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Show The Cache American, Logan. Cache County, Utah laare Two SRiriSG CIRCLE PATTERNS Parachutes, Jeeps, Halftracks, Flamethrowers, Will Be Used in Peacetime to Battle Forest Fires Methods Devised for War Are Being Adapted to Save Timber Resources The swords of war become the plowshares of peace, and this time Mars has some weapons that are poing to come in mighty handy in the never ending battle against forest fires. Some very logical are asked auestions notbeing use bombs to drop on forest fires? Why not use bombers, equipped with precision sights, to aim these bombs? Why not use firefighting parachute troops to Aa aeun aa a forest ranger spots drop behind enemy lines or fire be radios for the Dying firedifto transport to fire regions Here a "smoke jumper" la fighters. ficult to negotiate by land? a "feather bed landing" la making to take Tha man who Is expected charge of this program Is David Godwin, a veteran of the forest service, who has been acUve In anti-firexperimental work for a number of the tops of a young coniferous growth. e fires." burning out areas years. Godwin already has InvesUgated the possibility of est fires, using bomba which dive-bombin- g for- in real- ity were exploding fire extinguishers. That, however, waa a number of years ago, end didn't meet with much success. It waa difficult, the experimenters found, to hit the exact spot where the would do the most good, end there sufwee difficulty in covering ficiently large area. AvlaUon enthusiasts, however, are counting upon effecUve bomb-sigh- t and other precision Instruments to change this altuatlon. As an alter-naUvthey believe there may be great possibiliUes in the use of No doubt fleet of bombing planes could be used to advan- tage in blasting a fire out of a forest. especially with ground support from a paratrooper battalion. The use of parachute-droppe- d troops to fight forest flree waa first tried a few yeara ago, and they have been seeing action in this capacity ever since. But there never has been enough of them to combat a really big fire. This number can be expanded greatly after the war, and the wartime training of paratroop combat units can bring about the organization of a formidable firefighting force. 'Jeep Will Be Fire Engine. techWhen it comes to post-wa- r niques in forest fire fighting, however, it may be not only the use of 'waves of bombing planes, and parachute troops to augment the present acforces. Tht ubiquitous jeep customed to the jungle traila of New Guinea and the difficult terrain of Africa and Italy is already recommended by professional foresters as highly suitable for service as a miniature fire engine. Likewise, the walkie-talki- e radio unquestionably will be used by the thousands to keep in contact between fire chiefs, their crewmen, aviation spotters, pilots and paratroopers overhead. " which combine automobile speeds with tank and tractor ability to negotiate swamps and rugged land, can serve efficiently as big brother to the jeeps, and for use as bulldozers to scrape fire trail barriers to the progress of flames. Bulldozers already are essential firefighting equipment . Even developed by the chemical warfare service may be called upon for building back In the path of spreading flames. Accompanying them would be men with fire ex- tinguishers, to guard against the back fires getting out of control. The paratrooper, however, will doubtless have a glory and a duty all his own. His greatest service will come from the fact that he can get there first Once a watcher from a or from a patrolling plane apote smoke, It need be only a few minutes until a paratrooper can land within 50 or 100 yards of the blaze, and by getting there while the fire la just starting, he will be able In many cases to extinguish it without additional help. Paratroopers by Hundred. But when long periods of dryness have rendered the forests highly in- flammable and fires spread quickly, e radio summons from the spotters can bring reinforcements In a bur- ry. A single big plane may bring a score or more paratroopers; a dozen planes could bring them by the hundreds. With their faces protected by plastic masks, heads covered with padded helmets, and bodies covered with fabrics, to spare them Injuries in case of tree-to-p landings; and with coils of rope handy for quick descent from the trees, the paratroopers can reach a fire many precious minutes sooner than men on trucks or horseback can generally arrive. devices that Portable are strapped to a mans back are already standard forest equipment suitable for the paratroopers. Somewith a times these are hand-pumsmall tank of water. An alternative device uses water but builds the pressure behind it with carbon dioxide, either in its liquid form or Some In the form of "dry ice. portable extinguishers use carbon dioxide Itself to play upon the fires. It snuffs them out by driving away the oxygen. Extinguishers of greater capacity and other supplies will be attached to parachutes and dropped from other planes. Meantime, the jeeps and halftracks, trucks and bulldozers will be moving up with other reinforcements and supplies. They may bring the flame throwers to build back fires, If necessary. Theyll bring long lines of hose and pumps, powered by motors which are twins to those used on rowboats. With the high pressure equipment, theyll be able to combat fires in snags, dead trees which are an especial menace because they tend to carry ground fires upward to the tops of other trees. Ground Reinforcements. When a forest fire goes into the tree tops it is about as difficult to check as any fire can possibly be. In an old forest a crown fire may be as high above ground as the 15th story of a skyscraper with no automatic sprinkler system to help combat It, and plenty of oxygen to make It burn freely. Thus, if the original fire doe get out of control of the first paratrooper to reach It, and prove too big lso. it for th flrt reinforcement I almoat certain that the third wave of paratrooper and ground force will retort to building backfire and digging trenrhr ai the maximum effort to check It. Bulldozer and half track will mechanize a Urge part of th digging job. Men with flame thrower and extinguisher will handle the backfire. Other men with gasoline-powere"chin-aw- " will clear the path of of the bulldozer and tree too big for them to bowl over. America ha a big (take in foreit land. Forest operator are feeing to It that our tree continue to grow, but they know that fire I the biggett menace to growth. They need weapon! with which to fight fire, end they expect those that this war provider will help to keep a better control over thia persistent enemy. d d half-trac- k On Land or Sea, Navy P. 0. Gets Mail Delivered hell-copte- ; g g high-pressu- Great Ones Host of Small Fires Do More Damage Than theorFew rank malice for thrill A tough forest fire is a terrible enemv to combat It sometimes attacks on a front from one to more can than twenty miles in width. Itover-l to a at speed forward sween ike a man on horseback. It de- a elops a heat that can ignite stump , lore than 100 yards removed from , ny flames. It stirs air currents to the speed of a tornado. we The great forest fires, the ones read about, are the more and do terrific damage but jar cr STAGECSCREEOADIO - Released br Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE by IOOLISII NOTION, is a play thats right up Hollywoods alley, partly because it would make a delightful picture, partly also because of its cast. Talullah Bankhead returned to Broadway in it after she and "A had "Lifeboat Royal Scandal" to add to her screen Cook Is known to movie goer, a 1 Aubrey Mather. And Maria Manton make her itage debut he the daughter of Marlene Dietrich. She a big girl, prettier than her mother waa when the arrived In thl country, with a voice and an peachea-and-crcaUlent for aeducUve role. "Foolish NoUon" could step onto tha screen with its Broadway cast, successfully. career; Donald ob-vio- ut Of course were used to those nicknames "The Look," "The Beard," and all the rest of them. But Paramount certainly didnt look ahead when insuring Olivia de Havillands thin for $100,000 becauffc Ray Mll- - Smart IDEAL for every occasion, this with scalloped smart flared peplum and flattering lines will be grand for your summer fabrics, piprogram in linen-lik- e que, gingham or chambray. Two-PIec- er there are 10,000 times as many little which we seldom hear about. and the sum total of their damage is the greater of the two. Anyhow, every big fire was little when it started. Who starts them? The public accounts for approximately 98 per cent of all forest fires, according to the official records of the forest service, careless tossing of burning matches or tobacco Is described as the most frequent cause. Incendi-arist- s people who start fires for a second-fires- , Approximately 61,000 men are kept constantly subject to fire fighting duty today. Of these, some 52, 500 are responsible to state foresters and administrators of private ly owned timberlands, and aboul 9,000 are members of the federal land administrative agencies whicl include the forest service. In spit! of their efforts, however, fire anna ally destroys as much a 800,000,001 cubic feet of timber. er two-piec- fire-tow- e, flame-throwe- er System of 5,000 Branches Reaches Remotest Islands One of the most gigantic wartime tasks confronting postal men Is delivering mall to mobile unit of the fleet The mounting tempo of operations In the last year means not only that greater distances must be (panned to effect delivery but that a greater number of men are Involved In combat activities Increasing all classes of mail to an unprecedented volume. During March, 1945, 88,132,623 pieces of letter mall passed through Fleet Post Office, San Francisco to navy, marine and coast guard personnel In the Pacific. In March, 1911, there were 36.686,937 pieces of letter mall dispatched to the Pacific showing clearly that the mail volume Increased well over 100 per cent In one year. It Is expected that It will rise even farther. The nerve center of the navy mail service Is In the navy department, Washington, D. C. Here, ship and plane movements are traced and communicated daily to the fleet post Inoffices by wire and airmail. formation on ship and plane movements come in from all over the world by radio, letter and messenger. Throughout the world, there are over 5,000 navy post offices, varying greatly in size and appearance some within the United States but the vast majority are on board ship or at advanced bases or on captured and liberated islands. The large ones serving the mobile units are designated as fleet post offices. What Navy Men Want. Extensive surveys show that navy, coast guard and marine corps personnel overseas above all want letters letters giving local news and telling of things done and things obplanned. Secondly, they want sentimental a with personal jects appeal such as photographs, snapshots, drawings made by their youngsters, and newspaper clippings that can be enclosed in these letters. Such surveys also show that they positively know what they dont want They dont want cakes, soft candies, cookies, cigarettes and fancy toilet kits. These foods do not survive the trip to the Pacific and arrive in a battered, moldy condi' tion. To make sure your package arrives in good condition, the following suggestions are outlined: 1. Use a strong container (spexV' cial boxes are designed for this purpose). 2. Pack each article In shredded paper or some filler material to prevent movement inside the package. 3. Inside each package pnt a sheet of paper with a list of the contents and the full address of the person to whom it is sent plus your return address. 4. Tie the box with cord, then WRAP It In heavy paper and tie it with strong cord. 5. 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