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Show Saturday, November 28, 1942 THE DESERET1 NEWS- - Salt Lake City f Utah J&., Clubs 4-- H by Mack Corbett A CASE FOR SATURDAY OPENING OF ALL FISH AND GAME SEASONS In response to a request from the Chmih that some day other than Sifnday be designated for the opening of the fishing and .pheasant hunting seasons and as well as the elk hunt, the State Fish and Game Commission at its regular meeting adopted a motion calling for a poll of local Wildlife Federation member . , ships on the subject. Indications were that If the majority of sportsmen in the state favor SaturdSvor someolher ween date for opening the varn seasons, the Commission will comply. Thrc can be no controverting the fact that the primary reason for Sunday fishing and pheasanOipenings by the department Las been increased Sale of licenses. The Ui S. Fish and Wildlife Service has almost never decreed any but a opening of the duck season. This year the duck opening was Thursday, Oct. 13. The Utah deer season Is fixed by statute to open the third Saturday in October. The elk season certainly could be opened on a Saturday without detriment too anjnnp, since the majority of the elk hunters are in the field one or two dajs leforetbe opening anyway. With the popular trend toward Saturdays, as well as Sundays off noted in the working world in conjunction w'ith the week, it is our opinion Saturday openings could he decreed for fishing and pheasants, too, without too much objection from the sportsmen. Neither would the state experience any appreciable drop irr 1 cense sales-iour opinion, so tremendous is the appeal of these two forms of wildlife pursuit. With a Saturday opening, thoe Church worker who experience a genuine remorse at breaking the Sabhath may enjoy the incomparable excitement and thrills that only first dajs of the fishing and pheasant seasonrf olfer, and still keep their Sunday School and Sacrament meeting escutcheons clean. By the same token, those w ho would attend the clinrch of the outdoors regard less would have a double holiday. . - Reported 1,250 Trees Planted ' 4-- five-ma- n 1942 Utah Game Deer Hunting Law Convictions Reach Total Of 755 Ends Tomorrow Two-Ye- ar The 1942 deer hunting season, the longest in organized historv, will close tomorrow w ith termination of the Pa rowan Paragon ah hunt, which opened Nov. 13 with an authorized take of 1,030 fleer of either sex. pheasants, with 148 convictions As result of light snows, huntreported. haven't had to go far out of Unlawful possession of fish and ers Parowan or Paragonah to get game ran second with 113, deer in most instances, Belowed by fishing and hunting their cause of the rutting season, without a license 90,- - fishing alter hunters have been taking more hours and overlimiting 48 and does than bucks generally. The34. closed waters in fishing Forest Service has been nuestionAlthough the practice is known all hunters as to the flesh to be common, only four were ap- ing efcondition of their kills takconvicted for and prehended fort to determine what effect If or with fish explosives ing anv, the rutting season, has on son. edibility of the meat. total of 733 contictions for gaw law violations was reported biennium bv the for the 1940-4State Fish and Game Department The chief offense was illegal 6hooting of grouse, sage hens and A 2 "post-seaso- n in-a- We've got the goods We've got the prices Tune in on KDYL Sunday night for "In Hit Steps" . Ui!b (JWJU7 cuses. Those big fellows all look alike," my companion grinned. That was no ghost bird: we just didnt hit him, thats all. Lterjhrthedaywejpproaclied -- 4-- Mama Managed Him With Hunting Knife se Idaho,-who- feat of stabbing the animal to death after crippling it with two rifle shots brought widespread notice. - - in UinnesotM Conservation VoJunteit Ringnecka on the alert -- Breckenridge cock pheasant, gleaming pasture land. It often had yielded orange and red on the breast and game of one sort or another. trailing a magnificent tail, flew Big One Goes Up directly over our heads, well withStick around at the other end in rarige. Our guns, although as- and 1 11 scare one right into your sembled, werent loaded, and the ' rooster flew on unmolested; We gunbarrel.the I promised. Halfway swamp I glimpsed a marked the spot where he landed, through at the edge of a nearby woodlot. big pheasant rooster trying to un1 tangle himself from the dense May as well investigate, as he essayed a quick opined, though hell probably be getaway. next county by the time The instant he left the we get there. However, the roostground er apparently was content to loit- I fired, far enough above him to er close to where wed seen him connect ft ith his head at that close descend. It was thick with briers range. BuOms leap ended abruptly and saplings, but the big rooster when he enwuntered a grapevine didnt offer a difficult target as barrier that flung the big bird into he zoomed away, not far from my a complete somersault. Hitting he ran and vanished before and pal. Boom, went his gun, Candidates for the board of di- squawk went the rooster, begtrng could fire again. Seeing my com-I rectors of the Utah Archery Asso- a swift retreat through the panion, or sensing his presence he ciation, past me. Boom sounded must have described a semicircle, governing field my body for botli target and and goodby squawk- taking flight so far away that my pals shot w'as in the nature of a archery of Utah, is announced to- ed the rooster. larewell salute. day bv Dean Green, acting secre- NO ALIBI tary for the new group. Theres no alibi. The sun wasnt A few days later, while hunting Names presented by the nomi- in our in the depths of a woodlot eyes; there were no big alone 1 flushed a gorgeous rooster that nating committee for action by trees to conceal, the game. -mail ballot includes Wayne Cook, Like many other hunters, ex- proceeded toward safety, Layton; L. D. Pfouts, Pavson; cept for one long trip, I hunted derision at the two shots I cackling fired in Thomas Welch, Midvale, and Dean fairly close to home this fall and his directon. Green. William Grote, Heber Had-loc- for "the most same in the I inspected my gun closely, glumMrs. Mabel Henninger, E. H. vicinity. So a part few days later I ly swung it to my shoulder to see Isenberg, Arthur Taylor and Hu- was out with a farmer not far whether I was correctly lining up bert Zimbeaux, all of Salt Lake. from the place where Id missed barrel and target. Then, like the Seven of these candidates will the rooster. Wed beaten along sheepherder who becomes a little be chosen for the offices of chair- fences and through swales with muddled through spending so man of the board, secretary, the negative results. much time alone. I talked to mytourna following directorships: Then, unexpectedly, as they" al- self, out loud: ments and programs: grounds and ways do, a cock pheasant of It stands to reason that you equipment; membership and proportions rustled out of couldnt miss all the bog cock and publica- some short grass that would hard- pheaants. So you must have publicity been tions and public relations. The ly conceal a field mouse and roar- shooting at the same bird all along, three candidates receiving the ed away with all the speed a and he4 a spirit bird, a mirage highest number of votes will serve pheasant can muster. I could al- conjured up by old Mother Natuie for two years, others for one year. most see the peneilings on his to throw you off balance. plumage. I got off two shots and If that fellow and I are both six from Big Cottonwood Can- my partner essayed the same num- around next season I vow Ill show him some pheasant shooting! yon, and three from scattered ber all clean misses. points in central Utah. One womof Mrs. an. Verne Trittin Salt 90-Da- y Lake City, laid claim to an archaward by bagging ery hunting her deer near Cardiff Fork in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Exponents of hunting with the bow and arrow hail this record as the best in the nation, and HURON, S. D., Nov. 28. (AP) tiful, the average hunter can get predict a great boost in field Meat rationing if and when it his birds with a minimum of troua of Utah as in result archerjr comes wont affect a lot of South ble and expense. State officials this achievement. Parts of the Dakota families this winter, thanks say that a man and wife who take Cottonwood Parleys-Bigame to a bountiful crop of pheasants out hunting licenses and get their were' opened preserve and fngrathed pioneer -- pabits -- of quota of birds- - carr-eat pheasant -for the first time irt many conservation. for 90 days during the season and years, contributing heavily to the South Dakotans have been hunt- still can keep 42 birds on hand, successful season. ing more often and longer this either canned or in a frozen food year. The hunting season is or locker, until next summer. "Lasv 90 days, as 'compared to To days years resident licenses totaled last year, and hunters are allowed 91.824. were 11,061 to kill two more pheasants each There, 0 day seven Instead of five and licenses' issued last year and birdswere shipped from here un21 allowed to keep also birds hunters. This year til July 1, 1943, if they so desire. by Last season the South Dakota more than 12,000 had been shipped State Game and Fish Department out by Nov. 10. estimated that 3,250,000 pheasants were killed. State officials say that despite absence of many hunt- Zurita Decisions ers in the armed forces and a scarcity of shotgun shells, the kill Slider Of Fresno this season will be larger beHOLLYWOOD. Nov. 28 (AP) cause of the extended season. Juan Zurita, l,1o'4, of Mexico Clt, Since each pheasant decision last averages won a around 2,,i pounds, last year's to- over Chester Slider, 14144, of night. Frcs- tal was around 4,000 tons of meat no, Calif, in the latters first apFrom Ford to Cadillar J tons not pounds. pearance here. South Dakotans usually can onThe Mexican forced the fighting Without a Ping! ly the breasts of the birds, or all the wayr but was prevented Tk UHl It(aU Station Wllfc the breast and drumsticks. They from landing many solid blows by Most of do it every fall, and butcher shops Sliders evasive tactics. WbolMoln War over the. state report a slump Zuritas punches bounced off the all 13h SO. and WEST TEMPLI in meat sales. Fresno boys head and shoulders Because pheasants are so plen as he ducked and big cooc-eratio- n Game Units Quizzed Anent Meat Scarcity The Associated Press queried state fish and game departments of western states this week as to (1) what steps are being' taken to reduce possible increased illegal killing of big game due to meat shortage; (2) what moves if any to reduce game population by supervised slaughter to supply army or civilian needs; f3) possibility 'of civilians purchasing elk or deer from state herds or parks or refuges. 1942 Buck Kill Slumps To 61 Percent pio-gra- e 4 in-th- The 1942 Utah buck kill had dropped from 72 to 61 per cent and the doe kill from S8 to 81 per cent in the latest tabulation of Dr. A. V. Woodburv, associate professorxof biology tat the University of Utah, whose staff is tags compiling data from deer Answers from four states had; mailed by hunters. been received today as follows: Only 29,700 of the estimated Game WASHINGTON dept r tags sold hale been returned. says no problem has arisen, par-tiThey showed a kill of 18,200 bucks ulailv because of very active and 9,000 does (13,600 doe tags). field force of game protectors The higher percentages mentionState has had supet vised slaughA ters in overpopulated game areas slight increase In hunting ed were for 20,000 tags game (deer and elk) for several years. accidents in the past two ears Geoige W. Reid, chief Has few such areas, and has found was noted in the State Fish" and warden, said that a careful check no need for additional killings to Game Department biennial report will he made of licenses sold and meat tor Utah. tags returned to determine which supply army or civilian The increase prompted a nota- hunters have not returned - tags needs. State game comish has power to sell meat that can be spared tion on the need of new legis- as required by law. At the sqme time, Allan C. Ranfrom areas overpopulated by game, lature on the handling of fireof dle, senior conservationist but never used, preferring to have arms. From Julv 1, 1940, to June 30, game, issued an appeal to huntcontrolled hunts letting hunters do or neown killing 1942, there were 42 fatalities from ers who have overlooked MOVE TO REOPEN accidents w ith guns. No record glected to fill out the OREGON Some talk bv farmers was kept of the several score of tag and drop it in the mail box and sportsmen for reopening sea- firearms accidents that did not There w ill be no penalty for fait son on big game case meat short- result in deaths. ure to remit within five davs after 20 occur- close of the hunting season, he Of the 42 fatalities. age. Also talk supervised killing for maiket. Neither has reached red in the field, 22 in the home or said. game commission as format sug- public places. Commission sopkesmen The repoit noted .that there accidents were in no way congestion. some evidence that the 22 home neeted with hunting. think lifting of shooting ban unlikely and probably would have to be done by State Legislature There are few licensed deer breeders who sell meat open market. These animals practically domestic. None raising elk. No other legal way buy meat. Texasjiowr has 73 extra seasone tionnaires sent out by the Utah deer were felled al wardens on dutv. no increase hvTwenty-ninbroadheads during archers Archery Association.-Report- s from usual. Game department has received bv Dean hunting season, noted no increase in illegal kill- Utah's to a canvass of State Green, secretary of the assoaccording or meat because of shortage ing ciation-, list 20 deer checked out State Game Commission checkany other reason. Impossible un ing stations and replies to ques of the Parleys Canyon region, der Texas law to huv game for city-owne- d . c Utali Hunting Accidents Rise 90,-00- 0 card-boar- d Utah Archers F ell 29 Deer Lay Claim To National Record TITgsrtmr-Wtemwned-pi-eserv- LINOLEUM md CARPETS Looked just like the one Doug and I flushed over at Hendersons the other day," I remarked lamely, waiving any attempt at ex- It was' about 4 p.m., and cloudy. After moderate success my hunting companion and 1 had driven into a farmers yard and Were discussing with him the prospects of bagging one more pheasant, or perhaps two, before calling it quits for the day. There" are plenty of them around,- - but they re hard to.flush, even with a dog, he advised us. Hardly had he spoken wheh a 8 top-heav- v high-thinkin- g Expert Shots Persons-Ev- en d i- ultra-graciou- s Of Planting of 1,250 Russian' olive trees donated by the Utah State School, of Agricultural .College Forestry was an innovation in the 1942 Pheasant Club program, Floyd C, Noel, warden in charge of pheasant control, reported today in his annual memorandum to floss Leonard- - stale director of. fish and game. "We have always sought new features for the program to improve it and further the objective of teaching wildlife propagation and conservation to the youth of the state, Mr. Noel said. 54 PERCENT This year, six of the clubs planted Russian olive trees. . . . Each club member was given 10 to 20 trees to plant and care for, and a high percentage of the trees is growing well. Plantings were as follows: Millard 400, Tooele 50, Kane 500, Cache 150, Weber 50, Salt Lake 100. The highest percentage of success in the pheasant hatching program since its inception nine years ago was enjoyed by the 89 club members during 1942, Noel said. A total of 2.301 of the day-olpheasant chicks given the members were raised to the of age of liberation a harvest 54.42 per cent. The State Fish end Game Department paid the boys and girls 75 cents per bird, or a total of $1,725.75. The nine-yea- r summary of the 4 H pheasant program showed that 948 boys and girls have taken part, earning $9,110.63 for 11,880 pheasants reared to liberation. A has been major improvement abandonment of the setting hen system for artificial incubation and brooder equipment. SPORTSMEN HELP The pheasant warden noted an increased display of interest this year on the part of Wildlife Federations in work. "As an example, he pointed out, "the Smithfield Federation bought materials and built two large hoi pens for the club members. They plan to continue this each jear until there are suffic.enc pens for the entire club. High interest and good on the part of county agents were noted m the gieat The majority of counties. m addition to pheasant i earing and tree planting, winter feeding of gan-biids, field ips, public demonstrations and other training in conservation. mid-wee- NEXT LEGISLATURE SHOULD CONFINE GAME COMMISSION TO ADVISORY TOLICY If Utah expects to make a success of the commission plan of fish and game administration, as other states .have, the next legislature had best pull all administrative teeth from the existing laws, with respect to the commission proper. A perusal of the motions made at any of the ' Slate Fish and Game Commission meetings is enough to convince one of that. The records are with action o n petty administrative matters that could be left entirely to the director, if the law permitted the commission to function as Seth Gordon, one of the originators of the commission form, intended it to do, i e. confined itself purely to broad matters. policy V. A personal Seth Gordon letter In response to a query on this very point from Mark Anderson, former state director, convinced us of this long ago. , It remained for Dr. H. L. Shantz, of Washington, D C, chief of the U. S. Forest Service Division of Wildlife Management to enlighten us even more convincingly as to the proper role commission's should play. Without alluding to any particular state or commission. Dr. Shantz said, in part: I have had a lot of experience with commissions and advisory of conservation. As boards, both in education lines and in the field president of the University of Arizona I had opportunity to observe how such boards should function or failed to function from the standpoint of an executive. I also served on the Arizona game commission. Ican fell jon flatly that personnel is the first consideration; the second- - i... keeping hands off administrative matters as much as possible. The latter Is Imperative unless jour commissioners are unusually broad, men. When you get a game commission exercising administrative other than that relating to shaping broad policy matters or .power otherwise acting in an infuential advisory capacity, vou find the Individual commissioners performing acts in their own particular se ction of the state that should be left to the chief warden or director. Where laws do confer administrative powers to commissions, all Bets mast be confined to regular meetings with all of the commissioners acting collectively as a whole. They haven't the right to act as separate entitles out side meetings as so often is done. From personal experience, Dr. Shantz went on to observe that commissions are more satisfactory than In his opinion, three, for the reason that where two commissioners constantly disagree. the third commissioner can control the commissions every act simply by agreeing with one or the other as he sees fit Is It any wonder that the son lest of the goiernors appointive commissions is the three-ma- n game commission which is now onl commission because Commissioner George Harrison of a two-mato the refuse had t( be a further party to tactics of grace Roosevelt which he disapproved? Ringneck Worthy dversarjr In Field 1942 Pheasant A Crop Is Biggest Raucous Roosters No Respecters 54 Pr Cent Success es. department says intends advantage of decreased hunting (because- of gas rationing) to push its- game restoration progiam rather than undertake any move to bring about supervised slaughter. NO CHANGE HERE No change of fish .and game reg illations or practices in California because of meat shortage. Fish and Game Commission Patrol reports everything well in hand and no indication of increase in illegal killing. No move to slaughter; no way to purchase elk, deer. Game Idaho Trappers Get Beaver, Quota BOISE, Nov. 28 (AP) A quoof 20 beavers will be allowed each trapper approved bv the Idaho Fish and Game Department for an allotment In southwestern Idaho. John Smith, district conservation commissioner, announced. Trapping will start Dec. 1, he said, and if the allotments pow planned do not reduce the beaver ta .Torger Tokle, a private ln(Unde Sam', Army. now. but a world population sufficiently additional Champion kl Jumper before entertingAhe'service,1 la shown. left, be1 a trapper will be approved for kg fitted quota. 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