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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Headers LARGER BEET CROP WELL PAVE ROAD 40 PLAN A SCENIC CITY JOBS EMPLOY 50 MEN SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah sugar beet production for 1935, recovering from dry conditions con-ditions of 1934, will more than double last year's output, executives execu-tives of two processing companies compan-ies announce. HAILEY, IDA. More than 50 men and women have been employed em-ployed lately on three relief projects in Blaine county as the work was transferred from IERA to WPA. VERNAL, UT. More than 175 persons representing practically every city and town on route No. 40 between Salt Lake City and Denver met here to crystallize plans for paving of route 40 between be-tween the two western centers. BOISE, IDA. Fifty thousand dollars has been allocated by the United States reclamation service serv-ice for a survey of supplemental irrigation water supplies in Boise valley and southeastern Idaho. POCATELLO, IDA. Plans for a program of beautification for the foothill slopes on the east and west sides of the city were discussed at a meeting of chamber cham-ber of commerce officials and citizens recently. The work is to be undertaken as a CCC project, and will include planting of grass, shrubs and trees and a series of small dams to eliminate small floods in the foothills. CALDWELL, IDA. Bids for the construction of an addition to the Caldwell high school building, build-ing, to include a gymnasium, auditorium au-ditorium and new classrooms, were opened here recently. Sale of bonds in an amount of $60,000, authorized at an election held last January, and a federal grant from the WPA of $42,546 will provide funds for the construction construc-tion of the addition. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. One hundred fifty Boy Scouts in Salt Lake City will take a trip through Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks next summer in a scout educational tour sponsored spon-sored by Russell L. Tracy, Salt Lake City banker and a prominent promi-nent figure in activities of the Salt Lake council, Boy Scouts of America. One-half of the cost of the trip will be paid for each boy by Mr. Tracy, the remainder to be earned and saved by the boy between now and next summer. sum-mer. SALT LAKE- CITY, UT. Property owners whose taxes are four years delinquent may prevent pre-vent their property from going to final sale by paying the 1931 tax, according to chairman of the state tax commission. WALLACE, IDA. The north Idaho chamber of commerce urged urg-ed revision of relief distribution in this state to make labor available avail-able for harvesting agricultural products, at the closing session of its winter meeting. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Children in Utah's rural school districts will be helped through the winter months by a daily dish of hot soup at the noon hour supplied by the federal government. govern-ment. FAIRFIELD, I D A. A total of $40,000 has been received lately late-ly for distribution among wheat growers of Camas county under the federal allotment program. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Approximately Ap-proximately $800,000 was received receiv-ed by sugar beet growers in Utah within a week, when two large processing companies made initial ini-tial payments on the 1935 crop. Checks for $550,000 were mailed to growers by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and on Nov. 20 the Gunnison Sugar company sent payments totalling $250,000 to growers in Sanpete and Sevier counties. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Aid of the federal government in conducting water surveys and investigating the possibilities of small reservoirs in arid states was asked in resolutions unanimously unani-mously adopted by the Association Associa-tion of Western State Engineers at the closing session cf its two-day two-day convention in Salt Lake City recently. SALMON, IDA. Snow removal re-moval equipment is being sent to Salmon to be used in keeping U. S. highway 93 clear over the Continental divide to the Montana Mon-tana line. Heretofore, the road has been closed in winter. LOGAN, UT. Plans for setting set-ting up county committees to allow al-low the farmers of Ut.nh to assist in making an agricultural program pro-gram for the state, were discussed discuss-ed bv the extension economist of the United States department of agriculture, in a series of conferences confer-ences with officials of the Utah Stnte Agricultural college. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A modern chicken hatchery', to cost S25.000, will be constructed in the southern part of the city in the near future. The enterprise will cause an investment of approximately ap-proximately S25.000 in the early stages of its construction. BOISE, IDA. Works progress administrator for Idaho, has announced an-nounced that more than 9700 reouisitions for men to work on WPA proicc's nave been issued by his office, and that approximately approxi-mately half of that number now are actually at work on 375 pro- jects. I FORT HALL, IDA. Ur.em- j ployable Indians cf the Fort Hall : Indian reservp.'.lon are to receive' SloOfi for relief during Xovem-j t-er. This is the first rKotmcnt for ' direct relief to Indians st this reservation. j |