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IGreater Returns on State Investment In Modern Highways Is Seen In The Development of the Big Bend ParkFORT WORTH, July It-Oreat-er return* on the rtite* investment in modem highways will iSco- come with the development of the t for Team Big Bend Park association's . He project, according to R. L. Lucas, unit-'good roads advocate, whose ap-d in nap-nextto the organisation's board was announced Saturday by Amon Carter, president.Tew persons fully realise what ex-1 the development of the Big Bend n It- National park will mean to our Stan-! entire state, Lucas said. Hun-may-! dreds of thousands of visitors will Sco- be attracted to Texas by the cul-0 be* | minatkm of the Big Bend National park project. This to proved by the fact that the Shenandoah Na-s the i tional park In Virginia drew 1,-», to 000.000 visitors last year, Yellowstone over SM,000.Lucas Is a director el the Texas Oood Roads association and bean chairman of the highway committee of the Riverside Civic league ler IS years. He also to a past president of the taagae and has devoted much of his time to the promotion of better highway*1 o w | for Texas. He eras prominently artee,. mentioned for the post of chair-wise-1 man of the State Highway com-tzber- mission When Governor O'Daniel n g s took office.paper Long an advocate of better high-i this ways. Lucas also has been interested in other projects to attract ; visitors to Texas, and regards thet h ehavenallybig Bend National park project as the most important civic movement before Texas citizens at this time. In accepting the ap-1 potntment of director in the Texas Big Bend park association. Lu . cas recommended the initiative of the officers and directors of the organisation who inaugurated the project and declared their efforts are worthy of the support j of the entire citizenship of the] state.When the Big Bend National park becomes a reality, and tourists begin to flock to Texas by the hundreds of thousands from all sections of the United States, we then will begin to collect extra dividends on the millions of dol lars invested in highways, Lucas said. The tourist industry to now the third largest business in the country, and its growth is assured by the curtailment of foreign travel.“Bach year the average vacationist extends his Itinerary to more distant points. Something thing new in the way of a vacation land to constantly in demand. Many who are familiar with Texas only in history, fiction and song will come to see the last wilderness of the last frontier in the Big Bend of the Rio Grande where Texas dips down into old Mexico. Our project is unequaled as a tourist magnet.TEAtH( of thgingthe rail* nan* er, |the iannuFarnTli for cal aial i tend grewthe be I veml | June al L M teen day.teenpoutheldInSantroadCUltllimionlyhadcludmillJud|
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Alpine Avalanche
Alpine, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 19, 1940
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