Forest Fire Prevention
Sir:
In the lead story of your May 2 issue, summarizing the mood of the people and the call of the open road, TIME said:
". . . He wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from...
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