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Show More fishing as weather warms Along with warm spring-weather spring-weather comes an increase in Utahns out for some early fishing. Department of Fish and Game officers have noted an increase in fishing pressure on several of the waters now open to angling on year-round basis. Deer Creek and Minersville Reservoirs have shown an increase in-crease in fishing pressure and success along with other year-round year-round fishing favorites such as Flaming Gorge and Lake Powell. Pow-ell. Success on Lake Powell is expected to pick up with warming temperatures when the bass and trout become more active. Ice cover on Flaming Gorge is thin and anglers are cautioned cau-tioned about venturing onto the ice to fish. The ice is disappearing dis-appearing rapidly and anglers would be using their better judgement if they fished from the bank. Anglers are now picking up walleyes in the lower Provo River and in Utah Lake as these fish begin their spawning spawn-ing activities. This spawning run should reach a peak this week. Fishermen are reminded that the 1964 fishing license is still valid and must be in your possession pos-session while angling through April 15, 1965. Consult the 1965 angling proclamation for other rules and regulations now in effect for 1965. make it possible for telephone users to place a three-minute station-to-station call anytime between 8:00 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. and all day on Sundays to any place in the continental United States for $1.00 or less. This is noteworthy when one .considers the general consumer's consum-er's price index for goods and services has tripled during the past fifty years. This means that the $20.70 rate charged in 1915, would be equivalent to over 60 of today's dollars. The first transcontinental telephone line consisted of four large copper wires strung on 130,000 poles and provided three talking circuits. It served the country adequately as there were only three calls from coast to coast on an average ave-rage working day. Today, there are ten transcontinental communications com-munications systems in operation opera-tion consisting of microwave, cables or open wire providing over 25,000 circuits that may be used for talking, radio or television, teletype or automatic automa-tic data transmission. These facilities are interconnected with 96.8 per cent of the telephones tele-phones of the world. |