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...East drowned, the Northwest prayed for rain. From Mt. Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests. In ten days, 17,000 acres of National Forests had burned and thousands more burn every day. Near Ryderwood, Wash., 35.000 acres of timber went up. Dry electric storms were the main cause, but in some cases miscreants were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were...
...making is a film on the Harvard Forest, which the staff of the Petersham Forestry School will use to supplement its teaching and in lectures to county agents, state foresters, and owners of timber land. Contemplated are a series of short films on Harvard activities outside Cambridge to show alumni the geographical extent of the University...
...Donahue, the former Andoverian who has terrorized Exeter timber-toppers for years, ought to snip the 15.4 high hurdles mark. He has been consistently topping 11 feet in the pole vault. Oldfather and Nichols are the cream of Jaakko's distance men. They romped through the last lap together at Andover to finish the mile in 4:39. Saturday, with Oldfather out, Nichols distanced the field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will...
...year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw, and papoose is worth $28,000, mostly in standing timber- nevertheless did not turn down last week's windfall...
...childhood, Author Stuart remembers rabbit-hunting first, hard work next. At nine he hired out to a well-to-do farmer for 25? a day. From eleven to 15 he stopped school to cut corn and timber, work on a paving gang. In high school he licked hell out of a 200-lb. bully. At 18, after running away with a carnival, he worked in a Birmingham steel mill. At Lincoln Memorial, a mountain college in Tennessee, he almost killed a hazer the first day, again licked the school bully, was editor of the college literary magazine. At Vanderbilt University...