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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readers j FREK FI N PLAXNEI) ) LESS GASOLINE ISEI) ( water si rri.v GOOD IDAHO FAMILIES CROW. MAV HELP 15LIND POOR BOISE, IDA. The Idaho gaso line tax brought in about S'-'O.fOO less in May this year than during . May a year ago, the monthly repnrl of the director of motor fuels discloses. dis-closes. BOISE, IDA. Families in Idaho increased from 100,500 in 1020 to 10S.515 in 1030, an increase of 8.4 per cent, the United States census bureau reports. Average size of families, fam-ilies, however, decreased from 4.3 persons to 4.1 persons, a reduction of 4.6 per cent. While the number of families increased 8.4 per cent Ic the ten year period the net increase in total population was but 3.2 per cent. HELPER, UT. A big community day celebration to be known as-"Helper as-"Helper Day," sponsored by the civic civ-ic clubs of the city is being planned for June 25. The program will include in-clude a Ilelper-Uintah basin baseball base-ball game, water sports, swimming, games, band concerts, barbecue, parade, pa-rade, and a carniva) street dance. Everything is to be free and the entire en-tire program is being arranged to afford the greatest pleasure to the hundreds of people expected as guests of the city. MOAB, UT. Mrs. H. Engmaiin. sails this month for France, where she will visit the grave of her son.' Charles, who died from wounds received re-ceived on French battlefields. BOISE, IDA. Jackson lake reservoir res-ervoir on the upper Snake river is gaining in storage daily. Water storage stor-age along the river is said to he ample although the two main reser voirs of the Snake now hold less water than at this time last year. SMITHFIELD, UT. The city commission has called for a special election, July 7th, to vote on the $50,000 waterworks bond issue to enlarge the water system. OGDEN, UT. Bids on the construction con-struction and improvement of 22.0 miles of highway on the Soda Springs-Freedom route, near the Idaho-Wyomivfj border, have been advertised by the United States bureau bu-reau of public roads. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake County commissioners have been advised by the County attorney attorn-ey that the state law passed by the last legislature empowering boards of county commissioners to levy a special tax for the benefit of indigent indi-gent blind was discretionary and not mandatory. . OGDEN, UT. H. Bjorngaard. 30. professional of the local Ski club, was killed in a collision of his motor mot-or cycle and an unknown auto. FREEDOM, WTO. Swiss cheese to the amount of seventy thousand pounds has been forwarded from the recently installed cheese factory to Idaho Falls. The cheese is to be marketed in California. ROCK SPRINGS, WTO. Wool selling in southwestern W7yoming is very slow, with an estimated supply sup-ply of three million fleeces on hand. A brace in the market is hoped for in the near future. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Re ceipts of the gasoline sales tax on motor vehicle fuel sold in April, the tax being payable in Mav, totaled total-ed $192,980.82 as compared with $204,057.27 collected on gasoline in the same month of last year. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Support Sup-port in the move to acquire 8,000 more acres for Camp W. G. Williams, Wil-liams, summer home of the Utah National guard, has been pledged by three of the Utah congressional delegation. del-egation. Sen. R. Smoot, Con. D. B. Colton and Con. Loofbourow promised prom-ised their best efforts in speeches before the soldiers in the encamp ment. PROVO, UT. Plans for holding eight camps during the summer period per-iod for the two thousand scouts of Timpanogos council are beiug rapidly rapid-ly perfected and the first camp will be held shortly. NEPHI, UT. The city has en acted an ordinance requiring monthly month-ly inspection and approval of a li sensed veternarian on all milch cows, stables and equipment used in producing or haidling milk. EPHRAIM, UT. Additional cash has been appropriated by the government gov-ernment for a continuation of the Id vestigation of the amount of water available for the proposed Lund tunnel east of the city. BEAVER, UT. The city council has decreed that all dogs and cats are to wear muzzles for several weeks. Any dog or cat seen outside of its own premises without a muzzle muz-zle is in danger of being shot. The ordinance is designed to safeguard against hydrophobia, as two calve and a cow recently died from the disease. IDAHO FALLS, IDA.-A con tract whereby southern. Idaho canal companies will obtain from the federal fed-eral government 428,000 acre feet of stored water in American Falls reservoir at an annual rate of $r,0 -000 bun been agreed upon at a ineel'. ing of the water officials EPIIRAIM, UT.-The' work ol graveling the stretch of the Eph-nam Eph-nam to Orangeville road for about 3 miles below the Great busin ex periment station is underway and will continue for the balance 'or the month. ' |