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Show TOMFOOLES A gentleman who signs himself, W. E. Ta5, I Jllty 1 Forester-Firewarden, State Board of Forestry JJi Harvest i trol, has given a new look to government news the ram He has also made our lifethe part we spend Zni ernment news releases a good deal brighter :, When mt Your average government handout is a d , ; cutting m indeed, and generally goes to the wastebasket i'uscd durinf gren's creations, however are something else J Re. beat is fire prevention and if you don t think thiv safety.00-"! in fire prevention you just haven't read Mr. T. 'filfdSrini Ee modestly labels his releases "News Items" I The first are nothing of the sort. They are literary geffls J fns instance the lead paragraph from Mr. Tangren's Seats, cent M oj brakes an of June ZO. - should be "Cheat grass, a saboteur team mate for run-a ' lf deecVvt' is waving a signal for action. Its dry stems are J place befoi suck fire out of burning cigarettes, coax innoce,,) to the Kei fires into brush or snatch flame from a discarded t operating Where there's smoke there's fire, they say, and (l-1 stop ,?ngh prose is red hot. As for that innocent camp fire 5! Loose or ' : have stayed out of the brush. "j catchy - The state's asst. forester-firewarden is also qJ worn, sn a metaphor. 1 ineiy out "A fire in hand is worth two in the bush"jj since tr. punch line of his June 20 news item. This is y,! "sstduariw rapidly by "One fire set to burn out a rattlesnab1 the job so much that it overun the mountain hunt-:-' Bell rattlesnakes." " Activity "Boy with matches in back pocket slid down Home Ai rock. Matches ignited, singed the boy and started) Time a x. ' not tools fire. m utal "A discarded cigarette butt blew smoke back become i smoker's face when it set the hunting camp on fiie.,; Joy Nat While you're mulling that one over, let's get ods Elect the news items about cheat grass Jthat old sabotecj ""doing mate for run-away fire). Here is the final word. unioadin cord it with frank envy for Mr. Tangren's extravage::) andne with the mother tongue. j commun: "Some people call it June grass, botanists call;:; eloped6 mus Tectorum, but others call it jiames we can't print.;! Guidec grass runs a pick-up and delivery service for fugitive ; "by It can take a fire f ram a don-town cigarette and iiJ ways in to the last tree up the mountain." j "ash,e Well, folks, have a nice fourth of July, but fork- P"rnPin sake stay off those down-town cigarettes and the I:! pafrs" . Tectorum. of tasks improve . electrici |