n Daily-Saturday, June 14, 1980-Page 5

SOT ELMIRE HAS kept the Cougar, Washington general store open following the May 18 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
But she and about 20 other persons were evacuated Thursday night after the volcano erupted again, sending chunks of
pumice onto houses in Cougar.
 Volcano spews molten
debris over 7-m ie area

One killed,
five hurt
in Ypsi GM
accident
YPSILANTI (UPI)-One worker
was killed and five others injured
yesterday in a construction accident at
General Motors Corp.'s Willow Run
assembly plant, GM officials said.
The accident occurred as a construc-
tion crew was pouring a concrete floor
for a plant addition designed to in-
crease material storage space at the
facility, a GM spokesman said.
"A BOOM BEING used in getting the
concrete from the truck to the floor
gave way, apparently," the spokesman
said.
Killed in the accident was Duane
Beck of Saline, an employee of
Emanuel Co., the Detroit-area contrac-
ting firm building the plant addition,
GM said.
The injured, who were taken to St.
Joseph's Hospital in Ann Arbor, in-
cluded four other Emanuel Co. workers
and a GM construction staff engineer,
the spokesman said.
THREE OF THE men-identified as
construction workers Charles Cooper
and Calvin Oliver, both of Ann Arbor,
and Chuck Veal-were treated and
released, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Hospitalized in fair condition was
Emanuel employee John Biachowski
of Wyandotte. The GM engineer, Ervin
Warnick, was hospitalized in good con-
dition, the spokeswoman said.
Authorities were investigating the
cause of the accident, which shut down
construction work 'for the day at the
site, GM said.
At one time, platinum was gold-
plated to make counterfeit gold coins. It
was almost impossible to detect the
fraud by weight because the density of
both metals is almost the same.

FromAPand UPI
Molten debris surged out of Mount St.
Helens yesterday covering the
volcano's slopes for seven miles with a
400-degree fahrenheit shroud of deadly
rock, ash, and gas.
Authorities evacuated about 400 per-
sons living near the mountain. Another
1,000 Weyerhaeuser Co. employees
working in the area also were
evacuated.
THE UNPREDICTABLE volcano
pumped a plume of steam, ash, and
marble-size pumice 10 miles high late
Thursday night, giving some cities
their worst dusting yet. '
Portland Mayor Connie McCready
declared a limited state of emergency
and imposed a 15-mph speed limit. The
limit was lifted by mid-day after rain

and city crews washed the ash from
major downtown streets.
The volcano's third major eruption in
less than a month shot volcanic grit and
pumice over 4,500 square miles of nor-
thwestern Oregon and parts of south-
western Washington.
GEOLOGISTS EXPRESSED sur-
prise at- the force of the blast, which
dropped pebbles of pumice up to an inch
in diameter on Cougar, 10 miles south-
west of the mountain.
"It was a major eruption," Pete
Rowley, a U.S. Geological Survey
geologist said yesterday. "It is silent
for now, but it could do the same thing it
did last night again."
No injuries or deaths were reported
from the latest eruption.
The volcano's boiling crater

remained obscured in clouds for about
15 hours after the Thursday night erup-
tion. When the weather cleared enough
for scientists in a helicopter to get a
good look, Rowley said, the discovered
that a pyroclastic flow - similar to the
one that occurred when the mountain
first exploded like an atomic bomb on
May 18- had rolled out of a huge gap in
the crater's northern side into the Spirit
Lake and Coldwater Creek drainage
areas.
A SIMILAR deadly cover of heavy,
burning ash may have killed as many
as 70 people when the volcano first blew
nearly four weeks ago. Once a green-
forested area with the blue waters of
Spirit Lake at its heart, the area is now
a grey, ghostly zone where all the trees
have been smashed like matchsticks by
the volcano's force.
It was not believed likely that anyone
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Researchers: More blacks
suspended than whites

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So the teachers feel that any unpleasant
incident has to be acted upon firmly to
ensure these parents that their kids are
safe," Moody said.
MOODY AND WILLIAMS speculate
there is a lower overall rate of suspen-
sion in segregated schools. "There are
no racial overtones to worry about in a
segregated school," Williams said.
Moody added, "In an, all-white school,
the teachers probably feel they can
handle whatever situation comes up
without having to worry about provipg
they weren't racist, and they are less
likely to punish kids for fighting."
A misunderstanding of the way black
children communicate can also lead to
insubordination accusations, Moody
said. "It is typical for black children to
have a style of bantering back and forth
with adults," he explained. "A teacher
can misinterpret that to indicate a lack
of respect."r
Moody added ,all. teachers, black a nd ,

white-discipline black children dif-
ferently. "The structure of the system
determines its outcome," Moody said.
Disciplinary action is a reflection of a
teacher's social class, he said, not of his
or her race.
OVERALL, THE USE of suspension
as a disciplinary method has increased
over the years, the researchers said. In
the '60s, suspension became an
especially prevalent method of
discipline due to the backlash from
unrest on college campuses, Williams
said.
Today, the rate of suspension in
public schools is decreasing, according
to oublic school statistics.

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