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Editor:
I just cannot agree with the News editorial of July 12. . * At first glance, the News view on free advertising seems to make sense. However, a deeper study throws a different light on the subject of the State of Virginia giving free advertising to a select few.
As an old traveler, I have seen many, many miles of interstate roads across this beautiful country of ours—dirt, gravel, brick with right angle corners and on up to the concrete monsters of today.
Each year since 1922 I have “toured” somewhere by auto. I have followed a trail of landmarks, painted bands on telegraph poles, the old Ocean to Ocean, Pikes Peak and Lincoln Highway—even ran out of road once in Western Kansas.
Expensive as they are, I am happy with the new overhead signs, especially 5 the electric ones that give warnings on accidents, etc.
As for free advertising— would you rather see several tall giraffe-necked gasoline signs towering above the countryside at every exit along our interstates, or settle for the new low and controlled informatioh type?
Any good mechanic will tell you to tune your engine to one gasoline and stick to it when you can. So, I look for my gas. I carry two
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