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mem WHITBY AND DISTRICT NEWS ro=m & THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, December 28, 1953 WHITBY COUPLF, 66 YEARS WED Both born in 1867 and both in | ding anniversary today. They Hen 2 La Fai Wis, | have been residents of Whitby highly esteemed couple living at | since 1921 and despite their ad- 305 Byron Street north, are quiet- | ly celebrating their 66th wed- | health. vanced age are enjoying good | WHITBY DAY- BY DAY Accounts of social events and pews lems of local interest and names of visitors are ap preciated. PHONE 703 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tutt are spendng the Yuletide holidays with | relatives in Tilsonburg. | Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rowe and | | family, of Virginiatown, spent | Christmas with the latter's parents | and sister, Mrs. Jamieson at Glen- dieu Farm, Whitby. Mrs. B. MacDougall and daugh- | ter, of St. Catharines, were Christ. | mas visitors with her parents, Mr. Dedicate New Church Organ: Formal dedication of the new 1|two-manual memorial electric pipe organ in the Whitby Baptist Church § | took place on Sunday morning, before a large congregation. Before the dedication the pastor, Rev. C. A. Hill, in a statement {and Mrs. F. H. Steffler. | 8 | Donald Wilson, student at Queen ' | University, Kingston is spending |the Yuletide holidays with his par- |ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Wilson, Dundas Street East. WEEK OF PRAYER The annual week of prayer spon- sored by the Whitby .linisterial Association is being arranged. Three evening services are to be {held in the Sunday School room i of the United Church. Further par- ticulars will be announced. A FINE PRODUCTION ! The Times-Gazette was pleased | to receive the December edition | 1 Quietly today at their home on | No. 2 base line, Pickering and mov- | of "The Whitby Loom', published | Byron Street North Mr. and Mrs. [ed in 1911 to lot No. 3, Kingston George F, {by the Occupational Therapy De- Richardson are mark-| Road, where he farmed for 35| partment of the Ontario Hospital. | ing their 66th wedding anniversary. | years, retiring in 1921 to Whitby. | All painted in green, and contain- | There are six children, Mrs. El- mer Powell of Columbus; Mrs. G. | L. Goldring, Whitby; Howard and |Clarence of Toronto; Elma at |home. and Walter at On Decembr 28th, 1887, Mr. Rich- | ardson married Sarah L. Brown, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Brown, who were early settl- ers in this district. Both the bride im ore are also eight grandchildren of 66 years ago were | born in 1867, and both are in their ES eal Sranchildren. ue 86th year. Théy are both enjoying ward live ' | ying in' Vancouver and a a fair measure of health. | sister, Mrs. Bell, of Roanoke, Vir- For many years Mr. Richard- ginia. Mrs. Richardson has one son farmed 100 acres of land on brother, Milton of Hobart, Indiana. Ice Shows Replace London Plays By RON EVANS | borrowed heavily from straight Canadian Press Staff Writer |pantomimes for theme and treat- LONDON (CP) -- Stage panto- ment while adding more color and mimes, as traditional to the Christ- action. mas season in Britain as plum | British critics are generally pudding and mistletoe, are being agreed that the secret of pushed out of London by Holly- wood-type glamor served on ice. bine the best of several theatre at- Mammoth ice shows with huge |tractions. The speed and acrobatics casts have moved in and almost of the circus, the music and danc- taken over. Three major skating | ing of a Broadway musical and the extravaganzas are booked into dazzling sets and costumes of a stadia in or around London for the | Hollywood film are all mixed into Yule season Dui ouly one specimen | the program. e time-honored "panto'" on] boards is scheduled here. | CANNOT KEEP UP There is no doubt as to the pop-| Pantomime producers like Emile ula of ice spectacles. At least | Littler, London impresario, protest one ticket agency has sold out its | that they cannot possibly afford to | allotment of seats for all three stage shows to rival the ice spect- | shows while the Keith Prowse acles, each one of which costs agency, London's largest, reports about £150,000 to produce. its share almost gone. | Some of the expensive gimmicks BARBARA ANN POPULAR | employed by promoter Tom Arnold One of the first large-scale ice for 'Humpty Dumpty" are typical shows to hit London following the of those used in big-budget ice war was a version of "Rose Marie' | pageants. His show boasts a £10,- which starred Canada's Barbara |000 colored -fountain controlled by Ann Scott. It opened in September, |a console organ, a dozen electric- 1950 and ran for three months. ally driven swans, each worth Since then the ice shows have | 1150, a mock pullman train and caught op with Britons and can several replicas of order of chiv- count on full houses. |alry decorations, each insured for Ice shows in recent years have ' £1,000. Worker Saved More In '53 Gregg Says OTTAWA (CP)--Labor Minister but by and large he was able to Gregg said in a year-end message save more money," Mr. that measured by any standard said. 1953 was a good year for the] working people and industries of | The steady trend towards shorter Canada : | working yours, longer vacations t : : and more paid statutory holidays Industrial gutpu gspected ith |in manufacturing industries con- $23,000,000,000 in 1952 and the 1abor | workers or a aoroion of factory force in industries other than agri- |Jorkers on a 40-hour week almost culture totalled 4,451,000 in Aug- ust--latest month available--com- pared with 4,326,000 a year ago. Personal incomes rose although centage on a 48-hour week was reduced by half. The five-day week in industry has become more com- {mon in plants and offices. Gregg | deubled since 1949 and the per- | |ing the complete Christmas and | New Year programs for the hos- | pital, as well as several fine ar- | ticles bearing on Christmas, the EARLY DAYS IN WHITBY Chapter 14 in the series 'Early | Days in Whitby," will appear in | the Whitby section of the Times: Gazette on Saturday of this week {Only a few more chapters remain Many favorable comments have - been heard concerning this inter- esting Saturday feature and it has been closely followed by many cit- izens 'of the town, particularly the older residents. It is understood | that reference to the articles has talso been made in some of the | schools. | CHURCH RECEIVES GIFTS A very fine donation of the au- thorized King James version of the Holy Bible, 80 copies has been made to the congregation of St. an annonymous donor. The Bibles are of brevier bold face type, self prouncing and convenint size. In connection with this gift respons- | ive reading was inaugurated in the church on Sunday morning. An- other very acceptable gift is fifty | copies of the church symn book [in large, very readable type and strongly bound. The Women's As- sociation of the church gave these. AUTO PRODUCTION UP WINDSOR (CP) -- Ward's Auto- motive Reports said Saturday total automotive production for 1953 to date is a record. The statistica service said the figure for week -was down due to the Christ- mas holiday by 26 per cent but more than 470,000 cars and trucks have been built during the year. The figure compares to more. than 427,000 last year at this time. PROFESSIONAL Legal D. J. CUDDY, QU, BARRISTER, SOL icitor; Notary Public, money to loan, i Dundas Street West, Whitby Phone 14. R. DONALD RUDDY, BARRISTER Solicitor, Notary Public. Office at 111 | Dundas St. West (upstairs) Money to | loan. Phone 339, Whitby. | | Optometrist Uxbridge. | edition is a most creditable one. | = I | ass = ha | WHITBY CHIL This bright family group is | | Mrs. Stuart C. Roblin, and two | children, son, Andrew and daugh- ter Sally, of Whitby. The grand- Framework Up For 2nd Floor Jitesy that fe Sevres of the ice Andrew's Presbyterian Church. x Of New Distric | The new Whitby District: High | School, now under construction in Whitby, has rapidly taken shape in | the past few weeks. At Christmas, the building, 'which is to be com- pleted by September of next year, was well on the way with the out- 'ne of both floors of the building | showing. {| During the past few weeks, work- | men for Crenna Construction, the firm which is building the 16-room school, have set up the su | ture for the second floor. The gym- awaits a roof. plumbing has long been installed | as has the boiler and the chimney, | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christians the world around looked forward today to one of the | most joyous observances in years |of the birth of Jesus. They were | buoyed by the greatest hopes for | peace-- justified or not--since the | start of the cold war. Although officials were skepti- cal, millions in Europe felt the | |threat of war had ebbed with the | | signing of the Korean truce and | | indications that the Soviet govern- | ment is paying more attention to its people at home than of spread- | EILEEN JACKSON, Pickeri Eyes ted. For Undertaking W. C. TOWN, FUNERAL DIRECTOR and embalmer. Phone 410, Whitby. OPTOMETRIST 1 fit 48 phone Pick: FORMER REEVE DIES Wage increases averaging 10 cents an hour were smaller than in some years since the Second World War. However, the cost of living level-| RODNEY (CP--J. Frank Mec- fed oft allowing the working nan | Millan, 69, a former reeve of Ald- > urn for his work in| borough townshi: ie terms of goods and services. 2 Pe? eave. Sle ; Not only was the average wor- | tual Fire Insurance Company and ker able to obtain more goods and | past president of the New Glasgow services with the money he spent ' Telephone Company. | was a director of the Dunwich Mu- |, CHIROPRACTOR DENNIS SOWERBY, DC, X - RAY 120, Dundas East, Whitby. For appoint- ment phone 2555. NOTICE: Classified advertisements for this WHITBY HONE 618 BROC BROCK . ow 7g) EVENING SHOWS -- 7 P.M. " 4 LAST COMPLETE SHOW -- 8:20 THE MANAGEMENT EXTENDS TO ALL HEARTIEST WISHES FOR A. HAPPY NEW YEAR "A fast buck... _~ + A fast bronc... aa A fast thrill!" WALD-KRASNA Productions present SUSAN HAYWARD 'ROBERT MITCHUM ARTHUR KENNEDY ARTHUR HUNNICUTY No ALS OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE "MIRACLE" and FOX NEWS A20 Cemury- Fox Featurette BASED ON A SIGRY BY LEO TOLSTOY OF must be in the Whitby office by 5 p.m. the day preced- ing publication. Whithv Classified LOST--CHAIN OF KEYS ON THURS. between post office and 711 Brock St. South. Phone 2694. (302a SKATES SHARPENED, SKATE EX. changed, hockey outfits sticks. Wilsop Auto and Bike Shop, Brock Street South. (296tf) SKATES: NEW AND USED FOR SALE, exchanged sharpened. 107 Dundas 8t. West, 2 doors west of Post Office. (Jann) CUSTOM BUILT FLOORS, LINOLEUM, rubber, mastic tiles, also inlaid lino- leum," also plastic wall tile. Free esti- mates. Phone 2215. (Jan16) SAWS -- ALL KINDS filed, set. It it's dull we sharpen it. Rear of George Hamers, 212 Brock 8., Andy Anderson. (Jand) WELLS DUG AND DEEPENED. SEP- REFRIGERATOR SERVICE Guaranteed repairs on all domestic and commercial refrigeration. Ace Refrigeration Sales ond Service -- Phone 3-2452 (Jand) W. C. Town & Sons FRIGIDAIRE AUTHORIZED DEALER WHITBY and hockey | , SHARPENED, | PHONE 410 I ing the Communist gospel abroad. | e end this year of the fighting | in Korea and the release of thou- sands of Communist-held prisoners also brightened homes throughout the United States. There, as in other lands, traditional Christmas Eve festivities and ceremonies were the order of the day. TROUBLE SPOTS But some trouble spots still blotched the world's face. French Union troops : fought Communist- led Vietminh rebels in Indo-China. British forces stood guard in Malaya against Red Chinese guer- rillas and in Africa's Kenya Colony against the anti-white Mau Mau tribesmen. In Korea, a special airlift flew tons of last-minute Christmas mail to the thousands of United Nations ERT DiiiiN Wir rstruc- | ay Fin | | H MOTHER | arents are Col, and Mrs. P. orman Alexander, of Toronto, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Roblin | of Whitby. t High School | one of the first steps in the con- struction of the school. Following the laying of the foun- dation, forms were set up to hold the concrete slab floor for the sec- ond storey. The slabs vere poured and immediately work began in setting up more forms slabs of the roof of the building. hese forms have now been set up | and the entire second floor is wrap- ped in tarpaulins in order that workmen may work inside out of ! the cold. The school is being constructed through joint efforts of the town of Whitby and the Township of Whitby, which together make up the Whitby District High School. troops still stationed in the war- torn country. Special services marked Christmas Eve observ- ances on the now-quiet front. In line with the general pros- perity and relaxation throughout the world, pilgrims poured into the little town of Bethlehem, the birth- place of Christ. Fears that Arab- Israeli tension along the border dividing the Holy Land might frighten tourists away proved un- founded, The greatest influx of | visitors since the 1948 Palestine | war was in prospect. ANNUAL SERVICE | Protestants gathered for the an- nual service this afternoon in the shepherd's field near Bethlehem, where the birth of Christ was an- nounced to the shepherds by the angelic host. Carol singers spread their trad- itional messages of cheer in cities, towns and villages throughout the world. At United Nations head- quarters in New York, singers from several countries serenaded | workers and visitors with carols in English, Spanish and French. Britain and Western Europe pre- pared for their best Christmas since before the war. More food land consumer goods in most coun- | tries promised a happier yuletide {than many youngsters could re- member, for the | which he read, noted that the maj- |or portion of the total cost of the ' fine instruments, which was $4,815, | had been raised through subscrip- | tions from members of the con- gregation and various church or- | ganizations, also general donations | from the estates of the late Walter | Bunn, Miss Woodcock and Miss M. | Ray. The instrument was install- ed by the Lye Organ Company, which over half a century ago built the original organ. The minister noted. with regret that Mrs. W. G. Summers, the organist and choir leader, was t on this on account of illness and the hope was expressed that she would soon | recover. He noted that there had | been some delay in the dedication as the church officials had hoped to get certain work in connection with the choir loft completed. He said that this delay might have been a blessing in disguise as it gave the congregation a chance many of its finer qualities. The minister then read approp- | riate dedicatory passages of scrip- ture and offered a prayer of dedi- cation. The organ is a monument to the memory of the men and women from the congregation who gave their lives for the cause of freedom Don Mitchell, assistant organist, played for the service. Consider Bylaw On January 4th The Ontario Municipal Board will sit at its Chambers, 67 College Street, Toronto, on Monday, the fourth day of January, at ten o'clock, to hear the application of the Corporation of the Town of Whitby for the dispensation of a vote of the ratepayers and the ap- roval of a capital expenditure of 40,000 for a grant to the Whitby Community Arena Board for the completion of the Whitby Commun- ity Arena on a proposed repay- ment term of five years. Any person opposing the applica- tion may appear in person at the hearing, or file their objection with the secretary of the Board, M. B. { Henderson, on or before the date {of the hearing. At the civic elections on Decem- | ber 7 the ratepayers of the town by substantial. majority placed their stamp of approval on the bylaw. | The Council is now anxious to have all legal requirements in connec- tion with the loan completed as early as possible so that the money may be made available to the Arena Board which requires it to complete the arena, which should be opened very shortly. Eternal Peace Prayer ausiNess AND | Seems Backed By Hope Special midnight masses were set tonight in all Roman Catholic churches throughout the continent, {on both sides of the Iron Curtain. | CHRISTMAS BORADCAST Pope Pius touched off world-wide spiritual observances this morning with his 15th annual Christmas broadcast to the world. Vatican radio rebroadcast the message in 25 languages and beamed them around the world. Britain's festivities will be high- lighted by the Queen's annual broadcast on Christmas morning. | The Queen, now on a world Com- | monwealth tour, will speak from |New Zealand. / | In Moscow, Western diplomats {and their families observed the | holiday with receptions, house | parties and carol singing. The Russians themselves must wait a few days for their celebrations, since the Orthodox church's Christ- mas falls Jan. 7 and Soviet folk have their Santa Claus and Christ- /mas tree on New Year's Day. In the southern hemisphere, fes- tivities were much like those above |the equator, but the people of |South America, South Adrica, Aus- {tralia and New Zealand also were {enjoying the beaches, picnic {grounds and shirt-sleeved outdoor 'sports of their summer season. Noranda Don't Care To Vote NORANDA, Que. (CP)--The 1,600 {men who have been on strike for | four months at Noranda Mines Lim- ited practically ignored a vote con- | ducted Sunday by a Rouyn-Noranda | citizens' committee. | The vote was on whether to: ac- {cept a company offer of a wage | increase of 7'2 per cent. | Only 50 ballots were cast when | | the polls closed for the day. Voting | continues today. | Officials of thé striking United | Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL) |said those who voted were not | not union members. { Union members stood in 10-be- | | low-zero weather outside the pool- {man Catholic clergy told the strik- Strikers ing places and distributed handbills which advised rejection of the offer and announced that the union will hod its own vote today on the wage offer. At church services Sunday, Ro- ers it would be a good thing if they voted. The messages from the pul- pits said it would be bad if a poor turnout led the citizens' committee Burton, "The Robe;" Marlon Brando, "Julius Caesar'; William Holden, '"'Stalag 17'; Fredric March, "Man on a Tightrope." Best actresses: Deborah Kerr, "From Here to Eternity"; Audrey Helpburn,. "Roman Holiday"; Les- lie Caron, "Lili; Joan Crawford, "Torch Song'; 'Ethel Merman, "Call Me Madam." Best industry news: 20th Century Fox's conversion to cinemascope. Best musical: "Bandwagon." Best western: "Shane." Best comedy: "How to Marry a Millionaire." SURPRISE FROM FRANK to withdraw its efofrts to settle the strike. | The union called he strike to | enforce demands for wage in-| creases and for the checkoff of | union dues. MOVIE COLUMN 1953 Noted By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP'> -- This will go down in Hollywood history as the year of new dimensions. It was an optimistic year, com- pared with the gloomy ones that! preceded it. People. got the feeling that maybe the movie industry is going to stay in business, after all. | A new set of words came inte " As Year Of New Dimension Pictures the Hollywood language: Depthies, flatties, cinemascope, etc. Here is my annual selection of the highs and lows of the Hollywood year: Best pictures: "From Here to Iternity"', "The Robe", "The Cruel a, "Julius Caesar", '"Mogam- DO. | Best actors: Mont, Smery Clift, | 'From Here To **; Richard | Worst picture: ."Salome." Wor st performance: Charles Laughton, 'Salome.' Best documentary: "The Living Desert." Most surprising performance: Frank Sinatra, "From Here Eternity." Most under-rated picture: *'5,000 Fingers of Dr. T." . Nicest wedding: Ann Blyth -- Dr. James McNulty. Gaudiest wedding: Rita Hay- worth-Dick Haymes. Most surprising split: Susan Hay- ward-Jess Barker. Least surprising split: Ava Gard- ner-Frank Sinatra. Oddity: June Haven's from a convent. Biggest money maker: "The Robe." : Most popular song: '"'Song From Moulin Rouge." Most promising newcomers: Aud- rey Hepburn, Robert Wagner. Losses: Lewis Store, William Farnum, Herbert Rawlinson, Rol- return and Young, Chris-Pin Martin and | Alan" Curtis. to | i {to test out the organ and hear In perfect formation, this aero- batic team of Meteor jets shoots almost straight up above the clouds in a perfect aerial man- oeuvre. This vivid photo of the team in action, was taken just JERFECT FORMATION FOR MANOEUVRE | before it was disbanded. Attach- ed to the RAF advanced fying school, the team had performe | at many air shows during 1953, including one before the Duke of Edinburgh in July. New Dams and WASHINGTON--Rivers harness- ed to provide power, water farm- land, and prevent floods rank high among changes engineers made to the earth's face in 1953, the Na- tional Geographic Society reports. The Rio Grande went to work for the United States and Mexico as Presidents Eisenhower and Cor- tines dedicated Falcon Dam, 75 | miles downstream from, Laredo and | Nuevo Laredo. Water impounded by the nearly five-mile-long earth barrier, back- ed into a lake 60 miles long, event- ually will irrigate 1,300,000 acres of mesquite-and-cactus desert. Long- est dam in the world, Falcon (pro- nounced fal-cone) is the first of three such international projects n tha Missouri River and in North Dakota, closure of Garrison | Dam, third largest in the world, | put one more check on disastrous |rampages of Big Muddy. Oregon dedicated Detroit Dam in the Wil- {liamette basin 100 miles south of | | Portland. TUROPE AND ASIA The president of France inaugur- ~ted Europe's highest dam at | Tignes, after six years of construc- tion. He visited the new village built a mile up a Savoy mountain- side for 100 families who had re- fused to believe the old Tignes would be submerged -- until wat- er began lapping at their door- steps. Spain opened feur new power | plants, part of a vast river-control ! program that has 58 dams under onstruction. Israel, Turkey, and | Iran were embarked upon ambit- | ious irrigation projects. { All across India workmen labor- ied on great river valley projects. { The largest power station in Asia {neared completion at Bokaro in the Damodar Valley. Water flowed from Tungabhadra Reservoir in South India, and from Perunchani | irrigation project in Travancore- | Cochin. Massanjore Dam in Bengal of thousands of stonemasons work- ling without heavy machinery. Communist China claimed to have put a check, with the comple- tion of a dam on the Hwai River, on the floods that for centuries have ravaged the densely populat- ed region between the Hwang Ho (Yellow) and Yangtze River. In Russia, the great Ust gorsk dam and power station in Soviet Central Asia is reported to have gone into operation in July. Hydroelectric pl nishing power in Norway, Scotland, Canada, and the Philippines. Swe- den and Canada were at work on great generating stations to be bur- ied in solid rock. Italy and Greece opened new thermoelecirie plants. ATOMIC POWER PLANT Power from a different source lighted the way to the future as an atomic furnace at Oak Ridge, Ten- nessee, became the first to operate a standard industrial turbine-gener- ator and produce electricity in useful amounts -- enough to serve 50 average homes. Liquid power -- petroleum -- flowed across the wilds of the Can- adian Rockies and beneath the waters of the Great Lakes in new pipelines laid in 1953. Canada's Trans Mountain line linked Edmon- ton and Vncouvey, bringing Al- berta oil to the Pacific after a construction job so tough - that workers dubbed it "Big Inch-by- Inch". The deepest . underwater pipeline ever attempted joined St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, Michi- gan, across the 250-foot-deep Straits of Mackinac. It is part of an eastward line from Edmonton | an eastward line from Edmonton | tario. ; East and west coasts of the Unit- ed States were joined by pipe for the first time as a 290-mile section | across the Continental Divide was | completed from Sinclair, Wyoming, ito Salt Lake City, Utah. In a de- |fense emergency gasoline could [now be pumped either way . be- | tween Marcus Hook, Pa., and the | Pacific Northwest. Other new U.S. pipelines joined | East Chicago, Ind., to Toledo. Ohio, and Detroit, Mich.; Wood { River, III., to Casper, Wyo.: Sour Lake, Tex., to Lake Charles, La.; and Colorado City, Tex., to Neder- land, near Port Arthur, Tex. At Antwerp, Belgium, a new catalytic ofl refinery went into operation to supply gasoline and | other fuels to Belgium, the Nether- lands, and Luxembourg. WILDERNESS RAILROADS Railroads penetrated parts of the world where locomotive whistles Head 1353 Engineering Jobs planned for the Rio Grande Valley. | (0) Kameno- | ants began fur-| Power Plants had never before been heard. Im northern Manitoba, a 145-mile spur, was pushed to Lynn Lake, centre of a new nickel - copper mining region. Trains began running on the first section of a new rail line in Uganda, from Kampala west- ward toward the Belgian Congo. Brazil and Bolivia were linked by a track from Corumba to San Cruz de la Sierra. In Western China, trains were reported oper ating on a new 65-mile section of a line being laid towards Sinkia from Lanchow. The Kazakh SS was crossed by a new 265-mile link between the Urals and Siberia. Bosnia in Yugoslavia finished hree rail sections, and a 310-mile line from Belgrade to the Adriatie Sea 'at Bar came nearer comple- tion. At Bar a new post is being constructed. In Turkey a 54-mile standard - gauge line between Er zurum and Horasan was finished Israel dedicated a new coastal railroad between Tel Aviv and Hadera. Morocco"s manganese fields om the far side of the High Atlas were brought closer to the railroad at Marrakech by the completion of an 18-mile overhead cable railway eliminating the most hazardous section of torturous. mountain road. WORLD HIGHWAYS New highways crisscrossed th ¢ ~lobe with asphalt and concrete. I Oklahoma the new 88-mile Turner Turnpike opened to toll-paying cus- tomers between Tulsa and Oklahd= ma City. Fourteen miles of the new National Pike from Frederick to Washington. Once inaccessible Hatteras Ye 'and on North Carolina's Outer Banks now has a 60-mile hard- surfaced highway from Nags Head to the village of Hatteras -- when aver a-storm hasn't submerged it. The road was specially built to be nderwater sometimes. ' Across the 'continent, California completed 115 miles of superhigh way on the southern leg of U.S. 99 from Los Angeles north through Bakersfield. On another continent, Venezuela finished a spectacular '"'Autopista¥ through the Andes from the coast to the capilal city of Caracas, across three great bridges and through two tunnels, one more than a mile long. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, | Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, and Tanganyika also completed major highways in 1953. Israel opened an extraordinary 'Road of Rock" leading from Beersheba into the world's deepest gorge to Sodom and the Dead Sea's vast potash deposits. Nepal's ancient isolation | is being broken by a highway from India to Katmandu. 5 BRIDGES AND TUNNELS a New highway bridges in the | United States span the St. John's | River at Jacksonville, Fla.,, the Severn River at Annapolis, Md., and the Missouri River just above Omaha, Neb., Mississippi's Gulf Coast U.S. 90 leaps the Bay of St. Louis on a new four-lane span. In the heart of Los Angeles, traf- fic flows in layers across a four | level freeway intersection. An even | more complicated junction is under construction in Pittsburgh. New York City opened its Kew Gardens | Interchange on Long Island; a park- {way bridge in the Bronx, a new {three - lane roadway across the Brooklyn Bridge, and new traffie channels at both ends of the George Washington Bridge. ; Abroad, the longest bridge in the Far East linked the northern and southern halves of Formosa with a 6200-foot span at Hsilo. The Phil- ippines opened its longest stee? span at Naguilian in northeastern | Luzon. Germany reopened the war- destroyed Rhine bridge at Worms. Spain and Portugal were joined by a bridge at Quintamilha. The only highway ridge in the world solely suspended from cables was built across the Rio Lempa in El Sal- vador by an American firm. Cuba drove a highway tunnel beneaih the Almendares River in Havana. Los Angeles completed an underpass bencath the center. of its International Airport. The sed |ond auto tunnel beneath the Hous- ton Ship Channel joined Baytown and La Porte. Tex. Philadelphia's § long - celebrate! 'hole in the ground," begun '1 1917, finally bé- came the Loc Street Subway. ¢ {ope oa $4,000,000 un- derpass taking :'irst Avenue un- derncath the new United Nations | plaza.