European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Tuesday july 26,1994gunman slays 2 at party before being shot Down from the associated press los Angeles a a gunman opened fire at the birthday party of a 3-year-od girl killing two people before he was shot to death. About 60 people attended the party saturday night in the front Yard of a Home. A several people were dancing and Small children were running around so its very Lucky that no one else got shot Quot police detective Eric Campos said. Police believe the shootout was the result of an ongoing dispute but they did not know what started. The argument. Campos said the shooting Wasny to believed to be gang related. The gunman approached his target and shot him in the Chest before fleeing. The wounded Man returned fire but missed Campos said. The Man died after being taken to a Hospital. A Friend of the Man chased the gunman and they shot each Otheir in the Chest. Both died on the  kills sheltered kayaker Kittery Maine a lightning struck and killed a sea kayaker who had sought shelter in a world War it Era Bunker. His three companions were injured. The kayaker beached their Craft when the storm came up saturday and they took shelter til the Bunker at a town Park. The Bunker is surrounded by steel and made of steel reinforced Concrete which conducts  die in plane crash Portsmouth Ohio a a plane carrying two men and their teen age sons to a Lascar race crashed sunday in heavy fog killing five people officials said. One teen Ager the Only survivor suffered Burns but walked away from the wreck. The six passenger Piper Cherokee clipped some Trees after taking off in the morning crashing into a Hillside near the Airport about 80 Miles South of Columbus state police said. Charles Blake 19, left the crash and followed some Railroad tracks la a nearby Highway where a passer by found him said Paul cd Axon an Airport spokesman. His father Richard Blake was killed. Also dead was the Pilot Bernard Allen 58 Gary Timmons 42 and his two sons 19-year-old Bradley Timmons and 14-year-old Bryan Timmons. Charles Blake was transported to the Burn unit at Ohio state University hospitals in Columbus. His condition was not immediately available sunday a Hospital spokeswoman  overflow kills 3 Dix Hills . A a father and his son were overcome by fumes and died As they worked on a cesspool at their Home sunday. A second son who tried to Rescue them also died authorities said. It was not immediately Clear whether the three deaths were caused by drowning or exposure to. Noxious fumes or some other Factor said officer Michael Maffucci a Suffolk county police spokesman. Gaspare Campo 57, and his son Anthony 27, were working in the cesspools overflow Section at their Long Island Home when they passed out police said. Campos 16-year-old son Thomas went into the House and called 911, then went Back to try to help his father and brother Maffucci said. Rescue workers from the police and fire departments found the father and both sons submerged in about 6 feet of water. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation failed to revive i Tieten Gator victim s body found Naples Fla. A the body of a Man who had been badly mauled by an Alligator was discovered floating in a canal in a Section of Florida known As Alligator Alley. The body missing one Arm and half of the other a presumed to be chewed off by the Alligator a was found by a passing Motorist saturday. Sheriffs officials declined to speculate sunday about the cause of death or How the body got in the canal. They said an autopsy was planned. Alligator Alley is adjacent to a Section of interstate 71 from Naples to Miami where alligators congregate near the Highway. The body had been in the canal for two or three Days when the Motorist saw it. An Alligator was lurking nearby police said. A trapper shot the 7-foot Gator before investigators removed the body lightning adds to work for firefighters in West Bend Ore. Apr Crews closed lines sunday around three Forest fires that have burned about 2,000 acres in Oregon while lightning sparked smaller fires across the Northwest. A Eye had about 200 new lightning fires overnight through Oregon and Washington but none of those were any size yet a said Ralph Satterburg spokesman for the Pacific Northwest inter Agency coordination Center in Portland. Crews in Northern California made Progress against 75 lightning fires. Showers and cooler temperatures helped contain fires in Arizona and Colorado. The largest Oregon Blaze the four Corners fire South of Bend in the de schutes National Forest was close to being contained by firebreaks. It was expected to be under control by tonight said Greg Mcclarren a . Forest service spokesman. Crews estimated sunday that the Blaze had covered 1,425 acres Down from previous estimates. Mcclarren said campgrounds in the area had been reopened along with at least one Small rustic resort area. Crews also reopened several Forest roads closed since thursday when the lightning strikes began. Satterburg said two other Large fires were still burning in Oregon the 400-acre Mendenhall fire in the Sisk you National Forest and a 175-acre Blaze in the rogue River National Forest. Officials in the Klamath National Forest in Northern California said they had held their own against 75 lightning fires in Steep terrain along the California Oregon Border. About 2,000 firefighters were trying to contain the blazes before they merged and created a potential firestorm Steve Sandell of the National Park service said sunday. In Arizona three main fires were quieted by rain and cooler temperatures said Ron Matt intelligence offi car at the Southwest coordination Center in Albuquerque . V. The Only Active Arizona fire was in the Coronado National Forest near Safford. Crews expected to contain that 11,809-acre fire by monday Matt said. Wet weather reaching Colorado provided a Welcome breather in the 6-week-old fire season in which nearly 49,000 acres already have been burned by 964 blazes. One 2,000-acre Blaze killed 12 firefighters. Crews were mopping up a 40-acre fire near grand Junction colo., and had contained part of the 3,000-acre Ute Creek fire in the White River National Forest North of Glenwood Springs. In the Idaho Panhandle lightning caused More than 50 Small fires the largest of which was Only 10 acres said Judy Smith a spokeswoman for the Panhandle National forests in Northern Idaho. Chopper Champ Pilot Ron Bower gets a bouquet and a hug from his wife Peggy at Bell helicopter text Ron in Hurst Texas on his return from a round the world copter night that was touted As setting a new world record. Bower made the 23,500-mile Solo trip in 24 Days 4 hours 36 minutes and 24 seconds. His time was about five Days quicker than the Globe circling helicopter flight made 12 years ago by Ross Perot or. And co Pilot Jay Coburn. Defense panel oks lean 95 budget Washington a a Senate group monday approved a a Bare Bones defense budget for fiscal 1995 with the lowest level of spending for new equipment in 15 years. A the dark Side of this picture a said sen. Daniel Inouye a is that the services the army in particular Are eating their seed  the Bill includes however a 2.6 percent pay raise for military personnel. Inouye a Hawaii Democrat who chairs the Senate appropriations subcommittee on defense said the $243.6 billion budget for the year beginning oct. 1 provides for Purchase of Only 17 fighter aircraft no tanks and four ships including one aircraft Carrier. A we Are not investing in the future. We Are staving off the collapse of the defense Industrial base a Inouye said. A after five successive years of very dramatic reductions in defense spending we now have a Bare Bones defense  the Bill needs approval of the full committee of the entire Senate and of a conference committee of the Senate and House of representatives before it is ready for president Clinton a signature. Important changes can be made at any of those stages. The subcommittees Bill budgets $2 billion for procurement of six c-17 transport planes and $2.3 billion. Fora new nuclear aircraft Carrier. It allots $77 million to Purchase six Apache attack helicopters and $150 million for research into the Brilliant eyes anti missile system