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Show U fT University of Utah Library City 12 Adams Street Votes Itself Out Of South Salt Lake Improvement Plans Vol. 24, No. 30 Salt Lake City, Friday, July 28, 1961 Ten Cents Per Copy Last Tuesday at 8 p.m. the citer izens affected by the new of front footage on and Sidewalk District the street this would kill the imgathered in the South Salt Lake provement on that street only. a Fence Saw United Company City Auditorium (2500 South truck up at Jackson Hole the State Street) to register their proA point in favor of the project Salt eevn a South When or agreeother day. tests or objections, was made when the people were Lake business does a job . . . ments to the District fo be formed. told that the city would bear the they go anywhere to do it. chairVern Bolinder, cost of tree removal on the Mayor J. took Council of man the City Discovered that there are two properties. with in turn street each starting and of kinds pigs. tourists, people Mr. Lee Bowman said that he From all of our observations this Truman Avenue. Each person obto register his had a sidewalk and a bridge summer, as tourists, we feel that who wished as so to do was allowed most are pigs. We watched peo- jection driveway would his sidewalk discussed. was street his be tom up and he have to pay for ple throw garbage into the bushes, attractions scenic with clutter The basic objections were: the a new one. Also he wanted to gum wrappers and beer cans. high cost of the curb and gutter keep his bridge. improvements ($4.39 per front We wonder if the labor leaders foot). The fact that this quote Mayor Bolinder explained that have figured this one out. With was higher than when the im- his bridge would have to go, but their continued support of a provement was offered approxi- if Mr. Bowman had put in a sidestrong central government what mately two years before. walk according to city grades and will the union leaders use for to be were bids opened according to city specifications, (The eatin money when business is after all had been heard.) nationalized? then the city must pay for the People on 5th East were con- new sidewalk if there was any Bob Taylor wants to know who cerned about their water rights. difference in the location or new will work when everyone is on Those living across from Nibley grading. Also, that if Mr. Bowthe government payroll? Where Park wondered how the city mans sidewalk was in need of will the taxes come from? Sorta would honor their water rights. repair the City would repair it like a big fan attached to a sail fide would bona be at no cost to Mr. Bowman. (All ridghts boat to blow wind in the sails to honored statewas the official make the boat go. One citizen wanted to know ment from the city council.) if a part of the city could be reThere is a shortage of money What if the bids were higher moved from the district or even to build the highway system in than the engineers estimate? the city. The answer was that Utah. The belt route is the imThe mayor announced that the there were legal technicalities mediate problem. Shortage might for more involved and this would have to be a result of placing 1,725 bil- city would go to court. bids. lion dollars in the federal general fund instead of highway conIt was pointed out by Mr. Earl One large corporation who did Whats struction. more, this Barnes, 2908 South 5th East, that not want curbs and gutters along money was from taxes imposed the cost was too high and that their property said they would upon users of highways and retired people would not be able sue the city if they were inundated by water run-amounts to 38 per cent of the to meet the cost. from nearby improved streets. total collected from users. Mayor Bolinder explained that Adams Street and 27th South after the completion of the disThose who say that Federal Aid entered the largest number of to Education will not involve trict the property owner has 18 Unless a few more of protests. Federal control may refer to a months to make his first payment the citizens change their minds Supreme Court decision which and that he has ten years to pay about opposing the improvement states where Federal funds are the balance at 6 per cent interest. on their street Adams Street is Some wanted the bids people used Federal control is implied. street the which would only not If that is not enough examine opened first before the discussion be included in the Improvement the Federal highway system and went any further. district Seventy-fou- r per cent the attempts to adapt the highOne man called for a popular of the front footage along Adams ways to either state or local vote to settle the problem of the Street was protested. conditions. District going through. It was pointed out that each street The next largest protest came As we said before, the busiest would be considered, one at a from property owners along 27th Utah Street (State Street) has the time and that if of the South. Only 20 per cent opposed smallest interchange. It will be property owners on a street were the improvements, so 27th South in South Salt Lake. And there opposed to the improvements the is still in the district is nothing Mayor Bolinder or improvements would not be made At this point Mayor Vern J. G. D. Clyde can do to change on that street. The foot frontage Bolinder called for a vote to see it Federal aid IS Federal Con- df each of the protesting proper- how many of the people were trol. There is no other tenable ty owners would be added up and for. or against the improvement if that total was more than the position. (Cont. on Page 3, CoL 2) Curb-Gutt- All of these charming candidates for Salt Lake County's Dairy Princess title agree on that advice as they prepare for final juding on Monday, July 81. Pictured are ,left to right, front: Lena Starks, Callie Archuletta, Mary Jo Maero. Center: Carol Ann Burbank, Gloria Bailey, Gerri Webster, Ann Woolley. Back: Linda Haycock, Uleda St. John, Laurene Croft, Mary Lou Michelsen. DRINK MILK FOR BEAUTY! Pretty Girl Is Worth Attention 17 Pretty Girls - Front Page News A -- beauties Seventeen milk-loviLake Salt will compete for the County Dairy Princess title on Monday, July 31, Dean Bateman said Wednesday. Mr. Bateman is county committee chairman, for the American Dairy Association of Utah, sponsor of the competition. The Salt Lake County finals will be held in the Prudential Federal Auditorium, 3261 South State Street, at 7:30 p.m., on July two-thir- ds re-adver- tise of ng Roberta Street, Salt Lake City; Callie Archuleta, daughter of Mrs. Teresa Archuleta, 75 West Whitlock Ave., Salt Lake City; Gloria Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Bailey, 3594 South 56000 West, Murray; Carol Ann Burbank, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Burbank, 8357 Drive, Sandy; Karen daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Burkinshaw, 7585 31. South 1300 West, West Jordan; The contest winner will re- Larene Croft, daughter of Mr. ceive a Utah State University and Mrs. Earl O. Croft, 1020 scholarship, provided she meets South 4th East, Salt Lake City. scholastic requirements, and will Linda Ann Hancock, daughter represent the county in the Utah k, Mrs. and Mrs. William N. Princess finals Hotel at of Dairy 6000 3791 South West, MagUtah in November. Contestants in the competition na; Carma Haun, daughter of Mr. include: Shirley Anderson, daugh- and Mrs. Arch L. Haun, 8640 ter of Mrs. Lyda Anderson, 1499 (Cont. on Page 3f CoL 3) Ro-mai- ne Bur-kinsha- w, Han-cac- two-thir- ds Federal Government Controls All Phases of Highway Construction By Virtue of Federal Aid allocations for the interstate highway system in Utah have been relatively low in comparison with the amount of interstate mileage in the state. This fact was revealed in a highway study prepared by Utah Foundation, the private governmental research organization. The Foundation study points out that Federal interstate allocations ot Utah for the past three years have been based on the original interstate route mileage approved in 1957. The- addition Federal-ai- d - of new routes since the original designations, which "have added 47 per cent to the total planned interstate mileage in the State, will not be considered in calculating federal fund allocations until 1963 and subsequent years. As a result, the Foundation report observes that while Utah has completed or placed under contract substantially all highway projects for which Federal funds have been available, the State still ranks .relatively low in the proportion of mileage com- - leted or in the process of com- part of the interstate system. pletion on the new interstate Other factors that may account in part for Utahs lower proporsystem. The study shows that al- tion of mileage completed, acthough more than 25 per cent of cording to the Foundation, are inter- (1) the incorporation into the inthe designated 41,000-mi- le state system throughout the na- terstate system of many existing tion had been completed and highways and toll roads in other opened to traffic by March 31st other states, (2) the concentraof this year, Utah completed only tion of interstate construction, in seven per cent of its designated the urban areas of Utah, where interstate mileage by that date. costs are higher and progress is On March 31, 1961, Utah had dower, and- (3) delays caused competed only 69 of the 934 during the early months of the miles desinated in the state as program when the organiaztion - and staff of the Utah highway department was inadequate. Foundation analysts pointed out that the Federal Government exercise es extensive control over nearly all phases of state highway activity by virtue of its powers with respect to the Federal-ai- d program. These controls extend to activities not specifically financed with Federal funds, such as maintenance. Recent legislation by the 1961 Congress increased Federal high-(Coon Page 3, CoL 1) nt. I |