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Va. It is understood he will remain
for several weeks before further assign-
ment.

[photo of Debra Ann Kay with birthday cake]
Debra Ann Kay, above, was photo-
graphed just as she was getting set
to whack into her first birthday cake
on March 9. She is the daughter of
Cashier and Mrs. H. Wayne Kay of
Spartanburg.

W. G. Jackson visited the Green-
ville agency while enroute to his regu-
lar rest resort near Walhalla, S. C. It
is understood that Mr. Jackson intends to
catch up with his fishing and just plain
resting.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Connelly have an-
nounced the birth of a son, Cecil E., Jr.,
at Greenville General Hospital on April
6. Mr. Connelly is carman at the
Greenville shops.

J. C. Strickland has returned from a
vacation spent on the West Coast.

Larry Crenshaw, son of Electrician
E. L. Crenshaw, of the Greenville
Shops, is recuperating following an
appendectomy.

J. C. Langford, electrician at the
Greenville shops, has returned to work
after having been on the injured list.

Thomas Hugh Maxwell of Abbeville,
father of Agent T. H. Maxwell, Jr., of
Greenwood died in Abbeville at the
age of 80.

Mrs. Ida Robinson Griffin, mother of
Bulldozer operator B. F. Griffin, Jr.,
died at her home near Dacusville, S. C.
following a year of declining health.

DURHAM & SOUTHERN

Durham Yard Conductor, J. M. Tuck-
er spent the Easter holidays with his
son, Billy, in Florida.

Rate Clerk N. D. O'Briant took a
week of his vacation during the latter
part of April to rest and relax around
home.

Engineer W. A. Williams has return-
ed to duty after undergoing an opera-
tion in McPherson Hospital in Durham.

Mr. and Mrs. Erby Tart of Durham
spent a recent week-end in Washi-
ington taking in the cherry blossoms.
Mr. Tart is clerk-dispatcher.

Mrs. Blanche Matthews and husband
spent Easter Sunday in Goldsboro at-
tending the service at Wayne Memorial
Park. They were accompanied by their
daughter, Barbara. Mr. Matthews is
a stenographer in the Durham traffic
office.

Mrs. H. A. McAllister, wife of Su-
perintendent McAllister, spent a week
recently visiting her son and daughter-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McAllister,
Jr., in New York. Another son, Private
John N. McAllister, is stationed in
Puerto Rico as an English instructor
for Puerto Rican trainees, and a third
son, Robert M. McAllister, attached to
the 7th Air Division in London, End-
land, has just been promoted to Cap-
tain.

NUMBER 48 →

Number 48, an early morning train northbound
out of Greenwood, rounds a curve just south of
Williamston, S. C. A few seconds later the
double-headed diesel locomotive thundered
under Highway 20 and on northward to Green-
ville and Spartanburg. Number 48 leaves
Greenwood after receipt of cars from the Sea-
board and the Georgia & Florida Railroad and
arrives in Spartanburg in time for traffic to
move out on the Clinchfield's through trains to
St. Paul, Va., and Elkhorn City, Ky. This photo-
graph was made right after a heavy shower
had drenched the train.

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