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Show Club Will Protest LineAbandonment That the opposition of the Milford Mil-ford Lions club to the hunting of hornless deer on the Beaver mountains moun-tains this season, as voiced in letters let-ters written by the secretary to the forest service and to the state fish and game department, had ; some bearing in the decision of the board of big game control not to j permit the shooting of doe deer this year, may be gleaned from letters let-ters received from both the forest, service and the fish and game department de-partment -and duly read at the regular luncheon meeting of the club, which was held Wednesday noon at the Union Pacific dining room. ! At this same meeting club mem-, bers went on record with another! protest in this instance against the abandonment of the branch tracks of the Union Pacific running run-ning from Milford to Frisco. The 1 railroad is petitioning the interstate inter-state commerce commission to reopen re-open this hearing following a dis-1 ! missal some two years ago of a I similar petition, which was strenu-l ously opposed by local business and mining interests and by the Utah Citizens Ivate association. The : services of this organization will again be invoked. It is felt by local people that, with more use made of this line during the past ; two or three months than for many ! periods in the past, there is less reason than ever for its abandonment. abandon-ment. Louis A. Sanford, local mining operator, was welcomed into the club as a new member and he was I given a good hand. L. G. Cole, another local mining man, was present at the luncheon as the guest of J. R. Murdock jr. and Bill Walker, well known drug sales- man, was present as the guest of j La Mar Outzen. |