens," said Governor Scott.
He noted, too, that the combined service of these men to the state was 1,325 years.

Chairman Faircloth injected a bit of humor when he reflected that all the men honored had served with the Com-
mission longer than "the Governor or myself have been born."

Merle T. Adkins
James H. Councill
Cecil Y. Griffin

Shady M. Anderson
Russell B. Burnette
John H. Chappell
Willie C. Coffey
Edward C. Darden
George C. Denny
William P. Dillard
Henry 0. Drum

45 YEARS

Roy W. Gupton
Arnold W. Jones
William L. Kemp

40 YEARS

Frank H. Edwards
Kyle E. Edwards
Ellwyn G. Glenn
Thomas P. Griffin
Bainbridge D. Jackson
James E. Lee
Ebenezer A. Leggett
Louis L. Martin

Harry L. Link
Suel M. Pressley
Carl P. Thomas

Clarence N. Moore
Charles C. Parker
Worth C. Snell
William W. Sharp
Fred D. Summers
Asbury R. Wilson
Raymond J. Wilson

The State Highway Commission "Speakers Pool" ini-
tiated just over a year ago by the Public Information De-
partment, has proven highly successful.

There have been some 200 presentations made before
civic and social groups throughout North Carolina.

Chairman Faircloth remains the most sought-after
speaker, but many other members of headquarters staff,
as well as Division and District staffs, have made public
appearances. In addition to all the Public Relations done
by the "Speakers Pool," talks have been given by the
Commissioners and by other Commission personnel.

SHC Chairman, Lauch Faircloth answers questions
from Lions Club members after a recent speech in Dur-
ham. Public Information Officer Arch Laney is shown
at right.

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ROADWAYS CHEERS

Just as Spring of 1970 rolled around a team of eager Highway Commission
employees started softball practice in earnest. A well-disciplined Highway
Commission softball team entered the City of Raleigh Slow-Pitch League this
summer. They finished in second place with a record of 13 wins and 4 losses.

They chalked up some impressive records. The Highway Team scored
more runs (230) than any team in the Slow-Pitch League. They held their
opponents to the least number of runs (93). Wayne Elliott, who took on the
coaching of the team, remarked rather modestly that the two most convincing
wins were by scores of 25-2 and 31-4.

The outstanding defensive play of the season was a ground ball triple
play from third to second to first executed by Richard Smith, Wayne Elliott,
and Ted Jackson.

The team played games at Chapel Hill and at Franklinton. They partici-
pated in several tournaments.

Leading the team in scoring were the following:
Batting Average: Sears .583, Hailey .569, Jackson .558, Avant .557, Johnson .480
% of Times on Base: Hailey 71%, Elliott 70%, Avant 64%, Sears 64%, Jack-
son 62%

Hits: Sears 49, Johnson 47, Avant 44, Jackson 43, Hailey 41
Doubles: Sears 13, Allison 13, Hailey 11, Avant 10, Johnson 10
Triples: Sears 8, Hailey 5, Allison 4, Smith 4
Home Runs: Jackson 12, Sears 8, Mitchell 5

Runs Batted In: Avant 41, Sears 40, Jackson 40, Allison 34, Smith 28
Runs Scored: Johnson 43, Sears 36, Jackson 35, Hailey 31, Avant 31

As ROADWAYS goes to press, the Highway Commission softball team has
just been invited to play in the state tournament. We hope to bring you details
in the next issue.

HC HC HC HC HC HC HC HC HC

Highway Commission Softball Team

HC on the caps of the players stands for Highway Commission Softball
Team. Left to right, front row: Ted Jackson, Herman Johnson, Al Tyndall, Al
Avant, Richard Smith, Terry Harris, Buck Sears. Back row: Ormond Bliss,
Grady Dawson, Ed Shuller, Gary Jessup, Don Morton, Charlie Adkins, Wayne
Elliott (coach), Henry Hailey, Joe Osborne, Lee Howell. Other members of
the team not pictured are Billy Mitchell, Steve Allison, Mike Tewell, Wallace
Terry and Dewitt Rice.

Safety-equipped and ready for con-
struction activities are Division Engi-
neer Patrick and Assistant Division
Engineer Coleman, wearing their
vests and helmets issued for safety
purposes.

Flag raising ceremony at the new
Division Office in Albemarle on June
8, 1970. On the right is Robert Land,
son of Assistant Division Engineer,
Charles E. Land, who died June 3,
1970. Robert is on active duty with
the U. S. Navy at this time. On the
left is Nolan Wilder, an employee in
the Landscape Department who has
completed a tour of duty with the U.
S. Air Force in the Far East. The
flag used in this ceremony was pre-
sented to the Division Office by Mrs.
Margaret Land, widow of Charles E.
Land. This flag was used in the last
rites for Mr. Land.

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1970

Throughout the Northern Hemisphere the autumnal
equinox traditionally signals the season for celebrating
the harvest.

In that lush, green land of the hemisphere running
from the 32nd to the 35th parallels, between longitudes
75 and 80, the biggest celebration by far is the North
Carolina State Fair.

It can lay claim to quite a tradition of its own. The
1970 fair will be the 103rd to climax the harvest season
in the Tar Heel State. All have been sponsored, appro-
priately, by the State Department of Agriculture.

This year the fair will present a nine-day "Salute to
Agriculture" October 16-24.

Climaxing the theme will be programs honoring Cen-
tury Farm Families — those who own and farm North
Carolina land that has been handed down in the same
family 100 years or longer.

The Century Farm Families — over 700 claim eligi-
bility — will be guests of Governor Robert W. Scott and
Commissioner of Agriculture James A. Graham for lunch
October 19. That evening they will be guests of the fair
at the big Country Shindig show in Dorton Arena.

Although the theme will be agriculture, there'll be
something at the fair for everybody — from star-studded
shows in Dorton Arena to the roar Hell Drivers in the
Grandstand, from Carolina Cougars basketball to the de-
lightful Royal Marionettes.

For many fairgoers the best attractions are the free ex-
hibits. This year exhibitors will compete in 30 categories
for premium prizes of $95,000. They'll display the best the
State has to offer in dairy and beef cattle, market steers,
swine, sheep, poultry, rabbits, chicken and turkey pro-
ducts, eggs and egg products, field crops and bees and
honey.

The 20th re-creation of the Village of Yesteryear will
bring craftsmen from remote villages and isolated ham-
lets to ply their trades before the fairgoer's eyes.

For the 23rd time since Bascom Lamar Lunsford first
came down from the mountain country with his hand-
made string instruments, the State Fair Folk Festival will

offer the best in native folk music and dancing.

There'll be more animal exhibits than ever before in
fair history: the children's barnyard, the native wildlife
exhibit, and an exotic petting zoo with animals from
foreign lands.

The children's barnyard, for four years one of the most
popular free shows at the fair, again will give city-bred
youngsters an opportunity to see farm animals close up.
The exhibit will include ponies, horses, mules, cattle,
hogs, sheep, goats, puppies, kittens, rabbits, chickens,
geese, ducks, pigeons and guinea hens.

Many barnyard animals will be displayed so that chil-
dren can pet them. Some will be adult animals with new-
born young.

Feeding schedules will be announced so that youngsters
can be on hand to watch. Attendants from the sponsor-
ing Wake County Future Farmers will tend the animals
and answer questions.

The exhibit of the State Wildlife Commission, growing
and improving each year, will add aquaria for displaying
fresh water fish and aquatanks for water fowl. There'll
be a circular display for the raccoon and a petting en-
closure for the fawn.

Making its first State Fair appearance will be the Glen
Oak Wild Animal Petting Zoo of Peoria, 111. The Zoo will
show exotic animals from other continents: a baby ele-
phant from Asia, llama from South America, kangaroo
from Australia, pygmy goats from Africa, plus giraffe,
zebra and many more.

Some of the safely tamed exotic animals will also be
shown so that children can pet them.

In addition to the live animal exhibits, the N. C. Zoo-
logical Authority will sponsor an exciting sound-and-light
production that will surround fairgoers with the sights,
sounds and odors of various wildlife environments.

The North Carolina Arts Council will follow up its
highly successful "Man and the Arts" show of last year
with a new exhibit of photographs taken by professional
photographers in the State. It will be entitled "North
Carolina by North Carolinans."

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The annual art show, now in new, permanent quarters,
will offer special displays of dahlias, roses, marigolds,
water gardens, aviary gardens, and Halloween and
Thanksgiving arrangements.

The horse show will provide daily competitions. This
year it will be limited in size, with the emphasis on qual-
ity rather than quantity.
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After an absence of several years, the State Highway
Commission will return to the fair with a new exhibit
which, though details are still secret, officials say will
be a real crowd-stopper.

BIGGER
AND

BETTER

The State Fair Fun Festival for Senior Citizens will
be held Monday, October 19. This year there'll be prizes
for the best hog and cow caller and the largest onion,
potato, sweet potato and ear of corn.

A new policy for senior citizens will give them free
admission anytime they Some, provided they obtain in
advance a special admission card available from the fair
management.

A successful student policy inaugurated last year will
be continued. Again, there will be no special school day,
no special student tickets. Instead, all children under 12
will be admitted free anytime. All others will pay the
normal admission.

Another highly successful and popular policy from last
year will also be continued: free parking. There'll be
acres of spaces within a few steps of the fairground's
many gates.

The biggest array of musical entertainers ever booked
will give shows in Dorton Arena on seven of the nine
days of the fair, and professional basketball will occupy
one of the remaining days.

Jimmy Dean, only performer ever to sell out the Arena,

will give an opening day show. With him will be Jo Ann
Castle, ragtime piano player with the Lawrence Welk
TV show, and the Imperials.

Pro basketball takes over the Arena Sunday afternoon,
October 18. The Carolina Cougars will open their 1970
American Basketball Association home schedule against
the Kentucky Colonels.

A Country Shindig is set for Monday evening. Head-
lining the event will be Sonny James and the Southern
Gentlemen, George Hamilton IV, Skeeter Davis and Fa-
ron Young.

Home-grown talent will occupy the Arena stage Tues-
day, with the fair sponsoring a statewide amateur show.
Admission will be free.

B. J. Thomas will make his first State Fair appearance
Wednesday, October 21. His recording of "Raindrops
Keep Falling on My Head" for the movie "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid" made him one of the most pop-
ular stars of the year. He will give an evening show only.

Winding up the week in Dorton Arena will be Roy
Rogers, Dale Evans and the Sons of the Pioneers. They'll
give one show Thursday, October 22, and two shows Fri-
day and Saturday, October 23 and 24.

The Grandstand will offer an equally attractive sche-
dule. There'll be daily performances by long-time favorite
Jack Kochman and the Hell Drivers, followed by the
Haneford Circus.

A bonus feature Saturday, October 17, in the Grand-
stand will be the NASCAR National Championship Late
Model Sportsman race. It will cap the season for the State
Fairgrounds Speedway and will attract top drivers from
across the country.

Trotters and pacers will take to the Grandstand turf
Thursday, October 22, as the fair presents pony harness
racing for the second consecutive year.

Nightly fireworks spectaculars will follow the last
Grandstand show.

On the midway again will be the famous James E.
Strates shows, rides and games.

It all adds up to a saying which, though it has become
a cliche, is still true: This year the fair will be bigger and
better than ever before.

As Bob Wills, State Fair Publicity Director, puts it,
"Y'all come and see."

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DIVISION NEWS

Mr. Mills Ray-
mond Conner was
entertained at a re-
tirement party in
his honor, on May
1, 1970. He is a
resident of Rich
Square and began
work with the
Commission i n

1936 as a Rodman.
Linda Mulder ij. in T»:,,;

Division Correspondent He Came to DlvI'

sion One in 1941 as Junior Inspector,
left the Commission in 1942 to fulfill
his military obligation in the Army
Air Corps and returned to the Com-
mission and Division One in 1946,
where he worked until 1953. In 1953
Mr. Conner began work in the Right-
of-Way Department as Right-of-Way
Agent I, until his retirement, which
became effective May 1, 1970. Since
Mr. Conner is a great horticulturist,
he will be spending much time in his
garden and caring for his flowers.

Mrs. Eugene Allsbrook is now con-
valescing at home after having been
a patient in Norfolk General Hospi-
tal. Mr. Allsbrook is Foreman II with
the Road Oil Department.

Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Sellars and their
two daughters, Lisa and Amy, visited
in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
Mr. Sellars is a Right-of-Way Agent.
Mr. Don Ferguson, Right-of-Way
Agent, and Mrs. Ferguson vacation-
ed at Carolina Beach. Mr. and Mrs.
James White and their children va-
cationed at Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina. Mrs. White is a Stenograph-
er in the Right-of-Way Department.

Mrs. Opal Mae
Stoneham joined
the Pitt County
Bridge Mainte-
nance Department
on June 22, 1970.
This is a "New
Look" for the
Bridge Mainte-
nance Department,

Ha*el Baker 38 .this is a neW P°"
Division Correspondent sition for that De-
partment.
Lex A. Kelly, Assistant District En-
gineer in New Bern, was informed by
letter on May 29, 1970, from the Sec-
retary-Treasurer of the N. C. State
Board of Registration for Profession-
al Engineers and Land Surveyors that
he had met all the legal requirements
for registration to practice his pro-
fession and use the title "Engineer"
in North Carolina.

We congratulate Lex upon this lat-
est achievement. His hours of hard
study were richly rewarded now that
he carries the title of "Professional
Engineer."

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Charles Har-
rington, Jr.

LEFT:

Retirement party for M. R. Con-
ner. Left to right, Clayton Beard, J.
O. Sellars, Carroll Robertson and
Conner.

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R. A. Pollock was guest of honor at
a cookout given June 20, 1970, by the
members of his construction party and
their wives. The cookout was held at
the home of J. C. Lane on the Neuse
River. A steak dinner with Greg Ho-
well as chief cook highlighted the
evening. Mr. Pollock, who is retiring
after 37 years of service, received an
assortment of gifts.

Gary D. Kornegay, a temporary
employee, married Phillis McCoy in
Florence, South Carolina, on June 14,
1970. Gary plans to continue his edu-
cation at U.N.C., Chapel Hill, in the
fall where he is entering the school
of dentistry. Phillis is a secretary at
the Craven County Hospital.

W. R. Harding, Assistant Resident
Engineer, has been named to the posi-
tion of Resident Engineer to succeed
R. A. Pollock.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Charles Har-
rington, Jr., were married on Satur-
day, April 25, 1970, in a formal cere-
mony held at the St. Paul Pentecos-
tal Holiness Church at Greenville.

Mrs. Harrington's mother is Mrs.
Mae Briley, secretary in the Apprais-
al Department.

Mr. C. L. Haislip, District Engi-
neer in Washington, recently had a
death in his family, his sister.

We possibly have a "first" in Divi-
sion 3 for our Association. J. R. Ro-
binson was elected Unit Chairman of
Unit 3 and his father, I. J. Robinson
was elected Vice-Chairman. J. R. is
Assistant District Engineer in Dis-
trict 1 at Burgaw, and I. J. is Road
Maintenance Supervisor in Kenans-
ville. We believe this is the first fath-
er-son combination to serve in our
Association.

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Irene Hewett
Division Correspondent

We surely miss
Kaye Knowles,
Secretary in the
Division Office,
who recently re-
signed to become
a full time house-
wife, until she adds
the duties of "Mo-
ther" also, some-
time in September.
We were glad
Ruby Campbell and Ricky Joe Bare-
foot could stop by and participate in
the little going away party. Ruby
was formerly a secretary in the Right-
of-Way Department before resigning
to become full time housewife and
"Mother." Ricky Jo formerly worked
in both Right-of-Way and Division
Offices in Wilmington prior to her
marriage; after which she worked in
the Road Oil Office in Fayetteville.
She has now resigned to be a full
time housewife until also resuming
the duties of "Mother."

James R. (Bobby) Bridgers, Jr.,
enlisted in the Army on May 27,
1970, and is taking his basic training
at Fort Bragg, N. C. After basic train-
ing Bobby will be sent to Texas for
six months at Missile School. He is
the son of James R. Bridgers, Sr.,
Parts Clerk, in the Wilmington Divi-
sion Shop. Vance English, son of V.
G. English, Maintenance Supervisor
of New Hanover and Brunswick
Counties, gives the Marines at Chi
Lui, Vietnam, some of that "Southern
North Carolina" cooking. He is sup-
posed to return home in October.
Mom has assured him she will take
care of the cooking then. Vance work-
ed with the Construction Department
before going into service.

James R. (Bobby) Bridgers, Jr.,
son of James R. Bridgers, Sr., who
is Parts Clerk in the Wilmington
Shop.

Oakelee Merritt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Merritt of Magno-
lia, was married to Charles Stanley
Horrell, son of Mrs. Edison William
Horrell of Atkinson and the late Mr.
Horrell on July 19, in the Trinity

United Methodist Church in Magno-
lia. Mrs. Horrell is employed with the
First National Bank in Wilmington
and Stanley is with our Division Shop
in Wilmington.

Frank and Jo Anne Logan an-
nounce the birth of a son, Forrest Al-
bert, on August 3 who weighed in at
9 pounds and 4 ozs. Frank is Engi-
neering Technician III in the Clin-
ton Construction Department. The
other "Logan," Lisa, is five years old.

Forrest Albert Logan, born August
3, 1970. His father, Logan, works in
Clinton in Construction.

Fred and Pam Davis announce the
birth of a son, Andrew Parker, re-
cently. Fred is Right-of-Way Agent.
Roy Brown, Division Right-of-Way
Agent, and Mrs. Brown, are proud
grandparents of first grandchild,
Laura Susan, born June 26.

Employees who have visited "Six
Flags Over Georgia" during vacations
include J. R. Robinson and family,
A. E. Grimmer and family, Mrs. Ma-
rie B. Ferrell and family, and Carl
Parker and family. Robbie is Assist-
ant District Engineer, Albert is Dis-
trict Clerk, and Marie is Secretary in
District 1. Carl is in "R-O-W."

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Johnson
and daughters Patsy Sue and Sharon
Lue have just returned from a trip to
the West Coast. They visited Grand
Ole Opry in Nashville, the "Arch" in
St. Louis, the Space Needle in Seat-
tle, Washington, Yellowstone Nation-
al Park and Mt. Rushmore. They also
toured Little Rock, Chicago, Mil-

Vance English, son of V. G. En-
glish, Road Maintenance Supervisor
of New Hanover and Brunswick
Counties.

waukee, St. Paul, Portland, Boise, In-
dianapolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville.
Mr. Johnson is a mechanic at the
Wilmington Shop. Billy Isom and
family had a family reunion back
home in Tennessee where they camp-
ed and visited. Billy is Staff Engineer
in Wilmington. Irene Hewitt and hus-
band Lin, together with daughter
Susan, have taken several trips camp-
ing in their new travel-trailer at the
various camp grounds at Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina. Graham and
Mrs. English have gone vacationing
to Canada and other points. He is
Maintenance Supervisor. Miriam
Marlar, Secretary in Construction,
in Wilmington, just vacationed at
Wrightsville Beach.

We welcome back James R. Brid-
gers and Gilbert Davis of the Wil-
mington shop who have been out sick.
We also welcome G. C. Carter, Road
Maintenance Supervisor for Pender
County, from illness.

Mrs. Stanley Horrell is the former
Oakelee Merritt. Her husband works,
at the Wilmington Shop.

Sarah Louise Dawkins, daughter of
Highway Commisisoner Charles R.
Dawkins and Mrs. Dawkins, was mar-
ried on May 23, 1970, to Kenneth
Leigh Edwards.

Commissioner Dawkins had to take
time out for the wedding although he
stays very busy as Commissioner for
Cumberland, Bladen and Hoke coun-
ties.

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We are enjoying being associated
with and working with Mr. W. L.
Bunn and Mrs. W. D. Arnette who
transferred to the Wilmington Shop
sometime ago from Division 4. Mr.
Bunn is the Equipment Superinten-
dent and Mr. Arnette is Shop Fore-
man.

Mr. Eugene Woodring, former Shop
Foreman, who transferred to Smith-
field is often heard on our radio.
Sounds quite familiar to hear his
voice.

Margaret Bare-
foot, your corres-
pondent, recently
enjoyed a trip
home to Kentucky
and a stop-off on
the way back to
Atlanta to take in
"Six Flags."

Martha Frances
Anderson, PACE

Margaret Barefoot , j . • wnrk;n2
Division Correspondentstuaenl> ls WOrKing

in the Division Office this summer.
Martha will be returning to the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill this fall as a sophomore.

Shirley Hayes, steno in the Divi-
sion Office is enjoying a 2-week vaca-
tion with her husband, Ray. Also,
George King, Staff Engineer, has
gone off to the beach.

J. C. Overton, Jr., Resident Engi-
neer, at Nashville, has received his
certificate as Professional Engineer.

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Waddell and
family spent their vacation visiting
a son, Curtis, at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
On their arrival home, they were wel-
comed by a new granddaughter. Mr.
Waddell is a construction foreman in
Wayne County.

Foy Dean Taylor and Kathleen
Leidy Taylor are the proud parents
of Richard Leland Taylor. Mr. Tay-
lor is a truck driver in Wayne County.

Edgar Driver, a Machine Operator
IV with the Wayne County Mainte-
nance Department, has just finished
two weeks of training at Fort Jack-
son, South Carolina. Mr. Driver is a
Medical Specialist with the 3398th
Reception Station in the Army Re-
serves.

Edgar Driver in his role as a medi-
cal specialist is shown checking blood
types.

We are happy to have with us in
the Rocky Mount office Hugh Mc-
Lean, Engineering Assistant, from
N.C.S.U., Raleigh, and Ron Bonne-
ma, Engineer-in-Training, from Vir-
ginia Polytechnical Institute.

R. F. Coleman recently passed the
Professional Engineers examination.
Many week-ends of study preceded
this achievement.

D. W. Stehley has recently pur-
chased a cottage on the Pamlico Riv-
er. Probably he will be there every
week-end from now on.

Dennis Ray Vick was recently mar-
ried to Linda Swiggett of Greensboro.
Dennis is the son of J. W. Vick, Re-
sident Engineer, Wilson. The new
couple are presently residing with the
groom's parents in Wilson awaiting
Dennis' call to a tour of active duty
with the Army Reserve.

After a lengthy illness, Emmett
Blackshear, mechanic with the Equip-
ment Department in Wilson, has
come back to work.

Leah McCain

J. T. Bizzell, auto parts clerk in
Smithfield, was in the hospital for a
short while but is now back at work.

Mrs. M. D. Manning has returned
home since having undergone sur-
gery. Mr. Manning is Shop Foreman
at the Wilson Division Shop.

Mrs. Myrtle Woodard, wife of Don-
old E. Woodard, auto parts super-
visor, Wilson Division Shop, has re-
turned home after being hospitalized.

The weekend of the Right of Way
Department's annual golf tournament
will long be remembered by Don
Baise. Returning home, Don's car and
trailer were forced off the pavement
in front of Southern Wayne High
School, his boat took her first flight,
and scattered on the ground. Only the
motor was salvaged.

Martha Frances Anderson

Cecil McLamb, Bill Davenport, Ben
Manning and Don Baise are to be
congratulated for successfully com-
pleting a 40-hour course in real es-
tate taught at Wayne Community
College.

The Right of Way Association
Seminar held this year at Atlantic
Beach was enjoyed by Cecil Mc-
Lamb, John Colville, and Bill Daven-
port.

Mr. and Mrs. George Aldridge are
looking forward to the first week in
August because Leah, their grand-
daughter will be visiting them.

J. H. McCall reached his 21st year
of service with the State Highway
Commission this month.

July 1 marked the retirement date
of three long time employees in Dis-
trict Two. William Leonard Kemp,
Nash County Road Maintenance Su-
pervisor, retired after 46 years of serv-
ice. Richard Daverly Hawkins, Nash
County Maintenance Foreman III,
retired after approximately 45 years
of service and Lonnie White Green,
Nash County Maintenance Foreman
II, retired after approximately 40
years of service.

Left to right: Tim Hamm, Robby Youngblood, Vikram Sen, Harsha Sen
and Hobe Hamm.

THE FLEAS

A quintet known as "The Fleas," who studied guitar under Mrs. Ruth
Boyette, is composed of youngsters ranging in age from 7 to 11. The Group
sings and plays French, English and Spanish ballads.

Originally formed to provide music for civic organization and nursing
homes, "The Fleas" have performed for four schools, a Baptist Church gather-
ing, the Lions Club, Shrinettes, and are now scheduled to play in a local dance
revue and for the Order of the Eastern Star at their Grand Chapter Session in
Raleigh.

"The Fleas" entertained a large audience at the annual "Sunday in the
Park" in Wilson in May.

Two "Fleas" are the sons of Shelby Hamm, Stenographer II, Right of Way
Department, Wilson.

On June 30, Nash County Mainte-
nance employees met briefly to honor
them, at which time Mr. George G.
Eason, Assistant District Engineer,
presented gifts from their co-workers
to Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Green and
a plaque to Mr. Kemp. Mr. Hawkins
stated that he was looking forward to
attending to his other interests and
his gardening. Mr. Green had no im-
mediate plans beyond fishing and just
plain loafing. Mr. Kemp made no
statement as to his plans but those
who knew him were not surprised to
find him out early the next morning
in his new role as a member of the
public setting up a meeting with
Highway officials to inspect a main-
tenance problem.

Nash County and the Highway
Commission are deeply indebted to
these men for their many years of
loyal and dedicated service.

Get well wishes are extended to
Pervise Bryant and Albert Mercer,
Wilson County Maintenance employ-
ees, who are absent from work due to
extended illness.

In Nash County, W. H. Whitfield
and W. T. Williams, Jr. have return-
ed to work following a period of ill-
ness. Best wishes are extended for
their continued good health.

Service awards have been present-
ed in District Two as follows:
45 Years — William Leonard Kemp

40 Years — Shady Major Anderson,

Frank Howard Edwards
35 Years — Johnnie Vinson Kemp
30 Years — James Leon Womble
25 Years — Luther A. Ayers, Elton
Aaron Fulghum, Thurman Major
Boss, Chalmers Barefoot Taylor
20 Years — Pervise Bryant
10 Years — Elmer Clinton Mercer
5 Years — Phillip Ray Bradshaw, Ed-
win Webster Viverette, Jr.
Safety awards have also been pre-
sented in District Two as follows:
20 Years — Coon Pittman, Jr., Per-
vise Bryant
15 Years — W. H. Whitfield
5 Years — J. M. Manning, M. J.
Barnes

3 Years — W. Carraway, C. L. Joy-
ner, J. B. Manning, Jr., L. D. Lamb

Those from the Right of Way De-
partment who have enjoyed a few
days off from work are as follows: H.
A. Phillips (trip to Arizona and Mex-

ico), Shirley Chappell (trip to upper
Michigan and Canada), Ruth Man-
gum, R. G. Gregory, James H. Har-
veil and Walter R. Wooten.

A big welcome is
extended to the
following, who
started to work in
the Relocation De-
partment, Durham
Office, recently:
Mrs. Jo Ann Clark,
Stenographer, Mr.
Ray Patrick Whit-
aker, Relocation

Peggy Bright A H v i s o r Mr
Division Correspondent^ a V 1 S O r, IVir.

James Franklin Meade, Relocation
Advisor.

Miss Nell Jones, Clerk in District
Office in Durham recently visited
"Six Flags Over Georgia" and Rock
City. Nell was fascinated with Rock
City.

Curtis and Johnnie Williams cele-
brated their wedding anniversary on
August 1 by attending the Village
Dinner Theater. Curtis said the oc-
casion was complimented by a cake
and all the trimmings.

The Jack Woody family spent
some time at White Lake. Jack re-
ports that golfing is great.

The Robert Smith family enjoyed
a vacation recently.

Mrs. Hilda Harris had as her
guests recently her sister and family
from Arlington, Virginia. They at-
tended the Village Dinner Theater.

Mattie Hall, Division Office Steno,
and her husband, Jimmie, took a
cross-country trip to Albuquerque,
New Mexico, to visit their son, Dan-
ny, who was recently married. We are
anxiously awaiting a full report how-
ever.

Hilton Smith, Jr., son of Mr. Smith
of the Durham Right of Way De-
partment has been chosen to attend a
six weeks Seminar for Student Jour-
nalists in Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, July 18, conducted by the U.
S. Student Press Association and
sponsored by the Carnegie Founda-
tion. Twenty-nine students through-
out the country are taking part. Hil-
ton is currently News Editor of the
N. C. State University Student News-
paper, THE TECHNICIAN, and is
a rising senior in Economics,

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DIVISION SIX

Get well wishes

are extended to

Road Maintenance

Supervisor C. R.

Roberts, Columbus

County.

Get well wishes

are extended to

D. J. Robinson,

Maintenance Yard

Foreman in Bladen
Ray Autry p .

Division Correspondent VOUJliy.

Vacationing recently were H. J. Al-
ford, Maintenance Foreman IV in
Bladen County and Mr. H. C. Black-
well, Maintenance Foreman II in
Columbus County.

Sympathy is extended to H. G.
Clark in the death of his wife on
July 11, 1970. Mr. Clark is retired
Maintenance Supervisor in Robeson
County and resides in Lumber Bridge.

Good luck to property surveyor W.
P. Puryear, who left June 12 for six
months Army Airborne training at
Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, Geor-
gia.

Congratulations to Victor L. Davis
and Vivian Womack, of Lillington,
who were married June 26 at Antioch
Baptist Church in Harnett County.
Victor is an Engineering Aide with
Property Survey in Fayetteville.

Back from those two week summer
camp blues at Fort Stewart, Georgia,
is John T. Furmage. John recently
completed his one year "Tech" Train-
ing with the Commission and is now
assigned to the Location Department's
Property Survey section.

We all wish a speedy recovery to
Florence Cain, wife of Location Party
Chief E. E. Cain, of Fayetteville. Mrs.
Cain spent a week in the hospital in
June and had an operation in July.

Congratulations to Joe Franklin on
his recent promotion and assignment
to the Lumberton Location Party.

After graduating from Fayetteville
Technical Institute in June, Harold
Phillips is back with the Location
Field Party in Lumberton.

Welcome to summer employees
James Day, John Yrage and Edward
Taylor to the Location and Property

Survey parties in Fayetteville and
Lumberton.

Glad to have Earl Ellenberg, Jr.,
Technical Trainee, recent graduate
from Fayetteville Technical Institute.
Earl has been assigned to the Lum-
berton Field Party for his location
training.

Mrs. Charles Raymond Stein, who
before her marriage was Frankie Neal
Rozier, daughter of Robert Poe Ro-
zier, retired Maintenance employee in
Robeson County. Frankie Neal and
Charles were married on June 6 in
the Christ Memorial Church, Blue Is-
land, Illinois. Her mother and bro-
ther, Bobby, flew up for the wedding
and Bobby gave his sister in marriage.
Frankie Neal attended business school
in Raleigh and worked there for sev-
eral years with the Departments of
Education and Revenue. The Steins
will reside in Blue Island, Illinois.

Margaret Ann McAlpine, secretary
in the Right of Way Department,
spent the weekend of June 20, 1970,
with the Methodist Youth Fellowship
of Hay Street United Methodist
Church, Fayetteville, at Lake Arrow-
head, South Carolina. "Maggie" re-
ported that she had a wonderful time.

Harry W. Locklear, Right of Way
Aide, and his wife spent the first
week of June, 1970, with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Glenn Peters, at Warren,
Michigan. Mr. Locklear reported that
he and his wife had a wonderful trip
and enjoyed their visit with their
daughter.

June F. Cox, secretary in the Right
of Way Department, had as her
guests her daughter and son-in-law,
Dr. and Mrs. N. J. Soyka, and their
two sons, Nickolas and Thomas of
Charlottesville, Virginia.

Claude R. Moore, Jr., Right of Way
Agent, and his family took a very en-
joyable trip to Augusta, Georgia, to
visit Mrs. Moore's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. McKinney, on Father's
Day weekend. Claude said the trip
was long but all had a wonderful time.

A few weekends ago, the Moore
family spent the weekend at the
beach. It was great and Claude re-
ported there was plenty of sun and
good eating.

We will all be thinking of Claude's
younger son, Richard Michael, who
had his second eye operation June 26,
1970, at McPherson Hospital, Dur-
ham. The first operation six months
ago was not a success, but Claude
tells us the doctor said there is a
90% chance of success this trip.

Col. Merrit F. Harrison, Sr., Relo-
cation Advisor and Division Property

Manager, and Mrs. Harrison recently
spent five days in the western part
of the State. They followed the Blue
Ridge Parkway from Cherokee to
Boone taking in all of the sights and
accumulated enough bumper stickers
to plaster a house. Col. Harrison re-
ports that the weather was a contrast
from the hot humid air in the Fay-
etteville area.

Get well wishes go to Cutlar L.
Ballance, Right of Way Aide, who
is a patient at the Southeastern Gen-
eral Hospital in Lumberton. We are
wishing Mr. Ballance a speedy re-
covery and are looking forward to
having him back at work with us.

DIVISION I
SEVEN J

Helen Pringle
has recently had as
guests her father,
W. G. Hilton of
Roanoke, Virginia,
her mother of Stu-
art, Virginia, and
her daughter Pen-
A M mt ny> who is a nurse

\ kl 1 at Norfolk General
KiiL B Hospital, Norfolk,

Carolyn Graves Virginia
Division Correspondent Virginia.

Miss Leslie Green is working in
the District Office this summer. She
is an Appalachian University student.

George C. Denny, William W.
Sharp and Arnold W. Jones were re-
cently honored for their years of
service to the Commission in a cere-
mony in Raleigh and presented serv-
ice certificates, Denny and Sharp for
forty years and Mr. Jones for forty-
five.

E. D. Berry, Maintenance Operator
IV, in Guilford County, retired on
July 1, after about 40 years service
with the Commission.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Roy C. Biggs, Maintenance Op-
erator II, who passed away on Fri-
day, June 19. He had been with the
Commission for 14 years and retired
on disability, December 1, 1969.

Get well wishes are extended to E.
C. Parrish and E. E. Robinson, who
have been out sick.

Sympathy is extended to the Wil-
liam R. Knight family in the death
of his mother.

Diane Boyette, daughter of the H.
R. Boyettes, is on a three-week tour
of Europe.

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John Cockerham, who has been
with the Right of Way Department
for several months, is leaving us to
work with the Housing Authority in
Winston-Salem.

Our folks are vacationing:

Arlene Ray, her husband and son
spent a week at Myrtle Beach.

Ross Yokley and family toured the
New England states and spent sev-
eral days in New York City.

Lois Hodges and family spent their
vacation in Georgia, visiting relatives.

E. C. Brantley and family spent
some time at Virginia Beach.

G. R. Shirley and family were at
Sunset Beach.

Janette and Jerry Bullard and son
had a wonderful trip to Ohio.

John Watkins and family spent
their time at Hilton Head Beach,
South Carolina.

The Paul Welch family, including
those two grandchildren, Mike and
Eric, spent a week at Garden City,
and needless to say they all had a
wonderful time.

Mr. and Mrs. John Trimpi, who
were recently married, will live in
Winston-Salem. Mrs. Trimpi is the
daughter of our Property Survey
Party Chief, A. N. Mattocks. Before
her marriage, Mrs. Trimpi was a
language teacher in Stokes County.
Both she and her husband attended
Guilford College. Mr. Trimpi was
graduated cum laude and he is now
attending Wake Forest Law School.

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

Our best wishes go with these retir-
ing employees: Neill H. Cameron,
Maintenance Foreman I in Hoke
County, who retired June 30 after
more than 36 years of service with
the Commission; Leroy Cranford,
General Utility Man with the Sign
Department who has served more
than 18 years; and Bob Little Lee,
Maintenance Foreman IV, Scotland
County, who has been with the Com-
mission 42 years.

Also retired July 1 were: Gor-
don Brooks, Maintenance Foreman
PV in Chatham County, retired after
more than 30 years of service; Drued
Dorsett, District 1, Machine Operator

Bob Little Lee (above) relaxes in
the chair presented to him by Scot-
land County employees at a retire-
ment supper on May 29. He was
Maintenance Foreman IV in Scotland
County prior to his retirement in
June, 1970, after 42 years of highway
maintenance work.

Charles Thompson, age 5, is a
graduate of Mt. Gilead Kindergarten.
He is the grandson of Lee Thompson,
machine operator in Richmond Coun-
ty.

*■■„-,

Sharon April Brown, who was one
year old on April 18, 1970, is the
granddaughter of Roy Ledwell of the
Maintenance Department in Ashe-
boro.

Fred Beck, Jr.

IV, retired July 1, after having been
with the Highway Commission since
1947; and Fred Talley, Machine Op-
erator IV in Lee County, retired after
having been employed with the High-
way Commission since 1948. The best
of health and happiness to each of
these. They will surely be missed by
their fellow employees.

Vacations have been taking their
place. Among those vacationing have
been: Division Engineer and Mrs. A.
J. Hughes, with their daughter and
son-in-law Ann and Ken Day, spent
several days at Holden Beach. Also,
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes visited with
their daughter Mrs. Albert Best and
family in Albany, Georgia, who are
moving to California. Doug and Max-
ine Edge spent their vacation in the
mountains; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Dar-
den were at Pauley's Island, South
Carolina; Buddy Nelson and family
spent two weeks in Alabama; Kathy
Martin sunned at Myrtle Beach; Bar-
ney Shelhorse spent several days in
Augusta, Georgia, relaxing and golf-
ing; C. B. Murray spent some time
camping at the beach; also, A. H.
Davis, camped at the beach.

D. L. Dillon went to West Palm
Beach, Florida, to visit relatives for
a week. He reports having a fine
time deep sea fishing and watching
the girls.

Best wishes to W. D. Gilmore, new
employee on the training program
with the Laurinburg construction
party, who was married on June 21.

R. E. Britt and family have gone
to Holden Beach for a week. J. W.
Rogerson and wife spent some vaca-
tion time at Long Beach.

Welcome to J. M. McNeill, who is
back with the Nelson Construction
Party, after six months of active duty
with the Army in California.

Welcome to J. Frank McNair and
Pete Lalor with Nelson Construction
Party, who are helping this summer.

The generous supply of cigars being
handed out in Division Eight recently
have been compliments of W. F.
"Bill" Rosser, A new baby girl, Kelly
Lynn, was born to the Rossers on
June 23.

Welcome to Martha Garrison, new
secretary in the Road Oil Office.

Fred Beck, Jr., received his Bache-
lor of Science Degree from Appala-
chian State University on June 3. Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Beck and daughter,
Lauree, attended his graduation in
Boone. Mr. Beck is District Engineer
in Aberdeen. Fred, Jr., is now taking
basic training with the National
Guard at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

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Congratulations to Grandpa Dar-
den. Mr. Darden, District Engineer,
Rockingham, so very proudly inform-
ed the Division Office of the arrival
of a grandson, weighing in at 8^
pounds. The proud parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Eddie Darden of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

Congratulations to Stephen Win-
field Holcomb who graduated from
Pembroke State University, receiving
a B.S. Degree. Stephen is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Holcomb, Laurin-
burg. Mr. Holcomb is Squad Foreman
with Scotland County Maintenance
Department.

DIVISION
NINE

Mr. D. C. Du-
four had a heart
attack and was
hospitalized for
several days. Mr.
Dufour is a Gen-
eral Utility Man
with the Mainte-
nance Department.

Captain Racine
Van Dusen has

Dorothy Phelps h eplpptprl as

Division Correspondent Deen Selected as

Senior Escort Officer for the Middle
East Region to accompany 14 CAP
Female Cadets to the States of North
and South Dakota and Minnesota,
with Headquarters at Ellsworth Air
Force Base, South Dakota.

A new employee, Richard P.
Smith, Jr., has joined the Relocation
Department. Richard comes to Win-
ston-Salem from Raleigh.

The Construction Department and
W. D. Rothrock witnessed the return
of Robert Mallard, Highway Inspec-
tor III on Friday, the 13th (in Feb-
ruary). Robert suffered a severe
heart attack.

Congratulations are in order for
Wade E. Hoke, Highway Engineer I,
who recently passed the Professional
Engineer's Examination, and can now
be lawfully addressed as an "Engi-
neer." Wade is Assistant to W. D.
Rothrock in Winston-Salem.

Wanda and John Miller recently
enjoyed a few days at Pirateland
Camp Ground in Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina. No reports were made as to
the number of Pirates in the area.
Wanda is a Typist II in the Winston-
Salem construction office of W. D,
Rothrock,

Don Alderman recently underwent
surgery. Don is a Highway Inspector
II in Winston-Salem.

Wedding bells were heard in the
Lexington area on May 30, 1970, at
Tyro United Methodist Church for
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Carlisle. Mrs.
Carlisle is the former Jeanne Mallard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Mallard. Her father is a Highway In-
spector III in Winston-Salem Con-
struction Department. Mrs. Carlisle
attends school in Greensboro, and her
husband is attending Appalachian
State University.

are Bruce Jacobs, Jim Phillips, Mick-
ey Smith, and Neil Kearns.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Carlisle

Miss Joan Ellen Lewis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Lewis, recently
graduated cum laude from U.N.C. at
Greensboro. She was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta,
and International History Honor So-
ciety. She received her A.B. Degree
in History. Her father, "Ike" Lewis,
is an employee of the Construction
Department in Salisbury.

Joan Ellen Lewis

Mr. R. L. (Bob) Johnson is the
new District Engineer for District 2.
Mr. Johnson, formerly of Elkin, has
been with the Highway Commission
for 15 years, the last 5 years with the
Maintenance Department as Assist-
ant Division Engineer. Bob and his
wife Evelyn have 2 sons: Rodney, 12
years old, and Todd, 5 years old.
They live in Winston-Salem.

There are several new faces in Dis-
trict 2 Maintenance Department: they

Heather Leigh Jacobs

Bruce Jacobs is the new Assistant
District Engineer for District 2. Ja-
cobs, formerly of Leland, graduated
from N. C. State University in 1968
and has been on the Training Pro-
gram the past two years. Bruce and
his wife Sandi have one daughter,
Heather Leigh, 1 months old. They
live in Winston-Salem.

Jim Phillips is a new employee in
Mr. Johnson's Office. Jim transferred
from the Construction Department to
the Maintenance Department in Feb-
ruary of this year. Jim and his wife
Besty have a son, James, Jr., 5 years
old. Jim attended Wake Forest Col-
lege.

The new Maintenance Supervisor
in Forsyth County is R. N. (Neil)
Kearns. Neil transferred to the Main-
tenance Department from the Con-
struction Department in Lexington.
Neil and his wife Annie Marie have
3 sons, Raymond Neil, 17 years old,
Kurt Wolfgang, 14 years old, and
Mark Stucke, 7 years old. They live
in Lexington.

Mrs. Mickey Smith is a new secre-
tary in Mr. Johnson's Office. Mickey
transferred from the Relocation De-
partment where she was the Area Re-
location Advisor's secretary. Mickey
and her husband, Billy, live at King.
Mickey attended Winston-Salem Busi-
ness College.

William Keith Armstrong is work-
ing temporarily this summer as an
Engineering Aide. Keith graduated
this year from Appalachian State
University with a B.A. Degree in
Biology. Keith and his wife Dianne
are living in Winston-Salem this sum-
mer. Keith plans to attend Clemson
University Graduate School this fall.

Mrs. Marie Thrift, Mr. Johnson's
secretary, entered the hospital in
June, and is now at home recuperat-
ing.

Mr. Euby Vaughn, former Forsyth
County Maintenance Supervisor, re-
tired June 1 after 39 years with the
Highway Commission.

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Gray Barneycastle entered Forsyth
Memorial Hospital June 25. Barney
is a Maintenance Foreman II in For-
syth County.

Nancy Jean Leonard, Clerk II in
the Salisbury District Office, became
the bride of Daniel Warren Kesler, on
June 21. 1970, in a ceremony at the
Sacred Heart Catholic Church in
Salisbury. After their honeymoon in
Atlanta, Georgia, the Keslers will re-
side in Charlotte.

Miss Kathy Schenk graduated in
June, 1970, from West Rowan High
School, Salisbury. She is the daugh-
ter of W. C. Schenk, Highway In-
spector III, Construction Depart-
ment, Salisbury.

Mrs. Daniel Warren Kesler

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Fulton on the birth of their daugh-
ter, Carol, on June 3, 1970. Paul is
an Engineering Technician III in the
Winston-Salem Construction Depart-
ment.

Welcome to D. L. Petrea who re-
ported to the Ninth Division Office
as Staff Engineer on April 11, 1970.
Don came to Winston-Salem from the
Construction Office in Salisbury
where he was formerly an Engineer-
ing Technician III. He, his wife, Ca-
rol, and daughter Donna Lee have
just recently moved into the new
home on Clemmons Cove, Clemmons.

Welcome to Mr. M. D. Moore who
is transferring from the Raleigh Of-
fice to Winston-Salem as our new
Division Traffic Engineer.

Glen Davis Huffman has retired
after 20 years of service as a Carpen-
ter I in the Traffic Services Depart-
ment.

Mrs. Edith Carpenter and family
vacationed at Daytona Beach and at
Morehead City recently.

We wish a speedy recovery to Mrs.
James K. Suits who recently was a
patient at Duke Hospital.

Owen Bessellieu, who has been op-
posed to the fast pace of living, has
recently taken a step back into the
"good ole days' by purchasing a horse.
Wonder what the purpose of a horse
would serve at the beach?

Scotty, who is pursuing the study
of Civil Engineering, is a rising soph-
omore at Wingate Junior College. He
holds the offices of Vice-President of
the Chemistry Club and Secretary
and Treasurer of the Chess Club.
Also, he belongs to the Math Club and
Phi Theta Kappa, an Honorary So-
ciety of Junior Colleges.

Kathy Schenk

Words of wisdom by E. M. Patter-
son, Jr.: "I could get more work done
if there were less of it."

Congratulations are extended to
Mr. Chon Shoaf who graduated with
an A.B. degree, majoring in both Zoo-
logy and Chemistry, from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
on June 1, 1970. Chon is the son of
Mr. I. N. Shoaf, Highway Engineer
I, employed in the Construction De-
partment.

Vicki and Scotty Leftwich, daugh-
ter and son of Mr. and Mrs. James
E. Leftwich, have both made the
Dean's List for this entire collegiate
year. Mr. James Leftwich is a Resi-
dent Engineer in Forsyth County.

Vicki received her Bachelor of
Science Degree in Nursing from Le-
noir Rhyne College on May 18, 1970.
She is a member of Santa Filomena
Honorary Nursing Society, and serv-
ed as Chairman of the State Common
Goals and Interests Committee for the
Student Nurses' Association of North
Carolina.

Scotty Leftwich

/ DIVISION (
U TEN W

Vicki Leftwich

Charles R.
Smith, District En-
gineer in Stanley,
Anson and Cabar-
rus Counties re-
tired recently.

Mr. Smith was
the subject of a
newspaper article
in the Stanly
News and Press of
Division CorrJe°speondent Albemarle. Report-
er George Weaver sketched in the
long career of Charlie Smith from the
time he went to work in Boone in
1929 "when there were more detours
than paved roads, and the state sys-
tem was just beginning to take
shape." During five years of "Moun-
tain engineering" he worked on U. S.
421 from North Wilkesboro to Boone,
the road from Blowing Rock to Lin-
ville by Grandfather Mountain which
is still used and assorted other roads
in Ashe and Allegheny Counties.

He came to Albemarle in 1937 as
office engineer under Lewis B. Peck,
then District Engineer.

When Smith retired he had 42
years of service including accrued
leave. His wife retired earlier this
year after 38 years of teaching in the
public schools. Their son, Major
Charles R. Smith, Jr., serves in the
Marines. Their daughter, Edith,
teaches physical education in the
Cabarrus County Schools.

As of Wednesday, June 10, the
Right of Way Department has moved
into their new office. Everyone seems
to be enjoying the additional space
and surroundings which makes their
work more pleasant. Our new furni-
ture and office equipment, which is
just beginning to arrive, enhance the
beauty of our office in addition to
being badly needed.

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Retirement party given for C. R.
Smith, (seated) in the District Office
on June 26, 1970. He received several
nice and useful gifts. Mr. Smith has
served the Highway Commisison for
over 41 years and everyone in District
1 wishes him a long and happy retire-
ment.

We are sorry to have Mrs. Helen
Melton resign with the Right of Way
Department as of June 26, 1970. We
wish her an enjoyable vacation at her
new home in Columbia, South Caro-
lina.

Get well wishes to Mr. J. M. Byrd,
Maintenance Foreman IV in Stanly
County.

Employees vacationing are: B. L.
Mabry and family, "Six Flags Over
Georgia"; Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Hud-
son, the Outer Banks; W. P. Crawley,
the mountains (horseback riding);
and J. E. Weaver and family, "Six
Flags Over Georgia".

Congratulations to Mary E. Hath-
cock, daughter of R. B. Hathcock,
General Utility Man of Stanly Coun-
ty, upon her recent marriage to
Vaughn Smith.

Congratulations to Cathy Poplin,
daughter of H. R. Poplin, Mainte-
nance Foreman III in Stanly County,
upon her recent marriage to Joel
Hatley.

Our 1970 Mecklenburg County As-
sociation Meeting was held in Char-
lotte on Thursday, June 4, 1970. At
the business meeting, election of of-
ficers was held. The following were
named: John R. McKee, County
Chairman; William S. Birmingham,
Jr., Vice Chairman; Dudley D. Mc-
Swain, Secretary and Treasurer. At
the close of business a Barbecue Sup-
per followed.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
B. F. Strickland on the arrival of
their 7 lbs. 6 oz. baby girl, Cristen
Leigh, who arrived on June 17, 1970.
Cristen is the first born of the elat-
ed parents.

Congratulations
to Mr. and Mrs.
G. P. Price, Jr., on
the birth of a
daughter, Leslie
Catherine Price,
born May 18.
"Jeep" Price is
employed in the
North Wilkesboro
Construction Of-

Dolores Rogers fice.
Division Correspondent

Lawrence E. Triplett, Maintenance
Foreman IV in Caldwell County, re-
tired July 1. Mr. Triplett retired
with 21 years and 3 months of serv-
ice with the Highway Commission.

H. F. Davis, Machine Operator II
in Yadkin County, retired June 1.
Mr. Davis had been with the High-
way Commission for nearly 30 years.

T. C. Hamm, Powderman in Alle-
ghany County is on an extended sick
leave.

Kimberly Perry, eleven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Per-
ry, North Wilkesboro, is shown in
one of her acrobatic poses. Kim is a
student of the LeLain School of
Dance and is the niece of Division
Correspondent Dolores Rogers. She
recently performed an acrobatic dance
on the "Today at Home" show on
WSJS Television in Winston- Salem.

James Comer, Elkin Highway Shop
employee, is shown holding a 6-foot,
2-inch black snake he caught recently.
The snake was found on the trunk
of Landscape Supervisor J. H. Mox-
ley's car. Mr. Moxley's son, Michael,
is shown holding two more large black
snakes found near their home. We
understand that Mrs. Moxley is want-
ing to put up a "FOR SALE" sign.

Left — Spec. 4 Allen Whitaker who
entered the U. S. Army in May of
1968 and returned from a tour of
duty in Vietnam in October, 1969.

Right — Spec. 4 Garry Whitaker
who entered the U. S. Army in Octo-
ber, 1968, and in now serving in Bang-
kok, Thailand.

Allen and Garry are the sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Arvil Whitaker. Mr. Whit-
aker is employed by the Elkin High-
way Shop.

John R. Bolin, Landscape Depart-
ment, has returned to work after be-
ing out for surgery.

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The Statesville
residency is happy
to welcome four
new employees,
Larry Stephen
Fox, James Ed-
ward M c L a i n,
John Ralph Boone
and Walter Ronald
Elmore, who will
be working this
Jean^ CHw» . summer with the

Division Correspondent

Commission. These young men are
"vacationing" from their college edu-
cation.

This beaming boy is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Hord of Shelby
and is the grandson of Mrs. Martha
S. Allen, District 1 secretary and
Carl Allen of the Division 12 Equip-
ment Shop. He is the pride and joy
in this family. Brian and his parents
have just moved into their new home
north of Shelby.

Eddie Greene, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Greene, graduated from West-
ern Carolina University on June 7,
1970, with a B.S. Degree in Physical
Education and Health.

This is "DRAGGY THE CLOWN,"
who entertains for charities and such
in Shelby and surrounding areas and
who has quite a bag of tricks includ-
ing rope tricks, magic tricks, and
making animals out of the balloons.
He is a great hit with all of the kids
(both young and old) and in case you
don't recognize him, he is Vincent
Roberts, Traffic Services Department
employee. How's this for a hobby?

This is David Roberts, the young
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Roberts
of Shelby. Joe is employed in District
1 Office, Shelby.

Linda Wright, new Clerk in the
District One Office.

Also, Ua Mae Sigmon, has been
employed as Typist II in Mr. Maun-
ey's residency.

Congratulations to Walter Ronald
Elmore on his recent marriage. The
Elmores are making their home in
Troutman.

The Statesville residency reports
that John S. Burns has resigned to
accept employment with the State of
Florida.

We wish for him the best in his
new work.

Walter Edward Laws has been em-
ployed as a Temporary Engineering
Aide in the Resident Engineer's of-
fice in Hickory.

Robert Willis Rowe has been em-
ployed as a Temporary Engineering
Assistant. Mr. Rowe come to this
office from N. C. State, Raleigh.

Michael Thomas Patton has been
employed as a Temporary Engineer-
ing Assistant. Mr. Patton also comes
to this office from N. C. State, Ra-
leigh and will be returning there this
fall to complete work on his Profes-
sional Engineering Degree.

Charles D. Gettys of Shelby Con-
struction Office spent two weeks at
Fort Bragg with the 30th Division
during the month of June.

Traffic Services Department wel-
comes Roger Gettys back at work af-
ter serving six months in Army serv-
ice.

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Jarrell are
the proud parents of a baby girl,
Audrey Annette, born on June 9,
1970. Mr. Jarrell is an employee in
Alexander County.

Mr. H. T. Teague, an employee in
Catawba County was in the hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Crowder and son
spent their vacation in Florida during
June. Hay is employed in the Land-
scape Department.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hamrick
spent their vacation in Oklahoma.
Homer is employed in the Landscape
Department.

On the first day of June, 1970, Mas-
ter Bradley Queen received his "Ba-
chelor of Rhymes Degree" from Mt.
Zion Baptist Kindergarten. Bradley is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Queen. Mr. Queen works out of Mr.
Winkler's Construction Office in Hic-
kory.

( DIVISION ^-7
V THIRTEEN /

The Right of
Way Department
reports that Dallas
Clark and family
visited parts of
eastern North Ca-
rolina, Virginia,
Washington, D. C,
Hershey, Pa., Get-
tysburg, Pa., and
even managed to
Divu1onn&py.ndentfind time for fish-
ing in Chesapeake Bay. Jack Arledge

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and his family are seeing how much
of Washington, D. C. they can cover
during their vacation week. Linda
Cabe and Louise Norton took short
vacations — Linda to Myrtle Beach
for a few days with some friends and
Louise to Tampa. Charlie Bumgar-
ner spent some happy days with his
daughter, her husband and children,
who were visiting from New Orleans,
Louisiana.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Terrell are liv-
ing in their new mobile home. Jack
Arledge and John Bland are back
from two weeks of Appraisal School,
held at the University of Virginia.
Susan Stines Mcintosh was married
on June 28 to James Niles Ball. Su-
san is the daughter of Wince Mcin-
tosh of the Right of Way Depart-
ment.

Morganton Construction News from
Earl Payne's office reveals vacations
mostly.

Philip Bailey and Sidney Simmons,
have resigned to work in the insur-
ance field. Howard Rich and his fam-
ily enjoyed a week vacationing in
Miami and St. Augustine. Two fami-
lies enjoyed trips to Myrtle Beach —
the Frank Flemings and Darrell Po-
wells, Larry Humphries and his fam-
ily took a fishing and swimming va-
cation in Virginia. Bill Dayberry and
his family are keeping the roads hot
with their camper.

We have heard of several trips to
the mountains and to the shore. John
Whisnant and family visited Hunts-
ville, Alabama, and you can bet a
highlight of the trip for the boys was
a visit to the Redstone Arsenal, where
they viewed original structure and
some replicas of modern spacecraft.
Earl Payne and his family enjoyed a
day at the Land of Oz atop Beech
Mountain. Kay Pollard attended a
one-day session of the Women's So-
ciety Conference, held at Lake Juna-
luska. Sympathy is extended to Lar-
ry Taylor, whose grandmother pass-
ed away in June.

The Equipment Department report
shows that June vacationers included
Mrs. Grace Lytle and her family;
Mr. Charles Fore and his family —
also Tom Crook and family. We are
glad to announce that Mrs. Marga-
ret Norris, wife of Finley Norris,
APC at the Marion Shop, is recuper-
ating at her home from recent sur-
gery in Richard Baker Hospital, Hic-
kory.

Mr. J. T. Turpin of the Biltmore
Shop vacationed at Cherry Grove
Beach, South Carolina with his fam-
ily. Sympathy is extended to P. M.

Hensley of the Burnsville Shop on
the death of his brother, and to Ken-
neth Sexton of the Craggy Shop on
the loss of his father, Mr. Hugh Sex-
ton.

A recent lovely bride was Linda
Diane Wilson, daughter of Rex Wil-
son, who was married to Walter Louis
Oakey on Saturday, June 6. The cou-
ple will live in Chattanooga, Tennes-
see.

Dan Martin, Resident Engineer,
and his family vacationed at Clearwa-
ter Beach, Silver Spring, Maryland,
Dan has twin boys.

Our sympathy to Clyde Orr on the
recent death of his mother and on the
more recent illness of his father.
Clyde's father is now home and doing
very well, probably better than Clyde
will be doing next fall when hunting
time comes around.

Congratulations to J. Timothy Bar-
nett, son of A. L. Barnett, Area
Bridge Construction Engineer, who
graduated from Erwin High School
this year. Tim is working in Resident
Engineer Ken Rabb's office this sum-

Alljce Cunningham pi„00> ^ff™ wnQ
Division Correspondent *^eSS OltlCe Was

reemployed there this summer. They
are glad to have him back.

The Unit 14 meeting was held in
Waynesville at Heath Lodge with a
good country ham dinner. There were
71 in attendance which included
guests from Raleigh and other points
east. Delegates were elected to the
State Convention.

Joyce Cloer and family spent their
vacation at Myrtle Beach and Ra-
leigh. Joyce is Steno in the Division
Engineer's office.

Wanda Jones, Construction Secre-
tary, and family spent a week near
Myrtle Beach on their vacation.

Our bowling enthusiast, Forrest
Ponder, was privileged to play in the

We understand
Joe Haynes enjoy-
ed the STAKE he
ordered at the S.H.
C.E.A. dinner but
complained that it
was not the right
"cut."

Lloyd Jenkins,
former Engineer-
ing Aide at Bob

Southeastern bowling tournament in
Asheville recently.

Browning Knob
Dedication

Robert Browning, (left) son of the
late R. Getty Browning, is shown here
with Browning Knob in the back-
ground.

E. J. Whitmire, Highway Commis-
sioner, addressed the group who gath-
ered at Browning Knob.

FERRY DIVISION

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

On Monday night, June 29, a meet-
ing with the Currituck Ferry Person-
nel was held at the Holiday Inn on
Route 17, Elizabeth City, for the pur-
pose of presenting the crew of the
ferry "Knotts Island" with a certifi-
cate of recognition. The Currituck
Ferry Operations Unit completed the
calendar year of 1969 without a sin-
gle accident.

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Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

The plaque presented to them by
SHC Safety Officer Gerald Fleming
states: "THE NORTH CAROLINA
STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
RECOGNIZES THAT THE CUR-
RITUCK FERRY CREW CON-
DUCTED OPERATIONS DURING
1969 IN A SAFE MANNER."

Currituck Ferry Personnel — Left
to right: Gerald Fleming, Safety En-
gineer, presents Safety Award to
Hugh Salter, Ferry Manager, and
Ralph Sears and Raleigh P. Mans-
field, pilots aboard the ferry "Knotts
Island" who accept the plaque on be-
half of their fellow shipmates.

Crew of "The Knotts Island"

Cupid did a double take in the Wil-
lie Nelson family recently. On May 6
Brenda Gail Nelson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Nelson was married
to Thomas Frederick Biermann, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Biermann
of Beaufort, and on July 3, Judy
Carol Nelson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Nelson was married to
Mr. Darriel I. Pierce, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Pierce of Smyrna. Both
young couples will make their homes
in Carteret County. Mr. Nelson,
"father of the brides," is Clerk in the
Morehead City Ferry Office.

~ 1 PERSONNEL —
^^^H' Jk Troy Dodson is all

^Jj^t^-igj^j seems everyone in

1^^^^ j//^ celebration of the

Martha Williams
recently graduated at Hardbarger's
Business College. Martha has been
with Personnel since March as a
Steno II.

The Ted Austin family enjoyed a
recent vacation at Cherry Grove,
South Carolina.

Banks Clark and his wife decided
to stick to the North Carolina beaches
and vacationed at Ocean Isle.

Barbara Stussie exclaims New York
City is a real entertainment center,
after vacationing there for several
days recently.

Joyce Clark and her family enjoyed
vacationing at their summer cottage
near Aurora. Joyce reports they are
still working on the cottage, but had
enough time left to enjoy the trip.

Jim Wofford's family, along with
Ann Carver, spent a few days visiting
"Six Flags Over Georgia" recently.
They report it was very exciting and
well worth the long ride.

Mr. Dodson recently moved to Ra-
leigh from Greenville and is making
his new home at Meredith Townes.

Crescent Beach, South Carolina,
was the scene of the Cloyce Alford
family vacation retreat. Cloyce was

joined by his brother and they enjoy-
ed several rounds of golf together
while there.

Fred Adcock's family vacationed at
Atlantic Beach at the John Yancey
Motel. Fred reports it was a real week
of luxury.

James Wheless, with his wife and
little girl, traveled to Nags Head for
several days vacation. Jim said things
had really changed there since his last
visit.

Mark Austin has created the MOD
look in racing by splashing paint on
his proud machine which he entered
in the annual Soap Box Derby July
19. Mark is the son of Ted Austin in
Personnel.

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LOCATION — Welcome to new
employees Bernadette Driver and
Sarah McAdams.

Anne Ake and her husband are
really enjoying their new home in
Worthdale.

Congratulations to Mary Tripp,
former employee in Property Sur-
vey, and her husband upon the re-
cent arrival of a new baby boy.

MAINTENANCE — Welcome to
Miss Betty Anne Edwards, who re-
cently joined the Department.

PURCHASING — It's nice to have
Ann Hartsock and Phillip Greer as
summer employees. Phillip is helping
in the Invoicing Approving Section
and Ann is typing purchase orders.

Jo Ellen Massengill has replaced
Pat Proctor in the order writing sec-
tion. Pat recently transferred to Traf-
fic Engineering.

Gennie Pearce, with her husband
and his family, enjoyed a wonderful
vacation the last week in June in
Asheville.

Leona Sidbury and her husband
vacationed the third week in July at
Topsail Beach with friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nelson Ful-
ford were married June 6, 1970, in
Holland's United Methodist Church
near Garner. Mrs. Fulford is the
daughter of Mrs. Louise Shepherd of
the Purchasing Department and the
late James E. Shepherd. The Rever-
end Mr. W. Nelson Fulford, father of
the groom, performed the ceremony.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
Mrs. Nancy Frazier is working in the
Department as secretary to Mr. Jim-
my D. Lee. Nancy has returned to
the Highway Commission after being
stationed with her husband at Lack-
land Air Force Base in Texas.

It was good to see Mrs. Nancy
Harding, former Bridge Maintenance
Secretary, pay the Department a visit
recently. Nancy now lives in Ohio.

EQUIPMENT — The Department
welcomes temporary summer employ-
ees Jean Barger, Jean Cashion, Don-
na Lacey, Steve Shamblin, Joanne
Wilkins and Martha Zaytoun.

PLANNING AND RESEARCH —
Mrs. Judy Austin was honored at a
luncheon-baby shower in June at Bal-
lentine's Restaurant. Judy is at home
on maternity leave eagerly awaiting
the new arrival.

Welcome back to Barbara Mitchell,
who has been away on sick leave.
Barbara should enjoy some therapeu-
tic weekends at the beach now since
they recently bought a trailer near
Atlantic Beach.

Amanda Lee Warlick, age 3x/2> is
shown enjoying a book during a re-
cent camping trip to Morrow Moun-
tain State Park.

Amanda is the daughter of Mrs.
Joan Warlick, Draftsman in Planning
and Research.

Donna Simpson left the Depart-
ment in July to travel in Europe. Ma-
drid will be headquarters for Donna
for a while; then she plans to revisit
scenes and people from her grammar
school days when she lived in Italy.

Little Larry Gene (Butch) Tysor,
Jr., recently celebrated his seventh
birthday and is thoroughly enjoying
his summer vacation away from Swift
Creek School. "Butch" is the son of
Mrs. Jeannette Tysor, who works in
Planning and Research.

Guy Farmer and family enjoyed a
recent vacation to Atlanta and vicin-
ity in June. They recommend "Six
Flags Over Georgia" for anyone plan-
ning a family trip.

A first plane trip is always quite
an event and Marie Kivitt was ini-
tiated recently when she flew to
Nashville to meet her sister, Glenda,
and drive back with her to North
Carolina. Marie says flying is great.

Charlie Adkins, Tom Hill and Ted
Waters were hosts at a bachelor party
fish fry to honor Ed Shuller on July
9. Ed got reeled in on Saturday, July
11.

Donna Simpson, a summer em-
ployee and draftsman in Planning
and Research, is leaving soon to tour
Europe. Donna is a Junior at North
Carolina State University.

Don Corwin and family toured
Washington, D. C, recently. They
report Burke Lake as being an ideal
place for camping. Don has a travel-
camp trailer and finds this to be a
good way to see the sights with chil-
dren.

Welcome to new employees Ebby
Phillips and Linda Wiggins. Ebby
makes her home in Raleigh and comes
to us from Mr. Faircloth's office.
Linda is a temporary summer em-
ployee who teaches Junior High
School.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — Several
new employees have joined the De-
partment. Michael Mantych, Draft-
ing Section, lives in Wendell. Tom
Hines, Stereo Section, transferred
from Geodetic Survey in "C & D"
and commutes from Goldsboro. Andy
Mills is a new Highway Engineering
Trainee from Jacksonville, and grad-
uated from North Carolina State.

Congratulations to Earl Garrett of
the Field Party on the birth of a son
in Statesville.

Many employees enjoyed vacations
recently. Diana Lloyd of the Engineer-
ing Section spent a long weekend at
Myrtle Beach.

Department Head E. J. Page was
out of the office for several days en-
tertaining his niece, Mrs. Barbara
Holt, and her husband, who were vis-
iting the Pages from Panama.

Jim McCloskey of the Editing Sec-
tion visited family and friends in Day-
tona Beach, Florida, for a week re-
cently.

2U

Jack Matthews enjoyed a vacation
at Long Beach with his family.

Frank Denny of the Photo Lab re-
turned recently after spending sev-
eral days at Wrightsville Beach.

Connie Wester, Drafting Supervi-
sor, with his wife and son, spent sev-
eral days in July visiting in the
mountains of North Carolina. Among
the sights seen were Tweetsie Rail-
road and the Land of Oz.

BRIDGE — Congratulations to
Charlie King and Connie Gordon,
who were married in Garner, June
26. On an extended wedding trip to
the Bahamas, they ran into Jewel
Adcock in Nassau . . . small world.
On the return trip, they met Gerald
and Lou White and John and Hazel
Smith in Daytona, there for vaca-
tion and the races. Charlie and Con-
nie will make their home in Garner.

Two "brand new" girls have been
added to Bridge. Keith Parrish
boasts of his daughter, Amy Lyn,
born June 20, and weighing in at 8
lbs.

George Holdsworth is equally proud
of his daughter, Content Noel, born
June 26, who weighed 7 lbs., 13 ozs.

Congratulations to Hasan Judeh for
his U. S. Citizenship received June 4.
Hasan is from Jordan.

It's good to have several new em-
ployees in the Department. W. R.
(Billy) Mitchell transferred from
Roadway to replace Garland Mitchell
in the Plans Section.

Lynn Wilson is a temporary em-
ployee in Final Estimates and plans
to attend NCSU this fall. His wife,
Kaye, formerly worked with the Com-
mission in specifications. The Wilsons
are from Goldsboro.

Fred Mehfar is back in Bridge De-
sign after completing the training
program.

Stanley Hyatt, trainee in Bridge
Design, transferred from staff engi-
neering in Division 13.

Jacqueline Scott, on the P. A. C. E.
Program, is working this summer as
a steno in Bridge Construction.

Henry Black and Raymond Moore,
former trainees, are now permanent
in Bridge Design.

Charles Schofield is another perma-
nent employee who attended NCSU.

Several members of the Department
resigned recently. Garland Mitchell
left to begin full time business for
himself.

David Hodgin is on military leave,
but will return this fall.

Frank Stanley, Jr., has returned to
school.

Pat Strong transferred to the Plan-

It seems that some of the boys in
the Bridge Department are just as
adept at catching fish as engineering.

Proudly displaying their catch at
Morehead City are Bridge employees
Sheridan Morris, Richard Floyd,
Craig Martin and Ralph Underwood
(front row); and Ken Creech and
Bob Lilley, (back row),
ning and Research Department.

Reinhard Martin praises Hanging
Rock State Park as an ideal vacation
spot, with emphasis on its beauty and
facilities. He and his family spent a
most pleasant week there and had
lots of fun. This park is located 32
miles north of Winston-Salem and
has cabins and a beautiful lake.

Ben Terrell is proud of the 4 lb.,
8 oz. bass caught in a private pond
near his home in Rolesville.

Hack Clarke in the Encroachments
Section is back at work after a 9-day
stay at Johnston Memorial Hospital
in Smithfield. Hack had a thorough
physical check-up and an operation
on his feet.

ROADWAY DESIGN — Welcome
back to work to Nellie Keglers after
being out of work on maternity leave.
Allen Mark was born April 1, 1970,
to Nellie and Vilis, and now weighs
15 lbs.

Congratulations to Heber and Edna
Eason who welcomed a new daughter,
Kelly Ann, born April 18. They now
have two girls. Congratulations also
to Harlan and Mary Britt on the
birth of a daughter named Ashley
Nicole, who was born on June 28.
Vacations Galore

Aaron Kreem and family visited his
parents and other relatives in and
around Watertown, Massachusetts,
the last two weeks in June. On their
return trip, they visited Martha's
brother and his family in Arlington,
Virginia.

George and Peggy Holland sailed
July 13 on the "Flavia" from Miami
bound for Nassau, where they will
sightsee and soak up the beach sun.

Martha and Charles Enscore spent
the last week in June at Hilton Head
Island, South Carolina, where they
enjoyed playing golf and going swim-,
ming.

Hubert Thaggard and family spent
the first two weeks of June visiting
relatives in Florida, Alabama and At-
lanta.

Tony Hamerka and family recently
visited with relatives at Tuscaloosa,
Alabama.

Mrs. Tina Aja and daughter, Sara
left by plane for a three week visit
to Santander, Spain, to visit relatives.
Meanwhile, Tony Aja will "batch" it.

Mrs. Sue Flowers took an exciting
trip to Honolulu, Hawaii, in June for
eight days to meet her husband,
Glenn. He is stationed in Vietnam
with the U. S. Army until August.
There were luaus held every other
night at the officer's club, which
they could see from their hotel. They
had live entertainment and the girls
wore grass skirts. Sue said it was a
wonderful trip and one that they
would always remember.

Frank and Alice Pace spent a few
days recently at Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina.

Robert Gary Bey, son of Fred C.
Bey, Jr., Design Section, has com-
pleted a course in I.B.M. Data Pro-
cessing at the Naval Training Base
located at Orlando, Florida. Robert
spent a few days in Raleigh visiting
before going to Norfolk, Virginia,
where he will take three weeks of sur-
vival training before being shipped
overseas to Saigon, Vietnam, for a
tour of fifteen months.

H. D. (Otey) Walker was presented
a set of luggage from the Roadway
Design Department upon his retire-
ment from the Highway Commission
June 30. Shown with Otey are W. A.
Wilson, Jr.; H. C. Clegg, Jr. and R.
W. McGowan.

With more than 19 years of service
with the Commission, Mr. Walker
started work in 1926 following grad-
uation from N. C. State University.
He left in 1942 to serve with the
Corps of Engineers and the Atomic
Energy Commission. He returned in
1963 as Plans Checking Engineer and
served in this capacity until his re-
tirement.

His valuable services will be miss-
ed, but all employees join in wishing
Mr. Walker many enjoyable retire-
ment years.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL — The
Attorney General's Office is one of
the many State Offices who have hir-
ed temporary employment for the
summer months. Mr. Winston Page,
a summer intern, will be working in
this division through the months of
June, July, and August. Our new em-
ployees are Brenda Taylor, who is
Lester V. Chalmers' secretary, and
Phyllis Youngblood, who is the secre-
tary to Bruce White, Assistant At-
torney General. Mrs. Jane Stephen-
son is the new operator of the M.T.-
S.T. machine. The former Miss San-
dra Poole spoke wedding vows with
Eric Douglas Owens on May 30 and
honeymooned in Florida.

Beginning July 26, all of the attor-
neys in the Highway Division will be
attending the Ninth Annual Highway
Research Board Workshop on High-
way Law which will be held in Ashe-
ville. During this week, various speak-
ers such as Robert Morgan, Attorney
General; Dickerson Phillips, Dean of
the Law School of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and
Harrison Lewis, Deputy Attorney
General, will present topics relating to
the workshop. Mrs. Mary Lib Green,
Mrs. Marilyn Lee, and Miss Essa Mc-
Bryde will be in Asheville the first
of the week to help with the registra-
tion of the participants.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Andy Ward is now a member of the
grandfathers' club. His son Bobby and
daughter-in-law Gail have a daughter,
Kimberly Lou, born June 25.

Irene Beddingfield, who underwent
dental surgery, is back at work in the
Accident Identification Section.

Pat Proctor is a recent transfer
from the Purchase and Contract De-
partment. Timothy Johnson is a new
employee in the Design Section. Tim
was formerly on the civil technology
training program, working with the
Materials and Tests Department.

Little Camille Denice Jones is the
daughter of Bob and Barbara Jones.
Bob is an engineering technician with
the Signal Section of Traffic Engi-
neering.

Angela Jennings is the daughter of
Jeff and Beth Jennings. Jeff is as-
signed to one of the Area Traffic En-
gineers as engineering technician.

Two NCSU students on the PACE
program, Constantine Vrettos and
Mike Everette, are employed for the
summer with TED. Other college stu-
dents working for the summer include
Johnny Babcock, Teresa Bevaqua,
David Clement, Bob Holden, Bob
James, Joe Middleton, Denise Mit-
chell, Don Osborne, Cora Shores, and
Debbie Stephens.

Chatry Perry, an ET II temporarily
employed with the Department, ex-
pects to report for duty with the
Army Signal Corps, September 1.

Bettie Massengill visited Hawaii by
plane on a 12-day vacation in June.
Enroute home, she stopped over on
the west coast to visit Tijuana, Mexi-
co, Disneyland, and San Diego.

Vacations by TED personnel in-
clude the following names and places:
Herb Justice and family, New Or-
leans, Louisiana; Frank Murray and
wife, Judy, North Carolina moun-
tains; Reiley Curtis and family, Myr-
tle Beach, South Carolina; Tom Mor-
ris and family, West Virginia; Roger
Hawkins and wife Pat, "Six Flags
Over Georgia" and other tourist spots;
Robert Cauley and family and Grad-
ford Barbour and family, coastal re-
sorts. Bruce Harrod attended a signal
school in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Watch for the news of the TED
baseball team next time.

MATERIALS AND TESTS —
Mr. F. T. Wagner, State Materials
Engineer, attended professional meet-
ings at Toronto, Canada, June 22
through June 26.

Mr. and Mrs. Wagner and children,
Joy and Frankie, left home on June
20 and traveled by way of Pittsburgh,
Penna., Lake Erie, Michigan, and
Buffalo, New York, and spent some
time at Niagara Falls.

In Toronto Mrs. Wagner and chil-
dren enjoyed touring the city.

On their return home they traveled
by way of Syracuse and Binghamton,
in New York State; Harrisburg,

Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland;
and stopped in Washington, D.
C. There they visited the zoo and also
visited Mr. and Mrs. George Jivatode
and family. They had a leisurely
drive back to Raleigh on June 28.

Sympathy is extended to Mr. W.
W. Mooneyham in the recent death
of his stepfather, Mr. William
Wheeler.

It's good to know that Lucky Coop-
er is now able to be out following re-
cent surgery for an appendectomy.

We are glad to have Harry L. Sears
back with us in the Lab as an Inspec-
tor of Metal. He transferred to Ra-
leigh from Wilmington as Division
Materials Inspector in the 3rd Divi-
sion. Mr. Bill Watson from the Con-
crete Lab transferred to Wilmington
as Division Materials Inspector.

It is vacation time again and the
following have enjoyed some time at
Atlantic Beach: Robert Scarborough
and family; Doug Pearson; Charles
Simpson and family; Hubert Wat-
kins and family; and Pete Bourke and
Mrs. Bourke. Pete also spent some
time at Myrtle Beach, South Caro-
lina.

Arthur Mills and family spent an
enjoyable vacation at Atlanta, Geor-
gia, and went to see "Six Flags Over
Georgia"; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Mor-
gan had a nice week at the beach;
Marlon Brewer and family took a
nice trip to Nashville, Tennessee; Ted
Jackson and family spent a week at
Kerr Lake camping and sailing; and
Charles Whitley and family enjoyed
a trip to Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, by
way of Tennessee.

Jim Wrenn is a new permanent
employee. Carolyn Martin is with us
for the summer. Carolyn plans to at-
tend Peace College in the fall.

On July 5, 1970, Connie Dell
Barnes and Johnnie Bryant Potter
were united in marriage at Mt. Pleas-
ant Church in Willow Spring. Odell
Potter was best man and the maid of
honor was Patsy Barnes. The brides-
maid was Betty Barnes and ushers
were Donnie Barnes and Ricky Bla-
lock. The couple left for a honeymoon
at Atlantic Beach, and they will
make their home at Fuquay-Varina.

RIGHT OF WAY — Girls in Right
of Way gave Pat Wilkie, now Mrs.
Tommy Veal a luncheon and shower
at the Downtowner Restaurant. She
received many useful gifts.

Ann Bemis' son, Wade, spent the
month of July visiting her.

Nancy Gargis, a former employee,
and her son, Neal, paid us a visit
June 1. She now lives in Morganton.

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Headquarters said "congratulations"
and "good by" to Mrs. Russell John-
son, the former Jenifer Joy Sutton, a
steno in the Construction Adminis-
tration Department. "Jenny" married
Russell on July 18, 1970. "Russ" will
remain on the job in the Right of Way
Department and "Jenny" will now
join the Department of Local Affairs.

Bob Sheets had a freak accident in
his office June 29 when the window
blind fell on his wrist and cut a very
long gash in it. He was treated at
Wake Memorial Hospital.

Sympathy is extended to the fam-
ily of Brantly Murray upon the death
of his father, James M. Murray of
Apex; also to the family of J. D.
Croom upon the death of his brother,
James D. Croom of Kinston.

Several employees in Right of Way
have spent their vacation at Kure
Beach: Worth Sorrell and family, Bob
Sheets and family, John Holmes and
family, Sam Jackson and family,
Bobby Heath and family.

Betty Radford spent a week at
Carolina Beach with the family, Har-
old Davis took his daughter to At-
lantic Beach for a week, Evelyn Par-
tin and family vacationed in Florida,
Ray Crawford and family vacationed
in Florida, Odell Penny and husband
vacationed at Atlantic Beach.

M. E. White and family vacationed
at Atlantic Beach, Bob Pratt and fam-
ily vacationed at Atlantic Beach, Jen-
ny Ferrell and family spent a long
weekend at Long Beach, Bob McCoy
and family went to Carolina Beach,
Ann Bemis spent several days in
Maine, J. D. Croom spent a week in
Georgia, Russ Johnston spent a week
at Jekyll Island, Georgia.

Everyone misses Ken Land who re-
signed to accept other employment.
We welcome Tom Howard who re-
places him.

Everyone welcomes Louis Allen,
Fred Barkley, John Stewart, Alvie
Patterson back from military leave.

John Fields and family went to

visit the mountains, the beach, and
"Six Flags Over Georgia."

Nelson Bowden and family spent a
week in Glouchester, Massachusetts,
attending the wedding of his niece
and then went to his summer place
in Washington for a week.

M. E. White has joined the De-
partment of Administration, Property
Control, as head of a new Real Estate
Section. We welcome J. P. Rumley
from Charlotte as his replacement.

We welcome Romeo Lewis to the
Department as a summer employee.

Eleanor B. Taylor and her husband
spent a week at Emerald Isle with
her family.

Pat Bryant spent a long weekend
at Myrtle Beach.

m

Lovely Miss Pat Wilkie of Raleigh
was married in a double-ring cere-
mony at Bell's Baptist Church near
Apex, Sunday, June 28, 1970, to Tom-
my Hudson Veal of Greensboro.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernice A. Wilkie of Apex
and the bridegroom is the son of the
Reverend Mr. Earnest Veal and Mrs.
Veal, of Camilla, Georgia.

The ceremony was performed by
the groom's father, assisted by the
Reverend Mr. Aubrey Folk, pastor of
Bell's Baptist Church.

Mrs. Malinda Pope was matron of
honor. The bride had eight other at-
tendants.

Following a wedding trip to Cape
Cod, the newlyweds moved to Greens-
boro, where the groom holds a posi-
tion with an insurance firm. The bride
was a secretary in the Right of Way
Department before her marriage.

REPRODUCTION — Numerous
vacationers in our department include
Larry Watt and his wife who went to
Myrtle Beach; Ben Garner and Hen-
ry Hailey and the families, Myrtle
Beach; Joan Creekmore and daugh-
ter and Betty Carter went to Atlan-
tic Beach; Vernon Branch and his
wife spent several days at Surf City;
the Garland Johnsons spent a week
at Kerr Lake; Joe Sanders and his
family toured places of interest in

South Carolina where "Sluggin' Joe"
played several ball games.

Chip Watkins and his bride have
just returned from their honeymoon
in Western North Carolina.

Woody Ragan and his bride, Debra
Britt, went West on their honeymoon.
They were married on July 12 in
Garner.

Elijah Eakes and his wife journey-
ed to "Six Flags Over Georgia" and
also spent some time camping at
Kerr Lake.

Others in REPRODUCTION are
still waiting for their vacation time to
arrive.

The Mail Room "FISH" got
caught. Roger Fish was recently mar-
ried to Barbara Donahue of Roanoke,
Virginia. Congratulations are in or-
der.

Roddy Seymour is a summer em-
ployee in the mail room. He is a ris-
ing sophomore at East Carolina Uni-
versity.

George Lupton, son of G. G. Lup-
ton with the Bituminous Department,
got stranded in Europe when the
World Academy Tour Company of
Chicago, Illinois, went bankrupt.
George and 250 other students from
the U. S. were stranded in Cologne.
They just made the most of it and
"had a ball."

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Douglas Tart
were married June 27, 1970 at Four
Oaks. Jo Ann is a Steno II in the
Purchasing Department.

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In The Driver s Seat

By GIBSON PRATHER

There used to be a saying that to a woman, hell would
be a place with a thousand new hats and not a single
mirror.

It doesn't take much of a traffic study to tell you that
to some automobile drivers, hell would be a brand new
car without a horn. Just drive anywhere in downtown
Raleigh or any other city, and you'll understand the
noise pollution problem.

It's the honkers.

And they fall into several categories.

First, there is the nervous driver — lots of these are
women — who gets on a four-lane street and imagines
that every car is edging over into her lane. She gives a
sharp warning shot across the bow of the other car, and
has been known to do this several times within a single
city block.

No settler in the Old West ever defended his homestead
with more fierceness than this type of driver protects
her proprietary rights to the lane she happens to be in at
the moment. The settler used a squirrel rifle and she
uses a horn, with just about equal decibel ratings.

Second, there is the blaster. He wants everybody to
get to one side when he comes through and he uses his
horn to tell them so. He isn't anywhere near as subtle
as the nervous woman, who taps her horn so that it emits
short beeps. This fellow blasts, long and hard, and any-
one in front of him is traveling at his own risk.

He is heavy footed on his accelerator and this is match-
ed by his heavy handedness on his horn.

There once was an old movie in which W. C. Fields
went out on the highways hunting for road hogs in a

machine that resembled a tank. If they ever make a re-
run of the film, which is doubtful because Fields is long
since dead, he could well be looking for the blaster in
his armored vehicle.

And then there is the socializer.

This type uses the automobile horn to speak to friends
he spots when out driving. If he sees a face he knows,
even though it may be that of a casual acquaintance,
he'll give out with a beep of the old horn.

This friendly gesture invariably causes motorists in his
immediate vicinity to glance nervously around to see if
they are doing something wrong, such as being in the
wrong lane or failing to give a proper turn signal.

The socializer is, of course, an extrovert, not at all like
the more introverted nervous honker who wants to be
alone in his or her traffic lane. He uses the horn to
spread good cheer, which would be fine if it didn't cause
other drivers to take instant inventory of their own driv-
ing situations.

A fellow in the Highway Building, who has something
of a thing against indiscriminate horn tooting, was bog-
ged down in a long traffic line just the other day when
someone immediately behind him starting tooting.

When he got to the office, a secretary asked him, "I
was right behind you in traffic and I honked at you,
but you didn't answer. What did you think when I
tooted?"

"To tell you the truth," he said, "I thought who is that
back there blowing that fool horn."

It was Tennyson who asked his companions to "sound
upon your bugle horn" but the companion's horn was
that of a huntsman and he wasn't driving a car on a
busy city street.

And besides, noise pollution was no big problem in
Tennyson's day, anyway.

LETTERS WE LIKED LETTERS WE LIKED LETTERS WE LIKED

Dear Sirs:

Your magazine keeps arriving this
year! In the year of Beethoven's
200th birthday, things go better.

My only urging is that you ought
to include in each issue one big arti-
cle with lots of pictures on some ma-
jor construction project. Let us see
the roads abuilding.

And please send one of the new
1970 road maps.

Sincerely,
Jesse Roberts

Hillcrest Heights, Maryland

Dear Mr. Faircloth:

I would like to report to you the
fine services that I have received from
the members of your department.

On Wednesday morning, June 10,
we were on vacation and crossing
Pamlico Sound from Cedar Island to
Ocracoke on the Silver Lake Highway

Ferry. We were approximately twen-
ty-five minutes out from pier when
my daughter's right thumb was crush-
ed in a steel door. I wish to express
through you, the excellent service
which Captain Ervin Garrish and his
crew gave us at that time. The ferry
was turned around and he brought
us back to Cedar Island where we
were met by Hugh Salter who drove
us to the hospital at Sea Level, N. C,
where my daughter was treated.

I returned to Charlotte, N. C. on
Thursday morning and the necessary
surgery was performed by Dr. Rich-
ard Wrenn and I'm glad to say that
my daughter's thumb will be saved.

Again, let me congratulate you on
the fine employees that you have in
the Highway Commission.

Very truly yours,
Norris W. Crigler
Certified Life Underwriter
Equitable Life, Charlotte

Dear Sir:

I would like to commend one of
your employees, Robert Spencer. As
I recall, his nickname is "Washy."
He is employed by you at the ferry
service dock at Ocracoke.

July 10 had been a long hot day for
me ... I had the usual dumb tourist
questions he had been answering all
day, but you would never know it
from his answers for he was polite to
the point of being unusual . . .

Here is one thing I'd like to men-
tion in all kindness. When I say "Yes
Sir," I give it the hard Yankee twang.
When "Washy" says it, it sounds like
"Yes Sor."

Would you please make my compli-
ments to him official?

Ivan Walcott
Plainwell, Michigan

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No HIGHER tribute to man and his devotion.

That statement is true both figuratively and literally.
Reaching 6,260 feet skyward, a mountain peak, just off
the Blue Ridge Parkway, is now known as Browning
Knob. It has been named for the late R. Getty Browning,
generally conceded to be the pathfinder of the famous
Blue Ridge Parkway.

Mr. Browning served as location and claims engineer
and parkway consultant for the N. C. State Highway
Commission from 1925 until 1964. He died in 1966.

On Friday, June 12, 1970, several hundred citizens
joined state and federal officials along with members
of the Browning Family at an overlook on the Parkway,
and with the lofty peak as a backdrop, officially dedicat-
ed the mountain to honor the memory of the man who
literally walked the entire route of the parkway in North
Carolina.

Representing the SHC were Chairman Lauch Faircloth,
Commissioner E. J. Whitmire, Administrator George Wil-
loughby, Jr., Chief Right of Way Agent W. H. (Buck)
Webb, and Division Engineer W. F. Ray of the 14th Di-
vision.

Commissioner Whitmire introduced Congressman Roy
A. Taylor of the 11th Congressional District, who made
the dedicatory address. In his remarks Taylor stated, "We
pray for men to match our mountains. Here we select a
mountain, tall and rugged, to match a man. From the
beginning of the parkway concept in the 1930s, he work-
ed tirelessly to see this dream come true. Time has
proven R. Getty Browning to be right in his quest for
this route for the parkway. Today the Blue Ridge Park-
way is recognized as the best scenic route in the United
States."

Robert Browning, a son from Raleigh, responded to
Congressman Taylor's remarks, recalling many anecdotes
about his father who tramped over these mountains, "al-
ways with his snake-stick, his pocket compass, and his
little hand-ax."

Veterans of SHC from all around the state echo the
sentiments of every single laudatory remark made on
that Friday, June 12, 1970. 6,260 feet is not a very tall
mountain when compared to the heights reached by the
man whose name it now bears.

— J. Arch Laney

R. Getty Browning (1884-1966)

Location and Claims Engineer and Parkway Consultant
for North Carolina State Highway Commission, 1925-1964

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SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1970

Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

BRIDGE — Duke Woodlief, Fay-
etteville "Tech" graduate, is a new
trainee in this Department. The
Woodliefs are proud parents of a
daughter, Jean Christina, born Au-
gust 8. Harold Miller, NCSU grad-
uate is also a new trainee.

Several new permanent employees
have joined Bridge. Sidney Thames
was formerly with Peden Steel Com-
pany. He and his wife, Louise, are
parents of two sons, Sidney, five years
old, and Chris, one and a half years
old.

Craig Jones, an Angier resident,
attended Holding "Tech". Craig was
married August 29 to Gayle Wilkins.
The bride is an employee of Nation-
wide Insurance Company in Raleigh.

Larry Hicks lives in Smithfield
with his wife, Vickie, a beautician
there, and seven months old daughter,
Angela Michele. They plan to move
to Raleigh in the near future.

Gloria Powell transferred from Pro-
ject Control to Bridge Construction
as a Steno II.

James Norris, Jr., another Holding
"Tech" graduate, recently joined the
Department.

The Department will miss the em-
ployees recently resigning, many of
them returning to school. James
Moore left to attend NCSU. David
Vance is on leave of absence, also at-
tending "State." Lynn Wilson is on
an hourly work basis, and a part-
time student at NCSU. Greg Walker
resigned to join Duke Power Com-
pany in Charlotte. Jacqueline Scott,
on the P. A. C. E. Program, recent-
ly left. Ross Kubeny is furthering his
education both by going to night
school and by taking a correspon-
dence course. This program has en-
abled Ross to keep his regular work-
schedule.

Congratulations to Gus Neville who
was married August 28 to Mrs. Jean
Britt of Raleigh. Jean is employed
with Hydra Computer Corpora Lion.
The newlyweds live at Quail Ridge
Apartments.

The Norm Millers are proud new
parents of little son, Bradley Dean,
born July 31.

L. M. Temple, State Bridge Design
Engineer, attended the National
Highway Management Conference in
Stowe, Vermont, for a week, begin-
ning September 14. Mr. Temple was
the only participant going from Ra-
leigh at this time.

Ransome Bennett's daughter, Lyn-
da, is recuperating from a knee oper-
ation. Not letting it get her down,
Lynda is making her way on crutch-
es around "Enloe High," and looking
forward to therapy that will "loosen-
up" her stiff knee.

Bob Lilley is off to a good start
with his midget league football team
of Quail Hollow. The won their first
game . . . only five more to go.

Art Noble is on leave of absence,
recovering from a serious operation
on his neck and throat.

Taking advantage of the short dove-
hunting season, Stan Hyatt, Bill Ro-
gers, Gary Broome, Bob Ellis, Ray
Moore and Larry Hicks went hunting
on Larry's father's farm with Mr.
Hick's joining the party. About 35
doves were brought in.

The Allen Longs had a fast flying
trip in their private airplane to an
N. C. Areo Club "fly-in" at Edenton.
They touched down at New Bern,
visiting Tryon Palace, then to More-
head. At Edenton, they visited many
historical homes.

Chuck Cato and his family took the
usual sight-seeing tour around Wash-
ington, D. C. while there on a recent
visit. There is much to S3e and they
fully enjoyed the "greatness" of it all.

Charlie King recently enjoyed a

vacation to the mountains with his
family. They saw ' Horn in the West"
and Tweetsie Railroad at Boone,
visited Grandfather Mountain, then
Seven Devils and Beech Mountain
resorts. The new exciting attraction
was "Land of Oz" at Beech Moun-
tain, where there were many things
to enjoy, including a "balloon ride."

PURCHASING — Get well wishes
to Mrs. Leona Sidbury who is re-
cuperating from a foot operation at
home.

Best wishes to Andra Slater, sec-
retary to Vance McDaniel, who re-
cently transferred to N. C. State Uni-
versity.

Louise Shepherd transferred to
Roadway Design, and for the next
year will be in-training as a "drafts-
man."

Mrs. Treasure Lewis from Zebulon
is replacing Louise in the order writ-
ing section.

PROJECT CONTROL — Our
deepest sympathy to Mrs. Rachel
Gregory upon the death of her hus-
band, Clifton Lee, July 9. Rachel and
her husband lived in Dunn and are
the parents of one son, Ricky Lee, of
Raleigh.

Miss Donna Henderson vacationed
from Myrtle Beach and the moun-
tains to Rhode Island this summer.
And when she's not working, she en-
joys playing golf.

BRIDGE LOCATION — Congrat-
ulations to Jerry Peede who was mar-
ried to Ruth Ann Croom August 2
in Garner. Ruth is an employee of the
Motor Vehicles Department.

Welcome to new employee Kenneth
Wayne Newton, engineering aide
from Wake Forest.

Best wishes to Robert Green and
Jack Debnam who resigned recently.
Robert accepted other employment
and Jack returned to school.

(Continued on page 2)

FRONT COVER

View of Asheville and of the new
section of the West Asheville
Bridge spanning the French Broad
River, part of the Asheville Ex-
pressway.

Not the longest or the highest,
but just another fine example of
bridges in North Carolina, this
steel and concrete span was care-
fully conceived by the bridge de-
sign staff of the Commission with
special attention to its architec-
tural appearance.

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XVI

NUMBER 5
September - October, 1970

PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSION BY THE PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT.

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners

J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

Robert G. Barr
Clifton L. Benson
W. G. Clark. Ill
Charles R. Dawkins
Roy D. Dedmon
Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.
Carroll H. Gillam
Novile C. Hawkins
W. B. (Bill) Joyce
Jack B. Kirksey

E. Gwyn McNeil
Charles K. Maxwell
Joe W. Nowell, Jr.
David R. Parnell
W. T. Phillips
Hugh A. Ragsdale
James M. (Jem) Smith
Lynwood Smith
W. Arthur Tripp
E. J. Whitmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Welloughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis _ Chief Engineer

Jack Murdock Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Information Officer J. Arch Laney

Editor Edith J. Seifert

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Photographer GORDON Deans

Contributors Gibson Prather,

Janee Williams, John Van Hecke

DIVISION EDITORS

Division One Linda Mulder

Division Two Hazel Baker

Division Three Irene Hewett

Division Four Margaret Barefoot

Division Five Peggy Bright

Division Six Ray Autry

Division Seven Carolyn Graves

Division Eight _ Virginia Williamson

Division Nine Dorothy Phelps

Division Ten J. W. Jones

Division Eleven Dolores Rogers

Division Twelve Jean Cline

Division Thirteen Edna Ramsey

Division Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations Robbie Daniel?

PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO- RALEIGH, N. C.

HEADQUARTERS— Continued

Earl Williams recently transferred
to Bridge Maintenance. Best of luck,
Earl.

The W. B. Bakers had a delightful
three-week tour of Europe this sum-
mer. Perhaps, Busick, who is a skill-
ed photographer, will show us some
of his many European slides.

The C. R. Edgertons vacationed at
White Lake. Bill Cooke enjoyed va-
cationing in Florida.

MAINTENANCE — State Main-
tenance Engineer Paul J. DuPre at-
tended the Highway Research Board
Maintenance Management Workshop
in Champaign, Illinois, the first week
in August.

Jim Morrison took his family to
Cherry Grove, South Carolina, for a
week in August.

The Stewart Sykes vacationed for
a week at Ocean Drive, South Caro-
lina, during August.

Donald Wayne Bailey who has
been working in the Department's
Central Administration section since
June, recently transferred to Division
Two in New Bern.

LOCATION — Welcome to (he
following new employees: Nelson Ed-
wards, Tony Pope, Donnie Rogers,
Robert Lagenberg, and Gerald Bar-
bour.

Jane Finch, former employee in
Location, and her husband are the
proud parents of a baby girl, who ar-
rived September 1. Little Harriet
weighed in at 6 lbs. and 13 oz.

Anne Ake and husband recently en-
joyed a weekend trip to the moun-
tains.

Vacation highlights for Ginny Con-
yers and family were at "Six Flags
Over Georgia" and the Grand Ole
Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. While
in Tennessee they also visited Rock
City.

Joe Penland spent a week of his
vacation on the golf course . . . golf-
ing.

RIGHT OF WAY — Vacations
were plentiful in Right of Way this
summer. Bobby Heath and family
went to Kure Beach for a week.

Katherine Forrest and her husband
visited "Six Flags Over Georgia" and
Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Louis Allen and his family spent a
week at Kure Beach.

Odell Penny and her husband visit-
ed "Six Flags Over Georgia."

Russ Johnston and his wife, Jenny,
flew to Florida and Nassau in the
Bahamas.

A. Z. Williams and wife went to
the beach and mountains.

Kitty Cranford vacationed for a
week in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Eleanor D. Taylor and her family
spent a week at Carolina Beach.

H. K. Eades took his family to
Wrightsville Beach for a week.

And Charles Timberlake and wife
vacationed at Nags Head for a week.

Jim Moore and his wife are proud
of their new baby boy, Mark Gower,
born August 1.

Co-workers are glad to see Lavern
Radford back at work after a recent
operation.

Best wishes to Ann Hester, who
transferred to Construction as a Steno
III. Mary Lou Freeman replaces Ann
in Right of Way.

Everyone is happy that Isabelle
Coates' son is back from Vietnam.

Former stenographer and new bride,
Pat Wilkie Veal, was in town for the
State-Carolina game with husband,
Tommy, the weekend of September 19.
Tommy and Pat are now living at
the San Souci Apartments in Greens-
boro.

MATERIALS AND TESTS —
The working hours of the Department
of Materials and Tests have been
changed to 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
on a year-round basis.

J. M. Wittington is the proud
grandfather of new grandson, Cevin
Watson, born in Winston-Salem on
August 13.

Sallie, Travis Rhodes, and daugh-
ter, Kimmie, took a most delightful
cruise to the Grand Bahamas the
week of July 6. They sailed from
Miami, Florida, aboard the Italian
Liner, Flavia. Accompanying them
were Sallie's sister, Mary Beal and
Mrs. Robert Tippett of Durham. Dur-
ing their cruise, they stopped at Nas-
sau and Freeport.

B. C. Walker and family toured the
N. C. mountains over the Labor Day
weekend.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: Betty Jo Pennington, who
transferred from the Department of
Social Services; Owen Cordle from
Cary; Bob Ray, Cary; Bill Becker,
Bryson City; and William Frank Ed-
wards, new chemist in the Depart-
ment.

EQUIPMENT — Welcome to new
employee, Linda I. Sherian. Linda
replaces Billie Lowery, who resigned
to devote full-time to her home and
family.

It's nice to have Mary Frances
Ferrell back at work after her recent
stay in the hospital. Mary Frances
wishes to express appreciation to her
many friends for the cards, letters
and expressions of kindness during
her illness.

Cathy Bryant, temporary Steno,
has transferred to Landscape as a
permanent employee.

Sarah Peele vacationed in Dallis,
Texas, for two exciting weeks. High-
lights of the trip included a tour of
Fort Worth and a ride on the trolley
cars.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the
surrounding Amish country was the
scene of Mary Jane and Bob Mac-
Gillivray's September vacation. They
were accompanied by Bob's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. MacGillivray of
Boston.

ROADWAY DESIGN — John
Birdsall and his family spent an en-
joyable four weeks in England, Wales,
and Scotland during Judy and Au-
gust. They did considerable sightsee-
ing and visiting relatives. Mrs. Bird-
sail's mother lives in Plymouth, Eng-
land, and the Birdsalls spent a fort-
night there attending the various
events of ' Mayflower 70." King Ar-
thur's Castle and Tintagel, Launceston
Castle and Radford Estate, where Sir
Walter Raleigh was imprisoned, were
some of the other places they visited
in the West Country.

Frank Pace and his wife, Alice, at-

(Continued on page 15)

RETIRING AT HEADQUARTERS
Left to right: Front — Troy B. Dodson, Personnel Officer; John H. Chap-
pel, Homer D. Walker, Griffith S. Marchant and George S. Willoughby, Jr.,
Administrator. Rear — Ralph W. Snell, George T. Parkin, Ramkrishna S. Jiva-
tode, and Luther C. Dillard.

2

ASHEVILLE — No one knows the value of high-
ways to the economy better than the people of West-
ern Carolina, Representative Roy Taylor, 11th Dis-
trict congressman, told a crowd which gathered to
dedicate a tri-level interchange in Asheville and the
new Bridge over the French Broad River.

The dedication was held on September 3, fol-
lowing the regular monthly meeting of the State
Highway Commission in Maggie Valley in the morn-
ing. Members and staff of the Commission were
guests at a luncheon in Asheville prior to the dedica-
tion as guests of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.

John Erichson, president of the Asheville Cham-
ber, presided at the dedication and introduced High-
way Chairman Lauch Faircloth, who praised "Buck"
Buchanan and James Stikeleather, Jr., former Ashe-
ville members of the Commission, who were instrumen-
tal in getting the projects started and completed.

Rep. Taylor was introduced by Jack Kirksey,
member of the present commission from Morganton,
in whose area Asheville lies.

The projects were built as a part of the Appala-
chian Development Program, financed jointly by state
and federal funds.

— Gibson Prather

Present for the dedication of the Smoky Mountain Bridge and a tri-level interchange in Asheville early in
September, were, from left, James Stikeleather, Jr., former highway commissioner John Erichson, president of the
Asheville Chamber of Commerce; Lauch Faircloth, chairman of the State Highway Commission; Jack Kirksey,
area highway commissioner and Rep. Roy Taylor, 11th District congressman.

Bridge and
Interchange
Dedicated At

Asheville In
September

3

BRUCE WHITE
SHC Attorney

When Bruce White stepped into the role of Highway
Commission Attorney, he stepped into a bureaucratic
version of the lawyer's traditional role. As Deputy At-
torney General in charge of Highways and land acquisi-
tion for the state of North Carolina, Bruce and his staff
of 21 attorneys act as legal advisers to their large and
demanding client, the State Highway Commission. Over
1,200 cases involving the State Highway Commission are
now pending in courts in the one hundred counties in
the state. It is up to Bruce and his staff to try these
cases and to represent the State Highway Commission.

Although a portion of the legal work required by
the State Highway Commission is handled by attorneys
in private practice, the Commission must maintain its
own staff. It seems that every year the work load in-
creases for legal work required by the Commission to
carry on the work of roadbuilding. The bulk of this
work is in two major areas that of land acquisition and
that of handling contractors' claims. In recent years it
has become increasingly difficult to hire attorneys for
this work. The work is so important, however, that ac-
cording to Bruce White, the positions for attorneys with
the Commission should be made attractive enough to at-
tract professionals and more important keep them after
they have had professional experience with the Commis-
sion.

Several years of experience are required before a
young attorney is ready to try cases for the Commission.
Bruce White is very much in favor of strengthening the
position of the career attorney. Currently the legal de-
partment is short of professional staff, with six vacan-
cies for trial attorneys.

However Bruce has already made progress in this
direction. He felt that attorneys who represent the High-
way Commission in courts around the state must have a
proper status for their work in the Department of Jus-
tice. So, at Bruce White's recommendation, five staff
attorneys who are doing trial work with the Highway
Commission were given the title of Assistant Attorney
General.

They are Bill Briley, Claude Harris, Charles Hen-
sey, Bob Webb, and Tom Wood.

Working under Bruce White and assuming major
responsibility in their divisions are Andrew McDaniel,
head of the Lands Section concerned with land condem-
nation for highways, and Gene Smith, head of contractors

claims. Bruce White is also the supervisor for other
phases of land acquisition by the State of North Caro-
lina, for parks, for state government expansion, and for
other state government needs. Parks Icenhour heads that
section. He and his staff are located in the Administra-
tion Building.

Although Bruce White is doing a great deal of trial
work and other Highway legal work, his major concern
is for proper management of Highway legal affairs. This
point of view reflects the program of State Attorney
General Robert Morgan for the Department of Justice.

Bruce White, like his boss, Robert Morgan, was nur-
tured in the Wake Forest law tradition rather than the
University of North Carolina tradition. (If you want to
know what this means, ask a lawyer.) His father was
professor of law for 30 years at Wake Forest Law School.
Bruce had earned his law license by 1937. He was ap-
pointed probation officer, one of ten for North Carolina,
and served in that capacity until World War II. During
the War he was attached to U. S. Counter Intelligence.
Bruce returned from service to practice law in Durham,
individually for a time and then in partnership with his
brother, Charles White. During that time he was Solici-
tor for Superior Court for the 10th District, then a five-
county district.

Before coming to the S. H. C. at Raleigh in Novem-
ber of 1969 he was First Assistant U. S. Attorney for
the Middle District.

Bruce is quite pleased with the clerical staff backing
up the S. H. C. Legal Department. A highway employee
of 12l/2 years, Mary Lib Green, supervises the group and
acts as secretary to Mr. White.

ROADWAYS CHEERS

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
FRANK COLEMAN

"It was the best birthday present I ever had," said
Frank Coleman. On May 29 Frank received a letter from
the North Carolina Board of Registration of Engineers
and Land Surveyors informing him that he had passed
examinations enabling him to become a Professional En-
gineer.

It took Frank twelve years to achieve this milestone
in his career. Frank joined the Commission after obtain-
ing a high school education which included just two
years of algebra. Passing those examinations meant ac-
quiring a knowledge of mathematics up to a high level.

Frank first started with the Commission swinging a
sledge hammer down in Smithfield on September 1,
1956. Soon he was working as a rodman for a survey
party. Frank's supervisor was, at that time, a man who
has also progressed professionally in Highway work, John
Davis, who is now Chief Engineer of the Commission.

After working for the Commission for two years,
Frank Coleman really made a career decision to make it
his life work. That was in 1958 and he remembers the
exact hour and day.

In 1956, he had an opportunity to attend one of the
"in-service" training schools shortly after joining the
Commission. "When you're out working all day, you
hardly have time to pay attention to what's really going
on." In-Service training gave him a chance to zero in
on what was going on.

Franks decision, made during that time, was the
basis for all the hard work which came afterward in
achieving professional engineering standing. And that
decision still holds.

Both a challenge and a career break came to Frank
in 1960. Two graduate civil engineers quit during pro-
jects on the Raleigh Beltline. Casting around for capable
personnel for party chief, someone recognized Frank
Coleman's qualifications and brought him in. He was 25
years old at the time.

Frank did the job. He worked as party chief for
15 months before he was promoted to Engineering Tech-
nician III (then it was Highway Engineer II). Between
1960 and 1964 he decided to seek registration as a Pro-
fessional Engineer.

By 1965 — December, to be exact — Frank passed
the Engineer in Training examination. This was a first
step in achieving his goal.

To become a professional engineer, without a col-
lege degree requires eight years of work experience ap-
proved by the Registration Board for Engineers as well
as passing the exams.

That's was quite a goal for a man with a high school
degree and eight years of experience even if it was with
the State Highway Commission.

Somebody asked Frank how he did it.

"Well, I started studying every night, five nights a
week, for three to five hours."

How many years, Frank?

"From 1958 to 1970. Twelve years."

Frank Coleman

Frank is proud of his achieve-
ment but he is a little bit uncomfort-
able, too. He doesn't have anything
to do in the evenings. His wife and
four children, however, are glad to
have Frank as a full-time husband
and father.

As a professional engineer, Frank
Coleman faces new horizons.

Frank Coleman's office is in Roc-
ky Mount where he is Resident Engi-
neer. He travels from there to the
construction sites of which he is in
charge. This takes him over several
counties. In Halifax County, there is
resurfacing going on for portions of U. S. 158 and U. S.
301, also on N. C. 561, N. C. 48, and N. C. 125 and also
on seven sections of secondary roads. Also in Halifax
County, the job of grading and draining and structures
is progressing on schedule on N. C. 48 in Roanoke Rapids
from S. R. 1434 to Birdsong Street. In Rocky Mount
work has not yet started on 1.1 miles of grading, drain-
age and asphalt paving on Grace Street for a contract
awarded in September. In Edgecombe County, the grad-
ing, drainage, and asphalt paving of Howard Avenue (1.3
miles) may be completed by the end of October. This
project was not due to be completed until August of 1971.

Frank enjoys his work and looks forward to other
projects coming up in Division 4, especially interstate
work (1-95) in the not-too-distant future.

— E. J. Seifert

STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATOR
GEORGE WILLOUGHBY

Women employees of the State Highway Commis-
sion may now, with the permission of their supervisors,
wear pant suits as regular working attire. State High-
way Administrator George S. Willoughby recently indi-
cated his approval of such dress, assuming that the pant
outfits are in good taste and representative of suitable,
decorous clothing for office work. Troy Dodson, High-
way Personnel Officer, indicated that an employees' im-
mediate supervisor should be responsible for permitting
or denying such dress on the basis of harmony and effi-
ciency in office operations.

With the current fashion upheaval and the "mini-
midi-maxi" controversy (not to be confused with "Veni,
vidi, vici"), the pant suit is becoming a staple in almost
every woman's wardrobe. Whether inspired by the spirit
of the Women's Liberation Movement or by recognition
of a popular fashion trend, the attitude of the "male
chauvinist" administrative personnel deserves commen-
dation.

Mr. Willoughby has suggested that the ladies give
their pant outfits the "gubernatorial test" — that is, pant
outfits worn to the office should embarass neither the
wearer nor the Governor, should he happen to drop by
the office.

Perhaps the next step should be the selection of a
female Highway Commissioner? Right on!

— Mimi Holt

5

School officials came to the Highway Commission of-
fice at Greensboro to hold graduation ceremonies for a
highway employee. Left to right, Hiram J. Casebolt, Area
Consultant for Supervisory Development Training; Dr.
Hugh Medlin, President of Guilford Technical Institute;
Harold Johnson, who received the diploma; and Ben
Gray, Director of Occupational Extension for Guilford
Technical Institute.

You will find it well-staffed with people who will assist
you like Ben Gray at Guilford assisted Mr. Johnson. You
can plan a curriculum to suit your own needs and goals.
You can even get a high school diploma, or an elementary
diploma. At the thirteen community colleges you can
even begin course work in the professions. All of the col-
leges, with one exception, offer an engineering curriculum.
Costs are minimal compared to private higher educa-
tion and even compared to the state's consolidated uni-
versity system and East Carolina University.

Waiting at the front door, at technical institutes and
community colleges around the state, and a telephone
call away are the friendly counseling staffs of the insti-
tutes and colleges who will help you evaluate your own
abilities and locate courses to suit your needs and goals.

ROADWAYS CHEERS Max Sennholtz and his Com-
mittee for the 1970 Men's Golf League. Joe Penland serv-
ed as secretary, and Larry Peters as treasurer. Others
who served on the committee included the following:
Tony West, Val Trask, Carl Lusk, Cloyce Alford, Jim
Morrison, Bill Dudney, Ormond Bliss, Charles Adkins,
Gene Curtis, Terry Harris, Bob Nichols, and Arch Han-
kins.

SUPERVISOR FOR COMMISSION

HAROLD JOHNSON

Harold Johnson, supervisor in the materials and
tests department, is the first recipient of a diploma in
Supervisory Development Training from Guilford Tech-
nical Institute and the N. C. Department of Community
Colleges. Officials came to the Highway Commission of-
fice on Westover Terrace, Greensboro, to present the
diploma.

Johnson attended classes for four nights each week
for two years to complete the 160 hours of class work
required for the diploma. Instruction included such topics
as human relations, communication, job methods and
principles of supervision. The courses are set up espe-
cially to help an individual with supervisory responsi-
bilities to become more efficient in his activities on the
job.

Mr. Johnson attended the classes free of charge.

Some years ago the State Highway Commission
sponsored its own free "in service" type training to en-
courage individuals to improve themselves. This was dis-
continued because of the development of technical in-
stitutes like the one in Guilford County and programs
like the one just completed by Mr. Johnson.

Directors of Occupational Extension at the Techni-
cal Institutes and Community Colleges are especially
trained to assist Highway Commission employees and
others working in businesses and industries, as well as
government, to improve themselves and, hopefully, their
incomes. Ben Gray, Guilford's Director of Occupational
Extension, was helpful in guiding Harold Johnson into
course work which would assist him in his career.

At present all technical institutes and community
colleges offer the courses in Supervisory Development
Training which Mr. Johnson took. And, up in Haywood
County, Highway Commission employees are attending
classes in surveying techniques to upgrade their skills at
Southwestern Technical Institute in Sylva.

There is probably a technical institute or com-
munity college within fifteen miles of your own home.

Obituaries

The Rush C. Collins Bridge over the Dan River on
U. S. 220 Bypass in Rockingham County is named for a
Highway Commission retiree who recently died. Right of
way for the construction of the bridge was acquired from
Rush C. Collins who worked with the Commission for 35
years.

At the age of fifteen, Collins went to work for the
Rockingham County Road Department. That was in
1908. Mr. Collins died on July 4.

Division 3

Leon Frink, Highway Employee in Division 3, died
on July 30. He worked in Brunswick County.

Division 4

Willie E. Kagner and Elliott H. Crawley, long-time
employees of the Maintenance Department in Halifax
County, recently passed away. Wagner is survived by
his wife and daughter and her family. Crawley is survived
by his wife and son and his family.

Division 6

James W. Melvin, 70, of Red Springs, retired Main-
tenance Foreman I, died on August 1, 1970. He worked in
Robeson County for thirty-four years before retiring
July 1, 1966.

Charles David Smith, temporary summer employee
in the Construction Department, was killed in an automo-
bile accident on August 23, 1970, near Fayetteville.

W. B. Martin, Sr., retired General Utility Man in
Robeson County, died June 8, 1970.

Division 7

Hobart Garrett Maness, 73, of Greensboro, died
August 8. He was retired from the Highway Commission.
He is survived by his wife, four daughters and three sons.
He had lived in Greensboro for 66 years.

6

John Van Hecke

Joins Commission

John Van Hecke is always on the run. Since he
joined the Highway Commission's information staff July
20, 1970, he has spent most of his time traveling. He is
field information officer in the Public Information De-
partment which is a recently created position.

"Where have you traveled since you joined the Com-
mission?"

"To the Southwestern part of the state, to Mecklen-
burg, Lee, Chatham, Hyde, Nash and Sampson and sev-
eral other counties. Many of those trips were made to
announce new local road projects."

"I have been working with a large number of week-
ly newspapers and smaller dailies to give advance stor-
ies on new highway projects prior to releasing the in-
formation to wire services and to large metropolitan
newspapers."

"I have been pleased with the response of the editors
of the smaller dailies and weeklies. A local highway story
is headline news for the local paper. As field informa-
tion officer for highway news, I hope to continue build-
ing up these contacts with local news media."

Van Hecke has long been a student of government
and especially of state government. He majored in poli-
tical science at the University of North Carolina at Cha-
pel Hill (Class of '49), where he grew up.

John has experience in newspaper and radio work
and in magazine work, both in editorial and advertising
chores. He has worked for WDNC (radio) in Durham
and WRAL-TV in Raleigh, where he was the state gov-
ernment reporter before joining the Highway Commis-
sion. He covered the 1967 and 1969 sessions of the Gen-
eral Assembly and the 1968 gubernatorial campaign. He
even has previously worked for state government, for
three years during the 1960's.

In John's opinion, the work of the State Highway
Commission has been generally misunderstood by the
general public, here in North Carolina. And he hopes to
improve that image by continuing to tell the story of the
Commission's work.

"The ever-increasing use of the automobile by the
U. S. public demands a continuing modernization of our
highways. While we have one of the best and largest sys-
tems in the U. S. here in North Carolina, we still have

major arteries heavily used by 1970 automobiles that
were built in the '20s and '30s. There are some sections
of U. S. 64 like this in the mountains, the Piedmont, and
in Eastern North Carolina."

"Public works in government is the fastest growing
segment of government. In North Carolina, we have got
to keep up," says John.

"And we have got to keep the public informed."

OBITUARIES— Continued
Division 9

R. A. Bilby died on August 21, 1970. He had retired
July 1, 1970, due to illness. He was a Machine Operator
IV and he had worked for the Commission since No-
vember 8, 1937.
Division 11

John L. Atwell, Highway Inspector III in the Boone
Construction Office, died August 4 in the Watauga Coun-
ty Hospital due to a heart attack. Mr. Atwell had been
with the Construction Department for the past 16 years.
He is survived by his wife, Zora Ollis Atwell, of Boone,
and one son, Larry, of Columbia, South Carolina.
Division 14

L. E. Barron, retiree from the State Highway Com-
mission, died on August 28, 1970. He was formerly em-
ployed in the Maintenance Department in Sylva.

Charles M. King who had been employed in Hender-
son and Transylvania Counties with the Maintenance De-
partment for 25 years died in April. He is survived by his
wife and a son, Harvey King, of the home. A son, Charles
Lee, was killed in Vietnam.

Former Commissioner Dies

Graham Elliott, Highway Commissioner from 1961
to 1965, appointed by Governor Terry Sanford to serve
on what was, at that time the largest Highway Com-
mission in its history with eighteen members, died on
September 23. Elliott lived in Washington, North Caro-
lina.

7

By ARCH LANEY

It's a peculiar, if not frustrating, feeling to have an
impending election in November and not be out con-
stantly beating the bushes for my candidate, which
brings up the point: what are we as state employees ob-
ligated to do regarding candidates and elections? We
are not expected to go door-to-door (and we're prohi-
bited by law, don't forget, from going office-to-office)
raising money for our favorite candidate; or, in general,
expected to strike out "hell-bent-for-leather" in a poli-
tical whirl of activity. But we can and we should be ac-
tive in politics so far as we are allowed. This is not just
a privilege, it is our obligation to take part in political
activities in this democratic society.

We can attend meetings, rallies, and, of course,
exercise one of our most precious rights, that of casting
our ballot.

Politics is here to stay. Far too small a percentage
of eligible voters go to the polls, and if we were to lose
the right to vote, who would yell loudest . . . those who
don't bother to vote. When you mark the ballot, you've
gained your right to agree or disagree with governmental
proceedings. When you stay away from the polls, you
forfeit the right to say anything.

So, come November, "Cast your vote or close your
mouth!"

With this issue, we welcome a new division corres-
pondent and we bid reluctant farewell to her predecessor.
The Right of Way Department of the 13th Division in
Asheville has Edna Ramsey spending full-time plus in
her position, so with this issue of ROADWAYS, Melba
Alexander contributes her inaugural column. "Many
thanks to Edna for a great job, and a welcome toast to
Melba, ... or is it Melba Toast."

And our Division 8 scribe, Virginia Williamson of
Aberdeen, begged forgiveness and expressed hope that
she wasn't tardy with her contributions. She allowed as
how she had been rather busy in the acquisition of a
son-in-law. Her daughter, Eve, is now married to Fred
Conner, and they are in Chapel Hill where both are
seniors at Chapel College where they also now have a
football team (U.N.C. that is) and where they just lost
about four-fifths of their basketball team to Maryland
in the person of Tom McMillan.

For the first time in several years, SHC will have a
booth at the State Fair. Many faithful from the staff in
Raleigh are pitching in with all sorts of good help. Chief
"Honcho" for the display is Henry Clegg of the Design
Department with Frank Daino of Location, Jimmy Ditch-
ford's Traffic Engineering group, Lloyd Young and
Equipment Depot, and Ed Page's Photogrammetry
group aiding and abetting in every way possible. Com-
missioner E. J. Whitmire planted the idea that this would
be a means of showing the throngs assembled just what
the Highway Commission is doing during this flurry of
activity in highway construction.

To extoll the great ideas being developed for the
booth would be like telling you the plot of a movie when
you have just paid your money to see same. So, instead,
I'll just urge all of you to see the show — I mean booth,
in the Industrial Building October 16-24.

I can say this: we're on a more or less trial basis this
year and our fair booth is being constructed so that it
may be disassembled and reassembled at another loca-
tion with the thought that in years to come we might put
this show on the roadway and hit all the big fairs
around the state.

$$$$$$

And to set the record straight, there's nothing to the
rumor that Walter Wiley in Planning and Research is
working on a map of North Carolina with only A.B.C.
locations. Also, it's Carl Lusk in the Dark room in Photo-
grammetry, not Lust. Both are nothing more than ru-
mors. I know, I started 'em.

George Willoughby, Administrator, presents a citation
to Troy Dodson, Personnel Officer, honoring him for
devotion to duty, et cetera, from the employee association.

8

THE SPORTING LIFE

Shown above are the happy members of the Planning
and Research "A" golf team — winner of the 1970 State
Highway Commission Championship. Struggling with the
trophy are "Wild Bill" Beddingfield and captain Or-
mond "Sandbag" Bliss. Others from left to right are:
Nick "Worm Burner" Nichols, Grady "Banana Ball"
Dawson, David "Where's-The-Green" Modlin, Barney
"Knee Knocker' O'Quinn, Felton "Tree Knocker" Low-
man, Todd "Toodles" Roberts, Pieter "Where's-My-Ball"
Van der Meer, and Bob "Long Knocker" Booker. Bed-
dingfield, Bliss, Booker and Dawson were members of
the 1969 Advance Planning "A" Championship team.

The team compiled a 41-19 won-lost record during the
regular season to gain first place in the "B" league. The
championship was won with a 4-man team net score of
139 in a 9-hole playoff with the Right-of-Way "Brown"
team — winner in the "A" league. The playoff team con-
sisted of (net scores shown in parentheses) Lowman (31),
Booker (34), Bliss (35), and Dawson (39).

In the 18-hole year-end individual tournament, Or-
mond Bliss shot a net 64 to win trophies for first place in
the second flight and for the low net score of all golfers
entered in the tournament. Bob Booker received three
golf balls for third place in the first flight. Bob shot a
net 68.

"Sandbag" Bliss anticipates a strong Planning and
Research "A" team to be competing next year. In the
event the team can win the championship in 1971, the
championship trophy will become a permanent fixture in
the Planning and Research Department.

The Headquarters Golf League of the State High-
way Commission concluded another successful season with
their usual annual Individual Tournament played on
August 22 and 23 at Eagle Crest Golf Course in Raleigh.
Pictured above are individual winners in each flight.
Left to Right, Henry Clegg, Championship Flight, John
Corbett, 1st; Ormond Bliss, 2nd; Larry Waters, 3rd;
Terry Hill, 4th.

Runners-up in each flight were Mack Underwood,
Championship Flight who was absent when the picture
was taken; Harland Britt, 1st; Terry Harris, 2nd; Ains-
worth Privette, 3rd; Harold Plummer, 4th.

When Low Gross Winner, Henry Clegg and Low Net
Winner, Ormond Bliss, congratulated this year's Golfing
Chairman, Max Sennholtz, he replied, "Thanks. Now
you can have it." League play began on May 18,
1970. Over 200 male employees participated from the
following departments: Design, Right of Way, Traffic
Engineering, Photogrammetry, Location, Planning and
Research, Finance, "Lab", Bridge and Personnel and
Purchasing (in combination), Construction and Land-
scape and Maintenance (in combination). There was also
a Staff team.

The State Highway Commission Softball Team, hav-
ing won the District 26 Slow Pitch Tournament at Ra-
leigh, took off for the state-wide tournament. They play-
ed at McAdenville August 13-15 with winners of eight
other district tournaments. The Highway team, playing
against outstanding competition finished fifth in the state.

The opening round game of the State Tournament
produced a 7-3 win over Olin Matheson Corporation of
Brevard and advanced the Highway team against Pharr
Yarns of McAdenville, 40-3 winners over the Winston-
Salem champions.

The Highway team jumped to a quick 7-0 lead but
could not hold off a late rally by the McAdenville team
and lost 8-7. Team members felt that the McAdenville
team was exceptionally strong and their suspicions were
confirmed when Pharr Yarns went on to win the State
Championship for the sixteenth time and the World
Championship for the fourth time. The Highway team
was the only team in the state to come within 15 runs
of the 1970 World Champion McAdenville team.

The Highway team, however, won a total of 33
games during the past season.

Cheesecake, no. Golfers, yes. All the women (pic-
tured, right) spent at least eight hours on the golf course
this past summer. Some have even graduated to playing
with their husbands. All are S. H. C. employees.

9

Power Company Furnishes Its Own Bridge

"Up and over" is the approach used by the Virginia
Electric and Power Company in transporting heavy
equipment across old bridges that can't handle the load.
(See photo.)

This approach is made possible by a rugged, 62-foot-
long portable aluminum bridge, designed to rest piggy-
back style over weak, existing bridges. The unit can be
set up, crossed, and moved to another bridge location in
about an hour.

(Continued on page 14)

The first of four 80-ton transformers is transported
across this new portable aluminum bridge on its way
from Goshen Pass in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Vir-
ginia to Virginia Electric and Power Company's new
substation 13 miles away near Lexington. The 62-foot-
long bridge was carried on two semi-tractors and placed
"piggy back" style over weak bridges to handle the excess
weight. Owned by Vepco, the 62,000 pound structure will
support more than five times its own weight. It can also
be used as an emergency crossing where bridges have
been damaged or washed away. The portable bridge was
fabricated by Reynolds Metals Company in Phoenix,
Arizona.

N. C. Department Of Agriculture Protects Automobiles

By PAULINE DeCOSTA
N. C. Department of Agriculture

The year was 1943, and we were in the thick of
World War II. There were shortages of all kinds of goods
and services. Americans stood in line to buy everything
from a meal in a restaurant to a package of cigarettes
or a box of facial tissues . . . and often came away empty-
handed after a long wait.

One of the items in short supply led to a very serious
problem. Reliable permanent type anti-freezes were very
difficult for civilians to find. Most of the production was
being pressed into service for military planes and motor
vehicles.

On March 8 of that year, 1943, the North Carolina
General Assembly enacted a law which stated in the
preamble that "thousands of cars and trucks have been
destroyed through use of anti-freeze solution compound-
ed with inorganic salt ..."

The anti-freeze shortage had created a situation
made to order for the unscrupulous. It was all the more
serious because no new automobiles were being manu-
factured for civilians. If a motor was destroyed, it wasn't
easy to get even a second hand motor to replace it.

Also, some of the materials caused irreparable damage
to radiators, ignition system and rubber connections.
Rubber, especially, was scarcer than the proverbial hen's
teeth.

Therefore, the 1943 General Assembly had good rea-
son to enact the law which prohibited "the manufacture
or sale of anti-freeze preparations which are designated,
intended, advertised or recommended by the manufac-
turer or seller for use in the cooling system of motor
vehicles or gasoline combustion engines, and which are
compounded with calcium chloride, magnesium chloride,
sodium chloride, or other inorganic salts or with petro-
leum distillates."

But there was just one grave omission in this law.
No state agency was designated to enforce it. The Act
simply stated that anyone violating its provisions should
be "guilty of a misdemeanor and punished in the dis-
cretion of the court." In other words, those who were
victimized had recourse only through individual court
action. Usually the sellers were fly-by-nighters who could
not even be apprehended.

Dr. E. W. Constable, head of the Chemistry Division
of the N. C. Department of Agriculture, in a report to
the legislature some years later wrote:

(Continued on page 14)

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U. S. 19 From Topton To Almond: Hard To Build, Harder To Replace

By E. J. SEIFERT

Then, back in 1922 when they built it, U. S. 19 was
part of old N. C. 10. The 16.916 miles from Topton to
Almond up in the mountains in Swain and Macon Coun-
ties took four years to complete, from February 3, 1922,
to January 7, 1926. Water-bound macadam was used to
surface this road after Nantahala Construction Com-
pany prepared the roadway. Southern Drag Company did
the paving. A brief check with Ed Latham, State Con-
struction Engineer, revealed that neither of these com-
panies is still operative.

The late John C. Walker was Division Engineer in
Division 13 when Project 980 was let to contract.

Today the road is essentially the same as it was
back then, with one exception. Built with a twelve-foot
width, the road was widened to 20 feet in 1937-38. C. W.
Lee, former Chief Engineer with the Commission was
Resident Engineer for that operation which was "right
hard work." In 1951 it was resurfaced with bituminous
concrete. In 1956 routine maintenance dictated that it
be resurfaced again.

U. S. 19 from Topton to Almond parallels the scenic
Nantahala River. By modern roadbuilding standards,
however, it is sadly lacking. Sight distance is poor for
passing. There is hardly a straight 1,500 feet on the whole
stretch according to A. E. Bevacqua, after he looked at
the sight distance plot. Grades are steep, too. When it
was built, this road was the only road connecting the Bry-
son City area and Tennessee. It went through a sparsely
populated county, Swain County.

Nantahala Gorge, the canyon in which the river runs,
has such depth and such sheer sides that the Cherokee
Indians named it with their word "Nan-toh-ee-yah-heh-
lih" which means "Land of the Middle Sun." Only the
noonday sun penetrates the gorge. It is one of the most
spectacular areas in the Eastern states. The name sur-
vives today for the river and the gorge, for a town and
a township, for a National Forest and a Mountain Range
and for a power company.

Old U. S. 19 has now been designated as part of
Appalachian Corrider K which is designed to connect
U. S. 64 at the Tennessee State Line with Bryson City
and Sylva. Corridor K is already under construction from
Tennessee to Murphy. The road is being widened to four
lanes, divided. It should be finished in the Spring.

Other segments of Corridor K have not yet reached
so final a status. The segment from Murphy to Topton at
the Graham County line has reached the preliminary en-
gineering stage. From the county line to Lauada, a com-
munity in Swain County on Pole Bridge Branch, the
corridor location will require some careful consideration
in order to protect the scenic properties of the area. This
segment of the road with Nantahala Gorge on one side
and a railroad on the other may still be used by motor-
ists for quite a while. A preliminary study in 1967 indi-
cated that a construction cost of $40 million would be re-
quired on this portion. Perhaps something other than
"interstate style" would be designed and engineered for
this segment. Right of way acquisition is going on in the
region from Alarka Creek to Gateway. This in an indi-
cation that construction will soon be going on.

(Continued on page 14)

Grading on the project.

This is a 1922 version of the steam roller, used to
make the roadbed more compact.

Spreading stone on the project.

Spreader boxes attached to machines do the work
today. These men had to do it by hand.

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ROADS

And International Trade

By D. E. MARABLE

(The following article comes from the pen of D. E.
(Dick) Marable of New York. Dick's devoted interest in
North Carolina goes back to 1947 when he became the
first general manager of Radio Station WMAP, and
later became part-owner. He published THE UNION
MAIL, served as Mayor of Monroe for two years, and
even spent ten years with the State Department's Agen-
cy for International Development (A.I.D.) in Pakistan,
Saigon, Vietnam, Brazil, and in Washington, D. C, as
Chief Public Affairs Officer of "Operation Ninos," the
self-help malnutrition program for Latin America.

Since 1966, Marable has been Director of Interna-
tional Activities for the National Association of Manufac-
turers in New York.

His complete and unyielding devotion to the job
has had him wearing many hats throughout his varied
career but in no case did the hat fail to fit. — Ed.)

Those of us who live our lives in the International
arena are conscious of the role that the United States
must play in the development of a world increasingly
shrinking with every new communications discovery. A
raw material produced in the sandy loam of North Caro-
lina, refined in a Tarheel plant by our citizens of every
conceivable ethnic background, shipped over N. C.'s
highways to either of two fine ports, Wilmington or More-
head City, the nation's only two major ports not served
by an Interstate route, and ending in the home of an
Italian family, carries with it, not only the sweat and
tears of those who labored to produce it, but as romantic
a story as can be told.

For within the telling is the role of American ex-
port and the germ of what makes this country the sig-
nificant world leader. This, in fact, is the story of free
enterprise — and though we may kick it and curse it
and sometimes de-tooth it, neither we nor anyone else
in the world has ever conceived a system which means
as much to so many.

That there are problems in our free enterprise sys-
tem is self-evident. One that hits closest to home for
most of us is inflation. Did you, gentle reader, get a sub-
stantial raise over the past ten years? Let's assume that
in 1959, you made $7,000.00, and now that has grown
to $10,500.00 — but in terms of what your 1959 dollars
bought, you have a net increase of exactly $380.00 in-
stead of $3,500.00.

The inflation problem is really UNEARNED
WAGES. In other words, productivity has not gone up
as wages have gone up. Who gets hurt the most, the
wage earner.

Many of us look enviously at the program of West
Germany since its smashing defeat in World War II.
The German Mark today is the strongest currency in
the world and the German worker is the highest paid,
in real money, in all Europe. When Germany started its
industrial comeback in the years following World War
II, sound heads forged an agreement that was to assure
this and, too, it was a simple agreement.

Wage increases were to be based on proven increas-
ed hourly production — no guesswork or forward esti-
mates. When German labor produced 10% more, they
got a 10% increase, and had a full 10% more to spend.
In terms of real money, they were a full 10% ahead.
And the cost of living did not go up. That is the differ-
ence between EARNED wages in Germany and UN-
EARNED wages here.

Thirty-four per cent of the world's population lives
in the so-called developed world and produces 87.5% of
the world's goods. The other 66% of our globe's people
produce only 12.5% with the bulk of this in the extra-ac-
tive industries of metals and oils. But in the last 15 years,

I was pleased and a little scared when Arch Lan-
ey asked me to do this article for ROADWAYS Maga-
zine. Arch and I have been friends of long-standing,
my having been responsible for his first job in radio.
I ushered at his wedding and held his hand when
young Mike was born.

Even though many miles and many months have
separated us from our initial close contact, I have
not failed to follow the career of this man with an al-
most paternal attitude. It never ceases to amaze my
own off-spring that two people with such divergent
political philosophies can rise above their differences
and remain the closest of friends. So the fear men-
tioned above is more in the area of a desire not to
embarass Arch more than anything else.

Dick Marable

the developing world has increased its total production of
goods and services by an annual overage rate of 5%. This
is at a rate more than double that of England between
1790 and 1820 and 25% better than the United States
between 1820 and 1850. This astounding growth rate is
due largely to the assistance given the developing by the
developed.

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There have been many mistakes in our AID pro-
gram, and in some foreign countries we have been in-
strumental in making a few rich, (richer with only drib-
lets getting down to these we set out to help). These
facts are not unknown to our legislators and AID ad-
ministrators, and there are changes in the wind.

The present Congress has aproved the Overseas Pri-
vate Investment Corporation, with a board composed of
eleven directors, six of whom come from private industry.
We have every reason to believe that in the future, the
United States aid posture will bear the unmistable mark
of SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTER-
PRISE. This has been woefully lacking in the bureaucra-
tic fumblings of the old programs.

In my years as a part of that fumbling bureaucracy,
I have seen many good and many poor projects. I have
seen SINDI women in Pakistan building and repairing
roads, no machines, all hand and back work, working ten
hours a day for three Rupies a day which is 63 American
coppers. But the singularly most successful road project
I have seen was not a United States project, but an
Australian one, the Thai-Australian Road Project, a
capital and technical assistance project for practical train-
ing and demonstration in North-Eastern Thailand which
was completed in 1966. Who could guess in 1960 when
this idea was first born, just how important it would be
to us and to our allies in South East Asia, a full decade
later.

The major aim of the project was to train Thai per-
sonnel in all aspects of road construction and mainte-
nance. The Australian contribution was two-fold. It
comprised extensive capital assistance in the form of road
building equipment and machinery, together with techni-
cal assistance in the form of engineers and technicians.
A salient feature of the project was that training took
place on the project site. This not only provided inten-
sive practical training but resulted in the building of
modern roads, during this training period, in an area hith-
erto equipped only with dry-weather bullock cart tracks.

The project called for creation of a road construction
center, located at Khon Kaen in North-Eastern Thai-
land, for the training of Thai staff in road construction,
design, and maintenance as well as training in the proper
use, maintenance and repair of road building equipment.
Upon termination of Australian assistance, the Center
continued to function as a fully equipped design and
construction center and equipment depot comprising of-
fices, workshops, soil laboratory and staff housing. All
aspects of road construction work, with the exception of
bridge design were carried out at the Center as were
minor repairs on equipment. The staff trained at the Cen-
ter contributed to the expansion of road building in the
North Eastern region as well as in Thailand as a whole.

Australia furnished all the necessary road building
equipment and machinery, spare parts, equipment for the
work-shop and the machine shop, as well as training
aids. The total Australian contribution to the project
was $3.9 million or 58 per cent of the total cost.

Thailand, represented by the Highway Department,
provided all the other facilities required for the project
such as buildings, local materials, fuels and oils, as well
as staff and personnel. The local costs covered by the
Government of Thailand amounted to $2.8 million.

Some changes, resulting from the very success of the
project, had to be made in the original plans. Thus, while

initially only gravelled all-weather surfaces, from 16 to
22 feet in width, had been called for, the volume of traf-
fic generated by the road was so far in excess of expecta-
tions (daily traffic outside the Center rose from 90 vehi-
cles in 1963 to 7,500 now) that bituminous sealing was
mandatory on several stretches of the road.

In June, 1966, when the project was handed over to
the Thai authorities, about 105 miles of roads had been
completed, and surveying and design work had been
finished for another 81 miles. To this total must be added
33 miles of access roads to the gravel pits during the
construction. These sub-feeder roads, although narrower
than the main roads, are also gravelled to all-weather
standards.

The average cost per mile of main road, inclusive of
bridges and sealing amounted to approximately $38,000 in
U. S. dollars. These figures include all expenditures on
survey, design, construction and overhead, as well as
training costs.

In the course of implementing the project 40 Thai
engineers, 160 operators, 80 mechanics, and 30 supervi-
sors received on-the-site training. To this number must
be added accountants, surveyors, storemen and drivers
who through their connection with the Project acquired
new skills or perfected existing ones.

One noteworthy achievement of the training program
was the deliberate policy of employing unskilled men, with
often only rudimentary education and turning them into
trained operators and mechanics. While this may have
resulted in some increases in costs, there were outweigh-
ed by the benefit to the region through the dissemination
of technical know-how and familiarity with heavy equip-
ment.

The Thai-Australian Roads project has made three
related contributions to the economic development of
Thailand. 1) It has furnished Thailand with a number
of well trained personnel in road building. 2) The val-
uable capital equipment contributed by Australia and
concentrated in Khon Kaen contributes materially to the
further expansion of roads in this area of Thailand. 3)
Finally, the roads built during the project itself have al-
ready had a clearly visible effect on the economy of the
area.

So-called indirect benefits for this area were visible
everywhere. The replacement of cart tracks, impassable
for a large part of the year, by all-weather roads has
broken the isolation of many of the villages by facilitat-
ing travel, and, more important, has established a link
between the area and outside markets for their farm
produce. It has been estimated in the Yang Talad and
Chieng Yuen areas alone, over 300,000 people have
benefited directly from the new roads. The cost of freight
and passenger fares in areas serviced by the new roads
has dropped, in some cases, as much as 50 per cent, while
villagers' incomes have increased with the cash crops
which can be sent as far as Bangkok. Farmers who had
previously restricted themselves to growing rice and vege-
tables for local use diversified their production to include
jute, sugar cane, vegetables and fruit, poultry and pigs.
Previously uncultivated land which has become accessible
was brought under cultivation. Small scale industries such
as caneware, basketware and matting have also been
developed along the roads. Finally, the end of isolation
has opened the possibilties of travel for medical care or
education to the local population.

IS

U. S. 19— Continued

Estimated completion date for Corridor K is inde-
finite.

If you drive from Sylva over to Tennessee and per-
haps beyond, think of John Walker who presided over
construction through here. Think of the men in location
who surveyed it back in the 20's. Remember that there
was a team who did all the design work at headquarters
which was then located around the corner at 107 East
Morgan Street. (The old State Highway and Public
Works Commission building has since then been trans-
formed into the State Art Museum.) Remember the
crews who resurfaced it and the crews who scraped away
the snows.

Now look at the equipment they used then and look
at the equipment today. Would you go along with me
and say that times have changed?

POWER COMPANY— Continued

Weighing 62,000 pounds, the aluminum structure
will support a load of 360,000 pounds — more than five
times its own weight. It was engineered with a 30 percent
impact factor to handle a design load of 468,000 pounds.

The structure was recently used to span three moun-
tain bridges when Vepco moved four 80-ton transformers
from Goshen, Virginia to its new power substation 13
miles away near Lexington.

The portable unit was transported by two semi-
tractors to the first crossing, a 40-foot bridge which spans
a small stream. It was then lowered and put in place by
two 50-ton cranes with the end panels resting firmly on
the roadway to eliminate pressure on the old bridge.
Wooden mats were laid down to complete the transition
from road to deck levels.

After all four transformers had made the initial
crossing, the portable unit was picked up by the cranes
and moved by tractors to the second and third bridges
where the cycle was repeated. The portable bridge was
then disassembled for convenient storage and transport-
ing.

"This bridge is truly a new, important innovation
for heavy hauling operations," said William C. Cranford,
Vepco's superintendent of transportation. "Because of
its great adaptability, we are now considering plans to
increase its length by another 62 feet so that it can be
used for straddling bridges up to 100 feet in length."

The idea for building the bridge was suggested by
the Virginia State Department of Highways, and the unit
was designed for Vepco by consulting engineer Forest
Myers and Lockwood Brothers Heavy Hauling and Rig-
ging Company of Hampton, Virginia. Reynolds Metals
Company fabricated the bridge of 7005 aluminum alloy,
a tough, corrosion resistant and high strength alloy, and
also provided design and technical assistance.

Sheet and plate sections were produced at Rey-
nolds' McCook, Illinois, plant. Extruded frame members
came from the company's Phoenix, Arizona, plant and
the bridge was assembled at the firm's structural fabri-
cation facility there.

Vepco also expects to use the unit as an emergency
crossing where flooding or other severe weather condi-
tions have washed away sections of road or bridges.

The folks in Division Thirteen don't know what
this is. Do you?

N. C. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE— Continued

"Such damage was widespread and ran into enor-
mous costs. Because of grievous experience, motorists
learned not to purchase cheap types of permanent anti-
freezes. The producers of these harmful and highly pro-
fitable products, however, quickly overcame this price
barometer and its sales handicap by raising prices to
the level of the satisfactory glycol types. Purchasers no
longer had an index to difference until it showed up in
the form of damage or ruin to engines and cooling sys-
tems."

These sentences were a preface to his report on the
results achieved under a new law enacted in 1949. This
law placed enforcement responsibility with the Commis-
sioner of Agriculture, and provided for registration,
chemical analysis and a permit from the Department
as a prerequisite to the sale of automotive anti-freezes
in the State. The Commissioner delegated enforcement
procedures to Dr. Constable.

In the same report, Dr. Constable wrote: "For the
first year under the new law, 76 brands were offered for
registration. All proved acceptable. None of the type
banned by law was offered for registration."

His report concluded with the statement that "since
the new law came into force not one complaint of dam-
age has reached the (Chemistry) Division. Cooperation
between sound producers, dealers, and the Department
appear to have completely driven harmful anti-freezes
from the market."

A similar statement has concluded Dr. Constable's
report on this phase of his work in every biennial re-
port of the Department since this was written in the
summer of 1950.

But Agriculture Commissioner James A. Graham
and those in the Department administering laws are well
aware that at the first sign of complacence or laxity in
enforcement procedures the jackals who prey on the
public would again move into the market place. There-
fore, North Carolina motorists can rest assured that the
anti-freeze products registered for sale in this State are
safe and effective.

HEADQUARTERS— Continued

tended the Western Summer Meeting
of the Highway Research Board in
Sacramento, California. After the
meeting, they visited Lake Tahoe and
spent the weekend in San Francisco.
They toured the city and the coast
down to Monterey.

Congratulations to the following
proud parents of new babies: Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Barndt, Jr., a baby girl,
Michelle Renee, born August 30; Mr.
and Mrs. Gary Jessup, a baby boy,
William Heath, born August 30; Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold Kelly, a baby girl,
Kimberly Denise, born August 24;
and Mr. and Mrs. Mahmood Mota-
men, a baby girl, Helen Christina,
born September 14.

Sympathy is extended to Bill Hud-
son in the death of his mother and
grandmother; and to Robert Walker
upon the death of his father.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: Gerald Purser, Carl Brick-
house, William Bunting, Troy Davis,
William Dement, Jr., Austin Foster,
James Fulbright, William Kinlaw,
Jack Satterwhite, Louise Shepherd,
William Wilkins, Jr., Edgar Willis,
III, Robert Benfield, James Booker,
Joseph Peacock, Jeffrey C. Butler,
Larry Thomas, James Mulkey, Ed-
gar Whitaker and Michael Lawrence.

Plymouth, England, is celebrating
the 350th anniversary of the sailing of
the Mayflower from Plymouth Har-
bor and this summer conducted fes-
tivities called "Mayflower 70," which
the John Birdsalls attended. That's
John there, with his wife, Barbara,
standing beside the posts that the
Mayflower was tied to at Plymouth
Harbor. John is a member of Road-
way Design.

BRIDGE MAINTENANCE —
Good luck to W. C. Goodrich, who re-
tired as Bridge Maintenance Super-
intendent September 1. Mr. Goodrich
was Superintendent of Divisions One
and Two.

Congratulations to R. L. Spence
who was promoted to Bridge Mainte-
nance Superintendent of Divisions
One and Two. Mr. Spence has moved
his family from Cary to Williamston.

Little Frederick Charles Bey is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bey. His
father is employed in Roadway De-
sign.

Two more congratulations go to
Jack Edgerton and New Perry, both
recently promoted.

Welcome to A. S. Furtado and Sid-
ney Eugene Atkinson. Mr. Furtado,
Electrical Engineer, was transferred
from Bridge Construction. Mr. Atkin-
son came to work August 10 as Mr.
Furtado's assistant.

Sue Freeman and her family re-
ported a wonderful vacation in Or-
lando, Florida. They also visited Cape
Kennedy and Silver Springs.

Georgia Mattocks and her husband
spent a delightful vacation at Atlantic
Beach where they enjoyed delicious
seafood.

After a week of camping on the
Outer Banks, Bedie Holland and her
husband decided that one week is
just too short for a vacation.

Max Collins and his family have
spent almost every weekend at Breezy
Point sailing and making music with
Jimmy Lee and his family. They have
also eaten a year's supply of seafood.

Rita Reavis returned to East Caro-
lina University after a summer va-
cation working with Bridge Mainte-
nance.

Mack Underwood of Bridge Main-
tenance looks at the golf trophy he
received as runner-up of the Cham-
pionship Flight for the Highway
Commission. Sorry, Mack, but con-
gratulations just the same!

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — Wel-
come to Dan Leonard who is in the
Drafting Section. Dan is a graduate
of Wilson "Tech" and has recently re-
turned from four year? of service with

the Air Force. He and his family re-
side in Louisburg.

Barry Frederick of Drafting has re-
turned to work after four and one-
half months of active duty at Fort
Polk, Louisiana.

Diana Lloyd of Engineering, with
her mother, aunt, sister, and daugh-
ter, visited Manteo recently for sev-
eral days, where they saw "The Lost
Colony."

Joan Hill spent two weekends re-
cently visiting friends in Maryland.
She also attended the drag races in
York, Pennsylvania, and drove
through Catoctin Mountain State
Park.

Phil Joyner spent a weekend dur-
ing August visiting his brother in
Portsmouth, Virginia. They played
several rounds of golf during his visit.

Joyce Poythress of the Stereo Sec-
tion, and her husband spent a week
vacationing at Topsail Beach the
first of September.

Jack Matthews of Editing and his
family visited his sister in Colonial
Heights, Virginia, recently and at-
tended the State-Richmond football
game in Richmond.

Chester Gray and his family spent
a week this summer in the New Eng-
land states and New York state.

Don Holloway, Engineering Super-
visor, has returned to work after two
weeks of annual training with the
Non-Division Troop Command of the
N. C. Army National Guard at Fort
Bragg.

Patricia Daniels, a senior at Garner
High, is temporarily working in the
department under the Industrial Co-
operative Program.

John McDonald of the Editing Sec-
tion attended a one-week seminar m
management-development in Asheville
the middle of August.

Chester T. Gray attended the NC-
HCEA Convention in Durham in
September as a delegate.

The golfers in Photogrammetry al-
ways enjoy their annual autumn golf
tournament. This year it was held
at the Sippihaw Country Club in Fu-
quay Friday, September 18, follow-
ed by a dinner at the College Inn.

LANDSCAPE — Welcome to
Catherine Bryant, new Steno. Cath-
erine replaced Linda Harper who re-
signed to take the role as housewife.
It's nice also to have Lewis Rainey
and Jeff Graves as new employees.

Al and Valinda Kirkland went on
a Caribbean Cruise and really took
in some beautiful sites. As far as be-
ing seasick, Al said he never felt bet-
ter.

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Darrell and Elva Kornegay took
their vacation west. They toured Utah
and Southern California and also
took in Disneyland. Upon deciding
Old Mexico was just a few miles
away, Tijuana was their next stop.
Returning to North Carolina, Dar-
rell says their trip was most delight-
ful and very educational.

As far as fishing goes for this sum-
mer, Jimmy Saunders tells this tale.
He doesn't even need a rod and reel
anymore, the fish are so hungry, they
just jump into his boat. How about
it, Jim?

Kay Davis and son, Scott, vaca-
tioned at Windy Hill, South Carolina,
and report the fishing there wasn't
too good; but they really soaked up
the sun.

Phil and Dale Suggs and son are
like the Road Runner. They go east
every weekend hoping not to lose out
on a weekend the fish are really bit-
ing.

Dennis and Anne Mercer get reports
from home in Jacksonville that fish-
ing is great. However, upon arrival at
Topsail Beach, they find out that
was the day before. Some people just
don't have fisherman's luck.

PERSONNEL — Our deepest sym-
pathy is extended to Martha Wil-
liams and her family upon the death
of Martha's father in late August.

Ted Austin really had a rough time
at summer camp this year. He spent
his entire two weeks at Cape Cod. It
must be a hard life, Ted.

Welcome to new employees Caro-
lyn Myers and Don Cummings. It's
good, also, to have Louise Walker as
a new part-time employee. Louise is
a senior at Garner High School work-
ing on the Industrial Cooperative
Program.

Someone in Personnel must be get-
ting old. It seems that almost every-
one in the department has celebrated
a birthday recently. Fred Adcock,
Banks Clark, Barbara Stussie, and
Troy Dodson have been the recent
honorees.

Marvin McKinney and his family
recently enjoyed a vacation to Mar-
vin's home in the mountains in Mit-
chell County, and also spent some
time at White Lake.

Ron Wolfe and Cloyce Alford,
along with several other Highway
employees, attended a school in At-
lanta, Georgia, during the week of
September 21-25.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Assistant Area Traffic Engineer
George Eason and wife, Annie Lois,
announce the birth of a daughter,

Dawn Elizabeth, July 15. Larry Stall-
ings, Traffic Engineer for Division 4,
and wife, Lynn, announce the birth
of a daughter, Tammy Lynn, Septem-
ber 14. A daughter, Michele Lynn,
was born to Linda and Charlie Ed-
dins, September 8.

State Traffic Engineer J. O. Litch-
ford will be in Mobile, Alabama, Oc-
tober 4-7, to be on the program for
the meeting of the Southern Associa-
tion of State Highway Officials.

Assistant State Traffic Engineer
Harold C. Rhudy and Area Traffic
Engineer W. A. Ward attended the
Institute of Traffic Engineers' meet-
ing in Houston, Texas, September 20-
24.

STAFF CHANGES

In order to adequately staff the
TOPICS program, which has been
allocated new positions, several pro-
motions and transfers have been ef-
fected within the department. G. K.
Sanderlin, formerly the Traffic Sig-
nal Engineer, is now Assistant Traf-
fic Engineer for Urban Coordination
under TOPICS. J. M. Lynch suc-
ceeds Gwyn Sanderlin as head of the
Signal Section, and Jim's former po-
sition as Accident Identification En-
gineer is now held by Glenn G. Grigg,
Jr. W. J. Hindman, Jr., has been as-
signed to head the Special Studies
Section, the position recently held by
Glenn.

Frank Murray, a transfer from Ac-
cident Identification Section, is an
Area Traffic Engineer Technician.
Another new ATE technician is John
Carpenter, an NCSU graduate in en-
gineering operations, taking the place
of Ray Goff who has moved to TO-
PICS. Benny Johnson was transfer-
red to the Signal Section from AIS.

Bill Smart, Traffic Engineer for
Division 5, has moved from headquar-
ters to the new division offices in
Durham.

Shower honoree Linda Eddins
seems to be showing what the well-
dressed infant will wear as she un-
wraps presents from other employees
in Traffic Engineering. With her are
Terry Bevacqua, Connie May, Cora
Shores, Sarah White and Susan
Batts.

Jim Lynch and his wife, Nancy,
are amused by the "gag" gifts pre-
sented by personnel of the Accident
Identification Section in Traffic En-
gineering on the occasion of Jim's
birthday and of his leaving to assume
supervision of another section.

Opening wedding presents is al-
ways fun. The bride, Bonnie Bass of
Traffic Engineering in center, was
married July 29 to Robert H. Ross.
Co-workers, left to right, are Denise
Mitchell, Jean Agnew, Annette Bran-
ton and Irene Beddingfield.

Area Traffic Engineer Andy Ward
fits easily into the role of "proud
grandpa" as he holds his first grand-
child, Kimberly Lou.

Best wishes are extended to Bonnie
Bass of the Accident Identification
staff, whose marriage to Robert H.
Ross took place July 29.

As well as promotions there have
been several additions to the staff in
recent weeks. Wallace M. Wiggs, re-
tired Air Force Senior Master Ser-
geant, returns to Raleigh to work
with the Accident Identification Sec-
tion. He and his wife, Carroll, have
three children: Karen, 16; David, 12;
and Robert, 8. Gerald F. England, a
newcomer in the Signals Section, at-
tended Emmanuel College, Franklin
Springs, Georgia, and holds a B.S.
M.E. degree in aerospace engineering

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from N. C. State University. R.
Douglas Gillis, assigned to TOPICS,
has a masters degree in civil engineer-
ing from NCSU. Doug is married to
the former Marsha Finch. J. C.
Baumgarner, who ranks as a rising
senior at NCSU, is working with one
of the Accident Identification teams.
Barbara Leonard, a former student
at W. W. Holding, is employed in
Accident Identification. Gordon Ray
Whetsell from Mt. Olive is with the
Design Section. Working part-time
and continuing their education are
two high school students, Donna
Strickland and Patricia Bonin, and a
senior at NCSU, Bob Holden.

Herb Justice and Bill Hindman
were at Ft. Bragg two weeks in Au-
gust for the Army Reserve training
program. Joe Wise underwent major
surgery the latter part of August. Ed
Frazelle and family vacationed at
"Six Flags Over Georgia." Sarah
White and husband, Len, visited her
parents in Florida in September. Su-
san Batts and husband, Jerry, spent
a week with her mother in Orlando,
Florida, in the early fall. Olive Donat
and husband, Win, their son and
daughter-in-law spent several days
fishing at Hatteras in September.

Gene Edmonds, Assistant Area
Traffic Engineer for Divisions 13 and
14, and wife, Betty, participated in a
lay-led revival at the Queensbury
Street Baptist Church in Notting-
ham, England, for part of a week in
the summer. After the services, they
visited France, Switzerland, Luxem-
bourg, Germany, and Belgium.

FINANCE — Marion Strock, with
the help of a birdie on the ninth hole,
recently prevailed over the extreme-
ily difficult competition of Doug
O'Neal and William Heath at Eagle
Crest Golf Course.

Frank Stokes spent Labor Day
weekend at Myrtle Beach.

David Tyndell recently spent two
weeks at the University of Southern
Mississippi for a course in Command
and General Staff. David reports that
Bourbon Street in New Orleans is
the only place to spend a weekend.
How about it, David?

Bobby Bradley and friend, Clyde
Hesdel from Weldon, report a fantas-
tic week in the Bahamas. Bobby said
that scuba diving, gambling, drinking,
eating way-out foods, and touring the
islands on a Honda were just out of
this world. The most exciting thing
was when they were joined by SIX
girls from the United States. Some-
how during the week he managed to
get a visit in to Percy Atkins' sister,
Peggy. We wonder how he did that.

Cathie McLean recently resigned
from Key Punch, and has now hap-
pily joined her husband in Fort Ben-
ning, Georgia.

Laura Blaylock is a new face in
Key Punch.

Friends and co-workers of Linda
Edgerton Pittman, former member of
the insurance section, were happy to
see her pay a recent visit and bring
along with her a new addition to the
family, little Nina Renee. Linda now
lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

Visiting "Six Flags Over Georgia"
on a recent vacation were Louise
Shirley along with her husband and
daughter. Louise is a member of Key
Punch.

A new bride in Key Punch is Em-
ma Parrish, who married Richard
Evans of Archives and History Au-
gust 30.

Best wishes to Sonia Powell who
resigned September 1 from the in-
surance section to keep house and
await the arrival of the stork.

Mary F. Zimmerman of Key
Punch, with her husband, Don, and
daughter, Janet, spent Labor Day
weekend with her parents in Ashe-
boro.

Ben Hocutt is a new Programmer.
He is a recent graduate of W. W.
Holding "Tech," where he received
a degree in Business Data Processing.

Jim Wineburger is a new program
trainee.

Dale Joyner in general accounting
has been a patient in Wake Memor-
ial Hospital for a month. He under-
went a hip operation to improve his
arthritis and will be out of work for
three months.

Doug O'Neal with his wife, Agnes,
and daughter, Ginny, spent three
days at White Lake before going to
"Six Flags Over Georgia" for three
days.

Ronney Bunn and family spent
their vacation in the mountains. They
enjoyed a trip to the Land of Oz,
but report fishing wasn't too good
Labor Day weekend.

On a cruise from Morehead City
to Hatteras, Randy Pierce and David
Tyndall planned a three and one-half
hour trip, but instead the trip took
ten hours. Bad weather seemed to be
the reason.

Norman Paschall is the proud new
father of a 7 lb., 12 oz. baby girl,
whose name is LeDonna Lynne.

Seth Graham resigned September
11 to go into the wholesale seafood
business.

Kay Scarboro's last workday was
October 9. She is expecting a new
addition to her family.

Joan Edwards is a new member of
the insurance section.

Jim Ireland transferred from Data
Processing to General Accounting to
continue his training program.

Ken and Jeanne Shorter recently
returned from California where Jean-
ne was in her sister's wedding in San
Francisco. They also visited her par-
ents in Los Angeles.

Sally Richard resigned from Com-
mercial Accounting to accept a posi-
tion in Butner.

Marquita Partin of Commercial
Accounting transferred to Project
Control as a typist.

Lt. and Mrs. James Edward Car-
penter were married on August 8,
1970 in the First Baptist Church of
Garner. Mrs. Carpenter is the for-
mer Brenda Kay Sidbury, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Sidbury of
Garner. Her father is a Highway
Bridge Maintenance Foreman and
her mother is a Stenographer in Pur-
chasing.

Mrs. Carpenter is a graduate of
Peace College and her husband is a
graduate of North Carolina State
University at Raleigh.

35- Year Award
Roland E. Noblin and Frederick
Dale Graham.

SUGGESTION AWARD
Mason W. Smithey
Raleigh Area

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DIVISION NEWS

Division 1 Boasts
Collier-Blanchard Wedding,
New Employees

Miss Becky Jean Collier, became
the bride of Warren Meade Blanch-
ard on July 11. The ceremony was
performed by the Reverend Worth
Cotton in the Ahoskie United Meth-
odist Church, Ahoskie. Miss Collier
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ri-
chard J. Collier, and the bridegroom
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lucius
Blanchard.

The bride's father, known to us as
"Dick" Collier, is with the Equip-
ment Department of the Highway
Commission and will have nineteen
years of service in December.

After a wedding trip to Williams-
burg, Virginia, the couple will make
their home in Suitland, Maryland.
The bride is a graduate of East Caro-
lina University. Her husband is a
graduate of North Carolina Wesleyan
College.

Mrs. Warren M. Blanchard

ENTERTAINMENT. Miss Clara
Holloman, stenographer in the Dis-
trict Two Office, and Mr. Gary
Hobbs, of the District One Office,
have gone "way out" in entertain-
ment. They were fortunate enough to
see and hear the fabulous TOM
JONES in person at the Hampton
Roads Coliseum on July 6.

The Hertford Equipment Shop em-
ployees took time to get together
this summer. They enjoyed a cook-
out at Snug Harbor in August.

WELCOME WAGON. We would
like to extend a hearty welcome to
Ann Cullens in the Elizabeth City
area and Mrs. Nell Shaddeau in the
Point Harbor area. Both ladies are
with the Bridge Maintenance Depart-
ment.

Ann Cullens

Mrs. Cullens began work July 20,
1970. Her husband, Irvin, is employ-
ed with the Elizabeth City Construc-
tion Department. They have two
boys; ages 11 and 6. Ann is a mem-
ber of the Evangelical Methodist
Church and is the Adult Choir Direc-
tor. Ann is also president of the Wo-
man's Society and is an E.M.Y. Sub-
District Director for eastern North
Carolina for her church.

DIVISION ONE
35 Year Award — (Left to right)—
Front Row: Johnnie S. Hodges, Ar-
thur N. Thompson; Rear Row: D.
W. Patrick, Division Engineer; Wil-
liam C. Johnson. William W. Pres-
cott, and Troy Dodson.

Mrs. Shaddeau began work June
22, 1970, and is a native of Curri-
tuck County. Nell's husband, Rich-
ard, is employed in Chesapeake, Vir-
ginia. They have two boys, ages 12
and 8. Nell is a member of Mt. Zion
Methodist Church. She is also a
member of the PTA and the local
Homemakers Club. Her office is lo-
cated at Point Harbor on the Curri-
tuck Sound. What a way to spend a
lunch hour.

Mrs. Cullens and Mrs. Shaddeau
would like to extend a welcome to
any of you when you are in their
area.

LINDA MULDER
Division Correspondent

DIVISION ONE RETIREMENT
Left to right — Front Row — D. W. Patrick, Division Engineer; Mills R.
Conner; James R. Felton; Ebenezer A. Leggett; and Wayland S. Butler. Sec-
ond Row — James White; Robert M. Wheeler; Dallas H. Pritchard; Joseph
E. Rogerson; and Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Officer.

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CONGRATULATIONS. Mr. Wil-
liam B. Sawyer, Mechanic II, is the
proud grandfather of a baby girl, Me-
lissa Denise, born in August.

GOOD LUCK. Mr. Jack Nowell
will enter Wilson Technical Institute
this fall to further his education.
Jack has been working in the Parts
Department this summer.

The Equipment Department is hap-
py to have S. C. James, Foreman I,
in Gatesville, back at work, after hav-
ing been out quite some time on sick
leave.

The Equipment Department is also
happy to have Mr. C. F. Hooper,
Foreman I in Elizabeth City, back at
work after undergoing an operation
at Albemarle Hospital.

Vacation Highlights
Division 2 Activities

WELCOME. Melvin Hoot was re-
cently employed as a Relocation
Agent in the Right of Way Depart-
ment, Greenville.

Mr. Doug Webb is back at work af-
ter a week of illness. Mr. Webb is
Area Negotiator in the Greenville
Right of Way office.

Congratulations to Georgia Brick-
house on the announcement of her
engagement to W. H. Potter. The
wedding is planned for December 20,
1970. Mr. Potter is employed with the
State Highway Commission as a Re-
location Agent in the Right of Way
Department Relocation Office, Green-
ville.

Mr. M. E. Garner, Area Relocation
Agent, Greenville, enjoyed a week's
visit from his daughter and grand-
children.

Congratulations are in store for em-
ployees of the State Highway Com-
mission in the Division Two Con-
struction Office for winning the run-
ner-up trophy in the Open League
Baseball Tournament.

Also, congratulations to Jackie
Langley in her marriage to Kenneth
Langley of Greenville on July 5, 1970.

Kenneth is employed as Assistant-Pro
at Walnut Creek Country Club,
Goldsboro. Jackie is the daughter of
W. M. Brantley, Assistant Resident
Engineer in Greenville.

Sylvia Smith, Typist II in the
Greenville Construction Office, enjoy-
ed vacation at Carolina Beach.
Jack White of the Construction De-
partment enjoyed a weekend of ex-
cellent weather at Manteo and at-
tended the Lost Colony pageant.

Faye Moore, Secretary in the Di-
vision Office, and her family recently
spent a few days in the mountains of
North Carolina. They visited Chero-
kee and Tweetsie Railroad. A picture
of Faye and daughter Kelly with one
of the "Big Chiefs" proves that they
were there.

Mr. and Mrs. John Banks have
recently returned from Tennessee,

Joyce Elaine Hardee

Miss Hardee recently graduated
from Wilson Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing at Wilson and is
now an Emergency Room attendant
at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Her father, Edward Lee Hardee of
Winterville, is Foreman II with the
Maintenance Department of the State
Highway Commission at Greenville.

DIVISION TWO RETIREMENT
Left to right — Front Row — Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Offi-
cer; Jacob S. White; Ralph A. Pollock; Robert P. Pittman; and R. D. Franks,
Assistant Division Engineer. Rear Row — John R. Martin; John R. Mayberry;
Andrew J. Taylor; and Paul Vaughan.

Kelly Moore and Faye Moore with monS5 and R. D. Franks, Assistant
Big Chief from Cherokee. Division Engineer.

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Vacations, Promotions In Division 3

Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois where
they visited his sisters. John is a
Right of Way Agent in Division Two.

David L. Thrower was recently
transferred to Division Two from Di-
vision Eight. The Welcome Mat is
out also for W. Watson Peace who
was transferred from Division Seven.
Traffic Services

William White, Jr., returned from
a two-year service with the Army on
May 23, 1970, to work with the Traf-
fic Services Department.

James R. Turner, Traffic Sign
Erector of New Bern, lost his mother
on June 11, 1970. Bobby G. Wadford,
Traffic Services Foreman, lost his
father on August 1, 1970.

George Minch, Traffic Shop Fore-
man, was hospitalized on August 27,
1970, due to illness.

Floyd Midgette, Traffic Sign Erec-
tor, is recuperating at home from a
heart attack on April 20, 1970.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Perry are the
proud parents of a baby boy born on
July 15, 1970. Mr. Perry is employed
with Traffic Services in Greenville.

W. E. Wetherington retired on
August 1, 1970. He said he was going
to catch up with his fishing and tra-
veling.

C. R. Jernigan is back after a long
period of illness. R. J. Grady is hos-
pitalized in the Veterans Hospital at
Durham, and he has been there for
some time.

Vacationing from the Construction
Department at Kinston were Mr. and
Mrs. Robert A. Merritt and family
who visited "Six Flags Over Georgia."
Mr. Lynwood Dawson recently spent
the weekend at Atlantic Beach.

Our sympathy to Danny T. Davis
on the recent death of his father. Our
sympathy also to Dennis A. Fornes
on the recent death of his father-in-
law.

IRENE HEWETT
Division Correspondent

Congratulations Neal Davis and
Dan Cottle. Neal has just been pro-
moted to Engineering Technician II
and Dan has been promoted to High-
way Inspector II. Both are with the
Clinton Construction Department.
Also, Steve Elmore has graduated to
permanent status.

Several employees in the Clinton
Construction Department have been
taking vacations this summer.

John Naylor and family visited re-
latives in Florida. John's brother-in-
law works at Cape Kennedy so they
were treated to a guided tour.

Joe Hamilton and family visited
Williamsburg, Yorktown and Nor-
folk, Virginia. They used to live at
Williamsburg.

Evans McCullen and family visited
Williamsburg and Jamestown, Vir-
ginia, Washington, D. C, and Balti-
more, Maryland.

Joyce Lucas and family and the
family next door to them visited Mor-
row Mountain, "Six Flags Over Geor-
gia" and Myrtle Beach. They saw a
double-header baseball game between
the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs.
The Braves won both games. She re-
ported a very nice trip despite rain
almost every day.

Frank Logan "vacationed" when
that new baby boy came home. Frank
says he hasn't bought Forrest a gun
or rod and reel yet but he does have
a set of bar bells that Forrest has got
to be able to lift before he can get
out of the house.

Curtis Honeyoutt and James Fair-
cloth vacationed with their families
at Carolina Beach for a few days.

Stanley Byrd and family visited
Surf City and also Baltimore, Mary-
land.

Jimmy Royal and family visited
"Six Flags Over Georgia" and the
Outer Banks.

Steve Elmore "vacationed" for Un-
cle Sam for two weeks in the Coast
Guard Reserves.

Everyone should be rested and
ready to get back to work, but it
seems that you need a vacation to get
over a vacation.

Welcome, Carol Barber, new clerk
in the Equipment Department. Carol
is from Fayetteville. Her husband
Ralph attends Wilmington College
where he is in his senior year.

O. T. Anderson of Wilmington
Construction Department and Sandra
James were married on August 14.

Our young new grandfather is
Chuck Mayer, also of Wilmington

Construction Department, whose
daughter Connie recently had a 6 lb.
boy.

Jackie H. Henson of District One
has returned from sick leave. Al-
quest Simmons, also of District One,
is still on sick leave.

William Randy Sanders returned
from military leave. He is with Jack-
sonville Construction Department.

Charles W. Sutton of Wilmington
Construction Department recently re-
signed to attend Fayetteville Techni-
cal School. Fred Benton of the Road
Oil Department recently resigned due
to poor health. Daniel Owen Hewett,
District One, went on Service Retire-
ment on September 1.

Sympathy is extended to the fami-
lies of the following: Roy Lee Garriss
of District One who was killed in an
auto accident on August 14; W. J.
Wilkerson of District Two who died
recently; Charlie E. Home, retired
Road Oil Department employee, who
recently died.

The father-in-law of Thomas King,
District Two Engineer, recently died.

W. R. (Bill) Ellis and his family
report a very enjoyable trip to the
West Coast. Some of the places of
interest they stopped were Grand
Canyon, Painted Desert, Hoover
Dam, Disneyland, Knotts Berry
Farm and Hollywood. Everyone en-
joyed the pictures he brought back.
Also, Buck Parker, Road Oil Super-
visor, recently returned from a vaca-
tion to Ohio to visit his daughter
and grandchildren. James Medlin,
Assistant Division Engineer, and his
wife Betty recently vacationed in
Georgia. Jim reported that a nice rest
is the best kind of vacation. Jimmy
Joyner, Resident Engineer in our
Wilmington Construction Depart-
ment, recently vacationed at the Out-
er Banks and took in the Lost Colony
Outdoor Drama.

DIVISION THREE
35 Year Award — John O. Howard

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Bob Taylor, Traffic Services De-
partment, is shown replacing the light
bulbs on the west approach of the
new Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in
Wilmington. He had to go up to a
height of 50 feet for the replacement.

Robert Parker, Highway Inspector
II with the Clinton Construction De-
partment, proved "where there is a
will there is a way." Robert is not
quite tall enough to reach the oil
gauge on his new pickup, so he has
constructed a step to solve the prob-
lem.

Bob Trevatham, who was recently
with the Wilmington Right-of-Way
Department stopped by to see us.
Since we hadn't seen him since his
transfer to Charlotte the first of the
year, we were exceptionally glad to
see him.

We also extend our sympathy
to Willie Sloan who recently lost his
mother, Mrs. Fannie Allen Sloan, who
was 81. Mr. Sloan works here in the
Division Office.

We surely miss Robert Morris and
Hargrove Hankins of District 1 and
Garnie E. McClenny of District 2 who
have recently resigned. We also miss
Marvin Miller of District 2 who re-
signed and Garland D. Whitman of
District 2 who retired on August 1.

Ralph A. Williamson, a Civil Tech-
nology Trainee, recently reported to
the Clinton Construction Department
for further training. He is originally
from Clinton; his father is a building
contractor.

Mrs. Hermania Spender, Secretary
in Right-of-Way has a new 1970
Volkswagen.

DIVISION THREE RETIREMENT
Left to right — Front Row — Floyd J. Bass, Division Engineer; Earnest
G. Harris; Henry P. Mathews; George E. Rackley, Kneever E. Gurganious;
and Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Officer. Rear Row — Clyde E. Joy-
ner; Anderson G. Munn; William C. Mobley; Montgomery S. Smith; and
Raymond T. West.

On the sick list in Wilson County
have been Albert Mercer, Pervise Bry-
ant and D. C. Smith.

Nearly everyone in the District
Four Equipment Department who
vacationed has returned.

Frank Parnell, Mechanic at the Wil-
son Division Shop, and his family
had an enjoyable vacation in Florida.

Buddie Page, Auto Parts Clerk at
the Wilson Division Shop, and his
wife visited relatives in Alabama on
their vacation.

Charlie F. Williams, Mechanic
Foreman II, Nashville, underwent an
operation recently. He is back at
work and is doing fine.

G. R. Lancaster, Mechanic Fore-
man at Weldon is out with a broken

Changes and Promotions
In Division 4

August first brought with it changes
in the District Office in Nashville. J.
A. Hodge moved from his position
as District Engineer to Construction,
Divsion Four. He was replaced by J.
C. Overton, Jr. who had been a Resi-
dent Engineer, located in Nashville.
Mrs. Betty Kellum transferred from
the Construction office to the Dis-
trict Office as a Clerk II.

Recent promotions in District Two
included M. T. Batchelor, Jr., W. L.
Creekmore, J. L. Gardner, Charlie
Eatmon, J. L. Womble, W. N. Dor-
sey, C. L. Joyner, W. R. Cary, Ner-
nie Perry, Berry Driver, Jr. and Wil-
lie Stroman.

Ann Home recently joined the
Bridge Maintenance Department as
bookkeeper.

MARGARET BAREFOOT
Division Correspondent

Grover Jackson is pictured with
his eight-month old grandson and his
three-year old granddaughter, while
visiting his daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dillingham, in
Denver, Colorado,

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DIVISION FOUR

40 Year Award — Shady M. An-
derson.

DIVISION FOUR
35 Year Award — Johnnie V. Kemp

DIVISION FOUR RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — Charlie W. Turner; William L. Kemp; Ro-
bert G. Phelps; O. C. Robertson; Jack D. Turner; and Troy B. Dodson, High-
way Personnel Officer. Second Row — R. W. Dawson, Division Engineer; L.
H. Wade, Jr.; John A. Bissette; John S. Pope; Mack Harris; and Lonnie W.
Greene. Third Row — Josh Webb; Stacy C. Fulghum; Frank W. Morse; Ri-
chard W. Hawkins; and Lawrence V. Beasley.

The following employees in Wayne
County have suffered recent illness:
Thomas Lewis is recovering at home
after undergoing surgery at Wayne
County Memorial Hospital. George
Spurgeon is recovering at home from
injuries received in an automobile
accident. Jarvis Sutton is recovering
at home from illness.

The brother of G. W. Walters, who
is Bridge Maintenance Supervisor,
recently died.

Games (Sam) D. Stevens and fam-
ily recently visited the "Grand Ole
Opery" Show, Cherokee, and the
Smoky Mountains while vacationing
in Kentucky, Tennessee and the west-
ern part of North Carolina.

Danny Allen Worrell, a temporary
employee in Wayne County, was mar-
ried on July 19, 1970, to Diane Smith,
also of rural Wayne County.

Earl Warren in a recent vacation
visited her son, Jerry, who is stationed
with the Navy in Key West, Florida.

Twana Von Miller of the District
Three office reports a very successful
land en(joyable flight to Amarilla,
Texas, where she spent two weeks
visiting with her mother and other
friends and relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Roland Williams are
parents of a baby boy, born August
29, 1970. Mr. Williams is a Machine
Operator in Wayne County.

The following employees in John-
ston County have suffered recent ill-
ness: Elmond B. Lane has returned
to work after being confined to John-
ston Memorial Hospital. The wife of
Alonzo Barbour has returned home
from the hospital. Parlia B. Bare-
foot has returned to work after hospi-
tal confinement. The daughter of Ran-
dall Jackson is recuperating following
surgery.

The following people have enjoyed
vacations recently: Percell Holland
vacationed with his family in western
North Carolina and then spent a few
days on the coast at Salter Path. J.
V. Walters, J. L. Bailey, B. E. Pitt-
man, and Mr. Walters' son-in-law
from Tarboro, went to Englehart on
a fishing trip for a few days. They
reportedly caught a "few" fish. The
fishing party of J. L. Massengill, J.
R. Baker, Vaden Baker, and a close
friend went to the Outer Banks. They
didn't catch many fish, but they en-
joyed a tropical storm with 70 mph
winds while there. H. D. Medlin, J
C. Massengill and Charles Medlin re-
ported no luck at all on a fishing trip
to Surf City. J. M. Cuddington and
wife visited their daughter in Mary-

These boys are the sons of H. G.
Godwin, Bridge Maintenance Fore-
man of Wilson County. They play
Termite Baseball, and their father
is the Coach of their team which had
a record of 8 and 2. Randy, right,
plays first base and catcher, Douglas
plays second base and pitcher.

Cindy Eason, age 6, and Dawn Eas-
on, age 1 month, are the daughters of
George A. Eason, Area Traffic En-
gineer located at Greenville. They
are the granddaughters of George G.
Eason, Assistant District Engineer,
in the District Office in Nashville.

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land and toured places of interest
while there.

Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Stanley are
the proud parents of a new baby boy.

J. T. Bizzell from the Johnston
County Equipment Department and
family recently vacationed in New
York, where they visited relatives and
toured the city. On their return, they
toured Western North Carolina for
a few days.

W. D. Peedin and his wife spent a
weekend at the coast. They didn't
catch any fish. Why? Peedin says
"there is not a fish in the ocean."

C. H. Hamilton and son, Durwood,
went to the Outer Banks out from
Davis for a few days of fishing. They
caught a few fish, but mostly just
baked in the sun while there.

W. A. Godwin and family vacation-
ed at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
and at Kerr Lake.

The employees of Johnston and
Wayne County were joined by Eu-
gene Woodring, the new District Me-
chanic Foreman. He recently moved
from Wilmington to Princeton, where
he is close to both shops in the Dis-
trict. He replaced W. L. Bunn who
is now Equipment Superintendent in
Wilmington.

L. H. Cameron and his wife visited
Atlantic Beach. J. C. Jernigan and
family enjoyed sightseeing in Maggie
Valley, Cherokee and Gatlinburg,
Tennessee. Arlene Richardson and
her husband, George, spent a few
days relaxing on Atlantic Beach. J.
D. Davis and family toured "Six
Flags ver Georgia." Russell Parker
and family visited Pamlico.

Ronald Wooten and friends enjoy-
ed a week in Florida. Virgil Jones and
his family enjoyed camping at Emer-
ald Isle. C. A. Gardner, Jr. and fam-
ily toured "Six Flags Over Georgia"
and the state of Florida.

Mack Rhea is still absent since he
was disabled on-the-job May 5, 1970;
Randy Strickland was also injured
on-the-job; Louis Green is confined
to his home. George Clay underwent
surgery recently.

William Manning is now back at
work after recovering from an injury
requiring hospitalization.

J. P. Hardy, Jr., and wife, Brenda,
are new parents of a daughter.

Vacationing in North Carolina from
the mountains to the sea were: Joe
Landen, Jr., Zack Mohorn, Bill Coop-
er, and Clifton Hudson, and their
wives. John Fitzhugh and his family
vacationed via camper in Georgia
and Florida. W. M. Marshburn and
Mrs. Mashburn toured Western

North Carolina and visited relatives;
Troy Rogers, Charlie Webb, and
Lindbergh Harlow and their families
formed a "Caravan of Campers" and
traveled through the mountains of
North Carolina; Thomas Jernigan and
family visited Cherokee and Fontana
Dam; G. W. DeBerry and family took
the coastal route, touring the Outer
Banks; Harry Light, Jr., and family
camped at Kerr Lake; Bill Thomas
and Stanley Causway vacationed in
the state, also.

Fred W. Smith recently began em-
ployment as Mechanic at the Sub-
Shop in Tarboro.

Bob Lancaster had the misfortune
of breaking his arm during a fall
while at work in the District Shop in
Weldon.

Birthday greetings in September to:
Jack Alston, Willie Ballard, Hughley
Crawley, Roger Jenkins, William
Manning, Archie Lee Morris, Joe
Neal, Ben Robertson, Eugene Snider,
Ed Stansbury, Robin Turner, W. E.
Wells, and Joseph Young.

October birthday greetings to: W.
J. Barnes, J. E. Brown, Jim Carroll,
S. L. Cummings, S. T. Lyles, E. E.
Mayo, Zack Mohorn, David Nichol-
son, W. M. Reason, Thomas Strick-
land, and William Worsley.

Move to New Headquarters
Occupies Division 5

Peggy Bright, correspondent for
Division 5, paused long enough from
her chores to tell us that now Divi-
sion offices are located in the new
Highway Commission building north
of Durham at the corner of Duke
Street and Stadium Drive.

Merle Atkins, Division Engineer,
presides over the new headquarters.
Reportedly an open house is coming
up after everybody gets back in the
swing of work after the big move.

If you have business in Division
Five, the new headquarters is the
place to go. W. T. Smart, Division
Traffic Engineer, is housed there.
Sid Atkinson, Materials and Tests,
has new offices. Relocation and Right
of Way offices are there. If they can
be located, they will be at North Duke
Street and Stadium Drive. Traffic
Services, Landscape, and Road Oil
will also be there. The Area Con-
struction Engineer can be reached
there, too.

DIVISION FIVE

35 Year Award — Hersel (Buddy)
Smith.

DIVISION FIVE RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — M. T. Adkins, Division Engineer; Lexie H.
Ho lie man; Hubert B. Tilley; Henry E. Hicks; Glenn A. Blackburn; and Troy
B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Officer. Second Row — Curman E. Martin;
Henry T. Taylor; Hubert L. Alford; Kirk M. Duncan; Giles E. Crutcher; and
Andrew J. Maynard. Third Row — Ennis H. Harrison; Major A. Ellington;
James T. Robertson; William R. Wilder; and Morris C. Wiley.

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In-Service Training In
Division 6; Retirements

Certificates were awarded to A. M.
Allen, A. W. Craft, C. T. Denkins,
G. T. Johnson, J. L. Lockhart, Jr.,
G. W. Mitchell and C L. Snipes, all
of Harnett County Maintenance, for
completing a Surveying and Mathe-
matics Review Course. P. G. Weeks,
Highway Engineer I, of Lillington,
was the Instructor.

DIVISION SIX RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — Dossie Martin; John C. McCaskill; David T.
Stallings; Miles O. Edge; C. B. Alford, Assistant Highway Personnel Officer.
Rear Row — N. S. Day, Division Engineer; Samuel D. Tyndall; George B.
Owen; Bainbridge D. Jackson; and Joseph W. Fowler.

Mr. J. G. Renn, Area Foreman,
visited the Harnett County Mainte-
nance employees recently when he
was home for a few days from the
V. A. Hospital in Fayetteville. He re-
turned to the hospital to continue his
recuperation.

Mr. R. L. Senter has returned to
work after being in the hospital for a
few weeks.

Mrs. D. T. Lee is home recuperat-
ing after being in the hospital.

Sympathy is extended to B. F.
Sutton whose son, J. W., was killed
in an automobile accident in Jackson-
ville, Florida; to S. W. Giles, General
Utility Man, whose brother, J. W.,
died recently; and to Mr. L. M. Ses-
soms, Highway Inspector II in Har-
nett County, whose sister died recent-
ly.

Vacationing recently in Harnett
County were W. C. Byrd and family,
who spent a week camping at the
Outer Banks. B. Whiteside, Jr., and
family spent a week at the beach.

RAY AUTRY
Division Correspondent

Major Kenneth W. Porter, Com-
mittee Director with the Army Re-
serve Medical Unit, Shaw Air Force
Base Hospital, at Sumter, South Ca-
rolina, and Division Shop Foreman
with SHC at Fayetteville, recently
toured facilities at Fort Jackson and
Charleston, South Carolina.

Truitte Johnson and family spent a
week vacationing in Georgia touring
Stone Mountain, "Six Flags" and
camping in various parts of the state
of Georgia. C. T. Jenkins and wife
enjoyed a week-end at "Six Flags
Over Georgia;" G. W. Mitchell and
family enjoyed a week-end in Atlan-
ta, Georgia, for a fun thrilling base-
ball game; and A. M. Allen has been
enjoying the week-ends at his favor-
ite beaches. Mrs. Linda Bass and hus-
band spent a week at White Lake and
a week-end at Kerr Lake boating and
water skiing; Hurley Ashworth and
family spent a week taking it easy
at Carolina Beach; and Joe Lanier
and family spent a week in the moun-
tains sight seeing and visiting rela-
tives.

Wedding bells rang on the nine-
teenth of June for Ray Stone, Tech-
nician II of Harnett County, and Ca-
rolyn John. Ray is a new employee
in the Construction Office in Lilling-
ton and his wife is employed in
Dunn.

We are happy to welcome Benja-
min Ward, Mechanic II at the Divi-
sion Shop, Fayetteville, and F. M.
Stephens, Mechanic Foreman II at
the Lumberton District Shop, back to
work after being on sick leave.

J. I. Sutton, Jr., and wife will begin
studies at the Extension Division of
the University of North Carolina at
Raleigh at Fort Bragg next week.
Mr. Sutton is the son of J. I. Sutton,
Mechanic II, Division Shop, Fay-
etteville.

We have several Equipment De-
partment employees enjoying the
scenery in the mountains of North
Carolina recently while on vacation.
W. F. Dail, Jr., Mechanic in the Di-
vision Shop, enjoyed his tour camp-
ing. L. V. Hubbard, Highway Equip-
ment Office Manager, Fayetteville,
reports he and his family enjoyed
their tour also and especially their
trip to "Six Flags Over Georgia." R.
B. Nordan, N. S. Hamilton, J. E.
Peacock, Mechanics in the Division
Shop, enjoyed the sunny shores of
Florida while on their vacations. Jim-
my Jackson, Auto Parts Clerk, Fay-
etteville, reports he and his family
enjoyed their trip to Niagara Falls.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Hubbard on the birth of a boy,
Scott, born August 10, 1970. Mr. Hub-
bard is employed with the Construc-
tion Department in Fayetteville.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Clark on the birth of a daugh-
ter. Mr. Clark is Resident Engineer
in Lumberton.

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S. J. Smitherman, Division Right of
Way Agent, and his family recently
spent a week of vacation in Jackson-
ville, Florida. Mr. Smitherman report-
ed they had an enjoyable trip and
that he had a good time fishing and
playing golf.

H. L. Britt, Right of Way Agent,
has returned to work after being on
vacation. While on vacation in the
mountains of North Carolina, Mr.
and Mrs. Britt were accompanied by
Mr. Britt's sister, Mrs. R. P. Daw-
son and her husband, of Wilmington,
Delaware. They also spent part of
their vacation at White Lake. They
all had a good time in the mountains
and at White Lake.

A. E. Dison, Right of Way Agent,
recently spent a week vacationing at
Kure Beach. He reported he had a
good time at the beach.

Claude R. Moore, Jr., Right of
Way Agent, and his family and some
friends spent three days at Myrtle
Beach, S. C. Claude reported they
had a good time at the beach, espe-
cially his children and his friend's
children on the "Swamp Fox." Claude
and his family also recently spent an
enjoyable week-end in Washington,
D. O, with his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. R. J. Peterson. Mr. Peter-
son is a Special Agent with the F.B.I.

Cutlar L. Ballance, Right of Way
Aide in the Right of Way Depart-
ment, who has been a patient at the
Southeastern General Hospital, Inc.,
in Lumberton, is on the road to re-
covery and has returned to work.

One of our Right of Way Aides in
the Right of Way Department,
"Mutt", who resigned effective Au-
gust 29, 1970, has accepted other em-
ployment and will be located in Lum-
berton.

William L. Johnson, Jr., Right of
Way Agent, and his family spent a
week recently at Carolina Beach. Bill
said that he and his family had a
wonderful time at the beach.

Max G. Loflin, Right of Way Aide,
recently visited relatives at High
Point and Lexington. They also spent
a few days vacationing at Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina.

Sim Stubbs, Robeson Maintenance
employee, has been out sick since
June.

RETIRING —

Howard Tart Herring, long time
employee of District One, retired
September 1, 1970, after more than
24 years of devoted service with the
Highway Commission. Mr. Herring

was first employed in November,
1945, as a Temporary Truck Driver.
He was later reclassified as a Ma-
chine Operator. In 1954, he was pro-
moted to Section Foreman and, in
1967, to Area Foreman, his position
at retirement. Mr. Herring is a life
long resident of Robeson County. We
wish him a long and happy retire-
ment.

Another long time employee of Dis-
trict One, James Arthur Sinclair, re-
tired July 1, 1970, after more than 41
years of devoted service. Mr. Sin-
clair's time was made entirely with
State and not County, as so many of
our people were with the County
prior to 1931, but all of his years were
with the Highway Commission. Mr.
Sinclair began as a Section Foreman
Helper. In 1958, he was classified as
a Machine Operator I, his classifica-
tion at the time of his retirement.

Dossie Martin, of the Road Oil De-
partment, retired July 1, 1970, after
17 years of devoted service. Dossie
was employed in 1953 as a Road Oil
Cook and in 1967 he became General
Utility Man.

DIVISION SIX

35 Year Award — Clyde R. Wil-
liams, Joseph W. Fowler and C. B.
Alford, Assistant Highway Personnel
Officer.

More Vacations, Division 7

Mr. W. G. Hylton, of Roanoke, Vir-
ginia, has been a guest of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Helen Pringle, for two
weeks this summer.

Leslie Green, sophomore, returned
to Appalachian State, and Don Allen,
senior, returned to Elon College, af-
ter serving in the District Two Office
during the summer months.

C. S. Walker and family vacationed
at Virginia Beach and Williamsburg
in Virginia, the week of August 3.

Those vacationing during the
month of July from Rockingham
County Maintenance were numerous:
The Oscar Wilsons, at Myrtle Beach;
Vernon Mayhews, in the N. C. moun-
tains; R. H. Robinsons, in Atlanta; the
J. A. Roaches, to Pennsylvania visit-
ing relatives; D. M. Hawkins, to Ca-
rolina Beach; the J. C. Martins, to
the Virginia mountains; and to White
Lake, the H. M. Collines, W. R.
Knights, A. T. Knights, and J. P.
Wilsons.

Vacations in August for some of
the Rockingham County people in-
cluded the P. E. Grubbs to Carolina
Beach; the J. E. Carrolls to the moun-
tains; the C. L. Soyars to the moun-
tains and the Floyd Sheltons to
White Lake.

CAROLYN GRAVES
Division Correspondent

Sympathy to Vernon Mayhew in
the death of his sister.

DIVISION SEVEN

35 Year Award — Left to right —
Eugene J. (Wimpy) Jones and John
W. Watkins, Assistant Division En-
gineer.

Robert Nelson Hunter, son of Scott
Hunter of the Construction Depart-
ment at Graham, and Mrs. Hunter,
recently married Vickie Phillips of
Haw River. Robert, attended Tech-
nical Institute of Alamance and is
now working with Crompton and
Knowles Corporation.

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Debra Morse, age 5, was killed in
an accident on August 6, 1970. Mr.
Morse is with the Graham Construc-
tion Department. She is survived by
three sisters, Charlene, Ramona and
Patricia; a brother, David, her par-
ents; and grandparents.

Keith Hunter, son of Scott Hunter
with the Construction Department at
Graham, and Mrs. Hunter, has com-
pleted his four years of service with
the Air Force and has returned to
Burlington with a lovely wife ac-
quired while stationed in Texas.

Dot Jackson, her husband and son,
Dan and Tim, recently spent a week
at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Deepest sympathy is extended to
R. T. Laws in the death of his mother,
and to J. E. Hunter in the death of
his sister.

And from Rockingham Equipment
the Paul Crouches went to Florida,
and the P. D. Crouches to Georgia.

George Gaulk and family visited
"Six Flags Over Georgia," the week-
end of July 17, and while there
George attended the Atlanta Braves
baseball game.

Joe Higgins and family are enjoy-
ing their camper, having recently
spent several days in the North Caro-
lina mountain area.

The Paul Mitchells spent some time
in August at the North Carolina
coast. It rained all the time while
they were there and Paul reports
that he did not even drown a worm.

Ronnie Rudd, who is 24 (and sin-
gle), enjoyed a trip to Cherokee the
week-end of July 31.

The Kent Thompsons spent four
days in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, recent-

ly.

Joe Higgins reports that he has
been on a camping trip with a Scout
troop in July.

The Wallace Booker family visited
in South Carolina for a few days in
July.

The Sidney Taylor family went to
Florida on their vacation, visiting
such places of interest as Cape Ken-
nedy, Cocoa Beach, Cypress Gardens
and Tampa.

Richard Smith and family spent a
week at Myrtle Beach recently.

Carl Wilkins and family spent their
vacation at Carolina Beach.

Division Seven Shop was the place
for the Association Meeting on Aug-
ust 7 when 200 attended and enjoyed
a delicious Bar-B-Q supper and an
interesting meeting. The President,
Dick Brewer, gave an interesting

DIVISION SEVEN RETIREMENT
Left to right — Front Row — Earl D. Berry; Floyd E. Tutterow. Rear Row
— Henry D. Fuqua; Arnold W. Jones; Thomas E. Sherron; and John W. Wat-
kins, Assistant Division Engineer.

talk on the operation of the Associa-
tion.

Helen Annette Thompson, age 9,
was awarded a rating of "very good"
at the National Federation of Music
Clubs, Junior Festivals. She was Dis-
trict Winner in the Elementary Class
of the National Piano Auditions.
Kent Thompson, Jr., Equipment De-
partment Office Manager in Greens-
boro is her father.

Like Father, Like Son: Clyde Can-
trell (above) stands on the dipper.
His father, R. C. Cantrell, is shown
standing on the dipper back in 1921
(below).

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

DIVISION EIGHT
40 Year Award — Left to right —
A. J. Hughes, Division Engineer; Ed-
ward C. Darden, District Engineer
and C. B. Alford, Assistant Highway
Personnel Officer.

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DIVISION EIGHT RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — Clarence N. Moore; James L. Riley; Jesse
L. Saunders; and Fred A. Talley. Rear Row— A. S. Tucker; Charles F. Wil-
liams; and C. B. Alford, Assistant Highway Personnel Officer.

Left to right — Front Row — Lonnie G. Dunn; Ira C. Flinchum; Lewis A.
Hilliard; James W. Kirk; and Ralph H. Lawrence. Second Row — A. J. Hughes,
Division Engineer; William G. Brooks; Drued H. Dorsett; Alton J. Douthit;
Glenn H. Duncan; and Cloyce B. Alford, Assistant Highway Personnel Officer.

Family Loses Son
In Division 8

Vacationing recently were Joe and
Betty Adams and Jobey and Spencer
to "Six Flags Over Georgia," touring
around in the Atlanta area, and tak-
ing in a ball game. Joe is with Con-
struction. Also, Jim Gardner and his
family vacationed at "Six Flags Over
Georgia." Fred Whitesell and his
family sunned at Long Beach.

NEW GRANDFATHERS — E. C.
Darden, District Engineer, Rocking-
ham, is the proud grandfather of a
grandson, "Gordy" born to Eddie and
Roma Darden. The Dardens visited
their son and family early in July in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. J. E. Lee,
Maintenance Supervisor in Scotland
County, is also a proud grandfather.
His new grandson lives in Atlanta,
Georgia. Someone commented you
should have seen the two grandfath-
ers comparing pictures, recently.

The Norris E. Fore family suffer-
ed the loss of a son who was killed in
Vietnam. Mr. Fore is with the Main-
tenance Department in Lee County.
The son of John Nail was killed in
an automobile accident. Mr. Nail is
Machine Operator IV with the Road
Oil Department.

Bill McLendon of the Nelson Con-
struction party announced the birth
of a baby boy. Mr. McLendon is a
Technician.

The Henry Holshousers are the
proud parents of a baby boy born on
August 11. The Holshousers have a
little girl already and she was equal-
ly proud with her parents at the birth
of a baby brother. Henry is Division
Traffic Engineer.

Mrs. Frederick James Conner is
the former Eve Maureen Williamson
of Aberdeen, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. B. T. Williamson. Her mother is
Division Correspondent for Division
Eight.

Among those retiring recently were
J. B. Mask, Truck Driver in Mont-
gomery County and Archie McKen-
zie who retired from the Mainte-
nance Department in Moore County.
Mr. Mask and Mr. McKenzie have
been faithful and loyal Highway em-
ployees and through the years have
aided many a tourist and traveler
along the road, as well as helping to
maintain the roads for all the travel-
ing public.

John Chappell, T. C. Tapp, and
W. H. Snead are among our sick in
District III.

Claudia Flynt, Clerk in the District
III office, has resigned to return to
school at Appalachian.

Kelly Lynn Rosser is shown in the
arms of her father, Bill, who was Staff
Engineer in the Division Eight Office
until August 1 when he went for a
tour of duty with the Airborne Re-
serves. He is now stationed in Ken-
tucky.

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DIVISION EIGHT

35- Year Award

William P. Currie

Kathy Martin, who has been in the
Division Office in Aberdeen has re-
turned to college. She is at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at Char-
lotte.

W. E. Dillon, Division Right of Way
Agent, who lived in Albemarle with
his wife and two daughters, Dawn
and Hope, have moved to Highland
Trails in Southern Pines.

Ab Carter is now telling us about
his new daughter-in-law. Tommie Car-
ter, with Sherwin-Williams Co., in
Greensboro, married the former Peg-
gy Timmerman of Hartsville, South
Carolina.

35- Year Award

Paul S. Johnson

Maintenance Foreman II, Carl
Nance and granddaughters Amanda
and Dania Trotter.

'DIVISION
NINE

Rumley Leaves Division 9

Don L. Cox, Review Appraiser, in
the Winston-Salem Appraisal Section
has been transferred to our Charlotte
Office to succeed James P. Rumley
as Area Appraiser since Rumley was
recently made State Appraiser when
M. E. White resigned. M. C. By rum,
Jr., of the Winston-Salem Appraisal
Section will succeed Cox as Review
Appraiser. Congratulations are in or-
der for Cox, Byrum and Rumley on
their recent promotions. We extend
our best wishes to White in his new
position in the State Department of
Administration.

Mr. Fred H. Cothern of the Ap-
praisal Section recently returned
from New Orleans where he took
AIREA Course II at Tulane Univer-
sity.

Floyd Williamson's mother, Mrs.
J. O. Williamson, died on August 15,
1970, at Chadbourn. Floyd is employ-
ed with the Construction Department
in Rowan County.

Mrs. Carolina B. Honeycutt's moth-
er, Mrs. James H. Barringer, died on

35-Year Award

Varn R. Michael

July 30, 1970, at Long Beach. Caro-
line is employed with the Mainte-
nance Department in Rowan County.

B. B. Boles, Maintenance Foreman
2 with Forsyth County Maintenance
Department retired July 1, 1970, due
to illness after having been employed
with the State Highway Commission
since July 1, 1946.

DOROTHY PHELPS
Division Correspondent

State Forces boasts the following
new personnel: Davie County Main-
tenance Department: F. C. Allen, J.
W. Carter, and W. F. Dehart, truck
drivers; and G. G. Hodges, Machine
Operator III; Forsyth County Main-
tenance: R. W. Hayes, H. G. Mes-
sick, and J. A. Davie, Jr., truck driv-
ers; Stokes County Maintenance: E.
Jessup, C. F. Southern, C. W. Shel-
ton, J. G. Simmons, and R. S. Tilley,

DIVISION NINE RETIREES

Left to right — Seated — Robert A. Biby. Front Row — Robert L. Chew,
Jr.; and Oather H. Wood. Back Row — Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Of-
ficer; Brilliant B. Boles; Roy A. Williams; Early W. Ashby; K. L. Horton, Jr.,
Division Engineer.

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truck drivers, and H. R. Rhodes, C.
O. Tuttle, H. C. Tilley, and W. S.
Duncan, laborers.

The Relocation Department has
"relocated" to its new quarters at
1703-B Link Road. E. M. Patterson,
Jr., Area Relocation Advisor, ex-
tends an invitation to visit on your
travels through Winston-Salem. Mr.
Ray Davis is also a welcome member
of our new office, with title of Area
Evaluator.

Ronald Abbott and his wife Marjo-
rie are mow permanently settled in
Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Abbott has
accepted employment with Bartoli
and Brady Enterprises.

May the best guys win! Congrat-
ulations to Ros Leftwich and Brooke
Crist on winning the Play for Fun
tennis champion play-off. Larry Cabe
and Jim Moore congratulated the
winners with smiles, and Harold Pitt-
man and Richard Smith intend to
practice all winter, indoors of course,
to challenge next season's fun league.

Richard P. Smith, Jr., has been
spending week-ends in the mountains
near Sparta. Wonder if his visits have
anything to do with the Rock Festival
reportedly planned for Sparta? If
he gets the starring role in the mo-
vie, he could retire from Highway
Work.

William Thomas Snow recently
suffered the loss of his father, Mr.
Earnest Snow, on August 13, 1970.
William Thomas Snow is a Sign
Painted in the Traffic Services De-
partment.

/ DIVISION
L TEN

Construction News, Bridge
Dedication In Division 10

D. A. Junghans, Highway Inspect-
or III, Monroe, has returned to work
after an eleven-week absence. Dan-
ny suffered a broken arm and dis-
located shoulder when he was thrown
from his horse. So far, Danny hasn't
been horse-back riding any more.

J. D. Kemp, Highway Inspector
III, Monroe, enjoyed a vacation at
"Six Flags Over Georgia" recently.
Jack enjoyed everything, even the hot
Georgia weather.

Mr. and Mrs Billy Joe Tucker are
the parents of their first baby, a son,
born on August 28, 1970. Mark Doug-
las weighed 6 lbs. 2 oz. Sherry is Typ-
ist II in the ofice of Resident Engi-
neer J. T. Coley in Monroe. Mr. and

DIVISION TEN RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — Roy J. Burr; Ephraim C. Shinn; James C.
Thomas; John N. Wall; and Dowd Williams. Rear Row — John H. Cranford;
Eugene D. Downs; Henry V. Edwards; Ellwyn G. Glenn; Harry L. Link and
Jake McCray.

Mrs. B. G. Jenkins, Jr., are the par-
ents of their first child, a daughter,
born September 8, 1970. Berry is Resi-
dent Engineer in the Charlotte area.

J. E. Howell, Machine Operator
IV, in Anson County is recuperating
from a recent illness.

R. G. Tice, Mechanic I, Anson
County and his wife visited friends
in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Omaha, Ne-
braska. They also toured the Woods-
men of the World twenty-eight story
building. Also, they visited relatives
in Wisconsin and Chicago. They were
gone two weeks and drove over 3,500
miles.

J. B. Austin, Machine Operator I
and J. Howard, Machine Operation
IV, Stanly County employees, went to
the coast fishing and reported they
did not bring too many fish back.

J. M. Byrd, Maintenance Foreman
IV, Stanly County, and his wife spent
a week with their daughter and grand-
children in Baltimore and went to see
the Baltimore baseball team play.

R. W. Lanier, Maintenance Fore-
man II, Stanly County, and his wife
spent a few days in the North Caro-
lina mountains.

C. R. Ridenhour, Road Mainte-
nance Supervisor, Stanly County, in-
vited Stanly County employees up to
his farm for a dove hunt.

T. L. Patterson, Assistant District
Engineer, is very happy to have his
son Tommy back home from a tour
of duty in Vietnam. He will be home
for approximately forty days before
he returns to his new duty station.

C. D. Biggers and B. G. Kirk, Jr.,
Stanly County, were transferred from

temporary employment to permanent
employment August 1, 1970.

J. M. Greene, Jr. recently was
transferred from temporary employ-
ment to permanent employment in
Cabarrus County August 15, 1970.

H. L. Boger is now employed in
Cabarrus County as Temporary
Truck Driver.

E. S. Moose resigned recently to re-
turn to school. Mr. Moose was em-
ployed in Cabarrus County as Tem-
porary Truck Driver.

C. M. Shaw, Machine Operator in
Mecklenburg County, and his wife
are parents of a son, Claude M. Shaw,
Jr., who was born August 14, 1970.
The new baby has two sisters, ages
4 and 10.

Congratulations to W. Harold Bras-
well, Maintenance Foreman in Union
County. He and his wife are new par-
ents of a son, Stephen Harold Bras-
well, who was born June 1, 1970. The
Braswell's also have daughter, Donna
Elaine, who has just celebrated her
17th birthday.

Mrs. J. C. Phillips, widow of form-
er Mecklenburg County Area Fore-
man, "Joe" Phillips, who had been
employed with the Highway Commis-
sion for 40 years, called to tell us the
good news about their younger son,
James Edwin Phillips. "Eddie" grad-
uated from the Citadel, Charleston,
South Carolina, on August 21, 1970,
and he is now enrolled at the South-
western Baptist Theological Semi-
nary, Fort Worth, Texas. His goal is
to serve as an Evangelist working
with young people, during the early
years of his ministry.

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DIVISION TEN
35- Year Awards

Ira L. Gaddy

Many of us know Joe's older son,
M. L. "Lee" Phillips, who was a 1960
graduate of the Citadel, who went
through the Engineer Training Pro-
gram with the Highway Commission,
and is presently employed in the Ra-
leigh Office.

Danny Junghans is back on duty
with the Construction Department in
Monroe, after being out for eleven
weeks as a result of being thrown by
a horse.

J. W. JONES
Division Correspondent

E. S. "Stan" Quickel, Civil Tech
Trainee, will move on to duty with
the Construction Department in Divi-
sion 9. Stan has been working with
the Maintenance Department in Dis-
trict 2 of Division 10 since May.

Grandchildren of C. B. Floyd, Ma-
chine Operator IV, Anson County.
Kristie (left) and Michelle's parents
are the Roger Taylors of Charlotte.

James W. Greene, Bridge Mainte-
nance Foreman, and his Crew, at the
site of new pre-stressed concrete
bridge over Richardson Creek on N.
C. 207 in Union County, which they
constructed. Union County Mainte-
nance Forces built the approaches.

The completion of this Project is
considered a milestone since this
bridge replaced a single lane 8 ton
limit wooden bridge, which had been
obsolete for 15 years. Ceremonies
were arranged by Public Relations
Officer, J. Arch Laney, and Commis-
sioner W. Frank McCray. Laney and
McCray. with other dignitaries, in-
cluding the Press, attended.

New Employees In Division 11

Sympathy is extended: to Clarence
A. Jones, Maintenance Supervisor
for Wilkes County, whose mother
died July 19; to J. W. Finner, Main-
tenance Operator IV in Alleghany
County, whose brother died August
27; to Gene Triplett, Traffic Services
employee, whose mother passed away
recently; and to John Crawford, Traf-
fic Services employee, whose brother,
Robert, died recently.

Get well wishes: to Donald Halsey
and T. C. Hamm, District 1 employ-
ees; J. Mack Reavis, Construction
employee; G. P. Ham and W. W. Mc-
Millan, District 3 employees; who are
out of work due to extended illnesses.

Brook Triplett, Wilkes County
Maintenance employee, is in our lo-
cal hospital in serious condition.
Brooks was injured on-the-job when
a tree fell on him. We all wish him a
speedy recovery.

We welcome the following new
members in the Eleventh Division:
Yvonne Cleary, Stenographer, recent-
ly came to work in the Division Of-
fice. Sharon T. Mounce, Clerk I in
the Elkin District Office, replaces

Douglas Melton who was recently
reclassified as an Engineering Aide
in the Maintenance Department. J.
L. Folger, Right of Way Agent, from
Dobson, is a recent addition to our
local Right of Way Department. Fred
M. Langston, Right of Way Agent,
and his wife, Mary Helen, recently
transferred to North Wilkesboro from
Sylva. He will work with our local
Right of Way Department.

Cheryl Renee Francis, daughter of
Landscape employee Larry Francis
and wife, Wanda, was born August
18 and weighed 7 pounds and 10
ounces. It is their first child.

Allen Henson, Inspector I in the
Boone Construction Office, and his
brother Vance of Wilmington, recent-
ly spent a week visiting relatives in
Tacoma, Washington.

Kermit R. Conner and wife, Gladys,
spent several days vacationing at At-
lantic Beach. They had an enjoyable
time and collected many sea shells.
Kermit is one of our local Right of
Way Agents.

DOLORES ROGERS
Division Correspondent

Here is Douglas Steven Gwyn, age
23, son of Resident Engineer and
Mrs. T. E. Gwyn, Mounty Airy. Steve
is a recent graduate of the U. S. Air
Force Academy in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, with a B.S. degree in com-
puter science. Commissioned a 2nd
Lieutenant in the regular Air Force,
he is presently stationed at Moody
Field in Valdosta, Georgia, training
as a pilot.

SO

DIVISION ELEVEN
35 Year Awards — Left to right —
Howard E. Koontz and Ralph G.
White.

George and Frankie Wolf vaca-
tioned for two weeks in Mobile, Ala-
bama, visiting George's family and at-
tending the wedding of his sister,
Marilyn. George is employed by the
Location Department and Frankie
is a Stenographer in the Right of
Way Department.

Ruby Kilby and daughter, Martha,
flew to Washington, D. C, to visit
with Ruby's brother. It was the first
flight for both of them and Ruby, a
Stenographer in the Right of Way
Department, says she is ready to go
again.

DIVISION ELEVEN RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — J. E. Doughton, Division Engineer; Kyle E.
Edwards; Claude H. Moxley; and Bert Sturgill. Back Row — Lawrence E. Trip-
lett; Spencer O. Yates; Coy Sheets; James H. Councill; William C. Hall; and
Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Officer.

Personnel Changes
In Division 12

New employee in the Construction
Department is Fortee Gamble, In-
spector I. Fortee was with the Penn-
sylvania Highway Commission prior
to moving here.

DIVISION TWELVE RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Offi-
cer J. D. Sheppard; Dewey S. Jones; and K. E. Mauney, Division Engineer.
Back Row — Bill D. Gilbert; Robert L. Guy; and Winston G. Myers.

DIVISION TWELVE

35 Year Awards —
Alvin B. Morrison
Noggle.

■ Left to right —
and Charles E.

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DIVISION 12

R. T. Queen, Civil Technology
Trainee, will further his education in
Marietta, Georgia.

G. G. Bess, confined with a broken
leg for three months, has his cast off
now. In September he resumed his
duties as Party Chief.

Leon Price, Assistant Resident En-
gineer, will be moving to Asheville in
the 13th Division.

L. D. Gaither, District Engineer at
Statesville, has had major surgery.
He has not yet returned to work.

Congratulations to: Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Hight on the birth of a baby
girl, Susan Melva, on July 28; Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Fulbright on the
birth of a son, Timothy Lynn, on
August 25. Mr. Hight is Maintenance
Operator in Alexander County and
Mr. Fulbright is Maintenance Oper-
ator 4 in Catawba County.

JEAN CLINE
Division Correspondent

The black and tan coon hound of
Max D. Jones, District 1 Maintenance
employee, participated in the State
Line Coon Club contest on August
15 at Green River Fish Camp in Polk
County and the dog won the first
three places in the Water Race and
Tree Contest. Here is Max and the
dog with the trophies.

~ Hi

Macky McCoy is the 9-month-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Mc-
Coy. Valerie, his mother, is a clerk
in the Road Oil Department.

F. L. Harris, Maintenance Operator
2 in Catawba County, recently vaca-
tioned at Myrtle Beach, South Caro-
lina, and it is reported that he don-
ned swim trunks for the first time in
25 years.

We are glad to report that H. T.
Teague, Maintenance Operator 4 in
Catawba County, is improving after
he had a heart attack and that he is
home from the hospital.

Mrs. Jerry Young Beatty, prior to
her marriage on August 22 was Joy
Lynn Cline, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. K. E. Cline of Maiden. Her
father is Road Maintenance Supervi-
sor in District 2.

The young couple are continuing
their education — Joy Lynn at Ca-
tawba Valley Technical Institute
where she will finish a two-year Gen-
eral Secretarial Course this year, and
Jerry at Gardner- Webb College where
he is a Senior majoring in Computer
Science.

Dana Michele Winstead is the
daughter of Joseph and Sarah Win-
stead and she just celebrated her 3rd
birthday.

G. R. Finger, Catawba County em-
ployee, is a patient in Charlotte Me-
morial Hospital.

Mrs. Rosemarie Snavely, Clerk II
in the Statesville District Office, and
her son, Kent, recently visited rela-
tives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Campbell
and daughters, Carla and Lisa, re-
cently vacationed at Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. Charles is an Engi-
neering Technician II at Statesville.

R. R. Nichols, Resident Engineer,
is proud of his twin sons. Ronnie re-
cently graduated from Lenoir Rhyne
College, Hickory, with a degree in
mathematics. Sammy is a sophomore
at Western Carolina University in
Cullowhee.

Dr. Craig Spangler who graduated
on June 5 from the Southern College
of Optometry, Memphis, Tennessee,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Spangler. Mr. Spangler is in the
Sign Department in Division Twelve.

Previously Craig attended Shelby
High School, Gardner-Webb College,
and Wake Forest University.

While at the Southern College of
Optometry, he was a member of Phi
Theta Upsilon fraternity, American
Optometric Student Association,
President of the North Carolina Club.
He also made the Dean's list.

Dr. Spangler plans to enter the
Army with the rank of Captain.

Sympathy is extended to Mr.
Wayne Everidge of the Sign Depart-
ment in the recent death of his
mother.

Ann Eskridge and Donald Allen,
Jr., have had a rewarding summer
taking a 15-day concert tour with
the Good News Singers of America.
This group of 137 young people came
from 7 counties in North Carolina.

Their travel from New York includ-
ed Brussels, Belgium; London, Eng-
land; Helsinki, Finland; Leningrad
and Moscow, Russia, where they
spent one week. Then to Paris,
Frances; Lisbon, Portugal.

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DIVISION THIRTEEN RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — F. L. Hutchinson, Division Engineer; George
E. Biddix; Edgar F. Cannon; and Price W. Crisson. Back Row — B. S. Connelly,
retired District Engineer; Herman D. Biggerstaff; John C. Weaver; Millard
J. Huntley; James N. Stevens; and Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel Offi-
cer.

Ann is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Eskridge, Shelby. Bill is
Clerk III with the Equipment De-
partment and Don is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Donald Allen, Shelby,
whose father is Highway Equipment
Office Manager in the Equipment De-
partment, Shelby.

C. L. Walker, Landscape Specialist
II, has recently returned from a va-
cation in Florida.

K. A. Hunt of the Landscape De-
partment has returned to work after
a long absence.

W. E. Hartbarger, a Landscape De-
partment employee, was recently mar-
ried.

Jack Landon Creasy, age 6 months,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack B.
Creasy of Union Grove. Father is a
Technician I in Jerry Ruppe's of-
fice.

F. L. Hutchinson, Division Engi-
neer, and Novile C. Hawkins, High-
way Commissioner, attended the Con-
struction Chapter Meeting held at the
Monte Vista Hotel in Black Moun-
tain on Friday night, June 19. Sixty
people enjoyed a good time. After a
delicious buffet supper, everyone was
spellbound by the magician act per-
formed by Bruce Fowler, husband of
Mrs. Hazel Fowler, Secretary to Resi-
dent Engineer, S. T. Usry.

Vacations Popular
In "Resort" Division

It's vacation time again in the
Weaverville Construction office: E. H.
Paschall, Resident Engineer, and his
wife visited in Canada and Maine;
M. W. Revis and his wife spent a
week-end in Charleston, South Caro-
lina; M. L. Shivers and family visited
Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.
C, and the graves of President John
F. Kennedy and Senator Robert
Kennedy.

Al/C Gary Wilson stationed at
McCoy Air Base, Orlando, Florida, is
spending a 7-day leave with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Wilson at
Marion. Mr. Wilson is Mechanic
Foreman in District 1, Marion.

Regina Thomas is at home in
Spruce Pine after a stay of seven
weeks in Memorial Mission Hospi-
tal, Asheville. She is slowly recover-
ing from an attack of rheumatoid
arthritis. Her father is H. M. Tho-
mas, Mechanic II at the Spruce Pine
Sub-Shop.

Mr. Clifford O. Swann and family
spent their vacation visiting Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Swann is
Mechanic II at the Biltmore Shop.

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Fox, Mars Hill,
announce the birth of a baby daugh-
ter, Michelle Annette, August 5, 1970,
at Memorial Mission Hospital, Ashe-
ville. Mr. Fox is Mechanic II at the
Sub-Shop at Mars Hill.

Mrs. Judy Randall, Secretary to K.
W. Rabb, Resident Engineer, spent
the first week in August at Daytona

Beach, Florida, and had a very en-
joyable time.

Kay Wynette Clark was married
Saturday, August 29, 1970, to Mr.
Jack Willard Knighten, Jr., in a cere-
mony in the Beverly Hill Baptist
Church. Kay is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Dallas Clark. Mr. Clark
is Division Right of Way Agent in
Asheville.

Susan Stines Mcintosh was mar-
ried June 28, 1970, in a ceremony in
the Elk Shoal Church in Burnsville,
to Mr. James Niles Ball. Susan is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Mcintosh. Mr. Mcintosh is a Right
of Way Agent in the Asheville Of-
fice.

Robert Christopher spent two
weeks in Florida this summer; how-
ever, we understand it was not much
fun. Mr. Christopher was in the Na-
tional Guard Unit there. It was too

Newly elected officers of the Con-
struction Chapter of Unit 13 are
shown here (left to right): Jack Jol-
ley, Chairman; Esta Lee King, Vice
Chairman; and Danny Turner, Sec-
retary-Treasurer.

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- - - - hot. Dick Dillingham spent a
week in August in Miami Beach.
John Bland spent a week in July
with his family visiting all our local
places of interest: Land of Oz, Ghost
Town, etc. A second week was spent
in the eastern part of the state.

Mrs. Norton, mother of Louise
Norton, recently had an operation.
Mrs. Norton's brother, of Jackson,
South Carolina, recently died.

Jack Arledge and family spent a
couple of days in Washington, D. C,
seeing the sights, then veutured on to
Virginia Beach for a few days in the
sun. Charles Bumgarner also paid a
visit to Washington, D. C. He visited
the Smithsonian Institute where one
of the new sights to see is a "Moon
Rock." Mr. Bumgardner's brother-in-
law from Clearwater, Florida, died
recently.

DIVISION THIRTEEN

35 Year Awards — Left to right —
George E. Biddix and John E.
Thompson.

Jim Marcum, who works in the of-
fice of Dan Martin, Resident Engi-
neer, recently lost his father.

Our deepest sympathy goes out to
the family of Walter Ray Parham of
the Bridge Maintenance Department.
Mr. Parham's son, David Ray, was
killed in a car accident recently.

Mr. T. S. Ray, who has been work-
ing in the office of Dan Martin, re-
turned to the University of South
Carolina on September 11, 1970.

Caryn Leah Krickbaum is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Krick-
baum. She is now five months old.
Mr. Krickbaum is the Assistant Resi-
dent Engineer in Dan Martin's office.

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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Buckner are the

new parents of a lovely baby girl born
on August 26, 1970, weighing 7 lb. 10
oz. Her name is Jody Marie. Joe is
Assistant Resident Engineer in the
office of S. T. Usry.

E. C. Orr, Area Landscape Super-
visor, received a North Carolina
Board of Landscape Architects' Cer-
tificate of Registration. This entitles
Clyde to use the title "Landscape Ar-
chitect" in North Carolina.

Over in Buncombe, Madison and
Yancey Counties — Trey Tingle has
returned to Clemson after having
worked another summer with the Dis-
trict II Office. Joey Allen is back at
work after an illness, but Phil Lay-
ton is still out sick. Sympathy to
Fred Phoenix on the recent death of
his mother, Mrs. Harvey Phoenix. At
a recent Association meeting in Mar-
ion, Doug Waters was elected Chair-
man of the Division 13 Unit; Jack
Jolley, Vice-chairman, and Jake
Haynes, Secretary-Treasurer.

We extend our deepest sympathy to
the family of Ulus Bishop on the
death of his mother. Mr. Bishop is
employed with District II Mainte-
nance Department at Craggy.

Mr. and Mrs. K. C. ^Vheeler are
proud parents of a bouncing baby boy
born August 31, 1970. Mr. Wheeler is
employed with the Traffic Services
Department.

Martha Lynn Haynes, granddaugh-
ter of "Jake" Haynes, Assistant Dis-
trict Engineer in the Marion Office,
is one year old. Needless to say,
"Jake" is a proud grandfather.

Fishing, here, is Jim Baldwin,
Maintenance Foreman for Madison
County, who recently enjoyed a vaca-
tion in Cherokee.

Mrs. Margaret Stewart, Secretary
for Road Oil and Traffic Services De-
partments, had a wonderful time on
vacation to the Outer Banks. While
there, she went to see the Lost
Colony in Manteo and did a lot of
other sightseeing. She also went to
Wilmington before returning home.

We were all pleased to see Roger
Lance again. Roger was in Division
13 on the training program for a long
time. He is now working at the Ra-
leigh Office.

MELBA ALEXANDER
Division Correspondent

Earl Payne, Resident Engineer, had
a lot to say about activity at the
Morganton Construction Office.

New employees there are: Jack
Autrey, Burnsville; Tommy Butler,
Bostic; Randy Hogan, David Ward,
Marion; John Causby and J. B. Pow-
ell, Morganton.

Vacationing recently were Ronnie
Fleming and Larry Taylor who en-
joyed a trip to the beach. Scottie
Greer is no longer a free man, since
he has given his girl a diamond. Ho-
race Tipton's mother, Mrs. Bessie
Tipton, passed away on August 24,
1970. Garry Shook, a co-operative
trainee, worked with our office for a
month this summer. He has returned
to school at N. C. State University.
DIVISION OFFICE

E. H. McEntire, Assistant Division
Engineer, took a much needed vaca-
tion with his family several weeks
ago. They went to the beach at Cher-
ry Grove and had a wonderful time
even if it did rain most of the week.

Janet King, daughter of Mrs. Esta
Lee King, Secretary to F. L. Hut-
chison, Division Engineer, was in the
hospital with pneumonia the first of
August. She is now at home and doing
fine. In fact, she is now enjoying her
first year in school.

Frances Gray, Secretary to E. H.
McEntire, Division Engineer, has
really been vacationing this past
month. She spent the first week in
August in Florida where she stayed
several days at Daytona Beach. She

Mrs. James N. Ball

also spent some time at Cypress Gar-
dens, Marine Land and Silver
Springs. She came back to work with
the most beautiful tan and worked for
a few weeks, then she took of to Gat-
linburg for a few days. She is back
at work again, but I don't know for
how long.

K. W. Driver, our Staff Engineer,
is resigning in September to accept
employment with another State Agen-
cy— the Asheville-Buncombe Techni-
cal Institute, Asheville, facility of the
State Board of Education, Depart-
ment of Community Colleges. He will
be employed as an instructor and
chairman of the Civil Engineering
Technology Department, which of-
fers a two-year program. Ken began
teaching September 11. Mr. Driver is
originally from Tarboro, and attend-
ed East Carolina University and N.
C. State University, graduating from
the latter in May, 1966.

He joined the N. C. State Highway
Commission in June of 1966 as an
Engineer-in-training for two years.
After the training program, he was
transferred to the Construction De-
partment in Sylva, Fourteenth Divi-
sion. He stayed there for one year
and then was transferred to the Con-
struction Department in Henderson-
ville. In March of 1970, Mr. Driver
came to Morganton as Staff Engi-
neer.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Knighten, Jr.

Division 14 Employee
Collects Edsels

Edsel collection and restoration is
now becoming a hobby for some 1300
Edsel Automobile Club members
throughout the United States.

Willard Jolley of Columbus, has
been collecting Edsels since Septem-
ber 1968 and has a total of 25 cars.
He puts his spare time into restoring
them. He has eight of the 1960 models
in his collection. In a period of ten
days 2,846 of the 1960 models were
made, then the Edsel was dropped.

The first national meeting of the
Edsel Club was held at the Indiana-
polis Motor Speedway August 7, 8, and
9, 1969, with members from all the
states represented. At this meeting
Willard was elected vice-president of
the Edsel Owners Club of America
and he has been active in the club
since that time.

In July, 1970, a three-day meeting
was held in Findlay, Ohio. Willard at-
tended this meeting.

The last meeting of the season was
held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, at
the Mountain View Hotel on Septem-
beb 11, 12 and 13, 1970. Members
from 20 to 30 states attended. Wil-
lard was in charge of arranging and
holding this meeting.

Willard has been employed by the
North Carolina Highway Commission
for 22 years and at present is Patch
Foreman with the Maintenance De-
partment. His wife, Agnes, shares his
enthusiasm for Edsels.

ALLYCE CUNNINGHAM
Division Correspondent

Linda Long, Steno in the Division
Office, vacationed at Crescent Beach,
South Carolina. Enroute to the beach
she visited Columbia, Charleston and
Fort Sumter.

The Right of Way Department is
sorry to lose Fred Langston. Fred and
his wife, Mary, have moved to North
Wilkesboro.

New to the Right of Way Depart-
ment is Robert Phillips, from Greens-
boro.

Jim and Judy Estes recently be-
came parents of a baby girl, Kristi,
who weighed about as much as her
mother, a very petite person. Jim is
with the Right of Way Department.

MY DAD

(Ralph N. Barger, Jr., composed
this poem in memory of his father,
Ralph N. Barger, who died two years
ago. Young Ralph is 9 years old. Ed.)

W. F. Ray, Division Engineer, and
Roberta took a vacation this year
minus the children. They thought it
was going to be a second honeymoon
but a card from them said 'had to
buy two new tires, broke windshield,
got arrested, and took all the skin off
belly in surf." After a card like that
we didn't dare ask if they had a good
time.

Sue Ensley, Road Oil Department,
has resigned and has been replaced
by Barbara Leming. Barbara was De-
puty Clerk, Jackson County for 3
years and she is the wife of Trooper
W. G. Leming of State Highway Pa-
trol. They have a daughter, Kathy,
who is a student at Western Carolina
University.

Frank Bryson, Sign Department
Supervisor, retired recently after 33
years with the State Highway Com-
mission. Frank has been replaced by
D. F. Bishop.

Ran into E. L. Curtis, former Dis-
trict Engineer, the other day in the
grocery store. He was visiting his son.
He looks good, feels good and is enjoy-
ing retirement.

A group of Henderson County
Maintenance employees got together
recently for a fish fry and, believe it
or not, all the fish were caught by
W. R. Maxwell and Fain Brooks,
Maintenance Foremen. The fish were
caught while on a trip to their Pon-
derosa on the inland waterway just
off A1A Highway.

I thought I'd never smile again
When my daddy went away
If I live to be a hundred
I shall never forget that day.
It was a beautiful summer morning
When my dad was taken away.
We had no warning of his going,
I guess we thought he'd always
stay.

I wondered why he was taken
away,

And I could not understand,
For I could not look into the future
And know what would be God's
plan.

Now I'm very happy, even though

he's gone away,
And I have hopes to meet him
In heaven some sweet day.

— Ralph N. Barger, Jr.

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DIVISION FOURTEEN RETIREES

Left to right — Front Row — W. F. Ray, Division Engineer; Garnet D.
Henson; Willie H. Walker; and Floyd H. Moore. Back Row — Baxter B. Ayers;
L. T. Gillespie; Daniel H. Watson; and Troy B. Dodson, Highway Personnel
Officer.

FERRY DIVISION

Ferry Manager Goes West

Hugh Salter, Ferry Operations
Manager, recently returned from
Asheville, where he attended a Man-
agement Development Seminar.

Your correspondent spent a delight-
ful vacation at the beach the first
week in August. The only thing wrong
was the week was much too short.

Dorcas Lewis and Louise Godfrey,
Clerks at Southport-Ft. Fisher Ferry
Operations, enjoyed a vacation recent-
ly. Mrs. Lewis visited her son, Neil,
in Jacksonville, Florida, and Mrs.
Godfrey visited relative in Richmond,
Virginia.

J. E. Harding, Engineer aboard the
"Southport-Ft. Fisher," and his wife
made a trip to Kentucky in August
to attend the celebration of the gold-
en wedding anniversary of Mr. Hard-
ing's parents.

During the moving of the much-
talked-about nerve gas from Sunny
Point, which is located near the
Southport Ferry Terminal, one of our
passengers declared that he smelled
gas. The ferry captain assured him
that he had nothing to worry about
since it was low tide, he was smelling
the mud along the banks of the river.

Alton Gard, Ferryman at Hatteras
Inlet Ferry Operations is confined to
the U. S. Public Health Hospital in
Norfolk, Virginia.

R. W. Austin, Ferry Pilot at Hat-
teras, is confined to his home due to
illness.

B. A. Bowen, who is confined to
his home in Bath, recently has re-
turned home from the hospital in
Wilson.

ROBBIE DANIELS
Division Correspondent

Charles T. Bell, who is retiring is
flanked by Troy Dodson, left, and
Hugh Salter.

Clifton Lewis of Harkers Island,
who has been quite ill in the More-
head City hospital, is Ferry Pilot at
the Bogue Sound Ferry Operations.

W. A. Moore's father is seriously
ill. Mr. Moore is Engineer at Bogue
Sound Ferry Operation.

Tom Jenrette, Clerk at Southport
Terminal, has had quite a long stay
in the Southport hospital with blood
poisoning caused by sticking a splin-
ter in his leg.

SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO:
Warren Creef, Administrative As-
sistant at Hatteras Inlet Operation
and Willis Creef, Manns Harbor
Shipyard, upon the death of their
mother, Mrs. Pearl Creef of East
Lake.

William E. Salter upon the loss of
his wife, Marie A. Salter. Mr. Salter
is employed as Ferry Pilot at the Bo-
gue Sound Ferry Operations.

Homer Lewis upon the loss of his
brother, David Lewis, Jr., of Harkers
Island. Mr. Lewis is employed as
Ferry Pilot at Bogue Sound.

Leslie Hooper and Floyd Hooper of
the Hatteras Inlet Ferry Operations
upon the death of their sister, Mrs.
Myrtle Barnette.

LETTERS WE LIKED

Dear Mr. Pruitt:

... If I ever need assistance again
while driving, I only hope I find
someone as accommodating as you
were . . .

With kind regard.

Don Phillips

First Union National Bank
Gastonia

(L. I. Pruitt is Rest Area Attend-
ant on 1-85 at Charlotte. — Ed.)

Dear Editor:

Your article in the May-June issue
on the Coastal Plains Commission
and the highway system which it
proposes was not only well written,
but also provided information on
something which could have a tre-
medous impact on Eastern North
Carolina.

Keep up the good work.

Sincerely, etc.

Hugh A. Ragsdale

Richlands, N. C.
(Mr. Ragsdale is Highway Com-
missioner for five counties in Eastern
North Carolina, Carteret, Jones, New
Hanover, Onslow, and Pender. The
article on the Coastal Plains was
written by Billy Rose, Assistant High-
way Administrator. — Ed.)

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From

The Chairman

With the ending of the summer season, there is still much work
that can be done in highway construction before winter sets in and
stops us until spring comes again.

But with the fall season upon us, it is good to look back and view
in retrospect possibly the busiest summer the North Carolina State
Highway Commission has ever had. All sections of the state have felt
the impact of this massive highway program that really got into high
gear in 1970.

This, of course, was made possible by two things.

The first was the effort which was made by staff members of
the Commission to see that the work was scheduled and brought to
the point where contracts could be awarded to low bidders.

The second was the action of the 1969 General Assembly in
voting additional revenue, in the form of increased user taxes, to
finance the state's highway program. Had we not had the extra
money that was made available by the Legislature, our program
would have been seriously curtailed.

North Carolina was not unique in this respect. Seventeen states
during the past two years have enacted increased motor fuel taxes
and in two-thirds of the remaining states, legislatures enacted some
provisions to provide increased highway funds, ranging from increases
in license fees to bond issues.

Officials in these other states know, just as we know in North
Carolina, that we must plan now, not for today's needs, but for to-
morrow's road system.

North Carolina's road system is an integral part of its economic
well being, and the state cannot afford to fail to meet the needs of
the future as far as highways are concerned.

This past summer has seen us make some progress.

But we have a long way to go and can't relax our efforts to
keep this momentum alive.

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

Breakfasting For Better Roads

More than two hundred persons gathered for breakfast at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh during National
Highway Week to hear Senator B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) condemn efforts to divert federal highway funds to
purposes other than road construction.

In the insert, lower right, are Senator Jordan; Thompson Greenwood, Chairman of the N. C. Highway Users
Conference; State Highway Chairman Lauch Faircloth; and Governor Bob Scott.

ROADWAYS

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

BOX 25201

RALEIGH, N. C. 27611

U. S. POSTAGE

Raleigh, N. C.
Permit No. 287

BULK RATE

PAID

Address Correction Requested

A MAGAZINE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

From

The Chairman

This issue of ROADWAYS Magazine will be the last one of
1970, and it is proper now to look back at what has been accomplish-
ed in our highway program this year. On balance, it has been a good
year, an outstanding year in road building.

The Highway Commission has been able to obligate a re-
cord amount in contracts during the year. The previous high
total of $138 million was surpassed in the November letting
and for the year the total money awarded on contracts will be
over $170 million.

Some 56 miles of interstate highways have been contract-
ed this year.

We have paved over 1,200 miles of secondary roads and
stabilized or otherwise improved almost 500 miles more.

All this adds up to progress, any way one looks at it.

There have, of course, been some of the usual disappoint-
ments.

Some contracts have not been finished on time, due to one rea-
son or another, delaying the opening of roads which the public needs.

But what the past year has really disclosed, with the record
contracts and the amount of work that has been done, is the dedi-
cation of the employees of the Highway Commission who have been
responsible for these things.

If any one department had shirked its duty or had not given
its best efforts, then a record such as the one you accomplished dur-
ing 1970 would have been impossible.

The state is in your debt for this type of achievement.

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

ROADWAYS MAGAZINE

VOLUME XVI

NUMBER 6
November - December, 1970

PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSION BY THE PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT.

ROBERT W. SCOTT GOVERNOR

D. MoLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

CHAIRMAN

Commissioners
J. F. (Jeff) Allen W. Frank McCray

Robert G. Barr
Clifton L. Benson
W. G. Clark, HI
Charles R. Dawkins
Roy D. Dedmon
Thomas W. Ellis, Jr.
Carroll H. Gillam
Novile C. Hawkins
W. B. (Bill) Joyce
Jack B. Kirksey

E. Gwyn McNeil
Charles K. Maxwell
Joe W. Nowell, Jr.
David R. Parnell
W. T. Phillips
Hugh A. Ragsdale
James M. (Jim) Smith
Lynwood Smith
W. Arthur Tripp
E. J. Whttmire

W. S. Williams, Jr.

George Willoughby ... State Highway Administrator

John Davis Chief Engineer

Jack Murdock Secondary Roads Officer

W. P. Garriss Controller

Public Information Officer J. Arch LANEY

Editor Edith J. Sedtert

Associate Editor Jewel Adcock

Photographer Gordon Deans

Contributors GffiSON Prather,

Janee Williams, John Van Hecke

DIVISION EDITORS

Divis:
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis
Divis

on One Linda Mulder

on Two Hazel Baker

on Three Irene Hewett

on Four Margaret Barefoot

on Five Peggy Bright

on Six Ray Autry

on Seven Carolyn Graves

on Eight _ Virginia Williamson

on Nine Dorothy Phelps

on Ten J. W. Jones

on Eleven Dolores Rogers

on Twelve Jean Cline

on Thirteen Melba Alexander

on Fourteen Allyce Cunningham

Ferry Operations _ Robbie Daniels

ROADWAYS. Box 25201, Raleigh, N. C 27611. Manuscripts and photographs are welcome.
PRINTED BY CAPITAL PRINTING CO.. RALEIGH. N. C.

By ARCH LANEY

'Tis the season to be jolly.

Tis the season to dedicate highways, bridges, new
highway division office buildings, and new ferries.

During the first year of the Scott Administration, the
Cape Fear Memorial Bridge at Wilmington, Garrison
Boulevard in Gastonia, the Onslow Bridge connecting the
northern end of Topsail Beach with the mainland, and a
couple of ferries comprised the projects dedicated by SHC.

Then, 'Caramba. Ribbons were going under the brute
force of the scissors at a record pace: The Welcome Cen-
ter on the spectacular Pigeon River section of Interstate
40, the West Asheville-to-Luther section of Interstate 40,
the naming of North Wilkesboro Bypass in honor of
former Highway Commissioner Watson Brame, and head-
quarters buildings, in Division 5 (Merle Adkins) and
Division 10 (Claude McBryde), slated for ribbon-whack-
ing in early December.

Also slated to be officially dedicated is the 27-mile
stretch of 1-40 from N. C. 801 westerly to Statesville, the
section of 1-85 from China Grove in Rowan County to
the Mecklenburg County Line, the latest stretch of the
Outer Loop in Laurinburg, and U. S. 74 from Monroe to
Wadesboro.

After a look at the line-up of completion dates for
1971, I predict that there will be no rest for the scissor-
snippers in the new year.

All this, of course, is as it should be. One ride on an
interstate or urban loop with the price tag showing of
over a million dollars a mile in most instances still stag-
gers the imagination of a lot of North Carolinians who
should know better. Taxpaying citizens, i.e. the voters,
can be shocked into realism only if they are confronted
face to face with the awesome costs of our modern high-
ways. And dedication ceremonies are one of the best
tools to channel that realism home.

In 1971, there will be some long-awaited projects
opened. Look for the "missing link," 1-85 between Hen-
derson and Durham, the last section of 1-85 in the Char-
lotte area from the county into Charlotte, more of U. S.
74, the Emerald Isle Bridge and many others.

The Highway Commission stays home in Raleigh for
their monthly confabs through next April. Then it's off
to Wrightsville Beach for their May meeting to wind up
the calendar year of "out-of-towners."

By North Carolina law, the Highway Commission
must meet in other parts of the state three times per
(fiscal) year. One must be east of Raleigh, one between
Raleigh and Hickory, and one either in Hickory or west
of same. When the law came into being, Hickory became
an island like Raleigh, except it was ruled out complete-
ly. The law read: ". . . between Raleigh and Hickory
and one west of Hickory." When Hickory requested a
meeting in 1968 it became apparent that this was a "no-
man's land," a buffer-zone, "the 38th Parallel," so pro-
visions were quickly made to read, ". . . in Hickory or
west of Hickory . . ." "The best-laid plans . . ."

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The year 1970 has been a banner
ar in road construction in N. C.

This year, construction contracts totaling more than
$170 million were let, topping the previous high year of
$138 million.

And if current revenues arc continued, the year 1971
may well break the record which the current year has
set in road building.

Probably the most satisfying accomplishment, as far
as the motoring public was concerned, was the opening
of the 26-mile stretch of Interstate 40 between Mocks-
ville and Winston-Salem in early December. This elimi-
nated one of the most irritating detours in the state on
a route that gets exceedingly heavy travel.

Another stretch of 1-40, from West Asheville to Lu-
ther, was also opened to traffic in October and was dedi-
cated in ceremonies featuring Governor Robert W. Scott
on October 24.

Work toward the completion of the route of Inter-
state 85 in the state also progressed, as bypasses of Hen-
derson and Oxford were scheduled for completion dur-
ing 1970 and work on constructing the section between
Greensboro and Lexington was begun. The 1-85 Freeway
from Mecklenburg to Concord was opened in November.

Also now under construction is the portion of Inter-
state 95 from Lumberton to the South Carolina line, pro-
bably the worst section of the Interstate anywhere in the
state. In all, 60 miles of Interstate contracts were let to
contract in 1970.

Work on building multi-lane highways from the two
state ports, at Wilmington and Morehead City, west into
the populous Piedmont went steadily forward during 1970.

Several sections of US 74, which runs from Wilming-
ton to Charlotte and beyond, are under contract and
moving toward completion in Robeson and Columbus
counties. A section in Brunswick County, to run from
Wilmington to Leland, should go to contract in 1971.

The work of four-laning US 70, which runs from
Morehead City to Durham, where it meets Interstate 85,
will most likely get nearer completion with the start of
the bypass around Goldsboro, scheduled for 1971.

The 24-mile stretch between Dover and New Bern,
which the Highway Commission has said will be four-
laned, is moving steadily toward the award of contract.

It is impossible to detail here all of the construction
that is going on or being planned, but there is work and
planning going on in every section of the state.

Plans have been announced to construct a new four
lane section of US 17 from Elizabeth City north to the
Virginia state line, where the Virginia Highway Depart-
ment will meet the project and provide a four-lane high-
way all the way to Norfolk.

Also in the east, US 264 and US 64 are being upgrad-
ed and there are plans to four-lane some sections of NC
24, notably between Camp LeJeune and Swansboro.

North-south routes which are being improved are
US 421 and US 220.

US 64 and US 19 in the western section of the state
are also being improved by projects which are now under
contract.

During the last fiscal year, from July 1, 1969, to
June 30, 1970, the present Highway Commission let to
contract projects to improve 216 miles of primary high-
ways and moved to improve 1,632 miles of secondary
roads.

Almost $12 million was returned to North Carolina
cities and towns this year under provisions of the Powell
Bill, which earmarks one-half of one cent of the gaso-
line tax for this purpose.

— Gibson Prather

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Highway Commission's "Pop" Holmes
Honored by N. C. National Guard

A North Carolina National Guardsman from Zebulon,
who is the State Highway Commission's Road Oil Super-
visor for Division 4, recently became the first enlisted
Guardsman in the State to receive the Army Commenda-
tion Medal for his National Guard service.

Command Sergeant Major Sidney F. "Pop" Holmes
was awarded the Army Commendation Medal by Lt. Col.
John B. Fleming of Raleigh, commanding officer of the
5th Battalion, 113th Artillery, 30th Infantry Division
(Mechanized). The ceremony was conducted during a spe-
cial battalion formation to honor the Sergeant Major at
his last Guard drill before retirement the end of Septem-
ber.

The citation accompanying the medal read:

"By direction of the Secretary of the Army, the
Army Commendation Medal is awarded to

COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR SIDNEY F.
HOLMES, 242-58-5790, FIELD ARTILLERY for
meritorious service while assigned as Battalion Ser-
geant Major, 5th Battalion (HJ) 113th Artillery,
North Carolina Army National Guard, Louisburg,
North Carolina, from 9 January 1964 to 30 Septem-
ber 1970. During this period, his efforts to improve
the quality of the noncommissioned officers in the
battalion by the establishment of a uniform promo-
tion system, his efforts in the officer procurement
program of the Battalion, and his outstanding ef-
forts to improve the officer enlisted relations, contri-
buted greatly to the present high state of training
and readiness of this battalion. His efforts to es-
tablish an NCO promotion system and his service
on the promotion board resulted in outstanding im-
provement in the quality of the NCO's throughout
the battalion. He gave unselfishly of his own time
to guide and assist the young NCO's of the batta-
lion. His greatest contribution was in the area of
officer-enlisted man relations. Without his counsel
and assistance in this area the battalion would have
been unable to attain the present high state of train-
ing and readiness. The manner in which Sergeant
Major Holmes performed his duties reflects great
credit upon himself and is in keeping with the finest
traditions of the military service."

Sgt. Maj. Holmes began his military career more than
forty years ago when he enlisted in the North Carolina
National Guard with Battery B, 113th Field Artillery
Battalion in Louisburg. In September, 1940, he was call-
ed to active duty with the National Guard for service
during World War II. He participated in the Normandy,
Northern France and Rhineland campaigns for which he
was awarded the EAME Campaign Medal with three
Bronze Service Stars. He also was awarded the Bronze
Star Medal, the Purple Heart and the American De-
fense Service Medal. He was released from active duty
in June, 1945.

He rejoined the North Carolina Army National Guard
in May, 1949, with Battery A, 113th Field Artillery Bat-
talion in Zebulon, and he has served continuously with
the Guard since that time.

Since joining the Guard in 1929, Sgt. Maj. Holmes
has served continuously with the North Carolina Na-
tional Guard 113th Artillery or 113th Field Artillery,
even during World War II when the 30th Infantry Divi-
sion hit the beaches at Normandy following D-Day.

Last year the Department of the Army selected Sgt.

Command Sergeant Major and Mrs. Sidney F. Holmes
of Zebulon proudly display the gifts presented to them
during the ceremony held to award Command Sergeant
Major Holmes the Army Commendation Medal.

(Photo by CSM J. L. McGee, NCARNGl

Maj. Holmes as one of 12 enlisted Guardsmen in North
Carolina to receive the title of Command Sergeant Major,
which accorded him the honor of serving in the highest
enlisted position of the 5th Battalion, 113th Artillery with
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery in Louisburg.
Other units of the battalion are Battery A in Zebulon and
Battery B in Youngsville. The 5th Battalion is equipped
with the Honest John Rocket.

Stripes signifying the rank of Sergeant Major are
ripped from the arms of Sergeant Major Sidney Holmes.
The Governor looks on. This is a ceremony in which
Holmes, Road Oil Supervisor for Division 4, recently re-
tired from the National Guard, received the rank of an
officer. He is now, by brevet, Lieutenant Holmes. He is
the first North Carolina enlisted man to receive an offi-
cer's rank in this manner since the reorganization of the
Guard after World War II.

Shown ripping away the signs of the old rank are
two retired National Guard Officers Lt. Gen. Hardesty
and Lt. Gen. Griffin. Both Griffin and Hardesty had
recognized the leadership ability of Lt. Holmes early in
his career.

Holmes, in his career with the National Guard, was
known as a man who looked after his men. This kind
of leadership comes inevitably from a deep concern for
one's fellow man, a trait exemplified by Holmes in his
military service and in his career with the State Highway
Commission.

Sgt. Maj. Holmes has been employed by the State
Highway Commission since April, 1936, and has served
the Commission for a record 36 years. He is married to
the former Lelia Carroll of Halifax County and they have
two sons: Sidney F., Jr., of Raleigh and Wayne Timothy
of Lexington Park, Maryland. Sgt. Maj. Holmes is a
member of the Zebulon American Legion.

Holmes Receives

♦

Officer's Commission
By BREVET

Governor Scott and Mrs. Sidney Holmes pin silver
bars, symbols of the new rank onto the shoulders of Lt.
Holmes.

5

Equipment Engineer Layton Gunter Speaks

At Ferry Dedication

By LORRAINE T. CARTER

Christening ceremonies for Ferries "Lindsay Warren"
and "Conrad Wirth" were held at 11:00 A.M. on Octo-
ber 10, 1970, at New Bern Shipyards, Inc., New Bern.
These vessels are two of six sister ferries being built by
New Bern Shipyards as designed by Coast Engineering
Company.

The ships were christened by lovely young ladies. Mrs.
Dudley M. Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay
Warren, for the Ferry "Lindsay Warren," and by Mrs.
Ann Gunter Kilpatrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Gunter, for the "Conrad Wirth." These ferries bear the
names of two men outstanding as pioneers of progress
in eastern North Carolina and as public servants of na-
tional prominence.

Harry W. Keeling, Jr., Naval Architect with Coast En-
gineering Company and designer of the vessels, served as
master of ceremonies for the occasion. Mr. V. O. (Bobby)
Andrews, President of New Bern Shipyards welcomed
guests. He also expressed appreciation to personnel of
the shipyard for their contribution in the work that had
been accomplished.

The invocation was given by The Reverend Billy Gene
Outland, Pastor, Pleasant Acres Free Will Baptist Church.

Speaking for the Highway Commission, L. H. Gunter,
State Equipment Engineer, commented on development
of the "Warren" and "Wirth", which have since been
placed in service at Hatteras Inlet as a part of the High-

way marine fleet. Capable of transporting 28 vehicles,
these ferries are 122 feet in length and 40 feet wide, with
a speed of 11 knots. They were constructed at a cost of
approximately $250,000.00 each. In his comments Mr.
Gunter outlined some of the early history of ferry serv-
ices as well as the current status of operations.

In 1932, Mr. J. B. (Toby) Tillett, citizen of the coastal
area, operated a toll ferry across Oregon Inlet, which was
later purchased by the Highway Commission and operated
as a free ferry service. This service was eventually in-
creased to six ferries and in 1963 a bridge was built, eli-
minating the need for ferry service at this point.

Captain T. A. Baum, another citizen of the coastal area,
established an operation of two ferries across Croatan
Sound between Manns Harbor and Roanoke Island in
the early 1940's. In 1947, after Captain Baum's death,
the Highway Commission purchased these ferries and
later enlarged the operation. In 1956 a bridge replaced
these ferries.

The Highway Commission in 1947 established a ferry
service across the Alligator River from Sandy Point to
East Lake, beginning with one ferry and later increased
to three. In 1962 a bridge replaced these ferries, and is
now a segment of U. S. 64.

In addition to three small inland operations — crossing
the Meherrin River in Hertford and Northampton Coun-
ty; Cashie River in Bertie County; and the Cape Fear
in Eladen County; the Highway Commission currently
maintains six other ferry operating points along the North
Carolina coast.

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1. in 1962 the Commission established a ferry opera-
tion on Currituck Sound between the mainland at Curri-
tuck Courthouse to Knotts Island. In addition to other
traffic, this operation transports students from Knotts
Island to the mainland to attend school.

2. The Hatteras Inlet operation consists of a fleet of
up to six ferries on an as-need basis, operating between
Hatteras and Ocracoke. The "Lindsay Warren" and "Con-
rad Wirth" are now a part of this fleet. Service at this
point originally consisted of one ferry capable of trans-
porting four vehicles, owned and operated by Frazier
Peele, and purchased by the Commission in 1957. Expan-
sion of service at this location is tangible evidence the
Highway marine fleet is on the move.

3. The operation from Ocracoke to Cedar Island was
first established from Ocracoke to the mainland at Atlan-
tic by the Taylor Brothers of Atlantic, North Carolina.
Their one ferry, operating on a toll basis, was purchased
by the Highway Commission in 1961. There are now two
ferries operating on a toll basis from Ocracoke to Cedar
Island.

4. In 1962 ferry services were established across Bo-
gue Sound near Emerald Isle. Three ferries are now in
operation at this location, but will be replaced within the
next several months by a bridge now under construction.

5. The present ferry operation across Cape Fear River
from Fort Fisher to Southport began in 1964 and involves
one ferry. This ferry and the operation from Ocracoke to
Cedar Island are the two operations on which a toll is
charged.

6. An operation across Pamlico River from Bayview
to Lee's Creek (near Texas Gulf Sulphur), was started in
the spring of 1966, and consists of one ferry.

Mrs. Dudley M. Jones does the honors for the ferry
named for her father.

Ann Gunter Kilpatrick christens the "Conrad Wirth".

These facilities, along with the three small inland
operations, comprise the nine existing points of ferry
operations. The Highway Commission operates nineteen
ferries, a part of a total fleet of thirty-two units of ma-
rine equipment in the Coastal inland waters. The other
units of equipment are tugs, barges, dredges, etc.

A few months ago, Governor Scott announced a new
proposed ferry operation across the Neuse River in the
general area of Minnesott Beach to Cherry Point. The
Commission is now in the process of developing plans
for this vitally needed operation.

Studies and long-range plans are constantly being made
by the Highway Commission in an effort to meet the
demands of ever-increasing traffic and rapid growth in
the State of North Carolina. Ferry services in our State
mean many things to many people — a "floating school
bus" for students, transportation for citizens in the coas-
tal areas, or a pleasant experience for honeymooners
from Maine. The volume of tourists flocking to North
Carolina shores increases annually, resulting in corres-
ponding demand for additional services. Propelled by a
dedicated team of employees of the State Highway Com-
mission, ferry services in North Carolina will continue to
grow to meet future needs. The Highway marine fleet is
definitely on the move.

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MY AS YOU C0

■

Highway Commission
State Fair Booth

It all started with E. J. Whitmire, that booster of beef
and baseball who is also our State Highway Commissioner
for five mountain counties Macon, Jackson, Transylvania,
Henderson, and Polk, who thought the Highway Commis-
sion folk ought to tell it like it is concerning the work
of the Commission. Arch Laney, salaried and skilled, as
Highway Commission Public Information Officer, agreed.
He assembled an inter-departmental team to formulate a
plan.

They did it and it was good.

"Let's feature the roads and bridges our people have,"
said Henry Clegg, Assistant to Bill Wilson in Roadway
Design.

At ease, men. In the background is the Commission
Fair Booth.

Left to right: Keith Wilkerson, Dale Graham, Harvey
Pollard, James M. Adams, James Blackman, Mitchell
Williams, Albert H. Broughton, and Lloyd Young.

"Let's show them where the gas tax goes," said Frank
Daino. And he produced a gas pump with revenue com-
ing our for highways.

Jimmy Litchford and Harold Rhudy said let's pay
homage to our urban efforts here in traffic engineering
and they put up a stop light with the electronics showing.

Let us tell the highway story, said Arch Laney. "You
tell the highway story" said Henry Clegg. So Laney did.
He taped an 8-minute slide show explaining the steps re-
quired to build a road. From needs study to planning
board to inspection, in word and picture.

Send up some maps, we're going to the people. And
Virgil Taylor, Location Department, sent up some maps.
And Planning and Research sent down some maps. Their
new traffic count map for 1969 had just come out.

But what about the money? Yes, what about the money.
Administrator Willoughby lent an administrative ear.
"This is important. Let's ask for an appropriation." The
State Highway Commission concurred.

But what about the builders?

The Highway Commission was lucky. In house the
Commission has a crew of workmen who know their craft.
It's no secret who they are: Albert Broughton, Harvey
Pollard, Edmond Johnson, A. M. Lee, Jr., and Jim
Adams who is foreman of the carpentry shop, and where
they are, they work with Lloyd Young at the Equipment
Depot at Raleigh. A convenient location for our State Fair
project, being just across the road from the Fair site . . .
It took them about a month and the job was done. When
half the fair was in disarray, shortly before opening time,
our Highway Booth was ready to go.

Vital Factor

Gordon Deans, photographer, maker of excellent trans-
parencies (and funny photos) an essential factor in the
success of the Fair Booth presentation, took his camera
in hand, looked to the heavens for a little sunshine in-
stead of his usual rainy luck, and ventured forth to col-
lect the pictures needed. Of course Pigeon River and the
special four-lane work spectacularly settled into the
mountain. Interstate 83 and Interstate 95, coming into
the state from Virginia-side. The much-travelled Greens-
boro expressway, improved, which used to be know as the
state's Death Valley.

The End

Henry Clegg, trying to coordinate things, was playing it
cool. Would the mail come or wouldn't it? What would we
do for slides if the mail doesn't bring them? Why don't
these people forget their jobs and get on with the Fair
Booth?

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The Day Before

Putting In Time

The last map on the wall, the floor swept, in the High-
way Commission's corner of the 10-day State Fair, here
comes the Governor.

It's a great success. The Governor can hardly tear him-
self away. He had a lot of questions for the professional
personnel on hand. After all, compared to our highway
specialists, the Governor is just a layman.

The Fair Begins and So Do the Questions

When will the project be started? When will you finish
54?How can I go back to my county without going through
that congested city? Who do I talk to? We need a road
. . . Where can I get a stop sign for my bedroom?

Not only did Henry Clegg and Frank Daino and Arch
Laney "serve time" in the Fair Booth, but also David L.
Squires, Bill Garrett, John Davis, W. A. Wilson, W. F.
Caddell, John Van Hecke, Clarence Kistler, C. R. Edger-
ton, Gibson Prather, Preston Allen, Billy Rose, Frank
Pace, W. A. Ward, Richard Smith, C. C. Sessoms, Jr., Lan-
dis Temple, Kelly Barger, Bill Marley, Jim Greenhill, J.
L. Norris, Jim Prince, Howard Critcher, Nate Benson, Ho-
race Jernigan, H. K. Eades, Orval Riffe, C. O. White, Car-
ter Dodson, Jim Wilder, Ted Waters, H. C. Rhudy, J. O.
Litchford, and Woodie Warrick, Jr.

Some fifty people manned the booth round the clock,
10:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. in shifts of three.

We invited them all to sign the register. To comment,
to come in, to learn, to question. And to take a free
Highway map.

How many came? 4,000 signed our guest book. We
gave away 15,000 maps. But we don't quite know how
many came to see our booth.

Our own Highway folk came. "Hello, Racine Van Du-
sen, from Winston-Salem." "Hello, Buck Webb, Jr."

The Last Day

The decision was made to dismantle early. The as-
sumption was that on Saturday afternoon there wouldn't
be much interest. Well, the assumption was wrong. The
people kept coming. We were just too popular.

Finally the last clean sweep. Back into the boxes. Down
with the maps on the walls. We told it like it was and is,
and will continue to be with or without a little mass tran-
sit thrown in. Highway people talking about highway
work.

"Hello Mr. Willoughby, hello Mrs. Willoughby."
"There is Richard. And there is Richard's girl friend."
"There is Ann. And there is "Ann's boy friend."

That's Not All

"I guess we ought to write them all a letter." Dear
Public, We really enjoyed being out there and talking to
you about what we do at the Highway Commission. But
we really wish we could tell you better what we do. We
wish you could come with us to see our people solving
the problems where to put roads, how to put them there,
making the many small professional decisions that get
the most for the least money. We wish you could see the
extensive testing going on to insure a greater measure of
public safety. We wish we could show you the skill of
our machine operators, of our surveyors; the team work
in our Right of Way Department as they move to ac-
complish their complex tasks.

WHEN YOU COME TO THE STATE FAIR NEXT
YEAR, COME SEE US. WE WILL HAVE MORE TO
TELL.

—Edith J. Seifert

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Roadways
Cheers

D. McLAUCHLIN FAIRCLOTH

Chairman of the State Highway Commission
and

C. WATSON BRAME

Distinguished Citizen of North Wilkesboro

At the regular meeting on November 5, 1970, the State
Highway Commission named an expressway for Watson
Brame, Commissioner from 1961-65, and a ferry for Chair-
man Lauch Faircloth.

In a letter to the Chairman from the Mayor of the town
of North Wilkesboro it was requested that "the Com-
mission . . . honor C. Watson Brame by naming the new
421 By-Pass around the Wilkesboros the Watson Brame
Expressway. "We feel that this honor is due Mr. Brame
since he has done so much for all of us living in Wilkes
County and in the various townships."

The letter continued "As you know, when Mr. Brame
was on the State Highway Commission, he was most in-
strumental in having the By-Pass constructed as well as
many other road improvements in our area. . ."

"Mr. Brame has also been . . . very much responsible
for the building of our new hospital several years ago
. . . He is very much interested in education and has
had a very important part in strengthening our schools.

"Mr. Brame is a friend to everyone regardless of race,
color, or creed and is always ready to listen to everyone
and help with their problems.

"We feel that it would be most appropriate at this
time to honor Mr. Brame rather than to wait until he
is no longer with us."

In honoring the Chairman, the State Highway Commis-
sion acted impromptu. The Commission was requested to
reassign the Ferry named "Southport-Fort Fisher" to the
run between Ocracoke and Cedar Island by L. H. Gun-
ter, Equipment Engineer. Since the ferry was named for
its former run, Mr. Gunter suggested that it be renamed
for its new run, "Sea Level." It was Commissioner
James Smith who suggested that instead this Ferry
be named for the Chairman. The motion to name it the
"Faircloth" was unanimously passed by the Commission.

MERLE ADKINS
Division Engineer in the Fifth Division

Many State Highway Commission Officials put Dur-
ham on their lists on Wednesday, December 2 to dedi-
cate the new $300,000 Fifth Division Headquarters Build-
ing on Stadium Drive. Chairman of the Highway Com-
mission Lauch Faircloth was on hand to make dedicatory
remarks. George Willoughby, Jr., Highway Administrator,
attended and so did the Mayor of Durham, Wense Gra-
barek.

The master of ceremonies for the occasion, Fifth Divi-
sion Engineer Merle T. Adkins of Durham, was the man
of the hour, however. Serving as division engineer for the
past ten years, Adkins had long dreamed of a new, mo-
dern facility for the large staff now required for con-
struction and maintenance provided to those counties
which make up the Fifth Division, Wake County (com-
prising District 1), Durham, Granville, and Person Coun-
ties (comprising District 2), and Franklin, Vance and
Warren Counties (comprising District 3).

Born in New York City while his father was playing
professional baseball in order to work his way through
Johns Hopkins Medical School, Merle Adkins came to
Durham in 1911 when his father established a medical
practice there. He has been a resident of Durham ever
since.

Despite the fact that he was the son of a doctor — who
passed away in 1934; the brother of a doctor — who like
his father is serving on the staff of Watts Hospital in
Durham; and would be the father-in-law of a doctor on
the staff of the Duke Medical Center in Durham; Merle
Adkins chose his own way and attended the old Engi-
neering School at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.

In 1925 North Carolina was in the midst of a massive
road building program to construct what was then con-
sidered to be one of the best highway systems in the na-
tion. Young Adkins joined the Highway Commission as
a rodman on a survey unit and then spent the next ten
years working on road projects across the State.

In 1935 Adkins was assigned to the Durham area as a
right-of-way agent. Subsequently he rose to district engi-
neer, assistant division engineer and, in the summer of
1961, finally became division engineer.

In 1935 when Adkins came along, those roads which
had been a model for the nation a few years before had
become dangerous winding death traps. The Durham area
was growing; the trucking industry was putting more and
bigger trucks on the roads; and people were buying and
using automobiles more than ever.

In the Durham area there were roads like the old Dur-
ham-Chapel Hill suicide route, the old Oxford Road with
narrow bridges almost at right angles to the highway, the
still-existing old U. S. 70 to Raleigh, and N. C. 54 which
was a beautiful, scenic route but dangerous to drive from
Chapel Hill to Raleigh.

Gradually, during Adkins' early years working on area
roads, came the first two lanes of the new Raleigh Road,
and later it was four-laned. U. S. 70 between Durham and
Hillsborough was built to the new standards. The new
Chapel Hill Boulevard was finished in the early Fifties.

But as the Durham-Raleigh area grew and, with the
beginning of the Research Triangle Park, the traffic pres-
sures led to the abandonment of those roads for Inter-
states and for controlled access expressways. Adkins has
participated in these changes. He supervised the construc-
tion of Interstate 85 to the Virginia line, except for the
so-called missing link which will be completed next year.
He has seen the beginning of the Durham Expressway
and hopes that it will be finished soon. N. C. 54 from the
Research Triangle Park to Raleigh will be completed next
year, an entirely new road in a new location; and N. C.
54 from the Park to Chapel Hill is on the drawing boards
and it may connect with the extension of Interstate 40
from Interstate 85 to Raleigh.

(Continued on page 11)

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COMMENTS

On a Research Paper Entitled
"Driver Injury in Automobile Accidents
Involving Certain Model Cars"
By B. J. Campbell, Director, University of North Carolina
Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill, N. C.

By R. J. DODGE

For many years, it has been suspected that certain
types of motor vehicles are more "unsafe" than others.
You will notice that the operative word in this sentence
is "types" as opposed to "makes". However, it is most
difficult to fully separate "types" from "makes" because
certain manufacturers are sometimes noted for their pro-
duction of a particular type of motor vehicle.

Dr. Campbell's recent research paper shows that there
is, in fact, a relationship between vehicle type, make,
and model of motor vehicle and the severity of injuries
sustained by their drivers when collisions occur.

You will note again that the operative phrase in the
foregoing sentence is ". . . when collisions occur." The
paper does not indicate that one kind, type, model, etc.,
of vehicle is more likely to be involved in an accident than
another but that when an accident does occur, the drivers
of certain types of vehicles are more likely to sustain
serious injury or death than the drivers of other types.

It is necessary to keep this distinction in mind when
studying the paper.

Dr. Campbell has given a value of "100" to vehicles
when the driver sustains only the average kind and se-
verity of injuries in a collision. A value above 100 indi-
cates a higher-than-average rate and those less than 100
indicate a less-than-average rate.

To select just a few examples from the listing of
some 49 American and 6 foreign makes in the 1960
through 1968 models, the Volkswagen buses rated higher
than 200 and had the worst record of the lot. At the other
end of the spectrum were the '66 Olds, '67 Buick, and '68
standard and big Pontiacs all with a 50 rating.

Around the average, or 100, mark were the '64
Chevrolet-88, the '60 Ford-84, the '60-65 Falcons-124, the
'62-67 Chevy 11-125, and the '62 Ford Fairlane with 131.

The study indicated that in terms of body style
among the Chevrolets, Fords, and Plymouths, drivers of
station wagons and hardtops fared better than others —
" . . . were injured significantly less frequently."

The study is unique in that it is one of very few stu-
dies which have actually mentioned "brand" names in di-
rect relation to degrees of safety.

R. J. DODGE, known as Bob, is Accident Investi-
gation and Surveillance Engineer in the Traffic Engi-
neering Department, State Highway Commission.

The study, as such, does not seem to be of direct
use in Traffic Engineering except that it might be used
as an indicator of probable injury severity where only
a vehicle make, type, and year model is known when
•iie vehicle is involved in an accident.

The information contained in the study, however,
could be of vital interest to people who are buying new
or used cars and who are Teally interested in their own
personal driving safety. It would be interesting to know
whether possession of such information can actually sway
the volume of sales of new and used autos.

Obituaries

Roger Sidney Franklin, District Engineer for Burke,
McDowell, Mitchell and Rutherford Counties in Division
Thirteen, died on November 14, 1970, following a brief
illness. His service with the Highway Commission ex-
tended to over 20 years. He is survived by his wife, two
daughters and three sons; and by two grandchildren and
his parents.

DIVISION TWO

Henry Leland Briley, Mechanic II, retired, Division
Shop.

Leland Leroy Linton, Mechanic Foreman I, Washing-
ton District Shop.

Sylvester Virgil Catlette, Mechanic II, Division Shop.

Johnnie Leonard Clements, Mechanic Foreman II,
Kinston District Shop.

William Andrew Parker, Jr., Mechanic II, Trenton
Sub-Shop.

DIVISION NINE

Robert Anderson Bobby, a Motor Grader Operator
with the Maintenance Department who had retired re-
cently after thirty-three years of service with the Highway
Commission passed away on August 21, 1970, having
been ill for several weeks.

Robert L. Little died October 21, 1970, due to a stroke
which occurred while he was at work. He was Grounds
Maintenance Foreman in the Landscape Department.

E. J. Lewis, Jr. died September 22, 1970, of a heart
attack. He was Area Foreman with the Rowan Mainte-
nance Department.

DIVISION ELEVEN

Ray Wilson Brown, retired Watauga County Mainte-
nance employee, died recently. We extend our deepest
sympathies to his family.

ROADWAYS CHEERS

(Continued from page 10)

Adkins has also seen tremendous improvement in Coun-
ty or Secondary Roads. The sprawling seven-county Fifth
District now has more than half of its old dirt roads pav-
ed with many more scheduled to be paved.

Merle Adkins, himself, has served more than forty-five
years on the State Highway Commission, and he has
served over thirty-five of them in the Durham area. The
Commission honors men by naming roads, bridges, and
ferries after them. But not buildings. If it did, you can be
sure that the new Fifth District Division Headquarters
would be called the Merle T. Adkins Building. No one
would deserve the honor more,

— John Van Hecke

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N. C. H. C. E. A.

North Carolina Highway and Correction Employees Association

A SECRETARY'S-EYE VIEW OF CONVENTION

THURSDAY

After many hours, weeks, of preparation, arrive at
Durham — all fingers and toes crossed, hoping those last-
minute details have been taken care of — even if they
have, other things will pop up — oh, well, all in the
game — some early arrivals on Wednesday — check the
hotel thoroughly on all details of all meeting spaces, re-
ceptions, luncheons, buffet, banquet, dance, visitors' quar-
ters, hospitality spaces — check the Convention Chairman
Kirk Duncan (bless him!) on the "leg work" done in
Durham prior, the ladies' tour and the Ladies' Entertain-
ment Committee — then, up and at 'em on Thursday
morning at 6:30 A.M. — registration desk all set to go at
9:15 A.M. — guests and delegates begin to arrive —
greeted by "Doug and Harry", the two handsome regis-
trars, back-stopped by Carl Wilkins — and the show is
on the road — arriving registrants greeted by live TV
camera showing them as they register, courtesy of Amer-
ican Defender LIFE, a first for us — the greetings, one
to another, of people who had not met in a long time —
the lobby humming with activity — Resolutions Commit-
tee into session at 10:00 A.M. and to continue into the
night with 153 Resolutions facing them, with Jim Medlin's
capable hands to guide them as Chairman — the Fi-
nance Committee at 11:00 A.M. to review audits and
budgets. The Board of Directors at 3:00 P.M. to consider
all budget matters, merger, proposed changes in ByLaws

— the Ladies' Reception at 3:30 for all those lovely ladies

— the buffet dinner with everyone having a wonderful
time, and no formality — the President's Reception that
evening — and so to bed sometime during the night.

FRIDAY

Then, Friday early A.M. — complete registration —
business session begins at 9:15 A.M. and all 210 official
voting delegates answering to roll call — greetings from
City of Durham — reports — business — actions on pro-
posed ByLaws changes — report of Merger Committee —
address by SHC Chairman D. M. Faircloth — presenta-
tion of Annual Safety Award to Division 12 by Safety
Engineer Fleming — business pertaining to consideration
of resolutions, and did we have them; — adjourn at 5:00
P.M.

Annual banquet — guests including Officials of both
Departments, Commissioners, Members of the General
Assembly, Congressman Nick Galifianakis — Charlie Mc-
Cullers principal speaker — beautiful affair — on to the
cabaret dance to the music of Russ Olson — and on into
the night.

SATURDAY

Saturday morning, and believe it or not all delegates
and others in place at 9:00 A.M. — completion of business

— address by the Honorable Lee Bounds, Commissioner,
State Department of Correction — report of Time and
Place Committee for 1972 Convention, accepted to meet
in Greensboro (Winston-Salem in 1971) — election and

installation of officers — Memorial Service by Past Pres-
ident "Mike" Abernathy — adjournment sine-die at noon.

RECAP

It was the biggest! It was the best! IT WAS THE
SILVER ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION of this Asso-
ciation — 210 official voting delegates registered — plus
the ladies, committees, guests, and more than 500 in at-
tendance all told — the tour for the ladies on Friday well-
accepted, the ladies' luncheon well-attended, while the
men were at work — constructive, entertaining, informa-
tive — those are the key words for this convention, which
saw the report of membership surpassing all records. Now,
the Secretary goes to work to "clean up" the aftermath
— all in the game.

RESOLUTIONS

Many of them considered — some adopted, some re-
jected, all in the opinion of the majority voting for the
best interests of the entire membership as they saw it —
SALARIES

A most important matter to work with the 1971
General Assembly; authority granted to empower Offi-
cers and Legislative Committee to negotiate a fair, just,
and reasonable increase; this is better than specifying a
specific amount, and we will work for all we can possibly
get.

RETIREMENT

Amendments to the Act to provide earlier retirement
without penalty; annual statements of contributions; ex-
tend provisions of the Death Benefit to 1 year; plans to
improve the disability retirement features.

INSURANCE

Continue work in the General Assembly for the State
to assume full premiums on hospital and medical; sepa-
ration of term life from medical, this dependent upon the
report of the Special Study Commission and we are to
work in General Assembly on this.

LEAVE

Provide an employee the privilege to allow use of an-
nual leave in lieu of sick leave when extended illness is
involved causing employees to lose annual leave.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
LONGEVITY
To be paid for 10 years service with 3 years at maxi-
mum.

PERSONNEL STUDIES

To work for those for clerical, stenos, etc. to be up-
graded; also upgrade Technicians and Inspectors; many
resolutions presented in behalf of Corrections not adopted
due to fact this had been recently taken care of in gen-
eral revisions in the Department — these are just a few
of the resolutions, those which we feel will affect the
majority of our people — just a sample of the work set
out for us in the 1971 General Assembly and elsewhere.
All resolutions were reported to the membership in Of-
ficial Minutes of the Convention sent out recently.

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Section Of 1-40 Dedicated

Governor Bob Scott cuts the ribbon for the dedication of a section of Interstate 40 from West Asheville to Luther on
Saturday, October 24, 1970, at 10 a.m. Commissioner Kirksey, Senator Jordan, Congressman Taylor, Ex- Commissioner
Buchanan, and Division Engineer Hutchison assist Governor Scott at the Dedication.

GOVERNOR'S STUDY COMMISSION
ON EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Your Executive Secretary was appointed by the Gov-
ernor as a member of this Commission — Committee has
had several meetings, and will report findings prior to the
General Assembly. This Commission is studying present
laws, possible necessary changes, and whether or not
Statutes must be changed to conform with present stan-
dards as to bargaining rights, official recognition of the
two Employees Associations; rights of organized labor; the
difficulties facing Municipalities and Counties, as well as
the State, in dealing with labor and Unions — we will be
in constant touch with you in this situation.

NEW OFFICERS ELECTED AT CONVENTION

You are all familiar with your President, Lonnie F.
Dail, Captain, Department of Corrections at Clinton, a
long-time career employee and faithful Association mem-
ber and worker — with Ralph Bradshaw, your First
Vice President, District Engineer at Elkin and one of our
foremost and original Association members and workers
— your new Second Vice President is Robert A. Merritt,
Resident Engineer of Kinston; a veteran of 24 years

service with the Commission, a veteran of U. S. Army Air
Force, who has held virtually all local positions in the
Association and on its Committees; a Methodist and ac-
tive member of his Church; married and the father of a
son "Bobby", age 19, and a daughter, "Kathryn", age 13
— he will be one of our best leaders — ■ Mrs. Violet Mar-
tin, your new General Secretary, a career employee with
the Department of Correction; a Sunday School teacher,
graduate of Mary Washington College of the University
of Virginia; a very active worker in the Association and
Secretary of Unit 17 since its inception; married and the
mother of two daughters, Cheryl who is teaching at Con-
way, and Francine who is a freshman in high school —
she is a most enthusiastic member and worker, and will
be an asset to our Association in her position as General
Secretary.

CONVENTION PICTURES are reprinted in this is-
sue of ROADWAYS — thanks to the Official Photo-
grapher, Gordon Deans, and to Arch Laney, Public Re-
lations Officer. They are real good folks, and as Andy
Griffith would say "we 'preciate it"!!

OTIS BANKS, Secretary

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The State Highway Commission was well represented at
the two annual fall highway official confabs, S.A.S.H.O.
in October and A.A.S.H.O. in November.

Seventeen delegates attended the October 4-7 meeting
in Mobile headed by Administrator George Willoughby.
Ted Morowski, Federal Highway Administration Chief
for North Carolina, also attended.

Willoughby again headed a 17-man delegation to the
56th annual meeting of the American Association of State
Highway Officials (A.A.S.H.O.) at the famous Shamrock
Hotel in Houston, Texas, November 9-13.

The major thrust of both meetings this year centered
around the need to retain the highway trust fund for the
purpose for which it was intended, that of building high-
ways.

At Houston, a panel of Senators and Congressmen dis-
cussed the Federal Aid Highway Program, present and
future. Senator B. Everett Jordan of North Carolina, a
member of the Senate Public Works Committee addressed
the subject with a strong conviction that to divert high-
way trust fund monies to other forms of transportation,
would not only seriously hamper road construction in the
nation, but would tend to open a "Pandora's Box" that
would have other federal agencies and programs constant-
ly trying to dip into the Trust Fund for non-highway uses.

Congressman George H. Fallon of Maryland, a lame-
duck member of Congress since his defeat in the Novem-
ber 3 elections, was duly honored by the entire conven-
tion as "The Father of the Interstate Program."

Other members of Congress on the panel included the
following: Senator Mike Gravel, of Alaska; Senator J.
Caleb Boggs, of Delaware; Representative John A. Blat-
nik, of Minnesota; John C. Kluczynski, representative
from Illinois; Texas' representative James C. Wright;
and Fred Schwengel of Iowa.

In Mobile, Representative Jack Edwards from Alabama
and A. E. Johnson, who is executive director of A.A.S.
H O. headquartered in Washington, D. C, were featured
speakers.

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After opening sessions on the first day of the meetings,
committee sessions for various aspects of the highway pro-
grams dominated.

Social highlight of the regional affair in Mobile was
Family Night when S.A.S.H.O. delegates and their wives
were treated to a sample of Mobile's Mardi Gras, which,
incidentally, has a longer history than the famed New
Orleans affair.

In Houston, Senator and Mrs. Jordan joined the Tar
Heel delegation for "Family Night" and the highlight of
the evening was the Texas A. and M. Glee Club. The final
day was devoted to a tour of Houston's Manned Space
Center, and lunch (barbequed beef, Texas style), and a
tour of the famed Astro-Dome.

Attending S.A.S.H.O. in Mobile from the Highway
Commission were Willoughby, Chief Engineer John Da-
vis, W. D. Moon, Paul DuPre, Robert G. Webb, Phil
Garriss, Jimmie Saunders, Floyd Bass, Luther Berrier,
Troy Dodson, Bill Wilson, Jim Litchford, Jack Murdoch
Sam Usry, Bill Caddell, Boyce Midgette, and Arch Laney!

The delegation to Houston, in addition to Administra-
tor Willoughby and Chief Engineer Davis, included As-
sistant Administrator Billy Rose, Assistant Chief Engi-
neer for Construction and Maintenance Luther Berrier,
and department representatives Bill Caddell, Phil Garriss,'
Bill Ingram, W. H. (Buck) Webb, Bruce White, Jim Nor-
ris, Bill Wilson, Paul DuPre, L. H. Gunter, W. C. Ste-
phenson, Harold Rhudy, and Arch Laney.

The 1971 S.A.S.H.O. meeting is slated for Jackson,
Mississippi, and the A.A.S.H.O. confab will be held in
Miami Beach, Florida.

According to Bill Caddell, head of the Planning and
Research Department, major addresses were given by the
head of A.A.S.H.O., Donald Fugate, and by Francis Tay-
lor, head of the Federal Highway Administration.

Copies of their speeeches are available from his de^
partment.

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Headquarters

By JEWEL ADCOCK

PHOTOGRAMMETRY — Wel-
come to Vernon E. New, Jerry Hayes
and Robert Watkins, engineering
trainees currently with the Depart-
ment.

Employees are also glad to have
James Henry Cooper, Jt., new mem-
ber of the Stereo Section. James is
from Henderson and attended Camp-
bell College.

Tom Hines recently became a cor-
porate member of the American Con-
gress of Survey and Mapping.

Charlie McDonald of Editing, and
his wife, enjoyed a recent weekend
visiting his sister in Newark, Dela-
ware.

All employees wish a speedy recov-
ery for Shorty Carroll of the Photo
Lab. Shorty suffered a severe heart
attack in October and is presently a
patient at Wake Memorial Hospital.

RIGHT OF WAY — Employees
miss Bob Pratt who resigned to go
into business for himself, and every-
one wishes him much success. Paul
Bunn is Bob's replacement.

Everyone misses Malinda Pope,
who recently transferred to the At-
torney General's Office.

Welcome to Judy Johnson, new ad-
dition to the Department.

Mrs. Lucille Jones has a beauty
queen in the family. Her daughter,
Karen, recently won the "Miss Apex"
title.

Our sincere sympathy to C. E.
Mills, whose sister, Alma Mann, died
October 15.

BRIDGE — Rodney Hughes and
George Gibson are new Trainees.
Walker Armistead is a new perma-
nent employee. Originally from Ashe-
ville, the Armistead family moved to
Raleigh when Walker joined the
training program. His wife, Becky,
and sons, Gene, 3, and David, 1, com-
plete the family.

CHIEF RIGHT OF WAY
ENGINEER MARRIES

On Saturday, October 17, W. H.
Webb, Jr. was married to Mrs. Ann
Virginia Parker of Raleigh. A private
ceremony was held in the Church of
the Good Shepherd, with the Rev.
Louis C. Melcher, Jr. officiating.

The picture above shows the lovely
bride and Mr. Webb opening a gift
which employees in his Department
gave the newlyweds at an office party
upon their return from a week's hon-
eymoon in the New England states.
The Webb's wedding present was a
beautiful sterling silver champagne
bucket.

Stanley Hyatt, on the move on the
training program, recently left the
Bridge Department.

Dave Scott, Final Estimates, is op-
erating a very smooth private club
called "The Mouse Trap." Accord-
ing to Charlie King, Buddy Wiggins
and others, this is the only way to be
"trapped." For a fun evening of good
entertainment and relaxation, who
wants to resist!

For no other reason than "let's
have a party," a group from the De-
partment got together at the Quail
Hollow Club, October 19. Chuck and
Sandy Cato, Bob and Patty Lilley,
and Sarah and Bob Disney were in
charge and prepared delicious food
for the affair. They had lots of fun
eating, dancing and "just talking."
This was the second party of this
kind, and the idea is "catching on."

A sentimental journey, mixed with
a little nostalgia, might well describe
John Woolwine's visits recently to

These charming babies are the four
months old twin daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Clegg. That's Traci
Michele on the left and Ashley Paige
at right. Their father is a member of
the Bridge Department.

This handsome little boy is Kyle
Martin, age 16 months. His father,
Craig, is employed in the Bridge De-
partment.

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Vivacious Yvonne Creech is shown
getting ready to say "Goodnight."
Nine-year old Yvonne is the daughter
of Bridge Design Engineer, Ken
Creech.

two alma maters. First he went to
Roanoke, Virginia, accompanied by
his wife, Nancy, and daughter, Susan
Elizabeth, where he visited his par-
ents and attended a football game at
Fleming High School. Later he join-
ed friends for the October 17 home-
coming at V.P.I. Viewing the Blue
Ridge Mountains put the frosting on
the cake for a wonderful weekend.

A sky-view of the mountains can
be equally rewarding, according to
Cliff Carter, who spent a day flying
around in an airplane with three com-
panions. This group "grounded" at
Beech Mountain to visit in the area
which is beautiful to see. Cliff de-
clares it was a great trip.

S. B. Usry, State Bridge Construc-
tion Engineer, was the sole partici-
pant from Bridge to attend the SAS-
HO meeting in Mobile, Alabama, Oc-
tober 3-16.

Sympathy is extended to Sarah
Gower, Bob Gower's wife, on the
death of her father, in October.

Miss Barbara Taylor died in a tra-
gic automobile accident Sunday, Oc-
tober 11, 1970. Sixteen-year-old Bar-
bara was a junior at Sanderson High
School in Raleigh at the time of her
death, and was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Taylor of Raleigh.

Her mother Eleanor, is a secretary in
the Right of Way Department.

The Taylors are parents of one
other daughter, 19-year-old Debby,
who is enrolled as a sophomore at
NCSU.

Eleanor and her family would like
to take this opportunity to express
their deep appreciation to their many
friends in the Highway Commission
for all cards and expressions of sym-
pathy extended to them in the loss of
their beloved daughter.

EQUIPMENT — Peggy and Bill
Sutton had a weekend of fun and fish-
ing at Carolina Beach in early Oc-
tober. They enjoyed a trip by ferry
from Southport to Fort Fisher and an
excursion to Calabash for delicious
seafood.

Mary Jane and Bob MacGillivray
spent the weekend of October 3 in At-
lanta, Georgia, where they attended
the Atlanta Falcons — San Francisco
49ers game. Breakfast at the Riviera,
dinner at the Regency and visits with
old acquaintances completed a week-
end of fun.

Linda Sherian and friends combin-
ed a weekend of camping with attend-
ing the races in Charlotte on October
3. An avid sports car enthusiast, Lin-
da goes to the races at every oppor-
tunity. She has written a number of
articles on sports events. Her latest
article on racing was published in the
"Tarboro Daily Southerner." Current-
ly she is taking courses in journalism
through the Newspaper Institute of
America.

Lorraine Carter

The Poetry Council of North Caro-
lina, Inc., has awarded a Certificate
of Merit to Lorraine T. Carter, as Dis-
trict winner for her poem entitled
"Smoky Hollow," entered in the 1970
Charles A. Shull contest. She also re-
ceived a Certificate of Award (First

Honorable Mention), for her entry
"Hurry Sundog," in the Traditional
Division of the Wake Forest Poetry
Contest, sponsored by the Wake For-
est Chamber of Commerce for the
year 1970.

Employed in the Equipment De-
partment as a secretary, Lorraine's
favorite hobby during off-duty hours
is writing. Long-range plans include
a novel, but her current goal is to
conquer the short story form.

Lorraine is currently a student of
Creative Writing at UNC, Chapel Hill,
under the instruction of Doris Betts.
She has also studied Creative Writing
under the instruction of Sam Ragan
at N. C. State University, and is a
member of several writers' groups, in-
cluding The Poetry Society of North
Carolina, Poetry Society of Virginia,
Poetry Society of Texas, and the
Charlotte Writers' Club. Her autobio-
graphy appeared in the 1970 Edition
of International Who's Who in Poe-
try, which was published in London,
England.

Blue-eyed Cynthia Kathleen Bass
is the daughter of Robert Earl and Jo
Anne Bass.

Her mother is employed with the
Central Inventory Section of the
Equipment Department.

PURCHASING — It's nice to have
Virginia Allen who is new secretary
to J. L. Lambeth.

Mary Nell Davis and Catherine
Thompson are new part-time employ-
ees in Purchasing. Mary Nell is a
senior at Enloe High School working
on the Cooperative Office Occupation
Program and Catherine is a senior at
Garner High working on the Indus-
trial Cooperative Program.

Several members of Purchasing took
trips to the mountains during October.

Mary Lee Stephenson and her hus-
band enjoyed seeing the lovely au-
tumn colors.

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Leona Sidbury and her husband
spent a recent weekend viewing the
beautiful fall scenery and the "Land
of Oz."

Bob Cooper and friends also visit-
ed the mountains and "Land of Oz"
on a recent trip.

Cute little Amy Kristen Barker is
the two-months old daughter of Mrs.
Brenda Barker, stenographer in Pur-
chasing.

Miss Carol Ann Hammond of Wil-
son became the bride of Lacy Hill
Reaves of Raleigh Saturday, August
29 in St. Timothy's Episcopal Church,
with the Rev. John A. Gray officiat-
ing.

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Given in marriage by her father,
the bride is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. George Robert Hammond of
Wilson. The bridegroom's parents are
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Reaves of
Raleigh, and his father is head of the
Commission's Purchasing Department.

Mrs. Reaves is a graduate of UNC
at Chapel Hill and attended UNC-
Greensboro.

Mr. Reaves is a graduate of UNC
at Chapel Hill, where he was a mem-
ber of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He
is currently attending UNC Law
School.

The newlyweds are making their
home in Carrboro.

The B. P. Lamberts and son, Bob,
flew out to Los Angeles, California,
for a two-week vacation in September,
where they visited relatives and went
on many side trips, including Disney-
land, Universal Studios, an NBC-TV
show, Palm Desert and Las Vegas,
Nevada, and Mexico.

ROADWAY DESIGN — W. A.
Wilson, Jr., was in Austin, Texas,
September 27-29, attending a meeting
of the Highway Research Board Task
Force an Automation. The purpose of
the meeting was to review the objec-
tives of the task force and to plan a
program for a symposium on auto-
mation systems for highways to be
held August 16-18, 1971, in Austin,
Texas. Also, Mr. Wilson attended the
29th annual SASHO Convention Oc-
tober 4-7 in Mobile, Alabama, along
with fifteen other members of the
State Highway Commission.

Ann Stephens with her husband,
Durwood, and little son, Keith, vaca-
tioned in Florida the week of Octo-
ber 25-30. Their trip was centered
around a visit with some friends in
Tallahassee before traveling further
down into Florida.

Sympathy is extended to Tony Ha-
merka on the recent death of his step-
father, Mr. Ernest Williams.

Welcome to Ralph Hailey, Keith
Benbow, Riley Rehberg and Frank
Draper. Frank has been away on mi-
litary leave.

Meet future Highway Engineer, Al-
len Mark, age seven months. Surely
little Allen will follow in the foot-
steps of his mother and dad. Mom is
an engineer in Roadway Design and
Pop is an engineer in the Division
Five office in Durham,

This lovely lassie is Vivian Giselle,
age six, daughter of Jean and Arturo
Dell'Acqua. Her mother is a member
of Roadway Design.

LOCATION — The C. S. Bristow
Invitational Golf Tournament was
held October 17 at the Quail Ridge
Golf Club just south of Sanford on
US 1. A field of 32 pros qualified for
this annual event. Joe Penland of Ra-
leigh was the winner of the first
flight, and following with a close
second was J. L. Poore of Winston-
Salem. Third flight winner was John
Falkner of Raleigh, and bringing up
the tail end was the fourth flight win-
ner, Floyd Suitt of New Bern. Pro-
am low score winner was Jack Mur-
dock. Others competing, but not in the
money, were George Willoughby,
Cloyce Alford, Arch Laney, Charles
Young, John Falkner, Jr., J. H. Chap-
pell and Jim Booth. Following the
tournament, about 50 people enjoyed
a fine dinner at the Dutch Farm Res-
taurant.

C. S. Bristow's son, Barry, has en-
tered Western Carolina University.

D. H. Creech enjoyed a recent fish-
ing trip to the Outer Banks. No re-
ports were given on quantity of fish
caught.

PLANNING AND RESEARCH —
It's good to have new employees
Braxton Carter, Joy Harris, Roberta
Howard and Thomas Briggs in the
Department.

Co-workers welcome Judy Austin's
return to the Department. Judy was
away on maternity leave. Her baby
son, Christopher Lee, was born July
17.

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Tom Newman of Planning and Re-
search is a member of the Alamance
Barbell Club, and recently took first
place in the 181 pound class of the
State Power Lifting Championship.

Setting four state records, Tom also
won the best lifter award, taking
home two trophies.

Miss Aara Jenell Lewis became the
bride of Donald Wayne Joyner on Oc-
tober 19. Mrs. Joyner works in Plan-
ning and Research and her husband
is an accountant with Branch Bank-
ing and Trust Company. After a
weeks's honeymoon in the mountains,
the couple are residing in Kenly.

This adorable little fellow is Troy
Dean Sutton, son of Judy and E. G.
Sutton. Judy is keypunch operator in
Planning and Research.

Welcome back to Gray McGee, who
has returned to work after a lengthy
medical leave of absence.

Also, fellow employees are glad to
see Frank Jeffrey back on the job af-

ter a stay in the hospital. Frank had
major surgery and is getting along
fine.

Angela Dawn Porter smiles hap-
pily at the cameraman as he snaps
her picture. Little Angela is the 7^2
months old granddaughter of Blanchie
Bradley of Planning and Research.

Attending a Capacity School at the
N. C. State Faculty Center October
5-9 were Jim Beckom, Joe Osborne,
Barney O'Quinn, Nate Benson, Wayne
Elliott, Ormond Bliss and Jack Ward.

Ted Waters and C. O. White were
two of the four representatives in the
Highway Commission who attended
the Consultation Clinic at the League
of Municipalities Convention in Win-
ston-Salem recently.

Several members of Planning and
Research have been traveling recent-
ly. Marie and Eddie Kivett enjoyed
a vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia,
and Phyllis Nelson had a good time at
Lake Toxaway and Waynesville.

Felton Lowman, Ormond Bliss,
Grady Dawson and Charlie Adkins
had an exciting golfing weekend at
Myrtle Beach recently. Also enjoying
a game at McGregor Downs were
Bob Booker, Bill Beddingfield, and
Charlie Adkins.

Cape Fear River was the scene of
a fish fry in October. Horse Shoes was
the game of the evening. Those at-
tending were Ormond Bliss, Felton
Lowman, Elizabeth Stanley, Pam Lit-
ton, Todd Roberts, Roger Lance, Ri-
chard Smith, Joe Osborne, Barbara
Stussie (from Personnel) and Gloria
Powell (from Bridge Location).

LEGAL — With the change of the
seasons, there have also been changes
in the Attorney General's Office by
means of new employment. The new

attorneys who have joined the staff
are James B. Richmond, Trial Attor-
ney, and Walter B. Ricks, Staff Attor-
ney. Dick League, Staff Attorney,
transferred from the main office back
in the fall to assist Mr. Wood with fi-
nal reports, parcels (suits to be filed)
and inactive cases.

Mrs. Sylvia Turner is now working
on the M.T.S.T. machine, and her
secretarial position was filled by Su-
san Godwin, who works for Mr. Sa-
tisky and Mr. Magner. Margo Hoy
is Charles Hensey's new secretary.
Carol McLawhorn left the Depart-
ment in September. Joy Seal began
work in Legal October 26.

The latest on the maternity news
in Legal is that Mrs. Shirley Hatha-
way has returned from maternity
leave. Shirley's little boy, Larry Dean,
was born July 28. Mrs. Jane Stephen-
son is the proud mother of a new
baby son, born October 19, who weigh-
ed in at 8 lbs., 5 oz.

The Attorney General's Office
plans to have its annual Christmas
party December 19 at the North-
brook Country Club. Jane Butts plans
to visit friends in Tennessee during
the holidays, and Essa McBryde plans
to spend her vacation on the coast
and at the mountains.

The turning leaves gradually fall,
and the bare trees are a sign of win-
ter and Christmas. The entire Legal
Department wishes everyone a very
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAP-
PY NEW YEAR.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING —
Sympathy is extended to the family
of Woodie Warrick, Jr., whose father
passed away in September. The senior
Mr. Warrick, a retired employee of
the Trailways Bus Company, had also
worked with the State Highway Com-
mission.

Congratulations to N. C. (Hap) and
Flora Crowe upon the birth of a
daughter, Wendy Gale, September
24. Also, Hap added to his sailing
trophies by winning the Tanzer Class
championship in the Carolina Sailing
Club.

Plaudits are due Ned Bevins and
Ernie Mallard, who have been accept-
ed into the respected ranks of Pro-
fessional Engineers.

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Among those attending the High-
way Capacity Course at the Faculty
Club in Raleigh October 5-9, taught
by Northwestern and N. C. State
University professors, were the fol-
lowing people from Traffic Engineer-
ing: Ned Bevins, N. C. (Hap) Crowe,
George Eason, Gene Edmonds, Glenn
Grigg, Herb Justice, Ken Milam,
John Permar, Landis Satterwhite,
Jim Stamp, Harold Steelman, and
Larry Williams.

Graduates of the workshop for
Traffic Engineering technicians at the
Statler-Hilton Inn, September 21-25,
included the following TED person-
nel: Jim Bryan, John Carpenter, Ray
Goff, Tom Gould, Terry Harris, Jeff
Jennings, Tom Morris, Frank Mur-
ray, Marvin Oldham, Fred Rosen-
dahl, Bill Thompson, Tom Thrower
and Wallace Wiggs.

Robert Dodge and son, Mac, parti-
cipated in the Boy Scout father-son
camp-out at Emerald Isle this fall.

Jim Bryan and wife, Brenda, had a
fall vacation at Hatteras and Ocra-
coke. Dot Turner, accompanied by
Mary Ann Jobe of Safety, was a La-
bor Day visitor at Atlantic Beach.

Tony Gray, student at Enloe High,
is a part-time employee under the In-
dustrial Cooperative Training Pro-
gram.

Thomas E. Donnelly joined the
staff October 19 as an Engineering
Technician I in the Accident Identi-
fication Section after attending W. W.
Holding Technical Institute for a
year.

TED fielded the following players
in the Highway Commission's golf
tournament: Terry Harris, runner-up
in the second flight; Joe Clendennin,
John Permar, and Bill Thompson,
who placed for prizes in their respec-
tive flights; Benny Johnson, Bill
Rudd, Bill Smart, Chris Stafford, Cliff
Stuckey, Steve Tant, Tom Thrower,
and Joe Wilkins. Steve Tant won the
Zebulon Country Club Golf Tourna-
ment this year for the third time.

One of the Department's staff is
evidently in training for an Almond
Joy-eating contest. So far, he has
managed (on a bet) to down 11 of the
candy bars in 15 minutes. Let's hear
from the competition.

The Department's annual Christ-
mas party is planned for December 17
at the Village Dinner Theatre. Emily
Blount, Brenda Johnson, and Reiley
Curtis are in charge of arrangements.

Master Jonathan Arthur Shearin is
two years old. His mother, Jean
Shearin, is a member of the Key
Punch Section, and his father works
with the Prison Department.

Pretty Carolyn Hill is the chief
cheerleader of the Wildcats at Glen-
dale-Chapel Elementary School in
Kenly this year. She is also chairman
of the Junior Beta Club there.

Carolyn is 13 years old, has blond
hair and blue eyes, and is in the
Eighth Grade at Glendale-Chapel. She
is the sister of Linda Hill, stenogra-
pher in Public Information.

Happy little Stephen Alton Hailey
is the four-and-one-half-month-old
son of Henry and Faye Hailey of

Route 2, Wake Forest. His dad is a
member of the Reproduction Depart-
ment.

Lovely Miss Ashley Katherine Pra-
ther of Raleigh became the bride of
Edward Andrew Garmhausen of
Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Saturday,
August 22, 1970 in Pullen Memorial
Baptist Church, with the Rev. W. W.
Finlator officiating.

The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Gibson Prather of
1811 Park Drive, Raleigh, and the
bridegroom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Ewing Garmhausen of
Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

After a reception at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Prather, the couple left
on their wedding trip and will live in
Rutherfordton, New Jersey.

The bride's father is Assistant Pub-
lic Information Officer with the
Highway Commission.

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DIVISION NEWS

Damascus Congregational Christian
Church was the setting for the mar-
riage of Miss Betty Susan Hofler and
Lt. John Frederick Watson Saturday,
October 24, 1970. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll
Hofler of Sunbury. The bride's fa-
ther is employed with the Mainte-
nance Department and is Area Fore-
man for Gates County. The bride-
groom's parents are Lt. Col. (ret.) Wil-
liam Watson and Mrs. Watson of
Manitou Springs, Colorado. Mrs. Wat-
son is an honor graduate of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at Greens-
boro. After a northern wedding trip
the couple will reside in Alexandria,
Virginia.

A hearty welcome is extended to
Mrs. McCoy Mizelle (Linda), of
Route 2, Colerain, North Carolina,
who is a Temporary Clerk II in the
Traffic Services Department. Linda
enjoys sports and loves to sew. Mc-
Coy is a lineman with the Virginia
Electric and Power Company in Ahos-
kie. They are both members of the
Elm Grove Baptist Church. We are
pleased to have Linda with us and
hope she will be happy in her new
position.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Shelton Freeman on the birth of a
grandson, David Charles, on Novem-
ber 2, 1970, in Louis Obici Hospital in
Suffolk, Virginia. Mr. Freeman is
Highway Inspector III, working out
of Williamston. The proud parents of
this seven pound, six ounce baby boy
are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freeman of
HOI/2 Brewer Street, Suffolk, Virginia.
Maternal grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. William Britt of Colerain, North
Carolina.

Best wishes are extended to Mr. W.
W. Newbern, who retired November
1, 1970, after 37 years of service. Mr.
Newbern was Area Foreman for Pas-
quotank and Perquimans Counties.

James E. Grady, Jr., has come back
to work after having been injured in

an automobile accident on October 11.
Mr. Grady is Assistant Resident Engi-
neer in the Elizabeth City Construc-
tion Office.

Alvin O. Hall, from the Elizabeth
City Construction Department is re-
cuperating at home after having un-
dergone surgery in Norfolk General
Hospital. We wish Mr. Hall a speedy
recovery and hope he will be back
with us soon.

We extend heartfelt sympathy to
Thurman Sears, Maintenance Fore-
man III in Currituck County, in the
loss of his son; and, to W. E. Lowe,
Bridge Tender in Pasquotank County,
in the loss of his wife. We also extend
sympathy to V. B. Griggs, Mainte-
nance Yard Foreman at Manteo, in
the recent loss of his mother; and, to
Mrs. G. H. Jolliff in the recent loss of
her mother. (Mr. Jolliff is Road Oil
Supervisor.)

Get Well Wishes go out to J. H.
Hardy, Machine Operator IV who is
recuperating from an appendectomy.

Those attending the Association
Convention from the Hertford Shop
were C. L. Brewer, R. E. Newton, M.
E. Copeland, and H. G. Arnold, Jr.
These employees were accompanied by
their wives. Commissioner Joe Nowell
also attended the convention.

If, by chance, you are travelling in
the Elizabeth City area and are pass-
ed by a "green streak", it could only
be Resident Engineer W. M. Smith
breezing through in his new
"Chevy."

LINDA MULDER
Division Correspondent

Retiring as President of our High-
way Employees Association was Dick
Brewer, shown here at the Conven-
tion at Durham with Commissioner
Joe Nowell.

Perquimans County celebrated its
Tri-Centennial Birthday October 11-
17.

The man in the beard above is not
"Blackbeard the Pirate," but our very
own Highway Commissioner, Joe No-
well, of Winfall. Shown cutting the
cake in historic costume is his love-
ly wife, Ann.

Commissioner Nowell was Chair-
man of the historical event and re-
ports that the county's 300th Birth-
day Party was a huge success.

Mrs. John Frederick Watsou

RED RIBBON WINNER
Faye Moore, Secretary in the Divi-
sion Office, displays a stuffed horse
which she exhibited in the Pitt Coun-
ty Fair under the "Gifts for Children"
category. Faye won second place, a
red ribbon, and a small cash award.

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HAZEL BAKER
Division Correspondent

We are saddened by the two recent
deaths in Kinston. Mr. W. A. Parker,
Jr., and J. L. Clemments. We extend
our sympathy to their families.

Also, we extend sympathy to the
family of Mrs. Carl Pollard, widow of
Carl L. Pollard, who has recently
passed away and to the family of C.
D. Thigpen, Truck Driver in Jones
County who was recently killed in an
automobile accident.

Best wishes to Myrl Newman on his
new promotion. He replaces J. L.
Clemments in the Kinston Garage.

Congratulations to Betty Noble and
John — They are the proud parents
of a baby girl. Jill Johnette arrived
October 11, 1970.

J. K. Smith and wife announced the
birth of a son recently.

Clyde L. Gray is back at work af-
ter having been on sick leave follow-
ing a heart attack in February.

Congratulations and best wishes for
a wonderful retirement to Leon Bry-
ant Cox, former Mechanic Foreman
II at the Division Shop, who retired
October 1, 1970. Mr. Cox had also
been on sick leave since suffering a
heart attack in February.

District 2 in New Bern is happy to
welcome Wayne Bailey as their new
highway engineer in training. Wayne
is a June graduate of NCSU in Ra-
leigh but had worked with the High-
way Commission in Wilmington as an
Engineering Technician II for four
years prior to attending college.

On June 22, 1970, James F. Meade,
came to work with the Highway Com-
mission from Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
His family moved down in August.
Mr. and Mrs. Meade have three chil-
dren, Marcie, 12 years old, and two
sons, Jimmy 2l/2 and Drew iy2.

On October 6, there was an explo-
sion in their home in Euclid Road,
Durham, that put both of the small
boys in critical condition at N. C.
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.
Both boys have undergone several
operations, are constantly improving,
and may be home soon.

Mattie Hall has now returned from
her vacation which took her across
country. She and her husband, Jim-
my, spent a few days in Dallas, Texas,
visiting Mattie's sister and her family.
Then they traveled on to Albuquerque,
New Mexico, to visit their son, Dan-
ny and his new bride, Susie Snyder
of Denver, Colorado. Danny and Su-
sie were married on May 9, 1970. The
Halls then traveled on to Houston,
Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
They attended a baseball game in
Houston at the Astrodome between At-
lanta and the Astros. Atlanta won.
Mattie and Jimmy then traveled on
to Biloxi, Mississippi, and visited
Keesler Air Force Base before return-
ing to Durham. The Halls report that
they had such a wonderful time that
they are ready now for another long
trip.

Our sympathy goes out to Pat Whit-
aker, Relocation Agent in the Durham
Right of Way Office, who lost his fa-
ther, Ray Maroin Whitaker, on Sep-
tember 17, 1970.

On October 8, 1970, the Durham
Right of Way Department was happy
to have Richard P. Smith, Jr., trans-
fer from the Winston-Salem Office.

N. E. Underwood, Jr., and family
recently visited friends and relatives in
Asheville, and toured the Blue Ridge
Parkway.

Sympathy is extended to S. R. Ross,
Division Staff Engineer, who recently
lost his father.

Get Well Wishes are expressed to
the following Maintenance Employees
in Robeson County: A. R. Wilson,
who is now recuperating at home af-
ter having been in Southport Hospi-
tal; Lonnie Byrd, who is a patient at
Lumberton Hospital; as well as John
Ruth, retired employee; Sim Stubbs,
who is retiring November 1 because
of ill health and K. C. Morgan, who
is retiring after an off-the-job injury
a year ago.

Truitte Johnson and family attend-
ed the National Campers and Hikers
Association Fall Convention of North
Carolina, October 23 through 25, held
on the Lion's Fairground in Sanford.
There were over 1300 attending this
convention. Just recently, Truitte was
elected President of the N. C. Family
Campers Association.

Road Maintenance Supervisor H.
K. Autry and Mrs. Autry enjoyed a
week at Ocean Isle in celebration of
their wedding anniversary. In spite of
the rain, Mr. and Mrs. Autry had a
most pleasurable trip. Mr. and Mrs.

NEW CREDIT UNION
REGIONAL OFFICE OPENS

The State Employees' Credit Un-
ion recently announced the open-
ing of a new branch in Fayetteville,
which began official operation Sep-
tember 1. The office is located on
Gillespie Street in the District
Highway Office there. Branch
manager is Paul C. Holland, Jr.

Three other branch offices are
located in Chapel Hill (Room 01
of Old Smith Dormitory on the
University campus) ; Goldsboro
(Woodard Building on the Cherry
Hospital grounds) ; and Morgan-
ton (240 Enola Road). These four
regional offices observe the hours
of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday. At these offices,
the normal credit union functions
— checking accounts, loan service,
and savings program — are avail-
able.

NEW EMPLOYEES:
Division 2

Aulander Barnhill, General Utility
Man, permanent.

Robert Levie Norris, Mechanic II,
New Bern District Shop.
PROMOTIONS:

Robert Edward Smith to Mechanic
Foreman II at Division Shop.
Myrl Edwin Newman to Mechanic
Foreman II at Kinston District
Shop.

Preston Lamuel Fields to Mechan-
ic Foreman I at District I Sub-
Shop.

Ned Braxton to Mechanic Fore-
man I at Kinston District Shop.
Vernon Colin Everett to Mechanic
Foreman I at Washington District
Shop.

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J. R. Lanier spent a few days in the
mountains visiting relatives. Mr. La-
nier is employed with the Mainte-
nance Department in Harnett Coun-
ty. The George Mitchells and their
son spent a few days in Baltimore,
Maryland, visiting his brother. Mr.
Mitchell is employed with the Main-
tenance Department in Harnett Coun-
ty. H. W. Johnson, D. W. Weaver,
and B. A. Stewart, employees of the
Maintenance Department in Harnett
County, spent a few days fishing at
the coast.

Mrs. Charles Raymond Stein, who
before her marriage was Frankie Neal
Rozier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ro-
bert Poe Rozier, of Lumberton was
married on June 6, 1970, in Christ
Memorial Church, Blue Island, Illi-
nois.

Mr. Rozier is a retired Mainte-
nance employee in Robeson County.

Mr. B. F. Sutton has returned to
work after being out due to an acci-
dent. Mr. F. V. Parker is home recup-
erating from back surgery. Everyone
is looking forward to having him back
with us at work.

Get well wishes are extended to Mr.
R. B. Wilkerson, who is in the V. A.
Hospital in Fayetteville.

Recently transferred to Lillington
in Construction from Clinton is Ralph
Williamson. Ralph ha3 just completed
the training program. Everyone is
working hard to make Ralph feel
right at home.

Several employees have just joined
the staff in the Harnett County Con-
struction Office. Welcome. This wel-
come goes to T. A. Branch, E. H.
Jackson, D. T. Moss, F. A. Smith,
J. J. Johnson, T. A. Malchan and to
co-op student, M. J. Stanley.

Wedding bells rang loud and clear
for Olie Milton and Rebecca Baker
the 25th of October in the Lillington
Presbyterian Church. Olie is the son
of I. L. Milton, Harnett County Mo-
tor Grader Operator.

We are sorry to lose one of our
Right of Way Agents, Claude R.
Moore, Jr., in the Right of Way De-
partment of Division Six. Mr. Moore
transferred from the Negotiating Sec-
tion to the Appraisal Section, located
at Greenville, effective September 28,
1970.

S. J. Smitherman, Division Right
of Way Agent, H. L. Britt, A. E.
Dixon and Max G. Loflin, Right of
Way Agents, recently spent the week-
end fishing off the piers at Carolina
Beach. We are sorry that they didn't
have much luck.

Max G. Loflin, Right of Way Aide,
attended the Appraisal Course given
at the University of Maryland, located
in College Park, Maryland, Septem-
ber 21, through October 3. Max said
he enjoyed the course and feels that
it will be very rewarding to him in his
work.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Wilson were
married September 10, 1970, in the
Chapel of St. John's Episcopal
Church in Fayetteville. Mr. Wilson is
District Engineer for Cumberland and
Harnett Counties with an office lo-
cated in Fayetteville.

DIVISION I
SEVEN J

RAY AUTRY
Division Correspondent

Vacationing

J. E. Southern is a proud grand-
father as of September 25, 1970, when
a son was born to his son and they
named him Christopher Scott.

Carolyn Graves and her hsuband
have recently had a nice trip to
Louisiana, visiting interesting places
and friends on the way down and
back.

Carolyn Cooper and her husband
have had a wonderful trip to Florida,
spending several days at Miami
Beach.

The W. G. Denny and the C. S.
Walker families have recently been to
the mountains to see the beautiful
fall leaves.

D. W. Collins reports the arrival of
a new grandson.

Rachael Gundlach, who has been in
the hospital, has returned to work.

W. W. Sharpe, Maintenance Fore-
man 2, is retiring on January 1, 1971,
after 45 years with the Commission.

G. R. Campbell, Maintenance Fore-
man 2, is retiring on December 1,
1970, after 15 years with the Commis-
sion.

Fellow employees presented watch-
es to the following men who retired
recently: (left to right) L. D. High-
fill, 1923 to 1964; M. C. Clymer, 1942
to 1970; F. A. Campbell, 1928 to 1967;
T. E. Sherron, 1948 to 1970, and E.
D. Berry, 1924 to 1970.

CAROLYN GRAVES
Division Correspondent

Wishing Happy Birthday for Mrs.
Carolyn Cooper on November 6, were
the Division and District office staff.
Carolyn is clerk in the District Two
office in Greensboro.

J. W. Nelson, Machine Operator 4,
retired on October 1, 1970, after 23
years with the Commission.

Construction Bids In 1922

Robert H. Broome, II, who is Divi-
sion 7 Right of Way Agent, and re-
sides in Greensboro, recently receiv-
ed a gift from his father, a book en-
titled "A History of the United
States" published in 1882. The book
had originally belonged to Broome's
grandfather. Remaining in the book
were clippings from newspapers which
his grandfather had saved. One clip-
ping was a picture of Associate Justice

23:

W. P. Stacy dated 1922. On the back
were several advertisements, legal no-
tices and railroad schedules. Robert
enjoyed reading the ad for bids for
street improvements in Rockingham,
N. C, which read in part:

"Sealed proposals will be received
by the Town Board of Aldermen of
Rockingham, North Carolina, at the
office of W. Steele Lowdermilk, May-
or, until 2:00 P.M., Tuesday May
23rd, 1922, for paving and otherwise
improving certain streets, at which
time all bids will publicly be opened
and read."

The article then described the
work: "18,000 cubic yards of excava-
tion and grading; 45,000 square yards
of plain cement concrete . . .on a five-
inch Portland Cement concrete base
. . . curbs and gutters ... a few storm
drains and other accessories."

If you ask Robert, he might show
you the original.

G. R. Shirley, Jr., is Staff Engineer
in this Division now after having
been on the training program.

VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON
Division Correspondent

DIVISION EIGHT EMPLOYEES
GATHER FOR
INFORMATION SESSIONS

Employees in Division Eight re-
cently attended meetings arranged by
Division Engineer A. J. Hughes for
the purpose of acquainting employees
with matters related to State Highway
Commission policy, such as not only
the work we do, but also the benefits
and services available to us as em-
ployees in the Safety Program, Re-
tirement Program, Insurance Pro-
gram, and Personnel Program. He in-
vited representatives from each of
these Departments to talk with em-
ployees at these meetings. Several
employees have expressed their ap-
preciation for these meetings, and we
would like to thank Mr. Hughes for
giving us this opportunity to hear
more about the benefits and opportu-
nities offered to us as State Highway
Employees.

Sanford, Asheboro, and Rocking-
ham were the sites of the meetings
which were held. Every employee in
the eighth division attended one of
these meetings.

We are very happy to welcome Mrs.
Alease Fowler to the Division Office,
as Secretary. Also, welcome to Carl
Goode, Staff Engineer-in-Training,
now assigned here in the Division Of-
fice. Andy Brown who has recently
been serving as Staff Engineer Train-
ee is moving onto the District Office
in Asheboro for another phase of
training. James McDonald, Right of
Way Agent, and Karen Bouldin, Sec-
retary, are the new faces in the Right
of Way Department. William D. Gil-
more has joined Division Eight and is
now with the Nelson Construction
Party in Wagram.

Reports on Fall Fishing Trips

The Right of Way men who had a
good time at Windy Hill, were abso-
lutely honest about the trip, and did-
n't catch any fish. Several from the
Nelson Construction Party went fish-
ing one week end ... no big catch re-
ported. Bobby Thames, Highway In-
spector, took his Scout Troop con-
sisting of fourteen Boy Scouts, camp-
ed out, and tried to fish. Good Boy
Scouts as they are, they were abso-
lutely truthful about the whole trip
— the wind was too high.

We are glad to have Luther Nick-
ens back on the job after a lengthy
illness. Mr. Nickens is with District
1, Moore County. Burleigh Thompson
is recovering satisfactorily after hav-
ing spent time in the hospital. We cer-

tainly wish for J. E. Lee, Mainte-
nance Supervisor for Scotland and
Hoke Counties, a short stay at Duke
Hospital where he has gone for pos-
sible surgery. Jimmy was home over
the week end and was grateful for
flowers and cards sent to him during
this illness.

Ed Darden is on the radio and tele-
phone again, after having been out
for a few days. It didn't take him
long to recover from his back ail-
ment, and we are glad to have him
back.

Tammy Holshouser, daughter of
Division Traffic Engineer Henry Hol-
shouser, celebrated her third birthday
on December 9.

Bill Dunlap, Wagram Construction
Party, reports an enjoyable trip with
his family to Nags Head, Kill Devil
Hills, Emerald Isle and other points.
They especially remarked about hav-
ing enjoyed the ferry service. Bill re-
ports 24 worms and 24 spots for the
fishing part of the trip.

Roger O. Anderson, Machine Oper-
ator with the Asheboro Maintenance
Department, Division 8, is shown with
his second kill in a three day hunt.
A 140 to 150 pound buck.

Division Engineer A. J. Hughes ad-
dressed the audience at the dedication
of the Outer Loop, Laurinburg Thor-
oughfare Plan.

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DOLORES ROGERS
Division Correspondent

Several people in the Division Shop
celebrated birthdays during October.
Those having fun eating "cake" were
Irwin Morris, Mrs. Rita Story, Re-
becca Nance, W. T. Renegar, Grady
Tutterow, and Lee Jackson.

Several of the vacations of those at
the Division Shop turned into fishing
trips. Ralph Frye, Mechanic Foreman
II, and wife Jean fished at Morehead
City and she had all the luck. Don
Neal, Mechanic Foreman I and party
went deep sea fishing and had great
luck with catching King Mackeral.
But what is this big tale about the
whale getting away?

Rex Anders, Office Manager at the
Division Shop, Grady Lewis, Mech-
anic II at District I shop and wives
decided to try their luck at Rodanthe.
Also trying his luck was Gray Waller,
Mechanic II at the Road Oil Shop.
There have been some great tales told
dealing with the fishing trips but
there was enjoyment for all.

Mrs. Rita Story, Stenographer at
the Division Shop enjoyed her Labor
Day week-end spent at Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina.

A new employee, Rebecca Nance, is
a typist in the office of the Division
Shop.

Jim Poore, Engineering Technician
II with the Location Department won
a trophy at the Golf Tournament held
recently at Quail Ridge Golf Course
in Sanford during October.

Racine Van Dusen attended the
1970 State Fair at Raleigh and had
glorious praises for the Highway Com-
mission's exhibit, hoping everyone had
an opportunity to enjoy it.

Mrs. Marie Thrift is enjoying the
presence of a new grandson, Philip
Douglas "Trooper" Iraham, born
September 12, 1970, along with her
other grandchildren, Matalie, age five,
and Alethia, age four. Their father is
a Green Beret stationed at Ft. Bragg.

We would like to welcome Marie back
after recuperating from surgery in
June, returning to work in August.
Mrs. Thrift is a stenographer in the
District Office in Winston-Salem.

James Moore, Area Appraiser in
the Appraisal Section in Winston-Sa-
lem is the proud father of a new baby
boy born in October named William
Vaughn Moore.

We would like to welcome back
Gaye Thompson, who is secretary for
the Road Oil Department, from her
recent surgery in August. She return-
ed to work in October. While she was
recuperating she celebrated her 25th
birthday and upon her return to work
her second year with the Road Oil
Department.

We would like to say we certainly
have missed the presence of Dot
Phelps, Division Correspondent, who
was hospitalized for three weeks and
is now recuperating at home and
planning to return to work soon. Dot
is secretary to K L. Horton, Jr., Di-
vision Engineer in Winston-Salem.

Welcome to the following new em-
ployees: Philip L. Speaks, as a Re-
location Advisor. He holds an A.S.
degree from Wingate Junior College,
an A.B. Degree from High Point Col-
lege and has taught one year at
Northampton County High School.
Philip is single and resides with his
parents.

Dennis Carter, Highway Engineer in
training who was transferred from
Construction to the Maintenance De-
partment on August 17, 1970. Dennis
is a graduate of V.P.I, with a B.S.
Degree in Civil Engineering. We also
welcome Lindsey Allen, Machine Op-
erator I, R. G. Wilson, Truck Driver,
and H. L. Proctor, General Utility
Man, who work for the Forsyth Coun-
ty Maintenance Department. In the
Right of Way Department, we wel-
come Ludwig Ash, Jr., a Right-of-Way
Aide.

Our deepest sympathy is extended
to James F. Mendenhall, Machine
Operator IV with the Stokes County
Maintenance Department in the loss
of his wife, Elsie, due to an automo-
bile accident. Mr. Mendenhall, also
injured in the accident, is at home re-
cuperating after being hospitalized for
several months.

We extend our sympathy to the fol-
lowing families: Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Thrift; Mr. Thrift's father, Charles H.
Thrift, Sr., passed away on September
14, 1970, having been ill for several

months, and Mrs. Thrift's father, J.
B. Ackerman of Laurinburg, died on
October 24, 1970; Thomas William
Cain, who is General Utility Man in
the Traffic Services Department, in
the loss of his mother, Mrs. Bertie
Cain, on September 21, 1970; J. M.
Page, Maintenance Foreman II in the
Forsyth County Maintenance Depart-
ment, whose wife died September 21,
1970, after having been in declining
health for several years.

Gaye Thompson

Letters We Liked

Cinque's Basket Bin
Vero Beach, Florida

Dear Sir:

Recently we spent our vacation in
your lovely state and my husband and
I were both so favorably impressed
with the quality of your roads. We
were in the western sector of North
Carolina and we never encountered
one bad passage.

. . . Keep it up. We may move up
there someday.
Sincerely,

Mr. and Mrs. James Cinque

* * *

Mr. J. V. Walter

Road Maintenance Supervisor

4th Division

Wilson, N. C.

Dear Mr. Walter:

I wish to take this opportunity to
express our appreciation for the suf-
ficient and courteous manner in which
your men from the State Highway
Commission handled their job in
clearing the debris from the scene of
the fatal accident on 1-95 south of
Four Oaks, N. C.

Under these circumstances it is
never a pleasant duty to perform,
however, it is nice to have an effi-
cient crew to assist in time like this.

Sincerely yours,
Sgt. C. F. Futrell
State Highway Patrol

25

Congratulations to Laura and Er-
nest Huffman on the birth of a daugh-
ter, Angela Dawn, on October 5,
weighing 6 pounds, 9% ounces. Laura
is a typist in Resident Engineer C.
S. Lewis' office.

Mr. and Mrs. Sammy J. Holder
have a new baby boy named Samuel
Chester Holder. Sammy is a Mainte-
nance employee in Surry County.

Kenneth Brown, Watauga County
Maintenance employee underwent sur-
gery recently; T. R. Reavis is out of
work due to extended illness; and H.
H. Allred broke his leg in a fall down
the church steps. Both Mr. Reavis
and Mr. Allred are District I Main-
tenance employees.

Mrs. Grady Sue Doughton is re-
covering at home following major sur-
gery. Mrs. Doughton is the wife of
Division Engineer J. E. Doughton.

Best wishes for a long and happy
retirement are extended to T. C.
Ha mm, Powderman in Alleghany
County, who retired effective Novem-
ber 1. He had been with the Highway
Commission for 26 years.

District I Maintenance employees
C. A. Amburn, G. L. Goings, D. L.
Melton and W. C. Watson are at-
tending night classes at Surry Com-
munity College. They are taking
courses in surveying.

Sympathy is extended to O. B.
Hodges, Surry County Maintenance
employee, whose mother died October
8.

Frank Hagaman, Road Oil Supervi-
sor, spent a few days in Baltimore,
Maryland, recently and attended the
World Series games played there. He
reported he thoroughly enjoyed every
minute.

Here are Melissa Ann Burnette,
age 2, and Laura Ann Burnette, age
5 months. These lovely little girls are
the grandchildren of Curt Smith, El-
kin Shop Foreman.

District Engineer L. D. Gaither,
Statesville, returned to work on Oc-
tober 12 after being out for surgery,
however, Mr. Gaither returned to the
hospital on Thursday, October 29. A
speedy recovery is wished for Mr.
Gaither and we hope by the time this
goes to press Mr. Gaither will be well
enough to return to work. During Mr.
Gaither's first stay in the hospital he
became a granddaddy not once but
twice — a son was born to his daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Johnson on September 8 and
a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lar-
ry Gaither on September 10.

The new Statesville District Office
has been completed and moving day
was October 7. The employees are
really enjoying the new building.

Mrs. Gary Lee Pope, who was mar-
ried on September 25, 1970, is a Typ-
ist II with the Hickory Construction
Office.

Joe Poovey and L. C. Mills, Ca-
tawba County employees, took their
wives and went on a fishing trip to
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in Oc-
tober. They caught no fish but had a
good time drinking coffee and "shoot-
ing the breeze."

J. W. Wray, Catawba County em-
ployee, also went fishing in October
to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Gary Parker, Trainee, finished his
training period in the Division Office
and transferred to District 1 Mainte-
nance on October 26 for a new phase
of training.

Fidelia Edney of the Division Of-
fice enjoyed a fishing trek to the
beach the latter part of October.

S. B. Brinkley, retired Road Oil
Supervisor, is presently hospitalized
in the Shelby Hospital.

These cute little girls are the
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. R.
Teague. Mr. Teague is Maintenance
Foreman I in Alexander County. Sha-
ron is two and Teresa is 4 months.

JEAN CLINE
Division Correspondent

Sympathy is extended to G. I.
Pearce, Highway Inspector III in the
Hickory Construction Office, in the
death of his father, George Frank
Pearce, who died on October 22, 1970.

R. A. Howard has joined the States-
ville Construction Party as Tempo-
rary Engineering Aide.

The Statesville Construction Group
(Ruppe Party) has moved into their
new headquarters, which are part of
the District Office Building.

Glenn Morton, Mechanic II in the
Equipment Department, recently had
surgery in Charlotte.

Larry G. Ware, Construction De-
partment employee, recently resigned
to take a new job.

C. D. Gettys has recently been pro-
moted to "Tech II" and O. W. Bridges
has been promoted to "Tech I." Both
are Construction Department employ-
ees.

Resident Engineer W. H. Manley
recently purchased a Royal High-
lander Camper Trailer and is look-
ing forward to putting it to use.

R. C. McCarter and D. B. Allen,
Construction Department employees,
each won a Blue Ribbon (First Place)
with their pony entries at the Cleve-
land County Fair, held in October.

Ray Head, Ronnie Ledford and De-
witt Lowery, Construction employees,
enjoyed a pheasant hunt at Lake An-
des, South Dakota, in October and
report a kill of 94 pheasants.

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Chairman of the State Highway Commission, D. M. Faircloth, addresses a crowd at the dedication of a new wel-
come center on Interstate 40, up in Haywood County. It is the first welcome center for people coming to the state from
the west. The center was dedicated on October 21, 1970.

The Division Office welcomes Ro-
bert M. Crisp who is now working on
the training program in the office of
the Staff Engineer. Robert is original-
ly from Asheville. He is married to
the former Shirley Williams. He grad-
uated from Clemson University in De-
cember of 1969 where he received a
B.S.C.E. Degree. As Robert had work-
ed for three summers in the office of
two of our Resident Engineers, this
work is not completely new to him.

Janet King, daughter of Mrs. Esta
Lee King, secretary to Division Engi-
neer F. L. Hutchinson, who has been
in the hospital, is now back in school.

Frances Grey, secretary to Assistant
Division Engineer E. H. McEntire,
has been on the go: she took off to
Williamsburg, Virginia, for a long
weekend. She and her parents had a
wonderful weekend of visiting with
friends and relatives. We don't know
where she will be going next. Guess
we'll have to just wait and see.

It was nice to have Ken Horton
visit us again. He was our Assistant
Division Engineer before he accepted
the position of Division Engineer in
the 9th Division last year.

Andy Ray, retired District Radio
Operator, comes in to see us every
now and then and it is always nice
to see his warm and friendly smile.
I understand he has bought his home
back which he sold sometime ago and
now stays pretty busy working around
the house and yard and loves every
minute of it.

Donna Pratt

The former Donna Davis was mar-
ried to Fred Pratt on August 22, 1970.
She is secretary to Ken Rabb, Resi-
dent Engineer, and has been working
in that office since June 15.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stancil

Mrs. Stancil is the former Anne
Kearney, daughter of S. W. Kearney,
Office Manager here in the Division
Office. Mr. Stancil worked as a sum-
mer employee here this past summer.
Robert and Anne are both attending
college at N. C. State in Raleigh. The
wedding ceremony was performed at
4:00 P.M., August 15, 1970, in Central
United Methodist Church in Ashe-
ville. The reception was held imme-
diately afterwards at the Country
Club of Asheville.

News that A. L. Barnett, Area
Bridge Construction Engineer, and
his family have been awaiting, final-
ly arrived over the weekend. Mr. and
Mrs. Barnett are now the proud
grandparents of a 7-pound, 10-ounce
baby girl born Saturday, October 31,
1970. That was a special treat for
Halloween. This little bundle of joy,
named Lisa, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Mcintosh of Mount
Holly, North Carolina. Mrs. Mcintosh
is the former Dixie Barnett. The
grandparents haven't seen Lisa yet
but will be going to visit her in just
a few days; however, Mr. Barnett has
already assured us that she is "the
sweetest little girl ever was."

Daniel Boone in Asheville

It's hunting season again! Clyde
Orr, Area Landscape Supervisor, has
already gone on a hunting trip to
Hardeesville, South Carolina. He
came back spreading the news that
he killed a buck and we know this to
be the truth because we saw the evi-
dence around the office. We just may
be hearing the same story over again
next week when he goes deer hunt-
ing with that muzzle-loader of his.
We have an up-to-date Daniel Boone
in this office.

Paul Robinson, Area Construction
Engineer, brightened the office with
an unusually happy smile on October
27 after returning from a trip to
Charleston, South Carolina, where he
attended the ball game between The

Citadel and VMI. I think his smile
was a reaction to The Citadel's
triumph over VMI. After all, he is
awfully proud of his alma mater.

September 11 was certainly not a
normal working day for Mrs. Melba
Alexander, secretary to Mr. Novile
C. Hawkins, Commissioner; Mr. Paul
R. Robinson, Area Construction Engi-
neer; Mr. A. L. Barnett, Area Bridge
Construction Engineer, and Mr. E. C.
Orr, Area Landscape Supervisor. On
that date, she was saluted by the var-
ious air personalities on WWNC Ra-
dio as "Secretary of the Day." A
beautiful gift of flowers from a local
flower shop brightened her day and
her bosses honored her by taking her
and some of her friends out to lunch.
Melba says "thank you" to each of
them.

Melba was also very happy to have
a visit from her family several weeks
ago. They are from the eastern part
of the State and don't get up very of-
ten.

MELBA ALEXANDER
Division Correspondent

Mrs. Hazel Fowler, secretary to
Acting Resident Engineer Joe Buck-
ner, recently took a vacation with her
"magician" husband, Bruce. They vi-
sited Cade's Cove and Gatlinburg,
Tennessee. Then they went on to
Nashville, Tennessee, where they vi-
sited the Egyptian Hall of Magic and
the home of Andrew Jackson. From
Nashville they ventured on to Chatta-
nooga for a two-day "Harvest of Ma-
gic" Convention where Mr. Fowler
performed a 20-minute show on Sat-
urday night.

Hazel (above) assisted Mr. Gosh-
man, a magician from Atlanta, Geor-
gia, in a "coin magic" performance.
Hazel was trying to see what hap-
pened to the coin. If Hazel couldn't
detect the magic, I'm sure none of us
could as she is married to one of those
magicians.

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Road Oil Department

We wish to express our sympathy to
the family of E. V. Gosnell in the
death of his grandchild; the family of
George Cook in the death of his
brother; and the family of Roy Mc-
intosh in the death of his father.

Mrs. Rita Rhymer, secretary to
Resident Engineer Dan Martin, spent
a weekend recently with her husband,
Jim, and their darling little boy, Rob,
in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. While there,
they went on to the Ski Lodge, Pi-
geon Forge, and Cade's Cove.

K. E. Ramsey who works out of
the office of F. D. Martin, has passed
his Engineering Aide Test. Eddie has
been working with the Commission for
three months.

The office of H. C. Reed, Resident
Engineer, welcomes Jim Turlington as
Acting Assistant Resident Engineer.
Jim graduated from N. C. State in
Raleigh where he received a B.S. de-
gree in Civil Engineering.

Mr. Reed's office is also happy to
announce that their project on 1-40
from Luther to Monte Vista Road
near Asheville has been completed
and was dedicated on Saturday, Octo-
ber 24, 1970, with Governor Robert
W. Scott as speaker.

Mrs. Joyce Metcalf, secretary to H.
C. Reed, spent a weekend with her
husband recently in Gatlinburg, Ten-
nessee. That was a very nice way of
celebrating her wedding anniversary.

Gary Sutphin and Linda King were
married on Saturday, October 31,
1970. Gary works under H. C. Reed.

1-40 Work Causes Staff Increase

All the workers in K. W. Rabb's
office are happy to have him back in
the office after several weeks of ill-
ness. They are also happy to have
George Gudger and K. E. Bowman
back after lengthy illnesses. They are
also delighted to have S. T. Usry help-
ing them on their big 1-40 project. A.
L. Price has come to work there from
the 12th Division as Assistant Resi-
dent Engineer and M. R. Phillips,
Highway Engineer I, has also joined
the staff. Mr. Phillips is originally
from Franklin, but has been working
with Penn Central Railroad in Ohio
for about 10 years. Now working in
Mr. Rabb's office are the following
new Engineering Aides: R. G. Bal-
lard; D. M. Greene; G. D. Wood; and
M. H. Aiken.

The office of Resident Engineer A.
L. Neal welcomes the following En-
gineering Aides: H. J. Wright, D. R.
Worley and T. T. Duncan. They wish
the best to D. M. Mcintosh, B. W.
Condrey and S. N. West, Engineering
Aides who have returned to college
after working all summer.

District Two: We wish to express
our heartfelt sympathy to John and
Troy Morrow on the recent death of
their father.

Congratulations to Phil Layton on
his recent engagement to Joy Anne
Lowry of Drexel. Phil tells us the
wedding will take place on January
4, 1971.

We all wish J. B. Dodd a speedy re-
covery from his illness. Mr. Dodd has
been very seriously ill and we are
hoping he is making an improvement.

We are all very sorry Mrs. Edna
Ramsey's husband has been sick
again. We hope he is going to be all
right. Edna is secretary to D. B. Wa-
ters, District Engineer.

MOUNTAIN CALL
OF THE WILD

There is a strange change in the
interpretations of mountain wild
life in North Carolina about the
time the leaves fall.

During most of the year the
chatter of the squirrel and the flip
of his brush is a delight to hear
and behold. The back sweep of the
antlers of a deer in flight is a
sight of beauty and grace. The
beat of the grouse is a wonder and
a delight, the track of the bear to
be measured and marveled-at.

Not so in the late fall and win-
ter. The flip of the squirrel tail is
to our Highway Sportsman as a
red flag is to a bull in the arena.
The eight point buck has eight
spikes of iron heated in the fur-
naces of torment, searing into the
hunters' soul, making it manda-
tory to kill the animal and eat the
flesh to avoid dire troubles before
spring. The beat of the grouse be-
comes a torn torn sending out a
challenging message no red blood-
ed Highway Sportsman can ignore.
The black bear track changes to
hieroglyphics, spelling out a chal-
lenge of a battle to the death.

. . We certainly hope that all
our Highway Sportsmen survive
this season.

Dear
Employees

Re: December 31 — January 4, 1971

The Apollo 11 Command Module,
used by Neil Armstrong, Michael Col-
lins, and Buzz Aldrin for their fa-
mous moon venture will be exhibited
in Raleigh.

Officials have chosen to exhibit the
module in downtown Raleigh while
state offices are closed for vacation.
Located on the north side of the
Capitol in the middle of Halifax
Street, the exhibit will be open from
10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, from Thurs-
day, December 21, 1970, through Fri-
day, Saturday, and Sunday, January
1, 2, and 3, 1971. The exhibit will
also be open on Monday, January 4,
1971, a day when some highway em-
ployees should be around.

For the occasion and for several
months after the Apollo exhibit
"North Carolina and Apollo" an ex-
hibition documenting the contribu-
tions of North Carolinians (the Apol-
lo re-entry system was designed in
North Carolina by North Carolinians)
and displaying items they used, will
be held at the Archives and History
Building. Sam Townsend has an-
nounced the following schedule for
the Apollo exhibition:

Thursday, December 31, 1970
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Friday, January 1, 1971
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 2, 1971
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, January 3, 1971
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday, January 4, 1971
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Season's Greetings to all.

Santa . . .

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page 8).

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