The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-07-11
HIGHWAYS
COUNCIL WILL CON,
Troll ALL ROAD WORK
Coordinated Governmental Agencies
Will Work to Avoid Delays
and Losses.

All VI
cies relating to streets and highways
hereafter are to be coordinated in a
body called the United States High
avs Council. composed of one rep
sentative each from the War De-
partmeat, the Department of Agri-
culture, the United States Railroad
Administration the War Industries
Beard, and the Fuel Administration.
Membership of the board follows:
War Department, Lieut.. Col. w, d,
Uhler; Fuel Administration, C. G.
Sheffield; War Industries Board, Ri
ohard L, Humphrey; Railroad Admin
istration, G. w. Kirtley; Department
of Agriculture, l.. W. Page.
These Representatives on June s Sc
lected Logan Waller Page, Director
of the Office of Public Roads, Depart
ment of Agriculture, as chairman,
and ]. E. Pennybacker, chief of man
agement of that office, as secretary.
Prevent Delays and Uncertainty.
The council was formed primarily
to prevent delays, financial loss, and
uncertainty incident to the method of
taking up each highway problem in
its turn with seperate and distinct
Government agency. 1t utilizes the
organizations of the 4S State high
way departments with their trained
3ersonel and their knowledge of To-
cal conditions and provides single
agency where all highway projects
calling for governmental action of
any character, whether it be ques-
ton of finance. OF materials, trans
portation, or of war necessity or de-
STABILITY, may be dealt with. All the
Government agencies represented
are concerned in highway matters.
The War Department constructs
hundreds of miles of roads in canton
ments and posts and is fire luently in
terested in highways connecting them
with cities and shipping points. 1t
is also interested in the through high
ways over which Government truck
trains are operated and any other
highway affecting any war activity
In Touch With States.
The Department of Agriculture is
intrusted with the administration OF
the Federal aid read act, which car
ries an appropriation of $85,O00,O00
for an expenditure of at least al
equal amount by the States in con-
junction with the Federal appropria-
tion. The Office of Public Roads al
so expends a number of smaller ap-
preparations under authority to make
scientific investigations and to give
out information concerning highways
In this educational work, as we'll as
in the Federal aid highway work, it
is in constant touch with the highway
departments of the As States.
The Railroad Administration can
influence vitality the construction and
upkeep of public highways, as vast
quantities Of crushed stone, gravel
sand, cement, brick, reinforcing and
structural steel and bituminuOus ma
terials are required to be transport
ed by rail. Shortage of open-topped
car equipment because of need for
shipment of coal coke, and ore has
made it seem necessary that less i'm
portant work may be postponed.
This has resulted in an order by the
Car Service Section of the Railroad
Administration providing for appeal
| to the Directors of tho Office of Pub
lie Roads, through the State highway
departments, where needs are urgent
and the local railroads can not han