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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1962 , Page Three Highway Department Discloses Nearly 35,000 Miles of Roads, By systems, 13 per cent, or 444,000 miles in the United States are on the primary sys-tem, with an additional 265,000 miles on state systems. Another 2.7 million miles, or 77 per cent of the total in the country, are under local control; and 112,000 miles, or 3 per cent, are in National Parks, National Forests and Indian reservations. The total mileage of the road and street system in Utah has grown only gradually in recent years. The needs of the state lie generally not in more mileage Some interesting figures on the total mileage and types of surfaces of highways, roads and streets, both in the United States and in Utah, were released to-- . day. C. Taylor Burton, Director of Utah State Department of Highways, reported that there are now over 3.5 million miles of roads and streets in the nation and 34,531 miles in the state. Mr. Burton pointed out that 88 per cent (3.1 million miles) of the national total are rural roads, and 12 per cent (430,000 miles) are municipal streets. In Utah rural roads also com- - but m improvement or replace-ment of existing highways. "Al-though some mileage is added every year to the state's road sys-tem," Director Burton states, "the main effort of the State Highway Department in the re-cent past has been to modernize and to incorporate safety-desig- n into our highways." prise 88 per cent of the total (30,409 miles). Of these, 7,650 miles are under federal control; 5,005 miles under state control; and 17,754 under municipal con-trol. Utah's city streets total 3,913 miles or 11 per cent of the state's total, of which 621 miles are under state control and 3,292 are under municipal jurisdiction. The federal government has jurisdiction only of roads in na-tional forests, national parks, In-dian reservations, etc. The feder-al- aid system, on which federal funds are used for highway con-struction through co-operat-federal- stat- e programs, are parts of the road systems under the jurisdiction of the state and local governments. All maintenance costs of federal-ai- d roads, after they are built, must be borne solely by the state without fed-eral participation. Nearly one. million miles, or 28 per cent of the 3.5 million miles of roads and streets in the United States, are unsurfaced. Of the "surfaced" roads, 1.3 million miles, or 37 per cent of the total are soil-surfac- ed or have surfaces of gravel, crushed stone, or slag. If not well-maintaine- d, some of these lower types of surfacing may appear to the public to be gravel roads, Mr. Burton pointed out. Over 1.2 million miles, which is 35 per cent of the total have surfaces ranging from bitumi-nous surface treatment or bitu-minous and portland cement con- - In Utah, about half, or 15,236 miles of the rural roads, and less than 5 per cent of the city streets (only 178 miles) are un-surfaced. Of the "paved" roads, there are 15,382 miles of rural roads in Utah and 3,735 miles of city streets. More than half, or 8,759 miles of the state's rural roads classified above as "surfaced," are either soil-surface- d, slag, gravel or stone. The other half have surfaces ranging from bi-tuminous surface treatment to bituminous and portland-ceme- nt concrete. Of the city streets clas-sified above as "surfaced" about a third, or 1,255 miles are soil-surface- d, slag, gravel or stone; while the other two-thir- ds range from bituminous treatment to bituminous and portland-ceme- nt concrete surface. 5 Members Named To Utah SBA Group Appointment of five members to the Small Business Adminis-tration's Small Business Advis-ory Council for the State of Utah was announced today by Harold R. Smethills, Regional Director for this area. The Council members who are appointed by SBA Administra-tor John E. Home, are part of a nationwide organization of priv- ate individuals who know and understand the problems of small business, and who will meet on call with SBA officials well as advise and assist in developing methods for improving them. In addition to the State Advis-ory Councils, Regional Councils are being established in each of SBA's 15 Regions, and a Na-tional Small Business Advisory Council has been formed to ad-vise the Administrator of the Agency and his top staff in Wash-ington. The five members to the State Small Business Advisory Council announced today are: Frank Francis Jr., Vice-Preside- nt and Secretary, Commercial Security Bank, Ogden, Utah. John S. Hinckley, Vice-Preside- nt, Robert H. Hinckley, Inc., Ogden. Mrs. LaRue M. Nielson, La-Rue- 's Floral Shop, Ephraim. Paul L. Pehrson, Owner and Manager, Pehrson's, Salt Lake City, Utah. J. Harold Reese, President and General Manager, Wasatch Sales, Inc., Tremonton, Utah. "We are fortunate to have such an outstanding group of public-spirite- d citizens from Utah to help in the important work of serving small business needs," Mr. Smethills said in announcing these appointments to the State Small Business Advisory Coun-cil. Members serve without com-pensation, and all meetings are called by and conducted under the supervision of SBA. Utah Medic Assn. Advise Getting Polio Shots Now Now is the time to follow through on the polio immuniza-tion ; program you may have started last year. "Thousands of Utahns last year got the first or second shots in the polio prevention program," reports Harold Bowman, execu-tive secretary of the Utah State Medical Association. "This is the time to finish the job and be sure of protection." Three shots are needed for maximum protection. After a year it is also good to have a booster shot. All parents should get out their medical record book and be sure that everyone in the family has had the necessary shots or arrange to do it now, Mr. Bowman suggests. Many people have been wait-ing for the new oral vaccine which can be taken by mouth, usually as a flavored liquid. But the medical leader reports that the oral vaccines will not be available generally in Utah for some time. "Therefore," he re-ports, "it is only good sense to go ahead with the Salk vaccine program because no one should take a chance when immuniza-tion is so easy." Mr. Bowman pointed out that the polio program is for every-one, adults as well as children. The old concept was that adults did not need the protection, but the Polio Foundation now rec-ommends that everyone is wise to take advantage of this im-munization program. Park Commission Warns Boaters To Get Registered Boating season is here, warned the Boating Division of the Utah Park and Recreation Commission in urging that owners get their boats registered. Already boating activity is oc-curi- ng on the Green and Colo-rado Rivers and the prospects are that many lakes will be "boatable" soon, according to Tedd Tuttle, state boating super-visor. To date, only about 1,800 of the state's 13,000 owners have registered their crafts. "There are going to be some long lines to register boats. To avoid these lines time which could be more pleasantly spent on the waters themselves get that registration done as soon as possible," Mr. Tuttle urged. The 1,800 is well above that of last year, but there will be many days in May and June when long lines will form at the boating division office and when mail applicants will have to be delayed perhaps as much as a week or more for complete registration, the supervisor said. If registration is completed early, then as soon as the "bug" bites, rigs can be floated with-out having a wait or taking the chance of boating without regis-tration and getting a fine. The final day for 1961 registra-tions was March 1. Of the 75 boats operating on Utah Lake only last week, five were cited for non-registratio- n. A 1962 application for regis-tration may be obtained at any marine dealer, the boating divi-sion office, 19 West South Tem-ple (Union Pacific Annex Build-ing, Room 255), or any county assessor's office. The application can be mailed or brought to the boating divi-sion office. It should include: 1. Property tax receipt or be validated by the county assessor. 2. The application should be typed or printed and must be signed. 3. The last registration card, if applying for a renewal or transfer. 4. $5.00 fee for new, renewal or transfer from a previous year. Boat owners applying during the next two or three weeks will be processed promptly and regis-trations returned immediately for the boaters use. But after that, be prepared to stand in line, or wait, Mr. Tuttle said. Traveler's Aid Charts Institute Transient families in trouble a problem that formerly was limited to big city areas only like everything else is moving to suburbs; This problem, the direct result of the increased travel by auto-mobile, will be the subject of a one-da- y institute at the Univer-sity of Utah April 16 under spon-sorship of the Traveler's Aid Society of Salt Lake City. Trav-eler's Aid is a member organ-ization of the Salt Lake Area United Fund. The institute will explain how retailers, gasoline dealers and others in suburban areas such as Salt Lake County can utilize the services of Salt Lake Trav-eler's Aid in dealing with fami-lies that become stranded in Salt Lake when their funds run out. Martha King, executive secre-tary of Traveler's Aid, points out that two factors are apt to in-crease the vulnerability of Salt Lake City merchants to a "touch" from destitute travelers during the coming tourist season: (1) The increasing use of the family automobile as a mode of travel, and (2) The Seattle World's Fair will lure more families through this area. "Because local merchants don't have the time or the facilities to investigate the validity of such requests, they run the risk of being bilked," Miss King said. Participating in panel discussions and workshops will be Mary Avis Todd, national field consultant for Traveler's Aid; Capt. Phillip E. Brinkerhoff, head of youth bureau, Salt Lake Police Depart-ment; James O. Armantrout, chief probation officer, S. L. County Juvenile Court; Dean H. Baxter, S. L. County Welfare Department, and Dr. Rex Skid-mor- e, dean of the graduate school of social work, University of Utah. liirl) Ss Hp Hws i A barrel of ffto TjbiM Quality Bourbon V-fS-in every bottle yfe STRAI6HT BOURBON WHISKEY 88 PROOF OLD QUAKER dIsTILLING CO., LAWRENCEBURG, IND |