Minnesota Highways, November 1956

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VOL. 6,  NO.   1
1246  University Ave.,  St.  Paul 4, Minn.
November,  1956
Examination Planned to
Name Larimer Successor
Plans are under way for a civil service examination to be
conducted for die selection of a successor to Earl M. Larimer,
who resigned October 19 as state highway safety director
after 26/2 years in the Highway department.
As highway safety director for
the past two years, he headed
the department's Safety division,
which includes the Minnesota
Highway patrol and Driver's License division, as well as the department's general safety activities.
Fie left the Highway department
to become vice president and safety counselor of the Arrow Insurance Co. of St. Paul. In his new
position, Larimer succeeds E. P.
^ee, former director of the Highway department's Driver's License
division, who died September 7.
Joining the Highway department in 1930 as a member of the
first recruit school in the Highway
(Continued on  page 6)
Retiring Safety
Director Honored
On the eve of Earl Larimer's
leaving the Highway department,
more than 50 of his associates and
friends honored him with a recognition dinner October 18 at the
Biverview Commercial club. They
presented him with an inscribed
citation of his highway services,
a set of matched golf clubs, and
other gifts, including a photo of his
last appearance in a Highway patrol uniform.
(Continued  on  page 6)
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2 Philippine Highway
Engineers Study Shops
Observing a completed overhaul job on
a big Diesel motor in the Central shops
are Florentino Montemayor, front, and
Adelaido R. Encarnacion, middle, of the
Philippine Bureau of Public Highways.
Their guide was Selmer Johnson, auto
mechanic foreman.
Highway Appreciation Day
Is Event at Twin Valley
Something unusual in highway
celebrations occurred at Twin Valley. There area residents conducted a Highway Appreciation day.
It was to express their pleasure
over highway improvements accomplished in the region in the
past several decades.
Speakers included Governor Orville L. Freeman, State Senator
Norman Larson of Ada, and Carl
Larson, assistant district engineer
at Bemidji for the Minnesota Highway department. Other activities
were free movies, band music and
merchandise gifts.
For the third time in five years,
the Philippine Bureau of Public
Roads now has representatives in
Minnesota to study the organization and operation of the Highway
department.
The present visitors are Adelaido R. Encarnacion, assistant mechanical engineer of the Philippine
bureau's equipment and shop division, and Florentino Montemayor,
acting superintendent of the bureau's big North Central shops
in Manila. Both graduate mechan-
■al engineers, they are here for a
six-month training course in the
department's shop layout and operation and shop and field maintenance and repair of highway
equipment. Another six months
will be spent at other U. S. locations.
Previous Filipino visitors were
Rdolfo Maslog, Philippine highway commissioner, and Simplicio
Nuque, chief legal officer and assistant chief accountant.
Among other recent foreign visitors to the Minnesota Highway
department were five top French
highway officials who spent a week
studying highway design, construction, and maintenance.
Through observations in the department's headquarters and central and district shops, Encarnacion and Montemayor will study
large and small shop layout, administration and operation, service
and repair equipment, warehousing control of tools and parts, labor
management, and cost accounting
procedures.
They explained that the Philippine Bureau of Public Roads operates or has supervision of the operation of 95 central and district
equipment depots and repair and
service shops and owns $32 million of road equipment which it
rents to the provincial highway departments for actual operation.