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Show I News Notes 1 It' a Privilege to Live in j 1 Utah Logan. Cache county business men have underwritten $3500 toward an investigation in-vestigation to be conducted by W. M. Green, engineer for the federal bureau bu-reau of reclamation, under a joint agreement covering the Salt Lake basin reclamation project. The check for this amount has been placed in the hands of the bureau, and is added to a like amount furnished by. Cache county commissioners. Washington. Senator King of Utah will introduce a number of important bills, on which he will urge action at the session this winter; some bills national in character and some applicable applic-able locally in Utah or to the west. Among the local bills are the following: follow-ing: Appropriating $1,250,000 to acquire ac-quire adidtional ground and enlarge the federal building at Salt Lake City. Appropriating $250,000 for enlarging the public building at Ogden. Bills appropriating various sums for public pub-lic buildings at Price, Nephi, Cedar City, St. 'Geore, Bingham, Fillmore, Manti, Beaver, Moab, Tooele, Duchesne, Du-chesne, Farmington and Coalville. Ap propriating $250,000 ' to be expended by the secretary of the interior, either at Ogden or in connection with the University of Utah, for the erection of a suitable plant to test the oil shales found upon the public domain, with a view to utilization of their oil content. Ogden. Some of the stock of the famous Utah herd of Holstein cattle assembled early this fall and sent to various expositions out of the state have been sold to breeders of Japan, according to Gilbert Thatcher, secretary secre-tary of the Utah Holstein Breeders' association. The stock sold to Japanese Japan-ese buyers, includes the three-year-old cow, Swandale Pontiac Selma and two other choice heifers, by I. M. Cooley of Ogden. The Utah School for the deaf and blind also sold a number of head of pure-breds. The shipment to Japan will be made after January 1, when other animals will be purchased to make up a big shipment. ship-ment. Provo. More than 100 teachers participated par-ticipated in the first regional district teachers' association conference in this city. Themes and questions were discussed and resolutions and recommendations recom-mendations of various special committees com-mittees touching on taxation, expenditures, expen-ditures, teachers' welfare, contracts, tenure and retirements, professional standards, ethics, publicity and parent-teacher association were adopted by the conference. Salt Lake City. As a result of a recent decision by the supreme court of Utah, the industrial commission is making it part of its routine action to ask each workman injured in an industrial accident 'to apply to the commission for adjustment of his claim. This is done in case, at some future date, dispute may arise be tween the workman and the employer or insurance carrier as to the amount of the benefits to which the injured workman is entitled. Moab. Approximately $200,000 has been appropriated by the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company com-pany to build a line between Mack, Colorado, and Price, Utah, according to company officials. The company expects to .begin construction in March. The telephone line will follow fol-low the location survey of the new federal aid highway between Price and Cisco. From Cisco to Mack the line will follow the Price road. Provo. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Provo chamber of commerce, together with a large group of citizens and medical men held here, the proposed plan of a community hospital was discussed. Salt Lake City. "Success of the Utah seed at the International Hay and Grain show at Chicago will be cf immense advertising value to the state," Harden Bennion, state com misioner of agriculture, declared in commenting upon prizes awarded at the grain show. "The award of tbir-1 tbir-1 teen premiums to Utah, out of fifteen awards made," he said, "places Utah at the top of the alfalfa producing states of the nation." Ogden. Considerable local interest is being taken in the expected reorganization reor-ganization of the city government next month when Mayor-elect George E. Browning and City Commisioner-elect Commisioner-elect Harman W. Peery take offices to which they were elected a month ago. Since each will replace incumbents, incum-bents, there is expected to be many changes in the appointive positions. Lehi. George Austin, former mayor may-or of Lehi and for many years associated asso-ciated with the wool-growing and sugar su-gar industries of the state, died at his home at the age of 7t years. |