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Boston Changing From Historic 'Hub' to Modern City Rapidly By DICK DEW United Press International Boston-JUTO-The demands of modern life have begun to rock this cradle of liberty with more and more vigor. w Though Boston, the historic "Hub" for more than three million persons, was slow in getting itself untracked from the past, the last two years have seen the launching of several major commercial and government - aided highway and housing projects. Elevated traffic arteries, ' skyscraper business develop ments and sprawling residen tial projects pose no threat as yet to such storied areas as bumpy Beacon "Hill, but city planners say the day is com .ing when at least part of "Old Bosion win nave 10 go. , Rising Taxes v . Plagued .by rising taxes, crooked, congested streets, and tremendous mass trans portation problems, Boston has taken several preliminary steps forward. : One important accomplish ment was a 110-million-dollar central artery, an elevated highway providing swift, lim ited access means of crossing the city. The highway was only recently linked to ma jor entrance routes including the 60-million-dollar South east Expressway, Baston's South Shore feeder, route. The Expressway, which will eventually join a divided highway from north of Bos ton to the tip of Cape Cod, was completed just in time to avoid chaos when the New Haven Railroad closed down its 'Old- Colony line, prim ary commuter system for 10,- 000 Boston workers residing on the South Shore. , Boston's lag in economi cally-necessary redevelopment was pointed up two years ago when a. group of businessmen collected $100,000 to form the Greater Boston Economic Study committee. Changing Function The committee's investiga tors promptly focused their attention on the changing function of downtown Boston and concluded the city badly needed redevelopment. Its first four-ply plan called for a downtown office build ing center, a decorative arts center, an apparel trade 'cent er and a graphic arts center. The committee declined to suggest , who should launch the various projects but sug gested the areas were and woftld continue-to be of vital importance in sustaining the city. The city's Planning Depart ment has been irnmersed in a proposed government office center to include buildings housing Federal, state and city offices. The project, sched uled for early turnover to the Boston Redevelopment . Au thority for land - takings, would include a city office headquarters worth 20 million dollars, a 28-million-dollar Federal facility and a 30-mil- lion dollar state office build ing. The center would be con structed in the deteriorating Scollay Square section. Urban Removal An example - of Boston's blossoming interest' in rede velopment and urban renewal i" the Planning Department budget. Just 10 years ago, the annual ' appropriation was S33.0C0. The 'latest budget was a quarter of a million dol lars. ' The area's railroads, mean while, have contributed heav ily to the 150-million-dollar Prudential insurance com pany center in the city's aged Back Bay section. The ,proj ect, already underway, is being built on 31 acres of what was once the Boston and Albany Railroad's freight yards. City officials call that proj ect and the so-called West End redevelopment program keys to what they believe will be a sweeping modernization program. The Prudential project, in addition to the office build ings for the firm and other tenants, will include a conven tion hall and a major new hotel. West End Project The West End project clear ed several hundred families and dozens of decaying, aban doned substandard buildings from a 43-acre tract that will eventually be a city within a city. The area already has been stripped and the families relo cated, most of them to their own advantage. The area, taken up for 40 million dol lars, will eventually provide 2,200 apartments in 18 build ings up to 20 stories tall. The area will be completje unto itself vith plans already Price 10 Cents Medford 54th Year Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959 Pages 1-10 IIS Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins The Primitive Silverfish Is Still With U If a silverfish would be fool ish enough to bite on a hook, we would have to use an old piece of newspaper, a hunk of glue or a piece of starch for bait, as these creatures consid er these seemingly unpalata ble .things as rare delicacies. And, to make the whole thing even more ridiculous, this character has three tails, scales, but no fins or gills. You've- guessed it. the sil verfish is not a fish but an insect. A troublesome one that lives in dark, damp places about the house, especially where oaoers. books or starchy materials are stored. ' The silverfish. has an appe tite that is almost constant. It spends just about all its time during every night of its life nibbling. It does considerable damage once it gets estab lished. Lowest Order These so - called silverfish, are members of the lowest, most primitive order of in sects. They should have pass ed from the scene decades ago, but they didn't. They emerge from the egg perfect replicas of the parents, an unusual oc currence among the insects. , Most undergo several chang es, but not the silverfish. These creatures require about two years to reach full ma turity, during which time they moult five or six times. Full grown they are about half inch long. They are wing less, with many jointed legs. Soon after they aje hatched they have the characteristic silvery color, and tne ngnx ning speed of the adult. This activity makes them a trouble some pest, as they move so fast they escape poison spray. hiding in cracks and crevices the instant light strikes them. This natural "speed on their feet" gave someone the idea they were swimming: hence the "fish." The color of the body and the fine scales that cover it all add to the fish idea. : The long tapered body, with the smooth scales makes it Two Women Face Trial for Swimming In Half of Suits Newport Beach, CaliflGPD -Two French -born women arrested for swimming in only the bottom halves of their bikini bathing suits on a public beach - said lhey couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. To swim without the lops is common among women at French beaches, Aurelie la Mar, 34, and Ilena Ro vira, 32, were reported to ,have indignantly told arrest ing officers The women, .both resi- -dents of Los Angeles, went on trial yesterday on mis : demeanor charges of outrag ing the public decency. J? mall car? SEE VOLKSWAGEN mm mvwn vik, i r ica's finest in economy : imports. It has room, comfort, agility, and economy. ' Drive it to-, day ... Volkswagen do- serves year confidence. possible for the insect to enter an opening that appears much too small; actually they can almost crawl in between the pages of a book. By Any Name ... Different sections of the country have various names for these household - insects, all more or less descriptive of their appearance. Fish-moth and slicker are two examples. And this strange -insect is just about everywhere in piles of old newspapers, under the - kitchen - sink, in base ments, garages, and tool sheds -getting along swimmingly on dry land. . (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) . Birds Grow Larger On Isolated Island Washington-(Science Serv ice) Island life agrees with the birds - they apparently grow larger than their main land contemporaries. - -. In a report on the uninhab ited Caribbean jungle Isla Es cudo de Veraguas, Dr. Alexan der Wetmore of the Smithso nian Institution here describes three new sub-species of birds. The birds, a blue tanager, a manakin and a tropical wren, are all mainland types appar ently isolated on the foursquare-mile island for thou sands of years. '. Although many of the size differences between the two types of birds would be too small for the average person to detect-a difference of 2.5 millimeters in bill length, for example - island birds one third larger than mainland ones were observed. Dr. Wetmore also obtained Lab Animals to Live In Germ-Free Room Notre Dame, Ind.-(Science Service Laboratory animals at the University of Notre Dame will live a germ-free life in a plastic room. The sterile, plastic room, which can be deflated and stored when not in use, will replace the less convenient metal iso lators. Filtered air keeps the room's atmosphere clean. Be fore entering, technicians must don plastic suits sprayed with germ-killing peracetic acid. The air the technicians exhale is cleaned by a porta ble purifier attached to their plastic suits. Animals who live their entire lives germ-free are valuable for nutrition and cancer experiments, Notre Dame researchers explained. one spiny rat belonging to an unknown species. There are few other mammals, he said, except for wild pigs. completed for schools, church es and a shopping center. William J. Bird, executive vice president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Com merce, believes that although the Hub was slow to get start ed, "We are now among the leaders in the country is ac tually getting things done. Plans for future work are nice but Boston is really moving., We've taken property and be gun construction in many cases. This is the important thing." Key to Program - Bird, whose Chamber mem bership pressured for several years to get redevelopment started here, said the key to the program was "establishing the machinery for progress." "In the last four years," he said, "we've gotten off dead center. Boston is beginning to demonstrate its ability for metropolitan growth. The thing that held us back was lack of an authority to accom plish the. mechanics necessary to action. 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