Smyrna times., 1921-03-23
m BUILDING PROGRAM
|aLT A KNOCKOUT BLOW"
/, ,WARE SENATE YESTERDAY
l,c RILL FOR APPROPRIATION
Work Thru Smyrna Suffers
r,is Roads to Flemings, Leipsic
r,,tOu & Maryland Line Held Up

r.,tOn & Maryland Line Held Up
8o.l,uare's comprehensive road
ssnc program, as we'll as much of
SYSTEMATIC highway construction
med by the three counties was
\ knockout blow by the Della
Senate yesterday by the defeat
bill to appropriate the necessary
, Unless the Legislature
,oDiates S25O,OOO as a nucleus for
,aee of S3,OOO,OOO of highway
BY the State Highway Commits
the State-long road system can
he finished and the construction
Sate-aid roads by New Castle,
and Sussex counties will have to
,bandOned. The Highway Commits
has asked for the S250,0OO ap-
dation, as that amount will ena-
u he commission to issue $3,0OO,-
q If bonds, the latter amount being
Ssary to join up the main arterial
M highway links not now under
Lad, and also to match New Cas-
Kent and Sussex counties expen-
es for State-aid lateral roads to
4 into the main State highway sys-
from all parts of those counties.
is known generally to good-roads
wstes, General T. Coleman dupont
Of his own pocket, is paying for
main highway from Selbyville, at
\ Maryland line, to Wilmington, a
ance of approximately 100 miles.
cost of that construction is not
ming out Of the State treasury, and
81 imposes no tax burden upon the
spe or the communities. 1t is a
to the State.
ldng of Links to State Highway.
b State Highway Commission is
Ing with State funds the so-called
I'm route from Dover to the
and line at Delmar. Part of that
IS under contract, and part is
be contracted for and built.
pm Blue Ball to Talleyville, in
ate also has built part of the
wine Hundred, New Castle
and desires to extend it to
Amsylvania line. If any money
d the commission desires to as
least, in rebuilding the Lam
pike from Wilmington to the
zglvania line. 1t is estimated
it will require about 100000 to
the State Highway links not now
nacted for and necessary to join
continuous system the length OF
Nate. For State-aid to New Cas-
Kent and Sussex counties, $780,
Will be necessary. Kent and Sus-
0unties have authorized bond is
Of S1,000,000 each for State-aiC
4, and New Castle county has au-
med 100000 for State-aid roads
means those counties specified
lded the State appropriates an
amount to those counties, as sci
d in the law.
hTay Needs State Aid to Complete
me only way the State Highway
mission can match the expendi.
g Of the three counties in theil
Ae-aid projects is for the Legisla.
70 appropriate $250,000 to the
mission as a basis for its bond is
: Il such an appropriation is not
u, State Highway construction
Ad have to stop with completion Of
sections now under contract anC
SIate-aid projects would have tt
aOandoned in the three counties
Levy Courts or Highway Com
SONS Of the counties would mo-
anead with their State-aid pro
: IOr roads across those countie.
ae reason that the Highway Com
sIOh would have no money will
va 10 aid the counties, and towns
communities that are not con
.0us to the main State Highwa!
~ De deprived of the good road
ulg TO and through those town
y OInerwise would obtain shoul,
legislature appropriate $250,00O
'e Defeats State Highway PlaI
'ue senate yesterday defeated tn
s'pnatlon bill for the State High
anu means that good roads hav,
uelayed indefinitely. In the ac
" 'ne Senate the comprehensive
sa"ay program of the State of Del
~ was dealt staggering bloy
1e prospects of completing thi
lam We're for a long time, shove,
\ sollhe Inc bill would have appropri
M g1OO'VOO a year for 40 year
Ie general funds to take car
smDIa uS amounting to S3,5OO,OOO, t
49, see the highway project. TIL
ou9 a,.I delivered by the Senate ais
s,r. Ous !, state aid to counties an
sos.s 'ne several roads which w. {
uv0a er was advocating out 0
III namely the Thoroughfar
,ryl. -elpsic and Kenton roads
8tsiv 'na Z, line, will be held up indef
~. ihe original bill was kille