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Show IT CAN HAPPEN HERE Headlines in the June 6 issue of the Roosevelt Standard read : "Blaze Sweeps Uintah Canyon Recreational Rec-reational Area; Careless Campers Held Responsible." j It CAN happen in Utah, reports J. Whitney Floyd, chief forester-firewarden forester-firewarden for the state board of forestry and fire control, and it can happen even more easily now than during the first week of June. Thousands of people of our state use our canyv, for recreation picnic areas with expensive improvements, im-provements, campsites made convenient con-venient for motorists, fishing streams planted with legal-size fish all of these have cost the taxpayer money, and the taxpayer can get his money's worth of recreation rec-reation and re'i :&tion only if he fan use ihese areas. He cannot use thein if we allow them t be destroyed by fire, states Mr. Floyd. Sheriff Jasper Puffer, Beaver county firewarden, cautions all motorists, picnickers, hikers and fishermen who ta'xe to the highways, high-ways, the mouiv'.au'.s ana the streams for their Fourth of July i'un, to be very caut'ous with their campfires, matches and cigarets. Let's leave thss areas nice enough to come back to next year, requests re-quests Sheriff Fu'fer. |