I enjoyed reading "Iowa's Concrete Lifeline - Life Along Interstate 80" in the Aug. 7 Register.
I spent the summer of 1964, following my junior year of college, working on the road-building crew that paved the sections between Grinnell and Malcom (miles 182 to 191) and Kinzi Manufacturing and Williamsburg (miles 216 to 220). I drove a water truck that piped water to the traveling on-site concrete mixers and was paid $2 per hour.
Along with overtime pay, I earned enough in 12 weeks to pay 100 percent of my expenses for my senior year at Iowa State University. My, how times have changed!
-Robert C. Wemer, Montezuma.
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