The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-19
NOTED [EADERS ID ATTEND SESSIONS IF ROAD MEET |NG
State Highway Commission to Meet al Auburn During Con- ferenoe--M Delegates
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AUBURN. Feb. 1s,-{Special.)- )-Ths regional conference of the south eastern states on highway engineer Ing and economies, which begins al Auburn next Wednesday morning and continues through Friday, will bring together many noted road leaders of the nation. In addition to the highway conference, session of the state highway commission will be held on Tuesday and the board of trustees of the Alabama Polytech- nio institute will meet on Thursday February 22.
 The regional highway conference has been arranged through the CO., operation of the highway education board at Washington and the high way engineering department of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, of which Prof. c. A Baughman is the head. Thomas H. Macdonald, chiei of the bureau of public roads for the federal government. will head the highway forces who will attend the conference, and Dr. John J. Tigeri of Washington, United States com missioner of education, will head a large number of educators interested in the highway program. Gov. W. w Brandon, members of the Alabama Highway commission, State Highway Engineer Nellar, and officials of the various counties of the state, will be in attendance.
 Many Delegates Named
 In addition, most of the civic clubs of the state, Chambers of Commerce, other organizations and probate judges have named delegates to at tend the sessions. The conference will be preceded by the meeting of the state highway commission at Au- burn on Tuesday and the opening session of the conferences will be featured by addresses from Dr. Tigert and Mir. Macdonald. Dr. Spright Dowell, president of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, will preside Others who have places on the pro- gram are: W. s. Keller, state high way engineer; c. N. Mitoham, di- vision engineer; Pyke Johnson, secre- tary highway committee. National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce; Gov ernor Brandon, Hamilton Holt of New York, Senator John A. Rogers of the highway commission, Dr. John w Abercrombie, state superintendent
 
 highway engineer of Illinois; W. R Neel. state Highway engineer of Geor- eia: Dean Dan T. Gray of the de- partment of agriculture of Auburn Dean John J. Wilmore of the en- gineering faculty of Auburn; c. A Baughman, professor of highway en- gineering, Auburn; N. W. Dougherty professor of highway engineering of the University of Tennessee; W. P. Enc of the Emo Foundation for Traf- fic Regulation and W. Y. Flemming, eounty superintendent of education of Lee county.
 Meet Is Important
 Dr. Walton c. John of Washington, D. C., secretary of the highway edu- cation board, who has been active in arranging for the meeting says: This will be the most important highway conference ever held in the southeastern states and is expected to result in the coordinating of the edu- cational forces of these states with the highway department, which will result in the expenditure of millions of dollars for highway construction under the supervision and guidance of highly trained road builders. Ala bama is launching one of the most important highway programs of any state in the union, and is vitally in- terested in all the problems to be considered at this conference"
 The conference marks an effort on the part of the highway engineering department of the Alabama Polytech- nic institute to serve the state In meeting the needs for trained men in solving the engineering problems connected with road construction throughout Alabama, according to Professor Baughman.