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Show The Soil Profile , Utah County Groups Support Building 50 - 6 as National Freeway Highway By C. T. Lowe few days ago Ernest Roach, a Nebo Soil Conservation District accomp a n i e d Brad approving the state road comDennis Jen sen mission's choice of Highway 6 50 and myself to as federal freeway route will be Delta for the presented to each town's chamobof purpose ber of commerce and city fathers serving a newly this week. initiated land At the came time, mayors of manage m e n t cities and Utah County Commispractice. It is sion reaffirmed their support of known, among widening and improving U.S. 91 personnel of the as readily as possible. Soil Conserva-t'o- n ll ' At the Friday meeting of mayService, as Minimum-- Tillage Some of ors and other interested parties, the soils in the Delta area are several officials said they could comparable to ours here in our not sign the resolution until they heavier soils sections. There we went back to their respective had an opportunity to talk with communities for affirmation. In explaining why he could no! several farmers and SCS personnel about the practice: Why its vote on the resolution immedidone, how and what the results ately, Art Adamson, president of were. It takes 5 main factors to Provo Chamber of Commerce, provide an optimum growing sit- said the chamber had originally uation for our farm crops: Soil backed 40 as best federal interair, water, fertilizer, absence of state route because it was 39 toxic substances and the right miles shorter, but was aware temperature. The first four can of advantages of be largely controlled I cant say the chambea by the farmer, the fifth to some extent. would object to signing the resoEach one of the factors is essen- lution but I cant do so without tial and if one or more is absent, onsulting the roads committee or out of balance, then the plants and directors, he said. suffer as a result, and produc-tii- n Not Been Discussed is lessened. Provos Mayor Harold Van Our present day system of Wagenen and LeGrande Jarman, using the rubber tired tractors Orem mayor, said the issue had and equipment has a tendency never been discussed by their to pack the soil very tightly. If but they councils, respective one drives over the soil 3, 4, 5, would take the matter up times to get a seed bed prepared and generally were and to plant and to cultivate, its certain the councils would back pretty readily seenhow the soil any constructive action. can become compacted over the The county would likely have entire field so tight that air cant about three years to push improvement of U. S. 91, already scheduled to be widened on Fifth West next year, prior to authorization of funds for scheduled transformation into a great super highway. The roads meeting was opened A Hatch, Friday with the reading of a Daily Herald editorial urging an end to controversy as to whether U. S. or Highway 40 would be best freeway route, and united support of the State Highway Commissions decision favoring 6-- Need for Unity There are urgent needs for such unity, Orson Brown, Spanish Fork Chamber of Commerce, told the group. Utah was lucky to get the great freeway scheduled to go through the state, he said. However, no moneys have been appropriated, just authorized. The U. S. Bureau of Roads usually takes time out to listen to objections to a route. If Utah's disputes reach Washington, the state might lose the route altogether, he said. He said the question as to whether Highway 40wtsuld have been preferable to should have been talked over and unity achieved six months ago. Cities and counties of Utah County are already on record as pledging united support for improvement of U. S. 91 and route of an additional highway, if it is built sometime in the future, to go east of the lake but not cities. through Still Talk Theres still talk of putting U. S. 91 west of the lake, warn0 traffic-congest- ed ed Mr. Brown. To understand some of the engineering and traffic problems involved, (in highways crisscrossing Utah County) it is necessary to take a good hard look at a map. Utah residents are County prone to refer to U. S. 91 as north and south, even when the highway is angling east-weenter the soil. Thats the prob- around the protruding trangle of lem. To correct it a praotice of Utah Lake. Sudden realization that enginegoing over the land as few times as possible is being developed: ering-wise it would be cheapSometimes only once. Plowed er and easier to cut across the dry, in. the summer or fall, left triangle from Goshen to Camp 0 days to weather down, the Williams, convinced the countys soil profile filled with water cities to hurry support for imwithout furtherworking of the proving U. S. 91 and agree to soil, and crops planted. The rights of ways for a proposed farmers there reported crop in- alternate between 91 and the creases all the way from 25 per- lake. cent to 75 percent. Besides the Actually a road already exists increase it costs less to run the from Goshen to Camp Williams, equipment over the land fewer of which only 22 miles lack paving; and Salt Lake County has times. traffic-wa- y Some of the SCD cooperators talked of (building a west of to join Redwood Road are interested in giving it a trial. Results will determine its value. the Camp Williams route. 6-- By FRANKLIN J. MEINE Editor, The. American Peoples Encyclopedia TVf had a bad OTHERS-IN-LA- time of it with early American Indian tribes. There was a tabu which forbade a man to have any communication with or even to look at his wifes mother, and vice versa. This was true of the Plains tribes, the Navaho and Apache. Although Timothy American Dexter, an eccentric merchant, acquired a large fortune as a leather dresser and in various business transactions, he wasn't a very good author. He died In 1806, with the title of Lord. At his home in Newbury-po- rt he built a baroque mansion, on the grounds of which he erected a number of wooden statues of celebrated people, Including himself. Almost entirely illiterate, he wrote a curious bosk entitled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones. In answer to those who complained of the lack of punctuation, he appended to the second edition a page of punctuation marks and his advice to readers to pepper and salt it as they please. st 60-8- Among persona over 65, it la to ono estimated, from third art chronically HL About ono half of all tho chronically IQ ora over age 49, and moat persona over 60 have aoma more or leaa permanent diaabllity or dlseaao, notea a report of the Twentieth Century Fund. one-ten- th The Payscn Chronicle, Payson, Utah THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1956 BEST in There is a sale for which picks up traffic from Los Angeles and the southwest and takes off from at Tintic Junction, through Tooele to Salt Lake City. If U. S. 91 continues to increase in traffic without improvement d comtraffic, via ing down Spanish Fork Canyon, and through Eureka via a super-federhighway, might also choose 36 as traffic-fre- e alternate to U. S. 91. Best Defense The countys best defense it was agreed is to unitedly push improvement of existing U.S. 91 with six lanes where possible and four where not. It is particularly important that U.S. 91 have left-tur- n .lanes through cities, similar to that at Twelfth North, to keep traffic moving. It is also to Utah County interest that Provo Canyon 189 be widened as soon as possible to a 0 family homes with small acreage 6-- MENS CLOTHING SHERM'S Mens Apparel Also small farms 6-- west-boun- for investment purposes al four-lan- FOR THE WE HEED LISTINGS heavily settled cities penned between the mountains and the lake and congestion flee 36, e MISSILE BOSS . . . Eger V. Murphree, president of Esso Research Si Engineering Co., was put in charge of long range guided missiles by Defense Seo. Wilson. George T. Eckersley Realtor Member Multiple Listing Home office, 94 West 1st North Payson, Utah, Phone 329-- iTAffifS ATTli i'iJgjPP highway. Because of Flaming Gorge dam north of VernSl,' Improvement of highway 40 is assured, and. U.S. 30 already is designated as an interstate highway. A glance at a map will show Provo Canyon is first turn-of- f d point for highway 40 traffic, which might want to head for Southern California via It is a shorter route also for traffic funneling into Evanston from 89, 189 and 30, which reaches Kimball Junction, with choice of U. S. 40 to Salt Lake or 189 through Heber and Provo Canyon. Question Asked One of the questions asked at tne roads meeting in Provo Frigo day was does U.S. through Eureka or Nephi, and if Eureka, how can it be improved? The answer given is that while south-boun- d traffic can split at Santaquin and go via the valley route through Nephi,. then join the more westerly route at Lynn-dy- l, (22 SC EZGSE3ISS2 east-boun- EMBER NOWS 0. THE TIME TO BUY gu MQA Even if water were in great which it often it not plenty it is still here In the West good farm management to have your entire- irrigation system completely headgated. The cost Is surprisingly tow. The savings in time, labor and water are surprisingly high. Look at these then, come In and prices look at the headgates. 6-- 4 the real leaves Santaquin to pass through Goshen and Eureka, then north to Lynndyl. The highway will be from Eurekas narrow Main Street to permit greater widen- -- 6-- YOUR STATE UNIVERSITY OFFERS YOU One of finest faculties in America. Twelve major colleges of instruction. New classrooms, dormitories and size..... 3 63 size..... 466 NT size.... 5M 8 Opportunity to learn where you want to live. Home state environment. 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