The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
WIPE OFFICIAL URGES 10 BILLION
 ROAD SYSTEM
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United Press Stan CoFrespondenth
 San Francisco. July 2S - (U.P.l- A SlO,OOO 100000 system of nine super-highways including mtle- square airports at i6 intersections and with war veterans getting pre- ferential hiring in building them ia one of Maury Mavericks answers to the problem of post-war re-eTl- ployment.
 Maverick, vIce-chairman of the War Production Board, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corpor- ation and former Congressman from San Antonio, Tex, made the pro- posal during recent insepctlon tour of West Coast war plants.
 His plans, Maverick said. twill furnish constructive employment directly and indirectly to 100000 people. It will save the West and strengthen our nations economy. It will join together all parts of the nation and be of tremendous strategic military value"
 3 CrOss- Country Routes
 Under the WIPE oficial's pro- posal the highway system would comprise three transcontinental routes and six north-south arteries. Each road would be divided with three lanes of trafilc in each die rection. They would go directly through major cities on their routes with a system of spurs linking the superhighways with the cities traffic.
 "A minimum of one airport at least one mile square would be located at or adjacent to each of the l8 intersections of such high ways, one with the other," Nave. rick said.
 There shall be a stipulation in each building contract that the contractor shall employ first, vet- erans and second, unemployed men between the ages of 50 and 60 of the region in which his unit of the highway is built. This will mean constructive, honest employ Tnent for many returning soldiers. who will be among the best work CTS possible. And by giving oppor. tunity to those unemployed be- tween ages of 50 and 60 we will to a large extent meet the problem of the older people in industry"
 Proposed Routes
 The transcontinental highways would:
 l. Originate in southern Cali- fornia running east to Savannah, Ga, via Fl Paso. San Antonio, Baton Rouge and Mobile.
 2. Run from San Francisco 10 Newark, N. J., via Yosemite nation al park, Duckwater, New; Hunt ington, Utah; Denver; Phillips burg, Mo-: Springfield. H.; In- dianapolis: Wheeling, W. Va; Uniontown, Pa; and Cumberland, Md.
 3. Originate in two roads from Seattle and Portland to Salem, Ore. and ru Ilto Albany. N. F., and Boston, via Yellowstone na- tional park: Rapid City. s. D.; Chicago and Cleveland.
 Westernmost of the north-sOuth arteries would link Mexico and the Alcan highway via San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and British Columbia.
 Two other of the north-south trunks would have Mexican con- nections and run from Texas to the Canadian border. One would start at Fl Pas0 and run through Ei Moro national monument in New Mexico and Salt Lake City, The other would have its origin near San Antonio and go north through Hobart, Okla; Ness City, Kan; Broken Bow, Neb,; Pierre, s. D., and Bismarck, N. D.
 Baton Rouge To Canada
 Another would parallel parts of the Mississippi Missouri river sysY tenn running from Baton Rouge to Canada via Jackson, Miss; Mem. phis; Chicago and Milwaukee, A road from Pensacola, Fla, to Buffalo would traverse Atlanta, Jonesbor0, Tenn; CharlestoWn, ". Va, and Pittsburgh,
 Similar in strategic importance to the San Diego-Alean highway, Maverick said, would be q road psFs alleling U, s. route l from near Miami to the Canadian border above Concord, N, J., via St. Petersburg, Fla; Ressdsyille, Ga; Columbia; Raleigh; Richmond; a point be- tween Baltimore and Washington; New Brunswick, N, J.; EpFingfleld, Massy and Concord,