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Proposed Blue Ridge Parkway Extension
WASHINGTON-U.S. Rep.
Roy A. Taylor announced on
Thursday that SIOO,OOO is con
tained in the new Interior De
partment appropriation bill to
enable engineers to establish
the center line of the proposed
extension of the Blue Ridge
Parkway.
The bill received final Huse
and Senate approval Wednes -
day and has been sent to the
White House for signature.
The 180-mile extension,au
thorized by the 90th Congress
DEAR MR. PUBLISHER,
by PARSON JONES
Dear Mr. Publisher:
I took a little walk this morning to get my spirit in
the right frame of mind before going to work. In all,
I reckon I walked two miles. Instead of lifting me ur
the little walk made me so disgusted that I felt like
going back to bed. I never saw so much trash in my
life. The streets were cluttered with beer cans, pop
cans, drink cups, ice cream cups, potato chip bag%
and peanut bags. Add to that every other throw -away
item and you got a pretty ugly picture. It’s getting so
the only way you can see a clean landscape is by look
ing at a picture. They don't have 'em anymore in
real life.
Our prosperity has really got us in a bind.
ago there wasn't anything considered "throw-a-way".
You saved all the drink bottles because they were just
like money.. 2 cents a piece. Most things we bought
come in a bag, and we saved the bags to pack lunches
in. All the canned stuff was in jars, and we hung on
to the empties with a passion, so's we could use 'em
next year. .
Well, all this has changed since prosperity blessed
us. Now every thing is throw-a-way! Throw-away
cans, throw-away bags, throw-away bottles, and throw
away cups. To top it off, they've come up with a
throw-away garbage bag. So - now we can throw
away garbage in quantities. Now instead of litter
bugs, we've got litter-monsters.
The way I see it, if we get any more
may turn this country into one big garbage can: then,
maybe we'll throw the country away. Personally, I
wish they'd start making something you keep instead
of throw away. It may be more expensive at first, but
in the long run it will be cheaper. At least the gar
bage bill will go down, and man might get a chance
to look at the earth again.
Sir, I gotta close for now 'cause my pen has run
out of ink. It's a throw-a-way too!
Paaon Jones
2 s the result of legislation spon
sored by Congressman Taylor
will be constructed betwee n
Beech Gap near Mt. Pisgah to
the vicinity of Kennesaw Moun
tain National Battlefield Park
north of Atlanta and Marietta,
Ga.
The states of North Carolina
and Georgia are ready to pur -
chase the rights-of-way, which
they will then donate to the Na
tional Park Service far the road
way. However, the land accjii
sition cannot proceed until the
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center line has actually been
staked out.
Much of the extension, es
pecially in North Caroling will
cross forest service land already
in federal ownership.
Rep. Taylor said there is an
"immediate urgency" for the
two states to acquire all pri -
vately-held property needed for
the route before rising laid costs
esculate further.
Immediate acquisition of
the land is also necessitated by
information that in at least one
area, construction has started
on a cluster of summer homes
in the vicinity of the proposed
route, thus threatening to force
relocation of the road or pur -
_chase of the homes.
"The funds which Congress
has wisely included in the new
budget will enable engineers to
pinpoint the center line and
avert what could be a compli
cated and costly land acquisi -
tion procedure," Taylor said.
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'Fractional’ Story Fails To
Quiet Aroused Public
It seems to us that Senator
Edward Kennedy might well re
consider the m aits of tell ing
the truth as against the pat nar
rative with which he has sought
to quiet the public.
The trouble Mr. Kennedy
ran into was telling bits and
pieces of the truth, and then on
ly where it accommodated his
position. If Teddy Kennedy had
rendered a thoughtful and de -
tailed account of the proceed -
ings that night on Martha's Mib
yard, it seems unlikely there
would be such sad and empty
maneuvers as inquest and autop
sy.
With every opportunity to
clear himself, Senator Kennedy
chose to render what has since
been termed a
That the tragedy has grown into
grotesque dimensions can only
be explained as a function of
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