European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 wildfires rage across Florida Panhandle a Bob warning that the state again faces the grim Prospect of ravaging dispatched National guard helicopters Friday to help fight blazes in the Florida Panhandle that sent up a plume of smoke visible 150 Miles under a state of emergency in effect since May Graham ordered two a Tanker and personnel from the National guard to help Battle two fires that had burned acres at last Paul spokesman for the state division of Forest said smoke produced by the blazes was seen As far North As about 150 Miles he also said firefighting units from had arrived to another division Larry said the Stream of smoke was eight Miles wide and was being pushed North across interstate the fire itself was within a few Miles of the Highway Friday afternoon and was headed toward 20 blazes reported authorities said the two blazes were among More than 20 wildfires that flared along a Boomerang shaped 50 mile stretch of the Panhandle in Taylor and Lafayette the started wednesday night by were burning out of control with no immediate Relief in wills said about 15 Homes were evacuated when flames crept within a Quarter mile of Back but no houses were arsonists were blamed for six to eight Small fires that broke out Friday in Dixie on the Northern West in his announcement ordering National guard Gra Ham once for the second time within a we Are faced with the grim Prospect of ravaging i want to assure All those who May be affected by this potentially disastrous situation that any state re sources needed will be available to them to the a photo Clouds of smoke billow from a wildfire roaring through Large areas of a Forest near in Florida threat these fires May pose to life and More than 316 Many blamed on Black ened an estimated acres of Florida in they finally were doused by heavy at least three firefighters suffered heat exhaustion thurs temperatures in Northern Florida on thursday topped 100 degrees and were in the upper 90s the weather forecast offered Little with a slim Chance of we dont need scattered we need heavy Amison were worried that we wont get much rain but we will get More the state was so dry that officials had to carry thou Sands of dust masks to Castro for strike by debtor nations Miami a cuban president Fidel Castro has called for debtor nations to de Clare a general strike against industrialized countries to Force them to renegotiate the poorer nations we have a debt of almost All of it in dollars artificially inflated to achieve a colossal economic upturn in the United said referring to latin in a speech broadcast on radio Castro criticized the falling prices of raw the third worlds principal sex the industrialized nations pay us less and and charge us More and and Reagan says execs can Brown bag ft1 for their lunches Washington a president taking aim at critics of his proposal to slash tax write offs for business has suggested that corporate executives ought to Brown bag it once in a while rather than expect taxpayers to subsidize their fancy it just Doest seem right for a wage earner carrying his tuna fish Sandwich to work to subsidize exorbitant business lunches at luxury Reagan told eco nomic wed still allow for legitimate sex Reagan but to those who complain they cant live quite so High off the corporate we can Only ask Why not Brown bag it once in a while Why not find smarter ways to put our Money to work than investing so heavily in executive lunches reagans sweeping proposal to simplify the income tax system by eliminating most tax brackets and Many credits and deductions would reduce incentives for business people to take clients to lunch by taxing half the Cost above of any business so they become Richer and we become poor he taking note of the budget Castro we Are paying for the re armament of the United states with these interest rates that Are far higher than the historic and Normal interest rates of any when workers exhaust All of their alter natives in a company they go on he so strike of we propose a general revolution and upheaval will follow if the debt is not he and leaders of the industrialized nations will not like the 2 killed 3 injured just speak of revolution and they Start said above All who is super allergic to social to to the cuban Leader delivered the remarks in a speech to Mark the end of a latin american women conference in Havana sponsored by the Continental women front against the women conference attacked the United states economic blockade against Nicaragua and the presence of Mili tary bases in Castro also mentioned say mercenaries financed and directed by the Cia and the Pentagon have not been Able to defeat the revolutionary government of Nicaragua in almost six he also lauded the guerrilla movement in Al and said that the United states has been unable to crush the spirit of the puerto rican Castro pointed to the United states As being responsible for teaching repressive techniques to righting latin american we have heard of the horrible things that occurred in where there Are cases of children being tortured in front of their Castro who teaches these if not the United states the Empire with bloody hands plane hits Louisiana mental Hospital a a Small plane that had just tried to land at an Airport crashed into a mental Hospital dormitory killing both people in the setting the building afire and injuring three the single engine plane clipped the Dor Mitory at Central state Hospital and showered a porch with burning fuel before catapulting Over the building and Landing upside Down in flames in the Back witnesses the fire was extinguished within 30 min utes of the crash around said sue a spokeswoman for the state department of health and human which runs the the plane had aborted its Landing at Pineville municipal stalled and state police Eddie a said he landed at the Airport just before the plane he could have put his plane the gear touched three times and i thought that he could set it he was getting Short of runway and i guess he sort of Jones most of the 24 women housed in the one Story Brick building were in other parts of the 800acre Hospital Complex for daytime activities when the plane said Roy the hospitals it appeared to me that it hit the front of the building at the top part of the in said it apparently exploded Fin Impact and looked like it must have flipped Over the top of the building and landed on its backside up against a tree about 20 to 30 feet behind former circus chief Dies new York a John Ringling a Nephew of the eight famous Brothers who founded the greatest show on has died in North was the president of Ringling Broth ers from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1947 to the now based in washing was sold to outside interests in november at that North was the shows chief executive owner and one patient was in critical condition from smoke inhalation and one was in serious condition with Burns Over on fifth of her both at Huey Long said a third woman was treated for smoke she the patients identities were not the Federal aviation administration identified the plane As a Piper the plane was on a flight from Shreveport to with a Stop in Pineville to pick up a said state trooper Dar Rell the dead were identified As Joseph Pirosko of and the William of Destin an employee of modern flying service said he saw the plane stall but thought nothing of the plane flew it looked like it was practising stalls so i didst pay any he when i looked Back up the plane was gone and there was the the building the plane hit is part of a four building Complex connected by walk ways at the 500patient Hill