Show W pennsylvania turnpike aids flight strip boom 31 superhighway super highway serves as ideal emergency landing field for planes postwar advances to emphasize need for runways by news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C the great bomber wa was S in trouble the pilot knew it on one e engine was coughing like camille in the last act he looked down below him lay sleepy somerset country pennsylvania on the far horizon was a smoky blur he knew was pittsburgh ile he had been following the long brown ribbon wide and straight as a string for many hundreds of yards before it gently curved with hardly a grade the pennsylvania turnpike the pilot picked a wide green field beside this highway dropped down made his landing and ii ins i is rei repairs airs A quick call to the state police and t the lie road was ready for it is is a defense highway now a vital part of the arteries of transportation of war supplies but here was a new use for this wild dream that has become c a stern reality I 1 traffic was stopped the great bomber taxied out of the field and onto the highway the pavement made a perfect runway the straightway straight way was of sufficient length the cuts were low and the wingspread passed over all appurtenances la nices the good ship rose and was on its way this was no flight of the imagination it was a real flight which took place and was described a little over a year ago by representative jennings randolph of west virginia one ot of air minded congressmen and so BO a superhighway super highway becomes an adjunct of what is to be americas super airways more than 35 planes mr randolph tells me have taken advantage of this emergency landing highway new chapter opens and so a new chapter opens in american road building A new reason for the development of the countryside that is to come after the war must come if we are to meet the demands of tomorrows transportation of tomorrows demand for public works to take up the slack after the war until industry can absorb the returned soldier and the jobless warplane war plant worker in spite of the many pressing war needs congress is is more awake today to the needs of the air and the collary developments on the ground than it ever has been before today a pennsylvanian transported to washington cons the press and listens to fo the radio each day lie he is retired from an active business n L ss life in which he has amassed a modest fortune for word of some new benefit that child of his the pennsylvania turnpike has given to the country he is is walter jones the turnpike was a peacetime venture ile he obtained funds from the federal grant and the reconstruction finance corporation purchased bonds amounting to the first issue was oversubscribed by the public by 60 per cent the turnpike is is a toll road and tile the first year of operation operate ion the revenue was nearly three million dollars no wonder it was an engineers dream come true and a motorists too As near a cur veless gradeless intersection less straightaway that ore one could wish when war ca came with the overtaxed railways it was vas a godsend for it opened a veritable volga of trucking from pittsburgh its western terminal to harrisburg Harns burg dual purpose 1 I feel confident says representative randolph twenty years will liquidate the loan so much for cor that highway which may well be the father of many it has served another purpose the emergency plane landing merely symbolizes what can be done by the highway for the plane the answer is is the flight strip tor for walh h congress appropriated ten million dollars as experimentation what is a flight strip officially defined it is is an arda area of land with clear approaches located to an adjacent highway for use ns as tin an auxiliary landing area for aircraft the war advantage of this new institution is obvious we know what to expect in the increased number of planes after the war we know the limitation in matter of space of the airports we can guess what the men who have talked flight strips for yearl year know what the development of chesi runways will mean As fied special en gi consultant to the adminis of the federal works agency says the congress the state high way departments and the condrac tors are pulling together toward th end that the projects will be buil in the shortest possible time about poached eggs and the awe of a kitchen only recently when my wife wal wai away for some time did I 1 learn t poach an egg and in so doing a last lost my awe of the kitchen I 1 was my early training that gave mf m that awe neither my grandmother nor por my mother would permit met mei in in the kitchen unless they had cefic masculine business there no you sit down in the cornel cornei and read the paper to me I 1 car dry the dishes quicker without yot yoi helping and there wont be ana an streaks on the cups of course there were times whet aher a mans presence was permitted naturally when he was allowed tc it eat there or when the kindling hac ha to be brought in or the coal hod filled but even then only when milana the young scandinavian giantess wh was the hired girl was otherwise en when I 1 was quite small I 1 was al lowed to play in the kitchen whet traffic was light but that was i special privilege the bare scrubbed scrub bec floor door was excellent for tops and of course was that much nearer th cookies and il if I 1 was present during the early stages of cake baking there were the odd pieces of swee dough that I 1 loved and sometimes a chance to lick the pa pan 11 hect was not as unsanitary a pr practice a c tw ce a it sounds it really meant a chanc to scrape out the dish after the frost ing in had been mixed but ut there were bitter memo memories ric of cake baking time too the seimu lant for which added to my for the kitchen once coming bad from school I 1 leapt into the and started to stomp tile the cri crisp sp sno inov from my rubbers there was 01 ol culpa meal a cake in the oven 11 I 1 fell and soon my pride followed fol foi I 1 was placed in a most embarrass embarras s S ing position a horizontal position ol 01 I 1 might add other reasons there were many reasons why ma m love of the kitchen was mingled witt a respect that has not quite gont gon even though the graceful curves 0 the range whose covers could glov glom like a summer sun and whose asin glass eyes beamed so cheerfully has hai long since gone the kitchen gabl with its white oilcloth with only i few scars at one end another wha men allowed in these sacred precincts now who has been cut ting bread without the breadboard again I 1 am not of course describing th spacious room of the farmhouse when I 1 talk about my kitchen mem ories ones for I 1 lived in town although althou altho gr the orchard began just beyond th back fence and fields an easy walk beyond the place where the side walk became two parallel plank with a space between perilous tc t maneuver on a bicycle and ther ended in a pathway no mine was not the spacious iou kitchen kitchen where half a dozen coule cat at once but it took care of th family with a little crowding on sun day nights around the remnants 01 0 last nights baked beans and the oth er delicious leftovers souvenir calendar we had room for the little rag rui ru under the rocker by the window anc the journals bright souvenir cal andar adorned the wall that annu al gift of the newsboy is about thi th only thing left in white kitch en where you cant tell the sint sini from the gas stove or the cabine or the ice box that and the dottee swiss curtains in my kitchen but you may break you may shat ter my dream if you will when yot yoi open one shiny door the scent cent s a 0 the spices cling about it till still I 1 hav lost my awe of the kitchen but lov ing memories linger a and nd latterly I 1 r has in a measure indrea increased sed mj sell self respect at long last no one tc t stop me I 1 have learned to koacr an egg |