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Show New Homes Being Built At Kearns Army Site Formal ground breaking by Secretary Sec-retary of State Heber Bennion, Jr. today noon signalized the beginning begin-ning of work on Utah's newest low cost planned community at Kearns, formerly the U. S. Army airbase Camp Kearns, 11 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Prices Pri-ces of modern two and three bedroom bed-room ' houses with and without garages will range from $7150 upward, including a large landscaped land-scaped lot and modern plumbing, electric and water facilities, Arthur Ar-thur Caplan, president of Kearns Town.site, Inc. said. Construction of the first 100 units will involve the expenditure of $700,000. Fred L. Markham, Provo architect, archi-tect, designed the housing units and the Mountain View Construction Construc-tion Company R. W. Sims, Salt Lake City is the builder. Kearns Townsite, Inc. said. Construction ed the 1200 acres on which the U. S. Army expended $3,800,000 installing in-stalling road, sewage, water and electric light systems. |