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Show Moss Requests Action On Park Road WASHINGTON Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) this last week urged the National Park service to request construction funds for the Taylor Creek entrance road into Zion National Park for the fiscal year that begins next July 1. The new road will connect with Interstate No. 15 south of Cedar City. In a letter dispatched from his Washington office, Senator Moss wrote National Park Service ui-rector ui-rector Conrad L. Wirth: "You have advised me that Mission 66 control schedule for the fiscal year carries an item of $160,000 with which to start construction con-struction of the Taylor Creek entrance road. You further advised ad-vised me that actual construction construc-tion is dependent on the availability availa-bility of sufficient funds for this project and other high priority projects throughout the National Parks system. "I am writing to stress the urgency ur-gency of building the Taylor Creek road at the earliest possible possi-ble date, and to ask that the National Park service specifically ask funds for Its construction in their fiscal '63 budget request. "As you know, there is pending before the Congress a Senate bill which 1 have Introduced (SB 26) to construct the Dixie Reclamation Reclama-tion project. The feasibility report re-port on this project has been completed and is now being circulated cir-culated among the interested federal agencies and states. It is expected that the project will be ready for Senate consideration considera-tion early next session, and I plan to request that hearing be held on it not later than February." Feb-ruary." "The Dixie Project will cause inundation of a portion of the state road from Hurricane to Springdale, the present west en- (Continued on Page Two) Y. A. Contact Representative to Visit Cedar (Continued from Front Page) trance to Zion, when its rescr- voir fills. If the new Taylor Creek road could be considered before that time. It could carry much of the traffic while the state highway is being realigned and perhaps make less necessary the construction of an expensive detour." "In addition, of course, the new road will provide an ideal entrance through the park area and should be opened for public use at the earliest possible pos-sible date." |