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Big Highways

At the last meeting, E. R.
Slaughter spoke for the group
opposing the plan, saying "Big
highways separate communities
like rivers. As soon as this road
is completed, it will be a big
truck route going right through
the University community,
schools, churches; in short, a
major throughway."

Many other speakers, including
Edgar Gunter of the University,
protested the plan on the
grounds that it would ruin the
University community.