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Show This Week And Next 1 In The Basin Postmaster J. Austin Pack announced, this week, the appointment appoint-ment of Harold W. Sprouse as rural mail carrier on Route 1 out of Roosevelt. Notification of ihe appointment calls for Sprouse taking over on May 17. The Roosevelt Second ward will sponsor a scries of Sunday-evening Sunday-evening talks on Latter-Day Saint doctrine, Bishop E. J. Nixon announced an-nounced Wednesday. The first in the scries of fifteen talks will be delivered Sunday, May 9, at 8:00 p. m. by Woodrow Nelson. The subject will be: "The LDS Conception Of The Godhead." The discussions are under the direct supervision of the Bishop- ric and will be given each Sunday by Mr. Nelson. The public is invited in-vited to attend, with Bishop Nixon pointing out that non-members of the LDS church will be welcomed. . ' Publishers of weekly newspapers from Region 4 of the Utah State Press Association met Saturday at Duchesne in the last of a series of regional press meetings. Representatives from the Roosevelt Roose-velt Standard, Uintah Basin Record, Wasatch Wave, Helper Jour-" Jour-" nal and the Price Sun-Advocate were in attendance. Roy A. Schon-. Schon-. ian, Utah State Press manager, represented the association's Salt Lake office. Hi-Land Dairy started operations Tuesday. Although not yet ready to manufacture its complete line of dairy products, equip-. ; ment for processing dried milk was turned on this week. In The State U. S. Bond sales under the Utah security loan drive totaled $1,067,026 on May 6 as the 10 weeks savings bond campaign ended, its third week. Sales of Series E bonds in Duchesne county added ' up to $187 for a .3 of the county's goal. Uintah county sales . totaled $2663 for 3.5 of its goal. Total school revenues in Utah jumped from $11,393,668 in , 1940-41 expenditures) to $25,142,000 for 1947-48 or 120 per cent. During the same period average salaries of teachers, principals . and supervisors were increased from $1387 to $2900 (estimated). Total operation and maintenance costs, measured on an average daily attendance basis, increased from $79.42 to $174, These figures were compiled and released this week by the Utah Tax Payers Association. . The Central Utah project is now waiting Congressional approval. ap-proval. Senator Arthur V. Watkins reported from .Washington this week. It is estimated to cost between four hundred and eight hundred million dollars. |