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Show Spotlighting . 1 UTAH Ctahn's Novel Accepted "Half Angel", a novel by Lillian McQuarrie Evans, well-known in Utah writing circles, is a rnner-up rnner-up in the Doubleday-Doran 820,000 novel contest. The writar has received re-ceived her first royalty check anJ tl.c publishers have asked to see more of her manuscripts. Utah Bovine High Producer A U. S. A. C. registered Holstein cow is the nation's third highest producing senior in her group. In ten months, being milked twice a day, she produced 467 pounds of butterfat and 14,335 pounds of mi!k. Would Organize Vets Governor Herbert B. Maw has been invited by officials of a national na-tional group to organize the Utah veterans of World War II. "A man of your leadership and integrity inte-grity should help to weld the veterans of your state into a strong organization for the betterment better-ment of your state and our country." coun-try." the invitation said. Antelope On the Comeback Fifty Utah antelope will be taken by lucky hunters this month in Daggett county. The State Big Game Board of Control issued the permits from among hundreds cl applications at $5 each. Records indicate this is the first open season sea-son ever declared in Utah on antelope. ante-lope. Utah Meteorite Purchased A Utah meteorite, the ninth largest ever found in the United States has just been purchased by the United States National museum at Washington, D. C. The object, about the size of a sack of potatoes and practically solid iron, was found in the Drum mountains of Millard county on the surface of the ground by two Japanese-Americans of the Topaz relocation center. Restoring Utah Rangelands Utah's devastated millions of acres of watershed land, without even the cover of black sage, is about to be redeemed thanks to the crested whea,t grass of the Russian Caucasus. Scientists, , range exports and livestock growers grow-ers inspecting that great area from the Weber river to the Wyoming lihe found remarkable headway being made towtard re-establishing grass as the main watershed cover. The crested wheat grass, requiring nothing but planting, is a product of Russia's bleak arid steppes and finds Utah's land and climate ideally suited to rapid and luxuriant growth. Cattle fed exclusively ex-clusively on this grass will gain 100 pounds per month. Hospital Serves Wide Area One hundred and five miles from the nearest railroad, the Kanab hospital provides health services for residents of 14,000 square miles of southern Utah. Modem in every respect, the services of the institution are well received in the region. The hospital is owned and operated by Kane county. Utah Farmers Under Survey The reason for the lack of paint on farm homes, sheds, barns arfd fences in Utah is the cause for a survey now being made by a representative rep-resentative of the Lead Industries association, with which the Park Utah Consolidation Mines company, com-pany, Tintic Standard Mining company, and Silver King Coalition Coali-tion Mines company are affiliated. affiliat-ed. Utah lead makes the best white lead paint, it was pointed out, but little of it reaches Utah farmi homes and 'barns. |
