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Smokey Continues
Fight To Quench
Forest Fires
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Smokey, the forest fire preventing bear, has teamed up with the Mail Carriers* in an effort to prevent man-caused—forest—firesr“Since the first of the year. 1,601 fires, caused by careless men, women and children, have destroyed 13,542 acres of timberland in Virginia,” reports State Forester George W. Dean. “No stone is being left unturned in trying to keep Virginia’s 'forests green and growing,” said Dean/ “The United States Post Office Department along with thousands of individuals and hundreds ' of groups,
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