European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 31, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 firefighters shoring up containment lines by the associated press firefighters in six Western states concentrated Mon Day on shoring up containment lines concerned that resurgent winds would push flames Over the hard won boundaries. Eight major fires continued burning in Wyoming s Yellowstone National Park where 450,000 of the Park s 2.2 million acres have been affected and several other fires blazed in other National forests. National Park service director William Penn Molt toured Yellowstone to get a look at the fires which have caused roads campgrounds and hiking trails to be closed intermittently but which have been diverted around buildings and monuments. On monday Crews worked to Complete the last Sec Tion of a containment line around a Section of fire five Miles from old faithful a prime tourist attraction. In neighbouring Montana one major fire was brought under control monday but others continued to Burn on More than 187,000 acres. The 37,600-acre warm Springs Creek fire which destroyed 13 Homes and Cabins in the Elkhorn mountains near Helena during its three week life was declared controlled and 60 percent of the 2,485 firefight ers were released said George Bukenhofer fir information officer. The Cost of fighting the Blaze is expected to reach $10 million officials have said. The combination fire Between Philipsburg and Drummond in West Central Montana grew to 10,450 acres and firefighters braced for Gusty winds fire information officer Palmer Bowen said. The winds could move the flames East toward the Small Community of Maxville about four Miles away and a Bonneville Power administration High voltage transmission line about a mile from the flames he said. At the 1,900-acre Lolo Creek fire in Western Montana wind was expected to push flames away from 56 sets. George roman left and William santas from fort Lewis wash., at Yellowstone National Park. Homes located Between the Southern Edge of the fire and a Highway. Idaho gov. Cecil Andrus placed his state under an extreme fire emergency monday ordering the nation Al guard to reinforce some 2,000 firefighters battling the worst of dozens of fires including the 16,000-acre Battle axe fire on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in the Frank Church River of no return wilderness. It had jumped the River and threatened a score of summer Homes on pistol Creek and a guard station and Airstrip at Indian Creek. In the Payette National Forest hundreds of fire fighters carved the final Miles of control line near Kin Ney Point As they prepared to launch a direct assault on the Eastern flank of the Eagle bar fire in the deep Creek drainage. Some 26 million Board feet of com Mercial Timber in that drainage is in the path of the flames. All but one of Oregon s major Forest fires have been contained or controlled but the largest Blaze continued to Burn out of control in the northeastern Corner of the state. The Tepee Butte fire grew to 33,600 acres of grass and Timber in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest and the hell s Canyon National recreation area about 25 Miles North of Enterprise Forest service spokes Man Ron Dehart said. But the growth from 28,000 acres was largely due to backfires set to consume fuel in the path of the flames he said. Shifting winds caused worries in Washington state that several fires burning on the Kettle Range would merge to become one Large conflagration Diana Baxter a spokeswoman for the Forest service said. The Kettle Range fires on the Colville Indian reservation were the biggest of the blazes that have blackened More than 19,000 acres of the state s Forest and Range lands. In Utah firefighters contained a 525-acre fire near the Pineview Reservoir 26 Miles East of Ogden and moved in to douse remaining hot spots. Health groups wont smokeless cigarettes banned new York not the . Rey nolds tobacco co. Started delivering its new smokeless cigarette monday to distributors supermarkets and discount chains in test markets amid attacks from medical groups. Consumers can Purchase the cigarettes starting oct. 1 in St. Louis and Phoenix and Tucson Ariz. The new cigarettes called premiers Burn without odor and Only a Trace of Ash or environmental smoke that might irritate people nearby said Richard a. Kampe a Reynolds executive. Reynolds executives said the new Brand will be advertised As providing cleaner enjoyment than other cigarettes but the company is being careful to make no health or safety claims. We will not say it is a safer cigarette said Edward a. Horrigan jr., chairman and chief executive of Rey nolds tobacco a subsidiary of Rwjr Nabisco inc. A health claim would invite regulation by the Federal food and drug administration. Company executives said that if the Fra decides that the cigarettes Are being sold for health purposes As the critics charge that would have the effect of Banning the product outright. If a product is sold with claims to make cigarettes safer it is a medical de vice said William Grigg an Fra spokesman and the Agency would not permit it to be sold unless it could be shown that it was therapeutic and Benefi Cial to health. In comments filed last week with the Fra Reynolds lawyers cited court Deci Sions holding that cigarettes were not drugs and thus not subject to Fra re View. The Fra is considering petitions for regulatory review of premiers and Low tar cigarettes in general. Fra commissioner Frank e. Young discussed the Legal and health issues last week with lawyers for Reynolds and representatives of the american medical association the american cancer society the american lung association and the american heart association. The Ama noting that a Reynolds Pat ent application for the new Brand lists three pharmacologic ally or physiologically Active agents has asked the Fra to review the product like it would any other health product. The heart cancer and lung groups have asked for Fra regulatory review of All Low tar cigarettes contending that the tobacco companies Are making what amount to health claims in advertising. Smokeless cigarettes Are the latest entrant in the tobacco Industry s struggle to reverse declining sales and fend off proliferating Legal medical and social As saults on smoking. Worldwide tobacco sales have been rising but unit sales in the United states have declined 1.8 percent a year since 1982, although rising prices have pushed total revenues to $ 17 billion. The new product looks and feels like a cigarette. A burning Carbon element at the tip warms the tobacco and the Flavouring ingredients without igniting them. Only the Carbon fuel and one fourth Inch of paper and insulation actually Burn. Smokers inhale a vapor composed mainly of water and glycerol an odourless and colourless chemical. Tar generated by conventional cigarettes has been linked to lung cancer and emphysema while nicotine has been linked to heart attacks stroke and High blood pressure according to findings that have been widely accepted by medi Cal and government authorities but which tobacco Industry spokesmen reject As unproven. The Premier package carries the legally obligatory Label with the surgeon Gen eral s warning that smoking endangers health. San Francisco police in riot gear arrest 29 giving food to homeless san Francisco a police in riot gear arrested 29 people on monday As they tried to give food to the homeless in Golden Gate Park prompting jeers and taunts from supporters. The arrests were made after about 100 members of the group called food not bombs marched through the Haight Ash Bury District to the Park and set up tables with plates of Beans and melons just be fore noon. By sending the police Here the May or s saying it s illegal to feed people said Stephanie Hedgecoke an organizer for a group called All Peoples con  Hedgecoke also a candidate for the san Francisco Board of supervisors stood behind two tables of food and held a 5-foot yellow Banner proclaiming Stop City attacks on the hungry and  she was later arrested. The City had warned the group its members would be arrested if they at tempted to give away food in the Park something they had done for several months. The group said the police crack Down was the result of complaints from local businesses. Those arrested for investigation of various alleged Park and health violations went peacefully into police wagons. As they were taken away they chanted food not bombs and arrest hunger not free  we Don t want to have a confrontation said Keith Mchenry spokesman for food not bombs. We have been doing this for eight years in other  a bystander who said she supports mayor Art Agnos said she could not understand Why he allowed the crackdown. I was shocked by the attitude and Theriot gear said Marjorie Antenore a teacher and 12-year resident of the neighbourhood. The mayor s office did not immediately return Telephone Calls for comment. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 31, 1948 writer George Ber Nard Shaw said there would be no Chance of settling International problems such As Berlin unless Russia and the West Over come their language barriers. 30 years ago today. Aug. 31, 1958 soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev agreed to a  ish proposal for initiating talks on the suspension of nuclear tests but scoffed at their offer to suspend tests for Only one year. 20 years ago today. Aug. 31, 1968 the seven crewmen of an air Force b-52 bomber parachuted safely from their aircraft before it crashed in a Remote area of Cape Kennedy Fla. 10 years ago today. Aug. 31, 1978 seven East German passengers took advantage of the Opportunity and defected to the West after an East German passenger forced a polish Airliner carrying 63 passengers to land in West Berlin