Show s: 4A S:a:!a’d-Exa-- Tuesday ei Febr'-a'- 15 1SS3 y National arrests No OMAK Wash (AP) — Police say they have interviewed about a dozen people but have made no arrests in connection with fires that base charred schools and churches and forced children in this town into makeshift classrooms Six fires have been set in the past three months starting in early December when one of the town’s two elementary schools was torched twice within eight days authorities said Two churches which opened their doors as temporary classrooms for North Omak Elementary School students and a church parsonage have been set afire during the last two weeks The latest blaze destroyed Omak First Presbyterian Church early Monday Last week the Free Methodist Church sustained about S200000 in damage and another fire set there Saturday caused $33000 in damage said Omak Assistant Police Chief Mike Cramer Another blaze hit the Methodist parsonage school church torchings in 3 ft v Jiqy 1 is ft Cramer said there was no Police Chief Peter Sirois said a iewed inters doubt about that an arsonist w as behind had police dozen people and among them the fires in December and Januwere two of three “persons of in- ary that destroyed the elementary school Arson also was the cause terest" Investigators also were seeking of the blazes at the Methodist to talk to four or five more Sirois church he said someone said He said two of them no lon“They’re a kook Vic said is who unbalanced" area in live but the frequently ger return for visits rower supcnnicnueni of Quak's He said investigators have school district “limited physical evidence" and He said school officials have the next step is “just a lot of hard checked their records for any forwork" including stepped-u- p sur- mer employee or student who veillance might hae a grudge but have Pastor Elbert G Harlow who turned up nothing lives across the street from the n Cramer said the city’s Presbyterian church said a rovevis force making police guard woke ing custodian-securit- y arsonist effort the catch to ery him to him early Monday to alert is beginning to take a work whose the fire toll on the town’s “It’s got everybody on the psychological residents and its 1800 stu4000 neredge" he said “They’re dents including 450 from North vous waiting to see what’s goOmak Elementary ing to happen next" “When the first fire hit the Added Mary Koch managing editor of the weekly Omak school it devastated the kids It Chronicle: “It’s affected everyone was tough for them to move in town People are very very Now they’re going to have to again" he said grim" eight-perso- ' Asoetj Press Omak fire officials examine debris after church was destroyed by fire early Monday Fire police and sheriffs invesnext door on Sunday Cramer said tigators met behind closed doors Omak Fire Chief Cal Bowling Monday to chart investigative and security plans A $7500 arsaid the latest church fire appar- son information reward fund was set up under the Washington Insurance Council ently was set by an intruder who broke into a basement window flanked by evergreen trees Soviet verification called lacking WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has told the Soviet f ment on strategic arms in time for President Reagan’s meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev in late spring or early ation for the Advancement of Science in Boston The text of the Union that verification proce- speech was released in Washingdures worked out for medium-rang- e ton missiles will not suffice for The Soviets he said can expethe strategic arms talks that begin dite progress on strategic arms reagain this week senior arms con- ductions by abandoning their trol adviser Edward L Rowny effort to link the reductions to said Monday America's pursuit of Star Wars “We are calling for tough technology' sures which will assure that we Rowny accused the Soviets of can verify Soviet compliance" delaying tactics which he said are Rowny told the American Associ jeopardizing reaching an agree IKHX QUDdOQcs I HOMEt FURNISHINGS! 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