European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes april fires Blacken acres in 6 Southeastern states stateside by the associated press win whipped fires raced across about acres of Forest and Farmland in six tinder dry Southeastern destroying More than 60 injuring at least 11 people and forcing the evacuation of authorities said states of emergency were declared thursday in Burke and All across South where at least 169 fires have consumed More than residents in those areas were asked to observe a ban on open fires also burned Friday in ten Nessee and said Bruce Public information officer of the Forest service Southeast weve been Down on rainfall for most of the dry conditions have been building since last said Fred of the Forest service in North Caro said acres in eight mostly Western counties were ablaze As winds gusted to 34 and the National guard was called out to help Battle fires in mountainous eleven most of them have been injured in North authorities planned to bolster firefighting efforts in the Southeast by bringing in Crews from other parts of the Jewell said several City blocks of Homes in were evacuated thurs Day until the danger passed from a fire that swept within two blocks of the Rutherford county destroying six in evacuation was although authorities urged some of the people living near the fires to stay away from Home until the blazes were a radio station in the path of the fire signed off the on nearby Mineral Springs at least 50 Many of them were destroyed by the Don Kass of the North Carolina Forest service said thursday one Hundred pieces of equipment and 400 firefighters from six counties were battling the Mountain in Mcdowell fires destroyed at least two houses and two Mobile Homes As they burned about 800 acres of Woodland and a fire about 400 people fled More than 50houses in the path of a Mountain fire in Burke said emergency management spokeswoman Sandra in South Dick Riley on thursday declared a state of by late 136 Forest fires that burned acres had been brought under said South Carolina forestry commission spokesman Rhett tinder dry conditions in South Carolina combined with a Lack of rain and Low created the worst sustained fire weather situation since officials started keeping records 20 years said forester Alan a Blaze on the Northern Border is believed to have been started by Sparks from a in fires burned about acres of Forest in six counties along the Cumberland fanned by winds gusting to 45 the largest acres in Roane reached the Edge of 30 Miles West of said state forester Roy Ash some of the blazes were while others were caused when the burning of debris got out of he More than acres were charred in 13 Georgia counties in blazes that were started by arsonists or land owners burning undergrowth in preparation for Spring said forester Jerry Kentucky officials said More than 60 Forest fires broke out in the Eastern part of the including six in the Daniel Boone National which Cov ers 21 Eastern in acres were ablaze in the Talladega National Jewell cant beat these eggs at easter a millions of children search for brightly coloured eggs each easter the staff of Lazy layers finds them every Day of the the coloured eggs Olive and occasionally Pink Are the work of Araucania chickens from and Lazy layers is the working Hobby of the three Juday 15 13 and no one knows just Why the tailless Ara Canas Lay pastel but there the Only chickens that the pastel eggs Arent the Only eggs delivered by Lazy but there definitely the most popular especially around its one of Illinois smallest and most chaotic poultry the eggs Are delivered via Backpack and off the Road and sell for about 1 a and the chickens eat whatever they nest wherever they want and attack whomever they my cousins son came into the House and Ive just been attacked by a and it was True he was the childrens Dave president of Ideal an electrical equipment said the egg business grew out of a Box of assorted Reed Chicks his bought from a mail order company in she thought we needed practical recalled Nic at first we used to keep them in the laundry room of our old House about 50 of them and we could hear them peeping while we ate the first Batch turned out to contain far too Many including a number of the Blue andalusian which Juday describes As just Nasty the excess males were sold when the Judas moved to their current 45acre the chickens moved into a real but they Only stay there at night and in cold most of the time they move around foraging in Cornfields and a the casual Chicken life has its last a a marauding Badger killed half the in addition to the the Judas raise other Breeds including Long tailed polish Cochins and something called which Nicole says look like but there really Chick some hybridization occurs in the it seems a polish Hen and a Turken got Nicole said of the its got a big Topknot of coloured feathers on its head and no feathers at All on its since the Blue andalusian the Ara Canas Rule the Roost sometimes two of the bad news and Captain were so aggressive that Ben had to carry an a handle on Henhouse they finally kept a Date with the some roosters Are More one Buff Mari acted As a Model when an gave guest lectures at elementary schools on Art and study says of research wasteful Washington a congressional investigators said thursday that the air Force is wasting up to billion by developing its own radar jamming equipment for combat aircraft while at the same time working on a similar Jammer with the the general accounting office said the proliferation of hammers not Only wastes but leaves versions of the same aircraft with separate systems for jamming enemy Ai defense to be deployed in Europe will have one Jammer those deployed in the Pacific will have another Jam Frank c director of the National Al few of Fin Unity find International affairs division of the Conahan testified before a House government operations subcommittee in a hearing that was partially closed at the air forces request on grounds that classified information would be air Force officers did not testify in the Public but one official said in an interview that the service needs its own hammers because it cannot use the joint system in its older Conahan said the pentagons own figures showed billion was wasted by the failure to have a common Jam Mer in answering questions from the commit tee Jack he said the problem was More we have identified s3 billion in air Force expenditures for its own he in Good hands a photo a Galapagos Tortoise born at the Philadelphia zoo this is held by the zoos curator of amphibians and John the Galapagos Tortoise is an endangered species that can grow to weigh 500 pounds and can live As Long As 150 tavern in Memphis facing loss of License after customer Dies a officials say a tavern could lose its liquor License because a customer died after a drinking contest Robert Kirksey died in february after reportedly consuming 11 drinks called zombies containing three kinds of rum and fruit juices at the East end Grill in authorities the state alcoholic beverage commission has heard two Days of testimony in the Case to determine if the bar should lose its hearing officer Tom Stovall said he expects to Issue an initial ruling within the next six it is against state Law to serve alcoholic beverages to a person who already is bar owners argue they didst know about the private drinking contest or that Kirksey was de Lorean of get million for rights to movie on his life los Angeles up John de Lorean will receive More than million for exclusive rights to a movie of his apparently ending the former automakers lengthy search for a Way to pay off the Cost of beating a Federal cocaine the los Angeles times reported the times said a Newby formed limited partnership called the de Lorean plus film group of Newport will pay de Lorean Cash in he also will receive a percentage of the net profits of the the newspaper the partnership Hopes to raise million in a Public offering to finance the million de Lorean movie and other said David a lawyer hired to pack age the the script will be based on the yet Tobe published de Lorean to report suspected wrongdoing Washington a in the Wake of recent Bank the As part of an upgraded enforce ment is going to lean on Bank officials to notify authorities of suspected attorney general Edwin Meese Iii the Justice Fri and four banking Regula tory agencies will cooperate in the which was prompted by an unprecedented number of Bank Clos Meese said Bank fraud perpetrated by even directed to Ward relatively Small seriously undermines the Confidence and Trust that individuals and businesses place in the banking Industry As a Meese the agreement provides a streamlined method of re porting suspected criminal activity to Federal