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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readers ! SC HOOL WILL OPEN j DKOLTH AID LOOMS j I FOREST FIKES RACK AN I'NOII ANdKl) TAX ( i AGED PEOPLE FETED j OGDEX, UT. Ogdcn city's tax levy for H'31 will be 12 mills, the same as last year, according to a resolution adopted by the city commission. com-mission. ST. GEORGE, UT. One hundred nnd sixty-two St. George residents, 140 of whom were over tia years of age, and the other memlicrs of committees com-mittees and drivers of cars, toured Zion park recently. AMERICAN FORK, UT. Date of the opening of the Utah state training school at American Fork will deiiend upon the time it takes to obtain nnd install miscellaneous equipment, purchase of which has been approved by the board of trustees. The Installation will probably require 30 days. SALT LAKE CITY, LIT Support of the Utah State Hankers' association asso-ciation at the Western Agricultural Economic conference August 17 was pledged by D. E. Davis, vice president presi-dent of the association, in a letter to Governor George II. !Krn. Farmers, Farm-ers, financiers nnd railroad officials will meet In Salt Lake to discuss emergency relief for farmers who are in need of aid as the result of the summer's drouth. BOISE, IDA. Attorney General Fred J. Babcock has ruled that Idaho Ida-ho Fails must pay the half-mill per kilowatt tax on power produced in Its plant under the law enacted by the special session of the last legislature. legis-lature. LOGAN, UT. An Increase ,of .9 mill was made in the levy of Cache county for 1931 over last year, it Is announced. BOISE, IDA. Bids will be opened open-ed August 18 on grading and gravel surfacing five miles of the Eagle Meredian highway In Ada county, and on surfacing with crushed rock 13.2 miles of the North and South highway between Genesee and Thorn Creek in Nez Perce and Latah La-tah counties. BOISE, IDA. Forest fires have destroyed Umber on over 20,000 acres of wood land In Idaho this season. ROBERTS, IDA. Glenn Frank Bywater, 25, Salt Lake, an employe em-ploye of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, was killed near here when a shotgun he was removing from an automobile ae-cidently ae-cidently exploded. SALINA, UT. Carol Veda Nelson, Nel-son, 18-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson of this city, died an hour after she had eaten eat-en rat poison which she found in the home. FORT DUCHESNE, UT. The attendance t the U. I. B. C. Is estimated es-timated to have exceeded 30,000 ROCK SPRINGS, WTO. While repairing a shotgun, Dick Lewis, 45 tailor at 645 Pilot Butte avenue, here, was killed when a shell ; stuck In the barrel of the gun. exploded. ex-ploded. The discharge entered the right side of his head and killed him almost instantly. OGDEN, UT. According to an announcement made by officials of the Amalgamated Sugar company, the price of molasses to the farmer farm-er has been reduced from $15 a ton to $8. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The state general fund will receive one quarter million dollars less during the current fiscal year than last year. This became apparent when the state tax commission determined determin-ed that the assessed valuation of taxable tangible property for this year will probably be in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $020,500,000. RICHFIELD, UT. Only married men with families are to be hired In erecting the new armory at Richfield. Rich-field. PROVO, UT. Bacterial cancer, which affects tomato plants, was checked considerably in Utah county coun-ty this summer by the long hot and dry period. OGDEN, UT. City engineer In his monthly report discloses that July's building permit total of $30,-900 $30,-900 was double the total for July of 1930 and $10,000 in excess of the total for June of this year. BURLEY, IDA. Grain harvest in the dry farming sections of Cassia Cas-sia county Is now in full swing, and in many districts fair crops are being reported. In others the long dry spell is showing its effects and some fields have been found to be not heavy enough to harvest. RIVERTON, W Y O. Goes-in-Lodge, 80-year-old chief medicine maker for the Arapahoe Indian tribe and the last surviving Indian on the Wind reservation to take part In the Custer massacres of 1S70, died here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Receipts Re-ceipts at the state treasurer's office of-fice from cigaret stamp taxes In July were $17,805.42. PRICE, UT. The Carbon fair board has delegated three members to attend celebrations throughout the state to line up attractions for the fair here, September 12, 13, 14. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An old muzzle-loading cannon, believed to have been brought to Utah by the Mormon battalion of ISIS, or United Unit-ed Stale soldiers stn!ion"d here during the 50, s, has hem given to the Deseret milium by Julian Iiani!ergr, president of the Ram-oerj-er Electric Ritilrnad crunnnnv. |