The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-27

uHU6r WHICH FTOQL street was paw.
ed and various brick streets in the
city repaved.
To Buy Equipment
Under the project, the city will
provide the materials and equipment
for the job or Az per cent Of the
total cost. The WPA will provide the
labor and certain materials. The
city plans to purchase some equip
ment which will also be used for
any public construction work in the
future.
The project also calls for the
construction of sidewalks, $4,000
Of the $177,0 DOC the city is to spend
as its share of the cash cost Of the
project being allotted to that work.
In all the $555,977 project will
cost the city of Wilmington only an
advance of SLIT, 900 in cash, the re-
mainder of the city's share of the
cost being made up Of credits for
services and salvaged materials. The
total cost to the city is shown in
the project as 44.2 per cent Of the
$555,977 or $249,331 but actually the
city will spend only $4,000 in
cash, practically all of which will
eventually return to the city treas
ury through street assessments.
The project, Wade said, should
be completed in about twelve
months and will provide no less
than 70o,43O man hours Of labor
here for Wilmington's unemployed.
The first work which will be done
under the new program, he said, will
be on Fourth street from Red Cross
to Cowan, after which two blocks
on Rankin street from 18th street
to James Walker Memorial hospital
will be paved to give the city an
other through street from Front
street to 18th street.
Other streets which will be paved
under the project will be announced
later, he said.
Wade's announcement vas made
q ySSIS1 odJ 1llO11 1lIl6 OlA LIE 1OLu41
from Washington, where he stopped
Monday to hasten approval Of the
project while en- route home from
Chicago where he had attended a
meeting Of the executive committee
Of the American Municipal associa.
ton, Of which he is a member.
At the meeting, he said, the
executive committee set the date
for the 18th annual conference Of
the association tentatively for the
ing the executive director in the
event there are too many conflict
ing conventions in Chicago at that
time, to set it for the first week in
December.
Wade predicted the annual con-
ference will be n Of the most
successful which the American
Municipal association, which is the
national federation of the state
leagues Of municipalities, has ever
had.
$500 Members
The membership of the associa-
ton, he pointed out, includes 1900
cities and towns which are men,
bers of the various leagues Of mum.
icipalities. Through these leagues,
he said, and the national federation,
local officials are carrying on re.
search in municipal practices and
problems and are exchanging in
formation necessary to develop self
help in the complex business Of city
administration.
He pointed out the annual con-
ferences "have become a national
forum for the discussion Of gov.
ernmental problems affecting NUM-
cipal administration and municipal
life where is brought together the
widest possible range of experience
and opinion.
I'm these times of o~verweaning
nationalism," he said, "it is re-
freshing to meet with city officials
throughout the nation, in a national
association, dedicated to the belief
that the heart of the American
system is still to be found in local
government. In a big way the work
being done by this association and
by our state leagues is to strengthen
local government to make it more
efficient, intelligent and honest and
equip it to meet the tremendous de-
mands of this goth century"
Chicago Headquarters
The association, he pointed out,
maintains headquarters in Chicago
headed by Earl D. Mallery, exc
cutive director, Arnold Miles, assist
ant director, Lucius F. Hallett, field
supervisor, and Ambrose Fuller,
field c%onsultant, and a complete
staff. A Washington office. with an