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No. 34 FirstRoad PavedAcross IowaGovernor Hammil) Gives Review of the State's tfl Paving History]iBy JOHN T. MILAR.Iowa Associated Press CorrespondentI Creston, la., Sept. 12.—(fp)—Gayly bedecked, Creston today played host to 5,000 good roads enthusiasts | of Iowa as it staged a monstrous celebration commemorating the j completion of the paving of U. S. 34, the Harding Highway, across j* the state.The city presented a holiday ap-pearance as caravans of automobiles J flocked into the city at noon for j the formal program dedicating the opening of the first concrete road in the state, the realisation ,of years j i of effort to lift southern Iowa out •of the and. «With the Creston band playing a lt;| continuous serenade throughout the ' j late morning hours and through * the noon period, notables in attend- j i ance gathered at the Hotel Iowana at 12:30 for a luncheon which i marked the official opening of the j lt;celebration program. JDelegations from Ottumwa and | Burlington were accompanied by i the municipal bands of those cities. I | the musicians taking their stations , | on the street corners to vie with the Creston band- More than 250 persons were included in the group representing those two and other j eastern Iowa cities.Hammill Heads Group Mayor Parker L. Crouch and Governor John Hammill headed the Des Moines delegation of more than 100 business men, who brought with them the Des Moines Oriental band to parade through the streets in their colorful oriental costumes, while treating the thousands of per- •| sons who lined the streets to the I strains oI oriental music. , jSchools were dismissed for the day w fella Creston enlisted the aid j ; of its younger generation in playingMayor Metcalfe, of Omaha, was at I ! the head of the group which repre- j I sented the Chamber of Commerce i I there. The Omahans. who came to lt;rejoice in the fact that they now are connected by an all-paved road with Chicago and all points east, also brought a band to lend music to the occasion. The Nebraska musicians wore white felt hats with brightly colored bands.Notables Present Among the notables who gathered for the lunchebn were Charled J. Gugler. of Gallon. O.. national president of the Harding Highway Association; W. H. Hoverstadt. of Marion, O., national secretary-treasur-er, and C. W. Bond, of Burlington, Iowa president of the same organt-| zation; Governor Hammill; Gale W.I Clark, of Omaha, official represen-i tative of the Omaha Chamber of I Commerce; Mayors Metcalfe, of j Omaha; Manning, of Ottumwa; Mar-I quardt, of Burlington, and Crouch, of Des Moines; W\ R. Orchard, of j Council Bluffs, president of the j Iowa Good Roads Association; all I the members of the Iowa State Highway Association; Congressman ! C. E. Swanson, of the ninth Iowa I district; Congressman Lloyd Thurs-! ton, of the eighth Iowa district,| and Dan W. Turner, of Corning, re-| publican nominee for governor of Iowa.Creston. Iowa, Sept. 12—(JP)—Gov-..... v.u. it. nt a i._
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald And Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Fri, Sep 12, 1930
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