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Show 4 : News Notes It'a a Privilege to Lias in X Utah BRIGHAM CITY Brigham City is now practically assured an airport by action taken by the local chamber of commerce and the city council at a meeting held at the council chambers recently, at which Messrs. Bourne and Kenyon of the United States department depart-ment of commerce were present. KAYSVILLE Utah '-ill ship approximately ap-proximately 165 caloads of cherries to all parts of the United States during 1928 with a total value of about $750,000. The cherry raising industry in-dustry is one of the fastest growing and most remunerative businesses in the state. ZION NATIONAL PARK A survey sur-vey of the national' parks of southern Utah has just been completed by the commission appointed by the secretary of the interior to survey the educational educa-tional possibilities of all the natural parks of the country. The committee is working under a grant of $10,000 made by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Rocke-feller memorial for this purpose. OGDEN Shipment of lambs to the Ogden stock yards was reported today to have reached a high peak by James K. Wallace, market observer for the federal ' department of agriculture. One hundred and fifteen double deck loads of practically all fat lambs from Idaho and Oregon ranges are reported en route to Chicago and Omaha. The day's receipt in the sheep division totaled to-taled 15,965 head. COALVILLE Progress on the work in connection with the construction of Echo dam and the building of the new roadways around the reservoir site for the Park City branch of the Union Pacific railroad and the Lincoln highway during June was very satisfactory, satis-factory, the report of Construction Engineer F. F. Smith to the commissioner commis-sioner of the bureau of reclamation states. ZION NATIONAL PARK The job of driving the 5800-foot tunnel through the solid sandstone walls cf Zion canyon can-yon on the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway is now well over half-done, and at the present rate of progress, there is every indication work on the first section sec-tion will be completed by September 22, the final limit of the contract, it was announced by E. T. Scoyen, pari: superintendent, here recently. WASHINGTON All of Idaho's 44 counties have had maternity and infancy in-fancy work since the state's acceptance of the maternity and infancy act in 1922, and during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1927, such work was carried on in 43 of the counties. That infar-mation infar-mation is a part of the annual report of the Sheppard-Towner act, soon to be released by the Children's bureau of the U. S. department of labor. SALINA Great Western Salt Company Com-pany last week purchased the holdings of the Salina S"lt company in Salina canyon. In addition to the 120 acres of high graeL salt beds purchased, the Great Western also absorbed the individual interests of Alford Jensen, located in t'.ie immediat vicinity, making mak-ing a total of 130 acres, which gives the Great Western a folding of 700 acres of high grade salt. SALT LAKE That Salt Lake not only is ideally located as an airway center for western America, but also is winning widespread attention as a prospective radio broadcasting center, cen-ter, is the opinion of Earl Glacle, manager man-ager of radio station KSL, who has just ruturned from the Pacific coast, where he has been in conference with National Broadcasting comoany officials offi-cials and v-'i r Kwi'lfart-ers. Kwi'lfart-ers. MT. PLEASA A i' A i.,:e female cinnamon bear and a young cub "ap tured alive in the north fork of Pleasant Pleas-ant Creek canyon, by J. C. P.irton and Will Brewer, were brought to Mt. Pleasant recently and have been on exhibition here, where they have ben seen and admirerbv hundreds of spectators. spec-tators. It is hoped to disnose of the two bears to a nark or zoo in som" Utah community. Mr. Barton hia previously killed two large bears in this canvon this summer. ODEN New bids were opened at the offices of the United States liureaj of public roads in the Kiesel building this morning on 9.f9 miles of road and some bridge work on the Salmon, Idaho, to the Montana line section. Three firms submitted bids and the Union Construction company or Ogden, was low with its offer to do the work for $129,176. Ryberg, McIIucrh & Cow-ley of Boise were second wi:h an of Butte was hitrh with an offer of offer of $1.t;.022, ind I.. T. Lawler $153,521. The eninTr's sfirrnte on the work is $113,023.50. Rereommen-dation Rereommen-dation will he made that the contract be awarded to the Union Construction rompany. MYTON Reports that are beginning begin-ning ts come in from those who are interested in the raising of hees and the production of .coney i'l this portim of Duchesne county indicated that th? outlook is premising for this season. Several citizens of Mvton are engaged in this entevnroise, V.'. Stewart, N. L. Peterson, Zcokcr brothers. C. T j Beg-rs, K. E. Miller, W. H. Paul, E L. .Turner and others. The weather conditions during the past few weeks 1 have been favorable for this industry I the producers say. The best way to mend the tiuies Is to mend yourselt If you cannot tolerate youuself take Christ Into your heart Life is like a river. Sometimes It overflows and floods the parching land. A man Is foolish who thinks that his El Dorado Is anywhere but where be lives. Friends are not separated by death but nre brought closer together In spirit. The light that is so bright that It makes us shut our eyes Is no better than darkness. The best way to avoid evil Is not by flfeing from It but by rising above it into the realm of good. The epitaph upon your tomb may not be true, but you are writing an epitaph with the pen of your Influ ence on the lives of others that Is |