Queen of the Big Top Finalists Collect Awards. Queen of the Big Top Lynette Stites of Festus received airline tickets to California for herself and a chaperone from Walter T. Smith, vice president of Anheuser-Busch, as other finalists in the Queen of the Big Top contest look on. They are (from the left) Pat Shebik, Marilyn Stalcup, Marcia Hope Cole and June Enos, who received watches. In the foreground is luggage and clothing given to the queen, who will ride a St. Louis float in the Tournament of Roses parade New Year's Day.
Ed DeRoche, Ph.D., explains a point to teachers at a recent Globe-Democrat Newspaper in Education summer workshop held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Another summer workshop will be held Aug. 1-10 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The First Unit of the Globe-Democrat Modern Presses, formerly used by the Star-Times, was removed from the KXOK building yesterday and installed in the press room. The mammoth moving operation, requiring removal and installation of eight 14-ton units, will continue next week. Foundation preparations have been under way at the Globe-Democrat for several weeks. The two Goss Multi-Color headlines
Name Game Winner - Jesse Johnson (left) a TWA representative, gives name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville, IL her prize... two tickets for airline flight. She is thinking of going to Atlanta.
Name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville gets her prize, two tickets for a TWA flight, from Jesse Johnson, a TWA representative.
Greenbrier's Bill Furman presenting a check for $13,500 per railcar to Norm Feren, SPRR Mechanical and Bob Yates SPRR Intermodal for the purchase of obsolete multi-level railcars and their conversion into Twin 45' trailer flatcars. Work will be performed at SPRR's RAMAC facility in Roseville, CA under a $6 million contract where SPRR Mechanical at RAMAC will perform the work and be paid by
Various takes of testimonials by Dave Starling of In-Terminal Services and Rick Dorsey of Piggyback Services, intermodal terminal operators of Greenbrier Intermodal's Twin Stack bulkhead double stack container cars 1987.
A Step Ahead in Intermodal Railroad Equipment 1989 discusses the best use of Maxi-Stack I and Maxi-Stack III double stack container cars. Maxi-Stack I is made for International container traffic with a capacity of 124,000 pounds per well and capability to handle 220' containers or one 40' container in the wells and 40', 45' or 48' containers on top. Maxi-Stack III is considered the Terminal
R.V. Slaton, 2329 Virginia avenue, is shown being congratulated by City Judge George G. Vest after Slaton had shown his interest in the crusade against accidents by driving his automobile through the Globe-Democrat Safety Lane , and receiving the sticker of approval. Judge vest is pointing to the sticker of approval given all cars that pass the safety tests.
A group of city officials and civic leaders were at the preview of the Globe-Democrat Safety Lane yesterday morning. They were photographed in the Safety Lane just before the first car was officially tested. They included Thomas N. Dystart, president, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; Walter Ziegenbein, Bendix Products Corporation; Edwin A. Kayser, president, St. Louis Safety Council; R. E. Matthews, manager of the road service department, Automobile Club of Missouri; Capt. Loepker, commanding officer of the Traffic Division of the Police Department; E. Lansing Ray, president of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; T. E. Doll, Borbein-Young & Co.; Milton B. Strauss, president of the Greater St. Louis Automotive Association, Inc; Fire Chief John J. O'Boyle; George Niekamp of Beck & Corbitt; Joseph A. Schlecht, secretary and manager of the Greater St. Louis Automotive Association, Inc; Alfred Jordan of Hadley Vocational School; Joseph Feuchter, charge of vehicles, Streets and Sewers Division; A. W. Tilley, Bendix Products Corporation; City Judge Joseph Simpson; F. J. Jeffery, assistant superintendent, Board of Education, and Joe Haenny of the Bendix Products Corporation.
Modern safety light standards and pedestrian "islands," as proposed by the Committee of Municipal Enforcement of Gov. Guy B. Parks Missouri State Safety Traffic Committee, are shown above. Maj. Albert Bond Lambert, vice president of the St. Louis Police Board, is Chairman of the Municipal Enforcement Committee. An important feature of the recommendations of the state committee is the deflective design of the bases of the standards, which swerve the vehicle away from the light pillars instead of permitting them to the standards.
The Globe-Democrat's high school athletes of 1974-75 gathered recently to swap stories and talk of future plans. They are (from left) Jerome Heavens of Assumption (football), Hazelwood East's Al Olmstead (baseball), Triad's Brad Droy (basketball) and Sumner's Oscar Harvey (track).