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Show General warns on danger of artillery shell There is something about an unexploded artillery shell that begs to be picked up. Major General Maurice L. Watts, Utah Adjutant General, begs that you don't. Utah National Guard artillery artil-lery ranges near Camp Williams, Wil-liams, 30 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, border on hunting lands. Twice a year, Guardsmen spend a great deal of time policing po-licing ranges to collect duds. Controlled shooting also eliminates elimi-nates much of the former hazard haz-ard of "dead" ammunition. Despite every effort to scour the area clean of the duds, a few remain undetected, Gen. Watts noted. "We ask hunters and other visitors to the area to use the common sense of hunter safety," he said. "If you see a shell of any size, mark the area and report it to the Utah National Guard, to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's office, or to any police agency." Deaths and critical injuries during the past three years in Utah, resulting directly from the "innocent" handling of dud shells, bear grim witness to the general's advice. "This hunting season, we hope Utah's hunters young and old will avoid the temptation temp-tation of satisfying their cur-iousity cur-iousity by picking up an object ob-ject that could easily be an instrument in-strument of their own death," I General Watts said. |
