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Show Sen. Moss Spends Busy Week in Utah U. S. Senate committee assignments, assign-ments, plus meetings with civic and Democratic party leaders, provided a busy week last week for Sen. Frank E. Moss, taking his first trip home since the opening of Congress. As the official representative of the Senate Committee on Interior In-terior and Insular Affairs, he spent Friday, February 20, attending at-tending opening ceremonies for the Glen Canyon Bridge. Spanning Span-ning the 1200 foot wide gorge of the Colorado River, the bridge was opened to the public in a ceremony by the governors of Utah and Arizona, and Commissioner Commis-sioner W. A. Dexheimer of the Bureau of Reclamation. Sen. Moss arrived in Utah Monday Mon-day night after spending the day in a public works committee hearing at Pierre, South Dakota. Tuesday was spent in his Salt Lake office. At noon Wednesday he met with Democratic members, and during the afternoon sessions addressed ad-dressed both houses of the state Legislature. In his talks, the Senator advocated giving more attention to the future and formulating for-mulating plans, including legislative legis-lative plans, for long term development de-velopment of Utah and the west. Thursday the Utah Democrat spoke at Westminster College, Salt Lake City at a luncheon for civic and business leaders in Ogden given by the Weber County Coun-ty Democratic Committee. Saturday Sat-urday he confered with the Utah Water and Power Board. Sunday the Utah County Democratic Committee sponosored a Provo reception for civic and party leaders. The Glen Canyon Bridge and the new highways create a new interstate link through a heretofore here-tofore inaccessible but scenic area. It is the second crossing of the Colorado River in the 640 miles between Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada state line, and Moab. Opening of the bridge completes a 100 mile alternate route for U. S. Highway 89 between be-tween Bitter Springs, Arizona, and Kanab. |