Page 14-Saturday, May31, 1980-The Michigan Daily Mountain reportedly developing permanent lava dome From AP and UPI VANCOUVER, Wash. - Glowing lava pushed to the surface in the mile- deep crater of Mount St. Helens yester- day, and geologists said it could be the first sign of a volcanic dome. That development would increase the chan- ces of more small eruptions but lessen the danger of another major ash fall. "I think we can feel pretty sure we're at the beginning of the lava dome stage," said Tim Hait, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. HAIT SAID the rising lava, estimated to be at 750 to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, was extremely thick and slow moving and was unlikely to flow overthe edge of the crater and down the mountain slope. The Cowlitz County coroner's office said, meanwhile that it would begin issuing "presumptiv6" death cer- tificates for the 55 people missing since the volcano's major eruption May 18. The official death toll stands at22. The air search for the missing was called off Thursday after officials ad- mitted the chances of finding any sur- vivors now were "nil." They also said they did not want to add to the death toll with a possible crash of a search crew on the dangerous mountain. TONIGHT and SUNDAY T"B R E DD SECOD CANCE q I a q SMOKE AND ASH COME pouring out of Mount St. Helens in Washington as the volcano erupts Thursday. The air search for survivors of the mountain's May 18 blast has been suspended, although 58 people are still missing. OFFICIALS BEEF UP SECURITY: Gays attend Mass. prom SUTTON, Mass. (AP) - School officials hired off-duty police for extra security yesterday and warned studen- ts of "very stern measures" if trouble developed as a homosexual couple prepared to attenda senior prom. Aaron Fricke, an 18-year-old senior at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island, obtained a federal court order allowing him to attend the event with Paul Guilbert, 18. Guilbert, who failed a year ago in a similar effort to bring a male date to the junior prom at Cum- berland High, moved to New York City where he finished high school.. BOTH YOUNG MEN planned to wear tuxedoes to the dance at the Pleasant Valley Country Club across the state line in Sutton, Mass. School principal Richard Lynch, who last month vetoed Fricke's prom plans, said the school hired a half-dozen off- duty policemen to patrol the dance. Officials said reporters and photographers would be barred from the ballroom and entrances to the building. "WE DON'T WANT to chance the possibility that television lights could incite violence," said superintendent Robert Condon. "We have a court decision, and we will abide by it completely," Lynch ad- ded. "We've added more chaperones than we'd normally have, somewhere in the vicinity of 25." The principal said he told the studen- ts to "forget about events that have happened to this point and just go out to have a good time" at the dance. LATE THURSDAY, a federal ap- peals court in Boston upheld U.S. District Judge Raymond Pettine's ruling that Fricke could bring a male date to thesprom. Pettine ruled Wednesday in Fricke's favor, saying his right was protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amen- dment. He said Cumberland school of- ficials were required to provide adequate security. Drinking and driving "is the biggest safety factor, not me and my friend," Fricke said before the dance. "Drinking and driving could kill them." Fricke, the slightly built son of a har- bor pilot, was punched in the eye by another student after his court battle became public. "I think 99 per cent of the seniors are with me and aren't out to stifle gay progression," he said. 6 SLOW DOWN, you move too fast. San Jose residents to vote on gay rights SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - In the nation's first referendum on gay rights in nearly two years, residents of San Jose and Santa Clara County will decide next Tuesday whether to ap- prove laws banning discrimination against homosexuals. Polls and persons on both sides of the issue say the referendums on the June 3 primary ballot will be decidednarrowly. BUT GAY RIGHTS leaders are hoping to sustain momentum gained in 1978 when California voters rejected Proposition 6, a statewide referendum that called for the firing of homosexual public school teachers. Anti-discrimination ordinances were approved by both the San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors last summer. But enforcement of the laws was suspended after petition drives forced them onto the primary ballot. The two measures differ slightly in wording, but both would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orien- tation and provide protection in jobs' and housing. THE ORDINANCES are patterned after a gay rights law in San Francisco, where an estimated one in seven of the city's 680,000 residents is homosexual. An estimated 10per cent of Santa Clara County's 1 million residents are homosexual. About 600,000 people live in San Jose. Moral Majority, of Santa Clara Coun- ty Inc., the group that led the petition drive that forced the ordinances onto the ballot, has spent more than $100,000. It says it received a $30,000 contribution from Anita Bryant's Protect America's Children Inc., which was instrumental in repealing a gay rights ordinance in Dade County in 1977. However, the issue has failed to generate as much political interest as-it 6 a I SAVE GAS!l 3 'y y 'i . ~ -'a~~~~s 4 {"i d4 'ax ' r ~ ' + i .