Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-07-16
WILD SCRAMBLE
OFCOUNTIESFOR
|. FEDERAL FUNDS
EDUETHORSDAY
Only Tenth Enough
Available To Supply
Wants.
SUMTER ON JOB
TO GET A SHARE
Slices Now To Be Small
But More Is
Expected
ATLANTA, July Especially

ATLANTA, July 15-(SpeciaO
Delegations from every section of
Georgia are in Atlanta for the meet
ing Thursday of the State Highway
Department, when $2,190,000 of fed
eral road funds will be apportioned
to the counties qualified to receive
it. The offices of the commission and
of the chief engineer are crowded
day and night. It is almost impossi-
bic to get the ear of the state high
way engineer, w. R. Neal.
Forty counties of Georgia are pre-
pared to absorb S2O,00O,000 of fed
eral road money. Since only $780,
600 is now available, there is going to
be merry scramble. Some counties
are to be left out entirely, it is said
around the capitol building. Those
counties that have been apportioned
funds and which have not yet taken
advantage of these funds will not
be granted additional funds at this
time. Other counties that have Sc
cured very large sums in previous
apportionments will be left out in the
cold on the 14th it is rumored. It is
said however, that these counties
have delegations and will put up a
terrific fight for funds at this time.
Sumter County on job
Lovelace Eve, who is here repre-
cnnfinnr tho
sioners, secured conference Tues
day with State Highway Engineer
Neal and Federal Engineer Cross
man. Present at both these confer
ences were Joseph Hawkins and his
associate, Knox Thomas, highway en-
gineers in charge of the Sumter coun-
ty project. Every effort was put forth
to secure favorable recommendation
of the Sumter county road projects.
Mr.. Neal lunched at noon with the
Sumter county representatives
Mr.. Neal said that in April Geor-
gia led all of the state of the union
in number of road projects submit
ted and accepted by the federal road
department. The month of May was
almost as good, for Georgia tied Ohio
in leading the United States IN road
projects submitted and accepted.
"They used to laugh at me in
Washington" Mr.. Neal said, when
| went up there and said something
about building roads in Georgia. Now
they realize that Georgia is making
greater progress in its preparation
for hard-surface road building than
any other state in the union.
Leading in Mileage
Georgia is also leading in actual
mileage of road projects submitted
to the Federal government for its
o. K"
Judge ]. A. Hixon and Judge R.
L. Maynard, the two other represen-
tatives of Sumter, will arrive in At
lanta Wednesday morning, and will
interview the members of the State
Highway Commission. Judge Hixon,
Judge Maynard and Mr.. Eve viii re-
main in Atlanta until after the hear
ing Thursday 1t may be late in the
afternoon before Sumter will be
heard from. It is the plans Of the
commission to throw down the bars
and let every county delegation pre-
sent its claims, it is said. The coun-
ties will be called in alphabetical
order. Sumter is away down the list
and may not be reached until late in
the day
at now looks as if any county that
gets $4,000 out of this apportion-
ment will be lucky county" an Of
ficial said Tuesday This road build
ing program has gone far beyond
our fondest dreams. Every engineer