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Show 1 1 Intermountain News i I Briefly told for Busy Headers CITY KECEirT.3 GROW $r(0 FOK SCHCOL SONG 1WKK MAY Ol'EX KAKI.Y ! APRIL HOY SCOUT MEET j KABKITS SLAIN BY Al TOS rOCATF.I.I.O, IDA. Forage on the national forests has lxen be!o normal in both the Idaho Fulls- and I5oise districts since 191G, according accord-ing to government charts covering the last several decades. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The annual an-nual Boy Scout Tow Wow at the t'niversity of I'tah takes place April 2, 3 and 4. The Tow Wow Is a merit hadge school for First Class Scouts only. Each boy will bo permitted to choose four subjects from 30 courses offered. Applications must be in to Scout headquarters, Chamber of Commerce, not later than March 31. BOISE, I D A. Idaho farmers, aided both by improved prices and federal farm loans, have retired almost al-most $200,000 in loans held by the public endowment funds of the state since last July. ELY, NEV. The fishing season in White Pine County will open May 1. The closing date is September 1. LAVA HOT SPRINGS, IDA. Local Lo-cal promoters are considering the possibility of opening a stone quarry near here. Samples of the available rock are being tested. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Five hundred dollars in cash prizes is offered of-fered to person or persons submitting submit-ting the best school song for the University of Utah. BOISE, IDA. Unemployment lias hit the slate prison and rotation of jobs is practiced. Ira J. Taylor, pen- itentiary warden, said 25D prisoners are in the institution, with jobs for only 150 of them. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Twin Falls county commissioners will discuss proposals for disposing of the county general hospital, which has been a bone of controversy in budgetary affairs. af-fairs. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. A point system of awards for other activities than athletics has been worked out by Superintendent K. E. Wilson and faculty members of the St. Anthony high school. PROVO, UT. Reasons why an appropriation for a federal building In Provo should not be less than $100,000 have been forwarded to Utah's congressional representatives in Washington, D. C, and treasury department officials. BOISE, IDA. Governor C. Ben Ross announced that he has telegraphed tele-graphed a protest to Senator J. Pope against a proposed processing tax on jute, used in making sacks for onions potatoes and other bulk agricultural commodities. The tax, he said, would cost Idaho $200,003 every shipping season. POCATELLO, IDA. Farmers are urged to plant their crops by the calendar rather than by the unusual unus-ual weather conditions of the present. pres-ent. However, an early spring is generally predicted for the region. PRESTON, IDA. Much enthusiasm enthus-iasm has been created in Preston and vicinity over the recently organized organ-ized flying club. Cyrus W. Greaves, temporary secretary, says only four more members are required to fill the quota originally anticipated. The present membership totals eleven. OGDEN, UT. The motion of A. P. Bigelow, president of the defunct Ogden State bank, for a new trial in supplemental proceedings in connection con-nection with the failure of the bank, through which the ex-banker was declared de-clared guilty of contempt of court was denied. PROVO, UT. Students from all parts of the world come to Provo to attend Brtgnam ioung .university, Registar John E. Hayes announces. At present 306 students of the total enrollment of I860 come from out of Utah, with five foreign countries and 19 states represented. WENDELL, IDA. W e n d e 1 1' s chant-; fcr getting a new high school gymnasium with C W A funds and labor went glimmering when a count of the votes cast in a special election to bond for $7500 showed the proposal pro-posal lacked 15 votes of the two-thirds two-thirds necessary to carry. PROVO UT. Receipts by Provo City during the first two months of 1S3-1 totaled $3000 more than during the same period in 1933 it appears: from a report recently. POCATELLO, I D A. National j park officials have been urged in n communication from the PocatellO! chamber of commerce and from the j Cody, Wyo., chamber to open Yellow-, stone park on Memorial day, May 30. The usual opening date is June ' 15. The communications point out: that the light fall of snow this win-1 tor, which has been unseasonably mild, will make it less difficult than in a normal year. BOISE, IDA. Automobiles cause an estimated half million fatalities each year among the rabbit population popu-lation in Idaho. It is eslimated such deaths aggregated more than are caused by coyotes, weasels and other natural enemies of the rabbit not including bad wen I her. BOISE, IDA. The supreme court has overruled a motion to dismiss Hie appeal of the BoKe Payette Lumber company from a $100,000 judgment secured by the Idaho Gold Drfvlgitig corporation for alleged damage to it.s mining grounds. |