TRAVEL: Southward Ho!

Many travelers had talked about it. Last week a Jacksonville barge-line opera tor decided it could be done. Young, energetic Harold Gray Williams, 37, had the blueprints drawn and the cash in hand ($2,000,000) needed to build a super de luxe ferry for the 90 nautical-mile trip from Key West to Havana. It will carry 300 autos and 900 passengers. When the first ferry goes into service, probably some time next summer, U.S. autoists can cross the Straits of Florida in six hours, and at a tentative cost of only $20 a car.

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