European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday May 5,13s6 one Bell of a Job Nobrt gift a Denver Chimney sweep takes a break from Normal duties to clean the inside of Ibe Bells at the school of theology in denier. San Francisco up the Bil  Missouri kill sail under the Gold Iiri Gale Bridge tuesday for a Rcck minissian in ceremony and Brier get acquainted visit with its future Home Purl san Francisco. Navy fans fire enthusiastic about san Francisco getting the huge warship but some citizen groups still Hope to reverse i tie decision to base the ship Here. The Missouri presents on awesome sigh with 45,000 tons displacement a Duck three football Fields Long and a floating platform carrying nine 16-Inch guns capable of shooting 2700 Pound shells 26 Miles. Whatever its future role on the High seas. The Missouri is already an important piece of history. On its leak deck the japanese foreign minister surrendered sept. 2, 1945. In of co Bay to formally end world War 11. The Missouri s Short visit in san Francis co May not end a healed controversy be tween mayor Diarre Feinstein. Who lob bied to gel the ship and other political leaders who waged a fight to keep it away. California democratic representatives Sala Burton. Ron podiums and Don Edwards ill opposed the Missouri s Home port ing in san Francisco Bay. Critics fear it will make Trie area More of a target in nuclear War and say the ship s cruise missiles will be nuclear armed something the Navy will neither confirm no deny. Anti War groups claim the Missouri is an escalation of the arms race and have prom ised to continue. I hair opposition. Helen cold col a nuclear freeze proponent re turned in protest a key to the City Given her two years earlier. But the mayor prevailed nonetheless winning out against the cities of Long Beach and Honolulu which campaigned to get the Missouri and the jobs accompany ing it. The ship will Deport monday i flair 13, far Lang Beach where it was modernized. Three years of preparation in san Francisco Are ahead before the Missouri and the four destroyers in its group actually take up per manent residence in san Francisco Bay. Dick Side facilities roads and Crew housing have to be built. The Missouri Battle group will bring More than 5,000 naval personnel 1.000 de Pendents and 500 new civilian jobs that might add s50 million to s60 million annually to the local Economy. In 944 the Missouri was christened by Margaret Truman and the mighty to Wax her in participate in the iwo Jima and Okinawa offensives against the japanese. A suicide plane crash Afore the Quarter deck but the Only fatality was the Kamikaze Pilot. During the korean War the Missouri cruised unchallenged up and Down the coastline of Korea and came to be called the Best infantry weapon the army Ever  1955 it was decommissioned and pre served at the puget sound wash., naval shipyard. During the Mothball period 180,000 people visited the ship each year. The decision to reactivate the Missouri along with three sister battleships the Jowa the new Jersey and the Wisconsin came in 984. The Navy said the s475 Mil lion Cost of refurbishing the ship was the same As the Cost of a new guided missile  in addition to the 16-Inch guns plus six 5-Inch gun twin mounts the 30 knot Missouri hits the capacity to carry 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles for Distant land targets and 5 Harpoon missiles for use against enemy ships. In 1944 crewmen slept in hammocks. Now the Crew of 1,600 has sleeping spaces with mattresses air conditioning and to Devi sub of probe Atlantic geysers 2 Mes deep Washington a a team of scientists is preparing to dive More than iwo Miles into the Atlantic Ocean to make the first studies of minerals and life forms around recently discovered geysers. Previously thought to exist Only in the Pacific Ocean the Atlantic geysers were discovered but summer by shipboard instruments. They will now be sampled and viewed by scientists for the first time. The first close up studies will be con ducted in dives in the research submarine Alvin scheduled Between mid May and mid june said or. Peter Rona anode anon Raphur with the National oceanic and atmospheric administration in Miami. The big discovery was that they were there in the Atlantic Rona said. Such hot vents known As Black smokers had been found Only in the Pacific Ocean and their discovery in the Atlantic opens up the possibility for these in More than half the world s oceans Rona said it s not just that these things Are spectacular. They concentrate critical Mineral deposits on the sea floor Copper Zinc and possibly Silver and Gold As Welt As having a. Very important chemical Impact on the composition of the oceans Rona said. Rona said he. Or. Geoffrey Thompson of Wood s Hole Oceano graph Institute and or. John Edmund of the Massachusetts Institute of technology plan several dives to View the vents and Lake samples of the chemical Laden water in their Vicinity and to study the fish and other forms of life nearby. The vents Are located about 1,800 Miles East of Miami along the mid Atlantic Ridge a submerged Mountain Range where material is Welling up from inside the Earth to create new sea Fleer at the rate of about an Inch a year. The Bottom of the Ocean does not con Tain water like a swimming Pool docs. It s fractured full of cracks. In most cases the sea water just soaks in. But in some cases where submarine volcanic Mountain ranges exist the water is heated expands be comes lighter and rises. The hot water Dis solves metals and other chemicals from rocks and discharges them As geysers we Call Black smokers Rona explained. It s very much like old faithful going off under 12,000 feet of water tit said referring to the noted Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. When they hit the cold water the Dis solved chemicals crystallize forming the so called Black smoke at the vents lie said. The minerals can create a Deposit at the site or be carried away by current in addition to the minerals. Rona explained thousands of shrimp clams and Worms live near the Vonu eating bacteria that feed on chemicals in the hot water. The result he said is a food Chain that exists without Benefit of Light something once thought impossible. Before the discovery of the vents in the Atlantic scientists had believed that these Phenomena occurred Only in the More rapidly growing Sta floor of Llie Pacific. In that Ocean the floor is spreading As much As 10 inches a year Rona said. Best Sellers compiled by the new York times fiction. 1a perfect spy by John la Carrej the Bourne supremacy b Roberl Ludlum 3-h la take Manhattan by Juditth Kranzl 4break in by Dick Francl i the Mammoth Hunters by Jan m. Ami Lake Wobegon Days fir Garrick a Tumir i lie Down with Lions in pm Folk Rel 8home front by a sell Davit  Maureen so Range Foiter i seasons of the heart by Cynthia Freeman 10joanna s husband and Pavid 5 wife Byell Label porn let Halton ii the songs of Distant Earth by Arlhur a Clark ii High Jinx by Duani f. 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Despite the great depth of water Rona suggested that recovery of the Mineral de i posits found near the vents could be consid ered a resource for the future. Questions of ownership would have to be worked put since these vents Are located in International Waters he said