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Show I. "J Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers ! TRUCKS HAUL SALT BABY AID FUNDS LOW ! DAIRY PROFITS CROW I POISON DRIVE BEGINS J SOLDIERS MEET IN JUNE FARMINGTON, FT. A drive to poison ground squirrels with gram is being launched in this district. BOISE, IDA. Idaho won first, Utah second and Montana third in a triangle membership contest of these departments of the American Legion it has been announced from national headquarters at Indianpo-lis, Indianpo-lis, Indiana. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Inspection Inspec-tion forces of the Utah industrial commission will be reduced to one coal mine and one metal mine inspector in-spector after July 1. BOISE, IDA. Sixty-one advance detachments of regular army officers offi-cers and troops have been ordered to Idaho and Utah from Baltimore . to direct building of camps for occupation oc-cupation by the emergency conservation conserva-tion corps. Each detachment comprises com-prises one officer, four sergeants and 21 enlisted men. On arrival in Idaho eanh unit will be joined by 25 members of the conservation corps to form a unit to build a camp. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Pacific Pa-cific International Trapshooting association as-sociation announces that final ar-r:isrements ar-r:isrements have been made to hold its annual state shoot over the traps of the Salt Lake Municipal Gun club June 2, 3 and 4. The shoot will he held under the- auspices of the Southern Utah Trapshooting asso ciation of Ephraim. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Hauling of rock salt about 400 miles from Redmond, Red-mond, Utah, to the Twin Falls district, dis-trict, and some of it about 500 miles farther on into central Oregon, is being done by trucks. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. About eleven thousand applications for crop production loans have been filed fil-ed in the Salt Lake regional office by farmers in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Nevada and western Colorado. It is expected that approximately $1,200,000 will be loaned, which is nearly $800,000 less than was loaned loan-ed last year in the same territory. OGDEN, UT. Curtailment of financial fi-nancial assistance to parents unable to bear the medical cost of bringing children into the world looms as a result of the heavy drain on the county fund for this purpose. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tax valuations in Salt Lake county have dropped more than 20 million dollars dol-lars compared with last year. AMERICAN FORK, UT. Work of building the first Utah camp of the Roosevelt reforestation army has been started in American Fork canyon. POCATELLO, IDA. A move Is being launched here to invite Gov. Ross to call a special state election to legalize 3.2 beer with voluntary Judges, clerks and workers enlisted and polling places donated. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah national guardsmen will go into summer training June 1 at Camp W. G. Williams at Jordan Narrows. Members of the 222nd field artillery will occupy the camp the first half of the month. They will be replaced by members of the 145th field artillery, artil-lery, for the second period of the time alloted for training. PROVO, UT. In spite of a decrease de-crease in the average milk and but-terfat but-terfat production per cow for cows tested by the Utah County Dairy Herd Improvement association and I by the Wasatch County Dairy Herd Improvement association during 19-32, 19-32, profits per cow for both associations asso-ciations show a great increase over 1931, the yearly report reveals. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Farm values in Utah for 1933 taxation purposes have been decreased approximately ap-proximately 20 per cent from the figures of 1932. SPANISH FORK, UT. Plans In the making by the Palmyra stake M. I. A. call for the placing of a monument on the site of the old Palmyra fort. POCATELLO, IDA. A new road to Malad by way of Downey is being be-ing considered by the state officials. BOISE, IDA. Members of the conservation corps coming to Idaho will be permitted to fish here on purchase of a $2 resident license. Upward of 25.000 men will probably come from other parts of the country coun-try to be stationed near the best fishing places in the state. The game department, as a protective measure, has decided to deputize all officers of the camps to assist in enforcing en-forcing the fish and game laws. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Passage Pas-sage of the public works bill by Congress Con-gress will assure the expenditure of 57,500,00085,500,000 of federal finances fi-nances and ?2,000,000 of state funds, for the construction of public roads in Utah, beginning Julv 1. and the employment of about ten thousand men a month, according to Governor Gover-nor Henry II. Blood. TOCATELLO, IDA.-Except for a few bad spots, Idaho highways are reported to be Uj very gocd cou. olfion. |