The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 45, Milford, Kosciusko County, 21 November 1984 — Page 12

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., November 21.1984

Group keeps tabs on Indiana roads

Indiana Highways for Progress, Inc., is a non-profit, industry-supported organization which has been researching and distributing highway facts and figures for the past 30 years. Harold L. Michael, head of Purdue University’s School of Civil Engineering, has been president of the association since 1965. The group provides., vital statistics regarding roads, streets and bridges. The group believes that Indiana cannot develop a first-class economy without first developing a firstclass transportation network. Indiana’s 91,808-mile highway transportation system, according to Indiana Highways for Progress statistics, consists of 11,450 miles of state highways, 66,396 miles of county roads and 13,962 miles of city and town streets. Comprising the state highway network are 1.137 miles of Interstate routes (including the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road) and 10,313 miles of non-Interstate highways. Nearly 22 percent of these roadways or 19,946 miles are eligible for federal funds as part of the federal-aid highway system The group's statistics indicate 17.749 existing bridges over 20 feet in length. Unfortunately, all but 10 of these bridges were included in the latest Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Progrim report, submitted to Congress in early 1984 by the Federal Highway Administration. This document shows that three out of every five bridges in Indiana are substandard. 4.620 of these are structurally deficient and 5.743 are functionally obsolete To bring the statistics one step further and support the need for a good infrastructure, the group T ; ' i I I ' ' • MISS TEEN CONTESTANT — Traci Lynn Beaty has been officially , selected as Miss Hair Force Teen 1985. She will be participating in the Miss Indiana Teen USA Pageant to be held Sunday, Dec. 2, at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Merrillville, Ind. Traci Lynn is 16 years of age. stands 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. Her hair is blonde and her eyes are green. She is the daughter of John and Sandi Beaty of Leesburg, and is a junior at Wawasee High School. Her sponsor for the pageant is Kathie Rohling, owner of Hair Force. Syracuse. The young lady selected to represent the state as Miss Indiana Teen USA will participate in the Miss Teen USA national finals held in Miami. Fla." This event is to be televised on CBS.

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• presents these facts: < Nine out of every 10 Hoosier i workers use private motor I vehicles for job-commuting, and I another three percent travel to work by bus. ■< Nearly 67 percent of the I state’s manufacuted products, inl eluding much of its steel, most of its coal, timber, mineral and I petroleum products are shipped by truck. ‘ < Nearly 330,000 Hoosiers, one- ; fifth of the state’s work force, are employed in -the motor vehicle/highway and related industries. These include r automotive manufacturing, sales ’ and servicing, road construction ( and maintenance, trucking and • petroleum. ! ■< As one of the leading “farm factory” states, raking tenth or better in the harvesting of corn and soybeans, in livestock production and in agricultural product exports. At one time or another all of Indiana’s farm commodities are trucktransported. Indiana's Strategic Economic Development Plan, a 225-page blue print for economic growth prepared by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Department of Commerce, supports the Highway for Progress belief that a good system of roadways promotes economic growth. •This (infrastructure) is a critical resource in Indiana’s ability to take full advantage of its geographic location and the nature of its economic base.” states the SEDP. The Office of Engineering of the Federal Highway Administration also supports the ideas of the Highways for ProFatal accident puzzles police Kosciusko County Police continue to seek information concerning a two-car accident at the intersection of CR 200N and 650E. According to police cars driven by Randall W. Schuster, Winona Lake, and Norman A. Howard, Leesburg, collided at the intersection near North Webster. Schuster, who died from a broken neck, was trapped in his vehicle for nearly 30 minutes - aXier the crash | | Howard was treated at Kosciusko Community Hospital and later transferred to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, where he died from massive head injuries. Let your light shine Here's an idea for making a Christmas tree and lights without electricity. Simply cut a tree shape from a piece of green foil wrapping paper or silver paper Cut out small holes where the "lights" will shine through. Tape pieces of colored cellophane candy or florist wrap behind the holes Then place your tree in front of a window or a light to create the effect of a tree with lights UAW and Reagan DETROIT — United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber declared recently that President Reagan “has no role to play” in the union's labor negotiations and his remarks about the talks were inappropriate.

gress group. According to a release from that office, “the social and economic benefits of good highways — safer, less costly motor vehicle travel — are as obvious as they are important. An

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adequately financed highway construction and maintenance program pays for itself." “While this needed investment is being made, there are some other immediate and tangible dividends," the release adds. “In

addition to creating some 60 onsite and off-site jobs, each $1 million spent for highway construction generates, on average, a market for: over 2,700 tons of aggregates: over 564 tons of liquid; in excess of 728 tons of ce-

ment; over 145 tons of structural and reinforcing steel and steel products; in excess of 44,000 gallons of petroleum products; over 17,000 board-feet of lumber; and over 140 tons of pipe." As a collector of statistics and

highway data, Indiana Highways for Progress, Inc., is not only an informative group, but is able to keep this information in the farefront of the minds of private citizens, the business sector and government alike. With organiza-

tions such as this promoting the concept of the highwajr infrastructure in relationship to economic growth it is likely that the nation and the state will remain prosperous for years to come.