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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers RELIEF I-0AO RISES MANY KEEP RECORDS GIVE RESPITE ON TAX NEED 25 RANGE WELLS TOLL CHARGE FOUGHT SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A deficit de-ficit In city funds cf 250,000 over receipts is estimated as being unavoidable. un-avoidable. POCATELLO, IDA. At the 4-H county club fairs held in 11 southeastern south-eastern Idaho counties, 759 record books were turned in, J. W. Barber, district extension agent, Las announced. an-nounced. These books, which contain con-tain records of projects acomplish-ed acomplish-ed In each club during the past year of activity, represent 45.5 per cent of the activities in the district I organization. I BOISE, IDA. Idaho's relief load I Is increasing steadily as winter ad-' ad-' vances, the emergency relief administration admin-istration reports. In September, 80,437 persons were extended relief, almost double the number aided j during May. In the month 16,556 persons were receiving aid from the administration at an outlay of $214,-0S4. $214,-0S4. June found 13,935 on the rolls at a cost of $137,070, a reduction because be-cause of a smaller quota of funds. July brought 10,726 on relief at a cost of $174,040; August, 20,414 at a cost of $315,332, and September, 30,437 at a cost of $341,174. TOOELE, UT. Acting upon a petition presented them by Tooele county taxpayers, the county com-mision com-mision extended the delinquent tax date from November 30 to December 28. This has been the practice of the Tooele county commission for the past several years, following presentation of similar petitions. PROVO, UT. Water in Utah Lake has reached a record low point. Only 12,000-acre-feet remain in the lake. OGDEN, UT. A recommendation has been sent to Washington, D. C. for the installation of about 25 wells equipped with water tanks, it is announced an-nounced by Reed W. Bailey, of the intermountain forest and range experiment ex-periment station who has made an extensive investigation regarding the feasibility of digging wells to furnish furn-ish water for livestock in western Utah. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Efforts are being made to discontinue toll charges on the county bridge over the Snake river at this point. ROCK SPRINGS. WTO. The 12 miles of county highway between Rock Springs and Winton, taken over last summer as a secondary state highway, will be oiled within a short time by the state highway commission. SALT LAKE CITT, UT. The biennial report of Julius C. Anderson, Ander-son, state auditor, filed with Governor Gov-ernor Henry II. Blood, shows an estimated deficit in the state general gen-eral fund at the end of the fiscal year, now one-third over, of $320,-090.5S. $320,-090.5S. SHOSHONE, IDA. Big Wocd Canal company directors are endeavoring en-deavoring to secure an additional 23,000 from P W A funds to construct con-struct new control gates at Magie reservoir, north of here. Approval had previously been given to the company's application for $180,000 for this purpose. BOISE, IDA. Income tax collections collec-tions during 1934 have amounted to $310,714, compared with $80,054 during the same period last year. SALT LAKE CI1Y, UT Taxes on gasoline have paid the State of Utah over seven hundred thousand dollars in 1934. MOSCOW, IDA. University of Idaho stock farmers exhibited several sev-eral carloads of stock at the Portland Port-land livestock show. FOUNTAIN GREEN, UT. A loan and grant of $4,000 has been arranged with the P W A for the improvement of the water system. SALT LAKE CITT, UT. Salt Lake City's emergency water development devel-opment program has cost a total of $29SG5S.S5, and $16,341.15 more will be expended before the program is completed. The total cost of the program will be approximately $310,000. BOISE, IDA. Idf.ho high school enrollment has increased from 22,-837 22,-837 in 1928-29 to 29,227 in 1933-34, according to the report of Phillip boulen, Idaho high school inspector. There are now 195 high schools, as compared with 190 in 1928-29. The average enrollment now is 641 and in 1928 it was 522. MOSCOW, IDA. With an Increase In-crease of more than 500 sludents in the University of Idaho this year over former years, tiie total being over 2200, the board of regents of I the university approved the appoint-( appoint-( ments of several new faculty mom-I mom-I hers to help care for the increased loads in several of the departments. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Returns totaling $44!i8 have been received for a four-car shipment of fat lambs sent by 4S mcmbeus of the Twin Falls County Livestock Marketing association from Buhl and Twin Falls. A FT OX, WYO. During the first week of the government sheep purchasing pur-chasing program, 8000 sheep were purchased in Lincoln county. Approximately Ap-proximately 40 per cent of the animals ani-mals were skinned on the ranch where purchased. |