Minnesota Highways, June 1956

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VOL.  5,  No.  8
1246  University Ave.,  St.  Paul 4, Minn.
June, 1956
3 District Appointments
Made in Reorganization
Residency Areas Also to Be Established
Two major definite steps in implementing the Highway
department's reorganization program have been announced
by Commissioner Hoffmann.
One, effective at once, is the appointment of three new
assistant district engineers and the upgrading in Civil Service
rating of the six men continuing in such positions. The other
is the setting of examinations for the newly created post of
resident engineers.
The Civil Service classification
level of assistant district engineers
has been raised from a CE III rating to a CE IV level. Upgrading
of the assistant district engineer
positions and introduction into the
department of the positon of resident engineer as an engineering administrative level between district
and project engineer are a part of
the reorganizational move to give
more responsibility and authority to
the nine construction districts. The
new post will have a CE III classification.
New Appointments
Newly appointed as assistant construction district engineers are:
Dewey Mattson, office engineer in the Construction division   Central   offices,   as  as
sistant district engineer for
District 5, with headquarters
in St. Paul. Mattson will be
succeded as office engineer by
Ed Heinen, contracts, agreements, and claims engineer in
the Construction division central office.
Phil Lundquist, project engineer in District 1, Duluth,
to be assistant engineer in that
district.
Frank J. Pawlak, project engineer in District 7, Mankato,
to be assistant engineer in District 6, Rochester.
Of  the   three  new   appointees,
Mattson already was a CE IV and
Lundquist   and   Pawlak  move   up
from a CE II classification.
(Continued on page 3)
Ed Heinen
Dewey Mattson
135 Miles of Freeways
Planned for Twin Cities
Proposed as Links in Interstate Network
(Map and photos on pages 3 'and 4.)
Forward looking action by the Highway department has
produced the basic plan for an initial 135-mile system of freeways through and circling Minneapolis and St. Paul.
These Twin Cities freeways are planned as units in the
proposed 40,000 mile U. S. interstate network of super-highways. As such, their main function would be to facilitate passage of network traffic through and around the Twin Cities
metropolitan area. But they also will greatly relieve the increasing congestion of local traffic.
The Twin Cities freeway plan,
as now proposed, also will provide
a backbone for the future planning of Twin Cities arterial and
trunk highways. The Twin Cities
freeways are so planned, according
to L.  P.  Zimmerman,  chief engi-
Want to be a real 'Cool'?
To beat the summer heat, the
Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health
association advises:
Drink plenty of water, from 12
to 15 glasses daily. . . . Take four
or five teaspoonfuls of salt daily,
with food or drink. . . . Wear loose,
light, thin, non-constrictive clothing. . . . Rest during the noon
hour. . . . Eat moderately, choosing digestible carbohydrate foods.
. . . Include plenty of juicy fruits,
avoid fats and proteins. . . . Avoid
long direct exposure to the sun-
wear a hat out-of-doors. . . . When
indoors, keep the air circulating
with a fan or open windows.
Phil Lundquist
A later article will be published on Minnesota's total
share of the U. S. Interstate
highway network and its contribution to general highway
development in the state.
neer of the Highway department,
that it would be comparatively
easy to integrate with them such
future additional arterial highways.
(Continued on page 4)
Frank J. Pawlak