The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-17
NC. Good Roads Associations
Secretary Assails Roads Position it
By Former G. 0.P. Candidate
Saws Frazier Would Cut Revenues Available ror high
ways While Maintenance Fund Now far
Below Danger Point
funds. >rox.r
EAR BELOW DANGER POINT

mAINTFNANCE FUND NOW
EAR Brr OW DANGER POINT
The counties spent $9,OOO,OOO
Der year on the county system
alone. The state considered an
adequate maintenance fund on
5000 miles Of state roads, So
100000
The legislature of 1888 reduc-
cd the maintenance fund for both
state and county highways. care
of the entire prison population,
to $7.5O0,000, less by Sl,5OO,OOO
than the counties used on the
county highways alone. The re-
suit in the last year has been
that many of our expensive high
was have lost rapidly in their
surface values. For every dollar
saved. | should say the state has
Lost $40 in the value of the roads.
4 continuance of this policy
would. IN three to five years,
mean absolute disruption of our
highway system and a dirt road
would be a boulevard in cOmparl-
son to broken down concrete and
asphalt roads.
Mr.. FRAZIER'S
MISINFORMATION
For Mr.. Frazier's information,
| would say the amount of bonds
issued by the state for highways
amounted to 115,000,000 in
stead of $S5,000,000 as he was
quoted as saying. He is also re-
ported to have advocated no
more construction until the bonds
are paid. With uninterrupted
payments, this will occur in 1865,
81 years hence. Perhaps Mr..
Frazier has all the roads he needs
in GuilfOrd. but is he so unfair,
having been served first, as to
deprive his friends in Wilkes or
Avery or Mitchell or Cherokee a
like advantage? In all fairness
to the people who have not been
so fortunate as Mr.. Frazier in be-
ing first at the feast, the state
should continue to match federal
aid for new and Reconstruction
for those who have waited with
such patience, and use whatever
funds which may have accrued
from the raid on the maintenance
fund by the 1888 legislature, to
bring back to- standard those
roads which have deteriorated
through inadequate maintenance
during the present biennium as
well as further extend the useful
ness Of the state highway system.
MINIMUM NEEDS
Debt service per year (slight
advances until 1880, 100000
minimum sum for maintenance
(including state and county high
wavs and prison COSTS, S10,000,-
900; maintaining and reconstruct
ing city streets traversed by
state highways), S1,0O0,000. To-
tai SZ0,000,O0O
With an anticinated increase in
revenue for 1884, we should be
allie to match federal aid and
extend service to those
who ere now cclamOring for it in
each of the 100 counties.
Mr.. FRAZIER,
BE SPECIFIC
In his advocacy of a reduced
income, what would Mr.. Frazier
sacrifice?
Would he return to the eoun-
ties and the now over-burdened
home owners and farmers the
$4,000 miles of county highways,
when the state highway commits
sion has demonstrated that it
can do better job for half the
money spent bv the counties?
Surely he. would not again have
th't Dlaintive refrain, property
sold for taxes" go forth again in
the land?
Would he have the state high
way system. regarded as the fin
est in the land. sacrificed for a
noIitical slogan and dump North
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