$UNDAT" SE MSER 25,1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TWV 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. QQ BREAKFAST o LUNCH 0 FOUNTAIN SERVICEa "where students meet-" oochat and eat" -- 0 BETSY ROSS SHOP in Nickels Arcade -<"