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Show A new plane designed by Douglas Doug-las Aircraft will carry 50 thousand pounds 12 hundred miles. The United States has about three-fifths of the world's gold stock, 24 million dollars worth. State of Emergency Declared Within State for Wildlife The Utah Pish and Game Commission, Com-mission, meeting in special session ses-sion Saturday in Salt Lake, declared de-clared a state of emergency exists within the state for deer and birds, and have directed the director di-rector to solicit the state and federal governments for financial aids to pull the state's wildlife through the present crisis. The department is low on budgeted bud-geted fish and game funds, the commission reported following the meeting. Chairman Jack Clay of Murray pointed out that the emergency, emer-gency, which has existed for a-bout a-bout six weeks, has pulled heavily on the state funds. Meanwhile, the commission held out hope for a special Pittman-Robertson Pittman-Robertson federal aid project. Two representatives of the Fish and Wildlife Service were on hand Saturday Sat-urday to watch the feeding of deer in the Wasatch Range area. ,Both agreed that the situation was critical, criti-cal, and that they would get right to work on help from the federal government. Other matters of business that came before the commission consisted con-sisted of a study of impending legislation which affects fish and game. The fish and game commission reported that it was in favor of most of the bills submitted to date, but made no comment on the controversial .22 caliber rifle bill (S.B. 65) now being studied in the fish and game committee. The commission did acknowledge that neither the department nor the commission . sponsored the bill as it was written. Next meeting of the commission will be in April. All five commissioners com-missioners were present; they were: Newell Ft1. Frei, George H. Harrison, Frank R. Pace, B. N. Larsen, and John W. Clay. |