Show - - - A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October 29 2003 i I ' Nation In brief FDA formally declares new steroid THG illegal ' 1 $':n4P-iWinds die down sparing mansions but flames WASHINGTON (AP)— The newly unmasked steroid caus-- 1 jng S furor in Athletics is an illegal drug not a dietary supplement and poses some serious health risks to people who use it the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday US drug authorities first learned about the steroid called THG this summer after an anonymous tip It apparently was designed specifically to be undetectable by the standard test given to athletes champion Dwain Cham- Europe’s fastest man — 100-metbers of Britain — has admitted taking it and dozens of top Olympic and professional athletes have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury probing a California lab that sold alleged nutritional supplements Now armed with a THG test sports organizations are scrambling to retest athletes and decide what penalties to impose for its use Tuesday the FDA finished its own testing of this newest steroid and formally declared THG a (bug that woukjj require its permission to sell in this country — making any use qt this time illegal racing through forests SAN DIEGO (AP) — Firefighters beat back flames on Los Angeles’ doorstep Tlies--t day saving hundreds of homes in the city’s ' San Fernando Valley But exhausted crews -were pulled back in San Diego County event though two devastating blazes threatened to merge into a super fire “They’re so fatigued that despite the fact die fire perimeter might become much larger we’re not willing to let the firefighters continue any further” said Rich Hawkins a US “ ' Forest Service fire chief “They are too fatigued from three days of battle” Ten thousand firefighters were on the front: lines throughout die state battling Califor- - ' i nia’s deadliest wildfires in more than a 11 ‘ er Survey studies adoption agency homosexuals applications from lAbout decade s n Since Oct 21 at least 10 — have — many of them j rampaged through Southern California wind-drive- arson-caus- 60 percent of the nation’s adop- NEW YORK (AP) — tion agencies now accept applications from gays and lesbians church-affiliatthough resistance remains strong among ihany institute a says agencies a new survey by leading adoption Adam Pertman executive director of the Evan B Donaldson 4 Adoption Institute predicted the holdouts would grow fewer in number as more homosexuals try to become parents : “We started out near zero and just within the last decade v : v) we’re up to 60 percent” Pertman said “The reality on the ground is way outpacing the policy debate” V' Hie Donaldson Institute survey did not attempt to estimate : the number of children adopted by gays instead it surveyed 307 adoption agencies — 277 private and 30 public — : regard- - ' 1“ V ring their policiesthe : v160 survey According to percent of the agencies accept gays and lesbians and 40 per-ce- nt applications from of die agencies have placed children with such parents fv demolishing neighborhoods gutting business-- ' es and blackening more than half a £ million acres of land from die '5 Mexican border : ed y rt ft to the Ventura-Los Angeles ' county line' At least IS peopled have died and 1 : " ' - nearly ed "SV wildj-fire- ed 1600 homes have been destroyed Two bum victims were in critical condir Wanted: This sketch prq- tion in San Diego vided Tuesday by tfie San “Thi may be I Bernardino County Sheriff’s die worst disaster Department shows the fike- die state has ever 'ness of a man who is wari- A large ptume of smoke from the Grand Prix Fire rises sa lt bums up the canyon to the mt u waiv ed for questioning of Rim of The World High School south of Highway 1 8 in Lake Arrowhead CaKfi to jng the Old Fife ' ’ Gov-Grtyf'- v Davis said estimating the cost at nearly $2 billion He added:“This is a total disaster IrJ me of when Iwas in fietnamcom '’f'V-5-!:3'muniti- g 11 MOUNT BALDY VILLAGE Calif1 vi Photo from Holdlnoford School District hr £ (AP) — When wildfires began roaring including from left Donna Lange Elaine through Southern California firefight-Schum- er Susan Breth Karen Overman Phyto Broth and AJkers had two options: Go on die offend Wj&i KotoyfmskJ claimed half of the $1909 million PowerbaH jackpot at the sive and attack die flames direedy or I Minnesota State Lottery headqiarters in Roseville Mtnn' on focus on saving homes and lives wind5ww wildfires were so 0 T' ' and that firefighters large Sixteen school Hokfingford" Minn Ca lated San Fexnando Valley including one workerswwJtodefiadmgi plantokeepworkingfornow: ROSEVILLE Minn waited until the students (AP) —They got their lunch then 13 school cooks and one janitor who each a qjurter into a lottery pool came forward Monday night as the holders of a Powerbail ticket worth more than $93 millioii women who call themselves the “Happy HuskersV after? the school’s mascot die Huskers range in age from 35 to “old enough to retire” in Donna Lange’s case Lange said she realized that the ticket which was posted on a : ’r school bulletin board was a winner after checking the numbers - she copied down with a Sunday newspaper She immediately Called Karen Overman who had a key to the school “I called her a liar like three times!” Overman said "Sr'i-'- At a news conference Monday night the smiling women said they still had not decided whether to choose the cash option which would amount to $21 million apiece after taxes Some in the group said they didn’t plan on giving up their ’ '' : : school lunch jobs just yet ' “The kids come first” Overman said of the tiny school dis- : trict outside of SL Cloud in central Minnesota i: r':The 74 ':'y' i - “It becomes like a giant chess game where you’re moving the pieces and trying to determine what’s the greatest threat potential” for homes and lives 4’ : said Glen Newman spokesman for tlte 4 Southern Operations Information Cen- ter in Riverside More than 10000 firefighters from around the West were at woik Tuesday battling 10 major fires that have burned more than a acres “Never in 40 years have I seen this number of acres burned this rapidly and this number of fires at One time” Newman said ? ' In most fires crews have the option of being more aggressive They can clear brush cut firebreaks and set backfires with the goal of starving advanc- ing flames of fuel But firefighters have v had little time to take such measures v:' half-milli- s - ' ’ " But winds subsided enough to let pilots s jj f douse the area with water and fire retardant': Backfires and bulldozers were used to clears away the fuel in the flames’ path Reinforce J ments were sent to help on the ground and 3 temperatures dropped “They saved every one ap photo of them” said Bill Peters a spokesman for die California Forestry Department Justin Henisley of the CDF-Fir- e In San Bonardino County firefighters 4 Mendocino County Strike team rests in a fire engine in Fillmore Calif on Tuesday straggled to defend resort towns high in theV in between assignments' mountains The flames destroyed 20 strac- - tures on Strawberry Peak and several homes ' during this outbreak and the fierce Rimforcst in and threatened an estimated $3) winds rugged terrain and housing billion houses in the Crestline of wrath tracts encroaching onto hillsides con- -' and Arrowhead Bear areas Peters said to Big worsen the straggle spired ' “For 2'h days it’s been a totally Working on narrow mountain roads fire- stretch defensive posture” said Bill Peters of l fighters battled fires along the e About 80000 residents have been the California Department of Forestry “We’re reacting We have to go where evacuated from the mountains since Saturday the homes are threatened We’re hot “Just about everything is burning” said able to cut line” ' William Bagnell fire chief of the Crest Forest The sheer number and size of the Fire Protection District The flames are feed' fires also has stretched manpower and ing on millions of dead trees weakened by machinery drought and killed by a bark beetle 5 fast-movin- g homes':tf-f4- V Angeles ami Ventura counties threatened toW I Some:millionaire 'school bund f push into neighborhoods in the densely popt£ ' -- i witre ' Firefiiters had feared tiiey wouiid lose r- : -j ' 1 20-mi- le full-tim- " 4 : - See SAVE on A12 See FIRE on A12 Hearing Aid Professionals C°SW Worn) (Ps$nmQ " — o QWM&KB III Garr Crookston Au Doctor of AudiotogyOwner 6BT I HUMUS UTAHStnUU Latest hearing aid technology Same location for 18 years Friendly certified audiologists 7 Convenient locations Strong affiliations with local medical community TRIANO® Technology from SIEMENS ©I 2005 $1299°° Dave Robinson MS CCC Audiologist 129 East 1400 North 973 South Main wwwhcaringzonenet UNTIL won’t bn able to tell the difference between the silver screen end MITSUBISHI’S Silver Series 50” HDTV Monitor festering the Diamond Vision® precision optical system Brigham City (435)723-272- 7 I MITSUBISHI You Logan (435)753-717- 1 III We accept Promotion Ends Now 10 2003 Select BIG SCREENS On Sale Save $100 to $500 ' nfrhYfiilTrn |