Frank Miller:  

ear in training we were transferred in December 1963 to New Madrid located along the Mississippi River in Southeast Missouri. My duties there involved survey and design of irrigation and drainage practices on private landowners in the Mississippi River Delta farmlands. This was my first experience with life as it was in the Southern Regions of this Country and was very eye opening. While Stationed at New Madrid, our daughter, Teresa Ranae, was born in March 1965 at Sikeston, Missouri. I was then transferred in the fall of 1965 to Benton, Missouri to allow me to work in different counties that had upland erosion problems in hill country next to the large bottom land areas. In the spring of 1966 I was transferred to Springfield, Missouri, where I assumed the duties of area Engineer and responsibility of engineering activities as provided by the SCS in 18 Southwest Missouri Counties. With a reorganization of SCS in the Spring of 1968 and personnel changes I was then assigned to the SCS Missouri State Office on the water resources staff. My work there as a planning engineer was investigating and making preliminary plans for structural works ,such as channels and dams to reduce flooding and soil erosion in selected watersheds. In the fall of 1970 I was transferred to Fulton Missouri as the area engineer for 16 Central Missouri Counties, where I was responsible for directing all engineering activities. The work consisted of making surveys and designs and giving training to area staff on erosion control and water conservation measures in the field. During this period of time the State of Missouri was charged with developing a program to address animal waste runoff into the streams of Missouri. I was fortunate to be on the ground floor of this endeavor. While stationed at Fulton, we lived near New Bloomfield, Missouri, a small town located on US Highway 54, midway between Fulton and Jefferson City. All of our children graduated from New Bloomfield H