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Show Warning Given On Cheat Grass Cheat grass, a sabateur team mate for run-away fire is waving a signal for action. Its dry stems are ready to suck fire out of burning cigarettes, coax innocent camp fires into the brush or to snatch flame from a discarded match. Some people call it June grass, botanists call it Bromus Tec-torum, Tec-torum, but others call it names we can't print. It is a pest that rushes in to take the Dlace of better plants killed by fire and abuse. Cheat grass runs a pickup pick-up and delivery service for fugitive fugi-tive fires. It can take fire from a down-town cigarette and deliver it to the last tree up the mountain. moun-tain. Firemen of Salt Lake county made 1,000 runs after cheat grass fires in 1948. If Utah is to be kept green, dry cheat grass and fire must be kept apart. |