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Highway Commission Will Launch
Bond Road Program This Autumn
Raleigh -- Governor Scott's ten
new highway commissioners will
launch the first phase of their $200,
000,000 road improvement program
this fall.
Barely three months after the
successful June 4 bond referendum
the state's new roadbuilders expect
to begin announcing which roads
get first priority under the expan
ded program. By late September
they hope to release full details
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about the first batch of bond money
roads.
That doesn't mean the roads will
get paved immediately, but work
will start on some this fall and on
many others next winter and spring.
Puanning these road projects has
been a full-time Job for the com
missioners since their appointment
last May 1.
During the summer months they
have been poring over highway
plans with their engineering staffs,
holding public meetings with coun
ty commissioners and hearing about
road problems from an increasing
number of citizens' delegations,
Some commissioners have been
personally riding over every road
ear-marked tor hard-surfacing. Oth
ers have asked commissioners and
citizens' groups to assist in recom
mending roads for improvement.
All this is new experience for
the Governor's roadbuilders. None
of the novice commissioners had
much knowledge about highway
construction matters before Joining
the Commission. Only one man,
Highway Chairman Henry W. Jor
dan of Cedar Falls - was a hold
over from the Cherry Administra
tion. Dairyman George Coble of
Lexington had three months head
start on his colleagues. He joined
the Commission February 1. -
The others began with a clean
slate -- and a reshuffling of divi
sion engineers July 1 made it a new
start ail aiuund.
. The new commissioners got a
quick start on their planning pro
gram. In June they voted to re
quest the issuance of $50,000,000
of the $200,000,000 in bond money.
In July they decided to buy $5,000
000 worth of road construction and
maintenance equipment This
month they directed their engineer
ing staffs to speed up work on all
regular construction projects wait
ing to be let to contract.
Governor Scott's road program
calls for the hard -surfacing of 12,
000 miles of secondary roads and
stabilization before construction.
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Telephone Business Office Will Be Closed
On Saturdays Beginning September 17th
BEGINNING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, THE
TELEPHONE BUSINESS OFFICE WILL BE
CLOSED ON SATURDAYS. IIIS CHANGE
HAS BEEN DECIDED UPON AFTER GIVING
FULL CONSIDERATION TO GOOD CUSTO-
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MER SERVICE AND THE WELFARE QF OUR. ' .
EMPLOYEES.
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S . , , . OFFICE HOURS WILL BE -, :fA
8:30 A. M. TO 11:45 A. M.& 1:00 P. M. TO 5:00 P, M. r
MONDAY THROUGH' FRIDAY i ,
cnmw teleM:o::e ai:d TEL:cr;i co.
Some feel that keeping dirt roads
well maintained during the coming
winter should outrank the black
topping program. Letters have been
sent to county school superintend
ents requesting about school bus
routes needing first attention dur
ing bad weather. '
Each commissioner has direct
responsibility for expenditure of
all fund in his division. The Gen
eral Assembly,, following recom
mendations of the Commission, de
cides how much money shall bo al
located to construction, mainten
ance, betterment etc. Then ' these
sums are divided ten ways, using
-a special formula, Fiom that point
on - the division staff, takes over.
They make financial decisions on
locating new roads, hard-surfacing
old ones and maintaining old and
new,' ,:' ''
No Betnlar S&lary ,. .
For rendering this service, the
commissioner gets nothing, more
than $7 per day enumeration while
on the job. In addition he gets sub
sistence nd gasoline mileage when
he travels on highway business.
Only the chairman of the Highway
Commission draws a full-time sal-
ry. '-.-.-!
Of the elev;n current members
of the Commission, five have a
predominantly farming background.
fWe lave a business background
and one is a retired physician also
interested in farming.
Dr. Henry W. Jordan, chairman.
Is the son of a Methodist minister.
He practiced dentistry for about 20
years in Belmont, then Joined his
brother, Everett Jordan, In the tex
tile manufacturing business in Ran
dolph and Alamance counties.
Commissioners Henry Grady
Shelton and W. Guy Hargett of
Eastern Carolina are prominent
farmers of Edgecombe and Jones
counties. Both attended State Col
lege, and Hargett was a classmate
of W. Kerr Scott. Shelton's first
highway division office is in Ahos
kie (covering Camden, Chowan, Cur
rltuck. Dare, Gates, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Bertie, Hertford, Mar
tin, Northampton, Edgecombe, Hali
'ax and Warren Count'es1. Har
gett's second division headquarters
are in Greenville (covering Bean
fort, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington,
Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow,
Pamlico, Gree.ie, Lenoir and Pitt
Counties).
The third division commissione-.
A. Wilbur Clark owns and manages
a peach orchard and 'a laundry in
rayeiteviue. ills, division encom
passes Brunswick, Duplin, New
Hanover, Pjnder, Bladen, Colum
bus, Cumberland and Sampson
Counties.
Dr. R. E. Earp, fourth division,
of Sehna, is a retired physician with
extensive farming interests in
Johnston County.
James A. Barnwell, runs the
fifth highway division from his
home in Burlington where his prin
cipal business interest is Associa
ted Transport, a large trucking con
cern.
Dairyman George Coble of Lex
ington, sixth division commissioner,
parlayed a bankrupt Davidson Coun
ty dairy from an organization with
five employees in 1934 to a dairy
products business operating today
in seven states.
Otis Poole, seventh division com
missioner of Jacksen Springs, Mont
gomery County; Mark Goforth,
eighth division commissioner ' of
Lenoir; and Joseph Graham, ninth
division commissioner of Iron Sta
tion, Lincoln County; have exten
sive farming interests.. And L. Dale
Thrash of Ashevllle, the tenth di-
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vision commissioner has both, busi
ness and farming interests. " .':
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