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Show Forest Fire on ; Eight-MUe Front i SANTA BARBARA, CaJ, Aug 1 1 . forest rangers today report that the fire In Santa. Barbara for-, eat haa been brought under control on the eoutherly aide, but la sweep- i Ing westward along an etght-mlla front. The flamee were In. the big timber of Cachuma creek district and progressed more slowly, al- I though the wind la attll heavy. The forest official are hopeful that the blase may ba checked when Cachuma Cach-uma creek lo reached, ualeaa tha wind should increase. - More than forty thousand acree or seventy square ml lea have been converted Into a blackened waste by tha flamea. The atrip burned it-twenty it-twenty miiee long. - |