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Show ! FEDERAL AID URGED EOR MINING ROAD6 IN IDAHO wiSiiuG'l'vi.N. U. C. (Special) ----ict.-:. luads to luaUO xutlllllt; aici ui be amno.ued for con--.luciion Willi up to U.il per cent ..--.... aid under provisions of ull u-..eii..liic-lll seeuied by eil.tto! oo.m i nomas Uu.mo Hepuuiu an i iu coniin.Kee report on fa. 1;mi, -u io sui.p.emenl the federal Aid ot juiy ii, lino, as amended.' "1 ba always tea,'' the Seiiatoi said, "ttiat Uie i-ederal c.o ei nmen. should assist in the construction oi highways to nnn.itg areas regardless re-gardless oi wiieiher Uie particular road was a van or uie regular Federal Fed-eral Aid System. 'I proposed the amendment to include access roads to sources oi raw materials iu order to give Idaho Ida-ho an opportunity to hunj loads to mining areas lying a consider abie distance from existing l. S. highways. "The proposed legislation authorizes author-izes appropriations during the National Na-tional Emergency declared by the President May 27, 1941, for the immediate im-mediate construction of roads urgently ur-gently neMil...! IV... . i .. . v " . '11.11 IH-I11IJL-, including the strategic network oi highways, access roads to naval and military reservations, defense industry sites, and sources of war materials, when such roads are certified as important to National Defense by the Secretary of War or Mavy." Access roads to military and naval na-val reservations and defense industry in-dustry sites may he built undei similar vrovisions as roads r-j m,., ing areas, Seuutor Thomas also stated that notwithstanding the limitations of Section 6 of the Federal Aid Road Act respecting mileage of the Federal Fed-eral Aid System, under the proposed pro-posed bill the total mileage of any-state any-state may he extended to include any of the main lines of the strategic stra-tegic network of highways and constructed con-structed on the basis of two dollars dol-lars federal aid to one dollar stale funds. "Under provisions of this sec tion," the Senator stated, "Oregon, if that state so desires, may promptly complete the unfinished section of the I-O-N highway (U.S. 95). The work remaining to be done includes 14 miles of grade and 54 miles of oil. Idaho should lose no time in urging the cooperation of Oregon in making application to .have the road designated for completion." |