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JB Eli Atmiaton Btat sday, jueei. ism 6 7r. 1 -4 ft Jacksonville Guard members relax with television Guard boosts airport By DEBBIE SKIPPER blowing it up. Star Staff Writer kui PWl' Elk Aerial view shows National Guard work on airport runway ftOANOKE David McPheraonworts at a JaeSsonv'fne bank. Eric Sprayberry is a mining engineer in Northport.

Charles Ledbetter is a Calhoun County license inspector. And Buck Bundrum is a plant maintenance supervisor. But for two weeks, beginning May 17, these men and 106 others donned olive green military attire to spend their annual Army National Guard summer camp on a community project" extending the 2.700-foot Roanoke Mufticj- pal Airport runway by 800 feet. IN ROANOKE, he added, the men were divided up inta Two seven-hour shifts from 6 a.m. to I p.m.

and from i p.m. to 7 p.m. Often they were behind the wheels of heavy equipment vehicles like packers, graders and bulldozers which either shoveled and hauled dirt from the pit site or crisscrossed the runway area in a weird looking "mating dance." Sixty percent of the dirt to fill the hole was to come frim thejil site and the rest from the northern end of the runway. Owen said. Two other National Guard units are to come to Roanoke to complete the project.

The Jacksonville unit's makeshift living quarters during their summer camp were in a city recreational building where all 110 men slept in one room. "In two days, we setup facilities for 110 people," Owen said. Some of those people were from the unit's Fort Payne headquarters, others from a construction division in Hamilton, he said. Army Maj. Frank Taksar of Fort Leavenworth, evaluated the unit's performance last week.

As combat unit, the group "adapted very well" to construction work, he said. And a plus for their efforts. Owen said, was finding a' turtle to be their dnit mascot. 1 The majority of men are from the Jacksonville National Guard unit Company of the 151st Engineering Battalion. Lt.

McPherson was the project officer; Lt. sprayberry, unit commander; Sgt. Ledbetter, the operations sergeant; and Sgt. Bundrum, the field sergeant. For the 110 officers and enlisted men camped at Roanoke, the project entailed more than paving a runway.

It meant moving a third of the 188,000 cubic yards of dirt needed tofill in a mammoth hole at the end of the present runway so the airstrip could be extended. Due to a last minute change in "pit" sites from which the Guard was to get the dirt, the project also meant building an access road almost a mile long from the main road to the new pit site north of the city's -landfill. THAT ROAD is a plus for Roanoke, which already has saved about $1 million by using National Guard labor instead of hiring a contractor to do the work. The road connects the present landfill with other proposed landfill property nearby. miles driving distance for hauling dirt were added due ifi this change in pit sites, McPherson said.

But heavy rains posed the biggest obstacle to the unit's work, Ledbetter said. The unit lost nearly a week because of it. "We're a-combat engineering said 1st Sgt. Henry Owen. "This was a little different than anything we've been doing We're supposed to go out like infantrymen and lay land mines, blow up bridges and build bridges'." A community project like the runway extension, however, Owen said, makes more sense than building a bridge and Guardsmen move earth at Roanoke airport MORGAN D.

SILVERS, D.PM Announces The Relocation Of Ms OUice For The Practice Of MEDICINE AND SURGERY OF THE FOOT At 1320 LEIGHTONA VENUE Anniston, Alabama 36201 OUict Hours Phone: By Appointment 237-7157 Were quakes related to volcano? sible when a U.S.G.S. instru ment network measured a shift in stress across much of south ern California along the Andreas last year. The shift was accompanied by a doubling in the number of medium-sized is rising relative to the land to the east, the result of buckling of the crust that occurs as the North Aauwiean- against the Pacific plate. Because of the different geology of the regions, and their separation, scientists don't believe there is any direct relation between the volcano and these earthquakes, said Dr. William L.

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This North American plate is one of dozens that make up the Earth's ijcrust. fboating on a layer of more fluid rock underneath, The volcanos of the Cascade Range, including St. Helens, occur because the Juan de Fuca plate that makes up the ocean floor off Washington and Oregon is plunging slowly under the North American plate. When the basaltic ocean floor-rocks liquify, lighter portions of them rise to the surface and are gradually erupted as magma. A quite different process is at work at Mammoth Lakes.

There, the Sierja Nevada range 'Faust' The first performance of Gounod's opera "Faust" was given in Paris in 1859. earthquakes for the region. And the Oct. 15 Imperial Valley earthquake, which occurred just south of the stressed region, was preceded by a sudden change in the amount of radioactive radon gas measured at a point 120 miles -north of the earthquake. 'Radon is sometimes released from the ground before an earthquake.

Brown Grey only the most elusive hints, he Bacteriologist German bacteriologist Dr. Robert Koch announced in 1882 he had isolated the, bacillus of tuberculosis. SCIENTISTS learned such broad scale changes were Dos- By KEVIN McKEAN AP Science Writer VANCOUVER, Wash, (AP) While scientists do not believe the eruption of Mount St. Helens caused California's recent earthquakes, they do not entirely discount the theory that distant natural calamities could somehow be related. "We can't just write it off, like we write off a lot of things, such as the myth about California sliding into the ocean." said Dr.

R. Allen, professor of geology and geophysics at California In- stitute of Technology Three major earthquakes have struck Mammoth Lakes. since Sunday, only a week after the volcano's eruption. Allen and other scientists say they feel certain there was no direct link between the volcano and the earthquakes. BUT recent evidence along the San Andreas fault in southern California shows that Stresses in the Earth's crust can build up over a wide area in a relatively short period of time, they said.

So it is not inconceivable that events which seem to be relieve stresses, such as earthquakes and volcanos, might be triggered at widely, separated places. There is no basis for connecting events as distant as Mount St. Helens and Mammoth Lakes, which are 550 miles apart. Yet the two areas are related in a very broad sense in that both are part of, the western fringe o-the vast continental plate that underlies North America and Greenland. v- State holiday 25 General Nutrition Centers 400 i.u.

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