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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1979
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BATTALION CLASSIFIED PULLS!
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Several western states, where a
motorist can drive miles and miles
without seeing a town, let alone
reaching a destination, are renewing
a 5-year-old war with the federal
government over the 55 mph speed
limit.
Led by Wyoming, 11 states have
February 6-28, 1979
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or soon will have bills in their legis
lative hoppers to either boost the
legal speed to 65 mph or severely
hamstring efforts to enforce the 55
mph limit.
A Texas lawmaker said if his col
leagues would vote the way they
drive, his bill upping the limit to 70
mph would pass.
One bill already has passed the
Wyoming Senate and awaits action
by the House. In that state. Gov.
Ed Herschler had refused to take a
position on the issue — but then he
received a threatening telegram
Saturday from Department of
Transportation secretary Brock
Adams.
“Secretary Adams sent me a tele
gram that threatened, in no uncer
tain terms, a cutoff of highway funds
if the 65 mph limit is passed,”
Herschler said. “We have been
threatened that if we don’t take
steps to correct this we ll be re
lieved by 5 percent of our highway
funds in 1980 and by 10 percent in
1981.
“I think they’re using a heavy
hand. I don’t like it. Does the fed
eral government own the highways?
If so, we ll ask them to come out and
maintain them and enforce the laws,
with federal marshals if necessary.”
Other Western states watched as
Wyoming argued the issue, and now
have joined in.
“If five or six states have guts
enough to tell the federal govern
ment to go fly a kite I don’t expect
them to take away their highway
funds,” said Al Henry, the chairman
of Washington state’s Senate Trans
portation Committee, in introduc
ing a similar proposal.
“Everybody’s tired of driving 55
mph. It’s tying up the state patrol
and it’s unpopular.’’Henry said.
In Colorado, freshman Rep. Bob
Stephenson has introduced a bill to
reset the speed limit at 65, saying he
was “tired of being blackmailed by
the federal government with our
own money.
“First, we pay federal tax on the
gasoline then they give it back to us
in the form of highway aid, but only
if we agree to go by their speed
limit,” he said. “People are driving
65 mph, so we might as well make it
legal.”
Under current statutes in Okla
homa, where about $80 million in
federal funds is at stake, the speed
limit goes up if 29 other states move
theirs up. But state Rep. Jim
Townsend said he was prep®
amendment to that law tore
all references to the 29 other
thus automatically moving!
limit.
“I support Wyoming in
courageous move , to come to
with federal blackmail,’ TorS
said. “The federal govern
cannot buy power through £ ;
nations. The people of these li
States ar e not driving at 55..
you think they are, you drive
and create a bottleneck and
jam.”
In other states, an Oregonsa
said he would introduce
moving the 55 mph limit bea
results in an uneconomic
freeways designed for
speeds.
Jazz funerals celebrate lift.
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NEW ORLEANS — Ever since
African drum rhythms merged with
the musical sounds brought down
the Mississippi River on steamboats
to give birth to jazz, the city’s young
people have taken their music les
sons on the street — dancing and
jiving alongside traditional jazz fu
neral processions in “second lines.”
Ragtag second lines, mostly
parades filled with kids tooting toy
horns and bobbing umbrellas, were
where Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory
and Alvin Alcorn got their first taste
of jazz.
“The second line is culture and
this is the only city in the world
where people do it,” said Melvin
Short Jr., who danced in his first
second line 25 years ago when he
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paper to enable jazz fans totaB
for the second line. Touristsi
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contingent in second lines- B ,. .
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really don’t care at all. JustliW^-°
everything else, it bringiB
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