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Friday EUIorning wi July 4, 1997 0 Wildfire Season As summer heats up, wildfires cast a pall over Southern California, Colorado. A3, B4 Weather Watch i St. George man lauded for aiding house fire victims Lower Elevations Higher Elevations Near Near Low: 65 Low: 50 High: 100 High: 88 Elsewhere pan of grease fell, catching his legs on fire. He remained at Dixie Regional Medical Center Thursday. At the time of the fire, Corbett was walking to another apartment to watch a televised fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.

A woman he didn't know bolted out of her house. "She came running out her door saying 'My house is on fire. It's everything I Corbett Please see FIRE on A3 By STEPHANIE OBLEY The Spectrum Scot Corbett insists he's not a hero. The 22-year-old furniture delivery man said when he heard a woman screaming "My house is on fire!" and learned her children were still in the house, he simply acted. Corbett, a St.

George resident, was able to stop a grease fire Saturday night in a four-plex apartment at 970 N. 1300 West. He received second- and third-degree burns on his legs after the Zjm N'- Spectrum photo Jud Burkett Scot Corbett, 22, and his father Gary sit in and saved the complex and possibly the lives Scot's hospital room at Dixie Regional Med- of its occupants. Corbett received second and ical Center Thursday afternoon in St. George.

third degree burns on his left leg while fignt-Corbett put out a grease fire in a four-plex ing the fire and will have to receive several apartment Saturday night with a wet towel skin grafts to repair the damage to his leg. Clinton 'adamantly' denies propositioning Paula Jones LITTLE ROCK, Ark. President Clinton "adamantly" denied Paula Jones' claim that he propositioned her in a hotel room in 1991 and said Thursday that her claim was intended to damage him politically. In his first formal response to the charges in Mrs. Jones' federal sexual harassment lawsuit, Clinton said he did not recall ever meeting her and denied "each and every allegation" set forth in her complaint.

B5 Prompted by memo, Clinton 'called donor for fundraising WASHINGTON' Prompted by a conversation that a Maryland businessman would give $100,000 to the Democratic Party, President Clinton last year called the potential donor, officials disclosed Thursday. The White House says the call could have been made from the Oval Office. A revitalized Yeltsin is running hard MOSCOW One year into his second term, Boris Yeltsin is riding a remarkable persbnal and political recovery, running ID4 Revised 1W vrv i i TYSON WATT The Spectrum About 15 residents of Parowan took time out Thursday to reflect on the patriotism of Mormon settlers who founded Parowan, hanging a replica of the flag that flew above the city in the 1850s outside the Parowan Visitors Center. The year was 1851 and Brigham Young had sent a group of settlers to settle the Iron County area as part of an Iron Mission. Only three days after the first 1 settlers arrived in Parowan elections were held and local government was set up.

The settlers began to organize and build a church house. They went up the canyon to cut timber to build homes and public buildings out of the mountains to the east. A fort was surveyed and plotted into lots. According to history, after the fort had been surveyed, the patriotic settlers built a 99-feet tall liberty pole. It was one of the biggest sources of patriotic pride among the settlers, but they did not have a flag.

One of the settlers wrote in her Please see FLAG on A3 Sit 3 DUP reflects on liberty pole's early days hard to! revive Russia as a great power. I ri II "yzn NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science Dr. Wesley T. Huntress (left) explains the workings of the Mars Pathfinder to NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin Thursday, July 3, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. This Independence Day, Earth is invading Mars The president, until recently written off as a dying invalid, appears revitalized and in-full control as he marks the anniversary of his election victory.

Yeltsin says the past year has been "extremely difficult," but is behind him. B6 Road Watch HURRICANE A four-mile section of SR9 is being widened to two lanes in each direction from the Brentwood RV Park to 700 West. Traffic is reduced to one lane in each direction and the speed limit is 30 to 40 mph. One lane in each direction is paved; the remainder is partly paved, part gravel. ST.

GEORGE The intersection of 200 East and 200 South is closed today while crews install an irrigation line. WASHINGTON Expect delays of up to 10 minutes on Telegraph Street from 300 East to 1400 East because the road is closed to one lane. To add an item to Road Watch, call The Spectrum at (801) 674-6237. The Spectrum Online Catch The Spectrum on the World Wide Web at http:www.southern-utah.com Inside Today B7 Obituaries A5 Comics B10 Sports A6 Entertainment B3 State A11 Lifestyles TV Movies Local A2 West Nation World. SUBSCRIBER SERVICE: Though we strive for 100 percent on-time delivery, errors do sometimes occur.

If you haven't received your Spectrum by 7 a.m. call the number for your area before 10 a.m. and a replacement copy will be sent to you. Circulation Department St. George (801)674-6212 Cedar City (801)586-6999 1 1 Spectrum photo Tyson Hiatt Ardella Rohde, of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers stands beneath a replica she sewed of the old Parowan Flag.

The flag has 14 stars and three stripes like the original one that flew above Parowan in 1851. Letter provides glimpse of 1878-style 4th of July By TYSON HIATT By MATT CRENSON The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. On its 221st birthday, the nation that revolutionized life on Earth with the automobile will put a motor vehicle on Mars. At 1:07 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, Independence Day, America's Mars Pathfinder spacecraft will slam into the Red Planet, then bounce and roll to a halt In a cocoon of airbags.

Then, over the weekend, a rover the size of a microwave oven will roll out onto, the surface of Mars. No spacecraft has landed on Mars since September 3, 1976, when the Viking 2 spacecraft set down on the planet. NASA acknowledges its decision to land on Independence Day was deliberate. "I think it's very, very appropriate that we celebrate the American Independence Day with a sign of bold science and a statement that America still is an explor-' Ing society seeking to make life better for our children," NASA administrator Dan Goldin said Thursday at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft enters Mars' atmosphere at about 1 p.m., descending on a parachute and then deploying four giant airbags just seconds before slamming Into the planet at 55 mph.

After it rolls to a halt, possibly hundreds of yards from its impact point, the lander will unfold three petal-like solar panels and "do what any tourist tends to do when he arrives in a new place," said NASA scientist John Wellman. Pathfind- AP photo A clock in the Mars Pathfinder rover control area counts down to the July 4 touchdown of the spacecraft. er will take a day or two to situate itself properly and take photos of Its surroundings. Then the Sojourner rover will roll out on its six wheels, moving at 0.02 mph and carrying a camera and an instrument designed to determine the types of minerals in rocks and soil it encounters. "Nobody has ever driven a car on Mars before," said rover scientist Henry Moore of the U.S.

Geological Survey. NASA bills the Pathfinder mission as a renewal of its commitment to Mars exploration, an enterprise that has languished since the Viking missions of the 1970s. The mission is something of a trial run, a demonstration of the technology the space agency intends to employ in a revamped "faster, better? cheapen" campaign to explore the solar sysjem. Viking gave the impression of a desolate planet buffeted by dust storms and Please see MARS on A3 July, the Calathimphions turned out in full bloom 'and marched from one end of town to the other with a tribe of Indians to bring up the rear followed by all the little boys from town and contry." The letter describes speeches from boys, a performance by the Lemore band, a parade and a dance all seemingly traditional activities that follow celebrations of Independence Day around the country. "In the fournoon, there was a pro1 cession of young ladies dressed In uniforms that represented every state with the name of the state they represented printed in large letters on their riding skirt which was gay," the letter continues.

According to the letter, early California settlers knew how to party in the 1800s. Plpasp see 1878 on A3 The Spectrum Fireworks, parades, picnics and flags are all images of what flash by in a lifetime of July 4 celebrations. And those Images are not much different from a Fourth of July celebration in 1878. Warren Anderson, owner of America West Archives, has collected old documents for the last. 18 years.

He recently sold, a letter from a man in Lemore, near Stock- ton, written by a man who tells his brother about July 4, 1878. What the letter, written July 29, 1878, may lack In spelling and punctuation it certainly makes tip for In color and detail. "Your very kind letter dated June 28 reached me several days ago and should halve answered It before this time," the man writes in the letter. "We had a fine time on the 4th of 7 llll OH 50 1.