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Show LARGE STATE ROAD PROGRAM South Carolina Wants to Spend $34,-COO, $34,-COO, CCD on Improvements in Next Six Years. A proposal to spend $3-1,000,000 within six years and to complete j within that time 4,000 miles of the ; state system, more than GOO miles of j which would be hard surfaced and the remainder surfaced with saml-clay. top soil, or gravel is to be urged upon : the legislature of South Carolina. In i order that this proposal should con- j form to the federal aid acts the state , highway olliciais recently held confer- ; ences with representatives of the bti- ; reau of public roads of the 'United States Iiepartnier.t of Agriculture. ! If litis greatly expanded program is ; carried out. the state w! ! match all of the federal aid money now available I and any future appropriation thai may become available. Funds will be raised by automobile licenses, by con- j tinuing the state-wide two-mill prop i erty tax, a one-cent-per-gallon motor i fuel tax, plus a bond Issue of .$10,000.- i 000. ! |