Roosevelt Standard | 1952-05-22 | Page 1 | Part of $250,000 to be Spent in Duchesne County

Part Of $259,080 To Oe Spent En Duchesne County Duchesne County will participate partici-pate proportionately in the $250,000 emergency flood relief appropriation that was ordered by President Harry S. Truman. Governor J. Bracken Lee was notified early Wednesday of the federal aid that was being made available. The governor had been in direct contact with Washington all week. Counties which will share in the federal money, besides Duchesne, Du-chesne, are Sanpete, Juab, Utah, Carbon, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber We-ber and Morgan. Program for assisting the devastated dev-astated counties will be handled under the direction of the Bureau Bu-reau of Community Facilities and Service of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Representatives of the agency indicated that further funds for ! Utah may be allocated as new projects are submitted and cleared by the proper authorities. authori-ties. Meanwhile, members of the Utah delegation, who have been working closely with state officials of-ficials on the program, praised the speed with which the President Presi-dent acted on the governor's request.