Base plans arrive on truck

Monday, June 24, 2002

Sen. George W. Norris and Congressman Carl T. Curtis were not informed about the decision to locate an Army Air Base north of McCook until the announcement was made in McCook. Curtis was in Southwest Nebraska on Sept. 1, 1942, and actually heard the news while in the McCook Daily Gazette office.

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