Show pennsylvania turnpike aids flight strip boom superhighway super highway serves as ideal emergency landing field for planes postwar advances van cesto to emphasize need for runways by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C the great bomber was in trouble the pilot knew it one engine was coughing like camille in the last act he looked down below him lay sleepy somerset country pennsylvania a on the f ar horizon was a smoky blur he knew was pittsburgh lie he had been following the long brown ribbon wide and straight as a string tor for many hundreds of 0 yards before it gently curved with hardly a grade the pennsylvania turnpike p ik e the pilot picked a wide green field beside this highway dropped down made his landing and his repairs A quick call to the state police and the road was ready tor for it Is a defense highway now a vital part of 0 the th e arteries of transportation of war supplies but here was a new use tor for this wild dream that has become a stern reality traffic was stopped the great bomber taxied out of the field and 0 onto nto the th e highway the pavement made a perfect runway the straightway straight way was of sufficient length the be cuts were low and the wingspread p passed assed over all a appurtenances the good ship rose and was on its way this was no flight of 0 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 a su superhighway super per 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 war must come if we are to meet the demands of tomorrows transportation of tomorrows demand for public 1 ic 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 more awake today to the needs of the air and the collary developments 01 on I 1 the ground than it ever has been before today a pennsylvanian transported to washington cons the press and listens to the radio each day he is retired from an active business 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 walter jones the turnpike was a peacetime venture 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 a toll road and the first year of operation 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 one could wish when war came with the overtaxed railways it was a godsend tor for it opened a veritable volga of trucking from pittsburgh its western terminal to harrisburg dual purpose 1 I feel confident says representative tat ve randolph twenty years will liquidate the loan so much for that highway which may well ell 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 the flight strip to or r which congress appropriated ten million dollars as experimentation what is a flight strip official ly y defined it Is an area efland of land with clear approaches located to an adjacent highway for use as an auxiliary landing area tor 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 tor for years know what the development of these runways will mean As fred schleife special engineering gi consultant to the administrator of the federal works agency says the congress the state highway departments and the contractors are pulling together toward the end that the projects will be built in the shortest possible time about poached eggs and the awe of a kitchen only recently when my wife was away for or some time did I 1 learn to poach an egg and in so doing at last lost my awe of the kitchen it was my early training that gave me that awe neither my grandmother nor my mother would permit men in the kitchen unless they had specific masculine business there no you sit down in the corner and read the paper to me I 1 can dry the dishes quicker without you helping and there wont be any r streaks on the cups of course there were times when a mans presence was permitted naturally when he was allowed to tc eat there or when the kindling had to be brought in or the coal hod filled but even then only when milana milan a the young scandinavian giantess who was the hired girl was otherwise engaged when I 1 was quite small I 1 was allowed to play in the kitchen when traffic was light but that was as a s special privilege the bare scrubbed floor was excellent tor for tops and of course was that much nearer the cookies and it if I 1 was present during the early stages of cake baking there were the odd pieces of sweet dough that I 1 loved and sometimes a chance to lick the pan which was not as unsanitary a practice as it sounds it really meant a chance to scrape out the dish after the frosting had been mixed but there were bitter memories memorie ot of cake baking time too the stimulant for which added to my respect for the kitchen once coming back from school I 1 leapt into the room and started to stamp the crisp snow from my rubbers there was oh culpa meal mea a cake in the oven I 1 it t fell and soon my pride followed for I 1 was placed in a most embarras embarrassing position a horizontal position position I 1 might add other reasons there were many reasons why my love of the kitchen was mingled with a respect that has not quite gone even though the graceful curves 0 of the range whose covers could glow like a summer sun and whose isinglass eyes beamed so cheerfully has long since gone the kitchen table with its chite white oilcloth with only a few scars at one end another why men allowed in these sacred precincts now who has been cutting bread without the breadboard again I 1 am not of course describing the spacious room of the farmhouse when I 1 talk about my kitchen memories for or I 1 lived in town although the orchard began just beyond the back fence and fields an easy walk beyond the place where the sidewalk became two parallel planks with a space between perilous to maneuver on a bicycle and then ended in a pathway no mine was not the spacious kitchen where half a dozen could eat at once but it took care of the family with a little crowding on sunday nights around the remnants of last nights baked beans and the other r delicious leftovers souvenir calendar we had room tor for the little rag rug under und er the rocker by the window and the journals bright souvenir calendar adorned the wall that annual a gift of the newsboy is about the only thing left in white kitchen where you cant tell the sink from the gas stove or the cabinet or the ice box that and the dotted swiss curtains in my kitchen nut cut you may break you may shat bermy dream if you will when you open one shiny door the scent ol of the spices cling about it still I 1 have lost my awe of the kitchen but loving memories linger and latterly it has in a measure increased my self respect at long last no one to stop me I 1 have learned to poach an egg BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage eating out to beat rationing wont help says OPA because restaurant supplies are being cut about in halt half fightlin american figh fighting tin men serving outside the country now can say it with flo flower sl three dollars per order is cabled to the red cross and the red cross selects and delivers the flowers to madame no longer out of sight out of 0 mind about books have been sent from sweden to prisoners of 0 war held in camps in germany they are distributed through the red cross cros s and the YMCA indications are that both hog and cattle slaughter this year will surpass that of last year while supplies of fed ed lambs this winter and spring will equal the 1942 crop |