| Show utah road fund program seen threat to local construction hearings asked with 1 state body hearings are being requested by local groups on plans of utah state road commission to use primary and secondary road funds for access roads to the interstate highway uintah county commissioners monday voted to send a telegram to C taylor burton state director of 0 highways asking for a hearing on the fund shift at vernal chamber of commerce meeting tuesday harold duke director pointed out that one access road alone would cost 7 million and that several of the roads were planned he opined opened that the funds transfer could delay roadwork roa dwork in this area as long as 19 15 years IT WAS POINTED out that utah state road commission had met monday in salt lake city and already had allocated about 24 million in road funds grant southam chamber road official said that construction st tion of red wash road anticipated this fall likely will be delayed until next year se secretary manager L ay Y read a copy of a let ter from mt states fuel co to oil companies operating to in the he t ouray area said it would contribute to the building of a bridge across the white river 12 miles east of ouray where an old swinging bridge was located the gas company would reser reserve the right to use the bridge to support the proposed gas ga line the letter pointed out that utah state road commission had estimated that the total cost of the bridge would be asked for financial support from the other companies A LETTER was read from elbert n R porter in behalf of dinosaur land inc in reply to a letter from the local promotion group of a similar name the local organization had protested the use of dinosaur land name for a park in the salt lake valley mr porter said he would bring the matter to the attention of the salt lake groups board of directors mr reported on a tour he had made monday in the uintah basin with various interested groups to solve indian and white water problems to enable the central utah project to get underway THE BASIC STUDY was to determine the lands available for irrigation so that the bureau of reclamation could determine what lands land can be included in the huge project ken made a request to the chamber for to aid in a tourist booth at the national jaycee convention to in atlanta georgia next week there was some discussion as to whether sufficient local literature was available but the request was approved by a divided vote lynne king chair chairman mart of the retail merchants commit tee announced the business busine closing dates date for the next 12 months they are july jul y 4 independence pen dence day july 24 pl pioneer day september 4 labor day november 23 3 thanks giving day december 25 christmas day and to in 1962 january 1 I new years day february 22 Washing birthday and may 30 memorial day MR KING KIN said that the next big sales promotion to lu conjunction with a special edition of the vernal express would be july 13 and would be entitled a midsummer sales event copies of the express will be distributed to in artesia bonanza red wash and rangely langely areas excepting rangely langely city limits A similar pramot promotion on will be held in ift the middle ot of august for the west side of the county P A solicitations soli citations committee has i been formed to include sam colobella rex roylance and d wallace it anderson the com committee commett mitt will investigate the 11 V on 5 4 utah road continued from page 1 possibility of 0 a green river ordinance for uintah county similar to the one effective in the city the ordinance would restrict door to door sales activities tivi ties by representatives of out ottohn of town firms von don president of Dinos aurland inc reported on the progress of a colored movie being made on this area as a means of attracting tourists HE SAID THAT filming would start this weekend ile he reported that utah state publicity dept will pay half of the cost but the local group had to contribute 1000 to start starl the project the first halt of the 28 min ute film will be taken in dinosaur national monument and other footage will include a family trip irom from vernal to flaming gorge and shots of the dam area the family of whitney D hammond will be used in tile the movie total cost of the movie will be from to |
