The Wilmington Morning Star

PORTS TO RECEIVE
$45,000 AT ONCE

Authorities Write Official
Here Money Ready For
Survey In State

Definite assurances that $45,000 will be made available to the State Ports Authority for the purpose of beginning preliminary survey on state's potential tonnage and port improvements almost at once, was received yesterday by R. B. Page, chairman, of the authority in a letter from H. S. Sander, acting for O. T. Ray, division engineer of the Federal works Agency, Bureau of Community Facilities, Atlanta.

Execution of required papers is now all that stands in the way of prompt completion of an agreement between the Bureau of Community Facilities and the State Ports Authority and consequent advance of $90,000 for preliminary plans and estimates for port facilities in North Carolina, Mr. Page said last night.

Notices to this effect was contained in the following letter received by Mr. Page yesterday:

Dear Mr. Page:

We have reviewed your application for Advanced Planning for Non-Federal Public Works for economic investigations and studies, and preliminary plans and cost estimates for port facilities in North Carolina.

The Bureau of Community Facilities is prepared to enter into an agreement with you to advance the amount of $90,000.00 for this purpose. We are attaching five copies of BCF Form 405. Agreement and Public voucher. If agreeable please execute all copies of these forms and return them to us at your earliest convenience. They will then be accepted by the bureau, one copy returned to you, and an initial payment of 50 per cent of the agreed advance sent to you. In order to have a complete record of the advance, it is requested that a copy of any agreement entered into with an architect or engineer for this plan preparation be submitted upon execution.

H. S. Sanders (signed)
acting for O. T. Ray
Division Engineer
Federal Works Agency
Bureau of Community Facilities

Completion of the required papers will in all likelihood be attended to at a conference of members of the North Carolina State Port Authority, representatives of the Frederick R. Harris Engineering Company, Inc., of Atlanta and company of New York, Robert and

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former Governor J. Melville Broughton attorney for the authority to be held at Raleigh on a near date. Mr. Page said.

Following the meeting, the authority and Broughton are expected to go before Governor R. Gregg Cherry and the council of state to discuss plans to finance it for the remainder of the year.

The survey work will be carried out by the Harris company, while the Roberts company will draw up plans and specifications for the physical improvements for North Carolina ports, according to the chairman.