GROUP MEETING AT KANSAS CITY
May 27, 1925.
The following Members of the Board were present:
C. M. Babcock, Minnesota.
B. H. Piepmeier, Missouri.
O. A. Browne, North Dakota.
C. S. Avery, Oklahoma.
E. W. James, B. P. R.
State Representatives were present by invitation as follows:
L. D. Blauvelt, Colorado.
F. R. White, Iowa.
Z. E. Sevison, Wyoming.
J. W. Bolden, Iowa.
William Collinson, Iowa.
Roy Johnson, Oklahoma.
J. M. Page, Oklahoma.
F. J. Gentry, Oklahoma.
R. L. Cochran, Nebraska.
W. H. Rhodes, Oklahoma.
Frank Lanham, Texas.
R. C. Limerick, Arkansas.
W. H. Root, Iowa.
W. V. Buck, Kansas.
J. W. Gardner, Kansas.
L. F. Davidson, Kansas
W. H. Lynch, B.P.R.
W. C. Markham, A.A.S.H.O.
The meeting was held in parlor D of the Baltimore Hotel and again there was practically complete harmony in the selection of the major routes. The first choices of adjacent States were not always continuous, but the first and second choices were generally sufficient to secure complete correlation. One adjustment was made by agreement between Iowa and Missouri.
After the experience in San Francisco an effort was made to avoid the tendency of the States to fill in additional routes within the group States and was generally successful, but there was a marked tendency to add,
