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Show Intermountain News Briefly Toid for Busy Readers ELKS HONOR HERO. BEETLES DEFEATED. ; DIVORCES INCREASE. CUPID TAKES BEATING. TAX FREE CITY IN FT ATI. OGDEN, UT. Records of the Weber county clerk's office show an increase in divorces, and a decrease in marriages the past year. Figures from the city engineer's office Indicate Indi-cate less building during 1931 than at any time since 1920. A total of 141 marriages were dissolved in 1931, including 137 divorces and four annulments. ERIGHAM CITY, UT. This city boasts of being the only one in the state which will levy no assessment for municipal purposes in 1932, sufficient suf-ficient revenue accruing from the municipal hydro-electric system and the water system to pay all expenses and leaving a balance of unbudget-ed unbudget-ed funds of 56S31.18, officials announce. an-nounce. LOGAN, UT. A total of 303 arrests ar-rests were made in 1931 by Logan City police, which is low compared with figures six years back, according accord-ing to Chief Gilbert Mecham. Arrests Ar-rests in 1930 were 37S. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The frozen body of Ralph Fikstad, 21. was found in the shelter of a rock ledge three-quarters of a mile from his ranch home near White Owl butte, 20 miles southeast of Rex-berg. Rex-berg. LAS VEGAS, KEY Erection of a flagpole and setting of an appropriate approp-riate plaque in a prominent place above the Hoover dam project on the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington is the plan of members of the Elks lodges of the seven Colorado river basin states. The visit here of Harry S. Joseph, exalted ruler of Salt Lake Lodge No. 85, is expected to result in the formation of definite plans for this ceremony in which It .' is hoped that Elks from Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Ut-ah, California and Nevada will participate. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. General property taxes received by the state during December amounted to $1,-802,772.44, $1,-802,772.44, State Treasurer A. E. Christensen announces. Of the entire amount, $527,000,will go to the general gen-eral fund and $1,300,000 to the state district school fund. The total amount of $1,S02,772.44 represents about 35 per cent of the state's receipts re-ceipts from this source during the year. BOISE, IDA. There were 750,-000 750,-000 acres of winter wheat planted in Idaho during the fall of 1931, or 7 per cent more than the 1930 total, of 701,000 acres, a federal crop report re-port reveals. The report announces an increase of 30 per cent in the size of Idaho's fall pig crop of 1931 over that of 1930. OGDEX, UT. The annual convention con-vention of public school superintendents superin-tendents of Utah will be held here January 15-16. BEND, ORE. When science met failure in attempting to stem the tide of pine beetles, which were making heavy inroads into a staud"' of timber here, Nature took a hand. The beetles have been attacked by a plague which has greatly reduced their numbers and saved millions of board feet of Umber. It is expected the plague will continue until the beetles are wiped out. RENO, NET.-With the six week's divorce law creating an unprecedented un-precedented rush of the unhappily wed, Reno's divorce mill ground out 424S divorces during 1931, to establish estab-lish a record. The previous record was set in 1930, when 2149 divorces were granted. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Alfalfa was Utah's greatest crop in 1931, being valued at $8,219,000, by the annual report of the Utah state farm bureau. Sugar beets were second sec-ond and wheat ranked third. More than 500,000 of the 1,120,000 acres were used for alfalfa, with 49,000 acres of sugar beets yielding $3,-024,000 $3,-024,000 to the growers. Wheat was valued at $2,527,00 and was raised on 257,00 acres. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Foreign For-eign born residents of .Utah in 1930 numbered 4S.015 as compared with 59,200 in 1920, it was revealed in figures of the bureau of census recently re-cently released. Of the foreign born residents in 1930 there were 43,772 white residents, 12 negroes and 4231 of other races. A total of 30,227 were naturalized, 3S42 had taken out first papers, 12,924 were aliens and no record was available on 13S2. AMERICAN FALLS, IDA. Fifty thousand small trout have been placed in the Snake river by the sportsmen of Cassia county. PRICE, UT. AN airport is being be-ing planned for this city by the chamber of commerce. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. The district, comprising Rock Springs and vicinity, produced 2,988,142 tons of bituminous coal during the year 3931, as compared with 3,474,500 tons in 3!i;;n, or 14 per cent less in volume. Other coal regions of the state als i show declines in production. produc-tion. LOGAN, UT. Teachers' salaries in Cache county will average $83 per month this year, compared to $:5.1U in 1929-19:11), jl is estimated in a report received from the Cache l'o-:u'y Teachers association. |