The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 38

PAGE Pithburgh Pros, Sunday, Oct. 16, I960 Press Roving Reporter i i $40 Million Erie Freeway Opens Friday! By WILLIAM A. WHITE I A $40 million Pennsylvania Knk of the Federal Interstate System of Highways the Joseph Horne Co. 99' Erie Free-wy will be opened over Its entire length on Friday, Oct 28. Off icjally 1 nated Interstate Highway 90, the 46 -mile, four-lane v.

EKN SYLVANIA Mr. White There has been some opposition to the Erie road since Gov. George M. Leader suddenly turned it into the Interstate System. Many persons thought he should have allowed it to become a part of the Turnpike System, as originally planned.

These persons saw It as a "convenience road" for picking up New York Thruway traffic, carrying It across the state into Ohio, and vice versa while giving little service to the people of Pennsylvania. But there Is no question that Erie will benefit from It, and the entire vacation area. Including Cambridge Springs, Conneaut Lake and other resort spots. Pittsburghers headed for Buffalo, Canada or New Eng- I land points, can take Routes 19 and 98, get on the Erie Thruway and reach where they are going almost with- i out encountering a traffic light. One thing it will do for sure is get New York's Thru-way out of the orchard, where it has been dead-ended for three years.

joad will connect with the New York Thruway on its astern end, a toll road, and vith Ohio's new highway 'along the lake shore into a free road, on Its western end. i It will lift from the streets i For Pittsburgh and Southwestern I-vanla the road will mean little until a proposed Erie-to-West Virginia expressway Is built and that is to Erie presently is Route 19. a wholly inadequate road during the heavy-travel time of the year, the summer months when northwest vacation spots attract thou- t4kf 0nUfit mm appears to be a $36 million free ride. Construction of the road as the first completed section of the Interstate in Western Pennsylvania was made financially possible by money borrowed from the State Highway and Bridge Authority. The Federal Government' will not pay off until all bills have been received and approved.

Meanwhile, interest on the loans from the Highway and Bridge Authority piles up. 1 i a YL ALBANY New. York UICH1CAM CLEVELAND' l.dl.n. I Pennsylvania TRENTON PITTSBURGH s-l I PHILADELPHIA A mm. I of Erie a traffic load that has been a growing problem since the New York Thru-way's Erie section was open-edto Westfield, N.

near thjj Pennsylvania line, over three years ago. now seemingly many millions of dollars and several years away. We Hove Route 19 For Southwestern Pennsylvania the main highway CHOOSE DIAMOND NYLON SUPER TRACTION TIRES IN HORNE'S AUTO CENTER FIFTH FLOOR Economy-priced traction tire that pulls through mud and snow, stops quickly on snow-covered streets. Twin Traction Bar Tread digs in to keep cars going where ordinary tires would spin and slip. In tubeless, the Blowout Guard protects against bruise-blowouts and fast flats.

Franklin Twp. Booms For Borough Status Threats Of 'Secession' Sparks Driver-Citizen Grovp Busy With Petitions By JACK McXAMAKA Threats of "secession" in Franklin Twp. have sparked a wave of community interest that may carry the second-class township two rungs up the municipal government sands of person from this area. On the Pittsburgh end of Route 19 during these months, and especially over weekends, traffic is often bumper-to-bumper for miles as homebound motorists from the north and others from North Tark merge on Mcknight Koad. Then there are miles of two-lane road on 19 between Pittsburgh and points north where one slow-moving vehicle stalls everything else.

So the great benefit of the new highway will accrue to the city of Erie and to motorists traveling between New York and eastern points and Ohio and western points. State's Cost Low Pennsylvania's cost for the road wil be low only about four million dollars on the basis of the announced 10 million because 90C of the load is being carried by the Federal Government. Monday Jr 1 lyrTIP In Wp plum! fcllSlii Specially O90 wPwK Prlced wM'flSA Sizes l4'2 to 26V2 ll 1 iJfirlMl So very smart with basic, $im- SIMlia pe lines! Arnel Hacefafe i an rayon whei, i iH ri'jli whiz-dries, needs little iron- fl rf 'Mil rHlll ing! and fk.JWi lil'rlH lr k'er0 iackt velveteen eol- IH I 'ill. li E.hi-mo, I 4 it Our Operators On i'l I il I Dulr AMTWE, tl' I if i II ilki br told the residents school taxes would rise if the developers succeed in their plans. "The school district remains' Tube Type -7n-n $13.85 7.10-H SI5.8S 7.50-14 JI6.85 Tubeless s.oo-u $18.85 8.10-14 S2I.85 8.008."20-U $20.85 7.60-lf $17.85 6.006'.

5 o-i 6 $13.85 6.70-15 $16.85 7.10-n $17.85 7.60-15 $18.85 9.009.50-14 $23.85 the same no matter how many times they slice up a township," he pointed out. "If a group of developers nuiid many, many homes on A citizens' task force, led by former Township Supervisor Charles Basahaar, is booming tttidea of berough status for the northern Allegheny County community. And members seem to be getting their message across to the residents. Main selling point In the citizens committee's drive to get 51 per cent of the community's freeholders to petition for borough status Is "the threats of several developers to carve their own borough out of the town This doesn't mean, il small lots, our school system would have a great deal of expanding to do rapidly to cope though, that Pennsylvan-ians are paying only the four million. Federal taxes on gasoline and other needs of motorists, which Pennsylvanians pay, help to make up the difference.

So we aren't getting what witn tne greater pupil load. "But the tax load will be shared the same way It is now only with a lower assessed valuation," he said. I I LANE BRYANT 333 FIFTH AVE ship," said Mr. Basahaar. I The home builders have been "pressuring" Franklin's fll LA IJH ST if 'MII llS supervisors and planning com mission to allow quarter and half-acre lots in the township's zoning code, he charged.

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About 500 residents turned out to hear the committee I nNx I A 4dt I if.rwA BOV5 IO IO state its case for borough gov ernment over second class township government last PARKAS jfeffulk ''Jyit continentalN DrP week at the Ingomar Volunteer Fire Dept hall on Rochester Road. Franklin's solicitor, William Milnes, told them that the township lies directly in the path of a population drift from Pittsburgh to its northern suburbs. "The potential growth coming this way is tremendous," he said. He also pointed out that Franklin, as a second class township, is wide open for le Expert Installation of Tires at No Additional Charge We have made arrangements to have tires purchased in our Auto Center mounted on your car by tire experts in the Service Center in the McCann Building, Parking Garage, at Stanwix Street and Forbes Avenue. Auto Sales and Service also at East Hills Tires purchased in our East Hills store will be mounted on your car at the Service Center just a few doors away.

A Complete Line of Accessories, Too gal, land grabs by neighboring-first class townships and bordughs known as annexation-Five of the eight communities bordering Franklin rank above the township in the municipal government power ratings. But the citizens group contends that the newly formed boroughs of Bell Acres and Sewickley Hills are most likely to have annexation on their minds. -J '--vi Heavy Weight -rd vf Water A Jt Repellent "We lack the power to annexation or to pre vent dissatisfied people from pulling out, going their own way and making their own rules, Mr. Milnes said. I Btvv, II iU II He labled second class town ship status "the lowest form of municipal government and the State is to blame.

"The State Legislature," Mr. Milnes said, "has not given the second class township the same 1 protection first class town I lla Renm. II ships and boroughs have under 1H I rt I 'i "Y'a wonder warm acKer Delee Batteries Foolproof dry-charge iatterie for all cars. Installed without charge at the Service Onters. Winter Tire Wheels Don't break trie sea on tubeles? tires.

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I I tor scnooi wear: rviaae "This communitv is located I I t.t VV. fiii.XI W0UL with heavy duty zipper II I I V- a 1 ASi Ibbpt. front: welt pockets, knit I in a'part of the County which ill be the 'new frontier' for residential development. Near ly every other community in the County envies Franklin," he added. I ii mUiiii i Ww Mr wool inneruning.

11 Mr. Brasahaar declared that the community should have Other winter protection accessories include: Prestone Anti-Freeze Prestone De-icer Hose Clamps Thermostats Whiz Quick Seal DuPont's Fast Flush DuPont's Cooling System Sealer DuPont's Acid and Rust Inhibitor tVse your Horne Charge Account or our Time Payment Plan. State make and year of car when ordering tires or wheels by mail or phone. Home's Auto Center, Fifth Floor, Downtown Mtd at Home's East Hills i First Quality Always at Murphy If I J1 DOWN.WM STORE OFFERS FREE CU1 0ELIV tRX WL IX 1 llO ON PURCHASES TOTAIINC OR MORE FiFTH 4WN THE COMPLETE VARIETY STORES DowMowb Star Open Men Thur. Nljhti Until 9PM HHM i 0r miel.nX.

tfrtk SKI Hwtol jntrian Carncgi Utnorl EllrjUetb stun. irllt Cffrt Wnittlull Bn r.nti stmon' ctn lutiiu Litfrntr Kf. Oluf Piteirn miturift likitatri HirtHU Clilrltrel lii.in i CiT htjou'l tttnaa Hti Siellv vrHia llmaraiM J'rti)a Cliirtwi tt MrKaxgart lti atHa Kmanniaf RKi, AU $TORS MARKED WITH ASTERISK OPEN EVERT EVENING FOR TOUR GREATER SHOPPING CONVENIENCE the right to determine for it self what its nature will be. the citizens want to fireserve the residential na-hire of Franklin, they should be able to do It through their etei'ted officials. Borough frovernment would give us the protection we need." "No developer should have the right to threaten to pull out part of the community," he said.

George Wist, a member of the Franklin School Board,.