Arizona Republic (Newspaper) - April 25, 1965, Phoenix, Arizona 18-A The Arizona Republic April 25, 1965 Gateway Arch N earing Completion EIFFEL TOWER 984.25 FT. STATUE OF LIBERTY 302 FT. GREAT PYRAMID OF CHEOPS 450 FT. WASHINGTON MONUMENT 555 FT. A GATEWAY ARCH 630 FT. The St. Louis Arch Will Dwarf All But One Of The World's Nonfunctional Skyscrapers To Cost Is Memorial To Sodbusters Who Won The West Editor's The Gateway a curve oi shining steel 62 stories is rising on the bank of the Mississippi River at St. It is a tribute to the pioneers of the and the men building it are no less They are finishing the nation's tallest ST. LOUIS the pioneers crossed the Mississippi and started West 150 years they could not have imagined it. It is the Gateway a curve of shining steel 630 feet It is rising here on the west bank of the and it is nearing THE which will cost is a memorial to the the fur the the sodbusters who won the It was by the that the nation's great westward expansion St. Louis was a jumping off It was here that history got a foothold on the The men building this engineering wonder are They are building the nation's tallest 75 feet higher than the Washington And they're doing it under the most difficult The arch is built as an inverted catenary form a chain takes when it hangs freely between two Virtually everything about the arch is a The men who work on it walk with a NOT worried about says Stan project manager for MacDonald Construction Co. of St. the prime doesn't make any difference if you fall from 50 feet or 400, you're just as Only this you get a little longer to Each 80 men climb up where the wind lives to inch tlie arch toward Sometime in the creeper cranes which cling near the top of each leg like giant will hoist the last 50-foot section of stainless There they will look 40 miles across whence the pioneers and 40 miles across Missouri's where they the its 32 years It is part of the Jefferson National Expansion which was conceived in 1933 by St. city The project is named for Thomas who commissioned Lewis and Clark to start near St. Louis and grope their way westward to the Pacific paving the way for the great westward Tlie memorial will include a huge underground museum beneath the arch. Here the westward expansion will be told in diorama and Also in the project are the Roman Catholic built in 1831, and the courthouse where the Dred Scott slavery case was All this is on the where rowdy steamboat pilots once charged from gangplank to A 40-square block area has been cleared and given to the National Park Service for the BUT THE dominant feature is the arch. It can be seen from almost any point in St. reaching upward just as Lewis and Clark reached In the arch will be dedicated and the million Expansion Memorial will be almost Thousands are expected for the President Johnson has been asked to Richard Nixon and former President Harry Truman already have inspected the in which the government is paying three-fourths of the and the city is paying the The man who designed the Eero a noted American won't be there for the He died in 1961 when the foundation was being Tlie arch is expected to draw 3 million visitors a All of this on the spot by the where French adventurer Pierre LaClede marked some trees at 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 14, 1764, and said to his Henri a city No Ordinary Will Makes Plain Washington Post Service - Roland Strawberry's little patch on the sprawling W a d d e 11 Corners home farm near had bright new significance toddy for the 60-year-old tenant farmer who has called it home through the Under the will of Fred Roscoe who died of cancer two weeks Strawberry's plot and tenant house become his very to occupy and care for as long as he a banker and community political also bequeathed Strawberry appreciation of the loyal service he has rendered me for so many years Before his had Strawberry's a 1 f frame house redecorated inside and out and equipped it with It fairly its well-tended flower ablaze these days with the new Between the lines of Waddell's drawn on July 3, 1963, one can read that Roland Strawberry and his were no ordinary tenant farmhands MRS. 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