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Show Spotlighting ! UTAH UTAHN'S NOVEL ACCEPTED "Half Angel," a novel by Lillian McQuarrie Evans, well known in Utah writing circles, is a runner up in the Doubleday-Doran $2t),(il)(MKJ novel contest. The writer has received re-ceived her first royalty check and the publishers have asked to see more of her manuscripts. UTAH BOVINE HIGH PRODUCER A USAC registi-'d Holstein cow is the nation's third highest producing pro-ducing senior in her size group. In ten months, being milked twice a day, she produced 4H7 pounds of butterfat, and 14,335 pounds of milk. ANTELOPE ON THE COMEBACK Fifty Utah antelope will be taken tak-en by lucky hunters this month in Daggett county. The Stale Big Game Board of Control issued the permits from nmong hundreds of applications at $5.00 each. This is the first open season ever declared in Utah on antelope, records indicate. indi-cate. UTAH METEORITE PURCHASED A Utah meteorite, the ninth largest lar-gest ever found in the U. S. has just been purchaser! by the United States Museum at Washington, D. C. The object, about the size of a sack of potatoes, and practically solid iron, was found in the Drum Mountains of Millard County on the surface of the ground by two Japanese-Americans of the Topaz relocation center. RESTORING UTAH'S RANGELAND Utah's devastated millions of a-eres a-eres of watershed land, without e-ven e-ven the cover of black sage is a-bout a-bout to be redeemed thanks to the crested wheat grass of the Rus-sianCaucasus. Rus-sianCaucasus. Scientists, range experts ex-perts and livestock growers inspecting inspec-ting that great area from the Weber We-ber river to the Wyoming line , found remarkable headway being made towards re-establishing grass as the main watershed cover. The crested wheat grass, requiring nothing no-thing but planting, is a product of Russia's bleak arid steppes and finds Utah's land and climate ideally ideal-ly suited to rapid and luxuriant growth. Cattle feci exclusively on this grass will gain 100 pounds per month. ROAD CHIEFS TOUR SOUTHERN UTAH Southern Utah roads were the object ob-ject of close inspection during the past few days by Thomas H. McDonald, Mc-Donald, United States road commissioner, com-missioner, Representative J. W. Robinson, Governor Herbert B. Maw, and state highway officials. MAPS EXPENDITURES In an effort to create a better Utah for residents and tourists a-like, a-like, the following proposed expenditures expen-ditures have been outlined by the State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development Coinmis-sion;$30,000 Coinmis-sion;$30,000 for a road from Hanks-ville Hanks-ville to the Colorado river at Hite, thence across the Colorado by ferry fer-ry to the natural bridges in San Juan county to tie in with the pres-net pres-net road; $15,000 for construction of a road from Navajo Lake to the access road which taps the Mt. Car-mel Car-mel highway. $50,000 for building a road from the main highway near Huntsville into Snow basin; the im-, im-, provement of a road into Bonanza, Uintah county where the Barber Asphalt Company plans to spend several millionMollars for development develop-ment All expenditures by the Utah State Publicity and Industrial Development De-velopment Commission are for the promotion of the tourist industry and for recreational, scenic and industrial in-dustrial development of the state. UTAH FARMERS UNDER SURVEY The reason for the lack of paint on farm homes, sheds, barns and fences in Utah is the cause for a survey now being made by a representative rep-resentative of the Lead Industries Association, with the Park Utah Consolidated Mines company. Tin-tic Tin-tic Standard Mining company, and Silver King Coalition Mines company comp-any are affiliated. Utah leead makes the best white lead paint, it was pointed out, but little of it reaches Utah farm homes and the barns |