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Show fntermountain News Briefly told for Busy Headers INDIANS INCREASING STUD UTAH LANDS TAX LEVY WILL GROW ACCIDENT PREVENTION BOISE, IDA. August relief allotment al-lotment for Idaho is reported at $004,250.00, about one-half of the 'sum 'will be spent on general relief. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Formal notification that the federal emergency emer-gency relief administration in Washington, D. C, had allotted $1,-033,090 $1,-033,090 to Utah for all relief purposes pur-poses during August has been received re-ceived by Governor Henry H. Blood from Aubrey Williams, acting administrator. ad-ministrator. The fund was alloted as follows: General relief, $390,-000; $390,-000; drouth relief, $000,000; transient tran-sient relief, $20,000 ; obligations incurred in-curred in July for relief research, $5425; resident camp for unemployed unem-ployed women, $3505; educational program, $4700, find professional work project, $10,000. < LAKE CITY, UT. T b e state planning commission has decided de-cided to call on the federal emergency emer-gency relief administration for assistance as-sistance in carrying out a detailed study of the cultivated lands of Utah, to be used in the preparation of a report on a proposed land use program in Utah. FORT HALL, IDA That the Indian In-dian population is dying out did not hold true on the Fort Hall Indian In-dian reservation in the last three years. A report from Superintendent Superintend-ent F. A. Gross' office claims a gain of 53 persons. The survey said that on April 1, 1931, the population was 17SG, and on April 1, 1934, it was 1839. Of that number. 944 are males and 895 females. Births during the three-year period numbered 255, while deaths numbered 202. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Marking a bright yellow line down the middle mid-dle of the state highway from Pocatello northward through Idaho Falls is expected to begin soon as a means of possibly averting traffic, accidents. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Even if Salt Lake receives federal assistance assist-ance in its emergency water development devel-opment program, there is no possibility pos-sibility of averting a 2-mill tax increase in-crease this year. That was the report re-port of Mayor Louis Marcus on his return from Washington. D. C, where he sought $300,000 in federal funds to help the city in a $1,000,000 water program, as well as $125,000 in drouth relief money for the emergency emer-gency water work done this year. BURLEY, IDA. Two cars belonging be-longing to the sheriff's department have been equipped with radios, to receive messages announcing law infractions broadcast from the Twin Falls radio station. LOGAN,' UT. Six drum corps from the American Legion posts of the state are expected to compete at the second day of the convention here August 17, Percy E. Smith, publicity chairman, ;,nnounced. The contest will be held at the Utah State Agricultural college stadium. Three of the entries have gained national recognition in years gone by Logan at the Portland eonven- tion and Ogden at the Fort Worth convention. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Twenty-one Utah municipalities have refused re-fused to pay the 2 per cent sales tax on the sale of power and light to citizens on the ground that the law is unconstitutional. The state tax commission has brought suit against Lehl to test the legality of the sales tax in regard to municipalities. munici-palities. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. One hundred and twenty-three applications applica-tions calling for loans and grants of $18,920,705 have been filed with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Corp-oration and the Public Works Administration Ad-ministration for Public works projects pro-jects in the State of Utah. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tourist travel by rail, automobile and airplane air-plane has increased approximately 50 per cent to the present time, in comparison with the corresponding period of last year, according to reports re-ports of the railroads, 1ms lines, auto camps, air lines and the Utah State Automobile association. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Three car loads of cotton and ticking for the new mattress factory are here after a trip from Georgia. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Completion Com-pletion of the beef canning program in Utah under the government drouth roller drive will bo followed by canning or unit ton, Robert H. Hinckley, Btate F K R a administrator adminis-trator announces. Machinery Is he ing set up for the handling of 250- 000 to noo.ooo sheep to be taken from the ranges or the stale, according ac-cording to M,-. Hinckley, The can nlng win likely start in October. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. She.-,, eligible for slaughter under Uncle Sam's drouth relief program will bring $2 a head while ngora gouts will be $1 W, under agreement reached at o conference In Salt Lake between federal officials and grower representatives from the 13 western states, it is estimated thai 250,000 of the 2,500,000 ewes on drouth stricken Utah ranges win be slaughtered at this figure, bringing Producers and creditors apnroxl mately $000,000, |