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Show ROUO-glyphics KLIEN ROLLO torists will be able to journey from the northern boundary of the U.S. at Sweetgrass, Montana to its southern boundary below San Diego on a continuous 1,425-mile highway high-way free of traffic lights and with no stop signs. The trip will take about 24 hours at an average speed of 60 mph, and some of the most rugged and breathtaking secnery on the continent. Making such a journey possible pos-sible is progress on Interstate 15, which will be a border to border superhighway that reports indicate, should be fin ished in 1975. Since 1-15 is an integal part part of the highway system in southern Utah and through Cedar City readers should be interested to note that the system is about 66 percent complete. Of the 1,425 miles, 946 are ; already open and in use. Another An-other 130 miles are under construction; con-struction; 326 miles are in a design and right of way acquisition ac-quisition stage; and only 23 are still in a preliminary stat- Someone U always dabbling I in statistics and as you know j statistics can be made to i prove almost anything. In this particular case the static is relative to the national debt and has been prepared by the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Ap-propriations Committee of the U. S. Senate, Senator Allen Ellender. His staff and a bank of computer; came up with the fo'lowin f jires rlntive ct our national debt which stands at neaiiy $iOu bmKn. They found that "if evehry member of the United States Senate c anted two, one-dol-'r.r jills every second of every They would that "if every day of every week, it would take approximately 64 years to count $400 billion. If the J c: titers worked the standard work year (eight hours per i day for 160 days a year) taking tak-ing no coffee breaks, or holidays holi-days or vacations, it would take them 267 years to accomplish accom-plish the same count." There's more. "At it's current capacity, it would take the Bureau of Printing and Engraving En-graving about 171 years to print 400 billion one-dollar bills. Four-hundred billion in one-dollar bills would fill about 3,456 railroad boxcars, making a train almost 36 miles long." Ah, even more. "The 400 billion bil-lion one-dollar bills stacked on top of each other would reach about 27,095 miles, or 4.5 trips from New York to Los Angeles." And finally the usuall statistic that "if placed plac-ed end to end, that many bills would make a path, 160 btHs or 35 feet wide, to the moon. the Federal Bureau of Invest!-' Invest!-' gation has some interesting facts in connection with crime in the United States. The FBI reports that a crime of violence vio-lence is committed each and every minuta of the year. Also, Al-so, a burglary every 16 seconds; sec-onds; larceny of more than $50, every 21 seconds; a car stolen every 36 seconds; a robbery every 2 minutes; a forcible rape every 14 miutes and a murder every 36 minutes. min-utes. The price of being civilized? civil-ized? Interesting report came across ac-ross the desk this week real-ative real-ative to Interstate Highway 15 and its construction phase. The report, from the Highway Users Federation for Safety and Mobility, indicates that in about five years or less, mo- us where the location has not yet been determined. The report indicates that in Utah only 206 miles of , I-15's planned 399 miles are 113 miles of a total of 124 is open and in California 231 miles of a total of 196 is in use and in Montana 221 miles of 395 is already completed. ' - I' Just a parting shot. A great big pat on the back to the Lions Club and the Iron Coun. ty Rangers for such a successful success-ful celebration of Independence Independ-ence Day in Cedar City. The regular events capped with the fireworks were excellent under the direction of the Lions Club. The Little Britches Rodeo which drew participants partici-pants from a fiv? stat area was also a complete success thanks to the untiring efforts of the Iron Rangers. |