Former state highway chairman dies at 95

MACON - Reginald Trice, who was chairman of the State Highway Board for eight years and was instrumental in bringing Interstate 75 through Macon, died Wednesday. <br> <br> Trice, 95, was a gasoline distributor and land developer who served as chairman of the Wesleyan College trustees, president of the Macon Chamber of Commerce and lieutenant governor of Kiwanis International. <br> <br> He backed running I-75 through Macon even though it was not the shortest route. <br> <br> ``He wouldn&#39;t hear of putting Macon, Georgia, on a spur of the interstate,&#39;&#39; said Tom Moreland, former commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, the highway board&#39;s successor. <br> <br> The 10-mile stretch of I-75 from the Monroe County line to the I-16 junction is named the ``Reginald Trice Parkway&#39;&#39; in his honor.