The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-09
KHAKI SHIRTS MOVEMENT
HIGHWAY PROJECTS
 IN TWENTY TOWNS.
Involves Over Thirty-twO Miles of Improved
 Roads on List
CALL FOR SEALED BIDS

Fifteen new highway projects running through twenty towns and involving approximately 32 1-4 miles of road improvement were announced to-day by Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald. The projects were listed under four different types; namely, Federal Aid Emergency Projects, State Re- construction, Combined State Aid and Town Aid Projects, and Town Aid Projects.
 The three Federal Aid Projects are parts of President Hoover's reconstruction program. They are not necessarily essential from a traffic viewpoint at this time, but ments which will provide relief in the unemployment situation by ere ating work. All hiring of labor will be in charge of the successfully bidding contractors and Commis- sioner Macdonald states that all applications for employment should be submitted to them and not to the highway department.
 Among the Federal Aid jobs is an important improvement on the Boston Post Road GU. S. Route No 1) at Branford. The job will con- sist of the construction of new cut-off, two miles in length, around the center of the town, where Post Road traffic now becomes consider ably congested, especially on week ends and holidays. The cutoff, which will be designed as Alter nate U. s. Route No l, travelling East will leave the present Post Road at the railroad underpass in Branford near the junctioi of the Short Beach road. It will swing, to the left of the present right of way through the large dairy farm at the left, completely circumvent the towns central district and rejoin the Post Road about one mile be- yond. It will be paved with rein forced concrete except for a short distance where the character of the soil makes necessary maca- dam pavement. The job will re- quire large amount of excayat- ing during which five tons of dy- namite will be used. It is estimated that about five months will be needed for constructing the cutoff.
 Another large Federal Project calls for the paving with concrete lst II1llV0 oL tlAO <AAAO~ ver-Bolton Notch road, Route No S7.
 The State Reconstruction project calls for the relocating of the Sum- init railroad crossing on Route No 49 in the town of Norfolk, while the four combination projects are all macadam or asphaltic concrete pavements in Darien, Greenwich, New Fairfield, Danbury and Rocky Hill. The Seven Town Aid jobs are gravel surfacing except for con- crete work in Stamford and Vest port.
 Sealed bids on all of the work will be received ct the headquar- ters of the highway department in the State Office Building, Hartford, until 100 p. m. E. s. T. on Mon- day, September 12.
 The projects announced by Com missioner Macdonald to-day are as follows:
 Federal Aid Emergency
 Projects
 Towns of Bolton, Coventry and Andover: About 27,9S9 feet of re- inforced concrete pavement on Route No S7.
 Town of Branford: About SPA feet of reinforced concrete and about 1900 feet of bituminous ma cadam on the Branford Cutoff.
 Towns of Litchfield and Morris: About 12,249 feet of temporary rolled bank run gravel surface on the Woodville-B Bantam Section of Route No 25.
 State Reconstruction Project Town of Norfolk: About 1,7O0 fee of traprOck waterbound maca- dam on the relocation of Summit Crossing on Route No 49.
 Combined State and Town
 Aid Projects
 Town of Darien: About S,6S1 feet of biturinous macadam or Asphaltic Concrete pavement on Camp avenue.
 r Town of Greenwich: About B. 66O feet of Asphaltic concrete pave ment rcsurface on the Round Hill road.
 Towns of New Fairfield and Dan- bury: About 10,901 feet of water bound macadam on the Balls Pond and Fergone roads.
 Town of Rocky Hill: About B. All feet of trap rock waterbound macadam on Garden street, Ash well avenue and Pratt street.
 Town Aid Projects Town of Barkhamsted: About 2O,235 feet of loose gravel surface on the West Hill East and Wallins Hill roads.
 Town of Prospect: About 5000 feet of rolled bank run gravel on the Salem road, about 7,950 feet of trap rock waterbound macadam on Matthew street and Summit. road, and a fourteen foot span concrete slab bridge on the Plank road.
 Towns of Putnam: About 16,- 630 feet of rolled bank run gravel on "Section No and Section No 3 roads,"
 Town of Stamford: About 2,244 feet of reinforced concrete or sheet asphalt on Courland avenue. Town of Tolland: About 19,6O0 feet of loose gravel surface on the Shenepsit, Mile Hill and Cider Hill roads and the Holland Turnpike.
 Town of Trumbull: About 13,O0O feet of rolled bank run gravel on Reservoir, Whitney and Madison avenues and Stone House road.
 Town of Westport: About 7,O5S feet of reinforced concrete pave