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Show Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers HEAVV SNOW FAI L. VISITORS ARE MANY. TEACH THE JOBLESS. POTATOES ARE MOY1MI. REDUCED SALARY LOOMS. LOGAN, IT. Due to better roads and traffic conditions, travel trav-el iu Cache national forest in Utah increased by 'more than one hundred per cent in 1931 over 1930, according accord-ing to report compiled by the officials. of-ficials. Visitors totalled 2oS,000 in 1931, while in 1930 only 107,420 traveled through the forest. 00 DEN, UT. About 25 delegates dele-gates assembled at the American Legion chateau recently for the first annual convention of the Second Sec-ond division, comprising Weber and Davis counties. Delegates were present from Ogden, Kaysville and Layton. KAYSVILLE, UT. Special instruction in-struction for the unemployed will be given in the Weber county educational edu-cational centers. IIAILEY, IDA. During the past moniu 50 inches of snow fell on the Sawtooth national forest watershed. This is the heaviest December fall ever recorded. CALDWELL, IDA. Members of the Idaho-Oregon Seed Producers' association will meet here to determine de-termine whether or not they will . form a permanent organization. NAMPA, IDA. Bonds to the total tot-al of $9000 were . retired by the Nampa highway district this past year, and it is expected that the district will retire $15,000 more of its outstanding bonds by July of this year. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The past few weeks has witnessed an increase in-crease in movement of Idaho potatoes pota-toes from cellar to market, according accord-ing to the U. S. department of agriculture. agri-culture. NAMPA, IDA. Two hundred local lo-cal people met at the city hall recently re-cently and formed the Liberty party in Idaho, affiliated wth the national nation-al organization of W. H. Harvey. Fifty-six of those present signed up as party members and elected a chairman and other officials. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. County school trustees have adopted a resolution reso-lution that school teachers' contracts con-tracts for next year will carry salary sal-ary cuts of 15 to 25 per cent. Rural Rur-al school sessions will be reduced by one month, all married teachers Whose husbands are employed will be discharged and only Idaho women wom-en will be employed. TWIN FALLS, IDA. To main-lain main-lain high standards, the South Central Cen-tral Idaho Holstein Breeders' association as-sociation in a meeting here reaffirmed reaf-firmed a stand condemning the practice of selling young dairy sires without records or pedigrees. MONTICELLO, UT. A 40 mile per hour blizzard raged in the high altitudes of San Juan county until the roads of the county were' completely com-pletely blocked. JUNCTION, UT. The 1932 budget budg-et adopted by the Piute county commissioners totaled $17,790, and is $5100 more than the 1931 budget. PRICE , UT. Due to the fact that Idaho has dropped its annual state band contest, Idaho high schools are planning to enter the Price chamber of commerce contest April 14, 15, and 16. VERNAL, UT. Supervisor of the Ashley National forest reports twice the amount of snowfall in the Uintah mountains this year, compared com-pared with last year. MOSCOW, IDA. Cassia county Is a possibility as a phosphate source, according to the bulletin written by Dr. Anderson of the University Un-iversity of Idaho school of mines. Dr. Anderson wrote up the bulletin after making a survey of some 2000 square miles in the county. EVANSTON, WTO. The Uinta county commisioners set tlie 1932 county budget at $69,255, as compared com-pared with $72,255 for 1931, a reduction re-duction of $2495 dollars. BOISE, IDA. Idaho county assessors as-sessors will meet here to determine in great part, the rate at which many classes of property will be assessed as-sessed for taxation purposes. TWIN FALLS, IDA. There have been fewer arrests and lower receipts re-ceipts in fines and costs for law violations vi-olations in the last few months than' for any other period in recent years. CASTLE DALE, UT. The Em- ery county 1932 budget, calling for an expenditure of $06,015 has been adopted by the Emery county commission. com-mission. This is $15,2S9 under the 1931 budget. LEWISTON, IDA. The North Idaho Horticultural society held its annual meeting here recently. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. A report from the Targhee national forest supervisor's office here, showed that 219,243 sheep and 10S75 cattle were grazed in tlie Targhee forest during 1031, and that losses were lower than in any other year in the past decade. TALBOT, IDA. The Oregon S. L. railroad lias applied to the public pub-lic utilities commission for pormis sion to abandon the nine-mile track leading from Talbot junction to Talbot, where the Teton coal mines are located. |