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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- t'tah joined California, Nevada. Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico In the pact providing for the Colorado river dam project when Gov. Porn slimed the Boulder Pnm Mil passed by the Utah legislature. The plan la based on the Act of Congress provid ing $105,000,000 for construction of the Ponlder Pnm. Voters of Utah win hav an opportunity to vote on at leant two proat posed constitutional amendments the next general election. It was decided when the state senate passed two house joint resolutions proposing The rcsolntlom these amendment. were thopo Introduced In the house by Rep. H. M. Jorgenscn, providing an equalizing fund for the more equitable distribution of educational oprtnnllle, ft IS WORKING AT HIGH SPEED and the one try Rep. W. P. Hammond, providing for a chance the In the methods of distributing shite school fund. The pRgsage of a measure In the house permitting the nso of rum and brandy in mince meat caused nn editorial In a Utah paper to which the house members took exception. BILLS INTRODUCED IX SENATE S. B. 211, Hnlllngsworth : Requiring secretary of state as colleclor of fees for motor vehicle resist rat ion and as collector of the gasoline tax to give a surety bond. S. B. 212, Holllngsworth : Providing for the establishing and maintainn ing of Utah University college at and at Kphralin. S. B. 213, Smith: Providing for the selection and purchase of a new site Og-ite- for the Utah state prison and the re moval of the priHon to same. S. B. 214, Ryan: Creating a Colo- rado river commission, defining its powers and appropriating a sum of money therefor. 8. J. H. 7, Irvine: Requesting Gov. Pern to extend the governor's conference an invitation to hold its 1030 scission in Salt Pake City ami authorizing the governor to provide entertainment for the appropriate conference at the expense of the state. S. B. 215, Maw: Providing for the expending of $400,000 for the purpose of building for the University of Utah. Bills Passed by Senate II. B. 2: Relating to the payment of annual and delinquent drainage taxes. 1I. B. 78: Providing for adjustment settlement and payment of drainage taxes asEcs.sed against bands in drainage districts. II. C. It. 3: Memoralizing congress to enact legislation to make loans to drainage and levee districts. II. J. It. 8 : Providing an equalizing fund for more equitable distribution of educational opportunities in state. II. B. GS: Providing for the certif ication and payment of taxes and lito the cense fee3 by corporations secretary of state. S. E. 107: Relating to securing of permits by nutomobile companies operating for hire.. S. B. 123 : Relating to pharmacists S. B. 08 : Extending firemen's pension benefits to include widows and children of deceased firemen. S. B. 47: Relating to complaints for the public reparations filed before utilities commission. S. B. 110: Regulating and controlling companies engaged in insuring or guaranteeing real estate titles. S. B. 10: Providing for the creation of a commission of the Utah state bar. S. B. 10: Requiring motor car owners to settle personal property taxes on the machines before they may obtain license plates. II. B. 64: Relatiug to barbers. S. B. 3G: Amending law relating to Insanity board. ' Bills passed in the House H. B. 80: Providing that each Utah city shall constitute one school dts-rlc- t. II. B. 80: Defining the boundary line between Rich and Summit counties. H. B. C7 : Providiflg for licensing of aircraft and airmen. II. B. 110: Providing for the regulation of unincorporated associations e engaged in the insurance business Lloyds' plan. II. B. 132: Authorizing the governor to provide for the use of rum or brandy in the manufacture of mincun-th- capita Instead of from $5 to $7:50. 8, B. 141: Repealing the law relating to preference right) of tie t tiers ou state lands. II. J. It. 6: Increasng the pay of legislators from $4 to $5 a day by con Btitutlonal amendment and giving them an expense allowance of $3 a dny. II. B. 00: Empowering city commissioners to regulate installation of electrical equipment and to license electrical contractors. S. C. M. 3: Meuiorallzlng congres to enact legislation providing for making loans to drainage or levee districts. II. B. 88: Providing for a manufacturers excise tax of 6 cents per pound on oleoma rglne and other butter substitutes. S. C. M. 3: MemoralUdng the secretary of the interior to survey and classify agricultural lands In the upper basin of the Colorado river. II. B. 42: Providing that a maximum levy of three and one-hnmill' for general purposes shall be avail able for all counties having an assessed valuation of four million. II. B. 200: Liability insurance. II. B. 3H3: State prison library fund. II. B. 319: Responsibility for damages in accidents where motor dirvot is ander 10 years of age. S. B. 08: Protection of persons furn billing materials and labor on build lugs. S. B. 100: Fees in Insanity hearings. S. B. 141: Regarding fires on state or government lands. S. B. 145: Prohibiting other than of itlcial signs on highways, S. B. 10: Signals at railroad crossings, S. B. 140: Size and weight of motor vehicles on highways. S. B. 91 : Relating to appointment of election registrars. S. B. 154 : Relating to sale of city or village franchises. S. B. 155: Payment of interest on ma tured refunding bonds of an irrigation district. S. B. 132: Property qualification of electors. S. B. 134: School disrrici bonds, etc. S. B. 135 : Construction of works by Irrigation distritcs. S. B. 137: Relating to practice of surgery and mededne. S. B. 147: Elimination of grade crossings or their alteration. S. B. 107 : Emmett irrigation district. S. B. 102: Relating to private music ; f 2 H't 4 ? - til tZ lf a of state. 2 Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury. 3 William D. Mitchell, attorney general. 4 Arthur M. Ilyde, secretary of agriculture. S James V. Good, secretary of war. 6 Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce. 7 Charles Francis Adams, secretary of the navy. 8 James J. Davis, secretary of labor. 0 Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior. 10 Walter F. Brown, postmaster general. 1. Uenry L. Stlmson, secretary This Is Fran!: Bolger's New "Mystery Ship" 'Z- -- -- , D 2Z W m PrieUtg to Lie Z Utah UTAH The price of xinc in Utah was 12.5 per cent higher in January, 1929, than in January, 1928. A ; SALT LAKE Increase in Salt Lake's population is anticipated by an order for 2300 new telephones by the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company. UTAH Utah telephone service will be im. roved to the extent of $1,418,-80- 0 this year, Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company officials report. SALT LAKE Livestock throughout the state has started to show improvement with the heavy snow leaving the ground, J. Cecil Alter, chief of the local weather bureau, announces in his weekly report The ground is drying up rapidly and the grasses on the ranges have started to appear. nEBER Graveling of the road between Heber and Charleston will begin soon with the moving of the contractor's equipment to a gravel pit southeast of Heber. The project is No. 65 A, part of federal aid project and graveling of the Heber-Hailstoand the Hailstone-Par- k City roada has been progressing for some time. LOGAN The snow cover in Cache valley has been deep and continuous and as a result the water supply this summer will probably be considerably above normal, according to Professor George D. Clyde, who has just filed a report of snow conditions of northern Utah for February. Professor Clyde stated that drifting has been severe. RICHFIELD Spring plowing is the vogue in Sevier valley with the return of mild spring weather conditions. The recent thaw that sent the snow blanket, which covered the entire valley, away in mist, also seema to have taken the frost with it and to have left the soil in excellent condition for the plow. In many places the farmers are using tractors. In competition with some EROVO of the largest makers of cast iron pipe in the country, the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company plant was awarded the contract calling for tha delivery of 130,000 feet of cast iron pipe to be used by the Utah Gas and Coke company of Salt Lake in its expansion program. This is said to be only the first allotment and further orders are expected. OGDEN The city recently was making a new effort to clear the airport here of ice and snow, which has prevented its use since early in January because no equipment heavy enough to clear it was available. Officials of' the National Parks airways declared that concern is losing 100 a flay because of inability to land here. They said Ogden apparently received more snow than any other airport on the Salt Lake-GreFalls route. SALT LAKE Salt Lake should have natural gas by September 1, forecast J. D. Roberts, assistant manager of the Utah Gas & Coke company, speaking recently of the progress in constructing the pipe line to Baxter Basin, Wyoming. Mr. Roberts spoke at the weekly luncheon of the Aft Engineers club in the chamber of commerce. Natural gas development in the Baxter .Basin and adjacent fields assures a supply during the present generation at least. GUNNISON Roar of a torrent in the Sanpitch river, followed by a report that two automobiles had been demolished when they fell into a large gap in the highway three and a half miles northeast of Gunnison, was the first indication at about 2 a. m. recently, that the Antelope reservoir, five miles northeast of the town, had broken and was pouring its contents down the valley toward the Sevier river, passing through Gunnison on its route. SPANISH FORK Plana for the annual Utah county livestock show to be held at Spanish Fork March 27, 28 and 29 are going forward rapidly. Many entries have already been signed up. Springville, neighboring city in the north, has announced the purpose of sending a lot of fine exhibits. A number of visitors are expected to be present this year; quite a numLer of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce have expressed their . tention to come, as to have a num. :r of state officials. LEWISTON Fresh outbreaks of hemorrhagic septicemia among cattle herds of this region were rsport-e- d, but quick action by herdsmen will prevent spread of the disease, veterinarians believed. The major outbreak of this disease was reported recently and was handled successfully by vaccination and innoculation. Eighteen hundred animals have been . 'U4 'JCv. t 1 . hi m schools. S. B. 100: Providing for the regulation of collection agencies. S. B. 103 : Relating to notice of county bond elections. S. B. 105: Defining peddlers. S. B. 1G0: Regarding workmen's coin A head-oview of the new mystery ship, the which is being built for Frank Bolger, president of the Associated Aviation Clubs, Inc., of America. The odd craft la of construction and has propellers fore and aft It will make a tour of the United States, visiting over 1,000 cities and the nation's principal airports. n Mono-Dirigibl- e, MAKES NEW RECORD Entering the White House for Lunch peusation. nr endowment S. B. 100 : Providing funds for state institutions. S. J. M. 4: Urging congress to appropriate funds for a Great Basin experiment station in the southern part of Idaho and study watershed protection. at Small Boy Had Found Perfectly Safe Place It was the evening rush hour. An intensive throng, regardless of everything but their desire to get home as soon and as best they could, stormed the various entrances to the subway elevated trains as they pulled Into the central city stations. The stroller was standing In the vestibule of the last car of the train. All seats, aisles and corners were crammed with humanity, a seething mass. At Eighth street the door opened to permit a few more to crowd A transit employee helped by in. shoveling them along. There's a little "Cut that pushing boy here. Ain't yon got any better sense?" This from an Irate father, who was trying to shield his boy from the struggling mass. The child, undismayed by all this anxiety and turbulence, smiled at his 1 4 fed Jimm Ball, of Winnipeg, after establishing a new Canadian record for run. Ills time was 33 the seconds, at the Canadian Championship meet at Toronto. The United States indoor record for the same distance Is 31 seconds. 300-yar- d REBEL LEADER "Don't worry, daddy ; they can't hurt me." He had crawled under the overflow of his father's stomach. Philadelphia Public Ledger. II. B. 148: Providing, for and outlining a state building program and creating a state building commission. II. B. (54: Providing for regulating Student and apprentice barbers. II. J. It. 8 : Amending the constitution to provide for a school equalizing fund. Repassed by the house as amended by the senate providing for an equalizing fund of $5 per school Solar System's Movement The solar system is traveling at the rate of about 1,000,000 miles a day In the general direction of the constellation Hercules, or, more exactly, the boundary between Hercules and Lyra. The stars in these constellations are not all at the same distance from the solar system, and no fixed point can be set at which the sun will nrrive at a specified time. Observations have not been continued over a long enough period to determine whether the sun is moving through space In a straight line or along a curved line. The Lap tribes in the northernmost part of Norway recently suffered the almost irreparable loss of 50 per cent of their reindeer. As is customary, more than 2,000 head of reindeer had gone to their feeding ground on Mage roe island. The only way of transporting this great herd Is to make the reindeer swim across the narrow strait separating the Island from the mainland. While the herd was recently being driven back by the same route, more than 1.000 reindeer were caught in the swift current of the strait and were carried out to sea I- - I ' I'resident Hoover. Mrs. Hoover, Vice President Curtis, and Mrs. Gann his sister, on the front portico of the White House, as they were enterir. for luncheon on Inaugural day. Within Four Blocks of White House parent Had Faith in Perfumes Sages and lawgivers, Solon, Lycur-gusSocrates, railed In vain against the extravagant use of perfume. The perfume shop became so important a rendezvous of the smart world that men said, "Let's go to the perfumers," as hey would say, "Let's have a bite." Each essence had its particular significance and special power. The scent of the crushed vine leaves brought clear thinking; that of wi'lte violets aided dlspstion. they belie1. emeat News Notesin 1 J?Z' ft, I M Here Is President Hoover's Cabinet THE UTAH STATE LEGISLATURE . FRIDAY, MARCH 15. 194J9 NEPIII. UTAH S. A V M.-- i t 4 VsVi4V , i f SK5 m" - , -- hh'- - ''1.'. r. vv Cen. Conzaio Escobar who wns made military leader of the rebellion against the Portes Oil government of Mexico. Escobar was formerly a close friend of (Jeneral Cnlles. who was appointed secretary of war by President Oil. Cood Reasons Mugwump Why does a stork stand on one leg? "If he'd lift the other one, he'd fall." ' - w'A , - '7 fi r n-- treated. 4 , - i fci w - unaurwoou & Underwood. Although this would appear to be a scene on Main street, in bygone dav was actually taken within four blocks of the White House in Washlngtoi. his c'jmp Is one of the few still In urie In the Capital city and the watet blch Is supplied by an artesian well, is very sweet and pu-- e. PLEASANT GROVE Total sr'-- s of the Pleasant Grove Canning con -pany the past rear were around f 385r 000, according to Clifford L. '"'right, manager, and expenditures were in the neighborhood of $375,000, Mr. Wright repcrts. "The outlook for the canning industry is bright," Slid Mr. Wright, "particularly in this section. We consider Pleasant Grove as ideally located for the production of fruits that go int. canning roducta, and the possibilities of th?a rc?ricn f re great. The cpany plans on expansion in the future, ' |