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traveling public can be provided in ways that avoid the visual aggres- 

 sions of forced viewing and respect the right of the motorist to be let 

 alone. 



In this connection, it is encouraging to note that the courts are 

 beginning to recognize that outdoor advertising involves not so much 

 a use of private property, but principally and primarily a use of the 

 public thoroughfares. 



3. The Federal Government should furnish technical assistance 

 to the States and local communities and should work closely with 

 them as well as civic groups and organizations. 



Mr. IVES. I would like to take a few minutes myself on a 

 subject that hasn't been discussed too much and to comment very 

 briefly as a member of the team that is primarily charged with 

 roadside control. Apparently there is a lack of understanding as to 

 what highway departments do, and the people that work with 

 them the landscape architects and the manner in which they oper- 

 ate. I am not going to dwell on it. I just hope there will be a little 

 better understanding of the highway administrator's problem in that 

 he is concerned not only with throughways and expressways, but 

 secondary roads, scenic roads, and he has been working on it for 

 years. The only commodity that he doesn't have in order to imple- 

 ment this thing is money. 



I would like to talk just for a moment on a subject that is very 

 close to my heart and it should be to every individual in this great 

 conference and that is the problem of litter. 



Now, no matter what this conference recommends, no matter 

 what legislation is passed, no matter how we regulate things, no mat- 

 ter what improvements we make in any activity that is being dis- 

 cussed here today, we are still faced with the problem of litter. 



In the highway field, it is a serious thing. It costs the highway 

 users a minimum of $100 million a year, enough to build a couple 

 of miles of super highways and expressways in each State, and eight 

 miles of secondary road. 



For example, it costs 32 cents to pickup one piece of litter which 

 may be worth two cents. 



The question that I propose to the conference, is it worth it? 

 As far as this panel is concerned, I think I can speak for them. We 

 will probably come up with some pretty stiff recommendations to 

 control this litter. It is getting worse instead of better and I don't 

 know how to control it. 



