VOL. LIII —NO. 204
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1923
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Boligee-Epes Re&nutions Attack Highway Board And Chairman Rogers
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Attempt To Detour Federal
Aid Project Charged Against
Highway Commission By
Greene And Sumter People
LONGER ROUTTlS CHOSEN
AT HEAVY COST, IS SAID
Interested Citizens Are To
Appear At Montgomery In
Protest And Also Take Fight
To Washington Delegation
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT
BOLIGEE, Ala., Nov. 24.—Charg
ing that John A. Rogers, chairman
of the Alabama state highway com
mission, is attempting to detour a
federal aid highway nine miles out
of the way so that it will go by his
home town of Gainesville, at a cost
of many thousands of dollars to the
taxpayers, citizens of Greene and
Sumter counties assembled here to
day in an indigation meeting and
publicly protested against the high
way commission’s procedure, calling
on Alabama's senators and congress
men at Washington to do their pari
in stopping ‘any attempted useless
expenditure of the public funds.”
The project which drew the Are ol
citizens of Epes and Boligee, which
towns are most Interested in the sub
ject, was that which calls for the
construction of a roadway from Eu
taw, county seat of Greene county,
to Livingston, county seat of Sumter
county. The ‘most direct and feas
ible route,” spokesmen at the mass
meeting pointed out, is certainly the
shortest distance between two points,
which is a straight line. Boligee and
Epes lie almost in a straight line
between Eutaw and Livingston, ane
of the 27 ^ miles of road between
the two county seats on this route,
about 13 miles are In perfect con
dition, leaving only some 14H miles
to be constructed.
