Page 14-Saturday, August 9, 1980-T Texans evacuate as Allen approaches mainland BROWNSVILLE, Texas (UPI) - Hurrican Allen, a monster storm that "fills up the Gulf of Mexico," boiled toward the Texas-Mexico coastline yesterday with an awesome fury that was expected to grow. Thousands of Texans boarded up their property on the coastal barrier islands and fled inland. Allen, slowly regaining lost strength, pulled loose from the Yucatan penin- sula and bore west by northwest at 18 mph. Forecasters said that path would bring it ashore between Brownsville and Corpus Christi by Saturday after- noon. CIVIL DEFENSE Director Ken Keller in Aransas Pass on the north side of Corpus Christi Bay ordered the evacuation of the city's 7,000 residenta by midnight because of expected 4- to 6- foot tides. He said most already had left during the earlier voluntary evacuation of the county. "We're so low and sitting on a penin- sula, if tides got over 4 feet we're marooned," Sheriff Bob Hewes said. "The roads are packed north and west, but people are leaving in an orderly fashion." In a cautionary move, Louisiana's lower Cameron Parish, population 6,000, was ordered evacuated by Civil Defense officials. Director Pete Picou said he expected 95 per cent compliance by nightfall. ALLEN HAD surged into the Gulf as the second largest Atlantic hurricane ever after sideswiping Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and the Yucatan, claiming 92 lives and causing millions of dollars in damage. But the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula slowed its winds from 185 mph to 135 mph. Small crafththroughout the western Gulf, from the Mississippi River to Mexico's Bay of Campeche, were ad- vised to stay in port, and the Miami Hurricane Center upgraded its hurricane watch to a hurricane war- ning for the entire Texas coast._ Mexican authorities took the same precaution for the relatively un- populated northeastern Mexican coast. "It's not chugging along on a direct path, but is still wobbling back and for- th," said forecaster Paul Herbert in Miami. A Hurricane Center forecaster said if Allen did intensify, "we would expect it to slow down and turn right," en- dangering the central and north texas coasts. TONIGHT at MAGN ANE HURRICANE ALLEN swirls 365 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas, at 2:00 p.m. EDT yesterday, as it continues on its northwesterly course toward the U.S. mainland. Although the storm reportedly lost a little steam during its pass over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, its winds are estimated at 135 m.p.h. and are increasing over the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say they can 0 predict Helens From UPI and AP BUT U.S. Geological Surv VANCOUVER, Wash. - Volatile tists and seismologists, w Mount St. Helens trembled with small monitored the ravaged volcai earthquakes and burped plumes of first began acting up in March steam and ash skyward yesterday warning in time to safely following its fifth big eruption, but several hundred geologists, F scientists expressed confidence they vice firefighters and loggers can now predict any further major ex- the volcano's "red plosions. Officials, now confident The volcano boomed with two distin- scientists' early warning watc ctive blasts Thursday that sent ash tive, lifted a 20-mile restricti clouds as high as eight miles into the the base of the mountain an sky and spilled super-hot gas and loggers, firefighters and sci pumice over the rim of its huge crater. approach within 12 miles of th Bell bargainers try to avert, walkout VI N. n h, w el io is if to WASHINGTON(SP) - Amid strike warnings from union leaders, the chief bargainers for the Bell System and the Communications Workers of America huddled with federal mediators yester- day in an effort to avert a threatened weekend strike by 700,000 telephone workers. Sources said the top bargainers met Thursday and again yesterday with chief federal mediator Wayne Horvitz after CWA officials complained that the two sides remained far from settling on a new contract before a midnight Saturday strike deadline. The sources asked not to be identified. HOWEVER, A spokesman for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. clung to his optimistic prediction that bargainers would agree on new con- tracts before the deadline. -Publicly, the CWA charged that the company has not made an economic of- fer since an initial wage proposal was rejected by the CWA and two other unions on July 30. However, labor sources disclosed that the company made an improved economic offer to the( following day, but union b again rejected the package. THE SECOND OFFER wJ secret, the sources said, that unions bargaining with Bell d out about the proposal until TI The first offer amounted t cent wage increase over thr in the first year, just under 7 in each of the next two years, plus a maximum of 6 per ce living increase. I The union contended that particularly the cost-of-livin was unacceptable in the fac cent annual inflation. THE COMPANY'S subseq included a 9% per cent first-y 2 per cent in each of the years plus unlimited cost raises that would provide wo: about 80 per cent of the actua in the official inflation rate. If inflation were to run at 10 year, the wage package w more than 30 per cent over thr eruptio0ns 'ey scien- "It doesn't appear to be a significant vho have eruption by any means," said Jan no since it Simmons of the Forest Service. , issued a THERE WERE NO earthquakes and evacuate the "harmonic tremors" which orest Ser- preceded Thursday's eruption tapered vorking in off after midnight and ended by 6 a.m. zone." yesterday, said Christian Boyko, a that the geophysics spokeswoman at the h is effec- University of Washington. on around Harmonic tremors are flurries of d allowed rhythmic vibrations, unlike the jolts of entists to earthquakes, which scientists believe e crater. signal the movement within the volcano of magma or molten rock. The repeated eruptions are becoming commonplace to some Washington residents. "WE DON'T GET as upset as we used to," said Lee Thomas, acivil deputy with the Skamania sheriff's office in Stevenson, about 30 miles southeast of the volcano. CWA the "We still go on an alert because you argainers never can tell if it will be more than light ash. It was bound to happen after as kept so so many repeats. two other "It doesn't create quite the feeling lid not find among people it used to," she said. 'ursday. "They don't become quite as concer- o a 25 per ned." ree years: THURSDAY'S ASH fall was con- per cent; siderably lighter than that produced by 2 per cent the May 18 eruption that blew 1,300 feet nt cost-of- off the conical summit of the 9,677-foot mountain in southwestern Washington. the offer, Officials said Thursday's eruption was ceiling, similar to ash eruptions on May 25, g ofe14ipg, June 12 and July 22, but that it was the eof 14 per least forceful. The May 18 blast killed 31 people and uent offer left 33 others missing and presumed year raise, dead. next two Art VanBuskirk, of the National Cen- t-of-living ter for Disease Control, said from rkers with volcano watch headquarters that repor- l increase is of light ash fall came from 130 miles - north of the volcano at Monroe, more per cent a than 200 miles northeasterly in Omak, ould total and 50 miles southwest in the Portland, -ee years. Ore. area.