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Concrete Vs. Blacktop
Two of the heavier traveled
highways in Bibb County u. S.
41 and U. S. 80 are concrete
but in many counties roads which
carry a tremendous amount of
traffic are blacktop. As any motor
ist who has bounced over neglec
ed and pockmarked blacktop
strips, or as any public official
who has had to worry about rev
enue to resurface such strectches,
can testify, this may be penny
wise but it is pound foolish.
Figures don’t lie and a study
compiled this year from Georgia
State Highway Department re
cords clearly indicates concrete is
more suitable on a low annual
cost basis. Blacktop is cheaper
originally but roads are presumed
to be built to last a while and
periodic resurfacing eventually
runs that original cost sky high.
Old concrete pavements have
been used for a long number of
years in many counties with little
or no resurfacing. Yet the blacktop
pacements consistently require re
surfacing, reconstruction and new
building.
On Georgia’s ten most heavily
traveled roads there are 1,121
miles of original concrete pave
ment and 1,035 miles of black
top.
On the 1,121 concrete miles,
489 miles have had to be resur
faced or reconstructed, while 632
miles are still in daily use.
On 1,035 blacktop miles, 1,570
miles of resurfacing or recon
struction have been required.
An example from a nearby
county clearly illustrates.
On U. S. 41, in Houston County,
11.58 miles of concrete were laid
in 1928. In 1954, 7.18 miles were
reconstructed.
On the same highway in the
same county, 13.85 miles of black
top werelaid in 1926 and 1927. In
1930, it was necessary to resurface
10.51 miles. In 1946, it was neces
sary to resurface 10.51 miles. In
1947, it was necessary to resurface
3.34 miles. In 1948, 1.17 miles were
reconstructed.
These figures are based on
original construction and resur
facing data from official highway
department records.
They show clearly that all new
highway projects which are now
carrying heavy traffic, or expect
to be in the future, should be con
crete in the interests of more
permanent roads for less tax dol
lars. The Macon News.
New Library Books
FICTION: Black William, by
Neill; Brave Pursuit, by Allis;
Bright Sword, by Perenyi; Captain
Bashful, by Chidsey; Fellow Pas
senger, by Household; Golden
Wildcat, by Widdemer; Measure of
the Years, by Colver; Powder
Stampede, by Field; The Hidden
River, by Jameson; Twice the New
Moon, by Barker.
NON-FICTION: Book of Inter
ior Decorating, by Holsey; Bride’s
Book of Etiquette; Glory, God and
Gold, by Wellman; Grandma Rais
ed the Roof, by McCully; Human
Growth, by Breck; I Married the
Klondike, by Berton; 100 Best
Working Projects, Popular Me
chanics; Sir Walter Scott, by Pear
son; Treasury of American Gard
en, Flower Grower.
NEW 4-H FILM STAR
Lamar Cobb, Seminole county 4-
H boy, who stars in the new Ag
ricultural Extension Service color
movie, “Big Steaks,” is a champion
cattle showman. His steer won the
gland championship in the 1955
Seminole County Fat Cattle show.
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• Bible Comment:
1 "Character" Is
Bible's Second
> Greatest Theme
■ W«AT the Bible has to say
, about character is not to be
, found in one place; it permeates
the great Book, from Genesis to
Revelation.
After its supreme theme—the
i message concerning the character
of God, and the glorious Gospel
of His grace—it is the Bible’s
greatest theme of man’s relation
■ ship to God and to his fellow
• man.
Nor are these greatest themes
of the Bible in any sense sepa
’ rate or unrelated. Jesus said to
His disciples: “Be ye perfect,
even as your Father in heaven
is perfect.” It is in being godly,
like God, that man attains his
highest and best.
This close linking of man and
his God is the distinctive quality
of Judaism and Christianity.
Most other religions have been
characterized by fear, not ih the
sense of awe and Veneration- in
the presence of a Perfect Beiftg,
but in abject, appeasing leaf and
humiliation.
When that ancient Hebrew
writer declared that God had
made man in His own image, it
might equally have been said
that man was conceiving of God
in his human image; but either
way it was a profound concep
tion.
With such a conception of God
as the supreme perfection of all
that man saw in the promptings
of his own soul, man’s aspiration
{toward that Perfect Being be
jcame, at least in the truly saintly,
(the one great goal of life and
character.
I The power of that self-disci
pline, as the fundamental ele
ment in character, became ex-
I pressed in a spiritual daring the
I like of which has seldom been
j equaled elsewhere in religious
I experience.
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FARM OF E. H. HOLLAND near Myrtle was the Mystery Farm of last week. It is in
Peach county but very close to the Houston county line. The first two persons to identify it
were Mrs. Charlie Logue of Perry and Peach County Agent R. P. Swan, who wrote us a card.
Mr. Holland’s farm has some mighty good land on it. See the new Mystery Farm Photo on
Page 1 today, and help us identify it.
The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., June 23, 1955
Radio Station WRPB
Opens Perry Studio
Radio Station WRPB opened its
studio in Perry Tuesday and plans
a local program, “Perry Speaks,”
every day from 3 to 4 p.m.
On hand for the first broadcast,
from the studio in the American
Legion Home, were Mayor Stan
ley Smith of Perry, Dreyfuss
Fountain, president of WRPB, and
Station Manager Glenn A. Weber.
The station announced that it
would carry a program of local
interest each day except Sunday.
s ' 1 ’
s United States Marines first par
» ticipated in the first battle of Bull
Run on July 16th, 1861.
’ In 1954 county workers of the
1 Agricultural Extension Service
’ assisted 7,674 farm people with
credit problems and 5,455 with In
-1 come tax problems.
’ Health Unit Head
. To Attend School
t
1 Mrs. H. B. Rossler, head of the
county health department, left yes
terday for Bloomington, Ind.,
where she will study public health
j at Indiana University.
Mrs. Rossier, accompanied by
her two sons, Jim and Ed, v/ill at
tend the nine-weeks course and re
“ turn here Aug. 29. Mrs. Nell Sus
“ fridge will be in charge of the
health department during her ab
sence.
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