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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers PLAN NEW WELLS RECEIVE FEVER SERUM 4 H CLI BS ARE ACTIVE FE VR WATER SHORTAGE CRICKET BATTLE LOOMS SALT LAKE CITV, UT. Utah and Idaho Rotary clubs will hold a district convention here May 10 and 11. rOCATELLO, IDA. The state convention of the Parent-Teachers organization will be held here on May 8, 9 and 10. AMERICAN FALLS, IDA. Several Sev-eral potato growers in the district north of American Falls, in anticipation antici-pation of a serious shortage of irrigation ir-rigation water, are planning to drill 12 inch wells. It is expected a water supply can be reached between be-tween GO and 100 feet. NEPHI, UT. Work lias begun In five cities on projects under the FERA administration. These projects pro-jects are being sponsored by cities and school districts of the county. BOISE, IDA A new supply of vaccine for inoculation against spotted fever has been received from the bureau of public health laboratory in Hamilton, Mont., the state bacteriologist has announced and will be apportioned out to physicians phy-sicians on request. The supply of serum has been very short this year, due to rebuilding part of the Hamilton plant. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Private Pri-vate Oscar K. Harris, Jr., 29, army service pilot, died at Fort Douglas hospital of injuries suffered In a taxi cab-railroad train accident which, also cost the life of Miss Thelma Hill, and injured three other persons. BOISE, IDA. Arrowrock reservoir reser-voir is nearing its capacity and shows a far greater amount of water wa-ter than in 1933. SODA SPRINGS, IDA. Local sheepmen, as well as those who graze their herds here in the summer, sum-mer, have expressed some concern over the water situation. An early spring, coupled with very light winter snows, It is thought, will seriously affect the summer watering water-ing places. GARFIELD, UT. The American Smelting and Refining company will expend $150,000 during the summer on improvements, Including Includ-ing a new smokestack to handle fumes from the roaster and copper cop-per furnaces of the Garfield plant. BOISE, IDA Outbreaks of the large "Mormon" crickets in several sever-al parts of the state have been reported re-ported by the director of the biological bio-logical survey. Reports have been received of the appearance of the maurauding insects on Pine Creek bench, in east Bonneville county, some on Willow creek, east of Idaho Ida-ho Falls, others on the Fort Hall reservation, where they appeared in large numbers a year ago ; others oth-ers on Smith's Prairie on the south fork of the Boise river, and in the foothills near Boise. BOISE, IDA. The Idaho national nation-al guard encampment in Boise will spend $54,178 during its two weeks period beginning June 9, Gen. Mc-Connel Mc-Connel has announced. BEATER, UT. One of Beaver's old landmarks, the old brick building build-ing used as the first federal district dis-trict court house, will be razed and a service station will be erected erect-ed on the site. PLYMOUTH, IDA. Ground rodents rod-ents have been multiplying so rapidly rap-idly in this vicinity that landowners landown-ers are joining in a poison drive. BOISE, IDA. Gov. B. Ross has Issued a proclamation extending the closed season in Idaho forests to include the period to September 30 because of expected increased fire hazards. The order affects only on-ly timber men and farmers within the state forest areas, and does not apply to national forests, which regulate their own closed season. TOOELE, UT. Grasshoppers in large numbers are beginning to appear ap-pear in all the eastern sections of Tooele county. Plans are being developed de-veloped for a war on the pests. OGDEN, UT. Many of the transients tran-sients who have been registered at the federal transient camp dn't like work, according to the director of the camp, who says that on the eve of opening up work on the state road in Riverdale, many of the men disappeared. |