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Show Spotlighting j UTAH Utah's Novel Accepted "Half Angel," a novel by Lillian Lil-lian McQuarrie Evans, well known in Utah writing circles, is a runner up in the Doubleday-Doran Doubleday-Doran 520,000.00 novel contest. The writer has received her first royalty check and the publishers have asked to see more of her manuscripts. Utah Bovine High Producer A U.S.A.C. registered Holstein cow is the nation's third highest producing senior in her size group. In ten months, .being milked twice a day, she produced 467 pounds of butterfat, and 14,-335 14,-335 pounds of milk. Would Organize Vets Governor Herbert B. Maw has been invited by officials of a national group to organize the Utah veterans of world war II. "A man of your leadership and integrity should help to weld the veterans of your state into a strong organization for the betterment bet-terment of your state and our country," the invitation said. Antelope on the Comeback Fifty Utah Antelope will be taken by lucky hunters this month in Daggett County. The State Big Game Board of Control issued the permits from among hundreds of applications at $5.00 each. This is the first open season sea-son ever declared in Utah on antelope, records indicate. Utah Meteorite Purchased A Utah meteorite, the ninth largest ever found in the U. S. has just been purchased by the United States Natoinal Museum at Washington, D. C. The object, ob-ject, about the size of a sack of potatoes, and practically solid iron, was found in the Drum Mountains of Milliard County on the surface of the ground by two Japanese-Americans of the Topaz To-paz relocation center. Restoring Utah Bangelands Utah's devasted millions of acres of watershed land, without even the cover of black sage is about to be redeemed thanks to the crested wheat grass of the Russian Caucasus. Scientists, range experts and livestock growers grow-ers inspecting that great area from the Weber River to the Wyoming Wy-oming line found remarkable headway being made towards reestablishing re-establishing grass as the main watershed cover. The crested wheat grass, requiring nothing but planting, is a product of Russia's bleak arid steppes and finds Utah's land and climate ideally suited to rapid and luxuriant lux-uriant growth. Cattle fed excessively ex-cessively on this grass will gain 100 pounds per month. Road Cheifs Tour Southern Utah Southern Utah roads were the object of close inspection during the past few days by Thomas H. MacDonald, United States road commissioner, Representative J. W. Robinson, Governor Herbert B. Maw, and state highway officials. of-ficials. Hospital Serves Wide Area One hundred and five miles from the nearest railroad, the newly built Kanab hospital provides pro-vides health services for residents resi-dents of 14,000 square miles of southern Utah. Modern in every respect, the services of the institution in-stitution are well received in the region. The hospital is owned and operated by Kane County. Map Expenditures In an effort to create a better Utah for residents and tourists alike, the following proposed expenditures ex-penditures have been outlined by the State Publicity and Industrial In-dustrial Development Commission; Commis-sion; Thirty thousand dollars for a road from Hanksville to the Colorado river at Hite, thence across the Colorado by ferry to the natural bridges in San Juan county to tie in with the present road; Fifteen thousand dollars for construction of a road from Navajo Lake to the access road which taps the Mt. Carmel highway; high-way; Fifty thousand dollars for building a road from the main highway near Huntsville into Snow basin; the improvement of a road 'into Bonanza, Uintah County where the Barber Asphalt Company plans to spend several million dollars for development. All expenditures by the Utah State Publicity and Industrial Development Commission are for the promotion or the tuorist industry in-dustry and for recreational, scenic and industrial development develop-ment of the state. Utah Farmers Under Survey The reason for the lack of paint on farm homes, sheds, barns and fences in Utah is the cause for a survey now being made by a representative of the LeadTndustries Association, with which Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company, Tintic Standard Mining Company and Silver King Coalition Mines Company are affiliated. af-filiated. Utah lead makes the best white paint, it was pointed out, but little of it reaches Utah farm homes and barns. |