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On This Day in Automotive History: July 31
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On This Day in Automotive History
July 31
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Birthdays: Herbert Scheel (1894), Thomas Cholmondeley-Tapper (1910), Henry Guerand (1912), Louise Smith (1916), Joe Langley (1918), M.R.J. Wyllie (1919), Bill Deakin (1920), Bill Cintia (1923), Bib Stillwell (1927), Frances Ballantine (1929), Billy Rafter (1929), Art Faber (1933), Mauro Bianchi (1937), Christian Ethuin (1946), Buck Simmons (1946), Gerard Tremblay (1950), Rick Roland (1951), Miguel Amaral (1954), Paul Gover (1955), Fraser Wellon (1956), Mike Alexander (1957), Ricky Harrison (1959), Kye Wankum (1959), Keith Rossberg (1961), Kevin Floars (1962), Jerry Cook (1966), Rhett O'Doski (1971), Lee Kinsey (1976), Jay Blair (1977), Cory Roper (1977), Justin Wilson (1978), Justin Hobgood (1979), Joseph Lewis (1986), Ryan Lynch (1986), Nicolas de Crem (1990), Nick Panitzke (1990), Joey Licata (1991), Kyle Larson (1992), Dalton Armstrong (1994), Jordan Pepper (1996), Louis Prette (1998), Jayden Ojeda (1999)
1945: An Act is approved to amend the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 to provide for payment of half the cost of acquiring and freeing toll bridges. This makes permanent the temporary powers granted during the war.
1970: For a half hour today, Miss Lynda Sue Plambeck of Carpenter, Wyoming, is Girls Nation "Federal Highway Administrator." (Girls Nation is a youth citizenship training program conducted each year by the American Legion Auxiliary.) Sitting at the desk of Administrator Frank Turner, Miss Plambeck reviews correspondence, often asking questions about the documents before signing off on them. After she completes her duties, Turner gives her a copy of the triskelion USDOT emblem. Miss Plambeck, turning to a map of the Interstate System behind them, asks Turner, "When will you finish that road from Walcott to Carpenter?" He assures her that construction of I-80 is underway. (On October 3, 1970, when that stretch opens, FHWA is represented by Deputy Administrator Ralph R. Bartelsmeyer and former "Administrator" Plambeck.)
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