Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1939 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

JOB PROSPECTS FOR Flood Control Week Is Johnstown Echo

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Employment prospects for vear’s college graduates will be discussed by representatives of three Indiana colleges over WFBM at 8:45 p. m. tomorrow on a program sponsored by the National Youth Administration. The speakers include Dr E. Walden director of personnel and placement at Indiana University: Dr. J. E. Walters, personnel director of Purdue University and Myron McCurry, English professor at Franklin College The program will be of the forum type, conducted by Robert S. Richey

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By SREP W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 31 —Fifty

years ago today a dam on south

fork above Johnstown, Pa. gave way vy to the pressure of a huge volume ¢

Twenty-two hundred lives were lost. The 50th anniversary is being used today as the nub of National Flood Control Week. Flood control on the lower Mississippt began at New Orleans in 1717. but not until 1936 was the first official step taken toward a national system of flood control directed at the headwaters that form sources of the great central stream Acts of Congress in three successive vears, 1936 to 1938. have embarked the country on & program

of water

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that eventually could cost many billions of dollars. Congress already has authorized the corps of Army Engineers to go ahead—when it is ‘oted the money—with 370 reservoir and other projects at a cost of not to exceed $669 740000 The Federal policy was changed in those three years from one in which states and localities were required to pay part of the cost to one in which the national Treasury pays all the costs and in return gets the technical right to control the uses of the stored water—as for wdroelectric power development About 20 flood reservoir dams have actually been placed under construction. The Pittsburgh reservoirs, most spectacular of all the head-

waters works because of the wid created by the great “St. Patrick's Day flood” of 1936, also are the most | advanced The eventual hope of flood-control

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stream that flows into the major celebration at 8 p. m. tomorrow at

waterways. little dams would hold back flood | water fall, releasing danger is past. OAKTOWN TRAIN DERAILED VINCENNES, May 31 (U. Emplovers of the Chicago and Bastern Illinois Railroad today cleared wreckage of 12 boxcars from the right-of-way Vincennes.

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