From Old. Spanish Trail Headq, San Antonio, Texas
NEWS, for immediate relase
NATIONAL OLD SPANISH TRAIL CONVENTION TO MEET AT SAN DIEGO ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND TRAVEL DEVELOPMENT PLANS MONSTER MOTORCADE TO CROSS CONTINENT.
San Antonio, Texas, August 19th---The Old Spanish Trail national convention to
elect officers and plan for travel development will he held at San Diego, Calif., October 14th on the arrival of the big transcontinental motorcade, according to announcement by OST officials. The convention was called in session at St. Augustine, Florida, foiling the motorcade and the monument dedication last April, then adjourned to give the people more time to prepare for such an important meeting. The OST motorcade to California, directed by Pensacola committees under 0. H. L. Wernicke chairman, is expected to take over 500 on the drive from all parts of Florida and the other OST states.
These motorcades, the managing director states, are g2ving the people clear understandings not alone of the great progress on the highway itself but of the developments and resources of the OST country. The# are also fostering acquaintance amon'g the men and women from Blorida to California. Community functions to bring the motorcade and the local people together are being planned at luncheons, suppers and receptions all hlong the highway.. When the convention now moots at San Diego the people will bo well informed.
Boaumont, Texas, has invited the motorcade to stop there for a brief session to opon discussion on convention questions prior to the Son Diego mooting.
OST directors and the motorcade managers at Pensacola aro being consulted on this.
Thirteen years have boon consumed in establishing and opening this southorn national trunk lino. It is now generally called the most completely opened highway across the continent. The Executive Board o.t San Antonio has published a full report on the work and an audit of its finances. The managing director, Harral Ayres, sooks relief from further sorvice. Those meetings and motorcades, ho says,, are all a part of tho plan to have the national convention well attondod by interested peoplo. A national migration to tho South,cMr.
Ayres statos, will result from tho sucooss of theso efforts and the convention must olect officers and legislate to carry on groator work than oven that of the past. Nation-wide publicity is already startod by tho Pensacola motorcade committees and volume travel this wintor to the Old Spanish Trail will bo in evidence. It is already moving this way theso summor months as numerous records show.