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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1956)
Page 12 Section I THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 12, 1956 Federal Road Program's Impact Will Be Terrific, Says Director By ROBERT E. JACKSON United Presi Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP) The "do-it-yourself" engineer who will direct the greatest road-building project conceive at this lime," Tallamy; personally walked over many said. miles of the thruway. "In New York I have seen vast "I don't believe a man can sit new industries spring up almost . behind a desk on a construction like magic in open areas. I have job and know what's going on,' since the Romans believes it will j seen big new trucking terminals, I said Tallamy, the grandson, son new warcnou.scs ior pensnaDie ; and father of an engineer. 1 Kor open a fantastic new frontier for economic and social progress in America. In 'wartime it "might mean the veryl survival of the country," says! Bertram D. Tallamy, white haired 55-year-old chairman of the New; York Stale Thruway Author ity find former state public works commissioner who goes to Wash ington next month as federal highway administrator. President Eisenhower named Tallamy to direct the first years of the long-range multi-billion dol lar super-highway program after a . nationwide search for a man who. was both engineer and ad ministrator. "He is one of the world's great est builders of roads, said Sec retary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. "This assures the nation that history's biggest public works project will be constructed with outstanding skill, vision and in tegrity." Tallamy, in an interview with United Press at headquarters of the New York State Thruway, a road -which he built, looked at the national project. Opportunity For Progress "The opportunity for social and economic progress in the nation which will result from the suc- and staple goods, thousands of people now employed along the thruway. I have seen property values jump from JiiOO to $20,000 an acre. Recreation areas arc enjoying a vast new boom with vacationers I make a decision. me to do the job the way it's got to be done, 1 must make frequent visits with state governors and highway officials. We must get in an automobile and go out and look at the problem before we can Soviet Envoy to Sweden Resigns STOCKHOLM in Rear Adm. Konstantin Kokionov announced his resignation here Wednesday as So viet ambassaador to Sweden. The action followed a storm of public j protest againM ins i-uiuiuucu May in Ills euumiy. The resentment stemmed large ly from the fact that the three biggest Soviet spy cases in Swed ish history occurred during his seven-year stay in Sweden. Driver Fined $150 on Reckless Count After Rescue From River County Must Pay Ballot Guarding coming more frequently and from greater distances. "If this has happened in one state on one road only 426 miles long, can you visualize what wi happen across the nation on 41,000 miles? The ultimate result cannot be foreseen. "That is really the reason for this program. Tallamy also underlined "the great security it gives the nation in time of war to have an express highway system." "It is not only to move troops and equipment," he said. "It is extremely important to civil de fense. It Is possibly even more important in the decentralization of industry which this makes possible. With the enemy anic to bomo concentrated areas, this decen tralization might mean the very survival of the country. Prefers Ire Fishing Tallamy, a 5' 11", 180 lb. out- doorsman who prefers Ice fishing to golf, a do-it-yourselfer who Tallamy has seen more than $150 million worth of new indus trial plants employing 30,000 per sons with an annual payroll of $150 million spring up along the thruway. A $4 million IV assem bly plant went up at Batavia, N. V., a $.10 million shopping cen ter in Yonkcrs. He sees no reason why , this cannot repeat itself on a nationa scale where farm products wi move larther faster and more cheaply, where industry will o- cate in areas with steady tax rates, built-in basic services such as sanitation, the right climate. raw materials nearby, yet as in Syracuse, N. V., draw workers from suburbs, villages and (arms 50 miles away. Tallamy still has an engineer's eye for detail. As he talks he puts on his glasses and draws lit tie diagrams for anyone who doesn't get this big picture. TRAILER PLANT READIED McMlNNVlLLK W Mid-' : States Corp., a national concern, hopes to begin production of house i trailers in henruary at a factory under construction northeast of here. McMinnville Industrial Promo tions, Inc., a community-owned firm, is building the plant. ELLENSBURG, Wash. (A A motorist plunged 150 feet down a near-vertical highway bank, swam the icy Yakima River and spent seven hours huddled on a river island Tuesday and wound up being charged with reckless driv-f ing. Bob D. Lillle, 24, Toppenish, ' Wash., was brought to Valley ! General Hospital here after his rescue by state patrolmen and Kittitas County sheriff's officers. Physicians said he suffered only, from exposure and his condition was not believed serious. I A companion, Walter Bastien.t 36, Ellenshurg, who was in the car with Little in the plunge down' the highway bank, was unhurt. Sheriff Bob Dorsey and State Patrolman Quintin Carollo said it started when Lillie and Bastien left here in Lillie's car about 1 a.m. to drive to Wapato. About 57 miles south of here, Carollo said, Lillie lost control of the car on a curve. The car skid ded backwards down the bank in to a ditch alongside Northern Pa cific Railroad tracks. Carollo said Bastien climbed the bank, was found -lying alongside ! the highway and was brought to) the police station here. i The state patrolman said when! officers reached the scene they I found that the befuddled Lillie had crawled from the car, made his i way across the railroad tracks and blundered into the swollen river. Despite drifting logs and other debris, he bucked the cur j rent 150 feet to the island. Rescuers got a boat but found j they couldn't lower it down the ' steep hill and finally ran it down I the railroad tracks on a gasoline i speeder to a point opposite the is- I land. Darkness and rain impeded ; the rescue which.was further1 i complicated when the boat broke I away. It traveled 10 miles down the canyon before it could be re captured. Lillie was finally brought across the river at 8:15 a.m. and taken' Overtime Pay Dig-Up Frees Portland Man PORTLAND (A Howard L. I Kasch, 39-year-old former presi- The cost of guarding ballot box- i Hurine a recount 01 Dauois jmust be paid out of the county clerk's budget. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton ruled Tuesday. The opinion was lor Winston U S3 Attorney " who asked whether i nt of a Portland manufacturing the persons demanding a recount ' company, may not have to pay would have to pay the cost of all of a $10,000 fine for violating guarding. the fair labor standards act. Kasch, ordered to jail by Fed- DUKE IN NEW ZEALAND eral Judge Gus Solomon last Fri WELLINGTON. New Zealand WI day after a hearing on failure to The Duke of Edinburgh ar-lpay workers' overtime claims, rived in New Zealand today I was freed Monday v hen he paid from Australia to begin a six-day i w.uoo and his attorney promised tour. He was in Australia lor the Olympic Games. to the hospital here. It was then the reckless driv ing charge was filed. Bond was set at $150. to pay the remaining $2,100 of the claims. Judge Solomon said that if the claims are settled satisfactorily, he would reduce the $10,000 fine. The company now is under a new ownership. cessftil completion of this system ! wired and paneled his own sum is beyond anything any of us can i mer cottage on Bowman Lake, I ' BUSINESS MIRROR Consumer Spending, Industry Expansion in Testing Period v By SAM DAWSON i men's future plans. NEW YORK 1tV-Two chief sup- The spending in the next three ports, of the business boom arc montlu Pry "urn set ny long headlne into testing periods. standing plans. What officials heading into testing periods. Consumer spending has been the mainstay of the record prosperity, taking up where government (pending left off after the Korean War.: Business expansion has been the extra, force which has stretched these; good times month after month. Merchants everywhere are see ing a real test of consumer spend ing tnoods today, mid point in the Christmas selling season. They havo'largc stocks bet on this being thcif; biggest holiday of trade. If it isn't, the January clearance ales; should be whoppers. Car makers here for the Na tional Auto Show are watching the mood: just as closely. They have bet largo sums on it too. Their test ;will come early in the new year-; when their dealers' show room fill up with the new models, low mostly in short supply. How the consumers react may given tipoff whether the business boom; is leveling off or just getting et for a new jump forward. Business expansion plans arc also -lip for a test. So far there has icon no slackening. On the contrary, Washington officials look for the first three mohlhs of 1957 to set a new peak in spending for aew plants, and even more sprnfling for new equipment. The Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Com mission look for business spending to roach a record annual rate of 38 billion dollars in the first quar ter, a gain of 8 per cent over the lame period of this year. Kor all of 1356 their estimate is that 35 billion was spent on business ex pansion. The test will come in the next few montlis, however, in business- arc wondering now is whether this great expansion is now nearing its end whether announcements of future plan will be as heartening as those of the past whether some programs may be shelved because of tight money or the in ternational uncertainties. Potent Tipple Of Teetotaler Trips on Tax DKRBY, KnRland Wr-The potent tipple of teetotaler Stanley Toplis tripped over lax trouble, and his workmates hereafter will have to pet their kicks at the pub, at four times the price. Toplis, a railway pipe fitter, was haled into court by the customs and excise people on a charge of distilling spirits without a license. Toplis freely admitted it. He fuiid he made the drink in a spirit of pure scientific research by dis tilling a wine he had cooked up out of fermented potatoes. 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