Iowa Highway Programs, Finances, and Progress, 1952

(a) Iowa has a total of 101,620 miles of rural roads, both primary and secondary. (b) On January 1, 1952, a total of 71,493 miles of these rural roads were surfaced - mostly with gravel and crushed stone. (c) Additional roads are being surfaced at the rate of 2662 miles per year. (d) Iowa's highway program provides for a surfaced road to every reasonably located rural home and a paved or other type of dustless surface on all primary roads. (e) Iowa's highway funds come 26.0 per cent from property taxes, 63.5 per cent from road use taxes, 10.5 per cent from Federal aid. (f) Annual income under present laws, available for highway construction, is approximately For primary roads------------------$23,000,000 For secondary roads---------------- 41,967,000 (g) Iowa's highway improvements are being paid for as built. No new bonds are being issued. (h) The surplus of farm to market road funds created during and immediately following the War have now been placed under contract, with only a minimum working balance remaining in the fund. (i) Iowa's highway program was estimated to cost $945,000,000 and to require twenty years to build, by the 1948 Legislative Committee. This estimate would now have to be increased due to price increases and higher required standards. These are the highlights of Iowa's highway program. The details will follow in succeeding paragraphs.

Mental health facilities in Iowa : a descriptive handbook, 1952

This pamphlet on mental health facilities in Iowa was undertaken to meet the need for certain factual and practical information which the Iowa Mental Health Authority, the Board of control of State Institutions, the State Department of Social Welfare and the State University of Iowa School of Social Work felt would be helpful to workers in the field.

Posture and body mechanics, 1952.

This bulletin is a guide to the teaching of general fundamentals of posture and good use of the body in movement, primarily for young girls as and boys. This is the third printing of this bulletin.