Show Sports In The Open Space PHEASANT SEASON In a recent one-day session the Utah Fish and Game meeting at department offices in Salt Lake set the opening date of the 1959 pheasant season for November 7 This action was taken so that hunters might make early plans for the coming Season lengths and opening dates for other hunts will be determined after consideration of field data later in the year Other actions taken by the commission included the following Reviewed and gave full approval to the co-sponsored Department of Fish and Game-Utah Wildlife Federation legislative program Expressed their full cooperation and that of the department in matters relating to the preparation of a boating act by the Governor's Boating In final actions the Commission once again whole-heartedly approved the department's new organizational plan slated to be in full operation by July At present one of the four regional offices under the plan is in operation at serving the northern part of the Other offices will soon be in operation in Cedar Price and LAW VIOLATIONS Arrests for fish and game-law violations last year show an increase over according to figures released today by the department of fish and Total amount of fines as well as the average fine for each case processed by the a decrease over the previous Court costs of deducted from the total fines collected by the courts leave a net of returned to the state deposit in the fish and game fund during Average charge of the court per case processed was The report further shows that arrests were made for violations of 56 different sections of the fish and game code For the second year a reduction was noted in violations for failure to tag or properly tag deer Though this section of the code was again the most only cases were listed in 1958 as opposed to in 1957 and in The next greatest number of violations listed in the report was for fishing without a Failure to have life shooting migratory birds after of hunting in closed followed in that NEW APPOINTMENTS The department of fish and game this week made known the appointment of one new employee and the promotion and transfer of 2 other Newly appointed is Kendall a wildlife management graduate of Utah State University Nelson is a native of Carbon where he resided prior in a 4 tour of duty in the Navy and his enrollment at At present he is undergoing a three-month training period after which he will be assigned as conservation officer fill one of the vacancies existing in the Transferred was who has served for the last eight years as educational representative in the public relations and education division of the Ware has been assigned to the Cedar City area where he will assume the of regional conservation S. M. Clark who has previously held the Cedar City regional conservation officer post will become regional coordinator for that DATES TO REMEMBER who annually set vacation schedules to coincide with various hunting andor fishing seasons were reminded today that opening dates for 3 of the major outdoor seasons have already been Opening dates already set General fishing June Pheasant November General deer October The fish and pheasant openers w ere recently established by the Utah Fish and Game Commission while the opening date of the deer season is set by legislative law to begin each year on the Saturday nearest to October This date is October 17 in |