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Show Citizens Urged To Watch for Fire Hazard Along with the present-day urge and advertising for people to protect pro-tect and safeguard the country from forest fires, local citizens are urging public recognition of another fire hazard. In order to protect the banks of the Rio Virgin and other streams, a program of planting willows and trees along the stream course has been followed in recent years. Perhaps many look upon this as merely unnecessary waste brush and tree growth, and have not considered its value as stream bank protection. In any case, it is noted that each year fires are started, either intentionally or by accident, and much of the bank protection is -thus destroyed. Citizens are requested to give this consideration, because of the importance 6 f protecting the stream course. Parents are requested re-quested to bring the problem before be-fore their children and urge their cooperation in checking against the unnecessary burning of this plant growth along the river margin. |