Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

TiUgnphlc Reports From Many Parts ol the Country. . SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesCOUNTIES ARE TO BE GROUPED - - - In Districts for 1020 Road Work, Commission Announces. Indianapolis, Feb. 19. —The plains of organization for the construetldn and maintenance divisions of th> state highway commission have been announced by the commission. The construction division .will have supervision of the work of construction "of 135 miles of state and federal aid roads and bridges, tire contracts for which were let last summer and fall, and in addition will supervise county projects, which up to the present time amount to about >2,000,000. The maintenance division will care for more than 3,000 miles of state roads, for which a minimum of about >1,500,000 is to be spent in 1920. In order to carry on the work both divisions have grouped the counties of the state into districts in which the work will be under the supervision and direction oi engineers in charge of staffs. The work of the construction division is under H. K. Bishop, the Chief engineer, and the maintenance department under A. H. Hinkle. The construction department Will have charge of the surveying, preparation of plains, supervision of building of bridges, construction and testing of materials and supervision in co-operation with the Unlteo Stites bureau of public roads supervision, which will bear onehalf -of the cost of supervision. The department, in instances where it supervises county roads on application of the county, will be reimbursed for the supervision cost by the county. With the acceptance of the road the work is taken over by the maintenance department of the commission. The construction division has appointed five -resident engineers, who shall have charge of the construction department work in eight groups of counties. They are experienced men of the department who have been promoted to these positions. The men, and the cities in which they will have their headquarters, are: W. R. Britton, Plymouth; K. J. Eisenhardt, Terre Haute; Leslie Doan, Kokomo; J. S. Neibert, Indianapolis, and B. R. Mcßride, Seymour. The grouping of the counties In the construction division is; 1. Lake, Newton, Porter, Jasper, Laporte, Starke, Pulaski, Fulton, St. Joseph, Marshall, Kosciusko, headquarters of this residency will will bS at Plymouth. 2. Elkhart, Lagrange, Steuben, Dekalb, Whitley, Allen, Huntington, Wells and Adams. The headquarters oi this residency will be at Fort Wayne. 3. Benton, Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Vermillion, Parke, Putnaim, Vigo, Clay, Owen, Sullivan and Green. The headquarters of this residency will be at Terre Haute. 4. White, Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe, Clinton, (Howard, Tipton, Miami, Grant and Wabash. The headquarters of this residency will be at Kokomo. 5. Blackford, Jay, Madison, Delaware, Randolph, Henry, Wayne, Rush, Fayette, Union, Franklin and Decatur. The headquarters of this residency will probably ibe at Cambridge City. * 6. Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion, Hancock, Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Monroe, Brown and Bartholomew. The headquarters of this residency will be at Indianapolis. * _ 7. Daviess, Martin, Knox, Orange, Gibsom, Pike, Dubois, Crawford, Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer and Perry. The headquarters of this residency will be at Vincennes. , , 8. Lawrence, Jackson, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland, Jefferson, Washington, »ebtt, Clark, Floyd and Harrison. The ’headquarters of this residency will be at Seymour. Groups 1 and 2 will be under Mr. Britton. Groups 3 and 7 will be under Mrs. Eisenhardt.* Mr. Doan, at Kokomo, will have charge of Group 4 and that part of Group 5 north of the state road, and Mr. Mcßride, in addition- to Group 8, will be in charge of that part of

Group 5 south of tjie state road. It is . the plan of Mr. Bishop to decentralize the work as quickly as possible, and although the preparatory work for the time being will 'be done at the statehouse, as much of the work as possible eventually will be done at the group headquarters. The resident engineers will have staffs of varying size made up of assistant engineers Nr state and county road supervision.