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Show Springville Voices Opposition To Proposed Highway Route Satisfaction Expressed by Spanish Fork; Payson Seeks Slight Change Utah State Road Commissioners Commis-sioners reported this week that the exact course of the new inter-state highway in the vicinity vi-cinity of south Utah county, was not definitely decided. An official public hearing on the proposed route as outlined by the state road commission was attended by a delegation of Chamber of Commerce and other civic leaders in Spanish Fork Friday and townspeople voiced their disapproval for the , records, of the present route passing Springville a distance of two and one-half miles west of town. An . alternate plan which would bring the freeway within with-in a half mile of town was presented at the, meeting by W. W. Clyde, leading road builder and contractor and subsequently sub-sequently endorsed by Ernest A. Strong, also one of the leading road building contractors. contrac-tors. Director Ellis D. Armstrong presiding at the meeting, thanked the men for the suggestion sug-gestion and promised that a study would be made of the proposed change. Parley R. Neely, engineer for the U. S. Bureau of Re- clamation read a letter from E. O. Larsen, regional director of the bureau, stating that the proposed route would not in-terfer in-terfer with any reclamation project in the area and emphasized em-phasized that the bureau wished wish-ed to remain neutral in the matter of location of the highway. high-way. The letter also stated that the bureau plans a canal and diversion dam near the point where the highway would pass Springville. He said that if the change were made in the highway, high-way, it would conflict with the plans of the bureau to build a canal and dam. Spanish Fork endorsed the highway route as proposed but a delegation of citizens from Payson asked that the highway high-way be brought a little closer to their business district of their city. |