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Challenge of the Yukon: Against Time

Challenge of the Yukon · August 16, 1951 · 28 min · 4,982 words

The transcript of “Against Time”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast August 16, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Challenge of the Yukon free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now as howling winds echo across the snow-covered reaches of the wild Northwest, the Quaker Oats Company, makers of Quaker Puff Week, and Quaker Puff Rice, the delicious cereal shot from guns. In cooperation with the mutual broadcasting system, present by special recording Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

It's Yukon King, swift as his strongest lead dog of the North West, breaking the trail for Sergeant Preston of the North West's outed police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. And King, on New Hestings!

Gold, gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the Wild Race for riches, back to the days of the gold rush, and the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog, Yukon King, as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

Our adventure will begin in just a moment. Is this your day for planning a big picnic or camping trip to the nearest park area? If it is, give yourself a summertime reminder about the dangers of forest fires.

If everyone did his share about fire prevention, ten million acres of valuable timberland would not go up in flames each year. Most of these fires, nine out of ten to be exact, are caused by well-meaning people who are careless for just a brief fatal instant with matches, cigarettes, or campfires.

They forget the simple rules advocated by Smokey the Bear. Make sure that cigarette and pipe ashes are completely out. Crush them out with a heel of your shoe. you use matches, break them into after using. And when it comes to campfires, the best summertime insurance is water. Drown the fire and rake it over. Make sure it's out. And as Smokey

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