Show dinosaur access road considered r from foiw quarry to lo blue mt ml junction aton the bureau of public roads has been asked to make a feasibility survey of a high way in dinosaur national monument from the quarry at jensen to dine blue mountain junction tills this good news particular ly for the ilia vernal areas was wai received from the interior de apartment part ment menk last weekend by tho the offices of sens wallace r F Der dennett inett and arthur V watkins utah republicans tills this route known as the vernal proposal would rne tile the monument more accessible to tourists and westbound visitors would not ha to drive some 50 miles off the highway to see th canyons and make a side trip to see the dinosaur remains accord ind ln to the utah atall semi tors in reply to their letter lo 10 the national park service which questioned the wisdom of two paral parallel telo access roads into tile the monument the sena aena tora tor 9 were advised by interior undersecretary under secretary hatfield Cli chellson tison tile the dureau bureau of public roads was requested on june 12 to include a urvey sarvey of the route from froin the quarry to nine blue fountai i junction in its current work program and later on july 23 25 it was waa requested requester reque to give the survey priority continued on page 8 dimm continued fionin pago 1 over ollier oilier programmed our bays eya tile request wo was for fl a preliminary na 1608 lire ly by aerial phol ogra by to th the e feasibility ol of such a u route band uil to make mains an of tta its cost I 1 the alte letter by soying it if tills this survey that this route Is feasible and the cost can bo be justified wo we intend to odd add tills this project to oin mi chilson emphasized that the new rond would be in III addition to not oil bit alternate to tile the planned artesia load colorado interests ts have cle d sited eliod tile the artesla artesia rout while utahna preferred the loop rood road involved la Is the hie question ol of ahe echo kolio park dam site dam proponents have sought to t kaep buck back development dev loument of 0 the monument or its designation as a national park lit in order not to harm chances of build ing the carn it has been said that development of the area would make it harder to win approval for the dam in the future senator watkins and bf dili 11 nett sought to delay the ar tisla roid road until it could be determined ter mined it if the loop route was better the tha utah senators contend that the loop would give better access to the canyon area and the dinosaur quarry area from vernal than han previously proposed win twin dead end roads zard ray U udy rf y electa caldwell and D bart johnson graduation committee freda davis chairman leland lt rex norwood hardy aaron hansen charles freeman and valda massey club Spon sponsors mors F F A doyle landon F it II A freda davis boys pep norman long girls pep patricia darling and freda davis commercial electa caldwell and jean thespian ramond peterson band druce bruce science john blazzard and carl mcdaniel varsity leo conk and dart bart johnson key dart bart johnson special advisors boys league leo conk and ray udy girls league wilma webb and patricia darling stage crew ramond peterson and valda massey service bureau aaron alansen IIan aen chairman lee squire and ramond peterson |