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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers WILL BOLD RESERVOIR RADIO FIGHTS CRIME $800,000 FOR REGION 4 SALES TAX AIDS RELIEF SCHOOL MONEY DIVIDED OGDEN, UT. Allotment of approximately ap-proximately $800,000 from the SSO,000,000 new works money for forest work in forest service region four has been announced by the division of applications and Information Infor-mation In Washington, D. C, and verified at the local regional headquarters. head-quarters. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. A decision deci-sion authorizing the hoard of directors direc-tors of the Fremont-Madison irrigation irriga-tion district to enter into a repayment repay-ment contract for the construction of the Island Park reservoir and related works has been reached at an election held in St. Anthony. No i dissenting vote was cast. BOISE, IDA. Harry C. Parsons, Par-sons, state auditor, reports that $50,000 of the 2 per cent retail sales tax revenue, which now totals $297,338, will be paid immediately to the emergency cooperative relief fund as the state's contribution to relief for the first 15 days of June. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake county commissioners have received and filed with the county auditor the 1935-1936 budget of the j Salt Lake City board of education, I as presented by Alex E. Eberhardt, j president and R. H. Felt The bud- get calls for an expenditure of j $2,504,531, divided into $2,246,421 j for support and maintenance of schools, $1S3,010 for the payment of usual interest on bonds, $S0,8G0 for the bond sinking fund, and $54,-243 $54,-243 for the partial removal of an accumulated surplus in the district's dis-trict's bond interest fund. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Crop prospects generally in Utah and ! surrounding states are far better , than for several years, It Is re-; re-; ported by L. W. Brewer, federal crop statistician, following a sur- vey. BOISE, IDA- J. H. Stemmer, i state director of highways, has an- nounced the state will receive bids July 12 on straightening the old Oregon Trail highway through Twin Falls county between Hansen i and Murtaugh. I SALT LAKE CITY, UT. School districts and high schools of the state profited to the extent of $009,705.48 as the state department of public instruction announced distribution dis-tribution of the equalization fund, and final apportionments of the school and land Interest and rental funds. The equalization fund, apportioned ap-portioned only at the end of each school year, totaled $444,S6G, SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Valuation Val-uation of real and personal property prop-erty for the current year, as reported re-ported by county assessors, totals $337,521,592, according to a tabulation tabula-tion prepared by the state tax commission com-mission at the capitol. This total is $1,200,000 lower than the valuation of last year, a decrease of .35 per cent. BOISE, IDA. W. AY. Godfrey of Boise, Idaho emergency administration adminis-tration commodity surplus division director has announced that buying of 840,000 bushels of surplus Idaho wheat by the federal government has begun. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In spite of the fact that there is now approximately 10,000 acre feet less water In Utah lake than there was on the corresponding date last year, conditions, from an agricultural standpoint are much better than In 1934, according to T. H. Humpb-erys, Humpb-erys, state engineer. POCATELLO, IDA. Dependent upon the negotiation of a lease from the Oregon Short Line railroad, city officials are prepared to put forth a program calling for location of an automobile parking lot, city rest-rooms rest-rooms and several city-owned tennis ten-nis courts in the area formerly covered cov-ered by "Company row." OGDEN, UT. With an offer of $107,008, Nolan Brothers, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn., were low bidders bid-ders for construction of 12 miles of bituminous surfaced highway in the Coeur d'Alene national forest, Kootenai county, Idaho. FORT HALL, IDA. General deportment de-portment of Indian school children in the boarding school at the reservation reser-vation headquarters was Improved ; last year, said the annual report of L. E. Dial, principal POCATELLO, IDA. A direct grant of $19,036 to assist in the construction of a mile sewer extension exten-sion to Pocatello's main trunk sewer line has been allowed by the government according to word received re-ceived here from Senator James J. Pope, |