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Show • THE JORDAN .JOURNAL, MIDVALE. UTAH ~~@JC!r!!!l5!~c!rl!!l~ Potash Industry to Be Established on Dead Sea lJ News Notes ~ 1 Locamo, Where Security Pact Was Signed ~ It's a Privilege to Live in ~ Q :1 Utah ~ ~ 1 ~ @';;Jffill@liil fFI Rl @;;ilr;iliiiJ@.[Clfr'lfii' ""[1'11i\1fr\)[1'1 fFJ!j;lliJ li'JW:ol Salt Lake City.- Greater Salt Lak~ has n population of 164,110 ac·nnlin"' to the 1U25 city directory. ;reater Salt Lalre two years ago had ! population of Htj,OOO, making the percentage of inc;·12asu in the two ' flUrH greater than that of anv other ci y in thr> intermountuin region. Ore· on and \Va···hington. The directory ·ontains 1G f10 n.ore names than last Y"'llr, which means au actual increase of :1200. Provo. The Provo canyon roa I proj ~ct. wh'ch was bo!:nn more t h n a ~·ear Qr;c ,,ilJ be compl t I soon, ac· cording to llobE:rt Patterr;c.n. deputy .tate roall engineer, in charge of the work. 1\Ir. Patterson says that with t'H~ completion of the project, the traveling public will be given the bust '·. road in the history of the canyon. new of the Swiss town of Locarno, American Fork.-John L. ·J:."irmage, where the allied and German foreign manager of thirty of the J. C Penney ministers dmfted nnd signed the sE'cur· eompany stores, and his 'tather Wil· lty pact that is expected to give westllam Flrmage, have returned home, ern Europe a lasting peace. after a trip through nine states, visit· ing different stores operated by the company. '\Vlllia:n Firmage has f~ve aons, who are managers for the com· pany, an 1 wears an honor button by reason o < that fact. Price.· -The Price Chamber of Commerce i, svonsoring a move to estab· lijh a community hospital here that will serve not only Price, but the en· 1 tire county. It will replace an effort to locate a clinic, then intended pri· , marily for the benefit of school child· I ren suffering from defectivectaeth and ,)!sensed tonsils. Payson.-To commemorate the :sev· en ty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Payson, a big diamonu jubilee eel· ebration was held here. The affair was nnanged by the local Lions club and the proceeds from tne various reatures will be used for the Boys' ( anti Girls' recreational home to b!l built IJ.l Payson canyon next summer. Salt Lake City.-Salt Lake City had to authorize its treasurer to borrow $!:00,000 from local banks on short· term notes to provide cash for cur· J rent expenses until the end of the year when tax funds for the year will begin to c"me in. TliE:Se nine sets of twins are ail attending the saw'! l:Khool In Gunnison.- Local nimrods who students have gre:.~t difficulty In guessing who's who. haYe been hu!ltlng deer in Twoh e· mile canyon report that the animals are plentiful this year. The season has' been exceptionally good, with feed abundant, and the deer are fat and in good conditions. Salt Lake-Municipal budget requests for 1926 indicate that the var· ious Salt Lake City departments cou template for next year expendituTC. aggregating ~ome $300,000 more thar j they are expending this year and ap proximately one-half million dollars in excess< of the estimated revenue \ for 1926. Thi1> means, that unless the more than three and one-half mil • lions requested in the tentative bud J get are materially cut, Salt Lake 1 City faces an increase in either the , municipal tax; levy or in water rates , I and other fees, or both, it is pointed 1 out. lOW View of the DPud sau In l'alestlne which is to be exploited for the 100.,000 tons of potash which can ue each year from its salty waters. The Palestine government Is now considering appliC'ations for the con· '-'lsslon. The Drnd sea, which is 47 miles long and about 10 miles wide, lies 1,300 feet below the level of the Mediterranean and the water is of extraordinary density. t~en Czech Debt Funding Agreement Is Signed .. School in Pittsburg, Kan., Has Nine Sets of Twins I 'l'he American and Czechoslovakian debt missions signing an agreement under which Czechosloval,ia's debt !'~('a ted: Dr. Karel Hrubenec, Dr. Vilem Pospisil, bead of the Czech commissjon; Secretary of the Treasury l\lellon and Dr. Karel Kucera. Standing: Dr. Eug~ne Lippunsky, Dr. Zadek J.o'ierllnger, the new Czechoslovakian minister; Zikmund Konecy and F. G. Blair of the United States treasury. gt $115,000,000 to the Vnited States will be funded. In the photograph are, left to right, JIM'S SOME HIKER Stolen Bell Goes Back to Finland I I l'itu;~ur~:, Melons Used for Water in Jerusalem •· Kan., and the teachers and fellow LEXICON EDITOR I Logan-Marian P. Smith was in1 ~tantly killed and Burt Lovand ser iously burned when the powerhouse e•1gineer of the Swan Creek Power company turned on the power half an hour ahead of time, catching the two men as they worked on the line at Ideal Beach resort near Randolph. Myton-Because of a general shortage of turkeys throughout the country this year, turkeys are in good demand and buyers have already been in the basin making plans• for s·hip· ments for the Thanksgiving trade. i Twenty years ago, when he wn~ fifty, Jim Hocking announced t11at he would walk us many mfles each birthday as he was years old. The other day he was seventy and he walked from the New York City line at Yonkers to Bear mountain and back, a distance ot seventy miles. His t:me for the walk was 14 hours f,Q minutes, during hich tirue he lost eight pounds to w~ht. He ate but eight ounces of raisin bread during the e:orplolt but drank two and n half gallons of water. II Salt Lake--The pari-mutuel see · tion of the 1025 Redd horse racing During the Crimean war the )•;ng-llsh forces looted the fortress of Bomar- act is unconstitutional, and the cit.y i~ sund In the Aland islands and carried to London a big brass bell which has privileged to take strps to enforce it:~ bPPn In the Tower of London ever since. Now this is to be returned to the antigambling ordinance, Judge L. B. parish ot Rcsrpans, Finland. A wart!Pr of the tower is shown taking the bell Wight held in the Third district court. He denied the injunction re· from its vlaee among t!Je old war trophies. que~ted by the Utah State Fair association and others who sough~ to restr:tin the city fro:n interferir.g with the races. Salt Lake Cit~.-Ralph W. Seybolt, for whose execution the district court has four times fixed the date <lit! not face the firing squad. Act·ng Governor H. E. Crockett in confer· ~nee with the state board of pardons ~ of which he is chairman uecitled to grant the convictE·d murdered of patrolman David Crowther his second revrieve. HAS UNIQUE VOCATION • Twenty Millions In His Grasp I Mathews Wins Mitchel Trophy AfMEE WINS PRINCE Prof. Thorna:; A. Knott, teacher of English at the Uni\·ersity of lawn, 1 who bas contracted to become gen· Jl•rusaleru's 65,000 citizens are suffering ~Seriously from an Insufficient era! editor of all Web!:lter dictionwater wpply. The facilities for distributing water are Inadequate, due to the aries. He will l1ave administrative rapid growth of the city. The dally ration for each family has been cut down charge of the entire editorial force. to five gallons. The people are buying quantities of melons as a substitute for drinking water. Above Is a melon seller In the streets. Park Clty.-Drilling into n missed bole while working at the Silver Ki'll; Coalition mine, Fred Sundell, ->. and lliley Lake, 26, were injure:!. 3unuell was taken to a Salt Lake hospital. The charge strur;k him in .he fac~', injuring his eyes. Lake su' f. rred slight injuries . .Montice'lo -The state road commis and San Juan county have or lcred the Verduc hill on the state highway cut down. This hill is tha ·tcej1est plDce on the road from S< Lah:e to Bluff. J. H .. Nrilson, district roa«l engineer, has just returned from l'un·eying the proposed road. The ~tnte and county have appropriate,! ~1400 t b 'Jd f r le Coun• 0 .,. UI ll" new g a< · . . Gtorge <'ampht>ll Carson of Sun Francisco, veteran mining t:nglneer un!l ty ~oad Agent I!Pber Frost will tm·, .,.inventor, sr<-n aboYe In his laboratory, has jl!lst won the final \'i<:tory ln his mediately put a force of. men. to wo~~ suit agaln!>t fifteen great copper companies tor $20,000,000 for lnfringt;ment on the new road. ThiS Will mar cf his smelting and refining process. The United States Supreme court has travel s"Outh much safer and faster. ( decided tire case lu hb fu\'or, atnrmlng the ~ec!sion of tbe lower courts. ~·ion This Is Prince Galltzlne, who com· : Lieut. Thomas K. Mathews or the army, hy u.-innin;; the John L. ~fitch~ prises the ft.fth marital venture of i trophy, won the right to represent the army In the l'ul itzer race next year Aimee Crocker Gouraud. She II his : This tro11hy ls oltered by Co1. WHllam Mitchel In memory of his brother. Jr. erat wife, and he told the reportera tills picture Llelltenant ~Iathews, rtgn:, is being congratnluted by :\faj. T. G. love was too mdeftnlte to talk about, 1 \.anphier and Mr~ J. L. ~ltchel. l I Miss Laura L<•c Jtogers of Eliza· · beth, N. J., is prohably the only per· son In America who earns an excellent Jiving by suggesting suitable n::unes for new products, new !J()uscs, • new shops ·indeed, anything that rej' quires nanling, e.xcept b bies. Miss Hogers ha:; a natural knack for noI ;n('n<•lature, and she has studlecl I many languages and dug Into mustl 1tomes to gather words for her ellen~ |