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Show Springvilfe High School senior wins state Elks honor award For the second .consecutive year, a Springville H;gh School senior boy has been named winner of the Utah State Elk's "Most Valuable Student Award," it was learned this week. The winner this year is Ellis El-lis William (Bill) LeRoy, son of Mrs. Priscilla LeRoy, 675 E. 100 S., and the late Ellis Le- Rmr TTia m nt"Vi fir ia n toniVlPT" at Brookside School. Winner of the award last year was Roy Bird, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Bird. Kent Creer, son of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Creer was named Provo Elk's Lodge, winner win-ner in 1964. Bill won the Provo Elk's Lodge Most Valuable Student Award of $100 and was entered enter-ed in state competition. The state award is $800 and he may win as much as $1500 in the national competition, sponsored spon-sored by the Elk's National Foundation in April. The Springville winner has maintained an "A" average throughout junior and senior high school. He was nominated for a Sterling Award in mathematics. math-ematics. He is an Eagle Scout with four palms and takes active ac-tive part in extra curricular activities at school. The elk trapping program conducted by the Utah Department Depart-ment of Fish1 and Game in six areas of the State has been quite successful to date. Up to March 1, 80 elk had been trapped at Hardware Ranch, 13 at Millville, 25 at Bennett Creek, 42 at the Browning Ranch and 81 on Horn Mountain. All of the 42 elk trapped at the Browning Ranch were taken ta-ken to the Department owned Hardware Ranch and released. This was done to alleviate damage by the elk at the Browning Ranch. Elk trapped this year have all been ear tagged with metal tags and ear streamers which are tools used by the Department Depart-ment to study seasonal movements move-ments of the animals. Some have" plastic " collars which should be an aid in observing the animals during their seasonal sea-sonal movements. Other wildlife marking studies stu-dies carried out under the game management program include in-clude trapping and tagging of deer, antelope, and buffalo along with banding of various species of birds such as ducks, geese, swans, pheasants, chukars and mourning doves. Utah received 14 Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep last week from the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission in exchange ex-change for other wildlife. The animals were trapped by personnel of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission. The Bighorns were released in an enclosure of approximately 100 acres constructed by Utah Department personnel last fall in northern Utah on Department Depart-ment land. . The 9 ewes, 1 two year old ram and 4 ram lambs all were wearing bright orange collars and metal ear tags put on by the Wyoming Game a nd Fish Commission at the trapping site. |