The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 6

B-2 Tacoma Wed Aug 28 1985 The News Tribune Local Crows gird to attack Olympic forest fire: HOODSPORT Nearly 400 firefighters and three waterdumping helicopters were ready today to attack a 025-acre fire raging through the Olympic National Park upstream from Tacoma City Lights Lake Cushman The fire that turned the sunset red Monday remained out of control Tuesday tinned cutting fire I The fire started in a thick old-growth forest of cedar fir and hemlock between the 1000- and 5500-foot level and has reached the top of Mount Lincoln and could start down the other side said put officials The UK Forest Service anticipating heavy Labor Day crowds at Mildred Lakes closed its Skokom-ish wilderness area Just east of the burn Workers had succeeded in cutting trails around only about 25 percent of the 935-acre fire as it burned on nearly vertical slopes Firefighters used pack horses to carry in equipment to the firs near Beaver Flats Forty firefighters worked over-7 night to stop the Mare which was started by an Illegal campfire Nearly 400 firefighters were on the lines today 1 There were three minor injuries' reported among firefighters a very difficult fire to fight in very steep said Randy Jones asBstant supertax tendent of the park "Some of thdH slopes are up to 70 degrees and aUhandwoik" 6 Link between Pierce Grant county murders discounted developments in the local case involving the shooting death of Stephan A Harkins 27 of 4048 Spokane SL and the disappearance of Ruth Cooper 42 who resided at the same address Harkins and Cooper were last seen leaving their home on the evening of Aug 10 for a weekend camping trip body was fbund four days later in a sleeping bag next to his car at a campsite nesr Tule Lake in south Pierce Pierce County sheriffs detectives are discounting the pomibili-ty that the killing of an East Side man and the disappearance of his girlfriend esrlier this month may be related to a similar murder case in Grant County talked to Grant County but so far there is nothing to connect the two cases" said sheriffs Capt Mark French Meanwhile there have been no County Cooper has not been seen since and detectives fear that she also wss murdered 7 In the Grant County case theli body of Edward Smith 25 ot Kent-was discovered in a gravel-pit several miles from a scenic' lookout near Vantage where the couple1! car was found Hii Hath- cee remained missing until twq-weeks ago when her skeleton two miles from the gravel pit in a field Staff photo by RUSS CARMACK Dick Flanagan left chatted with Adame at the county Democratic headquarters Brock Adams gingerly tests senatorial waters Former congressman confers with Democrats here LtkwMilBa thought positively of By PETER CALLAGHAN The News Tribune Reg 23999 JCPsnneyPBntax KT000 kit includes PBritax 35mm SLR camera with 50mm 020 lens JCPBnney 135mm 028 telephoto lens flash gadget bag more PENTAX Sale 19999 se I- rfO Now 9999 I im Introducing the PBntax Sport 35mm motor camera Autofocus load wind and 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Committee in Washington DC to consider the race after that group polled Washington voters to see if Gorton could be had next year Adams agreed on an Informal tour of the state He mid the poll was encouraging although the specific results are being kept confidential "The thing 1 wanted to know was this: If you've got someone Invincible then do Adams said you have an approval rating in the range that Gorton has at this point in his term he is quite vulnerable And a great many people know anything about him They know his name but they really have a sharp image of him at Adams said While Adams expected only about 25 percent to recognise his name the poll showed that closer to 40 percent remembered him Of those who recognized the name about 75 But the race is expected to cost between 82 million and 83 million And while Gorton a former state attorney general has run statewide four times only statewide effort was his campaign for the Senate in 1976 which was aborted after Jackson dropped out of the presidential primaries The last time Adams faced voters was later that veer when he was reflected to hiq 7th Congressional District seat and Ms name has been out of circulation since he left Carter's cabinet in early 1979 He has beenpractle-ing law in Seattle and Washington DC and lobbying The other potential Democratic candidate is Mike Lowry who now fills old 7th Congressional District seat Lowry said last week he make a decision about the race until next year and will run only if he thinks Adams is not discussing what Lowry considers the most important issues of the day nuclear arms control and American foreign policy While Adams admits it would make his life easier if Lowry declared his Intention to stay out he said not overly concerned about Lowry think Mike feels he has kind of an investment in the Senate Adams said run before and did very well He has struck a chord in the state and like to repay it by running "But at the same time like me to go out and see if I can it together and a very position" Adams said Every time Lowry makes a speech in which he blasts Gorton which he did last week before the Capital City Press Club it only serves to help Adams hope Mike does it some more" Adams said Former US Rep Brock Adams brought his fledgling campaign for the UK Senate to Tacoma Tuesday all part of his low-profile attempt to build support within the Democratic Party for challenging incumbent Republican Sen Slade Gorton And while Adams said Tuesday he will wait until fall to make a final decision he has seen nothing so far to discourage him from running in 1988 Many Democrats believe the best chance they have of reclaiming one of the two Senate seats the party held so long with Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson Privately some Republican officials sgree can tell them I think the race is difficult but Adams said during an interview Tuesday going to sit down with a lot of the people been talking to me and make some real hard Adams was appointed UK attorney 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potentially explosive levels of methane Bishop said The Department of Ecology is preparing to install 80 more monitoring wells in those areas where methane was recently discovered to have spread Data from the toting of structures will help Identify regions where pockets of gas exist and where the new wells therefore should be dug he said A methane gas problem has not been confined only to the Midway landfill In late 1982 explosive quantities of methane were detected escaping from the Starvation Valley landfill in Pierce County The abandoned 26-acre dump site located near the intersection of 160th Street East and 70th Avenue East was used by youngsters living in the immediate area as a playground Youngsters were then advised to stay away from the property by the department of environmental health because any small spark could have set off a explosion Neighboring residents had also been warned of the possibility the underground gas could spread off the site Meanwhile at the Midway 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almost continuous entertainment during the event JCPenney Alderwood MallBellevue Square Bremerton "Capital MallNorthgateSouthcenter1kcoma Mall 1 Last year it attracted some 20000 people Spectators will be able to view the historic tug Arthur Foa and an Army National Guard tug and watch a demonstration of one of FOss Launch A Tug Tacoma-built tractor tugs.