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Show The Beaver Press, Thursday, August STATE ROAD COMMISSION IMPROVEMEIT PROGRAM iteaugr Press UTAH STATE PittSS ad the IT. EXTENSIVE E. A. WALTER L. CARLTON Publisher Published Every Thursday 1 mth. 85c 0 mthfl. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) SUBSCRIPTION RATES A 1 1 T. f2 rirat Claw Publication Entered Bearer, Utah, u In the Post Office la Second Class Mall Matter, under the Act of Cessna of March S, 18T. AdTertialng rates quoted when requested. Phone 24 On Our Way Temple Square Hotel, Salt Lake LOCAL NEWS City, August 4th, 1940. We are nicely located on the Mrs. Rhoda Tanner of Salt Lake floor with big window look fourth City Is the house guest of ber sisto the north out over South ter and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. ing than a der way employ more thousand men at an average wage ...J.V, nu of 75 cents per hour. Along j Summer Training a (1 Complete At U.&.A.l. a . . . sr LOCAL ITEmT T - Six weeks Mr. and Mrs. son Junior, ieft (or Sunday, where Mr u of summer . r aai Ri b usmr Keserve tne of training tend the University Training Corps of Ltan state .Mrs. Kiser wiU nm ilCTQ Beauty Work for 51 college nieted last Friday by Included in uie cadet officers. Mrs. was Ralph L. Rollins of ter Barbara group Beaver who will graduate from City Sunday where thev college next spring with a -. ..v. month bachelor of science degree. and friends. summer t'he of Completion camp, which was held tnis year and Mrs. Ben U, a.t Fort Finns ton. California, is a son Franlr n,i j. . officers cadet 51 of of South requirement """UlU Sin,. who will receive Second Lieuten-fort- s Art-an- y in Coast the ant commissions of the United Mrs. MargaTe7lJ"osl illery Reserv States Army at graduation time. more is snen,iin .i. ' 1 "i These senior cadet students her nnronto n- will aid in the training of the Patterson. basic students at the collage durMrs. EstaCo7aTdli,ttle college year. ing the 1940-4- 1 LOGAN .t, fh : J: mo-son- s V !' Horte.1 mouZ -- TT.-- j -- Mn,..! Pa after iimiiii , Temple Street directly at the Temple grounds. The view presented is one of the most beautiful and tract are 9 miles of culvert extenKenneth Edwards of Ely Nevto be found any where sion and road inspiring widening which will ada, spent the week end with his in this country of ours. Let cost approximately $14,738 when great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. David me describe it briefly. Directly becompleted. Edwards and Mr. George low In, front of the hotel Is TemThe Feedral Government has ple square, to the extreme left rise approved the Commission's grade the two large chimneys of the cen crossing .protection projects in the Mr. and Mrs. Burton Storrs of which furnishes amount of $101,903. There reSouth Dekota, are the guests of tral heating plant all heat and hot water for all the mains to he allocated for the grade their sister Mrs. Etelka Robinin this part of son and brother C. Dennis White ohurch properties crossing program $91,692, makof the city, No the small city. part ing a total of $193,595 to be exand families. beyond the ahimneys in the far pended for this type of improveis the plains of the Great ment Mrs. Ruth Dobson and little son distance during the present fiscal Lake. Salt year. Geath of Minersville are visiting To the extreme right is the staifor a few days at Beaver with her Highway construction projects tue of ham which now Brig Young, under way include the build Mr. Mrs. and Labon Burt. parents, stands at the intersection of Main ing of eleven bridges, two of whiah Mrs. Delia White and children and South Temple Streets, beyond are major construction jobs. The of Cedar City, are here spending a that is a beautiful view of Hotel largest Is the bridge over the Weber River between Nye's Corner few days with her sister, Mrs. Utah. Temple square is a city block a and Hot Springs, which will cost Russel Gentry and other relatives big block, ten acres, but all Salt $46,922. The other bridge spans and friends. Lake blocks are big and all streets the Provo River on the Vineyard Mrs. Odessa Gentry and family are wide, this square is surround- Road west of Provo City proper, of Cedar City are here spending ed by a stone and adobe wall 5 and will cost $28,890. Both brida few days at the ihome of Mr. and feet high and three feet thick with ges are of steel and concrete and Mrs. Sam Gentry and other rel- beautiful gates in the center of will be of the latest structural deeach of its four sides. The grounds sign. Contracts have been let for atives and friends. of the square are beautifully laid both, and construction will begin Mrs. Nettle Palmer left for her out with flowers, trees, fountain in the immediate future. Most noted of the On July 29, bids will be opened home at Inglewood, California, and statuary. are statues Smith of those the widening and realignment for Joseph after a week at Beaver, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ruth Anderson founder of the Mormon church, of 5.067 miles of Highway U. S. and of Hyrum Smith his brocker 91 south of Brlgham City. This and Mrs. Lilly Skinner. also the Seagull monument erect- project is estimated to cost $100,-00- 0 and on completion will .be one Mr. and Mrs. Bernett Swindle-hur- ed as a reminder that in 1848 the and daughter Colleen, were gulls ate all the crickets which of the most modern in the state. accompanied by Miss Doris Whom in fact saved the crops of the The rigiht of way will be 120 feet ham spent Sunday at Monroe, at early mormons, who had settled wide and the road, including the Salt Lake only the summer before. shoulders will be graded to a the Hot Springs. Directly in front of our window width of 56 feet. According to Mr. and Mrs. Don Hunt, who is the Assembly hall a Gothis automatic traffic counts made durhave made their home at Beaver structure of granite occupying the ing June, it will accommodate an since early spring left for Sulphur-dal- e south west corner of the square. average of 3,919 vehicles daily. Two other important projects Saturday, where they will Beyond this is the famous Tabermake their home. Mr. Hunt has nacle a big turtle shaped building for the improvement of Highway 150 feet wide 250 feet long and U. S. 91 are now under construcbeen called back to work. 80 feet high, capable of seating tion. The first of these is at Cut out the middle man. Get over 8000 people and with a stand Spanish Fork, where a new bridge hard wheat flour at f 1.00 per bag ing capacity of about 10,000. The is being constructed and the road at the Mill. Phone 174. We deliver. roof span is supported by lattice straightened to eliminate the bad trusses put together with wooden cannery curve as well as a number The West Ward Relief Society pegs and rawhide. About 2,000,-00- 0 of curves around the hill south qf feet of lumber was used in the cannery. The project will cost will hold their work and business meeting Tuesday, August 13. All constructing the building. The $56,355, including the bridge and are invited to come out and enjoy noted pipe organ of the country is grading and graveling (preparalocated in this building. Construc- tory to surfacing. The other is the the afternoon. ted In 1863 and 4 entirely by hand. Draper Cross Roads project at the Mrs. Tom Bowman of Klmber-leSome of the timber tor the pipes Point of the Mountain where the was Nevada, spent Saturday with brought by oxteams from the road is to be straightened, widen iher father and mother-in-laMr. Utah Dixie country hundreds of ed and prepared for surfacing at and Mrs. John Bowman and fam- - miles away. In 1915 the organ a cost of $169,805. This construc was rebuilt and now contains tion will require the moving of the fly. about 7500 pipes. railroad track at the Narrows on Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blackner Down and to our right Is a the summit east of its present loca and mother Mrs. Orson Blackner smaller building occupied by a tion, as the highway will use the of Greenville, were Beaver visit- museum and the Bureau of Infor- present railroad right of way. The ors Wednesday, where Mrs. mation surrounded by trees and new route will run behind the Arthur Blackner left lor Salt Lake nearby obscured by their beautiful gravel knoll at the Narrows, then City, to visit with her little daugh foliage. Showing above this and west of the service station, conter LaRee, who is in the Primary occupying the east portiou of the tinuing across the fields in an alHospital, where ahe (has been for square is the great Mormon Tem- most straight line to Intersect the the past six weeks. We are glad ple. Work on this began In 1853 present highway. Fourteen curves to report that Miss LaRee is im and was 40 years in building. are eliminated by this construcproving. It is about 200 feet long and tion. Contract for the surfacing of 125 feet wide. It ihas six towers this part of the ihighway will be Mrs. Abrlgae Grover, has as her three at each end the center one let as soon as the grading is comguest, her sister, Mrs. Eessie Rob on the east is .210 feet to the top pleted. inson of California. Anothe rltnportant construction of the stone work, on top of which is a statue of the Angel Moroni project, and the largest In point Mrs. Wallace Yardley and chil 13 feet high and heavily covered of cost awarded this year, is the dren are visiting at Providence, with gold leaf and at night it is a grading and graveling of 7 miles Utah, with Mrs. Yardleys relatives beautiful sight when it is llumin-dete- d of highway from the Deer Creek and friends. by spot lights turned on Dam in Provo canyon to Charleston in Wasatoh County. Half of from every direction. Elsie Howd entertained SaturNow to the left of the six towers this construction being through day at a swimming party at Min- of the Temple and full half mile solid rock, it will cost $219,155 to ersville for the following girls, in the distance situated on a shoul prepare the project for hard surMiss Colleen Swindlehurst, Bar- der of the Wasatch mountains we facing, which will be done as soon bara Wihite, lone Bowman, Alice get a wonderful view of the most asthe grading is completed. IJohn and Doris Whornham, after beautiful State Also under construction is a Capitol building in which they went up to Hanging America. I have seen most of project for ihard surfacing the 19 Rock and eat their supper. them and considering location. mile section from the head of and setting, architecture Logan Canyon to Garden City In grounds Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cambell of It has no equal. Be- Rioh County. This project is cost material and Milford were over to Beaver Sattween the Hotel Utah and the ing $63,450 and when completed urday visiting with friends, while towers on the temple In the far will provide a road they were waiting for her mother distance looms one of the high from the Arizona State Line on the Mrs. Fred Levi to come down from peaks of the Wasihatch range of south to the Idaho State Line on Puffers Lake. the north. It will provide easy acmountains. Taken as a whole this vitw Is cess to beautiful Bear Lake, and Carl Goodwin of Milford spent to my mind one of the grandest undoubtedly will greatly Increase last Tuesday with his mother Mrs. In the travel to that part of the state. whole country. Mary Goodwin and neice GwenConstruction projects now un Karl S. Carlton doline Walbom. Toltaa. 1940 ,natriicfion. program goes wiiieli hizhwav maintenance " SI. 200,000 onnmvimatelv uusia .Viovr. nrp an ' L em- , , rsn nrnY niHIP .ilv H , i... tho s,iatp Road Compioyeu emmission, not including those nlnved bv the various contractors. Hamm-jth- e According to Chairman for S20.000.uu0 ,.pprts i, - ' U11U, I. LU11 to in put order road construction, whwnvs of the state in a con dition adequately to meet present realiza- day traffic needs. "This all ef- end to an tion should put other purposes to to divert of the present road funds", In addition to the construction said Mr Hammond. 'Road funds program, the Road Commission f nil rn,f)SP9 OnlV is the has under way more than 40 miles we are striving to mainof roadside development work, thing tain". wihich will cost approximately the $44,000. This work includes turned .home fr0m Mrs. Rose Frazer has returned Henry W. Lunt Park on Buckhorn from a months visit at Salt Lake Levi Howd spent several days or cne week, Flats in Iron, County, on Highway on two Lake Salt waolro week Mrs. at last City with her daughter, U. S. 91 south of Beaver, and City, business. friends Waldos. Mettie the Logan Canyon beautlfication m "in J iii i ' ) WW i in m.iwmmmmmmmmmnmm- -Z and recreation project which mmvi w.hen completed will be named after Mrs. Henry H. Blood, wife of Goevrnor Blood. Also under conr The State Road Commission now has under construction and improvement more than 168 miles of higthway throughout the state, according to Mr. W. D. Hammond, Chairman of the Commission. Of this mileage, approximately 117 miles are being resurfaced and 51 miles graded and graveled. A large portion of the latter mileage will be oil surfaced after the grading is done, which will add many miles to the paved highways of Utah. The cost of projects now under construction will be Jl.779,646.-00- . 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