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1 1 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER EMBER 8, 1949 THIRD SECTION .load mbraces ss i I D. Snider jblic Relations j Commission i Carolina's High I supervises the gn of roads in the road network 'miles of double regular hard-sur-tnd remote rural over mountains through cities jdy lowlands and her states - Vir :pia and Delaware Jsdiction over all (veil as highways. 63.000 miles ex ige managed by tnents in these hers in the Union, sponsibility means I is extra big bus 1 Carolina' High- especially with a jbndary road pro g up full steam. :1s know little about iof their State sion and even less f Highway Commis which includes the ids with its own fvision of road con :ge of private con e maintenance of 100 miles of roads Road System Is Largest Network In The Nation it employs about and approximately I workers. The si?e fries with the road (Construction has apaeity recently lid autumn ) lion itself comprises ten members, one Ten designated high- ! The Governor ap irman and commis Jryear terms. Work ider the commission- Highway Engineer, an engineering staff hgineers who handle jlntenance, construc ts planning, bridges, planning, materials roadbuilding activ ghway divisions. All Ositions of an engin jcome under the au Je department heads. pinistrative depart "general counsel, an tor of safety, purchas es and two adminis ihts to the chairman, ?nnel and the other jptions. Ission derives its in iutomobile use taxes ''4, especially the gaso- the expenditure of mes under the care )f the Legislature, the u and the personnel I Each biennium the Juthorizes the expert- Stain funds for road improvement and Each expenditure oved, as it is made, 4et Bureau, and this jiory system effective ly safeguards the management ,,i ' a budget which reached $85.1)1-1 539.79 during the 1948-49 fiMa year. Poor Roads of 1915 i The North Carolina llis-lmay Commission came into bcint; in 1915, but the organization ni that day was small and inconsequential. Along with the rest of the m.tiun. North Carolina was emeruins !i,.:n the horse-drawn vehicle era into uie automobile asc. The State had a loosely-connected road sste;u but it provided poor facilities even for 1915 travel. It was lutalh in adequate for the revolutionary de velopment of automotive transpor tation just ahead Prior to 1915 all road construc tion and maintenance in the State was handled on a county level County officials collected road funds, mostly property tax lex it s. and county employes, contractors, and local prisoners, performed ; In actual roadbuilding work K.irlier. landowners had the responsibility for building and maintauiim; roads running through their property. Landowners furnished the labor themselves or funds to hire it By 1915 the State had proaressed sufficiently so that all is courlics participated in roadbuilding activ ities to a degree, and some had fairly adequate roadbuilding orga nizations. Mecklenburg fell in this category. Hoads there were con sidered among the best in the State by the second decade of the Twen tieth Century In 1915 public sentiment brought about a widespread desire for a real State highway network ade quate to meet the needs of the day. Taking heed of this sentiment, the 1915 General Assembly authorized an appropriation of $10,000 and the : appointment of a six-member State Highway Commission. The origi nal members of the Commission were Governor Locke Craig, chair man, Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, sec retary, Prof. W. C. Riddick. Prof. T. F Hickerson. Col Benehan Cameron. E. C. Duncan and Guy V. Roberts. Obviously, the limited funds provided by the State, coupl ed with other restrictions, forced the Commission to confine its ac tivities to education and promo tion. The Legislature empowered the Commission to extend aid to coun ties in employing competent en gineers and laying out a State-wide system of roads and highways. But the Commission actually did its biggest job in the promotional field it snrrcpried in convincing Un people of the State that they need ed good roads. The next step came m 191 wnen the General Assembly enacted a measure authorizing the Highway Commission to administer all funds derived from motor vehicle regis trations. (North Carolina levied no gasoline tax. but the number of automobiles was growing steadily The law also said that 70 per cent of all registration fees collected in the counties should go to the county road funds, and actual sup ervision of roadbuilding continued to be vested in the counties Meanwhile, Congress passed tin first Federal Aid Highway Law which provided for the allocation of federal funds for highway pur poses in- the various states Road interest iiti Haywood Man Leads Virginia Class To Win First Place "'fW"4. 3 .. r'hlA ,tf;;'! it . LxJl -K30 wsf- ,," Zeb Rogers, of Crab trce, is special instructor of the Turbeville veterans agricultura class, in Hali fax county, Virginia, and winner of the first place display award in the re cent county fair. Mr. Rog ers is, the son of John Rogers, and during World War II, served in India and the Pacific areas. He is now making his home is South Boston, Va. This photograph courtesy Hali fax Gazette, South Boston, Va. N. C. October Traffic Mishaps Kill 79 People A reenrrf nnmher nf trflffir Acci dents killed 79 people In North Carolina during October. This was reported this week by the N. C. Department of Motor Vehicles. The report sid the October total of 2,285 accidents was the first time since the department started keeping records in 1927 that the number exceeded 2,000. The October l.-cord remesented an increase of 56 per cent over the number of accidents that oc curred in the state during the same month in 1948. The October death loll brought the number of persons killed for the year through that date to 679. It also represented a four per cent increase over October, 1940 fatalities. Dunne October 1949. alsi. the accidents left 9!10 persons injured 30 per cent above the number injured in the same month last Robeson Named To New Term As Association Head Edward J. Robeson, Jr., of Way. nesville. has been re-elected presi dent of the Virginia Manufacturers Association. Mr. Robeson, who Is vice-president and personnel manager of the Newport News Shipbuilding Com pany, was named tor a new term during the Association's 27th an nual meeting at Richmond. year. Through October. 7,908 people have been injured in accidents in the state. Of those killed in that month, 15 were pedestrians, 28 were rid ing in cars that collided with each other, two were riding bicycles, seven were riding in : cars that turned over, and 23 lost their lives when their cars ran off the high ways. Four of the victims died In collisions between their autos and trains. Haywood was one of the 63 counties that did not have a single fatality during October. Dirictm SiiQ-prpstions For The Entire Family. Gifts From The Book Store Will Be More Appre ciated When Received And More Economical To Give. nt numbers in rQ Has boxed cards , , JMC I (Personalized at small additional cost) to S1.50 111 a in etirloe nf (Personalized at small additional cost) i the children for hours with S MAGIC BLOCKS test in SHEAFFER . PARKER PENS Vns $1.50 to $20.00 i & Pencil $3.45 to $22.50 Uesx Sets ...$35.00 up sk Sets $10.50 up 50c to S3.50 S1.59 BOOKS Our collections of books for children and adults, religious, fiction and non fiction is the most complete in Western North Carolina. Price range i.Sr to S6.00 TA CARDS Trays I- !- Score Pad $1.59 69c .$1.00 38c BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS Priced from 35c to $13. 5 paper. Fabrikoid. Genuine Leather and Genuine Morocco I Bindings. (All helps and concordances) I Business Man DESK LAMPS 57 76 up WRITERS Portables Smith. Corona and Underwood I $79.50 up. plus tax CASES-Genuine Leather from $8 00 UP CABINETS Two and Four drawer 28-60 up i'HE BOOK STORE I . MAIN ST REET ta '- i I Trade At Home Help The Town Grow The Ceneral Assembly 1 1919 lahlinl Ninth Carolina's first far tvachir.B Highway Art. It created a Highway Commission composed of a lull-lime chairman and three 1 1 mini iss i 0 ners and provided that I ;ill motor M-hicle registration fees collected in the State be used for the construction and maintenance' ol mails. Tlie Legislature also de creed that iiiad funds provided by I the Federal government be match-j cd. oiu'-tmirtli of the funds to come j from the county where the work was done. This significant legislation im inediatolv stimulated roadbuilding During 1919 and 1920 the Commis sion and the counties completed 200 miles of new roadway and placed fiTiO more under construc tion at a cost of more than $12. OIIO.OOO t 1921 the Slate pushed for even greater speed in roadbuilding and the result was the passage of the Dougliton-Connor-Howie Act. probably North Carolina's most im portant piece of highway legisla tion. It provided lor a nine-mem-, ler Highway Commission headed I v a lull-time chairman and served In a full-time State Highway hn- Mineei- who would supervise all loai'biiilding work in the State. It oave the new Commission direct jurisdiction over a State highway, system of about 5.SO0 miles and provided for a serial bond issue of $50.0(10.000. the proceeds from which were to be applied to road i must ruction The Legislature also levied a tax of one cent per gallon on gasoline, and gave the Highway Commission broad powers of de I tcrmining which roads should com 1 prise the highway system. It also instructed the Commission to huild ' a system of roads connecting ill the county seats and principal towns of North Carolina. This was a big assignment and a radical departure in State policy History shows that the issuance of bonds and the creation of a State road system paid off tremendous dividend':. North Carolina became t he 'Good Roads State" by stepping ,ul ahead of her neighbors. The part good roads played in the eco nomic development f North Caro lina during this period can never be measured, but it was sizeable. Three months after the adjourn ment of the Legislature, the new liighwav Commission had employed more than 3.000 men and bought one-million dollars worth of equip-; nient The roadbuilding era had ; In gun in earnest. Kven as early as 1923 the results of the State's first major venture in roadbuilding seemed satisfac tory The General Assembly of that year voted to float an addi ; tionai bond issue of $15,000,000 and 1 hiked the gasoline tax from one I to three cents a gallon. In 1925 !the Legislature floated a third serial bond issue of $20,000,000 and added another cent to the gasoline i tax In 1927 it issued $30,000,000 more bonds, raising the total out standing to SI 15,000.000. These were the last road bonds issued until Governor Scott's $200. 000.000 secondary road bond issue of 1949. During the intervening period all road funds came from current revenue. In 1929 the Legislature raised the gasoline tax from four to five cents per gallon and set aside the revenue from the additional cent tax as a county road fund distributed on the basis of area and population. State Takes Over County Roads North Carolina stepped out ahead of the nation again in 1931 by plac ing the State's entire county road system some 45,000 miles under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Highway Commission. This was a revolutionary change in policy and (Continued on Page 3) North Carolina Health Department Is Kept Busy By WILLIAM II KICH AIUXSON N. C. State Board of Health The North Carolina State Board ! of Health" distributed 6,690,000 ; units of diphtheria antitoxin last ! month, which was more than two i million units in excess of the 1 amount distributed a year ago. The reason for this undoubtedly was partially due to the fact that there has been a sharp increase in I hi number of diphtheria cases report- recently Antitoxin is the ag-nt used to treat diphtheria, a, lei- it has developed Toxoid is u-ed I i produce immunity. Tuberculosis Control The State Hoard of Health's Di vision of Tuberculosis Control la't month made 18,069 x-ray chest pictures in its case-finding program. of which Dr. G. M. Cooper is the Director, reports that last month 23 clinics were held. The number of new cases admitted to clinics was 980. In his report for the month, I)r Cooper said that thirty-six casts were applied, removed, or adjust?d. The number of braces involved in clinical work was fifty, while 163 pairs of corrective shoes were ad vised, applied, or adjusted. The Crinoled Children's Depart ment has added two physical thera pists to its staff, and these are now actively engaged in treating those who attend the clinics. Since its organization, some years ago, the Crippled Children's De partment has aided in the recla mation and rehabilitation of thous- i Continued on page three) Jojh was bringing his last load of tobacco into town the other day and was all smiles when ask ed about the prices he had been getting. "They're good enough!" he grinned. "And y'know why? I'll tell ya because I put everything I had Into making this my best crop, and I got results!" JOSH GOT RESULTS Like Josh, the beer Industry of our state knows it takes ener getic planning and hard work to get results. That is why the job it is doing with the Malt Beverage Division of the North Carolina ABC Board is impor tant to citizens who want to see North Carolina a better place in which to live. NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION UNITED 8TATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. Insurance Bldf, Raleigh, N. 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