Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1916 — TO NAME HIGHWAY COMMITTEE [ARTICLE]

TO NAME HIGHWAY COMMITTEE

All of the various state-wide organizations in Indiana that are particularly interested in good roads are being requested to inform M. E. Noblet, secretary of the ‘Hoosier State Automobile association, Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, the name of their representative who is to be a member of the Indiana state organizations highway committee. This committee has the responsibility of preparing a bill providing for a state highway department. The idea of the bill will be to place Indiana in position to receive her share of federal aid money, amounting to $2,109,000, also to provide means whereby our county commissioners and county highway superintendents may co-operate more effectively. The selection of an Indiana state organizations highway committee was the outgrowth of a recent meeting held at the Claypool

hotel, Indianapolis, at which representatives of approximately thirty state-wide organizations were present. For the purpose of organizing this committee a smaller committee was formed, consisting of Charles Bookwaiter, Indianapolis, A. G. Lupton, Hartford City, William M. Jones, Fairmount, president Indiana Federated Bodies of Agriculture. A set of resolutions was drawn up at this meeting to serve as a guide to the committee in drafting a bill and the first resolution was, “We favor the creation of a state highway department, conducted oji a basis of non-partisanship and efficiency.’' All states in the Union excepting Indiana, South Carolina and Texas have some kind of a state highway department. Petroleum deposits that have been discovered in Somaliland are being investigated by the British government.