Toll roads shift in opinion and big projects loom
The article traces toll road debate from 18th and 19th century ideas to modern views. It notes opposition by AAA and chambers, then partial acceptance by experts. Studies show tollways can speed traffic, attract business, and fund long term projects like Pennsylvania turnpike and New York State throughway planned to reach Buffalo to New York City.
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Chamber of Commerce the
Highway Users Conference
U. S. Bureau of Roads
Brookings Institution
Bureau of Public Administration
University of California
New Jersey
Toll Highways Growing Across United States
The Associated Press reports toll roads expanding nationwide as traffic climbs. States with tolls include Pennsylvania New York New Jersey Connecticut New Hampshire Maine and Oklahoma with others pursuing or considering tolling. Authorities warn that funding gaps and misallocation stall road needs while traffic and vehicle counts rise toward fifty million. experts debate using tolls to finance a wider highway program.
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Associated Press
Rik Etaves
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Maine
Oklahoma
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
California
Georgia
Florida
Maryland
North Carolina
America
National Highway Users Conference
American Automobile Association
AAA
Self-employed Asked to Secure Social Security Card
A Winchester Virginia Social Security official urges self employed workers who first joined Social Security on January 1 1951 to obtain a security card. They will need a number when filing their first Social Security returns with income tax, due in 1952 for 1951 earnings.
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Harry Albert Nelson
Winchester
Social Security Office
Nelson
Bar Association Dinner Meeting Scheduled at George Washington Hotel
Winchester Bar Association president H. K. Benham announced a dinner and organization meeting at 6:30 this evening at the George Washington Hotel. The session will elect officers for the coming year adopt a constitution and by laws and set dates for regular meetings.
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H. K. Benham
Winchester Bar Association
George Washington Hotel
Self-employed urged to secure Social Security number
Farm and self employed individuals with incomes from trades or businesses are urged to obtain or replace a social security number card to ensure they can file complete information with their tax return next year.
Broadway longest runs four plays query shows four titles
The four longest Broadway runs cited are Life With Father and Tobacco Road by E. GO., Abie's Irish Rose, and Oklahoma. These plays have stood out for enduring performances on Broadway over many seasons.
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Tobacco Road
Abie
Oklahoma
Churchill Resting at Bernard Baruch's New York Apartment
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill relaxed at financier Bernard Baruch's nine room New York apartment after a long day of meetings with President Truman. He planned no high powered visits and would depart tomorrow for talks with Canadian leaders before returning to Washington for a joint session of Congress. Irish pickets demonstrated outside Baruch's building voicing anti Churchill sentiment.
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Britain
Churchill
Bernard M. Baruch
Truman
Baruch
Washington
Aids
Royal Canadian Air Force
Louis St. Laurent
Wshington
Congress
Irish Minutemen
Largest prime number yet discovered reported
The largest prime number yet discovered is 180 2127 1 2 1. A prime is divisible only by itself and 1.
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