Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1952 — Page 15

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1052 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

‘Big Outlay For Highways Is Asked

Long-R pan for te | PRICES ARE LOWER AT RICHMANS

A 10-year Indiana highway im-| provement program costing twice the amount now being spent was proposed today by the state's! county commissioners. | ~ Over the decade, the program: would cost almost an additional $900 ‘million, | The Commissioners’ Associa-| tion called for a $72-million-a-| year increase in road money for construction to “meet minimum. traffic needs.”

Pressure Seen

The report was interpreted as laying the groundwork for pres-| sure on the 1953 Legislature to: | ONE-—Increase the state gaso-| line tax 2 cents a gallon and en-| act a truck tax based on weight \ ; 3 i and mileage, : . » # : al ro Cv bi TWO-—Boost the counties’ L {of o> : § Ze share of the gas tax. wi il { A a THREE—Permit counties to Fk a 4 ; i i : Cs. EHR | use motor vehicl RH n . | for county Toot PIOperty axes. IDENTIFY YOURSELF, WIN $5—If your face is circled in this "Eisenhower crowd" photographed at "High Noon" yesterday on | The report, issued. by Waldby| Illinois St. across from the Claypool Hotel, The Times has $5 for you. You must claim your prize by 4 p.m. tomorrow. Another down- | Duggleby, association president, town crowd picture taken at "High Noon" today will be in The Times tomorrow. Details on how to get your $5 and names of those |

sald counties now must maintain! il found on Page 16. 4000 Tore mike an cd A “who have won will be ag a

million less than they had 30!

years ago. Mr. Duggleby described current Poor Shortwave

revenue as “totally inadequate to 1 meet even minimum needs.” Reception Seen The Decatur County commis- By Science Service sioner charged Indiana per-mile] WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—Radio highway revenue is among the listeners won't be too pleased with lowest in the nation. Last year, reception of shortwave radio he said, highway funds averaged broadcasts from across the At$285 a mile, lantic and Pacific Oceans during L the next week or so. * Other Averages Cited Reception, which is poor today, "The report showed these aver-| Will improve only to “poor to fair” ages for neighboring states— by Thursday, and be fair to good Ohio, $733; Illinois, $1067, and on Friday and Saturday. Michigan, $588. But it will begin to deteriorate

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The proposed additional $897 milion highway spending over the’ 10-year period was broken down this way—state, $542 million; counties, $266 million, and cities, $89 million. : Normal maintenance and construction costs $79 million a year now, the report said. The report also cited the increase in number and size of motor vehicles as “far beyond the safe and designed capacity of most highways: and bridges.”

Traffic Soars

The number of cars on Indiana roads has risen 55 per cent in the last 15 years, the report said, while the volume of trucks has jumped 75 per cent and of trailertrucks 450 per cent. 3 Samuel Hadden, State Highway Commission chairman, said he was “greatly interested” in the report, but he declined to comment on it specifically.

Actress to Be Buried

In Dress Worn in Play

UPTON, Mass. — Actress Gertrude Lawrence was to be buried today in the dress she wore in her last Broadway triumph, “The King and 1.” Lights went on again on New York's White Way as the 50-year-old actress’ casket was taken here for burial in the family plot of her husband, Theatrical Producer Richard Aldrich. The lights were dimmed last night after the funeral at which the great actress received the final tribute of 1200 persons who ob~| tained special tickets: to the] as church. Hundreds more crowded the sanctuary and the steps outside. Her husband said he wanted] her “remembered exactly as she! was while on stage in her last play.”

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Atlanta Constitution Comes Out for Adlai

ATLANTA-—The Atlanta Constitution announced its support of | Democratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson today, declaring editorially “He is one of the really great men now gracing our politi-| cal system.” i The Constitution said that while it does not agree with all planks in the Democratic platform it believes that platform is “more; forthright than that of its opponents.” The Constitution called Repub-| lican Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower a “magnificent nominee,” but said “the Republican reactionaries pose too great a threat to| the foreign and domestic policies | which are supported” by him,

Adam to Wed Eve NEW YORK—Adam and Eve are going to get married Satur-|

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after that, being only fair on Sunday, and poor to fair again on Monday and Tuesday, radio forecasters at the National Bureau of Standards predicted here.

Tear Gas Quickly Ends

Riot of 155 Convicts:

EL RENO, Okla.—A federal reformatory warden, who was in no mood to bargain with 155 rioting young convicts, answered demands for a grievance session with tear gas bombs and quelled the insurrection after 10 minutes. The youthful convicts rioted yesterday after seizing two EI Reno federal reformatory guards as hostages, barricading themselves in a cell block and demanded by prison telephone that Warden W. H. Hardwick appear with newspaper reporters. “I told them I would not bargain and to turn those men loose,”

know what their trouble was.” He then ordered a tear gas barrage red.

Gunman Puts the ‘Bee’ On Obliging Driver

ELIZABETH, N. J.— James Evans, 30, of Newark, expected to meet a policeman when he heard a siren behind him yesterday and dutifully pulled his car over to the curb. Instead, he was accosted by a youthful gunman who had kidnaped a New Jersey state motor vehicle inspector in a car equipped with a siren. The gunman forced Mr. Evans to drive him a short distance and- then fled on foot.

day. Adam Reisz Jr., announced | he will marry Eve Lynn, whom | he met in 1949 while he was] playing Christ and she was playing Mary Magdalene in a church passion play.

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