摘要: |
TEN YEARS AGO, following heavy rainfall in the upper basin, the Corps of Engineers was preparing for an intense flood fight on the Missouri River; Rear Adm. Roy Nash assumed command of the Eighth Coast Guard District; and Capt. William "Buck" Lay died at age 74 in Paducah, Ky. TWENTY YEARS AGO, Sea Point LLC asked the New Orleans Engineer District for a permit to build and operate a container transfer facility near Venice, La.; 29 barges broke loose after the mv. Joe Bobzien struck the Greenville (Miss.) Bridge; and a 500-foot section of a highway bridge near Webbers Falls, Okla., collapsed after a strike by two barges pushed by the 2,400 hp. Robert Y. Love. THIRTY YEARS AGO, 6,900 gallons of oil leaked from a barge owned by Hollywood Marine into the Mississippi River near New Orleans; a group of St. Louis investors called St. Louis Ship Holdings Inc. bought all the shares of Caruthersville Shipyard Inc.; and Dr. Carl Hartford, father of musician and riverman John Hartford, died at 85 in Madison, Tenn. |