Requests Exceed Sen Road . Euiuls Hoard Huddles Over New Budget With aiar • reqiii st* than funds will mi '.. Print---' Edward CounU's B >ard of Supervisors will now seek to fit a $272,952 secondary high way allocation a- .-quarel.v .. i »s s:ble with public nq.iv-'t.- fin new arid improved roads. With the public's wishes known following Tlnir.sti::y> li.oc. iy hearing the board will .- -k to complete its selections between now and July 1 when the highway year commences. A chief difficulty s the one e >r cent limitation placed by law on the portion of toe annual^, ali-k in lit wh ch can be used for new roads. The law is specific in re-, quirmg tlie preponderant portion' going into maintaining existing roads. Even within that rigid frame work. tlie county has achieved above-average n suits, according to Resident Engineer J. L Parker's summary at tlie board hearing last week. Of the county's 318.66 miles of secondary roads, 44.3 per cent is surfaced, and bv the end of the year this should be increased to 47.9 per cent. Parker said. Of tlie county's roads having a traffic count of as much as 50 vehicles a day. only 10.12 miles are not surface-treated. Parkei that percentage of improved roads is "well above the average for counties in this section.” Citizens were present last Thursday requesting work in each of the county's magisterial dis trict.-. Among roads on which iin ’ provemen: - were asked are Routes 049 in Prospect district; 617. 612 and 605 in Lockett; 632. 613. 623 and 624 ::i Leigh: 632 in Hamp den. and 639 in Buffalo. Among new road requests were: Bulfu.•> di'-trict from near Rout*' 460 at intersection of Route 658 Farm villi district—from Route 15 aboil! two miles south of Farm ville to land of W D Chapman, also from Route 15 east just south of Farmville near Burger property and Leigh district from a point on Route 360 near Route 662 northward.

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