The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 01, 1919, Page 3, Image 3
$30,000,000 FOR ROADS A YEAR.
Governor Cooi>er Will 1'rge a Law
Extending Over Six-year Period.
Speaking before the county supervi*
sors of the State, Governor Cooper
expressed the hope that South Caro\
lina might be able to spend $20,000,000
a year for six years in the construction
of permanent highways.
"I realize." said the governor,
"that if I had made this suggestion
10 years ago that you would have
thought that I was crazy. But the
war has taught us to think in bigger
terms. We have seen the sum of
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in subscriptions for war pur.
poses. Why cannot the State spend
$120,000,000 in six years 011 some
thing so vitally necessary to its future
as improved roads?"
The governor declares that if South
Carolina is to keep pace with the
other States of the nation it must
build permanent highways. Men are
not coming to South Carolina and
buy farms on unimproved highways
when they can go to Georgia, Florida
and North Carolina and buy them
on improved highways. The governor
says quite frequently you hear of
a prospector coming down from
Michigan or some other State and
looking over a farm with a view to
purchasing. He leaves after the trip
of inspection and nothing else is ever
heard from him. The bad roads have
knocked the chances of selling him
any property in the head.
Governor Cooper says the solution
of the race problem lies in attracting
more white settlers to the State. This
cannot be done, he says, until we
; have built better roads.
The governor told the supervisors
that he expected to ask the State
highway engineer to have three bills
prepared. One would provide for a
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and maintained by the State. The
second would provide for a county
system of roads, built, owned and
maintained by the counties. The
third would provide for roads to be
built by the counties but with State
aid along the same line as the aid
extended to the weak schools. These
bills, he said, he would submit to the
members of the general assembly fin
their consideration.
Confidence was expressed by the
governor that the next general assembly
would provide funds for the
construction of permanent highways,
and he urged the supervisors to begin
making preparations this year
with this in view. He urged them
not to start on something too expensive,
something that they could
not keep up.
GIANT SHIP JUST MISSES MINE.
Leviathan Narrowly Escapes Explosion
Off New Foundland.
, New York, April 27.?The giant
' tvnnn ohir* T^viflthnn with 12.000
soldier passengers, the last of six
transports to arrive here today,
bringing in 22,972 men, missed a
mine by only 30 feet while off the
Grand Banks of New Foundland
Tuesday morning, her officers reported
when she docked.
; Officers of the ship said that the
ijeviathan had been warned to look
crut for a floating mine the day before
by the transport Mount Vernon,
which had preceded them. On receipt
of the radio warning the course
of the Leviathan was changed and
she sailed nearly 100 miles to the
southward of the location of the
mine as given by the other transport.
^ Infernal Machine Sighted.
The floating infernal machine was
sighted dead ahead of the transport,
the officers said, at 10:30 a. m. by
Lieut. Commander Harold Cunningham,
who was on the bridge. Quick
thinking and quick action was all
that averted a collision. A desperate
whirl of the wheel sent the great
steamship past the mine with margin
of safety of 10 yards.
None of the soldiers aboard knew
until they had docked how close they
had been to danger, for the officers
kept the incident to themselves, believing
that if it became known it
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DIARY OP LIEUT. BRUCE.
(Continued from page 2, column 1.)
solving problems. The entire division
is billeted hereabouts in what is
called the Chatillon sur Seine Area.
Dec. 18. Grancey.?Hurrah! We
are getting leave, the first batch leaving
today. This is certainly a muddy
town. We have band concerts on
Sunday, in the Plaza, opposite the
church. All the Jeune filles come out
^ and flirt with the soldats.
-V Dec. 25. Grancey, France.?Xmas
Day. Our thoughts are homeward tori?
v. Packages from home. Oh. vou
chocolates.
v Dec. 31. Grancey.?New Year's
; Eve. Everybody's making all the
noise they can. Resolutions are being
formed that will remain unbroken?until
tomorrow.
EDWIN C. BRUCE,
First Lieutenant United States Army.
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