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Show Good Road Notes Experiments are being conducted by ! the Illinois state highway depart- ment to determine what is the best grass mixture to grow along the shoulders of the state aid roads. Several Sev-eral different mixtures have been worked out, and a number of experimental experi-mental strips several hundred feet long are being seeded for study and observation. Seven and one-half million dollars will be spent on roads In national parks during the next three yean-. Steven Mather, director of national parks for the Cnlted States government, govern-ment, told members of the Motor Car . Dealers' association of Los Angeles. J A comprehensive picture of nat'onnl ! park development was drawn by i Mather and his nssistant, A. K. De-l De-l inarary, for the automobile men. ... The real good that a good roads movement can do will never be re-j re-j nlizod to the full until China has hern persuaded to h't'A the idea. ... Load Improvements In 10 states cf the South will cost J40.CC-0,-000 this year. North Carolina is developing de-veloping one of the finest highways in the country a hard-surfaced road running from Wilson to Jacksonville, a distance of l(Vi miles. When completed, com-pleted, this highway will be tin; lone est asphalt road east of the ItocTri mountains. |