The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-12
CITY TO ASSIST
in 10TH PAVING
County Commissioners Will
Be Asked To Share Por-
ton Of The Cost

ed before the city commissioners at
their meeting yesterday morning
and asked aid in securing the paw
ing of Tenth street between Ann
and Nun.
The city agreed to assume the
obligation of paving that portion of
the street AUDITING government
property now used by the city.
They agreed also to return a petit
ton filed with the city to the peti-
tioneers with the request that they
communicate with the county board
relative to the assumption of re-
sponsibility for paving that portion
AUDITING the property owned by
the county.
Previously the petition had been
signed by Addison Hewlett, chair
man of the county board Of COM
missioners, but later Hewlett re-
quested that his name be with
drawn.
w. A. Townes, of the board Of
trustees of the Wilmington public
library, asked the board to pay to
the trustees in a lump sum rather
than in monthly installments mon
ey allocated to the trustees for
stacks so that a cash payment may
be made for xne stacks. The COM
missioners agreed to pay the mon
ey in a lump sum as soon as the
city is able to do so.
The commissioners granted the
American Oil company permission
to erect a filling station on the
northeast corner of Tenth and Mar
ket streets, subject to all rules
and regulations governing S c h
structures in that section of the
city.
At the request of Fred E. Little
the commissioners appropriated
$3.50 for the Tennessee Trail asso-
citation, which sponsors an east
west highway from Wilmington to
Memphis, Tenn.
The commissioners granted a
permit for the blocking of ten feet
of Princess street from 18th and
18th, high school changing classes
while the new gymnasium is be-
ing erected. An overhead WalkWay
is to be erected and the proper in
surance posted under the condi-
tons set out in the permit.
The commissioners heard N.
Carl Barefoot, of the highway safe
ty division of the state department
of revenue, who requested III e
commissioners to aid in sponsor
ing a WPA-safe driving class here.
Barefoot was high in his praise
of the safety worl. which has been
done in Wilmington recently,
adopting what he termed I'll e
praising the commissioners for
most modern traffic ordinance in
the state" and the police depart
ment for its enforcement of the
ordinance.
He commented on the reduction
in the accident rate and the acct
dent fatality rate here this year,
on the police departments drive
to clear corners where previously
there was an obstructed view and
on the work being done on an acct.
dent record file and a driver acct
dent file.
With this much good work done
to reduce accidents here, he said,
there is but one step which is now
needed: the establishment of a
safe-driving school.
He pointed cut that it is anti
cipated the draft will take approx
mately SIS, 900 truck drivers away
from their work soon and that this
will mean they will be replaced
with inexperienced men unless
they are trained in driving schools
prior to that time.
George w. Smith, in charge OF
the safe driving schools for the
WPA, pointed out that during the
time the schools were in operation
here there we're 707 people enrolled
in the classes, the majority of
whom were graduated. The aver
age student, he said, used l IL
gallons of gasoline during train
ing.
The city agreed to allow Mrs.
Gladys Proctor, in charge of wo-
mems and professional projects of
the WPA in this area, to use part
of the appropriation given her for
this work.