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RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area
INFORMATION, PLEASE!-As telephone calls began pouring in, Roland L. Guite,
tor of internal revenue, turned his office into an information bureau. While
supervises, Mary Clough receives a call from Kansas City inquiring about a
at Bar Harbor. Mrs. Helen F. Pratt dispatches Tracy Dorgan to city hall, Ells-
, to page the object of an inquiry, while in the rear Marion Falls sends Robert
nan (of Bar Harbor) on a similar errand. In anticipation of a long night and
ng, Ward Whittum sips a cup of coff ee. (Staff photo by Dunbar.)
fully in a survey of the area to de-
RFC Declares
termine reforestation needs. How-
ever, federal aid for this purpose,
Bar Harbor Area
under existing law is confined to
farm wood lots.
Watts expressed hope that the
Disaster Area"
law would be liberalized to help
out as a result of the Maine fire
damage.
(NEWS Washington Bureau)
Financial assistance will be
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24-While
handler through RFC which al-
federal agencies marshaled aid to
ready has representatives on the
combat Maine's forest fires, a
way to discuss the problem with
steady flow of telephone calls
town and state officials.
poured into Senator Owen Brew-
Senator Brewster left here late
ster's office today requesting in-
today by plane for his Dexter
formation on home towns or sum-
home for the week end. He will
mer areas.
return Sunday night.
Almost without exception the
answer from Brewster's secretary,
Roy Haines, was a doleful "that's
gone."
Army Air Forces reported send-
ing additional men from the east
to aid those already assigned
from Dow Field; expert fire fight-
ers from northeastern parks were
flown to the burning areas by
the park service; and Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation proclaim-
ed the Bar Harbor area a disaster
area.
L. F. Watts, chief of the forest