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Show . - ' L J ' ' $ : : ; Utah General Deer Season Opens Sat., Oct. 23; Closes November 2 Utah's greatest annual game hunt gets underway next Saturday, October 23, with the opening of the general deer season. Upwards of 125,000 nimrods will trek to the hills this year in pursuit pur-suit of a mule deer trophy, according ac-cording to game department forecasts. fore-casts. The general season lasts through November 2, with either sex animals ani-mals legal game over most of the state. Buck only areas are the popular Vernon, Heaston, Stans-bury, Stans-bury, Tintic units, the West Desert Des-ert area, and a large portion of the trees and shrubs than during the San Juan Desert section in south central Utah. Present field conditions indicate a prime season for deer hunting this year. Much less foiliage on . Holmes' boot was good and the game was tied 7-7. Shipp started the next touchdown touch-down drive with a nine yard dash and then reeled off 20 beautiful yards around right end. Holmes passed to Harmer to put the ball on the Lehi 14 and Francis, the working little demon of the Red Devil squad, ate up the remaining yardage for the second score. The extra point kick was low. Bills scored the final t.d. in the third period after making some outstanding gains throughout the game. The Friday victory kept the Devils in the running for the Region Re-gion crown and if the Springville club can get over the game today, the stage will be set for a grand finale with the undefeated Lincoln Tigers here a week hence. past two seasons with average or heavier deer populations in nearly all areas indicates a high hunter success will ba the rule. Hunter success has been well over fifty per cent during the past four seasons. sea-sons. Game department spokesmen note the following regulations among the many shown in the 1954 deer proclamation covering the coming season. Deer must be tagged immediately immediate-ly at time of kill. It is preferred that the tag be placed in the hock joint. It is unlawful for any butcher, locker, or storage plant to receive an animal unless it is properly tagged. Any person carelessly or negligently negli-gently killing or wounding another person while on a hunting trip shall be subject to license privilege revocation for a1 period of five years. Every person, while hunting big game animals, shall wear conspicuous conspic-uous red headgear and red shirt, sweater, or jacket. The legal pursuit of deer is confined con-fined to daylight hours. It shall be unlawful for any person per-son at any time to hunt, kill, or pursue deer with a dog or dogs. It shall be unlawful for any person per-son at any time to hunt, kill, or pursue deer with a crossbow, shotgun, shot-gun, revolver, pistol, or with a 25-20 calibre, .22 special or any other .22 'calibre rifle except a .22 high power, .22 Hornet, or a .22 Swift or equivalent. A plea for all hunters to make the deer season a safe and sane season was expressed express-ed by Department Director J. Perry Egan. ' |