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$18 million cos! to linijh Cascade gap By JOHN KOMEN OLYMPIA IT has been called the highway with a split personality. And probably for good cause. It's in two sections, divided by a 70-mile-long gap. The road is the oft-talked about North Cross State Highway is the oldest "state highway" in Wash' ington. It is oldest uncompleted highway in the state.

It has had more "state highway numbers, more names and more proposed'locations than probably arty route in Washington. It takes a route stretching some J50 miles from. Burlington in Northwest Washington's a i County to Pateros in Okanogan County on the East side of the Cascade Mountains. STATE HIGHWAY A three-man commission the forerunner of the present-day five- member State Highway Commission was formed by the 1693 State Legislature to direct construction of a "state" highway Washington's first across the North Cascades. The cross-state highway has had the attention of the state's lawmakers and highway officials ever since.

It has been referred to as the Skagit River Road, the Roosevelt Highway, Cascade Wagon Road, Methow Valley Highway and more recently the North Cross State Highway. In 1961 the special session of the State Legislature made "North CM State Highway" the official narrie of the route, changing it from "Methow Valley Highway." NfcW NUMBER The 1961 legislators also voted to give it a new route number State Highway 16. It had been a branch of number 17 and at times in the past carried numbers 11,12 and 13, So far two lanes of road have been built between Burlington and Thunder Arm on Diablo Lake west of the Cascades. East of the mountains, the highway is finished between Pateros arid Mazama. Slowly it moves to narrow the gap.

That gap between Thunder Arrii and Mazama is about 70 miles long. It will cost about $18 million to close the breach. Still ahead is the high altitude construction work. HIGHEST ROUTE The North Cross State Highway wJlHbe the highest cross-Cascade route in the state, even out-distancing Chinook Pass. The North Cross State Highway will go through Washington little to the east it must wind through Rainy Pass.

Washington and Painy passes out strip both Snoquaimie Pass, 3,010 feet, and Stevens Pass, 4,061 feet. Proponents of the North Cross Highway have long errtphasized its importance, both to the Northwest corner of the state and to the North-Central Washington region. When completed it will mean the I A 'S A I.Q high as building, houses 300-ton In the mountains bf western Maine to pick up signals from orbiting satellites. Littto bubble around equipment when the big balloon is deflated to build permanent dome. cattle and produce of the Okanogan country will have a direct route to the ports of Puget Sound.

The highway will also open up some of the mpst beautiful country in what is known asjoiie of the last wild, untouched'regions of the Pacific Northwest. That mountain scenery has been the cause of the major controversy concerning the highway. Various groups interested in preserving the nation's wilderness have opposed opening up the area. Their protests, however, have been largely overcome. CIRCUS Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart" of silent films, and husband, Buddy Rogers, also a former star, attend charity circus in Los Angeles.

Night club situation a race, senator soys WASHINGTON John L. McClellan, says the world behind the footlights of honky tonk night clubs is a national disgrace. McClellan's Senate investigations subcommittee hears more about it next week, with testimony due Tuesday on Baltimore night spots. Counsel Jerome Adlerman said the subcommittee will look into charges that prostitution and rackets are flourishing in the Maryland port city's night clubs. He said the senators will also hear testimony on suspected violations of immigration laws in bringing girls from Canada, Greece and possibly other nations to work as entertainers.

The subcommittee is investigating allegations that officials of the American Guild of Variety Artists AFL-CIO, have connived with underworld --operated night clubs which force girl entertainers into prostitution and drink-hustling. GIRLS EXPLOITED One witness, comedienne Ann O'Connor of Chicago, told the senators Friday showgirls are exploited in some- night clubs. "I have always felt there was collusion between AGVA and the operators," she said. Miss O'Connor said Jackie Bright, the union's $31,000 a year executive administration, is the real boss of AGVA. She said the union's executive committee is a rubber stamp for Bright.

Bright is due to testify next week. In Baltimore, Dorothy Lamour protested that some of the witnesses were attacking the entertainers' union for publicity and to get back at night club owners against whom they bear grudges. The former movie star, an AGVA director, said if showgirls were abused at clubs with union contracts, it was their own fault. Sees no pickets against governor SEATTLE (AP) The president of the State Labor Council says he doesn't think Gov. Rosellini will be picketed when he addresses the State Labor convention in Bellingham July 10.

Arthur Hare, head of the Building Service Employes Union, has said the governor would be picketed because of a dispute with the King County Labor Council, which has put him on its unfair list. The state council president, Joe Davis, said Friday he is confident the dispute will be settled before the convention opens July 9. The dispute originated with the firing of five civilian National Guard employes at a Nike misslc site. Hare said it was because of the men's union activities. Maj.

Gen. George Haskett, the state adjutant general, says they were fired for not maintaining equipment properly. Davis has asked for reports from both Hare and the governor. He has received Rosellini's and is still waiting for Hare's. fOf Aftftfffet ItfrjMttttgJflira Saturday, JiWe IB, 1982 3 Asks youth to accept CHICAGO (AP) A call for youth to give up their lives of leisure and accept the challenge of missionary work has been issued by evangelist Billy Graham in his "Crusade for Christ" in Chicago.

Graham said young people are needed as missionaries both overseas and at home in their own communities. REAL SERVICE Making his strongest appeal thus far in the crusade for replacing idleness by "doing a real service for Christ," Graham said Friday night: "I have been to most of the countries of "the free World and I am convinced that many of them need our help. What a challenge for young people to accept by taking Christ and His gospel to the ends of the earth." Speaking to a crowd of 43,000 at McCormick Place in the 17th rally of the 19-day crusade, Graham told those under 25 in the audience they should make these committments to God: "I am willing to study. I am willing to become a missionary. "I am willing to go out under the banner of Christ.

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