Eight miles of U.S. 40 near Topeka, Kan., became the first interstate highway project completed under the 1956 law creating the national road system. Present for this historic occasion on Sept. 26, 1956, were Ivan Wassberg, Kansas highway commissioner; George Koss, president, Koss Construction Co., the contractor; W.S. McDaniel, assistant state highway engineer for Kansas, and John Beuerlein, superintendent of Koss Construction.
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