William P. Harsh, 83, a former president of the American Royal Association horse and livestock show and executive of Hallmark Cards Inc., died Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. He headed the horse and livestock show in the 1970s, and an exhibition hall at the American Royal complex is named in his honor. He went to work for Hallmark in 1936 and became a vice president in 1956. He retired in 1976.
Homer C. Pickens, 91, who nursed a singed Smokey Bear after the cub was rescued from a forest fire, died Sunday in Albuquerque, N.M. The former director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish kept Smokey at his house for a while in 1950 after the injured cub was rescued from a fire in south-central New Mexico. The bear became the Forest Service's national fire prevention symbol.
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