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Show Increased traffic on West Center results in placing new stop signs Because of the increased traffic over the west portion of Center Street, to reach the new interstate, new stop signs have had to be placed at the intersection of each of the streets running north and south, Chief Ashley Graham reported this week. ticeable even now, while Highway High-way 50 and 91 traffic is still funneled through town. Especially Espec-ially have service stations and other such businesses on Main Street, noticed the change in decreased business, it is reported. The street is a detour until the new access roads at Fourth South and on the north limits of town, near Ironton, are completed. com-pleted. To reach the iinterstate, motorists mo-torists travel west on Center Street to Fourth West, then across he D&RG Railroad tracks and continue west to the Union Pacific tracks, then turn south to the Fourth So. access to the interstate. It is a round-about way to get on the freeway, but many, many cars are using it daily, it is reported. The decrease in traffic on Springville's Main Street is ho- More than 1,000 Utah men and women are helped or treated treat-ed for alcoholism annually in Utah Rehabilitation Centers, the Alcoholism Clinic and by Alcoholics Anonymous. As of 1962 per capita consumption con-sumption of alcoholic beverages in Utah (15 years and older) was 14.79 gallons compared to 25.17 gallons for the Nation. There were 3,080 alcoholics per hundred thousand adults in Utah as of 1956. This rate declined de-clined to 1,988 in 1962. Factors being studied indicate the rate has continued to decline. |