The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-10

Construction of a high-Speed
limited-acceSS, double parkway
with separate lanes for traffic
extending from the mouth of the
Huron River in Monroe County
TO the mouth OF the Clinton in
Macomb county and with a pos
sible S10,000,000 causeway con-
meeting the parkway at the
northern terminus to the Blue
Water highway at a point be-
tween Perch Point and Pearl
Beach on Anchor Bay - that
was the picture given Mount
Clemens city and Macomb
county officials at their first
conference, held yesterday af-
ternoon, with members of the
Huron-Clinton Parkway author
ity.
1t was the first time the of
ficials here had had a compre-
hensive view of the entire park
way picture and, most ways,
they took to it like a duck to
water.
NUNNELEY CHAIRMAN
The session at which the dis
cussion ensued was held in the
community room of the Mount
Clemens Savings bank with
John II. Nunneley, local attor-
ney and member of the Park
way Authority as its chairman
Other members of the authority
who attended the session were
its chairman, Harry B. Earhart,
Of WashtenaW county, Arthur c
Scheifle, its secretary, and
George w. McCordic, its engi-
neer director.
Among local and county lead
erS who attended the session
were Floyd Rosso, chairman OF
the MacoElb county board OF
supervisors; Mayor Donald r
Westendorf, of Mount Clemens;
Harry w. V. Lumley, chairman
of the county board of road
commissioners; Arnold F. Ull-
rich, its secretary, and Karl O.
Brink, county road engineer
County Drain Commissioner
George Smith and his chief
deputy, Arnold Rockensuess; E.
l.. Pettingill, Mount Clemens
city engineer; Edward Dubay,
Mount Clemens city commits
sioner; and A. d. Brewer, secre-
tary of the Mount Clemens
Board of Commerce.
VIEW MOVIES
The session opened with a
showing of motion picture - =
picting the development Of New
York State Parks on Long
Island, that are connected by
limited = &C cs S parkways to
q 2 %'22 o Wn Mani ttan, the
Bronx, Harlem and the Jersey
side as well as the New York
and Connecticut shores of Long
Island Sound.
The conception of Robert
Moses, a New Yorker, the Long
Island park and parkway de-
velopment represented an in
vestment of $600,O00,0OO, of
which the Federal government
paid half and upon which a
steady and increasing return is
being made II the state park au-
thorities in the form of various
service and recreational utilities
at the several state parks.
USE AS SPRINGBOARD
Using the film and the facts
pertinent thereto as SPRING
board, representative of the
Parkway Authority sketched in
the similar plan for the five
county metropolitan area here
which would cost, in all, about
twenty-five per cent of the price
of the Long Island improvements
or S15O,OOO,OOO.
The local and county leaders
listened enthusiastically to the
plans for the five-county par
way plan. 1t is to build double
d-separated lane, high speed,
limited access highway from the
mouth of the Huron river in
Monroe county, up along the
valley of that stream in Wayne
and Washtenaw COUNT, into the
lake region Of Livingston and
Oakland counties, headquarters
for the Huron flowing south and
east and for the Clinton flowing
almost directly east but trifle
north, and thence down the
Clinton Valley to Lake ST. Clair.
HEAR PROPOSALS
They listened interestedly TO
the proposal Of the authority TO
establish park sites at the
mouths of both rivers as we'll as
along the route of the parkway
and began to stir up a discus