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.
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