European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes sunday marctv13,1988 Friendship pact Missy Khan her nire haired terrier mix go he full attention to meter he Himmler at their Lowell my Home. Owner Robert Wallace says the  pm get Lorta just lint. It looked like we were in Hel says Texas Cowboy fighting fire Albany Texas a a wildfire raged through West Texas saturday after burning 200,000 acres of Prairie killing livestock threatening Homes and Clos ing roads no people were reported killed or seriously injured in the Blaze which was fought by an army of hundreds Friday officials said in could take several Days to extinguish the fire. It looked like we were in hell fire All around pretty spooky Jimmy t. Brooks a 40-year-old cow boy said Here Friday before going Back to the Battle. Winds diminished from 30 Mph to about 10 Mph helping firefighters bring parts of the Blaze under control said Terry Harlow of Shackelford county Emer gency management team. The fire destroyed a Mobile Home and several Hunt ing Sheds in the sparsely populated Region about 150 Miles West of Dallas. The Blaze also damaged Oil Fiel equipment and ranch fences. The fire covered an area about 60 Miles Long and 25 Miles wide in portions of Catahan iliac Tilford and Throckmorton counties officials said and a 20-mile wide Swath of the Blaze burned Oul of control. A Tew families a Etc evacuated from ranches officials said. Joe Kox the Texas Forest service official overseeing the firc fighting Effort predicted in could Lake another four Days to extinguish the Blaze. Albany a town of about 2,300 people and the county scat of Shackelford was under siege Friday. A change in wind direction brought the fire to within 100yards of the town said Lawrence Winkler. A spokes Man for the Shackelford county emergency division. But the wind died Down. All four major highways through Albany were closed by heavy smoke officials said. Smoke and Haze also cast a Light fog like pall Over the Dallas Fon Worth area Isle Friday afternoon and some fort Worth residents said they smelled the smoke. Gov. Dill Clements dispatched 100 National guard soldiers. They joined West Texas fire departments Texas Forest service firefighters state Highway depart ment employees unit from Abilene s Dyess fab and the Fon Worth fire department Winkler said Volunteer of Field workers also pitched in. Some firefighters suffered minor Burns and were temporarily overcome Fay smoke official said. Ai the by year old Nail ranch an estimated 35,000acres were scorched an unknown number of cattle lost and up to 25 Miles of Fence destroyed said Ronnie Nail. Shifting winds made it difficult la determine where the fire would spread and in some cases firefighters were nearly surrounded by the swiftly moving names. One of the fires May have started when someone was burning tires near Here while two others appeared to have formed along a farm Road and May have been caused by passing motorists. Many condoms fail Fra tests Atlanta a twelve percent of  and 21 percent of foreign made ones failed in recent testing say Federal researchers the prophylactics have been advocated As a Means of slowing in spread of aids. As of february the centers for disease control reported thursday the food and drug administration had tested samples from a30 batches of condoms 165 batches manufactured in America and 265 manufactured abroad. The Fra reported previously that As Many As one in five batches of la Lei condoms it tested fait to meet Federal standards. The Fra rejects a Batch of condoms if More than four per 1,000 fail in water leakage tests. If two or More batches from a foreign manufacturer fail future shipments from thai manufacturer arc stopped at their port of entry into the United slates. The cd in its report on condoms and. Sexually transmitted diseases stressed that condoms can help prevent such diseases bul that they Don t Al ways work individuals Likely to become infected or known to be infected with aids should be aware that condom use cannot completely eliminate the risk of transmission the Atlanta based Agency said. Lab tests have shown that Latex condoms Are effective barriers to the spread of aids hepatitis a gonorrhoea chlamydia and other Sci ally trans melted diseases. However breakage or other mis haps during use can negate their disease fighting effectiveness. The cd said condoms should be made More widely available through clinics family planning clinics and drug treatment centers. Those clinics and centers should become More assertive in warning clients about disease and emphasize that the ask of infection is most Eftic Lively reduced through abstinence or sexual inter course with a mutually faithful uninfected pin Ner stateside two headed shrimp appears to be a first Galveston. Texas a a two headed shrimp Fisherman found in hit bait bucket appear 10 be the first such specimen on record experts say. We re dealing with a first occurrence Here. 1 Cue to the Best or our  said Neal Baxter chief of the National Marine fisheries service ecology Divi Sion in Calv Csoti. The shrimp he been sent to the smithsonian institution in Washington. Howard Falcy 37 and his wife c.j., were fishing near Calveston Tail May when Fraley dipped into his but bucket and came out with the oddity. Train transporting parts for shuttle hits car 2 die Cape canaveral flu. A a train  of solid fuel Booster rockets for the Itce shuttle collided with a car but the rocket segment apparently were not damaged Nasa said Friday. Nasa mid that Ai a precaution the segment willbe examined thoroughly this week after they Are unloaded. The occident occurred wednesday night in ,miss., when a car collided with a chartered train trans porting the segments to the Kennedy space Center Here from the Morion Thio Koi Plant in Utah. Two people in the car died police in Biloxi reported. The train s engine was replaced and the segment arrived at the space Center late thursday. Wyoming is final state to up drinking age to 21 Cheyenne Wyo. A Wyoming on Friday became Hie last state to raise its drinking age to 21. Cov. Mike Sullivan signed into Law a Bill railing the age from 19, effective july i. When this become effective we will no Loafer be an Island he said. Ii is in the Best interest of the stale the country and Foremost in the Best interest of the Young people of this state the signing Mark the end of several years of oct Teton the Issue in the legislature which has been unable to pass such legislation largely because of argue meals thai Wyoming should not give in to Federal Black  Wyoming Hood to toe 18.2 million in Federal High Way funds immediately if the increase were not in place in july. The government would continue to withhold fond until the stale adopted us increase which was coded for in a 1984 Federal Law. Lively newspaper to return on april 1 in new Orleans new Orleans up Figaro a Lively 1970stabloid that moved from alternative irreverence to often penetrating investigation of government abuse is to appear on Crescent City streets on april fool s Day far the first time in seven Yean