The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-05-26
RACK HEAD SIGN POST
ANDO.L. BUNDY'S FATHER
T. ooks Like Pasquotank Highway Commission
Now Reduced To Control By Four Men Will
R,1;ld No Roads Except Roads They Want

hard surface rOaa uOlIl bla>N
Head Sign Post to my father s
NY way Of the Foreman Stock
Fa~r,,." the Pasquotank High
,..~v Commission at q called
,~e.-:rr Yesterday morning vot-
81 70 build four miles of hard
surface road along the lines en-
h,s;s.. in Mr.. Bundy's motion.
rr, motion was later worded
differently so it wouldn't look
:. hal on the books"
IT,. letting yesterday was called to
r.-......, what other roads are to De
r,r.5 ,.t Of the funds available. There
,~.-. hit or ten projects to conSid-
nr- the only thing that go any
..r..r.r--:on was the four miles OF
49,, -r.m Black Head Sign Post to
O. r Hrndy's father'S-wherever that
..--~T hat road must go by the Fore.
IMAM >-o.k Farms.
r. notion made by Commissioner
~ WIS seconded by \. f. Jones. a
s-.-...--.r-law Of W. L. Cohoon. Those
...-..- - II we're O. L. Bundy. y. +.
lava. r. W. Foreman and ]. ]. Nor
r.. N..arive votes were cast by ..
Gilbert and F. F. Cohoon. and the
rr......r \. +. Houtz asked that he
.a ,-- y record as opposed.
o.:.--.on after objection was raised
,r,.,.- he building of the Foreman
So T.rm road at this time. but no
,af..-.., cot consideration from the
i.-~ g..o controlled the meeting. The
claims If other road projects to conSid-
.ra-.,r we're forcefully presented. but
rec. .y.- ~ consideration at the hands
~ e.. our men determined to put
road -..l from Black Head Sign Post
p, d. 7. Bundy'S fathers. o. L. Bun
fv., s.-.er becomes 4 landmark in
Pa>.-.-.-L County that should hence
fo--a be- rs we'll known as Black Head
So ..,-. Simpsons Ditch and Pos
sun Quarter.
Y, .a contends that a road in Mt.
Hen township by way of Foreman
S-a.; Farms or some other way is not
t.>.u... Every member of the Pas
.ra-a.. Highway Commission favorS
r.r ,.....ag of such a road at some fu-
rrrp -..e. but the minority composed
as Mess. Houtz. Gilbert and CohOon
believe hat other roads in the county
are ..g.s entitled to immediate cOnSid-
ara-.... For instance, the paving of
Ea.v Rad for a few miles from the
CIR limits would serve hundreds OF
reo... lore advantageOuSly than any
a.. VII be served by the Foreman
Road .. will serve a large and popu-
.,e> ,a. Ion Of the county that has so
ssr ra...~ed no immediate benefits from
-... ..~--y's road building program.
/ ~r. brought out at the meeting
-.,- ..ra should be no haste in build
Ing Fl. Foreman Stock Farm Road to
%. T.. -uudy's fathers" because much
mo-.v nd be saved in waiting for
Pie .-.' ing Of the hard surface state
..-awny between Elizabeth City and
Wamlv.-a. Contract for this road will
3. ..- ~:-hin the next few weeks. Tn
Il. -..- -oad is built the bricks for the
Frru-u Road from Black Head Sign
Pos W., have to be hauled over dirt
roads. a@d probably at time when the
>-a.. has the main road torn up.
Commissioner F. F. CohOon was in
favor Of paving two miles of the Black
Head Sign Post Road at this time, pro-
vilrg some other roads were paved at
the same time. He declared that it
would be a folly to reject every other
project n favor of the Foreman Road
right az this time and he believed that
the Highway Commission will be re-
strained by an injunction, so indignant
doe Nc believes the people will be.
But four men stood sOlidly for the
Foreman Road: Bundy, Jones, Fore
man and Morris. Mr.. Bundy suggest
eI that everybody had to look out for
self and that as he lived on the pro-
posed Foreman Road he thought that
ID" most important road in the county.
Mr.. Norris stood sOlidly behind Mr..
Raldr, giving weight to a rumor that
there - deal between Mr.. Morris and
N">>r>. Foreman and Bundy, by which
Mr. Norris supports the Black Head
Sign Post Road with the understanding
thar 'aa votes of Bundy, Jones and
t"r.@au will support another Salem
I"wl>a.p project for Mr.. Morris. Mr..
Norris wants Il hard surface road from
W"'a~s..,e to Listers Pier or there
a3ng-,.
n@n ,4;ng stood out above everything
".>" % yesterdays meeting. The Pas
o1o'aat Highway Commission is no
.'-- body Of seven men. 1t is as
divided rs Board of Aldermen, and
i"gr @-2 control it. Those men are
I'~,s>. Foreman, Bundy, Jones and
AI'r..s. No roads will be built in Pas
4i''..i that do not appeal to their in
''rr~'s. until after they have got every,
.-a- -..y want.
'~"ruln HOutz told the Commission
.""' Be-. vas not satisfied with the way
.."' ""-e being built in the county al
.-" sent time and believed that al
'.t ok in future should be submitted
""n"ritive bidders. The controlling
I"'r ='t rid of Mr.. Houtz' suggestion
| "..ring that material be bought a
'-." .Hr the road from BLACK HeaC