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“Its goals thus laid out, the Post editorial page began to seek them. The next day it began campaigns for a new sports stadium, an auditorium “in keeping with necessities and dignities of a modern city,” a traffic improvement survey, and more copious and legible street signs. Poor street signs were a special irritant to newcomer Hoyt, to which Mayor Stapleton reacted, “If they were good enough for the son-of-a-bitch to find his way into town by them, he can find his way out.”

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