Missouri Highway Traffic Shares Lead State System
A state planning survey shows Highway 66 has the highest daily traffic in Missouri at about 2.54 million vehicles, followed by U S 40 with 2.235 million and Route 71 at 1.818 million. Highway 1 0 61 records 1.770 million, with other routes like 36 56 24 and 54 contributing lower counts. Federal and state routes account for nearly three billion vehicle miles, versus roughly the same on 115 073 miles of local roads and city streets.
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St Louis
Joplin
Kansas City
Missour
Missouri
Highway Department Waging War on Dust
The Missouri State Highway Department reports trials using calcium chloride to reduce gravel road dust and improve surface smoothness at lower costs. With 8464 miles of gravel and crushed stone highways under state care, officials seek a cheaper dustless surface than current methods costing at least 5000 dollars per mile, aiming for long term economical and physical benefits.
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Maintenance Bureau
Missouri State Highway Department
C. W. Brown
Stief
Missouri
Few Missouri suspension and covered bridges survive
Only two suspension bridges like those shown remain on the Missouri State highway system, once common on the Osage River before 1900. A notable span is on Route 35 west of Warsaw. Covered bridges from the Civil War era are dwindling. nine remain, with Had's Bridge at St. Louis still in use as the world’s finest combined highway and railroad bridge from 1873.
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Missouri
Osage River
Warsaw
State Highway Department
Paris
Monroe County
Scotland County
le May Ferry Road
Jeffer
Son County
Pettis County
Sedalia
Linn County
Laclede
Chillicothe
Livingston County
Cape Girardeau County
St. Louis
Mississippi River
New Trucks Added to Local Truck Systems Fleet
Six new trucks and trailers were purchased for the Local Truck Systems. Bruce Lewis, Gerald Lafont, and Ray Richards returned from Detroit and Chicago with the units. J. R. Pittman said the new units will join the company fleet of 275 trucks and trailers.
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Bruce Lewis
Sikeston
Gerald Lafont
Ray Richards
Detroit
Chicago
J. R. Pittman
Kansas Seeks Supreme Court Boundary Suit With Missouri
Kansas asked the Supreme Court for permission to file a bill of complaint against Missouri to settle a boundary dispute. The move follows shifts in the Missouri River that altered the boundary between Doniphan and Holt counties and Leavenworth and Platte counties. Kansas alleges Missouri has tried to claim land lands since statehood due to the river’s changing course.
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Washington
Kansas
Supreme Court
Missouri
Missouri River
Doniphan County
Kan
Holt County
Leavenworth County
Platte County
Mussouri
Herald Broad News Roundup From The Herald
The Herald delivers a compact round of local and national items. Key figures, places, dates, and agencies appear in quick summaries reflecting the paper’s period voice and priorities.
Health precautions for vacation period
Jefferson City health official urges summer travelers to prevent disease by choosing state approved water sources drinking pasteurized milk and vaccinating for typhoid before travel. He warns of typhoid scarlet fever undulant fever diphtheria and septic sore throat from contaminated milk and unclean wells and advises vaccination in three shots a week apart to avoid vacation spoilage.
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Jefferson City
Harry F. Parker
Local Youth Severely Injured in Street Accident
Gideon Charles McMichael a 15 year old local youth sustained a fractured right knee when struck by a truck on a street in Gideon last Friday.
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Gideon
Charles McMichael
Automobile Dealers Plan Annual Meeting in Missouri
The Missouri Automobile Dealers Association will hold its second annual convention at the Tiger Hotel in Columbia on Wednesday June 12. Secretary Joseph A. Schlecht urges every Missouri dealer to attend and aid in directing the 1940 1941 program. Officers are J E Travis Jr president, Roland H Record vice president, G M Berry treasurer, and Schlecht secretary. The convention committee includes Roland H Record chairman J M Atiton vice chairman N S O'Neill Carl C Grant and A H Day.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Automobile Dealers Association
Tiger
Columbia
Missouri
Joseph A. Schlecht
J E. Travis Jr
St Charles
Roland WH Record
Kansas City
G.M. Berry
St Louis
Roland H. Record
J M Atiton
N. S. O'Neill
Carl C. Grant
A H. Day
St. Joseph
Cleaning washable wallpaper for easy maintenance
Instructions advise using mild soapsuds and a clean sponge to clean washable wallpaper. Start at the ceiling and work downward, cleaning one section at a time to keep surfaces fresh.
Ford Policies Lift Car Value and Lower Price
In consequence of these policies the Ford Motor Company has one of the finest bodies of employees in the world. The larger proportion are mature men of long a 300 per cent increase in the built-in value of the Ford car and a 75 per cent reduction in its price.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford
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