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Show Improvement of Roads Sought Two requests for road improvements improve-ments were heard by the Cache county commission Wednesday and action was promised as part of the postwar state-federal aid program pro-gram in the county, Commissioner H. T.ay Pond reported. Widening of the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad bridge on the Logan-Hyrum highway, or relocation re-location of the highway to eliminate elim-inate the bridge, was requested by a committee composed of county coun-ty parent-teachers association council leaders, school officials, and others. Mrs. Gladys Jensen, of Hyrum, president of the P-TA unt, Superintendent Super-intendent J. W. Kirkbride of Cache county schools, and Carl M. Fonnesbeck, district engineer for. the state road commission, met with the commissioners and discussed the project. Mr. Pond said the commissioners intend to place the project ini the first year list of improvements to he made. If the bridge cannot be widened, it is possible that the highway will be relocated to the west and a direct crossing, protected pro-tected by a semaphore, would be provided. I A committee of Petersboro residents resi-dents requested the oiling of two miles of road from the Cache Junction-Mendon highway, into Petersboro. This also will be included in-cluded in the state road program, but commissioners plan to gravel the road this fall. |