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Show Bingham To Observe Fire Prevention Week Regular Inspection, Cleanup Clean-up Invaluable Help In Fighting Fire National Fire Prevention week always the calendar week including in-cluding October 9, ' the anniversary anniver-sary of the great Chicago tire of 1871 and this year including October 2-9, will be marked locally lo-cally with an intensification of usual fire prevention activities. A window display on Main street, a lecture and essay contest con-test at the Bingham high school, other public ' activities at the grade school, , are being plai-I plai-I nod by acom-. acom-. m It tee of 1 Bingham Vol- unteer Flre- men under guidance of a committee of tire chiefs and assistant chiefs Ray Tatton, Vera Faddls, J. L. Householder and . Irvln Stillman. In 1936 the per capita, fire losa for the United States as a whole was $2.05. For cities of twenty thousand population or over, however, the average was approximately 82 per cent less. Cities are better protected; by fire departments and tire prevention pre-vention efforts. ' I A highly successful program of fire prevention which hue cut loss of tire conspicuously In Honolulu ' is being copied in the United States. The plan calls .PiPspocUonsJnapectlona of mercantile establishments and general clean-up campaign. . Every year approximately ten thousand persons burn to death In the United States. Dwelling fires are responsible ( for more than seventy-lfive per cent of the lives lost and more than one-third of the lives lost In dwelling fires are those of children. Protect lives and property in your family and those of your neighbor. Enlist now in the organized or-ganized efforts being made to save Bingham from tragedy and loss following in the wake of fire. |