European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday september 5, 1967 the stars and stripes Saga of Idaho Forest fires Page 3 tie wind comes and All hell Breaks loose9 by Mark brow Sandpoint Idaho a for More than 70 Days the Sun has beaten unmercifully on the forests and sparkling Lake s of the North Idaho Panhandle. And in the canyons the lat summer wind rustles in the Bone dry fir Needles and make the Trees Sway. The sound Usu ally goes unheeded by Man be cause the area is inaccessible. An occasional Cloud passes but rain does t fall. It s unbelievable this weather said Rollie Saylor. It used to rain at least every other week end. Plan a picnic it  Clouds came. At night they rolled Over the Panhandle the Thunder rumbled and the lightning  rain. But on aug. 10, three fingers of lightning hit some where West of trapper Peak. Lightning strikes like that you Don t see them they hit a tree and it shoulders some times for a Day sometimes for a week said Lee  the wind comes and All hell Breaks  on aug. 11, All hell broke Loose in the tall Timber East of priest Lake where the Only a Cess is on nearly forgotten log Ging trails. Three fires grew into one. By aug. 13, More than 400 acres were ablaze. By aug. 31 it was11,500. By saturday 15,000. No rain. Temperatures in the90s. Thirty to 50 mile an hour winds. On aug. 13, the . Fores service was called in. The fire which started on land belonging to the priest Lake Timber protective association had spread to the Kanitsu National Forest. It makes you sick said Saylor a Forest service information officer. Our costs on this fire have been $2 million by aug.31. It makes you sick to think that with a Little bit of Luck i could have been stopped for $50." White president of the Timber protective association said that from aug. 11 to aug. 21, the Only Access into the fire area was by helicopter. If there had been roads the fire would never have grown to the size it is he said. We just could t get our men and equip ment in  aug. 17, the Idaho nation beatles beat beats Elvis Sinatra in Gold discs new York up the beatles have beaten Elvis pres Ley and Frank Sinatra in world sales of records. According to the record Industry association of America Rita the top winners of Golden discs Between 1958 and 1966 were the beatles followed by Presley Mitch Miller Sinatra and the Beach , founded in 1958, has the Job of deciding who will received Golden disc each one signify ing that a record has sold on million copies or More. The checking of figures is done Byan Independent accounting firm which audits the record  beatles reached the top of the Golden disc pile with 21 inthe Short time Between 1964 and 1966. In 1964 alone nine of their records went Over the million Mark unprecedented in Rita weight years of keeping statistics. At the end of 1966, Presley and Miller were tied for second place with 11 Golde discs  won his first Golden disc in 1958, the first year they were awarded and Miller the follow ing year. But there is some controversy about Presley s second place be Hind the beatles because if Rita had started its statistics and awards three years earlier Presley would have won some thing like 40 Golden discs. Obviously we cannot vouch for any records that May have qualified before our certification program was inaugurated says Henry Brief executive Secre tary of Plaa. The Beach boys and Sinatra each had nine Golden discs Fol Lowed by the Kingston Trio an Johnny Mathis each with eight. The Kingston Trio won four of their discs in 1960. After eight years As the top Folk singing group in the world they broke up last year. Andy Williams and barbra Streisand come next with seven each. Herb Alpert s Tijuana brass i fast rising with six. One thing is Clear from Ria statistics More and More rec ords Are reaching the million sales Mark. In its first year in 1958, the association gave Only five Gold discs. By 1966 this had reached a total of 81.does the number of Golden discs actually indicate who is Thebes Selling artist there seems room for argument. Former Ria Victor Genera manager George Marek says it is no secret to the record Industry that Presley is the Best Selling recording artist of  Presley s worldwide sales were said to have passed the 100-Mil lion Mark some years ago. Only recently have the beatles reached this  records puts the beatles total sales at 180 million. Soviets find Alimony crushing9 Moscow up like mos everyone else soviet men accept death and taxes. But a Goodman of them Are Balking at crushing Alimony  Ivan unties the knot he pays 25 per cent of his salary to Phisex wife if she supports one of his children 30 per cent for two and 50 per cent for three or  rate holds regardless of How much or Little Ivan  courts have no Power to set Alimony on the merits of individual cases. Complaints have been increasing since two years ago when the government relaxed stalinist Laws that had made divorce a cumbersome a n d costly pro Cess. Now divorce is relatively easy but Alimony is frequently pain Ful. Most complaints concern abuses of the system. 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And they stayed there for 30minutes while dozens of photographers swarmed about the hotel swimming Pool screaming instructions look this Way bigger  while the girls posed another19 Lovely miss America hopefuls taped television  remaining 22 girls were on the Way to the pageant which officially began monday with  the next few Days the girls will pose for pictures smile rehearse smile Parade on the Boardwalk smile give interviews smile and keep on smiling until Midnight saturday when miss America of 1968 is  Don t think i Ever smiled As much As this said a smiling miss Arkansas Sharon Ann Evans 19, of North Little  phenomenon the girls share throughout the week is Warren arrives in Tokyo Tokyo a chief Justice Earl Warren of the United states arrived in Tokyo saturday with mrs. Warren on an official visit As guest of the japanese supreme court. Loss of weight. The girls aver age 119.8 pounds now but by next saturday they will have melted away 1.8 pounds Accord ing to a pageant official with Abent for figures and statistics. The loss of weight is the result of a Lack of sleep frantic Pace and anxiety reports the official. The anxiety usually Start wednesday night when the girls begin their preliminary Competition and continues through saturday night. And if the next miss americ wants to buy some goodies to add 1.8 pounds to her figure Shell have a $100,000 Jackpot with her title which is enough to make any girl smile straight through the year. Nance for a 16-year-old son. Heis working and gives her part of his  gets Money from her new husband and spends it All on finery and luxuries. In a Case like this is it right to pay maintenance which in t spent on the child but used forgot knows what the soviet weekly an English language publication observed much resentment is caused by maintenance which runs into big figures which allows the Wom an to live without  but soviet divorce Laws Rig idas they Are have their Cham pions. Is it reasonable Many soviet Legal expert maintain that the Alimony scale is reasonable that Alimony is no set capriciously As it sometimes is in Western courts and that severe abuses Are relatively  revamping of the Laws appear Likely though. For one thing the government is Likely to abolish a provision considered unfair by Many that does not require men to pay maintenance for illegitimate children. Professor m. Sonin calling for revision of the Law in an article in the literary Gazette wrote i can see Only one objection to the reintroduction of maintenance for children born out of Wedlock that an unscrupulous woman might claim maintenance not from the real father but from another Man who was better  Al guard called up by gov. Donw. Samuelson arrived in the fire area to set up first Aid stations and mess facilities. The next Day Samuelson declared general state of emergency. Aug. 18, the fire had burned3,400 acres and 900 men were fighting it. That Day the wife of Forest service employee Donald Michael gave birth to a seven Pound six ounce boy. Michael was unable to get away from the fire to see his wife and child. We have Forest service peo ple from 74 of the country s 154 National forests on this fire Saylor said. Wives of two oth ers have had babies and their husbands Haven t gotten Home  on aug. 21, the fire had grown by 5,500 acres and the costs had risen to $295,460. The weather was hot the winds blew. Winds the Factor it s been so dry up Here the loggers were Able to build roads into the area for the first time in seven years Saylor  winds have been the fac Tor that have stopped us from containing  the heat from a burning for est fire creates its own Micro climate within the fire  the air rises Over the hot spots More is sucked in fro the sides creating the dreaded  aug. 21, other problems stung by some of the thousands of yellow jackets that swarm Over the area Indian Crew Boss Eddie Twoteeth Helena mont.,stopped breathing in route by helicopter to a Hospital in near by Bonners ferry Idaho. One of our men applied Mouth to Mouth resuscitation Saylor said. Twoteeth was re Vived. He was Back on the Job after a Short stay in the  Cost rises aug. 23, the fire had consumed 7,500 acres 1,400 me were on the fire lines and the Cost had risen to $437,260.a shift in the wind sent the fire toward the base Camp. On thousand men were evacuated the Camp relocated out of  winds Are erratic. We can t plan an attack. Every time we planned we had to Back up and reverse Saylor said. Since aug. 23, three More Camps have been threatened and . 28, the situation looked better. Although the fire had burned 9,000 acres 35 Miles of the 40-mile perimeter were contained. Camp evacuated on the 29th, winds whipped the fire to 11,070 acres. The Cost Rose to $1.3 million. Another Camp was  fire jumped established lines in four places that  wind carries the flame right across the line said White. It makes no difference whether it s 10 or 50 feet wide it jumps right across. There s nothing you can  youth s body found in Trenton Fla. A the body of a Young Farmer was found monday in a water filled sinkhole by 25 searchers who dug dredged and blasted in the Hole for two weeks. The searchers caught glimpse of the body of Cecil Davis 20, Early sunday night buried in Sand. It was finally recovered 67 feet below ground level. Searchers had worked 24 hours Day at the Hole since aug. 19, five Days after Davis Dis appeared with his horse. Davis who was about to enter College left his parents Home aug. 14 to search for stray ponies in a Back  found Hoo prints leading to the sinkhole which was hidden by rotting foliage. Lime sinks common in North and Central Florida Are caused by the collapse of underground Limestone formations. Earlier deputies said a Boot Spur and a human foot had been found in the huge sink Hole which originally measured about 15 feet across and 25 feet deep but has been doubled in size by blasting Cave ins and dredging since  sinkhole is in a pasture owned by Jim Batson Davis City commissioner step father. Searchers had called in scuba divers to use High pressure hoses to Wash away Silt created by the blasting and dredging operations. The divers said the sinkhole disconnected to an underground Stream. They believe the Stream washed away the horse Davis was Riding but that the youth probably was buried by dirt when the Walls of the sinkhole caved in from the weight of the horse and rider