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Show A Highway Nuisance Arthur Newton Pack, editor of Nature Magazine, recently recent-ly made an automobile tour of some of Virginia's most scenic and hi.stodic highways. He returned mad mad char through. a the saying is. For he found that Virginia's lovely highways high-ways were flanked, from one end to another, with innumerable innumer-able billboards. The billboards, he writes, "dance up and down the Valley Pike and the Lee Highway in a delirium of misplaced color. They cut off view after view. Even the battlefields, sacred to southern memory, are not sacred to the invading army of billboard builders. Great glowing signs stand watch beside the Manassas battlefield and blazon out their message close to where the south's heroes lie." This state of affairs, of course, isn't peculiar to Virginia. Every other state offends just as badly. Mr. Pack's angry protest, however, ought to find a ready response in the hearts of all tourists, all nature-iovets. The billboard is a nuisance on any country highway. Some day, let's hope, we can eradicate eradi-cate it. I the Hoover line. One of old Johann's descendants. ! Andreas Huber, emigrated to North 1 Carolina in 1762. He changed his name, to conform with the English i language, to Andrew Hoover. The old house in which Johann Huber lived still stands. About 1850 it was converted into a schoolhouse. Now it is an inn, which is owned by Jakob Huber, I - |