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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1974
Page
5
The World Almanac reports that in 1972 about 84,516 fires or 85 percent on protected land were started by humans. Within 31 million acres under the Federal State Cooperative Forest Fire Control Program, 1,050,309 acres burned due to man caused fires.
Hannah Duston is reinterpreted by the Union of Vermont New Hampshire Indians who call her a murderer for killing ten of the twelve Indians in 1697 on Contoocook Island. They seek recognition of native rights and demand the statue be removed and island returned to Indian control.
The Arkansas River, once muddy and shallow, was certified navigable from the Mississippi River to near Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1969. The Corps of Engineers project to make the river navigable cost about 1.0 billion dollars.
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