Show Troops Guard Site SHe of Blaze WEISER Ida De Dec Dec- 25 UP UP- UP National guard troops stood watch over the still remains of three offices and a hotel here her Saturday gutted by a half million dollar f fire fir i r e which swept through the building Friday night and early Saturday morn morn- ing Fire fighters from Weiser Payette Pay- Pay Payette Payette ette and Ontario Ore battled the blaze until 3 am a.m. Saturday and finally brought it under control The fire broke out in the furnace room of the J H-J-H farm implement implement implement ment store which occupied space in the eastern half of the Weiser hotel The b blaze I 1 a z e spread quickly through the state liquor store and the Idaho employment service office office office of of- fice and the second floor of the hotel building 1 Sam Emerich owner of the hotel said the fire completely gutted the eastern half of his hiS' building but stopped at the fire firewall firewall firewall wall and saved the tho western half of oC the frame and brick building in which other stores and the rest of ot the hotel are located |