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Thursday, November 3, 1960, page 55 (of 63)

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I Commute 227 Miles A Day—

A pipe and a relaxed wheel grip help Walter Bailey on his endurance drive. He has to face into the sun going and coming — hence the dark glasses. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE TATEM WHEN the commuters in my office start griping about the traffic they fight getting to and from work, I laugh to myself and, if the conversation swings around to me, I have to admit to commuting 227 miles each day. Sure, that sounds like a lot of miles but it's really easier than the trip most commuters make. My typical day gets underway at 3 a.m. with breakfast which my wife Maxine, who gets up at 2:30, has already fixed. At that hour our home in Union City, Ohio, less than a block from the Indiana state line, is the only one on Market Street with a light burning. That seems awfully early to most people but the only time I mind is Monday morning. Too much sleep over the weekend can make me feel logy on Monday, and I can't get started as readily as later in the week. Breakfast usually takes about 20 or 25 minutes and is a good time to catch up on the newspapers or sometimes do a little studying toward my doctor's degree. After breakfast comes shaving and dressing so that by four or 4:05 a.m. I'm ready to begin the 1131⁄2 mile trek to my desk in Columbus, Ohio. There's no work to driving this early, and I'm lucky to meet more than two cars between here and Springfield, 70 miles away. It's a calm, peaceful time of day, with the early morning mists sitting in the hollows and the sun trying to peek over the horizon, making a perfect time to get a lot of thinking done, something that's hard to do during the rest of the day. Listening to the radio helps keep track of time since I don't wear a watch. With a steady pace of 55 or 60 miles an hour, Greenville is reached in 15 to 18 minutes, and Tipp City comes a half hour later. By 5:40 a.m. I've covered 70 miles. On the east side of Springfield I pick up three other men from the office who alternate driving to Columbus. There's nothing to this last leg of the trip, 43 miles of four-lane divided highway that can be driven at a mile a minute. The last six miles from Columbus' outskirts to the U.S. Army Engineer's Maintenance Center downtown are the toughest, but at this hour there's not too much traffic on the streets of Ohio's capital city. We usually have enough time for coffee before 7 a.m. when I settle to my work as research technician for Royer and Roger, Inc., a private firm producing instruction and assembly manuals for the Engineers. At day's end we leave the Center about 4:10

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