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Grading Began . . . last week south of Elk Horn to finally start westward extension of Interstate 80 toward the Missouri River.

End Of Line . . . for the moment on westbound Interstate 80 is a quarter mile west of Highway 71, north of Atlantic. Paving reached this point in 1959.

Heavy Black Line . . . across center of map indicates segment of Interstate 80 that will be opened to traffic Labor Day from a point east of Dexter to an interchange on Highway 71 northeast of Atlantic.

Hills Are Leveled . . . by workmen and equipment of the S.E. Gustafson Construction Co. of Sioux Falls, S.D. The huge dirt movers will move over 2 million cubic yards of earth from the hills in construction of the two-and one-half-mile strip of…

An earth fill, towering 30 to 40 feet above the floor of this valley in Rockford Township about three miles east of Loveland, will carry Interstate Highway 80 across the valley and over the concrete drainage chute shown under construction. Looking…

The East End . . . of the Pottawattamie County stretch of the highway will stop somewhere in this general vicinity on the Albert Mc Crickard farm.

The West End . . . of the initial Interstate Highway 80 construction in Pottawattamie County will be in Minor Nelson's backyard. Nelson points to the approximate spot the road will terminate.

This Is A Drawing...of the Interstate 80 bridge which will carry traffic between the southwest part of Council Bluffs and Spring Street in Omaha. The Omaha side is in the foreground.