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The following could be read in Lamco News in October 1966:

New Names Announced For Residential Areas

Many changes have characterized the brief existence of our city, Yekepa, since its creation began five years ago. Since then the city has emerged from a few thatch and strawhuts which sat in the heart of a dense tropical forest, to that of few prefabricated cottages, and now into the sprawling "boom town" which has become.
It has ceased to be a "hardship" post - as it was considered during those daring pioneering days when settlers lived in constant fear of "the little men from the mountain" - and has taken on the atmosphere of a miniature metropolis by its steady growth and development.
Growth is like a virtue - we are all for it. But it is uncomfortably akin to the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow: we can never quite lay our hands on it. People may dedicatedly plan cities, but seldom lay hands immediately on that which, above all else, would give people a degree of pride in belonging to or identifying themselves with their surroundings. And so it has been with our town, Yekepa.
Little comfort has come from a Lamco employee who has had to designate his place of residence in Yekepa with impersonal letter of the alphabet. There has always been a general cool and aloft resignation on the part of the emplyee when he has had to refer to where he lives as Area B, or Area E, and so forth. This need not be the case anymore.

DESIGNATIONS
Management has announced the names of the several communities which make up Yekepa, and from henceforth, their designations are as follows:
Area A --------------- CHAPEL HILL
Area B --------------- PIONEERS GARDEN
Area C --------------- STEEP CREST
Area D --------------- COTTAGE QUARTERS
Area E --------------- HILLSIDE LIGHTS
Area F --------------- TUBMAN RIDGE
Area H --------------- OLD VALLEY
Area J --------------- PRIVATE VALLEY
Area K --------------- OPEN SLOPE
Area N --------------- MINERS AREA
Area O --------------- GRAND HEIGHTS
Area P --------------- FEKENAH HILL
Area R --------------- ROBERTS SLOPE
Community Center ------ SANDY CLARKE SQUARE

Identification signs are now being installed at these places to aid residents in remembering the new names. It is hoped this move will engender pride in belonging to and identifying ourselves with the community in which we live.