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TEE VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Thursday, June 6, 1CS3 13 5 i WW UU mi '( 0 MMil iiciiiiiiiv i I OAREIM rMMtvfa) REST AREA The Interstate High cooking, incinerators, fire wood, and bitr spacious tables and benches for fZll-Tl Diameter i picnicking. The "park" lies on a small knoll ten miles east of San Antonio on Interstate Highway 10. way System in Texas will have Safety Rest Areas for the safety and convenience of Texas travelers. This new rest area contains eight arbors equipped with fire places for family C23S2HED GtcrEED State's New Road Parks Built for Rest, Comfort i Yl parks previously built bv the outs throughout the State for Highway Department and con this purpose. The Texas Highway Depart tain more arbors per park with J- 1 V-li an- area on each side of the ment was one of the pioneers of the rest area or roadside park In the early 1930's the Depart highway and parking space for trucks.

Distance, between rest areas will average only 37 miles throughout the state when the ment began its roadside park :9 COLOR i CONTOUR program, and it wasn't long before and public de Interstate System is completed in 1972. So if you're traveling mand showed Department engl MATS heers that the areas should be an integral part of the highway along and find one rest area filled, it will only be a few Advocate Newi Servlc AUSTIN Driving east from San Antonio on Interstate Highway 10 a motorist will come upon what looks not unlike rockets poised for takeoff on each side of the superhighway. But it's only an optical illusion. What he really sees are the roofs of the arbors for the first Safety Rest Area (roadside park) designed and built to Interstate standards in Texas. Texas Highway Department men in the San Antonio district refer to the new rest area as the "Jet Park." It does have a jet-age look.

The design certainly belongs to the area because just to the north lies a big jet base Randolph Field, a landmark in the air age. The huge, new rest area Is really two parks, one on each system. minutes to the next spot. The new rest area was dedi When the Interstate Highway System is completed in Texas, there will be about 85 rest areas cated -formally May 29 by cham-1 ber of commerce officials from for the motoring 'public. Thei i 'JZ 4a)Mi 4aW -5" wort.

Door-t-4oar protrcttae, Hovy dty rabbtr, Mdr WJ -J riJ Jtt, Imt I WMitina tMMfc. IMA 1 27 Jl members of the Texas Highway Department. Herbert C. Petry Chairman of the Texas High I hi way Commission, was principal speaker. Highway Department has already selected sites for half the areas and about one-fourth of the 85 parks are in various stages of construction.

There are between 15 and 20 different designs for safety rest areas. Landscape architects in the Highway Department design The primary purpose of the safety rest area is to provide a y' 4 safe place for a mororist to stop in pleasant surroundings to re side of the road. Each one is 1,200 feet long and 107 feet wide with four "bat wing" arbors CHAMOIS lax, refresh himself, or to eat each facility to its surrounding QP3 countryside, incorporating native spaced to allow for future additional arbors. Each arbor con something before continuing his drive. An alert driver has few stone and other materials.

OJIOJ Highway Department mainte er accidents, and the Highway tains a fireplace, fire wood, an incinerator, a concrete table and nance crews clean the parks at Department says providing rest areas is just one of many efforts I to reduce the accident toll on least once a week, water the Perfect fir veiMna and benches, and a planter box. Safety rest areas on the Interstate Highway System are gen plants and grass, and also plant 'i -ri ii-t1' i i Vt I highways. There are now more trees and shrubs as part of the 'Wu'4'W erally larger than older roadside landscaping service. man l.uuu rest areas ana turn- It, iki. Pom A-l lota 'K fwnfturo, window.

Mtrrort. Htra toft. See ill '5" mm-. V. 1 Mlity, rUt-MI Wj Sea-O-Rama at Rockport iJt Gets Under Way on Friday I staged by the Yorktown Gun Slingers, and, in turn, this will lit Ht II meiei and moo1 ok.

Cat with tciuort, Washet eaiily under faucet. ImH far be followed by a street dance, which will bring Saturday's festivities to a close. Sunday morning, after attending the church of their choice, contesting for the title of Miss Mermaid; there are 12 entries in the sub-teen contest, including several from out-of-town; and in the tiny tot division there are another dozen hopefuls. At the same time as the luncheon, the Coastal Bend Sports Car Club will hold a gymkhana at the Rockport waterfront area. This event will be a precision 69 I Advocate Newt Strrlea ROCKPORT Final plans have been made for Rockport's Sea-o-rama, which starts with an art exhibit that gets under way Friday, and ends with boat races Sunday.

The art exhibit, at the Aransas County Woman's Club will be open from noon until 5 p.m. Friday, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and from noon until 5 p.m. Sunday.

Friday night there will be a dance at Rockport AFS, open to the first hundred couples to ar spectators and participants will! have a chance to eat barbecue, as the Lions of Rockport and the! 1 tZZM driving contest on a special Junior Chamber of Commerce stage their annual event at the Lions Pit In front of the Woman's Club, in the Rockport harbor area. mw i''f Mm obstacle course, for owners of foreign and domestic sports cars, with trophies to be awarded in the various classes. Further information on this may be obtained by calling Bill Pearce at TE 5-1850 in Corpus Christi. Entry is jopen to anyone with a bonafide rive, at $3 per couple. Also ex-' pected for Friday afternoon is a Wi 1 TV' space exhibit from NASA at Houston, to be erected on the New easy way to open sports car.

BRUNSWICK HYLOH I ID-7 $93 BLACKWALL 6.70x15 TUBE TYPE Phm Tjx old Tire o(l Car Big event of the day for a lot of mothers will come at 4 p.m., beach, where a carnival is already setting up its tents. Saturday morning's festivities get under way at 10 a.m. when all beauties, and all entries for the parade are asked to check in and when their small fry and sub-teen daughters compete for titles Tsorden's of Miss Sea Nymph in the sub- teen class and Miss Seabob in register at the VFW Hall on Mar the tiny tot division. Plastic Carton At 7 p.m., the junior and senior beauty contests get under way, with the most entries ever to ket Street, prior to the start at 10:45 a.m. Delmer Hiller, chairman in charge, says that a long list of entries has already been received, and that more are expected.

Tha parade will move east on Market Street from the VFW Hall, then north on Austin Street and the beach road. Immediately following the pa take part in any such event in Rockport. In the senior event, coming from as far as Yoakum, Waco and Alice, there are nineteen 'competing beauties, all of whom hope to be picked for the crown of Miss Sea-o-rama of 1963. LIFT WING WITH THUMB AND FOREFINGER rade disbandmcnt, the Lone Star dog and pony show will be held i an uic ariia iviuniicsiu vviutoi, 1 at Fulton waterfront, and this open 10 gins Detween me ages of 13 and 16, there are 33 hopefuls, most of them from Rockport and Fulton, although there are An-wn Mm jl 1 will be followed by a fish fry, staged by the Fulton Lions Club. At 2 p.m., there will be a luncheon at the VFW Hall for these beauties competing in a senior contest for the title of Miss Sea-o-rama, and In the junior contest, for the title of Miss Mermaid.

There are 19 entries in the first; thirty-three girls are A II KoDstown, Aransas Pass, port Lavaca and Port Aransas. Following the beauty contests, and while waiting for the announcement of the winners, there will be a fast gun show LIFT OTHER WING WITH THUMB AND FOREFINGER 1JC nitafi riatiffiti i 1 irf ioo(n cow Nf it GYf.l SETS State Booklet Provides Data on Water Problems Box 2311-CapitoI Station, Austin. II" hn. LIFT TAB AND ROCK FROM SIDE TO SIDE 1 1 mJ Increased Interest in development of the surface-water re-l sources of Texas has stimulated many groups to review their local water problems. These reviews often begin with the question "What information is available The Texas Water Commission has Just released a report which these local groups, plus State and Federal agencies, consulting en The report states that although much has been written concern-! ing the hydrology of Teras, much more remains to be done before sufficient data are available to provide answers to all the questions regarding surface-water resources of the State.

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