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Another Effort to Reroute Proposed Federal Highway1If at first you don’t succeed, try try again seems to be the attitude of the Mid-Continent Diagonal Highway association in announcing a meeting to be held in Great Bend on Thursday, Jan. 20 in an effort to re-route a proposed Federal high-way US-55.The presently proposed US - 55 route was rejected when presented to the National Association of Highway Directors at a meeting held early in November at Seattle, Wash.US-55 as tentatively planned would run a diagonal highway frogi the Mexican border to Manitowoc, Wis., and would transverse seven states, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma. New Mexico and Arizona.The national meeting rejected the proposal of the association on two points. First, US-55 would follow highways already designated as federal routes and doubling up on the numbers is not favored by the directors. Second, the proposed highwayfollowed a route that includes some unpaved stretches in Oklahoma,The proposed route through Kansas would follow K-45 from Elkhart in the extreme southwest corner through Great Bend to Ellsworth. From Ellsworth the highway would follow US-40 to Topeka, and K-4 from there to Atchison and into Missouri.The Great Bend meeting, called by Jim Dunsford, association president from Dodge City, will be held at noon at the Parrish hotel with representatives expected from 36 Kansas cities.Mr. Julius Cox, vice-president of the Oklahoma State highway commission, will report on action by the American Association of State Highway Officials on the pressed US-55.According to Kent Collier, chamber secretary, the attending representatives will try to decide on an alternate route for th proposed federal highway fciagon^f.
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Great Bend Daily Tribune
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1955
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