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Arson continues in Boston
United Press International
BOSTON — The 18th rash of
suspicious fires to hit the city this
summer erupted in Boston early
Tuesday with five blazes —
three coming within minutes of
one another in less than a mile
A floor of a building col
lapsed at one fire, raining debris
on 16 firefighters and trapping
two for several harrowing mi
nutes in a “very close” call. One
was stuck so tight in the rubble
he had to be stripped out of his
fire gear before he could be pul
led out.
None of the firefighters was
seriously injured and only two
required hospital treatment in
the five blazes — four of them
suspicious — which caused more
than $120,000 in damages.
“It’s been a busy night,” fire
department spokesman Ken
Bruynell said. “We’re fortunate
that there weren’t any bad in
juries and that no one has been
killed.”
Altogether, the city was hit by
five major fires overnight —
three of them, in the Roxbury
and Jamaica Plain areas coming
within 17 minutes of one
another and within a onemile
area.
One of the suspicious fires be
gan in a pile of rubbish heaped
alongside an unused school-
house and another jumped
from a garbage barrel to an
occupied dwelling. The cause of
the other blaze was undeter
mined.
So far, the summer’s record
wave of suspicious fires, includ
ing six groups of fires during the
the past 11 Fridays, has caused
more than $4.7 million in dam
ages in mostly vacant buildings
and raised fears that firebugs
were orl the loose, intent on run
ning the fire department
ragged.
Fire Commissioner George
H. Paul, calling the wave “the
most serious problem we’ve
faced in the 36 years I’ve been
with the department,” has laun
ched a massive investigation
with the help of agents from the
federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tob-
baco and Firearms.
“If the situation develops
further we would have a real
catastrophe on our hands,” he
said after a rash of fires last
week. No serious injuries have
been reported in any of the
blazes.
Reagan may veto spending bill
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The White
House is sending strong signals
that President Reagan will veto a
$14.2 billion suplemental
spending bill even at the risk of
creating a new confrontation
with Congress.
Deputy White House press
secretary Larry Speakes told re
porters traveling with the presi
dent in California that Reagan
will receive recommendations
from his advisers in the next few
days and added, “I would judge
there would be recommenda
tions for a veto.”
The bill, passed by the House
and Senate last week, would pro
vide less total money than
Reagan requested for a variety
of federal agencies, but more for
domestic programs than he has
indicated he will accept.
The bill is needed to finance
several federal agencies through
the end of the fiscal year, Sept.
30. The $14.2 billion measure
contains Reagan’s controversial
$355 million Caribbean basin in
itiative, which includes $75 mil
lion for El Salvador.
Reagan objects to other parts
of the bill, however, including
$211 million for older Amer
icans that was included in an ear
lier supplemental appropria
tions bill that Reagan vetoed
twice, $217 million for student
financial assistance and $148
million for the disadvantaged.
good on his commitment to eli
minate excess government
spending.
Assistant Senate Republican
leader Ted Stevens warned the
White House last week that the
supplemental bill would be the
wrong issue for Reagan to use to
take on Congress and make
Stevens warned the president
could lose the confrontation
over a veto and find his action
overidden not only by the
Bemocratic-controlled House
but by the Republican-
dominated Senate as well.
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‘God’ defense to
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. —
A religious fundamentalist
whose 5-week-old daughter
died of pneumonia says God is
his doctor, but a judge ruled
he cannot use religion as a de
fense against charges he re
fused to seek medical help for
the infant.
Larimer County District
Judge William Dressel de
clared unconstitutional Mon
day a 10-year-old state law
that it is not criminal conduct
for a parent to rely solely on
spiritual means to try to cure a
child of an illness.
Jon Lybarger, 40, of Estes
Park, Colo., leader of the fun
damentalist sect JJJ Ministry,
felt
Defense attorney
Wymore immed®!
appealed Dressel's
the Colorado Supreme Coirl
but the court said it wouldn
halt the trial to rule on ll
merits of the appeal. Hi
court, however, did notrtjttl
the possibility of an appt
when the trial concludes,
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infant.
is charged with felony child
abuse and was to go on trial
Tuesday.
Lybarger’s daughter, Jessi
ca Ann, died of pneumonia
last March 15 in a home across
the street from an Estes Park
hospital. Prosecutors say
Lybarger refused to take his
daughter to the hospital even
though she was too weak to be
breast-fed.
“The child was loved iii|
cared for and there was noi
dication of any abusive It
havior,” Wymore said. 1 ’
Dressel’s ruling eliminatedi
from asserting faith in ill
Lord as a defense.”
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Lybarger had no idea l(
daughter was in such semi
condition.
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LEONIDAS, Mich. — Ed
ward J. Wagner, 87, admits he’s
“getting up there in years” and
that’s one reason he’s glad he
finally got his Purple Heart —
even if it was 64 years late.
Wagner was gassed on Aug.
9, 1918, while serving with the
American expeditionary forces
in France during World War I.
His Army discharge papers
show he was gassed, but he says
his company kept poor records.
Harold Freeland, St. Joseph
County veterans’ counselor in
stigated a search that produced
his belated Purple Heart.
“We learned in 1980 it would
be awarded, but I heard nothing
more until it arrived in the
mail,” he said.
Wagner put the Purple Heart
in a frame next to the Silver Star
he received for his gallantry in
action.
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WAPAKONETA, Ohio — A
truck loaded with 5,000 gallons
of tequila has crashed into a
bridge guardrail, spilling about
half of its load into the Auglaize
River and worrying officials ab
out the possibility of an explo
sion and fish kill.
Firefighters, worried that the
110-proof tequila remaining in
the truck might explode, closed
the busy roadway for seven
hours while they pumped the li
quid into another truck and
cleared away the wreckage.
State Environmental Protec
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concerned about a possible fish
kill in the northwestern Ohio
river resulting from thes^
tequila.
The driver of the tn*
Ronald W. Hurley, 31, ofS
Antonio, was injured in theai
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