The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 07, 1936, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
Bids Received
On 43 Projects
Approximate ly 150 bids were submitted
y?<Ht<>i <tay morning by contractors
on 43 South Carolina road and
bridge projects to cost approximately
$2,700,000.
The opening was ono of tin* largest,
bold in tlx; highway department in
several years. Many of the projects
were from the program outlined by
the state legislature at 11h 1036 session.
TTrgnway engineers said It involved
the largest number of projects
ot any single letting in the dc
partment's history.
Federal funds will be used on 38 of
the projects wholly or in part and
proceeds from the sale of $ 1,500,600
of state highway bonds will defray
in part the state's expenditures.
Ju the meanwhile K. II, lioyle of
Sumter, chairman of the state coptractors'
licensing hoard croate<J under a
1930 law, announced tlp^ "practically
till" bidders had compiled with a
provision of the act that contractors
bidding on projects ufter July 25 must
have licenses. The announcement apparently
dispelled a fear that the law
might affect the letting.
The low bidder on each of the projects
was announced as follows:
Greenwood county, the pHving with
plain concrete pavement, and curb and
gutter and sidewalk'work oti 808 mile
in the town of Greenwood on Hampton
and Greenwood streets, Routes 7
and 25, C. Y, Thompson Construction
"company. Greenwood, $73,315.
Lexington county, the widening
with plain concrete and curb and gutter
and sidewalk work on .764 miles
of route No. 1 in New ilrooklund from
the town limits of New Hrooklaml to
the intersection of lit. 215, J. W.
Ilarnwell, Jr., Columbia, $46,081.
Sumter county, the widening and
resurfacing with sheet asphalt of 13.4
miles- of Route 15 from Cane Creek
mill to the Clarendon county line and
from Wliite's mill pond to the Lee
county line. F Thompson, Char
lotte, N. ('., $236,1138.
liorchester county, the bituminous
surfacing or 5.016 miles of Route 64
from Ashley liver to Route 61 in
Summerville, r |j Tyler. Louisville,
Ky.. $18,070.
Anderson-Pickens, the bituminous
surfacing of 11.1 miles of Route 14
from a point near Three and Twenty
creek to the city limits of Liberty
and a loop road adjacent to lloggs
store; also widening oT a 100 foot reinforced
concrete bridge over Three
and Twenty creek, S. S. Newell and
company, Greenville, $137,837.
Allendale county, the. bituminous
surfacing of 5.2 miles of Route 38
from the north town limits of Sycamore
to the bridge over Rig Salkahatchic
river, R. 11. Tyler company,
Louisville, Ky., $18,578.
Aiken county, the bituminous surfacing
of 27.402 miles oT Route 215
? from the junction of Route 78 near
Aiken to North Edlsto river. L. M.
Gray. Gainesville, Fin., $167,320.
I3n rn well-Orangeburg, the bituminous
surfacing of 10.08 miles of Route
SO and alternate Route 3 from Williston
through Springfield to the Intersection
of Route' 3 northeast of
Springfield. Coastal Construction company..
Florence. $117,581.
Marion, the bituminous surfacing
o! 12.603 miles ot Route 175 from the
Potato I!e<! Ferry road to the Interseel
ion with Cnited States. Route 501
iie.tr Marion, lluhbartl Const notion
company. Marion, $04,074.
Spartanburg, the bituminous surfacing
>1 14 557 miles of Route 101 from
the end ot the present sulfating east
el Lreer tp Cnited States Route 521
at Woodruff. William F. Rowe. Jr.
Augusta. Ca.. $96.595.
Newberry, tin bit ominous surfacing
"f II ' miles ot Route 22 from tile
'' J " the bituminous surfacing at
tin N.-wh. rr> . oimiv farm to Rroad
river. M ,1(1 lougabl Con-1 no 1 ion companx
. Atlanta. Ha $133.7 43
Laiuasttr \ m k tin- bituminous surfacing
of I 61! utiles of Rout. 211 tn in
I I nit. tl States Rout. 521 to Fort Mill.
R. R I \Jcr company. $55.3m?.
Horry, the luttimiiious surfacing of
s25 m?b-s Ot Rom,, ft from Leris
oward Nixon's cross-roads, c. (J. Full
r, } Li 1 n w .11. $ luS.'Jes
K.rshaw. tin- bituminous surfacing
- ' 11.1 miles of Route 241 from the
<'it> limits of Kershaw to a point in
th. present road about 4 miles south
ast of Little Lynches river and from
about seven miles northwest of HeHiune
to the intersection with Honte
1 in Ret hunt'. William J. Howe, Jr.,
Augusta. Ga.. $142,774.
( hester-York, the bituminous surfacing
of 12.911 miles of Route 901
from the intersection on Route 9 byway
of L&ndo and Edgeniore to t'nlied
States Route 21 south of Rock Kill
with a spur leading to l^ando. Hardaway
Constructing company. Columbus.
Ga.. $90,570.
Marlboro-Dilllon, the bituminous
surfacing of 19.169 miles of Route 38
from Cottinghain creek, near Blenheim,
to Latqa, Hubbard Construction
company, $168,934.
Union, the bituminous surfacing of
3.9 miles of Route 9 from the inter^~
A--, %
11 ^?i?
section with Route 92 Ht Kelly to th^
intersection with Route 11 one mile
cunt of .JoncHvlllc, K, I). Hlonn, Greeni
vlli?-. $!8,183.
Colleton, the bituminous surfacing
of 18 0 in How of Route 21 from Bells
Cross RouiI.h to the Intersection of
Route 17 north of Yomussee, C. O.
Fuller, Ruin well/ $201,841.
Oconee, the bituminous surfacing
of I 1 miles of Route 181 rrom a point
about 2.5 miles south of Ueneca to
the Junction of Route 18, Oogory and
Poole, Virginia. Va,, $86,402.
(-Hlheun, the bRmiritmtt* surftteing
of 14.70 miles of Route 21 from the
Intersection of Routes 2 and 26 south
of ,St. Matthews to the Orungoburg
county line, Epsy Raving and Construction
company, Bavguiiitli, Ou.,
$126,224, .
Dorchester-Iieykeley, the bituminous
surfacing of 6.9 miles of route 64
from United Blatctl Route 78 at Sum.
morvllle to the beginning of the present
bituminous surfacing north of
('urne's Cross Roads, It. H. Taylor
company, $24,631.
Abbeville, the bituminous surfacing
of 2.16 miles of route 82 from u point
in the present road at Brown lee
church to a point about one-half mile
south of Latimer station, R. B. Taylor
company, $9,159.
I,aureus; the bituminous surfuclnK
of 4.9 miles of Route 39 from the Newberry
county line to Cross mil, RT UT
Taylor company, $17,157.
Darlington, the bituminous surface
ing of 2.865 miles of Route 763^Xrom
about 11 miles southwest of/Burlington
through Lamar, HoyR- Road and
Bridge .company, Sumter, $39,260.
Williamsburg, the earth surfacing
uf 2.0 miles of Route 171 from about
9 mile northwest of Suiters to the
Intersection of Route 521 at Bryun's
Cross Roads, W. L. Florence Construction
company, Powder Springs,
(5a.. $34,957.
Greenville, the earth grading of 1.7
tulles of Route 29 from a point near
Brushy creek to a point near the
Southern railway at the Greenville
Nursery, E. W. Grannls. Fayettevllle,
N. ('.. $68,035.
Abbeville, the earth surfacing of
.491 mile approaches to a bridge over
the Seaboard Air Lino railway west
of Abbeville, near Mars Hill, on a
country road, C. Y. Thotnason, Greenwood,
$6,764.
Kdgetleld.McCorinick Green wood, the
earth type surfacing of 7.3 miles of
a county road and Route-67 from the
Intersection with Route 43 to a point
near Callison, Boyle Road and Bridge
company, $72,293.
Horry, the earth sQrfacing of .452
mile of Route 90 and United States
Route 501, the approaches to the Atlantic
('oast Line ratlroud bridge at
Red Hill, near Conway, and the earth
grading of 1.6 miles on United States
Route 501, a relocation between Conway
and Red Hill, S. W. GrnnniH,
$65,696.
Dorchester, the earth surfacing of
4.5 miles of Route 54 from the Ashley
river to Summervillet J. F. Clockley,
Cope, $32,790.
Union, the earth surfacing of 1.14
miles of Route 7, a relocation from
the Intersection with Route 215 at
Carlisle toward Whitmlre, Concrete
Construction and Supply company, Columbia,
$31,292.
Barnwell, the earth surfacing of 2.7
miles of a section of a county road
between the Southern railway on
Main street in Barnwell and a point
near Toby creek, toward Denmark, H.
M. Taylor, Rtdgelnnd, $29,895.
Edgefield, the earth surfacing of 2.7
miles of a section of a county road
between the Southern railway on
Main street in Barnwell and a point
near Toby creek, toward Denmark, 11.
M Taylor. Ridgeland. $29,895.
Edgefield, the earth surfacing of
I.n?i miles of a county road from a
point near its intersection with Route
1 near Johnston toward Eureka. S
S Newell and company, Greenville.
$11N68.
Oconee, the construction of a 300toot
reinforced concrete" bridge on
Routt 1S1 ov?-r Coneross creek, near
St net.i. .1 \Y. Barnwell, Jr., Columbia.
$11,853.
Orangeburg county, the construction
of a 76-foot combination bridge
over Goodland creek, northeast of
Springfield on alternate Route 3. Palmer
Construction company, Florence.
$6,184
Kershaw, the construction of a 250foot
reinforced concrete and structural
steel bridge over Little Lynches
river, between Kershaw and Bethune,
j Palmer Constrm t Ion company, $15.815.
Calhoun, tin- construction of a 101foot
combination bridge over Flea
Bite cm k. about 1 5 miles southeast
of Cameron, on Route 31, Concrete
Construction company, Spartanburg,
$7,455.
Chester, the construction of a 350foot
reinforced concrete bridge over
Fishing creek, between the intersection
with Route 9 And Rock Hill on
Route 901, WannRmaker and Wells,
Orangeburg. $44,945.
Colleton county, the construction
of a 126-foot combination bridge over
Black creek and a 76-foot combination
bridge over Sandy Ron creek between
Bells Cross Roads and the intersec:
jfft
lion of Route 17 north of Yemassee,
Palmer Construction company. $12,532.
Abbeville, the construction of a 125foot
combination bridge over the Seaboard
Air bine railway near Abbeville,
on a county road, C. Y. Thomason,
Greenwood, $9,013.
Horry, the construction of a 137foot
reinforced concrete structjHfljd
steel and treated timber ^rTflge over
the Atlantic Coast bine railroad, near
Red Hill on Route 90, C. Y. Thomason,
$11,146.
Greenville, the construction of two
183-foot reinforced concrete bridgeB
over the Piedmont & Northern railroad
and two 242-foot reinforced concrete
bridges over the Southern railway,
between Greenville and Taylors
at the Greenville nursery. M. J. Carroll,
Ocala, Fla., $118,630.
Darlington, the construction of a
101-foot combination bridge over Newman
Swamp and a 226-foot combination
bridge over 8 par row swamp, between
Darlington and Lamar, on;
Route 763, Palmer Construction earn-,
pay.
NEUTRALIZING GAS
KILLS WAR VAPORS
..
New Chemical Given France
by German Exile.
Maria.?A now neutralizing vapor
which destroys I he effectiveness of curtain
recently developed German poison
liases capable of penotratlng uny
gits tnask Ik reported to have been discovered.
Thla elfy'i population Is
breulhlug cwi*l<hu?il4y- easier upon
learning the good news, write* Kdwnrd
Taylor In tin* Chicago Tribune,
'Ihe vapor Im scattered In the air
and it combats and neutralizes the
poison gas Immediately, Neither the
chemical formula of the vnpor nor
the names of the gases It Is Intended
to he. used against were rdvenled.
The discoverer I* a savant of a big
(Jciiimii university ,,f I'ollsh origin
who was driven out of Germany by
the regime of Itelchsfuehrer Hitler.
He has been working quietly In a
Paris suburb and recently communicated
bis discovery to the French
war ministry, declaring be offered It
free to the French people In gratitude
for the hospitality France showed bin).
May Take Place of Masks.
It Is hoped bis further Investigations
may reveal defense vapors
against other gases. Some cooipetent
scientists declare that the continued
. development of- neuiraHy.litg-gnaes may
thrust aside the use of gas musks,
none of which would he usable
against all gases, and the most efficient
of which would he utterly useless
against certain of the new German
gases
fine (ft the latter Is said to use an
arsenic base pnd to penetrate even
glycerin and nickel.
1*0ris earnestly hopes the n^w antigas
method ran tie placed on such a
cheap, practicable basis that general
distribution will tie possible, since
there is neither anything like an ude- j
quale supnly of gas masks In the
Paris area not the possibility of the
manufacture of a sufficient supply In
time to do any good
Find Defective Work.
As a result of the flood of gas
masks of private manufacture and of
nondescript types, many of them defective,
the government some time
ago forbade the stile of tiny but government
Inspected masks. In the meantime
designating only 17 centers where
tliev may he purchased.
The supply was utterly Inadequate
and It was declared that even if the
war ministry inspection staff worked
night and day the production of Inspected
masks would he negligible.
Curiously, some of the masks passed
Ivy Inspection were made in Germany.
Some quarters suggested that the government.
whether intentionally or not,
Is applying tjv^ philosophy of the vartlme
general. Mnxlme Weygand. regarding
civilians. It Is: "In case of
and nlr attack the best thing for them
to do Is get out of the city."
AMERICANA
A United States Senator branding
the District of Columbia's police court
building "a shame to the coutitry."
A marriage, ceremony being performed
while each of the contracting
parties is encased In a huge cake of
ice.
A rejected suitor kidnaping the girl
In the case at midnight in true savage
style.
New York City's police commissioner
asking the right to arrest jaywalkers
for their "protection."
A cabinet member being forced to
ride up and down in a hotel service
elevator in order to hold an uninterrupted
conference with an assistant.
A Washington man with a police
record of 33 arrests on charges ranging
from disorderly conduct to murder
going free on the last without)
a trial.
A boy of 12 being sentenced to 30
days in a Southern chain gang.
A preacher operating a gasoline station
as a sideline to get his church
out of debt.
The State Department using more
foreign than American clerks in its
Foreig^i Service.?Pathfinder'.
Rlrds have the highest body nvpevatures
of any creature.
MORE TOURI8T8 8EEINQ
EUROPE IN OWN AUT08
Washington. The American Automobile
association announces that motor
vacationing abroad is running
more than 60 per cent above last year
end is three times greater than the
1933 volume.
The statement was based on a report
made by K. <1. Sparrow, foreign
representative of the national motoring
body. Sparrow, whose headquarters
are in Paris, said that predictions
uuide early in the year-of a. record
breaking foreign travel season are being
more than fulfilled and that maintenance
of present levela for the rest
of 1936 would establish a new high
record in the number of Americans
shipping their cars across the ocean
for foreign touring.
"Never before," he said, "have European
governments offered bo many
facilities in inducements to tourists,
particularly those traveling in their
own cars."
The dead body of A. J. Harlow, well
known yachtsman, was found on the
estate of Mrs. Keld Fenwick, the
former Dorothy Duren of New Haven,
Conn., at Brlghtllngsea, England. He
had been shot,
A devil fish of an estimated weight
of 6,000 pounds, was brought to the
docks at Sarasota, Fla., after battling
13 fishermen in two boats for 16 hours
in the Qulf 'of Mexico.
Col. Krnest Udet, famed German
war time ace, escaped death Monday,
by a narrow margin, when the wings
of a plane he was testing in Germany,
collapsed in midair, and he had to
make use of his parachute.
Forest fires in the Little Rockies
range of Montana, which took three
lives and destroyed much timber and
other property, is believed to have
been tbe work of fire bugs.
Alvin Karpls, notorious outlaw, is
now in the prison at Leavenworth,
Kan., beginning his lifetime sentence
for the kidnaping of "William Hamm.
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Seven persona were killed when a
B. & 0. freight train was derailed at
Clay City, 111. Two of the dead were
railroad workers, the others were
transients.
Wiley H. Pickens of Llncolnton, N.
C., is the new commander of the
North Carolina American Legion, having
been elected to that post by the
convention at Aaheville.
The General Motors corporation has
closed its automobile plant at Barcelona,
Spain, indefinitely, due to the
Rebellion in Spain.
I Now is the time I
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I SMALL RATE OF INTEREST. A GOOD WAY TO
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