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r--- St)_n d-ay, Journal-Constitution, 11/23/60 IE! - ~ p Atlanta m 'Excellent Position' - For Fed era I Funds, He Says ' By BILL COLLINS . \ The l-J.S. secretary of transportation says Atlanta will b';Ti\

( an ~xcellent position '_' to get two-thirds of the money for a rapid

hans1t system from the federal government. . _.!..· · - John Volpe, former governor of Massachusetts and one of the front-runners for the vice presidenti al nod at ~it143.215.248.55'· the 1968 Repub- i'#F · lican presiden- f · ··;> tial convention i ,,, was in Atlanta i ~ Sa turday night · to address the •· 11th a n n u a I

neeting of the

. "THE OTHE R $2.5 billion Nationa l Co n- ¢.'( ,vould be used to help build 900 ference of State if,{.'?~~* . ~1rports and expand 2,700 air-' a · I ative t•<-:.>:/'.g '.J e O I S ~~¼/·Ji . fields around the country " ueaders. J o hn \'ol pc Vol pr said. ' The · secretary, at a news con. , 'fht . secr~tary said the Nixon ference before his speech, exadmt 1stration hopes to r estrict plained the Nixon administrathe !,umber of rncoming fli ghts tion 's $10 billion, 12-year public a~ f ve of the nation 's busiest transpart:ation bill and said Atairports and to better control . lanta "may get the jump on _the fl_1 ghts at 22 other airports other citi es" for funds under the ' mclud1ng Atla nta 's bill, if the measure is approved I_n his remarks t~ the 800 legisby .Congress. la tive leaders attending the . He sa id the bill would auth_orfouQ·-day con fer e nc e Volpe 1 1ze him to make S3.1 b1l11on _c? lked ~bout the need fo~ federavail able immediateiy upu1, ii.s · a1-state-1oca1 government coon- I • I being signed into law. The iederal money would be spent over f~ _r:_s. ··- - - c·- . - ~ ~ - ~- He also sa id Atlanta would be "in an excellent position" to get a federal grant totaling twothirds of . the cost of a rapid transit system because of the planning it has done and also because it is one of fiyg ~ £..~DJ.er @~s." ---...:::-- At

VOLPE POINTED OUT, however, that under the proposed bill no one state coul d get more th·a n 12½ per cent of the total appropriation. He also told newsmen the Vietnam war is not draining funds he has requested for his department and added, " The administration and the director of the Bureau of the Budget have approved the two transportation bills I have requested." Vol pe says the two measures he woul d li ke to see enacted include the $10.1-billion public transportation hill and the airport-a irw,iys bill which would provide $2.5 bill ion for air-traffic control and $2.5 billion for construction of new airport s and explansion of existing fac,il ities. He sa id lhe .administration is co n c er n e d about in-fli ght crashes and fee ls the airportairways bill would help dim inish the possibility of future collisions. Wit h $2.5 billion of the airport -airways bill, Volpe explr1incd. the fedcrcil government would work towards development of ii ful ly aulom,itt'd sysll'm t~1,1ffic ontrol sys- tem. .. I eration in solving the nation's problems. Much of !?he glamour, power and ' prestige that once surrounded state Capitols shi fted to Washin gton in the past 25 yea rs," be sa id. " And when the power went to 1 Washington, many of the tal- I ented young men went also. I Washington has been the mecca Forf young A m e r i c a n s who w:\1ted lo dedi cate their lives to fulji ll ment of the American , dre1a m," he added. I VOLPE SAID there has been J a trend towards reversing the I growing dependence on the fed- 1 era! govern ment in the past few I year~ · ' "This new trend first becnme stronf ly ev-ident. under President Jo•hnson, " he ndded. "But Pre ident. Nixon has gone a step furt her. He has propose~ a program of revenue j sh;1nng between the states and I Washinglon. And , ;ilthough il is' a modest b •ginning, il will be stepped up," Volpe said. I �