phone: and by returning to the base and reporting 

 from March Field direct to the forest supervisor. 



Locate By Squares on Maps 



Fires will be located and reported by squares drawn 

 on duplicate maps, one to be in the possession of each 

 airplane observer and another to be in the office of the 

 forest supervisor. 



Tiie observation balloon over the Arcadia Field is to 

 be maintained at an elevation of about 3,000 feet from 

 7 a. in. until 2 :30 p. m. each day. The student detach- 

 ment-learning obserA 7 ation, now stationed at Mount 

 Wilson, also will render fire lookout service. Reports 

 of fires from both the balloon observer and the Mount 

 Wilson detachment will be telephoned to the Army 

 Balloon School and transmitted to the Forest Service 

 office at Los Angeles. 



A fire-fighting truck, with 10 enlisted men. will be 

 stationed at Arcadia as part of the fire-suppression 

 forces and will be subject to the call of the Forest 



Service. 



NO ARGUMENT NEEDED 



THE legislature appropriated $170,000 for the main- 

 tenance of the State Forest Service for the next 

 bi i MI nium and $443,250.60 for the Game and Fish Com- 

 mission. None too much was given to the latter de- 

 parlment. The proper care and propagation of our 



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