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Show I Pithy News Notes fj From All Parts of jj f UTAH 1 Li.gan. "Plant Sugar Beets" is the slogan the Cache County Farm Bureau Bur-eau adopted at a meeUng called to discuss the beet situation. - Provo. A permanent organization consisting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary und the Kiwanis club, with the three jn-esldents acting as a steering committee, com-mittee, has been formed- The purpose of the new organization is to unify all civic bodies, to act as a clearing house for Ideas originating in these three clubs, and to secure as fur as poslble the economic and civic advancement ad-vancement of I'rovo. American Fork.- After discussing with the Farm Bureau committee the budget for the coming year, a reduction reduc-tion from $178,000 to $145,000 was made by the Alpine district school board. A 9 per cent blanket cut in the wages of teaeliers and a 10 per cent reduction in the number of teachers teach-ers wil be made. Salt Lake City The State Life Insurance In-surance company of Des Moines has been granted permission to operate in Utah. The company has a capital of $204,405 and a surplus of $400,000. Salt Lake City. With the adoption by the county commissioners of a new salary schedule, a saving of $40,000 a year will be effected, according to County Commissioner S. J. Lindsay, who introduced the schedule and moved mov-ed that it be passed. About 15 county employees are affected by the new schedule. In the majority of the cases cas-es a cut of $10 amonth lias been ordered, or-dered, in a few cases the cut amounts to $25 a month while In others it in only $5 a month. Monroe. Forty men and teams and 28 good citizens, with seed and farm Implements, went to the Martin Sim-monson Sim-monson farm, prepared the ground und planted 40 acres to grain and other staples. Mr. Simmonson and two small daughters died of injuries received re-ceived Friday in a gasoline explosion Ln a brooder house. Richfield. Resolutions protesting against reduction in salaries for next year ware adopted by tne executive committee of the Sevier County Teachers' Teach-ers' association at a called meeting. The resolution declared salary cuts at this time would lower the standard of teachers in the district. Salt Lake City. Within thirty minutes min-utes after they had appeared before City Jndge Ben Johnson, Leslie M. Parker, former purchasing agent for the state road commission, and Horace M. Haley, former bookkeeper and accountant ac-countant for the commission, were sentenced to one year in the county jail by Judge W. M. MoCrea in the Third district court, for altering and falsifying a voucher. Salt Lake City Deputy sheriffs at the Oregon Short Line depot took into in-to custody two girls, Thelma McNulty and Grace Loske, who ran away from their homes in Poeatello, Idaho. The arrests were made on the advice of the father of the McNulty girl who is foreman in the' Oregon Short Line yards at Poeatello. Property valued at $83,714,550, which has hitherto escaped taxation, should be assessed according to an exhaustive exhaus-tive report, rendered to the state board of equalization by the tax committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau. The report gives a detailed valuation of railroads and public utilities in Utah. iSalt Lake City. County Treasurer E. J. Groesbeck has filed suit for $75,000 against the Fidelity and Deposit De-posit company of Maryland. The $75,-000 $75,-000 is the amount of a bond given to Salt Lake county by the defunct National Na-tional City bank to insure the safety of county deposits- The company has announced its willingness to pay the $75,000, but has demanded an unqualified unqual-ified assignment to a portion of all dividends paid by the bank without it first being determined if the bank will pay sufficient dividends, with the amount realized on bonds and securities securi-ties given to the county, to reimburse the county for the money it had on deposit when the bank closed its doors. Price. The Carbon county schools will dose on Friday, May 5, this d9-cision d9-cision having been taken because of a shortage of funds. A major part of the teaching force will be offered contracts to return to the Carbon schools. Contests in the four divisions divi-sions of the district are being staged. At this time the winners in the divisional divi-sional meets will assemble at Price. The art and project work now on display dis-play at tho four divisional headquarters headquar-ters show the painstaking care with which this part of the schoolwork has been accomplished. Frovo. The annual cleanup campaign cam-paign showed CO street captains appointed ap-pointed to supervise the spring activities. activi-ties. All stores closed one afternoon in order to give the employees an opportunity op-portunity to clean up their home premises. "Girls day" was observed at tne I'rovo high school one day recently. Girl students of the institution had! heea working for weeKs to make tha day a memorable event in this year'i chool hisory. |