Show An n Federal Funds foBe to fo toBe Be Spent at af Local Airport A total of of federal has been appropriated for improvements at nt the Eph Manti-Eph- raim Airport according to telegrams telegrams tele tele- grams received Monday 1 from Senator Wallace F. F Bennett and Representative H H. H A. A Dixon The money will win be used for forland forland land acquisition and to pave the thc 1 runway taxiway and apron the telegrams stated The expenditure has hns b beets been en authorized by the Department of Commerce under tinder the Federal Airports Act This act is de des designed designed de- de I s signed to assist communities I n Mich have a substantial nautical requirement in bringing their theil airports up to a standard compatible with the present plesent and future needs of oC civil aeronautics aeronautics tics Senator Bennett wired The telegram also said that of the to be spent in Utah under the appropriation the Salt Snit Lake Municipal 1 Airport No 1 will win receive and Carbon County Airport will re receive receive re- re i Matching Funds Project i i While this is a n matching funds project with the Federal government government government gov gov- furnishing 65 percent percenti and the local i I governmental units 35 per cent Manti 1 a and n d Ephraim will win use the present I airport facilities a 1 also 1 Iso s o certain I equipment as ns their share and so will be called on for no cash 1 outlay for this work work according to Mayors Gail Jensen and L. L I R R. Burr The acquiring of oC land north of the airport will win be done by trading some property already owned but outside the airport proper The South North-South runway will win willbe willbe be he cleared and paved for a n distance dis distance dis- dis tance of feet approximate approximate- ly Iy four-fifths four of a mile and will willbe willbe be 75 feet wide The taxiway and apron will be paved at a n acost acost cost of around and the wind cone and circle marker will I cost all nn of it Federal funds the Mayors state I I |