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Show FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHTS HAROLD S. CRANE APPOINTED DIRECTOR ! Harold S. Crane has been ap- pointed director of the Utah Department De-partment of Fish and Game. I The appointment was made ! with the unanimous support of i the state's five man fish and game commission and full appro-' val of, Gov. George D. Clyde. j He will serve through 'March : ' 15, 1961, as he fills t,he unexpir-j unexpir-j ed term of former director J. i Perry Egan, who died in Janu-! Janu-! ary afteer serving in this office j lor more than eight years. I Crane, a life long resident of! I the state, moves into the direc-. torship following ten years of. service with the department. For ; eight of these years he was in I i charge of the game management program and for the past seven months bad served as acting di-1 rector during Egan's illness. He was born in Draper, Utah. ' : 3(j vtars ago and for the past 1 ;seveial years has resided in Salt j Lake City with his wife, Louise,! land their three children. ! His schooling includes both B.S. and M.S. degrees in the fish end wildlife fields from the University of Utah. I Crane and the department have received recognition and ' honors during 'he past several I ytut s through his wen k in the ' game management fields. A reorganization plan and e ther general department of fish i and game business was acted upon during a recent special1 meeting of the commission. The plan to organize the de- partment was tentatively appro-1 ved by the commission, subject' to further study, changes and approval of Governor George D. Clyde. SuJh a plan has been studied and discussed several times over the past year. i It would call for a staff and line operation with the eventual setting up of four regional offic- i over the state. Headquarters of-; f ices would remain in Salt Lake ; City, where a reduction of di-i visions would be made with the ' nine presently in operation be-; ing reduced to six. Major change in this respect would be accounted account-ed for by consolidation of the engineering, federal aid and river j basin studies divisions into a field services division. O |