Longview Daily News from Longview, Washington • 13

JP si- -w j' J- VV wV Jv a rj '2 1 1 4- The Daily News Longview Washington Wednesday July 22 1981 Section Forest Service lists options for Spirit Lake landowners would pay them to manage the land The lease would be negotiated after a number of years and the property owners could lose their land if it is declared a national park The Forest Service proposals would compensate landowners based on value of their land but no one is sure what volcano land is going for these days have changed the Johnson said the faintest idea what the Most property owners at the meeting were afraid they would not get fair compensation for their land years from now when the volcano settles down my land would be a very valuable piece of real said Ford who organized Tuesday meeting can build on it as soon as the mountain quits But most landowners said they were anxious to get away from the volcano want to go on with my wife Sandy said want to wait 10 years for the mountain to calm down I want to build another cabin Another man said he would my land for 10 cents if I could find someone to buy it from me" No one has been on their property since the eruption and Johnson said roads going into the area would probably not be built for another 10 years He said 85 cabins are gone and Spirit Lake has shifted to put some cabin sites under water Johnson said it will be at least a year before business is squared away with the 160 Spirit Lake property owners If none of the other options pans out the Forest Service could condemn their land we consider it a very very last Johnson said Interested Spirit Lake cabin and property owners will meet again Tuesday Aug 21 to discuss the options Ford and other landowners will contact all Spirit Lake property owners about the meeting The cabin land is down the gun barrel of the in an interpretive area that the Forest Service wants kept in its natural state Johnson said want to maintain the unusual character of the land to show the effects of the Johnson said But the Forest options are still in the planning stages Johnson cautioned The agency does not yet have authority to manage the area if it is designated a historical site and does not have money set aside to buy out landowners In order for the title exchange to work Johnson said a group of about 30 Spirit Lake property owners must agree to trade their land for a chunk of Forest Service land in the state The Forest Service does not want to dole out individual parcels scattered throughout the state and Johnson said it would be hard to get landowners to agree on a site Under the leasing or co-op management plan landowners would keep their deeds and the Forest Service By Lila Fujimoto The Daily Newt Spirit Lake property owner Roy Ford has hounded the government since February for an answer to his question: What are you planning to do about my land? Two US Forest Service representatives gave Ford and 55 other cabin owners whose land was devasted by the May 18 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens three options to mull over Tuesday night The Forest Service could purchase the land at value lease the land and manage it or exchange it for forest service land of equal value Forest Service specialists John Johnson and Paul Pregge told landowners at a meeting in the Cowlitz County PUD building Property owners would not have to agree to a single plan Johnson added But most at Tuesday meeting said they favored a trade Satellite dish means TV choices galore r' Is By Jay McIntosh The Daily News Virgil Simmons and his wife Violet have this problem before gets kind of upset if I want to get into some sports when watching a Virgil said As television viewers they have the usual differences over what to watch And there's a lot more room for disagreement these days The couple recently had a 12-footwide dish antenna installed outside their home by the Kalama River Like a new fall season changes the network schedule the dish changed their viewing habits In the days BD (Before Dish) the steep walls of the Kalama River canyon blocked out all TV signals except for some that made fuzzy pictures on channels 2 and 6 Now they can receive signals that pay-television companies and some US and foreign stations bounce off either of two satellites The selection is broad Simmons a retired high school coach has watched football from Canada soccer from Bolivia fights from Mexico and a stray golf tournament or two His wife likes movies and they also watch programs on the arts 'ij Satellite TV a boon or bust? Page A1 Including the expense of topping trees to get a clear view to the south to aim at satellites poised in orbit over the equator the dish cost about $8000 installed Simmons said He bought it from Satillite TV a company Dick Stange runs out of his Radio and TV business in West Kelso have put it in if I think it was a good Simmons said He said it would add to his property value lot of people would live on the Kalama River but they want to give up He think cable television will reach the river valley for years if ever The only hitch the Simmonses have found in the satellite setup is that their equipment can only be tuned to one signal even though they have more than one television in their home Simmons said he plans to buy more hardware so the sets can receive different shows at the same time So he can have his sports and Mrs Simmons her movies V' rfeTJStk 10 Photo by Jan Fardell not to take the old bridge in which case traffic would use Grade Street which curves from center to lower right across an overpass built for new freeway The slide area at upper left has Kelso leery of taking old freeway lanes at the left New freeway lanes form a wide arc to the right The old lanes would narrow to cross one of two old steel-frame bridges at bottom left The other old bridge would be removed One suggestion is for Kelso Cost of freeway questioned How will city chief rate? Bo Derek and Marshall Bingham don't look the same and Kelso citizens better hope they act the same but the voluptuous actress and Kelso City Manager do have something in common The City Council Tuesday approved a city manager evaluation system under which Bingham could score a perfect just like Bo did in the eyes of a suitor she drove to distraction in the movie of that name latest endeavor is reportedly to swing scantily clad through the vines with apes in a new Tarzan movie But Bingham will probably be more inclined to move cautiously through the thicket of city business with councilmen because in April use the evaluation system to judge his performance this year The council will score Bingham from one to 10 in 19 categories of organizational skill fiscal management program development and relations with council members and the public Bingham has been manager 10 years though the council has never had a formal evaluation process Both he and council members decided to write one Jim Bush district engineer with the state DOT in Kelso agrees that the old freeway lanes are in a slide area But extensive work the state will do before turning the roadway over to Kelso will prevent future slides Bush said The state will pile crushed concrete and rock at the bottom of slide areas to stabilize them And the new freeway which is downhill from the old one will be anchored to bedrock which should stabilize the area Vibration from heavy trucks has been a major reason for the Haussler area sliding and Bush points out that few trucks will use the road when no longer a freeway Concern about sliding the only reason the new freeway follows a different route Bush added There room to widen the old four-lane freeway to six lanes without extensive earth moving he said When the state builds new roads it routinely gives ones being replaced to local governments Bush said citing Old Pacific Highway as an By Tom Paulu The Daily News If a hillside prone to landslides suitable for a new section of Interstate 5 is it good enough for a Kelso street? Kelso councilmen are wondering about the proposed transfer of a section of state-maintained freeway to the city an offer the city apparently refuse In about two weeks new northbound freeway lanes are scheduled to open between the Longview Wye and the Coweeman River The new lanes will swing west of the old ones parallel to new southbound lanes already filled with traffic For years the state Department of Transportation has planned to turn over to Kelso the old freeway lanes that cut through Davis Terrace The DOT has offered to resurface the lanes and try to stabilize the slide area north of Haussler Road but the city fears it afford to maintain the road Kelso remembers a similar of 19 years ago the Allen Street bridge which the state no longer wanted after it built the Cowlitz Way Bridge obvious to anyone bouncing over the old bridge that the street repair budget been able to keep up with maintenance Kelso Councilman Stephen Kridelbaugh a geology PhD questions whether the city wants the freeway section which would be a part of Kelso Drive He and others point out that the state went to the expense of building two more sets of Coweeman bridges to detour the new freeway away from the part to be given to Kelso a well-known slide area A state report on the slide is inconclusive Kridelbaugh said Besides the possibility of high maintenance costs from slides Kridelbaugh said it could be costly to keep in repair the old northbound freeway bridge over the Coweeman the city would get One possibility is to take the freeway but not the old bridge he said Traffic could get downtown via the Grade Street bridge instead Blasts on volcano are man made today I Kelso City Attorney Lee Borders said state law probably leaves the city no alternative to accepting the road If negotiations broke down the state Secretary of Transportation would decide the matter to me says your adversary is also your Borders said Borders suggests the city try to get the road fixed up as much as possible before taking it City Manager Marshall Bingham said Kelso needs the new street and bridge can say there will be no slides though turn back to the state and holler if there were he said The state has offered to repave the old north and south lanes from the Wye to Grade Street creating one lane and a shoulder in each direction North of Grade the road will narrow so it can pass over the old northbound bridge and hook up with existing Kelso Drive by the Thunder-bird Motor Inn The state will repaint the old northbound bridge and overlay pavement on it The old southbound bridge is being removed Port wins land case Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Don McCulloch Tuesday ruled that The Port of Woodland rather than Washington state owns some disputed lands along the Columbia River The case involved about 65 acres where the Corps of Engineers has placed dredge spoils on once-submerged lands The state had claimed about two-thirds of the land located near the state Game public access area McCulloch said the port owns the land because it was formed gradually If the land was formed rapidly it would have belonged to the state he said The state had said the land was built up from dredging McCulloch decided though that it was impossible to tell how much land was formed by dredging and how much by other factors Willard Walker was chief trial counsel for the port and Assistant Attorney General Lawrence Coniff presented the state's case No peeking Court: Looking in window violated his rights By Andre Stepankowsky The Daily News Small explosions around Mount St Helens today signs the volcano is erupting again and two earthquakes near Elk Lake and Marble Mountain Tuesday were not related to volcanic activity scientists said today Experts from the University of Washington and the US Geological Survey planned to set off two or three depth charges north and west of the crater today said Christina Boyko spokeswoman for the UW geophysics lab A chain of special earthquakerecording instruments will measure the shock waves the explosions send pulsing through the ground Experts will analyze the results in hopes of learning more about the faults and rock formations under the volcano Ms Boyko said The experiment could help seismologists pinpoint earthquakes within and around the volcano with more accuracy Ms Boyko said the tests will not locate the subterranean magma chamber from where molten rock oozes to the surface The explosions also will help the scientists calibrate their permanent earthquake-measuring equipment she said An eight-pound test charge set off in the crater Tuesday immediately drew a crowd of civilian helicopters A delay in the testing followed because scientists did not want to set off more charges at the risk of creating air turbulence Today the Federal Aviation Ad ministration has issued a note closing air space five miles around the peak to an altitude of 10000 feet Ms Boyko said Meanwhile two weak earthquakes that nudged seismographs Tuesday were definitely related to the normal shifting of the plates not to the volcano Ms Boyko said According to the USGS a 22 magnitude earthquake jiggled the Elk Lake area northwest of the mountain at 12:54 pm and a 28 earthquake occurred at in the Marble Mountain area south of the volcano Ten minutes before the first quake the mountain sent up a dark plume of steam and ash but scientists say there is no link between the quake and the plume have seen these type of emissions while the volcano is quiet and while it is in eruptive phases There seem to be any pattern to Ms Boyko said A second plume puffed up at about 7:16 pm Tuesday But the mountain contiued to remain seismically quiet into this morning Meanwhile the UW and Linda Noson the state seismologist continue to study comments received from about 6000 people who felt the 55 earthquake that jolted the Longview-Kelso area Feb 13 The quake was centered near Elk Lake Seismologists are searching for a possible fault line in that area They are using the written comments to plot on a map how strongly the quakes were felt in certain areas as a guide to what areas may be affected by future quakes near Elk Lake Longview police shouldn't have peeked in a window the Washington Court of Appeals said Tuesday in reversing the verdict of a man convicted after officers found marijuana in a local residence The court ruled 2-1 that the peek was an unlawful search prohibited by the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution Officials of the Cowlitz County prosecuting office were unavailable for comment this morning The Court of Appeals remanded the case for a new trial should the prosecutor decide to pursue it The reversal came in the case of Daryl Lee Jordan 22 who was arrested after Longview police officers discovered the drugs on June 22 1979 Jordan served a week in jail in December 1979 after his conviction He was released on bond pending the appeal According to the Court of Appeals judgment two Longview officers went to a duplex in Longview that night to quiet a loud party But when they reached the porch of the residence they a crack between the casing of the window and the drape just to the left of the They looked through the six-inch opening and into the living room Three people were sitting around a coffee table putting a Drown suuslauce into a pipe and smoking it The officers knocked on the door and identified themselves They heard people and a neighbor said the occupants of the duplex had left through the back door The officers went to the back door went into the empty residence and saw the marijuana on the table They also looked in a closet and saw two marijuana plants Later they got a search warrant and seized the evidence The Court of Appeals majority said the police violated the duplex right to privacy Judges Harold Petrie and Vernon Pearson ruled that since the people in the duplex had attempted to close the drapes but quite succeed they mean for the public to look inside Chief Judge Edward Reed dissented He said the behavior was and they had a legitimate reason to learn how many people they would have to deal with He also cited a 1973 Court of Appeals ruling that said police acted correctly in looking in the motel room window of a man later convicted of heroin possession The majority disagreed saying that people can reasonably expect to have more privacy in their own home than they can in a motel room.