Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-08-14
MCKEE ROAD
To Be BUILT
FIRST
And Then All State-Aid High
ways in Madison County, If
Special Tax Is Voted

The largest crowd that has at
tended a session of the Madison
Fiscal Court in many years was
present Monday morning when
the court voted to accept state
aid on the highway to Mckee,
Jackson county, and at the same
time voted to recommend a road
tax or bond issue for improve
ment of the other main highways
IN the county and for a citizens
committee to cooperate with
the court in handling the road
problems of the county.
This action was taken only
after extended debate in the
county court room Monday
morning when the road question
for Madison county was thresh-
ed out along every angle.
The Citizens Committee nam
ed by the court met at 2 o'clock
III the afternoon and voted for
2Oc road tax for a period Of five
years to be used for meeting
state-aid on every inter-county
project that shall be approved. A
committee composed of AIessrs.
Harvey Chenault, County Judge.
!. d. GoodIoe and County Road
Engineer J. G. Baxter was nam
ed to draw up and formulate
submission of the road tax ques-
ton to the voters at the Novem-
Der election.
The members OF the special
Citizens Committee as named by
the Fiscal Court to co-operatel
with them, are
Messrs, NJ, c. Kellogg, r. E.
Turley, John Gay, Harvey Che
paut, K. NJ. Rowland, Arch i
Hamilton, Walter f. Park and
Rice Woods.
The adoption Of motion Of
fered by Magistrate Dave Smith
for the acceptance of, the Mckee
project as offered by the State
Deepartmnt, occasioned the live
liest sort of argument. Before
the debate had gotten well I'm
der way Rice Woods. of Paint
Lick, offered a resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of spe-
cial citizens committee and vot
ing of a bond issue or special
road tax to improve all inter
county roads on the ate-aid
plan.
s. NJ. SauAey, who has fought
early and often for the Mckee
road, said that he was heartily !
in favor of Mr.. Woods resolu-
ton, but with the reservation
that the Mckee project be en-
dorsed first and then the Woods |
resolution. He declared that
Of the Woods resolution
would proIde means for accept
ance of all state-aid projects anJ
insure that when a tate-aid plan
was offered one section of the
county another would not object
on the ground that it was not
being taken care of.
Numerous speeches were made
and the whole range Of good
roads in Madison was covered.
Luther Little, attorney of Nc
Kee, Jackson county, made a
most impelling plea in conclusion
He begged for an outlet for the
riches of the mountains and
Jackson county in particular The
court then went into executive
session and at its conclusion the |
vote was announced as follows
For acceptance of the Mckee
Road-For it: Magistrates Col
Inns, Sandlin, Smith and Isaacs.
Against It: Magistrates Upton,
Burgin and Long. Magistrate
Long was absent. The accept
ance of the Mckee project was
as carried 4 to 3.
The Woods resolution was
then carried unanimously so as
to provide means for building not
only the road to Mckee and upi
Big Hill, but all the other state-i
aid projects in the county. The
election is called for November;
The Mckee project and every
other stqte-aid project will de-
pend on this vote. Mr.. Woods
resolution reads as follows: I
Be it resolved, That this meet ,
ing go on record as being in fa- {
vor of the building of the pro-
posed Richmond-McK pike to
The Jackson county line, and of
The building of the remainder of t