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HIGHVMY CHAIRMAN TELLS STATE'S If’ ^ BOARDS problems OF ROADBUILDINS I _ •Aodress by Merrill Evans to Boards of Commissioners of State, Assembled in Asheville on Monday, August I9th. D; If: - One of the iiiajoi' conlribii- tio!)s of lliis Adniinistwtion to biiildiiiff in Ibe past two >i ara is Ibat Highway I’uini divorsion to other agencies of Stale Government has, foi- all practical pariioses, boon elimi nated There are yet small a- rnounta beitig diverted, but they arc small, ituleed, by comparison with sums that have been di verted amniully over tlie past tlnrty years. It may now be Slid that taxes collected from Highway sources ;md for High way purpo.sos are now being! .'pent on the North Carolina I • Highway .System. Tins is a fact' id 111.line vi.girf I .iM !• llighw.i. laxe- are inc.v heing ch.iiiiieli d into ilighway activity. j Bur fo.r thi.s termination of 1 Highivay fund diver-sion, there' would have been litt'e Secouil- .'iiy Roads construction in the past two years. Since this has been done, Jiowever. the Sccond- iiiy Roads I’logiain has been consiucrable. 'I’wo years ago, there were Approximately thirty thousand " -f*? m :tr m' toward a Primary System con-1 ne’eting couiity.-seat with oountyl scat and principal town with: principal town. This Primary System was from the beginning one of the veiy best in the Na tion. Tt wn.s from this original plan that onr State became known as “The Good Roads State”. 'Phis Primary System was built many years ago and is now getting bid.,- It has not been modernized to meet present day nced.s. Pnmary Roads wore built in North Carolina from li)20 to 11140, and at the latter date, the System ua.s fairly adequate to meet Piimary Road needs Becnu.'o of World War H, few roads were built from 1940 to 1945. Soon after the War’s end, there aro.'e.a tremendous de- j II and to build .-ecDiidai v, farm to iiiaikit. iiiial road- Tin- (h maud hioiiglit on llie twn-luin- dred million dollar SICPHD SECTip^N THE COASTL® TIMES "The Weekly Journal of fho Walfer Raleigh Coasfland" vlANTEO, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1963 one our costlie.st areas of im- ETIIKIlIDGK FAMILY LS provemont. The rc-sponsiliihly of, BACK FKO.M TRII' Wl-bS'l' the Highway Commission foil city streets i.s an enormous pro- 'MrS. T, 1). Jftherid.ge and gram in itself, and will have to d.-iughlcri-, Jlisses Annie and rOP-EinX STTJDHNT VTRTTS; f 6i;BF«T NFC: WO.M \N H ■ ■‘nF lier -■hlth •Vvthfjny; she ' rtrttf ! irt>■ : A'T AGF :OE.:.l 12 .counted ;,.2S4 dcscetidants. Ai$l 0 it''.?' ;■ ''-'A-ib--:-;-—ji-V --i;“2./“r.^is''afld,iie7'hbs}/aiVd had. 12 ehlHv "''' ^trs. Jlatilda Diiokr-tt (.Anntjdren, nine of whom .survive. Her Si.s) Roger.s, believed to h.ave lAter bitibd.iys were always 15ig been North Carolina’s oldest' ft’ca'ions, even to congratpia- citizeri, died m Wayiie.sville Jlon- 'ory messages from piesidepts The Woinan’.s Society of Mt. I Olivet jilethodist Chureh iri'.Alan-' teo tvnn recently host to a visit ing Chinese Student, William Mo Sun of Fontiosa. Mr. ...Sun, who has been corresiionding with the Woman’s Society, has for' Sometime wanted to visit Roa- he con.sidered gram if oui cities, and in par- ticulaj-, the downtown nroa.s of our cities, are to prosper and grow. If I should he. called on this morning to give a figure that would make a beginning on the alleviation of this Highway Commission city •Street prohlem-the figu.re Wvitdd have to be -■ on a miniimim basi.s -.it le;i-t fift;. ludlii'ii d.illai - I inipe that 1 1(1.i\ li;i\e .iii .Secondarv!'^'h9‘’''-i"’‘kV snmetime within the day. She would have been 113 ^'*”1 reached the century years old Ortobtr 1, .mark. - iiati’.e of Madi.son County,' '’'’i’ll Spring Crqgk , , . , , , ^ , she went to Ilavwood Couiilv a.H,Dctolier 1, I.S.IO, a d.aigbtei nolle J.siand ami our famous Out-;,, op and has lived in‘-,the,i.'^''.’'’''‘''l-' ev Bank.s to compare Roanoke until'.'her, rie-; • 4- , “ clinhig years when she mow ; .it,...' Natalie* Kihend;;*? .Tiul .'Mi’.s. n U[ -whilo in IMantf'o, Mi\ Sun wa*?'^ Sl'M-sc .'■lunos with a dotiblt- house guest of Mr and Mr.s.' kii.sbaiul, Robert Newton lustre when set in humility. — ago. William Penn. r Coequina Beach wa.s held in .Mr. ] , a Waj resville re.st home. .Mkm.soii have returned to Man-i., teo from a visit in picnic” at Rogers, died 5.3 ycar.s Miimc-sola, with Annies twin ,.„m i.. m.. r : I. Mguie Mr.s. Richard Saict. ,and reasonable T.ikmg the northern _ route to reach the Minnesota;, town, the i)ait\' went through' Cnnada, along the .shores approximately , forty people attending. He also ; attended the Lo.'t Colony which he deemed very intere.sting and . , _ . , , > r, , jiiiformaiivc of the founding of Lake .Supeiio,; ami I.ake Oolarjo. American settlement. loey al'o Vi-Ifed „ o r t h e •• n ,vd hi- NEW with bright new beauty outside and tomous Dear born engineering inside, this new Regency puts Dear born.even further ahead among got oreo heaters. CIIAIKMAN FVANS paved miles within each coun ty. This means that a county,, with more imjiaved miles re-1 ceives move Secondary Roads I Pioads Program. Rven when the two-hundred million dollars had been spent, (bore .still remained many, 2thqiisamls of - iniles of reads nnsurfaced and the de- m.ind for Imilding .'ccoiulary road.s continued to build up rather than diminish. From 194.5 until the pre.scnl date, the main Ihni.st of road M.h.gaii, ul. M.-,;,aii..al Keg .. . . _ iiig at the University of Nor h ne.xt several weok.s to di'cii-ss.' . ! Carolina, .at Raleigb-'anrl is pow ; llris iiaiticular phase of ffigh- ‘R® U'iR'evsily of' way Commission rcsponsibiHiv •V"’ California whore he i.^ -sluding with a gro.up simialr to,tW.s A.4-. ’.'® ^ovhis PH-Q, While in,his native spciatioii.:; but' onr lie d ,i.i For„,o3a?.Jrr. SuiV.Stiklied/fifcThp luimarily with numcipal govern- nmh Saint 1 luil. National Univorsify of Formo.rti uhmU. '“■'•'Aed Ciiieram.,1 The Woman’s Society, who.'e where the current pictu'c wa- objective it is to make foieign feel welcomed in the NEW Tsend-Sefting De sign. Years ahead! Styled by a leading industrial designer. NEW Exclusive Control Center. Complete comfort -control of your fingertip. Set it... forget it. Now, in ly, tw iUiile.s of iinpavcd mads on the! wlieii once tbi.s mon- J’"!!','. ", 'state Highway Sy.stem. In tbisl'’^ nlloeaied to a county, it : cannot be taken down or spent ''"•'k*--’- Thi.s'liiere 'elsewhere, or for other piirpo'es 1 R"' I Ti;.- c, under appropriations made by ' ’’ the 19(13 General A.s.sembly, has available for the next two IV, in conelu.sion, and Rtiick-West Wa.s AVon”. and siudents .'o other points; . • they were tleligbied to be able to.^juftf.d One: .All around t.hc,.edges pf United State,-, felt they had I ...... ii,.- ‘M-eifiiTze ,in one of the charact- greatly benefilc.l from .Me. Sun’,' nlmo.-t every ra-y in the .Slate, r.,.,, ,^,,1 j-,Charles Briggs, thirty thousand miles, there were eleven thousand mile.s carrying siifficient traffic and icm!i-ring sorviie to llie point llir Ilighway Commission holiev- eri it was economically feasible ti) pave them. lJuring the two-year iieriod ending Juno 30, twenty-four hundred miles of Secondary Roads wore hard.surf.oced in I'l North Carolina. ’I’his i.s an ac coiiiplishment 1 believe the Highw.'iy Commi.s.sion has a fight to point to with consider able pride. In ev^ory. one of.-the, ,oiio.,}uin-, (IVod countie.s'of this st.nto, there has been a .sizable Secondary Road.s Program in iirogress Yon. as County Commi.ssioner.s, aio familiar vvilh llie formula for alloeatiiig’ .Secondary are re.si.lenti.il rommuhi-Tom Briggs more tie.-! g nerally known -suh-' of Kill Di-vd Hills, who is uork-. year.s appro.vimalely the .same amount of money for .Secondary Roads construction and improvement that wa.s available in the past two year.'. On a thirty-thousand mile .sy.stem of unpaved roads, with eleven fbousnnd miles in need of y yonrs wo have not!bvi.sions Ihe.s.; aie thickly ; ,„ovi„g piclme--, and vvho .settled, hor the mo.st part, the' j ..tic.s l'va.s m Honolulu making the firs stiem.s or mads are unpaved on Roaimk.; I.s ‘'''I' '"/"""‘I and being outside the city limit.s, ■: ).„„i h,- .s—- -i.lt .. K''*''’-'!’ >>u?iiics.s men. immediate iiaving, and twelve hundred niile.s being paved each yt2ar,.-it migbt-:tp|)ear to some who .are not aware of the basic .situation that we are .speedily closing the gap and reacliing the jjoint where addition.al paying I will not be no.cos:sary nor de- Roads, [jy (iio.se Iniiig' on im- Primary Road )irogram. In thi.s lengthy period, only a small part of our twelve hundred iriilo.s of Primary Roads have been re built or modernized, Prinntry Highways that were adequate in 1940 arc not ade quate today. There are three thousand miles of Primary US and NC niimhercd liighways in Corlh Carolina .still in i eonstriirtion and improvement! pave.! roads. I donht, howevc , fund.s. It is on the bii.sis of un-jir (hose of .you who sit in your ' 'meetings niorth after month .ind list(.‘n to Secondary Roadsjp)jj..,tQ(j-|))-ohlem, but one of tin. paying demand.s and complaints, contributing factors is the in adequacy and outmoded con- WtHAVE^lf! the beautiful new teen and eighteen-foot class. Many additional thousand.' of mile.s arc twenty to-twenty-two feet. No .surfaced highway less Hum twenty-four feet-i.s safe and adequate for today’s traffic. The d.'eth toll on the high ways of this Slate is high. .More than onc-lhousand jicoplo lo.se their lives every year. 'I'lie total continues to creep up and up and III) Thi.s i.j ;i tragically rom- have reached any such conclu sion. Tile fact i.s tlitit if wc are c.itching up at all, it is at a .snail’s pace. ' 9’ho over-riding factor in thi.s whole situation is that North CaiMlma i- ing State dition of our Primary System. Traffic accidents are at least four limes as-high .on our. six teen to tweni.v-four foot Pri mary Roads as they are on a iirogressive, grow-1 foui'-laue controlled access Our economy is cx-lio:id.s Stated another wav; Our panding. We have more people |lnlorstato mid they are buying more carsilune.s and System wvtb f.iur complete control of and driving more'miles. Qncijviti-icbpgs,and qur_’,own roads built was a car for each faiuil.vl-'rhen'tii interstate standard.', produce we advanced to the two-car‘perl'less than tweniy-fivo jier cent -• in.anf the traffic each family stage. Now in fnmilio.s there i.s a car for meniber. 'rraffic on Nortii Carolina higbw.iys is increasing sluirply tern locidents that the .'ante minihor of mdes would jiroduce on- cur .sixteen (o twenty-four foot Primary Sys- OIL HOME HEATER with the minctB of suMer FLOJIR HE^! INNER lERT WES rnotmWmonmsmnm Z4mgla8ting CAST WOH^ CONSTRUCTHm Long lasting PORCELAm FINISH yi ar by year. .As twelve liundrcd miles are paved tmnually, bmi- dreds of other mile.' arc increas ing in traffic to the point they must bo con.'Idcred for paving also. Do you, as County Commis- At Ica.'t for the pre.snnt, we will have to accept the existing width and alignment on mo.'t of our Primary S.v.'tem. The ques tion then ari.'es, “Are we even maintaining and protecting the present riding surface ha.se of road.' sionors. see any sign that would j ^be_ I’riniary System roatia in indicate the pi'e.'suro for paving "bich the people of our atc.tc Secondary Roads is leveling off ? inve.slcd billions of dol- If there is anv one .section of The answer to this iiuc.'- the St-ite or ' oven one 'iiiele' wou'l have to be a resound- cmmty vdi’o,^ the doilid fo^■ -N'?. 've.aro ,.ot protecting impi-ovoment and bardi-urfaciiig maintaining it’ of rnnd roads is tapering off it ba.s not come to Hie attention of the Highway Commission. The fact is, the demand for more and more Secondary Roads I Our engineering staff has become so alaiiiied at the con- .'lant do.'truclion of the surface of our Primary Roail-S that wc are now making a survey into wlien added to the Highway .System, are .secondary loads. Tliere aie Ihoii.sand.s of miles of these street-roads. 'i’hose subdivisions, or a major portion of them, ai-c real estate development.' which have come into heing since World War 11 The Highway Commission can not get into the development of it i,s .- - >o .Minne.'ola Sejitember 9 . 'and hi.s death came on Septem- '“^'■ jher 14. Funeral service.' will be Aorfolk.- ya.r.lo j- Alnnkaio ' some time duties as -ph.v.s.cal week'. sler. .AH.'.' Nat Ibis week for rc.sume hor !elue;Uion teacher at Old Doniin- on College. On .'Saturday .'light after the) Ktheridge family to APiiiteo, they e ‘ ’ Uie deptli of the damage which paying IS coming from more and been done and the lina mountain.' are within leal estate, but iieiHier can cpntinuc'to-turn a deaf ear to , tens of thoKSiUnds of it.s taxpay-j, ing families who are demanding j'' relief from dust and mud. | Just a few million dollars-ma.v ^ wc e.sliniale fifteen to twenty-; Would go a long wa.v toward a | fair .iiid ei)uilable sohilion to; till.' subdivision contro\ersy. The mileage, in comiiiirison witli tlu-l hollies involved, is eomparative- l.v smal). ’I’he .subdivision street.', generally, have sufficient width •A great many families could be served by shorter mileage. If, by.any .cb.niice, .llmie .'hould be a lioad Bond I.s'siic in ihe next Admiiiisti-Otioii; I - would have to stigge.st Hiat fifteen to twenty million dollars be ear- inarked f-ir the judiciou.s paving of tUickl.vi:,x.'ettlcd subdivi.'ion .streets. -!-ih Iiurricdly’;'^-' how,'^' tbis;.2,'final item: - - ,-^1; d-, - - Aliiny of North Ciirolina’s finest natural ieso>,irccs are imdoveloped hecaus'o there are no roads lending to Hiem. It may he the highest wnterfnll oast of the Rocky Mountnins in one of Oiir woslorn most counties or the most beautiful undeveloped sea shore between .Atlantic City and Daytona Beach in our easlcrn- Pio.'t county, or it may be fifty other imdoveloped natural re- soui'ces in the counties in be tween. Tlu'ro is scarcely a coun ty in the State whore lax valu ation could not he increased, employment raised, and needed income made available if the Highway Commission jiU't bad limited fund.s for these develop ment jiroject.s. .Alay I give an illustration; Skiing i.s one of the fastest, growing recreational sports in America today. Our North Caro- thal Mrs. Ralel’s father-in-biw A fisherman took an ll-inch had reti.irned rainbow trout from Gencssee received word, Lake in Wi.'consiti. Upon open- NEW Powerful Thermo Thrust Blower. Thrusts the worm otr for out into the room ... at floor level. Moves •p to twice the air voiwntc. NEW Decorolor Base. Beauty from Ihe floor up. Prac tical, loo . ^ . cosy to clean under. NE\W Coppertone Finish. Irghfer,- gayer — in keeping with the trend cwoy ifroM dark, bulky furniture. FPOITI $179 95 THE MPwTtpflJ"llflftfl* RKCnNCV OAS ARC A HEATCHS^ Louis Sidol of Mnnkato, had ir.g it, he found tranmed with drowned while the P.iicfic lit the intestine six pigarfiltc 'wimming; filter tips. “Filler feedback',”(noi ANDMAR GAS & APPLIANCE. Inc;^ Honolulu, (louht.—Sports Afield. IPHONE 473-2531 MANtEa'k'C?' j more people month b.v month. AA’ith a considerable road con- I stnieiion program in progress | , in Hie Secondary Roads field, wc _ _ _ ... . ‘ are d.iing no better than bolding and. wlien all factors, ScP -iuibcr. AVe do funds funds which would be required now to protect the mvc.stnicnl in the Hrimary Uoiids. That sur- completed in our owi 1 arc taken into consideration, iti '.is extremely doubtful if wc arej° , r ' now they will add up to tens of not know the amount needed, but wc know j even maintaining that position. , I’here is another problem in MANTEO FURNITURE COMPANY Phone 473-2131 . MANTEO, N. C. ^ . , arc. not available for tlie needed our U.ghway Commi.-,.'ion oper-muiutaining and ation where the interest of the CouiT.y Boards of Comiuission- Pi-om the year North Carolina ers is onl.v slightly lo.'.s^ than its m.as.sive Second- Secondary Rbiuis, that twelve thousand veai% sufficient funds Iiavc not and NC numbered' Pninaiyrt^^.^j- , Imainlalii our Primary Road North Caro.ina s original up-j |,;jve been forced to nroiic.li to Highway buiU mg be-' „( ginning m the early 1920 s, was needed, and two where three were needed. More over, we liave been forced to place a lower type of re.'urfac- ing because of the lack of fund.s. We have delayed re.stirfacing one, two, and even throe years or longer where the need was very great. A clo.so observer can see this all over the State, It is not sound Highway prac- tic, but what can the Highway Commission do when funils arc not avail.ablc? This is our most critical and domandiiig I'oad problem today. One Ilf these days the General A.s.sembly, the .State Highway CommisRion, and the people of North Cafoliha’ arc going to have to face up to the Primary Road problem and that “facing- up” day cannot, mu.st not, be too far .in the future. .... I shall mention only briefly at this time the iiroblem of city day’s drive of our heaviest cen ter.' of population. International skiing inlci'osts are suiweying our mountain peaks, the highest in Knstern Anioriea. In this county, where we arc at this n.oment, plans are already on the ihnuving boards and in the millions of dollars and the. funds blueprint stage.' for a five to free PICKUP and DEUVERY ON YOUR PRESCRIP’nON NEEDS! Jusf pick up the the phone . . . give ui a call . . . we'll promptly pick up,,your prescriptions . , . and return them speedily . . . you get top-quality and fair prices too! See.-Us,Alsq,fcr„Ail Your Needs,in Cosmefic.s, Patent Drugs and Sundries . . . Everything to Be Found in A First-Class Drug Store. GARWiOOD PHARMACY Opposite Mantoo High School Phone 473-2020 W. B. FEARING, JR.—Proprietors—CARLYLE FEARING fifteen million dollar .«Ui lodge and related development. , Wc; know the develo)imoul inlere.st's b.ave capital to move ahead. What Is the problem? , ^ ' Tt ii finding one-half to‘three quartoru- of a million .dollar.' of Highway funds to .buiid .an.-ac- cess,road. S'ou may be, asking in yoi'tr mind at Ibis moment. “Is the lliglnvay Comnii.'.'ion .'o ."hort of fund.' that it cannot find one- half to three quarters of a mil lion dollai-s for sucli a worth while development?” My an.'wer to that qne.stion would be, “We miglu find one- half to three quarters of a mil lion dollar.' for this one develop ment project, but llien what wouUl wc do for the two dozen other project.' just ns wdr'-hy and just a.' desirable?” The Highway Commission ha.' no funds for purely development purpo.'cs, but such funds must be provided. 11 simply is not good business to fail to ilevelop the natural resources which a kind and'generous Creator has placed in our State and in our lumds. This demand for natur.al re source, development funds is an other area' of rcspoh.'ibility that._ could very well be included streets on the State Highwayshould a lliglnvay Bond l.'sue bo .Sj.'tein These arc points of onr considered in the years im- greatest traffic congestion, mediately ahead. Widening and rebuilding high-* w.ay streets within the hundreds of muncipaUtiea of the State is Renew Your Subscription ' •>! ■ iAV s . f *■ yy.l- At'". . fiS .‘'x -J. ’*-5 V Kt - U y -h “H- ‘ • ' • - ■'rr A ,0 SI-CS ■-.K" if? ( i THE COMPLETE COLLEGE WARDROBE INCLUDES A PLANTERS NATIONAL CHECK BOOK AHend fo the business side of college this year with a Planters National Checking Account. It's so quick 'n easy to open an account at Planters, and you’lLhaye a, handy/ecgrd of expenditures plus cancelled checks for proof of Best of all, you — and Dad — can make deposits in your account regu larly, using Planters National's postage-paid Bank-By-Mail service for exfra con venience. ENJOY PLANTERS NATIONAL SERVICES OFTEN! Th* PLACE fo BANK ...and SAVE WCMBEH FEDERAL OEROSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (Formerly The Bank of Manfeo) Planters 'Mational I M Bank and T L Bank and Trust Company -D- -is'i rtl -y v; >' ' ’fe'- •1 '4k*Jr ii ! I MANTEO—NAGS HEAD—HATTERAS OFFICE AT BUXTON
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