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Challenge of the Yukon: Bullets for Preston

Challenge of the Yukon · August 26, 1951 · 28 min · 5,078 words

The transcript of “Bullets for Preston”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast August 26, 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 Rise, the delicious cereal shot from gun. In cooperation with the mutual broadcasting system, present by special recording Sergeant Preston of the UConn.

It's Yukon King, swiftness and strong asleep dog of the Northwest, breaking the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest County Police, in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. And dang, on your hands! 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. The adventure will begin in just a moment. Last year there was an average of 504 fires every day in the United States. The forest burned would make a strip nearly a mile wide around the earth at the equator.

Ninety percent of these destructive fires were the result of carelessness on someone's part. The lighted cigarette carelessly flipped out the car window. A campfire left untended. A lighted match thrown into a drift of dry leaves.

Or any one of many other thoughtless acts that can cause a fire. When you were out in the woods, here are four simple rules of fire prevention to follow. Crush out cigarette cigar and pipe ashes.

Break matches in two after using. Drown all campfires. Then stir up and drown again. Please be sure to find out the law before using fire. By following these simple precautions, you will be doing your part in the prevention of costly forest fires that we can't afford.

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