Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-29
MEETING CALLED
Charlotte Wilmington Mill
tary Highway Conference
to be Held at Rockingham
Sept. Oath.

A conference of delegates from
each of the 40 or more" counties
between Charlotte and Whining
ton, through which the proposed
Charlotte Wilmington military
highway will pass, has been call
ed for Tuesday, Sept. Oath, at
Rockingham, and an endeavor
will be made to secure an attend
ance of from 1900 to 1000 dele
gates from the counties affected.
Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, director
of the highway bureau of the
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce,
is leading the movement.
Rockingham has been selected
as the meeting place because it
is a convenient point between
Charlotte and Wilmington. And
right here let us state that the
visitors here Sept. Oath will be
most cordially welcomed, and
they will be properly entertained.
Local committees will be appoint
ed in a few days, and other
arrangements completed.
The plan is to build a concrete
highway from Charlotte to Will
mington, the Government to pay
half the cost, the state a part and
the counties affected the remain
der. At this conference, a per-
manent organization will be
made. Senators Simmons and
Overman have been invited; also
Governor Beckett and State En-
gineer Falls; the latter will
exhibit a blue print of the route.
The following is a call issued
by the Mayors of the towns and
the chairmen Of the various
county boards of commissioners,
for this meeting:
whereas, at the annual convention of
the North Carolina Good Roads Associa.
citation held at Wrightsville Beach August
s, 1918, a resolution was unanimously
adopted by said convention calling for
the immediate construction and building
of military highway as national neces-
sity for military purposes from the city
of Charlotte to Wilmington. N. c., and
Whereas, this proposed road received
the unanimous endorsement of the North
Carolina Association of County Commits
sioners in convention assembled on the
18th day of August, 1915 at Gastonia, N.
c.; and
Whereas, we believe further that the
construction of such highway is imper-
alive to aid, develop, and promote the
agricultural and industrial interests of
the state and nation; and
Whereas, the construction of said road
is an absolute necessity in order for the
state and nation to fully realize upon and
develop the military, manufacturing, in
dustrial, and agricultural interests of the
state and nation, on account of the great
developments being carried on at Will
mington, N. C., in the construction of
ship yards, building ships, and making
said city port of entry, in order to build
up the export and import trade of the
south seaboard states and the trade of
the nation with the South American
countries, and to maintain adequate
national defense;
Nov, therefore, we, the undersigned.
representing in our official capacity, the
counties, chambers OF commerce and
boards of trade, and cities through which
the proposed military highway is to be
built and constructed, from and to the
points above named hereby solemnly call
upon, urge, and request the citizens
herein interested and hereby affected to
duly appoint their accredited representa-
tives to meet at the convention to be as
sembled in the county of Richmond city
of Rockingham, N c., on the Oath day of
September, A. D., 1918, to do, undertake,
and perform any and all such matters
and adopt such measures as may be nee
essary to put into execution and carry
to its immediate conclusion, the construc-
ton and building of the aforesaid military
highway"