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Show Juveniles Advised To Take Course On Gun Training The Utah Department of Fish and Game estimates that some 6.000 juveniles who expect to go hunting this fall have yet to qualify for a hunting license by passing the gun training safety course sequired by law. With the beginning of the 1961 hunting season only weeks away, department spokesmen reminded remind-ed all first time juvenile hunters to enroll in the nearest hunter safety school and complete the training required by Utah hunter safety law. The law requires any first time purchaser of a hunting license under the age of 21 years to complete this training course or its equivalent. All juveniles under un-der 17 years must complete this course and show a certificate in evidence of same when applying for a hunting license. Juveniles over the age of 16 years must present the required certificate, its equivalent such as ROTC, basic military or National Rifle Association training, or their hunting license from the previous pre-vious year. The department said instructors instruc-tors are available and classes being given in communities in the State. This state agency conducts con-ducts a continuing program to teach and qualify certified instructors in-structors in all sections, with the recent qualifying of 115 new instructors in south-state communities com-munities bringing the total to over 3000 available teachers. To obtain information concerning con-cerning date and place of hunter safety classes, juveniles or parents par-ents should contact the nearest conservation officer, local fish and game office, or nearest National Na-tional Guard commander. The gun safety training law was designed to reduce gun accidents acci-dents and create more pleasure afield through the current program pro-gram which became effective in 1960. Utah's hunting accidents were reduced some 47 per cent last year, with this new training and qualifications believed to have played a major role in this reduction. |