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Show BOX ELDER FOURTH By To Mike Perry GOAL promote safety How safe is your boat? Have all the equipment you need or are required to have by law? Ogden Flotilla 76 of the Coast Guard auxiliary, the Box Elder (D-Mic- (D-N.Y- county sheriffs office and 180-da- this. commander of Flotilla 76 of the Coast Guard auxiliary in Ogden helps Sheriff Arthur Redding affix decal to the sheriffs department boat after the craft passed equipment inspection. Next to Redding is Clarence Westley, vessel examiner with the flotilla. Looking on are (from left) Bob Christensen and Bob Gates, president and vice president ot the county scuba team, and Carl Rogers, with Flotilla 76. WILBUR WARN, At the end of this voluntarily turn in time, citizens could handguns without compensation or punishment. Violators would be subject of a $500 fine and five years the District of Columbia, the nations our representatives gather to where capitol such ponder legislation, a city councilman has proposed an amendment to confiscate 52,000 privately-owne- d handguns and shotguns with the registered police unless the owner can that the arm is needed for self persuade police in extreme protection danger. Only police and certain military personnel would be allowed to carry firearms in the city. Bank guards and security personnel, for example, would leave their handguns at work. Only hunting rifles would be permitted in the city and only then if dissembled. They would be licensed annually. The District of Columbia is noticably worried about the use of firearms in crime. Of 295 homicides in the city last year, 185 were committed with handguns. From these cases, 84 guns were recorded and 16 of these were registered. And in prompts the city's chief of police, Maurice J. Cullinane to note, that the legislation is aimed at the wrong people. Which And a Chicago group has filed a petition with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety commission asking handgun ammunition be banned as a - hazardous substance. That would include .22 ammunition which interchanges in rifles and pistols. Other ammo such as .44 magnum, which interchanges with either, would also be affected. The commission has asked for written comments on the petition. Hunters, plinkers and target shooters need to respond in force and voice, logically, the insanity behind the measure. have cried long and newspapers, advertising to control firearms that Joe Average, you and I Control proponents loud, used TV documentaries, radio and spent thousands on own. Gun controls should not come through national legislation. How can a senator from New York know the needs and problems of the residents of Utah? Blanket legislation for the entire nation isnt valid. States rights should be sovereign in this matter. If New Hampshire wants to ban all firearms, so be it. But let the folks in New Hampshire decide, not a congressman from Michigan. Every state has deaths from firearms, just as they have deaths from stabbings, strangulation, arson, automobiles and poison. One gun critic says crimes of passion involving the gun would be greatly reduced if guns werent available. Perhaps, but a crime of passion will involve any weapon handy. A knife, or pipe or ax might be the lethal weapon if a gun isnt handy. It's official, license fees arc going up Its Elder committed criminals murders for the by county or impassioned persons in Chicago. Congress needs to pull away from the issue and take a better look. to be penalized in Box I boating accident, More Info More information can be obtained in pamphlets in the sheriffs office, or by calling Clarence Westley, Flotilla 76 vessel examiner, or scuba team president Bob Christensen at said Redding. He noted that some insurance companies offer a 10 per cent discount on rates for owners who have passed the Coast Guard inspection and courses in small boat safety. (12-15- ), (16-64- (12-1- $1.2 million. Comments sought on ammo ban this year with Handsomely Rugged from ADBmV BJSSASII First Federal Savings and Loan of Logan Brigham City Branch The U.S. Consumer Product Safety commission has invited the public to write in their comments on a petition that would ban the sale of handgun ammunition. The commission emphasized that it wants comments in writing, preferably five copies, addressed to: The Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, P.O. Box 8137, Washington, D C. 20024. Letters should be mailed by April 15. 'Asks Ban Submitted by the Chicago based Committee for Hand Gun Control Inc., the petition asks that handgun ammunition be banned as a hazardous substance. Those wishing to express opinions should indicate how the proposed ban on handgun ammunition would affect them as individuals with respect to the legitimate recreational of handgun hunting, and plinking. Significantly, the proposed ban would also affect calibers pursuits target shooting between handguns and rifles, notably .22 rimfire ammunition. Individuals writing in may also wish to send a copy of their letter to their congressman and senators. Some socks The legs of the penguin are enclosed in the skin of the body thus making their walk slow and clumsy. And of course - you still get interest compounded daily on Pass Books and Certificates at the highest rate permitted by regulation non-sto- p First Federal Savings and Loan PUNCH LINE OF THE WEEK of Logan - Brigham City Branch 58 West Center - Logan 138 South Main - Member of HORSLEY-CUMMING- S NORTH OF BRIGHAM CITY Redding said. The same afternoon, about 3:30 p.m., a film will be shown on boating safety. Redding said the clinic will be held early this year to help people be prepared when boating weather hits. MUR increase and general fund appropriation for the Division of Wildlife Resources. Effective Jan. 1, 1976, the resident license fee schedule will be as follows: Fishing juveniles ) $8; and $3.50; adult adult (65 and over) $4. Big game, $7 small game $3; adult (16 juveniles and over) $6. Combination, $18; trapping, $10, guides license, $40; and license agents fees, 30 cents. Falconers will now purchase a $10 license instead of a $10 certificate of registration. Nonresident fee changes will all be for fish.ng licenses. The season license will cost $25, a five-da- y license will be $7.50 and a one-da- y license, $2. These fees will also be effective Jan. 1. The general fund ap-- " propriation in the bill is set at a time here getting units ready for the water, then have to send out the scuba team 'after the fact to look for victims of a You'll enjoy a official. Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton has signed SB292, providing a license fee interchangeable the West seem to have little trouble with our firearms. We grow up with them, live with them. Most of the time theyre our useful friends, a source of enjoyment. We in lamas say that the eaitli is placed on the hack ol gigantic frog whose movements cause eai thquakes Indian scuba team are sponsoring a free boat evaluation to promote better boat safety. The examination will be held at the west parking lot of the sheriffs office April 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Flotilla 76 examiners will be on hand to check equipment. Boats passing will receive an inspection decal from the Coast Guard that is honored by the state, National Parks Service and Coast Guard, says Sheriff Arthur Redding. If boats dont pass, owners will be told what they need to do he said. to meet requirements, No Names "No ones name will be taken down and passed on to any officials because they don't pass," he added. He said the three groups are trying to promote boating safety, rather than just look for boats with faulty equipment. Wed much rather spend in the hoosgrow. dont need 5 City, Utah Free boat inspection offered on April 1 2 The time has come for sportsmen to unite. The rights of the gun owner are being threatened more than ever by anti-gu- n extremists and these run to the congressional representatives elected by the people themselves. Congressmen and private groups combined are taking new measures to ban private ownership of handguns. Sen. Philip A. Hart and Rep. Jonathon A. Bingham .) have introduced bills into their respective houses for Congress that would ban ownership of handguns and handguns ammunition. They propose for citizens to sell their handguns to the government at $25 or fair market value, whichever is higher. There is a y period for We NEWS, Brigham Sunday, March 30, 1975 SEED CO. 723-524- 6 Our interest is to make your life richer FSLIC Brigham City |