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Highways 



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will provide for school bus and mail 

 routes. 



There is little doubt that the Illinois 

 highway system is in bad shape gen- 

 erally. This is because more than one- 

 third of our highways are more than 

 25 years old and half of them were 

 not built to carry today's heavy traffic 

 loads. 



Many miles our Illinois highways 

 were built at a time when the gross 

 vehicle load was 40,000 pounds. 

 Weight limits have been increased to 

 18,000 pounds per axle and to 72,000 

 pounds overall. What's more checks 

 made by the division of highways show 

 that almost one-fourth of the truck and 

 trailer type vehicles have been over- 

 loaded. It's a wonder that there is 

 anything left of the highways from 

 this terrific pounding. 



It comes down to this. More money 

 is needed to save the highways from 

 complete destruction. The most logi- 

 cal source is from increased highway 

 user taxes. The longer the job of re- 

 building is delayed, the more it will 

 cost. It's up to you who want good 

 roads to tell your neighbors, your city 

 friends and your state legislators why 

 you are in favor of the two-cent in- 

 crease in the gasoline tax, provided 

 township roads share in the funds. 



Farmers Asked to Join 

 Savings Bond Drive 

 May 16- June 30 



FARMERS are being asked to join 

 with their city neighbors in the 

 U. S. Savings Bonds "Opportunity 

 Drive " May 16 through June 30. Slo- 

 gan behind the drive is to "Put More 

 Opportunity in Your Future" by buy- 

 ing bonds. 



Dean W. I. Myers of Cornell uni- 

 versity, chairman of the national agri- 

 cultural savings bonds committee, says: 



"A financial reserve in U. S. Savings 

 Bonds is just as important a part of 

 a well-managed farm business as is 

 land, livestock and machinery. 



"Agriculture is a highly speculative 

 business at best, and farm people need 

 to have their financial reserves in the 

 safest possible form where they will 

 always be readily available. . ." 



The Savings Bonds program gives 

 more people an opportunity to make 

 a sound, safe investment and to share 

 in the interest paid on the national 

 debt. That's good business for every- 

 body. 



RURAL YOUTH TO NORWAY 



Meta Marie Keller, Streator, LaSalle 

 count)', has been named as one of 27 

 rural young men and women from 20 

 states who will sail in June for a summer 

 on farms in 10 countries. Miss Keller, 

 a Rural Youther, will go to Norway un- 

 der the International Farrh Youth Proj- 

 ect supervised by the Extension Ser\ice 

 of the Department of Agriculture. Pur- 

 pose of the project is to develop an in- 

 formed junior farm leadership. 



MAY. 1949 



