[News Script: Superhiway] Part: 1 of 4
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SUPERHITAY -
DRIVING
There are more than a few people who hit the road
during summer vacations who are looking forward to
completion of the government's vaunted interstate hi-way system.
It's coming along, and Texas is doing its
cameraman a spin
part. Our 0amarfxm took xtout hiway-77 north of
Dallas where crews are forging a concrete ribbon that
eventually will permit a driver to hustle all the way
S from Oak Cliff to the Oklaho'a line with nary a stop-
light in between. Paving operations began th is week
to close the lone remaining gap in Dallas county --
the northern extension of Dallas' Stemmons' Expressway.
Farther north, interstate highway construction is
going ahead between Denton and the Oklahoma border --
if the big machinery doesn t break down and the weather
holds up, the ribbon-cutting for the six-lane super: highway ought to come about January 1963.
It's part
of the a vast Interstate-35 system which, if all the
states cooperate, will connect the Rio Grande with the
lake country of Minnesota, and the east coast with the1:25
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Superhiway], item, July 11, 1962; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc959489/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.