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Show -.U.t ' ,,.ry mn r" I - ' 1 :' .. f " ' :vi ... 's V..,. . "i.-; . ' ' ' V t ' I 4 : v.. , The school teacher who sparked the f.r-.t community-wide Snrin" Clean-Up campaign 47 years ago, Miss Bertha M. Chapman, of Cleveland, Ohio, reminisces with Junior Fire Marshals Linda Mid RoIIie Wells, also of Cleveland. The story of how a good deed by Miss Chapman touched off nationwide observance of Sprint Clean-Up is told in the Spring issue of the Junior Fire !L-rshal magazine, now being distributed to 3,000,000 elementary, nue school children. The magazine is part of the year-round Junior Fire Marshal program sponsored as a public service by the Hartford Hart-ford Fire Insurance Company. Now 82 years old and retired, Miss Chapman "accidentally" started Spring Clean-Up Week in 3C9 when she presented a blue pinafore to an unkempt little girl i her class at Miles Park School. The child's mother was so t!v,ressed, she started tidying up around the house removing sh and other combustibles. Soon, the neighbors and ultimately hoir- and; of communities followed her example. Junior Fire y la:- Vs are cooperating in Clc-an-Up campaigns from coast .) cu.'.si. |