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Show Game Associations Protest Plan To Kill Deer On Dixie Preserve At a meeting called by the Cedar City Game association on last Saturday with representatives present from all game associations in the Dixie district present, a protest was registered with Newell B. Cook, state fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, against further reductions reduc-tions in the deer herd on the Dixie national forest. Speakers explained that there was a much higher kill in younger bucks this year indicating, they said, that the herd was being greatly reduced. They also pointed out that there was a sharp decline this year in the number of hunters who secured their deer. While Bryan Lund, president of the Washington county association, said that he agreed that there were certain areas where it might be advisable to remove deer, he suggested that the annual loss on the forest might also be greater than was estimated. He also pointed point-ed out that there were many deer killed on the Nevada ranges and perhaps many who did not come back to the Dixie range after leaving it. He called attention to (Continued on page four) Three Hundred and Fcrty-Seven Attend Boy Scout Fathers and Sons Banquet (Continued from first page) Veyo, 5; Gunlock, 2; Washington, 5; Ml. Trumbull, 2. A total of Sl.V) of a S150 quota was laken at the banquet. However sinee the banquet there have been several donations. The Ilotary club had seventeen pre-si'tit pre-si'tit for the best organization representation re-presentation and sinee the last meeting of the club, Commissioner R. Glen Smith reports that the flub came through with a hundred per cent donation. It is believed that the quota will be reached when all moneys are in. Wilkinx Toast master The meeting w;is called lo order by Chairman, W. W. Mc-Arthur. Mc-Arthur. who turned it over to J. Ralph Wilkins as toastmaster. Community singing, led by Commissioner Com-missioner Smith opened the evening's even-ing's entertainment after which the following program was presented: pre-sented: vocal solo, Lee Milne, accompanied ac-companied by Mra. Mae Pace; violin duet, Milton and Stanley Schmutz, B. Glen Smith accompanist; accom-panist; mouth organ selections, Carlos Lang; vocal duet with guitar accompaniment, Walter Fullerton and Dwane Wood; jn-strumenlal jn-strumenlal duet, Joe Talley and Paul Nielson, Miss Clara Wood-house, Wood-house, accompanist; talk, "A, visit to the national jamboree" by scout D. C. Watson; instrumental trio, by Jay Huntsman, Herbert Pitch-forth Pitch-forth and Dean Snow, accompanied by Helen Cannon and the following scouters and fathers responded to toasts: Bishops of the various wards in the St. George Stake, Pres. W. O. Bentley, Mayor Albert E. Miller, District Attorney Ellis J. Pickett, Roy A. West, Captains Klenk and Curtis, Supt. Milton E. Moody, Representative W. B. Mathis, Commissioner B. Glen Smith, and scout representatives from Gun-lock, Gun-lock, Veyo and Mt. Trumbull. Speakers Praise Scouting Speakers reminded the group of the important part which scouting plays in the development of the boys of the nation. District Attorney At-torney Pickett declared that he had never had to prosecute a boy scout. The L.D.S. church was given credit for the part that it has played in scouting in this state. Mayor Miller told of the appreciation apprecia-tion of city officials for the important im-portant work that scouting was doing in this city. Superintendent Moody stressed the need for a closer companionship between fathers and sons. Tributes were paid to the men who were backing scouting in this section and to the women and girls who made the banquet possible. |