Who Remembers Jay Taylor – It is always nice to write something about the boys we remember as school kids…Today’s paragraph is about the chief of the civil aeronautics administration, Los Angeles, remembered by many living near Lawrence Street School during the roarin’ twenties as Jay Taylor…He graduated with the class of 1924 at Ironton High School and he is now in his thirty-fifth year in government service.
His keen interest in electronics started in the basement workshop at the home of his parents near the old ice plant…His father, John C. Taylor, a retired locksmith, now lives in the home at 714 Buckhorn Street where Jay and his pal Dicky Thompson equipped an underground room with a homemade generator to send wireless messages, and their apparatus cut off all the telephones in that section of the city and puzzled the telephone workmen several days before they discovered where the interference was originating.
After joining the Navy Jay became a wireless operator and was stationed at Cleveland airport in 1928…He next was at Oakland, Calif, and then Kingman, Ariz, airport seven years…He served on the USS Oklahoma and Arizona and other battleships that went down at Pearl Harbor…His job now takes him to Washington once a month…I just thought old friends would like to hear about Jay…His late mother was Grace Walters Taylor…He has two sisters living in Columbus, an aunt, Arlie Brammer, formerly of this city lives in Clearwater, Fla. And Mrs. Edna Winkler of Second and Etna is an aunt.
Who Remembers Jay Taylor
Written by Charles Collett
Huntington, WV Newspaper – October 24, 1965
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