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Thursday, June 21, 1928 CUairman Jones Outlines Road Building Program A Connected System Of Hard Surface Highways And Per manent Bridges By 1931 The Pay-as-you-go state road act authorized the construction of a con nected system of highways an< bridges and designated the highways to be constructed of hard surface o all year round type and those oi soft surfaco dr d:*y weather type. This act and the nr '+' pooled the state's apportionment of federal road buildirg funds, three cents of the present five cents gas oline tax and the motor vehicle li cense fees for the purpose of (a) operation t*f the State Highway De partment, (b) maintenance of the constructed highways and bridges as a state unit, (c) allotment to con struction work in the counties of the state of the balance of the special funds mentioned based on the esti mated cost of the state highway sys tem within the respective counties. Should state highway construction be carried on under this plan with only the current highway funds the system of connected highways would be completed i n 18 to 22 years, de pending on the annual increase in the amount of construction revenues Tw<j cents of the five cents gas oline tax is distributed by the State Treasurer direct to the counties and in proportion to tho motor vehicle revenues of the respective counties. For instance, if the motor vehicle license fees received from owners liv ing within Greenville County are six times larger in amount than the fees paid by motor vehicle owners in Colleton County, Greenville County will annually receive six times as much from the two cents gasoline tax as will Colleton Cpunty. Where the gasoline is purchased has noth ing to do w th the distribution of University Of South Carolina 'tcCORMJCK iv#/uva/SA <»# Me COR to • itnu Page Number Two Scholarship And Entrance . Examinations Dr. D. M. Douglas, President Cblumbia, S. C. Examinations-for award of vacant scholarships in the University and for entrance will be held at the County Ccurt House Friday, July 13, 1928, at 9 a. m. Applicants must be 16 years of ago. Scholarships are vacant in the fol lowing counties: Abbeville, Aiken, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, COl- 1 e t o h , Darlington, Georgetown, Greenwood, Jasper, Marion, Newber ry, Orangeburg, Richland, Spartan burg. f Applicants for scholarships should write to Committee on Normal Scholarships for application blanks, to be returned by July 10th. Schol arships worth $100 plus tuition and term fees. Next session will open September 19, 1928. Summer School Faculty cf 50, offering more than 100 courses for teachers, superinten dents and principals. Many graduate courses. Degrees conferred at end of summer term. Full information upon application to Director of Summer School. THE CITADEL The Military College Of South Carolina Vacant Schol arships A vacant scholarship in McCormick County will be filled by competitive examination to be held at the coun ty seat ch Friday, July 13th. Appli cants must be at least sixteen and not more than twenty years of age, and must meet the educational re quirements for admission to the freshman class, which are a certif icate from an accredited four-year high school, covering fifteen units, or an equivalent examination. This scholarship covers tuition, board, hospital, laundry, room, and an allowance for uniforms. The Citadel is a liberal arts col lege, offering electives i n civil en ginering, science, language and lit erature, and business administration. It has an excellent military sys tem, having been rated by the War Department continuously for many years as “distinguished military col lege.” An inspector says of it: “It is so superior in all its meth- dds, it must be classed alone.” It provides thorough physical traning of all students under com petent supervision, and encourages all athletic sports. '' For catalogue and Wanks, write to, COL. O. J. BOND, President, The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. Mie tax. Counties dos’ring to do so may ob- ain earlier construct on cf roads and bridges thar. the slower method provided in the Pay-as-you-go act by advancing con~truction funds to the highway department under a so call ed reimbursement agreement, or con tract, whereby the department agrees to refund the advances annually in such amounts as the department would have expended in the count es in the orderly process cf its con struction work, or program. In order t.i obtain the funds to advance to the department, counties pledge the so called reimbursement agreement, o: contract. They have the privilege of using their share of the two cent gasoline tax to pay the interest on the funds thus obtained. The effect of such financing 5s that the coun ties may secure the earlier use cf the reads and bridges by paying the interest charges on the cost cf the construction until the highway de partment can repay the counties the principal sum, and, in so doing, they have the privilege of usisg their ap portionment of the two cents gaso- oline tax to assist them in paying the interest. The current construction revenues t'f the highway department in 1927 v/cre approximately three million five hundred thousand dollars, whereas, the construction contracts awarded by the department were in excess of severtec n milion dollars. Counties and combinations thereof delivered to the department millions of dollars for highway construction under the reimbursement plan. This method of financing is no longer an experiment. The investment buying pubic has full confidence and faith in the obligations. Four and one- half per cert bonds issued against the reimbursement agreements ate bringing substantial premiums. But, notwithstanding the wonder ful progress the State is making in road construction, cf wh : ch all South Carolinians should be justly proud, I am much concerned over the fact hat the present plan of the distri- bul on of construction funds for wo:k n the various ccu .t.es, and the al rtment of the two gasoline tux— ^Gth fixed by law—will .of accmp ish what is highly dee red the carl: •ompletion cf a system of connecter irpendable type highways, unless o» the purpose of pay mg ir.torcei kaij,*es, thirty two c-unties of tht tate resort to a property tax tc upplement the amou.it of the two cents gasol nc tax new goirg. to them. I cannot defend the legislative designated system of state highways in ts entirety. I know it includes ma y roads of relatively small state vddo importance, roads placed in the tate highway system by keal pcl- t.e.ans seeking local political pres- igc. However I do say that the mo- o. vehicle revenues are sufficient, intelligent financing/* and a proper grouping of the counties to co. struct a connected state highway system of all-year-round, hard sur- aee, dependable reads and perman- nt bridges. Some cf the ccur.tier sce-ve mo: c than a sufficient amount, f the two cci ts gasoline tax to pay he entire interest charge oa al unds necessary to build the entire •' ate system within such counties; ethcis, where the roads, are equally important receive only a very limit ed amount of this {ax and ccnse- que. tly can dc very little towards advancing funds for earlier const:uc- ion without levying a prohibitive oiopeity tax to defray the interest charges. A study of the subject shows the counties least able to stand th: because the owner lives and has hi automebde lice.^scd in aparticula: county that its revenue should be re turned : n whole or in part to that paiticu’ai county, as is now the cas< with the twe cents gasoline tax. In certain counties are to be fount a larger number of cars cx adjoin*r: counties than the number of its ow: oars, due to the fact that the ad joining counties have a larger num her of vehicles, but in some cases 'ess road mileage. And because * f the fact that such cchirty or ecu. t es are geographically located sc that travel must pass through them n going f.'om center to center can it be reasonably argued that thet less fortunate and poorer countie: should advance road constructic funds and absorb the interest charg es tor the use and benefit of the au tomobiles of the adjoining wealthie and more prosperous county or coun ties ? G.'antirg that with a grouping cf the courties :*rr road consti-uction purposes there wall be a contribu tion from counties having the larger number of automobiles to the coun ties with a lesser number on ac count cf the fact that the two cents gasoline tax new going to certain counties is in excess of the amount mecessary for road construct on in such counties, and fc*r this reason a contribution is made to the building and maintaining cf highways in oth er counties, is it not right and prop er. Counties I ke Charleston, Rich land, Greenville, Spartanburg, Flor ence and a few others in the State are thriving and have progressive cities and industrial centers, and these cities and centers can survive only by rapid and adequate means of transportation and communication. Such centers should not object to the building and the maintaining of a connected state wide system of high ways from the license and other au tomobile taxes without- reference to county lines, and particularly through the less favored and less prosperous section of the State, be cause the build';.:g of an adequate connected state wide system of de pendable type reads ard permanent br’dgcs will contribute largely to the wellare and prosperity of Ike larger communities. In order for the larger centers to grow they must have a country backing, they need chc intercourse and cordial trade re- latio. sh.p with the country talks, and th's they cannot secure except through means of Iran-portation. ft should be highly important to -•I"a: ieste]! County t hat sufficient irghways be constructed through the counties of Berkeley, Will amsburg L orvhestcr, Ge rgetovvn, Horry, Col leton, Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Eanawell.. Bamberg, Allendale, and ether count.ee in that section of thc- State, whore prose.:t share -cf the cwo cents gasoline tax will not per il.t cf the ea. ly advancing cf fund, to co..stiuc a connected system ol lard surface h’ghways. Likewise, it s importanit to Richland County that dependable highways bo built through Kershaw, C*.ester, ield, Lex-ng.on, Samda, Edgefield. Or angeburg, Caihoun,. Fa.rf ield and Chester Cour.tiex. Greenville and ipniaai burg and Anderse n Count.os need the early completion of the state highway system in P.cker.s, Oconee, Abbeville, McCormick, Laur ens, Union, and other counties of small interest paying ability. And I assert without fear of successful contradition, that it would be highly selfish and manfestly unfair for Jbr Eemmmftfl ***•/»•« ^dtie Proof Is in the driving' & The COACH ‘585 The Touring or Koadste r . The Coupe ..... The 4-Door Sedan ...... !495 1595 1675 The Convertible $ Q C Sport Cabriolet . . 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There are seven beautiful models to choose from. - Removal Of War Tax Lowers Delivered Prices. MeCORMICK, S. C. QUALITY AT LOW COST if necessary, on account of its great er wealth To contend that because a county has a large motor vehicle registration it should have a large amount of the two cents gascline tax will successfully accomplish the much construction revenues for building hard surface connected roads and permanent bridges in these th’rte counties. An enlargcmert of the idea —interest paying tax—and that be cause a county has a small motor vehicle ; egistrat'on, it should have a co: responding small allotment <Jf iUch funds, is unsound, unless the travel of the automobiles is confined tc* the respective counties. In many of the poorer counties of the state the requisite read mileage is great er, and cn some of the roads the travel is heav.er tha n t is on some cf the roads cf the wealthier coun- t es. Jus' as the State ewes to every child cf the state, equal educational opportunities-, in just such propor tion, it owes to all sections of the stat" 1 the duty of constructing and maintaining a reasonably adequate, connected, dependable, all year trans portation systenr.t; and because of the them to insist that they are entitled fact that such through avenues of to receive the benefits to- be derived j travel afford accommodation to th3 from dependable, hard surface high- people living along them or close by a property tax for this purpose, with ways and permanent bridges through! them should not be used as an argu- ones those less fortunate counties and re- j ment against their early construc- tain any of the two cents gasoline ticn. On the other hard, it is un tax in excess of a sufficient amount'fair to the motor vehicle owner and for road construction purposes in user—those paying the special taxes those particular wealthier counties! —to apply the funds contributed for and thereby cause, in part, the cost the construction of road beds on any of the roads in the poorer counties, basis other than maximum Service to to be desired end and w’ll provide South Carolina with a dependable, connected motor transportation sys tem second to none in the United States. AiUborizcd to do so by the State Highway Commission, after a full discussion of the need of such con nected hard surface highways and the practicability of the suggested plan, I have appointed Comnrlsslon- ers Hearc-n of Spartanburg, Summers of Anderson, Grace of Charleston? McCuen of Laurens, and Wheeler cf Marion to assist me in placing ac curate information before the people cf the State with a view of working out some pla n whereby the connected system of hard surface, all-year- lound, dependable roads and perman ent bridges may be constructed at the earliest possible moment, and with the special,' fiends now being coni tributed by the motor vehicle owners and users. As soon as certain data s secured the committee will begin to actively function and will call for unstinted support from the press of the state, motor clubs, chambers of commerce, town, city, county and state officials, commercial traveler Winthrop Colie ge v. ; Scholarshri) And Entrance Examination vxry few exceptions, are the thus affected. It should be remembered that the funds for the constimction and main tenance of the state highway sys tem are special funds, and exclusive of federal aid, are derived solely, - - . . . ,. , . . , , from the owners and the users of 1 roads used and worn out b y travel the motor traveling public, hence the associations, hotel managements, motor vehicles in South Carolina,' from the said centers, to be home relative importance of the roads and good road groups, all civic o "gani- and therefore should be used alto-' b y a property tax levied for interest bridges to the motor traveling pub- zations and citizens generally, gether for the benefit of such tax P ur P° ses on tb2 * ess fortunate. lie should be one of the determining In such an undertak'ng for South payers. Traffic needs, present and The preference given in the distri- factors in planning any program of 1 Carolina the manifold and manifest prospective, is the only correct basis bution of the two cents gasoline tax, construction. for road improvement where the to- based as it is on the motor vehicle The gasoline tax receipts for 1927 tal cost of the improvement is paid registration of the various counties showed an increase of 11.46 per cent by the owners and users of motor of the State, is making the rich over those of 1926, and the motor vehicles, as is the case in this state. 1 counties richer and the poor coun-, vehicle income was 10.91 per cent, any section, tdwn or county isolates. Traffic count should be indicative as ties poorer. We have many counties more than it was in 1926. For the j its progress and development is cen to the measure and the order of in the State located in such manner past five years these revenues have improvement of the various sections that the automobiles of the adjoining increased approximately 15 pei< cent of highway. There is no contribu- 1 or near rich counties must pass annually. I am convinced that if tion to the state highway system by! through them, yet the counties them- these special funds annually increase any county, judicial circuit, or com- selves are relatively poor, their as- on U 5 P er cent through 1937, and i unto itself, and none should want to. binations thereof. The revenues are 'sessed valuations are comparatively remain constant thereafter, an adc-, C. E. JONES, ve-low. It is unreasonable to expect such quate, comprehensive, connected, j poorer counties to have an adequate state wide system of dependable, j system of transportation if the gas- hard surface highways and perman- oline interest paying fund is allotted en t bridges can be constructed by to them on a basis cf the motor ve- the end of 1931, and be completely hide license collections of those paid for without the levying of a poorer counties, when the county property tax on any county or group just across the line is perhaps five, of counties. S uch a system of ten or fifteen times wealthier, has highways and bridges can be con- several times the number of auto- structed by combining the counties The examinat’on fr-r the award of vacant Scholarships i.i Winchrop Col lege and for admission cf new stu dents w’ll be held at every County Courthouse in the State on Friday, July 6, and Saturday, July 7, at 9 a. m. This examination will be held whether there are vacant scholar ships or not; as vacancies may occur after the examination. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vac ant after July 6, they will be award ed to those making the h’ghe t aver age at this exam nation, providing they meet the conditions governing the award. All who wish scholar ships should attend the examination whether there are vacancies report ed or not. Applicants for Scholar- sh'ps should write to President John son before the examination for schol arship blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. For further information and catalogue, address President D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, South Caro lina. Clemson College Scholarship Examinations paid by each and every motor hide owner and user of the highways in the State, and very properly so; the motor vehicle owner uses the roads and bridges of the entire state system and should contribute to the entire state sytem. The travel of the motor vehicle is not confined to the county in which the mdtor vehicle is licensed. It is just as reasonable to say that the automobiles of one coun ty must not use the roads of an ad joining county or other counties cf ;hc state as it is to say that simply ! benefits to the people of the State will be sufficient glory for all who participate in its early consumma tion. The state cannot afford to have tingent in a large measure upon its ability to establish means of trans portation and communication. Neith er can any community or section live Chairman S. H. Commission. Batesburg, S. C. May 31, 1928. mobiles and no greater mileage of state reads to construct. The county w,th a large motor veh cle registra tion can more easily finance itself, into road districts, as was done in the Capital Highway District when the counties of Richland, Lexington and Saluda pooled the'r state road Scientists say that flies carry germs of typhoid fever, infantile paralysis, summer disorders and over thirty other diseases. Flies should be killed. FLY-TOX is harm less to people but sure death to mos quitoes, poaches, moths and bed bugs as well as flics. FLY-TOX is frag rant, stainless, sure.—Adv. Competitive examinations for the award of vacant scholarsh : ps in Clemson College will be held on Fri day, July 13th, 1928, beginning at 9 a. m., by each County Superintend- i ent of Education. These scholar- I ships will be open to young men sixteen years of age or over, who desire to pursue courses in Agricul ture and Textiles. Scholai ships are awarded by the State Board of Edu cation on the recommendation of the State Board of Public Welfare. Persons interested should write the Registrar for information and application blanks before the time of the examinations. Successful ap plicants must meet fully the require ments for admission. Each scholarship is worth $100.00 and free tuition, which is $40.00 ad ditional. Membership in the Re serve Officers’ Training Corps—R. O. T. C.—is of financial assistance. These examinations may also be used as credit toward admission in-* to college. For further information write—a The Registrar, Clemson College, S. C.