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Show Your Cotigressmanj by HENRY ALDOUS DlXON Interstate Highway System If the House bill is passed by the Senate and becomes law, Utah will receive $253,215,000 over the next 12 years. Our primary, secondary and urban road funds will be increased $300,000 per year 'for the next two years, from $7 million in 1957 to $7.6 million in 1959. Utah's interstate highway funds will be increased from $12.1 million in 1957 to $20.4 million in 1959. Other benefits will come from increases to Federal domain roads in the U S for the years 1958 and 1959, as follows: Forest highways from $22.5 million mil-lion to $25 million; forest development de-velopment roads from $24 million mil-lion to $27 million; park roads from $12.5 million to $16 million, mil-lion, and parkways from $1) million to $16 million. Utahns Visiting Foreign Countries The Department of State has furnished our office with information in-formation showing that Americans Amer-icans are traveling abroad more than ever. The number of passports issued during January, Jan-uary, February and March was 142,478, an 8.8 increase over the same period las tyear. The number of Utahns who were issued is-sued passports was 616. The three largest groups traveling abroad were secretaries, teachers, teach-ers, and engineers. More Jobs in Utah Everything points to a continuing con-tinuing expansion of business opportunities in our state. When firms come in or projects are undertaken in one part of the state they also help other parts to prosper. A good example of this recently was when the Bureau of Reclamation awarded a large contract for concrete irrigation ir-rigation pipelines for the Weber Basin Project in the northern part of the state. W. W. Clyde and Company of Springville won the contract. |