Minnesota Highways, August 1956

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VOL. 5. No. 10
1246 University Ave., St.  Paul 4, Minn.
August, 1956
Interstate Network
3 Links Will Give New
Look to Minn. Highways
Minnesota's share in the projected 40,000 mile nation-wide
interstate network of super-highways—from the standpoint of
financing, design, construction, and use,—is outlined in the following authoritative article.
By L. P. ZIMMERMAN
Chief Engineer
The National Highway Act
of 1956, recently adopted,
provides for an enlarged overall federal ai*d appropriation
by which generally federal aid
to primary routes in Minne-
)ta is increased from an average of $7,633,849 in the past
three years to an average of
$9,900',000 in the next three
years.
The federal aid applied to secondary routes is boosted from an
average of $5,387,432 in the past
three years to an average of $7,-
000,000 for the years 1958 and
1959, while federal aid to urban
routes is increased in the same period to $3,550,000 per year as
against $2,612,574 for the past
three years.
Provides for Interstate System
Provision is also made in the Act
for an appropriation of funds to
give federal aid to the construction
of an Interstate System of highways. For the first three years Minnesota will receive approximately
$22 million, $37 million and $48
million respectively, but thereafter,
on the basis of a need study made
by all the states, allocations will be
made on a more onerous basis in
Minnesota in order that the goal
~ket be reached which, as set forth
m the Act, is to complete as nearly
as practicable over a period of 13
years the entire system in all the
states.
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Hatfield Will Be Driver License Head
Effective September 1, the Highway department's Driver License
division will have a new director,
Gervaise A. Hatfield. He has been
a special assistant attorney general
for the past 16 months, assigned to
the department's legal staff.
Commissioner Hoffmann appointed him to the post from a field of
24 candidates. Hatfield placed first
in the Civil Service examination for
the position.
The new director succeeds E. P.
Lee, veteran director who retired
April 30 to enter private business.
Hatfield said he plans no immediate changes in personnel or procedures. Jim Kenaley, assistant
director, has been acting head of
the division since Lee's retirement.
Hatfield, 39 years old, is a graduate cum laude of St. Thomas college, St. Paul, and of the University
of Minnesota Law school in 1949.
He also is a graduate of the U. S.
Army's Administration and Judge
Advocate General schools.
Broad legal and administrative
experience will be brought by Hatfield to his new work. He was a
high school principal at Wolford,
N. D., before he began his legal
training. During World War II,
he served three years in the Army
postal service, setting up the postal
unit on Iwo Jima. After graduation from law school, he was in private practice and was law clerk
for Associate Justice Oscar Knutson of the Minnesota Supreme
court.
Permanent Headquarters
Are Set for Field Crews
Operation of 21 permanent headquarters for construction
field crews became effective August 1. A resident engineer
was assigned to each of 12 of these headquarters, thereby
designated as a resident area. Resident engineers may be
assigned to other of the headquarters as required.
The 12 resident engineer appointments were made from among
the department's project engineers.
Assignment by September 1 of
field crews to their permanent
headquarters will involve more
than 350 of the 800 employees
working on such crews. Assignment of all field crews to permanent headquarters is to be completed by the close of the construction season in November or December, according to John H. Swanberg, chief construction engineer.
The 21 permanent headquarters
selected by August 1, together with
the resident engineers so far appointed are:
DISTBICT 1-Grand Bapids,
Bernard C. Craig; Virginia, Duluth.
DISTRICT 2-Bemidji, H. D.
Sorenson; Crookston, G. E. Elling-
er.
DISTRICT 3-Brainerd, L. C.
May; St. Cloud, Charles E. Burrill- ,
Mora, E. M. Gould.
DISTBICT 4-Detroit Lakes, O.
A.  Brendal;  Morris.
DISTRICT 5—Two headquarters
in Twin Cities area.
DISTRICT 6-Rochester, O. B.
Swenson; Owatonna; Winona.
DISTRICT 7-Mankato, E. L.
Pehrson; Windom.
DISTRICT 8-Willmar, O. T.
Olson;  Marshall.
DISTRICT 9-Twin Cities, W.
L. Hunziker, E. S. Davies.
Under the new plan, as described previously in MINNESOTA HIGHWAYS, each construction field crew will be assigned
permanently to a specific headquarters and work within commuting distance of it. Resident engi-
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Gervaise  A.   Hatfield
Recalled to active military duty
in 1950 for four years, he was an
assistant professor of military science and tactics at the University
of Minnesota, teaching military
law and doing administrative work,
later serving as assistant staff judge
advocate at Camp McCoy, Wis.,
with the Tenth Infantry division
at Ft. Riley, Kan., and in the Ft.
Riley headquarters.
He was legal editor for the West
Publishing Co. of St. Paul, for a
year previous to joining the Minnesota attorney general's staff in the
Highway department.
Hatfield is married and lives in
Richfield. The Hatfields have three
sons, Geoffrey, Garret and Gregory.
The effective date of Hatfield's
appointment was delayed until
September 1 to permit him to complete legal cases now pending, to
take field training as an Army reserve officer, and to have his annual vacation.