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Show 6 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, April 6, 1977 n. Sportsmans V Corner By Lonnie Walters Conservation Officer Emery County District April marks the beginning of Spring Range Rides in Utah. Rides are conducted by the Division of Wildlife Resources, U. S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management personnel. The rides are conducted over the big game wintering area as soon as the first green sprouts are noticeable and snow permits. The purpose of these rides is to examine overall range conditions, and to acquaint participants with winter Top speller Laura Fisher, daughter of George W. and Lynette Fisher of Price, took first place in the Carbon School District spelling bee Monday. She is a sixth grader at Price Elementary School. Second place winner was Jaime Hatzell of Reeves School. Miss Fisher will join 39 top spellers from schools throughout the state on April 23 in a spelling bee sponsored by the Deseret News. game range problems over the wintering areas. The rides are important because they allow the conservation officer and an interested public to view the range conditions, the evidence of dead or dying plants, the general plant vigor, any excessive erosion as a result of overgrazing and evidence of deer winter mortality. These conditions change depending on the type of winter the area experiences. Observations, too, are made on the wintering big game population to note conditions and determine possible signs of starvation. with the range rides, the conservation officers measure browse and pellet transects to determine browse plant utilization and deer days use per acre. In conjunction r-- - . 1 - Patio Stones and Lawn Edgers Complete Selection Now In Stock! Etzel Concrete East of Price Phone PRODUCTS 637-130- 7 .i The general range conditions together with transect study data, big game sex ratio counts, and herd kill data are considered in the formulation of big game seasons. The data is presented to the Committee, Interagency which in turn presents it to the Board of Big Game Control where the big game seasons are finally set. Before the Board sets big seasons public game held are meetings throughout the State, to provide public input. if Persons interested in Utahs big game animals should take part in the yearly range rides in order to get a better of management practices. Everyone is invited to attend. Those attending should bring a lunch, prepare to stay all day and wear a good pair of hiking boots as most activity is ' '' . v,C , 'l,!f i"A i'i V ,1' ..kvVVr i i conducted on foot. April Cave Flat, meet 7 at Willow Sp. Cabin, 9 a.m., Vehicle. April Gordon 8, Creek, meet at Price DWR Office, a.m., Horse. 8 Little Park, April 11 meet at Price BLM Office, 7:30 a.m., Vehicle. April 11 Blue Mountain, meet at Monticello Forest Service Office, 8 a.m., Vehicle. h Nine Mile, April 12 meet at Thayns Meats, 8 a.m., Vehicle. April V7 . I $ wr A 4V, Blue Mountain, 12 meet at Monticello Forest Service Office, 8 a.m., Vehicle. April Elk Ridge, 13 meet at Blanding Residence, 8 April 14 Cnyn. meet CO a.m., Vehicle. Huntington at Div. Farm 8:30 Huntington Cnyn., a.m., Vehicle. Cottonwood April 15 Cnyn. meet at Cottonwood Cnyn. Jet., 8:30 a.m., Vehicle. April Elk Ridge, 15 meet at Blanding Residence, April 16 8 .!' X? Scale donation Nurses aides Maxine Flores and Kathy Rea (inside, left to right) weigh Gus Halamandaris, Carbon County Nursing Home patient, on new scale donated by members of the Price Soroptimist Club. The scale allows people in wheel chairs to be weighed. Club president Rose Milano (left) and Louise Bosone, chairman of services and welfare, look on. Money for the scale came from the club's Wine Tasting Party. Each year the club donates some equipment to the nursing home. Past projects include donations of rocking chairs, hair dryers, a respiratory machine and a television. CO a.m., Vehicle Joes Valley, meet at Orange Olson Guard Station, 8:30 a.m. Machinist finishes Navy courses Vehicle. Horn Mouat Head of Dragon, 8:30 a.m., Vehicle. April 18 ntain, meet Ferron April 19 Drainage, meet at Ferron Campground, 8:30 a.m., Vehicle. Navy Machinists Mate Second Class David R. Fryer, whose wife Beverly is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Swasey Jr. of Price, has completed the Navys Advanced Air and Conditioning Course. Refrigeration k Curing the course at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, he learned supervisory techniques and planning considerations for effective of an management departments engineering and air conditioning refrigeration section. In both classroom and pr ten-wee- actical application periods, students concentrated on the operation, maintenance and repair of shipboard air and bulk conditioning refrigeration systems. has attended College Eastern Utah. He joined the Navy in September, He of 1972. Energy firm holds meeting Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc., which has an uranium ore buying station 10 miles south of here, held its monthly exploration and operatings management meeting in Hanksville last Thursday. The company holds these meetings each month to y discuss matters related to their activities in the Hanksville-Blandininter-compan- g area. riOPEN TILL 7:00ri ONLY 9 DAYS this meeting Attending were: I.W. Mathison, vice president - explorations, M.D. Colo.; Denver, vice-presiden- Vin-celet- ti, t, operations division, Denver, Colo.; Jim Andries, district geologists, Richfield; Roger Smith, resident manager, Blanding; Dirk Garber, buying station superintendent, Hanksville; Mue Faurote, geologist, Denver, Colo.; J.R. West, geologist, Denver, Colo.; Red Torm, lease mine Hanksville; coordinator, Don Pillmore, lease mine coordinator, Blanding; Wayne Seick, resident geologist, Blanding; Bryon Little, purchasing agent, Denver, Colo.; Randy Brown, field accountant, Blanding. LEFT INCOME TAX at LP H&R BLOCK The meeting was held in the company owned mobile at Melvin Browns Trailer Court. Mrs. Dirk Garber furnished a serve-i- n chicken dinner at the conclusion of the meeting. Next months meeting will be in Blanding. THE INCOME TAX PEOPLE Phone 637-411- 0 WEEKDAYS 9A.M. 7 P.M. SAT. - -1 9- 253 East Main Price Russian scientists have recer ly obtained a U.S. pate for synthetic cavia GSfflCEB 0 HIM |