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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1981
National
Pre-dawn fog could result in daytime spraying
Spraying continues despite protests
United Press International
LOS GATOS, Calif. — State
officials Monday intensified aerial
pesticide attacks against the crop
eating Mediterranean fruit fly and
ordered a new crackdown on San
ta Clara Valley residents who re
fuse to strip infested trees.
A full squadron of eight heli
copters sprayed a huge area from
Atherton to San Jose with a mist of
the pesticide malathion in the
largest attack yet on the pest.
Officials had warned that
spraying will be done in the day
time, instead of before dawn, if
conditions are too foggy. But the
helicopters were able to operate in
the pre-dawn darkness Monday.
Medfly project officials re
sponding to pressure from farmers
concerned about possible state
wide quarantines announced the
intensified second round of
spraying of the populous 227-
square-mile infested area.
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There was no aerial spraying
early Sunday “to give those who
stayed out late Saturday a chance
to return home safely,” said Medf
ly project spokesman Richard
Steffen.
Most of the spraying that began
July 13 and was expected to be
concluded in about five weeks has
been confined to predawn hours.
but “there’s a good chance we will
have daytime spraying if heavy fog
early in the morning makes flying
dangerous,” he said.
Noting that two more maggot
sites have been located in the in
fested area, bringing the total
known sites to 165, Steffen said,
“We’re waging full-scale war.”
Hundreds of eradication project
workers were sent to cover some
770 square miles Monday in a re
newed effort to convince residents
to strip their fruit trees and veget
able gardens. Those who refuse
will be cited and subject to a $500
fine or six months in jail, said
medfly project spokesman Dick
Thompson.
Uncounted tons of produce
have already been stripped and
left in plastic bags along the mani
cured suburban lawns of com
munities south of San Francisco.
states attempted to quai
California farm produce.
California’s farmers, living in
the richest agricultural region in
the world, have said the threat of
invasion by the pest that feeds on
some 200 varieties of fruits and
vegetables doesn’t frighten them
as much as quarantines.
The quarantines—thraj
California’s $14 billion®:;
ral industry — were M|
U. S. d is t rict courts whilesg
Supreme Court wasask«:|
out all of them.
Unsatisfied with a year-long,
$53-million battle against the in
festation in the smaller Santa
Clara Valley — just across a range
of coastal hills from the farm-rich
Central Valley — six southern
The southern states an:.;
nia’s own farmers had raj
state to step up its warsooJ
Gov. Edmund G. Browi
fused to allow aerial spnl
malathion — opposed
vationists and many anj
dents, particularly ■
women — until threatecetj
federal quarantine.
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Officers reply to racial violence
United Press International
WILLACOOCHEE, Ga. —
Federal and state law officers are
arriving in response to the mayor’s
plea for help in investigating racial
violence that has plagued the tiny
rural community since a cross was
burned on the lawn of a white
“race mixer” in April.
Mayor Luce Futch, who wrote
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the FBI for help last May after a
shooting incident, said Sunday he
wanted the government to investi
gate the violence in his town of
1,600 “before it gets any worse.”
So far, no one has been injured.
"We want to stop this before it
gets any worse, ” said Futch. "Our
town is a quiet, little, old town and
we’ve lived in harmony in the past
— ever since it was incorporated
in 1889, I guess — and we want to
see it continue that way."
AgenUjim Mullen says mem
bers of the FBI Savannah office
will join officers from the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation in investi
gating the incidents.
The mayor said it all started last
April 17, when a cross was burned
at the home of Helen McGovern,
a white woman who allowed black
children to play in her yard and
sometimes fed them in her home.
A letter that was mailed to at
least 35 other county raj
Juk l l ) contained acnwi
of a K.u Klux Rlansmenot!
hack with a warning printa
it: "We will ride our raj
blood until their bridles
fore we submit to this rawl
trash."
A shotgun blast last wt
out the rear window i
parked at the homeofa«i
pie in nearby Kirkland. C
couple has a 4-year-oli
child.
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Despite the drawint i
threatening letter and tkj
burning, Futch and Ski
Haskins said there had ft
KKK rallies or marchesi;
son County in recent yer
FBI agent Tom McCi
Atlanta said state investaf
“no information that the
active down there."
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Utah blazes spreai
through rangeland
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OAK CITY, Utah — Firefighters battled six major blazes»b:
across 80,000 acres of Utah rangeland Monday, and residentsai Oiler:
Mormon hamlet who turned back the flames with tractorsar,c lerzeg s
gave thanks for their safety. easou t
As 700 firefighters in Millard County battled the twowir lU S 19.
local officials charged that Forest Service crew's allowed mini:: ut down
to flare into the inferno that raced across 35,000 acres of rane^L vet
halting only a few miles from Oak City, 100 miles southwesti iav * n § 1
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es in Millard County. Butofficiii C inr.
blackened more than 61,000 acres in Millard County. uuiuiuu:j S j 0n w
the 26,000-acre Little Oak Fire should he contained by thist : e p artec ]
“thanks to cooler temperatures and a break in the winds, ^th frie
“However, we have no estimate of when we ll contain thel ! n
acre Clay Springs Fire,” a spokesman for the Interagency FireO “It s t
said. He also said a 7,000-acre fire in Sage Valley, about fnding elsi
further to the west of the major blazes, was still out of contrd sometl
In Northern Utah, crews managed to retain control ofaTJPmothir
fire west of the Great Salt Lake and were cutting a circle ara*!!. StE
11,800-acre blaze on Promontory Point north of the lake. )wn of <
In Summit County, officials held out hope for getting the; jj ( ,
hand over a 950-acre fire on private land. A fire also was ret
Sunday near Cricket Mountain Valley 40 miles west of Fillm® lr jy j as<
its extent was not known. “Befor
On Sunday, Gov. Scott Matheson flew over Millard Cot-jU rea j
inspect the damage and the 425 people of Oak City, who ho ” ,
together with their own tractors and plows to dig a firebrealtr f
the town and hold off the flames, gave thanks during churchlef
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