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turnpike Link to Erie Assured, Survey of Best Route Begins Willow Groye WESTVfX TBM3I0M I Kind of Prussia S0- TO C-ECVE 140-Mile Extension To Cost About 250 Million By THOMAS P. SXYDEB Rwrtatrarf Carreepoiient HARRISBURG, Sept. 7. The Turnpike Commission disclosed today that the extension of the toll road north to Erie will be built. Commission Chairman Thorn, i J.

Evans declared: "Traffic and aerial surveys to determine the best route north are under way. In my opinion the link to Erie not only Is feasible but will be built" The Erie extension will be an estimated 140 miles and cost round $250,000,000. km. Ll. ONE OF EASTERN EXTENSIONS PLANNED FOR PENNSYLVANIA PIKE Eberharfer Says Ike Will Push Sales Tax WASHINGTON, Sept.

7. (AP.) Rep. Eberharter (D), of Pittsburgh, said yesterday "it is almost a sure thing" that President Eisenhower will propose a national sales tax and "Congress will be pushed mercilessly to put it into effect." Eberharter, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee for 10 years, said the result will be: "A tremendous boon for the return to power of the Democratic Party." The Pennsylvanian reported that Democrats in his home state are banking on recent imposition of a state sales tax there to return them to office, and the same thing could happen nationally. SEES SALES TAX Evidence is becoming clearer every day, he added, that the Elsenhower administration "cherishes the hope of selling a sales tax perhaps disguised under some other name to the American people." He based his prediction, he said, on the manner in which Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey discussed the issue before the tax committee at the past session of Congress, and Hum-phrey's repeated statements since then. The secretary has said a sales tax is being considered, but has stressed that this is only one of many tax proposals getting an equal amount of study and that no decisions have been made yet.

Eberharter commented first In a statement inserted in the Congressional Record and elaborated in an interview. He said the administration has made "impossible promises to balance the budget, reduce income and business taxes, and maintain an adequate national defense at the same time." The administration is inclined toward a sales tax to try to get out of Its budget dilemma, he said. President Eisenhower has attacked the present system of sharply varying sales or excise taxes on some items with many items not taxed at alias one that discriminates against some producers and consumers and "makes little economic sense." Ksn-icieirapn nvv Mount St. Macrina, near Uniontown. Left to right: Mrs.

Helen Rusinko, Minneapolis; Mrs. John Kohanick, Gary, and Miss Helen Mucha, Gary, Ind. Link connecting AT Three women, like many others, fill small bottles with Holy Water at the Grotto of "Our Lady of Lourdes" at the 18th pilgrimage to Pilgrimage at Climax Thousands Worship At Macrina Masses UNIONTOWN, Sept. 7. With a solemn Euchar-istic procession, thousands of Byzantine Catholics today conclue their annual pilgrimage to Mt.

St. Macrina here. REAL ESTATE INSURANCE Be prepared to pan the Stat Eamination January 9. Claiiei meet Monday and Wedneiday eenlngi, ftarting Sept. 14.

Eiperieneed imtruetors, the PINKERTON school lit Liberty fgh. Pa. EXprcu 1-0800 Aft Shiran I Mercer OHIO I Km- vl 'ButUr Altoona district. "All I can say at this time Is that we will have to await the results of the engineer-ing surveys before deciding where the extension will be built." Shenk agreed that the rolling country directly north of Pittsburgh paralleling Route 19 would present less engineering and cost problems than territory farther east. When the idea of the Erie extension was first presented in the 1951 session by Sen.

C. Arthur Blass, Erie Republican, Indications were that the link would hook up the Pittsburgh and Erie districts. Indications still point that way, not only from a construction standpoint but from the fact that the Pittsburgh industrial district will funnel the most traffic onto the new road. FINAL ANALYSIS Shenk said that in the final analysis the Commission would be motivated by the hard facts slon of the homeland of their fathers Russia and its salvation from Communism. at Pugh's IN OFFING The artist has sketched the proposed link connecting Erie with the Pennsylvania I i.a uivurir i it (r I of trauic potential and not Until Evans' announcement, the Erie extension was con--" in the doubtful cate- following the original ing the Erie link with i He main system.

Highways Department engineers doubted its Justification. TRAFFIC COUNTS They based their position on traffic counts made on Route 19 and parallel roads stretching between Pittsburgh and the Lake Erie port. Since then, however. New York state officials have announced that the Throughway connecting New York City and Buffalo would be extended to connect with the proposed Turn-, pike extension. Henry D.

Shenk, assistant to Evans, said that Ohio also was planning a turnpike hooking up Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland and ending at the Pennsylvania border at Erie. Shenk said the Turnpike Commission plans to construct another link across the Erie corridor connecting the Ohio turnpike, the New York Throughway and the Pennsylvania toll road. CROSS STATE LINK Shenk commented: "We may build this cross-state link first but ultimately it will be tied into the Erie extension. "When the entire project is completed we'll have an express highway linking the three Ohio cities, Buffalo, New York city and the Pitts-- burgh industrial district. "Although the traffic surveys have just begun, we are confident that the extension cf the New York Through-way and the Ohio Turnpike will justify the Erie extension." INTENSE INTEREST Shenk disclosed there was intense interest in the western end of the state over the proposed route of the Erie extension, adding: "Johnstown wants the ex- tension built to connect that city and there even is Interest in getting the proposed extension for the Blalrsville- sentiment for any one section Turnpike near Pittsburgh of the state.

He said the aerial and traffic cihmkowl You can iron with ease, press like a tailor, I iteatn out wrinkles in suits and skirts, I switch from steam- to dry ironing in an ia- I sunt, with this marvelous new 1 iP Steam and Dry Iran the Pennsylvania Turnpike system will total approximately 650 miles. It will be without a peer for length and will give Pennsylvania an express route to most of the major cities in the east. Two other extensions, one from the Harrisburg vicinity south to the Maryland border, the other from the western extension south to West Virginia, have been authorized by the Legislature. The West Virginia extension appears to be some distance in the future, Shenk said, adding: "As far as we know there haven't been any plans to extend the West Virginia Turnpike, which runs between Charleston and Princeton, north to the Pennsylvania border." MARYLAND LINK The Maryland link hasn't been discussed seriously yet by the Commission. It was pointed nut that the State Highways Department already has under construction a four-lane highway parallel to Route 111.

This highway is to connect with a similar road being built by the Maryland Highways Department. Any link south in the Turnpike system would have to compete with this highway. Financing the proposed links Is the least of the Commissions' worries. Income from tolls on the present system has soared to such an extent that the Commission expects to pay off approximately $198,000,000 in bonds in eight more years, Shenk said. This would permit the present 327-mile system to help finance the northeast and northwest extensions.

The Delaware River extension is financed by a separate $65,000,000 issue. REVENUE SOARING As an example of how revenue has Increased, the Commission cited 1951 and 1952. In the latter year revenue was $20,071,630 compared to in 1951 and 11,000,945 vehicles compared to 7,463,920. In 1941, the first year of operation of the original 160-mile Middlesex-Irwin section, $2,884,622 was collected. In 1949, the year before the '100-mile Philadelphia link was built, revenue totaled $7,049,543.

Last year was the first 12-month period when the entire 327-mile system including the Marking the final day of the religious event, the Most Rev. Daniel Ivancho, bishop of the Pittsburgh Exarchate, 1 brated a solemn Pontificlal mass, delivered a sermon and Imparted the Papal blessing to the gathering of faithful. Gathered at 10 outdoor altars, the pilgrims joined in the celebration of the mass by singing the responses to the priests' prayers in the ancient Slavonic language dating back to the ninth century. ANNUAL DEVOTIONS The pilgrimage, held annually since 1953, centers on the Motherhouse of the Byzantine Catholic Sisters of St. Basil at a shrine to Our Lady of Perpetual Help set up at the request of Pope Pius XI.

The pilgrims to Mt. St. Macrina came by bus, train, plane and auto from all parts of the nation to take part in the 11-day devotion. In groups and singly, they have offered tip continuous prayers at the motherhouse shrine. CENTURIES OLD To Byzantine Catholics, the pllgrlmmage as a form of devotion is almost as old as their religion.

Their ancestors, hardy Slavic farmers from the Southeastern nations of Europe, annually trod the mountain paths and country roads through the Carpathian Mountains and Czechoslovakia to the shrine of Maria Povich, in Hungrary. Perhaps with those ancestors in mind, many modern pilgrims added to their prayers this year a special plea for the conver- surveys were ordered by Gov. Fine shortly after he signed the amended Erie extension legislation. The 1951 enabling act sponsored by Blass was revised by the 1953 Legislature to permit construction of the link across the Erie corridor and the tie-in with the New York Through-way. Shenk also disclosed that at the other end of the state engineering and traffic surveys on the proposed Scranton-Wilkes-Barre extension were nearly completed.

This extension of approximately 150 miles also will cost In the neighborhood of and will be the counter-part of the Erie link in that it will tie in the eastern end of Pennsylvania with New York City. The Scranton extension will end at the New York state border near Binghampton about 60 miles south of the route of the Throughway. Shenk said the Commission is 1 Gunmen Rob Auto Rental Co. Two bandits escaped with an unestimated amount of cash early yesterday after holding up Melvin Mach, a clerk, in the Auto Rental 500 W. Gen-eral Robinson North Side, police reported.

7802 Edgewood Swissvale, was alone in the of anticipating that a new highway will be built to connect the Turnpike with the Throughway. SURVEYS ADVANCED He commented: "We expect any day now to have the finished surveys on this extension and to make a recommendation to the Governor on the route. "At this time all I can say Is that it will connect with the present system somewhere between the terminus at King-of-Prussia and Har-risburg and end at the New York border near Binghampton. "We think it will be a great boon to the economically distressed anthracite region around Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. It also will furnish an additional outlet for the port of Philadelphia and the eastern seaboard." He thinks construction of the Scranton extension will begin next year, adding: "If everything goes according to schedule I see no reason why there couldn't be simultaneous construction on both the northeastern and northwestern extensions." 650-MILE TOTAL With construction of the Scranton and Erie links plus the 33-mile Delaware River ex fice when the pair entered.

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