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HSTITATTE& HL- OIB- BY, rCoTf. cr." , COLUMBIA, MO. 652rfi 74th Year - No. 3 Good Morning! It Thursday September 17, 1981 2 Sections - 14 Pages 25 Cents Saving Msgy Beta House family plays model role By James A. Baggett Missourian staff writer Anne Walker is living an experiment Last August, Ms Walker and her three daughters moved into an old frame house that the Beta Institute, a community development non- prof- it cor-poration, is refurbishing When completed, the house will serve as an example to the community of what can be done to make use of alternative energy sources and conserve energy in many of Columbia's older homes " It's like living an experiment in that we'll have very concrete data ( on en-ergy savings) for a typical family," Ms Walker said. " We want to provide a place for people to come and see what one can do with a home like this " Our purpose is to be a community demonstration of the rehabilitation of an older home and yard," Ms Walker said " I like neighborhood feelings and people with a vested interest in the place they live. I don't feel that people locally are being shown ways to build low- technolo- gy, energy- savin- g homes " The Beta House, as it was christened, is located at 1408 Windsor St and is par-tially funded with a grant of $ 17,000 from the Community Development Commis-sion. The institute will finance the rest of the $ 38,000 project with the skills and la-bor ox its members and the community The institute originated as a group of students, instructors and alumni of Ste-phens College who are interested in per-suading others to consider their goals in life. " It's an elusive idea about the real-ly important things in life," Ms Walker said. Onginaliy, the group had hoped that no one would have to live in the house Stuart Ro Anne Walker lives in the Beta House, equipped with a solar water preheater. and that it could remain open to the pub- h- e But the need for rent and firsthand information concerning costs and e ery- da- y use of the new facilities required a tenant " I was looking for a home anyway, and I'm willing to put up with the hassles of open houses, workshops and budding difficulties," Ms Walker said Work on the house has progressed as planned The floors have been rebuilt with new insulation and the bathroom is being completed with new fixtures A group of students from Stephens planted a vegetable garden this summer and a bed of marigolds grows along the front sidewalk where weeds once flourished But the need for further work is evi-dent in the stacks of new insulation that are piled on the front porch " We plan to lower the ceilings and add 12 inches ( 30 centimeters) of insula-tion," Ms Walker said. ' We hope to es-tablish a high ' R- raun- g' or resistance factor. That's the way one measures the resistance of material to cold or heat" The demonstration project is designed to show cost- effecti- ve solutions to com-mon problems such as heat loss Most heat is lost through windows, doors and the floorboards, Ms Walker said One proposed insulating feature is called a " bead wall," in which beads of Styrofoam are placed between panels of wood or glass The beads can be raised into or lowered from the ceiling with a vacuum cleaner motor installed for that purpose. The beads are lowered for bet-ter insulation or raised to allow the sun's rays to enter Other energy- savin- g features will in-clude a solar greenhouse, a domestic so-- Stuanftoft This home, christened the Beta House, is being refurbished for en ergy efficiency with funds from the Beta Institute, a non- prof- it cor poration When the project is completed next year, the house should be the epitome of energy conservation in the Columbia area lar water heating system, a wood- burni- ng stove and moveable insulation for the doors and windows The institute tnes to hold down costs by using local materials instead of or-dering them from around the country " The main thing I would say to some-one who wants to know more about solar projects is to know what's applicable," Ms Walker said. " We're talking about people with low carpentry skills who need to know whether their houses have the right facilities They can use re-cycled materials, a little creativity and takeansk " Once the project is completed, regular tours will be scheduled and Ms Walker will be available to explain costs and the reasons each feature was installed Ms Walker said the project will not be completed until sometime next year " This is a long- ter- m project with no deadlines," she said. " We have a chance to do several things intelligently " Who can win at the game of All Savers? By Brad Lehman Missourian staff writer President Reagan's tax- cu- t bill created All Savers certificates, but experts say only high- inco- me savers will benefit The experts use an equation to determine who will benefit, and potential AH Savers in-vestors can use it, too Calculating the feasibility of an All Savers investment is relatively easy. Dodie Douglas of American Tax Service is sending her cli-ents a letter explaining bow to figure wheth-er a certificate or another type of investment is their best bet Mrs Douglas uses an equation to figure out interest: the All Savers interest rate ImsigM ( 12.61 percent) divided by your income per-centage left after taxes. Let's say you are married and have a net taxable income of $ 29,090 a year. Your tax bracket the highest marginal tax rate you must pay is 32 percent ( If you don't have the 1980 tax booklet, the Internal Revenue Service and tax advisers should be able to find your tax bracket for you ) You have 68 percent left after taxes ( 100 percent minus 32 percent equals 68). Now, divide 12.61 by 68, and you have 1854, or 18.54 percent This is the percentage rate you would have to receive from a taxable in-vestment to equal the All Savers yield. " You have to compute the formula every time the rate changes," Mrs. Douglas said. " You may calculate the interest rate based en your last return, unless ' Mom' went back to work or " Mom quit work " The break- eve- n point of All Savers certifi-cates versus other investments falls at about the 30 percent tax bracket, said Herb Freer, public affairs officer for the IRS. For couples to be in mat bracket, they must earn be-tween $ 23,000 and $ 30,000 net taxable income ( See CERTIFICATES, Page 10A) House panel gives county doughnut plan By Tanya Barrientos and Curt Vosti State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - The House Reapportionment Commission Wednesday adopted its final plan to re-draw Missouri s 163 legislative districts, including the creation of a new ' doughnut" district in Boone County Rejecting County Clerk Chris Kelly's alternate plan, commissioners voted 17-- 0 to create a new 24th District encircling Colum- - bia Kelly had Boone County wanted the new V district, added be- - a cause of Boone JL County's expand- - U , Ulg population, to I Con- mss- cr be located south of 1 pfooos the city i Jim Dickerson, 1 - the Republican commission mem-- iHiwhi'wiiiiiihiiiiiimiiW ber from Camden County who de-- t-- nyir jr- rcr5- nC TL signed the dough-- yi" 1 T fiCZl nut plan, said it N gL I JawB would preserve s JUf the Boone Coun- - t j ty's rural voting "-- " "" . power by keeping s ' -- " s. most city voters ' within the dis-- s tncts of Republi-can Reps Larry " N j Mead and Harold Reisch i Under the . Jj doughnut plan, the new district will contain approximately 90 percent rural voters Kelly, a Democrat, has accused the commission of gerrymandering redrawing district boundnes to fa-vor one political party with the new plan ' They've taken gerrymandering to a new dimen-sion,' he said Wednesday " I think they did us a signifi-cant disservjee ' However, some rural politicians reacted favorably to the doughnut district's adoption I'm not unhappy with the decision," said Tom Som- er- s, a member of the Boone County Democratic Central Commitee from rural Cedar Townshio " My feelings very definitely would be that residents of my township would favor a district more ruralmmakeup." Under Kelly s plan, her township would have been in-cluded in a new 24th district comprised of 60 percent ru-ral voters but including the western portion of Colum-bia ' I personally don't want to live in a district that is dominated by Columbia's 4th and 5th wards, and I think the voters of Cedar Township would feel the same way," she said ' It's oka with me it's just fine," said Grace Ed-wards, from Columbia township and chairwoman of the Boone County Republican Central Committee Kelly said his plan would have put her township into Reisch's redrawn district, which would have been about 40 per-cent rural voters Rocheport Mayor David Kerndge was " enchanted" at being included m the new rural district, though he said Kelly's plan also would have suited hirp Rocheport residents currently reside in the district of Rep Bill ( See OPPONENTS, Page 10A) Reagan wants more cuts in benefits New YorkTimes WASHINGTON President Reagan is considering proposals for new cuts in federal benefit programs, including a one- tim- e, three- mont- h postponement of cost- of- livi- ng raises for recipients of Social Security begin-ning Oct 1, 1982, administration officials said Wednesday The officials said Reagan also was consid-ering a similar three- mont- h deferral of cost- of- livi- ng raises in civilian and military pay, food stamps, pensions and some other auto-matic benefit programs These and other steps would be aimed at saving " several bil-lion dollars" in the fiscal years 1983 and 1984, and would also slightly reduce the surging federal budget deficit in 1982, an official said Aides to Reagan said the president had op-posed making changes now in Social Securi-ty or other benefit programs for fear of pro-voking new fights in Congress But the aides said Wednesday that the president bad be-come convinced that he could not meet his new budget- cuttin- g goals without reducing Budget ax aims at Social Security benefits m the so- call- ed entitlement pro-grams Meanwhile, the House of Representatives, in a holding action, Wednesday approved by a vote of 281 to 107 a one- mon- th extension in government funding, giving the administra-tion additional time to press for a new round of budget cuts for the fiscal year 1932, which begins Oct. 1 The action was needed to keep the govern-ment operating beyond Sept 30, when the current fiscal year expires, because not one of the 13 individual appropriations bills for the next fiscal year has been approved by both houses of Congress " We ought to have things kind of on hold up here until we see what the White House sends up," said Rep. Robert H. Michel of Illi-nois, the Republican leader, after the vote It was a day of intensive negotiations be-tween Republican leaders in Congress and administration officials, who trooped to Ca pitol Hill for meetings The visitors included David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget and chief architect of the budget cuts, Treasury Secretary Don-ald T Regan, James H Baker, the White House chief of staff, and Max Fnedersdorf, the White House assistant for congressional liaison Stockman told a group of Republican sen-ators that the White House would not object if they took the initiative in proposing deeper cuts in military spending The administra-tion has proposed a $ 2 billion reduction from the $ 188 8 billion proposed in the 1982 budget The senators had urged an additional $ 2 bil-lion to $ 3 billion in trims The entitlement programs are now being closely looked at by the administration be-cause of projections that the budget deficit for 1982, projected at $ 42.5 billion by Reagan in July, could soar to as high as $ 80 billion if additional cuts are not made " It's hard for most of us here to figure out how we can find the dollars we need without looking at entitlements," said a White House official, echoing the point made in recent days by the Senate Republican leaders One possible way to circumvent the need for such legislation would be to postpone for three months a cost- of- livi- ng increase for So-cial Secuntv recipients In addition to differing with the White House on where the cuts should be made, Re-publican legislators also disagree on the leg-islative vehicle The White House had active-ly considered placing the new budget cuts in an omnibus appropriations bill, which would allow for an all- or- nothi- ng vote Republican leaders m Congress, however, regarded that strategy as a circumvention of the appropriations committees in both houses and a threat to Congress as an institu-tion Michel said mat Wednesday's close vote on the appropriation bill for Housing and Ur-ban Development funds meant that the Dem-ocrats lacked the votes to override a threat-ened presidential veto Eureka! Underwater volcanic vent spews out treasures REDWOOD CITY, Calif ( UPI) A gov-ernment research ship has returned with a treasury of samples from an undersea volca-nic vent off the Oregon coast spewing out sil-ver, manganese, copper, zinc and even gold. When the vent was discovered during a 10- d- ay voyage of the oceanographic vessel S. P. Lee, the project scientific leader, William Normark, sent back a one- wo- rd announce-ment- " Eureka " The 208- fo- ot ( 62 4- met- er) Lee had been sent by the UJS Geodetic Survey to an area, called the Juan de Fuca Ridge, on mere sus-picion of what could be found The actual discovery came quickly An un-derwater camera system located a hot water vent 8,000 feet ( 2400 meters) deep, and a 1- mete-r- wide dredge brought vp a couple of toss of basaltic material containing 20 pounds ( nine kilograms) of exotic minerals. The volcanic vent was the first discovered off the UJ5. coast. Similar vents were found in 1977 off the Galapagos Islands In 1978 vents also were found along the East Pacific Rise off Mexico Scientists said the Oregon vents probably exist one mile ( 1 6 kilometers) above molten lava Sea water descending into the earth be-comes heated, turns acid and leaches out minerals. As the water rises, the minerals are depos-ited on the ocean floor in an environment that produces strange and unidentified deep- se- a plants and animals. When the ship docked Tuesday, Edward Clifton of the geodetic survey called such volcanic vents one of the major geologic dis-coveries of the decade. The Oregon samples were thought to be less than 10,000 years old and some of them less than 100 years old. Clifton said such min-erals could exist throughout the 3,500- mil- e ( 5,6004olometer) length of the Juan de Fuca Ridge For geologists, the Oregon offshore miner-al factory is a chance to see geology in ac-tion. It presents an opportunity to learn how commercial ores are formed and where min-erals might be found in more accessible places The Oregon find was not considered feaswle for commercial mining because of its great depth. Technology already exists to swoop up manganese nodules, rich m cobalt and nick-el, from the sea bed with systems operating like vacuum cleaners However, exploitation of such deposits has been impeded by some engineering problems and unresolved ques-tions of international law J I Ii& towra to&& y I 9: 30 aan. County Court meets, court I chambers, fifth floor, County- Cit- y I Building I Is& sicie tiy Leonard victorious Sugar Ray Leonard won undisputed claim to the welterweight boxing title with a technical knockout of Thomas Heams at 1 45 of the 14th round Wednesday night in Las Vegas See Pages 1-- 2B index Basfoesn .......... ........... 8A Classified .............................- 7- A VPmHHl M. MWWMWMW. Wm4A Sports .... lBEt Theater 4B L. !
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Item.Transcript | HSTITATTE& HL- OIB- BY, rCoTf. cr." , COLUMBIA, MO. 652rfi 74th Year - No. 3 Good Morning! It Thursday September 17, 1981 2 Sections - 14 Pages 25 Cents Saving Msgy Beta House family plays model role By James A. Baggett Missourian staff writer Anne Walker is living an experiment Last August, Ms Walker and her three daughters moved into an old frame house that the Beta Institute, a community development non- prof- it cor-poration, is refurbishing When completed, the house will serve as an example to the community of what can be done to make use of alternative energy sources and conserve energy in many of Columbia's older homes " It's like living an experiment in that we'll have very concrete data ( on en-ergy savings) for a typical family," Ms Walker said. " We want to provide a place for people to come and see what one can do with a home like this " Our purpose is to be a community demonstration of the rehabilitation of an older home and yard," Ms Walker said " I like neighborhood feelings and people with a vested interest in the place they live. I don't feel that people locally are being shown ways to build low- technolo- gy, energy- savin- g homes " The Beta House, as it was christened, is located at 1408 Windsor St and is par-tially funded with a grant of $ 17,000 from the Community Development Commis-sion. The institute will finance the rest of the $ 38,000 project with the skills and la-bor ox its members and the community The institute originated as a group of students, instructors and alumni of Ste-phens College who are interested in per-suading others to consider their goals in life. " It's an elusive idea about the real-ly important things in life," Ms Walker said. Onginaliy, the group had hoped that no one would have to live in the house Stuart Ro Anne Walker lives in the Beta House, equipped with a solar water preheater. and that it could remain open to the pub- h- e But the need for rent and firsthand information concerning costs and e ery- da- y use of the new facilities required a tenant " I was looking for a home anyway, and I'm willing to put up with the hassles of open houses, workshops and budding difficulties," Ms Walker said Work on the house has progressed as planned The floors have been rebuilt with new insulation and the bathroom is being completed with new fixtures A group of students from Stephens planted a vegetable garden this summer and a bed of marigolds grows along the front sidewalk where weeds once flourished But the need for further work is evi-dent in the stacks of new insulation that are piled on the front porch " We plan to lower the ceilings and add 12 inches ( 30 centimeters) of insula-tion," Ms Walker said. ' We hope to es-tablish a high ' R- raun- g' or resistance factor. That's the way one measures the resistance of material to cold or heat" The demonstration project is designed to show cost- effecti- ve solutions to com-mon problems such as heat loss Most heat is lost through windows, doors and the floorboards, Ms Walker said One proposed insulating feature is called a " bead wall," in which beads of Styrofoam are placed between panels of wood or glass The beads can be raised into or lowered from the ceiling with a vacuum cleaner motor installed for that purpose. The beads are lowered for bet-ter insulation or raised to allow the sun's rays to enter Other energy- savin- g features will in-clude a solar greenhouse, a domestic so-- Stuanftoft This home, christened the Beta House, is being refurbished for en ergy efficiency with funds from the Beta Institute, a non- prof- it cor poration When the project is completed next year, the house should be the epitome of energy conservation in the Columbia area lar water heating system, a wood- burni- ng stove and moveable insulation for the doors and windows The institute tnes to hold down costs by using local materials instead of or-dering them from around the country " The main thing I would say to some-one who wants to know more about solar projects is to know what's applicable," Ms Walker said. " We're talking about people with low carpentry skills who need to know whether their houses have the right facilities They can use re-cycled materials, a little creativity and takeansk " Once the project is completed, regular tours will be scheduled and Ms Walker will be available to explain costs and the reasons each feature was installed Ms Walker said the project will not be completed until sometime next year " This is a long- ter- m project with no deadlines," she said. " We have a chance to do several things intelligently " Who can win at the game of All Savers? By Brad Lehman Missourian staff writer President Reagan's tax- cu- t bill created All Savers certificates, but experts say only high- inco- me savers will benefit The experts use an equation to determine who will benefit, and potential AH Savers in-vestors can use it, too Calculating the feasibility of an All Savers investment is relatively easy. Dodie Douglas of American Tax Service is sending her cli-ents a letter explaining bow to figure wheth-er a certificate or another type of investment is their best bet Mrs Douglas uses an equation to figure out interest: the All Savers interest rate ImsigM ( 12.61 percent) divided by your income per-centage left after taxes. Let's say you are married and have a net taxable income of $ 29,090 a year. Your tax bracket the highest marginal tax rate you must pay is 32 percent ( If you don't have the 1980 tax booklet, the Internal Revenue Service and tax advisers should be able to find your tax bracket for you ) You have 68 percent left after taxes ( 100 percent minus 32 percent equals 68). Now, divide 12.61 by 68, and you have 1854, or 18.54 percent This is the percentage rate you would have to receive from a taxable in-vestment to equal the All Savers yield. " You have to compute the formula every time the rate changes," Mrs. Douglas said. " You may calculate the interest rate based en your last return, unless ' Mom' went back to work or " Mom quit work " The break- eve- n point of All Savers certifi-cates versus other investments falls at about the 30 percent tax bracket, said Herb Freer, public affairs officer for the IRS. For couples to be in mat bracket, they must earn be-tween $ 23,000 and $ 30,000 net taxable income ( See CERTIFICATES, Page 10A) House panel gives county doughnut plan By Tanya Barrientos and Curt Vosti State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - The House Reapportionment Commission Wednesday adopted its final plan to re-draw Missouri s 163 legislative districts, including the creation of a new ' doughnut" district in Boone County Rejecting County Clerk Chris Kelly's alternate plan, commissioners voted 17-- 0 to create a new 24th District encircling Colum- - bia Kelly had Boone County wanted the new V district, added be- - a cause of Boone JL County's expand- - U , Ulg population, to I Con- mss- cr be located south of 1 pfooos the city i Jim Dickerson, 1 - the Republican commission mem-- iHiwhi'wiiiiiihiiiiiimiiW ber from Camden County who de-- t-- nyir jr- rcr5- nC TL signed the dough-- yi" 1 T fiCZl nut plan, said it N gL I JawB would preserve s JUf the Boone Coun- - t j ty's rural voting "-- " "" . power by keeping s ' -- " s. most city voters ' within the dis-- s tncts of Republi-can Reps Larry " N j Mead and Harold Reisch i Under the . Jj doughnut plan, the new district will contain approximately 90 percent rural voters Kelly, a Democrat, has accused the commission of gerrymandering redrawing district boundnes to fa-vor one political party with the new plan ' They've taken gerrymandering to a new dimen-sion,' he said Wednesday " I think they did us a signifi-cant disservjee ' However, some rural politicians reacted favorably to the doughnut district's adoption I'm not unhappy with the decision," said Tom Som- er- s, a member of the Boone County Democratic Central Commitee from rural Cedar Townshio " My feelings very definitely would be that residents of my township would favor a district more ruralmmakeup." Under Kelly s plan, her township would have been in-cluded in a new 24th district comprised of 60 percent ru-ral voters but including the western portion of Colum-bia ' I personally don't want to live in a district that is dominated by Columbia's 4th and 5th wards, and I think the voters of Cedar Township would feel the same way," she said ' It's oka with me it's just fine," said Grace Ed-wards, from Columbia township and chairwoman of the Boone County Republican Central Committee Kelly said his plan would have put her township into Reisch's redrawn district, which would have been about 40 per-cent rural voters Rocheport Mayor David Kerndge was " enchanted" at being included m the new rural district, though he said Kelly's plan also would have suited hirp Rocheport residents currently reside in the district of Rep Bill ( See OPPONENTS, Page 10A) Reagan wants more cuts in benefits New YorkTimes WASHINGTON President Reagan is considering proposals for new cuts in federal benefit programs, including a one- tim- e, three- mont- h postponement of cost- of- livi- ng raises for recipients of Social Security begin-ning Oct 1, 1982, administration officials said Wednesday The officials said Reagan also was consid-ering a similar three- mont- h deferral of cost- of- livi- ng raises in civilian and military pay, food stamps, pensions and some other auto-matic benefit programs These and other steps would be aimed at saving " several bil-lion dollars" in the fiscal years 1983 and 1984, and would also slightly reduce the surging federal budget deficit in 1982, an official said Aides to Reagan said the president had op-posed making changes now in Social Securi-ty or other benefit programs for fear of pro-voking new fights in Congress But the aides said Wednesday that the president bad be-come convinced that he could not meet his new budget- cuttin- g goals without reducing Budget ax aims at Social Security benefits m the so- call- ed entitlement pro-grams Meanwhile, the House of Representatives, in a holding action, Wednesday approved by a vote of 281 to 107 a one- mon- th extension in government funding, giving the administra-tion additional time to press for a new round of budget cuts for the fiscal year 1932, which begins Oct. 1 The action was needed to keep the govern-ment operating beyond Sept 30, when the current fiscal year expires, because not one of the 13 individual appropriations bills for the next fiscal year has been approved by both houses of Congress " We ought to have things kind of on hold up here until we see what the White House sends up," said Rep. Robert H. Michel of Illi-nois, the Republican leader, after the vote It was a day of intensive negotiations be-tween Republican leaders in Congress and administration officials, who trooped to Ca pitol Hill for meetings The visitors included David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget and chief architect of the budget cuts, Treasury Secretary Don-ald T Regan, James H Baker, the White House chief of staff, and Max Fnedersdorf, the White House assistant for congressional liaison Stockman told a group of Republican sen-ators that the White House would not object if they took the initiative in proposing deeper cuts in military spending The administra-tion has proposed a $ 2 billion reduction from the $ 188 8 billion proposed in the 1982 budget The senators had urged an additional $ 2 bil-lion to $ 3 billion in trims The entitlement programs are now being closely looked at by the administration be-cause of projections that the budget deficit for 1982, projected at $ 42.5 billion by Reagan in July, could soar to as high as $ 80 billion if additional cuts are not made " It's hard for most of us here to figure out how we can find the dollars we need without looking at entitlements," said a White House official, echoing the point made in recent days by the Senate Republican leaders One possible way to circumvent the need for such legislation would be to postpone for three months a cost- of- livi- ng increase for So-cial Secuntv recipients In addition to differing with the White House on where the cuts should be made, Re-publican legislators also disagree on the leg-islative vehicle The White House had active-ly considered placing the new budget cuts in an omnibus appropriations bill, which would allow for an all- or- nothi- ng vote Republican leaders m Congress, however, regarded that strategy as a circumvention of the appropriations committees in both houses and a threat to Congress as an institu-tion Michel said mat Wednesday's close vote on the appropriation bill for Housing and Ur-ban Development funds meant that the Dem-ocrats lacked the votes to override a threat-ened presidential veto Eureka! Underwater volcanic vent spews out treasures REDWOOD CITY, Calif ( UPI) A gov-ernment research ship has returned with a treasury of samples from an undersea volca-nic vent off the Oregon coast spewing out sil-ver, manganese, copper, zinc and even gold. When the vent was discovered during a 10- d- ay voyage of the oceanographic vessel S. P. Lee, the project scientific leader, William Normark, sent back a one- wo- rd announce-ment- " Eureka " The 208- fo- ot ( 62 4- met- er) Lee had been sent by the UJS Geodetic Survey to an area, called the Juan de Fuca Ridge, on mere sus-picion of what could be found The actual discovery came quickly An un-derwater camera system located a hot water vent 8,000 feet ( 2400 meters) deep, and a 1- mete-r- wide dredge brought vp a couple of toss of basaltic material containing 20 pounds ( nine kilograms) of exotic minerals. The volcanic vent was the first discovered off the UJ5. coast. Similar vents were found in 1977 off the Galapagos Islands In 1978 vents also were found along the East Pacific Rise off Mexico Scientists said the Oregon vents probably exist one mile ( 1 6 kilometers) above molten lava Sea water descending into the earth be-comes heated, turns acid and leaches out minerals. As the water rises, the minerals are depos-ited on the ocean floor in an environment that produces strange and unidentified deep- se- a plants and animals. When the ship docked Tuesday, Edward Clifton of the geodetic survey called such volcanic vents one of the major geologic dis-coveries of the decade. The Oregon samples were thought to be less than 10,000 years old and some of them less than 100 years old. Clifton said such min-erals could exist throughout the 3,500- mil- e ( 5,6004olometer) length of the Juan de Fuca Ridge For geologists, the Oregon offshore miner-al factory is a chance to see geology in ac-tion. It presents an opportunity to learn how commercial ores are formed and where min-erals might be found in more accessible places The Oregon find was not considered feaswle for commercial mining because of its great depth. Technology already exists to swoop up manganese nodules, rich m cobalt and nick-el, from the sea bed with systems operating like vacuum cleaners However, exploitation of such deposits has been impeded by some engineering problems and unresolved ques-tions of international law J I Ii& towra to&& y I 9: 30 aan. County Court meets, court I chambers, fifth floor, County- Cit- y I Building I Is& sicie tiy Leonard victorious Sugar Ray Leonard won undisputed claim to the welterweight boxing title with a technical knockout of Thomas Heams at 1 45 of the 14th round Wednesday night in Las Vegas See Pages 1-- 2B index Basfoesn .......... ........... 8A Classified .............................- 7- A VPmHHl M. MWWMWMW. Wm4A Sports .... lBEt Theater 4B L. ! |