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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
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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--
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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
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( 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 ' --
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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
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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
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