Today in History revisits the Thursday, October 22, 1959 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on the North Dakota Highway Department facing a $4,000 loss in Bismarck after 22 automatic traffic counters were stolen and numerous hoses cut. The counters, used for highway planning, mysteriously disappeared shortly after being deployed. Police arrested two men for cutting hoses, but the theft of the expensive counters remains unsolved.

BISMARCK (AP story as published by the Grand Forks Herald in 1959) A flurry of senseless vandalism has tapped the North Dakota State Highway Department for about $4,000 here.

About $3,00 of the loss could be recouped, Commissioner A. W. Wentz said, if the state could get back 22 highway traffic counters that have been stolen from Bismarck st

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