European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 13, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 fire Alert sounded for South by the associated press foresters warned thai Hunters and others using the Woods in the South this weekend should be careful with fire to avoid a repeal of the re cell wildfires that spread across the Region. Anyone in the Woods Over the weekend should be cautious of tire. As you know most All the burning bans have been lifted said Doug Williams of the . Forest service s regional office in Atlanta the bans were lifted after rain and Snow moved through the Region and extinguished most or he blazes Hal had bunted an estimated 510,000 acres in 15 Stales since Laie october Williams called it the worst fall fire season in the Southin two decades. Firefighters took advantage of the break Wenc Stesy n i tame rest and catch up on paperwork. We re in a holding pattern today. We re not even Manning District offices said West Virginia forestry director Bill Oil spic i be Only hear from a couple of my men and they just called up to say in 1 this Good?1" officials were assessing the damage and trying to locate the boundaries of the few remaining tires. Most of he Volunteer firefighters were Back at their nor Mal jobs or we re resting Gillespie said these Crews had 10 Days of sheer mis cry they be done a great Job he said. In West Virginia 567 tires this month destroyed 155,000 acres Gillespie  tallies from other states placed the total at about 530,000 acres in Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Texas ten Nessee Virginia and West Virginia Williams said there were few fires ten wednesday from North Carolina North Ward and there were no reports of significant new fires Alabama had some fires that continued to give them problems. That s the Only area that May have some real activity he said. A sinkhole in Odma film opens up under � 60-foot Mobile Home. Six occupants of the Home leaped injury. Sinkhole swallows Mobile Home Odessa Fla. A six people escaped injury when a sinkhole to feet deep opened up and swallowed a Mobile Home officials said wednesday the Hole discovered tuesday eve Ning widened to More than 75 feet while a smaller one about s feel wide began nearby but seemed tool ablaze. The Hole was just too deep. There s not much we can do assistant Hillsb rough fire chief Richard Grodrian said after Legal papers and Medicine were salvaged from the slowly sinking trailer. Meanwhile sheriffs divers in Hudson plan to retrieve a 1981 porsche that has sat in muck at the Bottom of a sinkhole Here for several years. The dive icam plans to auction off the spoils car to raise funds. In Odessa a Cury firefighters wrapped up a 14-hour shift wednesday afternoon after they stood on the Edge of the Crater and manipulated ceiling Hooks to pull clothes and other items from the trailer. I thought a Tornado or a Hurricane might have gotten it but i never thought it would sink said Winston Eden 72, who has lived in the trailer since 1972. His family has moved in with relatives Eden was in the dining room when he heard creaking noises and sent his daughter Carol Geraldi outside to Check. She discovered the growing sinkhole and noticed that a propane tank had Dis appeared into it. Two Tow trucks were dispatched to try to tug the Home from the Hole but the trailer s wooden Frame began to rip apart As the Winch on one of he trucks tight ened Grodrian said. It is Best to allow the sinkhole to Settle then assess the situation he said. In Hudson officials say the porsche 928 is in surprisingly Good condition considering How Long it s been at the Bot Tom of that sinkhole. Hopefully there s not a body inside said Pasco Deputy Ray Stewart. What happened to it is All a  the porsche with a Blue Book value Ofat least j2q.ooo is sitting upside Down. Patriot bags target missile in test cancer claims civil rights Leader Phillips by Norman Black a Muity write Washington a Patriot missile originally built of shoot Down air planes successfully intercepted and destroyed another missile during an Experiment last week at the while Sands missile Range in new Mexico the missile s builder said. The Raythelon co. Said in a statement the nov. 4 test had further confirmed Patriot s capability against both advanced aircraft and tactical ballistic  last week s Experiment was the second involving a modified Patriot under the army s anti tactical mis Sile program. The atm program involves research to develop de lenses against High Speed Short Ranoco Battlefield mis Siles. It is thus similar to but separate from. President Reagan s Star wars program which seeks to developed lenses against Long Range nuclear missiles. In september 1986, in what the army described Ashe first test of its kind a modified Patriot successfully intercepted a Lance surface to surface missile. That test had marked the first time a Patriot missile actually intercepted another missile in flight. In the latest test Raythelon said the modified Patriot had been fired against another Patriot while both the Lance and Patriot Fly at supersonic speeds the Patriot is slightly smaller and thus a More difficult target and flies at higher altitudes and faster speeds than the Lance. Raythelon in its announcement described the Patriot target missile As also offering radar characteristics More similar to those of soviet tactical missiles la anime Lance. The modified Patriot missile intercepted and destroyed the target at medium Range and Altitude clearly demonstrating the Patriot system s capability to counter tactical ballistic missile the company added. 2 democrats borrow Campaign funds Washington a two More democratic presidential hopefuls rep Richard Gephardt of Missouri and sen. Paul Simon of Illinois Are Bor rowing Money from Banks to keep their 1988 campaigns rolling aides report. Gephardt s Campaign is in the process of borrowing 1300.000 against the Federal Matching Money due Jan uary 1 from the . Treasury. Simon s Campaign hits borrowed 1100,000 from a Bank a loan also secured by its Matching Money. Both campaigns said they will borrow More before the end of the year. The two thus join former Arizona gov. Bruce Bab Bitt in the borrowers Corner. Babbitt has Loans out standing of $472,000 to pay for his Campaign which has fallen Short of the others in raising Money. The other democratic candidates have not reporte Dary such Loans against Matching Money. Gephardt spokesman Mark Johnson said that the financial Drain of trying to build support in Iowa new Hampshire and the South causes a crunch into the first weeks of the final Quarter of the year. Staff paychecks due nov. 1 were delayed and some senior staffers Are still waiting for their  re not doing what Babbitt is doing and concentrating 100 percent on Iowa Johnson said. We Renot doing what Tennessee sen. Albert Gore is doing and concentrating almost 100 percent on the  new York not the Rev Channing  Phil lips a civil rights Leader and the first Black to be placed in nomination for the presidency of the United states by a major political parly died of cancer wednesday Al the Columbia presbyterian medical Center. He was 59 and lived in new York. Phillips had been minister of planning and coordination of the Riverside Church in Manhattan since1982, he headed Robert f. Kennedy s presidential Campaign in the District of Columbia in 1968. At the democratic convention in Chicago he allowed his name Tobe placed in nomination As a favorite son candidate because Kennedy had been assassinated in los Angeles earlier that , who received 67v votes said his candidacy was meant to show the negro vote must not be taken for  Al Hal Lime Phillips also served As president of i rehousing development corp., a government backed housing venture in the nation s capita. He also served for seven years As the pastor of Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ in Washington. Phillips was bom in Brooklyn the son of a Baptist  is survived Fay his wife Jane two sons Channing a of Washington and John e., of Manhattan and three daughters Sheilah p. Peterson and Tracy j. Phil lips of Manhattan and Jill c. Phillips of Oakland Calif