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Show CARE 0T"R0AftSINvVAR TIME EMPHASIZED Government Displays Show Im-twfanee Im-twfanee Of Keeping The Highways In Good Condition Methods of road maintenance will j be an Important part of the displays of the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, United -States De- partment of Agriculture. In th com-. com-. bined government exhibits at the - Utah State Fair from September 28 , to October 5. War's demands have placed a big ', burdn upon the highways of the United Uni-ted States. Not only are grer.t fleet3 of army trucks thundering over the roads near military posts and canton-1 canton-1 ments, but vast numbers of commercial commer-cial trucks and horsed rawn vehicles are carrying farm products to market j and transporting merchandise of ev-ery ev-ery description from the city to the country and from one city to another. When the railways, full of troop trains and army supply trains, have called for help, tho highways of the United Stntts hava answered, "Here!" I All this means that to prevent the ! roads from becoming rutted, crum-i crum-i bled and shattered and at length Im- passable under th-sir burdens, the greatest attention must be paid to their maintenance. Tho office of l'ubllc Roads and Rural Ru-ral Engineering Js the agency that with Its other duties, administers the Federal Aid Road Act, believed to be (lie greatest stimulus to road building build-ing In American history, and that is In charge of enforcing the regulations of the National Highways Council, which recently was created to coordinate coor-dinate the Federal agencies dealing with highways. Its displays will not only demnn-malntenpiice, demnn-malntenpiice, but the tested methods of. providing drainage and foundations and how to build earth, gravel, sand clay, macadam, brick and concrete roads. |
