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Show 137 Utahns Take Survival Course Some 137 sportsmen from Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Kane, Salt Lake, Utah and Weber counties have completed an instructor's course in survival training by January 1, the Utah State Department De-partment of Fish and Game has announced. Highly endorsed by the National Na-tional Rifle Association, the course is designed to train sportsmen sports-men as instructors in safe gun handling and survival afield. This is the first step in training all first time hunters in the elements ele-ments of hunting safety. High hopes were expressed that the program would soon encompass the entire state and that all teenagers teen-agers will have completed the course by the time they make application for their first hunting hunt-ing license. All available help is needed to carry out the program and interested in-terested persons were urged to enroll in the training course at their earliest opportunity. Beginning in January, the instructor's in-structor's course will be taught on a regularly scheduled basis in Logan, Salt Lake, Provo, Ogden and Price. Meeting times and the beginning date for instruction instruc-tion will be made known at a later date. j Groups in cities other than the one mentioned who wish instructor instruc-tor training were asked to contact con-tact Utah State Department of Fish and Game offices, 1596 W. North Temple. |