The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1934, Page 3

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1984 NEED HUGE AMOUNT T0 COMPLETE ROADS UNDER WORK RELIEF} Highway Department Estimates $2,744,000 Still to Be Spent in State Estimate of funds needed to com- plete improvement projects in 30 North Dakota counties under the fed- eral public works relief highway pro- gram was placed at $2,744,000 in the annual report of the state highway de- partment. The program embraces 296 approved Projects totaling 1,050 miles of road construction from Oct. 1933, to June 1934. Listed are 484.20 miles of grad- ing and surfacing on 162 projects; 415.9 miles of surfacing on 114 pro- jects; 150.75 miles resurfacing and miscellaneous on 20 projects. The department of state highways undertook supervision of the program of road work known as the national recovery work relief projects follow- ing a meeting of representatives of the federal relief commission and the bu- Teau of public roads with F. A. Vogel, chief highway commissioner, on Sept. 25, 1933. Special allocation of money for this Program was made from national re- covery funds for the states most severely affected by drought. A survey of relief needs was made by the federal relief committee to group counties of the state in accord- ance with the urgency of their needs. Human, animal and seed relief were taken into consideration. Government Pays Cost The bureau of public roads was pro- vided with funds from which to pay for materials, team and truck hire, and other items that could not be ob- tained from relief lists. This became known as the 30-per-cent fund be- cause it was stipulated that the cost of the items to be paid from it must not exceed 30 per cent of the total cost of the project. Labor for these projects was to be supplied from the relief rolls of the various counties and instructions were sent to engineers and county officials connected with the work, listing regu- lations and requirements for work on. telief roads. “Work programmed for each county was based on an estimate of relief needs,” the report said. “Enough work was laid out to provide a chance to work out the amount of money es- timated to be needed to care for all relief needs until next summer. Only relief needs were considered, not un- employment. The primary purpose of the program was not to build roads, but to employ a maximum number Expert Sees Chance for Come- Back by All Except Fi- nancial Pirates ARMY TO QUIT IN SUMMER Service May Obtain Old Jobs Once More This article is the last of a ser- ies of four telling of the history of the airmail, its romance, its amazing progress, and its scand- als, revelation of which may deal a serious blow to the industry of aviation. By E. T. PYLE Washington, Feb. 20—(#)—When all the airmail contracts in the Unit- ed States were canceled, the big ques- tton arose—What now? To take care of the immediate emer- gency, of course, the army will fly the mail, until some sort of permanent Plan is worked out. The army will not carry passengers. But most of the present airlines have announced that they will continue their passenger services until they see definitely what is going to happen. Many of the present operators ex- pect to get their contracts back. Some of them probably will. The government, already roundly criticized for taking a step that eas- ily could lead to the loss of America’s domination in air transport, has no Hettinger A 974 (x) Not definitely decided. ‘of men at something that would have at least some value to the com- munity.” CWA Became Substitute “Although the program was started late in the season,.a great deal of good was accomplished, but during the latter part of November a nation-wide Program was started called the Civil Works program, far broader in its scope and more satisfactory to the Jaboring men in that it provided cash payments for work instead of relief orders and unemployed men not on the relief rolls could be given em- ployment.” “All NRWR projects have been ap- Proved by the civil works board and were continued as before except that labor was obtained from the re-em- ployment manager in each county and paid for by the CWA. The engineer- ng supervision and standards of con- struction on the NRWR projects re- main unchanged but lower type con- struction of highways was permitted on CWA projects not under our super- vision. On these, however, we could not pay for any items out of our 30 per cent fund. “W. J. Brophy, a resident engineer on construction was called into the mnain office and has had general sup- ervision of the program for the de- partment of state highways. The NRWR program, while hastily con- ceived and placed in operation with the utmost speed, will result in many miles of better roads in North Da- kota.” Data By Counties The U. 8. Public Works Relief high- way projects in North Dakota by coun- ties, showing estimate of funds need- ed, number of projects and miles of toad, follow: Estimate Total Total of Funds Pro- Mile- County Needed jects age Adams $51,000 5 150 Billings 20.5 Bottineau . 675 Bowman 22.0 Burke 05 Burleigh 16.5 Cavalier 18.0 Dickey .. 57.75 Divide . 35.5 Dunn 175 Yes, Sir! Bill—The old car’s safe for the family again, and those two front tires cost me $1.00 each. How? Just go to Gamble Stores and you can get your 2nd tire in each pair for only $1.00 more, DON’T FORGET TONIGHT Warnes DANCE THE STAG Too Late to Classify HAVE your HAIR and SCALP ex- amined by Mr. Harrington, a U- censed Dr. Parker practitioner of hair and scalp trouble. Examine- WINTER Airmail Outlook Is Held to Be Bette 5,000 Workers Who Gave Good) jget out. | ABUSES WILL END When the new companies are or- ganized, they will be operated under jthe most rigid governmental super- | Vision so that there will be no monkey- | thought of wrecking the entire system. | business in the future. And the method of pay will be changed, with pay probably greatly ireduced, so that there will be more | On the other hand, officials are service with less cost to the govern- j Working madly in Washington right’ ment than now. now, holding dozens of conferences} Some congressmen feel that the sub- daily, trying to figure out a workable sidy itself is an evil, and that pay for plan to keep the air transport system | airmail should be for service rendered, ! SEEK WORKABLE PLAN going. and no more, as it is on the railroads. There are three or four possibilit- | tes: : | MUST PROTECT WORKERS 1—Permanent government opera-| An interdepartmental committee tion of both airmail and passenger 'here in Washington daily is thresh- lines. But the government is not’ ing around through scores of sugges- considering such a step as this. | tions that have come in. There are at 2—Holding to the letter of the law | least a dozen sound, probably work- that none of the ousted contractors /able plans for permanent operation can bid again for five years, and turn- ing all routes, through competitive bidding, over to entirely new contrac- tors. $—Reorganizing all the present com- panies, and then giving their routes back to them under strict government supervision. ARMY CUTS MILEAGE Just now, it appears that the pic- ture will shape itself up something as follows: | The army, when told to take over the mail, laid out a reduced airmail map of its own. Under that plan it would fly about half of the present , airmail mileage, covering all the trunk lines. Very shortly a number of feeder routes would be turned over to inde- | pendent lines (lines which previously have carried only passengers), these contracts to be arrived at either by bidding or private agreement. As soon as possible, Postmaster Gen- eral Farley hopes to have. in a com- bination of army and independent airline service, more airmail mileage 32000 7 320 | being covered than at present. Kidder . 48,000 «6 «(19.5 24000 «8 13.5 GREAT SHAKEUP CERTAIN 81,000 11 53.0! ‘That will hold things until the gov- 40.000 5 9.5 / ernment works out a permanent plan. 72,000 6 16.0) Tt will lose no time on this. It hopes 64.000 7 =©42.0/to get it done before Congress ad- 97,000 18 53.5| journs. probably in May. Therefore. 80,000 13 31.0) it is 8 good guess that the army will 16,000 2 11.0/not be flying the mail longer than 24.000 868 = 8.3] June or July. 48.000 4 616.0} What seems now to be the most 32,000 17 25.2) likely course for permanent operation 40,000 = 7 = 27.2) is a combination of possibilities 2 and 97,000 7 30.0;3, given above. In other words, some 81,000 4 40.5/of the lines will be turned back ,to 32,000 6 «= 7.0 their present contractors, after the 000 5 145]companies have been reorganized 64,000 13 35.5 |thoroughly and renovated, and the rest 16.000 1 6.0) will be let out to entirely new com- 97,000 (x) (x) | panies. 48,000 86 21.0) But all will be very much different 32,000 1 = 17.4] than it is now; not in outward physical 241.000 18 62.4] aspect, but in the business end. 7.000 9 47.6; The men and the money that have corrupted air transport and brought its H ‘CHOKING is like turning on a foucet in your carburetor... GET GOING FAST —And End This Costly Waste of Gas When you pull out the choke all the way you pour out gasoline, very much as though you turned a faucet. The effect is similar to opening your carburetor to the widest point with a ecrew-driver. That is costly waste of gasoline. For it uses up 2 to 20 times more fuel than does normal operation. Excessive “Choking” may be necessary with your present fuel. STANDARD'S 1934 GASOLINE REDUCES AMOUNT OF FUEL USED IN STARTING, 30% TO 50% Not even gasoline os fast stert- ing as Quick-Fire Superfuel can overcome the talon-grip of oil made heavy and sticky by eub- zero cold. Here's the way to cut down your engine's work tre- mendously with real savings: NEW WINTER GRADE (sO=vIS “D” The Anti-Sludge Meter Ou, 10-W Pours at 20° Belew Zere 20-W Pours at 5° Belew Zere AT ALL STANDARD OIL STATIONS AND DEALERS, ALSO DISTRIGUTORS OF ATLAS TIRES AND BATTERIES AND STANOLEX FUEL being considered. Ne sist on the protection as far as Possible of stockholders of pres- ent .companies, on the holding together of the network of survive. They want to preserve the frame- work of the system now in exist- ence—the people and the physical assets. They find nothing wrong with that part of it. What must go are the politicians and financial manipula- tors. OTHER PLANS CONNED One of the dozen plans being con- sidered would split the country into six divisions, have each division oper- Place a government-picked man—pos- sibly, even, a government employe— at the head of each line. Another calls for buying up all out- standing stock of every existing line, reissuing it in a new company, and turning the stock over to employes of ary each employe was drawing. Another plan, though providing that the mail again should be carried soon long government-operated line, to use the other lines would have to gauge themselves, FUTURE NOT 80 BLACK among the severest critics of President SHORTE COLD PROVED BY 2 GENERATIONS @ Starts Cold Engines Faster . . . Catches hold almost im- mediately when you punch the starter — cute down chance of flooded carburetor = ated entirely by one company, and) the old line, based on amount of sal-; by private contractors, would keep one ||} Just as a yard-stick for costs by which |i The feeling in Washington, even | present disgrace upon it will have to Roosevelt's blanket concellation of | road in 1933, according to the annual contracts, is that the future of air transport isn't as blue as it seemed at first. It is now felt that the government is determined not to wreck the air transport system, but on the other or five months from now, the airmail jagain is being carried by private com- panies, the majority of the 5000 em- ployes still will be holding their jobs. Only the boys who used aviation as a stepping stone to unethical riches, and whose acts brought on the charg- es of fraud and collusion, will be out in the cold. 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