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We simply wont go to put the fires out." Natural wildfires caused by lightning account for 15 percent of the countrys forest fires and almost 50 percent of forest fire damage. all-o- Such wilderness areas, the new thinking goes, are not true wilderness areas if helicopter-borne, gogled gangs of chemical-totinsmokejumpers swarm over fires started by natural causes such as lightg every- the woods, Smokey has for 28 years warned Americans of the dangers of foTst fires M - ing among those who govern acres the country's of national forest lands Especially Busy The teams were especially busy m recent days as 53 major fires crackled across more tlun 200,000 acres in a ning So now federal forest ofli-cial- s allow some fires to bum themselves out on thousands of acres of isolated forest land Weve decided." said Philip L. Thornton, deputy chief of the Forest Service. states causing $100 million damage. But now a growing number of Forest Service officials are half-doze- n Demand Fire Some trees cannot grow without a fire. The pine cones of the jackpine, for instance, will not release the seed for a new tree until after exposure to the intense heat of a forest fire It is natures ingenious way of assuring the growth of something living after a fire. Fires also wipe out epidemics of insects that kill tries over wide areas and fires permit the natural ecological successions in forest from, for instance, aspen to hemlock and eventually a climax forest" of firs Many species of trees, like the majestic douglas lir and grand sequoias, would never grow if the soil was shadd by other trees. So to stop automatically any fire is to halt unnaturally the evolution of some woods, the new thinking goes .State and federal governments spend millions of del- - lais annually to extinguish thousands of forest fires set by arsonists or careless picnickers and campers The Forest Service is now seeding grass by plane ov er much in the woodlands and range country recently burned. The grass will halt erosion until new tree seedlings can be planted, perhaps ric xt spring - ; The Forest Service has foi years used fire as a limited forestry tool, especially in the south and southeast. Called prescribed burning," it per-- , nuts the burning of small for- ' est plots (Copy right) wr - v- ,. f x - .- LDS Pres. Harold B. Lee recehes Exemplary Manhood award from Mark Reynolds of BYU. to work for yomi. Shun Lifes Traps, Pres. Lee Warns PROVO (AP) President Harold B. Lee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-DaSaints was presented the ExManhood Award emplary Tuesday at the devotional assembly attended by nearly 23,009 Brigham Young University students, faculty and staff. The annual award is presen- y Savant Dies In Laramie LARAMIE, WYO. (AP) -Gov. Stan Hathaway will deliver the eulogy Thursday afternoon at 'the University Wyomings Arts and Sciences Auditorium dunng funeral services for former uni- versity presi-de- Dr. I George Duke Humphrey. Humphrey, ; Dr. Humphrey president at the school from to 1961, died at his home here Monday night at 76. Burial will be in the Green Hill 1945 Cemetery. $ i ! - Humphrey, a native of Mis- sissippi, began hir career as a teacher and administrator in Mississippi schools and became president of Mississippi State College. He accepted the post at Wyoming in 1945 and dunng his tenure, enrollment at the school rose from 3,009 to nearly 5,500 students. The experts Purl; fames p I I ted by BYUs Associated Men Students to a man who achieved success through his own courage and application and whose life is considered a pattern for the men and women oi BYU to follow. In receiving the award Prev ident Lee said, Although I havent been to this great campus often enough, Ive never lost sight of the greatest student body in the world. I will try to be worthy of the honor you bestowed on me. ' P V 1 , Betty Jones Ann Turner Wyoming Kristen Taylor Supervisor, Salt Lake Believe In Spirit He asked the students to believe in the spint of the Lord to aoid becoming trapped m the pitfalls of life. Connie Etzel Provo Price i fs 4 Louise Young Logan Wkats yomur He told the students that BYU while attending they should seek to obtain a education. toome laraidhry proMemm? d et You must be able to budgPuryour time, he said sue religious, cultural and cultural and social activities, but dont forget the primary goal of education. 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