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Show ' '. ' ' , j i -' , ' . Z 1 Sporadic winter increases cost of maintenance The Utah State Department of Highways reports it may have to utilize its entire allotment allot-ment of $700,000 for snow removal re-moval and winter maintenance Although snowfall has only been about average this year, the storms have not been large and have been spaced out over a period of days, according to Jim West, Chief Maintenance Engineer. These small infrequent infre-quent storms necessitate even more maintenance than fewer and heaver snowfalls. "The ever-increasing daily use of streets and highways and the vital dependence of modern society on automobile and truck transportation has made it imperative that streets and highways be maintained and ready for use every season of the year," stated Mr. West. "A major problem of this situation situ-ation is the speed and efficient removal of winter ice and snow to provide for a bare pavement. To meet the situation situa-tion State Highway maintenance mainten-ance engineers have resorted to an increasing use of salt and sand as a melting agent. Over 80,000 tons of rock salt and sand were used in 1963 on Utah's highways." Other compounds have been tried in highway maintenance but they have caused sewers to be clogged and have increased in-creased the time and labor involved in-volved in clearing the streets and highways. Mr. West stated that the maintenance budget of $6.3 million dollars for fiscal year 1964 very likely will be expended ex-pended in the following way: Phillips B. Gottfredson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Gottfredson of Provo, formerly form-erly of Springville, will be given a farewell in the Provo Pro-vo 13th Ward, 950 East 7th North at 4:40 p.m., Sunday. He will go to the Mission Home April 27, before leaving leav-ing for the Central British LDS Mission in England (1) Winter maintenance and snow removal, $700,000; (2) Traffic services (which include striping operations), $920,000; (3) Special roadway services, such as sealing and chipping, $1.3 million; (4) Pvoadside and drainage operations, such as the removal of weeds, litter and repair of slopes, $840,000; (5) Routine roadside service operations, such as patching cracks and holes, $1,290,000; (6) Maintenance of shoulders and side approaches, $310,000; (7) Overhead for the state's six district officers, $370,000; and (8) Maintenance shed operations, op-erations, $570,000. |