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Show DAMAGE 10 PAVEMENT" CAUSEOBY TRACTOR Serious damage to the bltullthlc pavement on tho stnto road between Ixhl nnd American Tork Is alleged to have been done by pcrsonB operat. ing a tractor with "flanges" on tho wheels over tho pavement. Thu complaint com-plaint Is made to tho slate road commission com-mission by tho Utah State Automobile association, through W I), nishel, secretary. Ira It. llrownlng. tho only member ot tho commission In Salt Ijikc declared de-clared Monday that the matter would bo brought before the attention ol the board and that In all probability tho county iitlornoy of IMnh county would bo asked to prosccuto tho offenders. of-fenders. Tho complaint to tho road lotmnlsslon reads: "On Friday aftornoon, July 1!3, at about 3 p. in. I was driving from l'nno to Salt Uiko. Just south ol I.chl, pcrhnps one-hnir mile south fron: tho business section, on th0 state highway, 1 passed a trnctor pulling i threshing machlno on the bltullthlc T ho weather was very hot and the hi tullthlc was naturally very soft Tin cleats on tho tractor wheels Hug deep holes In tho imvcmcnt and frequently pulled chunks of bltullhlc out of the pavement. I stopped by car and pin tested to tho two men In charge of tho tractor. They knowthey were dumaglnr; tho pavement, because tho tr liuito n stopped our car and be-i;nn be-i;nn to oxamlno It they pulled to one s'llo. I "Now, gentlemen, It Is a sliuino and 'a crime to allow any person with tractor to drive over our bltullthlc during the warm weather, 1 tniHt your lcdy can tako some nctlon to bring theso peoplo In court and flno them I stand ready with' two tollable vlt-netcu-H. to tcstiry in this case If I am needed." Ono of Hone & Hlggs men of American Amer-ican Pork was the driver, and he claims he was steering for tho dirt road as fast as he could, and that tho trnctor did little, If any damage at all. Tho State Road Commission will In-vccilgato In-vccilgato tho' matter, . o |