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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers PLAN EXPANSION WORK. VETS ENTER PROTEST. RELIEF WORK GIVEN. DEPOSITORS TO FIGHT. DAM WORK HALTED. NAMPA, IDA. An expansion of the plant of the King Meat company com-pany located here, which will involve in-volve an expenditure of $150,000 is to be commenced as soon as the frost is out of the ground. CALDWELL, IDA. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of this city. hae placed themselves on record through the adoption of resolutions as being opposed to the proposed reduction by congress of appropriations for the maintenance of the army and navy. MOSCOW, IDA. Two highway projects in the Coeur d'Alene district dis-trict are giving employment to 133 men at this time. The construction is being taken care of by the county to give relief to unemployed. PRICE, UT. With the Uintah basin still isolated from all sides, Carbon county added its toll of is- olation when recent storms and thaws cut off transportation from four county towns with more than 700 inhabitants. ELY, NEV. Road conditions are being cleared in this district following fol-lowing a snow blockade that has held most of them useless nearly two weeks. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. This city so far as highway traffic is concerned is marooned from the rest of the world. The Lincoln highway was seriously snowed in around Fort Bridger and on the continental divide. AMERICAN FORK, UT. The pipe line was injured by recent snow slides in American Fork canyon. can-yon. The damage was not serious and can be readily repaired. OGDEN, UT. More than 1500 depositors in the Ogden State bank which closed its doors on August 30, 1931, at a mass meeting, signed sign-ed an agreement to pay one-half per cent of their deposits, to finance fi-nance a campaign in which legal counsel will be employed to appear for the depositors at a hearing before be-fore District Judge Barker. LAS VEGAS, NEV Heavy fall of rains pouring into the Colorado river, raised the flow from five to 50,000 second-feet recently bringing bring-ing all work on diversion tunnels for the Hoover dam to a temporary ' halt. DRIGGS, IDA. The American Legion and auxiliary with the aid of the boy scouts as collectors, have outfitted fifteen neeedy families with warm clothing. TOOELE, UT. The financial report re-port of those in charge of the local relief committee, shows that more than 1035 men, women and children in the community are without income. in-come. About 75 per cent of these have been able to obtain from relatives rela-tives and friends enough for an existence. ex-istence. The other 25 per cent have been taken care of by the local committee. PANGUITCH, UT. A dance and supper was given recently in honor of the 50 men who hauled 22 loads of wood for the North ward chapel, in response to a call by the bishop. PROVO, UT. The highway thru Provo canyon will be closed to traffic as the result of one of the biggest snowslides to ever hit this district. The slide came out of Snowslide canyon and was at the same spot where the huge mud slide of year before last came down. HYRUM, UT. Formation of an Irrigation district for the Hyrum irrigation reclamation project will be started immediately, as an irrigation irri-gation district must be created before be-fore actual construction work or contracts with the government can start. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The moderate mod-erate temperatures prevailing recently re-cently were favorable for Idaho potatoes po-tatoes en route to terminal markets. mark-ets. Market conditions continued unfavorable and trading was light and slow. ITAILEY, IDA. Two preliminaries prelimi-naries have been held in the annual Wood River valley dog races, representing rep-resenting the Ilailey chamber of commerce and the lilaine county American Legion post. JACKSON, WYO. A 30-mile dog derby was the feature event of the two-day winter sports carnival inaugurated in-augurated here this year. Leading dog mushers of the northern Intermountain Inter-mountain region comjieted In the dog derby and much interest was shown in the interstate hockey match between Utah and Wyoming. TWIN FALLS, IDA. The commissioners com-missioners of Twin Falls are considering con-sidering drastic economy measures submitted to them by a sub-committee on taxation. The plan includes the elimination and consolidation of several offices and the cutting of salaries. NEW PLYMOUTH, IDA. A 2 day farm school, sponsored by the grangers, was held here recently. Classes dealing with problems in livestock, poultry, landscaping, and gardening, home economics, and fruit growing were conducted. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's congressional congres-sional delegation is endeavoring to prevent the reduction of the state's forest road funds, according to their reply to the governor's protest pro-test against a bill now before congress con-gress reducing the forest appropriation appropri-ation by $3,0OO,0W or 34.7 per cent |