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Show matter gives this enlightening thought: that Utah is better prepared pre-pared than any other state in the nation to provide adequate higher high-er education facilities for its returning re-turning veterans-Money veterans-Money Promised Central Utah Valley Project Following a series of conference! confer-ence! m Washington, Ora Bun dy, chairman, Utah state department depart-ment of publicity and industrial development has received assurances assur-ances that sufficient funds will be available thus year to expedite expe-dite investigation work on the Central Utah Valley project which has as its purpose trans-j trans-j mountain diversion of water from the Green river and other .Colorado river tributaries into central Utah for irrigation Assurances were aLso given that Utah, which has never received re-ceived any of the waters of the Colorado river, and to which it is entitled, will receive her por tion provided under the Colo- Spotlighting j UTAH i Utah Scores Again Utahns as a group are the nation's na-tion's most scholarly people their ratio of school attendance surpasses all other states. Utah ranks first in the number of persons per-sons per 10.000 population attending at-tending educational institutions. The above facts have been revealed re-vealed in a survey of national education needs by Dr C K Partch, school of education, Kut-geri Kut-geri university. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Partch declares also that the number of persons of secondary sec-ondary school age per 10,000 population pop-ulation in Utah attending school is 775, the national average is only 510. sion has approved Utah's first postwar road budget calling for the expenditure of $5,193,079.00 exclusive of federal matching 'funds. Spring maintenance of Utah's highway system is start- j ing immediately. Utah Parks Readied Southern Utah national parks will put out the welcome mat June 1st, following the expenditure expen-diture of a half million dollars for improvements. Prewar five-day five-day all-expense tours through Zioii and Bryce, all originating I at Cedar City will be resumed. Near Soda Springs, Ida., tin Bidwell party of 34 persons traveling tra-veling in covered wagons left DeSmet and followed the Beat river south. They crossed tin low hills near Collinston, Utah, where Jim Bridget- viewed the sparkling waters of Great Salt Lake in 1824. Near where Cor-i Cor-i inne now stands, the party turn-I turn-I ed west and crossed Promontory mountain over the exact spot where years later m 1869, the j Union Pacific and Central Pacific Pa-cific rails met. From Promontory Promon-tory westward, their wagon trail can still be traced as it wended its way to where Kelton now stands and thence onward to j Owl Springs, Box Elder county, j where two wagons were aban-i aban-i doned. None of these wagons of the 1841 trek ever reached their destination, and after suffering j terrible hardships, the party finally fi-nally ' reached California with-j with-j out loss of life Box Elder county would do j well to mark this trail the oldest old-est wagon road in the state. Tourist Break Seen For Southeastern Utah Strongly supporting the designation desig-nation of southeastern Utah's Highway U. S. 160 as part of the "Alaska to South America" highway system, a large delegation delega-tion of leading citizens from Carbon Car-bon county will join with delegations dele-gations from Green River, Moab and Monticello to attend a road meeting at Gallup, N M March 18. The tourist possibilities of this highway are highly important and its designation as a major route from Alaska to South America Am-erica would throw into prominence promin-ence all of southeastern Utah's major scenic attractions, such as the Hnnlf Cliffy tl,.. t:; -;.. ratio river compact. Mr. Bundy was informed by Washington officials that flood control work on the Jordan river, Mill Creek and Great Salt Lake are still under consideration by army engineers. Congressman J. Will Robinson promised Mr. Bundy that repre-i repre-i senta fives of the department of I roads of the Public Works Administration Ad-ministration will make necessary neces-sary investigations and surveys relative the part the government will play in the construction of the road over the old pioneer trail from Henefer, through Emigration Emi-gration canyon to the site of the "This Is The Place" monument. Utah's Oldest Wagon Road The oldest wagon road in Utah us in Box Elder county. Ov-' Ov-' er it passed the first recorded train of emigrants headed for California and known as the John Bidwell party. They brought the first wheeled vehicles into Utah six years ahead of the Mormon j pioneers. In fact, Brigham i Young's original party had no difficulty in following the wagon ; wheel trails left by the Bidwell party, who with another group of adventurers led by Father De-; De-; Smet, left Sapling Grove, Mo., I in the spring of 1841 for- California. The national average of students stu-dents attending higher educational educa-tional institutions during the prewar years of 1939-40 per 10,000 population was 112 students; stu-dents; Utah's average on tin-same tin-same basis in the same school year was 151 men and 86 women, a total of 237, more than twice the national average. Following the Bible admonition admon-ition that "by the mouth of two witnesses shall all things be proven", Dr. Partch's testimony is substantiated by Dr. Paul K, Buck, provost and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, Harvard Har-vard university. Dr. Buck declares de-clares that the result of Harvard's Har-vard's two-year educational survey sur-vey revealed that Utah ranked first in education in the United States, with Connecticut practically practi-cally tied with Utah for first. To completely clinch the matter, mat-ter, one must add the testimony of Utah's own educator, Dr J R. Mahoney, director, bureau of economics and business research, University of Utah. Says Dr. Mahoney, ". . . educational levels lev-els of men and women 20 ; 60, and subdivided into age groups of 20 to 25, 25 to 30, reveals Utah highest in the nation in each classification." The sum total of the entire vn vMMO) niv unviii Geysers of Green River, the Skyline Sky-line drive, the Arches National Monumeent, the Bridges National Nation-al Monument, Hovenweep National Na-tional Monument and Monument Valley. Utah War Memorial Planned A twelve thousand person ca-; pacity auditorium similar to ! New York's Madison Square j Garden, containing a convention hall, sports arena and rooms for veteran's organization offices is being planned at Salt Lake City as a Utah War Memorial. Ten- tative plans call for an expenditure expen-diture of $750,000 00 and the most favored site for the memorial is, the area occupied by the Utah State prison at 21st South and 14th East. Veteran groups have expressed express-ed themselves as favoring a "living" "liv-ing" memorial from which the public could benefit. Highway Work To Start The Utah state road commis- |