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Show "HIGHWAY MEET OPENSJIONDAY State, county and city highway officials, and contractors, professors profes-sors and business men Interested in highway problems will attend the first annual highway engineering engineer-ing road school Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday in the University of Utsh Union building. Professor A. Diefendorf. head of the department depart-ment of civil engineering at the university snd vice president of the American Road Building association, associa-tion, said Saturday. The civil engineering department Is sponsoring the meet in cooperation coopera-tion with the stste road commission. commis-sion. Authorities on highway problems prob-lems will speak. Registration will be Monday st 9 a. m. in the Union building, while a'l sessions for the three days will be held in room 304. They are free and open to all interested in this work. Professor Diefendorf will preside pre-side over the Mondsy morning ses-sion ses-sion .and Dr. A. Leroy Taylor, dean o fthe school of mines and engineering, engi-neering, will welcome delegates at 10 a. m. W. D. Hammond of the state road commission will give the response. Roysl D. Bradbury, engineer-director of the wire reinforcement IfMeMute, Washington, D. 'C, will 1 talk on "Structural Design of Concrete Con-crete Pavements." ' At the afternoon session Ezra C. Knowlton, chief engineer for the state road commission, will pre-lde. pre-lde. and speskers will be F. H. Richardson, district engineer, Portland Port-land Cement association of Utah; Professor Diefendorf; Herbert B. Simpson, secretsry of the Utah traffic safety council, and Foster Kunz, traffic engineer for the road commission. A banquet will be held Wednesday Wednes-day at 6:30 p. m. in the Union building, with Governor Hemy H. Blood and George Thomas, university univer-sity president, as speakers. |