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Show Intermcuntain News Briefly told for Busy Readers A GOOD (TSTOMER WILL HOLD FESTIVAL HONOR FIRST SCHOOL FLOODS FORCE FLIGHT HOPE FOR GHOST CITIES PLEASANT GROVE, UT. The annual Utah Strawberry day will be held here early in the month of June. SALT LAKE CITT, L'T. A monument mon-ument will be erected in Pioneer park in commemoration of the first school in t'tah. which was opened on that site by Mary Jane Dihvorth, shortly after the arrival of the pioneers, pio-neers, in 1S47, J. D. Giles, executive secretary of the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks association, has announced. BHIGIIAM CITT, UT. At a commercial club luncheon hcre a Los Angeles man reported that Los Angeles last year purchased from t'tah 320 carloads of fruits and vegetables, 3.315,300 pounds of butter but-ter ; 1,42S,S07 pounds of cheese; 40S.7SO pounds of dressed poultry; 15,000 cases of eggs and nearly one quarter of a million animals. RENO, NEV. Ghost cities, those I countless abandoned communities of decaying buildings and mills that mark Nevada's deserts and hills may take on life again, mining men believe, be-lieve, if the present trend in silver prices continues. GUNNISON, UT. A grand drive against rodent pests is being conducted con-ducted in this district. WALLACE, IDA. Flood waters have driven a number of the families fami-lies of this district from their homes. Unusually warm weather causing exceptional melting of the snows has raised the waters out of bounds. PATSON, UT. A flower club has been organized to help develop the motif of beauty in the lawns and gardens of the city. BOISE, IDA. There were 745 births in Idaho during March compared com-pared with 349 deaths, a report of the bureau of vital statistics reveals. re-veals. Of the births, 378 were male nd 307 female, and of the deaths, 222 were male and 127 female. MALAD, IDA. It is reported that the increased state tax on insurance in-surance premiums fixed by the last legislature will apply for all premiums prem-iums received during 1933 instead of only from Alay 1, when the law went into effect. SALT LAKE CITT, UT. One hundred thousand acres of sugar beets have been contracted for by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company this year, compared with 80,000 acres last year, it has been announced by company officers. For Utah the acreage is 34,000, compared with 20,000 in 1932, and for Idaho, 41 000 acres, compared with 31.000 acres last year. BOULDER CITT, NEV This construction city, headquarters for Hoover dam operations, will soon have its first airport. A permit to establish a port has been granted-by granted-by the department of the interior OGDEN, DT.-A force of 60 men s bmldmg a roadbed from the main line at the Weber river bridge at Wilson for trackage into the Union stockyards, according to an announcement an-nouncement by D. and R. G officials. offic-ials. POCATELLO, IDA.-Armies of enckets which last year caused a fnTr, l Oftroub,e Bannock and Bingham counties and the Ft Hall Indian reservation, are again on the move and an immediate ar P'opnation of ,$5,000 has been recommended rec-ommended by F. A. Gross, superintendent superin-tendent of the reservation, and others oth-ers with which to wage an extern nation drive against the pest OGDEN, UT.-Regional forest officials of-ficials have taken under advisement suggestions from a delegation representing rep-resenting Fillmore, HoMen, Alead- coWuntldPi0' and,.Kono of Millard county, respecting the matter of establishing a civilian conservation corps camp of 200 men on Chalk a tew miles east of Fillmore on the Fishlake national forest ' D40,IShBaVeIDA;-The "Wahoel'l,ied tolL TCtained two attorneys to intervene in the case now before toe state supreme court testing whether beer is legal in Idaho 8 SALT LAKE CITT, UT.-Utah's of the federal conservation ejeit, ls 2M, instead of 1,000 as first reported. The age limit has , finitely been waived and married at cir sins,e nien are KtOVO, UT Wntor SALT LAKE CITY, UT-Tjn filing to abandon the state , as an annual institution It fair board has SS Hi ager to "et in t 1 e man" PRICE, UT fSH r, ua. unbon countv f.,i ers have contraclod f0P lately 400 acres of s ir , T"1 -,iDS to thV J"- |