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Dateline 1984 — AT&T, get me the Far East!
As the Coast grew, the burgeoning Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport (now International) became a favorite news beat. So when prime news source Wayne Lindquist departed his job as manager of our local airport for a three-year stint at the fabled Saudi Arabian’s King Khalid airport, I thought I could continue relying on Lindquist occasionally via ATT long distance. I was wrong. He served as manager of a fabled airport that boasted four airports in one, waterfalls three stories high, and 7 million departures a year. But, alas, for all the importance of such a job, the Saudis gave him no telephone. When I finally learned he had left that area, I was told only that he had “gone to the Far East.”
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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