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Show Road Problems Aired At C of C Sponsored Meet Maintenance and improvement of highways 50 and 89 concerned representatives of communities along the highways high-ways meeting at Chicken Roost Saturday. A permanent Highway 89-50 Association of Utah5 was formed and a report of matters mat-ters concerning the highways voiced at the meeting, was adopted. adopt-ed. The association will interest itself it-self in highway 89 from its junction junc-tion with 50 at Thistle, Utah county, to where it leaves Utah south of Kanab; highway 50 from Thistle to the Colorado boundary, and combined highway 50-89 from Springville to Thistle. Grant Thorn of this city, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, presided. Over 50 men from Price, Helper, Kenilworth, Provo, Manti, Jit. Pleasant, Nephi, Payson, Orem, Mapleton, Springville, Fairview, Salt Lake City, Dragerton and Pangnitch, attended. at-tended. (Continued on Page 2) . I Road Problem j Aired At Meet I (Continued from Page 1) J. A. Theobald, Price, executm secretary of the Carbon County Chamber of Commerce and prei dent of the Utah Chamber of Con-merce Con-merce Executives, was name! I chairman of the permanent or- ganization. i Mr. Theobald estimated that coal hauling over sections of tti I highway under discussion woulc I yield gasoline taxes which, whe: I W matched with federal road build- ing funds, would amount to nearly tt - half a million dollars, which le said were needed for improvii; If the highway. j Mi A general discussion reveal?: that residents of communitie along the highways believe Its: four - lane construction befcee Lehi and Santaquin should har; I priority over a proposed throi I highway which would bypass Uts; I county communities. J A question was raised as to position of road-building fuii earmarked from gasoline tase j and vehicle registration fees, col- Orif lected but not spent during t ic war. Representatives told those t Intending In-tending that sections of the hig-; ways were in such a condition (-' ; breakup that they will be imps- LJ ble within about 60 days if ;: mended, and asked a permM-": program for rebuilding the n beds to sustain the heavy tru ing for which they are needoA |