European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 6. 19b7 the stalls and stripes Page 5 is to fight Forest fires by inc associated press the lightning strikes that ignited the West tapered off Friday but exhausted firefighters had their hands full with nearly half a million acres of Brush and Forest fires including a Blaze within Yosemite National Park. Up to 1,000 soldiers and even a Smalt number of Federal surveyors and secretaries prepared Friday for crash  courses that would enable them to join nearly 20,000 firefighters some from As far away As the East coast who Are trying to contain the wont rash of fires in a decade. Most of Trie scorched Earth is in California where 375,000 acres were blackened and Oregon where inc total reached 75,000 acres. We Vegol a of of tired people out in the Hills said firefighter Ray Naddy in Oregon. About 16,000 people were forced to ice the flames All but 1,000 or them in California. Nearly 1.000 soldiers from fort Ord near Moi Turcy calif., were being trained saturday Tor ploy Cal sunday said maj. Larry Icenogle a Wagon spokesman. A they will be deployed to mop up opera dons to free regular firefighters to hit the hot spiff said Tom Mickinzie another Pentagon so Luffman. Dick Thomas a spokesman for thar Tureau of land management in Phoenix ariz., Jird the Agency gave physical examinations to secretaries surveyors and other employees to sea who was Quali fied to join the Battle in californian As of late Friday Aboul 50 pople had passed the physical and were to  training saturday officials said. / the fire in Yose Milc National Park which started thursday had a frn to 100 acres Friday afternoon. The major a rate however involved a 100,000-Aere fire that Jas burning toward the Park in the Vicinity of tue wine City. New tires Are tapping up the sleepers that Bave been Smol Darlng and Ihen the wind comes along and we be Jot a fire said Jerry Ahlstrom of California s  Center.  contended with 13,000 acres ablaze in Dah but let an 18,000-acre fire bum by itself in  area near Cascade. Smaller fires we returning in Washington Montana South Dakota Wyoming and Arizona. The will be fighting some of them until the Snow of said George Leonard associate chief of the us. Forest service said in Boise. Nis is one of the worst fire situations that we -._, had in More than 30 years in these states Forest service chief Dale Robertson said. A helicopter fights i fire near rogue River Ore. 9mine sweeper two years late Sturgeon bar wis. A the first ship in the Navy s new Cla a of sophisticated Avenger mine sweepers will be commissioned this week two Yean Laic and millions of dollars More costly than projected it s too bad in Jasn t around a year ago cmdr Chris Baumann a re Flagon spokesman said Friday he said inc 224-Fbot-Long Avenger had not received its orders and he buld not comment on whether inc wooden hulled ship which Wilt be based in Charleston s.c., would be sen to the persian Gulf after its commissioning. It s certainly a Welcome addition to the fled Bau Mann said. It would certainly be beneficial to inc Mission in the persian Gulf mine sweeping has become a concern since the United Stales began escorting Oil tankers in the Gulf in july. One of the tinkers in inc first Convoy struck a mine near iranian controlled Farsi Island. The United Staudt has seven mine sweeping helicopters and six mine in coping boats usually used in in land Waters either to the Gulf or scheduled for deploy ment there Baumasn said. Three older mine sweeping ships led the West Oast for inc Gulf a Tew weeks ago and three Are expelled to depart from the East coast soon he said. The United stat i has lagged behind Many nations in mine sweepers. The Avenger class is designed to replace ships that i to to the 1950s. The program to build 14 Avenger s is however is two years behind schedule and is expected to Cost about 11.6 billion $200 million More i Lan original estimates. When the Navy i decided to build the ships officials said in discovered i any . Shipbuilders had lost the ability to build woe Len boats which do not have the magnetic Fields that can set off a mine. The Avenger face other problem cmdr. Robert a is Captain of inc Avenger said he believes part of la problem was that Many people thought inc Avenger fas simply an Extension of older mine sweepers inst Cai of a prototype ship. Besides carrying r a mine sweeping gear like that towed by the older so Fps the Avenger is equipped with state of the Art Sona Jet and navigation systems. It also has a new mine Sci  system with an unmanned Summers in stroy mines in Waters Navy officials Havi deep or at what Misiani the Avenger was trials at Peterson flu Ili by on Lake Michigan. Peterson is building another Wisconsin Shii contracts to build Turci More have not been a requested in the Navy s it enables in to Hunt and de deep for human divers declined to comment on How the system would work. It and has been undergoing sea rslnc.,a shipbuilding comp ii or Oiler Avenger class ships build or Marin Etc Marine has others. Contracts for three irked and the final three Are in 198 s budget. Wrong patient gets ear operation Robbinsdale mime a two year old Nicholas Boehlke went to he Hospital to have his tonsils and adenoids removed. Instead his can were operated on when he was confused with another Young patient also named Nicholas. "1 feel it is a terrible mistake said Nicholas father Timothy. Nicholas who went into the Hospital aug. 24, is Back Home in Brooklyn Cen Ter recuperating from the ear operation and from subsequent surgery la remove his tonsils and adenoids. During the first surgery tubes were inserted in his ears. They were removed during the tonsil and adenoid surgery. He still has a Little blood com Trig out of he Eon but they said it was just the dry blood Flroa hit takes his Mother Lori said. "j=7. North memorial mar Teai Center in Robbie Dale apologized Friday. A mistake was made and we Are very sorry . Buckland Dirac for of Surgi Cal services told a new conference. He said operating room personnel failed to Check the boy s identification Bracelet. Job disciplinary action has been taken against those responsible for the mistake he said. The Bochl Kes say they and Nicholas were in the waiting room before the operation when three Hospital personnel came in. One of them referring Lonich Olas by his first name said they were ready for his operation. The Hospital told the parents they would t have to pay for either opera lion but the Bochl Kes say the costs have already been paid by health insurance. The couple has retained attorneys but has not yet filed a lawsuit. $1 million demanded in kidnapping Kankakee Iii. A local Busi Nessman Stephen b. Small 40, was abducted Aboul 12 30 . Wednesday from a building he owned and was renovating and is being held for a is million Ransom police chief Timothy o. No gent said Friday. Small was kidnapped when he went to the building after someone identifying himself As a police officer called to say the building had been burglarized no gent said at a Brief City Hall news con Ference. We have several suspects and several clues he said. We re nol prepared to go beyond that at this  the Fri and the state police also Are investigating but there had been no arrests by late Friday. Eugeni would not comment on whether Small s life had been threatened say ing there s no reason Al this Lime to assume anything one Way or another. Obviously the family and the Law enforcement Community Are concerned about the safety of or.  Small is a great grandson of former gov. Len Small a Republican who served As the slate s chief executive from 1921 to 1929, and is a Nephew of the late Len h. Small who was president of Small newspapers inc. And publisher of the Kankakee daily journal. A caller told Small s wife at about 3 30 . Wednesday that her husband had been kidnapped and demanded is Mil lion for his release. Eugeni said. Instructions for delivering the Money came in later Calls the last about 11 so . Wednesday. There have been no Calls since then Nugent said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 6, 1947v voiding court mar Lial proceedings Foi Lack of jurisdiction a Federal judge ordered Kathleen Nash Durant released front prison. Durum was serving a five year term for her army conviction in connection with the theft of the si.5 million Hess in Crown jewels at Kronberg Castlen a Frankfurt. 30 years ago today. Sept. 6. I9s7 labor racketeer Johnny Dio was sentenced in new York to a year in prison and fined $500 for a conspiracy conviction. He was Given the same sentence fora bribery conviction. 20 years ago today. Sept 6, 1967 israeli and Jordani an artillery tanks mortars and machine guns exchanged fire across the Jordan River Over a seven hour period in the Strond violation of he Middle East cease fire in less than 24hours. 10 years ago today ,.sept. 6, 1977 voyager i blasted into space from Cape canaveral fla., taking a shortcut designed to put in near Jupiter and Salum ahead of its twin Craft voyager ii. Which was launched 17 Days earlier