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PLAY BALL, KIDS! Our annual tournament will end an era for Bud Born SPORTS, Cl Monday Tonight Partly cloudy, 70 Tomorrow Thunderstorms, 92 WEATHER, B4 WORLD The Bush administration plans no increase its military role in Afghanistan after the assassination of an Afghan vice president A3 BUSINESS MONDAY Savvy college grads are cutting their student-loan repayment, usmg loan consolidation programs to take advantage of falling interest rates TAB Chris EmletNEW Era Photos by Richard HertzlerNEw Era This map locates path of smoky air that silhouettes these people this morning near McCaskey High School. How may smallpox vaccine work in county? By SUSAN BALDRIGE NewEraStaffWnter officials want 500,000 emergency and health care workers those who would deal first with a terrorist-launched smallpox outbreak to get inoculations against the dreaded disease by this fall But the federal regulators have not yet given state and local health officials specific guidelines on how to carry out the vaccmation program, and its unlikely any program will start here until they do What state and local officials do know is that The Pennsylvania Department of Health most likely would head the vaccmation effort, giving the inoculations at its established clinic Seven categories of health care and emergency workers would be first to get vaccinations. A regional terrorism task force would coordinate the response to any suspected smallpox case Beyond those basic, however, information on a smallpox vaccination program is scarce At the federal level they have not told us the whos, the whats and the wheres yet, said Richard McGarvey, spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Health Smoky skies clearin LOCAL A medical missionary from Lancaster County has received a major grant to expand his pioneering work to fight a rare cancer that strikes children in Tanzania B1 warned children, the elderly and people with respiratory conditions 20 counties including Lancaster to stay indoors through this afternoon What this means is that any strenuous activity you had planned, like working the yard, is better left undone until this soup is out of the air, Dennis Buterbaugh, a spokesman for Department of Environmental Protection, said today Eric Horst, a Millersville University meteorologist, said the wmds are expected to shift, and instead of coming from the north where the wildfires are burning they will now come from the west or southwest and force the haze a way The worst has passed, Horst said Things are gomg to improve dramatically today At least 85 fires 10 of them out of control-burned on Sunday, the Quebec forest fire protection service said They have destroyed more than 250,000 acres of forest The fires were sparked by lightning and dry conditions on July 2, and have been burning in two separate regions southeast of James Bay between 200 and 400 miles north of the border Dr Richard Clark, a meteorology professor at Millersville University who is Please see SMOKE page A7 As winds shift today, the thick haze thatchoked much of the northeast finally began to disappear here. How did these incredible layers of smoke from Canadian wildfires reach us? How unhealthy was it? ByTOMMURSE and JANET KELLEY New Era Staff Writers Shifting winds today were expected to carry away a 2'2-mile-thick layer of smoke that settled over Lancaster County and the northeastern United States during the holiday weekend The foul, milky haze, caused by more than 80 separate wildfires burning in a region of Quebec between 550 and 950 miles north of Lancaster County, caused mmor breathing problems here and grounded recreational fliers at one local airport The smoke was carried south from Canada across at least 10 states and Washington, on Saturday and Sunday Environmental officials in Pennsylvania on Sunday ENTERTAINMENT Will Smith and Men in Black II invade box offices for an eye-popping total of $90 million over the five-day holiday weekend BACK PACE Todays hazy sunrise highlights hunter atop citys Carter MacRae school. Please see VACCINE page A6 Dont fret, economic outlook is still bright By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON On Wall Street, investors are suffering through another round of corporate accounting scandals and stock market blues On Mam Street, things may be looking up Private economists are predicting solid growth for the second half of this year after a roller-coaster openmg six months.

The optimism is based on a belief that consumers, bolstered by low mortgage rates and interest-free auto financing, will keep spending, especially if forecasts of a declining jobless rate come true. It is a view at odds ith all the recent gloom in financial markets Another turbulent week saw the Dow Jones industrial aer- Please see OUTLOOK page A7 Arsonist destroys 130-year-old covered bridge member Pickell, 54, and his wife Virginia have lived the stone house on the Rissers Mill property smce 1977. William Penn deeded the land to Mrs. Pickell's family three centuries ago. That's what makes it so very painful, said Donald Pickell, who reported the fire shortly after 1 am.

Pickell said he went to bed at 11 pm andawoke two hours latertoa crackling sound My bedroom was aglow, he said It was fully involved I couldnt even tell you that the fire was in the center, right or left It was gone except for the superstructure. Piease see BRIDGE page A ship, to ashes. Only the frame of the one-lane 1872 bndge still spans the Little Chickies Creek today Someone thoughtlessly destroy ed a fantastic piece of history that truly cannot be replaced" an emotional, angry' Donald Pickell of 1451 Risser Mill Road said this morning It feels like we lost a family By RYAN ROBINSON and JOHN M. HOOBER III New Era Staff Writers A part of Lancaster Countys history went up flames early this morning A neighbor and police suspect an arsonist burned the Rissers Mill covered badge, along Mount Pleasant Road in Mount Joy Town Copynghl 2(Mt2 Limcaxter rpapem Inc A ll Rwht Referred 0.