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Show ROAD HOARD MAKES CHANGE The state road commission, on the theory that the former system was i resulting in some duplication of ex- j 1 pense. has abolished the office of ! maintenance engineer from its cen-j cen-j tral organisation, and will hereafter place responsibility for supervision of road maintenance work upon the assistant chief engineers. H. S. Kerr. E. C. Knoviton and Levi Muir. Jr. .Mr. Muir will by reason of his duties in charge of the stale's testing plant and inspection forces probably take the hard-surface pavements under his special jurisdiction, but all three .men, whose duties take them frequently fre-quently to all parts of the state, will have general supervisory powers over maintenance work. |