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PAGE SIX^ —-BORDER HIWAYURGED BY LOCALMAN IN MEETINGprop Cor.: prov nine sessi BE LEG OF S of AE. K. Fawcett is home from a recent meeting of the South Texas Chamber of Commerce held in San , s Antonio. He attended the meeting pien as a delegate from the Del Rio Just Chamber, and the principal thing that he urged before the body was n‘,.,c the construction of a military high- a de way along the Rio Grande from ters. Brownsville, Texas, to San I),go. California. iat j0This has been a pet proixvsal, if a r we may use that term, of Mr Faw-Noof f it'cett's for a long time. His original Jus. fight was for such a highway from jrss Del Rio to Brownsville. He took the tion. matter up with Congressman Hud-s|eth. and at the suggestion of the latter gentleman the plan was en- ttcin larged and the object was named or s as a precautionary measure giving protection to our frontier should the ^ ( emergency ever require it. of tA good road all up and down the shal border would mean that troops ^ could be rushed to any part of it. 111 n,:n case there ever should be a threat- by 1ened invasion -\y‘ any country 1,10 through Mexico* filletThe South Texas Chamber of ,j Ccmmerre is now on record as a at i result of Mr. Fawcett's efforts, as j' * favoring this Military’ Highway. The v“'.'1 War Department has looked with of tl some favor upon the proposal and in o we understand that air maps or air fnt n photographs, of the proposed route t‘ have been authorized. Mr Fawcett presi is very hopeful that in time favora- theit ble action will be taken by the gov- (*ua ernment. ' mpnshalladd:
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Del Rio Evening News
Del Rio, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 26, 1929
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