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Show Deer Hunting Good Despite Accidents, Mud, Bad Weather The first three days of this hunting season has been marked by some of the wildest weather seen in this part of the woods for many a winter. Slashing downpours of rain, interspersed by wlnddriven sprinkles and rolling fog banks, with snow in the up- ' lands helped make the hunt- v-hig more of an adventure than usual. Reports from the hills indicate that you risked bogging down the minute you left the oiled roads. According to one weary rescuer at Panguitch Lake there were three hunting parties hauled out of the mud for every deer taken there. Lost In The Woods At least bno hunting party spent longer in the woods than Intended when their automo- 1 . bile slipped off one of the lit- tic side roads into a wash. Mr. Don Worthen and Mr and Mrs. Ray Sevy tried to go up Rock Canyon, starting out. about 2 p.m! Saturday. Mr, Worthcn's '57 Ford sedan -slipped off the road into . a wash and there they were1,'' They decided to stay over-- V night at the scene of the accl- j dent which was near the old ,Henry Worthen homestead. i X At 9 the next morning Mr. Worthen started for Panguitch He borrowed a; horse from c hunting camp - and reached town at four, in the afternoon. J ,A "rescue" party brought the " Sevys to town soon after oh. "yes, they got their deer. ? Desplto, he stormy .weather j 'hunting has been good for tho rugged 'characters who got in- ? to all that weather. Dop ; Chamberlain reported that of 'his 33 hunters at Lake View jResort 17 got their deer the X 'first day. Many parties in the J Jake region reported filling up the first day. Game warden Frank Daly, who has just returned from the Santa Clara checking sta- tion, reports that 3000 hunt- ers checked through ' there with 3000 deer for the first three days of the hunt run- ning a little above the average f of previous years. ? |