The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-07-15
|ERNST'S HIGHWAY
STAND MYSTIFIES


The following article in the Courier
Journal is Of vital interest to Big San
'dy people:
Frankfort. KY, July 12-Mountain
Republicans are undertaking to"smoke
OUT Senator Richard r. Ernst, Cow
ington, on the Federal Highway bill
as prominent Eastern Kentucky
mefuber OF the Republican party said
while here. He says the Senator is
suspected of being influenced by Gin
cinnati sentiment In favor of the
Townsend measure for the c0nstruc-
Etion of Federal Highway links be-
tween New York and San Francisco,
and Chicago and Miami to the despair
Tor intra state Federal aid projects in
Kentucky and elsewhere.
| The Ohio Road Commission Is said
| to be one of the few state bodies sup.
porting the Townsend Bill. Ohio,
| Pennsylvania and several Of the large
Eastern and Central Western statee
would acquire some magnificent aufo'
mobile boulevards under the Town
/ send plan. 1t is said.
All the Kentucky delegation, except
ling Mr.. Ernst are said to favor tho
| Robson bill, the compromise House
Measure. which takes the name of the
| Eleventh District Congressman and
provides for the CONTINUATION OF the
present projects.
Many Projects Waiting.
Mr.. Ernsts supposed attitude IN OPP
| position to a bill fathered by a Re-
publican Congressman from his own
State has added to the zeal with which
| Kentucky highway enthusiasts are
-
ator where they stand
| Some Of the mountain projects.
with local money partly raised and
waiting action Of Congress for work
Ito begin are:
The entire Mayo Trail up sandy
i Valley from Ashland to Pilzeville, al
Iready financed locally; the cross
Imountain road, connecting the Mid
Island at Mount Sterling with the Mayo
Il Trail at Paintsville. giving Menifee,.
Morgan and Magoffin an outlet to the
railroad, and financed with bond Isl
sues as far as Magoffin and Johnson
: are concerned; the road from Win
chester through Powell, Breathitt and
IPerry to Whttesbure, end the south
ern mountain route from the Dixie
Highway at Corbin by way Of Bar
D 4 u0ulefllits 4 iIit LIN -tttf't-+t -+'t'~
Whitesburg to the Mayo Trail at Pike
|. willie. l-
The Ohio River Road from Paducah
to Louisville. the Midland Trail from
Ashland to Wickliffe. the jackson
Highway from Louisville south into
Tennessee, and the Central Highway
land Dixie Bee Line in Western KEN
lucky are Federal all projects now
e partly under construction.
Robson Bill Strongly Backed.
The Kentucky State Highway Com
\ mission has indorsed the Robson bill
which passed the House Farmers or
eanizati tiops maintaining headduarters
at washington. are backing the Rob-
e ison bill They assert that automobile
manufacturers are backing the Town
IS send measure and that the proposed
transcontinental highways will be de-
a lightful for pleasure tourists. Ihs
farmers slogan in support OF the Rob-
d ison bin, however, Is farm to mark
let highways first"
These organizations are soliciting
lpetitions to Senators and Congressnef
y lin behalf Of the Robson bill. Delega-
tions from a. score Of counties who
q have called on the State HishWa,
Commission to learn when Federal aiS
i projects they have been told 1t depenQ'
ON the action OF Congress.
It Naturally the feeling is more in:
tense in Eastern Kentucky Mr. Robi'
son lives there, the people are Repub.
llicans and SO is Mr.. Ernst. Moeeovet
a they are locked In about nine months
Of the year by bad roads, remote from
= railroads and paying enormous over