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. . o INFORMATION Newsletter - Thu~~March 4, 1954 - Page 3 Colorado highway signs are gradually undergoir.~ a che~~e whioh makes them easier to read from fast-moving automobiles, according to tr.e Rocky Mountain AAA club, and is in keeping with a national ~rend to simplify directicnsl s~ ~n" and make them legible night as well as d"y. Major cbLlge:: arc- 1. incrf"s" ii' she,. 2. elimination from direotional signs of all info::'l,.ation exoept direo;:'" , and number of highway; 3. use of the new "flowerpot" design, where huge "1';'~",. ourve off in the direotions of the interseotiilg highways; 4. revflrsal of ,_".;.c'~- mite on blaok, rather than black letters on white bMkground; 5. ereotion u':' overhead signs; 6.use of refleotorized sheeting to reflect light to its source without g19~e, and making signs easily legible by night. -------------------------------------------------------- Two million dollars worth of oonstruotion in the ~lnnison area'have been set up for this suuuner. Among the highway projeots planned are the Crested Butte highway; Cochetopa highway; F.ighway 50 at Cimmnron; Highway 50 from Elk Creek to Rippling River. There will also be extensive building oonstruotion. --------------------------------------------------------- ~hat is believed to be the Inrgest damage aotion -- the oomplaint asked for damages totaling $65,751.93 -- ever filed in Montezuma oounty was reoently filed~ as the result of a Deoember, 1953 hi~rway a~oident............. Montezuma County and th~ oity of Cortez have started on a three-weaks-long projeot to give the Montezuma County ~irport a new surfaoed runway, improved auto parking area and improved tie-down spaoe for private airplanes........ Las Animas County oommissioners lie.ny Blaokburn, Sterling pryor and Everett Roesoh have given permission for use of their oourthouse lawn by the looal Chamber of Commeroe as a plaoe to set up pionio tables and benohes for tourists....... Bent and Kiowa Counttes Representative Oaklwy Wade announoed he will not seek re-eleotion to the house of Representatives, for two reasons I 1. the finanoial losses sustained while serving in the legislature to his personal business; 2. the oritioism he sustained during and after the last session. Mr. Wade had supported the net-ton true k t ax prine iple in that last session.......... Adams County was involved in a deal similar to the one vb ioh Jefferson County oommissioners made with an engineering firm with re&ard to its road oil mix plant, it has been revealed........ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Seoond-grade ohildren in seven Colorado oounties -- Adams, Denver, El Paso. Arapahoe, Jefferson, ,Pueblo, and Weld -- will be inooulated with the new polio vaooine between the seoond and third weeks in April, it has been announoed. About 18,300 children will be affeoted, nnd parents will have to si~n request forms before inooulations begin. The test is being finanoed by the National Foundation for Infantile paralyis with funds reoeived from the 'Maroh of Dimes. The inoculations will be handled by local offioials, with the state health department acting as advisor. Results of the inooulations of seoond grade pupils with the first and third graders used as oomparisons will help determine the effeotiveness of the vaooine in preventing polio. --------------------------------------------------..------------------ Denver County Conrt Clerk \.illiam B. Miller, Democrat, was appointed by Mayor ~ewton as a munioipal judge to,suooeed Judge Mitohel B. Johns, Republioan, appointed judge of the newly oreated Superior Court by Governor Thornton..... The U. S. Senate oonfirmed President Eisenhower's appointment of Tom Kimball of Durango as U.S. Marshal for Colorado, sucoeeding Maurioe T. Smith, ,former Ale.moSa County ~ndersheriff.,...... Domestic sheep have been purohased by the Colorado Geme and Fish Department to help in doing researoh on Bighorn sheep lungworm infeotions, it has been reveale~........ -------------------------------------.------------------------------- , " , 2592