Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-13
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Editor News:

enjoyed your editorial of last Monday entitled
Where We Stumble" And 1 agree with your position
that all roads should be planned that they will lead
to Rome"-I mean Paatka.
Like yourself, have always contended that in the
Of road building school support and other matters
of county fob which bonds to be issued the
county should be the unit mistake was made when,
in Difference to public demand law enacted at Tai
ahassee opening the way for the organization in the
counties of special tax districts, both for roads and
bridges as well as schools However, it rather late
now attempt to remedy; though if remedy attempt
ed it seems proper that should emanae from the
county seat.
Pardon me- however, if I dissent from this statement
in your editorial.
1T is said by some of those who should know that
the present condition arose because of jealousy Of
Of the other towns in the county, sections that thought
that Palaka wanted it all They couldn't see that what
helped Palatka helped the entire county They didn't
want to bear their fair share of constructing hard sur
faced roads from Paatka the county boundary lines to
connect up with the good roads built by other counties
der the county unit plan"
Pardon me- but some one has been "joshing" you.
One of the first special road districts formed IN Pu-
ram county was the Paatka special tax road district The
limits of this district not suggested by people living
IN those "other towns in the county which you accuse
Of jealousy The plans for the Palatka district with
lis limitations were the offspring of the organization
which was known as the Paatka board of trade the pre-
ccessor in organized municipal activities of your present
Business Mems Association The "other towns, of the
county had no hand in the planning and neither were they
consulted Palatkans in this matter worked solely IN
short-sghted manner for Palatka, leaving the other
towns" to their own devices to make connections with the
Paatka roads
Well some of them have made efforts and have fail
3D. Others are trying. The Rodman failure was most
lamentabe but not due to any neglect on the part
the people of the district but solely because the then
board of county commissioners failed to exact GOOD
and SUFFICIENT" bond from the contractor who failed
The Crescent City section compelled to utilize the
real tax district system in order to connect with the
Paatka district road which stopped at San Mateo,
the. ebv generously p leaving three miles of Hatwoods
read from San Mateo Dunns Greek without basis Tor
organization owing to lack of taxable values.
Crescent City, Pomona, Lake Como, Satsuma, Wela-
Ea according to your reckoning belong in that Jealous
other town. class but you mistaken in thus caaloug-
ing them. They but followed Palatka,s lead. In fact
there was nothing else for them to do if they secured
road.
It NAV be too late to ever unite these districts but
it 81 not too late for Palatka to jump in and help IN
building that road to McMeekn through Francis, Hollis
fer Mannvile Interlachen Keuka, Edgar and Johnson
Palaka ought to get up it's hind legs and hoer Tor
that road it ought to spend money for its construction
# is an mporant feeder for the city and the SECTION
NEEDS HELP and NEEDS 1T NOW.
Very truly yours,
W. A. RUSSELL.
Crescent City,