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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Motor oils, the high price of high test gasoline and dirty spark plugs are no worry to the collegian3 5" the University of Utah Motorless Aviation Avia-tion club, who seek to become honfist-to-goodness gliders o the National Glider association. . PRICE Dr. II. B. Goetzman was unanimously elected president of the Carbon County Fish and Game Protective association at the directors' direc-tors' meeting recently. He succeeds suc-ceeds Ray Deming. Other officers who were named are John Staley of Scofleld, vice president; Gust Platia, reelected treasurer, and G. Merrill Fox, reelected secretary. SALT LAKE Gasoline tax returns re-turns amounting to ?597,150.72 for the quarter ending January 15 were transferred from the secretary ot state's office to the state treasury recently. Motor vehicle registrations registra-tions totalling $24,921.75, and transfers trans-fers to the general fund amounting- to $124,627.65 were also received re-ceived by the state treasurer. SALT LAKE Companies in Utah, exclusive of state employers and employees of companies in interstate in-terstate operation, had payrolls amounting to $104,289,033 during the fiscal year of 1929, the number of employees totalling 76,597, it Is shown in a report released re-eutly re-eutly by the state industrial commission. com-mission. OGDEN To insure bids for school construction from responsible responsi-ble contractors, the board of education educa-tion recently ' adopted a bidders' Questionnaire which must be filled before plans and specifications will be submitted to any prospective bidder. The questions deal with the integrity of tie contracting firm and Its ability to finance and corn-plate corn-plate the work. OGDEN Ogden dairy interests and a prediction of greater things for this vicinity along those lines were emphasized at the noon luncheon lunch-eon meeting of the Ogden Rotary club recently at the Hotel Eigelow. J. B. Fitch, head of the dairy department de-partment of the Kansas State Agricultural Agri-cultural college, and George B. Caine of the dairy department of the Utah Agricultural college, were the speakers. SALT LAKE No foreign automobile auto-mobile may legally operate in Utah for more than 10 days without securing se-curing from the office of the secretary secre-tary of state a nonresident permit, and to secure the nonresident permit per-mit the owner must declare that he is a legal resident of the state from which he has secured his current cur-rent plates and not a resident of Utah, it i3 pointed out in a statement state-ment made public recently. SPRINGVILLE Plans for the second annual dairy stock show to be held in Springvllle, February 28, were discussed at a meeting of the local farm bureau association here recently, and officers for the year 1930 were elected as follows: Andrew V. Nelson, president ; Heber Houtz, vice-president; Fred Weight, secretary and treasurer. These, with George Peterson and Will Mower, constitute the board ot directors. PROVO A storm area which has hung persistently over the plateau region for several days, centering in southern Utah, produced more snowfall. Ia Salt Lake, intermittent inter-mittent snow flurries were experienced experi-enced throughout the day, but the snow was light and the water content con-tent of the fall up to 6 p. m. recently re-cently was only .04 of an inch. For the 24 hours ended at 6 o'clock, however, the precipitation measured mea-sured in water content was .17 ot an inch. TREMONTON A brief history of the Bear River migratory bird refuge project was outlined to Ro-tarians Ro-tarians by L. M. Winsor, Logan, chief engineer of the project, at the Hotel Utah recently. "An investigation investi-gation of the proposition," the speaker said, "was started In 1927 at the request of the state fish and game commission, headed by David H. Madsen, by the United States biological survey and myself. A report I made to federal authorities authori-ties resulted in a congressional appropriation ap-propriation of $350,000 in 192S for the work." WASHINGTON The 1930 prize tour of the national oratorical contest, con-test, arrangements for which have Just been completed, will be an extremely ex-tremely attractive one. Under the rules of the contest, now entering its seventh year, the prize tour, with all expenses paid, will be awarded to each of the seven participants parti-cipants In the national finals, to be held in Washington on May 24. An Important feature of this year's trip will be a two-day visit to Oberam-mergau, Oberam-mergau, where the party wTH attend at-tend the presentation q the "Passion "Pas-sion Playl." |