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I have another recommendation. Many tourists are coming to 

 America now. Our President has undertaken a large program of 

 inducing foreign tourists to come to this country. Many don't 

 understand our signs. But in other countries in fact most they 

 use international symbols and colors to designate items along the 

 road of interest to the traveling public. 



Finally, I would like to see a show of hands of the people in the 

 audience who believe there should be uniform roadside controls 

 throughout the interstate highway. 



GLESTER HINDS. Litterers raise objection everywhere. Therefore, 

 motorists that litter the interstate highways should be find $1,000 or 

 made to do a cleanup job on the State highways to cover the amount. 



Statements Submitted for the Record 



DUDLEY G. BAYLISS. Admittedly, billboards in their present 

 sizes are blotting out many stretches of otherwise pleasant roadside 

 landscapes. And yet some of their messages are desirable to inform 

 motorists of overnight accommodations and food and motor services. 



The means of satisfying this need for information was an important 

 objective in the 1949-51 joint National Park Service Bureau of 

 Public Roads Study of the Great River Road, extending some 3,500 

 miles on both sides of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf 

 of Mexico. The 1951 joint report of the two agencies recommended 

 a parkway type of development based on improving existing high- 

 ways generally to parkway standards with protected scenic corridors, 

 access control and complementary facilities such as campgrounds, 

 historic sites, etc. 



The report describes and illustrates possible alternatives to bill- 

 boards in the form of roadside information centers adjacent to, but 

 screened from the highway with native plantings so that they are 

 unobtrusive from the road. 



Within these centers would be located a series of well-designed 

 message boards, small in size, to be read from parked cars. They 

 would carry listings of campgrounds, motels, hotels, restaurants, 

 garages and other tourist services or entertainments in nearby com- 

 munities. Near larger cities they could include manned information 

 stations, telephones, restrooms, etc. All of these would be maintained 

 by the advertisers and chambers of commerce. Racks would pro- 

 vide printed folders of various kinds. 



