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The Newark Advocate from Newark, Ohio • 25

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Namu The Whale Dies In Seattle Small Towns Feel Effect nfersfafre Highways SEATTLE, Wash. (AP)-Namu, the gentle world-famed has grown by almost 1,000 pers By SANDOR M. POLSTER pass businesses remained in-oia u.i. 4U two years, town officials estimated Main Street traffic qua- Newerk (O.) Advocate QC July 13, 1966 Ld Turner said, the relief from the traffic congestion tact and none ceased operation The service station was sold COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ons. McNeil attributes this growth to the town's nearness sprout with new businesses.

St. Clairsville Is an example. Klrkersville, Hebron and Or-cleville have felt the effects of killer whale who became a motion picture star and a subject St. Clairsville lost a restau because of lost trade and profits, and when the restaurant rant and a gas station along drupled. to the Ohio River.

and parking problems has allowed townspeople to do more business in the downtown area. for many scientific studies, is This is good for business, but "It's only about five minutes Where In The World? dead. burned down, "it wasn't finan cially feasible to rebuild it," not for the streets, which are new highways. So has Lebanon, which now finds Itself astride St. Clairsville streets are nar City Couldn't, Mayor Could, So He Did! LOUISVILLE, Ky.

(AP) Ted Griffin, who bought the "deficient for the traffic and to the river on the interstate now," he said. "We have room to expand while the river front. 4-ton, 20-foot whale from two Charles W. McNeil, executive secretary of the St. Clairsville row.

When U.S. Route 40 ran down Main Street, 10,000 cars Namu, B.C., fishermen and a main route linking two new interstate roads. In almost every community things are getting worse as time goes by," the city manager said. doesn't." Board of Trade, said. passed through the town every Some businesses showed con In Zanesvllle, the bypass was 24 hours.

This traffic discourag The city couldn't pay, so the mayor did. abandoned by highway traffic on Main Street, the economy termed "a salvation" by the siderable losses during the year ed business. Opps, No Vote! MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) A social worker asked Louis city manager. Old U.

S. 40 following the freeway opening brought him to Seattle for a marine attraction, said the friendly beast apparently drowned when he dove under a float at his waterfront pen and got caught in a net Saturday night. sags. But benefits from the by In 1964, when the Highway Department studied the town's Gas stations on what used to Summer tourist traffic now speeds around Ohio small towns on four-lane superhighways Instead of creeping down Main Street. Interstate highway construction has left some small town businesses standing still.

Abandoned service stations and declining motels in some areas 6tand as symbols of highway progress which moved traffic off older roads. But the same bypasses which takes travelers off Main Street bring booms to other towns and other areas. Some primarily rural cities now find business booming because a superhighway touched them. Areas along bypasses outside older cities John Grenier, the Republican carried traffic through the main section of town, causing traffic problems the city was unable be U.S. 40 had lost nearly 22 traffic flow, the rate of 24-hour pass, In most cases, offset the disadvantages.

Highway department studies provide Illustrations and statistics. per cent of their business in the hopeful for U.S. senator from Alabama, was introducing himself to folks recntly In a Mont to handle. Griffin said Namu had been second half of 1958. ville Mayor Kenneth A.

Schmied if the city could pay the first month's rent on a new home for an elderly woman whose home is being torn down by the city. Schmied's advisers said the city couldn't under the traffic on Main Street fell to 2,640 vehicles. Klrkersville has proof of the The towns with increased traf gomery restaurant. Restaurant business dropped A freeway bypass was built He shook hands with one man off about 41 per cent, and motel economic bust resulting from a about a mile south of the town fic resulting from the express' ways look at the gain with mix and asked for his vote. business fell 45 per cent.

In 1958. At first, most of the acting odd for a week or so. He said summer is the whale mating season and that the big mammal, which had to come up for air from time to time, may have been trying to escape when he became entangled. ed views. "I'm Roy Mayhall, chairman Schmied said, "I guess the To compensate for this lost 4,000 residents expected serious economic decreases.

only thing for me to do is to give Lebanon is on a prime inter Do you know the name of fH late celebrated in song and poetry? puouiai ipl highway bypass: Two restaurants in the community of 400 persons closed. Clrcleville suffered economic setbacks also; but the pre-by- of the State Democratic Executive Committee," was the cheerful reply. connecting route between two It out of my pocket." He paid trade, the town became a residential area. Since the opening of the freeway, St. Clairsville The bust came, but the town the $25.

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