mulmtn ) Manchester - A City o( Village Charm Hrralft Saturday, Sept. 5,1987 30 Cents THE WEST IS ON RRE Troops taking crash courses to battle blazes By The Associated Press The lightning strikes that ignited the West tapered off Friday but exhausted firefighters had their hands full with nearly half a million acres of brush and forest fires, including a blaze within Yosemite National Park. Up to 1,000 Army troops and even a small number of federal survey* ors and secretaries prepared Fri­ day for crash firefighting courses that would enable them to Join nearly 20,000 firefighters, some from as far away as tte East Coast, who were trying to contain the worst rash of fires in a decade. Most of the scorched earth was in California, where 375,000 acres were blackened, and Oregon, where the total reached 75,000 acres. “We’ve got a lot of tired people out in the hills," said Ray Naddy, a spokesman for firefighters in Oregon. About 16,000 people were forced to flee the flames, all but 1,000 of them in California. The Pentagon said Friday even­ ing that nearly 1,000 soldiers from Fort Ord, near Monterey, Calif., would be trained Saturday and be deployed Sunday, said Maj. Larry Icenogle, a Pentagon spokesman. “They will be deployed to mop-up operations to free regular firefigh­ ters to hit the hot spots,” said Tom MacKensle, an Army spokesman in San Francisco. Dick Thomas, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management in Phoenix, Ariz., photo said the agency gave physical examinations to secretaries, sur- SENTENCED — West German Mathias Rust faces that he landed in Red Square. He was sentenced to the court after sentencing In Moscow Friday for his four years in a Soviet labor camp. Story on page 10. Please turn to page 3 flight over the Soviet Union last May in a light plane Quinn’s being soid to Arthur's Manchester’s oldest pharmacy will close ... page 2 -MAGAZINE PULLOUT SECTION Need money? Herald columnist gives It away on Thursday! 1 P 1 SNAFU by Bnic* ■ » « ! • Quinn’S, town’s oldest phannacy, Soldiers train PS will close after sale to Arthur’s ■1 to fight fires By Andrew J. Oovls CgoUBBed from page 1 Herald Reporter veyors and other employees to see who was qualified to Say goodbye to a part of Manchester history. Vt*'- Join the battle in California. Ill Quinn’ s Pharmacy of 873 Main St., tte oldwt As of late Friday afternoon, about 50 people, pharmacy in Manchester, close its doors forev^^^^^ including at least four women, had passed the physical, the next few weeks, said owner Acle and were slated for a day of firefighting training Johnson. The drugstore, which opened in 1902. will be * 11 Saturday, officials said. sold to Arthur Drug Stores Inc. of Hartford. ’\ The fire in Yosemite National Park, which started No formal agreement has been sip e d ’Thursday, had grown to 100 acres Friday afternoon. Stores yet, Johnson said, but the d e a l should be T im c e Drug ^ .ifc1 *1 The major battle, however. Involved a 100,000-acre fire finalized by the end of the month. 1002 that was burning toward the park in the vicinity of completed. Quinn’s will close Tuolumne City. become a full-time pharmacist at Arthur s at 942 Mam "New fires are cropping up, the sleepers that have been smoldering, and then the wind comes along and ^^He said he wasn’t sure when Quinn’ s would officially U. we’ve got a fire,” said Jerry Ahlstrom of the statewide close its doors. When it does, store merchandise and .fire information center, set up by the California ” 1 got the second cut opening store records will become the property of A i^ u r s ♦ Department of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service. the bandage box." Johnson. 62. said he decided only recently to sell his Firefighters also contended with 13,000 acres ablaw business. He said he was getting t lr ^ of ^ o r k i^ M to in Idaho, but let an 18,000-acre fire burn by itself ln‘a 70 hours a week. At Arthur’s, he will work a 40-hour wilderness area near Cascade. Smaller fires were week as a staff pharmacist. j burning in Washington, Montana, South Dakota, “ I work too many hours," he said. “ I ‘ Wnk I ^6“ ^ ® Wyoming and Arizona. Connecticiit Weather a rest. It will be full time over there, but it will feel like No rain was in sight for most of the affected area over the Lalwr Day weekend, and authorities saw a long '**Ano«ier"rea^ because he is / haul ahead. Central, eastern Interior, sonlliwett Inteitor: S^ur- tired of trying to find competent help. “ They will be fighting some of them until the snow day. sunny, high around W, light south wind. Saturday But even with the frustrations, he’ll be sorry to leave flies,” said George Leonard, associate chief of the U.S. night, mostly clear, patchy fog developing, low Mto80. the store behind. Forest Service, said In Boise. Sunday, partly sunny but with increasing cloudiness, “ It’s an emotional thing as well, he said, but I “ This Is one of the worst fire situations that we have warm and becoming more humid, high aroum so-. can’t work that many hours any more.’’ _ had in more than 30 years in these states,” Forest Labor day outlook, chance showers Monday, high 76 to Johnson has already given n ( ^ Service Chief Dale Robertson told a news conference in 80 Marlow, who owns Marlow s Department Store, 867 Washington. West coastal, east coastal: Saturday, sunny, high 75 AP photo Robertson had said that troops from Fort Lewis, to 80 at the shore 80 to 8S Inland, light south wind with **Mariow said he has not found anyone to rent the Wash., might be used to fight fires, but Arnold aftemmn sea breeies at the shore. Saturday night, store, which borders his own. ,, Calif., where homes were threatened Hartigan, another spokesman at the Boise center, said mostly clear, patchy fog developing, low 60 to 65. “ I haven’t had a chance to do anything yet, .he said. Firefighters Randy Knight, foreground, later that the troops would come from Fort Ord. Sunday, increasing cloudiness, warm and becoming of La Grande, Ore., and Santiago and scores of people evacuated on ’Hie fires destroyed millions of board feet of prime more humid, high 75 to 80. Labor day outlook, chance ^Though Marlow will be losing a client, he said he Deiacruz of Nampa, Idaho, run from a Thursday. The 20,000-acre blaze raged timber and closed campgrounds for the Labor Day showers Monday, high 75 to 80. wished the store would remain open. wind-whipped forest fire in Milford, within a few feet of the homes. weekend. “ It is a sad thing to see." Marlow said. A lot of “ Currently, the number of fire starts are slowing people w ill be sorry to see him go.” down, thank goodness,” said John Carter at the ^ d when Johnson finally closes the doors on California fire information center In Sacramento. Lottery Winners Quinn’s, he will be closing a chapter of Manchester He said the lightning strikes have almost stopped, and those reported overnight did not hit timber areas. ’The^store was opened in 1902 by James Quinn, who Western fires at a glance “ We are optimistic, but because of current strong Connecticut dolly Friday: «1S. Play Four: 7188. ran the store unUl his death. His son. Walter, tw k over winds, existing fires are being fanned and getting Connecticut “ Lotto” Friday: 4, 81, 88, 88, 89. t, the store upon his father’s death, but sold the business CALIFORNIA — More than 1,300 timber and month-old, 13,000-acre fire-in a wilderness area east bigger,” he said. to Johnson in 1964, Johnson said. brush fires involved 375,000 acres by Friday of Cascade, which has been allowed to bum. “ Hopefully, if the winds die down, we can hook ' Workers at the Main Street Arthur s direrted morning, and Uie combined firefighting force had (surround) these fires,” he said. QUINN'S ACLE JOHNSON ARIZONA — A fire in the Tonto National Forest 50 questions to the Hartford office. Offldals in Hartford grown to nearly 13,000 people. A fire in the Plumas National Forest, threatening the . to Close store miles northwest of Phoenix had spread to 4,000 could not be reached for comment Friday. Large fires included 100,000 acres in ’Tuolumne towns of Milford and Doyle, raced seven miles in two Index acres, but rains overnight helped contain the fire. A County nearYosemite National Park, 22,000 acres hours, fire officials said. Nearly 1,000 people from both 1,300-acre fire near Needles, Calif., was contained. in Lassen National Park, and a complex of 17 fires communities have been evacuated. Advice — _ . 20 Local covering 30,000 acres in Mendocino and Lake Statewide fire coordinators said their second Automotive. .40-41 Obituaries. Highway death toll may reach 520 MONTANA — A half-dozen fires that had burned priority, after battling fires in populous ’Tuolumne counties. 725 acres in central Montana were been brought Business__ . 12-13- Opinion. About 15,000 people had been evacuated from County, are blazes in Klamath National Forest, where Churches. _ . 16-17 Senior Citizens. under control Thursday night. Some small fires of During last year’s Labor Day more vulnerable to accidents.” homes, most of tiiem in ’Tuolomne County.