Show I 1 This Post Is Invaluable in Spotting Bad Blazes 1 I N t N r 0 i I I r N I mss sE V F 4 S i ics 4 i cs of T G J L a R. R ar b bS S f fi i i W i w M x i c 4 1 j i n C Na t p. p n t Cr L y N 1 so al 4 i I MILES OF THE W WASATCH FRONT VISIBLE LE TO TIIE THEM I FROM FRon LOOKOUT STATION J. J E. E Gurr left John C C. Downey Ato Atop p Walker Bank building in Salt Lake City I Youth Mans MailS Fire Lookout Station For Wasatch National Forest Forestt I I t Editors Editor's nofe note This Is the seventh and last fast In The Telegrams Telegram's series ser on the Importance of Wasatch national forest In the war effort and the means undertaken to safeguard It against fire and possible sabotage High above the streets of downtown downtown downtown down down- town Salt Lake City is a Wasatch national forest fire lookout station station sta- sta tion ion tion manned this year by a youth believed relieved to be the youngest regular regular regu- regu lar ar lookout in all of the country's national forests He is year old John John C. C Downey Downey Downey Dow Dow- ney son of Mrs J. J C. C Cleone Downey of University street John got his joo by spending the summer of 1941 1911 training for it without pay as assistant to a Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Wa Wa- satch fire guard Came Two T Years Ago J. J E. E Gurr forest supervisor said young voting Downey came to him almost two years ago for a job as a lookout but had to be turned down because of his age However However However How ever we let him go ahead with his idea dea for experience last summer and he has justified this action I have perfect confidence in his liis l is ability Johns John's post Is on the roof of the Walker Waller Bank building The space spaces is s used without charge through courtesy of the building management management management manage manage- ment Mr Gurr said Direct telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone connection is provided with th the he forest fire dispatcher station at Second East street and with forest orest administrative offices in the federal building Binoculars and a sharp pair of eyes are Johns John's principal aids to detection of fires along the Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Wa Wa- satch front spreading in panorama to o the north east and south The Binoculars enable him to determine whether the wisp he sees with the naked eye is from a fire that threatens destruction or whether it is lea a smoking chimney There are numerous other fire I lookout stations dotting the hills hillsand hillsand hillsand and canyons of the Wasatch forest forest forest for for- est Mr Gurr reported |