The officers of 14 highway commissions expressed the belief that purchases for townships, counties, and districts could be handled to better advantage by clearing through the central departments of the commissions, 6 expressed the belief that this could be done in part, and 22 expressed their doubts as to the desirability of doing

So.

In 37 States the highway officials expressed the opinion that model specifications, inventory, equipment service, and cost record. forms would be useful in controlling their equipment, operation, and purchase routine; 6 stated that they might well be used in part; and 8 said that they would not be useful.

In the following brief items there are set forth the names and addresses of the State purchasing and standardizing agencies, including State highway departments, the names of the individuals in charge, and the chief officers concerned with the preparation of specifications and the purchase of materials, supplies, and equipment.

Alabama State Board of Administration, Montgomery. C. A. Moffett, president. Alabama State Highway Department, Montgomery. Woolsey Finnell, highway director; George L. Moulton, assistant engineer.

Arizona Board of Directors of State Institutions, Phoenix. C. M. Zander, executive officer, secretary, State purchasing agent.

Arizona State Highway Department, Phoenix. I. P. McBride, chairman of commission; W. W. Love, State highway engineer; J. P. Dillon, purchasing agent.

Arkansas State Highway Commission, Little Rock. Dwight H. Blackwood, chairman; Charles S. Christian, State highway engineer.

Arkansas State Purchasing Department, Little Rock. E. D. Chipman, purchasing agent.

California State Department of Finance, Bureau of Purchases, Capitol Building, Sacramento. J. F. Mispley, acting State purchasing agent.

California State Department of Public Works, Sacramento. Ralph W. Bull, chairman; C. H. Purcell, State highway engineer.

Colorado State Educational Institutions Associated Purchasing Agents of, Boulder. Henry B. Abbett, chairman.

Colorado State Highway Department, Denver.

B. B. Allen, chairman of

commission; L. D. Blauvelt, State highway engineer. Connecticut State Board of Finance and Control, Hartford. commissioner.

Edward F. Hall,

Connecticut State Highway Department, Portland. John A. Macdonald, State highway commissioner; Frank G. Flood, testing engineer.

Delaware State Board of Supplies, Dover. Charles H. Grantland, secretary of board.

Delaware State Highway Department, Dover. F. V. duPont, chairman of commission; W. W. Mack, chief engineer.

District of Columbia Purchasing Office, Washington, D. C., M. C. Hargrove, purchasing officer.

Florida Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, Tallahassee. Mallie Martin, secretary.

Florida State Road Department, Tallahassee. Robert W. Bently, chairman of commission; B. M. Duncan, chief engineer.

Georgia State Department of Public Printing, State Capitol, Atlanta. Josephus Camp, superintendent.

Georgia State Highway Board. Sam Tate, chairman, Atlanta; W. R. Neel, State highway engineer, East Point.

Idaho State Bureau of Supplies, Boise. R. G. Archibald, State purchasing agent.

Idaho State Department of Public Works, Boise. J. D. Wood, commissioner of public works; R. H. Shoemaker, office engineer.

Illinois State Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Highways, Springfield. Harry H. Cleveland, director, department of public works; Frank T. Sheets, chief highway engineer.

New Hampshire State Highway Department, Concord. Frederic E. Everett, commissioner of highways.

New Hampshire State Purchasing Department, Concord. W. A. Stone, purchasing agent.

New Jersey State Highway Commission, Trenton. Gen. H. L. Scott, chairman of commission; Jacob L. Bauer, State highway engineer.

New Jersey Statehouse Commission, Trenton. A. Harry Moore, Governor of New Jersey; A. C. Middleton, State treasurer; N. A. K. Bugbee, State comptroller; and Edward J. Quigley, State purchasing agent.

New Mexico State Highway Commission, Santa Fe. Charles Springer, chairman of commission; W. C. Davidson, State highway engineer.

New Mexico State Officials, Santa Fe. R. C. Dillon, governor; Miguel A. Otero, jr.; State auditor; Warner R. Graham, State treasurer; Lois Randolph, superintendent of public instruction.

New York Department of Public Works, Division of Highways. Frederick S. Greene, superintendent of public works; Arthur W. Brandt, commissioner of highways.

New York State Division of Standards and Purchase, Albany. Joseph H. Wilson, acting superintendent of standards and purchases.

North Carolina State Budget Bureau, Raleigh. Governor O. Max Gardner, director.

North Carolina State Highway Commission, Raleigh. R. A. Doughton, chairman of commission; John D. Waldrop, State highway engineer.

North Dakota State Board of Administration, Purchasing Department, Bismarck. J. B. Smith, State purchasing agent.

North Dakota State Highway Commission, Bismarck. G. F. Shafer, chairman; H. C. Frahm, chief engineer.

Ohio State Department of Finance, Purchasing and Printing Division, Columbus. John P. Brennan, superintendent of purchases and printing.

Ohio State Department of Highways, Columbus. R. N. Waid, director of highways; F. L. Raschig, assistant director.

Oklahoma State Board of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City. C. E. Dudley, chairman; J. Robert Gillam, secretary.

Oklahoma State Highway Commission, Oklahoma City. L. H. Wentz, chairman of commission; John F. Rightmire, acting State highway engineer.

Oregon State Highway Commission, Salem. H. B. Van Duzer, chairman of commission; Roy A. Klein, State highway engineer.

Oregon State Purchasing Board, Salem. Carle Abrams, secretary and purchasing agent.

Pennsylvania Department of Property and Supplies, Bureau of Standards and Purchases, Harrisburg. John D. Tompkins, director of standards and purchases. Pennsylvania State Department of Highways, Harrisburg. James L. Stuart, secretary of highways; Samuel Eckles, chief engineer; W. A. Van Duzer, assistant chief engineer.

Pennsylvania State Stewards' Association, care of Warren State Hospital, Warren. H. A. Ross, president.

Rhode Island State Board of Public Works, Highway Department, Providence. Abram L. Atwood, chairman, board of public works; G. H. Henderson, chief engineer.

Rhode Island State Public Welfare Commission, Purchasing Department, Providence. George H. Haines, purchasing agent.

South Carolina State Highway Department, Columbia. Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway commissioner; Charles H. Moorefield, State highway engineer.

South Carolina State Joint Committee on Printing, Columbia. W. T. Walker, secretary.

South Dakota State Department of Finance, Division of Purchasing and Printing, Pierre. John P. Biehn, secretary of finance and director of purchasing and printing.

South Dakota State Highway Commission, Pierre. Gov. W. J. Bulow, chairman of commission; J. Maughs Brown, State highway engineer.

Tennessee State Department of Finance and Taxation, Division of Purchasing, Nashville. A. D. Curtis, State purchasing agent.

Tennessee State Department of Highways and Public Works, Nashville. Robert H. Baker, commissioner; T. C. McEwen, chief engineer.

Texas State Board of Control, Division of Purchasing, Austin. Sumner M. Ramsey, secretary.

Texas State Highway Commission, Austin. R. S. Sterling, chairman; Gibb Gilchrist, State highway engineer.

Utah State Board of Supplies and Purchase, Salt Lake City. E. R. Miles, executive secretary.

Utah State Road Commission, Salt Lake City. Henry H. Blood, chairman; H. S. Kerr, chief engineer.

Vermont State Department of Finance, Purchasing Department, Montpelier. J. L. Wallace, State purchasing agent.

Vermont State Highway Department, Montpelier. George Z. Thompson, chairman; H. E. Sargent, chief engineer.

Virginia State Department of Highways, Richmond. Henry G. Shirley, State highway commissioner; C. S. Mullen, chief engineer; E. F. Appel, purchasing agent.

Virginia State Purchasing Commission, Richmond. Charles A. Osborne, State purchasing agent.

Washington State Department of Business Control, Division of Purchasing, Olympia. H. D. Van Eaton, supervisor of purchasing.

Washington State Highway Department, Olympia. Roland H. Hartley, chairman of commission; Samuel J. Humes, director of highways.

West Virginia State Board of Control, Purchasing Department, Charleston. C. A. Jackson, board member; Mrs. Mamie Loy McRa, State purchasing agent. West Virginia State Road Commission, Charleston. C. P. Fortney, chairman. Wisconsin Department of Public Property, Madison. F. X. Ritger, superintendent.

Wisconsin State Highway Commission, Madison. Jerry Donohue, chairman; W. C. Buetow, State highway engineer.

Wyoming State Board of Supplies, Cheyenne. Vincent Carter, chairman.

Wyoming State Highway Department, Cheyenne. S. W. Conwell, chairman of commission; Z. E. Sevison, State highway engineer.

VII. GENERAL STANDARDIZING AGENCIES

Among the several hundred organizations identified with the general standardization movement are four which were created for the sole purpose of carrying on the work of standardization, or work directly related thereto, namely, the American Standards Association, the American Marine Standards Committee, the American Society for Testing Materials, and the Central Committee on Lumber Standards, the functions of which are fairly well indicated by their titles.

Outlines of the standardization activities of these organizations are given in the present chapter, with special reference to their accomplishments during the past year. Additional information concerning the functions and procedure of their committees engaged in formulating specifications and standards can be found in the 1927, 1928, and 1929 issues of the Standards Yearbook. Outlines of the standardization agencies of the Federal Government are to be found in Chapter IV of the present book; in Chapter V the standardization work of the National Bureau of Standards is presented briefly, and that of the State, county, and municipal agencies are set forth in Chapter VI. Outlines of the standardization activities of many technical societies and trade associations are given in Chapter VIII.

AMERICAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION

The American Standards Association is the American national industrial standardizing body. It includes in its direct membership 40 national technical societies, trade associations, and governmental bodies.

The association provides a procedure under which national standards may be established by any industry or group of industries with the assurance that the standards will represent a true national consensus of approval. National standards have been prepared under American Standards Association auspices or are now under way for almost every major field of industrial activity.

The association maintains a technical staff at 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, N. Y. Dr. P. G. Agnew is the secretary. The actual work of establishing standards is carried on by technical committees representing the producing, distributing, and consuming groups concerned with the projects. In fact, a basic requirement of the American Standards Association procedure is that no standards shall be approved unless all important interests have been adequately represented in the establishment of the standard, no one interest predominating in influence except with the consent of the other groups. The initiation of standardizing projects may be brought about at the request of any responsible body.

In addition to providing systematic means by which organizations concerned with standardization may cooperate in establishing American standards, the American Standards Association serves as a clearing house for information on standardization work, both in the United States and abroad. The association also acts as the authoritative channel in international cooperation in standardization work.