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Show States Utilize Surplus War Material on Roads Prepared by the United States Department : of Agriculture.) Surplus war material which the government gov-ernment refused to sell at junk prices Is being used In road construction to great advantage by the states to "whom the material is transferred, according ac-cording to the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. At the end of the war there was left unused over a half-million pounds of rough castings of spare parts for one of the well-known makes of motor mo-tor trucks. They were badly rusted and on casual Inspection might have been condemned as worthless junk, but it was found that the necessary machine finishing entirely removed all rust and pits. A small offer for the entire lot was made, but was not accepted. ac-cepted. A few months ago the stste highway department of North Carolina Caro-lina accepted a portion of them as part of Its share of surplus war material mate-rial for Use in road building. Surplus war machinery was used for finishing the parts for use in trucks also received re-ceived as surplus war material. The finished parts are worth about 75 cents a pound as compared with an offer of one cent a pound for the parts in the rough. Other states have followed the example ex-ample of North Carolina and the entire supply has been taken up and will be put to useful service. |