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Show Big Buck, but Not Big Enough! The biggest buck this year as recorded in Miller's Big Buck Contest was brought in by a Moab man, but it still didn't exceed the record. At least this was the situation Tuesday night and there was still a full day to go for hunters to compete for the prizes. As of Tuesday night the biggest buck of this season was gotten by Dwayne Dull of Moab. Dull's buck had a box measurement of 59 and one-eighth inches, just three-eighths three-eighths of an inch shy of the record buck brought in by Mrs. Alene Scharf in 1965. Dull, then, missed winning the Miller's prize of $390. Second place winner, if Tuesday's results weren't beaten the next day, was Mr. Calvin Coleman of Es-condido, Es-condido, Calif., who brought; in antlers displaying a width of 28V2 inches which up to Tuesday night rated the second se-cond prize. Coleman was one of the examples of out-of-state hunters hun-ters coming to southeastern Utah to hunt. He is a contractor con-tractor in the Escondido, California area and has been coming here for the past eleven el-even years. Coming with him for the past five years were two companions, Louis Whyte and Charles Kearns. Whyte is the Fire Chief of the city of Escondido and Kearns is the Assistant Supcrintenden: of Palomar Observatory containing con-taining the world's largest telescope. The three men have been here several times tim-es for summer vacations with their families and have plans to retire in Moab. "V Coleman got his buck at about the 9000 foot level of LaSal Pass. It was a 13 point buck with a total box measurement meas-urement of 542 inches. The ; . . x V t " . vfrv ': i :.- " ' ?) g i. n f I Jr -ji - ? - l.(4rV - ffl - it - California hunters Whyte, Coleman nd Kearns (lef t to right) were among the many visrtors (to tthe Moab larea for the good deer hunting. All thriee men have been coming to Moab for five years to hurtr, and plan evelntually fo netirt in Moab. second place prize to be awarded aw-arded to Coleman was a $40 Teton Jumbo sleeping bag, providing no other buck witu a wider spread was recorded by Wednesday night. D. L. Taylor registered the buck with the most points as of Tuesday night. Taylor's buck had 16 points and his third place prize is tentatively tentativ-ely a five gallon Kool Can Insulated Cooler. Alden Newell of Moab was the one closest to the fourth prize Tuesday night. His smallest two point buck had a box measurement of nine and three-fourths inches. Tuesday night results of the contest indicated that there would be no first place winner. To do so a hunter would have to bring in a buck with a box measurement measure-ment totaling more than 591-! inches which was the specimen speci-men of Mrs. Alene Scharf in 1965. Although it's not officially in Ihe contest, there's a bigger big-ger buck than this to beat. It's the one belonging to Brig Laren of Miller's hardware department which shows a total box measurement of 63 and fifteen-sixteenths inches. ator candidate, Milton L. Weilenmann was introduced after which he answered many vital questions posed by the women. Also present were Commissioner Beyler and Representative E d Drake. Mr. Van Welch was unable to be present. Refreshments were serve.f after whichh President Palma Jacobs conducted a shorS I business meeting for mem- I bers after which meeting was adjourned. |