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Show SIX MONTH S;AY NEEDED TO BUY RESIDENT LICENSE Utah law requires juveniles to qualify through a gun safety safe-ty training course before they may purchase a license. This reminder came from the department of fish and game today with the first of the late-summer late-summer gun seasons only a few weeks away. The law requires that any person under 21 years of age must show a proper certificate when anolving for their first hunting liev..s. The certificate is issued at the time tho ecu-re is successfully success-fully completed. Only excjp'.ions are Juvenile- r 1! y-ars who may orient a c rtii:ate showing that they have successfully passed the equivalent training in p.r .ied sarvic-r, ROTC, NAR, th ir hun'i-s; license from the previous year. The department said instructors instruct-ors are available and classes are being taught in communities commun-ities thruout the state. To obtain information concerning concern-ing date and place of hunter safety classes, juveniles and or parents should contact the nearest conservation officer fish and game office, or Na-ional Na-ional gaurd headquarters. The gun safety training law for juveniles was designed design-ed to reduce hunting accidents acci-dents and create more pleasure pleas-ure when afield with a gun. Since the law beaame effective ef-fective in 1960 there has been a steady reduction in gun accidents ac-cidents each year. FISH AND GAME SAYS BE CAREFUL WITH FIRES The Utah Department of Fish and Game again joined other resource management agencies in urging all out-doorsmen out-doorsmen to use fire with caution cau-tion during the warm weeks ahead when the fire hazard is acute. The heavy growth of vegetation vegeta-tion following wet spring weather is already becoming tinder dry in many sections of the mountain country and restrictions re-strictions have already been set concerning use of fire along the Wasatch Front. Records continue to show the majority of range fires are man-caused and sportsmen are urged to use extreme care with fire of any kind whenever afield. |