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Show Volunteer Fireman Thinks Fighting Flames Thrilling MURRAY Fun, thrille and com- bl and Marvin, I. and lives at pankmahip are the reaaona Bob 1st Vina street. Gerrard, owner ef Garrard Service, . a esBgaeeaaaawaoaoi 4111 South Btete etreet, kkes to be I cl.u i-im Mimia wn . m , -h f lAa I esemma.saemaemaBesB man. -The fact Is." hs explained. 1 gat i a big kick cut of dropping everything every-thing at tha sta-j tioa and hopping on the fire engine - f it's my favorite OT paetlme." Series r ornti'M record of "fires answered" Is evidence of his seriousness serious-ness about ths ewhols matter. Of 242 fires reported In the county last ysar, he answered 220. Servica stations, according to Mr. Gerrard, are favorite places for bogus money pesssis, thieves and other petty crooks to try te "pass off" their goods. "Ths car service bueineas probably prob-ably seee mors of this sort of crime than any other business." he declared, de-clared, 'ut If things are watched cloeely we nab them Instead af being 'stuck'." Mr. Gerrard has been la the eerv-Ice eerv-Ice station business for 12 years. Ha spent one and a half yea re In the oil fields at Psuro. Wyo and at Simpson Ridge, Medicine Bow, Wyo. His real claim te fame and use-fulness use-fulness Is his Job as "helper" to Fire Chief John W. Clay whea call comes In tftr the respirator. Mr. Gerrard Is a member ef the Murray Eagles, tha International Footprints' association, -the Jack-eon Jack-eon Democ ratio league, the Petroleum Petro-leum Retailers' association and the Salt Lake County Fum and Game association. ' He la married, haa two eons, Bob- |