Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — OPPOSE NATION-WIDE HIGHWAY SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

OPPOSE NATION-WIDE HIGHWAY SYSTEM

L. H. Wright, director of the state highway commission, said Friday that the American Association of State Highway CammWsioners in session at LouisvlHe„ Ky., last week took a stand for the continuation of the present federal highway program and for a federal appropriation off 1100,000,090 far the next four years to be distributed among states. It opposed the principle of a nation-wide federal system., of roads is each state under -the direction of a federal highway commission* as is proposed In the Townsend bTH. Mr." Wright, H. K. Bishop, engineer for the commission, and A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent, attended the meting.