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Show I j S Appropriate Ceremonies ! open Mew Main Street Merchants Give Prizes Away During Ceremony Mayor Paul Murphy officially accepted the newly paved Main Street from E. J. Johnson, engineer engi-neer for the Utah State Road Commission, Com-mission, who represented the chairman, Harley Corleissen, who was unable to attend the ceremony, cere-mony, held Friday morning of last week. Marilyn Anderson, 'Miss Duchesne County of 1955," cut the ribbon following the speeches and band concerts. Arrangements for the special ceremony were under the direction direc-tion of the Chamber of Commerce, with Wesley R. Dickerson as chairman chair-man of the committee. Presiding at the ceremony was W. S. Mur-dock Mur-dock president of the Chamber. A brief speech was made by Mr. Murdock who welcomed the visiting dignitaries and Basin citizens cit-izens who were on hand to parti-tipate parti-tipate in the program and the special spe-cial merchants' promotion that was tied into the opening of the street. Other speakers besides Mr. Johnson John-son and Mayor Murphy, were former for-mer Mayor J. C. McLea, whose administration began the ground work for the paving project; Kenneth Ken-neth Aycock, present councilman and chairman of the street and road committee for Roosevelt City, and Lorenzo Bott, commissioner commis-sioner in the Road Commission. Rex Hickman, district engineer, was also introduced to the crowd. Purpose is to Serve In his remarks, Mr. Johnson reminded re-minded his listeners that the purpose pur-pose of the State Road Department was to serve the people of Utah as efficiently and economically as possible. He complimented the local lo-cal employees of the State Road, and expressed the pleasure of the state to do the long-needed paving (Continued on Back Page) APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES (Continued from Page One) job for Roosevelt City. He reported report-ed that the state had bought a portion of the corner where Kil-Hans' Kil-Hans' Service stands to widen the turn, and that a wider bridge over the gulch would be built in the near future. It was reported the paving job, including the purchase of the Kil-lian Kil-lian corner would reach approximately approxi-mately $50,000, all of which was assumed by the state. No accurate estimate of the curb and gutter job was available. Give Away Prizes During a special merchants' promotion pro-motion idea, approximately 500 free tickets were given away and two lucky people, Elizabeth Shaw of Roosevelt, and Lawrence Lee, music instructor at the Junior high, won some valuable prizes. Mrs. Shaw won a hunting coat and shirt, and Mr. Lee's prizes were a man's two-suiter bag, a ladies' overnight bag and a plastic suit carrier. |