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Show UP-L SLATED TO BUILD NEW FACILITIES Utah Power & Light Co. this week announced plans to spend some $1,246,000 during 1952 for construction and improvement of its electrical facilities in the Utah valley and Carbon county areas. The projected construction, Orson Or-son M. Slack, company's Southern division manager, said, is part of the overall $70 million, five-year expansion program being conducted conduct-ed by UP&L. Purpose of the program, he said, is to keep the area it serves ahead of its electric needs. It will be financed principally by sale of stock and by borrowing. The fourth and largest year of the expansion program, 1952 will see a record $17 million put into scores of electric projects ranging from power plants to new distribution distri-bution lines serving home and industry. in-dustry. Top project in Utah valley, Mr. Slack said, will be a 1300-foot all-steel all-steel extension to the newly- built flow line in Provo canyon which serves UP&L's Olmsted hydro, electric plant. To be buried underground, the extension will" carry the flowline's intake to a new diversion dam above the canyon's heavy snow and mudslide areas. Some $235,000 will be expended on the project. He pointed out that the largest single item in the company's '52 budget is Gadsby steam-electirc plant in Salt Lake City where 75,000 kilowatt generating unit is scheduled to go into operation this fall. "Electric power is the life-blood of industry," Mr. Slask said. "Each day an American worker at his job .uses enough electric power to equal 210 other men working at the same task. In other words, a force of 210 'slave laborers' labor-ers' at the command of each worker. By this expansion of its facilities, Utah Power & Light Co. of the nation strong electrically as America continues its all-out production for freedom." |