THREE MEMBERS TAKE OFFICE AS COMMISSIONERS

APRIL, 1931 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS Page Eleven Three Members Take Office As Highway Commissioners

Arizona's State Highway Commission underwent the greatest reorganization of that body since its inception on March 16th, when three new members, C. E. Addams, Phoenix, John B. Hart, Doug las, and Jacob Barth, St. Johns, took their places on the commission through appointment by Governor Geo. W. P. Hunt. They were welcomed into office by I. Perle McBride, W. R. Wayland the largest diamond mines in the Kimberly district, the Wesselton, Dutoitspan, De Beers and Kimberly mines. He also held the position of general manager of the Voorspoed Diamond mines in Trans val, South Africa.

In 1913 Mr. Addams came to Arizona as the assistant superintendent of the Ray Consolidated Copper company and then became general manager of the Ray Hercules mine at Ray. He left his mining position in 1917 to come to Phoenix and do war work serving in the capacities of chairman and director of the Arizona State Council of Defense, a member of District Draft Board No. 1, and later was in charge of the entire relief work in the state during the Flu epidemic.

Since the war Mr. Addams has large ly devoted his time to looking after his from his birthplace to Marion, O. where he was engaged in business for four years previous to his coming to Arizona. He entered the restaurant business in Bisbee and in 1903 expanded by opening additional restaurants in Lowell and Douglas, moving his residence from Bisbee to Douglas in 1915.

In 1920 Mr. Hart was elected a member of the board of supervisors in Co chise county and served through four terms. In 1930 Mr. Hart disposed of his restaurants and has served as assistant chief of police of Douglas since that time.

Mr. Barth, a son of a pioneer family in Arizona, was born in St. Johns and educated in Albuquerque, New Mexico, high school and university. His father, Sol Barth, came to Arizona in 1861, stopping first in Tucson. Later the family moved to Prescott and finally located in St. Johns in 1874.

Mr. Barth has been engaged in many enterprises about St. Johns, besides being interested in several mercantile businesses, he has also engaged in stock and cattle raising. He saw service in the Navy during the World War.

While always active in the civic and political affairs of his community and state he never before has held a public office or appointment.

and James F. McDonald, retiring commissioners and Monte Mansfield and Samuel T. Trengrove, holdover commissioners.

In the organization of the new commission Mr. Addams was elected chairman and Mr. Hart vice-chairman. The appointments of Mr. Addams and Mr. Barth expire January 31, 1937 and that of Mr. Hart, who was named to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. McDonald, expires January 31, 1933.

Mr. Addams has been a resident of Phoenix since 1917. He was born in Pennsylvan'a and started his engineering career as mining engineer for the Lehi, Wilkes Barre Coal company of that state, leaving for the diamond fields of South Africa where he held the positions of Chief Engineer for the De Beers Consolidated Mines of Kimberly and was manager of four ofpersonal interests and has taken an active part in civic and state affairs. He was chosen chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee last fall and so conducted the state campaign that the state committee was put and kept on a cash basis.

Mr. Hart came to Arizona in 1901 with his parents and three brothers, locating in Bisbee. He was born and educated in Sandusky, Ohio, removing