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Title: July 16, 1969 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: July 16, 1969 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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should enter fair now "Livestock breeders had better hurry if they want to exhibit their breeding stock at the 1969 Nevada County District Fair, which traditionally features the finest senior division livestock. show of any of the Mother Lode area fairs," Mana‘ger Malcom Hammill said today.” Senior division livestock entries are currently being received at the fair office, and Hammill reminds livestock producers -that 9 p.m. Friday, July 18, is the entry deadline for all senior division livestock. In the light horse division, classes for Appaloosas, Arabians, Thoroughbreds, and Quarter horses are offered. This division is limited to Nevada county with entries accepted from other California counties only if alloted facilities are not filled with local entries.The Welsh pony division is. limited to Nevada, Placer, and “through their paces, is a popular feature of the fair. This event will be at 1 p.m. Saturday August 23, In the beef cattle division, registered Angus, Hereford, and Shorthorn . cattle will compete in their respective classes, Entries are limited to Placer, Sierra, Yuba, and Nevada counties unless facilities are not filled from entries trom these counties, Holstein, Brown Swiss, and Milking Shorthorn dairy cattle breeds comprise. the dairy cattle section of the fair, Other California county entries are accepted only if Nevada and its’ adjoining counties do not fill the classes, The sheep division is limited to Nevada County entries unless the Corriedale, Suffolk, and Hampshire: breeders do = fill the classes, = 12 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday, July 16, 1969 Tah F t’s fi fight inthe sk Smokey Bear needs a lot of help in seen, It remains until it is washed away, protecting his forest from fire and he Harry Chappel and Carroll Beaver gets it from federal and state fire fighthave been air tanker managers at the ing agencies and their airborn craft. pret: pe TNF ane clr aa since . . The base is situated on seven acres Two F-7-F Tiger Cats at the Grass of ground owned by TNF and located near Valley Air Attack Base are ready to the Nevada County Air Park spring when the wild lands are threatBeard claimed he cannot quote statisened. These powerful navy carriers, detics which prove that the use of air tankers, signed late in World War Il, now fight utilized in fighting fires in approximately _ for California's natural resources, the past 12 years, has reduced acreage : loss. Lou Remscher and Forrest Watson, "Fire weather is the thing that controls experienced pilots, are at the base from “ the seriousness and spread of fires, and 10 a.m. until 6°p,m. seven days a week the variables in weather influence each to fly the "cats" and their loads of fire fire." he said. Therefore, he reasoned retardant when an alert is sounded. The it would be unfair to compare acreage planes and pilots are under contract to losses from year to year because of these if Tahoe National Forest, and the contract ever existing weather variables. i specifies they must be in the air within Extended drought, robbing living and ri 10 minutes after a fire call is received. dead growth of moisture, and wind are if the elements which create the most serious ! i Es To According to Thomas Beard, TNF fire fires, he said. , : control agent, although the tankers are "We still have arid will have big fires ’ under contract to the federal agency, the regardless of modern equipment because of . air attack base is a joint operation betweather conditions," he claimed. ween TNF and the California Division of However, Beard did say that 'In the Forestry. He said it is a “balance of air judgment of knowledgable firemen, tankers k power" arrangement whereby the two ahave been effective in stopping panae f gencies combine their air strength to attack until ground crews arrive. fires throughout the state. "Over the long run I could name aay i The Tiger Cats chief contribution is specific cases when I know the tankers their speed in making initial attacks on have been effective in stopping the fire . fires; Beard said, The tankers are able until ground crews arrive," to hold the fire until ground crews arrive. He called attention to the tankers' effime. Beard emphasized that the tankers ciency in the 1968 Sage Hen Hill fire alone cannot stop fire but require follow which blackened 200 acres before it was up onslaughts by ground crews, controlled. He said the tanker pilots Ted Waddell, state forest ranger of "chased the fire" in flanking maneuvers the CDF Nevada-Yuba unit, said the situaand.were able to confine the blaze to a ; tion is comparable to the Air Force aiding strip a quarter of a mile wide and two iL military ground forces. and a half miles long, This fire was Fire retardants are pre-mixed "much crowning in 15 to 18 foot timber, he said. the~ same as a giant cake," Beard said. In summing up the effectiveness of 1 The "mixing bowls" are two 25-ton silos air onslaught in reducing acreage loss, where propellers churn water and reBeard compared it to taking preventive . 3 tardant (namely fertilizer) into a medicine, saying: — :, ' consistency which drops on and clings to "If you take preventive medicine you at a ao i : trees and other vegetation. It is a long don't know whether or not you would have ‘ Harry pein 3 io ee va ecnge sprees . i: term retardant dyed red so it can be. been sick if you hadn't taken it." __ cite to ane sa pr on eri “pag dipped ae . ? , solution, resembles a red rubber glove. 7 The big bird (directly above) at the heliport at White : Cloud Heliport gets some servicing and tender loving care from Steve Matthewson. . . Livestock breeders THE HELIPORT at Tahoe National Forest as seen from the air. The whirly bird and helitac en crews dart out from here on initial attack of flames ii threaten the wild lands of TNF Sierra counties, Welsh pony per‘i ; and the California Division of Forestry. See other photos p. 8 formance classes, in which the Alpine, Anglo-Nu highly trained animals go Saanen, and Toggenburg goats.