Show A A A NOTES President Roosevelt has signed a proclamation declaring an emergency and dIrecting that Import duties be suspended to enable farmers In drought ridden areas to obtain enough feed to keep theIr from starving Treasury and agrIcultural officIals are working on regulations specIfying what probably commodities hay and oats oats- may be Imported duty free The regu- regu regulation lation labon also would name ports of entry and the countries from which the commodIties could be Imported More than a million dollars per day has been paid by the administration to cooperating farmers In the hog corn program during the past two v weeks About 80 per cent of all counties par par- participating participating m in the corn hog program have now been authorIzed to prepare contracts for the final signatures of producers Farmers In ten Utah countIes have re elved a total of 40 thousand dollars up to August 15 out of a total of nearly 32 paid m in inthe the United states Cattle purchases by the government In the drought states to the close of business August 20 totalled 3 head Sixty thousand head have been taken from our Utah farms Pay Pay- Payments Payments ments approved to the same time cov- cov covered covered ered over a minion million head and amount amount- amounted amounted ed to 16 00 Cattle shIpped for grazing totaled head Efforts to Increase facIlities for slaughtering and processing to keep pace WIth purchases of cattle m in the drought stricken areas are being made by the AgrIcultural AdJustment Ad- Ad Administration ministration in cooperation WIth the Bureau of Animal Ammal Industry and the Federal Surplus Relief corporatIon When the cattle buying pro program am was initiated less than two months ago averaged about 58 en- en ani- ani animals mals maIs per week Facilities have now been expanded so that the average is per week and efforts toward further expansIon of processing capac- capac capacity capacity ity are being made In addition thousands of cattle are being moved to localities where pastures are still available Assurance that th the goal set for re- re reduction reduction ot of the nations nation's hog production in the 1934 hog corn program will be accomplished is seen in the govern govern- governments governments ments pig crop report or of June 1 The report prepared from returns f from om farms indicates that the num- num number number ber of spring pigs saved this yea was 27 per cent below the average cf 1932 and 1933 The number of tow tows far far- farrowing farrowing rowing between June 1 and 1 IS estImated to be 38 per cent smaller Further modifications oo Of v het lOrd rd hog corn adjustment c ts s to re- re remit mit planting of fodder corn and gr grain m sorghums for p c on the rented or contracted acres now opens the way for unlimited production of all forage crops on all land of farms under contracts Wheat contract signers in Utah have ed a total of from the AgrIcultural AdmInistration Administration tion Proof of compliance forms have been completed and sent to Washing Washing- Washington Washington ton in preparation for the final pay pay- of last year years s crop This forth forth- forthcoming coming payment will be nine cents minus local expenses Siberia is the coldest Inhabited spot on earth seismographs over the world record about earthquakes annually but the most of them are minor miDor shocks ng sleep on hot nights is made possible by an air conditioning machine equipped with a canopy which fits over the bed Plans for a bridge to be built on floats across the StraIt of Gibraltar are arc being considered An Oakland Calif bank has in- in installed installed stalled a chute leading from the street to nn an underground vault which en- en enables enables ables customers to make deposits out out- outside outside side of banking hours The following Moab people went to Monticello Sunday where they attend attend- attended attended ed the stake conference of the Relief Society Mrs Martha Westwood Mrs Milton E Johnson Mrs Hyrum Allen Alien Mrs N E Higgins Mrs A C Jorgen- Jorgen Jorgensen Jorgensen sen Mr and Mrs E W stout Mrs Charles Mrs H S Rutledge Mrs Mary Day Mrs James Somerville Mrs Lloyd Somerville Mrs AnnIe Mrs NaUa Nalia Dalton Mrs W R McConkle McConkie Mrs Sarah McConkie Mss Miss Ina McConkle McConkie Mrs W D lIam Ham Hammond mond Mrs R Red Somerville Mrs Jesse Holyoak Mrs J W Hawks Mrs Malona Moore Mrs A C Folster FoIster Mrs George Newell Mrs John Peterson Mrs Leonard Woodruff Mr and Mrs Leslie T Foy Miss Maxine FoIster F B Hammond Colin Loveridge Otho Murphy and Jerry Dunn DunnIn In ChIna watermelon seeds take the place o of chewing gum |