OCR Text |
Show Sporfstacular October n. 1979 Page 19 (rtatieirs gti amnimg tomm tiDeplhiin)e coinnipsiDuy This fall, hunters will again fill the countryside and Mountain Bell repairmen will be close behind to restore aerial telephone lines damaged by misplaced bullets and high powered rifle lead can easily penetrate the plastic sheathing of a telephone cable, rupturing the transmission lines inside. gunshot. Hunters should be careful of utility service when in the field, said Kenneth 0. Hill, Mountain Glass insulators will also shatter from gunshot, causing excessive noise to be heard over the transmission lines or even a Bells Utah public relations manager. A stray bullet could isolate a communitys telephone service, and deprive them of emergency service, he jdded. Hunters should not shoot at game on or near telephone lines or equipment; a missed shot could mean a dead telephone line for a long time. Shotgun Si caliber pellets, complete severance of service. As mentioned, damage occurs most often on telephone lines that serve rural communities. These areas depend on the telephone for any emergency services they might require from larger neighboring cities. If the damage is inaccessible to vehicles, especially in winter weather, days could pass before repairmen located the downed lines. This could mean lengthy of critical interruption emergency assistance,, which many hunters also depend on in case of accident. During hunting season hundreds of long distance conversations are interrupted because of damaged telephone cable in the Weber Canyon area alone. Mountain Bell replaced 35 sections of cable in the canyon last year, most of which occured during the dove hunt. Willfull damage to telephone lines and other transmission equipment is a violation of Utah law, punishable by a fine of up to $299 and-o- r six months in jail. WARD LEECH, Mountain Bell cable repairman, repairs telephone service to the Hercules Aerospace Division in Magna which was disconnected for over a day when a hunter fired a shotgun at a bird on this telephone cable. r, V v G Mountain Bell cable repairman, splices a multi transmission wire telephone cable that was severed by a shotgun bjast from directly underneath the cable. WARD LEECH, , , J.-j- l , MV1 fcfejgy- Vrwaic'4v & rTf, N ... ' "C; tirr , rir ,r .X V ' ' tummrntmmm , , . v t v ? jt4 jx , , i V Goose hunting opens Saturday hunter opening DWR INFORMATION OFFICER Don Paul inspects each on day of duck hunting. A log was taken on the different types of ducks and the amount of each species taken. Paul also removed wing and liver samples from many of the birds to test for lead content, to see whether or not steel shot would be necessary later on in the season. Goose hunting opens Saturday, with a bag and posession limit of 2 birds per hunter. wit Is Ef'ilivibf. tint ' ' a |