The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-21
BIDS OPENED ON
 EIGHT PROJECTS
Step Taken in Direction of Divided Highways For
 Through Routes

Another step in the direction of divided highways for through routes with heavy traffic, was taken this week when the State Highway De- partment, on Monday, opened bids on eight different projects in six towns. The latest piece of con- struction of this type is to be lo- cated in South Windsor and consists of 6632, feet of dual roadway high way on the East Hartford-S Spring field road. One item of bridge con- struction was covered by group of bids while the others concerned several types of highways. The other towns are Windham, Crom- well, Colebrook, Hebron and Sims bury.
 The South Windsor construction, which will consist of two 23-foot reinforced concrete pavements with separation of 20 feet was bid at $138,170.95 by the Lane Construc- tion of Meriden, the apparent low bidder.
 Torrington Co.
 Onoglia & Gervasini, Inc. of Tor rington, bid $146,471.98 on hte con- struction of 13,296 feet of reinforced concrete pavement 9 feet wide on the Norwich -Willimantic Road in the town of Windham.
 On another stretch of the same road in Windham, extending 2900 feet, the Bridge Construction Cor poration of Hazardvile was apparent low bidder, bidding $22,104.62 for the installation of a 22-foot reinforced concrete roadway.
 Apparent low bidder on a stretch of about 5005 feet of work on Shunt Pike, Cromwell, was the l.. Suzio Construction Company of Meriden, which bid $39, 9,27668 on the first al- ternate and 3,353.80 on the second alternate. Specifications called for either a bituminous macadam sur- face or Colprovia pavement. Washout repairs on Route No. 203 in the town of Windham, consist ing of the construction of a crib- ping wall and miscellaneous work, were the subject of an apparent low bid of $2,O28.50 by the Jones Auto Company of Willimantic.
 The single bridge involved in this particular group of bids is a 92-foot span steel truss bridge over the West Branch of the Pennington river on the West Side road in the town of Colebrook. Oneglia & Ger vasini, Inc. of Torrington, were the apparent low bidders with $6,968.85.
 Three sections of roads in the Town of Hebron totalling about ! 12,000 feet were the subjects of bids for loose gravel surface. An appar- ent low bid of $19,785.73 WIS made by Ventura Brothers Company of Plainfield.
 Simbury Project Joseph Battaglia of New Britain bid $I0,0l2.20 on 8160 feet of loose bank run gravel on West Mountain Road, Simsbury.
 The first three pieces of con- struction-one in South Windsor and the other two in Windham - are PWA projects, and as such are sub- feet to minimum rates of wages of 50 cents an hour for unskilled labor 60 cents an hour for intermediate grade labor and 75 cents an hour for skilled labor. Shunt Pike in Cromwell and the washout work in windham-truck line projects-are subject to the current scale of wages established by the Labor Board un- der the State Statutes and in nc case less than the minimum shown in this scale for the different grades of labor.
 A total of seventy-one bids were opened by Executive Deputy High way Commissioner Clinton C. Nichols, acting for State High