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Show Studying- Highway Question Today street and highway building absorbs a larger percentage of the tax dollar than any other item except schools. The United States Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, through committees, is studying study-ing the proper relationship of four chief sources of highway finance general revenues, special property as sessments, special taxes against the highway users and highway bond issues. is-sues. They will endeavor to determine when bond issues are justifiable and the best means of redeeming them, how gasoline taxes should be applied, what the property owner's contribution contribu-tion to the highway past his door should be, the proper relationship of the Federal government to the highway high-way program and other important questions. The improvement of secondary roads to open up the back country and relieve congestion on main highways high-ways is a question of outstanding Importance. |