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Show Forest Service Plans Planes to Fight Fires Program Includes Emergency Landing Fields in Wasatch Area Emergency landing fields will be established next year in primitive prim-itive areas of the Wasatch mountain, J. E. Gurr, gupervisor of the Wasatch national forest, told the Salt Lake chapter, Women' Aeronautical Aero-nautical association, Wednesday during a luncheon meeting In the Htel Utah. I The fields, he said, will be established estab-lished to aid in combating foreet firee and, in a pinch, may be used by filer in distress over those areas. At the present time, he told the women, landing fields of thi nature na-ture hava been established in national na-tional forests In various part of th United State and ar used for plane flying men and aupplle to combat forest fires. Non baa yst been built in Utah. "The difference between success and failure in combating a foreet fire." Mr. Gurr said, "lie in getting get-ting to the source of a blase before it is out of control. Th airplane can make thi possible. " Mr. Gurr spok to th women on "The Airplane in Connection With Foreat Conservation." |