The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 10, 1949, Page 7

THURSDAY, Route 1 From Kent, Maine, | To Key West To Have Tolls Raised es To Higher Cost By FRANK W. LOVERING (Special to The Citizen) PORTLAND, Me.—The new 46-mile addition to Route | be- tween Fort Kent, Me., and Key West, Fla., the Maine Turnpike, opened a year ago last Fall, isn't paying out so well. It is announced here by Williams B. Getchell, Jr., executive director, that $600,000 more in bonds have been sold to finish | pores the contractors who built the speedway between Port- iand and Kittery, Me., back from the Atlantic Ocean. The wide new 6-lane road sy———~————- ~— = now said to have cost $20,600,000. Lower - than - expected gross revenues and higher costs of; operation atid maintenance upped ; the expense to the point that after the first of May, tolls will FEBRUARY 10, 1949 senger cars have been using the tollway for 50 cents its entire distance to the New Hi mpshire line; cars ‘with * 75 cents, trucks up to| pounds gross weight, 50} snd trucks over that, 75 Anticipate $892,000 Gross e increased to , ts, one sixity cents t er ctively ment says pates the gross revenue t v in charges } to $892,000 for 1948. I ict future net as follows 49, $670,000; 1950, $760,000; $ 900; 1952, $778,000; | FRANK W. LOVERING 4,000; and along to} __ 2 oe ) in 1960. H cial program fore- TODAY'S ment on the ANNIVERSARIES ’ years. ' (Know America) nec tudying the 1818—Isham G. Harris, gover- ve anti sd in| nor of Tennessee, Confederate tt t ve f the 's opera-jand U. S. senator, born in Ten- tne be the in nessee f senger cars! 1837. 1 trailers will not de- | Union soldier, L numbe using the) lisher, fiery advc of the open | { shop, whose nev or was dy-! tof the Turnpike} namited and 21 killed, born in 1 New York! Marietta, Ohio. Died July 30 which sold the 1907 1 equires adjustment of} . 1844—Alexander Herrmann, fa- | if net revenues | mous magician of his day, born | fficient to cover the; in Paris "York, i aterest charges” of | Dec, 17, 1896 | by one and| 1846—Ira Remses, famed Johns | that amount | Hopkins chemist and its _ presi- | Gros: Reported $775,000 dent, born in New York. Died ( s in the last half} March 4, 1927 | at the rate of $775, 1868—William Allen White, | An earlier estimate | erusading editor, famed publisher } I ne year ago just, of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette, ! pike was opened, an-| born in Emporia. 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