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Show New Pittsburgh Harr isburg Turnpike Marks Beginning of Superhighway Era - By HERMAN CROCKETT (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I PA. HARRISBURG, speed along at 105 miles an hour. Their occupants, unaware of an excessive rate of motion, travel on a curveless ribbon of concrete that goes through mountains instead of over them a highway without intersections or railroad crossings, without billboards or hazards of snow, ice, and fog. dream of the future? Hardly. Pennsylvania will dedicate such a highway and open it to public travel Sometime this fall. It will be 160 miles long, connecting the city of Pittsburgh in the western part of the state with Harrisburg, the capital, near the east. And plans are being made to extend it an additional 112 miles to Philadelphia. The road eliminates all the mountain hazards between the Ohio river and Delaware tidewater. It will reduce, by hours, travel from the Midwest to the eastern metropolises. For truckers it will save as much as IS hours time and an estimated $30 between two points, compared to use of the present roads. Since the beginning of the westward march of civilization across the United States, the formidable mountain ridges of the Appalachians have imposed natural barriers on travel and transportation between the Atlantic seaboard and the Middle West. Pennsylvania's two mahighways solved the jor east-weproblem in a limited way previously. The Lincoln highway crossed the mountains directly on steep grades; Uie other, the William Penn highway, followed the winding Juniata river to its headwaters, crossing one mountain and descending to Pittsburgh through rolling hill country. Both routes have obvious limitations, the former having many grades as steep as 8 and 9 per cent, and the William Penn having a few steep grades with many curves and a longer route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Always there has been the dream of a better and shorter road, one that would not add hundreds of miles to the journey by going around the mountains. Follows Abandoned Railroad. The new turnpike follows the line of the old South Penn railroad, a project never completed. It is a four-lan- e concrete shaft with east and west traffic separated by a center parkway. Seven tunnels through the mountains, prepared for the railroad, are used to eliminate 'T ' " : i . Sw . V' ," ' . ; Z I 4 - A st 10-fo- ot grades. In all, there are seven miles of these tunnels. Every device to Insure safety, comfort and speed Huge fans will supply an adequate constantly amount of pure air. The tunnels will be electrically lighted. On the open pike all crossroads are carried either underneath or is Direct cross-flooverhead. avoided by means of looping ramps, or cloverleaf intersections. All interchanges are so located that approaching traffic can look down on them and readily picture the layout. There will be no traffic lights. Deceleration and acceleration lanes are provided at each interchange. These are 1,200 feet long and are set parallel to and continguous with the paving. Carved out of the mountains as a single project, the road is not a merger of previous roads, linked together. It is all new. The severest grade anywhere is 3 per cent, that has been installed. w Educator Discovers Vocation Guidance ' Slighted by Schools 1 NEW YORK. Only 6 per cent of 23,032 public high schools in the United States provide educational counselors or vocational guidance officers on full time or more than half time, according to a recent study by Clarence E. Lovejoy of Columbia university. For every 3,100 high school pupils in this country, there is only one faculty adviser, he says. "Parents should howl vocally and write letters to their local newspapers if they live in cities which are lax in providing vocational guidance and educational counseling. If the school board has not appropriated funds for these activities, or if the school superintendents or principals are not supplying them to the residents, it is time to bring the tax-payi- pressure." "High school boys and girls need advice as well as information in selecting their colleges," Mr. Lovejoy declares. "They look to their principals and teachers for this guidance. Most high schools either Bhirk giving advice, or they give bad advice, which is worse then none at all. Educational counseling, whether In high schools or colleges, means talking with students and parents, planning students' proor advising approving grams, changes, examining unsatisfactory progress, discussing fields of : - jjvj ' SPEAKING OF WW By ROBERT li'i- 100 feet of length. Wherever curves have been necessary the road has been banked to accommodate high speeds. Test runs have shown a speed of 105 miles an hour as not dangerous. The superhighway cost $70,050,000 and was financed by a grant of from the PWA and $29,000,000 $41,000,000 in revenue bonds purchased by the RFC. Tolls are to be charged ($1.50 for passenger automobiles), but the highway will in time pay for itself and then become a free road, part of the state's highway system. Built in Two Years. Less than two years have been required to complete this ideal speedway, although previous attempts to span the mountains go back to the early 1800s. During that time more than a score of attempts were made. First surveys for a railroad were authorized by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1837, but it was not until 1854 that that body empowered a company to raise funds and chartered the Marysville, Landisville and Broad Top railroad. In 1559, the name of the proposed railroad was changed by legislative enactment to the ambitious title, "Pennsylvania Pacific railroad," which was retained until 1863, when it was again changed to the "South Pennsylvania railroad," or "South Penn," as it was popularly called. The project was revived and dropped several times during the next 20 years, but beyond keeping the charter alive, little was done until 1883 when William H. Vander-bil- t took over the company. Then, in that roaring decade of the 1880s, h of the nawhen probably tion's present railroad mileage was constructed, the old South Penn now followed by the turnpike, became the battleground of financial titans. The greatest of all South Penn ventures began in New York in 1883, when the Pennsylvania railroad threatened to enter into competition with the New York Central by building a parallel line up the west shore of the Hudson river. In retaliation, William H. Vanderbilt, New York e associate Central chief and of J. P. Morgan, organized a company to build the South Penn road paralleling the Pennsylvania railroad's lines in its home state. Carnegie a Backer. The biggest backer was Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburgh steel king, who contributed $5,000,000. Carnegie welcomed the new line, for he had fought the "Pennsy" unsuccessfully for years to win lower rates for transporting his Pittsburgh steel to the seaboard. "What do you think of it, Carnegie?" asked Vanderbilt. "I think so well of it that I and my friends will raise $5,000,000 as our subscription," Carnegie replied. "All right," said Vanderbilt. "I'll put in another $5,000,000." Forty millions in stocks and bonds were floated, bought eagerly by the Vanderbilt organized the public. American Construction company, and then gave it the contracts. Surveys were resumed under the direction of Oliver W. Barnes, engi- one-fift- right-of-wa- y, one-tim- Child Accident Rate Increases in October CHICAGO. October and May are high frequency months for accidents among elementary and high school students, the National Safety Council reports in its statistical yearbook for 1940. The report shows kindergarten to be the safest grade, with only six accidents per 100,000 student-days resulting in absence from lf school for day or more or requiring medical attention. one-ha- d four-yea- I right-of-wa- y one-stor- two-stor- y PiPl ilii McSHANE J by WademNempope' fact that there is no worthy is Sammy THE for Heavyweight ChamHOW good a rwinger compared to the best of pion Joe Louis hardly can be listed all time? Snead has yet to win a under the heading of news. The national crown and yet many, in- - dearth of outstanding candidates for eluding theBobby boxing's greatest title is no recent West Jones, pick development. And the situation is Virginian as one of not improving. the top stylists since Boxing is staggering and reeling the first Scotchman from the repeated beatings it has socked a rock with taken during the past three years shepherd's crook in the heavyweight particularly and complained of the greens. Snead may be the 'dream swinger" to many, but be isn't to Jimmie Donaldson, an able stylist sf his own and one Grantland Bice of the top instructors of the game. In rating Snead as highly as we have, Jimmie thinks your correspondent is a trifle curious in the cupola as follows An Exiert Disagrees Pictured above is a section of the new Pennsylvania TurnDear Grant: I happened to see your article pike's 110 mile straightaway. about Sammy Snead. How a man Seven tunnels permit the highlike you who has seen as much golf way to pass through, rather than as you have can compare Sammy over or around, the Appalachian Snead's swing, which has a decided mountains, thereby eliminating loop (which is preventing him from one of the barriers that has conwinning big tournaments), with a founded transcontinental traffic great swing like Harry Vardon's baffles me. ever since the first western march What do you mean about Hagen, of the pioneers. and J. II. Taylor being Sarazen The diagram above shows a They certainly were not swingers? cloverleaf intersection which enbut decided hitters. And swingers, ables vehicles to enter or leave If you are writing on the subject of the highway without disrupting swingers, how can you possibly the normal flow of traffic. overlook Byron Nelson who, I personally think, is a much better neer, and a corps of 300 men. Ten-fo- swinger, and better grooved, than contour maps covering 1,000 Snead has been last two years. To the layman your article might square miles were drawn, and 5,000 miles of lines were run. In the fall appeal, but to someone like myself of 3883, a definite line was adopted, who knows a little about it, it is and contracts for the tunnels and really funny. largest bridges were let. Sincerely yours, Three thousand laborers poured Jimmie Donaldson into the mountains. Within two And in Rebuttal years, bridge piers for the line studded the Susquehanna river at Har- Dear Jimmie I know of few golfers who swing risburg; long cuts gashed the hilltops; mammoth fills scarred the val- a golf club better than you do or leys, and the towering peaks of the few who know as much about the with Alleghenies had been pierced by old game. But I can't agree you about Sammy Snead. You say nine tunnels. Then in the fall of 1885 when the he has a loop in his swing? So did job was half finished, the incredible Bobby Jones. Do you know a better order "stop work" went out. Engi- swinger? Yet only a few days ago neers packed up their transits, la- Bobby Jones told me that in his borers dropped their tools. The opinion Snead had the best all roadbeds, tunnels, and bridges were around swing with every club that abandoned to the ravages of time. he had ever seen and Bob played with Vardon as far back as 1920. Railroad Sold Out. Bobby Jones was referring to the In financial circles behind the physical makeup of Snead's swing, scenes, the death warrant of the not to his mental attitude in a chamSouth Pennsylvania railroad had pionship. been written. Alarmed by the prosSnead gets amazing results with pect of a destructive railroad rate little show of effort, of extra effort. "war," J. P. Morgan forced Van- Snead's downfall has never been due derbilt and his backers to sell out to any fault in his swing only to to the Pennsylvania railroad. his inability to concentrate only to World the Following war, came his mental attitude, which as you troublous days for the railroads. know is 70 per cent of golf. I played with Bobby Jones four America was taking to a new mode of travel. Automobiles were being days ago and he had a 65. I still turned out by the millions for a got a thrill from the slow, smooth on beauty of his swing. Bob still inpeople who went pleasure-ben- t trips that took them but hours sists that Snead is the top. The difwhere their forefathers had spent ference is that Bobby could always months. Also came great freight concentrate and keep full control of buses that carried the manufac- his mental and nerve resources. tured goods of the nation to the East Snead can't. Yet remember this over roads. And the in his last four big tournaments, demand for better roads and more Snead has won three and reached speed increased. In 1934, William the final hole against Nelson in the last P. G. A. A. Sutherland, then general manI have seen Snead hit many a of the Motor ager Pennsylvania ball, but I have yet to see golf Truck association, revived the idea of a road over the mountains; this any "decided loop." time a highway instead of a rail- Hagen and Nelson way. Continuing our correspondence, 1 For many months he carried the to disagree with an expert of hate fight alone. But in 1935 a resolution to survey the possibilities of the pro- your rank. But to my mind Walter is a better swinger than posal passed the legislature. Financ- Hagen in his prime was one most. Hagen ing was a big problem, but the federal government finally looked upon of the ideal swingers. Sarazen, with his stocky build, is the plan with favor, and assistance came from financial agencies set up more of a hitter than a swinger. Sarazen doesn't by congress. The old South Penn We agree here. line with its already-buil- t tunnels think Snead has any loop, but he is afraid Snead is getting a trifle flat was chosen. Perhaps in the minds of the fed- in his baok swing. in "The greatest fault golf today," eral authorities was more than a road for industrial use; the road Sarazen says. As for swingers how about Henry has definite military possibilities. In case of emergency it will be a Picard? Winning temperament no. major transportation artery. Men, But a great golfer and a great munitions and other material could swinger. Snead has had a better r record than be moved across the Alleghenies three or Smith. Did you ever see a with the speed so necessary to modern warfare. Just recently a finer swinger than Mac Smith? Yet motorized battalion of the Pennsyl- Mac Smith through 25 years never vania National Guard, in a test run won a national title. Here was the great crime of all across the still uncompleted road. Mac Smith with the golfing golf. left Harrisburg and set up a "de- tense area near the important Bed- temperament of Walter Hagen or ford steel sector, 135 miles away, Byron Nelson would have won at Imaeine in just five hours. It was definitely least six chamnionshins. a blitzkrieg movement, the fastest Sammy Snead with the mental atti-- f registered in any nation in any time. tude of a Hagen or a Nelson of ora concentration Principally, however, the road is the tremendous Jones-E- ven Bobby for scenic and commercial uses. I believe as it "Naturally, we shall exclude bill- Snead will stillis, astonish theSammy world boards," said Walter A. Jones, the Watch him! of golf. turnpike commission chairman. Asked how this policy would be en- Swing Still Secondary forced, he said, "First, we own a If you are thinking in terms of 200 feet wide at the narI'll give you my list Bobswingers rowest point. If, despite our disapJones, by Ilarry Vardon, Sammy proval, some enterprising company Snead, Walter Hagen, Mac Smith, erects billboards, we shall plant on Henry Picard and Taul Runyan. It our own land such shrubs and trees also so happens that winning chamas are necessary to hide the signs." belongs even more in pionship Even the oil stations will be under the heart golf and above the shoulders the supervision of the commission. than it does in the technique of any A contract has been let to a leading swing. company, but the 10 stations being one of erected are the property of the com- ourWhat about Byron Nelson, Nelbest many through years? mission. Nine of the units will have son is a good swinger, who once in y The tenth unit buildings. vhile gets his left wrist tied up. will feature a building. hard-surface- - Mac-Dotia- ld TF YOU'RE one of those ,ta loves flowers about throughout the year, you're sure to want ihes designs to make your indoor gar den more attractive. Neat boxes concealed behind these cutout figures make charming flower pot holders which do away with the muss of indoor gardening. Promoters have attempted to foist upon the public matches which are nothing more than exhibitions and poor ones, at that. Prize fight fans consistently have been subjected to a diet of second The mere mtprs and fact that several of these individu als gave the champion a chance to demonstrate his prowess doesn't help matters. Fans pay to see a contest, not a shadow boxing demonstration. Only two candidates for heavyweight honors are worthy of the name. One is Pat Comiskey, a glum young Irishman who is being brought Into the top brackets too quickly. The other contender is Billy Conn, whose ambition a may overcome his lack of weight. ranks. has-been- s. j 1 For Indoor Garden SPORTS -- is three feet rise to Easy Cutout Figures These are easily constructed from ply. with a few nails or screws, to4 number Z8703, 15c, brings cutting fdca or the entire group of figures shown. M well as for the boxes to hold your pUats. Directions, of course, are Included. Send orders to: wood AUNT MARTHA Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents lor each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Box 166 W Address Questionable Victory Conn has been the subject of many a heated debate. His recent victory over Bob Pastor in Madison Square Garden did little to enlarge his stature. It was far from a clean- cut victory which Conn achieved over e N. Y. U. football playthe er. The punch that sent Pastor down and out, a left to the body, was just another of the numerous low blows which Billy landed throughout the fight. In the first place, the fight was an attempt by Mike Jacobs to make Conn a second out of the Gene Tunney. However, Conn will never have Tunney's size or weight. Nor will he acquire Gene's determination and singular adherence to purpose. Conn did have a good left, which he used with telling effect. In addition, he was faster on his feet and one-tim- AFFORD FAST RELIEF FROM PAINS OF RHEUMATISM, NEURITIS HEADACHE A TABLET 174-pou- x- o 1" NOW BUYS GENUINE 4 BAYER ASPIRIN In 2 seconds by stop watch, a guanine Bayer Aspirin Tablet starts to disintegrate and is ready to go to work. See for yourself U08 way, why Bayer Aspirin acts so quickly. Millions now enjoy modern speed method and save money they once spent for d remedies. Try it. "'t'v high-price- You may be surprised at the speed with which Bayer Aspirin brings relief from headache and pains of neuritis, neuralgia. rheumatism, Among the fastest, most effective ways Known, Bayer Aspirin not only brings relief from such pains very fast . . . but this quick way ia very inexpensive. It may save the dollars once spent on high priced remedies. Once you try it . . . actually feel its quick relief, you'll know why thousands make sure thev cet no i r I suDsuxuies ior oayer BILLY CONN had considerably more stamina. But those factors alone are not enough. Louis would have little difficulty with Conn. The Pittsburgh youth likely could keep out of the champ's reach during the early rounds, but Aspiria by always sooner or later that dynamite-lade- n asking for it by its full canto would bomb the Billy right name... never by the vas. name "aspirin" alone. Comiskey, on the other hand, has backers. But plenty of even those fans readily admit that he lacks sufficient seasoning. Before bis recent departure from the Growing Pains preliminary ranks, young Patrick Heartaches are sometimes just knocked out 25 of the 29 opponents growing pains the Lord sendf whom he faced. when He thinks we have not courage enough. Grace Livingston Looking at the Field Hill. He is little better than a novice e at the moment, being so new to competition, but he has a whale of a punch something almost impossible to develop. Given another year of experience, Pat well may be Louis' most formidable foe. ii As for the rest of the field, the less said the better. Lou Nova is . it I attempting a comeback under the Car-liguiding hand of Manager Ray His star faded into obscurity when he took a brutal beating from Tony Galento in Philadelphia a year wild-eye- d big-tim- Mm n. ago. The perennial Max Baer still weaves around the outer fringe ol But no one eligible contenders. knows better than Promoter Jacobs that a Baer-Loui- s fight would have all the drawing power of a Republican rally in deepest Dixie. The fans would stay away in droves. Few champions have so far out- classed their contemporaries as Joe Louis. Certainly no one can be greatly excited over the prospect of Louis meeting any of the fighters. above-mentione- d Sport Shorts THE A National Pro Football league is now a $3,000,000 a year industry, according to league headquarters which places at that figure the cost of operation . . . Stanley Cove-leskithe old Cleveland and Washington spitballer, nowoperates a gasoline station at South Bend, Ind. . . . 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