Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1950 — Page 2
Gl use Most Damage hi ~ With Overloads but “Little Guy’ Pays Cost
Giant Units Add Only $160,000 fo State
Coffers Compared to $3 Million for Others By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Giant trucks pounding Indiana roads to bits run on a subsidy paid by little trucks and passenger cars. 5 These “mechanical monsters” destroy roads faster than the state can rebuild them. Yet the big truckers don’t pay their share of the load to maintain the highways. Pounded day and night by heavily burdened trucks and i »Indiana’s 10.500. wi ight tations are — . » : 5 e statiol i mile road network is rapidly .arerunty avoid them. 1 . Eighteen months ago state po-|. it usually takes re-ilice tests showed that of all the peated overloads to destroy a trucks weighed, from 20 to 35 highway, road engineers main- per cent were overloaded. Last tain that one load, if big enough, month a similar test, conducted] == can do the job, jafter the state police's “get | te State Highway Commissioner|tough” policy was inaugurated, | Samuel Hadden has been waging showed less than 3 per cent—or| a relentless campaign on the|320 trucks—were overloaded out| ='§ truckers who rumble over the of 11,607 weighed. | 7
state's crumbling highways with! “Pumping” is what destroys overloads. most concrete pavements. The,
While at least one Indiana mayor urged presidential exemption of police and fire department personnel from the draft, no sim-
| Safety Board President Lero, J, Keach said there was no cur{rent planning to ask for mass deferment of internal security workers, Of the 680 policemen land 702 firemen in Indianapolis,
{current draft call. i Pay Problem : {i During World War II, Mr. | Keach said, the city's greatest
| sonnel was attractive pay scales | offered by the services to highly trained police and fire workers, In ‘a telegram to President { Truman, Mayor George Schock of {South Bend, yesterday asked for deferment of police and fire personnel in the event of immediate
Korean Reds today were putting the big squeeze on Americans defending Taejon, which South |; =. " "' tion of re-
Under the state's new motor road sound thump, thump—as| ..., oo fier abandoned as its provisional capital. Shaded lines show where the Reds made their big 'servists.
vehicle license law, big trailerithe car or truck passes over pave-| trucks, tractors and semi-trailers! ment joints is the first sign that paid $160,000 for licenses this year/ the highway has begun to during the month of January “pump.” compared to more than $3 million] yt starts usually after too| from their seaport, Rsan, further paid by small trucks and passen- peayy a load passes over it. Mols- rsiiemen ger cars. ‘Subsidy to Trucks’ ach “Our big trucks are receiving, time the pressure is reapplied, | a subsidy to stay in business, If more water and mud Is forced . we made them pay for the dam- out until a cavity is formed. Soon tank crew, drove back a North age they create, we would chase the corners break off and the Korean attempted river crossing. them off the road,” Mr. Hadden damage is done, ol said, | Test Fixes Blame
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truckers get a “free ride” at the (wok traffic increases the state's
expense of the public. {highway bill is supported by the two regiments of the U. 8. 24th
have paid 20 cents of every dollar| Aaministration which conductediinfijcted heavy losses on Commu-
they received to maintain and a gyrvey in New Jersey last year.| . § » ists occupied x : : > { y The. report’ Indisates that on nist forces trying to cross Friday Rongla the eo a Pled of Taejon. Pilots reported they type landing parties went ashore po : night and Saturday. He did not \onsan la uraay.
pay taxes on their rights-of-way. | Truckers, they charge, get their two identical roads—one a “truck. rights-of-way for less than 5 route” and the other largely used cents on the dollar, paid for bY py passenger cars—the annual registration fees and gas taxes. | nyiean of the truck route may
report on the fighting Saturday! night or Sun¥ay,
An air communique reported night,
break-through along the Kum River which forced the thin line of defending Americans (sawtooth sym- | ol) to fall south toward the mountains. Broken arrow shows where the Reds were attempting to out- !isting and first line of local de- | flank the Americans’ right. If they succeed the Yanks will be trapped. The Yanks also will be cut off fense
south.
, he . i { ® sx Re el ® i K ] rr re veneatn te concrete (lg Smash Red Suicide Raids in Korea
“Such personnel is the only ex- + 1 against ‘a foe,” Mayor Schock pointed out. | In the last war draft, city and state agencies were permitted exemptions for personnel in cer‘tain cases.
In their western bridgehead the and on the American front to the EE
Communists apparently captured west, Kongju, the major Kum River érossing point in that iol . 5 ’ Gen. Douglas MacArthur's af- Ground dispatches did not report “*™ attack smashed three to five Decimate Reds o iternoon communique reporting on on the fate of Kongju but aerial Railroad officials complain that! ar. Jadden's assertion that the Taejon battle said only that reports said American planes at- holding the American east FAK bap Ba ts {tacked the city and set of As in the horseshoe bend of the Kum (yp) : {with flames 100 feet high, indicat- ! . For years, they say, railroads andings of the U. S. Public Roads Division on the Kum River line y.o pig qumps had been hit. north of Taejon.
Allied Warships
The northern arm of the pin-
area,
miles through South Korean lines Tough Soulh Korean ines; 1. 8. STH ARMY HEADQUAR-
Allied warships decimated a Communist motor column on | In this area the Communists the Korean east coast road above
In their southward rush from reached within eight to 10 miles Pusan yesterday after commando-
B-28 light - bombers
Communist targets on the north bank of the Kum all Saturday - Sunday morning
When
blasted already had crossed
north of tions, U, 8. 8th Army Headquarters announced today. The ‘announcement said the action took place near Kumum,
River at two points Taejon. ; ’ It was at the western arm of
Spokesmen for the trucking in- run from 27 to 56 per cent great- B-29 Superfortresses blasted Kim- jawned with clear biue skies, new the Communist pincers where the on the costal highway 18 miles
ry: say overloads are not/.r than the passenger car route—~po airfield, 10 miles west of Seoul, sorties of hombers and rocket- heaviest fighting was in progress. dustry y P with 50 tons of bombs in a raid The C ists fought to wid The governors of the country MN . carrying fighters hit the Reds all e Communists fought to widen Ss : Saturday. More than 220 fighter 3i6ng the 150-mile Korean war and deepen their 15-mile-wide south of S8amehok. and bomber sorties were flown in front.
responsible for pavement darn-| age. They Insist, instead, the regard the big-truck problem as; weather is to blame and, maybe. no leading question facing them the road materials. lat the moment. Mr. Hadden is particularly con- At White Sulphur Springs, the cerned with -the ponderous Ve- ..... copier executives, meeting hicles carrying steel over Indl qcently at the annual Governors ana's roads. Conference, lashed out at the
{air attacks all along the Communist war front.
unlawful gross loads, has done Imountains to Taejon.
to our highways, is simply trag-| 0 0 oo ican sald the small fc” he said. “Steel produced Jal, Sov. Sd of truckers who. vio-!|
Indiana that night hundreds ll “We're not trying to destroy, miles away. the trucking industry,” he said. : Some Truckers Defiant {“But the trucks ought to be mind-
Mr. Hadden added that thé ful of the fact that the people
distances over the public high- way"
| ois bam csi — ways of excensie a aaud ny| Wom 1 ired {headquarters announced this 8 ’ { 4 ’ rebellious An Tesi Rob “. 0, Car [that area were holding firm.
| Korean fr
the east coast of straight ahead through the Ww landing party went! American lines to Taejon, the. 0» : : ’ ; r to 7 shell “What the trucking of steel, In pop way box cars” for overload- an falling back through the ashore from warships in small Communists launched a sweep ie Tg mov jo boats and cut off a Communist through Nonsan, a seven-way aid : Correspondents “at the front motor. column by road demolisaid the Communists were ex- tions near Kumum, on the coastal
day 1s trucked all over) w |Pected to try to close their pincers highway 18 miles north of YongGary one day late the law “must be stopped.” | = Taejon’ Within’ the next 24!dok 8
north of Yongdok and 55 miles
bridgehead along the Kum River. The landing party members
U. 8. Sth army headquarters south of Kongju, 19 miles north- went ashore in small boats, cut {announced the first successful al- west of Taejon. off Front reports sald the Amer- lied commando-type action of the, But instead of smashing '/icans gave up the western haif war along L of their Kum River line and be- Korea. A
the Communist column by 'reating a big landslide with explosives and then withdrew safely arships then moved in and
i t , road and rail hub 21 miles south-| 0 said. . ——— AUXILIARY TO GIVE PICNIC
west of Taejon. Nonsan is 18 miles south of, past President Farley of
Kongju and only a few milesiwayne Unit, No. 64, American
The landing parly withdrew from the southern end of the Jegion Auxiliary, will hold a pic-
The North Koreans also tried safely in boats and then warships | Communist bridgehead. all Saturday night to crack the moved ih to sheil the i American Kum River line north Communist column, evils of trucking for unlimited have provided their rights °f and west by north of Taejon, but nouncement sald the : {without success. U. 8. 8th army “took a heavy toll."
trapped The
! : nic dinner at 1p. m. next Sunday From Nonsan the North Ko- at High Rock Camp, Martinsville.
an- reans can outflank the American " i asin shelling line and plunge up the highway $200,000 SANTA FE FIRE
to Taejon, closing the south side. CHICAGO, July 15 (UP) — A
The Communists made a major of their three-sided box on all flash fire swept a portion of the
morning that American forces in breakthrough both on the South American forces in the Taejon Santa Fe railroad yards with! ont north of Taejon area. :
damage estimated at $200,000.
A reasonable restraint. A reign of terror with her life
w » Mr. Hadden said, being threatened climaxed mov“a a aggressive, even de-|Ing day yesterday for a 30-year: fiant tendency on the part of a old woman, minority of truckers to overload Miss Virginia Irvin, 1616 N. their trucks and trailers regard- Pennsylvania 8t., Apt, 4, reported less of our very liberal weight | to police a “conscientious” worklimitations.” man returned to her apartment Recognizing the danger to its! last night to explain why he had members in the growing number not finished his work. of protests, the Indiana Motor| She gave him a drink of water Truck Association pledged to On his request, she said. He came heln “police up the industry.” from the kitchen with a knife, Jim Nichols, executive secre- robbed her of about $80, her car tary of the association, helped keys and subsequently her 1940 write a penalty clause “into the automobile. new truck law that virtually! tie Seq Nee Jans. Shrew her " verload- are takes the profit cut of 9 a Heath with the warnihg, “I'l N t still eateh Kill you if ‘you call police.” ols Ta A — a Miss Irvin freed her hands and difficult task. (called police. : Warning System } Th Truck Sar ton one another Scooter Rider Hurt a posted on when ahd where the. Oliver Jones, 19, of- 910 KE. 20th weighing is taking place. The St, was injured when his motor first driver to pass a newly estab-/ scooter collided with a car driven lished check point warns trucks by Jay H. Coffey, 21, of 1802 moving in the opposite direction|Ruckle St. at 17th St. and by flashing his lights or Wig- Arsenal Ave. yesterddy. He is in wagging his log hook, Frequent-| fair condition in General Hospital, ly, he stops and phones the news ed eatin sms imp oetea to his dispatcher. {3 DILIGENTIS NOW 7 Impatient drivers who attempt; BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, to detour around weighing sta-{July 15 (UP) --The Diligenti tions play havoc with the state's) quintuplets celebrated their sevdaffy ‘roads and bridges. enth birthday today by entertain-
seconda There they inflict even heavier! ing dozens of their friends in the damage than on concrete roads. l4-room mansion built for Jt has been estimated that Indi-ithem. A birthday cake with 35 ana has been losing an average candles on it was cut. of one bridge a month from over-| eemn— _ loaded trucks detouring to evade PLUNGES TO ‘UTOPIA’ the law, | NEW YORK, July 15 (UP) Last year, two Times reporters Willard Seligman, about 55, wrote saw sixty-five trucks parked .inia note saying, ‘goodby civilizaFortville and Pendleton while tion, I'm going to Utopia,” and State Police checked trucks out- plunged to his death from a 10th Side of Indianapolis on Ind. 87. floor hotei room today. His papers State Police, - armed with 15 gave a Miami address. new permanent truck scales, are astra esm—— _ Mnaking periodic checks on trucks. wiLL, ENTER OHIO U.
report’ overloaded. OR Soegial : the decline, either hecause the! COLUMBUS. O. uly 15—Nan- * truckers have a healthy respect cy Ann Fink, 3827 Broadway, Infor the new penalty clause which dianapolis, is among 40 students them heavily for viola-|who recently completed their ad‘tions or because the truckers mission requirements for enter-| * have learned where the perma-|ing Ohio State University.
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