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Show IfflWESTEi AUTO LINK COIECTi! Nampa. Idaho, wns the real birthplace birth-place of Evergreen highway, now fostered fos-tered by the Evergreen Highway is-sociation. is-sociation. of which Francis II Sweet-land Sweet-land of Tacoma, Wash , is president. The idea is to conned the northveel with Yellowstone park, from Vancouver, Van-couver, W ash ., through Seattle, T I-coma, I-coma, Portland, then up the Columbia to Walla Walla. Lewlston, and down via ('irangeville, Whiteblrd, New Meadows. Mead-ows. Council. Welser, Payette, Caldwell Cald-well and Nampa; east via Boise, Twin Tails, Pocatello, northeast via Idaho Falls to Yellowstone. It is even proposed pro-posed to extend the route across the continent to Maine, going south from Pocatello to Ogden; Salt Lake City, Arizona, and eastward through the southern states. Two years ago the greatest good roads convention in southern Idaho i was held at Nampa The idea was broached. Then came the war. Recently Re-cently the organization was formed In the northwest, and recentlv President Sweetland. C. A. Collins, W. W. Sherman, state treasurer of Washington; Washing-ton; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schaefer and John Frank, all of Tacoma, motored over the proposed route, boosted for It at the International Rotarian convention con-vention in Salt Lake City, and were entertained at Nampa on their way back. oo |