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Show The Sports Line Successful applicants have been selected by a public drawing draw-ing for the seven limited buck antelope hunts. 308 applications were received for the 160 permits per-mits allocated for the seven hunting units by the Board of Big Game Control. All hunting areas were oversubscribed over-subscribed except for the San Raphael Desert unit on which only twelve applications were received for the 25 permits allocated. al-located. As in the past, Board ruling decrees that the unsubscribed unsub-scribed permits will go unused and will not be opened to re-application. re-application. Antelope permits will be mailed this week to successful found in the semi-arid or desert des-ert range lands. The annual proclamation covering cov-ering the mourning dove season will soon be published and reprints re-prints of the governing rules and regulations will be available avail-able to the public in about a week. The proclamation lists the changing shooting hours each day, bag limits, closed areas and all other regulatory measures. The department of fish and game reminded today that the application deadline for elk and moose permits is 12:00 midnight, mid-night, August 22. Any letters postmarked later than this date & hour will be returned to the sender. Applications for elk permits must be made only in the special spec-ial envelopes issued for this purpose. They may be obtained obtain-ed at department offices or from license agents over the state. applicants, as will the application applica-tion fee to those who were unsuccessful un-successful at the public drawing. draw-ing. The hunting season, first of Utah's big game hunts this year, is set for two, three-day weekends on all antelope units, August 22-23-24, 29-30-31. The mourning dove season, first of the upland game bird hunts, will begin September 1, with the whole state being opened op-ened to hunting except for the parts of Box Elder, Iron, Salt Lake and Utah counties. Surveys conducted by the department de-partment of fish and game show a bumper crop of doves at hand in most sections of the state. Spokesmen noted that the best dove producing and hunting areas are usually |