OCR Text |
Show Committee For Central Utah Project Named Steps were taken by the Greater Utah Valley Incorp. at a meeting held Tuesday evening in the City-County City-County building to further promote pro-mote the Central Utah Project by the appointment of a committee commit-tee to study and promote the interests in-terests of this project in Utah Valley. The chairman of this committee com-mittee named by the Directors was Henry Roberts of Goshen. Mr. Roberts is a State Legislator from Utah County and is a member of important state and inter-state water boards having served these boards in national as well as a state capacity on numerous occasions. oc-casions. Serving with Mr. Roberts on the committee are: R. J. Murdock, Provo, who represents Utah County Coun-ty on a state committee recently formed for the promotion of the Central Utah Project; Vasco M. Tanner, Provo; J. W. Gillman, of Orem; Senator A. V. Watkins, Orem; L. P. Thomas, Spanish Fork; Leo Harvey, Pleasant Grove; Dr. A. L. Curtis, Payson; Parley Neeley, Spanish Fork; L. E. Wis-comb, Wis-comb, Springville; Earl Huber, Spanish Fork; Mark Anderson, Provo; Glen Davis, Genola; and Clarence Grant, American Fork. Mr. Roberts has announced that a meeting of this committe will be called in the near future to carry on the campaign which has already begun to secure the Echo Park Dam as a fore-runner of the Central Cen-tral Utah Project. Leo Hansen, Chairman of the New Plants and Industry committee, commit-tee, reported progress in certain studies made by his committee preparatory to the publication of information inviting new plants and industries to invest in Utah Valley. He reported on his trip to the West Coast in which he visited prominent agencies active in this field and obtained much useful and significant information. The directors also moved to appoint ap-point a committee for the purpose pur-pose of studying road conditions, adjacent to and in the Valley, in the interest of improving the roads in order to encourage more tourist travel. |