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Show WASHINGTON NOTES DEER CREEK DAM NEARS COMPLETION Contract work on the Deer Reclamation project in Utah Creek Dam on the Provo River is expected to be finished in September, Sep-tember, six months ahead of schedule. Commissioner John C. Page of the Bureau of Reclamation re ported this week to the Secretary of Interior. Contractors under the Utah State Road Commission are oiling oil-ing the relocated highway around the reservoir. The program is being be-ing rushed by the State and the only work remaining is the last construction under the contract, a heavy rock cut about a mile long, is practically completed. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The National Park Service announced an-nounced this week the publication of five new information booklets, the revision of six booklets and publication of six new subjects in its "Popular Study Series." The new booklets are on Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Abraham Lincoln National Historical His-torical Park, Chickamauga-Chat-tanooga National Military Park, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, and Hope-tvell Hope-tvell Village National Historic . Site. OFFICE OF THE PETROLEUM . COORDINATOR In order to expedite the flow s of oil to Canada and the flow of munitions from there to Briton, tne priority raung or me zou-mile zou-mile Portland, Maine to Montreal, Mon-treal, Canada, oil pipeline has been advanced to A-l-a, the highest high-est obtainable. The action was taken by the Production Management Manage-ment on recommendation of Defense De-fense Petrol Coordinator Harold L. Ickes. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Establishment of a new district office in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the Division of Surface Waters, Water Resources Branch of the Geological Survey, was announced this week. FOREST SERVICE Forest Service regional headquarters head-quarters for the Eastern Region (Region 7) will be transfered from Washington, D. C, to Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, as part of the Department of Agriculture's program of decentralization to relieve congestion in the Capital Capi-tal it was announced this week |