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Erupting volcano's lava threatens Hawaiian village
KALAPANA, Hawaii (UPI)-Civil Defense officials yesterday ordered the evacuation of a Hawaiian village threatened by a 100-yard-wide river of lava surging toward it from Klauea Volcano.
Scientists said the lava flow could reach Kabapana, a community of 50 families near the Kauma kaimba sand hills on their tourist attraction, by midday today.
island of Hawai'i Civil Defense Director Harry Kim called the fiery flow a serious, potential threat to Kalapaun residence residents to move to safe ground.
THE LAVA was pouring down Liliana at a rate of 10 feet a minute from skyrocketing eruptions shooting over 600 feet into the air. Scientists at the volcano observatory said the flow could speed up as the force of the eruption builds.
"The situation is serious," Gordon Eaton, chief observatory scientists, told an emergency meeting of Kalaplan residents. "The lava flow is just under three miles from the water and it has a choice of two gullies.
If it takes the western one, it will come down where we are now standing. The other one will take it off to the east. We have no reason to believe the flow will
Kim said 12 National guard trucks would help with the evacuation, along with the Red Cross, county police and county public works employees.
"IT LOOKS very frightening," said
geologist Dan Durisin after flying over the flow. "It's one of the most incredible sights I've ever seen."
The last major destructive flow was in 1908, when lava from Kilauea wiped out the village of Kapoño, 10 miles northeast of Kalapana, causing $5 million damage.
But as with most Hawaiian eruptions, the lava flow moved slowly enough to give residents plenty of time to flee.
Dzairisun the advancing edge of the lava flow steepens itself and then avalanches down as the flow rolls down the hill.
"ABOUT 200 to 300 meters up from there, toward the vent, the lava is flowing at a very high rate of speed, especially where it rushes around islands that have formed in the flow," he said. "It's an incredible sizzle."
The volcano has been erupting without stop for three days, following earlier tentative flows that started Sept. 13 but produced only sporadic pouncings.
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"Our instruments indicate there's a lot more new lava still stored in the rift." Drusiris said. "There is every indication that this is the major phase of the eruption and the hypothesis is that it will continue."
Twice since Sep. 13, lvae had headed for Kalapana, only to harden a few hours later, and scientists have steadily returned to predict what Kilauea would do
Kiluaes, the smaller of Hawaii's active volcanoes, rises 20,000 feet from the ocean floor on the island of Hawai'i at the southeast end of the Hawaiian chain.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter signed an $11-billion farm bill yesterday, hailing it as a boon to farmers and consumers alike.
Carter signs $11-billion farm bill
Carter said at a Rose Garden ceremony that as a farmer himself he was pleased to sign what he termed the most far-reaching agricultural legislation in 40 years.
The new law boosts grain farmers' incomes, revamps the federal food stamp program, expands agricultural research and continues and revises virtually every statute administered by the Agriculture Department.
Although the food stamp and price support sections will be costly to taxpayers, the new law is expected to make it easier.
The legislation contains about $2 billion more than Carter had originally requested. However, he said the final compromise amounted to $300 million more than he had in mind.
Congress and the Ford and Carter administrations worked nearly three years to prepare the federal budget for the 1970s. Heralding it as a cooperative venture, the President praised members of Congress of both parties, nurseries and insurers for helping to制定 the final product.
The law tightens food stamp eligibility requirements for families with incomes
above the official poverty level and increases age to families with incomes under 18 years.
Carter and the revised food stamp plan was simple, fair and easy to administer and is designed to work.
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