$UNDAT" SE MSER 25,1955
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TW
MICHIGAN TURNPIKE AUTHORITY:
Higgins Says Ziegler Blocks Turnpike
Michigan Turnpike Authority
Chairman George N. Higgins last
Monday told a Detroit Economic
! Club audience that self-liquidating
turnpike construction from Rock-
wood to Saginaw and Detroit to
Chicago would free enough tax
money to enable the State High-
way Department to build hundreds
of miles of new roads and bridges.
"Building these two projects as
Turnpikes will free enough tax
money for the Highway Depart-
ment to build some 1,000 miles of
? brand new tow-lane paved roads,
or widen to four lanes 800 miles
of existing two-lane roads or
build over 300 miles of new urban
rural expressways or buildsmore
}.than three Mackinac Bridges."
Higgins said Highway Commis-
sioner Charles Ziegler was the
only foreseeable stumbling block1
between financing and construc-
tion of the Michigan Turnpike pro-
gram.
Freeway Planned
The Authority, which has its
office in Ann Arbor, has run into
objections to its proposed toll road
from Rockwood to Saginaw. Zieg-
ler has indicated that the state
has long had plans for a freeway
along a similar route.
Dearborn brought suit against
the Authority in Washtenaw Cir-
cuit Court claiming the Authority's
routing its toll road through Dear-
born was unconstitutional without
the consent of Dearborn. Circuit
Judge James R. Breakey, Jr., ruled
the Authority had the constitu-
tional power to construct a toll
road as it had planned through
Dearborn.
Higgins later conferred with
Detroit, Dearborn and Oakland
Open Rushing
Pledge List
Announced
The following men were pledged
to fraternities during open rush-
ing last spring:
Acacia-Walter Bailey, Jr., '58E,
Brenton Matter, '57 Alpha Sigma
Phi- Herbert Pollock, '57E; Al-
pha Tau Omega-John Ciupak, '57,
John F. Meyer, '57E; Delta Chi-
Gerald Krause, '57, Paul A. Men-
ard" '57;
Delta Sigma Phi-John Avolio,
Jr., '58M, John Alexander, '58M;
Delta Upsilon- John R. Corbett,
'57 Phi Kappa Sigma-Daniel
Deppe, '57, Gerald Sharp, '59 A-D,
Donald Haney, '58, David Rondell,
'57;
Phi Kappa Tau-Glenn Gir-
ardin, '56, Alton E. Sannar, '58,
Reid Wagstaff, Jr., '56; Phi Sigma
Kappa-Alfred W. Pugno, 58, Carl
Karaba, '58E, Thomas F. Bernaky,
'58A-D;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Ronald R.
Scott, '59, Walter Hapke, '57;
Sigma Nu-Langdon S. Marvin,
'58E, Sigma Phi Epsilon-Thomas
Sevworth, '56; Tau Kappa Epsilon
-Gordon Wallace, '58E, Fred C.
Schreiber, '57, Frank B. Flint;
Theta Chi-Thomas Athanas,
58E, Paul Nierling, '58, Frank J.
Pletyak, '58; Triangle-John E.
Dawson, '57, Edward Koss, '57,
Clifford A. Robinette, '58E; Tri-
gon-Richard Ishida, '58, Robert L.
Murphy, '57; Zeta Psi-Louis E.
Barrera, '56; Orra R. McUmber,
'58E.
County officials to iron out three
"trouble spots" along the proposed
route. His plans have been held
up, however, by having to wait for
a ruling on the Authority's con-
stitutionality from the State Su-
preme Court.
Operating on Loan
The Authority has been operat-
ing on a $50,000 loan from the
Highway Department, which will
be repaid after the issue of $164,-
000,000 in turnpike bonds. The
bonds cannot be issued until a
route is adopted by the Authority.
Higgins has said no one would
buy the bonds anyway if the High-
way Department was building a
freeway parallel to the turnpike.
Before the Detroit Economic
Club, Higgins said, "There is no
such thing as a free road. Ziegler
can call his roads freeways if he
likes, but all highways are pay-
ways, be it by gas tax or toll."
"Three to Six-Year Setback"
He added, "Should Michigan fail
to utilize Turnpike financing and
construction, it will only be be-,
cause of the failure of the refusal
New Library,
Gets .Books
Some 100,000 books were moved
from the General Library and
other locations on campus into
the newly completed Medical Li-
brary constructed with a $600,000
gift from the Kresge Foundation
during the last week of August.
The Library is attached to the
recently finished Kresge Medical
Research Building, made possible
by a $3,000,000 donation by the
foundation, and is part of the
University's growing Medical Cen-
ter.
of the State Highway Commission-
er to coordinate his construction
program with ours. If he fails or
refuses to give his full cooperation,
Michigan road building will be set
back from three to six years or
even more."
Higgins declared Turnpike Au-
thority records in other states show
turnpike construction "is the most
effective method of getting first
class limited access expressways
now when we need them and not
some indefinite time in the fu-
ture."
He cited New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania turnpike success
stories. He said 241 miles of turn-
pike mileage in Ohio and 156
miles in Indiana is currently under
construction on a 39-month sched-
ule and "is on time."
"Insufferable Burden"
The former Republican state
senator said the Legislature real-
ized in 1953 that to try and meet
Michigan's total highway needs
through gas taxes "would impose
an insufferable burden on the tax-
payer."
The Legislature spelled out in
the Turnpike Act the route from
Toledo to Bay City and Detroit
to Chicago, Higgins said. "Four
members of the Authority were to
be appointed by the Governor,
and to make sure the State High-
way Department program was co-
operative and not competitive, the
Act named the State Highway
Commissioner tlie fifth member.
"The plan was to meet part of
Michigan's total highway needs
with toll construction in the two
places where it was likely to be
financially sound, with the High-
way Department concentrating on
other roads. This year the Legis-
lature passed another one and a
half cent gas tax increase to help
the Highway Department build
those other needed roads."
American
Peace Group
Called 'Red'
Attorney General H e r b e r t
Brownell, Jr., has petitioned the
Subversive Activities C o n t r o1l
Board to order the American
Peace Crusade, whose head-
quarters are in New York City, to
register with the Attorney Gen-
eral as a Communist-front organ-
ization as required by the Subver-
sive Activities Control Act of 1950.
The petitioned charged that the
American Peace Crusade is dir-
ected, dominated and controlled
by the Communist Party'and has
been operated primarily for the
purpose of giving aid and support
to the Communist Party, which
the Board has ordered to register
as a Communist-action organi-
zation,
The future of Willow Run and
Wayne-Major airports remains
undecided. x
The conflict as to whether
commercial airlines, now at Uni-
versity-owned Willow Run, should
be moved to Wayne-Major, 12
miles nearer Detroit, has raged for
months. The decision is now in the
hands of the government's Air Use
Panel, which convened Sept. 19 in
Detroit.
According to Floyd G. Wake-
field, University airport super-
visor, it will be "at least two or
three weeks" until any conclusion
is reached by the panel.
Willow Run Airport was pur-
chased as war surplus by the Uni-
versity shortly after World War I
for the price of $1. Two conditions
were attached to the purchase:
Debate on Willow Run
Airlines Still Undecided
the field was to be operated as a
public airport; and the govern-
ment could reclaim the field in
case of national emergency.
Detroit officials have urged
that a squadron of Air Force jets
be based at Willow Run. This
would necessitate the shifting of
commercial lines to Wayne-Major.
Wakefield, speaking for the
University, has said that it would
be "unable to continue the main-
tenance and operation of Willow
Run without the airlines." This
would put to an end a research
program the University has been
carrying out for the government
at Willow Run.
The Air Use Panel's decision
might not be final, Wakefield said
earlier this week. The fight could
go all the way up to Washington.
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