Show citizens warned of danger banger of keeping y souvenir ammunition because of a wave of accidents arising from unauthorized possession of live ammunition axed and supposedly dud projectiles kept as souvenirs ing 9 has been issued to states of the ninth service command against handling souvenir ammunition or picking up any shell casing the warning has been sounded from the office of the commanding general finith service command at fort douglas and has been relayed to utah by clem S schramm director 0 of f t the he prote elton division of the utah council of defense whenever a dud or ed shell Is found near any military installation or oi upon property abandoned bya by a military installation stal lation it should not be handled ae according bording to mr schramm but the nearest military post should be notified of 0 its location no ain ammunition should be ba preserved as souvenirs but where such souvenirs have been presented they should be immediately taken to any qualified ordnance officer to be sure that it Is not live alive ammunition and could not explode the order in the ninth service command was inspired by two accidents in california one at moss beach and another adoth r near santa maria in which threta children were instantly killed and three more very seriously injured these accidents followed the fatal explosion of a bazooka retained as a souvenir in a now york home |