Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-01-16
PARAC0ULD DELEGATES MEET
With HIGHWAY COMMISSION
and RETURN MUCH ENCOURAGED
This Section Is Certain of Procuring State and
Federal Aid if the Road Project Is Pushed by
Citizens-Designation of Lone Star Still
Stands-Road Will Be Lost Unless Action Is
Entered Upon-Randolph and Mississippi
Counties Are Waiting to Grab 1t.

session and each community was
eagerly watchful for every sugges-
ton of encouragement that the road
would come its way. This section
has the route cinched if we get
busy-real busy-but that we must
or the road is going to be con
structed either west OF us through
Randolph county, or east through
Mississippi cuonty, leaving Para
gould in the middle OF a mud pud-
| die.
With the exception of small
gap north of Poplar Bluff, with
finances already provided for the
construction, the highway is COM
pleted from Chicago to Poplar Bluff.
The route from Newport to Little
Rock is certain to be built and may
be ready to connect up with the
completion of the road coming from
the south to the capital city by the
middle of July. That would leave
gap between Newport and Poplar
! Bluff, with the route already chosen
through Paragould. But the desig-
nation will not stand indefinitely.
If the citizens of Randolph county
beat us to the completion of the
road, or if the Scenic Route along
the Mississippi and through Blythe
Vile is completed first, then the
route through here would naturally
disappear. The time for action is
here, if we are to place Paragould
upon d transcontinental highway.
At the Little Rock meeting it was
pointed out that the road through
this section, along the Lone Star
Route, would mean the attraction of
thousands of auto-tourists by the
latter part OF this year-by early
fall, in fact.
It is estimated that between g
million and half dollars has been
allotted to Arkansas by the federal
government for road building. That
amount with state funds will be
distributed through the agency OF
tIl6 Ctdl6 I1lSINdy COMMISSIONS AAN
commission is ready to grant sup
port of the road through here just
as soon as the citizens OF this sec
ton arouse themselves to action and
show that the highway is desired.
1t is up to the citizens between Pop
lar Bluff and Newport to measure
up to the requirements of construct
ing either a primary or secondary
type of highway.
The subject of routing the Lone
Star has been definitely settled
and that's through Paragould-de-
pendent, of course, upon the action
of the citizens in building it. Just
how much money may be- had
through the State Highway Depart
ment has not been determined but
this section would get as much as
any other. The federal allotment it
is said, is limited to fifty per cent
OF the total cost of construction
but it is not likely that any one
road would be favored to that ex-
tent.
The points for the citizens to
kept in mind are: We have the OPP
portunity of procuring the Lone Star
if we will build the road; the road,
be it primary or a secondary type,
would he the only one north and
south through this section; state
and federal aid will be ready for us
when we enter upon the execution
of the project-but that We must do
before the aid will be Forthcoming.
There is no distinction whatever
between the primary and "sec-
ondary" roads, so far as federal
and state aid is concerned, the only
difference being in the width of the
road construction - the primary
type being eighteen feet wide and
the secondary type sixteen feet wide,
the latter costing a great deal less
per mile.
Session at Little Rock.
The Little Rock Gazette says:
"Plans for the selection of a high
way north Of Little Rock for the
Arkansas-Louisiana Tourist Way AS
sociation and the Lone Star Route
Association We're discussed at a
meeting of the officers and directors
of the two organizations at the
Hotel Marion Friday.
"The two organizations plan to
establish route from Chicago to
Matamora and Mexico City, Mexico,
more than 1900 miles of the high