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Show Intermountain News -Briefly told for Busy Readers FIRES CAUSE ALARM. STATE ALCOHOL OKEH. MALT EXTRACT TAXED. CIT1 BUDGET REDUCED. RELIEF FUNDS DWINDLE BOISE, IDA. The Boise city budget for the coming year will be $352,807, a reduction of $54,000 be low the budget of a year ago. GRACE, IDA. Beets, seed peas, alfalfa and wheat, Important products pro-ducts of Gem valley this season, are in fine condition. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Recent large fires are urged as basis for the need of 25 additional men to be employed by the fire department. It is believed that at least one of the fires must have been of incendiarj origin. LOGAN, UT. Cache national forest is expected to support approximately ap-proximately 25,000 cattle and horses and around 80,000 sheep this sea son. This represents practically the grazing capacity of the forest area. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-The right of the state to operate its alcohol alco-hol warehouse for the distribution of alcohol and Intoxicating liquors for industrial and medicinal purposes pur-poses is upheld in a decision of the supreme court handed down recently. recent-ly. BOISE, IDA. The recent special session of the legislature levied a tax on malt extract as well as on beer. The complete program as requested re-quested by Governor Ross was passed pass-ed by the legislature. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Because Be-cause of heavy reductions in available avail-able funds, county relief expenditures expendi-tures must be cut nearly 40 per cent If activities are to be continued for the rest of the year, the county commission com-mission has been informed by the chairman of the county relief committee. com-mittee. PRICE, UT. A permanent library li-brary has been established at the reforestation camp near Ferron. The library includes reference works, books on forestry, dictionaries, text books and works of a general nature. DRAPER, UT. The local plant of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Co-operative association has been completed. com-pleted. The new structure, which has cost around $7,500, is one of the most modern in the entire organization or-ganization of the state association. ' BEAVER, UT. W. Osbourne, a state road engineer for Millard. Beaver, Iron, and Washington counties coun-ties has reported an extensive betterment bet-terment project on the No. 21 highway high-way from Beaver to the Nevada state line and that work will be given to the unemployed in this district. dis-trict. HOLLADAY, UT. Fifty leaders of the -various 4-H clubs of Salt Lake county held their annual frolic In Ogden canyon last week. , BINGHAM, UT. The town of Bingham will apply for a loan of $4S,000 under the industrial recovery recov-ery act. The money will be invested in a sewer project. OGDEN, UT. Ogden business interests in-terests were urged by farm women to purchase, wherever possible, the products of Utah farms, either as raw materials or as finished products, pro-ducts, at the seventh annual Farm Women's luncheon held in this city. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. The Box Elder county commission and local chamber of commerce have mapped out the contemplated road program for Box Elder county this year, and It is expected that work will commence com-mence as soon funds are available under the public works bill. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Prospects for the American Falls reservoir to fill this season are considered very remote. Continued hot, dry weather has caused early demands for the water. REXBURG, IDA. This city will celebrate it's golden jubilee on August 1, 2 and 3. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A war on grasshoppers is being planned by the farmers of this district. PRICE, UT. The Carbon county coun-ty commission has discussed plans for construction of a 60-bed hospital hospi-tal to be financed with industrial recovery act funds. The estimated cost of the project Is $100,000, and of this amount only 70 per cent is to be repaid. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Carload shipments of beer, since the passage of the Idaho law legalizing the sale of beer, are being received. ARCO, IDA. Apparently an outgrowth out-growth of an old disrAite, the Mack-ay Mack-ay dam on the Big Lost river, was dynamited and the storage water released. This deprived the Carey act project of the water. LOGAN, UT. A Logan flour mill recently received an order for 19G,-000 19G,-000 pounds of flour from one concern con-cern in California. This Is said to be the largest order of several recent years. BOISE, IDA. Fourteen thousand men have been put to work in the forestation camps included in the region of Wyoming, Utah, and southern Idaho points. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. S. Crawford, Craw-ford, 12, was fatally injured when the team he was driving ran away, |