February 1953 page 9

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MR. HELMS MR. SHIPPEY MR. McINTOSH

TO SERVE IN CHARLOTTE
Traffic Dept. Bames McIntosh and Helms

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TWO new appointments to positions
on the Piedmont & Northern Rail-
way's Charlotte traffic staff have been
announced by L. R. Lawson, vice presi-
dent and traffic manager of the rail-
road.

T.V. McIntosh Je., formerly P & N
agent at Gastonia, has been appointed
to the post of commercial agent and
Laurence B. Helms Jr., formerly chief
clerk in the Charlotte traffic office, has
been named freight traffic agent. Both
of these positions are concerned with
freight traffic solicitations in the Char-
lotte territory which is under the di-
rection of D. V. Shippey, assistant gen-
eral freight agent.

Mr. McIntosh, a native of Charlotte,
has been an employee of the P & N since
1943, with the exception of several
years of service in the Navy during
World War II. After serving in various
capacities on both the North and South
Carolina Divisions of he railroad he

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was promoted to agent at Gastonia in
March, 1951. His first service with the
P & N was in the Charlotte agency
where he accepted a position afer be-
ing graduated from Harding High
School and Burton Junior College.

While in Gastonia Mr. McIntosh
served as secretary of the Gastonia
Civitan Club, as prelate and officer of
the Loyal Order of Moose, and was a
director of the widely-acclaimed drum
and bugle corps of the Gastonia Post 23,
American Legion. He was a member of
the First Baptist Church in Gastonia.
He and his wife, the former Miss Golda
E. Grogan of Boone, and two-year-old
daughter have recently established
their residence in Charlotte.

Mr. Helms,, a native of Char-
lotte, was graduated from Central High
School and attended N. C. State Col-
lege at Raleigh. He is a veteran of two
years of service in the traffic depart-
ment of the general offices. For the

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