Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-03-19
AWKINSViLLE
MEETING FRIDAY
WELL ATTENDED
Advocates of Route Receive New In
spiration; Cooperation Assured

The meeting Of the Central Dixie
Highway Association held in Hawk
insville Friday, March 18th, presided
over by President VIM. r. Bowen, put
new inspiration into the advocates of
this route and established the desired
closer connection with the citizens of
Pulaski and Houston Counties. Perry,
the key city to the situation was well
represented by members of the Perry
Civitan Club, which assures the future
cooperation of that county in maintain
ing a perfect highway to the Pulaski
County line. County commissioner
J j. Whitfield of Hawkinsvil1e called
the meeting to order and welcomed
the delegations from the several coun-
ties and assured the organization his
own enthusiastic support in building
and maintaining highway through Pu
laski equal to any in the state.
President Bowen outlined the pur-
pose of the meeting, reporting on the
meeting previously held in Waycross
and presented the plan of advertising
the Central Route, as adopted by the
Southern Division of the highway. He
also urged the need of cooperation be-
tween the authorities of the several
counties in building and maintaining
the links throuhg their territory.
Road Reporters Selected
On motion, J. L. Hodges of Perry
ton county, ]. J. Whitfield for Pulaski.
and Lee Goodin for Wilcox, each of
whom agreed to make weekly reports
OF the condition of the highway thru
their respective counties to be pub
I,cI,n ,-t.- Al. II.
Fitzgerald Chamber Of Commerce, the
expense of this advertising cam
paign to be prorated between the sew
eral cities along this route, as previ-
ously agreed upon at Waycross.
-Motorcade to Be Invited
motion was unanimously adopted
to invite the National Dixie Highway
Association motorcaIe on the tenth an
niversary of the selection of the route
which is to start from Chicago on
October 9th for Miami to travel on
the Central Dixie Highway on their
southern journey and President Bowen
who is also director of the National
Association was authorized to present
the invitation to Judge M. M. Allison,
National President of the Dixie High
way Association.
MOtOrcaQe TO JACKSONVILLE
]. ]. Whitfield of Pulaski suggested
motorcade from Macon to Jackson
willie at an early date to be led by Di
rector w. T. Anderson of Macon. Pres
ident Bowen and Secretary Gelders
were authorized to communicate with
Mr.. Anderson and to arrange the de-
tails for the occasion.
Engineer Darden Reports on Road
Division Engineer G. w. Darden of
the State Highway Department who
was present by invitation made an in
teresting report on his work and the
future development of the highways
in his territory which in part compris-
es the counties of Houston, Pulaski,
Wilcox and Ben Hill. The delegates
especially appreciated to learn that his
department is giving this highway its
complete cooperation. According to
Mr.. Darden the entire system of state
roads were receiving their full pro-
portion of the funds set aside for the
maintenance of highways, funds being
derived for this purpose entirely from
| the Automobile licenses, the amounts
being prorated to each county in pro-
portion to the mileage of Federal aid
roads in their boundaries Larger
equipment is being distributed through
out his division and better maintenance
of the roads in future will thus be
made possible. New construction
work, Mr.. Darden stated, was finan-
ced on a fifty-fifty basis with the sew
eral countiesand is allocated according
to plans adopted at the beginning of
each fiscal year. For the information
of the delegates from Ben Hill county
Mr.. Darden stated that the proposed
work on the Bowen's Mill road will be
ready to start at an early date, or as
soon as deeds to the right of way are
secured, for which purpose he will Wis
It the county in a few days.
Delegates Present
Ben Hill County was represented by
VIM r. Bowen, J. H. Mayes> ]. E.
Turner, Fred J. Hartley, l. Gelders,
w. n. Smith and J. ]. Pryor.
Wilcox county delegation was 0. F.
Beckham, w. H Wilkerson, W. r.
Goog, L. ]. Whtehurst, Mr.. Harrll,
/ Lee Goodin, Oscar Cannon and Geo.
Mcleod.
Pulaski county was represented by
about thirty of its citizens. prominent
among them being ]. ]. Whitfield, J.
J. Harvard, |. Mannheim, Mr.. Della
mar.
Houston county: Geo. w. Num-, J.
Powers, O E. Muse T. S. Chairman,
John L. Hedges, W. E. Swanson, of
Perry end &. W. Smith OF Grovania,
HUNGRY WOLF PACK
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