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Show THE PAGE EIGHT IIERALD-JOURNA- L, LOGAN, UTAH, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1939. British Get Hot Letters Preston Merchants Set Canyon Outing Preston city merchants will take y advantage of the Thursday closing on July 6 and will hie for the can.yon, according to the chamber of commerce committee, sponsors of the outing. The event is scheduled for three p. m and will take place at Mink Creek The opening attraction of the day will be a softball game at the near the Mink Creek diamond creek between Preston's northerners and southerners, unions and confederates. Coach Joe Jenson is in charge of the north siders, with Rulon Mitchell heading the south-sid- e WASEI merchants. planned is a horse shoe superpitching contest under theClifford vision of Smith Allen Warr will organize a golf driving contest. The refreshment committee is uu'eoted by Paul Merrill. Also New Styles! New Prints! Novelties will be offered by Marlow Funk and James Hoggan. BULLETIN EXPLAINS CULTURE OF CORN A recent bulletin published by Utah Agricultural Experithe ment station in cooperation with the division of cereal crops and diseases and the bureau of plant industry for the United States department of agriculture, entitled Tests of Corn Varieties and Hyis otf the press brids in Utah, and ready for distribution, it was announced Saturday by experiment station officials The bulletin was prepared and written by R. VV. Woodward of the bureau of plant industry D. C. Tingey, research associate professor. and Dr. R. J. Evans, research professor of agronomy. Bound in an attractive cover showing Mr. Woodward measuring corn which grew to a height of 14 feet 6 inches on the experiment farm at Logan, the bulletin contains important information about the growing of corn in Utah. Various tables show the experimental results in the many counties of the state where corn growing has become a major factor in the farming industry. An interesting table shows the frost-fre- e days of the year in the counties of the state with the average date of the last killing frost in the spring and the average date of the killing frost in autumn. In the summary and conclusions, and Messrs. Evans, Woodward Tingey have compiled the varieties of corn which grow best in the different counties if the state. Yearly Budget For 0. the signature of Mayor Forsgren and Clerk C. L. the itemized estimate, Greaves, classified as to various purposes, has been released. General fund: fire department $1,500; police department, $5,000; streets, except lighting, $10,000; clerk, treasurer, co noil, $4,500; parks, $3,500; miscellaneous and contingent fund, $7,500. The total is $32,000. Bond interest and sinking fund, $25,671.10; water works fund, $8,000; street lighting fund, $3,300; library fund, $3,050. The total appropriations is $72,021.10. The estimated reveune from the city for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1940; direct tax of 29 mills on valuation of $1 447,850, and estimated other receipts Above C. 5, from all sources, $30,033 45, giving the total of $72,021 10 The total revenue collected from all sources for the city for the previous fiscal jear was $80,802 83. for every 17 of its ... Chalons-sur-Mam- Bicycle Club An estimate of the probable amount of money necessary to conduct Preston city affairs has been made by the city board and announced publicly, the funds to be raised from May X. 1939, to April 30, 1940. Including the principal and interest on bonded debt and sinking fund, the amount is Greut Britain has one Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last night presented the 24th Springam medal of the National Association for the advancement of colored people to Marian Anderson, notIn her presened negro singer tation address at Richmond, Va., Mrs. F.D.R. urged democracy for all races and creeds . . . United States Ambassador William C. Bullitt will preside tomorrow at the dedication of a plaque e in the town hall of commemorating the selection there in 1921 of the American Unknown Soldier . . . In his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin attacked as murderous" the naturalistic theory as applied to human life that might is right and said man must return to the principles of Christ . . . Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D.t N. Y., criticized the revised resolution dealing with the admittance to this country of German refugee children and said he would ask the senate immigration committee to reconsider the proposal . . . The committee amended the measure so that the number of children admitted under it during the next two years would be charged against the German quota for these years . . . Former President Herbert Hoover today is on his way from Palo Alto, Cal., to make two speeches In the middle west at Chicago on July 5 and Cleveland on July 6 . . . Crown Prince Olav of Norway celebrated his 36th birthday yesterday at Manchester-By-the-SeMass., by talking via telephone with his three children In Norway . . . The Brazilian army chief of staff, Gen. Pedro Aurelio Monteiro is in Kansas City on his aerial inspection of U. S. fortifications. & a, trans-Atlant- ic HOLLYWOOD TODAY BY UNITED PRESS kids had the time of their lives in Hollywood today they shot off all the fireworks they wanted and received handsome checks for it . .The youngsters were hired for a scene in ParaTwenty-fiv- e Preston Is Drawn J. A blinding flash of flame greeted a London postman when he opened the mailbox seen between the two firemen at right Thirteen persons in five English cities have been injured by incendiary hmnbs concealed in letters during a recent wave of terrorism. Sponsors Activities mount's Death of a Champion" to make all the noise they could The second meeting of the Hia- with firecrackers, cap gun9, and other Fourth of July watha Safety Bicycle club was held in the chamber of commerce, fireworks. :0: Friday evening. New members were Songstress Deanna Durbin learnsigned up and a number of quiet games were played and club busi- ed today she will have to get ness attended to under the general along" on $15,000 a year from the direction of Conrad Barrett, club $195,000 Universal studios will pay advisor, and Fred Leishman, re- her annually for the next five creation leader. years. . . .The superior court apOn Saturday the club took a proved a contract between Miss bicycle ride up Logan canyon to Durbin and the stutio under which the city park. The club advisor, 50 per cent of the $1,000,000 she Conrad Barrett, was in charge of will receive is set aside in trust . . 0 the group and rules of safe bicy- However, she may spend only cle riding were followed. On the a year for herself. :0: wider streets the group rode in Actor Wallace pairs but after entering the canBeery yon they were required to nde the guardianship of his in single file and keep well todaughter, Carol Ann, ward the right edge of the road whom Beery and his second wife, took At the city park they a short Rita Gilman, adopted in 1932. . . had and in then went rest, wading The Beerys were divorced a few lunch. After a brief luncheon rest months ago in Nevada. . . .Mrs. tour a of the took camp Beery since has married Albert J. they games, Foyt, but the actor, in asking the gro mds, played several rested and started home. The boys guardianshfp of the girl, said he and girls conducted themselves has started a fund for Carol Ann very well and no difficulties were and plans to add to it until it is. encountered. large enough to make her The next meeting of the club will be Friday, 7 p. m., July 7 at the chamber of commerce. Any boy or girl over 10 years of age is eligible to make application for Driver Education membership. Streets ot Paris sons-o-gu- $15,-00- today-sough- eight-year-o- ld Course Continued 1939 Utah's traffic safety movement receive further cooperation from the Utah State Agricultural college through the presentation of the course in driver education and traffic safety by a second offering of this course to run the second three weeks of the college 1939 summer session, it was announced Saturday by college officials. The first course began on June 12 and was concluded on June 30, now the second offering will open next Wednesday and continue until July 21, according to Professor H. S. Carter, who is instructing the course with Ernest C. Jeppsen of will ft Sandbag trenches and guns appear in the streets of Pans as French soldiers prepare an exhibition of anti-a- ir raid precautions in the military section of the city's Exposition of Security." anti-aircra- Weber college Aiding in the cause for driver education and traffic safety are the American Automobile Association, the state department of public instruction and state and local police officials. All cooperated splendidly durmg the first offering of the course. Professor Carter said, and all have indicated they will be happy to offer their services for the second course. Numerous requests for repeating the course persuaded the summer session directors to include the course for a second three weeks. The course which is designed primarily for high school teachers who desire to offer such courses in dnver training aftd safety to high school students, has proved to be very popular with regular automobile drivers and many of the requests that have been received have come from motorists who wish to know the principles involved in traffic safety. The college is provided with a dual control car and various laboratory problems concerning all aspects of safe driving are required to be satisfactorily completed before completion of the course is granted. CHOOSE FROM FROSTY COOL RAYONS, CRISP COTTONS, RAYON CREPE SHANTUNG ANI) FLAKE AT A NEW LOW SPINS IN FLATTERING STYLES! PRICE Here are the styles you want! The quality and details that make a dress look expensive! Brand new right out of the -- manufacturers boxes! Theyre exciting dresses . . . the kind you want to freshen your wardrobe to give you a cool outlook on life! 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