SALISBURY — On his farm in eastern Rowan County, Hugh Martin sometimes likes to “play” in what once was the old wash house and a place for canning. He has filled it with work benches, tools and things ...

There were no commas or periods or even numbers on the teletype machine Louis Gianacopoulos operated day after day during the many months he served in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. But ...

That’s all Evelyn Yonka has to say about turning 100 on Memorial Day. But ask about her career as a teletype operator for the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) formerly known as the Women’s Army Auxiliary ...

I served in the US Air Force from 1952 to 1956. I was in Korea from Nov. 1952 to Oct. 1953. The following is my story. At about this time, some 68 years ago, I was sailing the Pacific Ocean on my way ...

Elizabeth Teass was a Western Union teletype operator in 1944, posted at a desk in Green’s Drugstore in downtown Bedford, a spot where locals gathered every day for gossip and a treat from the soda ...

The state’s 1,022-page Civil Service Classifications review is as tall as a soda can. Jon Ortiz The Sacramento Bee Like cobwebs and clutter in an attic, California’s state bureaucracy is stuffed with ...

When the bells rang, Airman 2nd Class Daisy Gates knew encrypted messages had arrived. The messages quickly needed to be sent to locations such as Washington, D.C., or overseas. It was during the ...