Word: crookston
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WHEN the people of Crookston, Minn., looked out their windows one morning last week, they were reassured. Their city was still there. Despite a brutal, 70-hour battering by the rampaging Red Lake River, Crookston had survived relatively undamaged. Other communities in the upper Midwest were not so fortunate. Swollen by the heaviest accumulation of melting snow in history, the region's rivers gushed over their banks and crested in five states -North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Tumbling gigantic chunks of ice before them, the torrents inundated vast areas, causing at least $31 million in damage...
Other communities had to go it alone. Some, such as Crookston (pop. 9,200), were prepared; experience had been a cruel teacher. In 1897, 1916 and again in 1950, the town had been devastated by floods. The Army engineers studied Crookston in 1943 and somehow concluded that it had no serious flooding problems, but the town disagreed and several years later began building a small dike system funded by local assessments and general taxes. By 1965, Crookston had 2.8 miles of new dikes, which cost nearly $63,000. The investment paid off immediately. The flood four years ago -the worst...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has elected the following officers for the coming year: Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68 of Winthrop House and St. Paul, Minn., president; Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68 of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., vice-president; and John D. Kelly '68 of Ediot House and Crookston, Minn., secretary-treasurer...
Elected as Second Marshal was Wesley S. Williams, Jr. '63, of Quincy House and Washington, D.C. The Third and Fourth Marshals will be C. William Taylor '63, of 24 Oak St., Belmont, and Crookston, Minn., and David L. Johnston '63, of Dunster House and Sault Ste., Marie, Ontario...
Taylor halls from Crookston's Central High School, where he won all-state football honors, captained four sports, and graduated as valedictorian of his class. A dean's list chemistry student at the College, he has been nominated for election to the all-Ivy scholastic team...