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Show h Tuesday, June 26, 1990 7A Emery County Progress Utah hunters love elk Qualifies for Games Utahs big game hunters In 1990, over 30,000 elk hunters will go afield in love elk! in trap Utah bringing home close to 6,000 elk. The average elk hunter will spend a little over four days in the field. While statistics show that Utahs elk shooting Shaffryn Schade, daughter of Kory and Shawnee Schade of Salt Lake City, participated in the Utah Summer Games held in Cedar City June 25-3Shaffryn, who stays with her grandparents, Glenn and Sylvia Nelson of Huntington through her school vacations; entered the trap shooting trials at Salina on June 9 finishing second with a silver medal which qualified her for the finals at Cedar City on 0. June 30. For her coach, Grandpa Glenn, it is an exciting culmination of about, a years worth offun shoots at the family trap range on his farm, and some practice at the local gun ranges. Shaffryn even requested a trap shoot birthpeo day party. Twenty-eight population provides both recreation and meat for the mm& mmM9'W 9 imwiMi if ymniM Shaffryn Schade shows the form which won her a silver medal at the trap shoot trails and earned her a berth in the Summer v . : iff- Games. ple had potluck dinner with lots of shooting, visiting and birthday cake. Shaffryn was also encouraged by her paternal grandparents, Jim and Raquel Schade of Redman, who are avid supporters of the North Sevier Gun Club where the trials are held each year for the southern region. Both will also be in the finals in trap shooting; Raquel winning a gold medal in her class, and Jim winning a bronze in his. Shaffryns mom, Shawnee, made up the three generations of Schades to participate in the event which is an unusual aspect in the summer games so far. Kenny and Cathy Gunter and son, Jerad, of Huntington, also participated. Their daughter, Kendra, 9, hopes next year to be the youngest to participate and make up a family of four going to the summer games. One of the high points and the nervous part of the day for Shaffryn was in being singled out for a TV interview by Bill Marcroft of KUTV, one of the sponsors of the Utah Summer Games. BLM seeks nominations Cy Jamison, director of the Advisory Board. Interior Departments Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently announced a call for nominations for a newly chartered Wild Horse and Burro The board will advise the secretary ofthe interior, director of the Bureau of Land Management, the secretary of Big game hunt drawings to be posted by division Drawing results for antler-les-s deer and other special big game permits will first be available Saturday morning, June 30, in the display window outside the Price DWR office at 455 West Railroad Ave. DWR will be unable to answer telephone requests for information about drawing results and encourages hunters to view results which will be posted outside the office. Otherwise, hunters may wait several weeks for notification by mail. Beginning this year, hun ters have one more option. Huntwear Sports of Orem is offering a service to hunters who call may and receive draw results and notice of undersubscribed permits. The service will begin at 7 p.m. on June 29 and continue daily from 6 a.m. till midnight through July 15. There is a charge of $2.50 for the first minute, and 50 cents for each additional minute. Anyone under 18 must receive parental permission before calling this number. Golf report FERRON Following are the results of the Millsite Golf Course Womens Golf Association Scramble, Tuesday night league held June 19 and the Mens Association Two Best Balls of Foursome, Wednesday night league held June 20. Womens Association: Maude Killpack, 43 Janice Snow, Sandra Killpack and Beth Black. 46 Janet Petersen, Chris Pace, Grace Behling and Donna Downard. 47 Becky Larsen, Dena Bluemel, Tessie Cox and Don- - agriculture and the chief of the Forest Service on issues concerning the management and protection of wild horses and burros on the nations public lands. The board will have nine members with one member selected to represent each of the following categories of interest: veterinary medicine, humane organizations, conservation, livestock management, rangeland management, wild horse and burro research, wild horse and burro management, wildlife management and Nominations should be made with a specific category of interest designated. A brief statement of the nominee's qualifications, education and free-roami- public-at-larg- experience Conservation District. The district will also be honoring its Conservation Farmer of the Year that evening. Dinner will be hosted by the San Rafael SCD at a cost of $4 per person. Reservations may be made by calling the Soil Conservation Service office in Castle Dale by June 27. The tour will start at the Castle Dale Park at 4 p.m. Transportation by bus will be provided from the park. Federal, state and agency personnel will discuss range management principles such studies to assess as land-us- e range condition, how grass grows and how this affects stocking rate and turn-o- n dates. The Division of Wildlife Resources will discuss big game management objectives in drought years. This will be an opportunity to discuss common concerns. The public is invited to attend, and the tour will be especially beneficial to farmers and ranchers. Please call for reservations so that plans can be made for food and transportation. (381-555- er deer, the only big game found in this locality, are gradually increasing, indicating that at the time elk were not even a consideration of that forest. Between 1910 and 1925, Utah citizens encouraged the transplanting of elk into Utah from the Yellowstone-Jackso- Hole n 4) . SPORTSMAN'S LODGE at Joe's Valley presents our Fifth Annual 4th of July Celebration Saturday, June 30 (4th of July Weekend) Come listen or dance to LIVE COUNTRY-ROC- MUSIC K Featuring: Cowboy & The Ladies NO COVER CHARGE Music starts at 6 pm Dancing starts at 9 p.m. Bar-B-Steak Sandwich with Western Beans & Cole Slaw Try Mattie's Charcoal Free Soft Drinks Included with meal served from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Come in and see our Great New Line of RECLINERS by DOUGLAS should be included. About 46,500 wild horses and burros currently roam public lands managed by BLM in the western states. The BLM also administers the e progpopular ram which has placed over 96,000 animals with qualified adopters since 1973. The board has been chartered for a period that be renewed by the secretmay Board of the interior. ary members will be selected for Mens Association: Kent Larsen, Nyles Snyder, Wayne Huntsman and Bob Kitchen. 58 Ed Lee, Doug Pace, Randy Burke and LeRoy Maxfield. Kim Also in at 58 were Powell, Maurice Anderson, N athan J ohansen and Gordon Pace. 56 terms. The nomination period will close July 2. Nominations must be received by July 2 and should be sent to: Chief, Division of Wild Horses and Burros (250), Bureau of Land Management, Premier Building, Room 901, Washington, D.C. 20240. '52ndr South Eastern Utah ANNUAL- - STOCK SHOW 4 SCHEDULE OF EVEOTS Wednesday, July Competing in the Utah Summer Games this week in Cedar City will be a basketball team from Emery County. The team qualified in the Mens Open Division by taking the silver medal at the regional tournament in Richfield. The mens team consists of Todd Jeffs, Chris Wilson, Cody Allred, Jim Jones, Steven Gordon and Ken They are playing Thursday, June 28 at 10 a.m. at the Centrum on the SUSC campus. Their opponent will be a No. 1 seed from the Salt Lake Region. h. 11 Weighing and receiving 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m Thursday, July 12 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Weighing and receiving Exhibitors meeting In show ring, record book contestants 10:00 a.m books. Junior fitting & Showmanship contests for market Beef, 11:00 a.m to exhibitors only. Market Hogs, and Market Lambs-op- en 2:00 p.m Judging contest. Participants can form a team of 3 or 4 members with 3 high scores counting OR can judge Individually or open class. 4:00 p.m Judging of Breeding Animals will be held In the following order Judging of Breeding Beef Judging of Breeding Sheep Friday, July 13 Judging of Market Hogs 8:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Judging of Market Lambs Judging of Market Steers Exhibitors Dance 8:30 p.m ( Mini turn I In JUSTARRIVED ENTERTAINMENT CENTER ROOM DIVIDERS 11 AW.UUW.y.W.HM.U.1 vi Saturday, July 14 The first mailboxes were erected in Paris in 1653. However, messengers, fearful for their livelihood, put mice in the boxes to destroy the mail. I tains had disappeared from Utah by 1910. In the annual game report by the Dixie-SeviNational Forest in 1919, the first statement is as follows, It is very evident that rent release sites. By 1925, some limited permits to hunt the elk were being issued. This trend continued until 1967 when some units were open to the general public for hunting. The idea of open bull hunting was to allow maximum recreational opportunity of the elk resource in Utah. In fact, for the first several years of the open bull hunt, hunters were required to sign an affidavit in which they acknowledged by their signature that the open bull hunt was primarily a recreational hunt and that success was expected to be low. Despite the warning of low success, the public jumped at the opportunity to hunt elk. At present, there are approximately 25,000 elk distributed throughout the state, and biologists agree that Utah has the potential for a much larger population. ar Leslie Danzer, Sandra Behling, Jolene Petty and Karen Dunn. 47 at Games Chy-nowet- An informative conservation tour on range and big game management will be held on Monday, July 2 at 4 p.m. The tour will be sponsored by the San Rafael Soil country. About 200 elk were moved into Utah in nine diffe- Adopt-A-Hors- na Sorensen. Basketball team plays e. Range tour planned by soil district sportsman, it has not always been good in Utah. Prior to the pioneers settling Utah, the distribution of elk was widespread. As early as 1880, the native game herds were severely depleted. According to the U.S. Forest Service records the last native elk were killed in 1898. It was that year elk hunting in Utah was outlawed in an effort to save any remaining elk. Historical records indicate that all but a small band of native elk in the Uinta Moun- Sign Up for Horse Show Horse Show Begins Auction of Market Animals 7:30 a.m 8:00 a.m 10:00 Order of Sale: (1) Market Steers (2) Market Lambs (3) Market -- Mfc Cali us For The Most Competent TV and VCR k! 'll SERVICE Hogs A I hi nlRh ..'.I. iiilfeliis)liiiiiliiiiMiiliisaiiiwiliiiiiiAiiilfkiiiiMlrti4liiiiiiiitiirtiiii4hsiii ill! |