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...Miglia took its annual toll. A French Citroen spun out, smacked into a tree, bounced into a crowd and injured eight people. The driver, Andre Bouchon, was killed and his copilot injured severely. In another accident, a 15-year-old boy was killed when a French Renault went off the road. In all, five were killed, 25 injured, including twelve drivers...
...James M. Cox's Miami Daily News (circ. 100,177). By last week it had already swept a handful of state officials out of office-and it looked as if the campaign was just really getting under way. The News started off with an investigation of the toll district in the middle of the 122-mile Overseas Highway connecting the Florida Keys with the mainland. Built 16 years ago for $3,640.000 the toll road ($1 a car, 25? a passenger) has long been the pride of Florida. It has the longest (seven miles) over-water bridge...
...popularity of the highway as a tourist attraction (annual revenue up from $476,000 in 1946 to more than $1,000,000 last year) that started News Staffer Verne Williams, 34, on the expose. With such big earnings, wondered Williams.why should the highway still charge a toll...
...Fishy Work Boat. When Williams tried to check into the financial records at the highway's headquarters on Pigeon Key, he was told by Toll District General Manager Brooks Bateman that "nobody's going to see [the books]." Williams became more suspicious when he noticed that the district's "work boat" was actually a cruiser equipped with fishing chairs, outriggers and a sportsman's flying bridge. He also noticed a large highway-owned swimming pool, which had been "built for the benefit of the public" but never opened because officials later found that "state insurance regulations...
...Cambridge's citizens, evidently unimpressed by this magnificence, objected to paying toll. The court battle, a famous case which essentially modified the doctrine of "vested rights," went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although Daniel Webster represented the bridge owners, he lost his case, and tolls were discontinued in 1836. The city then took over the bridge, keeping it in good repair until crowds going to Soldiers Field nearly crashed through it. Hearing that a philanthropist might donate funds for a memorial bridge, the City Council waited, however, until Anderson gave the money...