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Show 1 News Notes I a It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah i Salt Lake City. A state wide convention con-vention of the Utah Taxpayers association asso-ciation will he held on December 7th at the Newhouse Hotel. Salt Lake City. The taxpayers committee from all counties of the state will join with the General committee to discuss the problems which confront the taxpayers taxpay-ers of Utah. The sessions will be held at 10 and 2 o'clock with a big dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. Provo. The 1925 school census of Provo has just been completed, showing show-ing a total of 3911 boys and girls of school age in Provo, a gain of twenty-one twenty-one over the census of 1924, which showed a school pupulation of 3S90. The census shows a total of 1975 boys and 1936 girls of school age. Salt Lake City. Automobile mileage mile-age for employes of the state has been fixed at 1V2 cents to 13 cents a mile, the latter figure when more than 45 cents is charged for gasoline per gallon. When no receipts are turned in with the statement of the mileage, the lowest schedule will he applied and this means no receipts are required when the price of gasoline gas-oline is 25 cents a gallon or less. The new schedule means a reduction in the amount which has been allowed heretofore and no figure is given for the high priced cars, the director of finance and purchase holding that the big cars are not necessary for the service of the state. Parowan. At a special meeting of the city council of Parowan here it was decided that the city would assume as-sume the cost of graveling two blocks of Main street, full width, in addition to the eighteen-foot strip which has been placed in the center as part of the federal aid project from Parowan to Winn Hollow . Salt Lake City. Eight of the Carbon Car-bon county strike cases, which have been pending in the Third district court since 1923, were dismissed by Judge M. L. Ritchie upon motion of W. H. Farr, deputy attorney general ' of Utah, acting for the district attorney attor-ney of the Seventh judicial district at Price. Bingham: Bingham Mines company's com-pany's net earnings for the first ten months of the current year will amount to nearly three times as much as the net earnings for the same period per-iod of 1924, according to an official statement. Up to the first of November, Novem-ber, 1924, the company earned $163,-900. $163,-900. This year, earnings for the first ten months will amount to approximately approxi-mately $452,000 or $9 a share on the 50,000 shares outstanding. This was twice the company's annual dividend requirements which at a directors' meeting last week was increased from $2 a share to $4 a share. Salt Lake City. The state board of agriculture has received official advices ad-vices of modifications made, or proposed, pro-posed, in quarantine of Missouri, Wisconsin Wis-consin and Colorado against alfalfa from Utah. In each case the intent of the sister state appears to be to permit the importation of alfalfa meal on regulations similar to those adopted adopt-ed some months ago by California. All of the weevil area in the west is included in these modified quarantine notices. Logan. The state board of examiners examin-ers have agreed that if Cache Valley interests will raise $2500 to go toward the testing of the Hyrum dam site under charge of W. M. Green, engineer, engin-eer, working for state and federal reclamation re-clamation agencies, the examiners will ask the next legislature to reimburse re-imburse the citizens. Cache county has contributed an addtional $2500 from its public funds for this purpose. pur-pose. Salt Lake City. Returning from a trip which has taken him to almost every part of the state, James H. Wallis, executive secretary of the Utah Public Health asociation, reports re-ports a more thorough and complete state-wide organization for the approaching ap-proaching Christmas seal sale than in any previous year at this time. Ogden. The army's huge mobile gun was viewed by thousands of men, women and children here when on exhibition ex-hibition in the local railroad yards. While Major Harold E. Small. Fifty-second Fifty-second coast artillery corps, in command com-mand of the gun's convoy, was kept busy making talks before the various groups in - explanation of the gun's accomplishments and the army's purpose pur-pose in transporting it. Cedar City. Rees Walker, 15-year-old crippled boy was found frozen to death in a ditch into which he had fallen. He was subject to epileptic fits and it is presumed that one attacked at-tacked him while he was going home from his aunt's residence. Ogden. During the next twelve months Ogden will invest more than $3,000,000 in building construction, according ac-cording to a survey of proposed projects. pro-jects. Logan. Ten pairs of silver-black foxes were received here recently from Salt Lake to be kept at the fox farm at the mouth of Logan canyon. Thirty-five more young are being kept i in Salt Lake for a. short time before being shipped to Logan, and another I lot of thirty-five will be received ! shortly from Prince Edward island,. Canada. |