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Show u O Chase Clark Assures Road Work ALSO SEES FEDERAL AID POSSIBILITY State Funds To Be. Used In Starting Grace-Preston Work Governor Chase Clark gave Franklin county the assurance that work , will be started immediately im-mediately on the long awaited Preston-Grace highway, in a statement to Mel Reeves, secretary sec-retary of the Preston Chamber of Commerce, last Friday afternoon after-noon Governor Clark said that he bad every intention of keeping faith with the people of this county and that he is making every effort to get the construction underwr immediately. im-mediately. The work will be done with state money and will go "just as far as finances will allow", he stated. The governor indicated that the next 30 days will determine deter-mine the amount of federal highway money available for Idaho and that as soon as this is determined, it can be expected ex-pected that the road will be well on the way to completion of an oiled highway linking Grace and Presioii The: interview with the governor occurred at an Intermountain Rmp-ire Rmp-ire Civic Leaders meeting in Salt, Laka City last Friday at which he ! was the principal -speaker. Principal topic at this conference was the part the intermountain empire can play in the national defense program and the commercial com-mercial npt-ivilies that can bo carried car-ried on in conjunction with the program. Delegates visited army defense depots and plants in the Salt Lake area including Fort Douglas where they were sent through the paces of induction into the U. S. Army. They also visited the LDS K eral warehouse where they received receiv-ed valuable' information on the pp-er-aliou of ail activity of its sl,fi-At sl,fi-At a road meeting with representatives represen-tatives from Ul.'.lt and Idaho, nielh-ods nielh-ods of developing better relations and cooperation between the two stales in routing tourists was dis-cussd. |