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Show News Notes It' a Privilege to Lwt In j UTAH UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Motor oils, the high price of high test gasoline and dirty spark plugs are no worry to the collegians St the University of Utah Motorless Aviation Avia-tion club, wbo seek to become . honest-to-goodness gilders of the National Glider association. PRICE Dr. H. B. Goetzman was unanimously elected president of the Carbon County Fish and Game Protective association at the director' direc-tor' meeting recently. He succeeds suc-ceeds Ray Demlng. Other officers who were named are John Staley of Scofleld, vice president; Gust Platls, reelected treasurer, and U. Merrill Fox, reelected secretary. SALT LAKE Gasoline tax returns re-turns amounting to I597.1S0.72 for the quarter ending January 15 were transferred from the secretary ot state' office to the state treasury recently. Motor vehicle registrations registra-tions totalling 124,921.75, and transfers trans-fers to the general fund amounting amount-ing to $124,627.65 were also received re-ceived by the Btate treasurer. SALT LAKE Companies in Utah, exclusive of state employers and employees ot companies In Interstate In-terstate operation, bad payrolls amounting to $104,269,033 during the fiscal year of 1929, the number of employees totalling 76,597, it Is shown In a report released re-ently re-ently by the state industrial commission. com-mission. OGDEN To insure bids for school construction from responsible responsi-ble contractors, the board of education educa-tion recently adopted a bidders' questionnaire which must bi filled before plans and specifications will be submitted to any prospective bidder. The questions deal with the Integrity of the contracting firm and its ability to finance and complete com-plete the work. OGDEN Ogden dairy Interests and a prediction ot greater tfclngs for this vicinity along those line were emphasized at the noon luncheon lunch-eon meeting of the Ogden Rotary club recently at the Hotel BIgelow. J. B. fc'itch, head ot the dairy department de-partment of the Kansas State Agricultural Agri-cultural college, and George H. Catne ot tbe dairy department of the Utah Agricultural college, were the speakers. SALT LAKE No foreign auto- mobile may legally operate In Utah for tnore than 10 days without securing se-curing from the office of the secre- , tary of state a nonresident permit, and to secure the nonresident permit per-mit the owner must declare that ha Is a legal resident of the state from which he has secured his current cur-rent plates and not a resident ot Utah, it is pointed out in a statement state-ment made public recently. SPRINGVILLE Plans for .he second annual dairy stock show to be held in Springville, February 28, were discussed at a meeting of the local farm bureau association here recently, and officers for tbe year 1930 were elected as follows: Andrew V. Nelson, president ; Heber Houtz, vice-president; Fred Weight, secretary and treasurer. These, with George Peterson and Will Mower, constitute the board of directors. PROVO A storm area which has hung persistently over the plateau region for several days, centering in southern Utah, produced more snowfall. In Salt Lake, intermittent inter-mittent snow flurries were experienced experi-enced throughout the day, but the snow was light and the water content con-tent of the fall up to 6 p. m. recently re-cently was only .04 of an inch. For the 24 hours ended at 6 o'cIock, howover, tbe precipitation measured mea-sured In water content was .17 of an Inch. TREMONTON A brief history of tba Bear River migratory bird refuge project was outlined to Ko-tarians Ko-tarians by I M. WInsor, Logan, chief engineer of the project, at the Hotel Utah recently. "An investigation investi-gation of the proposition," the speaker said, "was started In VJ21 at the request of the state fish and game commission, headed by David H. Madsen, by the United States biological survey and myself. A report I made to federal authorities authori-ties resulted In a congressional appropriation ap-propriation of $350,000 in 18118 tor the work." WASHINGTON The 1930 prize tour of the national oratorical contest, con-test, arrangements for which have Just been completed, will be an extremely ex-tremely attractive one. Under the rules ot the contest, now entering Its seventh year, the prize tour, with all expenses paid, will be awarded to each of the seven participants parti-cipants in the national finals, to be held In Washington on May 24. An Important feature of tills year's trip will be a two-day visit to Oberam-mergau, Oberam-mergau, where the party wTH attend at-tend the presentation of the "Passion "Pas-sion Playf |