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Show thousands of commuters. On the Massachusetts Route 128, skirting skirt-ing Boston, 227 companies have built 17 industrial parks and 137 million dollars worth of homes for 28,000 workers. "Undeniably there are two sides to every argument. Those who are dispossed of their homes and property should have the fullest hearing and consideration but Americans should remember that we are still trying to work on the basis of the greatest good for the greatest number," he concluded. The article, "The Boom That Follows the Highways," is condensed con-densed from the Rotarian. Super Highways Bring Boom to Cities Along Their Routes Despite hardships to some individuals, in-dividuals, new super highways have brought boom, not doom, to cities in their paths. The experience of Bedford, Pennsylvania, was typical. Bedford Bed-ford a tourist town on the old Lincoln Highway, battled the Harrisburgh-Pittsburgh turnpike with petitions, meetings, protest delegations to the capital, but the turnpike went through, one mile from Bedford. "Today, if you recirculated on eof those petitions pe-titions you'd be laughed out of town," writer Paul W. Kearney reports. Trucking companies made Bedford Bed-ford a rest stop and turn around point, bringing payrolls in ex-ces ex-ces of seven milloin dollars annually an-nually to the town. In addition, because of its strategic location, Bedford is attracting conventions. conven-tions. Some 200 new motel units have been built. The Bedford Springs Hotel has had a tenfold increase in gross business. A similar battle was fought, and lost, in Elyria, Ohio, over the route of the Ohio Turnpike, according to an article in the December Readers Digest. There were warnings of "de- preciation of valuable real estate," es-tate," and withdrawal from the tax rolls of "income producing land." Instead, when the route went through, plans were filed immediately for seven new housing hous-ing developments near the highway. high-way. The New York Thruway is credited with stimulating 650 million dollars worth of development develop-ment along its route. Residential developments have sprouted on the New Jersey Turnpike for |