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Show Road Lighting Urged Electric lighting of country highways high-ways to Increase their efficiency, reduce accidents and aid night flying fly-ing Is urged In a recent proposal by Louis J. Brooks, prominent Missouri farmer and first president of the state's hard road association. The Idea is said to have been favorably received by Federal, state and county highway officials, many of whom feel that the lighting of roads Is a logical forward step in the cevelopmeent oJ the nation's h e h way system. Electrical engineers recommend powerful roadway lamps placed at intervals of 100 yards, which it i.s estimated would add about five per cent to the average cost of paved highways. Special legislation would be required re-quired to permit lighting to be Included In-cluded In expenditures for roads, it is said, but already three states, New York, New Jersey and Georgia have laws authorizing such expen ditures In the more populous counties. coun-ties. Detroit claims to have al-redy al-redy 345 miles of lighted rural highways high-ways in its vicinity. It seems that road lighting would fit In admirably with the general program of rural elecritfication which Is now going forward rapidly rap-idly In many states. |