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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers CLASSES FOR JOBLESS. NEW KOAD TLANNED. AG. COLLEGE POPl'LAR. ROAD PLAN ADOPTED. WILL REBUILD PLANT. PROVO, UT. Dr. Lowry Nelson, director of Brigham Young univer-sily univer-sily extension division, has announced an-nounced all classes at the local university uni-versity are to be thrown open to the unemployed of the city. SALT LAKE, UT. The National Wool Marketing corporation will hereafter sell all wool consigned by its 35,000 grower-members directly Instead of thru a sales agent, according ac-cording to the executive secretary of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association. OGDEN, UT. Plans for a secondary sec-ondary highway between Salt Lake and Ogden have been announced. The new highway will leave the pavement at South Bountiful and follow a direct line into Farming-ton. Farming-ton. The road will be west of the present road and will be out of the way of the floods, which at times sweep down the mountains in Davis Dav-is county. The first unit to be improved im-proved will be 5.5 miles long and will cost about $100,000. This highway high-way will follow the Farmiugton-AVeber Farmiugton-AVeber canyon road into Ogden. SIGURD, UT. Reconstruction of the $500,000 Jumbo Plaster and Cement Ce-ment company plant which was burned down January 27, is being planned. LOGAN, UT. Enrollment at the Utah State Agricultural college during dur-ing the last six years has increased 50 per cent, according to figures compiled. The greatest Increase in enrollment was made this year, with registration 12 per cent greater great-er than 1930-31. SALT LAKE, UT. Total of taxable tax-able gasoline imported into or manufactured man-ufactured in Utah in 1931 was 60,-S02,69S 60,-S02,69S gallons, it is shown in a report prepared by deputy in charge of gasoline sales tax. collections. ST. GEORGE, UT. Controversy over the $70,000 entrance of the federal fed-eral highway into St. George from the west, has been finally settled by the readoption of the route first selected by the state road commission. commis-sion. OGDEN, UT. A financial report Issued by the Ogden Community Service association, disclosed $49,-870.S0 $49,-870.S0 has been expended by the association as-sociation for relief work among Ogden's unemployed up to January 81. SALT LAKE, UT. Marked decrease de-crease in the number of accidents reported by the Utah Light and Traction company in 1931, as compared com-pared with any other year since the advent of the automobile, is reported. report-ed. Collisions between automobiles and street cars dropped from 1000 in 1930 to 700 in 1931. PAYETTE, IDA. Due to deep snows in the Arrowhead dam section sec-tion deer are unable to find food, and unless food is supplied soon, thousands of them will die from starvation, it is reported. McCALL, IDA. Two air men had a narrow escape from drowning drown-ing recently when their airplane was forced down on the ice of the lake near here. The running gear of the plane broke through the ice but was salvaged with slight damage. dam-age. BOISE, IDA. President Hoover Hoov-er has been petitioned by the governors gov-ernors of seven western states to raise the tariff on copper to prevent pre-vent excessive importations of foreign for-eign copper in protection of the American industry. Th(j petition cites the extreme distress of the American producers and urges immediate im-mediate relief. BOISE, IDA The state mine inspector in-spector predicts there is going to be a lot of gold prospecting in Idaho Id-aho this year by grubs! akers, but he is uncertain what the results will he. The high purchasing power of gold and the low wage scale, he believes will bring into the mountains moun-tains many old lime prospectors as well as a host of recruits. GUNNISON, UT. The local Boy Scouts spent one day, recently. In cutting wood fur the widows and the needy of the community. BOISE, IDA. Snow litis made more than half the winter ranges useless fur the present for grazing, according to the February report of the federal agricultural statistician. statisti-cian. Cattle and sheep were reported report-ed to be about the same as a mouth ago, although reflecting (he inaccessible inac-cessible range feed which pulled down range conditions this month. BOISE, IDA. A junior college for girls will be started In Boise next year under the auspiees, of Ihe Episcopal church here. PRICE, UT. Carbon county Is facing a loss this year of approximately approxi-mately fifteen per cent of sheep herds, due to deep snow on the winter win-ter ranges, according to a report by the county livestock nsssesor. A conservative estimate of the loss to local sheepmen is believed to be in the neighborhood of twelve thousand thous-and head. There are approximately 75,000 he;l of sheep owned ln Carbon county. NAM PA, IDA. Fifteen carloads j of produce moved from this city in i one day recently. ; I |