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Show Our Voices in Washington UTAH REPRESENTATION IN WASHINGTON Senator Wallace F. Bennett introduced in-troduced a bill to remove the present 640-acre limit now on the transfer of Federal lands to the states, enabling many desirable areas to be acquired for the projected pro-jected State Park program. Senator Frank E. Moss is supporting this bill now before the Senate Committee Com-mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs, of which he is a member. Representatives David S. King and Henry Aldous Dixon have presented pre-sented similar bills. The entire Utah delegation thus agree on a project which will enable the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission Com-mission to obtain 1,646,174 acres of Federal land for its park program. pro-gram. TELEGRAMS RECEIVED Lyle D. Sarvis, secretary-manager secretary-manager of the Utah State Automobile Auto-mobile As sn, announces that wires have been sent to the Utah Congressmen Con-gressmen urging issuance of short-term revenue bonds to continue con-tinue financing the federal inter state highway network. Wires and letters were in protest of the proposed gasoline tax increase to meet deficits in the Federal highway trust fund. lr. Sarvis feels that some of the expense should be borne by the military, and also that those who work at Magna or Hill Field should not be forced to add to their expense. This is another step on the way to inflation. |
