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Show Plan Drive To Boost Canada lo Mexico Road A publicity campaign to let th nation know about the scenic, com-. com-. meicial and military -values of the Great International highway was an , nounced Sunday by 25 Utah men : returning from, a convention of the Great lnte. national Highway association as-sociation at Phoenix, Arizona, j One of the first steps will be to I ask the National Association of Hig.-.way Officials, meeting at Gal- veston, Texas in December to accept ac-cept officially the name conferred I by westerners on the road that leads jio.n Canada through Montana. I Idaho and Utah by (way of UeS hlgh-I hlgh-I way 89 to Nogales, Arizona and No-jgaies, No-jgaies, Mexico. I Preston G. Peterson, state road commissioner and Utah's delegate to the Texas meeting, will be asked c sponsor the request. Utah ,irjcn at the Arizona meeting were led by Stanley J. Stephenson executive secretary of the Utah Manufacturers' association, amd officers of-ficers of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah, including James M. Sargent of Panguitch. president-F. president-F. G. Martines of RlrhfioM f,- . . Airiui 1 P esiaent, and L. A. Wynaught of Milford, highway committee chair-j chair-j man. I They recieved assurance at Phoenix Phoe-nix from Howard S. Reed oi the Arizona highway department that tiie Arizona section of highway 89 would be brought to dustless stand-a stand-a d Within a year. Only 30 miles twten Fredonia and Jacob lake remain re-main unpaved. i xj.0j.u.s from both states agreed that with comrdeticn of the road the scenic attractions along its .-.aundaries should be widely adver-. adver-. tir,ed. Development cf the road for trucking will mean an ultimate reduction in inte: mountain railroad iierght rates of 35 per cent, the convention was told by Charles E. Biaint, Phcnenix rate expert. Mr. Stephenson and others forecast fore-cast development of Utah-Arizona trade. Trade exceeded $500,000 in 1938 and is on its way upward, Mar-tines Mar-tines told the meeting- |