The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-06
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
PLAN FOR UNION CITY
Improvement in Schools, Public
Highways, Aviation, Etc.

Highways, Aviation, Etc.
What part Union City and obion
County are to play in the forward
movement of the reconstruction and
reorganization period was suggested
for consideration and action by the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen last
Tuesday night.
Many of our people will probably
awake very slowly, but thoy must
arouse themselves or be overtaken
by the current of removed impetus
and energy which is surely coming as
the soldiers, homeward bound, come
trooping in filled with cosmopolitan
enthusiasm and ideals. They will
come regenerated from the limits of
provincialism to the larger and big
ger things of the world, and they
will be imbued with the spirit of the
age.
Mayor PittmGn disclosed plans now
under consideration to establish
State and national aerial mail routes
and public highways as part of the
work contemplated by the Govern
ment in utilizing much of the army
equipment for civic improvements
and progress. The airplanes and
trucks in the different cGntonments
are to be assembled in units for use
in mail service and in the transpor-
tation of parcel post matter, etc. The
Government will proceed to estab-
lishment the aerial mail routes and
the public highways for this purpose
Plans have ClreGdy been matured for
the aerial routes and Government
| agents are now at work getting the
| proper data, etc., for this purpose.
Later on plans will be matured for
| the highways. The motor trucks
will thus be brought into general
use. And to carry out this work the
| Government will probably, at least |
these things have been indicated, |
proceed along the lines already pro-
vided for in the cnactmcnts for the |
public high ways. AS we understand |
it, in the improvement of the public
highways, Congress has provided first |
for establishing the routes and when
these routes have been adopted to
cooperate with the State and coun-
ty in the construction Of highways,
each to pay one-third of the cost of
imposed upon the counties, but at
the end of q period of six years the
Government again to participate in
the reconstruction of these routes.
Mayor PittmGn suggested and the
board adopted a motion to meet with
the County Court and cooperate
with that body in such measures as
will be deemed proper and essential
to take care of Obion County's inter
ests in these improvements. The
board as a body was therefore ap-
pointed as a committee to meet with
the members of the County Court.
Another very commendable step
was taken with respect to the City
Schools in a vote to appropriate funds
for the purchase of suitable chem
zeal laboratory for the high school.
This will be done at a comparatively
small outlay, including the proper
drainage in the laboratory depart
ment of the building.
A number of routine matters were
disposed of. One was the water
metre proposition, metres first to be
installed at the manufacturing and
business locations and then, when
the proper relation of the residence
section connections have been de-
termined, to proceed with that part
of the work.
1t was also decided, after a report
of the joint committee last week was
read, to keep the public library open,
the Board of Education agreeing to
supervise the work of keeping it in
order. A new teacher employed by
the Board of Education is also to
have the position of librarian.