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Show Intermountain News -Briefly told for Busy Readers FARMERS PROTECTED REPEAL FIGHT LOOMS OUTLINE L. D. S PLAN TURKEYS SLAV IECTS GROW Sl'GAB BEET SEED ST. GKOKGB. UT.-Growing of sugar beet seed in Washington county coun-ty is declared to be an outstanding success. It is claimed that the seed produced is drouth resisting and can also resist the white fly. NEPHI, UT. Ten thousand turkeys have been imported to fight the grasshonx-r plague. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Annual two-day conference conventions of the Relief society and Young Men s and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Improve-ment associations will begin in August Au-gust and extend until November 25 and 26, Mrs. Louise Y. Robison, president of the Relief society, baa announced. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In preparation pre-paration for an educational campaign cam-paign against repeal of state and national prohibition amendments, chairmen are being appointed for every precinct of the state, it is announced an-nounced by Louise Y. Robison, Utah state chairman for the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement. En-forcement. BEAVER, UT. 30,000 fish from the fish hatchery at Springville have been planted in local waters RICHFIELD, UT. The road between be-tween Sevier and Junction, a distance dis-tance of 23.30 miles, is to be oiled. BOISE, IDA. The public utilities commission has denied the application applica-tion of five north-central Idaho warehouse operators to increase handling and storage rates on grain with a warning that it did not approve ap-prove of alleged attempts of public utilities to "absorb the increase in price of the farmer's produce." GOODING, IDA. The newly formed Lincoln and Gooding County Wheat Control associations have adopted resolutions asking that Julius Juli-us Jacobsen of Boise, crops statistician statis-tician for the U. S. department of agriculture in Idaho, raise the amount of wheat acreage allowed to those two counties under the government's govern-ment's new farm relief act. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. The pea-sorting pea-sorting factory here is being rebuilt and equipped with modern machinery. machin-ery. MALAD, IDA. Oneida county's wheat production average, upon which the county allotment, will be based under -the government's stabilization sta-bilization program, is 1,258,883 bushels, according to word received from Washington. PROVO, UT. A Utah county reemployment re-employment board is being organized organiz-ed and will include representatives of labor, civic organizations, industry, in-dustry, ex-service men, relief committee, com-mittee, local churches, and the county coun-ty engineer. . GREEN RIVER, UT. A loan to be used in changing the river bed is being sought by citizens of this district. OGDEN, U.T. An epidemic of brain fever has proven fatal to over 150 horses in Davis and Weber counties. MANTI, UT. Several new make-work make-work projects are to be launched in Sanpete county. OGDEN, UT. Information given out at the local railway freight offices of-fices indicates car-load freight ship ments handled in Ogden during July showed a 24 per cent increase in tonnage over July, 1932. PRICE, UT. Dedication of Price city's new airport, one mile south of here, will assume the form of a two-day two-day celebration on Sunday and Monday, Mon-day, September 2 and 3, Earl Robertson, sponsor of the field, announced. an-nounced. LEHI, UT. Extensive plans are under way for Lehi's annual Utah Beet Sugar Day Rodeo celebration, Aug. 17, IS and 19. Outstanding features of the celebration will be the three day rodeo performances and the parade. The choosing of three queens, Miss Utah, Miss Lehi and Miss Saratoga, to reign during the celebration and for parade features fea-tures will be an important event. EPHRAIM, UT. About 625 acres of weevil-infested alfalfa land treated treat-ed to a dusting of arsenic powder, is responding to the treatment in a manner that proves beyond doubt the effectiveness of this kind of application. ap-plication. OGDEN, UT. Retail prices of lump coal have been increased recently re-cently by 50 cents to $1.00 a ton. BOISE, IDA. Shorter working hours, more wages and a vast program pro-gram of public works appears in prospect for Idahoans during the next year or more under the NRA program now rapidly taking shape. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Arrangements Ar-rangements have already been made for 40 conventions to be held in Salt Lake in 1934, it is announced by Mrs. Winifred P. Ralls, manager of the chamber of commerce. It is expected ex-pected that the meetings will draw more than 20,000 visitors to Salt r.ake, mostly from the western part if the country. FILLMORE, UT. The Millard ?o;mty school beard lias launche:: ipon a building and repair progran ider the public works program. |