Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-25 | Page 15 | U. S. Road Men Will Meet in City Monday

iu S. S RO D MEN Will MEET IN ITY MOND Y Seventeenth Annual tion to Be Held Here Through Thursday Three hundred highway engineers officials and equipment and materials materials materials mate mate- rials men will gather in Salt SaIl Lake Monday morning for the seventeenth annual meeting of or the American Association Association Association As As- of State Highway Officials The sessions will close Thursday Many of the delegates will vill willjo jo go o to hc the southern Utah parks after the clo clore e of ot the meeting The meetings will be held in the Hotel Utah the first session being scheduled for 1030 a. a m. m Monday About 25 federal road men practically practically cally every executive in the bureau of or public roads are already in the city for lor the convention Practically every everyone one of the 48 states will be represented and every major equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment house for road materials will wiil have representatives at the sessions session DERN TO GIVE WELCOME Every phase of ot road construction maintenance and financing will be discussed Monday will wiH be given over ver overto to general sessions Tuesday and Wednesday will be given over to lo group meetings Another general session a business meeting and election elec tion of ot officers will be held Thurs- Thurs day Addresses o q ot welcome by Governor George H. H Dern and Mayor John F. F Bowman will follow the opening prayer at the Monday morning mornin session ses ses- ses- ses sion The prayer will be offered bYthe by bv bythe the Rev Re Arthur L. L Rice pastor of or orthe the Phillips Congregational church church- Henry H. H Blood president of the th association as- as as association and chairman of or the Utah state highway commission will deliver deliver deliver de de- de- de liver his presidential address A presentation of a remembrance willbe willbe will willbe be made to Samuel Eckels of or Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania past president of or the or organization or- or The annual report of ot the secretary W. W C. C Markham and the roll call by states will conclude the hc morning meeting There will be bc three addresses s Monday afternoon Dr D. D B. B Steinman Stein- Stein Steinman man of ot New York City will speak on oem Fifty Years of or Progress in Bridge Engineering ROAD PROGRESS LISTED Mr Eckels will give an address on The Addition of ot Roads to a State Highway System and Charles H. H Ro Ross attorney for the North Carolina state highway commission will wiil Tell Tellof tellof of or slates slate's venture into the Field of or County Roads Group meetings Tuesday and Wednesday will vilI follow an address by Thomas H. H MacDonald head of the bureau of or public roads Mr McDonald MacDonald Mac Mac- Donald will speak on the Re Relation of t Highway Building to Utilization Administrative problems road design de- de design de de- sign bridge brid e des design n and maintenance construction problems problem maintenance materials and research traffic control control con con- and safety accounting equipment equip equip- ment neat and roadside beautification will be discussed in Tuesdays Tuesday's group meetings Luther M. M Keith state highway tree Iree warden of or Connecticut will speak Tuesday afternoon on th the Practical as Well as the Esthetic Side of Roadside Beautification E. E W. W James of the bureau oi of o public public pub pub- lic Lie roads will tell about Marking Markin the Highway System Wednesday and W. W v E. E Salt SaU Lake con contractor will speak on Highway Hishway Maintenance Maintenance nance tance by Contract Thursday 1 I