From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   Whaley was right: Neches and Beckley do intersect   
      
   As I have noted, the online reproduction of CE 371 is poor.  But with the aid   
   of an old-fashioned fold-up map and Google Maps, I was able to spot the "X" on   
   371 which Ball and Whaley said was where the latter left Oswald off in Oak   
   Cliff.  It is centered    
   just above and a bit west of the intersection where Zang, Beckley, and El   
   Dorado meet.  That "X" is far from Neely, but near Neches.  In fact, El Dorado   
   is really a continuation of Neches, and it does intersect Beckley.  And it's a   
   short street, only    
   three blocks long; Neches is 11 blocks long.  Oswald may not have even   
   realized that, going east, Neches becomes El Dorado two blocks before   
   Beckley.  Oswald, then, must have re-directed Whaley, en route, with an   
   instruction like "Neches near Beckley",    
   and Whaley dropped him off at Beckley and El Dorado, the extension of Neches.    
   ("This will do fine.")  And when Whaley says, of the "X" spot, with some   
   certainty, "This is the intersection right there", he must be going by--not   
   numbers or street names--   
   but by the distinctive configuration of the intersection: Beckley is strictly   
   north/south, but Zang comes in to Beckley at like a 30-degree angle, and El   
   Dorado/Neches goes out from Beckley at about the same angle.  Whaley   
   recognized that particular    
   intersection.  (By contrast, the Beckley/Neely intersection is strictly   
   north-south/east-west.  *Not* the intersection.) Whaley was confused by many   
   things, but not by "Neches".  (For instance, it's apparently "Zang", not   
   "Zangs", as Whaley had it.)   
      
   dcw   
      
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