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ALBANY DEMOCRAT-HERALD, MONDAY, AUG. 25, 1980 11 iiteGs teke advantage of the lull around volcano gases from the crater changed color because of steam, said Kathy Anderson, a Forest Service spokeswoman. The steam could be enhanced by weather con VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) Mount St. Helens was quiet through the weekend, and firef ighting crews took advantage of the lull to continue putting out fires smoldering around the volcano.

Ray Trygar, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman, said a 10 person crew and support personel worked on the mountain during the weekend, with a fresh crew scheduled to take over after today. The fire crews are putting out blazes still smoldering under ash since the May It eruption that killed 31 persons and left 32 missing and presumed dead. There was no seismic activity recorded, according to the University of Washington geophysics department which monitors the volcano from Seattle. Only a few avalanches were picked up on the seismometers, spokesman Steve Bryant said early today.

"We're Just not sure what's going to happen," he said. "This is the first time it's been quiet for this long." The southwest Washington mountain generally has been quiet since its last steam and asb eruption Aug. 7. "It's sleeping soundly now," Bryant added. "Whether it'll be sleeping soundly for the next 24 hours is another matter.

Between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, the anions that encourage condensation, she said. The Washington Department of Transportation has announced Highway 504 will reopen between Toutle and Kidd Valley around Labor Day. Flooding unleashed by the May 18 eruption of St.

Helens destroyed a concrete bridge over the Toutle River, cutting off the tiny Cowlitz County town of Kidd Valley. A "Bailey bridge" across the Toutle River will link Kidd Valley and the neighboring community of Toutle, said Larry Steele, public-affairs administrator for the Department of Transportation. "The idea is to get it open so people in Kidd Valley can take their kids to school in Toutle without having to detour around on (Highway) 505," Steele explained. Long-range plans call for reopening the St. Helen's Highway to the Weyerhaeuser Camp Baker.

1 'That would take you to the toe of the mud flow," he said. "The intent is to open that stretch for eventual tourist access." Steele said his department is using part of an allotted $14.9 million in volcano-relief highway funds to rebuild the road. Revision puts town outsido the red zone VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) Gov. Dixy Lee Ray said Fri-wy that the red lone around unt St.

Helens Is being evlscd so the town of Cougar III be outside the restrictive oundary. "Earlier this week, after onsultatlon with our Department of Emergency Services Jid a check again with the I decided it was Ime to make another modification and draw the red one so that the town of Cougar rould be outside," the gover-or said. Her remarks came In esponse to a question during address to the Vancouver Chamber of Commerce and Club. Ray said I study of erup-Ions since the major May IS plosion has given geologists I better Indication Of what night precede an eruption. "We're getting a little ac-kistomed to It, you know, and re're beginning to think we (cognize the early warning Igns.

If the mountain doesn't Urprtse us again, I think we'll feOK. "There are some hazards, tut they seem to be tolerable." I Residents of Cougar have een unhappy because their ommunlty has been caught in-Jde the red tone. The business wople say the restrictions tave eliminated their Ivellhood from the usual ourist traffic, and volcano catchers have been turned lack at a roadblock at Yale. At an Aug. 13 meeting In idso, Cougar residents com-ilalned bitterly, with some of he strongest opposition com-ng from owners of the Lone fir Resort.

They said they lave had to apply for a federal oan of $30,000 to help them hrough. A photograph taken Saturday shows Mount St. Helens 'sleeping Mom fears return to home The Nationwide Supermarket of Sound" ni i uLMrO KELSO, Wash. (AP) Freda Stone, 35, a divorced mother of three, doesn't want to return to her modest home 20 miles west of Mount St. Helens (or fear of further volcanic eruptions.

Her home is intact, but across the road in Maple Flats, several houses were washed away by the mud-swollen Toutle River after the massive May 18 eruption. "1 would go back If they would guarantee me the lives of my children," she said. "I'm scared to death of the place." The home originally was within the "red sone," but the restricted area around the volcano has been altered several times. Now the house is a short distance outside the red zone. The federal government says the house can be occupied safely, but Mrs.

Stone she is giving up the house and moving to the Yakima Valley to pick fruit. Mrs. Stone is living with her children In a local apartment. The $295 monthly rent has been paid by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but she says she will have to leave when FEM A payments run out Sept. 19.

"I can't understand why in the hell they're doing this to us," Mrs. Stone exclaimed. "I can't take the mountain, and I can't afford to rent here." Mrs. Stone used a Veterans Administration loan to purchase the bouse three years ago for $1,000 down and pavments of $229 a month. She lives on Social Security benefits and payments ber 17-year-old daughter receives from the VA.

Mrs. Stone's first husband died in the military service. Since May 18, Mrs. Stone said, she barely has failed to qualify for government disaster-relief benefits. She feels she getting a raw deal.

Her home wasn't damaged or destroyed, so no federal disaster money Is ava'lahle to help ber purchase a new borne. Now, wl.h home out-aide the red rone, FEMA is cuttfc 7 ber rent payments. "They (FEMA) promised to rent pi ice for a year (after the May 18 eruption)," ui said. Sensational Buy! Stereo Cassette Tape Deck! SCT-30 by Real Pet project Rock gimmick spawns idea, 2 men admit i CZU-JLj on 'f Tape not included 3-Position BiasEqualization Switches Dual Capstans for Precise Tape Handling 3 Heads and Double Dolby NR Record, Play and Monitor with Noise Act now and add professional cassette recording and playback to your system at an unbelievably low sale price' Separate record and play heads with two Dolby circuits let you monitor in Dolby you hear exactly what your recording sounds like. It also has a built-in Dolby FM decoder, record calibrate controls with test tone, fine bias adjustment, and much more! u-03 095 Reg.

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"In floods or volcanic eruptions, the government doesn't do much (or the victims. Our idea is to help those people who need It," Hastings said. When they formed their partnership, their attorney suggested they make their donations to the Red Cross or another charity organization so It could be written off their taxes. "We decided not to do that because most of the money would go to people overseas or people who have other types of help available," Hastings explained. The men want their partnership to succeed, but that doesn't necessarily mean expansion and profit.

"When we handed those kids that check for $250, 1 reached my goal," Pinman said. EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) Their pet project wlll benef it volcano victims. Tom Hastings and Russ Pinman have copyrighted and now manufacture "Pet Volcanoes" acrylic, teardrop-shaped paperweights molded around an ash filled cylinder, decorated with two eyes and topped with red and-whlte troll hair. The men admit that the pet-rock gimmick a few years ago spawned their project.

Many people frown on the Idea because they consider it a "gct-rich-quick Idea," said Hastings, a department-store manager. Pinman, however, feels that those who disapprove of the business venture are Jealous or pessimistic. The men don't expect their pet volcanoes to make them rich, but they do hope the project will "help those who really paid their dues from the May 18 eruption'' of Mount St. Helens In southwestern Washington. The May 18 eruption claimed 31 lives.

Thirty-two others remain missing and presumed dead. Hastings and Pinman agreed when they formed their partnership that 50 cents from each $5 sale would go to a charity trust fund for the families of those killed in the blast. They also donated their first check of $250 to frr-y. UinK.riHolitu 3'- Rolling Audio Rack Holds Your Entire System Condenser Mike Realist Save 01 95 Company bids low to provide tho grass seed fttm TKa AulMa4 Ptt n4 staff rru A Monroe. firm Is the apparent low bidder for a contract to provide grass seed for restoration work on about 20,000 acres of land devastated by the eruption of Mount St.

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The SCS is rushing to get the seeding done before fall rains, thereby cutting down on runoff Into the Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia rivers, Shavlik said. "On slopes with no ground cover on It we estimated the soli runoff would be about 308 tons per acre per year," said Mike Price, spokesman for the SCS in Spokane, Wash. For makmg.supe'b recordings on your tape tn icnunui U-1045 s20 Oct Lightweight Stereo Hi-Fi Headphones Qauk WO i95 PRO-10 by Realistic 20 95 5 Who Climbed Volcano 6 teachers sue. Reg. fWi Reg.

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(AP) -Six teachers have filed suit against the Prosser School District to regain wages they missed because they were stranded by the May 18 erup-. tlonof Mount St Helens. Benton County Superior Court records show the teachers seek to overturn a recent school-board decision denying them extra personal leave or personal-necessity pay to cover the lost wages the week after the eruption. Filing the suit were Kenneth Benson, Caroline Coble, Eileen Matthews, Jerome McDer-mott, Maxlne Rupert and Wendell Wells, according to court records. School Superintendent Jay Chllders said the district paid the teachers to the extent school policy allowed.

Prosser district officials say of 35 teacher-days lost to the eruption, 14 were deducted from teachers' paychecks. Face charges Sept. 15 SEATTLE AP) A Seattle film crew which climbed Mount St. felens a week after Its May 18 eruption has a court appearance cheduled Sept. 15 in Skamania County, i County Prosecutor Bob Leick said the five men are charged ith violating state law by crossing into a restricted scarch-and-tscue zone.

There was some confusion. over what to charge the men with ifter they were cited by a deputy sheriff May 24, six days after the lay 18 eruption. The crew was airlifted from north of the moun-tin on May 26, the day after a second eruption. Leick said the confusion over charges came because It was bought the men were being charged with violating the governor's xecutlve order creating a restricted zone around the mountain. The order didn't take effect until a day after the men were cited.

Instead, the crew was charged under a 1979 state law giving a rounty sheriff authority to close certain areas for search-and-fscue missions. "Our position is that their conduct was irresponsible and en-Jangered lives," Leick said. He said he is looking into possible further charges against the eader of the crew. Otto Sieber. 42, a Seattle commercial jhotographer, for climbing to the crater In April with another crew to take pictures.

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