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PLAIN HEM SHEET. MASTERS TOWEL MADE-TO-MEASURES JC Penney any (newspaper) boxes in his paintings," Mary V. Flynn, a member of the town's governing Board of Selectmen, said Monday. She was referring to the famed American artist whose museum is a main attraction in Stockbridge, where he once lived. Stockbridge, along with the towns of Lenox, Lee and West Stockbridge, have protested the Times placement of vending machines in downtown areas. 1 Town officials argue the boxes detract from the historical flavor of their communities, while the Times maintains it has the con­ stitutional right to sell papers in that manner, a right which has been backed up in court. The situation has sparked several incidents of civil unrest. In Stockbridge, for instance, the papers inside a Times vending machine were set aflame. And in Lenox, a newspaper box was tar­ red and feathered in protest. ALL PILLOWS • ALL BLANKETS ALL TOWELS • ALL PRISCILLA CURTAINS SAVE ON DRAPERIES, Wildfires rage on in the West By United Press International Flames forced 2,800 people from their central California homes in the worst of the wildfires that have blackened more than 1,400 square miles of brush and timberland in nine Western states and British Columbia. The most dangerous fire was raging near Los Gatos near San Jose, where 2,800 people were forced to flee and three homes were destroyed by a 1,400-acre fire that started Sunday in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Firefighters had the blaze half- controlled Monday before wind kicked the flames over the firelines and sent them toward the $400,000 mansions and one-room shacks that alternately dot the ca­ nyons and cliffs. "It would be hard to imagine worse conditions than these for fighting a fire," said Capt. Dave Wachtel of the California Depart­ ment of Forestry about the steep, hot and rugged canyons. Among those forced to flee were nearly 200 nudists at a naturalist club. Total acreage burned in nine Western states and British Colum­ bia since the weekend pushed toward the one-million-acre mark, and officials say resources are stretched to their limits, even with 14,000 firefighters on the lines. "The manpower pool has been pretty well drained," Forest Ser­ vice spokesman Terry Virgin said Monday from eastern Oregon, where flames sparked by more than 2,000 recorded lightning strikes Sunday and Monday raced over 150,000 acres. "We need more people and we can't find them." Estimates of the total fire damage ranged up to nearly $40 million and thousands of people have been forced from their homes. Hundreds of the weary firefighters, breathing smoke and struggling in 100-degree heat, have suffered various injuries, mostly minor. Firefighters apparently won the battle for San Luis Obispo, Calif., Monday as they beat back a 30- foot wall of flames that had work­ ed its way down a hillside into a densely populated residential area where 2,000 people were forc­ ed to flee. Residents were allowed back into their homes by nightfall. California Polytechnic Univer­ sity shut down for the day and the county airport was also closed. A 17-mile stretch of U.S. 101, the scenic coastal route, was closed through the night. "It's the worst fire we've had in the history of the city and coun­ ty," said police spokesman Steven Seybold. At Ojai in Ventura County, firefighters had a line halfway around an 85,000-acre arson fire burning since July 1. Twelve homes or cabins were destroyed, but more than 3,000 people evacuated over the weekend were allowed back home Monday. Gov. George Deukmejian declared a state of emergency in San Luis Obispo County, where a total of 55,000 acres and 10 homes were destroyed. 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Brickyard, Ford City, Fox Valley Center, Gary Village, Golf Mill Lakehurst, Lincoln Mall, Louis Joliet Mall, Marquette Mall, Northbrook Court, North Riverside Park, Orland Square, Southlake Mall," Spring Hill Mall, Woodfield, Yorktown Page 20 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Wednesday, July 10,19S5 Nation Burg won't budge on box fight By United Press International STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. - While the nearby town of Lenox has settled its score with The New Y o r k T i m e s , p e o p l e i n Stockbridge are not budging in t h e i r f i g h t a g a i n s t t h e newspaper's blue-and-white ven­ ding machines. "Norman Rockwell never put Father's dare takes two lives By United Press International . NORTH MIAMI, Fla. - A father, who dared his son to carry out repeated suicide threats and watched in horror as the son killed himself, bought an identical gun and took his own life, police said. Abe Lifsey, 70, was removed from life-support systems and died at North Miami General Hospital Monday, four days after shooting himself in the head with a 38-caliber revolver. On Jan. 4, Lifsey handed a .38- caliber, snub-nosed revolver to his son, Barry, 40, and dared him to carry out his repeated suicide threats. As his father, mother and daughter watched, Barry Lifsey fired a bullet into the right side of his head and fell against a grand­ father clock in the family's North Miami living room. Family members told police Barry Lifsey never got over a divorce 11 years earlier and was troubled by the failure of his business, a pool hall his father gave him. "He just didn't want help," said Barry Lifsey's daughter, Jen­ nifer, 19. "Wetried." ^ Irene Lifsey said her son ,had been drinking steadily for four days when he and her husband quarreled at their home. When the father threatened to f throw the son out, Barry Lifsey headed for the front door and said, "I'm going to commit suicide," according to police reports. "You don't have to go out if you want to kill yourself," the father ^aid. "Here's a gun." "I didn't think he was going to shoot himself," the elder Lifsey told police. "If I thought he would, I wouldn't have given him the gun." Police said Jhey considered charging Lifsey with aiding a suicide but decided there was no criminal intent on the father's part. Police said Lifsey asked them to return his gun, but they told him he would have to get a court order. In late June, Lifsey bought another gun just like it. On July 4th, Irene Lifsey found her husband lying on a lawn chair in the back yard, his new gun in his right hand*