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Show I News Notes j - t From All Parts of ! UTAH I Park City. Representatives of churches and fraternal organiations niet the past week and appointed soliciting so-liciting committees to raise funds from business houses and the mines and mills for the relief of Councilman Council-man A. H. Addy and George Street and their families, who were burned out of house ami home recently. It was also decided to give a benefit ball for the unfortunates in the near f ture. Ogden. There will be virtually a peach crop failure in the vicinity of Ogden and Iirighnm City next year as a result of the recently extremely cold weather, according to tests made by Leroy Marsh, state agriculture inspector. in-spector. Twigs taken from nearly a score of orchards and placed in greenhouses green-houses indicate that 98 per cent of ; the buds were frozen, he said. Tests made in Utah county were reported as showing similar damage. Bingham. The Monfana-Binghnm mine, which has been closed down for more than a year, will resume operations opera-tions at once with J. E. Bergh in charge as superintendent. This property pro-perty contains both lead and copper ore and was a steady producer even in 1921, when only one other property was operated in this district. Ogden. Efforts to obtain an appropriation ap-propriation of $85,(100 for the building build-ing of an ormory in Ogden will ba renewed by the chamber of commerce and to this end Senator John S. Lewis Lew-is has been asked to lay the proposition propo-sition before Governor Dern. This was rejected by Governor Mabey two years ago and not placed in the budget. bud-get. Salt Lake City A city zoning bill recommended by the Salt Lake zoning zon-ing and planning committee was approved ap-proved by the board of governors of the chamber of commerce with an amendment and will be introduced in the lower house of the state legislature legisla-ture by Representative Nephi Hansen, a member of the committee. Logan. Five men were honored by Scabbard and Blade, a national military mili-tary fraternity, at the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college, when, in ceremonies conducted con-ducted by the officers of the local chapter, they were pledged to become members. The entire R. O. T. C. unit at the college was assembled in the Smart gymnasium to witness the ceremonies. cer-emonies. Salt Lake City. Increase of severity sever-ity in the punishment legally provided provid-ed for drugged and drunken drivers, of motor vehicles is the object of a. bill introduced by Senator Lewis of Weber county. The bill raises the classification of such offense from misdemeanor to felony and increases the minimum punishment from a $5 fine and ten days in jail to $1000 and from one to five years in jail. Other features of the proposed statute would confiscate vehicles found to be driven by drivers under such influence and the restraining of such drivers from further operating motor vehicles. ve-hicles. Salt Lake City. Headlights in Governor Gov-ernor Dern's message to the legislature legisla-ture are: 1.. We shall never be assured assur-ed of the intelligent voting until we' adopt the headless ballot. The present pre-sent election machinery in regard to-the to-the form of ballot presupposes a degree de-gree of illiteracy and ignorance that we should be ashamed to admit. 2. The e ection of the judiciary and the state superintendent of instruction a year fallowing the presidential election vould go far toward taking these important im-portant branches of government out of politics. 3. Any expenditure that will cut down doctor bills and funeral funer-al expenses and save human lives is-well is-well spent. 4. An efficient judiciary is essential in good government, 5. The benefits of the 'department of finance and purchase have not been commensurate with the expense to-justify to-justify its retention. 6. The state-should state-should live within its means. The chief concern should not be to seek new sources of revenue, but to decrease de-crease expenditure. 7. The accomplishments accom-plishments of a legislative session are not to be measured by the number num-ber of new laws enacted. 8. The most pressing question in government today to-day is economy. 9. If the interior department's position in state lands is sustained it will leave title to all state lands in chaos. 10. The solution solu-tion for compensation for victims of automobile accidents is extremely complicated. 11. I believe that every sound thinking man and woman is favorable to proper regulation of the labor of children and the only ques- tion involved is whether regulation should be state or national. Park City. Sheriff Joe Clark came up from Coalville this week and appointed ap-pointed John Jackson as deputy to succeed W. R. Jefford, resigned. Mr. Jackson is a long-time resident of this city and a well known mining operator. opera-tor. His appointment meets with general approval. Ogden. An early morning blaze of unknown origin gnawed into the j headhouse and six cylindrical eleva- I tors of the Utah Cereal Products I company here and damaged $150,000 ! bushels of grain, and caused an esti- j mated loss of $150,000. I I I |