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Show FEDERAL AID f CUT PROPOSED Fear that the elimination of f. ei'ul uicl to highways announced J part or President Hoover's ilrusiic Limpet reduenon program m turn 7fk00 heads of fumllieg whj now enjoy at least part time work w:ih expressed today by Preston r Peterson of Provq, member nf 1)1? stale ,roail I'otmni.sslnn. "The state roan, sum m,, p?tei son, "has been furnishing woi( t about 7.ri(Kl men during the past ft.w months on emergency highway construction con-struction or on woik handled through contractors. "If the proposal, for which Mr." Hoover or Mr. Garner, or whoever is responsible., is carried out, it leave the state road commit .on ufler July 1' with' nothing Uu a skeleton organization. . "We can only hope that congress will recognize that . a national emergency exists; and that it u a function of government to protect life and property, whatever tliP emergency. An emergency was created by the world war, and this : nation met it. The present sfiuu- j tion is ft not her emergency." |