European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 197 the stars and stripes Page 7 Forest fires have their Good san Francisco up Forest fires in California Are the worst in Yean with acreage consumed surpassing the Mark and the worst of the fire season still to forestry experts saw some benefits to huge swaths of Countryside going up in the turnoff effect in some locations was a according to the for Del chief information officer at the California depart ment of for Sty fire Center in said the heavy Chaparral burning like gasoline on the acre Marble Cone fire near big sur has not been burned out since the As a result the area has up to 100 tons of undergrowth per occasional fires keep the Brush thinned de Waldapfel of the Forest serv ices pointed out the fact that at big it takes a Man 12 hours to build a fire line 60 feet Long and six to eight feet wide in this forty acres of this kind of burning fuel at that density is releasing More Energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima the fire itself wan not necessarily a bad thing As Long As it didst Burn Homes or other he although the threat to a watershed was causing con another Benefit was to thick underbrush slows the natural movement of Deer and other animals through their Waldapfel heavy underbrush also chokes out the Green feeding a Normal Winter season will Start the grasses and shrubs sprouting he it begins to get Green again after the Winter As we dont get Gull washers buckets and tub fulls of rain it will be farther North in the where about acres of umber land has burned since authorities estimated fire enveloped about 100 million Board feet of but it want All As a general Rule of thumb Only about 40 per cent of the Timber is totally destroyed in a Quick moving said lumber companies will be Al Lowed to come in and Harvest the singed Ponderosa switching their operations from the Green tracts they were Al ready Wirman said the huge sea face fire flaming near the Oregon state line has caused an estimated s54 25 million water shed and Timber Turner vows More Security on contracts Beverly at Call ing for More openness with the american people while shrouding our True Cia director Sian shield Turner said Friday hell gel Tough on private firms that dont guard government secrets Surprise inspections of Security proce dures will be done More Turner told a group of aerospace executives Al the Beverly Wib Hiro when results Are we will consider All courses of action which May be open to including suspending the Access of plants and individuals to information until there is evidence of changed attitudes As Well As even if this May bring important work to a at a news conference before the lunch Eon Turner said that withholding Security clearance to certain government contractors would have the effect of shut Ting some plants Down i intend that a company Security record and Overall attitude toward Security will play a More important role in the awarding of contracts in the future than in the he said As an example of a More relaxed Atti tude toward Security by firms with govern ment intelligence Turner referred to the los Angeles espionage trial of Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton they were convicted of Selling Cia secrets from try of Redondo to soviet Kab these irresponsible men have gone far toward compromising multimillion Dollar technical he he explained that once other people find out How we go about collecting Intelli gence information it is very easy for them to Cut off our Access to that there Are systems that we cant use any More because we cant be sure of Turner also blamed the bureaucracy tendency to Over classify As a contributor to lackadaisical attitudes toward when someone sees to secret marked on something that they know they can give out to that reduces their respect for the he said the invention of the Xerox has hampered our ability to keep things Europe Auto companies considering Algeria Plant Rome up Fiat president Gianni Agnelli has announced that his firm is considering a project with Renault of Volkswagen of West Germany and possibly a japanese company to build an Automo bile Plant in Agnelli disclosed the plans after Dis cussing possible financing arrangements with prime minister Giulio he said the operation could get underway by the end of the year and would take six in seven years to giving a Hoot about the latest Al a female screech pauses words to the Wise for a drink while poring Over the eve Ning Kathy Riddle of found the injured Bird after it bad fallen out of a tree during a a us a cafeteria food improved cannibals plaque Down for Good Washington up the plaque honouring Alferd the Colorado Mountain Man who was convicted of eating five democrats in will not be restored to the Wall of the agriculture department Secretary Bob Bergland said whats Bergland the Quality of the food served in his which he once called a is now As Good As our department employees deserve and that the two Bergland aides paid for the plaque that named the Alferd Packer Grill last Bergland showed it to reporters and told them about Bergland was quoted As saying packers life exemplifies the spirit and the fare of this us a a general services administration offi Cial had the plaque taken Down on grounds that in was in bad Berglands staff demanded explant Tom Berglands said one Gas official not the one who took Down the plaque had Given Permis Sion to hang Sand said he hoped the me Morial would soon go Back but appearing before a Ralph Nader Bergland dismissed the whole affair As a inside joke and said he is satisfied with the Quality of the food served in the will the plaque go Back up it will he this started As a joke and it remains that Bergland began complaining about the food when he took office Early this but he said it had improved markedly before the Alferd Packer he spelled his first name that Way in a confession was a Mountain guide convicted of killing and eating five Gold prospectors when they became trapped and ran out of food during the Winter of 1874 in the Rocky mountains Stan a Bergland aide from is a leading figure in a friends of Alferd Packer packers Fame rested partly on remarks attributed to the judge who sentenced him there was Only six democrats in All of Hinsdale county and you mandating you ate five of i sentence you to hang by the neck until you Are dead As a warning against further reducing the democratic population of this but Packer was spared the noose and later was he died in