European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 11, 1987 the stars and stripes Oregon Forest fire raging out of control by he associated press an unseasonable heat wave hindered efforts to extinguish an Otil of control Forest fire in Oregon on sat urday but Crews in Washington pined the upper hand Over that state s first Forest fire of the year with this hot weather the fire is burning like in s mid july said Mike Barsotti of the Oregon forestry department. Hot dry air has blanketed the Northwest since wednesday elsewhere smoke from Large Forest fires in Canada enveloped much of North Dakota prompting health warnings and culling visibility. Record highs Friday included 96 at Medford Ore. 89 in Boise Idaho and 92 in Portland Ore. Eugene Ore., had 93, the Willamette Valley City s highest May temperature on record. Quill Ayule wash.,hit 92 thursday also a record of May. The Oregon lire has burned Sorm so acres on Pri vate turn Borland Southeast of Sweet Home since Fri Day officials said. The cause was not known. It s the same hot dry weather today forestry department spokeswoman Chesney Sharp said sat urday. Our major Effort Ai this Point is to get enough personnel in Here to tight  to Blaze was burning second growth Douglas fir up 10 20 years old on land mostly owned by Weyerhaeuser co. Of Tacoma wash., 12 Miles Southeast of Sweet Home. Some of the land is owned by Champion inter National of Portland. Some 253 firefighters were battling the Sweet Home Blaze using 18 fire engines three bulldozers four Heli copters and to air tankers. Smaller fires some started by lightning also were reported elsewhere around Oregon. Just based on the regular weather we re about a month ahead on our fire schedule said . Forest service spokesman Tom  Fairfax wash., a u0-Acrc fire in Timber and logging debris on Steep Rocky land Northeast of mount Rainier National Park reportedly was Cunt inc sat urday. Firefighters had been unable to do More than watch overnight As wind and rugged terrain thwarted efforts to cont Rome Maze on about two acres of . Forest serv ice land and 108 acres of Champion International land. The fire was discovered after a thunderstorm with lightning crossed the area officials said. Surfer Jot Adams beats the beat by Riding the swells beneath san Francisco s Golden cute Bridge. Etmo warm dry weather has left the Woods As dry As would be Normal for Midsummer. Rob Harper of the Washington department of natural resources said. It could be a real sign of problems with thing burning quite readily and getting summer like weather conditions this Carty he added. The hot weather increased Snow melt helping fill the five major reservoirs that feed the 462,000-acre Yakima River irrigation project in Washington but Lynn Brown Washington stale conservationist with the . Soil conservation service cautioned that the Snow pack was an average of 35 percent below Normal in Eastern Washington and soil Moi slut. Is Low after two Summers of drought in North Dakota smoke blowing Down from Canada reduced visibility saturday to two to i rec Miles in minol and Bismarck and health officials warned peo ple with respiratory problems to slay indoors. Phony cos letters warn of aids exposure Kansas City to. A a least six people have been told., through bogus letters and phone Calls or visits by phony medical officials that they have been exposed to the aids virus Kansas City health officials said. The City health department issued a statement saying that officials Are not tracing sexual contacts of aids victims and advising people who Are contacted in such cases to Check with its aids program. Gerald Huff. Chief of the City depart ment s division of communicable Dis ease control said some of the letters Are being mailed on Missouri heal i h department or medical Laboratory stationery. Others Are written on the stationery of Kansas City s downtown medical clinic and Bear the rubber stamp signature of the physician there. People mating the phone Calls and visits to residents Homes have identified themselves As health department officials Hoff said. Anselmo Leal the downtown medi Cal clinic s co owner said his clinic had nothing to do with the letters and docs not lest for acquired immune deficiency syndrome the deadly disease which cripples the body s immune sys tem. The phony medical officials Tell the individuals they May have been exposed to the aids virus and have a can placed on a list of contacts and also advise them to seek immediate medical care the health department statement said. The Public should be aware that no health department in the metro area and neither the Missouri nor the Kan Sas health department is conducting racing of contacts to aids or persons infected with the aids virus it said. The Sanii is Inie for medical Laborati  lightning kills 2 Florida golfers fort Lauderdale a. A two golfers who took shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm were struck and killed by lightning police said. Jay Dorman 23, was pronounced dead Friday night at Imperial Point medical Center police spokesman Ott Cefkin said. Randall Barbara 31, was pronounced dead at holy Cross Hospital. They were playing at the american golfers club and had reached the third tee when the storm swept across fort Lauderdale Cefkin said. Rather than come in off the course they chose to stand under a tree said James singerling vice presi Dent and general manager of the Complex two other golfers who were resuming to the club House told police that moments after they left the course they my a Tingle and saw a big Blue Flash Cefkin said. They watched As a Bolt of lightning struck the tree and the two men under it he said. Eur group denies pressure on Spain Washington a european defense officials meeting Here denied that nato is exerting any pres sure on Spain to renew a lease agreement for four . Military bases. Speaking at the conclusion of a one Day seminar of the eur group a forum of european nato members dutch defense minister Willicm Vaneckelen said negotiations for the reduction of the american military presence in Spain Are a matter Between the United states and Spanish governments. Vaneekelen said Friday that while european nato members would like to see As Many american troops As possible remain in Europe at a time when we stress the importance of conventional forces we nonetheless recognize that each country has its  he noted that Norway refuses to allow foreign troops on its soil in times of peace. Spain s Secretary of state for defense Eduardo Serra Rexach said he could confirm that the european members of the Western Alliance Are not applying an pressure on his government. Spain the newest member of the nato Alliance and the United Stales have held five rounds of talk since last year for renewing the leases. The leases on the four bases where some 12,500 americans Are stationed Empire in 19&. The next round of talks is scheduled for june. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 11, 1947 Wilma Wolf 38, sentenced to 30days in a new Haven conn., county jail for culling a judge a fat Republican was reportedly growing weaker on the 13lh Day of her hunger strike. 30 years ago  11, 1957 a defense department scientist told Congress that nuclear testing could continue at the present rate for 40 to 50 years without endangering humans with radioactive fallout. 20 years ago today. May ii 1967 a Vatican City publication said the roman Catholic Church could not approve the mini skin. Comments in the l Osse Vatore Delia do Mcca came less than a week after actress Claudia Cardinale wore a Black miniskirt to an audience in St. Peter s Basilica that Pope Paul v held for show Busi Ness personalities. 10 years ago  11, 1977 Joan Crawford 69, one of the last Hollywood Glamour Queens whose career stretched Back to silent film Days died in her new York apart ment of an apparent heart attack