WPA Work
FROM MARY LOU HAZELRIGG
Source: The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 February 1940
The county Commissioners at their meeting Monday acceded to the report of Fred Witherspoon, district WPA supervisor, for a tentative program for WPA work in Putnam county, and named ten roads in the county which, as now planned, will be the first to receive the benefit of the new WPA allocation of funds whenever that allocation comes. It is now the practice of WPA set aside a definite amount of federal aid for each road named by the commissioners and those amounts have to be determined before the allocation for the county can he figured.
Mr. Witherspoon has been in charge of WPA work in this area only, but has been advanced to a district super-intendency, and he is succeeded as area director by Kenneth Smith, former Boone county surveyor. Mr. Witherspoon and Mr. Smith met with the county commissioners here Monday.
The tentative list of ten roads includes some on which much grade work already has been done, including the moving of fences back to 30 feet from the center line of the road. and the black-topping treatment will not be a lengthy process on such roads.
Included In this list of ten are the following:
The New Maysville-Barnard Road 4.80 miles.
The Fincastle-Carpentersville road, 5 miles.
The Lookabill road 3 miles. It starts from the Russellville-Fincastle road near the Myers bridge and extends northeasterly toward Parkersburg.
The road north from, the Bethel church on Little Walnut, near Lee Woods, north and northwesterly
through Clinton Falls, then north connecting with old state road 36 at the former Hamilton school house. The road west from Brick Chapel to the former Dunkard church, and north to Clinton Center school house. It is 6 miles long.
The road west from Hamrick Station past the King school house and southerly to the top of the hill immediately north of Reelsville. It is 4.6 miles.
A road westerly from the southwest corner of Cloverdale known as the old black top and Poplar Grove road.
Five and .8 miles of the road south from Belle union to State Road 42, toward Quincy.
Half of the Washboard road extending east along the south line of Putnam and the north line of Clay county, from the Hirt corner. The road is 1.35 miles but Putnam county will improve only half of it, the other half being the responsibility of Clay county.
A half-mile of a road north and westerly from Russellville to the Montgomery county line, connecting with a road already improved.