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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers TAX LEVY CUT. HUNDREDS OF DEER FED. STARVATION OF SHEEP. ROAD TO BE C?ENED. PRODUCEr.o GATHER. LOG AX, UT. The Logan city commission has voted to accept the resolution of the city employes asking for a 10 per cent reduction in salaries, to aid the city in the present financial crisis. LOGAN, UT. It is planned to cut the Logan city tax levy from 16 mills to 13 mills during 1932. The cut will be made by eliminating eliminat-ing the levy for the Logan city light plant, which has now become self supporting. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's net debt on February 1 was $5,425,219, compared com-pared to a net debt of $5,994,218, on January 1, 1932, and $5 424,933 on February 1, 1930, it was disclosed dis-closed in the report of the state treasurer. LEWISTON, IDA. The work of constructing the Umatilla rapids rap-ids hydro-electric reclamation navigation nav-igation project has been objected to by the Columbia Valley association. associa-tion. It is held an obstacle to development de-velopment of the association's proposal pro-posal to develop navigation in the upper Columbia and Snake rivers. OGDEX, UT. The Lions' club has authorized officers and directors direct-ors to send 5150 to the Morgan county commission in payment for rights of way of a county highway from the Lost Creek road through Toone canyon into "Chinatown" Morgan county's unique scenic section. sec-tion. WALLACE, IDA. Hundreds of half-starved deer were fed in the mountains here when an airplane dropped bales of hay to them. Local Lo-cal Isaac Walton chapter members supplied the food. TWIN FALLS, IDA. The proposed pro-posed current expense budget of Twin Falls county for 1932 contemplates contem-plates an expenditure of $159,375. MACKAY, IDA. With the temperature tem-perature 15 below, clad only in his underwear and his head, feet and hands exposed, Robert Wilson, 15, rode a mile and a half to bring aid when his home burned. Frozen feet were suffered by Wilson. PROVIDENCE, UT. A fish and game association to work in cooperation coop-eration with state and local associations asso-ciations will be organized at a meeting of sportsmen of this vicinity. vi-cinity. MANTI, UT. $300 in cash was netted at the "Make Work" dance for the benefit of the unemployed. The dance, sponsored by the Relief Re-lief societies and various clubs of the city, was held at the Armada. PROVO, UT. A program to acquaint ac-quaint the students of the local schools with the wide range of products manufactured locally, has been adopted by the Provo high school, working in co-operation with the "trade at home" movement move-ment fostered by the Provo chamber cham-ber of commerce. TOOELE, UT. The Tooele volunteer vol-unteer fire department answered 22 calls during 1931, the estimated total tot-al damage of which was $2,S55. BOISE, IDA. The Idaho State Honey Producers' association gathered gath-ered here recently to discuss problems prob-lems of bee keeping and also the possibility of forming districts throughout the state. POCATELLO, IDA. IT is announced an-nounced by the Bannock county commission that the 1932 budget has been reduced by over $100,000 in an effort to meet reduced income by drastic cuts. POCATELLO, IDA. Many tons of hay are being trucked from Roberts Rob-erts to Mud Lake district in order to prevent the starvation of the thousands of sheep marooned in this district. ELY, NEV. Steps are being taken tak-en to relieve ranchers snowed in Butte valley since mid-January. The White Pine county commission has authorized the opening of a road to the valley. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The average size of Utah's 115,930 families fam-ilies is 3.8G persons, according to a report compiled from the 1930 census and released through the department of commerce. The most popular size in family in the state is three, 20SSG report ing this number. num-ber. There are 10,153 families, bower, bow-er, composed of eight or more persons. per-sons. Rural and farm families are considerably larger than the city families. The average for the farm family is 4.71 and for the city it is 3.02. The report shows that 50,500, or more than 43 per cent of the families had no children under JO years of age. OGDEN, UT. The city commission commis-sion has borrowed $300,000 from the banks to add to the general fund and ti'le the city over until taxes can be collected next fall. OGDEX, L'T. At a meeting at the courthouse of representatives of the American Legion, chanilKT of commerce and relief organizations, organiza-tions, plans were started for a 3 day program to furnish work for Weh'T county unemployed, involving involv-ing help by the Utah state highway commission, Weber county and Og-den Og-den city. TREMONTON, UT. Rear River valley grain growers met recently in the city and organized a local of the Farmers' National Grain corporation. |