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...roads from Massachusetts to New Jersey and Pennsylvania are in good condition. The Massachusetts Turnpike is "clear and dry the entire length, with excellent driving conditions." The Merritt Parkway and Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York Turnpikes were said to be completely clear. The Pennsylvania Pike, according to the AAA, is clear except for icy spots at some entrances. Main roads Maine and New Hampshire are reported to have cleared driving lanes and snow-covered but sanded passing lanes. Vermont main routes are still slushy, but well sanded...
Before the 526th AAA Missile Battalion installed batteries of Nike-Ajax missiles in northern New Jersey three years ago, the Army carefully explained that the 21-ft. TNT and shrapnel projectiles were virtually accident-proof. A missile battery, said the Army, was no more dangerous a neighbor than a gas station. Last week the gas-station blew up. Installing a trigger modification on one of the 526th B Battery Nikes near Leonardo, N.J., ordnance technicians accidentally detonated the missile. Explosion and flame touched off seven more Nikes squatting on adjacent pads, blew or burned ten men to death, showered...
...will increase by $51 to $565, chiefly because of the higher cost of new cars. Insurance will go up $13.31 to $116.71, license and registration fees up $1.48 to $19.16, maintenance up .05? to .79?a mile, tires up .06? to .59? a mile. The only saving, says the AAA, will come in gas and oil. which in 1958 will average 2.39? per mile-down an imperceptible...
...bills, most sensitive of all money barometers, slipped from a peak of 3.3% in mid-December to 3.1% last week, while medium-term taxable bonds dropped to 3.35% from their 3.52% peak set in early January. The overall bond market reflected the different tone; the interest rate on prime Aaa-grade corporate bonds dipped from 3.82% to 3.22% by the end of January...
...Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 59 ardent supporter of the Benson farm program. Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from 255,000 in 1954), the Democratic primary vote (110,000) was the largest in 16 years...