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Commission Faces Giant Task
By MELVIN PAUL
The Frontier'* Statehouse Correspondent
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the new state
kJi? advisory commission
wJfu-ltS firSu meetmg here this
^,eek’ memhers found out that
their job of "planning the state
• highway system” covered a lot ot
ground.
. or one thing, there are alreadv
paring for defense against war
has to have these dangerous
things around. The truckers wont
ed hard to get government wit
nesses to endorse a recent state
ment by James K. Knudsen, ad
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ministrator of the defense trans
portation administration, that
"the truck record is as safe as
any other.” And it was obvious
that Governor Crosby wasn’t go
ing to get himself involved in the
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bitter dispute any more than
necessary.
For observers it was an inter
esting reversal of a scene several
weeks before when operators of
motels, restaurants, and service
stations had come in to plead
with Crosby and State Engineer
L. N. Ress that there be no plan
ning of bypasses which would
take highways out of their towns.
But at the ammunition hearing
the cry from the cities was to bar
the trucks—which have the same
legal rights to the highways as
any other motor vehicle—from
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^vehng through the centers of
the towns and possibly blowing
them to kingdom come with ex
plosives.
A neat example of the “eat your
cake and have it too’’ theory in
the opinion of some observers.
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Acid Test
Governor Crosby went before
ms “home town folks’’ at North
Platte to explain why he had to
order a statewide tax equalization
adjustment which hit that Lincoln
county town the hardest—a 207
percent real estate asssessment
boost. As if that wasn’t enough,
one of his severest critics, Sen.
Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff,
| was on the platform. Both Car
penter and North Platte’s Sen.
Harry Pizer asked Crosby to call
a special session.
But the governor told the aud
ience he wouldn’t succumb to
such false promises of an easy
solution.
Joseph Ridgeway
Weds Today—
V. Joseph Ridgeway, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ridgeway,
will wed Miss Patricia Denvir of
Connellsville, Pa., in nuptial rites
today (Thursday) in Immaculate
Conception church at Connells
cille. The bride - elect is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I.
Denvir of Connellsville.
The couple will reisde in Den
ver, Colo., after their wedding
trip. Mr. Ridgeway is an electri
cian employed in Denver.
Mr and Mrs. William W. Mc
Intosh were in Topeka, Kans., on
Sunday and Monday on business.
Their boys, Billy and Richard,
stayed with their grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Beatty oI
Madison.
BIGLIN BROTHERS j
Funeral Directors
O’NEILL
Day Ph. Night Ph.
38 487-R or 200
miles on the state highway
system. And the catch is that with
. Hitin,ewT?venues provided by the
;9a3 legislature, it will take nine
y ears before all the roads that the
state highway department con
sidered "dangerously” sub - par
can be improved.
Then legislatures through the
years have passed bills establish
ing statutory routes which never
got built. There are 1,865 miles
of these routes scattered in 72
places, all over the state.
A good reason lor not building
these is that the department has
been saddled with other types of
roads through the years.
. For example, the legislature
once passed a law authorizing the
department to build a connecting
state highway to the following
kinds of cities and villages:
Any .village within two miles
of a state highway.
Any village with a population
of at least 50 and a postoffice if
/within three miles of a state high
, way.
Any incorporated village not
served by a railroad if within six
miles of a state highway
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Additions Galore—
Another "gimmick” which add
ed roads to the department’s re
sponsibility—and seldom with any
increase in revenue—was a law
which said the state should main
tain any roads built in part by
federal funds. So counties match
ed federal funds for the improv
. ment of their roads which were
most expensive to maintain. That
. didn't stop until the 1949 legis
lature changed the law to pro
_ vide that the state doesn't have
to maintain federal aid second- I
ary routes unless state funds are
• put into their construction.
The department also had to
lake over access roads to mili
tary installations and plants
which it had built for the gov
ernment in World War Ir.
In 1926 the department was told j
to maintain all state highways j
. within corporate limits of villages j
- of less than 1.40J: A year later it
became responsible for maintain
ing these highways in towns of
less than 2,500 population. In 1935
the department was made respon
sible for paying half the cost of
maintenance for wear and tear
on these highways down the
streets of towns with population;
between 2,500 and 25,000.
So the new highway commis
sion- has plenty of places it can
add to the state highway system
if it chooses. The state can take
o/ev any federal-aid secondary
route on which it spends money.
Several hundred miles of state
highway could be built in con
necting villages to the state high
. way system. And there are those
1,865 miles of statutory road never
*. built.
The catch, of course, is that j
the commission will have the
same trouble finding the money
for these projects that the de
partment has. Especially when
,‘ . the existing system is getting no ;
younger month by month.
Explosives Hauling—
A neat bit of “toss the hot pot
ato" was exhibited at the state
house when Gov. Robert Crosby
called a meeting to discuss the
problem of hauling explosives.
The truckers were there to prove
they were victims of “hysteria”
arising from the fire-caused fx
plosion of an amunition truck
west-.of Omaha. The representa
tives of the army and the de
partment of defense were there
to see that the hauling of these
essential materials wasn’t unduly
hampered. Omaha safety officials
were there trying to get action
on all dangerous types of hauling.
Citv officials were there to get
backing for proposed ordinances
to either ban or slow down the
jtrucks.
Conspicuously absent were
the railroads, who would stand
to gain the most if ammuni
tion trucks were banned from
. • . the highways.
Nothing much happened in the
way of constructive conclusions.
Everybody agreed that explo
sives are dangerous. Most agreed
that a country engaged in pre
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