1981 WOMEN’S
Symposium
EMU Dad’s Room 7:30 p.m.
NILAK BUTLER (INUIT)-American Indian Movement
and
NIOBEH -Black Women Musician
University of Oregon Women's Symposium
PRESENTS
May 19, Tuesday
EMU Dad’s Room
12:00 p.m.
MERLE WOO
• Instructor of Asian American
Studies, University of
California Berkeley
• Unbound Feet Collective
• Author
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As a tribute, on the anniversary of his day of birth, a skillfully
interwoven blend of old still photography and newsreel
footage of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam’s Founder.
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Loggers still work inside volcanos hazardous zone
KID VALLEY, Wash. (AP) - A year after Mt. St.
Helens devastated 150 square miles of forest, log
gers still swarm on the flanks of the unpredictable
volcano, harvesting the fruits of its destruction.
Drizzle splattered hundreds of loggers and their
groaning trucks Monday as they moved loads of the
fallen timber from the gray terrain.
At the University of Washington geophysics
center in Seattle, where the volcano’s seismic ac
tivity is constantly monitored, spokeswoman Chris
tina Boyko reported only minor activity recorded on
the instruments.
No one seemed nervous that the mountain
would repeat its May 18, 1980, explosion.
Robert Kalista, 49, of nearby Toledo sat at the
wheel of his log truck and shrugged, "The mountain
can’t do much more. It already blowed everything to
hell up there."
Many loggers in the mountain’s shadow know
they were spared a year ago only by fate. The
volcano erupted on a Sunday, when relatively few
people were in its destructive path.
"There probably would have been less than 10
percent of the work force left if it had blowed
Monday,” said Kalista. More than 400 people would
have been logging in the area, he estimated.
Big trucks with their loads of ash-encrusted fir
and hemlock rumbled along the wet narrow highway
past the Kid Valley general store and restaurant.
Bill Mattox, 31, of Centralia drove his truck down
from well inside the hazardous area encircling the
mountain. He said he doesn’t give much thought to
the possibility of another eruption.
"It don’t bother me a bit. You’ve got to go
sometime and I’ve got to work,” Mattox said.
State and local officials are concerned that the
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disaster potential won’t bother tourists, either.
Authorities are worried that sightseers will try to
get too close to the mountain on a network of logging
roads.
‘They’re coming and we’re really sweating it
out,” said Dave Guier, state emergency services
department red zone coordinator. The red zone is a
hazardous area roughly 10 miles around the crater
which can be entered only by those with special
permits.
It is sure to tempt tourists, who have driven
hundreds or thousands of miles for a glimpse of the
rumpled peak.
“We can’t let little Johnny Smith and his mother
from New York go up there and look at the mountain.
Safety is our prime concern," Guier said.
The state Legislature appropriated $1.89 million
specifically to beef up local law enforcement patrols
around the red zone, he said.
Another concern is possible looting of wrecked
cars and abandoned belongings in the devastated
areas, Guier said.
Relatives of the dead and missing would look
harshly at strangers prowling through the death
scenes, he said.
The restricted red zone around the volcano was
open Monday, although the U S. Geological Survey
research teams didn't venture into the crater
because of bad weather and the reduced monitoring
capability it creates, said USGS geologist Susan
Russell-Robinson.
Entering the red zone without a permit carries a
maximum $1,000 fine and one year in jail. But Guier
added, "There’s a possibility (a looter) would never
make it to a local judge and I’m not sure I’d blame the
families.”
The UO Bookstore invites you to meet the
distinguished Soviet dissident writers
Vladimir Voinovich & Vasily Aksyonov
Wednesday, May 20 1-2 p.m.
Upstairs in The Book Department.
The authors' appearances on campus are sponsored by the
Human Rights and Soviet Dissident Literature Symposium.
13th & Kincaid
Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30
Sat 10:00-2:00
BOOKSTORE Textbooks 686-3520 • General Books 686-3510 • Supplies 686-4331
limber industry rebuilds
! after St. Helens eruption
By KATHERINE MERRILL
Ol the Emerald
The eruption of Mt. St. Helens
left 152,000 acres devastated and
the timber industry with the enor
mous task of reconstructing its
woodlands, officials told students
Monday afternoon.
Rebuilding transportation
systems, salvaging damaged
timber and minimizing further
losses are the paramount
problems the logging industry
faces in the aftermath of the Mt. St.
Helens eruption.
Jim Rombach and Mike Bick
ford, both of Weyerhaeuser Com
pany, and Stan Humann of Bur
lington Northern discussed the
affect of the May 18, I980 eruption
on the timber industry as a part of
the symposium commemorating
the volcanic event.
Of the 152,000 acres affected by
the blast, 68,000 of that belonged
to Weyerhaeuser. The company
had one of the first helicopters into
the devastated area and aided the
military in the rescue operations
that followed the disaster.
Weyerhaeuser Company
claimed a $66 million loss of
equipment on their third quarter
earnings for 1981.
“We found parts of logging
trucks in the Columbia — an awe
some display of the power of
water,’’ Rombach said.
The company immediately start
ed repairs on the damage done to
the transportation facilities such as
bridges and roads and now is
sending in 800 loggers daily to
salvage part of the 75,000 acres of
downed timber. Their goal is to
complete salvage by the beginning
of 1982.
“Weyerhaeuser has accepted
these risks in the past and will
accept them again," Rombach
said. The company plans to replant
35,000 acres within the next four
years and already have begun that
project.
Burlington Northern, on the
other hand, has just recently been
allowed into their land because it is
concentrated in the “red zone’’.
The possibility of a catastrophic
fire or insect disease makes time
an important element. A
tremendous amount of storage and
stacking of logs is necessary in
order to keep the timber safe until
the economic side of the industry
can handle it.
There was a wide range in the
intensity of the ashfall, and the
effect it had on the lumber varied.
But the quality of the soil in the St.
Helens area generally is good, and
regrowth already is coming
through the debris. With a great
amount of research still to come
and immediate planning done alr
eady, the timber companies of the
St. Helens area say they fully intend
to manage the damaged land
successfully over time, the officials
said
Volcano symposium ends
in documentary film fest
A Mt. St. Helens film festival
documenting the mountain’s
violent past will highlight today’s
conclusion of the symposium “The
Sleeping Giant Awakes," comme
morating the first anniversary of
the May 18, 1980 eruption.
The symposium, sponsored by
the Outdoor Program, is intended
to inform the public about the
scientific, political and social
effects of the volcano that cap
tured the attention and fears of
people in the Northwest when it
awoke in a deadly blast a year ago.
The film festival will be held in
Outdoor Program Room 23 from
noon to 4 p.m.
The psychological effects of the
eruption will be discussed at 7:30
p.m. in 150 Geology by Tom Arthur
from the National Institute for
Mental Health.
Three Northwest journalists will
look at regional media coverage of
the blast in a panel discussion
beginning at 8:30 p.m , also in 150
Geology. Panel members will be
Greg Harriton of the Vancouver
Columbian, Les Zaitz of the Port
land Oregonian and Mark Gardner
of KOIN television in Portland.
Other planned activities include:
2- 2:45 p.m. — A chronology of
the May 18 eruption and a discus
sion of monitoring and predicting
future volcanic activity in the Ca
scades will be held in EMU Room
108. University Professor Emeritus
Don Hunter will give a slide
presentation called "Mt. St. Helens
and the Volcanic Cascades” in
Outdoor Program Room 23. Sur
vival Center Director Dave Daikh
will talk about ‘‘Avenues for Poli
tical Activism” in EMU Room 113.
3- 3:45 p.m. — A chronological
description of the effects on wild
life from the eruption will be
presented in EMU Room 111. Psy
chological counseling service for
the victims of Mt. St. Helens will be
discussed in EMU Room 112. The
chronology of the eruption and the
monitoring and predicting volcanic
activity presentations will be
repeated in EMU Room 108.
4- 4:45 p.m. The eruption’s
effects on wildlife presentation will
be repeated in EMU Room 111, the
political activism discussion will be
repeated in Room 113 and the
psychological counseling of
mountain victims presentation will
be repeated in EMU Room 112.
All discussions and film
presentations are open to the pub
lic and are free.
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