Show Chamber Hears AIli hway Report Uintah Basin road problems were discussed by Vernal Chamber of Commerce Tuesday at the Ski Skillet Drive In Mayor Alvin Kay chairman of the road committee reported on meetings Wf Wednesday and Thursday of last week with the State Road Committee in Vernal and at Flaming Gorge Lodge See separate story Mr Kay said that oiling of Red Wash road currently is in progress and will be completed In a week or two HE SAID THAT the Indians had granted permission for a survey on their lands for the Book Cliffs road Indian Canyon Highway Is scheduled for completion i n 1969 I Mr Kay said that the state had been asked to place the Maeser Road on a secondary I priority and state road com com- commissioners missioners had suggested that the county commissioners write I a letter to the state engineer ex ex- ex pressing that wish The State Road Commission also was asked to place the La La- La Lapoint point Road on the state tate secondary dary system The commissioners replied that if the county placed the road on the county second second- secondary ary system that federal funds would pay 75 per cent of the cost of maintenance MR KAY emphasized that the Lapoint Road would tie In Inthe inthe the west side of the county where there is a lot of industrial al activity such as the sawmill Recreation is increasing on the west side and possibly school buses could use an improved route he said The road also would be use use- useful ful as the Central Utah Project Is fast becoming a reality Mr Kay pointed out Commissioner S Harold Mc Mc- McKee Kee agreed that if the state took over the Lapoint Road it might take longer to build but the state would maintain it Continued on page 8 Continued from page 1 which he said would be a big In other business a meeting was reported between Uintah and Daggett counties on Utah Tourist and Publicity Coun c i t 1 plans to produce a film broth broch uro ure and flyer on the scenic at at- at attractions tractions of the two county area arca IT WAS reported that Daggett County had expressed interest in cooperating on the project and would let Uintah County have a final decision later will have a booth at the state fair Septem ber 10 through 19 The annual State Indus Industrial trial Development Conference will be held at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City Wednesday Aug 25 Visitation figures to the Field FieldHouse FieldHouse House V were re reported In July 1965 there were visitors compared with for July 1964 about less FOR THE YEAR to date there were visitors com com- compared om pared with to the same date last year a decrease o 0 f A movie on the construction of Flaming Gorge Project is now available utah State University has of to conduct a school in inVernal inVernal Vernal on the problems of shop shop- shoplifting shoplifting lifting and bad check artists It was pointed out that one drug addict alone made per year with these methods to obtain funds to purchase drugs Dr Jack A Seitz chal chairman of the membership committee said that in membership dues had been collected to date A GUEST OF the Chamber was Daniel J Jim Tobin Jr the new superintendent of Dino Dino- Dino Dinosaur National Monument lie has been transferred from the regional office of the Nation Nation- National al Park Service in Omaha Neb and he said that he had always wanted to be transferred to Dinosaur ever since he had vi vi- vi visited sited it Mr Tobin reported that the present road construction in inthe inthe the Monument will open up spectacular views of Split Mountain l In the near future a road will willbe willbe be built from US 40 east from Elk Springs to the quarry area for a through west east high high- highway way he disclosed lIe said that 1965 is the anniversary of the establish establish- establishment ment of Dinosaur National Mon Mon Mon- Monument |