Show road commission chairman seeks salt lake denver interstate inter state road it J corleissen chairman of the utah state road commission and governor ed johnson nl 4 colorado will testify before a senate subcommittee on public works in support ot of an interstate inter state stata highway between salt lake city and denver according to rep clair R hopkins chairman of the vernal chamber of commerce road committee rep hopkins reported wednesday ne day to the board of directors of the chamber on a road meeting in ghead beldin in salt lake city with mr corleissen Coil cornelssen eissen this week attending tending from vt anal were L Y sen D 11 II rep hopkins ken fran filtch jack C turner and ralph the meeting was called to dis cus the interstate inter state road designation before mr corleissen left for or washington he ile was sch scheduled edul to testify wednesday and to devote part of his testimony to a proposed primary route between salt lake city and denver mr cornelssen Coil eissen laid said at the lh meeting the utah state road Zorn mission plan plans to widen and resurface the road thru th the e twists west of vernal and to eliminate some of the bad turns turn he also said engineering on the vo inal jensen road project is two thirds ed and that it would be advertised upon completion the designation of U S highway 40 as an interstate inter state highway has been a project of the ve vernal mal chamber of commerce it was through rep hopkins that the resolution was passed by the utah state legislature this last session urging that this route be included in the interstate system of defense highways in president dwight D Elsen howers proposed road program another project of the vernal chamber has been the seeking of an improvement of the silver creek junction to make it more favorable for U S highway 40 at tuesdays meeting the vernal group was shown plans for the revision of the junction which are now complete and call for a project to begin as soon as weather permits to lengthen the turnoff road west of the junction an additional continued on page 8 ROAD commission ceab continued from page 1 I 1 1400 feet the present turnoff is 24 feet wide while highway 4 is 40 feet wide the new turnoff road will be 34 feet wide the widening will continue COO feet onto the turnoff road the utah state road commission is planning a visit to vernal and has set a tentative date f for 0 r april 27 according to mr in other business before the board of directors of the vernal chamber wednesday noon it was decided to hold elections for executive officers at next weeks meeting present officers are dr T R seager president ken vice president and alvin bowden treasurer |