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35-Mile Fire Stamped OutWICHITA FAITHS, Texas,) Dudley Callan, 39. was burned lion sent an emergency unit fromf. stamped out after high winds sub- fires raged in the Cisco-Eastland- r(\ the flames from threatening10 sided early Sunday. Hundreds Hanger are'* 110 miles south ofr‘ fought the stubborn blaze for 20 Wichita Falls, and near Henriet-| hours. ta, to the southeast. They wereisin north Texas and took one life, j Force base here and Hensley field Winds up to 70 miles an hour at Dallas were surveying the re-j Fires would jump from onp fanned the fires and whipped up gion to determine the damage place to another. I helped fightand to spot any possible new fires.fatally while fighting one fire in Fort Worth.the eastern Texas panhandle near| g. D. Wiley. Forestburg gro-Wheeler Saturday. Other great iCPr, said the fjrp trucks prevent*Civil defense headquarters here at midnight summoned planes, chemicals and men to light the blaze near Forest burg, in Montague county. The Tarrant County Volunteer Fire Fighters associaover an estimated 100 000 acres Helicopters from Sheppard Airwas one of several that burned injuriesd-Fet-March lb lt;/?— A furious prairie lire that blackened a 35-mile square area of north Texas waso,the town of 150 population.F. E. Brown, a volunteer fireman, said none of the towns in the Montague area was endangered.Mrs. Steve Marchland, wife of the Wichita Falls civil defensechief, told of accompanying her husband into the fire areas.“It was just awful.’’ she said.Several unoccupied farm homes brought under control before mid and outbuildings and at least 100 night.head of livestock were destroyed, j The state highway patrol re-The fire in Montague county ported 20 persons suffered minorI10is‘eclouds of blinding dust.the fires, with sacks and everything else.”The fires were touched off onUnder-dry ranges as a blustery cold front that dropped temperatures as much as 40 degrees in afew hours crossed the state. Blowing dust and smoke limited visi-to near zero in some areas.5 lt;***■*»«**yFifth for MissionsNEW YORK, March IS»•every |5 you dropped in the clection plate last year, $i westto support missionary and reliefftitt/thwnr
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Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Mar 16, 1959
Page 64
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