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Show I News Notes t f ' a Privilege to Live in I I Utah - e e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Contest debating in the high schools of the state will again be directed by the Extension Ex-tension Division of the University of Utah. Acording to Mr. James Adam-eon, Adam-eon, who is in charge of all activities on high school day at the University, greater interest than ever before is being be-ing shown in the forthcoming debating contests as evidenced by the increased number of schools which have entered the league organized by the State University. In a' letter sent out to all debate coaches, Professor Herbert E. Maw of the Public Speaking Depart- j ment of the University, and who is in i charge of the debating contests, an- I nounced the question for this year's j arguments as follows: Resolved: That Installment Buying Should be Condemned. 'Professor Maw.also states that the purchase of the following on the installment plan are not to be included in-cluded in the debates: homes, bonds for purposes of saving, and buildings and equipment for business purposes. SALT LAKE Receipts at the Utah state prison during December, 1927, amounted to only $2G0.J0, according to a report for the month submitted by Warden R. E. Davis to the state board of corrections. This was the smallest amount received by the prison during i the past six months, the drop being credited to general conditions on the market resulting in the sale of only 13 worth of the products from the prison factory. During the other five months of the last half year the receipts re-ceipts at the prison ran from $903.67 to $8,3GS.40. EPHRAIM Measurements in Gooseberry Goose-berry recently showed thirty inches of well-packed snow with 5.9 inches of water content. In the head of Huntington Hunt-ington canyon, the snow was forty-two inches deep. This is the report furnished fur-nished by John Bench, one of the Utah Construction company engineers now working in Gooseberry. SALT LAKE More than 5,000 predatory pred-atory wild animals were taken in tha state last year under the bounty system sys-tem at a net cost to the state of $3.50 per animal killed. This is shown in a statement compiled by L. E. Iver-son, Iver-son, secretary for the state board ot agriculture. VERNAL By far the heaviest fall of snow in the history of Ashley valley val-ley ended late last week after snow had fallen for ten hours. The enow was heavy, being full of moisture, and measures seventeen inches. PANQUITCH Attendant James Sargent, Jr., of the Hatchtown state hatchery announces that all eggs available avail-able are now hatched and the young fish are being fed for spring distribution. distribu-tion. Practically 300.000 rainbow trout will be large enough for distribution early in May and these will be placed . mm . in Panguitch and Navajo lakes and adjacent streams of the section. PROVO Much good has been done the highways of the state by the thaw j of the last week, it was announced by H. S. Kerr, chief engineer of the state road commission. The thaw has settled set-tled the snow and all the roads in the state are reported to be in better condition con-dition than prior to the recent storm and thaw. Mr. Kerr said some trouble is anticipated with the coming of new snow, as it may drift into the roads which have bcvn cut through the old drifts. The rains have been general VERNAL When H. R. Lochry, federal fed-eral milk inspector, was here the early part of the month, he visisted about seventy-five dairy farms producing produc-ing marketable milk, and took samples from each place. Mr. Lochry met with I the owners of a number of farms, and instructed them how to change their methods so as to produce a cleaner product. He then took another set of ; samples for testing. " j OGDEN Announcements was made by the Sperry Flour company that the construction of a flour storage warehouse ware-house and twenty-eight large tanks for grain storage used at the company's Ogden plant, which has been under contemplation for some time, will begin be-gin at once. Cost of the work Is expected ex-pected to be nearly $2.ri0.000. LOGAN Members of the Cache Ilolstein Breeders' association, with ! Nephi Neleon. president, presiding, I held a special meeting at the court- i house Saturday evening and selected the Holstein cattle to be sent to the annual Ogden livestock show. The association as-sociation also made plans to hold a meeting in the near future to award certificates to all dairymen whose herds during the past year averaged 300 or more pounds of butterfat. as shown by the records of the cow-tester VERNAL Uintah county's budget for 192S is placed at 5M2.fiafl.50. an increase in-crease of $7153.50 over the budget of last year. This increase is due to additional ad-ditional expenditures required for the general election, the audit of all county coun-ty affices. and an appropriation of $1500 for transient livestock settlements. settle-ments. The last named item not hnv-ing hnv-ing been allotted in previous budgets. OGDEN Chief among the exhibits for the third annual Intermoumain Hay, Grain, and Seed show, to be held in the Coliseum January 7. to 12. inclusive, inclu-sive, in connection with the Ninth annual an-nual Ogden livestock show, will be 600 sacks of Utah seed potatoes. These have been certified by the state department de-partment of agriculture Entries for the seed show have come to A. L. Christiansen. county agricultural fcgent. who will have charge, from Pi nte, Duchesne. Sevier, Morgan. Sail Lake, Davis, Tooele, Cache. Uintah Wasatch and Weber counties, as well as Idaho 1 |