Word: morehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merving N. "Mery" Lysing, 4-43, Morehead State Teachers College '37 and Mineapolis. He plays the sax and clarinet, writes music, and has a secret ambition to play the accordion...
...Atlantic & North Carolina ever gets into a history of U.S. railroads, it will be a footnote to a footnote. It operates 95.82 miles of single track from Morehead City (pop. 3,483) on the coast to Goldsboro (pop. 14,958). Tarheels call it the "Mullet Line," because it used to haul so many fish. Yet last week no U.S. railroad man, seeking to justify private v. State ownership, could have hoped for a neater case than the Atlantic & North Carolina...
...pale, black-browed Harry Edwards plugged away. Firing political jobholders, he saved $45,507 in operating costs the first year. He laid 100,000 new crossties, rebuilt the locomotives, repaired the buildings, bought a new Diesel. Then he helped get the Hatteras Oil Co. to set up offices at Morehead City and start shipping its asphalt...
...Mullet Line's future under Harry Edwards looks bright. Specifications for a new Marine air base at Cherry Point call for 32,000 carloads of sand and gravel-more than twice the line's normal annual traffic. Soon to start at Morehead City is a $5,000,000 Marine supply base which will mean still more carloadings...