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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers SUGAR IS STOKED. OVERCOME BY GAS. SMELTER IS OPENED. RODENT WAR OPFNS. OFFER BUFFALO MEAT. OGDEX, UT. In his annual report, re-port, County Agent Christiansen says that 256 Weber county farmers farm-ers qualified for federal government emergency livestock feed loans, and received $31,114. There were approximately ap-proximately 300 others who asked for information, many of whom could not qualify. SALT LAKE CIT1, UT. A tabulation tab-ulation of the income tax paid by Utohus shows that 34,797 persons reported a gross income of less than $500 each in 1931. This group reports re-ports a total of 34.5SS dependents. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The 1933 district convention of Lions clubs of Utah and Idaho will be held in Os-den, Os-den, Utah, Tune 19 and 20. PARMA, IDA. R. Mitchell, 45, cashier of the First National Bank, was accidentally overcome by carbon car-bon monoxide while fixing a heater on his automobile. TOOELE, UT. By ordinance, the Tooele county commissioners secured se-cured the power to close all flowing flow-ing wells in Tooele county between November 1 and April 1 of each year. 'Tns ordinance will be effective ef-fective on all wells which flow more fhan ten gallons per minute. RENO, NEV. The Nevada "bank holiday," ended with thirteen of the twenty -six banks of the state unable to open for business. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Entry blanks for the world's grain exhibition exhi-bition and conference at Regina, Canada, July 24, to August 4, 1933, have been received by Harden Bcn-nion, Bcn-nion, commissioner of agriculture. TOOELE, Ut. The International Interna-tional Smelting company has resumed resum-ed operations at its Tooele plant after being shut down for several weeks. One blast furnace will be operated and approximately 300 men given work on a rotation system. sys-tem. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Interstate commerce commission at Washington has denied the application applica-tion of the Union Pacific Railroad company for authority to abandon its five and one-half mile branch road extending from Grass Creek station to Grass Creek in Summit county. MANTI, UT. Willis Parry, 14, was elctrocuted here while bathing. bath-ing. Young Parry took hold of an electric heater in the bathroom while he was in the water. SPRING VILLE, UT. With the approach of cold weather, rats infesting in-festing ditch banks and fields move Into winter quarters to take up their abode where food and warmth Is provided. The government and agricultural agencies throughout the state are working with civic organisations to bring about extermination ex-termination of rats, and a campaign will be launched here to fight the rodents. CHEYENNE, WYO. Cheyenne is to share with others over the state in the distribution of buffalo meat from the herd in Yellowstone national na-tional park. Welfare authorities were advised that three of the animals ani-mals will he sent here for distribution distri-bution in steaks and roasts to the needy in Cheyenne and over Laramie Lara-mie county. Fifty of the park herd are to be slaughtered. SCIPIO, UT. Millard county commission Is using wood for fuel at the courthouse in Fillmore to assist in the unemployment situation. situa-tion. Ranger Robbins reports he has sold the county '10 cords of oak and mahogany to be used for fuel. The permits for Tood this year' have increased in-creased 40 per cent over 1931. LEHI, UT. Approximately 175 tons of sugar will he stored in the Mil warehouses of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, awaiting transit to market, generally in the east. The sugar is being brought from factories located at Spanish Fork, West Jordan and Garland, Utah, Blackfoot, Shelley, Idaho Falls and Sugar City, Idaho. Weekly rotation of help, la-lncipnlly among the unemployed un-employed of Lehi and surrounding country, has aided employment In this locality. Officials o" the sugar company state that the new sugar pack, which eliminates the old and heavy outer sack, is proving popular, popu-lar, as it is made of heavy cotton material from which the brand can be erased in one washing, making the sack available for many purposes. pur-poses. BOISE, IDA. A five-state agreement agree-ment to enact uniform sais tax laws may evolve from negotiations Under way in the Pacific northwest, Gov. Ross said, in announcing he was communicating with olher governors gov-ernors on the proposal. BOULDER CITY, NEV. Snow and cold weather have combined to slow down work on the huge Boulder Bould-er Dam project. Willi the temperature tempera-ture ranging from 17 to 3.1 degrees be!ow zero, scalers were unable to work at night br-cause of snow. SPOKANE, WASH The following follow-ing students have been awarded P.hod'-s scholarships nt Oxford university un-iversity at Oxford. England: J. R. Knapp, Jr., of Portland, Ore., Rex B. Ponlius of L-wiston Idaho and Done Siuurman of Linden, Wash. |