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Show iiiiiiiliill L. Turpin Appiiiiiteil Fisli. Game Director Randall L. Turpin of Salt Lake City, an employe of the Utah Fish and Game department for 20 years, has been appointed director to succeed Ross Leonard. The new appointment came to Turpin by the five-man fish and game commission after several hours of deliberation at a meeting Monday. The vote was unanimous for Turpin after others had been considered. Turpin will take over the office on Oug. 5 when the resignation of Mr. Leonard becomes be-comes effective. Leonard will leave shortly after that date for Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. to be briefed on his new duties as western representative representa-tive of the Wildlife Management institute under Dr. Ira N. Gabriel-son. Gabriel-son. Mr. Turpin, who will assume the duties in the state's highest fish and game post, will bring a wealth of experience with him. He first joined the department in October of 1928 under J. Arthur Meacham, then fish and game commissioner. The new director served suc- , cessively under Newell B. Cook, i Mark Anderson and Ross Leonard. One of the west's recognized I authorities on big game and range 1 management, Turpin has the dis-i dis-i tinction of being the nation's first federal aid coordinator under the Pittman-Robertson federal aid to wildlife probram. It was on his drafting board that the first Pitt-man-Robertson project ever conceived con-ceived came into being. That was in 1938, during the administration of Cook. Since then, Turpin has served continuously as the department's federal aid coordinator. Turpin's appointment will have the state wildlife federation's wholehearted support, according to Verdell Ritchie, Utah Wildlife Federation president. Other business taken up during the meeting included the commission's commis-sion's going on record as being opposed op-posed to the doe kill figures authorized recently for the fall hunt by the board of big game control. |