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Show THE HISTORY OF THE STATE ROAD _ee TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH Nazi Bombs Hit London Orphanage Beautiful Afghan Is_ Gone With Wind COMMISSION OF UTAH - 1939 1909 By H. V. RICHARDS, (Continued In taking or accepting a highway the easement only. bounded land Statistical from for The public acquires an A transfer of land by a highway passes road commission Week) notable change produced by ETROIT.—Hurry-up Yost is still wearing the same old Will Rog- the gasoline tax of 1923 has been~described and its influence marks a transition to a new era in 1925 when the State relieved the counties of the greater part of maintenance costs and extended the sys: tem of patrol maintenance. Also the use of the revenue furnished by the tax was quickly extended to the purpose of cooperating in the costs of Federal aid projects throughout the designated system. The State’s program in 1924 estimated 10 years to complete the Federal aid system with standard gravel surface and some additional mileage of concrete... This assumption did not allow for the subsequent increase in weight, volume and speed of traffic which factors the title of the person whose estate is transferred to the middle of the _ highway. All deeds for State highway right of way now name the State Last Engineer as grantee. ers respect to procurement of~ high-! ‘way right of way thereon, and the road commission pays to the State land board ther value thereof. Through Federal cooperation the State is usually granted a right of way 400 feet wide through lands in the public domain as construetion proceeds. In Federal reserva- tions the maximum grant is nor- mally 132 feet.. Where right of way through the public domain has not. heen otherwise established the commission, through its resolution of April 14, 1927, claims a width of 100 feet, which width is the commission’s minimum standard for all rights of way. In cases where it is considered that construction will be unduly delayed pending final settlements for rights of way, the statutes. re-, lative to eminent domain (Chapter| 61 of Title 104, R. S. 1933) permit occupancy, through appropriate. court action, of the premises sought to be condemned and thereby, un-| der court order, construction may | proceed. Where matters of rights of way present complications such. | | 1926 the exvellent Carideo The top age is three at this London orphanage which was recently. hit by a Nazi bomb. The bomb exploded only 10 feet from the babies’ dormitory, and, very fortunately, there were no casualties. The children are here pictured playing in the shadow of the orphanage ruins, quite unaware of their narrow escape from death. standard The year 1933 marks the beginning of the most recent stage in the evolution of construction, with the greatly augmented Federal funds then made available, making it possible to advance the construc- Photo shows members of an Argentine delegation to Washington for the discussion of a $50,000,000 loan regarded necessary to sustain the increasing flow of exports to Argentina, which are much heavier than Argentine exports to the United States. L. to R., Dr. P. Prebish (Central Bank of Argentine); D. Espil, Argentine ambassador; Sumner Welles, U. S. acting secretary of state; E. Grumbach (Central Bank of Argentine); C. Prado, of the Argentine embassy, and R, Verrier (Central Bank of Argentine). of routine procedure, the complaint| naming as parties defendant all persons from whom right of way is to be obtained within the limits come there are four principal and at that only for sleighs mobiles in its equipment until 1916.| central counties an expensive plan. of water was The work has included pavements. and sprinkling Table F discloses this limitation of surface types and the yearly progress made. Even as late as 1924 only a little had been accomplished in improving the in- ce terstate highways across _ the sparsely populated border counties. The days tourist guide books of stow- that negotiation those of six major routes entering the was difficult and slow, by warnings as “impassable wet’, and more definite was uniform instruction to “carry and water.” State such when the food Tagged . or Dorais of Notre Dame, not overlooking Marty Brill. Michigan collection still Harmon Case ee a Under navy department plans 24-hour watch over defense for se- aa TOM the brilliant Red two first downs. I saw one against Nebraska. Football has known too many great backs to offer you any complete list—it had known some even before the days of Snake Ames at Princeton, one of the best, around 1889. as above. Santa Pays Off Heston, he failed to pick There ta On persons. B:. H. Heide (inset) is secretary-manager From Fishbowl to Army Camp Eckersall, for a Thorpe, clubs December of the 2 the nation will Christmas distribute probably more than $350,000,000 among about 7,000,000 members. The 1939 average was $48.80 per member. Mexican President were few backs the Self-Made Back Evashevski is one of the best blocking backs of this generation. A grand football player. But he didn’t make Tommy Harmon. Harmon ground. Great and his Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No...ccccccce Name . 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There is a big argument now under way from Berkeley to Cambridge, meaning the Pacific and the . Atlantic, as te where Harmon belongs in the galaxy of stars. Many of them will tell you Evashevski made him. Harmon will say so. game A construction race rivaling those of World war days will end December 1 when the vast Fort Dix; N. J., training camp is completed. Draftees whose numbers were drawn from the fish bowl (inset) will find Fort Dix ready for them afier that date. The camp will have facilities for 22,000 officers and men. Many were trained at this site during the Circle Ave. Coy, second Harmon made Evashevski went SAN Sewing Eighth up I still recall the day when I traveled with ‘Our Town’’ Frank Craven, the football loving actor, to Urbana to see Red Grange run against Nebraska which had a tackle by the name of Weir—a 220-pound hurdler. That day we failed to see the famous Redhead cross the scrimmage line. Frank Reagan made over 300 yards against Princeton—but only six yards at ball carrying against Michigan. Fritz Pollard at Brown was a star back, but Colgate stopped him colder than two dead mackerel. No one can keep running for ever. Above is shown a scene from last year’s show, which was 82 knew for identification card, where Grange games Grange Stopped 7. & Re) crets employees were photographed. ~ December * Pattern No. 2634 contains directions for afghan; illustrations of it and stitches; color schemes; photograph of square; materials required. Send order to: HARMON that all had They have nothing but big days. ali known dark days on one or more occasions. attended by 450,000 of the exposition. ERE’S how the smart woman adds beauty to her home or makes a lovely gift—she crochets these squares in easy puff stitch and double crochet and soon has enough to join into this rich afghan, Action begins in a short time. No long hours | of painf fort. believe Largest agricultural show in the world, the International Live-Stock Exposition and Horse Show, will be held in Chicago from November 30 to . ¢ The ~ | parade at one time or another. Don’t To turn out that job of printing whenever you need it. Our Prices Are Right to _In the 21 or more games of his eareer he has been a star at almost every start. They have checked him and there as Bob Zuppke did a year ago. But don’t forget that even We Are Ready Polo Tobe Pods Yeks Pes Pebs obs osyobs Tos Joss PebsyekyeL came When you get right down to the facts in the case, Tommy Harmon of Michigan has already proved his place in the football roundup. investiga- tions of native rock asphalts, inaugurated. | asphaltic oils, and oil-gravel mixes, construction method in laying - The year 1917 ushers in the pro-' portland. cement concrete pavegram of pavement construction ment, and freezing and thawing financed from the bond issues and tests in connection with these paveit also marks the beginning of the Federal aid program. The funds ments to determine if possible the cause and cure of scaling; tests of continued to be concentrated on road-marking paint; and now under the heavily travelled roads, to the way is a program of soil investigageneral neglect of the outlying tion. All ofthis work results in regions, a situation resulting from or is intended to produce improvethe financial limitations of local ment in materials and in con: cooperators as well as from the struction or maintenance methods imperative need for getting the central counties “out of the mud.” Also there was no well-developed design for surfacing between gravel and the expensive high-type supply and Midwest. in 1915, 1925, 1927, 19307 and 1934. and ‘have aided- materially the program of highway safety. Research by the materials department has included both original investigations and the checking of the work of other agencies, who Mahan, Tryon, Gipp, Nevers, Grange, Nagurski, Joesting, Stevens, Dutch Clarke, Whizzer White and a long list of others have led the of, been kept during the paSt six years During the summer months the dust. on the more heavily travelled roads was extreme and in the north South Live Stock Show Opéns periods in which the record of con- The records of the survey of 1915 struction may be divided, both with are lost except for a brief descriprespect to fund volume and avail- -tidn in the commission’s third bienability for general purpose. Over nial report with samples of forms the three decades these periods used and the data thereon. Sumdivide at the years 1917, 1925 and marized data for the sybsequent 1933. | surveys are published in the bienThe first seven years of con- nial reports except the record for struction, are characterized by the the 1934 survey, which was not concept that the local property published. Full detail of the 1930 owner should bear the major share survey, with analysis and fore‘of costs and hence the very meager casts is published in a, report of State appropriations, and a bond the Bureau of Public Roads, enissue of minor consequence. Under titled “Report of a Survey of Trafthis financial set-up durable con- fic on the Federal-aid Highway struction, except as to bridges, was Systems of Eleven Western States.” very limited, the roads were narrow A set of traffic - flow accompanying ‘and completed, in the main, to the report as a supplement is pubgraded earth type. Maintenance. lished separately. The traffic surunder the plan of county financing, veys have been useful in determincould not be standardized. In gen- ing priority in construction ~ proeral the roads could not be classed grams and the type of construction. as better than “passable” during Highway accident records have the winter and early spring months | other horse-drawn traffic..The road commission did not include auto- | The $15,000 radio tower ‘of station W-I-N-D, which was broken in half by the terrific gale which did millions of dollars of damage in the Argentina Asks $50,000,000 Loan gravel surface began to distintegrate under traffic. The problem appeared unsolvable within the limits of any reasonable expenditure, until in 1927, the Western States developed a new type of surface, asphaltic oil and gravel, mixed in place on the road, or.in plants. Concrete surface of the period, 18-feet wide, cost an average of $25,000 per mile for slab alone. The new dustless and durable surfacing, for roads carrying up to 2,000 vehicles per day, could be built with adequate base for $5,000 per mile or less. The table shows how this surfacing has solved the problem in Utah, at least for the time being. The year 1927 is also the date of commencement of the present signing system used on State and U. S. highways. design were materially raised in order to serve more adequately the augmented weight and speed of traffic; to instance highway widths of a designated project. Usually, only, multiple lanes are being more extensively used, but where only thereafter settlement of all claims is affected without further court two lanes are constructed, the old action, but where a settlement con- 18-foot standard has been increased. sidered equitable cannot be _ ob- to 22-foot width surface on main tained through negotiation, trial highways, with four to eight foot shoulders and 20-foot surface width is had on the issue. on lesser roads except that 18 feet improvement of the State is the width of surface on roads. Highway System | bearing the lightest travel. Thus Reference must be had to the the maximum standard of a few record of progress in this and pre- years ago has become the minimum ceeding biennial reports to obtain in the design established for in detail the history of the enmodernization. » gineering accomplishments of the commission in highway construc- | Research Studies tion. Prior to the planning survey As indicated in this history under studies. begun in 1936, traffic surAdministrative Function and In- veys were made by the commission man, of all time. tion program materially. It is also is often taken, as a matter: about the time when standards in action The Forty years aga Wolverine supporters, chanting ~fhe Yellow and the Blue,” looked upon Willie Hes- | ton as the nonpareil. Today the spért-loving city of Detroit can’t believe that Heston was another Harmon. As long as both belong to Michigan football history, Yost merely grins. “What about an all-time Michigan backfield,”’ he asks, ‘‘with Benny Friedman at quarter, Heston and Harmon at the halves and Johnny Garrels at full? What other all-time college backfield could ever equal that bunch? Name one.” The closest we could think of included Thorpe, Calac, Guyon, and Hudson or Mt. Pleasant at Carlisle— or Gipp, Savoldi, Eichenlaub and The expressed intent of the deed is to grant an easement for highway purposes. “Highway purposes” include in addition to ordinary transportation the use of the high‘way, under appropriate license, by public utilities and municipalities, for pipe lines, wire lines and similar facilities. In obtaining such deed -the commission settles all claims of the holder of the fee and of lien holders. With respect: to taxation of lands held under private have advanced and continue to adownership the distinction as be-, vance in proportions unbelievable tween private and public rights is in 1924. The Federal aid system clarified through the recording of is still not “completed” and probthese right of way deeds as con-. ably will not be until the saturastruction and improvement pro-| tion point is reached in the use of ceed on the State highway system,’ the highways. Roads that were satand the abutting owner relieved isfactory in years gone by become from paying taxes on the portion inadequate mainly because (1) they of the fee occupied by the high-' are not wide enough to expedite way. Granted right of way returns the traffic volume carried, (2) the to the holder of the fee and-to the alignment is too tortuous and the tax rolls where the highway is re- sight distance too limited for speed located or abandoned. School land. ranges that have doubled, (3) or other land held by the State of bridges designed for heavier loads Utah under grant from the United and wider roadway become necesStates is considered as having the SUR ileal same status as private lands: with! In grin. Ann Arbor as head coach with Willie Heston 40 years ago, today as athletic director looks at Tom Harmon, one of the greatest running backs The point is that Harmon has been a star since his first game—a star from his first game in 1938 to his last charge against Pennsylvania. When he ran wild against Califorhia, starting his last college season, scoring 28 points, they all said the Golden Bear was only a fuzzy kitten. But the Golden Bear came back to beat St. Mary’s, the team that beat Fordham, and to hold Washington to a 7-6 decision after Washington had played Minnesota practically to a standstill. So California must have had a few good football players on the field. "All the Traffic Would Bear” @ There was a time in America when there were no set prices. Each merchant charged what he thought “the traffic would bear.” Advertising came to the rescue of the consumer. | It led the way to the estab|" lished prices you pay when you buy anything today. |