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Show Forest Notes The Civil Service Retirement BIT .rovides that' beginning August 1. 920, 2Vz per pent of all salaries o:' ederal Employees will be deductec wach month and converted into b und which will be used for caring 'or the employee after retiremen? rom the Government Service. The 'jnds thus taken will 'draw interest ' . t the rate of 4 per cent and will be compounded annually. The full j imount deducted, with interest, will be returned to any employee upon lis or her separation from the Ser- 1 vice should it occur before he or she I .eaches the age of retirement. Had i his bill been effective early in the j Service there are some of the offlcrs if Manti who would now have suffi- i ient funds coming to them to en- I o.ble them to buy a Ford car or per- I haps pay for their winder's coal, j Vnyway it would have been like find- j ng it if we only had it coming and I row and I cannot see that we would j have greatly missed the small -imount each month. j From the large number of trespass J :asses we have coming up just now, ind the interest some people are j taking in looking after their unper- nitted stock, it is readily apparent 1 that our rangers are on the job. fi T. W. Norcroas,' Assistant Chief j Engineer of the Bureau of Public 9 Roads, J. P. Martin, District Engin- g eer of the Bureau of Public Roads 5 with headquarters at Ogden, were fj office visitors on Avjgust 27. Their jjj business in Ephraim was to look over H he Ephraim section of the Ephraim- 8 Eg Orangevillo Road. Owing to the jg secent heavy storms the roads were M next to impossable for cars. How- jjj ever, they succeeded in driving as jg far as the land slide on Tom's Dug- tjj way from which point they walked H to where the men are working near m the top. They left for Heber via J Henry Ford route that evening, vow- H ing that the next time they visited W, the Manti Fores they would be eq- fiuiped with good wollen underwear j and heavy overcoats, notwithstand- 3 ing our assurances that It was de- f ri.iedly anusual for the Manti to j tneet with real snow storms during j 'he month of August. The Ephraiin-Orangeville Road iF ?fj t ow passable tn - teams for the en- flj 'ire distance. The road workers iE are busily engaged ir putting in B drains, bridges, and in surfacing the read. ;:' Invitations havo bona sent out to Jg "A members of the local livestock gE associations to be present at least rS durirg the first two diys of the Ranger Meetirig to be held at the St. Great Basin Experiment Station Sept 1 and 2. 'The Supervisor's office will be - e'y glad to secure information as to the person or persons breaking the Forest For-est gate at the Forest Boundnrv. j Pending this information it has been j necessary to repair the gate to save it from being completely destroyed Possibly we should have replaced the gate with a heavy . swinging, Mumsy gate that would require some, effort to open and close. Users : of the road would then no doubt have been a little more anxious to pary or parties who broke the old gate. j jr-mti Forest is planning or County Fair to be - held at Manti luring tho -tatter pqrt of September. , rhe district office has kindly con- i :ented to loan Wa part of their jxhibit material for use at the Fair it Manti. , ' i J |