European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 it it the stars and stripes april Wall of flames roars through Woods threatens tiny town gum up a four mile Wall of flames roared across the parched coast of fire ravaged North Carolina burning More than acres of Woods and threatening gum a Crossroads town of 200 were about to get burned said Doug Sawyer of the Tyrrell county sheriffs the wind has and its coming right straight for the Forest fires also raged in South Carolina and Virginia in areas untouched by recent hundreds of weary firefighters battled the Springs biggest Blaze in North Caroli where fire has gutted 50 Homes and four businesses since thursday and caused million the fires were blamed for 30 including firefighters felled by smoke and two people who suffered heart attacks As the win whipped flames raced toward their sunday at gum helicopters Hov ered Over nearby Lake scooping up water in buckets and flying Back Over the fire to try to douse the but authorities said the fire was out of burning Brush and Woods in an area four Miles wide and 20 Miles firefighters evacuated several Homes around gum Many residents refused to leave and stayed to soak their Homes with Garden the sky is and its so said Dorothy owner of a store in gum its been two or three weeks since its but in not going to leave unless the smoke gets so bad that i have to take my husband because Hes got she in not just theres nothing we can do but sit tight and Hope for the weather forecasters held out no Hope for the people desperately need but it looks like continued dry weather for the next several no help is on the said Larry Lee of the National weather More than acres of Woodland have been destroyed since thursday in the West Ern North Carolina where most of the property damage Thunder storms helped douse Many of those fires Friday in South two fires covering acres were expected to be contained state forestry officials a 28 Man National forestry service unit arrived from Montana to Battle a thousand acre Blaze in the Francis Marion National for about 60 National guardsmen were called out saturday by Dick Riley to help Rural fire award for courage photo president Reagan presents Jeff Keith of with die american cancer society courage award at a White House a 22yearold amp ran across the nation to prove that disabled Doest mean 4 Given prison terms for cheating in fishing tourneys Texas up four Louisiana fishermen caught cheating in High stakes fishing tournaments have been Given the stiffest possible sentences in fed eral participants in the scheme reeled in More than in prize Money from fishing District judge Robert Parker sentenced Elro Vernon of Bossier to the maximum five year prison sentence and fined him Parker also sentenced Gary Par of to five years in prison and Carey Harmon of Bossier and Kenneth of to six months in prosecutors said Mcneil was the ring Leader of the scheme and recruited the All four men pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate mail and wire fraud and to interstate transportation of stolen Federal investigators said Mcneil brought in Large Black Bass from Florida and the conspirators then claimed the fish had been caught in the Parker said the court will no longer Tol Erate this Type of criminal activity because of the number of innocent outdoors men involved in fishing won the Kokx radio station big Bass tournament at Lake o the Pines in 1983 with an imported will begin serving his five year Federal term when he is released from a Louisiana prison where he is serving a seven year sentence for parole Harmon and Puckett were sentenced for their part in fixing the Camp Texarkana big Bass tournament held at Lake Wright other participants in the ring included Danny who died of a self inflicted gunshot wound in the head after claiming the first prize in the Camp Texar Kana tournament Thomas Mcalexander of who told Federal prosecutors he used a bogus fish to win the first prize in the Kokx big Bass classic Fred Scheen of who entered a guilty plea Friday for his role in the Kokx scheme and Terry who has Cooper ated Federal Mcalexander will be sentenced by a fed eral judge in who pleaded guilty to a lesser will be sentenced by a Federal magistrate next month in and Scheen will also be sentenced yearlong suspension for Poppers upheld a a judge has upheld a yearlong suspension of two High school sophomores for popping harmless Vitamin a punishment school officials defend As harsh but Lancaster county court judge Ronald turned Down a Biddy Tammy Myers and Holly both to be readmitted to Elizabeth town High school before the end of the school year rather than next As two were among six teenage girls suspended for a year in november for Tak ing a Complex Vitamin sold Over the school officials alleged that Only Myers knew the pills were vitamins and that the others took the pills 12 in a futile at tempt to get i know it seems said Phillip Elizabethtown area school District but we feel such punishment is necessary if were going to win this fight against children of school age being exposed to chemicals that could be harmful and could result in who had brought the vitamins to said she was taking them to improve her complexion and to keep warm in cold officials confiscated 53 pills from the Buckwalter wrote that the main Issue in Myers Case was whether the boards Deci Sion was based on substantial evidence that she violated the schools he ruled that she the parents of the two girls said that they were disappointed by the ruling and that school officials had All of the expelled students except Myers Are attending an alternative program set up by the when the two girls filed suit to be readmitted in Lewis Maltby of the american civil liberties who rep resented said the girls showed bad judgment but Case warranted Only three Days after school cleaning Good i love Are pretty but they struck Barbara Ramsey like a Thunderbolt last they were the first her 5yearold daughter uttered after i to months in a she said the sound was a Miracle from Erica Ramsey had been her Skull was crushed m t Ramsey said she and her turned to friends and relatives for support and almost lost Hope at who spoke her first words tues still cant therapists Are helping her recover the use of her arms and but that a vast improvement Over her edition after the which sned As a was Home in heavy rain and skidded off the striking a Erica fell into the Taama shortly after arriving at the emergency and had to be sustained by life support five weeks after the Accident her eyes opened and she moved a but she Maine Robert a rehabilitation said that Erica recovery could take and thl some Tamaie to her i Tii motor control system will i think Shes doing Well for somebody who has had the Type of injury and coma and the duration that Shes had with those said Barbara Ramsey Shes getting to the Point now where you dont have to say things to her and have her repeat she just says them on her Hove 1 1