Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-01-22 | Page 22 | Crash Diplomacy

Crash Dp Diplomacy macy Trucker Aids AIdS' Utah Fight Signs Utah's cause In the current diplomatic diplomatic diplomatIc dip dip- rupture with the state tate of Nevada over road rond signs directing I motorists to the Beeh Beehive ve state over route r te 93 03 rather than 91 was aided and abetted abetted b by an uri unidentified de I- I fied tr truck c driver 1 it was w was s l learned med In Salt sait Lake City T Thursday The Caliente Nev chamber of commerce reported that Somebody Some body has driven up in a i tr truck ck and pushed d over oV r two tw of our leader signs The c chamber amb r of commerce stated It blame bam Utah di directly directly di- di for this sign road blitz bUt b but t stated tat d it had its its' suspicions Diplomatic relations between the two neighbor states became strained ed when Utah's Utah department of publicity and Industrial development development development develop develop- ment pointed out that three highway highway high high- way signs north of Las V Vegas gu in southern Nevada advertised to passing tourists that the shortest to Salt alt Lake City was over U U. S. S highway 93 through eastern Nevada r rather ther than an over highway highway highway high high- way 91 through south and central central central cen cen- Utah a shorter route by more than miles The Caliente chamber of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce was deemed responsible for the misleading road signs and later stated it would make amends if ff it found th that t the were un un- truthful I