April 1959 page 1

Semaphore

PIEDMONT & NORTHERN
SERVICE WITH COURTESY
[image of company logo]

VOLUME 15 NUMBER 4 APRIL, 1959

Published at Charlotte, N. C., by the Piedmont and Northern Railway
Company, a 130-mile railroad extending in an arc through the rich Pied-
mont Carolinas and serving such thriving cities as Anderson, Greenville,
Greenwood, and Spartanburg in South Carolina, and Charlotte and Gas-
tonia in North Carolina. Address all communications to the editor, P. O.
Box 480, Charlotte, N. C. Comments and suggestions are solicited.

EDITOR
THOMAS G. LYNCH
Director of Industrial Development and Public Relations

CORRESPONDENTS

Elizabeth N. Watt ........................... Anderson

Merle V. Goodman ......................... Charlotte

Jean Wilkinson .............................. Gastonia

Harry T. Campbell ......................... Greenville

Edwin T. White .............................. Greenville

Evelyn Williams ............................. Greenville

D. V. Sadler .................................... Pinoca

W. R. Page ..................................... Spartanburg

[image of decorative fence in front of a bank]

UNDER THE COVER

Workmen have begun the job of dismantling exsiting
buildings on the site of the American Commercial Bank's
planned 18-story bank and office building in Charlotte.
See the story on page 5. Not one to let an opportunity
pass, the bank's imaginative vice president, Arthur H.
Jones, figured that the construction barricade was some-
thing they would be living behind for well over a year.
So why not use it to the best advantage? An extra bit
of gingerbread was added to the fence, including a
Snow White dwarf theme, and the barricade emerged
as a prime attraction along Charlotte's busy Tryon
Street. It is probably the fanciest construction fence men
ever worked behind.