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Show I News Notes 1 From All Parts of 1 UTAH t Salt Lake. Word has been received receiv-ed from New York City by James H. Wallis, executive secretary of the Utah Public Health association, that Utah schools have again won honors in the national health tournament conducted con-ducted by the National Tuberculosis association, by capturing twelve of the pennants awarded annually for the best health worK in the public schools. This makes three years in succession that Utah has come off victorious vic-torious in this health contest, which is engaged in by more than six mil lion school children in the United States. Cedar City. The Union Pacific sys tern has a large force a men at work planting lawns, trees and shrubbery around the passenger depot, the Hotel El Escalante and the south sine of the freight depot. When it is completed com-pleted the grounds will be the most beautiful and the largest on the U. P. system this side of Omaha. Provo. Eighty-eight men and wo men x;M be graduated from the two-year two-year normal school at the Brigham Young university in June and at the close of the summer session. Each will receive a normal diploma. Most of these young people will enter the teaching profession and will teach throughout the mountain states. Cedar City. At a luncheon of the chamber of commerce the matter of the federal project of a mile and a quarter of paved road through tho heart of Cedar City and the paving from curb to curb of the main stree in connection was discussed fully and the committee appointed to interview inter-view the abutting property owners announced an-nounced that, with the exception of one, they were ready to carry tho burden. Salt Lake. American Legion leaders lead-ers from eleven western states will be the guests of the Salt Lake chamber cf commerce and Salt Lake post No. 2 at a dinner at the chamber of commerce com-merce Saturday evening, March 21. The national commander and adjutant adjut-ant will be here for a conference on the organization's national child welfare wel-fare fund. The conference will convene con-vene at the Hotel Utah at 10 a. m. Sunday, March 22. Salt Lake. Many of the entries for the eighth annual Intermountain Livestock Live-stock show, to be held at the Salt, Lake Union stockyards at North Salt Lake March 31 to April 4, have started start-ed to arrive at the yards and many reservations are being received daily, which indicates that the 1925 show will far surpass any previous stock show in the intermountain section, Dr. R. N. Mead, manager of the exhibition, ex-hibition, declared. Salt Lake. While thirty-five hundred hun-dred wild-eyed fans cheered at the Deseret gymnasium the White and Blue of Dixie High School reached its long sought pinnacle of success and captured the Utah High School Athlete Ath-lete association basketball championship, champion-ship, defeating the flashy Murray High school hoopsters, 17 to 15. Salt Lake. When Governor George H. Dern signed house bill 100, by Representative Owen Reunion of Duchesne Du-chesne county, he made effective a law from which much is expected m the way of eliminating unnecessary duplication in the state public school system. That system is defined under un-der the constitution as including not only the elementarv and swnnHr.. schools of the state, but also the institutions in-stitutions of higher education that are supported by public funds, which in Utah means the University of Utah, ' the Utah Agricultural college at Lo- J gan and the Branch Agricultural col-I lege at Cedar City. Salt Lake. Of the 239. IS7 head ot registered purebred beef cattle in the western range states, 10.934 ale ia I ,Utah. 15.23S in Idaho. 37C9 in Nevada 1 and 16,459 in Wyoming, according to J statistics given in a recent govern- ' ment agricultural bulletin. Utah has j 597S head of Hereford, 4714 head ot i Shorthorn. 62 head of Aberdeen An gus. and ISO head of all other breeds. Salt Lake. Plans for the construction construc-tion of a standard athletic field at the East high school have started it. is announced by Hugh C. Lewis 'sl,per intendent of buildings and grounds for the board of education. When compter, ed the campus will he one of the most up-to-date and satisfactnrv in the Vnited States. Mr. Lewis said The preliminary cost estimate for ule work was set at ?10.0on. which If! let into contracts, would be alio,,, I nve , number, all below $5000. bene |