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Show News Notes 1 g From All Parts of 1 I UTAH I Nephi. The city council is getting out a new set of plans for the pro. posed city hail building, as all bids received exceeded the bond issue The new plans will eliminate a num. ber of the original features and cm cut the cost down to within the amount voted. The cost of tha build, ing must be within $16,500 and be constructed in the near future. Salt Lake City. Sympathetic reception re-ception of recommendations on the construction of the Great Salt Lake Basin reclamation project by Secre-tary Secre-tary of the Interior Hubert Work and Dr. Elwood Mead, United States cum. ml.sisoner of reclamation, character-ized character-ized the conference of representatives of the Utah water storage commission and water users with the federal ot ficials. While Secretary Work and Commissioner Mead were both unable un-able to commit themselves in the various var-ious units of the project pending ex. amination of documentary evidence i presented, the apparent favor win, which the coordinated front of the Utah men was met certified in itself the inevitable action of the federal government in providnng for the reclamation rec-lamation needs of the territory era braced in the basin project. Ogden. The population of Ogden has increased 1600 since this timi last year, it was announced by R. L, Polk & Sons, publishers ot the city directory, who have just completed the 1925 directory of the city. Cedar City. Committees are shaping shap-ing up for the celebration at Cedar City of the official opening of" Zion National Park, Friday, May 15. Richfield. A resolution has been adopted by the board of education of Sevier county calling for a bond issue in the sum of $250,000. This matter is to be presented to the voters vot-ers immediately for acceptance or rejection. It is proposed to improve school buildings, erect gymnasiums and procure additional playgrounds Id the various schools of the district. Salt Lake City. Fire Chief William H. Bywater has resigned, to become effective June 1st. Assistant Chief Walter S. Knight was appointed by the city commission to become fire chief on that date. He will be acting act-ing fire chief meanwhile. Mr. By-water By-water having been given a two mot' ths' leave of absence with full pay. Provo. An open meeting of the court of honor of the Boys Scouts ol the Timpanogos district will be held in the Utah stake tabernacle Thursday, Thurs-day, May 14, acording to an announcement announce-ment made by officials of the court. The meeting designed to acquaint the people of Provo and vicinity with the progress made by the local scorns within recent years and td encourage them in their work. Salt Lake City. A catalog ot courses cour-ses for the University of Utah summer sum-mer school courses has just been issued is-sued at the state institution. The school will open June 10 and close August 28. Dean Milton Bennion ol the school of education will be director direc-tor of the school. The school will have a two-fold purpose in that it will enable the teachers of the state to fit themselves for the obtaining ot higher certificates and students who desire to use the summer months for the working off of their group requirements re-quirements or taking master degree work will be enabled to do so. Parowan. H. D. Bayles and eighteen eight-een other farmers and ranchers living liv-ing near Parowan, Iron county, haTe petitioned the public utilities commission commis-sion of Utah for an order permitting the construction of a power transmission trans-mission line from Parowan to their farms, so that they might use power created by the municipality of Parowan Paro-wan to pump irrigation water (or their lands. Ogden. Ogden's mayor, members of the city commission, bankers, atorekeepers, business and professional profes-sional men, and the rank and file o! baseball supporters are overwhelmingly overwhel-mingly in favor of at least one coasi league baseball game in Ogden each week. They believe it will solve the perplexities of the game which ha" arisen here each year through OgileD loining in a league. Salt Lake City. Subject to appro'' al by the state racing commission which may not begin to function M"' the law creating it becomes efW tive, May 11. the state fair board accepted ac-cepted terms offered by Fred Do'" ken and W. P. Kyne, covering tb racing privileges at the state grounds for the next ten years. Provo. The polioe of Provo a'e searching for the vandals vi'' wrought havoc in the Provo cenieterT ! According to police investigation several sev-eral hundred dollars' worth of ProI erty was destroped. In several caf-the caf-the headstones were mashed to I)iecf! by the marauders. Mt. Pleasant. Alta Simps""- "' year-old daughter of Mr. and 'lr! I Frank Simpson, died from cholera ' fantum, thought to have been broi"1'-on broi"1'-on by dyes used In coloring l'-':is'e' eggs. |