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Show Agencies Launch Forest Fire Protection Campaign With Smoky Bear leading the way, State and Federal wild land agencies are launching the 1931 Forest and Range fire protection campaign. Posters, blotters, window win-dow stickers and bookmarks will carry the 1951 slogan "REMEMBER, "RE-MEMBER, only YOU can prevent Forest Fires". Radio shorts and fillers will carry the message even Hopalong Cassidy is plugging plug-ging the program on the radio. In connection with the campaign, cam-paign, Forester Bert 11. Tucker, In charge of fire control for the Dixie National forest, urges that fishermen and other forest visitors visit-ors In the southern Utah area bo particularly careful with fire. Three years of drought have left us with a very dangerous moisture mois-ture deficiency In the mountains", moun-tains", Mr. Tucker warned. "Spring rains have been just sufficient suf-ficient to make the cheatgrass stow tall and thick. Now this flash fuel Is drying out and adding add-ing to the hazard." Forester Elmer Tangren of the state board of Forestry and Fire Control, who is conducting a series ser-ies of training meetings with municipal fire departments, also emphasized the potential danger of southern Utah's drought, and urged that all citizens of the state be alert to prevent fires and quickly suppress those that do start. |