| Show HIGHWAY HEAD PRAISES J CONGRESS FOR FOB EFFORTS y west declared fortunate in distribution of road hoad funds under i pending bills in an interview by the desert levs avs on his return from washington 1 nato H 11 blood of th said the endeavor of i angress on gress in the appropriation of funds for highway I 1 work are acceptable 1 and pleasing eleasin 9 to the west and indications are that the apropo proposals gals of importance in this regard now pending will wll be rought brought to a satisfactory conclusion 1 utah and the other western Ft states ites can consider themselves fortunah fortunate fort unai in he congressi congressional trend toward towar 0 elgh h way expenditure he said 1 anile nt ile the emergency iia I 1 tion for the use of states as a I 1 loan in catchi ng federal aid is is not od al thular importance here as financial set up is sut at the state can hold up its end 61 edt eral aid work unassisted thelo the am other i 0 r meas measures the appropriation of the calton oddie billand bill ithe ferest lilg highway hway allotment are of great value and benefit t alle state IA jbf i other western states not as aswell weli financed as utah in the matter F J of roads will find the ap appio pro privation pria tion of altri vital importance a and Q valve value alve alue as it will enable them to borrow to match federal aid to expand their their highway systems mr blood was particularly belld tover lover the appropriation of 30 for the colton oddie bill which would I 1 build highways across public lands at per cent I 1 share of this appropriation which mr blood believes will be passed would amount to about 0 share shale of the additional f eo highway appropriation of would amount to about mr blood said h measure to be int r k dubol by senator task tasker er L oddie coauthor co author with don B colton of utah of the public domain highway bill provides that where the government towns owns over 60 50 per cent of a township the entire entile road through the township I 1 I 1 shall be built by the government share of the emergency appropriation funds to be loaned would wom amount to ta abut b but ut it is not yet decided whether the state stat e w will ill elect to contrive to match federal aid with state funds or spend the state funds for purely state work and borrow from the fund on federal aid work |
