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Show HUGE SUM FIB ROADS . ADVOCATED Millions For Highway Construction Con-struction Declaxed Vital To Fight Unemployment Condition; Con-dition; Blood Us Speaker. SALT' LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 28 (U.R) An urgent plea to fight unemployment by spending many millions on high w'aiy construction throughout ', the , nation was made today at the opening of the seventeenth annual convention con-vention of the American Association Associa-tion of State Highway Officials. Henry H. Blood, chairman of the Utah state road commission, told the convention that congress should pass a bill authorizing expenditure, ex-penditure, of $225 .000 ,000. or more on highways in ,1932. The federal government, Blood i said, will have ,expended approximately approx-imately ,$225,000,000 on roads this year and this program should be duplicated' next (year. He pointed out that on July 1, 1931, there were 318,936 persons I employed in road work in. the nation, on July 1, 1931, this represents one road employe out of every 469 cit.zens. The Utah highway official admitted ad-mitted that the present rinancial status 'of the - federal government was hardly , conducive tp added expenditures, ex-penditures, but held that unemployment unem-ployment relief would more than overshadow this objection. Blood felt that at least $3,000,000 should be .appropriated for the Col-ton-Oddie. public domain highway fund and that tile annual $12,500,-000 $12,500,-000 forest road construction appropriation appro-priation should be continued until 1935. |