Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-25 | Page 8 | Large Amount To Make Roads

URGE AMOUNT TO MAKE ROADS I North Carolina, in carrying out its $50,000,000 highway program, has introduced in-troduced a departure that promises to set a swift pace for other states to follow As a means of qualitying Ita Inspectors for the inspection of bituminous bi-tuminous paUng the North Carolina state highway commission through Us division of tests ind investigations has established a short course In bituminous bitu-minous laboratory and plant instruc- j tlon. The course Is necessarily 0 short one and consists of taking the men Into tho laboratory for about a week to learn the different tests of the materials used and to attend lectures lec-tures by the supervisors of this type of construction. After the laboratory and lecture courses are over, the men are taken to tho aaphalt plant for Instruction In the duties of the plan', inspector and then on the road for !re Instruction regarding the construe fa tion nu Iliads to be used. m; The ni'. n or this v. ork w;re cured mostly from the different dls , tricts Into which the work of th M state- highway commission is divide I The number of men from each dlj trlct is proportional to the amount o J thU class of construction to be oar H ried on This v,.)l ;il'ov. men ti t cr be located In the same district thJ R came from and the only need for ad tf change would be In tho demand foj '.rnergenc inspection from anothij K part of the state To allov.- the moi efficient instruction to be given wlti I in the allotted time. It was foun necessary to divide the student Ifl spectors Into two classes.