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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Ilutiy Itrnclc-rs I'l.AN S( '(M)I, LOAN SI KVIiY 600,000 ACKliS MiVADA I'OI.K IC It ADIO ici it L ki:i ii:k st k i;y I'WKM III KKAi; MKKTS KAlt.M INGTON', I T. An application appli-cation for a government loan of "f.i.llOO on a 70-.KJ basis will be made by the Davis county board of education for expenditure on school buildings. SALT LAKE CITY, IT. Surveys Sur-veys and rosurveys of public lands In Utah will bring JlO.VMiO to men engaged In the government work In Emery, Kane, Juab and Millard counties, It Is estimated by G. P. Klrkputrlck, district engineer of the t'nlted States general land office public lurvey. About ISO men, Including In-cluding 20 engineers, are expected to survey about 500,000 acres before the end of the flscnl year, June 80, 1031. The public works program hai enabled the employment of four engineers en-gineers and 40 field assistants, while the civil works administration administra-tion has authorized employment of 10 engineers and 1-0 assistants. 1'ItOVO. UT. Dr. Lowry Nelson of the Brlgham Young University at 1'rovo has Iocn anointed a representative repre-sentative of the division of research and statistics of tho Federal Emergency Emerg-ency Recovery administration to make a survey of rural relief families. fami-lies. Dr. Nelson has tentatively selected se-lected I'tah and Sanpete counties for the survey. The appointment has been made for the purpose of making mak-ing a study of the effect of the depression de-pression on rural living. PROVO, fT Participation in a proposed project to survey Utah lake Including the water rights on Trovo river, preparatory to the Deer Creek-Utah lake dyking jrroject has boon approved by the CWA board of Utah county. rnOYO, UT. Restricting sale of beer In Utah county on Sundays Is being considered by the county commissioners. com-missioners. SALT LAKE CITY, Ut The Utah State Farm Bureau Federation Federa-tion convention to be held In Salt Lake. January 1, 2'1, and 27, promises prom-ises to be one of the most successful success-ful farmers' conventions ever held here, Tracy R. Welling, secri-tary of the federation reports. Utah Is more nearly 100 per cent organized from an agricultural point of view than any other state In the Union. Farm bureau organizations have been completed In virtually every county of the state, and it Is expected ex-pected that the number of delegates to the convention will be more than double that of last year. Among the subjects to considered at the convention con-vention will be: Immediate release of farm credit funds; elimination of property tax; agriculture price increase in-crease under the A. A. A. ; reorganization reorgani-zation of state government; redis-tricting redis-tricting representative and senatorial senator-ial districts of Utah; club work: wheat allotment : hog processing tax, and farm debt adjustment. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Leading Lead-ing livestock and wool growers of eastern Utah fear destruction of their industry In Uintah if withdrawal with-drawal of about 1,000,000 acres of land in the old Uncompagre Indian reservation is made permanent, according ac-cording to statements forwarded to the I'tah congressional delegation. Win. II. Siddoway, president of the Yernal-Watson-Ouray Stock Grazing association, said, in reference to the withdrawal, "This act would take away from the livestock men of this section practically all the lands now used for winter grazing, which would mean the destruction of the livestock industry." MURTAUGII, IDA. Don Egbert, 14, and Kenyon Egbert were drowned drown-ed in backwaters the canal a mile north of their home, when ice on which they wert skating, broke nnder their weight dropping them into the water. FRANKLIN, II X Swerving to avoid striking a gravel wagon on a sharp '.--irve north o f here, an automobile driven by TY. D. Hammer of Ogden skidded on lee, went over a 200-foot embark-ment embark-ment and overturned, killing Miss Ella Hammer, 23, school teacher of Ogden, and sister of the driver. BOISE, IDA. About 50 schools in Idaho are going to get a set of law books from the states if they merely ask for them. Secretary of State Franklin Girard announced that the books, the Idaho compiled . statutes of 1919, would be available to high schools, junior colleges, state institutions, parochial schools and school districts applying for them. The cost will be about 30 cents a set, the amount of postage. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cities and towns have authority to levy a license tax on peddlers, or vendors who carry their wares with them, but it would be unconstitutional to attempt to levy such a tax on canvassers can-vassers and solicitors, if the canvassers can-vassers were taking orders to be sent from out of the state factories, or dealers. This is the intent of the law as interpreted by Attorney General Gen-eral Chez. OGDEN, UT. Fifty dresses and twenty-five hats were stolen from an Ogden store recently. |