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On This Day in Automotive History: January 26
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On This Day in Automotive History
January 26
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Birthdays: George Abell (1901), Doc Shanebrook (1907),
Al Bonnell (1909), Edgar Barth (1917), Red Tomlinson (1923), Paul Newman (1925), Tony Nelson (1927), Allen McMillion (1937), Guy Chasseuil (1942), Tom Jones (1943), Denis Cribbin (1944), Bob Forester (1944), David Purley (1945), Frankie Girdler (1952), Doc McKinney (1952), Dave Pletcher (1952), Gary Funk (1953), David Machavern (1953), Billy Hess (1955), Philippe Martin (1955), Nick Fornoro Jr. (1956), John Tancredi (1964), Curtis Gerry (1971), Don Thomas (1972), Derrick Lancaster (1973),
Scott Wimmer (1976), Richard Antinucci (1981), Sergio Perez (1990), Alice Powell (1993), Alessandro Brigatti (1997)
1904: OPRI Director Martin Dodge joins a committee of good roads advocates, about 75 strong, at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington to discuss ways of securing government aid in construction of good roads. At 4 o'clock, the group visits President Theodore Roosevelt, who tells them he is sympathetic to their cause "because we are a civilized people, and we cannot afford to have barbaric methods of communication."
1942: Gloria M. Campbell begins work with PRA as a CAF-1 earning $105 per month, "including half days on Saturday and no overtime pay," as she later put it. She served the PRA/BPR/FHWA in its San Francisco office for 52 years, before passing away on October 24, 1994, after experiencing chest pains while at work in the morning. Ms. Campbell is believed to have served more years with the FHWA than any other employee.
1968: FHWA asks the Delaware River Port Authority for detailed information on toll increases on the bridges in the Camden, NJ, area. Administrator Lowell Bridwell requests that the increases be delayed until a review is completed under a provision of the General Bridge Act of 1946 that allows FHWA to prescribe reasonable tolls on interstate bridges (a Corps of Engineers responsibility transferred to FHWA when it joined USDOT in April 1967).
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