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Show Prevention df Farm Fires Stressed By USA0 Extension Service Head Farmers of Utah are urged by Dr. Carl Frischknecht. Utah State Agricultural College Extension Ex-tension Service director, to do everything possible to prevent loss from fires. President Truman has proclaimed pro-claimed Oct. 3-9 as National Fire Prevention Week. Since the best defense against fire is alertness, the President has set aside this week in which he urges everyone every-one to make a special effort to remove fire hazards and to build up habits of fire prevention. "I earnestly request that, as a nation and as individual citizens, we dedicate ourselves during1 the week to waging a year-round campaign against the menace of fire," the President stated in his proclamation. In 1947 alone, farm fires cost one hundred million dollars, killed kill-ed 3500 farm people and injured thousands of others, Dr. Frischknecht Frisch-knecht reported. Fires cost farmers farm-ers loss of life and property, and cost the world needed food, destroyed. des-troyed. J Known causes of farm fires, I by percentage, are as follows, the extension director said, citing figures of the National board of Fire Underwriters: Lightning, 37 per cent; chimneys, flues, cupolas cupo-las and stacks. 11; petroleum and its products, 8; matches and smoking, 7; sparks on roofs, 7; stoves, furnaces, boilers and their, pipes, 6; exposures, 5; spontaneous ignition, 5: misuse of electricity, 3; sparks from running run-ning machinery, 2; hot ashes and open-coal fires, 2; miscellaneous, 7 per cent. |