Show MUDDY ROADS PROVE COSTLY GOSTl Y EVERY SPRING Order Reduction of Truck Trey TruckLoads Loads Rural HighWays High High- Highways ways Bad BadBy n By SEA NEA n Ice CHICAGO April Poor road conditions have e thrown ru ru- rural ral districts into their annual spring slump To make malte some sort ot of progress ho ver motor truck loads have be bean n ordered reduced b by state ay commissions In Indiana the reduction varies from one one- fourth to one halt Practically all northern and many western mid and eastern states long ago empowered their highway o s ss to reduce k kad truck loads ad over dirt and gravel a roads road during wet periods when heavily loaded wheels would con con- cone convert vert th them Into to impassable sa salof lof These e states t I include Colorado i Delaware Pennsylvania Idaho Indiana Illinois Massachusetts Michigan Missouri Nevada New Mexico Ohio Oklahoma Tennes- Tennes TennesseE seE Texas Utah Vermont Vir Wisconsin V and Rhode Island COSTLY TO n 1 uns Weight reduction only partially solves the problem highway au- au authorIties point out are unable to market their crops quickly I and profitably tI and In Inmany i many cases where light 10 loads a are permitted It Js Is undesirable to at at- attempt tempt marketing because or of the high cost and uncertainty ot of reaching the city Ac Accurate figures compiled by R. R truck company reveal that a a. heavily heavIly Ily loaded truck will travel twice as far Car on a gallon ot of gasoline over a a. good pavement as when hen traveling over oer a dirt road IMPROVED J HELP Bus service Is s In a a. great grent many cases at R. R standstill Mail de- de are behind time and frequently fre- fre frequently the only touch the rural resident has with the outside world orld Is through the telephone and radio In certain In Illinois rural roads were impassable a a. full third ot of the year before beCore paving This entailed I. a Jo loss to farmers because of Inaccessible primary markets However through a a. sa- sa application ot of highway funds Illinois has hns built sIx thou thou- thousand thousand sand miles ot of good hard pave pave- pavements ments which have resulted In YEar round farm activity |