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Show Page FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENT shown in the yearly compilation of arrest reports made by Chief Warden Golden Fray of the Utah Department of Fish and (lame. lie cited the considerable increase in arrests for the year as liu- to more alert and uniform enforcement work on the part of department officers as well as the heavy increase in the numbers going afield. Other figures show fines imposed during 1078 amounted to less than during the previous year in spite of the increased number of arrests. The 1078 report lists $30,-7in fines, $s,nsl lib assessed suspended, with actual return being $8(1,707.20. For 1082 fines totaled $17,718, $14,170.30 suspended, final return being $8 ,788.80. A net difference of $780.21 less was re - Arrest reports covering convic- 7. tions for fish and game law violations during 1078 totaled an even 1.700. This compares with l,8;o ai rests and convictions during 1072. These January THE JOURNAL 8 1 and other figures are turned from fines during 10.7, than for the previous year. Further analysis shows the average fine assessed by the courts to have diopped from $28 plus dur82 to $ls plus during 117:;. ing Department officers believe the chief reason for this decrease in the average fine is due largely to the lack of minimum fine figures in the new law code. These were deleted by the law makers this 1 1 year and were previously llievcd to be a guide to the courts when tnh and game law violations were 80, 11)51 site where first releases of this attached. species was made three years ago. violaThe 1,700 arrests covered The chukars were trapped in the law. tions of 17 sections of the wild by Dr. (iardiner Bump of the violaAmong the most common U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and arrests for tions and number of flown directly from Turkey to Salt each were: Failing to tag game bake City. Only stop from wild (till); fishing without a license trapping to release back to the (12s); fishing closed waters (OS); wild was for the quarantine period shotting after hours (72); illegal in New York. possession of game (lib); shootThis shipment brings the total season of (.71). out birds ing game number of wild chukars from Tui-ke- y Nine hunters were arrested for released at the Sevier County failure to wear red while hunting site to 717 birds. It is the last big game as prescribed under the phase of the three-yea- r federal aid new code for 117:;. program to establish the wild spe- number- cies in this area. If other birds are show only 21 ing 178 birds recently arrived by leceived through the Service, they cases being dismissed by the courts air freight from Turkey, according will be released into new sites. to spokesmen for the Utah DeSuccess of the wild chukar plant as compared with 80 for 11 72. on Wild chukar partridge trial. Further figures seems assured as numbers of young Confiscations of illegally used partment of Fish and (lame. eviThey were released immediately broods of birds have been in equipment included 2d guns and s fishing poles with reels and lines into the Sevier County planting dence during the past two years, according to the spokesmen. j jjo chukar partridge have been released into is other chosen areas over the state during the three years of the program to establish this bird in Utah. Birds for all but the Sevier plant have been raised at state game bird farms. A taw I n m total of 7,717 pike recently taken in Utah Lake showed exceptional growth since planted there in June of 1!72. The fish weighed one and three-quartpounds and measured 1.7)7 inches in length. Apparent success of the walleyed pike plants made during the past three years in ten waters over the state is indicated by the return of this species from the seven waters planted during the first two years. A walleyed er j Your New Social Security Info Utah school teachers and other employees of the Board of Education were recently included in the Social Security program, according to Grant S. Williams, representative of the Salt Lake office, 212 South West Temple. Salt Lake City, Utah. Those teachers and employees who are still working and receiving Social Security benefits should contact our office right away, said Mr. Williams. Failure to do so may result in overpayments which will have to be repaid, he said. Every drop of Glenmore is distilled and bottled by us only! We do not buy whiskey to bottle it under the Look for this phrase on every bottle of straight whiskey you buy. If the word "DISTILLED is missing and the label reads "bottled by or "bottled for, then you should ask yourself these frank questions: Glenmore label. You know what youre getting 'when you buy Glenmore. You know you are getting a uniform product of one of the oldest, most respected distilleries in Kentucky. Who distilled this whiskey? Where was it made? the whiskey bought elsewhere by the distillery that bottled it? Was ,f Distilled and look for the words, Bottled by and when you see the name Glenmore as well, you know youre buying the best. So What am I really getting for. my money? L3EIIMICLDHIIH d5 BOURBON KENTUCKY 86 S PROOF T R A I G T H GLENMORE DISTILLERIES LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY , v.s.Xx .X, .. ... .... . . ... ..... ' .v.Xv. '- .. s.s J - ... 'W .v ,x. ... ' ... .... . V... V... - .V ,nvn.v,. y COMPANY further: explained formerly the.ir school jobs were not covered by Social Security. They could therefor receive Social Security benefits while so working. Now that the jobs are covered, they should not accept a Social Security benefit for any month in which earnings exceed $77.00. A representative of OASI will be in Davis County on February Oth, 1074. Anyone desiring help or information in connection with OASI should contact the Salt Lake City office, and they will arrange a time and place to meet the representative at a nearby town. He SERVING US 24TH DIV. , KOREA Army Pfc. Larry K. Hawk, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Mecham, 301 Frances Ave., Layton, Utah, is serving in Korea with the 24th Reconnaissance Company which recently adopted an orphange. After bringing food and clothing to the orphans at Christmas time as part of the 24th Infantry Div- isions Operation Goodwill, the men of the company decided tc continue their visits and contribu- tions throughout the year. Hawk entered the Army in 10.72 and completed basic training at Fort Ord, California. De-comb- |