Tom: LOOK WHO IS HERE, THAT
IS RIGHT.
FRANCIS ZELINSKI WITH THE
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF
CONSERVATION AND HE BROUGHT A
FRIEND WITH HIM.
THE ONE, THE ONLY, SMOKEY BEAR.
WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU, GOOD TO
SEE YOU.
GOOD TO SEE YOU SMOKEY.
Tom: DO WHAT TDO WE OWE THIS
INCREDIBLE VISIT?
THIS YEAR WE ARE CELEBRATING
SMOKEY BEAR'S 75TH BIRTHDAY.
Tom: 75!
LOOK PRETTY GOOD TODAY OVER 40.
AT THE OZARKS FAIR WHICH IS
THIS WEEK WE HAVE A SPECIAL
CELEBRATION AT THE DEPARTMENT
OF CONSERVATION BUILDING.
ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, THE
25TH AND 26, 31ST AND AUGUST 2
WE ARE DOING THE HOKEY POKEY
WITH SMOKEY.
Tom: LIKE A SMOKY POKEY.
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
DOCTOR BRAD STONE AS PART OF IT
AND YOU KNOW HOW THEY ALWAYS
COME BY AND WE TALK TO THEM,
THEY SAY WE WOULD LOVE TO BE A
PART OF THE CELEBRATION.
THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY THE
HOKEY POKEY AND WE ARE GOING TO
ASK THE PEOPLE TO DANCE AND
SMOKEY IS JUST GOING TO BE
SMOKY.
Tom: THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL
ABOUT, EXACTLY.
Tom: ANYWAY THE CONSERVATION
BUILDING IS ON THE WEST END.
THE WEST END.
EXACTLY, SAME PLACE IT'S BEEN
SINCE 1960.
ONE THING THAT HAS MOVED
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS HAS BEEN
SMOKEY'S MESSAGE, A LITTLE
DIFFERENT THAN WHEN I WAS A
KID.
HOW HAS IT CHANGED.
1947 IT CAME OUT ONLY YOU
CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES.
Tom: THAT'S THE ONE I
REMEMBER.
THAT HAS CHANGED AND WHAT A
LOT OF PEOPLE REMEMBER.
IN 2001 IT CHANGED TO YOU CAN
PREVENT WILDFIRE, REASON BEING
IT ENCOMPASSES MORE OF THE FIRE
MESSAGE TRYING TO GET OUT.
Tom: HAS THAT MESSAGE WORKED
BECAUSE THE MESSAGE IS NO GOOD
UNLESS IT DOES SOMETHING.
YES, IN THE 1930S, SMOKEY
STARTED IN 1944.
WE ARE A LITTLE BIT BEFORE
THAT.
THE U.S. WAS AVERAGING ABOUT
160,000 WILDFIRES A YEAR.
GRANTED, THESE WEREN'T ALL HUGE
FOREST FIRES.
THAT'S STILL A LOT OF
WILDFIRES.
CONTROL FIRES, NOW THE
NUMBER IS ABOUT 70,000.
WHILE THAT STILL MEANS THERE'S
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, IT ALSO
MEANS THAT YES, SMOKEY'S
MESSAGE HAS WORKED.
Tom: I MEAN, THE FIRST THING
THAT POPS IN MY MIND IS BECAUSE
WE HAVE LESS FOREST AREA OR
LESS AREAS TO BURN OR ARE WE
JUST GETTING BETTER AT
PREVENTING?
WE ARE GETTING BRIGHTER AT
PREVENTING.
THERE'S KIDS, PEOPLE OF ALL
AGES, KIDS, PEOPLE OUR AGE CAN
TALK ABOUT CAMPFIRES WHEN YOU
THROW THE ASHES IN THE COLD,
MAKE THEM WET.
AROUND YOUR HOME MAKE SURE YOU
HAVE NO DEBRIS CLOSE YOUR HOME
IF YOU HAVE TO KEEP A LITTLE
BIT AWAY FROM YOUR HOME BREAK
THE LEAVES AWAY.
JUST IN GENERAL, ONLY YOU CAN
PREVENT WILDFIRES WHICH IN THE
PREVIOUS GENERATION, FOREST
FIRE HAS WORKED AND HAS SUNKEN
IN.
THAT'S WHY THE NUMBERS ARE
LOWER THAN WHAT THEY WERE BACK
THEN.
Tom: WITH CAMP FIRE YOU ARE
SAYING, THE ONE THAT I ALWAYS
LEARNED IS GET YOUR HAND ON IT
AND IF IT IS STILL HEATING, YOU
HAVEN'T DONE ENOUGH.
RIGHT, RIGHT.
YOU STIR AND ADD WATER, STIR
AND ADD WATER.
THE STIRRING IS PART OF IT TO
BECAUSE THAT DISSEMINATES THE
COAL AND ASHES.
THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE MAIN THING IS LIKE YOU SAID
IT IS COMMON SENSE, IF IT IS
STILL HOT IT'S STILL HAS FIRE
IN IT.
SO YOU DON'T WALK AWAY FROM IT
YET AND LEAVE AN UNATTENDED
FIRE PIT.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF MINUTES,
DID SMOKEY START OFF AS A
LITTLE CUB OR ANYTHING?
REAL QUICKLY HERE'S THE
SMOKY STORY EARLY IN THE 1940s
WE WERE IN THE MIDST OF WORLD
WAR II, THERE WAS ALSO AS I
MENTIONED HI WILDFIRES BACK
THEN AND CONCERNED BECAUSE ALL
THE MANPOWER OF THE SEAS WAS
FIGHTING WORLD WAR II THAT
WOULDN'T BE A LOT TO FIGHT
WILDFIRE.
THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE STARTED
A WILDCARD CAMPAIGN IN THE
FIRST YEAR THEY DID IT WAS WITH
CHARACTERS FROM THE MOVIE
BAMBI.
THEY WENT WITH DISNEY FOR ONE
YEAR BUT THEY REALIZED ANIMALS
WORK SO THEY WENT AND GOT A
BEAR, THEY NAMED HIM AFTER
SMOKEY JOE MARTIN AND.
Tom: A FIREFIGHTER.
IN 1950 THEY FOUND A
WILDCARD THAT THEY THOUGHT
COULD BE AN ACTUAL, AFTER A
WILDFIRE IN NEW MEXICO, THEY
THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A NEAT
LIVING SYMBOL OF SMOKEY BEAR.
THAT CUB LIVED AT THE NATIONAL
ZOO IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND
SMOKEY HIMSELF HAS BEEN AROUND
SINCE 1944.
Tom: 32ND HERE, WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIS MIDDLE NAME?
THERE IS NO GOD.
SMOKEY BEAR 1950s THERE WAS A
SONG THAT CAME OUT, THE WORD
THAT WAS ADDED TO SMOKEY BEAR
TITLE FOR A RHYTHMIC PURPOSES
THEY SAID THAT WAS A VERY
POPULAR SONG.THERE WAS ALSO A
LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK AT THE TIME
SMOKEY THE BEAR.
THOSE TWO THINGS ADDING THOUGHT
TO THE SMOKY LEGEND BUT HIS
NAME IS SMOKEY BEAR.
Tom: SMOKEY BEAR, 10
SECONDS.
REMIND PEOPLE WHEN THEY CAN DO
THE HOKEY POKEY WITH SMOKEY.
JULY 25, 26, 7:30 P.M. JULY
31 REWRITING OF AUGUST 2 LAST
FRIDAY OF THE FAIR.
6:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M. WEST SIDE
OF THE FAIRGROUNDS COME AND SEE
US.
Tom: FRANCIS, SMOKEY, THANKS
FOR BEING HERE.
YOU FIND OUT EVERYTHING YOU