Semaphore - May 1953

[photo of Michael and Joan Roberts sitting on chair] Pictured above are Michael and Joan Roberts, children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts. Joan is six and Michael is two and a half. Mr. Roberts is a clerk in the Gastonia agency.

[photo of Nancy Calvert] Nancy Ann Calvert, above, is the daughter of Agent and Mrs. Lewis Calvert of Mt. Holly. She will be graduated this June from Mt. Holly High School as one of the top seven honor graduates. If her plans materialize she will enter Winthrop College next fall.

P. C. White of the Charlotte agency took his annual vacation during the last two weeks of April. He spent part of the time at home and part on fishing trips.

Agent and Mrs. R. R. Vaughan planned a week's vacation in May to visit their daughter and family at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Goodman spent the week of May 4 visiting in New York. Mr. Goodman is a clerk in the Charlotte agency.

Conductor Alfred Helton is recuperating from a recent operation and two weeks stay at the Mercy Hospital in Charlotte. Reports indicate that he is getting along very well.

P & N (S. C. DIVISION)

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil M. Amick of Spartanburg have announced the birth of a son, George Clifton, on March 2 at the Spartanburg General Hospital. Mr. Amick is contract drayman for the P & N at Spartanburg.

Mrs. Eula Clapp and family visited her sister, Mrs. Philip Case, in Hendersonville, N. C. during the week-end of April 19. Mrs. Clapp is clerk in the Greenvlle agency.

Miss Maude Austin, steno-clerk, visited her sister, Mrs. S. R. Cathey in Hendersonville, N. C. recently.

J. Rowley Smith, of the Mechanical Department, Greenville shops, has returned to work after recovering from a serious operatioon at the Greenville General Hospital several weeks ago.

Cpl. R. H. Smith, formerly assistant rate clerk in the Greenville agency, has now been stationed at Fort Belvoir,

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Va. It is understood he will remain for several weeks before further assignment.

[photo of Debra Ann Kay with birthday cake] Debra Ann Kay, above, was photographed 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 Greenville agency while enroute to his regular 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 announced 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. Tucker 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 returned to duty after undergoing an operation in McPherson Hospital in Durham.

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

Mrs. Blanche Matthews and husband spent Easter Sunday in Goldsboro attending 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 Superintendent McAllister, spent a week recently visiting her son and daughterin-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, Endland, has just been promoted to Captain.

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 Greenville and Spartanburg. Number 48 leaves Greenwood after receipt of cars from the Seaboard 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 photograph was made right after a heavy shower had drenched the train.

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[photo of Train Number 48] [caption is on previous page]

Piedmont & Northern Rwy. Co. Durham & Southern Rwy. Co. P. O. Box 480, Charlotte, N. C.

Form 3547 Requested

Sec. 34.66 P.L.&R. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Charlotte, N. C. Permit No. 451

[photo of Bob Ellison at work]

RAILROADERS AT WORK . . .

In the old days it was rare indeed when a boy did not follow in his father's footsteps. Skills, like family heirlooms, were passed from father to son.

Today is more the exception than the rule. Electrician Bob Ellison exemplifies that exception as he skillfully grinds the commutator on the main generator of a big P & N diesel. His fater before him was an aramature winder for the railroad during most of his life, and his skill lives on in his son.

Craftsmen like Bob Ellison keep the railroad running day in and day out, enabling us to give the courteous, reliable freight service that has become our hallmark.