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Show Where Rival to Monte Carlo Will Be Established new gaming paradise, rivaling Monte Carlo, is to be established In the smallest and oldest republic In the (Athis coming summer. It will be la Andorra, located In the mountains on the boundary Una between France A French syndicate will build the gambling calno, hotels, jrolf course, tennis courts and cafes. Above In Andorra, --- " i May Scrap Battleship That Never Went to Sea . l' f ' ' " " ' v i i ' 1 ' v ' A naval bonrd of Inquiries Is to determine whether the U. S. S. Electrician, shown above, shall be scrapped It was built at Norfolk in 191S at a cost of $300,000 and has been on dry Jund ever' since, being designed aolely as a practice ship for training In the use of electrical apparatus. News Notes X ' m Privihgi to Liv in . Utah jj CEDAR CITY More than $500,000 will be expended In ImproTemenU lo lodge and tranHportatlon facilities by the Zlon and firyce National Farka company this year. DELTA Within alx weeks the city of Delta will have a lira department Equipment was recently ordered. It consists of a carbon tetrachloride out-li- t mounted on a truck cbasals, and coot $2800. Local business men, far-mers and the Americas Lesion are donating the funds. EPHRAIM Ranger L. Ollcrton of the Mantl National forest reports that the snow at the Mammoth ranger sta-tion, January 31, was 64 inches doep, with a water content of It Inches. The Increase In depth of snow for January was 29 Inches, with an Increase In water content of 7 Inches. GUNNISON The annual report of the Smith-Hughe- s vocational projoct work In the Talley, under the supervl-Io- n of I. L. Henrle, has Just been completed and shows an Increase In returns of 61 per cent over last year's work. Each boy has averaged $71.78 profit, $25.91 more than last year. VERNAL Farmers of the Uintah County Farm bureau will pool this spring upwards of 20.000 fleeces ot wool, according to its president, Ellis Merkley. The Uintah County Farm bureau, Mr. Merkley says, is the third largest farm bureau organization In the state, Lapolnt alone having 45 members. UTAH Snow again covers most of Utah as the result of another Inroad of winter. At Salt Lake the fall tota's S.5 Inches. For a time high wind which caused some drifting and temporarily closed several highways. The Salina canyon highway Is still closed but other highways ot the state re reported open. 8AI.T LAKE The balance on hand In the state road commission funds at the close of 1928 was $724,463.(2, according to the annual report by the accounting department made public recently. Total receipts for the year totaled $3,887,847.81. There was 7 carried over from 1927. The total expenditures tor the year were $3,254,675.10. Loans to counties dar-ing the year totaled $770,676.30. 8ALINA All highways in the state are open except Salina canyon fol-lowing the bllztard recently which added three inches of snow to the win-ter's fall In Salt Lake. Despite the additional fall on the watersheds, which brought the total to 70 inches, the depth Is still three inches below the total of last year. Continued fair weather is predicted by the United States weather bureau. GUNNISON A free night school on poultry will be conducted by L L. Henrle, vocational director of the Smith-Hughe- s project work in the val. ley, commencing Wednesday at 7:30 p m. at the Gunnison Valley high school. It will continue every Monday and Wednesday thereafter until course of ten lessons has been given. Mr. Henrle will be assisted by K. Jenson of Mantl. LOGAN The annual dairy school opened at the Utah Agricultural col-lege recently. It Is being attended by numerous farmers from many sections of northern Utah and southern Idaho. The lectures and discussions will be-gin daily at 10 a. m. and continue to noon, resuming In the afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and continuing nntll 4 p. m. They will be In charge of var-ious members of the faculty at the col-lege. RICHFIELD Breaking the barrier of Ice and snow which had effectually barred transportation for three days between this city and Loa and Bick-nel-l, in Wayne county, the Richfield high school basketball team arrived home recently, weary from fighting Its way through snowdrifts often four aud five feet deep. The storm that set in Saturday and lasted over Sun-day was accompaned by a terrfic wind Which blocked the Loa highway. DUCHESNE A mass meeting of the citizens of Duchesne and near-b- y communities was held here for the purpose of effecting an organization for the protection and propagation of fish and game. The officers elected were Shirley P. Daniels, prssident; William H. Case, vice president, and L. S. Pops, secretary-treasurer- . The f name ot the organization will be the Duchesne Fish & Came association. About 200 have Joined the association. MANTI Plans for establishing dairy herd improvement associations in San-pete and Sevier counties are being woked out by C. O. Stott and S. U. Boswell, county agents, respectively. A series of meetings was held last week. Mr. Stott thus reports: "The Idea has taken very well and at this time It appears from the keen Inter-est shown that an every-othe- r month association will be organized Jaintly In the two counties within thirty days." LOGAN The campaign for acreage in peas In Cache county for 1929 will be started by representatives of the Cache County Pea Growers association and officers of the Utah Packing poratlon on Monday, March 4. The association In Cache has agreed to furnish 2100 acres of late poas and ftt least 200 acres of early peas rn the 1929 contract with the pea canning company. The company also intends to start a new packing crop In the county this season and will contract about 150 acres of Llna beans for canning, I II M I General Ely and Recruits Sail for Panama kty,. iA'v. aft, vI-mp- , -- Lb.-- -- 1 Some of the 700 army recruits departing from New lork on the stenmshlp Cambral for Panama to leplace troops there whose term of service Is ending; nnd Maj. Gen. Hanson a Ely, commandant of the second corps area, with Mrs. Ely and their daughter, who also sailed for the Canal Zone on the CambraL Race From Arctic Snows to Tropic Waters , Starting on toboggans from the mountain slopes of Los Angeles County park and terminating with a dip Into .the eemltroplc pool at Arrowhead Hot Springs, youthful Los Angeles couples staged a unique race. An hour and four minutes after they had left the snowy mountains, the winners were stripping off furry garment underneath which they wore bathing suits, and were plunging Into the warm pool In the valley below. The photograph showa aome of the starters, and Miss Joyxelle Joynler of the winning team In the pool. IN HOOVER PARADE I Gen. A. T. Goodwyn, comtunnder in snlef of the United Confederate Vet-erans, who accepted an Invitation for his stafT to participate In the in-auguration of Herbert Hoover as President of the United States. This was the first inaugural ceremony in which Confederates have ever pa-raded. Kilauea Is in Action Again IA 1 'A .: " ' ? I n ', -- . f f t ?fJ &f& f(f i.ii.n.in.Kiinnli mi trniiii.niii.n .1,11.11 m The Halenmumno pit on the Kilauea volcano In Hawaii is belching fire nnd lava again. The first manifestation of the disturbance was a burst of black smoke followed by fire and loud roaring. This picture was taken during a previous outburst of the volcano. I EDUCATION CHIEF " s - ; w- - - i..iiWM,. New portrait of Dr. William J. Cooper who recently took the oath of office as United States commissioner of education to succeed John J. Tigert, resigned. Vice President in His New Home f v ' ' 1 ' I, N , f v ' ' j iiiilrii I f, U'n-- oa.. t ;.. ""'''tsgrr y nr An Intimate photograph of Vice President Charlee Curtis, made In bis J new partment at the Mayflower hotel in Washington. GIANTS NEW COACH Ray Schnlk, veteran catcher, who Is couch for the New York Glnnts, who are now cavorting at their Texas truinicg camp REFORMED BY SURGERY ) v Arthur Emery of New Philadelphia, Ohio, until a few weeks ago was a stolid, slow wltted boy, whose hands could not resist an oppertunlty to pilfer anything that came within j range of bla vision. Now Arthur is a j normal boy of fifteen, energetic both mentally and physically, and with no j deSIre to steal. An abscess was re-moved from the lad's brain after physicians had testified that nn ab-normal brain condition was at least partially responsible for his criminal j tendency. "The Flight That Failed" !j ft a V- - f "Little Alpine," whose hobby, unfortunately, is flying, climbing Into a . plane at Miami for the "flight that failed" for the simple reason that the plane, once she was In. wouldn't budge. The young lady tips the quivering beam at somewhere above 700 pounds. Heiress and "Cowboy" Elope Katlierine Thome, daughter of It. J. Tiiorne of Chicago, former presldeut of a big mull order house, nnd Charles Gillespie, entertainer nnd film cow-bo- who eloped In Arizona and were married. The young heiress' engage- ment to a Cblcagonn was recently announced Only Thsutht Ha Thought An old Methodist bishop was at a meeting where the speaker had made a strong appeal. One of the men on the platform gave visible signs of hav-ing been greatly Impressed. His brow wrinkled noticeably. A man sitting next to the bishop whispered to him, "Hlunk up there seems to be think-ing hard." "Thinking," replied the shrewd old churchman. "He's not thinking; he Is merely rearranging his prejudices." Boston Transcript. SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST It takes a good mind and a gener-ous heart to grow old gracefully. Don't neglect to kuow a little more thnn you let people know you know. Whether you frankly admit your blunder or not, people will want to go on talking to you about It. Schools for t lie deaf In the Uulted States have 17.5S2 pupils, and more than 1.1,000 of these are being taught to read the lips in conversation. "How do they get along nowT "Oh, as short as ever." Many sick people never get well un-til they quit taking medicine. The Armless Wonder seems to bo handy ot putting his foot In It. Difference between a mascot nnd a talisman Is that a mascot U ullve. China has nliout one mile of rail-road to each 200 square miles of It f' iwimmnir area. I THINGS WORTH RECORDING t' Time Is a wonder-worke- r that la-bors twenty-fou- r hours dally. The big, sweet Japanese persimmon Is sometimes called the "apple of the Orient." Land In Denmark is sinking In some places at the rate of about an inch every 25 years. ,: ; Boy Scout troops are being organ-ised in many hospitals and schools among crippled boys. Hearing both sides of the question won't alter a healthy prejudice. The cow-nose- ray, a strange sea fish, can dig clams from the sea floor with its snout. Used tire casings are being made Into rubber shoe soles for inexpensive shoes In France. Investigating evils Is like counting up the victims of automobile acci-dents. Nothing much happens. Navy Personnel The number of enlisted men In the United States navy on active duty luring the Revolutionary war was the War of 1312, 20.000; Mexican war 7,300; Civil war. 121,000; Spanish-Am-erican wnr, 2.1,000, and the World war. Ml .730. Not Nw DUcovory The very word "sermon" has be-come a synonym for dullness; the word "preach" a definition of tedious-nes- These are not the meanings which these noble words once bad. Woman's Companion. Lif. M. E. Tracy speaking nt the relative unimportance of things "Prince or peasant." he rieolitred. "we with a yelp for food ni end with a wail for sympathy In lie tween. we swell with pride ami take ourselves serb-usdy.- Why They Quit Stub a thing can he Imagfned as the burden of living up to the confidence pwple repose in you. At times one doesn't want to he leaned on. This Is why over worked people resign. Human Natura "We have no means of foretelling the future." said 111 Ho. the sage of I'hlnotnwn, "excepting by the past. rVhaf human nature has done In the past, ll will always be prone to do." Draft Law Upheld There were a nuinl-- i of ensi-tak- en to the Supreme renin draft during the World war li every Insl'ine-- the roinllniii..iuilIi. the draft taw was upheld |