Dewitt C. Greer paved way for Texas highway system
In 1936, Greer moved to Austin to head the department's division of construction and design. In 1940 the Texas Highway Commission appointed the 37-year-old Greer to be state highway engineer. World War II interrupted his plan to launch an expanded program of highway development, as work was performed largely on military roads and many highway department employees joined the armed forces. Greer's attempt to enlist was rejected by military authorities. When the war ended in 1945 the Texas Highway Department had plans ready for what became at the time the greatest construction program in the history of the world: "getting Texas motorists out of the mud" by adding 50,000 miles of paved highway to the 26,000 miles of all-weather roads existing in 1944. Much of the postwar funding, mostly from the federal government, built interstate highways, in which Texas led the nation. More than 40,000 miles of paved farm roads also were constructed in Texas. After 27 years as chief administrator, Greer served as a member of the Texas Highways and Public Transportation Commission for 12 years. In 1969 Governor Preston Smith appointed him chairman of the highway commission, a position he held from 1969 to 1972. When Greer retired in 1981 the state highway headquarters building in Austin was named for him. began his career in journalism at Texas Tech when he was hired as a sportswriter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He also covered sports for the Wichita Falls Record-Times and Amarillo Globe-News before moving to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1935 to 1941. He began publishing short stories in Collier's, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post.On July 27, 1940, civil-rights activist Lonnie E. Smith attempted to vote in the Democratic primary in Harris County. Smith, an African-American dentist born in Dam.
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Dewitt C. Greer paved way for Texas highway system
On July 27, 1958, Claire Lee Chennault, a Texas native who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II, died in New Orleans. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Monuments were erected to him in Taipei, on the grounds of the Louisiana
I-Team: Towed Cars Relocated To Random Spots - New Orleans News ...
NEW ORLEANS -- When one parade-goer in New Orleans had his car towed, he went through a month-long ordeal to find it and get it back, only to learn that what happened to him is not so uncommon.
And based on a WDSU I-Team investigation into what happened, police are making changes to their vehicle-towing procedures. Frenchman Street in the Marigny is the starting point for the parade of the infamous Krewe Du Vieux. Ryan Espinosa made sure he was there Feb. 19. "It was a beautiful Saturday morning. I came down to enjoy the afternoon," he said. Espinosa parked his car in the 600 block of Frenchman Street, he admits, right near a no-parking sign. When he returned after the parade, his gold Mazda was gone. Espinosa said the police nearby told him it had been towed. "They gave me a number of towing companies through the city who I could call who might have the car," said Espinosa. But that turned up nothing. Espinosa even went in person to check at both city impound lots, to no avail. "I went back to the Eighth District (police station). They didn't have the car and they didn't know where it was, so they suggested I make a stolen car report, which I did under the advisement of the Police Department," said Espinosa. A police report obtained by the WDSU I-Team indicates that three days after Ryan's car vanished, police opened an auto theft case, classified by police as a 67a. "I didn't think I'd ever see the car again," said Espinosa. But one month later, everything changed, and what transpired has Espinosa and his attorney, John Adcock, angry. According to a police report, just days into the stolen car investigation, officers suspected Espinosa's car may not have been stolen at all -- rather, they suspected it had been "relocated." The police report even quotes Officer Alex Brady as saying "tow trucks often move cars to random spots in the city." But Municipal Code doesn't allow tow truck drivers to simply pick up and move a vehicle. The code states that all towed cars must be taken to city impound lots. On March 17, almost a month after Espinosa reported his car stolen, the report shows detectives located Ryan's car in the 1700 block of St. Claude Avenue, almost nine blocks away from where it was originally parked.