| Show Jeep Posse Enters Telegram Drive To Feed Utah's Utah IS Starving Deer B By Bill Coltrin Utah's Ulah's newly organized jeep posse entered the Telegrams Telegram's campaign to feed the starving deer of ot Utah and Utah wildlife leaders hailed the 50 men and their jeeps for their action The campaign was really rolling roiling Tuesday More than was in the pot to buy feed where it is needed but much of the feed used so 80 far has been donated by public- public spirited ted ci citizens Army trucks were working with the fish and game department Tuesday hauling feed with giant six by sixes through deep snow to the feeding grounds Members of ot the 1948 crow derby committee met l late te Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day and transferred from that derby fund to the emergency deer feeding fund Jimmy James in inar charge ar e of the thc donation cans in the business houses reported the demand for the cans exceeded the supply and that he is planning on distributing another cans uis This will vill make a total of in place and the Salt Lake County Fish and Game which is sponsoring sponsor sponsor- lag ing the cans along with the Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram figures that the cans may bring in as much as 10 each In Salt Lake county the work was being directed at the Salt Lake County F Fish sh and Game clubhouse at Scott ave ant antall and andall andall all persons wishing to donate feed or labor were asked to report there The jeep posse was rarIng raring raring ing to go Tuesday and officials of the feeding program said that tha the 50 rugged cars would be a great help in the drive Bombing Continues Operations Vittles for for tor the starving deer was still going on a aHill at atHill atHill Hill army air force base where th the state and various sportsmen organizations were bringing hay hayand hayand hayand and the air force pilots and enlisted enlisted enlisted en en- listed men were bombing th the deer with feed from the sky Seventy tons of ot hay has been t made available for tor this portion of the activity Ity in the Telegrams Telegram's cam cam- I pai n. n Game wardens Bo Boyd rd Carver and Rulon Francis were directing the he air feeding operations which are re intended to not only feed the animals but feed them far enough back ack in the hills so that the they wont won't come ome down and destroy shrubs and crops in the populated areas Many contributions came to the Telegram sports desk in the Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day ay mail A sample of oC many was the he one received from the em- em plo loyes es of oC the Utah Bank Note Co Keep up the good work the theetter letter etter with the donation said aid Heres Here's something to buy a few dinners for the deer More later if we need It it And there was a nice check enclosed enclosed enclosed en en- closed the total of the collection taken aken at the company Many people have been helping in n other ways than financial Pheasant and quail feeding has been handled almost entirely by owners of oC small farms In outlying ing areas reas And if It can be arranged some ome of the deer feeding might be carried on In this manner E. E E. E Jones ones of Emigration ration canyon has las offered to serve as a one-man one deer feeder if the hay can be brought to him Such arrangements arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments were being made Tuesday The mechanics of oC the spending of oC the Telegrams Telegram's fund were completed completed com corn Monday A special emergency emergency emergency emer gency deer feeding fund has been set up Armand Carr chief clerk of the state fish and game department department department depart depart- ment will be In charge of it but all expenditures must be by W. W A. A Bill Walker Valker secretary- secretary treasurer of the Utah Wild Life Lite federation and by Jimmy James of or the Salt Lake County Fish and Game All for Feed eed Not one cent of ot the money wilbe will wil willbe be used for anything but feed Meanwhile the warnings were repeated again and again Stay awa away from the feeding deer-feeding areas and keep your do dog away Amateur photographers skiers sightseer sightseers and dogs keep the herd moving and that is exactly what hat the authorities authorities authorities ties do not want Witnesses to a snow slide in P Parleys canyon said that the slide was caused when hen dogs got after aCler a 1 herd of deer about head through the deep snow The Th struggling animals started the slide slid that needed four snowplows t to clear i This the feed campaign is bringing wonderful results There is money to buy feed there ther are tr trucks to get it to the fee feed feedlots feedlots lots there are sportsmen willin willing willingto to work and help load and unload the trucks But the program cant can't be as bi bia big biga a success as it should be if It th the public refuses to cooperate i iother in other wasSo ways was So quit bothering the deer ant and the chances are the deer will quit qui bothering you 1 |
