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Show Nurses Hold Annual Convention at Logan Nearly all of the 500 registered reg-istered nurses belonging to the Utah State Nurses Association will gather at Logan, Utah on September 10 and 11 for then annual convention. The two day session will feature Harriet Stamback, R N. of the American Nurses' Association, As-sociation, William S .Adamson, Public Relations Advisor foi the State Association and Dr. LeRoi B. Jones of the Utah State Agricultural College. In addi tion to the general sessions and entertainment features, the various groups will hold sep arate or departmental meeting such as Private Duty, Staff Nurses, Public Health Nurses and Administrative and Educational Educa-tional Nurses. Making arrangements ar-rangements for the convention this year is under the direction of the "Private Duty" section o the organization. Reseeding Project Under Way In Garfield County Livestock men of Garfielc County cooperating with the National Forest Service have developed a project which will reseed around 20,000 acres ol land located off Bryce Canyon highway between the head of Red Canyon and the Bryce Canyon Can-yon Airport. About half of the area will be plowed and then the seed will be drilled in. The other half which is made up 0' the rocky ridges and the steeper slopes will be treated with pipe harrows and the grass seed will be broadcast The entire area will be divided into sections and cornplete'y fenced so that the livestock can be easily handled and grazing regulated. During the three years necessary to get the new grass firmly established no grazing will be allowed in the area. Fish Meal From Utah Fish A new industry still in its experimental stages has been established on the shores of the Deer Creek Reservoir neat Charleston, which will make fish meal and fish oils from the "Trash" fish found in Utah lakes and reservoirs. The new company is known as the Utah Processing Company. Their $60,000 plant is capable ot handling ten tons of trash fish per hour. The machinery consists con-sists of large rotary steam cookers, pressers, dryers and grinders. The trash fish are removed re-moved from the lakes and reservoirs res-ervoirs by seining. Already more than 100 tons of such fish have been taken from Strawberry Straw-berry Lake. The finished products pro-ducts will find ready sale both in and out of the State to fish hatcheries, feed mills, soap manufacturers, etc. Utah Tax Items Attract Attention Two tax items recently presented pre-sented to the public by Tax Commission members are interesting. inter-esting. One report quotes a study made by the Minnesota Institute of Government Research Re-search which shows that the tax on net corporate income in Utah is lower than the average for all states in the union imposing im-posing such a tax, and lower than the tax in several otlur states comparably situated. On a $25,000 net income the Utah tax is $327 compared with the national average of $115. In Idaho the same tax is $G('i8; Oregon, $5f;7; California, S-IS'2; Colorado, $133;- Arizona, $110 and New Mexico, $173. Despite Des-pite the rising costs of government govern-ment it cost the State Tax Commission Com-mission less to collect more revenue during the last fiscal year than at anytime In history. his-tory. The collection was made at the new low figure of $01S per dollar of slate revenue collected. col-lected. During previous fiscal year the collection expense amounted to $0,212 per dol.ar collected. |
