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<br />COLORADO INFORNATIOll News:i.ettf'r - Thursday, AltJj.l iL=.Paf'L4:
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<br />Adams County comm:\.ssi.Ol1<'rR ,!ere rcc8ntly to::'d th.o.t the rapid grOlrth of the .
<br />county had m.used its ja.il to over'.r~.C'w: ai1d pl'C.:1:1(f]O. 3.:'1 lu'gent neeu. for more space.
<br />Sheriff Ira Bashor al~c -::-olc1. 'Crie 0.o:1l1TLic::sic!lJsY'& thc::t. in vievT of the present
<br />rate of. expansion the 24-prisonoi'-capacitJi men's uard at the jail should be
<br />double4.,.....
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<br />George Brand, son of Superintenctet of School L€ttie Lec Brand of Pitkin County,
<br />was named manager of t:,e Clem-lOod "'prings Chamber of Conullerce, replacing former
<br />manai':er John Burns, "lL) :.e3ir;ned as an aftertlath of n speech he tlade regarding
<br />tra:::<m0untain water d"i.version. Brand and his family Here expected to be in
<br />Gl""l~' )()d 1,y the :i.3th. ()f April when he will take over the management of the Glenwood
<br />ChaMter of C~~me~0~oQ~o.
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<br />The Colorado 0epartnent of Highways has beaun free distribution of its 64-page
<br />illustrated bool:let, ",ditled "Paths of Procress". Purpose of the booklet, .
<br />the department announced, is to "tell the hO~l =d why of Colorado highuays".,......
<br />In amount of money spent on projects actually undei' construction, t:1e hc,ghway
<br />department leads all <'Ie.stern high,my departments except California I s in use of
<br />federal-aid funds, ac!'ordin:; to a report from the U.S. Bureau of "ublic Road~o
<br />The report shovred that Colorado ,IaS 21st in federal aid road constructio~l by
<br />plaCing 17 projects und'3r contract. These projects, covering 71 miles of hiclmay,
<br />were a $2,639,000 investment.
<br />THO projects, on whio:1 bids . will be taken this month, cover 21 miles additional
<br />at an estimated cost of $370,000. ?ayments to contractors during March came to
<br />$840,000, according to staff construction engineer Williw~ J. Walsh.........
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<br />Glen B. Clark, Denver banl:er and sportsman, ,{as ap)ointed by Governor Thornton
<br />to fill the unexpired term of the late ill'. Harold Uatson as game and fish commission-
<br />er for District Noo l~.............
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<br />Five rural s:,hoo::' C:is'~ricts in llontezllma county ,.lill be consolidated if a cur~
<br />rent Froposal :.8 aI_'fJY8nd bJ' the taxpayers involved.
<br />.Im ."J.er.:tiol" "'.,'nta":.iv~ly scheduled for the latter part of April, will c all for
<br />the c onsoltdat\0.\1 0':: S:rlvan, Rhynlcm, Pros!=,ect, Dripping Spril}.~s, and Pleasant View.
<br />Four Corn"r" disti'ict 1,ms j.rm'Jvcd originally in the consolidation, but ~lithdre,l.
<br />AC0'.)rdinG t) P:P.,.,yf';. plo>J1s, the five districts, ,.lith an enrollment of less than
<br />70 stu:18nts b t:,0 firG"; eir,ht gre.des,. ,muld consolidate and build a four-classroom
<br />buEhr.s &t Yi.ez.sffi,t V"ceu, or olose by. A uell to sup.ly Hater for the building
<br />would 08 the lOr: m" factor in determining the definite location; it ,IaS expected that
<br />i'~ ".m;Jd C02t ;iO~l',!; $LfO"OOO <L"ld be placed adjacent to oil-surfaced highwaJi- 16Jo .
<br />Also invclved ''I0':}d ;,e t:1e purchc.se of t,m school buses, esti.mated at about $9000.
<br />lf ic!1& C OllS0::':.dation is ap,:,roved, a second election ~Iould be staged later to
<br />approv'3 t.he nec8ssary bond issue for the building and equipmont.. .........
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<br />De,1ver subxcbs set a neH building record with nearly $35 million in ne<r construc-
<br />tion r'r0~er_ts st2.rted since Jan. 1 in the metrop,1litan area, a survey shovred.
<br />D",wer 00nst.ru"tior. was a little off the IS'53 pac"" but the three counties
<br />arour.d it set a ne~I all-time reo()rd for a tot."l 0f $14,1~93.789...........
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<br />veryg tu yours, .
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<br />Irving A. Li;>son.
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