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Show I Reclamation Lxpi ains How to minimize damage to fish and still make Provo river ' channel improvfments necessary to the Deer Creek project was the subject of a recent discussion' between representatives of the Provo River Waterusers' association, associ-ation, the bureau of reclamation and state fish and game director Rosa Leonard. Mr. Leonard was assured by bureau and project , represent atives that every care would be taken to avoid fish damage, and told it was the belief oLmen connected con-nected with the project that whatever damage might result would be only temporary. The channel revision will halt serious washing and overflowing at many places thus eliminating conditions con-ditions which are in themselves' very Injurious to fish life, bureau membsr contended. Director Leonard explained that his department has received re-ceived numerous complaints from sportsmen objecting to - channel widening operations on portions of the Provo River Ri-ver between the Deer Creek reservoir and a point below Lemon's Grove on the upper Provo where surplus waters from the Weber river are diverted di-verted into the Provo. river for storage in Deer Creek reservoir. Mr. Leonard also expressed concern regarding rumors that the channel widening will have to be extended upstream, possibly pos-sibly as far as the outlet of the Duchesne tunnel. Fisher Harris, general counsel for the Provo River Waters association, as-sociation, agency which acts for the government on the Deer Creek project, explained that the channel revision is a necessary part of the Provo. river project required to be constructed by the bureau of reclamation pursuant to a contract between the water users and the United States government. gov-ernment. Mr. Harris: said: "Nothing has been done or will be done that is not absolutely essential es-sential in obtaining from the Weber and Duchesne watersheds a water supply for agricultural, domestic and industrial use in Utah and Salt Lake counties. "Even though the channel widening is absolutely essential In putting this water to higher use, both the association and the bureau have always had in mind and will continue to bear in mind.! fitting their operations to thej preservation of wildlife and fish- Fishing Regulations Changed By State SALT LAKE CITY. April 5 (U.R) Reorganization of Utah's" 1947 fishing season came out of a meeting meet-ing of the Utah fish and game commission yesterday. j The group decided to cut two! weeks off the end of the season,! reduce daily fishing hours andi made a slight change in limits. The commission said the opening j day would be Saturday. June 14 for waters under 7,000 ft. eleva-! tion and Tuesday. July 1, for waters over 7.000 ft. i By a four to one vote the com-j mission aecioea 10 close ine season two weeks earlier than last year's Oct. 31 closing date. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES! Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES PELTS FUSS and dead and useless animals. Pelt prices for dead and useless use-less sheep. Prompt Service UTAH HIDE & ? TALLOW CO. 3 Miles West of Spanish Fork Phone 38 Wideni TUNING-UP I m WASHING x POLISHING x LUBRICATION I VTUNE-UP m i STATE INSPECTIO 1 MARCH 15 GET YOUR CAR . .Exclusive LINCOLN-MERCURY DEALER wsmm MOTOR USONo. 5th Weif- Bureau rrovo niver ing lo fisherman ing resources as far as is physically physical-ly possible." ' Mr. Harris pointed out that all of the land along the Provo river is in private ownership and that a number of damage suits had been filed against the association. "Whether justified or not," said Mr. Harris, "these law suits had to be averted by so confining the waters of the ' river as to keep them from spreading to adjacent farms. The bureau of. reclamation is charged by contract with the accomplishment of " this work, namely, revision of the river channel." E, O. Larson, regional director di-rector for the bureau of reclamation, rec-lamation, declared that flooding flood-ing easements had been obtained ob-tained wherever practicable, in order to avoid any interference inter-ference whatever with angling values. He added that efforts to obtain flooding easements would be continued con-tinued and asserted that the. widening work has' and Is being confined to those sections sec-tions where there Is no alternative. al-ternative. r Mr. Larson pointed out that the bureau's work has been confined to widening the channel and to removing log jams or other obstructions. ob-structions. Deepening; the channel chan-nel would cause such an increase in velocity of the stream in high water that washing op overflowingconditions overflow-ingconditions more detrimental to fishing than channel widening operations would result. "Future flood control operations opera-tions being studied in connection with the proposed Bates reservoir reser-voir on the upper Provo river will bring a better regulation of the river than has existed before Weber river water was diverted into the Provo river," Mr. Larson said. L. R. Dunkley, bureau engineer in charge of construction on the Provo River Project, expressed a conviction that loss of favorite holes and other effects of channel chan-nel widening deemed injurious to fishing are more or less temporary tempor-ary in nature and that in time the river will establish new "holes" and new conditions comparable com-parable to those that previously existed. Mr. Dunkley reported that part of the channel revision program will aid in this reestablishment of fishing values. Revetments, placed in portions of the river where it has been widened, will provide small fishing holes and resting places for trout, he believes. be-lieves. The revetments consist of war surplus steel mats of the type used for emergency landing fields in the South Pacific. The mats will be crosswise in the river forming obstructions braced by timbers and anchored with rocks. Concerning rumors that the Provo river is to be widened all the way upstream from Lemon's Grove, the Bureau officials stated that only removal of minor "bottlenecks" will be necessary because of the small flow of water to come from the Duchesne tunnel in comparison to the size of the Provo river. Also, it was pointed out that there is comparatively com-paratively little farm land above Lemon's Grove and it is anticipated antici-pated there will be negligible flooding of these lands. Recent enactments of congress have strengthened the bureau's close liaison with the fish and wildlife service regarding fish and wildlife protection in the construction of new projects. Mr. Larson pointed out. The wildlife service is now given funds, to investigate in-vestigate these aspects of proposed propos-ed construction concurrently with the bureau's investigations. Also, all reports of the bureau are submitted sub-mitted to the states concerned for their review and objections, if any, before congress receives them, in accordance with provisions provis-ions of the 1944 flood control act. Miami Beach has one of the' largest salt water swimming pools ;in the world. It holds 1,000,000 I gallons. ft - a 1 TIME 5? i i x BRAKE RELINING I If your car is tired offer a long win- m ter of constant use . . . bring it in to f our expert trained mechanics. We'll M give it a spring housecleaning that m will make it purr on the road. Latest si equipment, genuine parts, sensible prices. m to JUNE 15 CHECKED EARLY! COMPANY Provo, Utah Meeting Slated For Organizing Softball Loops Representatives of all groups In the city who arc planning to sponsor a Softball team In the various city leagues this summer are invited to meet Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. in the city recreation office to work out league mem' bershlp and park schedules, Jes sie Schofield, recreation director, announced Saturday. There will be at least three night, leagues In the city this summer, and possibly more if present plans go through, and teams representatives should be at the meeting to get lh their bids for league membership. The! Major league, which will play twice a week at Harmon nark, will be limited to six teams. Already several teams, including Utah Valley Glass And Paint, Oscar Carlson's and Smeath's Shopping Center, have expressed intention of joining the loop. The Recreation league, which will probably not be limited to six teams, will also play two nights a week. Teams from the veterans organizations, and several sev-eral members of the league of last year will have representatives at the meeting. - The Geneva Steel company has been invited to form a league among their employees, and present pres-ent indications are that they will be the third league in town. The M Men loop and the Elders league, both of whom were active last year, will probably form again this year, giving Provo a well balanced all-around softball season, Miss Schofield stated. Player Pension In Effect In Major Leagues CINCINNATI, O., April 5. (U.R) A pension plan for baseball players was a working reality today to-day with the 16 major league teams footing the bill for the premiums pre-miums and three-fourths of the annuities cost. The plan has been in effect since April 1, Baseball Commissioner Com-missioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler said. The idea was concocted at last year's meetings meet-ings between major-league magnates and players' committees, com-mittees, i Chandler said the scheme provided pro-vided for monthly payments ranging from $50 to $100. depending de-pending on length of service, to qualified players, coaches, and trainers. The retirement age will be 50. but for those now over 40 it will be 10 years after they join the plarv Those now over 60 will be eligible after only five years. Players wfll make yearly payments pay-ments ranging from $45.45 for those with less than 87 days of service to $454.75 for full season players with more than eight-and-a-half years service. After a player has contributed $2,500, his yearly contribution will be held to $250. Players who do not stick in the majors long enough to qualify for an annuity will get back all they have contributed, con-tributed, pins two per cent compound Interest. In addition. Chandler said the clubs have made arrangements with the Equitable Life Assurance Assur-ance company of the United States to insure players for from $5,300 to $10,600 for as long as they are in the majors or on op-1 tion to a minor league team. FIGHTING FRANK WINS JAMAICA RACE NEW YORK. April 5 (U.R) Fighting Frank, one of the few horses who holds a decision over mighty Armed, sprinted to a nose victory in the $20,000 Paumonok Boat Lets Them Down - .. .. Members of Middlesex Hospital O Lee Craft and Rubber Boots. O Martin and Mercury Motors. O Surf -Boards and Water Skis. O Swim Caps, Swim Fins, Goggles, Nose Clips and Ear Plugs. O Everything for the Aquatic Fan. A T Innes Sporting Goods 316 WEST CENTER PROVO, UTAH A Shortstop VouId; Help More Than : i , ! Heading: norths coaches Phil Page think of the Jaryis, Foster Card 7ednesday Henry Jones, veteran Provo grappler and Jack Chrlstensen, Logan welterweight, tangle in a best two of three falls wrestling bout Wednesday night at the Provo armory as the headline bout of a seven-bout card. The bouts are sponsored by the VFW sports committee, who have been putting on a weekly series of bouts at the armory to raise funds to pay for the additional bleachers bought by the city recreation department in conjunction con-junction with the VFW. Top boxing event on the card pita Bobby Foster, colored color-ed dynamiter from the Rotary Boys club of Salt Lake City against Sailor Jarvls of Provo In a 135-pound scrap that is a natural. Steve Tido. .Provo, who dropped drop-ped a close decision to Kid Carter Car-ter of Provo last week, tangles with Turk Metsinger, Salt Lake City in a T 60-pound bout that should provide plenty of action. Bert Williams, Rotary Boys Club, Intermountain AAU and Golden Gloves titleholder in the 118 pound class, meets Smokey Zobell of Provo in a tilt that should please the 'crowd. Williams Wil-liams is a terrific puncher for so light a lad and has a persistent boring style that delights the spectators. Larry Elton, Provo meets Virgil Skinner of Salt Lake City; Ronald Johnson, Provo, tangles with Joe Collins, Salt Lake City and Bob Morris, Salem, meets Joe Martinet. Salt Lake in other bouts on the card. The wrestling bout will bring together two old timers who should be well-matched. Both tip the beam at 150 pounds and have been around a long" time. Chrlstensen, who twice wrestled in Provo when bouts were being held at Park Ro She, is younger than Jones, but the skill of the ex-welterweight champ should offset this advantage. Some of the bouts slated for this week are matches from the card of last week. These bouts were postponed when, because of a misunderstanding of dates, the notary Boys punchers failed to ishow up. All the fighters will be on hand this week, however, and some fast, close bouts are ex- , pected. Handicap at Jamaica today where 36,144 fans braved a rainy after noon to welcome Horse racing back to New York. :T'.....y. crew take wetting with smile in sinking finish during London United v v -a a teas uca ivivv(t A and George Kelly and manager Johnny Neun of the Cincinnati Reds hole at shortstop Eddie Miller left them to fill. Follpwing By DeMar Teuseher TRACK OUTLOOK BEST IN YEARS The season is spring, even if the weatherman is doing his best to hang on to winter storms, and in the sports world 4he interest is naturally swinging to the traditional tra-ditional spring sports baseball, golf, tennis and track. Collegiate baseball, unfortunately, unfortu-nately, has not yet taken hold in Utah colleges and golf is being added to the sports curriculum for the first time. Track and tennis, ten-nis, however are old-timers. In track, especially, Intermountain Inter-mountain sports fans will really get their money's worth this year, for Utah will see in action this year some of the finest cinder-path men In the nation performing. The first chance will come April 25 and 28 when Brigham Young university presents their annual Invitational Relays. Every year the sponsors of this big meet invite some outstanding stars for exhibition events. In the past, such stars as Greg Rice, Hugo DeGraf, Bill Stewart and other peerless performers have been at these meets,, This year the men who will appear have not yet been announced, but efforts have been made to secure Les McMitchell and Gil Dodds to match strides in the mile. But the big news In the sports world Is. the NCAA Track and Field championships champion-ships set for the University of Utah stadium on June 20 and 21, which will attract the cream of the crop In the collegiate col-legiate track and field ranks. Word has been received by the University of Utah officials that one of the outstanding performers Vernon Paces Senator Win ORLANDO, Fla.. April 5 (U.R) Paced by Mickey Vernon's three hits, the Washington Senators scored their fourth straight exhibition ex-hibition victory today by downing down-ing the Philadelphia Phillies, 6 to 2. Early (Gus) Wynn went the distance for Washington and scattered scat-tered eight hits while Lew Pos-schl Pos-schl yielded all the Senators' runs in the six innings he worked. Senator officials confirmed reports re-ports that a deal with the St. Louis Browns involving Brownie third baseman Mark Christman was "on the fire." St. Louis is asking $25,000 for the brother of Paul Christman of the Chicago Cardinals football team. - f , .... .-tlx:. .. .. . : . . -ri ' " :.'-:i.-:''-:j!iS:xi.;.? , .. .... . . Master John Reg. 508 SIRE-BIG CHIEF From the Empire Cattle Co. of Arizona DAM-CLAREETTA FEE 25.00 PHONE 3137 BUD HARRIS, Rt. Box 49 PL Grove ah Aspirin 1 w NM -' flNV a 1 1 , the Ball Herald Sports Editor in the world Harrison Dillard, defending NCAA hurdles champ from Baldwin-Wallace college, will be on hand to defend his title. Dillard won both the 120 and 220 yard hurdles at Minneapolis last year. He stepped over the highs in 14.1 seconds and breezed over the low sticks in the fast time of 23 seconds flat and will be odds-on favorite 1o repeat this year. Three of the fastest men in the United States this year will match strides in the 100 and 220 yard dashes. Charley Parker of Texas and Bill Martinsen of Rice have been burning up Southwest tracks this year and Mel Patton of USC has had everything his own way on the Pacific Coast. Parker has barreled over the 100 yard distance in 9.5 seconds, one tenth of a second off the world's mark,, but has been beaten twice this season by Martinsen. Mar-tinsen. Meanwhile, 4ut on the west coast the red-headed Patton roared down the 100 yard straightaway at 9.5 and zipped over the 220 in 20.7 seconds to turn in two of the fastest times in the nation. But these will only be a few of the great Individual and team duels that will come up. USC, perennial NCAA champion. Is determined to regain the team title they lost to Illinois last year. Naturally enough, Illinois is also determined to keep the Utle for another year. Besides Patton, the Trojans will send to Utah Roland Sink, ace miler and two-miler; Syl Hein berg, who heaves the discus 150 feet and over; Al Lawrence, de fending broad-jumping champ and Hubert Kerns, 1941 NCAA 440 champion. The lad upon whom Illinois is pinning most of their hopes is Herb McKenly, speedy Jamaican who rates as tops in the 440 and possibly the 220 or 880, which ever one his coach runs him in. McKenley, who has already ripped off a 46.2 seconds 440, two-' tenth of a second better than thei accepted worlds record, is rated; as top favorite in the quarter-mile. quarter-mile. , In addition, he is also the defending de-fending NCAA 220 champ, having run the distance in 21.3 last year. He may be scratched from the 220 this year because of the increased in-creased caliber of the opposition and run in the 880, a distance at which he probably has no peers in collegiate ranks. .,,Mk TAoi f i"0"!1,,!"! itB JJ?" With men such as these, and try, the Utah track fan will really get his money's worth this year.1 The track outlook is the best in years as is only fitting in 1947,1 the Centennial year of Utah sports. RENTACAR RENT A TRUCK Move your own furniture. By the hour, day or week. P. E. ASHTON 111 South University AT ST U D Quarter Horse . i 3 Weight 1025 lbs. Height 14-3 Will Service at Your Home V. ; ' V V - ..." - ' F -m . . - 10 Sunday, April 6, 1947 MacMitchell To Run Mile In EMJ Invitational Meet; Quinn Tendered Invitation Negotiations are underway to get Tommy Quinn, rated as the second best miler in America today, to-day, to run against Leslie Mac-Mitchell, Mac-Mitchell, touted New York mile runner in the feature exhibition of the Brigham Young University Invitational Track meet April 25-26. MacMitchell has already wired Dr. C. J. Hart, director direc-tor of the meet, that he will be here to ran In the 34th annual spring sports attrac- , tion, and Dr. Hart was hopeful hope-ful that Quinn would also accept ac-cept an invitation to participate. partici-pate. BYU Athletic Director Eddie Kimball, who is in charge of contacting con-tacting .the visiting athletes, is also working to get other ranking rank-ing milers here to compete against MacMitchell and Quinn, if he comes. MacMitchell, who wired his acceptance ac-ceptance earlier in the week, will 7 Flying Anglers Return With Catch Of Bass A planeload of bass was brought back recently by Alvin Jeffs and Harold Jones, Provo's flying fishermen, following an aerial 'journey to Lake Mead near Overton, Nev. Jeffs and Jones reported the finest fishing possible on the big Boulder dam lake, and returned with their plane loaded with the big game fish. The two left Provo at 8 o'clock one morning and were back the next evening. Other recent long hops by Provo's growing group of civilian pilots include a business trip to Los Angeles and return by J. W. Christenson and F. V. Nichols, Mr. Chrlstensen at the controls, and an aerial pleasure jaunt to Los Angeles by Dr. Fred Houston, Hous-ton, American Fork's flying doctor, doc-tor, accompanied by Mrs. Houston Hous-ton and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grif-fen Grif-fen Dr. L. W. Oaks, who shares medical flying honors with Dr. Houston, recently flew to Manti to attend a patient there. Dr. Oaks had patients in Richfield and Vernal whom he visits periodically peri-odically by plane. An interesting event at the Provo airport was the recent flight of Mrs. Inger K. Nybo, Spanish Fork, on her 86th birthday. birth-day. The flight marked the completion com-pletion of a transportation cycle for Mrs. Nybo from ox teams to airplanes. Leonard Wins Reappointment SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 (U.R) Ross Leonard was reappointed Utah fish and game director for. a four year period effective Mav 11, at a meeting of the state listr and game commission Friday. It! will be Leonard's second term. COUGARS WIN ! HAStUALL UOIIBLKHKADEK ! LEWISTON. Ida.. April 5 (U.R) j Washington State College Coug-j ars took a double header from ; Lewiston Normal here yesterday The scores were 2 to 0 and 6 to 2. There are more than 150 locks in the average home. A WING TIPPED WINNER TOE STURDY 10.95 J Dooble6oled for long, long wear. Handsomely rendered by Mansfield. An all round, year round favorite. At- SUNDAY HERALD run a two-mile warmup against local college competition Friday, then' will appear in the feature race of the two-day meet when h atpna.the exhihitinn mile-Sat urday. X, The ex-NY u ace nas long been recognized as one of the premier milers in America, and will hold up the tradition of the caliber of athletes who have appeared before be-fore in exhibitions during the in vitation meet. 4 Quinn, a New jersey athlete, ath-lete, has emerged this year as the number two miler In the nation, second only to gallop- x Ing Gil Dodds, the flying parson. par-son. He has defeated Sweden's Rene Gostaffsen and has been . beaten consistently only by Dodds. The university also plans to bring in other collegiate stars to participate in special events to add spice to the colorful meet. Included In-cluded will be Tex Winter, Uni-versity Uni-versity of Southern California pole vaulter. . Tex competed .in the special senior . college section last year, winning first place honors in the vault, and has hopes of clearing 14 feet this year. Other athletes from the Big Nine and the Pad- i fic Coast will be invited, r "There wilt be some difficulty in getting great collegiate stars on this date because several of the big relay races such as the Drake relays, Penn relays and the -Texas relays are being held on & this same day," Dr. Hart declared. All visiting athletes who take part in the relays will be flown to Provo, Dr. Hart said. Funds to get as many star athletes as pos- . sible were appropriated by the state Centennial sports commit- tee. ! The two-day meet will attract -junior and senior high school trackmen from Idaho, Utah, Ne- vada, Wyoming, Montana and Arizona and junior college entrants en-trants from these states plus Colorado. 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