Show EFFORT URGED AGAINST FIRES Prevention Week y Opens Today Ogden's Losses Looses w Are Aie Aro Shown Today marks mar the beginning of week which will Ix be 1 our ob- o observed Prevention served vee throughout o t tt t the hn nation n j In an ai endeavor or to reduce deaths deans and ond prop property rop- rop erty loss Thousands Thou ands of or persons were killed and injured last year rear and property valued at nt more than was destroyed Ordinary precautions ct- ct t- t declare would have ha eliminated much of ot this loss To reach the people ople of or Ogden O den end and deIn de designed dc- dc Weber county with suggestions fire hazards In th the to eliminate signed Home home Fire re Chief H H. H H H. V has hasu all pastors and bishops In Inthe I inthe requested u W the county tt to make fire prevention r n a topic of or discussion In ln all churches to- to toda da day Beginning tomorrow he will visit every school both public and private In the city and he or cr one of or his men will talk blk to the students The per capita sire lire loss loS lu in Ogden city to October 1 1 this year ear was 61 cents This figure was derived derl through the use of ot an estimated population of or 0 Taking the llie population of br the city elty as the llie loss would have been b en 73 cents per person Fire loss amounted amo to 26 22 so 60 which time the far this year ear during department responded to alarms In 1924 with an estimated population population tion Uon of or the per capita loss vas was 43 cents Using estimated populations Dons the loss In intervening years was wasas wasas wasas as follows 1925 and In 1926 In III four years the average fire tire loss per m tn Ogden at the estimated populations I has S been 1 Si 69 per person r lo rt i and using the population a of the last census which was wis V as 37 It was SI St 97 1 We still have hue the worst vorst time ef of the llie year Tear for fires October fires October No November ember ember and December yet December ret r-ret yet to come Chief Ward- Ward leigh declared Saturday in urging greater measures of or fire prevention |