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Show FORE8T FIRE8 TO BE REPORTED BY RURAL MAIL CARRIER8 The official postal guide for May calls the attention ot postmasters and rural carriers to an ordor of the poRt office department that tho carriers S report to the proper authorities all I forest fires detected along their route. I This order was Issued at the request H of the secretary of agriculture. For several years in soma socmen I of the country a sort of Informal un-H un-H derstandlog bag existed between pa- i tlonal forest rangers ad man carriers with the Idea of securing Increasod fire protection. The marked cffectivfi-ness cffectivfi-ness of this cooperation wnu a strons argument In favor of its extension and official sanction, and was In part. responsible for the request of secretary sec-retary of agriculture which rcsultcl In the order by the post office dcuau ment. i The plan is for the carrier ., ro port a fire to tho nearest forest QiMc-er QiMc-er on his route, or, it no officer lives on tho route, to have him notified y some responsible citizen. Stato and 'national foresters are supplied v.'.tli post road maps and with ior guides containing the addresses ot the different postmasters. The postmasters post-masters In turn are supplied by the foresters with tho names, addresses ' and telephone call numbers of forest officers residing on or near tho curriers cur-riers routes. I Co-operation between rural carriers ' and federal forest officers will tnl.e place In Florida, Arkansas, South Du-kota, Du-kota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mct-co, Mct-co, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Idaho, (Washington, Oregon and California. ' Co-operation with state officers is glv-. glv-. en In all tho Now England states- niid ' In New York, Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ton- nessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Wls'con-I Wls'con-I sin, Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, I Oregon and California, all these t states having established fire protective protec-tive systems. - m |