The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-11
MANDAN SELECTED
FOR NEXT MEETING
OF COUNTY FATHERS
La Moure Man Elected Presi.
dent Of Group at Conven-
ton in Fargo

Fargo, N. d., Jan. ll-tP)-Mandan
was selected as the 1885 meeting place
Of the County Commissioners Asso-
citation Of North Dakota at the final
1884 session which adjourned at noon
Thursday.
The following officers were named:
Herman Paulson. LaMoure county,
president: Christ Fluetsch. Stutslnan
county, vice president; Dick Eng
brecht. Wells county secretary and
treasurer.
Directors named are James A. Ftz-
simmons, Morton county; K. B. Send
ven. Benson county: Joseph Axvig,
Cavalier county: George Shepherd,
Emmons county; Garfield Hoglund.
Cass county.
In resolutions the commissioners
went on record as being highly IT.
favor OF and urgently requesting that
the present system Of turning over all
funds derived from auto licenses to
the state be abandoned and the for
mer plan and policy of making pro
rata payments from these funds to
the respective counties be fully and
completely reinstated.
The association favored an early
completion Of the Mouse River i'm
provement project for conservation of
water and control Of the river and
urged and approved the Missouri
River diversion project voting to pre-
sent their views on diversion to the
North Dakota members in congress
end to President Roosevelt
Favor Safety Campaign
Declaring it is appalling to learn Of
the number of deaths on North Da-
kota highways the association
said 1t believed an educational cam
paign would result in reducing deaths
and pledged its support to the state
highway department with respect to
its safety-first campaign.
Other resolutions asked the federal
government to provide sufficient funds
t. carry the entire expense Of grass
hopper eradication in North Dakota
and to continue the Civil Works adj
ministration until the Public Works
administration is in position to func-
ton, thus taking over the men for
nerly employed on CWA projects.
The commissioners Wednesday vot-
ed to appeal to the federal govern
ment for its assistance in refinancing
county Indebtedness at lower rates OF
interest than now are being paid OIL
bonds and warrants.
The question brought wide discus
sion from the floor with the sugges-
ton that with the government re-
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banks and other institutions-all at
low rates of interest-the counties
should ask for refinancing OF some
Of their pressing financial burdens
Highway construction and mainte-
nance, relief programs. including
CWA and CCC projects, were dis
cussed by speakers.
Could Use More Crews
North Dakota could we'll use many
more CCC crews and could provide
needed dam construction work that
would keep them busy for years, said
A. D. McKinnon, former highway en-
gineer and now in charge of the CCC
work in North Dakota.
He reported there were sever
CCC camp sites in the state. capable
Of housing $500 men. They have
constructed 1873 dams.
THE need for dam construction In
North Dakota, and the growing de-
mand for this method of water con-
servation is almost limitless," said
McKinnon.
The association received a letter
from the Devils Lake chamber of
commerce asking it to go on record
as appealing to the federal govern
ment for 40 CCC camps instead Of
eight.
DR.. H. A. Brandes Of Bismarck pre-
sented the North Dakota Medical as
sociations plan for care Of the UNI
employed and poor in the various
counties with patients being allowed
to select their own physicians who
would be paid fee. The proposal
was recently submitted to all county
commissions individually.
The commissioners decided not to
take action as a body but to leave
the matter entirely up to each county
without recommendation from the
association.