Show old man river Is finally conquered spent to end floods in ill south CAIRO the V U S army finally has hogtied old man alan river and la Is ready to show the public how its was spent to end hoods floods on the lower mississippi the army engineers and the alls mississippi sis sippi river commission have just taken an inspection party on a tour of the flood floodways ways dams levees and revetments built along the river from here to new orleans to protect citizens from floods it marked the completion of i work begun in 1928 with passage jofs of a federal act committing the government to a flood control pro program proa iram since then with an outlay ot of hall half a bi billion ilion dollars and more yet to cc come me for maintenance the army has constructed ted a river system designed to cart off the floodwaters flood waters of 28 states and two provinces of canada it was a terrific job over one billion cubic yards of earth was placed on big levees levees A big floodway was constructed in southeast missouri around birds point and new madrid as a safety valve to protect cairo new levees were constructed around memphis the worlds largest hydraulic laboratory with a working model of the mississippi valley in miniature which covers many areas was laid out at vicksburg miss A protecting spillway was built above new mew orleans these are just a few of the projects corn COM pleated and which the inspection party was to look over |