OCR Text |
Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers ' TO BOLD IDAHO ROAD LOW STREAM FLOW i GREAT ROAD PROGRAM ' CARE FOR CHILDREN I DAIRY TEST PLAN OGDEN, UT. Idaho will take Immediate steps to complete its portion por-tion of the V. S. Highway No. 30 south from Burley to the Utah-Idaho line, according to a report of C. Ben Ross, governor of Idaho, given to the Ogden chamber of commerce. Utah already has completed her share of U. S. 30 south and as soon as a discussion of a realignment between be-tween Burley, Dodo and Cottrell is straightened out, Idaho will proceed with work on its portion of the road. MOSCOW, IDA. Roads to be constructed in this district as soon as surveys are completed are Cougar Coug-ar Gulch hill road ; the highway from Setters to Mud Bay; the riummer-St. Maries highway; the road f n m Moctelme creek to Tensed Ten-sed ; the road from Copeland to Eastport on the Canadian line ; two miles of road through the Fourth of July canyon to eliminate dan-eio-.is curves. The e roads, together with other projects, will complete sections of an arterial highway program. pro-gram. SALT LAKE CIT1", UT. A study of stream flow record completed com-pleted by the Salt Lake district office of-fice of the United States geological survey indicates that 1930 was the lowest runoff year record for several sev-eral streams with records extending extend-ing back from 10 to 33 years. PfiOVO, UT. Undernourished school children of Provo are to be furnished milk free of charge, .Miss Irene Harris, school nurse, reports, following the decision of several civic organizations to contribute toward to-ward a fund for the purchase of . the necessary milk. LOGAN, UT. Following a meeting meet-ing of the dairymen of Hyde Furk, it was decided to have tests taken of all dairy cattle in that vicinity for contagious abortion. A dairy chairman and two others, was authorized auth-orized to plot the districts and to organize the work. CHEYENNE, WYO The greatest great-est highway construction program in the history of the state will get actively tinder way scon after March 17, when bids on more than ,f800,000 in read improvement work are opened here. Z. E. Sevison, highway high-way engineer, said it will bo the greatest single letting of highway contracts since the highway department depart-ment was established. Projects included in-cluded in the contracts, to be awarded embrace oiling, grading, gravel surfacing and bridge work in all sections of the state. LOGAN, UT. Rather than cut already low salaries of the Cache county school teachers, it is highly probable that the 1931-32 school year will be reduced to fight months. IDAHO FALLS. IDA. The southeastern section of Idaho shipped ship-ped 40 carloads of food, nearly two-thirds two-thirds of the total shipped from the state, to the drought-stricken areas, according to word recieved here from F. Lee Johnson, state commissioner commis-sioner of agriculture. Idaho Falls and Aberdeen took first place among communities contributing to the relief fund by shipping seven cars each. Pocatello shipped nine cars including those from Bancroft and Tyhee. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The 1931 wool clip in Utah can now be adequately financed, both from the standpoint of preshearing advances and commodity loans on wool after shearing, James A. Hooper, manager mana-ger of Utah Woolgrowers' association, associa-tion, reported on his return from a twelve-day trip to Washington, D. C. OGDEN, UT. C. L. Forsling, director di-rector of the intermountain forest range experiment station of the forest for-est service, announces the department depart-ment has been allotted approximately approxi-mately $10,000 to be expended in Utah and Idaho. The greater part of the money will be used in fencing small tracts for spring and fall ranges research purposes in the two states. About $3,000 will be expended ex-pended near the experiment station at Ephraim and about the same amount in the Boise National Forest in Idaho. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The national guard is in the best state of organization, equipment and training in its history, Major General Gen-eral W. G. Everson, chioJ of the militia mi-litia bureau at Washington, said while he was in Salt Lake cu a nation-wide tour of inspection. He praised the excellent condition of the Utah department. TROVO, UT. The twentieth annual an-nual Timpanogos hike, which will be known as the ''china wedding . hike," will he held July 17 and 18 this year, accordihg to an announcement announce-ment made by C. J. "Chic" Hart, who will have charge this summer. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's first shipment ship-ment of freight by air arrived at Oakland, California, in a huge Iri-motored Iri-motored Ford plane of the Western Pacific Air Freighters. The craft carrie.l 2S00 pounds of fresh Idaho poultry. |