Lawrence streets need work
Winter has dealt problems to the streets of Lawrence. A driver on city streets must dodge craters, dips, holes, grooves and bumps while winding to his destination.
The cold weather has caused the asphalt to crack, leaving the streets in need of repair.
If one wants to get in the groove of things, for example, all he needs to do is drive down 23rd Street.
The poor driver will be jostled from side to side in his car, which is trapped in the groove. It's similar to being on automatic pilot, except a street is no place for a car to guide itself.
Tennessee Street reminds one of No-Man's Land. It is full of holes and bumps that combine to form one successive crater.
On Tennessee, the driver is subject to being bounced up and down, particularly from 7th to 12th Street, where the craters are the worst.
The numerous dips around Lawrence are difficult to avoid, to say nothing of the dust and sand one encounters on the
Purer air poses threat to oil men
By United Press International
Some programs and experiments now in the beginning stages and intended to reduce air pollution may combine to give the petroleum industry some real problems in the future.
The National Air Pollution Control Administration recently announced that 25 additional air quality control regions will be designated by the summer of 1970.
This would bring the total of such regions to 57 and involve all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
The program is a fairly new one that was authorized by the air quality act that became a law in November of 1967. But the administration has been working steadily to set up the air quality control regions.
The states will be responsible for holding public hearings and adopting standards for the designated regions. These standards will be reviewed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Every major metropolitan area in the United States will be involved in the project. It even will include such smaller cities as Portland, Maine; El Paso, Tex.; Las Vegas, Nev.; and Cheyenne, Wyo.
These air quality control regions inevitably will affect the petroleum refining plants scattered around the nation, even though petroleum firms already have instituted some air pollution controls and are experimenting with others.
Other—and potentially disastrous-developments could lead to severe cuts in the use of gasoline and oil in the vehicles on the nation's highways.
The programs are only experimental at present but the experiments are being conducted by interested commercial firms.
For example, one firm has converted a car to use liquified natural gas rather than the gasoline now turned out by refiners. It reports its experiments are going well, with the car traveling much farther between oil changes and creating less air pollution.
A report from the staff of the U.S. Senate is urging use of steam-powered cars. It notes American Motors is working on such a car.
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Hope still remains for the streets of Lawrence, however, and the street department is doing everything possible to remedy the situation.
"We always have one or two crews working on the streets during the day," Arnold Wiley,
Lawrence street foreman, said,
"We are always doing repair jobs, but there are so many to do, we can't possibly get them all at once."
Bob Dark, assistant director of public works, admitted the streets were in need of repair and that the city constantly got
complaints about them.
"Lawrence residents can petition to the city for improvements or paving of streets in front of their homes," Jim Black, Lawrence city commissioner, said.
The battle against sand dirt on the streets will be waged by
three street sweepers, one of which is new.
Ray Wells, Lawrence City manager, said, "We've had an unusually rough winter, and the streets are in bad shape. We have to get them fixed."
Street repairs were to begin the first part of April, Wells said.