Show PERMANENT ORGAN STARTED FOR contention meld hold in salaia Sal hia hla state road commission the state road commission was badly roasted by the grand central highway convention held at salina saturday last and a permanent organization was founded of the contral central and southern utah counties which has tor its object the promoting of and boosting for all legitimate and good roads projects in the state from provo and south and to take such steps as may be necessary to insure this part of the stat securing a just recognition it also has for its object the election of men to the state legislature who are untiring and in their efforts to secure a just by the state officials tor for their part of the state the convention at salina was called by the salina commercial club A full report published in the salina sun reads the good roads convention held at salina high school auditori auditorium nm last saturday was an all enthusiastic meeting over loo outsiders being in attendance for southern and central utah ahe meeting was called to order by president H B crandall of the salina commercial club and after two beautiful v C al ie selections a duet by jas ja 3 C jensen and 11 1 1 F jenson accompanied compa nied led on the piano by miss bliss el na ivie ivi 0 mayor yb i P madsen delivered the address of 0 welcome mayor Bla madsen s pore of the necessity of good roads in building up the country and urged that all operate cooperate co in build ling better roads M 1 I AT steele jr road supervisor or of millard billiard county was selected temporary chairman and david S williams editor of the Castl Cast edalo ledale progress secretary miss bliss willmetta wright then sang a beautiful solo miss bliss ivie accompanying pa nying the proposed establishment of the grand central highway from green river utah to connect with the lincoln highway at ely nevada was waa discussed at length but the naming of the road from fillmore east cast to green river as aa the grand central did lot meet with the approval of the convention and this project was abandoned ando ned M steele and continued on page 8 S permanent organization for good roads continued from pago page 1 carl brown of millard county A D sevier hugh hearst kane D heber leonard emery and parley of 0 sanpete county each extolled their experiences with the road work commission protesting against the manner of spending 24 for overhead expenses for each dollar put on oil the rods A committee of five was selected to draft a set of resolutions to be sent to the state road commission the text of which was as follows THE GOOD ROADS convention FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH met at salina utan juno june 26 1920 the convention consisting of one hundred ten delegates from emery sanpete San pete sevier garneld Garli eld and millard counties Res resolved olvea as follows FIRST that we do not believe we are receiving our just proportion 0 of f state and federal road funds SECOND that we believe from the report made by the secretary of state that there ais is a needless and wasteful expenditure of the state road funds especially in tho the way of overhead expense that a copy of these resolutions be immediately forwarded by the officers of the state road commission 14 11 STEELE JR chairman delta utah DAVD DAND S WILLIAMS secretary castle dale utah A committee consisting of one delegate from each county represented was appointed to s select elect a permanent chairman and P C of 0 salina W was 13 chosen with power to select a secretary the meeting then adjourned jour ned |