European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 25,1988 . S big Apple Home grown Koch says Columbia . A despite South Carolina claims new York City mayor de Koch in t con Vinced that the big Apple nickname was picked in Columbia. Koch is willing to concede that a dance called the big Apple came from Columbia but he insists the nickname came from new York City. Big Apple says Koch was musicians Slang that came from jazz circles in Harlem. Columbia mayor t. Patton Adams claims the name came from the big of the same name in his City. Koch has bet a pizza Adams is offering Mustard based Barbecue in a Wager Over the origin of the nickname. We re not disputing the Story about the big Apple dance. Does it link up with the nickname we re not sure Koch spokesman Larry sir Nonberg said monday. If these people want to come up with their evidence we d be glad to have them. Barbecue would be most Welcome Simonberg the mets and just to be fair some pitchers for the  bet was sparked by a new York times article about the Columbia claim. Adams believes he has a leg up. Documentation. Lots of  evidence he says includes newspaper and Magazine articles photographs Oral histories of those who lived during the depression Era including people who danced at the Columbia club and those who danced the step on the stage of Newi Rautu Guam uni Iii m iia iut a Anit uni int. Bijj Kaiui i i Wuriu Umi a r�vw.i�/, ,. 01q17apple dance performed 50 years ago at a nightclub added. But we d rather have a couple of hitters for York s Roxy l neater in in /. Fire forces evacuation of Yellowstone tourists Yellowstone National Park Wyo. A the destruction by flames of thousands of acres of Forest in the West continued tuesday with hundreds of tourists packing their bags and filing out of Yellowstone National Park s Canyon area. A Finger of flame from a 91,700-acre fire in Yellowstone s Western Section edged to within two Miles of the Canyon area the largest Cabin development in the country s oldest National Park. Several other areas in the Park Are closed including its Grant Village com plex containing a Campground hotel visitors Center and staff dormitories. Park spokeswoman Robbie Blackwell said 306 tourists and As Many As 275 staff members spent tuesday night in the development which also contains a Visi tors Center a general store and a Camp ground. Nobody wanted to rattle Beds and get people up. As the people Are getting up this morning they will Start going through checkout procedures have breakfast this morning and then Start leaving the Canyon area said the spokesman wednesday. Many of the guests who had reserved spaces at Canyon s 600 Cabins were moved to other Park lodgings tuesday night said Steve Tedder of to services Yellowstone s concessionaire. Everything has been very orderly he said. This has almost become Busi Ness As usual As we be lived with it the fires for about seven  reservations Are off about 25 percent this summer Tedder added almost certainly because of this year s fires the worst in memory in Yellowstone. The fire one of 10 in the Park involving some 350,000 acres was the Only one to Post major advances tuesday. Low temperatures aided some 4,000 firefighters and 1,200 soldiers battling flames. Firefighters at a 156,500-acre Blaze in Yellowstone s northeastern Corner were aided tuesday by about 600 soldiers from fort Lewis Wash. Another 600 fort Lewis soldiers were to help clean up a 4,300-acre fire in Wyoming s Bridger Teton National Forest and adjacent grand Teton National Park. Elsewhere Crews near Helena. Mont., aimed to contain a 37,000-acre Blaze by wednesday night firefighters in Idaho tried to rein in a 750-acre fire on the slopes of the nation s deepest Gorge in Hells Canyon and a rash of wildfires broke out tuesday in Oregon including a Small Blaze ignited by a plane crash that killed  Idaho 400 firefighters battled to keep a fire from moving Over a Ridge and into an area with 12 million Board feet of Timber the National Forest service wants to sell. 43 accused of killing bears to get Gall bladders Knoxville Tenn. A a three year undercover operation has resulted in charges against 43 people accused of poaching Black bears for their Gall Blad Ders which Are prize in Asia As aphrodisiacs and Medicine. The Federal state probe was sparked by the danger poaching poses to the nation s Black Bear population Gary Myers executive director of the Tennes see wildlife resources Agency said tuesday in announcing the charges. During the investigation agents bought 266 Gall bladders 85 claws 77 feet four Heads nine hides and one live Black Bear cub officials said. Among the items displayed at a news conference tuesday were several plastic bags containing a Bear s Gall bladder which resembles a swollen heavily veined Lima bean. The parts were sold to asians in the United states and overseas said Tim Hergenrader of the Tennessee wildlife Agency. He said the Gall bladder is dried and ground into a powder thought to be Good for health and an aphrodisiac. Bear claws Are used to make jewelry and Heads Are used As trophies Hergen Rader said. Arrest warrants were issued in Knox Ville Asheville . And Atlanta for residents of the three states and agents began making arrests Early tuesday. Hergenrader said the 43 people were charged with More than 130 Federal and state violations. Officials estimate the Black Bear population in the Southern appalachians at about 2,000. The bears already Are threatened by a loss of habitat. Areas in Public land Are set aside As Bear habitat where Hunting is prohibited. Hergenrader said it is illegal to sell any part of a Bear no matter How or where it is killed. Myers said studies of the Black bears indicated that we were driving our Black Bear population to extinction and that poaching accounted for half or More of the annual Bear deaths. He described the poachers As a Loose informal network of people who knew who you needed to see if you want Bear Gall  please mister it s catastrophic these two youngsters Aren t offering a puss in a pokes they Hawk their furry wares to passing motorists in Somerset mass. But who can resist a free any thing especially if it s a Kitty that s what Matthew Stubbs 10, and his Cousin Alyssa Furtado 6, Fig ured when they took their neighbor s Kittens to sell along Lee s River Avenue. Their pleading to Drivers to Stop and adopt found Homes for two of the litter. Victim s parents help police seize alleged handcuff rapist Columbus Ohio a the parents of a rape Vic Tim staked out the location of the attack for More than a year with the wife As Decoy and her armed husband wait ing in the dark. Their persistence paid off with the arrest of a Man police say is responsible for As Many As 60 rapes. Obviously they had really carefully thought out what they were going to do Debra Seltzer rape prevention coordinator of the local chapter of women against rape said tuesday. It really shows the frustration that a lot of people  police on monday announced the arrest of Robert biddings 34, of Columbus who authorities say is a suspect in a four year string of attacks attributed to the so called handcuff  the nickname resulted from the use of Handcuffs in Early attacks later attributed to the same Man. Biddings was being held on one count of rape and two counts of kidnapping in lieu of Bonds totalling $750,000. But police said they would seek to have him charged with As Many As five dozen rapes. We re talking about 60 rapes and Over 100 felony charges altogether said capt. Antone Lanata. In announcing the arrest police said Only that they were led to biddings by the victim of an attempted rape who was Able to give police a License number of a car driven by her alleged assailant. Police said they traced the car to biddings and arrested him thursday. However a court document shows the victim cited was a woman whose daughter had been raped in the same spot in june 1987. The woman was acting As a Decoy to apprehend her daughter s attacker according to a search warrant affidavit police filed with the Franklin county municipal court