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Show Intermountain "News Briefly told for Busy Readers I RAISE PENALTY SIM TAXPAYERS ORGANIZE TEACHERS JOIN UNION ! SETS WEATHER RFCORI) J SCOUTS PRACTICE SHOOT SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-In line with the policy of making the penalty pen-alty for wilful evasion of the cigaret sales tax law more severe, the state tax commission, after a hearing, has Imiwsed a fine of $100 on a Eureka store, which was found, according to deputies for the commission, with packages of cigarets and no stamps TOOELE, U T. Tooele high school, junior high school and Central Cen-tral school teachers organized a local lo-cal of the American Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. It is reported that 47 teachers became be-came charter members. LOGAN, L'T. A Taxpayers' league lea-gue ha3 been organized here with the announced intention of becoming affiliated with a state taxpayers' league when such a league is organized. organ-ized. A meeting for the purpose of organizing a state league Is expected to be held in Salt Lake on December Decem-ber 8 and 9. PAROWAN, UT. Forty-eight local lo-cal men have been employed in improving im-proving the streets and removing light poles from the center of the highways. Gravelling of roadways is being clone as a make-work project. OGDEN, UT. The Ogden post of the American Legion is arranging a drive for an increase in membership. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. October of this year was the warmest October Octob-er in Utah's 43 years of weather recording re-cording history. The average mean temperature over the state during the month was 541 degrees, compared compar-ed with a normal of 48.8 degrees and a previous record of 53.8 degrees recorded re-corded in 1921. OGDEN, UT. Information given by the assistant regional forester states that more small fires have occurred in the mountains of Utah and other nearby states, both inside and outside of the national forests, this year, than for several years. This is largely due to continued dry weather. GARFIELD, UT. Oquirrh district dis-trict Boy Scouts are organizing rifle teams under the direction of the chairman of the activities committee. commit-tee. Each troop will pick the five best marksmen each month to enter a district meet, the first of which is scheduled for the latter part of December. PAROWAN. UT. Iron county's potato crop is harvested and most of it has been stored, hoping for a better market. The recent shipments have been bringing around $1.50 per cwt. PROVO, UT. Farrer junior high school joined the national Red Cross 100 per cent in the annual Roll Call. OGDEN, UT. The annual Weber county school census shows fewer children for 1933 than during 1932. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Exemption Exemp-tion of real property from all taxation taxa-tion for state purposes is asked in a resolution adopted by the Sevier County Taxpayers' league. The reso- 1 lution was adopted at a meeting of j the Sevier county league, which went on record as refusing to pay any more property taxes until a "more just law is passed." OGDEN, UT. The director of procurement for the Federal Surplus Sur-plus Relief corporation has placed an order for 200,000 pounds of pork . with the American Packing and Provision Pro-vision company of Ogden. This pork will be distributed to unemployed in the Ogden territory, through government govern-ment relief agencies, at the rate of 40,000 pounds per week for five weeks, probably during the first five weeks of 1934. ELY, NEV. Hoping to secure fair prices for their produce, and in other ways promote the welfare of the Lund-Preston area, more than 50 farmers have organized an association. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Davis county, Utah, was twenty-fifth among the counties of the United States in the value of its tomato crop in 1930, and thirty-third in value of dry onions it raised, said a report issued by the. census bureau at Washington, D. C. The value of the Davis tomato crop in that year was $390, 5S0. In acreage planted it stood fortieth in the nation with an area of 2538 acres. MOSCOW, IDA. Idaho's wheat growers numbering 85 per cent of the total have signed up to participate partici-pate in the government's wheat acreage curtailment program. There were 12,851 farmers of the estimated estimat-ed 15,000 in the state who signed application ap-plication for contracts before the expiration of the time set by the government. OGDEN, UT. The United States reclamation service will open bids in Ogden December 13 on the $1,000,000 Hyrum reclamation project in Cache valley. HEBER, U T. The Associated Civic clubs of eastern Utah have taken up the battle for recognition of the undeveloped resources of that area. In a statement Issued ever the signature of tht president of the association, as-sociation, attention of the world is '-ailed to the need for development of the Uintah basin. |