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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers TAME WILD RIVEK PAY FARMERS CASH MANY JOBLESS LISTED BIG PROJECT PLANNED REDUCE PETTY CRIME RENO, NEV. Nearly $30,000 Is to bo paid to the farmers of Nevada Ne-vada under the government's wheat production control plan. It Is Indicated Indi-cated by figures complied by the Nevada agricultural extension service. ser-vice. BOISE, IDA. Lamb prices are above 1932 levels and the reports show that wool prices are expected to be higher In 19.11 than at present. AMERICAN FORK, UT. The Alpine Al-pine school district has applied for $30,000 In R. F. C. funds to be used In a building program. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake county unemployed, totaling 15.1S0, largely nnskilled workmen, are registered with the federal reemployment re-employment bureau. Among the list are 2,500 war veterans and 1,000 women seeking employment. BOULDER CITY, NEV. Regular Regu-lar river navigation as far upstream up-stream as the treacherous Flour Sack rapids on the Colorado now can be made on charter. The latest party to penetrate beyond the mouth of the Virgin river consisted of a group of Boulder City business men and engineers, who invaded the little-known canyon on an air-propelled sea sled. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Early decision is expected on the Washington Wash-ington county development project from Washington, D. C, officials, it is reported. The project contemplates contem-plates storage of Virgin river water in three- reservoirs, and its use on lands along the river in Utah, for the development of dairying, the growth of agricultural products and of sugar beet seed production, Washington county has been successful suc-cessful in growing the past season. . SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Turkey Tur-key raisers of Utah attended a grading grad-ing school here and federal graders have been appointed to handle the turkey crop of this season. OGDEN, UT, A state tax commission com-mission office, second in size only to the Salt Lake office, has v been opened here. The branch office Is to facilitate handling affairs connected con-nected with the state sales tax, automobile au-tomobile licenses, income taxes and other business of the bureau. The Ogden office will serve Weber, Davis Da-vis and Morgan counties. Ir is said offices soon will be opened in Provo and Logan, with Box Elder and Cache counties to be served by the Logan office. LAS VEGAS, NEV. More than 900 meals a day are being served at the federal relief barracks recently established here for jobless transients. tran-sients. The food and shelter are furnished only to men who are willing will-ing to put in a day's labor at tasks assigned by local authorities. Since the opening of the barracks, police report petty crime in Las Vegas has decreased materially. OGDEN, UT. One thousand children chil-dren have been born in this city in 1933. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah 13 asked by Governor Miller, of Wyoming to join with that state, Montana and Colorado In protesting the plan for fixing gasoline sales prices proposed by Secretary Ickes, the federal oil administrator, to go Into effect December 1. ' RENO, NEV. A general holiday throughout Nevada celebrated the C9th birthday of the state recently. BOISE, IDA. Idaho has placed 6375 men at work under the federal feder-al re-employment service since it le-gan le-gan operation several weeks ago, and had 21,90$ men on the registration registra-tion list In late October, according to a report from the bureau. Surveys Sur-veys by districts indicated 570 more men would be absorbed on public works by late November. Of those put to work, about 2000 were taken from relief lists, the report said. SALT LAKE CITY, UT In response re-sponse to a petition signed by 100 taxpayers, the county commission has extended the 1933 tax delinquency delin-quency date from November 29 to December - 20 at noon. The extension exten-sion was granted to afford relief to property owners who would have been unable to meet their payments on . time because of economic conditions. con-ditions. A 2 per cent flat penalty, plus 8 per cent interest attaches to payments after the delinquent date. OGDEN, UT. Utah manufacturers manufact-urers produced 90 million dollars in goods In 1931. according to reports from the manufacturers agents. PANGUITCII, UT. Sheepmen In this district are losing numbers of sheep, which are being killed by coyotes. One man Is reported to have lost eleven head In one night SALT LAKE CITT, UT. Provision Provi-sion for . the transient unemployed in Utah on some sort of a systematic systemat-ic basis that will be a constructive attempt to solve the problem i3 the 'aim of a proposal forwarded to the government at Washington, D. C. by the state relief director. The Utah plan involved the request for $14, 000 to finance the work for the remainder re-mainder of the month. BOISE, IDA. Federal aid for gold mining ilevelopment work Is being sought by Idaho gold miners. |