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Show I . PWA EXTENDS PROJECTS DEADLINE HOSPITAL WORK' CAN BE HELD UP UNTIL MARCH 1 i Governor Blood Gets Welcome News ' From East Deadline for start of eonstruetiom on Utah's three pending state building build-ing projects Thursday was extend ed from December M to March i, IBM. by federal PWA officials. Word of the extension was gives Governor Henry H. Blood Thursday Thurs-day afternoon In a long distance) telephone conversation with Howard How-ard A Gray, assistant PWA administrator ad-ministrator at Washington, D. C "This will give us an opportunity to Iron out all of our difficulties la. time to take advantage of the federal fed-eral fund," the governor said happily hap-pily at (ha close of his conversation. . Difficulty a tod Principal 'difficulty" referred t was the supreme court suit to determine de-termine Intent of the state legisla- tun tn the act appropriating money for the tuberculosis sanitarium and const ruction work at Weber and Carbon county junior colleges. The PWA grant for these projects proj-ects totaled 1770.000 and the atata legislature provided $430,000. The question to be decided by the court is whether the $130,000 set asids by the legislature Included the amount expected to be obtained aa a P W A grant. Early decision la expected on the suit, arguments upon which war heard Wednesday. Allotments LUted The legislature provided thai 1M,-000 1M,-000 should be spent at Weber college, col-lege, $190,000 for the Carbon collet and $100,000 for the sanitarium. The federal PWA grants are $99,000 for Weber college, $123,000 ' for the Carbon school and $H,000 for ths sanitarium. Fear that all of the grants would be lost through Inability to make even a technical start on construction construc-tion by the original deadline on December De-cember $4 waa responsible for ths concerted effort to obtain the extension. exten-sion. Extension Asked "We asked for an extension to April 1 on the sanitarium project, but fixing of March 1 aa the final date will be only a minor Inconvenience,'' Incon-venience,'' R. K. Brown, superintendent superin-tendent of the state building commission, com-mission, said Thursday. "We are certainly gratified that the federal government saw fit to extend the deadline more than twa months," Mr. Brown added. The original deadline was set after af-ter President Roosevelt ordered the ' P W A to cease setting aside funds , ' for any more projects. |