The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-11-25
CONSOLIDATION OF OLD
TRAILS ROADS BOOSTED
Carrying Out of Plan Would
Mean One Route From Balti-
more to Los Angeles.

A plan Tor the CONSIDERATION Oh tHe
National Old Trails Association Of
Kansas City, Mo-, and the National
Highway Booster Association of Ma
ryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Ohio, was discussed and adopted
tentatively at meeting Of represen-
tatives of the two associations held in
Dayton, Ohio, recently, which was at
tended by representatives of the AS
ISOLATION from this section and by the
secretary of the Uniontown Chamber
of Commerce. The final action on the
plan for consolidation, however, will
be taken at meetings of the two as
sociations to be held between now and
January LIST.
The plan as set forth at Dayton
calls for the division of the highway
system into four divisions extending
from the Eastern seaboard to the Pa
cifc coast, with terminals at Balti
more and Los Angeles. The National
CID Trails road is perhaps the most
famous in the United States and from
the Eastern seaboard to St. Louis con-
sists of the old Cumberland Trail and
the National Pike, while from st.
Louis westward it consists of the
Boon's Lick Trail, the old Sante Fe
trail and old Spanish trails extending
to Los Angeles. Passing through -
states, the highway presents vast
opportunity to an organization for the
bringing of tourists into those states
which it traverses and by means of a
consolidated organization, national in
scope, those interested in boosting
the highway feel that better results
can be obtained.
The local division Of the highway
will consist of Ohio, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Maryland with a
/ headquarters at a suitable point in
either of the four states. In control
ling the work of the association it is
planned to have the president and
secretary of the national organza-
ton and two presidents from
each state form board of directors,
while the president and representa-
tives from each of the four divisions
will form an executive committee. 1t
is planned to have national head
quarters located in Kansas City,
where the National Old Trails Asso-
citation, which was formed in 1912
and is the older of the two organiza-
tons, now has its headquarters.
The plan of financing the national
organization has not yet been COM
pleted and Judge Harry S. Truman,
president of the older organization,
was authorized to work out a plan
and submit it for approval to both
groups at their meetings later. 1t is
figured however, that on the basis of
So a year for national membership,
reliable hotels, restaurants, garages
and other business places along the
highway will become members and
thus entitled to display the highway
association insignia. These places will
be thoroughly examined before being
permitted to become members in
order that all firms may have relia-
Bile backing in the association.
Among the activities of the asso-
citation will be to issue courtesy cards
to all tourists using the highway, to
put up direction signs in all towns
through which it passes and the many
other necessities which may be re-
quired to make the National Highway
the most popular road by which tour
lists may travel during the touring
seasons.