McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 07, 1930, Image 3
Thursday, August 7, 1930
McCUKMIUK M&SSENGEK, McCORMJCK, SoufM CmrtHm*.
Low Bidders Given
On Road Projects
McCORMICK COUNTY TO GET
NEW BRIDGE OVER ROCKY
CREEK
Bids on 164 miles of standard
concrete paving; 56 miles of sur
face treatment, 64 miles of grading
and 15 bridge projects—all to cost
approximately $5,250,000—were re
ceived July 29th in Columbia and
were as follows:
Marlboro county: For paving ten
miles of Route 30, Bennettsville to
North Carolina line, Simons-May-
rant company, Charleston, for
$205,539.
Georgetown county: For paving
12 miles of Route 40, from Santee
to Sampit river, Roberts Paving
company, Salisbury, Md., for $267,-
694.
Colleton - Dorchester counties:
For paving 8.6 miles of Route 30,
from St. George to Edisto river,
Powell Paving company, Winston-
Salem, N. C., for $280,442.
Abbeville-Greenwood counties:
For paving 13 miles of Route 24,
from Anderson county line near
Hoifea Path to Hodges, Pennell and
Harley, Spartanburg, for $288,214.
Chesterfield county: For paving
11.8 mQes of Route 1, from CheraW
to Patrick, Pennell and Harley,
Spartanburg, for $264,222.
Horry county: For paving 13
miles of Route 40, from Conway to
Pee Dee river at Yuahannah, Rob
erts Paving company, Salisbury,
Md., for $36^324.
To Richland iLine
Fairfield county: For paving
13.6 miles of Route 21, from Winns-
boro to Richland county line, Pitt
man Construction company, At
lanta, for $280,418.
Clarendon county: For paving
10.2 miles of Route 4, from Mann
ing to Summerton, Pittman Con
struction company, Atlanta, for
$235,883.
Colleton county: For paving 11
miles of Route 30, from Walterboro
to Edisto river, Davis construction
company, Atlanta,, for $247,886.
Georgetown county: For paving
21 miles of Route 40, from George
town to Pee Dee river, Roberts Pav
ing company, $510,915.
Lancaster - Kershaw counties:
For paving 17 miles of Route 26,
from Lancaster to end of paving
in Kershaw county, Pittman Con
struction company, for $403,922.
Kershaw county: For paving
5.9 miles of Route 28, from end of
pavement via Boykin's Mill to Sum
ter county line, $159,674.
York county: For widening three
miles of Route 21, from Rock Hill
toward Fort Mill, Stacy Brothers
company, Lancaster, $26,015.
Lexington county: For paving 14
miles of Route 24, from Batesburg
to a point near Fair View Cross
roads, Pittman Construction com
pany, $292,245.
Beaufort county: For ' paving-
four-tenths of a mile of Bladen
street in town of Beaufort, Epsy
Paving Construction company,
Savannah, $12,144.
Allendale-Bamwell-Aiken coun
ties: For surface treatment of 49
miles of Route 28, from Allendale
to Savannah river near Augusta,
Carolina Road Surfacing company,
Greenville, $291,792.
Marlboro county: For surface
treatment of 6.7 miles of Route 1,
from Route 9 to North Carolina
state Line, Harwell brothers, Co
lumbia, $62,046.
DTnion-Newberry counties: For
grading 15 miles of Route 176 from
Union to Enoree river, Chandler
brothers, Virgilina, Va., $107,794.
Bamberg-Orangeburg counties:
For grading and sand claying a
section of 15.5 miles in length of
Route 78, from Bamberg to
Branchville, J. F. Cleckley, Cope,
for $83,285.«
Greenwood county: For grading
15 miles of Route 10, from Salak to
McCormick county line. C. M. Mc
Kenzie, . Abbeville, $75,992.
Horry county: For grading 17
miles of Route 40, from Route 38
to Green Sea, Brantley and Crav/-
ley, Banks, Ala., $86,013.
Calhoun county: For widening
three reinforced concrete bridges
on Route 2, between Lexington
county line and St. Matthews, Pal
mer Construction company, Flor
ence, $6,398.
Three Bridges
mm
Milder, yes-but something more.
Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying
flavor.
BETTER TASTE—that’s the answer; and
that’s what smokers get in Chesterfield in full
est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow
tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended.
Better taste, and milder too!
© 1930, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
$29,222.
Saluda-Newberry counties: For
construction of bridge over Saluda
river on Route 19; sustructure, C.
Y. Thomason, Greenwood, $9Q,833;
superstructure, Roanoke Iron and
Bridge Works, Roanoke, Va., $16,-
355.
Saluda-Newberry counties: For
construction of a bridge over Sa
luda river, on Route 392, near
Chappells; substructure, George A.
Tomason & Company, Greenwood,
for $102,420; superstructure, Ro
anoke Iron and Bridge Works, $16,-
855.
Chesterfield county: Construc
tion of two concrete bridges over
Big Fork and Rocky Creeks on
Route 35, between Pageland and
McBee, Paul Gilmore, Spartanburg,
312,295.
Rocky Creek on "Route 43, Palmer Prosperity Broughton Leonard
compa
ite
ny,
Florence,
Construction
$7,291.
* Lancaster county: Construction
of six bridges on Route 97, between
Great Falls and Liberty Hill, Palm
er Construction company, Florence,
$28,687.
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Scholarships In
State Schools Abbeville.
Baker, Ridge Spring.
Winthrop College, extended an
other year—Grace Pruitt, Abbe
ville; Emily Talbert and Carrie M.
Mayson, Edgefield; Jessie Bonner
Lipscomb, Marjorie Putnam and
Frances Bradford, Greenwood;
Clara Lee McComb, McCormick;
Doris F. Crouch and Ruby Mae
Hipp, Saluda.
On examination—Marnie Reese,
The State Board of Education
yesterday awarded scholarships to
various state colleges.
Winners in this section are an
nounced as follows:
Clemson, four-year scholarships
—John Baskin Gibert, Abbeville
Bamberg-Orangeburs counties: “ on ^ oe J°" ce -
Construction of two concrete
bridges on Route 78, over Edisto Ed S efielcl ’
river,
Tenn
Johnston; Daniel Preston Griffis,
Fred Parkman Bailey,
Injunction Brought
Prevent Collection
Of Tax On Radios
Laxity Or Ignorance
Causes Accidents
(The State, July 30)
CHARLESTON, Aug. 1.—Sheriff
J. M. Poulnot and the South Caro- ,
lina tax commission were temper- statewide road bonds South Caro-
arily restrained from collecting the lina had issued - “ Is the bond is-
Governor Sees
Bond Victory
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PREDICTS ELECTION OF MAN
FAVORING ROAD PAPER The cam P ai S n *0 reduce automo-
;bile accidents, started by President
Hoover, and supported by the cas
ualty insurance industry and other
private and public organizations,
can achieve its object only with the
aid of two things—public interest
and co-operation and moderniza
tion of our traffic laws.
So long as the inexperienced or
incompetent are allowed to drive
automobiles, accidents will con
tinue to rise. So long as our traf
fic regulations are inadequate and
unenforced, we will be powerless
to cope with the problem. Too
many drivers regard traffic laws as
something to be evaded. Not
enough of them are interested in
sue proving satisfactory to the tax- having their officials change out-
Satisfaction with the state wide
road bond issue of $65,000,000 will
be overwhelmingly sustained by
the election of a governor friendly
to the road building program, in
the opinion of Governor Richards
as expressed yesterday in reply to
an inquiry from The Texas Tax
Journal.
The governor received a tele
gram from this journal, which r>ays
it is opposing a large bond issue in
Texas, asking what amount of
R. H. H. Blackwell, Kingsport, Robert Steer, Clipjon; South Carolina radio tax by an - - ^ ^ t
., for $104 523 Archie Andrew Langley, Plum order is S „ ed today in the United P a y ers as an economic method of moded laws m favor of codes tha.
Greenwood . county: Construe-’ Branch: ona - year scholarshi P- States court by Judge Ernest F. financing, building and maintain- are adequata to deal with our mod-
tion of overhead bridge over South- ^ ugeaic Traynhom, Ware Shoals; c 0C ; lrane a fter a hearing on peti- lng the highways?” it asked.
em railway between Donalds and. W „ row t L * ndle f’ ® alu ff‘ „ tion filed by attorneys for radio
Hodges, on Route 24, C. Y. Thomas-L ^“PP 01114111 ® 1148 t0 clemson for station WBT, Charlotte, N. C.
son, Greenwood, $13,175. | tne next sessi on—L. W. Drennan, . “The legislature of South Caro- better traffic conditions but the
ChpstPrfiPid IftWv 0™**-™,* !McCormick; D. T. Kinard, Ninety! ' . ^ lina recently passed a bill author- accident rate nevertheless, con-
tion rf two ^ ~ six: obeci McMillan. Saluda; W. R. ilvirk White Ke- izing the issuance of $65,000,000,000 tinues to rise because the increas-
Thomn-nn* nrp o ™ l Ridelhuber, Greenwood; J. W. Tal- 1 ^ statewide bonds for road buildi«v?.! big volume of traffic outruns our
Thompsons creek on Route 9, near bert M( £ onnick; N< E> Wat son,
Chesterfield, C. Y. Thomason,' 3ra(il
Greenwood, for $34,009. i ^ y ' ^ j 4. *
I Recommended as alternate for
Greenwood - Laurens counties: ; one -y e ar term—T. C. Chalmers, Jr., " 1 "" 1 — A 1
Construction of reinforced concrete Newberry.
Citadel, four-year scholarships— of White’s mother-in-law, Mrs. ing under a statewide program is, unchanged. ,
Walter Bussey, near Clarks Hill is rapidly progressing, relieving un-j If the present trend continues^
bridge over Saluda river on Route
ern congested, high-speed traffic.
In reply, Governor Richards wir- In the words of President Hoov-
ed: cr, “There has been much effort to
leased Oil Bond The legislature was sustained by efforts/' In the past ten years
— the supreme court of this state and millions of new cars, capable of
Kirk E. White, charged with the that of the United States. great speeds, have appeared on the
slaying of Fred Mims of Augusta j “Ten millions of this amount have highways, while our regulatory ma-
! on Monday, July 28, at the home already been issued and road build- chinery has remained practically
25, near Ware Shoals. Wannamak- £> E Mahaffey, Laurens. ^ , ^ ,
Colleton county: For construe- er aPd Wejls, Qrangeburg* $98,000. ^ University of South Carolina, at liberty under $1,500 bond. The employment and tending to stab- | automobile accidents will soon cost
tion of three bridges over Little, Williamsburg county: For con- fourryear appointees^-Grace Wine- order granting bail was signed by ilize business conditions. us a billion dollars a year and will
Salkahatchie river on Route 64, struction of four reinforced con- brenner, Mountvifle, John Donnon Judge C. J. Ramage of Saluda and | “The statewide bond issue in my take 35,000 or more lives annually.
Clement . Construction v company, Crete bridges oripolite‘26, one-near Wjfherspoon, Jr., as alternate, the bond was signed by E. R. White judgment is proving both econom- That is a terrible price to pay for
Charleston, fpr $2^211. Kingstree and three between Cross Hill; ^Alice Rucia Abercrom- and H. M* Freeland. Mims died ical and satisfactory and will be nur layjty nr ignnrappp in
York county: .For constructingmng^tree ^pd Andrews, C. T, Felix, bie, McCormick. while being carried to an Augusta overwhelmingly sustained by the traffic. A pni^d, active public
hridjg^ oyer Fisliingvcreek between/Co^fnbia, for $32,250. University,^ hold-over appoint- hospital after the shooting and election of a governor friendly to consciousness is necessary to re-
Hill on Itypte £1, •^fcjfonoick.jOMuaty: For con- meats—Geo. Cowan Dean, Green- White immediately called up Sher- the program in the approaching duce the increasing toll of deatha
Chester and Rfc
C. Y. Thomason, Greenwood, for struction of concrete bridge over wood; Bennett C. Badenbaugh, iff W. T .Strom and surrendered. Democratic primary."
and injuries.