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OLD SPANISH TRAIL CLAIMS RIGHT TO STAY ON TEXAS MAP; CHANGE IN NAME MEANS BIG LOSS
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r the leadership of : workers for permission (ie Jefferson Davis High-They have never, so p the development of the fial in the North and lization have spent over also ignore the fact ■d given extensively of -esents the South's at Old Spanish Trail is of work. Instead and they dishonoj" xhc name his name *-,0 dishonor Texas by * sted us to lead in this \ interests of Texas land acknowledged in tions, schools, colleges, reen manufacturers, files show all this
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Plans by .the state highway department to eliminate the "Old Spanish Trail" from the road map of Texas are vigorously opposed by H. 33. Ayres, managing director of the association which has for years sponsored the Old Spanish Trail,
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BY H. B. AYRES.
About a month ago tho Texas Highway Commission gave the name of Jefferson-Davis to the highway from the Red River through Austin and San Antonio to Laredo. This highway, nationally known as the Meridian Highway, was somo time ago locally named the Pat Neff Highway.
At the same meeting the Old Spanish Trail from Orange to El Paso was named in Texas the Stephen F. Austin Highway. At the last meeting of the highway commission the name Stephen F. Austin was. abandoned and Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway substituted.
News reports state the highway from Red River to Laredo is now being marked bv the highway department as Jefferson Davis Highway and the highway commissioners say Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway is settled for the Orange-El Paso road.
This if persisted in means the destruction of the Old Spanish Trail from St. Augustine, Fla., to San Diego, Cal., as a national highway, for Texas with one-third the distance across the continent can make or break the project.
The Old Spanish Trail was organized at Mobile in 103 5 and has beer, a continuous active organization ever since. At a conference in Houston iu 3010 San Antonio was asked j to assume the national headquarters j work. The value of connecting such a project across Texas was recognized and tho San Antonio Chamber of Commerce appropriated 53 000 and others followed with support in loyal measure.
In tho 10 years of this work members have spent over ? 100.000 personally. They have succeeded not ] only in making the Old Spanish j Trail a connected transcontinental trunkline of very valuable possibilities to the South, but they have fostered the construction program until 535,000,000 has already hecn spent; 57.500,000 of construction in progress will be completed this year; | §10,000,000 of new construction will ! be inaugurated in 3 925.
The Old Spanish Trail is known I all over the land. Jt is ot’ record in 1 national offices everywhere, on all ! maps, in government manuals, at j schools, libraries, colleges, and with j all magazine editors interested in ! outdoor life and auto travel. More ! magazine and feature articles are i published thun for any other na- I tional highway. Its name, its his- \ torical background, its potential service to national tourist travel, and the possibilities of its territory for settlement, development, fishing. camping and resting, all appeal to the Northern editors. If lei alone it will be the nation’s best-known highway.
The O. S. T. Association in the past 3 0 years has published 40,000 .service and general maps; 3 0.000 four-color lithograph wall maps. 50.000 miscellaneous leaflets and booklets; 20,000 travelogs, and now has a wealth of material ready -for a. Texas Travelog of 20,000 copies; magazine and feature articles hove reached a circulation. of over 4,000.-xX.'-.*	:i/V	7r,*v
inent that depends upon tho national th trunklines to carry 'them on their dc interstate journeys?
Texas is the middle third on the m Old .Spanish Trail. Its geographical' dr location will givo it large advantage R in bringing and. keoping travel in th The state. Texas has lands to settle; it needs Investment and. development. tc r—all this good will arid national in- *= tei'est-built up by 3 0 years of work should not be lightly cast aside.
Texas, in naming roads for local sentiment, should not interfere with highways of interstate and national character. The Lincoln Highway if named and marked according to the ideas of each state would soon lapse as a national highway known to . everyone and sought by tens of thousands in their overland trips.
Plans involving tens of thousands of dollars are now "in the air”—-printing travelogs, maps, developing campsites and travel comforts,* marking, beautifying, meetings, field work—-there can be no dependence on fimmees or on the allegiance of . the workers in other states, or in this state, and national . magazine articles are in abeyance with a half dozen editorial requests are before us. Texas has a vital interest in the preservation of this Old Spanish Trail project, and in its utmost development and publicity. North i Texas has the same interest as South Texas for. travel must pass southward to get to this trunkline. It is | a 'serious tiling to hamper, hurt or break a project that has achieved 1 so much and that, now is enjoying unrivaled construction * progress in 1 all its states, and that has built up \ such favorable recognition all over the United States.
SUMMER CAMP FOR
girls is Planned
Tyler, Texas, May 5.—From June ; C to 20 the home of Mrs. ’Walter J Ccnnaliy at Hitt's Club Lake, eight | miles north of Trier, will be the j scene of a summer camp for girls be- I tween the ages of 14 and 21. The' ! camp will be under the auspices of the Young Peoples Service League of the Episcopal diocese of Texas, opc-n to girls of all denominations, and proposes to train for leadership.
! The camp staff includes Miss I Dorothy M. Fisher of Houston, mrs- :
I tronrin-charge; Rev. \\\ N. Clay- i I brook of Tyler. Bible instructor; Mrs. i i J. R. Greenhill, Jr., of Houston, ]
(camp director; Miss Rachel Summers of Austin, assistant director; Miss Maggie Clarke of Tyler, health I director; Miss Sadie Sehnemayer of I Austin, camp dietician; Miss Zenda j Ash back cr of Houston, swimming in- j structor. and Mrs. Karl Scroggins, Mrs. D. G. Connally and Mrs. J. D.
| Patterson, all of Tyler, counsellors. I —
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