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.♦♦♦< state Battalion/Page 9 April 16, 1982 Battalion/Pages April 16,13821 , --awcv* ..i’... . ,-. r cjr - ■ - ■ —... -:.4 '> '■ Gulf states ‘in ashes’ from Mexican volcano mm United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A cloud of volcanic ash that last week co ated cities in Texas and Louisiana hovered over the Gulf of Mexico Thursday, reducing aircraft visibilities and posing a threat to people with respiratory problems. The ash will remain in the air as long as prevailing weather systems continue to push it northward from a burping vol cano in Mexico (in El Chichonal, southwest of Mexico City), said National Weather Service fore caster David Barnes. “It’s fairly evident we have a good deal of the ash over the middle and western Gulf and in much of Louisiana at this time,” Barnes said. “As long as this volcano spews this ash out, with this season where we go into a prevailing southerly flow, the central and west Gulf states have a potential for ash to be blown into the area.” Barnes would not comment on the density of the cloud or whether it posed a threat to health. The ash would irritate anyone with respiratory problems, said American Lung Association Louisiana spokesman Ben Fon taine. “Any kind of particulate that’s in the air is going to cause a re spiratory irritation to those peo ple who have a chronic lung dis ease,” he said. “It just depends on how heavy the concentra tions are.” Reports of lung ailments caused by the ash probably will surface in the next 72 hours, Fontaine said. Spokesmen for an offshore helicopter leasing service and Texaco Inc. said the ash had not limited their flights. “We have people flying out in the Gulf now and visibilty out there is five to seven miles,” said Pat Sims with Helicopter Char ter Inc. A pilot had reported the cloud at 4,000 to 8,000 feet, Barnes said, but he added it probably would move down ward and could reach the earth’s surface. Gulf states will continue to be bothered by the ash as long as the volcano remains active. * •.?< Dreaming a dream of Casino staff photo by John Ryan Jiiles Holmes, right, a senior animal science major from Arlington, and Travis Stice, a sophomore etroleum engineering major from Midland, [encourage ticket sales for tonight’s Casino, [ sponsored by the Residence Halls Association, [asino, Aggieland’s version of Las Vegas, kicks off Parents’ Weekend by providing the setting to gamble against Lady Luck without the risk. Tickets are still available for $3 today at tables set up across campus. Tickets at the door of Casino the Memorial Student Center will sell for $4 tonight. aff photo by EiWl i graphics iring in cl he Delta company giveth, ncle Sam taketh away at 676 mega*® ima will get available potd percent - « Kansas and Lout not generateaml tricity, will eati| 5 megawatts tp f Arkansas'alw tly the amopitll .eynolds for.M at Arkadelpl»| petition, wi eel byallofArl mal delegation, > reopen the In cation for juments: nsas governmei ently werenevf' lie allocation fi lie reconsii Metals and M id Light liibi privately, M ot. nanufactureofi n tant to nation; PA should have South Central! rative, whichsol a “preference d included lit 'SsofReynoldsi lip to Arkansas . detriment tol it — one ofilxj of the SPA. I illocation fontf 1 megawatts Ark ic to receive fi he Arkansas^ n Corp. es — Augusta,! irksville, Joneslj tt and Paragol e left in the fois ey are consra ” customers, if the state I United Press International ■lYLER — Employees of the Delta Drilling Co. are finding that what the company giveth, the government taketh away — aij much as half. B Last March, Delta rewarded 87 longtime employees for their hkalty by dividing $53 million among the workers on the basis of vears of service and salary. [ The average bonus was $612,000, but the workers agreed to take 70 percent of the bonanza in stock, valued at $17150 per share in March 1981. I Since then, Delta stock has plummeted more than 60 per cent, to less than $7 per share, blit the Internal Revenue Ser vice is more interested in gains than in losses. The IRS views the workers’ windfall as ordinary income and because few of the Delta em ployees had the means to take advantage of loopholes, they owe taxes on the securities they received a year ago, regardless of their worth now. “As the price of the stock be gan to erode, their tax liability did not,” said Robert L. Hamp ton, Delta’s manager of investor relations. For Homer Stokes, 27, that means a tax bill of as much as $178,000 on the $840,000 bonus he received. Others faced even larger tax hills. Herman Smith, 59, met his $300,000 check to supplement tax obligation by selling three- the $200,000 withheld for taxes quarters of his stock before it from the $971,000 windfall he plunged and sent the IRS a received. us driver stabs an during fight, eturns to work United Press International K HOUSTON — Passengers on a Metro bus are used to delays. So, when a bus driver left his vehicle to chase a passenger who hn him, the riders patiently waited for their driver to return. | Lee A. Kellough, 33, who has been bred from the Metropoli tan Transit Authority, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of aggravated assault. He was Tplaced on probation for three Aears and ordered to pay $2,000 ao his victim. Prosecutor Elaine Bratton Said Kellough last January had passed a side street where Rov Robinson Jr., 25, was waiting for the bus. Robinson said when the bus failed to stop, he hitched a ride in a car to the next bus stop and got on the bus. Robinson be rated Kellough for passing him by and then the two began arguing. Kellough said Robin son struck him and he chased the passenger down the street. Kellough said he then stabbed Robinson. Police said Kellough was back behind the wheel driving his busload of passengers to their destinations when they arrested him. B. L. Shane's Lake view Club The Very Best In Country-Western Music and Dancing" Friday Live ROCK-N-ROLL! by OZ Unescorted Ladies Free!.' Cover $3.00 Saturday Plight The One and Only DARRYL McCALL! 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