Volume 11 , Issue 8

May, 1935 - North Highway to Alva Opens

I found the following article in the publication, The Oklahoman, dated may 26, 1935, page 65, with the headlines that read: "Highway to Alva From North Opens."

This opening of highway north of Alva happened after the Salt Fork river took out two highway bridges and a temporary crossing had been made just east of the ruined highway 14 bridge.

Here is the short news article: Alva, may 25, 1935 -- Special -- "Traffic into Alva from the north was opened Saturday for the first time since a week ago when the Salt Fork river took out two highway bridges. A temporary crossing has been made just east of the ruined highway 14 bridge."

In The Oklahoman, dated June 19, 1935, page 18, with headlines reading: "Bridge Near Alva Will Be Extended."

Alva, June 18, 1935, Special -- "To put a stop once and for all to the marauding of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas, the state highway commission has elected to place a 120-foot addition on the Grimes bridge north of the city, the last link between Alva and its northern trade territory.

"The city was cut off from the north for the fifth time in less than a month Monday when the river cut away 50 feet of its north bank, including the approach of the Grimes bridge, which had just been repaired by a state highway crew for a highway No. 14 detour. A low water crossing, parallel to the ruined old highway 14, went out at the same time."

From these two 1935 news articles, it seems 1935 around May and June raised the river waters and did a lot of flood damages as to bridges in Northwest Oklahoma.

Here is another news article that appeared below the above article: "School Transfers Sought."

Alva, May 25, 1935, Special -- "More rural school pupils are asking admittance to Woods county high schools this year than ever before. There have been 263 applications for transfers made at the county superintendents office this year."
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