N&W Sets Better Service Meeting

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Roanoke Times - March 23, 1958

N&W Sets Better Service Meeting

Session Slated For Roanoke

   Some 500 Norfolk and Western railroaders from nine states will 
meet at Hotel Roanoke Friday and Saturday for the carrier's 33rd 
annual Better Service Conference.
   THE MEN, representing almost all of the numerous skills it takes 
to run a railroad, will hear talks by top officials and swap ideas in 
committee meetings. Speaker at the annual dinner Friday will be Dr. 
Tennyson Guyer, humorist of Findlay, Ohio.
   The opening luncheon at 12:45 p.m. Friday will be addressed by 
R.H. Smith, who retires as N&W president March 31. Out-of-town 
delegates will be welcomed by Mayor Walter L. Young, N&W assistant 
chief engineer. After lunch the conferences six committees will 
discuss and prepare reports for the assembly Saturday morning.
   On Saturday the delegates will hear talks by President-elect 
Stuart T. Saunders; H.C. Wyatt, vice president and general manager; 
F.S. Baird, vice president in charge of traffic, and C.E. Pond, 
general superintendent motive power. The conference will end with a luncheon.
   General Claim Agent L.C. Yates, whose department sponsors the 
affair, is general chairman. All general sessions will be held in the 
hotel ballroom.
   Dr, Guyer will be introduced at the dinner by Vice President 
Sydney F. Small. Known as "Ohio's ambassador of good will," the 
humorist is director of public relations for the Cooper Tire and Rubber Co.

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