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Show New Engineering Commission j Begins Work SALT LAKE CITY The new Engineering Commission, successors to the State Road Commission, have taken up their duties at the State Capital and have already ftegun to function. Commission members are John Evans of Lehi, chairman, Layton Maxfield of Delta, and tester A. Blackner of Salt Lake City. Mr. BlaGkner is the Republican member mem-ber of the commission. The commission faces a strenuous, stren-uous, task In its work of carrying out projects now under way, and in planning other necessary improvements im-provements and construction on the strategic highways of the State as well as the improvement of those roads that are more local in character. The Federal Government is planning plan-ning a vast road improvement program and bills for the appropriation approp-riation of the necessary funds are already before Congress. Utah will share in this road improvement Program because of its importance as a connecting link between the east and the west coasts. Work must be rushed during the construction con-struction season as mountain road building in the winter time is practically an impossibility. The commission expects to name a chief engineer in the near future fu-ture to succeed Ezra C. Knowlton, who resigned as chief engineer to enter the service of the government. govern-ment. H. S. Kerr, senior engineer, of the commission is acting chief engineer until the new appointment appoint-ment is made. |