Show child accident rate increases increase sin in october CHICAGO Oc october octoba tobe and may are high frequency months for or accidents among elementary and high school students stud n the national safety council reports rp in its iti statistical yearbook bearbo ok tor for 1940 2940 the report shows kindergarten to be the ithe safest graded grade with only six accidents per stu dent days resulting in absence from school for one half day or more or requiring medical attention neer and a corps of men ten foot contour maps covering 1000 square miles were drawn and miles of lines were run in the fall fail of 1883 a definite line was adopted and contracts tor for the tunnels and largest bridges were let three thousand laborers poured into the mountains within two years bridge piers tor for the line stud ded the susquehanna river at harr har jong long cuts gashed the hill toys toils mammoth fills scarred the valleys and the towering peaks of the alleghenies had been pierced by nine tunnels then in the tall fall of 1885 when the job was half finished the incredible order stop work went out engineers packed up their transits transita tran sits laborers dropped their tools the roadbeds tunnels and bridges were abandoned to the ravages of time I 1 railroad Ball road sold out oat in financial anan cial circles circle s behind the scenes the death warrant of the south Penh pennsylvania sylvania railroad had been written alarmed by the prospect of a destructive railroad rate war J 0 morgan forced vanderbilt and his backers to sell sea out to the pennsylvania railroad rall road following the world war came troublous days for the railroads america was taking to a new mode of travel automobiles were being turned out by the millions for a people who went pleasure bent on trips that took them but hours where their forefathers had spent months also came great freight buses that carried the manufactured goods of the nation to the east ov over er hard bard surfaced roads arid add the demand for better roads and more speed increased in 1934 william A sutherland then general manager of the pennsylvania motor truck association revived the idea of a road over the mountains this time a highway instead of a railway for many months he carried the fight alone but in 1935 a re resolution s 0 lution to survey the possibilities of t the h e proposal passed the legislature financing was a big problem but the fedral federal government finally looked upon the plan with favor and assistance came from financial agencies set up by congress the old south perm penn line with its already built tunnels was chosen perhaps in the minds of the federal authorities was more than a road tor for industrial use the road has definite military possibilities in case of emergency it will be a major transportation artery men munitions and other material could be moved across the alleghenies with the speed so co n necessary ec essary to modern warfare just us t recently a motorized battalion of the pennsylvania national guard in a test run across the still uncompleted et ed roid road left harrisburg and set up a ide defense area near the important bedford steel sector miles away in just five hours it was definitely a blitzkrieg movement the fastest registered in any nation in any time I 1 principally however the road is for scenic and commercial uses naturally we shall shafi exclude billboards said walter A jones the turnpike commission chairman asked how this policy would be enforced he said first we own a right of way feet wide at the narrowest point if despite our disapproval some enterprising company co erects billboards we shall our own land such shrubs and trees as are necessary to hide thi the signs diglis even the oil stations station s will be under the supervision of the commission A contract has been let lei to a leading ding company but the 10 stations being erected are the property of the commission nine of the units will have one story buildings the tenth unit tilt will feature it two story bu building |