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Evening star., 1947-02-23
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The Homer homesteader., 1947-01-27
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Evening star., 1947-07-13

ties. one such recent report comes
from Tennessee, which claims it was
the first to adopt the hotel and
restaurant inspection law.
Sam I. Bolton, director OF the
division of hotel and restaurant in
spection, reports visitors to Tennes-
see will find this summer more than
800 additional places to eat and
sleep than were available last year.
Permits have been granted during
the last IL months for 845 new eat
ing places, hotels and tourist courts.
Mr.. Bolton reports also that estab-
lished places have been improved,
having installed more new equip
ment in the last six months than
in the previous four years.
The inspection division not only
issues the business permits but in
spects and grades sleeping and eat
ing places for cleanliness and fire
hazards. It is required that grade
cards hang where every guest can
see them.
"Au grade A and grade B places
are perfectly safe and sanitary" Mr..
Bolton reports to tourists. Grade
c places are questionable and places
with grade D are on probation and
must clean up or go out Of business
in a specified time. People should
shun grade D places"
The West Virginia Restaurant As
sociation also has enlisted its men,
bers in a move to make touring in
the State more pleasant by perform
ing such sideline services as they
can.
Announcing the policy, Kenneth
Giannos, association president, said:
I'VE are sincerely interested in
where our visitors are from, where
they are going, and We intend to
show that friendly interest. Men,
bers are being urged to inform
themselves ON highway conditions in
nearby areas and also on points of
interest in and around their COM
munities, SO they may supply in
formation and answer questions.
Our first obligation, of course,
is to serve good food well in COM
Portable surroundings. But We in
tend to 60 beyond that. If We car
perform little extra services, we'll
be delighted to do So" AS an
example, he added: Like heating
the baby's formula"
\
Fares on the French National
Railroads were increased 20 per cent
on July /. Passenger fares per kilo-
meter now are: First class, $50
francs: second class. $40 francs;
third class, 1.S0 francs. On the same
day, seat reservation fees were es-
tablished at rs cents for first and
second class, and 20 cents for third
class.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
1OO.Mile Panorama

LAKE PLACID, N. r, July IT,
From the summit of Whiteface
Mountain, 1872 feet above sea level,
motorists who make the easy ascent
to the peak in their own cars view
a 100-mile panorama of rivers, lakes
and green forests amid the Adiron-
dacks.
The ascent Is made easy by a
series Of hairpin curves and at no
place does the climb exceed 10 per
cent.
Whiteface Highway begins at Will
mington, N. Y, near Lake Placid.
Northern Arizona's Grand Canyon
Is 217 miles long and from 4 to ID
miles wide. It averages 4 mile in
depth.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
RESORTS.
lCEAN CITY. MD.

OCEAN CITY, MD.-Apt for rent; accom-
modates from six to eight people; available
July 27-Sept. 2. Also sleeping rooms To-
Gated near ocean. MRS HELEN HENRY.
10S Talbot st Phone 1h3-J -.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Ski U1aIrt

SPEND your vacation at an elevation si
S;so0 r. Pleasantly cool. Season june
10 to Sept Is. Rate weekly. $50 and
UP. Recreation free. I2O miles from
WashinEton via U. S. IL to MI. Jackson
then y miles west. Approved BY A, A. A
tatien to Sky Chalet, Macanie, Va
Eastern Connecticut news., 1947-06-28

feel Is a marvel of mans inventive genius and mechanical handiwork. Only through the use of such ma chine could the audit control of state agency like ours be com plete. It is a hand made affair, ex- cept for a Veeder-Root-Hartford counter.
 Speaking of electricity our most mysterious tool station gadget is the lone wire in the middle of each le1e. That is a static eliminator, grounding the static electricity gen. erated by the many tires and stored until discharged either by the elim- inator or through the vehicle opera tor and our Toll Collector. These are replaced frequently for con- tinued efficiency.
 Since V-J Day with the end of gas rationing, traffic has risen to a daily average of 14,000 cars, of which ten percent are usually trucks and buses and the balance pleasure vehicles.
 1 At the end of our first four years of operation as of March 1, 1947, we had handled 18,00O,0 O,00O vehicles, with an average daily in- come since opening of $1,200.0O.
 Our revenue has three sources, (a) cash tolls, Cb) sales of com mutation books amid Co Armed Forces Receipts for casual passages for which we have collected total of over $12,000.0O through billing operations, in addition to the sale of books to the Army, Navy and Coast Guard.
 Our day, which runs from 800 a. m. to the following 800 a. m listed August 30, 1946 as the heavi- est to date, 19,572 cars having passed through the lanes.
 A stormy January ?, 1945 brought us only 4,750 cars. The busiest month was August 1946, with it's 515, ,00O count.
 Throughout the day the busiest hours are between 400 and 500 D. ! ul' WIAC1A LUCdA Od 1CVV Cd1S paSS.
 We have sold, posted and audited 25O.00 communication books of eight varieties to individuals and to 580 registered truck fleets throughout the East. The overall sale of these books Is a little less than hak of the income of the agency.
 Of great interest to the users of tine bridge is the statement that we have no free list, no passes. Only the State Police and employees of the Bridge Commission, which may or may not include Highway work CTS, when on the Commissions business, are allowed to pass with out payment.
Eastern Connecticut news., 1947-06-28
Croton-NewLondon Bridge
(COntinSsd rom Pass OnsJ

(COMtinSEd from Page OMSl
 structure was the only answer to progress demanded.
 Tactual conclusions brought re- suits and in the State Legislature of 1889 was passed the Act creating Inc GTOton-New London Bridge Commission and providing for the construction of a toll bridge over the Thames River at or near New London and for the demolition of the existing free bridge over such river at New London.
 Former Governor Raymond E. Baldwin appointed to that Con- mission, W. Ellery Allyn of Water ford, Christopher L. Avery, Groton, Allen D. Colvin, New London, Franklin R. Hoadley, Stonington, and O. Pomeroy Robinson of Gro- ion, whose duties were well defined In the Act. The efforts put forth and achievements for which this group was responsible were com parable only to the results them selves.
 The fruit of such action was the opening of the structure which Is now so much g part of the daily lives of those people who so desired and planned 1t.
 The cost of the structure having been estimated at $6,OOO, ,OOOOO, a very attractive offer for the bonds with the backing of the full faith and credit of the State o6 Connecti- cut was received, and sale consum- mated on the basis of $3,360, 100000 at 1h% and 2,64O, ,000.OO at IA % for a thirty-one year term ending h 1871.
 The cost of the Sljbstructure or foundation was $1, ,486, ,0OO0O, while the superstructure involved go, ,554,- OOO.00, the balance of the money having been used for the purchase e6 the rights of way and the build ing of the approaches and their at tendant bridges.
 The contracts were let and the bridge started In February 1941. Two years work and over 100000 tons of material. 13,OOO of which were structural steel were involved in Its building. The bridge opened on February 27. 1943, a boon to the area and to the military operations of the district.
 It Is a combination of three types Of construction, girders in the viaducts over the land, with truss and cantilewer construction over
Eastern Connecticut news., 1947-06-28

the water, using 3O reinforced chan nel concrete piers, No. 20 and 27 supporting cantilever truss chan nel span of $40 feet.
 The net clearance over the chan nel is 135 feet above mean high water. This holds true for a width of 200 feet. The Brooklyn Bridge clearance Is comparable.
 From abutment to abutment 1t is 6,293 feet In length, making 1t the longest structure in New England. Its two twenty-four foot traffic lanes allow the proper hexibility for the maximum operation of the ten toll lanes, 5000 cars per hour, provided. A four foot sidewalk al- lows for pedestrian travel.
 The roadway is 178 feet above the water and is constructed on +S3% grade in both directions from the highest point of the vertical curve over the center of the chan nel.
 The parallel trusses are forty feet deep. The cantilever truss section over the channel runs from 100 feet at the piers to 30 feet at the center. The girder sections are |91z feet deep and weigh many tons each.
 By this July 1947, the permanent lighting od the bridge and its ap- breaches will have been completed. Sodium vapor type center mall lighting will be installed.
 The Groton-New London Bridge Commission, now composed of w. Ellery Allyn, Waterford, Thomas L. Hagerty, Groton, Paul o. Hold ridge, Ledyard, Ralph W. Matteson, New London, and Harry w. Schwartz, New London, has the obligation and responsibility of op- erating the facility, is responsible for originating the Toll Schedules, making adjustments thereto, main- taining the structure and meeting the financial demands of the bond redemption schedule.
 The Toll Schedules are set in keeping with the budgeted bien- nium needs of the agency. There fore, the traffic experience is sub- jected to periodic study by traffic consultants employed at reason able intervals. Twice we have been able to lower the. rates.
 In the budgetary needs are the usual recurring expenses such as Personal Services, Contractual Services Supplies and Materials. However, the Fixed Charges such as the scheduled $220,000.OO an- nual bond payment with it's attend ant interest payment on the bal ance, which for 1946-47 was $75,- 9OO.OO, are the obligations of prime importance.
 Our Toll Schedule at the present time IS based on studied traffic expectancy of between five and five and one-haH million cars of various classifications per year with the following rates:
 Four Axle or More Tractor Trailer, Cash BOG, Comm. 35c.
 Three Axle Tractor Trailer, Cash 60c, Comm. 20c.
 Two Axle Six Wheel Truck, Cash 4Oc, Comm. 121zc.
 Bus, Cash 60c, Comm. 25c.
 Passenger, Cash 10c having been reduced from 15c on July l, 1946).
 2 There are two types of commu- tation books in this class, one al- lowing rate of 3c for car and driver alone, and one allowing a rate of 5c for a car without reserva- finn pr stimulation as to riders
Eastern Connecticut news., 1947-06-28

The Pacific Ocean covers a third of the earth's surface, Is larger than the whole land surface, and comprises nearly half the worlds water surface.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

after motoring to Houston, Tex,
where they visited their sister,
Mrs. Paul Farmer. On their return
trip they visited New Orleans and
Travelled through the Great Smokes.
Mr. and Mrs. e. H. Finke of Day.
ton. Ohio. are visiting their daugh-
ter. Mrs. William K. Teepe, in WASH
ington Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Small III, of
Rolling Ridge Farm left Saturday to
drive to Wyoming, where they will
visit several ranches and attend the
cattle show. They will also spend
some time In Colorado.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norbert Norris have
returned to their home after vaca-
ton in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Charles w. Beall, who has
been on motor trip through
Canada and the New England
States, has returned.
Mrs. Charles Fox has as a guest
Mrs. Hilda Kohr of Washington.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Home Wedding
Yesterday

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Farnham Groom was the scene of
the wedding yesterday afternoon of
their daughter, Miss Sarah Groom,
and Capt. Walter A. Hardzog, jr.,
the Rev. Edward Dowdy of the First
Baptist Church officiating at the
ceremony.
MIR. Groom escorted his daughter,
who was costumed in pale pink
organdy hand embroidered at the
neckline.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Hardzog of Ozark, Ala,
who came to Washington for the
wedding, accompanied by another
son, Mr.. Maxwell Hardzog.
Following the reception the newly
married couple left for a trip to
New England before going to Lang
ley Field, where Capt. Hardzog is
stationed. They will be at home
there after September /.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
LeesbArq

Mrs. Warren Smoot Carter and
Mrs. James B. Morgan are spending
some time in Richmond and Peters
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Crane Hertz
entertained number of theil
friends Thursday evening in their
home on Mount Gilead.
Mrs. Leon H. Frye is spending this
week end in Spartanburg, S. c.
The Rev. and Mrs. T. Robert Full
ton and their son left this week for
a vacation in Danville and Marion
Va, later going to New York.
Mrs. Robert K Ashton, who for
the past three months has been
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Miss Sarah R@belye
To Wed i'm Antu11zu

The engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Sarah Rapelye, to Mr..
Grant Cowherd, son of DR.. and Mrs.
Joseph B. Cowherd of Kansas City,
Mo, is announced by Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Andrew Rapelye OF Washing
ton. The wedding will take place
in November.
Miss Rapelye is a graduate of
Sunset Hill School in Kansas City
and Of Connecticut College. Her
fiance was graduated from Kansas
University and during the war
served as a lieutenant commander
in the Naval Reserves.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

visiting her daughter, Mrs. Stanley
D. Post in LIE Mars, Iowa, has re-
turned to Leesburg to- be with hei
daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Slack.
Judge and Mrs. j. r. H. Alexander
left Friday for a vacation in Vir-
ginia's historic Northern Neck.
Postmaster and Mrs. William C.
Whitmore and their son, Billy, left
this week for St. Petersburg, where
they will be guests until. August Il
of Mrs. Whitmore's nephew, Mr.. C
Fenton Connor.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
September " eddmg

The engagement of Miss Beatrice
Frankie to Mr. Nathan Rothstein,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Roth
stein of New York City, is an
nounced by the bride-elect's mother,
Mrs. Mamie Frankie Of this city,
formerly of Baltimore.
The wedding will take place early
In September in Los Angeles, where
the couple plan to make their home.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Engagement

Mrs. Arthur Horn entertained at
an informal party last evening to
announce the engagement Of her
sister, Miss Grayson Smith, to 1t.
James w. Russell of Cleveland.
Formerly Of Greensboro, Md, the
bride-elect is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Maryland.
1t. Russell served nearly three
years overseas during the war and
was attached to the 82nd Airborne
Division. He is now stationed at
Fort George G. Meade.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Gaitbersburg

Miss Ruth Stone is spending a
week in Cleveland visiting her sister
Mrs. Stone Mehta, and her mother
Mrs. Albert Metzger.
Mr.. John Hershey and Mr.. Harold
Hershey are expected home today
Evening star., 1947-08-03
In the News

Mr.. Arthur Ross. jr.. who recently
was graduated from Lehigh Univer-
sity, has returned home following a
months stay in Belle Harbor, Long
| Island.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-10-10
JACL Aide Protests against Bias
In Full Membership in Unions

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. Oct. 10-A pro-
test against the discrimination practice OF bar
ring Japanese Americans and others of Oriental
ancestry from full membership in many unions
affiliated with the American Federation of La
Dor was voiced in letter sent by Joe Masaoka,
regional JACL director, to William Green, AFL
president, now in San Francisco to attend the
national convention of the labor body.
Masaoka pointed out that most Of the
building trade unions barred Nisei from union
membership and permit only veterans to en-
roll in trade schools. The veterans, however,
have not been able to secure union membership.
Several other union groups, such as the
transfers have permitted Orientals to form
their own affiliated unions, but deny full MEM
bership privileges to these units.
Other unions, such as the AFL cannery
workers union, bar Orientals in certain areas
andrallow them to join in others. Japanese
Americans are members of the cannery union in
Stockton and Sacramento, but reported to be
barred in San Francisco
Many garage mechanics, including veter-
ans, who were able to join unions in the East
have been denied membership here, it was also
reported.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-10-10
CONTINUED LIST OF NvC
PAID-UP MEMBERSHIP

Ken Shigaya, Bill Nskagawa. Ho-
ward Minato, Hiro Nishimura, Flu
milo Yagi, Henry Tukano. George
Mamiya, Bell Shimada, Bob Misu-
kami, Art Yamada. Mitsuo Sato,
Masami Mamiya, Masao Nakamichi,
George Yamada, Charles Tsuji, Yo-
shito Mizuta.
John Matsudaira, George Shinii-
zu, George Funai, Roy .sFujiwara,
Edo Sasaki, Nobi Tanaka, Kazllya
Kimura, Bill osawa. Harry I Ia
kagi, Sam Sakai. Pete Kozu, Akira
Higashi. Sho Higashi. Morio Maku-
uchi, Mack Nishimoto. Shire Yama-
g'ichi.
Isao Nishimura, Geroge x. oki-
tsu, Paul Seto, DIR. Frank Kane
mort, shigeru Kozu, Hisashi Nisht
mura, Mac N0gaki, Ken Maekawa