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Show Fish-Came Board Names Director Harold S. Crane has been appointed ap-pointed director of the Utah Department De-partment of Fish and Game. The appointment was made with the unanimous support of the state's five man game commission com-mission and full approval of Gov. George D. Clyde. He will serve through March 15, 1961, as he fills the unexpired unex-pired term of former director J. Perry Egan, who died in January after serving in this office for more than eight years. Crane, a life long resident of the state, moves into the director spot following ten years of service serv-ice with the department. For eight of these years he was in charge of the game management program and for the past seven months had served as acting director di-rector during Egan's illness. He was born in Draper 36 years ago and for the past several sev-eral years has resided in Salt Lake City with his wife and three children. His schooling includes both B.S. and M.S. degrees in the fish and wildlife fields from the University of Utah. Crane and the department have received recognition and honors during the past several years through his work in the game management fields. A reorganization plan and other general department of fish and game busines was acted on during a recent special meeting of the commission. The plan to reorganize the department was tentatively approved by the commission, com-mission, subject to further study, changes and approval of the governor. Such a plan has been studied and discussed several times over the past year. It would call for a staff and line operation with the eventual setting up of four regional offices of-fices over the state. Headquarters would remain in Salt Lake ft where a reduction of divisK-U would be made with the nine in operation being reduced to six Major change in this respect would be accounted for by consolidation con-solidation of the engineering, federal aid and river basin stud-ices stud-ices divisions into a field services division. |