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Show J News Happenings I faennauntam States Yakima, Wash. Thong! organised iheep shearers of the Yakima Valley refused to go to work for the 10 cents i head wage offered by the woolgrow-era, woolgrow-era, there is no shortage of non-union shearers to take their places, leading growers stated. The union shearers are asking 12ft cents a head for thelt work. The growers assert that a shearer can make from $10 to fig a working day at th 10-cent rate. Montieello, Utah After a quiescent period of a decade or lunger, the Sao Juan oil fields again are under exploration. ex-ploration. Within the past few days two wells have been spudded in to test to a depth of 2000 feet or more the horizons of the Mexican Hat and Hulklto districts. Gunnison, Utah. "Shimmying," foxtrotting, fox-trotting, the bear-hug and all other similar dances, together with ths cheek-to-cheek and arra-around-neck posture, will be banished at the publio dances In this city, If the plana adopted adopt-ed by the Parent-Teacher association are carried out . Ogden. Captain Ora Bunday of ths firm of Kraft & Bunday reports he has procured contracts to build several steel bridges and culverts and ' four and one-half miles of macadam road In Nevada. The latter Is to be built in Lyon county and completed within ninety days. The contract price ts $23,000. , The bridges and culverts will be built In Churchill county. Pocatello. A fine spirit of constructive construc-tive cooperation was manifested In a conference at the chamber of commerce, com-merce, when Utah and Idaho Interests, both financial and commercial, met and accepted the plan of the war finance fi-nance corporation of Washington, D. 0., outlined by Eugene Meyer, Jr., at a conference held In Boise, Idaho, recently re-cently for the organization of the Idaho Ida-ho Agricultural Loan company. Salt Lake City. Members of the Utah state road commission have been asked to lend their support and encouragement en-couragement to the national good roads essny movement being conducted by the Jiighway and highway transport trans-port education committee at Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. A letter from the highway and transport committee says: "We wish to tell you of the national essay es-say contest being conducted In your s,tat.e and to invite whatever assist: ance in Its promotion you are able to give. Our aim is the stimulation of thought, discussion and study of the subject of highway economics and highway engineering among high school students, their parents and friends. The rules of the contest provide pro-vide that the essay shall be written on the subject, "How Good Roads Are Developing My Community," and that It shall not exceed 700 words in length. Essays are to be submitted to htgn school principals or teachers not later than May 1 of this year. In Utah the contest is being conducted by tbe University Uni-versity of Utah, extension division, Salt Lake City, where the best three essays from each high school should be sent for review. Ogden. Analysis of the Utah road commission's program covering federal feder-al aid for 1021 shows that attention (s to be particularly directed to the main north end south road through Utah. This road, which Is part of the o-caled primary system as recom I mniKlai i- .1.. t, , f.,. |