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Dolthorp Answers Questions on Interstate Progress Sunday, October 5, 1958(mirror trim. Louis XVI light 13 A Sioux Falls Argus-Leader PROGRESS OF THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM PROGRAM Golden Plumbing, Tubs of mitt COMPUTED AS OF AUSUST 3t, 1958 Marble Popular With Rich ing fixtures and empire legs and feet on the marble washbasin. "A MISH MASH," he declares. "Bronx renaissance. But if the nouveaux don't know it, what are you going to do?" The custom-made high grade hardware business generally has been in a state of change in recent years.

Pont, a number of Greek shipping tycoons, and archi By CYNTHIA LOWRY i AF Nmtfutimc Writw New York UFh PorcelainJ tects and interior decorators so successful that they shnn, and chrome may suit us average Americans. But the big-money crowd from coast There remains a good de rather than court, publicity. In a recent listing of the 10 richest men in the country, to coast is going in for marble tubs and golden plumbing. mand for authentic period hardware box locks, olive knuckle hinges, paumelles and cremone locks, for instance. Ward's big problem is the diminishing supply of skilled Arthur Ward, head of a 100-year-old company that is Ward counted seven buyers of Guerin-made hardware, most of them possessors of golden bathroom fittings.

Made-to-order period gold fixtures come high. If the chrome fittings in your por the Tiffany of the custom pe riod hardware business, finds that his gold plumbing fittings sales have increased celain bathroom (two water over 400 per cent in the past faucets and a mixing spout) cost $25, gold plated replace craftsmen, called chasers, whose delicate finishing work makes the difference- between mass market fixtures and the expensive product Of his four chasers, the youngest is 64 and the oldest is 87 and Ward hired the two years and, despite the recession, are still increasing. ments would set you back be "Gold-plated bathroom fix tween $125 and $600, Ward says, depending on the tures have always been the ultimate in luxury and always jrtv 6 3o I -i tft6 I .1. I Hill MftM- ii I 1 lliill 1 1 il if if lil 1 11 ill 11 iijf ilfl-lf if ii 5 1 5 amount of detaiL You could, of course, get them cheaper 87-year-old just the other day. "Young people just elsewhere, but Guenn spe aren't going into the craft popular with those who could afford them," says Ward.

"But recently there has been even more interest cialty is fine brass casting By F. J. MLBRIDE Arfut-Liadtr Stat Editor What is the actual status of South Dakota's highway program? Have there been delays? Is the right-of-way law a stumbling block to interstate highway construction in South Dakota? Conflicting reports have been heard in the recent months so the Argus-Leader addressed the following questions this past week to Charles J. Dalthorp, director, South Dakota Department of Highways. The questions and his answers: Q.

How many miles of Interstate have been built in South Dakota? Where? A. A segment of Interstate highway has been completed between Piedmont and a point north of Tilf ord, a total of 7.273 miles of highway at a cost of $1,831,490.56. The people of the Hills area have been driving on this stretch off Interstate highway for more than a year. Although this is not completely controlled access it is designed so controls can be established later. We are currently doing the preliminary design on the access control.

A stretch of controlled access highway has been completed between Black Hawk and Piedmont, totaling 7.158 miles, in the amount of The people of the Black Hills are driving on that stretch of highway at the present time. Q. Number of miles of Interstate under construction in South Dakota? Where? A. Last March a stretch of Interstate between Sioux Falls and a point two miles south of Worthing, of 14.031 miles, was let to contract. The total contract for this project including structures amounted to $4,683,473.88.

The construction on this is proceeding on schedule. The plans for the 19.4 miles of Interstate highway extending from Cactus Flats to Wall have been ready to let to contract for over a vear. The east one half of this combined with hand-chasing, which means the refinement of ornamentation by hand tooling. "I SUSPECT part of it is the comspicuous consumption motive: 'Look, I can even afford But there's "MOST PEOPLE just want a splash of gold and can get away with less expensive, less also the fact that people have anymore. "But demand for authentic period hardware has held up," Ward says.

"It is just that it is more spread out. Big houses are disappearing In the old days it was not unusual to get a single ord.er for $100,000 worth of hardware for a house. The biggest order we've had since the war was for $40,000 a millionaire was decorating a seven-room apartment." VTRniTHW TUP VP4P concentrated on the kitchen finished stuff, says Ward. until just about everything that can be done has been At the moment, the very rich the ones who really know what's what in elegance are giving Louis XVI the done. Now they are looking at the bathroom.

Bathrooms are getting bigger becoming combination dressing rooms and there is a definite big play in bathrooms. Meanwhile, back in the $40,000 houses, the big interest is in trend toward sunken tubs." Ward says that the gold Renaissance and empire pe riods. 1 plumbing fixtures part of P. E. Guerin's business he's "There used to be a steady demand for Renaissance the third generation of the Guerin has gathered together about 50,000 models of hardware ranging in period from pre-Gothic to modern.

Often Ward must design plumbing fixtures to fit into a desired period. For instance, most mixing spouts for wash basins are adapted 15th century French -Dol family to head the company i i i i i i i if i 1 1 1 i i i i i phins and Empire 19th cen hasn seen such a land tury Swans, Ward says. "Now, too many peo ple are using them, and Dot phins and Swans have be from authentic fixtures of the period for the simple reason that during the actual time, no such thing existed just hot and cold water come cliches. So the big period is the delicate Louis XVI." New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Michigan, and Colo rado. States listed with no Interstate mileage completed at the time included Tennessee, Delaware, Vermont, Georgia, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Nebraska and the District of Columbia.

The Department of Commerce report also showed South Dakota 28th in the nation for total mileage of Interstate Highway construction under contract as of Aug. 31. The state had 41.7 miles of Interstate construction under contract at that date but has placed another 5.5 miles under contract in September, for a total of 47.2 miles. SOUTH DAKOTA RANKS SEVENTH in the nation for miles of Interstate highway completed by Aug. 31 of this year, according to the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Department of Commerce.

The above chart was drawn from official statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. At the time of the progress tabulation, South Dakota had completed 97.3 miles of highway with Interstate funds. The projects are located between Chamberlain and Sturgis and are open to travel States with more Interstate mileage completed than South Dakota at the end of August included Texas, Ward delights in the validi ty of period hardware de slide of business since the good old pre-depression days when steel's Charlie Schwab ordered himself a bathtub cut out of a solid block of onyx. Today gold bathroom accessories are so popular that a "mass" market for this extravagance has developed. Golden plumbing "masses" are built for folks living in homes costing a minimum of $40,000.

BUT EVEN THIS type of money-laden mass market holds little interest to Ward. His clientele includes names like Ford, Chrysler, Mellon, spouts. At the moment, Ward's customers are completely ignoring in and out of the bathroom two periods: Gothic and Victorian. "Our clientele won't touch signs, and he regrets that many well-publicized decorators have little respect for and less knowledge of priority of periods, even in bathroom decor. ranything Victorian," he em He recalls with dismay re grammed for the fiscal years to handle details of Inter-1 for 1958-59 shows that with phasized.

"That's for the masses." ceiving blueprints for an ex project (8.113 miles) was let to contract in April, 1958, and is currently nearing construction completion on grading, subbase, bituminous mat and structures, at a cost of of 1957-58 and 1958-59? rent on the 1957-58 program, except for the construction involved in litigation be pansive Datnroom from a A. Fiscal year 1957-58, decorator who proposed to state project: three months of the fiscal A. The Department of je, gone, 68 per cent of Highways is adequately jthel programmed projects staffed to meet the expanded been let to contract. tween a point midway be-1 675,328. Fiscal year 1958-59, Ten feature films were produced in Ceylon last all in the Sinhalese language.

qpmbme Louis XV faucets and spout with renaissance $980,035.81. The structures Whitney, Du tween Cactus Flats and Wall. $29,701,447 program of Interstate. Dur-Mi ing the past three years 45 'k tn addition to the projects outlined above, which are included in the 91.2 per cent matching ratio for Interstate highways, South Dakota has built several stretches of In BUILDING and REMODELING When one talks about miles on Interstate construction as against critical construction projects there should be no comparison. South Dakota has recognized critical, traffic problems in and around major cities and as a result has become involved in projects that cost more per mile for construction than the rural projects.

Urban Interstate projects terstate highway under the old matching ratio of 65 per cent federal government and 35 per cent state. A stretch of 11.857 miles between Oa-coma and constructed at a cost of $849,599 We must make room for new an building and remodeling in order to give you better service, merchandise we are cutting our prices to the bone for this big event. is built to Interstate stand also require more design time. Several states are let OPEN 9 A.M. T0 9 P.M.

COME EARLY ting all of their projects in ards. Sufficient right-of-way has been acquired on this slretch of highway so that two additional lanes may be rural areas. These states show graduate engineers nave been added to tha staff. Q. If personnel is ample, how far ahead are South Da-kota Interstate engineering plans? A.

There is no question but what we will be ahead on lettings by the end of the fiscal year of 1958-59. South Dakota is one of the few states in the Midwest that allocated a portion of the additional emergency federal funds in the amount of $7,209,019 made available for general highway in April, 1958, to its counties for secondary road construction. The state of South Dakota made an allocation of more than one million dollars to the counties out of a total secondary road allocation of slightly less than two million dollars. Our primary, urban and secondary program for 1958-59 is 68 per cent under contract. The crash program manv miles under contract.

LIVING ROOM Perhaps they should be looking at some of their urban DINING ROOM projects. added as soon as traffic justifies the addition. Access controls will be established at the time the two additional lanes are constructed. In this same category is a Sectional Davenport tEKSE 99.95 Programs for 1 Interstate include costs for surveys, plans and right-of-way. The Bureau, of Public Roads shares in the costs the same for the entire 19.4 miles have been completed.

The west one half of this project is involved in right-of-way litigation in the Supreme Court. Contracts were let in September for the Interstate improvements to the west of Sioux Falls totaling 5.567 miles at a contract price of $2,881,775.98. The contractors are at work on this project. THE PLANS are ready and the right-of-way has been certified for the construction of the east by-pass to Rapid City for the Oct. 28 highway letting.

This totals 12.192 miles and will cost approximately $7,950,000. The east loop of Sioux Falls extending from East 10th St. south (Logan St. bypass) totaling 7 miles and to cost approximately will be let in December this year. The plans have been completed on this project.

Full appraisals for right-of-way acquisition have been made on all of the property involved in this segment. Purchasing of right-of-way has been under way for the project for several weeks. The plans for the Interstate extending from north of Highway 38A on Highway 77 (Holger Anderson Corner) to the Minnesota line are complete. Our appraisers are just completing their work on the strip from Highway 11 to the Minnesota line. In another 10 days they will start appraising the strip from Holeer Andersen's Cor SPECIAL stretch of Interstate high 2 pieces.

Tour choice of 4 QQ Cf colors. Res. 229.50. Now I wO.wU Living Room Sets $49 Bronze Dinette Set rU. $9.97 way from-lv miies east of Wall to 8 miles west of Wall totaling 10.018 miles.

The as construction, 91. per cent to 8.8 per cent. The differ Sectional DaYenportiSJE. 139.50 SAVE OVER $100.00 ON THIS 7-pc. Dining Room Set contract price on tne latter project was $754,970.

Q. Amount of grants from U.S. government in fiscal years 1957-58 and 1958-59? 129.95 Reg. 239.50. On Sectional Davenport NOw 179.50 ence may be attributed to payment for surveys, plans and right-of-way.

Q. Right-of-way law is said to be the cause for delay on South Dakota Interstate. Is this true? (emergency additional of will all be let to con of colors. A. Fiscal year 1957-58, 139.50 Living Room Sets TS.

Choice tract by the end of October, Wlnut Duncan Phyfe 209 JO. Now only $19,686,343. Fiscal year 1958- well ahead of the deadline 59, $25,499,190. For the year of Dec. 1.

A. I should mention that I CaI Choice of colors. ICQ CA APPARENTLY critics of or i kh uk nHn right-of-entry bil! was pre- ment will be $10,547,000. Int 4. tv.

'mc- Reg. 249.50. Now only I W9.VW Drop Leaf Table and 4 Chairs Omy99.50 7-pc. Chrome 2 Leaf Table 0m, 89.95 sented to the 1957 Legislat- the South Dakota Interstate 1956-57, the amount was beige. Living Room Set 2 2-pc.

Now only 189.50 239.50, T-pc. Chrome or Bronze. 36x48x60 Ref. 79.95.. Now Only BEDROOM program took; a low point figure from a Bureau of Public Roads report that was compiled early last spring and extended that figure into the fall accounting.

I am sure you. can see from the above detailed accounting that South Dakota is not lagging on Interstate. The state is entirely current and will Dinette Set Dinette Set 59.95 59.95 7-pc. Chrome or Bronte. 36x48x60 Ref.

79.95 Now Only Bookcase Bed, Dresser and Chest 10Q cn Regular 249.95 1 only I U9.0U be' well ahead of schedule Drop Leaf Table 49.95 Bedroom Set Double dresser, chest, bookcase AQ rl bed (Blonde or walnut. Now I .311 within the next few months. In closing I should men tion the contracts for highway construction through FLOOR COVERING ner to Highway 11. This project, totaling 13 miles, will cost $6,800,000 and will be let to contract in February. 1959.

The strip of Interstate highway from approximately 4 miles east of Wicksville to two miles west of New Underwood, totaling 18 miles in an amount of approximately $7,335,000, is nearing the plans completion stage. This project will be let to contract in April, 1959. THE STRIP of Interstate from Junction City to Sioux September total for 1948. The lettings in October and December will bring the total to approximately more than has been let to contract in any other year. A project progress report $13,629,451.

These figures reveal that this state has been challenged with more than twice the ordinary Interstate allotment in 1957-58 and almost three times the ordinary Interstate allotment in 1958-59. These allotments are made on a three-year basis, which meens that the money from the 1957-58 program will expire on June 30, 1960, and the allotment for the 1958-59 program will expire on June 30, 1961. There is absolutely" no question but what we will have used these allotments well ahead of the expiration date. Fluctuations between allocations on Interstate from year to year tend to create a feast one year and a famine the next year. Q.

What are the state portions for the fiscal years 1957-58 and 1958-59? A. Fiscal year 1957-58, $1,899,559. Fiscal year 1958-59, $2,234,641. Time magazine sometime ago indicated we are having divficulty in building the Interstate because of financial limitations. This is a misstatement.

We have adeouate 7.95 9x12 Gold Seal Reg. 11.95 Congoleum Rug only Reg. 199.50 Dresser, Chest, 139.50 Mattress and Box Spring MZeoJL Mattress and box spring. Reg. 59.50 each.

99.9U Now you get both at this one low price. Mattress Box Spring guarantee. Reg. 69.50 each. Now both for only Q9.9U Rlinlr Rprlc springs, innerspring UUIIH U6U9 mattress and guard rail.

Aft Solid oak or maple. Now only 09. w9 Rahu HriltC 0-y Spring, and mat- hi tK UOUy UIIUO tress IncL Reg. 29.95..,,. Now only 4I.SU Viscose Nylon Rug 39.95 lature.

It passed both houses and was amended irr commit-tee. The last day of the session it was sent back to the Senate Committee on State Affairs and was lost there. South Dakota is one of the few states in the United States that does not have a right of entry law. Because of this' inadequacy the state must depend on the federal government for right of entry. The, Rapid City Interstate project, scheduled for October, has been ready since last March.

Right-of-way problems have delayed letting to contract. Similar problems confront the state on most Interstate lettings. A right of entry bill will be introduced in the next legislative session. Q. Gov.

Foss said some time ago highway projects would be scaled into smaller projects so small contractors would have a chance to get highway contracts. Has this practice been followed? If answer is yes, cite examples. If answer is no, why not? A. In all Interstate lettings, we have broken the projects down in such a manner as to give all types of contractors an opportunity to bid. For instance, in the Sioux Falls west Interstate that was was let on Sept.

23 the structures were broken into four The grading was included in one contract and the paving in another. The same policy is being followed in all of the contract lettings. Q. Does Highway Department have ample personnel 250 PAIRS OF SHOES AND NEVER BUYS ANY Whippany, N.J. MPI Mrs.

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Right-of-way is yet to be acquired. We are currently designing the strip of highway, to-t a 1 1 approximately 18 miles, from south of Worthing to Beresford. These plans will be completed in the early spring and the contract for this project let from 1959-60 funds in the early summer of 1959. The north loop from Holger Anderson's Corner to Highway 38, a distance of about 3.4 miles, is in the design stage and included in the program for 1959-60. After the October letting, which includes the Rapid City project, we will be cur- Everything in Our Store at Reduced Prices.

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