European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes saturday july 14, 1990 teen admits touching off by the associated press a teen agers toy rocket started a roaring fire that blackened 7,000 acres of Brash in Southern California and lightning sparked blazes rampaged through the  swamp in Georgia on  people including the 15-year-o d boy accused of touching off the fire with the Model rocket were injured in the fire that broke Pul thursday in Chino Hills state Park about 40 mites Southeast of downtown los Angeles. / the boy whose name was withheld because of his age was arrested for investigation of unlawful use of a Model rocket and was released to his parents. A the did admit to Starling the fire a Orange county fire spokeswoman Maria Sabol said. A the tried to put the fire out and sustained minor Burns to his right  seven Hundred firefighters were expected to surround the Blaze Friday said fire dispatcher Lori Mal Avenda. Three prison inmates fighting the fire were overcome by smoke and were treated at the scene. Another inmate firefighter fractured an Elbow in a fall. The fire was near the Carbon Canyon area where 6,000 acres were consumed in the last three Days of june by an arson fire. Charred land there acted As a fire Stop keeping the new fire from spreading in that 1, fire optic direction facials said. A wildfire triggered by lightning last weekend in the Ockfen Okic swamp burned out of control Friday adding to 3,900 acres of charred Brush. The Georgia fire on Mitchell Island about six Miles from the Florida state line spread from 1,700 acres on Alabama executes Man who called sentence a racist Atmore Ala. Apr a murderer called the death penalty racist before he was strapped into the electric chair and executed Early Friday. Wallace Norrill Thomas 35, quoted from the Bible and read a 1 /2-Page statement As relatives and other witnesses looked on. A let my death serve As an instigator that will awaken a nation to fight and adopt the philosophy of the late great or. Martin Luther King jr., who said Quot injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere a Thomas said. Thomas a Black called capita punishment a a racist violent  he wore a purple ribbon and a sticker saying a execute Justice not  Alabama death Row inmates clanged the bars of Thomas their cells and yelled As the execution time Drew near Thomas was condemned for the dec 20, 1976, abduction and gunshot slaying of Quenette Shehane 21, who had graduated from Birmingham Southern College just a few Days before. She was kidnapped at a convenience store near the Campus. Wednesday to 3,900 acres by thursday afternoon said . Forest service spokesman Don Corban a new lightning sparked Blaze erupted m Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming on thursday and had blackened at least 15 acres of Forest by Friday officials staid 1 air tankers were dispatched to drop fire retardant of flares about eight Miles North of Yellowstone Lake Park spokeswoman Joan Anzelmo said. The latest fire was the Parks 12th of the year but Only the second to surpass two acres. As Many As 300 lightning caused fires dotted the cascades mountains in Washington and Oregon on thursday but most were Small and did not threaten any buildings . Forest service spokesman Ralph Satterberg  largest fire was a 100-acre Blaze in the William o. Douglas wilderness area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwestern Washington state he said. Another Blaze charred about 50 acres of Forest near the Henry m. Jackson wilderness area of the mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest about 40 Miles East of Everett wash., said Ron Dehart another Forest service spokesman. In Oregon the largest fire was a 55-acre Blaze burning in Douglas county South of Roseburg said Doug Decker of the Oregon state forestry department. In Alaska wildfires continued to Burn Many unattended. There have been 615 wildfires in Alaska this season scorching a combined 545,706 acres according to Bureau of land management figures. No Handicap Audrey Stevenson of Carthage n.y., first deaf contestant in the history of the miss new York state Beauty pageant looks Unwor ried As she Waits for the big event. She will compete for the title with 17 other Young women saturday in Watertown. 1 St medal of Honor going on display Washington apr americans original medal of Honor hidden away for generations in an Ohio family a safety Deposit Box is for the first time going on display in the Capitol. The descendants of Jacob Parrott the first medal recipient returned their heirloom to Congress Quot on thursday. Parrott of Kenton Ohio was a 19-year-old Union army Volunteer when his regiment sneaked into Georgia and captured a locomotive 200 Miles behind the Confederate line. With the opposing army in Pursuit the raiders ran the train for 90 Miles until it ran out of fuel. All 22 were captured and eight were hanged. Secretary of War Edw in Stanton chose the raiders to be the first to gel the medal. Pvt. Parrott got the prototype medal because he was the youngest in the group. Marilyn Frackelton of Westlake Ohio tearfully turned Over to House speaker Thomas Foley d-wash., the medal presented to her great Grandfather in 1863. During a formal ceremony attended by Foley Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine and 33 medal of Honor recipients Frackelton said she turned Over the original medal a with a great sense of Relief of Mission  through the generations the Parrott medal was kept in the family a Bank safety Deposit Box. Its new Home will be a climate controlled display Case in the House crypt beneath statuary Hall in the Capitol. Stateside woman a suit says surgeon a. T. Left Towel in her Abdomen Morgantown . Apr a woman who said doctors left an 1s-by-24-Inch Towel in her Abdomen after an operation has filed a is million lawsuit against a Hospital and a surgeon. Dorothea a Cline and her husband Randall both of pm Villa said in the lawsuit that or Daniel Stewart left the Towel inside an incision made in mrs. Cliness lower Abdomen during exploratory surgery on july 27, 1988. \ after her discharge from the Hospital mrs. Cline continued to experience pain and other medical problems said the lawsuit filed thursday in Monon Galia county circuit court against Stewart and West Virginia University hospitals inc. She was readmitted to the Hospital where physicians removed a Green surgical Towel on oct. 17, 1988, the lawsuit said. Mrs. Cline is seeking $1 million in compensatory damages attorneys fees and court costs. Her husband also a plaintiff sued the defendants for $250,000 in compensatory damages and court costs. Man who received blood tainted by aids Dies Albuquerque . Apr a Hospital patient mistakenly injected last month with the blood of an aids patient died thursday at the veterans administration medical Center officials said. Doctors believe the Many a death was not aids related the Hospital said in a news release. It also said the cause of death would be determined by an autopsy. The Hospital said it could not release the patients name or give information on the ailment from which he suffered. In june the Hospital acknowledged having Given the Man the infected blood of an aids patient. At the time doctors said the wrongly infected Man already was very ill. The error was discovered less than an hour after the injection and emergency Steps were taken to try to stave off any infection or. Darwin Palmer chief of infectious diseases said at the time. In acquired immune deficiency syndrome a virus attacks the immune system leaving patients susceptible to a wide variety of infections and cancers. The two men were in the same Ward had the same last name and had just undergone the same rare blood test within 24 hours of each other Palmer said. Committee on homeless quits to protest inaction Philadelphia apr a committee formed in 1983 to advise the mayor on the homeless has quit in protest saying mayor w. Wilson Goode ignored it White making drastic cuts in services. Some 80 members of the mayors Public private task Force on homelessness resigned in a unanimous voice vote at a meeting two Days after its leadership recommended the action. After the vote the City a managing director David Pingree told the group that quitting in Masse would leave the homeless without a voice in City Hall. A they Are advocates for the homeless a Pingree said afterwards. Quot the task Force provided them an internal mechanism in government that very few groups had the Opportunity to have. A in order to preserve the purity of their advocacy they were throwing away a very pragmatic tool a Pingree said. A Weye not losing anything a we re gaining the ability to go Back to being advocates a said task Force steering committee co chairwoman Chris Simiriglia. Adventists vote Down ordination of women Indianapolis apr the ruling body of the seventh Day adventist Church has voted against allowing the ordination of women. Delegates to the churches 55th world conference voted along geographical lines 1,173-377, to accept a commission s report that ordaining women would be disruptive to the world Church and should not be allowed. The greatest support came from delegations from Europe and North America. Leaders from Africa Asia and South America overwhelmingly opposed letting women preach the gospel