Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-20
CROSSING Jobs IN
STATE ARE LISTED
Waynick Cites Use State Is
Making of Federal Funds
For Purpose

Raleigh, Aug. 20.-Projects COM
pleted, projects under contract, pro-
posals completed but not yet adver-
tised, plans in preparations, surveys
completed but without plans yet
started, and incomplete surveys, will
take the. $4,82,95S provided by the
federal emergency fund for grade
elimination program, Chairman Capus
Waynick, of the state highway and
public works commission said today
in summing up the work in its puta-
tive, preliminary, progressing and
completed shape.
The termination of the expenditures
will interest newspaper perusers who
in their travels see the vanishing of
so many slaughter pens formerly
maintained jointly by railways and
governmental units. Only one of these
groups of projects costing 500, 184. SO
is reported by Mr.. Waynick as COM
pleted, but there are 35 others whose
total cost is but a few thousands I'M
der $2,5OO,OOO.
Mr.. Waynick does not merely item
ize the total and locate the work; he
analyses it in percentages and makes
inttligently of this big contract
which the state has been carrying
out with an amazingly small amount
Of ballyhoo. To the papers this after
noon he gave this statement:
Allotted to North Carolina for a
grade separation program was the
sum Of $4,823, 1858 from the federal
emergency funds. The state highway
commission was required to distri-
butte the projects among the railroads
operating in the state in accordance
with a specified federal formula. AS
of August 1, 1886, the status of our
operations with these funds is as fol-
lows:
Projects completed at Lilesville and
Marion at a total cost of 500, 1888.
Projects under contract at Moore's
Siding, Halifax, Grimesland, Green
vile, Calypso, Raleigh airport, Fay
etteville, Durham, Statesville, Sanford
Tramway, Roxboro, Henderson, Will
liams Crossing, McCullers, Wake For
est, Burlington, Lexington, j. o. U. A.
NJ, Dover Mills, jamestown, Benaja,
Wadesboro, Morven, China Grove, east
of Hamlet, Hamlet, King to Pilot
Mountain, Mount Airy, for total of
35 projects to cost $2,469,22
$ Plans completed but not yet adver-
tised: Plymouth, Duncan, Spout
Springs, Corinth, Red Springs, Va
rima, Charlotte Sixth street, Raleigh
Cabarrus, Lexington Main street,
Enka, Greensboro, for total of II
projects to cost $530,O87.53.
Plans being prepared: Rocky Mount
Gastonia, Plaza Road, Stanfield,
Maiden, Kings Mountain, for total
of six projects to cost $4,000.
Surveys completed but plans not yet
started on projects at Hickory Grove,
Durham Whitenell, Sand Hill Road,
Meadow Summit, south of Marion, for
total of six projects to cost 1921, 600.
Surveys incomplete on projects at
Elm City, Biscoe, Ivy-Marshall, High
Point, for a total Of four projects to
cost $785,0OO.
This report shows, therefore, that
we had two completed projects which
entailed the expenditure of IA per cent
of the funds; 35 under contract to
cost All per cent; II plans complet-
ed and not yet advertised to cost II
per cent; six plans being prepared to
cost 1913 per cent six surveys com
pleted to cost Al per cent; and four
surveys incomplete to cost 1853 per
cent.
The progress made in the use of
these funds has not been as rapid as
that made in the use of funds made
available at the same time for road
way, partly because of the fact that
three parties are interested in each
plan in the grade separation program
The state highway commission, the
railroad, and the United States bu-
reau of public roads in each case deal
with details of the plan and agree
ment must be reached among the
three before advertisement and con-
tract The progress as recorded Au-
gust first was a good average in COM
parison with progress in other states.