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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Headers SEEK CRICKET FUND FIRST AID STATIONS A NEW COOPERATIVE ACCIDENT RECORD UP TWIN FALLS, IDA. First aid : stations are being established in j the smaller towns along the t'.vo main highways through southern I Idaho, by the Red Cross repre-! repre-! sentatives.- BOISE, IDA. If the Idaho I apples, potatoes, celery and let-j let-j tuce damaged by wintry weath-' weath-' er the past few days could be I salvaged and sold at present j prices, producers of these com-1 com-1 modifies would receive approximately approx-imately $2,675,000 for them, Id-' Id-' aho state department of agri-i agri-i culture officials report. Reports 1 indicate losses of from 3000 to ! 7000 carloads of the estimated 30,000 of the 1935 Idaho potato crop'. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The members of the Utah Fur Breeders' Breed-ers' association held their first annual fox and mink show recently re-cently in the poultry building at the state fair grounds, with 115 foxes and 78 minks entered by breeders from Utah, Idaho and California. A cup was given for the best-matched pair of animals. an-imals. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. W P A appropriation of $681,000 will be sought to finance a concerted con-certed campaign against the "Mormon" cricket to be conducted conduct-ed in 1936 by the United States bureau of entomology, representatives repre-sentatives of eight western states decided at a meeting held here. jUtah, it was shown, now has 1 61,440 acres of land infested with the crickets, all but 6.25 per cent of which are included in the boundaries of national forests. Idaho has 1,815,104 acres infested. infest-ed. OGDEN, U T. Ground has been broken at the Wilson school for the construction of an auditorium-gymnasium which will mark the beginning of a $258,-000 $258,-000 PWA-Weber county school building program. POCATELLO, I D A. Arrests for drunken driving and the number of persons injured in automobile accidents are said to have taken a decided up-turn in the last few weeks, as compared with the same period a year ago. KANAB, UT. A school building build-ing program in Kane county is being launched. The projects are PWA grants. REXBURG, IDA. All relief workers capable of going into the fields of Bingham, Bonneville, Bonne-ville, Jefferson, Madison and Fremont counties of eastern Idaho Ida-ho have been released from W P A jobs to help harvest the sugar beet crop. POCATELLO, IDA. The Citizens Cit-izens Protective association has Bet up a purchasing and distribution distri-bution system to provide its members with the necessities of life at a minimum cost. The operations op-erations of the association are to begin about December 1. - MONTICELLO, UT. It is reported re-ported that over 8,000 turkeys will be shipped from this district dis-trict to the holiday' markets. SALT LAKE CITY. UT. Out of $99,049 outstanding in six loans to cooperative associations of Utah farmers only one small delinquency exists, according to President E. A. Stokdyk of the Farm Credit Administration's Bank for Cooperatives in Oakland, Oak-land, Cal. BOISE, IDA. Bearing out a prediction of A. Campbell, Idaho state mining inspector, production produc-tion figures released by the United States bureau of mines, shows a sharp increase in the gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc output in Idaho during 1934, with indications of greater returns re-turns this year. POCATELLO, IDA? The additional ad-ditional employment for a crew of 150 men at the shops of the Oregon Short Line railroad is seen here with the announcement that the quota of cars to be rebuilt re-built has been increased from 400 to 800. PARK CITY, UT. After a rest period of over three years, the Park Utah Consolidated company com-pany has a full crew of shop men busy in preparation for resumption resump-tion of production on a moderate scale. It is expected that a number num-ber of men will be added to the force now employed during the next few days. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Continuing Con-tinuing its steady fall, the level of Great Salt Lake dropped to another all-time low of 3.05 feet below zero on the Saltair guage, according to a recent report. MORGAN, UT. There was a decrease of 1,609 in the number of cattle on farms and ranches in Morgan county, between April 1, 1930 and Jan. 1, 1935; according to a preliminary tabulation tab-ulation of returns of the census of agriculture which began Jan. 2 1935 .' BOISE, IDA. Bids for highway high-way projects, to cost approximately approxi-mately $160,000 were opened here recently by the director of highways. SALT LAKE CITY. UT. Utah lake reached a new all-time low during the month of October. Elevation of the lake level fell to a point 12.04 feet below the compromise level, which is three inches lower than has been recorded re-corded at any other time in the history of irrigation from the lake. BOISE, IDA. The death of a golden eagle that measured more than six feet from wing tip to wing tip was unofficially laid at the door of a hit-and-run automobile auto-mobile driver. |