Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-03
PRESENTS BANKHEAD
HIGHWAYS CLAIMS
Sccretary j. \. Rountrcc Addresses
Many Business Bodies
3ffsss in West.
'Wo CONVENTIONS PLANNED
Annual Meetings OF United States
81, Good Roads Association and
KS Bankhead Association Will &c
IN Held in Little Rock. April 1919.

I SIS Special TO The Times p.Sratch.l
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. March =
tsAftcr a three weeks tour in tho in
Eterest OF the Bankheai National High
S,jway, travelling over 5000 miles. visit
L tug sixty towns and cities IN the states
tsof Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas. de-
iirerine more than seventy-tive
speeches and short talks on good roads
and explaining the plans or locating
and building the Eankhead National
sHfghway 10 the various chambers OF
commerce automobile good roads asso-
citations, Rotary. Lions and l<iwannis
Clubs. !. 4. Roun;rec. secretary Of the
+ U1ited States Good Roads Association.
& and also secretary OF the Bankhesd
( M tional Highway Association. has ar
sriked in Little Rock for the purpose
so6 closing all the detail arrangements
Sffr tho annual meeting OF the United
81 ates Good Roads Association. Rank
.hAad National Highway Association and
> Msted States good road exhibit that
convene III this city April Is
eSs,ecretary Roun,rce was invited to
s, lit Oklahoma. Texas and Northern
~ <ansas and inspect the proposed
IA ties for the Bankhcad Highway
leeough these three states. The first
opposed route is from Little Rock.
ct Springs, Hope. TcXarkana, Ark.
j, Sulphur Springs, Tex. t;rcenvillc.
= alias, Fort Worth. Weathcrford. to
Paso. This route has the inGorsc-
isn't OF the state Highway Department
Texas. that is quite DESTROYS that
is highway shall 30 over what is
=, Gown as Federal and state Aid Road
~. ] IN Texas. distance OF eS5 miles
,, pm Texarkara to I'll Iaso. The sec
W. proposed route from Little Rock
w Hot Springs. Mcna. Ark. to Smith
o,.ort Towson, Duran,. Ardmorc. Sui
pVtlur. Davis. Wynncwood Lawton.
D. ,1kla-. to Amarillo. Tex. This route
~as the Endorsement OF Governor VIII
fams is very DESTROYS that the Bank
oaad Highway shall traverse that sec
=, con OF the State. The third propose cd
20 butte is from Little Rock to Boone
lSSflle. Fort smith Arb. Shawnee,
clseminolc MCAllisior, Wiiburton to
bs5klahoma City on to Amarillo. Tex. to
'loEl Faso. This route has the indorsc-
nnent of the oklahoma City chamber
aiof Commerce aud Postal Highway As
&C ISOLATION This association held n
g meeting in oklahoma CITY. with over
1000 in attendance. Thy decided To
leave no stone ,IIturncd 10 Secure this
. highway. They VIII bvini; 800 dele
IS gates tn Little Ec"k On April IL To-
boost for this a!ehw.I.
b Secretary k"uulrec reports thr
4 greatest enthusiasm for the BunEhcad
II HIGHWAY on ali three Ut tho fput "s.
The people i'm 'rcN&S, Oklahoma and
Arkansas ~" quite anxiou, to DO a Sec
ton of thus groa' trnuS"uutincnia ~
highway thut starts at Washington
city and passes through tho states ii
Virginia, Norih and South Carolina
Georgia, Alaoa:ua., mississippi. Tonnes
see on To Little l:ock. They are pleased
with the plans to build this the great
-|post and military road under govern
ment control.
s, Secretary Rouutrrc predicts that
several thousand delegates alone Will
& be In attendance from the states of
4 Texas, Oklahoma and Northern Arkan-
8 sas. He also states that reports that
have been received at the Headquarters
I'm Birmingham show that an unusually
& good crowd VIII come from all parts
OF the United states IL take part in
the great good roads gathering thar
Will assemble in iittlc Rocl. the third
week in April.