Fires continue to burn
throughout California
SANTA YNEZ, Calif. (AP) — A
wildfire that charred 20,000 acres of
the Los Padres National Forest showed
no signs of slowing down Wednesday
as firefighters regrouped and resi
dents prepared for possible evacua
tion.
The blaze, aided bv daytime tem
peratures reaching 100 degrees and
low humidity, has fed for four days on
brush and timberland in the rugged
terrain in Santa Barbara County about
100 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Officials warned residents that they
could be forced to abandon dozens of
homes, cabins and ranches in Happy
Canyon, Foxen Canyon, Figueroa
Mountain and other areas north of
Highway 154, said U.S. Forest Ser
vice spokesman Larry Hornberger.
‘‘We’ve removed our valuables and
taken care of our animals to get them
to safety and we’re really prepared to
leave the house,” said Pamela Kaplan
Brown, who lives in the Woodstock
area near the western edge of the fire.
“It’s pretty grim; eveiybody’s on
their toes,” said resident Doc
Severinsen, former bandleader of
NBC’s “Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson.
Celebrities such as Michael Jack
son and John and Bo Derek own ex
clusive ranches in the Santa Ynez
Valley, about eight miles from the
fire.
Firefighting forces increased from
1,500 to about2,400, Homberger said.
There was no containment estimate
forthe fire, which began Saturday and
apparently was caused by a deer hunt
er’s cigarette.
Firefighters were backed by air
tankers, water-dropping helicopters
and dozens of engine companies. The
cost of battling the blaze has reached
$1.2 million.
In Riverside, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, firefighters
worked to control a handful of smaller
blazes. No structures were damaged,
and all were expected to be controlled
by Thursday.
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The largest was a 700
acre fire near the San Diego County
town of Poway.
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Lou Holtz looking to get even with Stanford, player says
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) —
Lou Holtz says he doesn’t need to
beat Bill Walsh to feel good about
himself as a coach. Still, at least
one Notre Dame player believes
Holtz badly wants to get even with
Walsh.
Stanford ruined Notre Dame’s
national championship hopes last
year for the second time in three
seasons with a stunning win in South
Bend. Holtz was careful to avoid
talk of revenge, but defensive end
Brian Hamilton said the Fighting
Irish and their coach are eager to
atone for last year’s loss.
“I would say that it’s in the back
of his mind,” said Hamilton, one of
seven seniors who will start on
defense Saturday for No. 4 Notre
Dame. “A lot of people are talking
about (Walsh) is a genius at what he
does. Coach Holtz gets his respect
also,but I'm pretty sure this is a big
game for him because the one last
year that got away from us.”
Holtz won a national champion
ship at Notre Dame in 1988, and
said he is comfortable with his own
reputation.
“I have tremendous respect for
Bill Walsh, but I’m also a very
insecure person in alot of respects,”
said Holtz, in his eighth year at
Notre Dame. “But I’m rather se
cure as a football coach.”
Walsh returned to Stanford last
season and led the Cardinal to their
second straight win at Notre Dame
Stadium. Walsh called it the big
gest victory of his entire coaching
career.
“No one ever outcoached our
team,” Hamilton said in defense of
Holtz. “We lost concentration last
year, and that’s not coach Holtz’s
fault, that’s our fault.”
Holtz said he hopes his team is
not awed by Walsh’s record when
the Irish (4-0) travel to play Stanford
(2-2).
“1 don’t want our players sitting
there saying,4 Wow. They got Bill
Walsh and look who we got,’” Holtz
joked.
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North Platte boy saves sister from attack
NORTH PLATTE (AP) — Eight
year-old Jesse Jorgensen said Wednes
day he doesn’t feel like a hero.
The third-grader is credited with
saving his 5-vear-old sister in a dog
attack when the twd visited a city park
on Saturday.
“I just thought I have to get him off
because he might have killed her,”
Jesse said. “If I hadn’t been there she
might have died.”
Jesse said a black Labrador re
triever came up to him and his sister,
Alisha, in the park and he patted the
dog. When his sister began petting it,
the dog attacked her and took her to
the ground, he said. It then grabbed
her by the back of the skull and began
~ shaking her.
Jesse grabbed the dog and tried to
pry its mouth open but it turned on
him. The dog bit him around the left
temple and began to shake him. About
then other people in the park started
throwing rocks at the dog and it ran
away.
fhe dog was caught and quaran
tined at a local veterinary clinic for
rabies testing as required by Nebraska
law.
Alisha spent two hours in surgery
to repair her wounds. Jesse also re
ceived stitches from his dog bite.
“We were lucky,” said police chief
Martin Gutschenritter. “We could
have had a real tragedy if it had not
been for the bravery of an 8-year-old
boy."
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Pentagon expected to
delay Clinton’s policy
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Pen
tagon may delay enforcing President
Clinton’s policy on homosexuals in
uniform while Congress completes an
alternative approach that discourages
gays from serving in the armed forces.
The president’s policy of “don’t
ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” is to go
into effect Friday, and the Pentagon
has drawn up three regulations for
military commanders dealing with
recruitment, separation from the ser
vice and investigations of suspected
homosexuals.
Pentagon sources, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said the
Clinton administration may allow the
interim plan to continue as the De
fense Department deals with court
challenges and pending House and
Senate action on the defense budget.
“We probably will not issue them
Friday,” a senior Pentagon official
said of the directives.
Both the Senate and House have
adopted identical policies on homo
sexuals in the military, with the House
on Tuesday embracing the legislation
that discourages gay enlistment. The
vote was 301-134.
Earlier this month, the Senate, and
then the House, adopted a policy craft
ed by Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., the
Armed Services chairman who fougjit
the president’s initial attempts to lift
the ban outright.
Nunn’s policy makes no mention
of three major tenets of the Clinton
plan — orientation is not a bar to
service, an end to witchhunts to ferret
out gays and evenhanded enforce
ment of the Uniform Code of Military
Justice for homosexuals and hetero
sexuals.
In its place, Nunn’s policy lays out
a series of findings that military ser
vice is unique, operating under rules
not found in civilian society, and ho
mosexuality creates an unacceptable
risk to unit cohesion and order.
The policy continues Clinton’s
change of not questioning recruits or
service members about their sexual
orientation, but allows a future de
fense secretary to reinstate the prac
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