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Show SOOTH IDAHO TO BE REPRESENTED Park to Park Hlnhway Conyentlei, i To Protect Interests of South Idaho and Utah. Southern and southeastern Idaho and that soctlon of Utah from Salt tirt to tho Idaho lino will bo well StSVthoP.rktojParttlllg way convention to bo hold in Salt Take on or about' Juno IG-tho exact date to bo taken up later. Delegates to tho Salt Lake conven-tlon conven-tlon nro to be sent from nil counties, towns nnd clMos, commorc al nnd .ii rrrnnizntlons Interested ns ar ranged for nt tho convention hold In Idaho Falls on May 3. Credentials aro bolng sent In blank to county and city authorities and to tho executive ofilcors of civic and commercial orgnnlzntlons with tho request re-quest that delegations bo appointed and credentials Issued. This mnttor is highly Importnnt to tho peoplo of south Idaho nnd thnt section of Utnh In order to off-set tho propaganda nnd tho plan of tho Pen-vor Pen-vor I'nrk to Park highway convention conven-tion which sought to promoto a plan wheroby a highway to bo built by government aid from Denver north to , Cheyenne, from that point to Cody, Wyoming, nnd from thero Into tho Yollqwstono park, leaving tho park' at tho north cntranco nnd. continuing west to tho conBt across Montana and Washington, south along the coast to southorn California and then east bnck to Donvor. Tho Donvor convention sought to creato tho Impression thnt tho wost Is united on this program, in Bplto of thn fact that Utah and Idaho nnd tho prosont Utnh-Yellowstono highway Is pmltted from tho publicity, tho maps, general plans and Is In fact ignored ontlroly and southern Idaho and Utnh cro not taken Into consideration nnd tho Impression Is sought to bo mado that tho socallod Park to Park highway high-way Is tho recognized nnd official routo; further It Is sought to havo all of' tho federal appropriations for roads mado for that purposo which does not meet with tho approval of other sections sec-tions of tho west. The convention at Salt Lake will bo to odor protest and to havo Salt Lake, Utah, and south-orn south-orn nnd southeastern Idaho rocolvo tho recognition they nro entitled to. M. 13. Yenman, chairman, and Jos. Morloy, secretary of tho Idaho Falls convention, havo sent tho roquosts for tho appointment of delcgatos and tho credentials) to those! having 1io authorl!-ty authorl!-ty tossuo them with tils' request that tho delegations bo appointed at onco and credentials Issued In order that southorn Idaho and Utah may bo well roprusontod. Times-Register, Idaho Falls, May 24, 1921. |