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Diversity Marks Nation's Turnpikes
Turnpikes will speed thousands of vacationers across the United States this summer.
THOUGH THE 3,000 miles of turnpikes are uniform in their high engineering standards, the routes are as diverse as the United States itself, reports the National Geographic Society.
In contrast, the New Jersey Turnpike is a corridor through the heart of the industrial East. Veteran Jersey Turnpike travelers don't need maps and mileposts. They can tell where they are by sniffing the distinctive aromas from chemical manufacturing plants along the way.
Florida's Sunshine State Parkway cuts through almost primitive glades, swamps, cypress groves, and piney woods. Travelers may see a flock of wood iabis, herds of Brahman cattle, and the thatched huts of Seminole Indians.
THE PENNSYLVANIA Turnpike, opened in October, 1940, is the oldest of the modern toll roads. Skeptics said its daily traffic never would reach the planned 30,000 vehicles a day. Some 80,000 cars and trucks now use the road daily, and about 240,000,000 vehicles have sped over the smooth concrete ribbons since 1940.
The West Virginia Turnpike threads it way over, under, and through mountains, giving drivers spectacular views as well as speedy travel. The road climbs 2,600 feet without exceeding a five per cent grade. To accomplish this, the builders erected 73 bridges along the 88-mile expressway, but had to bore only one tunnel.
Cuts through rock are as deep as 256 feet. In all, workmen excavated three times the amount of earth moved in digging the Panama Canal.
GLACIERS THAT pushed down from the north thousands of years ago created the major engineering problems for the Ohio Tupike. The glacial drift formed an unstable foundation for bridges, and in one case an additional $500,000 was needed to create a secure base for just one crossing.
In the Midwest, turnpikes sometimes slice farms in two. A possibly apocryphal story tells of a toll road that cut through one farmyard. When the farmer wants to feed his hogs now, he has to get into his car, drive 20 miles, and pay 50 cents toll.
The Kansas Turnpike has the highest speed limit of any toll road -80 miles an hour—but in a recent month only 165 motorists managed to exceed it.
KANSAS TURNPIKE officials reported that in the last five years 42 cars have been abandoned on the road. Lost and abandoned items on other turnpikes include a 10-cubic-foot refrigerator, a house door, and, inevitably, a kitchen sink, which turned up on the Sunshine State Parkway in Florida.
Toll collecting also presents problems. Small children chew up toll tickets. Dogs bite the hand that collects the money. Drivers swallow coins held between their teeth. But there are compensations. For three Christmases a jolly motorist drove along the Connecticut Turnpike singing carols to toll collectors.
The second in a series of Summer Film Features of Fact and Fiction will be shown in 3 Bailey Hall at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The film is "Nanook of the North" and is presented by the Eureau of Visual Instruction for Faculty and Students.
'Nanook of the North To Be Shown Wed.
Tuesday, June 19, 1962 Summer Session Kansan
Kansas has no volcanoes, but Kansas has 20 million tons of volcanic ash. Scattered in deposits throughout central and western Kansas, the ash is available to industry for product development.
"Popped" volcanic ash, especially suitable for filtering purposes, is one of the latest developments in product research by the State Geological Survey. Experimental data on this development of bloated ash are given in the report, as are other results of research that seem to recommend volcanic ash for more extensive use in ceramic glazes, as fine aggregates in concrete, as a possible substitute for perlite in wall-finish plasters, for thermal insulation and for fireproof acoustical tile.
"What's New in Volcanic Ash for Industry?" a 20-page, well-illustrated report packed with information on the utilization and potential utilization of the resource, is available for the asking from the State Geological Survey here at KU.
No Volcanoes Lots of Ash
Blown into Kansas years ago, from volcanoes located somewhere to the west, volcanic ash was once an important industrial mineral in Kansas. From about 1916 to 1944, Kansas was the leading producer of volcanic ash, used mainly as an abrasive in household cleaners and as a sweeping compound. But volcanic ash for cleansers has bowed to substitute materials, and most Kansas deposits are now lying idle, except for some local utilization as road dressing.
Stenographer Criticizes Great Men's Speech
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Dismissed White House Stenographer Jack Romagna says that President Kennedy speaks with "sheer speed" and suggested that he should slow down "so people would always know what he's saying."
In addition to his impressions of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kennedy, Romagna commented on the speaking ability of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
His comments about the leaders included:
The veteran shorthand reporter —whose job is being turned over to a private reporting firm—made the statement in comparing little-known speech habits of four presidents with whom he worked. His comments were made in a copyrighted interview published by U.E News & World Report, a weekly magazine.
Churchill: "If you remember listening to Churchill, he might have hesitated two whole seconds before the word he was seeking came out—but when it did, it was a good word. Mr. Churchill spoke with no speed at all. But he used what I'd call literary words, and words that aren't used much in ordinary conversation . . ."
Romagna described Kennedy as "vigorous and full of youthful fire and articulate." He said that despite the president's speaking speed, "I think that his inaugural address was one of the finest deliveries I've ever heard anybody ever make."
Roosevelt: "As you may remember, he was a very measured speaker—a little histronic, a little hammy," perhaps, and sometimes he'd talk quite fast. One thing about Mr. Roosevelt you may not have noticed: he stuttered a little. So did Mr. Churchill.
Truman: "He got a little harder as time went on, but the beauty of it, for me, was that he used short
sentences. But he could throw me with his Missouri colloquialisms. I never got used to them. Once, in a speech at Reno, he referred to the Republicans as "Mossbacks," and I wrote it as 'mothbags.' That's the way it sounded to me."
Eisenhower: "I don't think Mr. Eisenhower knew I was at a press conference, or was aware of what I was doing. Actually, I never met President Eisenhower. Never in all the eight years he was there. We never introduced. When Mr. Eisenhower came on the scene it wasn't so much a matter of speed as sentence structure. Often he didn't complete sentences."
Two KU Graduates Receive B.D. Degrees
Two recent University of Kansas graduates have received bachelor of divinity degrees from the Princeton Theological Seminary and will soon take their first full-time ministerial assignments.
Jerome W. Berryman Jr., of Ashland has been ordained in the United Presbyterian Church and will become assistant minister in the First Presbyterian Church in Hutchinson. He received the A.B. degree from KU in 1959.
Gary Fred Skinner of Chanute will be minister of youth at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City, Okla. He earned the A.B. degree from KU in 1957 and the M.A. degree in 1960. He also was a speech instructor at the University.
Role Not Difficult
LONDON — (UPI) — Playing the "Bride of Frankenstein" with a traveling fair wasn't too difficult, a 14-year-old girl conceded, but juvenile court put a stop to it nonetheless.
Asked just what the role consisted of, she answered:
"Just lying in a coffin, then falling out."
Don't Miss the Kansas Union Open House Friday, June 22
5 p.m.-10 p.m. Free Bowling, Billiards, Table Tennis Jay Bowl
8 p.m.-10 p.m. Free Dancing to the Music of Kermit Mowbray Trail Room
7:30 p.m.
Movie, "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," 35c Forum Room
5 p.m.-9 p.m. Steak Special,$1.40.Includes Baked Potato, Tossed Green Salad,Roll and Butter,Dessert Tea-Coffee.Special Seafood Plate Also Available.