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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers HIGHWAY WORK UP PLEADS FOR PEACE NOXIOUS WEED WAR MANY WISH RELEASE SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Before Be-fore a gathering of. 400 business and civic leaders, Sir Malcom Campbell, famous skipper of the 300 mile an hour "Bluebird" made an appeal for world peace. POCATELLO, IDA. A noxious nox-ious weed program to cover approximately ap-proximately 1500 acres of land in Bannock county and which will afford employment to 50 men is being sought under the WPA. BOISE, IDA. The general average av-erage of prices received by Idaho farmers for their products in August was 90 per cent of prewar, pre-war, and at this level was two points lower than on July 15, Richard C. Ross, federal agricultural agricul-tural . statistician for Idaho has announced. PARK VALLEY, UT. Men working under the direction of the government are digging wells in the fiats south of Pari; Valley, along the stretch of land used by sheen herds trailing across Utah. The purpose of the wells is to furnish water for the sheep and for cattle ranging in l that region. These wells will keep the sheep off other property and on the trail designated for trail herds. BOISE, IDA. Boise and Ada county motorists have pr.id to the county vlS3,520 since Jan. 1 for their automobile registration. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Sixty-eight applications for clemency clem-ency will be considered at the next regular meeting of the state board of pardons, on September 21, among them those of Paul von Bode and Elizabeth Droubav, both convicted for murder. David J. Pugh, former assistant state treasurer, will present a plea for termination. Pugh was released on parole after serving five years eight months and 12 days of a 20-year sentence for embezzlement embezzle-ment of more than $100,000. OGDEN, UT. With road projects pro-jects under way in every northern north-ern Idaho county, the state is proceeding rapidly in its highway high-way program under federal aid and work relief anoropriations, according to B. J. Finch, district engineer of the United States bureau of public roads. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. The flow of water in the Snake river is reioorted as at a normal rate for this period of the year. BOISE, IDA. The extra session ses-sion of the legislature held in July cost Idaho approximately ten thousand dollars. BOISE, IDA. A 350-mile National Geographic society expedition ex-pedition down the Salmon river through some of the most rugged and isolated scenic country in western America will begin October Oc-tober 5 at Salmon and end a month later at Lewiston, Idaho. The river pisses through some of the most scenic country in western America and winds through a fiorre that at places is 000 3 feet dec-x CEDAR CITY. UT. Tourist traffic to Zion national park is over 9 per cint higher than it was a year ago. |