The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-01
HOPE IS WORKING
 ON THE BANkHEAD
DELEGATIONS FROM OTHER CIT HE'S ALONG ROUTE STIR HAMPSTEAD COUNTY
 TO ACTION
Secretary Bedding Notifie, of the Routes and Dates Pathfindcrs Will Make Over the Two Proposed Routes.

Hope, in Iicmpstead county, the one spot in the proposed southern route in Arkansas of the Bankhead hishw ny which was heretofore most lacking in enthusiasm, is now ready tO rcpOr. that its portion of the highway will be improved The Hot Springs delegation that returned rom d general meeting held Friday in Hope, report that the people of that county are now thor cughly awake to the need of the situ- ation and will help in this big enter prise for southwestern Arkansas Secertary Belding of the Business Mems league has received from Sec retary Roundtree of the Bankhead Highway association Che detail of the pathfinders work. Tie committee of pathfinders will first go over the Lit tie Rock 10 Fort smith and north Texas route and then go over the Lit- tie Rock to Hot Springs and Texar- kama route. The letter from Secre- tary Roundtree says in part:
 President Powman and the EX- Cutive Board, after due consideration and in accordance with the resolution adopted al the annual meetig of the Bankhead National Highway assocll- ton, have decided on the following plan;
 First: To start the Pathtinding Party. which will consist of one T.. $ Government engineer, one civil engin eer. three prominent citizens living east of Memphis, President Plowman land Secretary Rountree, leaving Mem phis, Tenn. on Tuesday, october 10th lat s o'clock A. NJ.
 Second. The first route to be in spected will be from Memphis, via .Wynne. Cotton Plant, Des Are. to Lit tie Rock, thence to Ft Smith, Shaw .nee, McAllister, Oklahoma City, on to Amarillo, Texas pr L. E, Bradford, Messrs Joseph Hill C.. w. Donnghey, Directors for Arkansas. will haze charge, collect the mileage, secure the 'questionaires, furnish map, arrange 'cars and all details for this inspection to Oklahoma line. The Oklahoma Dl- 'rectors. Messrs J A. Whitehurst, Paul Neebit, W. C. McAllister, arranging details, collecting mileage, question aires, etc, will take charge of tue party and conduct them to Amarilla, .TeXas.
 Third The Texas Directors, con, sisting of Messrs C. IT, Lester, Burt
 K smith, John w. Atwood, wifi taKe charge of the party, conduct them to Fl Paso on the TeXarkana They will have charge of all details, securing quastionaires arranging stops, col lecting the mileage fee, furnishing map, etc
 At TeXarkana, Judge J. C. Thwea,t
 President, and George R. Belding sec lretary, Southern Route. Arkansas Di-
 vision. will take charge of the party and conduct them from Texarkana :t Hot Springs, Little Rock. Lonokc, D> Walls BluG. Erinklcy, Forrest City ,C 1 Memphis Messrs ThWeat and Bel
 ding will have charge of collecting tn, mileage, securing the questionaires larransins cars, makig map and all dc ltails of said inspection
 Fourth; The Pathfnders will re lturn from Memphis by rail to Hor 1 Springs, Ark, where they will be me- | by Messrs. C. O. Johnson, Durant, OK
 lahoma, W. II. Jones, Broken Bow lOklahuma, who will have charge of tht party in conducting them over ih'
 routc from lIo. Springs to Fl Paso VI, l