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RED_ , �, 9-�7-7A 30 Yecrs'AgoIL AF n LJ 1948 — The freakish hurricane that boiled out of the Caribbean last Tuesday and swept across the state t �®n 6l from a point near Everglades on the West Coast to Jensen Beach brought hurricane winds to the Indian River County area Wednesday afternoon. Highest M Is mb8% rsustained wind velocity Wednesday afternoon between 3:30 and 6 p.m., as reported at the Civil Aeronautics li• �d Administration station at the Vero Beach airport, was SS miles per hour. The checkup at 4:30 and S:30 showed 50 -Years Ago gusts between -70 and 80 miles per hour from the north - =e.'•• /� '�'� northwest. Members of the Miracle bale Association Monday 1928 —A quarter mile of highway, extending west noon voted to accept the low bid covering installation of sidewalks as submitted by Alfred F. Fletcher, to em - from Dixie Highway a short distance south of Wabasso, Is being built by the county road department as an brace the area between the Florida East Coast Railway experiment in road construction new to this part of the company tracks and 11th Avenue. 0 Years Ago,, state. The method being pursued has been in use with 9 ,, very satisfactory results in California and other Pacific 1968 — The • storage building for Indian River coast states in building secondary highways. Memorial Hospital is 70 percent completed and should . Very interesting results were obtained from the be ready for use by Nov. 15, .rustees were told at this field corn growing experiment conducted on a 40 -acre month's board meeting by Roland Miller, trustee in tract of land west of the city owned by the Sexton Grove charge of the year-old project. Miller asked the board Corp. The crop was grown under the supervision of N. to authorize Hospital Administrator Francis O'Brien to E. Dale. agronomist for the Indian River Products Co., negotiate and award bids for 270 feet of sidewalk to run and County Agent W. E. Evans. .• from the building to 26th Street north'of the hospital. 50 Years A o g " When the Sept. 27 deadline for mailing Red Cross ditty bags to Vietnam arrives on Friday, 500 colorful — An extensive shell mound found"by the crew gift.packages will be on their way, according to Mary oo1928 rkmen clearing the right-of-way for the county Lou Durrance of the Indian River County Chapter of the road northward from the Wabasso Bridge on t e penrnsula will afford splendid material for surfacing ` American Red Cross. Volunteer workers have met , twice during the past week to stuff the red and green the new road. The entire four miles of the road Is being, cotton bags with an assortment -of-gifts to be sent to cut through a dense jungle of various tropical growths J servicemen and servicewomen in that war-torn area. • on the penisula When completed the road will extend to: '• 40 Years -Ago within one mile of the north line of the county and will • 9—E?--21- provide access to a rich section of the peninsula north of 1938— Qualified freeholders of the Vero Beach and the DeerfielC groves. Wabasso special school tax districts went to the polls Vem Beach offers the -fisherman wonderful op- last Tuesday and approved' by overwhelming portunit ns tar the display of his skill both In the fresh majorities the issuance of general obligation bonds in watrr caneic and In the salt wat •r of .he Indian River connection with proposed additions and improvements and Got Atlantic Ocean. This was proven recently when to existing .school buildings, financed In cooperation : the fishing party of Mrs. and Mrs. Gordon Olmstead, with the Public Works Administration. , Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hei: eth and Dr. Dyrenforth landed The Vero Beach City Council Wednesday night . a 578 -pound Jewfish. adnntod an ordinance orohibitlnu Mcketinw. Tho nr. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Bowman, SECONDED by Commissioner Eggert, to authorize the Chairman to file the Maintenance Map so that it may be filed as recommended by staff. Commissioner Scurlock asked if our Public Works Department has any other records within the last 4 or 5 years showing that we are doing maintenance. Public Works Director Davis advised that Road 6 Bridge does have accurate records in their data base back formally for about 4 to 5 years, and they also have expert testimony from the Road 6 Bridge Superintendent who has been with the county 27 years and can testify that wehave maintained the road for that time. iU P � �� 19 BOOK