Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 285, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 August 1979 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 8, 1979

Smoke darkens sky 100 miles away

15 fires raging out of control across Western states

By CHRISTOPHER B. DALY Associated Press Writer Weary but dogged, firefighters are looking to the skies for a break from strong winds ahd high temperatures as fires bum out of control in five dry Western states, roaring across

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thousands of acres of timber and range land. “There’s no force on Earth powerful enough to cope with what we’ve seen,” said Gordon Stevens, fire boss on one of the biggest blazes, the Mortar Creek fire in Idaho. “Nature

will just have to do her thing first.” Smoke from that blaze, which Stevens said “will rank with the greatest fires in recent memory,” darkened the sky more than 100 miles away at Yellowstone Park on Tuesday, and state officials said the huge firefighting effort was taxing Idaho’s diesel fuel supply. From a bustling headquarters in Boise, Idaho, fire bosses were calling reserves from as far away as New England to battle 15 fires out of control in Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming. At least 135,000 acres of forest and rangeland have been destroyed, and National Weather Service forecasts for the next few days held little hope for rains to help douse the flames. The Interagency Fire Center, a federal agency that coordinates and supplies firefighting manpower and equipment around the country, has mobi-

lized a force of 4,500 —including 2,500 Forest Service firefighters, hundreds of Indians from reservations across the West and the Idaho National Guard. “Some of them have been out there since July 26th. They can’t go on much longer and we’ve got to pull them out,” fire information officer Barry Wirth said Tuesday. Despite the effort, the fires, sometimes whipped by 30-to 35mph winds, raged on. The Mortar Creek fire along the Middle Fork of Idaho’s Salmon River covered at least 50,000 acres by midday Tuesday. The fire was burning along a 62-mile perimeter and crews had cut fire lines through only four miles of the roadless wilderness, Stevens said. In eastern Idaho, the monthold Gallagher Peak fire reached

Tourists undaunted as Coast Guard battles invading oil

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) Vacationers surfed, swam and basked in the warm South Texas sunshine, apparently undisturbed by a, Coast Guard counterattack against an invading oil spill. Coast Guardsmen assembled a sophisticated array of equipment to scour southern Texas beaches soiled by tarry globs of crude from the world’s worst oil spill, and to block oil now in the Gulf of Mexico from coming ashore. Gift shops reported a run on nail polish and other solvents used to remove the tar from the feet of beachcombers. But hotels were filled and Ralph Thompson, executive vice president of the island’s tourist bureau, said: “We don’t have a serious problem here.” Stiff winds that pushed the slick toward Texas diminished Tuesday, stalling the advance of the crude from a runaway Mexican well. Reconnaissance flights over the Gulf detected several oil patches south and east of Cor : pus Christi, said Carl Posey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was not known whether those sheens came from a 2-mile-wide, 6-mile-long slick that was seen bobbing in warm waters southeast of Corpus Christi. Earlier in the day, Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Roger Meacham said there was a “distinct possibility” the oil in the Gulf could damage the sensitive coastal ecology from Texas to Florida. But he cautioned that there is “no way in the world anybody could say that for sure. ... It would be like predicting the weather three months from now. There are too many unknowns.” Oil from the Mexican well is spewing at a rate of about 20,000 barrels a day into the Bay of Campeche, hundreds of miles southeast of South Padre Island. Texas Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby said Tuesday he was told it would take six more weeks to drill relief wells in the Mexican seabed to help bring an end to the gushing. After touring a section of the coastal area where tar balls washed ashore on Tuesday, Hobby said he believes Gov. Bill Banner-Graphic "It Waves For All" (USPS 142-020) Consolidation of The Dally Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Daily Graphic Established 1883 Telephone 653-5151 Published twice each day except Sundays and Holidays by LuMar Newspapers, Inc. at' 100 North Jackson St.. Greencastle. Indiana. 46135. Entered in the Post Olflce at Greencastle. Indiana, as 2nd class mall matter under Act ot March 7,1878. Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier $.85 Per Month, by motor route $3.70 Mall Subscription Rates R.R.in Restot Restot Putnam Co. Indiana U.S.A. 3 Months '8.75 9.50 ‘11,45 6 Months ‘17.50 ‘19.00 ‘22.90 1 Year *34.00 ‘37.00 ‘45.75' Mall subscrlptions.payable In advance not accepted in towns and where motor route service Is available. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the, use for republication ol all the local neWfe printed In this newspaper.

57,000 acres, although its advance was stopped on the northern end. In Oregon, reinforcements were called Tuesday night to help extinquish a 920-acre blaze in remote terrain of the Umatilla National Forest. Officials hoped to have 500 firefighters on the lines today and contain the blaze Thursday morning. In Montana, a crew of more than 300 began to gain control over a 2,500-acre blaze west of Anaconda on Tuesday, and officials said there was some hope of putting it out soon despite dry weather, rough terrain, and high altitude. Another fire had consumed 1,250 acres in the Lincoln-Sca-pegoat Wildnemess area in west-central Montana by early today. But heavy equipment has been unable to reach the

Clements will consider declaring it a disaster area. “Chances are very good that long-term ecological damage can be avoided,” Hobby said, “but we are going to see some very dirty beaches. It will look terrible, but they can be cleaned up without lasting damage ... it will take a lot of effort and a lot of money.” Coast Guared boats towed long “floating fences” across the Brazos Santiago Pass leading to Laguna Madre a large inlet that provides breeding grounds for a variety of marine life and homes for many species of birds, blue crabs, shrimp and oysters. The fences run slightly below the surface, and corral surface oil that is then sucked up by specially equipped boats. But neither the oil nor cleanup operations appeared to worry vacationers who packed the island’s resort hotels. Tourists played and relaxed on South Padre’s white sands less than 50 feet from where a beach cleanup crew was working to free a large vacuum truck that had bogged down in the soft sand.

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an estimated 5,110 acres. A smaller fire in the eastern foothills of the Wind River Range was starting to die. In addition, officials at the fire center reported that blazes in Utah and California were controlled on Tuesday