APPALACHIAN
COMMISSION
APPROVES HIGHWAY
WASHINGTON p C _
The Appalachian Regional
Commission has approved a
total of 175 9 miles of maior
development highway corri
dors for North Carolina un
der the new Appalachian
Regional Development Pro
gram.
The Commission, !n addi
tion to approving the corri
do s, has also authorized a
total of $lO7 million of Fed
eral finds for immediate
construction, design and en
gineering studies, and right
of-way acquisition on the
Appalachian state highway
corridors. North Carolina, to
date, has been allocated
$11.3 million.
The Commission action
now goes to the Secretary
of Commerce for final ap
p;oval.
Under the Appalachian
Commission recommenda
tions, the North Carolina
development highway mi’ -
eage will follow three basic
highway corridors. The Com
n sion has agreed, how
evt that there could be
recr ideratior of some
s scions of ihe . corridors
should detailed ind'cate
such a need The North
Carolina corridor locations
a~e as follows:
1. A north-south route
from Interstate 40 at Clyde,
just west of Asheville, to In
terstate 285 north of Atlan
ta. Georgia.
2. An east-west route, con
necting with the above cor
ridor at Dlllsboro and par
alleling U. S. Routes 19 and
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129 to their junction with
U. S. 64, and then parallel
ing U. S. 64 westward to
Interstate 75 near Cleveland,
Tennessee.
3. A north-south route be
ginning at the junction of
Interstate Routes 40 and 26
at Asheville and extending
northward through Tennes
see, Virginia and Kentucky,
and terminating above Por
tsmouth, Ohio.
Last week’s Commission
action virtually completes
designation of the corridors
in the 2 350-mile develop
ment highway system. The
Commission’s corridor desig
nations have now gone to
the Sec-etary of Commerce
for approval and for imple
mentation by the U. 8. Bur
eau OP Roads, in co
operation with the States’
hlghwav departments.
Under the Appalachian
Regional Development Act,
the eleven-state Appalachian
Region will receive a var
iety of programs designed
to stimulate economic de
velopment. All of these pro
grams, as in the case of the
recently approved highway
network, will depend upon
State-Federal cooperation.
In addition to highways, the
Appalachian Act authorizes
the construction of. health
centers, vocational eduea
. lion schools and sewage
treatment works, the devel
opment of land, timber
and water resources, and
the reclamation of strip
mined areas.
The 2,350-mile Appalach
ian development highway
system will be built with
SBOS million of Federal funds
over a six-year pe iod. Con
gress haa already appropria
ted S2OO million to be spent
on the highway program
through June 30, 1966.
The Appalachian Commis
sion has allocated a total of
$l9O million of this money
which will be spent on the
highway system through
Fiscal 1966.
Thte> development - high
ways will be built in nine of
ithe eleven Appalachian
States, where they, will gen
erally connect existing rout
es and the interstate high
way system so as to greatly
improve accessibility within
Appalachia. The nine include
Georgia, Kentucky, Ma -
land. North Carolina. Ohio,
Pennsylvania , Tennessee,
Virginia ad West Virginia.
The Appalachian Reglon
ai Commission consists of a
Federal Cochairman, John
I, Sweeney, and the Gover
nors of each of the eleven
states. Governor Moore,
the North Carolina member
of the Commission, has ap
pointed Woodrow Jones, Sta
te Planning Study Task
Force, to se~ve as his Alter
nate on the Commission.
The State Cochalrman of
the Commission, elected by
the eleven Appalachian
Governors, is Governor Ed
ward T. Breathitt of Ken
tucky. The Commission can
neithar consider nor approve
projects unless they are
submitted by a State mem
ber of the Commission.
The three Appalachian
highway cor-idors in North
Carolina contain a total of
175.9 miles. During the next
year, 188 miles will be plac
ed under construction with
in these corridors. More de
tailed descriptions of the
general corridor locations
are contained below:
CORRIDOR ONE This
cor~idor, connecting with In
terstate 40 near Asheville,
parallels U. S. 23 to the Geo
rgia line and extends all the
way to Interstate 285 at
Atlanta. Connecting with
two interstate highways, it
provides the southwestern
corner of North Carolina
with greater access to major
east-west and north-south
-transportation routes.
The total length of this
highway corridor is 171.1
miles, with 76.8 miles locat
ed in North Carolina. Dur
ing the next year, 9.2 miles
of this route will be placed
under construction in North
Carolina.
CORRIDOR TWO— This
corridor, connecting "Corri
dor One, provides direct ac
cess between Asheville and
Chattanooga, and serves
such communities as Bryson
City, Andrews, and Murphy,
before crossing the Tennes
see line, where it continues
to Cleveland, Tennessee.
The total length of Corri
dor Two is 127.1 miles, of
which 82.3 miles are in Nor
th Carolina.
CORRIDOR THREE —The
North Carolina portion of
t.his corTdor represents the
southern end of a 370-mile
north-south route between
Asheville and Portsmouth,
Ohio. After leaving North
• Carolina, this corridor cuts
through northeastern Ten
nessee, southwestern Virgin
ia eastern Kentucky, and
int southe-n Ohio. It con
nects Interstate Routes 28
and 40 at Asheville. Inter
state 81 near Kingsport,
Tennessee, and Interstate
64 near Ashland, Kentucky.
The North Carolina portion
of thi* corridor crosses Into
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THURSDAY, AUG. 5, 1965
Girl Scout
Advisor To
Attend
Course
- Mrs. Jack Edwards of As
heville, district adviso- of
the Pisgah Oirl Scout Coun
cil, will attend a two weeks
course in job training at the
Edith Macy Training Center
for Oirl Scout adults, a na
tionally residential school in
a camp near Pleasantville,
New York.
Mrs Edwards, who works
In Avery, Mitchell, McDow
cil, Madison, and Yancey'
counties with Girl Scout
leaders and neighborhood
service teams, will leave
August 11 for New York.
In September she will vis
it each of the counties in
wh : ch she works for the
neighborhood meetings sch
eduled for the month and
work with leaders and con
sultants and other adults In
the neighborhoods in pro
moting the program of Girl
Scouting.
M is. Edwards will attend
the Yancey Ne’ghborhood
meeting on Thursday, Sep
tember 9 In Burnsville.
Tennessee north of Ashe
ville, conectlng Johnson
City. Tennessee.
The overall length of the
corrido- is 370 miles, with
33 2 miles located in North
Carolina. During the next
year, 9 6 miles of this corri
dor will be placed under
construction in North Caro
lina.