Recorder, Greenfield, Friday, July 8, 1994 Arthur W. Devlin SPRINGFIELD Arthur W. Devlin, 86, of 310 Stafford father of James Devlin of Deerfield, died Wednesday (7-6-94) in Chapin House Kendall Common. He was born in Northampton, May 15, 1908. He lived most of his life in Florence before moving to Springfield in 1978.
Devlin was a longtime engine dispatcher for the former New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad in its Springfield office, retiring in 1973. He was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church. He was a member of Northampton Council 480 Knights of Columbus and Archbishop Williams Assembly of fourth degree 1 Knights. His wife, the former Mary J. Murphy, died in 1978.
Besides his son, he leaves another son, the Rev. Michael Devlin of Springfield; a brother, Bernard of Northampton; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Services will be Saturday at 9:15 a.m. from John F. O'Connell Funeral Home, 94 King- followed by the Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 in Our Lady of Annunciation Church in Florence.
Burial will be July 20 in St. Mary's Cemetery in Northampton. Calling hours at the funeral home are today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. It is suggested memorial contributions be made to the Priests Retirement Fund, in care of the Chancery Office, 76 Elliot P.O. Box 1730, Springfield 01101-1730.
Harold F. Foster ORANGE Harold F. Foster, 93, of 14 Adams St. died Thursday (7-7-94) in Athol Memorial Hospital. Born in Keene, N.H., May 16, 1901, a of Francis, and Ellen (Magee) Foster, in Orange sons most of his life.
A foreman at the former Minute Tapioca Division of General Foods for 47 years, he retired in 1965. He was a member of St. Mary's Church. A avid baseball fan, he was a coach and umpire of the former Orange Athletic Club Baseball Team for several years. He leaves his wife of 64 years, Elsie D.
(Hinson) Foster and several cousins. Funeral services will be held Monday from Witty's Funeral Home with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Mary's Church. Burial will follow in South Cemetery.
There will be a calling hour from 8:45 to 9:45 Monday in the funeral home. Elizabeth M. Russell beth M. (Mortemore) Russell, 61, of 7 North Hillside Road died Wednesday (7-6-94) at home. She was born in Boston, Dec.
30, 1932. She educated in Fairfield (Conn.) schools. She graduated from Roger Ludlow High School and Laboratory Institute of Merchandising in New York City. She was married to Charles Russell, June 13, 1953, in Greenfield Hills, Fairfield, Conn. They lived in Canada, New York State, Amherst and Ontario.
After her husband's retirement, they moved to South Deerfield in 1992. While in Canada, she was active in hospice. She attended St. James Episcopal Church in Greenfield. She pursued her interest in equestrian activities, especially dressage.
She was secretary and treasurer of the Ontario Dressage Association. Besides her husband of 41 years, she leaves her mother, Marion M. Mortemore of St. Petersburg, a son, Harrison G. of Burlington, two daughters, Wendy Michaels of Portland, and Diana Conchieri, of Amesbury; seven grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held Monday at 11 a.m. in St. James Episcopal Church. There are no calling hours. It is suggested memorial contributions to Hospice of Franklin County, 164 High Greenfield 01301, or the Arthritis Foundation, Mass.
Chapter, 380 Suite 112, West Springfield 01089. Wrisley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. SOUTH DEERFIELD Eliza- Ellen M. Siddons ORANGE Ellen M. (Lindquist) Siddons, 105, of 294 East River St.
died Thursday (7-7-94) at home, where she lived for the past 60 years. She was born in Orange, Sept. 30, 1888, the daughter of John M. and Anna S. (Nelson) Lindquist.
She was a lifelong resident of the town. For many years she assisted her husband, Herbert L. Siddons in the operation of a dairy farm and was bookkeeper for their business, the former Siddon's Trucking Co. He died in 1964. She was a former member of Adah Rebekah Lodge a and the Millers River Grange.
She was believed to be the oldest resident in Franklin County. Survivors include a son, Herbert L. Siddons and a daughter, Marceilien A. Blake, both of Orfour grandchildren and seven anger, graveside service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in South Cemetery.
The Rev. Vance E. Frank will officiate. There will be a calling time on Saturday from 9 to 9:45 a.m. at Witty's Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to Community Health Service, 123 Main Athol, 01331, or Orange Ambulance Fund, Water Street, Orange 01364. From Page 1 Floyd G. Rose WENDELL Floyd G. Rose, 62, of 59 West died Thursday (7-7-94). Arrangements under the direction of Walker Funeral Home were incomplete at press time.
Wildfire From Page 1 a haggard Bryan Scholz, a fire crew boss from Prineville, Ore. "'We kept going up the ridge, and it kept going up the ridge." Nine of the dead, five men and four women, were part of Scholz's 20-person "hot shot" crew from central Oregon. The crew's fifth female member, was hospitalized with smoke inhalation. The other victims were members of crews from McCall, Idaho; me Grand Junction, and Missoula, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said.
"This obviously an extraordinary tragedy," Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said glumly from the fire scene Thursday. "This underlines that even with the best training, the best professionals in the world, this is still a hazardous Fifty-two elite firefighters were working the line Wednesday, on the lee side of a ridge where the Canyon Creek fire had been burning lethargically since a lightning strike Monday. Forecasters had predicted a new weather front for Wednesday, but the sudden 30 mph crews by surprise. Within hours, the fire exploded from 50 acres to 2,200. The cold front had created a blast furnace.
"The wind just took fire bands over the tops, local volunteer firefighter Larry White recounted, describing with awe the waves of flames that jump from treetop to treetop. In moments, the fire topped the ridge, blown from behind. Then, horrifically, fierce crosswinds forced the flames back down onto the firefighters. "Those two winds just came in and sheared together and blew that thing up," White said. The crews split up and sprinted through the thin, air for the pre-arranged escape chutes; 38 made it.
"I just can't describe how quickly it grew," firefighter Brad Haugh said surviving, "I simply outran the fire up one hill. It crested the hill and headed down the other side. It doesn't travel downhill as fast as it does uphill, so I was able to get out of there." The doomed firefighters first bolted downhill then tried to get up the opposite ridge. They were overrun by hot blasts of wind and towering flames as they struggled to. get into their lightweight aluminum "shakeand-bake" shelters.
Some never even managed to unpack them from their bright yellow packs. Burned beyond recognition, all 12 were found within an area about 400 yards across, according to Rep. Scott McInnis, who surveyed the mountainside Thursday. "They were some of the best we had," McInnis said. In the Mann Gulch fire, the subNorman Maclean's "Young Men and Fire," bathe smokejumpers were caught in a very similar situation, with freak winds forcing the fire up a steep ridge too fast for them to outrun.
One man, the experienced foreman of the crew, saved his life by stopping and lighting the grass at his feet, then lying down in the center of the small fire as the huge wave of flame rolled over him. Two others outran the fire, making it to a small gap in a ridge of rock along the top of the ridge. Portable fire shelters had not yet been invented. Today, men and women who fight wildfires in the nation's forests wear yellow shirts and green pants coated with Nomex fire retardant, heavy boots, and hard hats they call "salad bowls." In a field pack, they carry goggles, gloves, headlamps, first-aid kits and maps. Each totes a shovel, an ax and a brush hook.
From a nylon-web equipment belt dangle canteens and, in a pouch, the vital but dreaded portable fire shelter. Getting into the shelter, a combination of tent and sleeping bag, is a firefighter's worst nightmare, said Faith Duncan, a Forest Service official who has fought dozens of fires in five states. Veteran firefighters "don't want to think about the shelters because they think they are invincible," she said. They'll spend hours of training learning how to avoid situations where the shelters are needed. Duncan had to save herself with a shelter in her second major fire.
"You know you can't outrun it. You have to just lie there and be she recalled. "It felt like it lasted an hour, but it was probably only 2 20 Then she was afraid to come out. "I was afraid of what I'd see. My comrades, you know, The shelters are covered with fireproof cloth and insulated, but don't, of protect oxygen the inside a firefighter fire, or from falling trees.
The fallen firefighters from Oregon were based at the dusty Lamonta Compound, an old Forest Service facility outside Prineville. "These guys were the best," said Jeff Bell, fire suppression officer for the adjacent Ochoco National Forest. Bell said crew members get at least 80 hours of training a year. Day added, "And you can eat the Another popular swimming hole was Conway Station on the South River in Conway, which is well shaded. Featuring a high dam and several pools, the out-of-the-way area is reached descent.
ALisa Starkweather of Shutesbury was there with three friends as part of a Greenfield-based women's empowerment training program called "Pilgrim Warrior. It was her first visit to the area. She said Conway Station was the place to be on a hot day. "It's just like when it's snowing. A hot day makes you do something out of the ordinary and connect with she said, describing the area as "phenomenal." Of course, not everybody could be playing in a river on a hot afternoon.
A three-man Conway Highway Department crew tried to catch some shade on a small porch on the Masonic building in the center of Conway, sipping sodas. They had spent the morning patching roads with asphalt. "It's one of the hottest jobs, I'll tell you that," said Curt Culver. "You've just got to grin and bear it," said Ken Bierhorst. Highway Superintendent Robert Baker said it was important to drink plenty of liquids and not overexert themselves.
"You've got to be realiy careful on a day like this. Once you stop sweating it's too late," he said. When a person stops sweating it means he has heat stroke. Baker said they have been hot patching, as it's called, for the past five weeks, which for the most part have been very hot. "Everything we have to do, it seems to be out in the hot sun or in the snow and ice.
We can't win," he said. Ironically, one of the swimmers at Stillwater, Michael Veve of Amherst, said jumping in the river was the thing to do "if you don't have air conditioning." Well, anyone looking for an air conditioner will have trouble finding one. Major appliance stores Kohler's, LaPierre's, Central Appliance and Western Auto in Greenfield and Miskinis Television in Turners Falls all reported they were either out or nearly out of air conditioners with no prospect of obtaining more. Central was the only store that had any left: two 13,000 BTU units. "People are looking for in bedroom the conditioners, something 5,000 range, but those went, a few weeks ago, said store owner Darryl Belval.
Kohler's owner Susan Caron said they sold out as of Thursday afternoon, and their warehouse had no more to give them. She said units ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 BTU's were unavailable to her, "and it's only July 7." She said a heat wave in June prompted people to start buying air conditioners to get them through the summer. If the current heat was the first of the summer, thaye might not be so inclined to rush out and buy one, she said, because they'd figure that summer is half over anyway. LaPierre's owner James Steiner said he has been receiving an average of 24 calls per hour from people looking for air conditioners. "If I'd ordered a 100 more I'd be a he said.
"But with my luck if I'd ordered a 100 more it'd be a cold summer and I'd have to sleep with them." Steiner said the shortage is the result of manufacturers producing only what was ordered by distributors last fall. Because of the tough economy the last few years, they are trying to be careful not to over produce, he said. He said he has received calls from dealers in New York City offering him double and triple what paid for his air conditioners. But he can't help them. "If I'd ordered a 100 more AP photo Railroad cars are surrounded by floodwaters as they sit idle in a railyard in Macon, Thursday.
Flood From Page 1 rushing into streets in a low-lying area. At least 14,000 residents were ordered to evacuate. "We're just trying to reinforce the levees with sandbags," Albany State College spokeswoman Jackie Ryan said. The Flint is expected to reach 44 feet 24 feet above flood stage by Saturday. Most Albany businesses sent employees home, and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was ordered.
The Ocmulgee was believed. to have crested at 35 feet Thursday at Macon, where flood stage is 18 feet. But officials couldn't say for sure because the river gauge was swept away. A 245-foot section of an earthen levee in Macon that washed away Wednesday night was stabilized Thursday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.
About 150,000 people in Macon and surrounding areas have been without water since the treatment plant flooded Wednesday. Statewide, more than 300,000 people without water. The Clayton County water system, one of the biggest of those knocked out earlier in the week, was back up Thursday. Water was brought in by tanker trucks. At one water distribution site, 750 people stood in an hourlong line.
People were asked to restrict themselves to one gallon per house, but some walked away with five gallons. check with some of my homebound friends to see if they could use a jug or two," said Mary Eva DuBose. Twenty-five inmates on work-release, wearing white uniforms with blue stripes, helped people carry jugs. Residents in the hard-hit areas were advised to boil tap water before using it. Some people in Americus bathed in water from their swimming pools.
Water covered almost 60,000 acres of peanuts, 19,000 acres of cotton and 10,000 acres of corn. Crops could be saved if there's a break in the rain. Many of the victims will face even more misery the water recedes because master homeowner insurance policies don't cover damage. Incubator From Page 1 pletely occupied, and there is an additional demand for manufacturing space. "We are constantly being contacted by firms looking for existing manufacturing said Ryan.
In addition, the town of Athol has been looking at the need for additional manufacturing space. Renovator's Supply has spent a significant amount of money upgrading the building, said Ryan, and the town of Erving has been working hard to turn around job losses at Erving Paper Mills in the past two or three years. CDC Executive Director Kathleen Jaworski "has been working really hard on this," Ryan said. Erving Selectman Dennis Rindone, who works at Renovator's Supply, said, "(The selectmen are) aware that the CDC was applying for it, and it's a good idea." Rindone refused to comment on the number of jobs or the departments at Renovator's Supply that have already been moved to a sister company, Yield House, in North Conway, N.H. Rindone cited a conflict of interest between his job and his office as his reason for not speaking about the issues.
In a report last December, Renovator's Supply President Claude MINIADS. TAYLOR'S 238 Main Greenfield WEEKEND BREAKFASTS Sat. 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. Sun. 7:00 to 1:00 p.m.
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the evening before and Fridays before 5 p.m. for Monday. The ad will appear on the street the following morning. Call 772-0261 he mused. Elsewhere Complaints about the hot sticky weather were swept away Thursday by a thunderstorm that barreled across Eastern Massachusetts, sparking fires and flooding roads with lightning, rain and golfballsized hail.
"It was a wild one," said Lee Anderson, a firefighter in the town of Easton, where 19 strikes of lightning ripped down power lines at the high school, town hall and fire station. "The lightning was jumping out the wall sockets, I was scared sitting there," he said. The storm damaged more than in some communities, including Kingston, where six people adults and children from a Boy Scout camp were taken to the Jordan Hospital after lightning struck beside their cabin. The injuries were described as minor; the victims complained of "tingling" and headaches. In Duxbury, the harbormaster plucked an elderly local man from the ocean after he went overboard in heavy fog.
The man was taken to Jordan Hospital after rescue personnel restored his pulse. Lightning in Carver sparked a fire at the Barden Asphalt Plant and shut down power all over town. While Thursday's storm dramatized the perils of summer weather, the everyday gnawing heat and humidity brought with it a different, unseen hazard: unhealthy air. The Boston area has been in violation of federal air quality standards for much of the summer, officials said. The good news is that ozone levels have continually decreased over the years, thanks to cleaner cars and gasoline, stricter emissions controls and other changes.
While contaminants like ozone are present in the air throughout the year, they can really "go to work" when combined with strong sunlight and higher temperatures, says Richard Fields, an environmental analyst with the Department of Environmental Protection. Jeanloz said he was trying to move his operation out of state, saying, "The costs and aggravation here are very high, and it's no place for industrial growth." A June 7, 1993 report stated that the marketing operations for Renovator's Supply and Yield House were merging, and at the time Jeanloz cited increased efficiency for the move. Jeanloz then pressed Erving selectmen, who also serve as water commissioners, to improve the town's water system in Ervingside, or he would have to consider other options, including moving the company elsewhere. The town subsequently obtained a $600,000 grant and loan through the Farmers Home "Administration to do the project, which is currently nearing completion. Jeanloz agreed to pay $50,000 of the $150,000 loan, in exchange for increased water pressure needed to adequately operate the company's sprinkler system.
Rindone said the fact that the town now has an excellent water system, the Renovator's Supply plant would be location for a small industry incubator. Jeanloz was unavailable for comment Thursday evening. AGES 72 Montague City Road, Greenfield GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE We will be open daily 10-5, Sundays Noon-5 Closing Sunday, July 17th GREENFIELD GARDEN CLUB GARDEN TOUR JULY 9TH 9 AM TO 4 PM 10 Greenfield Gardens Tickets Maps $5 Avail. at Opus, World Eye or Janice McGuane 773-5819 TONIGHT BAKED FRESH SCROD Fresh From Foster's Market Includes: Early Soup, Dessert Potato $9.95 BILL'S RESTAURANT Tue. Sat.
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