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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdferd, Or. A TTiursdiy, Aug. 27, 1959 Oregon Highway Department Work Curbed by Lack of Money By DICK HUMPHREY UPI Correspondent Salem (LTD - The Oregon State Highway Department is acting strictly on an emer gency basis these days until Congress decides how to raise money for the huge 41,000 mile interstate highway build ing program. Department officials and commissioners are holding their breaths until Congress decides whether to pass a 1-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax to finance the $41 billion na tional program. Assistant State Highway Engineer C. S. Paxon said no The Family Council h..f?itor!lBota: Th" rmUy Counet consist of a Jndfe, a psychiatrist, . . "T. v .-ifc co mi a women's eaiior ana two writers. Men article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does ZZiu'VS merery reports on problems that hava been dealt " myujujHi ag-encie. ano counselors. Dian. J. Let's live while we can. Michael J. - I work too hard to throw money down the drain. r Diane J. - My husband and I were brought up during the depression and were married - on his Army corporal's pay and mine as a typist. The going has been rough, but now at last we are comfort ably fixed. We have three children and are making adequate provis ion for their education. think it is time we started thinking about ourselves. have always loved clothes and lots of social life and would like to spend money on myself, fix up my home, do some entertaining and go places. Michael thinks these things are not important. He is mak ing investments that may or may not amount to something - some day. I say let the future take care of itself. Let's live while we can. Michael J. - With some people it's a case of easy come, easy go. As for me, I sweat blood for my money and I can't see throwing it down the drain in booze for people I care nothing about. Of course, I want my wife to dress well, but when I see some of the things she wants to buy I'm glad we haven't had the money until now. Some of those styles whew! The investments I am mak ing will really come to some thing in future years. They will provide for us in our .later years and will give something more for our child ren so they won't have to struggle the way I did. Diane is always crabbing about my being anti-social. I can't help it. I've always been that way - just freeze up at parties. The Council: Michael ap pears to be frightened by the radically different way of life - his wife is suggesting. Diane has unfortunately wor ried about this problem too long without doing anything so that all of Michael's fears had time to flourish and he hasn't ever had the oppor tunity to know any of the pleasures of social life. Diane appears to consider herself a social butterfly and feels she has been deprived too long, sacrificed too much. She blames her husband and he feels guilty about it. Yet we suspect that Diane has a lot of social fears of her own and her hesitation about ar ranging agreeable social ac tivities has induced her hus band to be even more rigid in his patterns. In retaliation she has perhaps gotten a bit shrewish on the subject. People who really enjoy contact with others usually manage to entertain and keep up social appearance enough to have a circle of friends who like them for themselves -not the imnressiveness of their homes, clothing or amount of "booze" served. So we'd suggest that Diane change herself in this matter before trying to change her husband. She should make an effort to cultivate the friendships of a small number of congenial couples, learn to entertain informally and let nature take its course. We have an idea that Michael will eventually begin to look forward to the relax ing kind of sociability and will come out of his "freeze." "A 12-lane double-deck sus- bridze to be con structed over the Narrows in New York bay will be the longest in the world when completed in 1964. The Gold en Gate bridge in San Fran cisco now holds that title but, at 4,260 feet, the new bridge will be 60 feet longer. ' There were 4,599,000 busi ness firms in the U. S. at the beginning of 1959, according to the commerce department, an increase of about 55,000 or one and a quarter per cent over 1958. U. S. scientists are study ing a proposal for disposing of radio-active wastes by fir ing them to the moon in rockets. This may have the beneficial result of reducing his anxiety about the future. He may de velop a taste for some of the advantages of an economical ly secure life. Diane at the same time will learn that social life doesn't necessarily call for large scale extrava gances. In short, the way will be opened for a com promise. (Copyright 1959, General Features Corp.) Tough Plastic Substitutes for Many Metals Wilmington, Del.-(Science Service)-A . tough, resilent plastic that will substitute for many metals has been de veloped. It is called Delrin and is the product of Du Pont. ( Plastics heretofore have not been strong enough to compete with metals in many applications. Now, Delrin promises to be usable for car door handles, dashboards of cars, fuel pump and carbu retor parts, and showerheads. Over 75 per cent of its poten tial applications, which num ber more than 500, involve replacement, of steel, brass, aluminum and zinc. In Chemical Structure The reason for Delrin's ex cellent properties lies in its chamical -structure. It .is formed from formaldehyde, a relatively simple molecule. The formaldehyde is polymer ized, or joined together in long, tilghtly-packed chains. The unbranched chains form into very dense crystals giv ing the plastic its strength and unique ability for long wear. The first usable polymer of formaldehyde that has been developed to any great ex tent, Delrin is being commer cially manufactured by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & com pany. It required 300 man years of experimental work to develop a stable form of the polymer, and the devel opment costs exceeded those spent by the company to pro duce nylon. Not Easily Cemented Delrin cannot replace metals completely, however. It cannot be easily cemented, and is discolored by ultra violet rays, a characteristic of most plastics. . Whether Del rin will be practical for very large shapes is not yet known. A garbage can liner is the largest thus far successfully made and tested. Many companies are al ready extremely interested in Delrin as a metal replacement and polyformaldehyde seems to be on the brink of assum ing considerable industrial importance. more contracts would be let in Oregon on interstate proj ects until Congress digs up the money. Emergency work will be done as needed, how ever. Longer Tax Favored The House Ways and Means committee has approved by a 16-9 vote a measure that would hike the gas tax from 3 to 4 cents for 22 months. This was done in the face o a compromise proposal by Speaker Sam Rayburn that the tax be effective for only 12 months. Paxon said that even under the 22-month program Ore gon's interstate system would progress "at only about half speed." The state would receive about $20 million a year un der the plan approved by the Ways and Means committee, compared with some $48 mil lion promised earlier. However, there probably would be funds available for primary, secondary and urban programs, Paxon said. Would Help Freeway Should the 22-month plan prevail in Congress, Oregon could conceivably finish the Baldock freeway into Port land and the Eugene-Albany section of the Pacific highway by the fall of 1960. There might not be enough money, however, to work on the Pa cific highway through Portland. Paxon said that while the Baldock freeway and Pacific highway projects were the most obvious, should money be limited, there still was considerable work to be done in eastern Oregon. Decisions on the specific projects, he emphasized, were up t- the Highway commission. If Congress rejects a gas tax completely, there might be a lag until next July until contracts on interstate proj ects could be let except in emergencies, Paxon said. Rayburn's proposal for a 12-month gas hike, defeated by the House Ways and Means committee, would be better than nothing, but would slow progress considerably, he added. .. Bill to Be Introduced Chairman vWUbur D. Mills of the Ways and Means com mittee has been instructed by his committee to introduce a bill providing for the 22 month tax. State .Highway Engineer W. C. Wiliams, recently re turned from a meeting of highway engineers in Chica go, said there was opposition to a shutdown in the inter state program which would last any period of time, but that the program might be stretched out until 1975-six years longer than originally intended. Williams said the Highway commission already had pur chased some $6 milion worth of right-of-way for the pro posed Pacific highway through Portland-on the the projects threatened by a slow down. But he said no more right-of-way property to con tinue the route from down town Portland to the Inter state bridge would be pur chased until - Congress has provided the money. Some 24 other states find themselves in the same posi tion as Oregon of having to stop' bids on interstate proj ects until they know which way is up. If money is pro vided soon, contracts will be let as rapidly as possible, even though work may very likely not be going at full tilt. V- .r -,-rr W2? K3L a. 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