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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers HEAVY FRUIT CKOrS. RODENT DRIVE STARTS. LARGER WHEAT CROP. SMELTER REOPENED. POPPY DAY SET. TOOELE, UT. A series of ro-dt'iit ro-dt'iit campaigns are being planned in various communities of Tooele county by the county agent following follow-ing the one in Grantsville. One hundred hun-dred men participated in a community com-munity drive ou ground squirrels, placing about 700 pounds of bait. SPRING VILLE, UT. Group instruction in-struction for school children during the summer vacation will be sponsored spon-sored by the P. T. A. if the plans now under way mature. TOOELE, UT. The International Smelter has oiened up two lead furnaces on full time and employ an additional 300 men at the present pres-ent rate of one-third time per man. Operations at this rate are assured for at least two and a half or three months, in order to clear up all of the stock piled ore at the plant. OGDEX, UT. One hundred bushels of free government wheat will be ground by Ogdcu mills for use as stock food, it is predicted. LOGAN, UT. Thirty-five cars of milled wheat have been received in Cache county for livestock feed relief re-lief to be distributed under the auspices aus-pices of the Red Cross. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah farmers are entitled to borrow at least $300,000 of the $3,500,000 seed loan funds allotted to states under the Salt Lake office, and yet to date they have applied for only $131,309. OGDEX, UT. Rose Kelley, 19, of Butte, Montana, riding the "blind baggage" en route here, fell off an Oregon Short Line train at Brigham City. She was picked up by the train crew and brought to the Dee hospital. hospit-al. AFTON, WTO. County Agent S. B. Murray slates 11 carloads of Red Cross wheat have been received and distributed in Star valley. The grain was trucked from Cokeville and delivered de-livered by local committeemen in various communities. EVANSTON, WTO. The Evan-ston Evan-ston American Legion auxiliary has set Saturday, May 2S, as Poppy day. The auxiliary is offering two prizes for the two best Poppy day posters by Evanston school students, one prize to be'awarded to a grade student, stud-ent, the other to a high school student. stud-ent. OGDEX, UT. Members of the Ogden Horse Show association have made definite arrangements for the coming show, June 2, 3 and 4. A free matinee for children will be held on the afternoon of the first day. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Over 8,-500 8,-500 tons of federal farm board wheat have been ailoted to Utah for stock feeding purposes. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cooperative Coop-erative work of the state and government gov-ernment for the control of sheep scabies in Utah has been approved by the state board of agriculture, and plans were advocated by Harden Har-den Bennion, secretary, to induce the government to increase its activity. acti-vity. SALT LAKE CITY, UT There has been no depression in educational education-al activities in Utah during the school year of 1931-2, according to Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction. Attendance Attend-ance at schools has been higher and the burdens carried by teachers already al-ready heavy, have been augmented by the desire of parents and children child-ren alike, deprived of gainful occupations, oc-cupations, to devote their leisure to some worth while pursuit. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's 1932 winter wint-er wheat harvest will be approximately approxi-mately 13,500,000 bushels, if present pres-ent conditions continue throughout the balance of the season. The predicted pre-dicted 1932 crop of 13,500,000 Is slightly above the 1931 harvest of 12,114,000 bushels and the 1924-28 1924-28 five-year average of 10,253,000. BOISE, IDA. California's department de-partment of agriculture has instructed in-structed all border inspection stations sta-tions to halt potato shipments by truck in compliance with the state's recent ruling that only shipments by railroad will be permitted to enter the state. California has established a quarantine against alfalfa weevil and refuses to admit certain produce from a number of states, Idaho included. in-cluded. BURLEY, IDA. An effort to popularize the use of milk, through education of school children, has been successful. Records kept of lunches in the four school buildings build-ings of Burley show increased mental men-tal efficiency and better health in children using milk. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An excellent ex-cellent crop of Utah apples Is forecast fore-cast by a report issued by the bureau bu-reau of agricultural economics, which indicates a heavy bloom on trees of all varieties, and that they are practically free from menace by frost as the season is at least two weeks late. A heavy crop of cherries is also indicated, although some damage resulting from the drought of last year may develop. Peach buds are beginning to burst. No winter damage has been reported and prospects are for a full crop. |