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Show Thursday, November 6, 2008 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 3 Interchange Continued from Page 1 is that traffic flow can be maintained main-tained while construction takes place. UDOT had considered building a Single Point Urban Interchange (SPUI) in that location. loca-tion. An example of that type of intersection is at University Parkway and Interstate 15. That design would have allowed al-lowed the same traffic flow, because it would have been slightly south of the present West Main interchange and would have been at right angles to the freeway. City officials, however, had urged UDOT to have a diamond interchange similar to the one already in place. An advantage they mentioned men-tioned is that there would be access ac-cess maintained for businesses adjacent to the interchange, such as ValuePlace Hotel. The diverging diamond interchange in-terchange offers advantages of both. It has two separate structures struc-tures over the freeway; one can be built while the present West Main overpass is in use. The new overpass can be used while the existing one is torn down and rebuilt. City Councilman Dale Gunther pointed out one advantage advan-tage the city felt would happen with the new design. "It won't dead end our Main Street," he said at the Oct. 28 City Council meeting. Mayor Heber Thompson said that UDOT had looked at the new style because of its efficiency. ef-ficiency. "It gets 30 percent more throughput of traffic compared to the most efficient SPUI," he said. At first motorists may not be quite as enthusiastic about the new design. "It Isn't going to be like anything anybody in Utah has driven," Scott Thompson, UDOT Region 3 public relations representative, said. "We will do a large community outreach program." Drivers may feel they are on the wrong side of the street as they travel along the two overpasses. over-passes. The east-bound lanes will be on the north side and the west -bound ones are on the south. The design allows more free flow of traffic and uses two signal lights instead of the standard three, which the officials of-ficials estimate will enable more vehicles to go through the area in less time. The new design is also quicker and less costly to build, Adams said. "There will be multi-million dollar savings," he said. "A SPUI is a lot larger," Adams said. The resulting smaller structure will naturally natu-rally have a smaller material cost, he said. "There are two independent bridges which are a lot smaller. We are reducing the overall size by about 40 percent." Scott Thompson said there would also be lower costs for the land involved. "It is a lot less expensive to do," he said. "It takes a lot less right of way to build this. In the end it will be a lot less expensive than the original estimate and a good use of taxpayer tax-payer dollars." Being able to build the structures struc-tures more rapidly will also save money, he said. "The north side is where the existing bridge is today," Adams said. That will remain in place to carry traffic while the south side is built. "The contractor will build the south bridge, then shift traffic over onto that one before he tears out the old structure. I le is able to maintain traffic on Main Street the whole time." "It gives us a lot of flexibility to work around existing traffic," traf-fic," Scott Thompson said. I le said the south bridge is expected to be opened in November '09, with the entire structure open the following November. Adams said minor activity would begin around the middle or end of this November. It is unsure whether a DDI in Missouri would precede the one in American Fork to be the first in the nation, Scott Thompson said, although he said Missouri's might be done sooner. "It looks like the one in Utah and the one in Missouri will be the first ones, but in Missouri Mis-souri all they are building is the interchange," he said. The Utah project is tied in with the Pioneer Crossing in lhi which may make it take longer, he said. Adams said that makes the project all the more exciting. "The Pioneer Crossing is one of the exciting pieces of this road," he said. "It will open a new road for east-west traffic." traf-fic." "That Ls a huge benefit to Lehi and Eagle Mountain," he said. "We are really excited about it." Veteran Continued from Page 1 the Military Officers Association, Asso-ciation, the Reserve Officers Association and the American Legion. "That keeps me pretty pret-ty busy," he said, " I used to march in all the parades but I don't so often any more." As pilot of a B17, the Flying Fly-ing Fortress, Hemingway was the youngest man in his nine-member nine-member crew. Hemingway joined the Army Air Corps when he was 18 and wanted to be a pilot, which required either two years of college or to pass a rigorous test. "It took all day but I passed the test. Then I had to get my mother to sign my enlistment papers." After almost a year of training, Hemingway picked up his crew in Sioux City, Iowa and sailed to England in a convoy arriving on July 1944. He flew 35 missions until March 1945. "We flew to targets in Germany and Belgium, Bel-gium, and there was always flak. There were only two times we didn't get hit. One time flak came in the cabin through the instrument panel and hit me in the stomach. 1 had on a flak suit so it didn't hurt," he said as he showed off the Chapstick sized piece of sharp, heavy iron. The flak suit consisted of square pieces of metal sewn into a garment so they were overlapping. "We also had to wear a 'Mae West', which was a vest with two compressed com-pressed air canisters to inflate Robert Hemingway it in case we went down over the water." On top of that was a harness to attach to a parachute para-chute in the front. Altogether the gear was quite heavy. "All we had to do was get into the airplane, and then it was okay," he said. The B17s flew at 25,000 feet and were not pressurized so the crew had to wear oxygen masks, too. "The temperature got down to 65 degrees below zero so we were happy to have the heavy gear on," he said. The most dangerous mission mis-sion he ever flew was when one of the four engines was hit in the oil cooler. "It was out of commission, but the prop was still going around, which caused the whole plane to vibrate," he said. "I had to slow down until the vibrations stopped, but by then we had lost altitude to 10,000 feet. The crew was lined up by the door ready for the order to jump. The rest of the squadron squad-ron had gone back, but a P57 Mustang fighter plane came back and escorted us back to our base in England." "When we tried to land the vibrations started again, and the prop flew off and put a big gash in the bottom of the plane, but nobody got hurt," he said. "We were two hours late and they had given us up for lost. The Catholic priest had already said a rosary for us." Hemingway was born in Salt Lake City, but his parents moved to Bakersfield, Calif., when he was small. He lived there until he graduated from high school before he went into the service. When he returned from the service, he went on an LDS mission to the Southern States. "We were the first missionaries to go out after the war." It was there he first met his future wife Ula Burgess. "I was working in the mission mis-sion office and it was my job to meet the missionaries at the train," he said. "She came in on a train, and I saw her then and one other time before be-fore I came home." "When I came home I looked into working for the airlines, but by then they had all the pilots they needed so I went to BYU where I majored in education. In the spring of 1948 an old companion asked me to drive him to the temple in Salt Lake because I had a car. He told me if I would drive him he would set me up with Sister Burgess. Well he did, and Ula and I were married mar-ried on my birthday, Aug. 30, the same year." The couple lived in Alpine for a time then. Hemingway quit school to provide for a growing family. He worked at Geneva Steel for a while then went back to school and finally graduated in 1956. He went on to get his master's degree in education. He returned to Bakersfield where he taught school for 27 years in the same high school he had attended. "I was head of the math department and taught math, physics, electronics and did the lights and sound in the auditorium. They called me the resident engineer." Ula was born and raised in Alpine. "I was a fifth generation gen-eration Alpiner, and I did not want to move to California," she said. "I cried the whole way there, and Bob promised me we would come back the day he retired. He kept that promise, and the summer before be-fore he retired we came back and started this house and got it enclosed. He went back and taught another year then we moved out here and finished the house." The couple has been married mar-ried 60 years and has lived in Alpine for some 25 years. As Hemingway sits in a chair in his living room he is surrounded by memorabilia of the war. His granddaughter made a children's book about his service with pictures of him when he resembled director direc-tor Ron Howard when they were both younger. He was also featured in the book "Saints at War." "There were some 10,000 bombers lost in the world war and more people killed than in the marines. There were 29,000 army air corps men killed and some 27,000 taken as prisoners of war. 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