Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-03-31
Atlanta and Macon To
Support Movement
Enthusiastically
WILL BE GALA EVENT
Georgia Power Co. To
Furnish Large De
Luxe Bus

Fertilizer steps towards making the
Observation-Disclosures motorcade sue
cess. were taken Friday and Saturday
when Gelders and w. n. Bone, Of
Douglas, visited Atlanta and secured
the cooperation of the civic organi-
zations and prominent citizens for the
undertaking.
Grief James Beavers of the police
department of Atlanta, will meet the
motorcade at Hapeville on the 25th
and with his noted police band and
escort of motorcycle police, pilot the
motorists through the capital city,
headed by the Fitzgerald band, for
whose use the Georgia Power Com
pan has rendered the use of one of
its de luxe sight seeing motor buses.
cousin" Fred Houser, secretary
of the tourist and convention bureau,
Oscar L. Raymond, secretary of the
Atlanta Motor Club and Frank T.
Reynolds, secretary of the Atlanta
Hotel Mems association and the Geor-
gia highway association, are giving
Their personal attention to the local
arrangements in Atlanta.
Broadcasting By Fitzgerald
Band
b. special arrangement with the
mana cement of the Journal and WSB,
a full program will be given by the
local band and vocal artists on the
evening of the 25th, beginning at 9
P. nj. which will be received by the
visiting motorists on the roof garden
of the Ansley hotel, which will be
headquarters for the motorcade dur
ing It's stay in Atlanta.
Broadcasting in Macon
Arrangements have been made thru
Messrs. H. N. Mitchell and w. E.
Pendleton, members of the highway
committee of the Macon Chamber of
Commerce for the entertainment OF
the band during its stay in Macon on
the night of the oath, broadcasting
full program over the station OF the
Mercer University.
$50 Miles Completed
The celebration is in recognition
of the completion of the $50 miles OF
the Dixie Highway from Perry to At
lanta, which is the longest paved
stretch of highway in the state and
forms an important part of the Dixie
Highway through Georgia. Addition
al mileage of the Dixie thru Houston,
Pulaski, Wilcox, Ben Hill and Coffee
will be contracted for paving during
this wear and it is probable that the
entire route will be hard surfaced by
1929.
Contracts for the Bowen Mill
bridge are being advertised for now
and the link north in this county
will be hard surfaced by the end of
1927. Pulaski and Houston counties
are preparing to allot contracts for
their unfinished mileage and Irwin
and Coffee counties are having their
surveys completed, the first step nee
essary to tie up with the State High
wav department and federal aid.
Progress in State Roads
Travelling by motor over the Dixie
Highway from Jacksonville to Allan
ia is easily negotiated in about ten
hours without exceeding the capacity
of the average motor vehicle, an evil
dence of the wonderful Improvement
made in state aid roads the past two
wears. Barring times after extreme
" heavy rains, the entire route, paved
and sand-clay is in perfect condition
for motoring. While there are two
detours on the route, each of these
are well maintained and but a frac-
ton further than the route, when fl
naIly completed, so that tourists have
no delays on che entire route to At
lanta.
New Maps to be Issued
Orders have been placed for new
man. drawn for the information Of
tho tourists on the Dixie highway and
will be issued in few days. The dis
4.L-4;o,, will bo thoroI1ph every