Show N IMPROVED i. i I ROADS I GOOD ROAD SAVES MILLIONS Men With Tools Tool Tools Enabled Enabled to Reach Threatened Break in Levee and Stop Rising Waters Prepared by the United d State Department of A Agriculture A tl federal aid ral-ald ral road rond has Just u t been n com corn completed In Arkansas which has already saved millions of ot dollars to the community community community com com- In which It Is built Recently during luring high water In the Mississippi word vord came to Helena Ark that the levee at nt Old Town 17 miles away awny was about to break brenk The situation was critical A few tew hours' hours delay and thousands of ot acres of rich farming land would be flooded and possibly many lives lost Helena was the only source of ot aid and many men with tools and material were needed Every ery available motor vehicle w was s pr pressed Into service and over GOO COO men properly properly prop prop- erly equipped for the work were In a short time speeding over the new road to save sove the levee They arrived In Inthe Inthe inthe the nick of time and by almost superhuman superhuman superhuman super super- human efforts dammed back th the rising rising ris ris- ing waters Residents say that had It been necessary to make the trip over Oler the old road the levee could coul not have been reached In time and that the workers would have needed boats rather than motor vehicles |