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December 24, 1970     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Greeting Drawn by Duane Hoxit bth Grade Mt. View School EIGHTCLUB / Greeting Drawn by Lori Noreen 6th Grade, Bordeaux School NITA'S Nita and Jim Bariekman 325-Railroad Greeting Drawn by Carol Knight 6th Grade, Bordeaux School Mike and Donna Nowak Open Christmas and New Year's Day For your Convenience -- 8 a.m. 'til 10 p.m. Greeting Drawn by Deann Bredeson 5th Grade, Evergreen School ire Loss I Fires swept 160,414 acres of National Forest lands in the Pacific Northwest Region of the Forest Service-USDA in 1970. Most of the acreage was in the State of Washington, 157,514, where 1,1 15 fires occurred. Oregon had 2,262 fires, but only about 3,000 acres burned. The total acreage burned was the highest since 1929 when 395,1 16 acres of Forest Service-protected lands were scorched. The Regional average for the past five years is 18,374 acres. Most damage resulted from lightning storms in July and August during critically dry weather. The Region experienced 2,015 lightning fires, the second highest on record (since 1908}. There were 1,370 fires caused by man, the largest number (651 ) by campfires or abandoned warming fires. Biggest of the season's conflagrations occurred Aug. 21 to Sept. 11. A lightning storm hit southern Oregon Aug. 21 and swept north into Canada. The storm left 176 fires in four days, and carelessness by man added 26 in the same period. Hardest hit was the S ear Is Wenatchee National Forest, where burning conditions were the most extreme in 30 years. When the disaster was over, 112,700 acres of the Wenatchee and Okanogan National Forests had burned. Largest of the fires was the Entiat, 52,721 acres, which was given its name when several large fires in the Entiat valley area north of Wenatchee burned together. At the peak of the"bust", Aug. 3 1. there were 11,248 persons working on fires in the Region, including more than 8,500 on the Wenatchee National Forest. The firefighters came from every National Forest in the Nation. Many persons from other agencies, private industry workers, and special crews from as far away as Maine helped fight ig the fires. Besides actual fireline duty, work ranged from cooking to time-keeping. About 100 women worked on the fires. There were 350 smokejumpers in Washington and Oregon Aug. 31, along with 70 helicopters, 18 air tankers, etc. The north-central Washinton area the previous month (July 16-29) had fires which burned an area totalling 28,468 acres, again mostly on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests. Largest of the fires was the 15,090-acreSafety Harbor fire near Lake Chelan. The Wenatchee National Forest fires were fihned extensively by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. which has produced a one-hour documentary scheduled on NBC television Feb. 5. Help build schools, send class supplies to educate children. It's one of many ways you can make the world better for people by 8iving to CARE. Mail your check, whatever you can. Self.Help Program oD Dept. A New York 10016 or local offices~ ~o Banner An Greeting Drawn by Betty Bailey 6th Grade, Bordeaux School Burnett C Wor" Greeting Drawn by Lori Rex 5th Grade, Mt. View School FLOOR Greeting Drawn by Patrice Munsell 5th Grade, Mt. View School 4tVII O Cuzick's Shell Service Roland Cuzick on Mountain View Maple Court Service Sam Hansen Matlock Road Gott O il Company Distributor_¢ of SHFLL PRODUCTS in Mason County Jim Vercher's Shell Serv. 1st & Cota Sts. Shelton Hielwick's Store Mrs. E. K. Hjelwick Brinnon Matlock Store John and N~ttie Tauscher Matlock Grapeview Grocery Joy and Ken Hershoerger Grapeview Allyn Shell Service Frank and Elaine Kowalczyk Allyn P~Rc~ II n n n '" " ~. ~ Greeting Drawn by Linda Johnson -''"~ 5th Grade, Evergreen School I ' ' ' i I Greeting Drawn by Staci Petraitis 6th Grade Bordeaux Schoo I NYE BUILDING AND PLASTERING SUPPLY COMPANY II Efl RY C H fels'r r~AS A/ / IA LS CH RIS Greeting Drawn by Brian Core 6th Grade, Bordeaux School SHELTON VETERINARY HOSPITAL Lots of {j.."" Warm, Friendly::: Wishes From Us to You at This Joyous Holiday Season A. ROY Don Brown Gene Nye Vivian Jonker Roy Dunn Thursday, December 24, 1970 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 23