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Show PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION HOLDS HEARING Representatives Of Petitioners And Railroad Companies Present Facts At Local Hearing Representatives ' of the Public Service Commission of Utah were in Springville Monday morning to hold a hearing before the Springville Spring-ville city council and railroad companies in the matter of securing secur-ing the commission's approval of a right-of-way sought by the city for a road to the Spanish Fork airport. The road will be the initial step by Springville in the launching of a cooperative agreement agree-ment by the two cities in jointly operating and maintaining the airport. air-port. Acting as witnesses for the petitioners pe-titioners were Mayor W. W. Clyde, V. C. Mendenhall, councilman, E. D. Kennelly, city engineer, and Kimball J. Larsen, representing the Civil Air Patrol, the Springville Spring-ville Flying club, and the Junior ' Chamber of Commerce. Glen W. Sumsion and Arnold C. Roylance (Continued on page ten) HEARING HELD ON AIRPORT ROAD (Continued from page one) were the attorneys acting for the petitioners. Other local representatives representa-tives at the meeting were as follows:- Maurice Anderson, city councilman; Glenn Hansen, city recorder; W. D. Mendenhall, Ray L. Richards, W. Verl Whiting, Lawrence L. Beach, and Frank L. Morgan, of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and Flying club; Harrison Conover, of the Kiwanis club; and Paul C. Miner, secretary secre-tary of the Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. It was brought out in the testimonies testi-monies of the various witnesses that , the site selected by the city for the road was the most feasible route of several which had been surveyed and investigated. The proposed route will utilize the two railroad underpasses just south of the city and also the overpass, thus routing traffic away from the main lines of the railway companies on the Fourth South crossing, which had been considered in a former survey. The proposed route was proven to be the most advantageous and safest for all concerned, due to the fact that it passes over two branch lines of the railroad companies, and when completed will prove to be a fast, straight, and .direct route into the city for the air commerce which is certain to follow fol-low the war. Attorneys for the railroad companies, com-panies, at the close of the hearing, hear-ing, were of the opinion that some agreement could be worked out to the best interests of all parties concerned, and the Public Service Commission advised that the facts in the case would be given due consideration and a ruling announced an-nounced shortly. |