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Show and thence to Springville on Highway 50 and to Salt Lake on Highway 89, passing on north through Ogden, righam, Twin Falls, and noru to the Canadian border. St? road Chairman Ray H. Leavitt recently re-cently made an inspection of southeastern Utah's portion of the suggested highway and advocated ad-vocated the spending f $500,-000 $500,-000 as an invitation to the southwestern and southeastern tourist markets. Utah representatives, repre-sentatives, including a large delegation from Price and southeastern Utah will meet at the road builders convention in Gallup, ,New Mexico, March 16, to further the project. I Spotlighting I UTAH 1 A "wealth of development" is seen for Utah's future, declared Senator Abe Murdock in Salt Lake last week. Concerning the Geneva situation he said: "I am confident that within the time specified for having bids in for the steel plant, that bids will be submitted by companies capable ca-pable .of operating them. The bids must be in by March 1st. "Geneva is going to become the hub of western industry in my opinion. I foresee scores of manufacturing plants springing spring-ing up as Geneva gets into full operation. The people of Utah would never consent to or tolerate tol-erate nonoperation of Geneva-" Concerning the returning veterans vet-erans he said: "We must taKP care of our returning veterans. We can't let those fellows who saved our country stay out in. : the cold. Whatever is inadequate inade-quate now, will be remedied in the coming session of Congress." Con-gress." TO MEET PUBLISHERS Publishers of Utah's 63 weekly week-ly newspapers are meeting this week in annual convention at the Newhouse Hotel in Salt Lake City. During the convention, conven-tion, they will hear Dr. E. Allen Al-len Bateman, state superintendent superin-tendent of public instruction discuss veteran's training programs pro-grams now being carried out in Utah. Dr. Bateman. will undoubtedly un-doubtedly tell the newspaper men that to date, more than 700 business firms have been approved for training war veterans vet-erans and that others are entering en-tering the prgram at the rate of 25 per week. Dr. Bateman has been advised by -e State Board of Examiners to use $9600 from State Department of Education funds in the vocational voca-tional program for war vet-training. vet-training. EPIDEMIC BURNS OUT The influenza epidemic, which flared up and spread to nearly every county in the state has now burned itself out, State Health Department reports indicate. in-dicate. More than IT" cases were reported during --;;e week of the epidemic. Utah's polio record during 1945 was the highest in a decade, dec-ade, with 204 resident cases, 13 nonresident cases and 20 deaths. In 1927, there were 22 deaths with 88 cases. Board of health records indicate that polio is becoming less virulent in Utah. SEEKS SUPER HIGHWAY The designation of a 2700-mile super highway from New -Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico northwest and up through Utah, and thence to Seattle and connecting with the new Canadian Cana-dian and Alaska highway is now being sought by Wae.iington, Idaho. Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. The highway the only one of its kina in the west not paralleled by fail lines would enter Utah and follow -Highway 160 through Monti-cello, Monti-cello, Moab, Green River, Price |