Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams – South Dakota; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.; Western Contracting Corporation, Sioux City (Ia.); Everist, Hubert H.; Collins, Carl (Rip); Sibert, John W.
A giant earth mover, nicknamed “Eunik”, will be given test runs at the Oahe Dam. Eunik weighs 78 ½ tons and is rated to haul 80 cubic yards of earth.
Large type books; South Dakota State Library; South Dakota Optometric Assn., Women’s Auxiliary; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; Green, Mrs. Bryce; McGibney Mrs. Carolyn; Corwin, Mrs. Bert
South Dakota Optometric Association Women’s Auxiliary donates large type books to the South Dakota State Library.
South Dakota State Library Commission; South Dakota Library Association; Wittkopf, Paul; Barnhart, Donald; Mackay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987
Paul Wittkopf of the South Dakota Library Association says that the “inexcusably bad” conditions at the State Library are not the fault of the state librarian alone.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.; Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962; Badlands National Park (S.D.); Badlands South Dakota; Freeland, E.D.
President Franklin Roosevelt issued a proclamation establishing the Badlands National Monument in western South Dakota.
Barnhart, Donald; South Dakota State Library Commission
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Donald Barnhart, called for the South Dakota State Library Commission to transfer its functions to the South Dakota Department of Public Instruction.
South Dakota State Library; Barnhart, Donald; South Dakota State Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Donald Barnhart asked the federal department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) to conduct a program and fiscal audit of the South Dakota State Library because of the failure of the State Library...
Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- Research -- South Dakota; Expenditures, Public -- South Dakota; United States. Army Corps of Engineers; Reifel, Ben, 1906-1990
The $4.1 billion public works appropriations bill sent to the House contains over $9 million for water development projects in South Dakota, including $450,000 for advance planning of the Oahe irrigation unit.
South Dakota Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; South Dakota. Governor (1965-1969: Boe); Kittel, Dorothy; United States. Office of Education; United States. Library Services and Construction Act
Governor Nils Boe urged librarians and library trustees to expand library services beyond formal education. Dorothy Kittel of the U.S. Office of Education reported on new legislation concerning state institutional libraries and services for the...
Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams – South Dakota; Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962; Big Bend Dam (S.D.)
The highlight of 1958 will be the closure of the Oahe Dam. Work will also get started on the intake structures at the power tunnels. The article also discusses the water use issues between power users and navigation interests.
Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – Missouri River; Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973; South Dakota. Governor (1955-1959: Foss); South Dakota. Governor (1943-1947: Sharpe); Hammond, Colonel D.G.; United States. Army. Corps of...
15,000 people attended a ceremony celebrating the dam closure. Speakers included Winthrop Rockefeller; Governor Joe Foss, and former Governor M. Q. Sharpe.
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Abourezk, James G., 1931-; Oahe Irrigation Project; Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- South Dakota; United States. Office of Management...
South Dakota’s democratic congressional delegation asked President Nixon to include construction funds for the Oahe Irrigation project in the administration’s budget for 1973.