The Oregon statesman., May 20, 1956, Page 11, Image 11

Motorists Can Drive From Indiana to New York City Truman Tells
Without Meeting Stoplight When Route Opens Friday" l
VII 11U1UC AUUl
EDGELY, Pa. UP) On Fri
day, Mr. Motorist tan enter the
Ohio turnpike at the Indiana
border and drive continuously
lor 860 miles to New York City
without being stopped by a
lincle traffic light
Thii it the longest unbroken
stretch of auper toll roada ia the
nation, and just the beginning
of growing transcontinental
system of express highways.
On Friday the last link in the
660-mile chain of roads that
atretches through Ohip, Pensyl
vania and New Jersey will be
opened to motor traffic when the
Delaware river turnpike bridge
is dedicated.
The massive 20,000-ton steel
span arches across the Delaware
between Edgely and Florence
Twp., N. J., to connect the heavily-traveled
Pennsylvania and New
Jersey turnpikes.
A mile and a quarter long, the
big bridge win handle six lanes
of traffic and will eliminate the
bottleneck that developed and
around Philadelphia where the
two big turnpikes terminated on
the shores of the Delaware.
Hour's Driving Time
Engineers estimate that the
towering bridge its center spn
is 682 feet will save roughly an 1
hour's driving time by by-passing j
the crowded streets in America's
third largest city.
The bridge, built at a cost of ,
25 million dollars in about 14
months, will be dedicated by
, Oovernors George M. Leader of '
Pennsylvania and Robert B. Mey
ner of New Jersey. Participating,
too, will be turnpike commission-.
era of both states, along with in-1
dustralists, businessmen and civic
leaders. Ceremonies will start '
with a ribbon-cutting at 10 a. m. :
(EST).
From abutment to abutment
the steel superstructure is 6.571
feet long and crossed the river
at its industrial stralegie big
bend where the 4.000-acre Fair
less works of the U. S. Steel
Corp. is located.
The bridge completes the final '
portion of the 32 3-mile Delaware I
river extension of the Pennsyl-y
vania turnpike and a nine-mile,
stretch of the New Jersey toll
road. The cost of connecting the
two superhighways totaled near
ly 98 million dollars, with 65 mil
lions of that srent in the Kcy
s'nne state.
Few Interruptions
With the bride's opening it
will be possible for a motorist
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EDGELY. Pa. With the opening May 25 of the Delaware River Tin-! light. The New Yerh Throway terms soother superhighway leg, ex
pike Bridge petee Fdsel.v. Pa., and FlnreRee. N. J., la lower rttht i tending through upstate New Verk ta Baffala. Next year,' esmplrtloa
I map. motorist Ul he able to drive MM miles from the Indixii of the Indiaaa Tarnpike will permit expressway driving trom New York
border la New York Cily without being stopped by a single traffic I City to Chicago. Tolls oa Tarnpike came to about 17. (AP Wh-ephoto)
Ex-GI Sworn in
As Naturalized
Japanese Citizen
KALAMAZOO. Mich. - Rela
tives said Saturday former Amer-
resonDtate5niaa
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., May 20, "56 (Sec I111
AMOSaiiliAM Um CIvmsooV I o oCm
ican GI who fought in World Wax VUI Id 1 1 M S, 1 1 Ul I I IUd kJIIUI I hmi I i
II against the Japanese has be- . . . ' A . - m , "
ROME - Vacationing Hany come a naturalized Japanese ctti fn A f Amif1 I lf inO HmilMrie
viiniwmiw wviiiig o w oja a a OjS
S. Truman, amateur historian, ' ion, adopting the nam of his
made a W-minute tour through an- Japanese wife.
cient Rome Saturday and told his He is Robert Sager. JS, wba was
guide some things about the sights, sworn as a Japanese citixen in
The guide lor the former msi- Tokyo May 7 wttti the name Upton
By ELTON C FAT j2S millioa dollars worth of per
ENIWETOK ISLAND Coi mnnt iMprovemeats and many
structioa contractors should find millions l test structures.
dent was publisher Henry-R. Lure. Murakami. He is the first Amori- tiyir irct pretty discouraging l The number of eiviliaa work
acting as host in the absence of his , can to be granted Japanese citizen-1 put here. ! emplojed varies.
a 1 1 1 wue. Ambassador I tare snip since the end of the war.
rWhe Luce. - 1 Sager, ho attended Western
Fifty automobile and motor- Michigan College in Kalamazoo.
cycles, horns honking, trailed Mr. 'served three vears in New Guinea' WT , .
ui Un TViimm Ihpv raufht sivt th PhillinninM H mf hi:nT rrurnn" P-
glimpses of places like the Coins- - at a B.ip'st missionary school
scum, the Roman Forum, the Cam- he set up in Tokyo after the war.
pidoglio City Hall Square designed sister. Miss Patricia Sager of
by Michaelangclo. the Pantheon Kalamazoo, said the family "was
-r ,w- ....m tw v..;m ' r this series, operatic Red-
doesnt last a month. j '"; 1700 fmoM m ta
Nuclear bombs knock U dowa '"1
; i ne rontracung lira enrouni
1 A . L .
Th twin tnlt nmvin ntu.nd. om '""H" proo-
of Eniwetok and Bikini have frPWd bU'W
changed much in the past decade. 1 0WJ . . . w
Ten years ago. in the first oost-1 . "i.her.,th? ? bu
uj wMwunii.i., iuiuiuuuv, --j j.ni .ii.iti.-j " contniiHinii mc ana n
and the ww ot the city from Jam--happy about Bobs marriage be-!-" r":" : flowtnf streams of fresh water
culum HiU. ! cause hes happy." She said itJAk mixinfc- concrete.
The impromptu cavalcade were not surprised at his beeom- ? "d n ""fj ?rtd I i.t
stopped traffic wherever it went.'ing a Japanese citizen because! w.r wl,n ony a nimn.eniary,"" r",Zr,
TourisLs crowded uo to shake thi-v knew he intended to live in "irsirtp ana some outiaings on
bands or get a look at Truman j Japan lie now is a trarher at W'a-
whenever he got out of the air-1 seda University in Tokyo.
conditioned embassy limousine. j
Luce, a Rome veteran, told a re-,
porter that although he was sup- Pnrl
posed to be the guide, 'Truman's ijUluIla 1 IdlL
teuing me a ming or iwo..
As Truman looked over the Ro
man Forum from Campidoglio Hill,
a reporter asked:
"How docs it stack up with In
dependence Independence, Mo.,
his home town)?"
"It's a most beautiful city to vis
it but Independence is a better
place for an old man like me to
live."
He added "That's because its
Hearings in
Butter Profit
Remains at Japanese, fortifies
Eniwetok don snow a interior quality of
Today Eniwetok is the "Little j concrete, crumbling and subject
Lagurdia Alport" of the North- M erosion,
eni M.irhalls. Buildings, hanwrs.1 Holmes and Hanref engineer;
fue! tsnks. communication facil-! devise- a mil using sea water,
lies all- the odds and ends ! crushed coral and beach sand
(hat make ur a military airfield ' that compares favorably with
leaving Augusta, Maine at al
most the extreme northeastern
portion of the United States
to have almost clear driving, with 1
the minimum of traffic intcrrup-'
tions, on toll roads ant free ex-;
pressways.
Except for a stretch in Mas-
sachusetts, where a turnpike is
now in the process of construc
tion, speed traffic is almost un
impeded. Only the Henry Hudson Park
way in New York state is free,
but on the other roads the motor
ist pays approximately a penny
a mile roughly $7 for the 860
mile trip from New York City
to the Indiana border. Engineers
consider that an insignificant
price to pay in lieu of the hours
of driving time saved, plus the
saving in gasoline and the wear
and tear on vehicles and drivers.
Vnder Construction
The Ohio Turnpike, linked to
Pennsylvrnic, opened last year.
Now Indiana has a superhigh
way of its own under construc
tion that will open in 1ES7 and
carry the growing transcontinen
tal expressway 156 miles more to
the Illinois line below Chicago.
Other states have turnpike
plans on the drawing boards and
the extensive system of traffic
free highways, without intersec
tions and iharp curves, may soon
dissect America east to west.
On the new Delaware River
turnpike bridge eastbound motor
ists leaving Pennsylvania will pay
their toll charge, roughlv a cent
a mile o. the Keystone state's
turnpike before ntinng the
bridge.
They will pay a charge that
will take them to about the cen
ter of the span. '
Transit Ticket
On the New Jersey side they
will pick up a transit ticket which
will include the cost of traveling
over that state's half of the
bridge. There is no set charge
for the bridge itself since to
cross it vou must be riding on
the turnpikes.
Th" specific charge for the 10
mile itretch from the Delaware
Valley Interchange on Route -13,
between Lcvittown and Bristol,
; Pa., to the Bordentown Inter
1 change, first exit in New Jersey,
will be 40 cents for passenger
I cars and this includes the
: bridge toll. -.
i Engineers estimated that about
10,000 cars daily will be using
the new bridge by 1957. They
will cover the 43 miles in about
45 minutes compared to th old
two-hour struggle through' the
congested streets ill and around
Philadelphia.
Hilton to Operate
Michigan Hotel
DETROIT, Mich. Ml - Conrad N.
Hilton, head of the worldwide hotel
chain bearing his name, says he
plans to take over operation of a
24-million-dolhr, 1.000-room hotel
to be built in downtown Detroit.
Hilton and other hieh executives
in his organisation met Friday
with 45 Detroit business and civic
leaders, who agreed to raise 15
million dollars to finance the project.
Rep. Roosevelt
Said Planning
To Marry-Aide
WASHINGTON -Congressional
sources said Saturday Rep.
James Rosevelt (D-Calif) intends
to marry Gladys Irene Owens, a
parttime clerk in his congressional
office, in June.
Roosevelt, in Los Angeles for two
jH jse ubcmmittee hearings, de
i dined to comment on the report.
I" divorce from Romelle Roose
velt becomes final next month,
Roosevelt said, adding: "But I
never comment on my personal af
fairs." Miss Owens was reported to be
in Washington but could not be
reached for comment.
Mrs. Roosevelt who once ac
cused her husband of misconduct
with a dozen women won her in
terlocutory decree last June 21 on
an amended complaint charging
extrome cruelty. The divorce, un
der California law. becomes final
one year.
WASHINGTON I - Rep. Foun
tain iD-NO announced Saturday .
his House Investigating Subcom-
home, of course. If I'd been born mittee will hold hearings on pos
in Rome and been a member of sible "windfall" payments to
the. Roman Senate, that would be cheese and butter processors re
different.'
EkbergSaid
No Iceberg
it
suiting from a recent Eisenhower
administration order.
Fountain said he has asked Sec
retary of Agriculture Benson to
testify next Wednesday. He de
scribed the matters to be taken up
as "serious."
The North Carolina Democrat
said he referred to the administra?
from actor Anthony Steel: "It's net tion' recent action in raising dairy
true what Hollywood says about price suppon .i.e. aner rres oeni
Ekberg. She's no iceberg."
Steel was talking about curva
ceous Anita Ekberg, the Swedish
actress he intends to marry here
next Tuesday.
"It's not true at all," Steel told
reporters. "Why, if she was cold I
wouldn't marry her."
Anita, sitting right next to Steel,
chimed in:
"He's a warm blooded man, 1 as
sure you. He wouldn't marry a
cold weman."
Where did thai "Ekberg-icebcig"
start? Why, Anita didn't exactly
know Some Deonle. she said, may
be thought "Ekberg" meant "ice- i oakberg, or mount oak.
Eisenhower vetoed the first farm
bill. A second h"' is on the way.
The order was described as bein
issued April It but effective on
cheese and butter products pro
duced any time after April 1. The
cheese support rate went up one
cent a pound and the butter rate
increased two cents.
Fountain said the higher rates
for the interval between April 1
and April 18 present "the possible
occurrence of unnecessary 'wind
fall' payments to the processors
are Backed out to the water's
edge. Down through the middle
of the Island is the 6,000-foot
runway.
No Parking Sigma
Paved streets, stop signs and
no narking signs make it just
another husv American, town.
In smaller scale, the conditions
re rrii at Envu Island, In
Bikini Atoll, the main airport
fo- tbM area.
Scattered among the smaller
Islands o' the two atolls, where
nuclear shots are conducted, are
smaller landing strips, used by
light liaison planes and heli
copters on inter-island and Inter
atoll trips.
Out on the test islands are
massive concrete bunkers, shot
towers. Instrument towers, "cabs"
for containing bombs to be ex
nlode r ground level and facil
ities for Instrument photoeranhy.
A large amount of the con
struction is of nern-nent na
ture housing for military and
civilian pesonnel, shops hangars,
utility svstems, distillation plants
for producing fresh water from
the ses. f
Primary contracting firm for
all the construction is the firm
of Holmes and Narver, Inc., of
Los Angeles.
5 Millioa
Since 1948, when the govern
ment reopened the mid-Pacific
some of the best concrete at
home.
This bomb test aeries ia just
getting underway, to statistics
sre lacking. But records for th
1952 operation ivy series give
I hint of what it takes to build
and operate an atomic proving
ground, 4.900 miles trom homo.
In that operation. 75 million
gallons of fresh water was pro
vided by distillation of tea wa
ter: a million meals were served;
:.100.000 board feet of lumber
was used: 186.000 sacks of cement
and 1,778 tons of reinforcing
steel went into tha project 4
During the operation 418 scien
tific station wera constructed on
37 islands in tha S atolls.
Baby's Formula
More Important
Thaa Jury Duty X
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio III - Tbt
jury was deep in debate in
criminal cast involving a poUcc
man accused in a morals case. -
Tha law says juries cannot bt
interrupted in their deliberations,
but the bailiff broke in oa tha"
deliberations and conferred with
a woman Juror who scribbled tut
a note.
Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. ap
proved the interruption so the wo.
berg. Actually, she said, it means tinimes ana Narver nave aesign- nan juror could pass on the baby'i
1 nuclear weapons proving ground,
I ed and constructed more than formula to the baby-sitting father.
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RUSSEL PRATT
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FUEL' OILS
DEAR FRIENDS:
Service is the only product a firm such as ours has to sell. The fact that the
year 1956 represents fifty years of continuous service to the citizens of Salem
and the surrounding Willamette Valley communities is an achievement of
which we are very humble and thankful.
Proud of the fact that our many customers, present and past, have not only
repeatedly used our services, but have also been so helpful by recommending
us to their neighors and friends.
Thankful for the fact that we live in the Willamette Valley and that we have
been able to grow along with the wonderful growth and development of the
area.
Please accept our sincere thanks for making our fiftieth anniversary a reality.
SINCERELY,
USS PRATT -
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