European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and Stripe saturday october 19,1991cool weather raises Hopes of firefighters Spokane Wash. Apr hundreds of people chased from their Homes by wildfires that blackened a Quarter of a million acres were allowed to return thursday As firefighters counted on Calmer weather to help them douse the flames evacuees in Washington Montana Idaho and Oregon where More than 100 Homes were destroyed and five people killed by More than 100 fires began returning to sooty foundations to see if any of their possessions were left. A when we pulled out and looked Back it was nothing but a red Blaze a said Linda Lukenbill whose Mobile Home burned in the Chattaroy Hills fire North of Spokane. She was Able to recover Only melted jewelry thursday. She sobbed As she clutched misshapen wedding rings and a Silver locket with her childrens pictures inside. More than 6,000 firefighters battled the blazes which consumed grass Brush and Timber. A cooler temperatures higher humidity and lower wind Speed will certainly play into our hands a said Dave Turner a spokesman for the Montana department of state lands. Overnight temperatures in some areas fell into the 30s. Most of the fires were ignited wednesday by Power lines downed in a fierce windstorm that gusted to More than 60 Mph and kicked up heavy dust. Killed were an Eastern Washington woman trying to flee her Home two people crushed by heavy equipment in Idaho and Montana and the Pilot and co Pilot of a California based air Tanker that crashed in route to firefighting duty in Montana. The National guard was pressed into service against the fires in Washington Idaho and Oregon and put on firefighter Tim Patterson leads horses to safety during the evacuation wednesday of Hauser Lake Idaho. Alert in Montana. Governors declared emergencies in Washington Montana and Idaho. The american red Cross chapter in Spokane said thursday that it had provided shelter for More than 1,600 fire victims in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. A total of 34 fires charred 43,000 acres and 100 Homes and other buildings around Spokane the states second largest City said sue Trettevik a spokeswoman for the Washington department of natural resources. South of Spokane Bruce Butler who defied authorities orders to evacuate saved his Ridge top Home by dousing its roof with water from a Garden Hose. Eighteen Homes in his neighbourhood burned. A if you be Ever seen somebody Light a match and seen the first burst of flame that a what it was like a he said. A Homes on both sides of mine just went a Twenty fires blackened 200,000 acres in Montana including 10,000 acres of the Kootenai National Forest in the Northwestern part of the state . Forest service spokesman Dick Mangan workers await action on honorarium ban by Mike Causey the Washington Post Washington a Federal workers who Moonlight As writers or lecturers Are still wondering when Congress will modify a ban on honorariums that took effect this year. The ban for rank and file Federal workers was an apparently unintended offshoot of congressional efforts to rewrite ethics rules and to justify a congressional pay raise. Congress settled its own pay and ethics issues but the ban on Federal workers honorariums remains. Many of the Washington areas s,000 Federal workers write for magazines and newspapers or speak on sub acts a from wine to persian rugs a that Lave nothing to do with their jobs. Some Moon lighters got around the ban by having their non Federal employers put them under contracts a in effect making them part time workers and Clearing agreements with their Agency Slegal officer. The ban applies Only to occasional payments under the heading of honorariums not regular part time employment. Other Federal workers have sidestepped the ban by telling their outside employers to hold their fees until the ban is lifted. Some have put Money received by moonlighting in escrow until the Issue is resolved. Still others have continued writing and lecturing for pay despite the ban risking a $10,000 Fine. The Senate governmental affairs committee has approved a Bill that would revamp the honorarium ban. An even More Liberal revision passed by a House subcommittee and bearing the White House Seal of approval is pending before the House judiciary committee. That Bill by reps. Barney Frank d-mass., and George w. Gekas r-pa., is the Odds on favorite to become Law. It would a allow career workers at any Grade level including senior executives to accept honorariums for writing or lecturing on subjects that clearly Are unrelated to the employees Job or official position. Subject career workers. A allow non career employees who Are paid $74,000 to $101,300 to accept honorariums subject to the limitations for career workers and also subject to notification and disclosure requirements. Black loses Challenge to arrest in redneck bar Bridgeview Iii. Up1 a Cook county judge has refused to throw out the arrest of a Man who was nabbed by police because he was the a Only Black Many in a a redneck Type bar. Calvin Compton remained jailed thursday in the october 1990 killing of Margaret Hill 26, Chicago who was slain in an Evergreen Park Hospital parking lot by two men who stole her Mercedes Benz. Compton 22, and Donnell Lindsey 18, Are charged with first degree murder and armed robbery. Associate judge Thomas j. Condon in Bridgeview denied motions wednesday by Compton s attorney to have the arrest and All evidence surrounding it thrown out. Police have accused Compton and Lindsey of killing Hill and then speeding away in her car. An Evergreen Park police officer who heard gunshots chased the car until it crashed into a parked vehicle. Officer Robert Mateja said he a ined the search for the pair on foot. E said he decided to search the businesses that were still open in the area and entered a a redneck Type lounge several blocks from the crash site and spotted Compton using a Telephone. Mateja testified wednesday he had been Given no description of the assailants other than they were Black. He said Compton was sweating and unable to provide any identification. Assistant Public defender Gary Copp asked Mateja if he arrested Compton Quot because he was the Only Black Man in the Mateja answered a i have never seen a Black Man in that bar before a he said. Killer executed in . After court rejects Appeal Raleigh . Apr convicted killer Michael Van Mcdougall was executed by lethal injection Early Friday 12 years after he killed one neighbor and seriously wounded another in a drug induced frenzy. The . Supreme court on thursday denied Mcdougalll a last minute request for a stay of execution and refused to hear his Appeal. There were no recorded dissenting votes among the eight justices. Mcdougall was pronounced dead at 2 20 ., prison officials said. He became the 366th person to be executed by the state of North Carolina and the fourth since the supreme court restored the death penalty in 1976. Mcdougall 36, was convicted in 1980 of fatally stabbing Diane Parker after talking his Way into her Charlotte Home. Parker 27, was stabbed 22 times. Her Roommate Vicki Dunno was stabbed nine times but survived. Mcdougall chose injection rather than the Gas chamber for his execution. Death penalty opponents held a prayer service several hours before the execution followed by a March from the Church to the prison for a candlelight Vigil. A we want to affirm that All human life is sacred a said Collins Kilburn executive director of the North Carolina Council of churches. The state supreme court on tuesday rejected Mcdougalll a last minute Appeal. He had claimed he was inadequately represented by his trial attorney. State and Federal courts rejected a similar Appeal. Testimony at Mcdougalll a trial showed that the former drug dealer had injected himself with up to 5 Grams of cocaine aug. 21, 1979, before going to his neighbors House. He woke Parker and Dunno shortly before 3 And pleaded for help. He said his wife had Cut herself and he needed to Call a doctor. Once inside the House he grabbed a Butcher knife and attacked the women
