[News Script: Willis Bridge] Part: 3 of 4
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WILLIS BRIDGE - 2
first work on the bridge began in April of 1958.NEXT aUY UP
The Chairman of the
Petry-junior, notesTexas Highway Commission, Herbert
that th is likely to be aboon to Texas third largest industry -- tourism.
AT RI1BON
He
adds, the bridge is one way to get back some of that
money that the states have been paying in taxes.
The ribbon cutting is done fror: bed of an oldtruck by Dr. C. 11. Rowland of !Tillis, Oklahoma --
the bridge is open.
The doc and his friends have
get back home somehow, so they and the truck lean
and
to
intothe norther and make the first official trip across
Willis Bridge.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Willis Bridge], item, October 30, 1960; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc936185/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.