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Show kricaie Dedicates Bridge Tomonw- Governor Blood and Other Notables To Attend Dedication of State's Highest Bridge H ... y.c-K-!h AvN V'vV:" i. ' ... . r 'WrtW-t,!..-.: j I . v ' ' ? pi '.'r- --.!. i ' ' -' J I - - " I t - ' j n- i T - NEW BRIDGE OVER VIRGIN RIVER BETWEEN HURRICANE AND LA VERKIN Homecoming, High School Building,. Culinary Water System and Roads Also To Be Celebrated Plans for the official dedication of the new $200,000 bridge across the Virgin River between be-tween Hurricane and La Verkin and the celebration cele-bration of Hurricane's homecoming were announced an-nounced today as complete by L. Glen Williams, general chairman. The celebration will start tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. Many government officials of-ficials will be present. To round out the dedication, Governor Kenry H. Blood, U. S. Representative Abe Murdock, State Senator Glenn E. Snow, State Representative W. B. Mathis and a representative of the Southern Utah. Civic clubs art to be present and take part. The program will be officially opened at 9:0C a.m. with a band parade and concert on the public square. At 10:00 o'clock the crowd will move to the bridge site where the dedicatory services will take place under the auspices of the Hurricane Cham- will be in charge of the program, which has been divided into three divisions. - vii if - U" -'! GOV. ITENRY II. BLOOD The first division will open with the Hurricane high school band playing selections under the direction direc-tion of Owen Bergener. Reports on the construction of the bridge will be given by William Johnson, bridge engineer; Glenn Holahan, foreman, and from' Christensert and Gardner, bridge contractors. These reports will officially be accepted by a member of the State Road commission and a member from the Federal Bureau of Public roads. Second Division The second part of the program will include selections from the Dixie junior college band under the direction of Earl J. Bleak. (Continued on page four) High Government Officials Expected To Attend Hurricane Bridge Celebration (Continued from page one) This will be followed by the dedication dedi-cation of the bridge; remarks by Mayor J. Harvey Hall, Morris Wilson, Wil-son, county commissioner; Mayor Albert E. Miller of St. George and a brief history of Hurricane from its oldest living resident, James Jepson. Third Division Band numbers will be given by the B.A.C. band and this will be followed by addresses by Governor Blood, Representative Murdock, Senator Snow, Representative Ma this and a member of the Southern Utah Civic Clubs association. as-sociation. The bridge itself is practically completed, reports Engineer Johnson. John-son. The tack coat on the deck was laid Tuesday, the asphalt which completes the top finish was placed on Wednesday and rolled on Thursday. Crews of men are giving the steel part of the bridge two coats of paint, one of red and over it a coat of aluminum. The concrete is receiving a final sanding and polishing. Each of the nineteen thousand rivets is being individually tested and sounded and where a faulty rivet is found it is chiseled out and a new one put in. $-2'W,000 Bridge This $200,000 bridge is getting its final grooming for the great day when a speaker's stand will be erected upon it for its dedication. dedica-tion. Dignitaries from near and far are to be in attendance to marvel that such a bridge is olaeed in a locality with an assessed asses-sed valuation of but $311,000. "The marvel isn't that the bridge is one hundred and eighty feet above the river bed, that it is the largest one span bridge in the state, that it took four hundred eighty tons of structural steel, that it cost $200,000, but that it is here. Here in Washington county between two rural towns which first be-cn be-cn community life less than forty years ago." states an official. Officials point out that, not only the completion of the bridge is celebrated this day. but the erection erec-tion of a 5125,000 High school building, the near completion of a foO.OOO chapel, and the installation instal-lation of a culniary water system That cost $48,000. Much indeed has come to Hurricane since August 6, 1904 when water first flowed through the canal upon the bench lands after fifteen arduous and laborious years of contiuous ef-fortof ef-fortof the Hurricane Canal Co. |