European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 13, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 5 weather break gives firefighters breather by the Jan Angeles times Voll Owston National Park. Wyo. Snow showers dropping temperatures and dying winds sunday gave exhausted firefighters their first breather in the two month Battle to save Yellowstone National Park but official warned Ilia the inferno was still a sleeping  the break in weather gave Crews their first Chance at launching a direct frontal attack on the blazes that have charred More Chiin 1,2 million acre in and around Ilio nation s oldest National Park. Helicopters and planes which had been grounded by smoke and winds o 60 Mph renewed their assault dumping water and Rula Danl on flames that at timeshare shot 300 feel into he sky. Officials declared their first containment in the Chain or fires that have merged into a Horseshoe pal Tern across the Nark s Northern half. Containment of he 62,340-acre him roaring fire promised 10 tree Crews and equipment for pans of Yellowstone still burning out of control. We be got a Chance to gel a handle on it said Tom Jones fire behaviour analyst on the hell roaring Blaze which has burned mostly in Southern Montana. Meanwhile about 700 evacuated employees and their families were allowed to return Home after flames closed in on three sides of Park Headquarters in Mam. Moth hot Springs and raced to within half a mile or the historic Complex. Evacuated residents of Cooke City and Silver Gate. Mom near the Northeast Gate a Yellowstone also returned Home sunday. Neighbouring communities outside Yellowstone Northern Gate remained on Alert with curs packed and ready to leave if evacuation becomes necessary. In Gardiner mont., about 50 of the town s 800 residents turned out sunday morn ing for a briefing by fire officials who cautioned against optimism remember folks it s a sleeping giant out there that could get up and move whenever the weather conditions change so please Don t become complacent urged area fire manager Dick Roth. The dusting of Snow scattered rain and lighter winds had Park employees and firefighters heaving collective sigh of Relief Yellowstone spokesman Joan Anzelmo said. If this weather continues for the next two or three Days we May be Able to say it s the turning Point she a Yellowstone firefighter shakes ice from a fire Hose. Said. Fire officials emphasized that the Welcome precipitation could Only buy Lime not douse the fires which have been burning since. June in the drought ravaged Park. The weather is giving us a Chance to catch our breath said Brian a cry a fire coordinator. It s a Lull in the activity but in will probably pick up again in two or three  the Long Range forecast Calls for winds switching from West to cast and for temperatures gradually warming from sunday s 20s and 3ds to the mid-70s by wednesday Park officials reopened Yellowstone s West Entrance and the Road from there to Madison Junction and old faithful sunday but the rest of the Park remained closed to visitors. Sunday s break for the weary firefighters did Little to Dampen inc anger that has soldered during this unprecedented fire season in the Gateway hamlets dependent on Yellowstone tourism. Promises by a Reagan administration team of cab inet level officials who toured the devastation Over the weekend apparently failed to end accusations that the government mismanaged the fires by waiting too Long to tight them. The Billings Mont sunday Gazette demanded the resignations of Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodet National Park service director William Penn Moll and Yellowstone superintendent Robert Barbie. We have been weaned on the apparent attitude of out of states that Montana is a take and run stale that they Are the doers and we Are the does " the newspaper said in an editorial. Intellectually of course we know that Yellowstone is a National Park. But deeper we be Lieve in is ours these outsider experts have gambled without treasure and  Model Secretary of agriculture Richard Lyng an Deputy Secretary of defense William h. Tall in toured the fire ravaged Park saturday Hodet who visited the nation s  Headquarters in Bois sunday said Federal officials will probably change the controversial let Burn wildfires policy. Speaking before flying Back to Washington to Brief president Reagan he said Don t know anyone today who is suggesting he old policy that we began with his year has worked Hodel said. If anyone could have foreseen whal has happened this year that policy would have been abandoned much  Book says this week Morks beginning of the end Raleigh . A a Book published earlier this year predicts that a prelude to inc end of the world will begin his week with millions of the faithful called to heaven and with global disasters occurring. Attendance Ai some churches has in creased in recent weeks and some people have even quit their jobs in preparation for the end. The lord is coming Back. I m looking at it about any Lime now Jerry Mclamb 37, of Coats said sunday. He and workers at his automobile engine shop had rushed to Complete customers orders last week. Will in happen i m not a Date setter but i m not a fool either said the Rev. Max Allman of people s memorial Christian Church in Burlington who urged worshippers o Check out their  he said he knew of several people who had quit their jobs in recent weeks or taken leaves of absence and his Church attendance has doubled in recent weeks. This has made them understand that in a Flash this could Alt be Over he said. The excitement stems from a prediction made by Edgar c. Wisenant in his Book "88 reasons Why the rapture will be in 1988." wisc ant a former Nasa rocket Engi Neer uses Maine Natieal calculations and biblical interpretation to pinpoint the be ginning of the end to the 4g hours of this year s jewish new year 40 years and 120 Days after Israel became a nation on May 14, l948. The jewish Celebration runs from Sunset sunday to Sunset tuesday. That s when the fires and famines arc supposed to begin plagues and sick Nesses like aids said Geneva Whitley 66. Of Bentley. The plagues will end in november 1995, when Christ returns Wisenant says. Interest in the event has mushroomed so much that lately some Christian bookstores have reported being unable to keep wisc and s Book in Slock. We be sold Well Over 1,000 copies since the second week in july said Joanna Hicks co owner of the sign of the fish bookstores in the Raleigh area. Some stores received free shipments Leach thai Jesus will return and christians will go to heaven but we Aren t looking for in like  setting dates for the second coming of Christ began As Early As the 14th Century said Jim Megivern chairman of the Reli Gion department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He called it Calendar izing or taking the Bible to ils most literal extremes by certain interpreters of biblical prophecy. James Efird a professor Al puke University s divinity school said history has recorded numerous instances where people awaited christ1 coming. Around 1844, new York preacher William Miller gathered a group of adventists in White Robes twice to await the end of the world and in the Early 1900s,a group of Jehovah s witnesses dressed in White and stood on the mount of olives to Greet Christ. Man killed in rap concert violence Mineola