European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 13,1986 ship s Booty divvied up to investors key West Fla. A shareholders in Mel Fuller s 16-year quest for a Spanish Galleon that Sank off key West in 1622 Gol their share of the treasure on thursday dividing up More than $100 million Worth or ancient Gold Silver and jewels. "1 bought a dream and 1 always knew it was there it s a dream come True exclaimed Leah Miguel a curator with Fisher s treasure salvos inc., who received a Gold bar and two emeralds. All right. Of boy i Sec Copper Silver. Lots of Silver Silver Silver Silver bars. More Silver coins j think Ihal we can handle this. This is wonderful Dick Cloudt Captain of one of the Salvage ships said As he saw a list of his share of the Cache. Fisher began searching 16 years ago for the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha off key West the southernmost Point in the United slates. The ship and its Load of treasure bound for Spain Sank in the Gulf of Mexico during a i622hurricane. Fisher s divers found the treasure Cache on july 20, 1985, since then they have recovered 177 Gow ban 900 Silver ban thousands of Tuini and artefact Tea continue bringing up treasure from the sea Bottom. The ancient Booty was divided among shareholders with the help of a modern invention. A computer was used to assign Points to the do investors and employees which were Given to every artefact on 2,700-Page inventory. The computer ran for 2vi Days. When it stopped thursday the division was Complete raid Beth Mchaley vice president of treasure salvos inc. At about 12 4s . The computer stopped punt ing and flashed on the screen division Complete congratulations treasure salvos and about the same Lime about 25 or 30 Champagne Cork popped. People moved out of the computer room and they just went bananas Mchaley said. Investors received Booty based on i hair investments of Al least $ 1,000, while Many employees received trea sure in lieu of wages. She said i investors could expect a . Home construction tumbles slowest since november 1985 Chicago tit Burn graph la Solace Massachusetts Institute of technology and Harvard univ Faity Washington ult construction of new Homes slowed loan annual rate of 1,680,000 in september plunging 7.6 percent from the revised August rate of i a i i ,000, the Commerce Depan Mcnol said Friday based on More Complete data housing starts in july were revised Down to 1.782,000,1.8 percent below the june figure. The Pace then increased by 2 percent Ina gust before dropping off sharply last month. Housing activity in september was the slowest since november 1985. When it was 1,654,000. The percent age decline was the Slac pcs since May of this year when starts fell by 8.2  estimated actual number of Homes begun in sep tember was 155,400, Down from 166,200 in August the number is adjusted for seasonal differences and extended for 12 months to arrive at the annual rate. Both single and multifamily Home building suffered in september. Free standing Homes were completed Al an annual rate of  16,000, Down from 1.199,000 the previous month to the lowest level since december 1985.housing units in buildings intended for five or More families were started at a Raic of 502.000. Down from5 j 1.000 in August to the lowest level since february 1985, the gloomy report said. For inc first nine months of this year starts totalled an estimated 1,425,800, up about 8 percent from 1.324,100 Over the same period last  housing activity continues Al the same Pace through the end of the year they would Tola Somei 900.000 for 1986 As a whole. Starts totalled 1.741,800 in 1985.the relatively Swift Pace of housing activity in 1986 is due largely to a drop in mortgage interest rates to he 10 percent Range. If starts do not fall off sharply Over inc next three months. 1986 will be the strongest year for the housing Industry since 1978. Building permits were issued at an annual rate of 613000 during the month 3.6 percent below the revised August rate of 1.673,000. That represents the slow Sci Pace of permit issuance since october 1984, students not puzzled by rubik Philadelphia a two University of Penn Sylvania students have solved the latest Puzzle devised by inc inventor of rubik s cube and a Peci to have their solution in bookstores before Erno rubik s own solution Book is out. This is beyond our wildest dreams said Blair Whitaker who wrote the solution Book for rubik s magic with fellow engineering graduate student Ash win blur. We re not going to be millionaires bul for to College students we re going to clean  we want to gel on Ute night with David letter Man " said Belur 22, of Bethesda my. Dell publishing co agreed to publish the students 32-Page solution Book filled with pictures and diagrams. In two weeks 500,000 copies will be available in bookstores around the country. I Don t like that said rubik. 42, who was told of the students Book during a promotional Stop thurs Day in Philadelphia. Rubik has written his own Solu Tion Book which is due for release Early next year. Rubik s magic has More than 43 Quio Liolion combi nations that s 43,000,000,000,000.000,000 yet Only one solution. Rubik began working on it about a year ago. We Are prepared to sell millions he said adding 15.000 up zilch sold in 10 Days at a recent toy Lair i Budapest. The hungarian professor sold More than 100 million of his rubik s cubes in the Early 1980s. The new Puzzle has eight shiny Plisic squares shaped in two rows of four similar in shape to a Legan size in Setope. Iii item on the squares in Rainbow col ors Are three unconnected rings. The Challenge is to rearrange the squares so that the rings Are intertwined. Whip Akcer and Belur began their efforts after Belu saw an and for the new Puzzle. At the Campus Library Thev Learned rubik s cube Solus too books sold 10 Mil lion copies. They ordered the new Puzzle from manufacturer Matchbox toys and Gol in about three weeks ago on a monday. In took us about 50 hours to solve  said who Laker 25, of Detran. No we Sal in our offices at and worked. We took a lot of notes. We Drew pictures and kept records. By wednesday night we solved it and by Friday we had an agent 20-10-j average Ream. The computer which randomly assigned than non the shareholder did not Aswan Fisher valued Gold items of any of the  Mettey said. She said be received Over ban Worth 4 percent of the treasure or about w million. Fisher who owned 5 percent of the treat Flat donated i percent of hit share to the fledgling my in or maritime heritage society in key West. Tit Egnatty received the largest Emerald in the Cache 77.7 or ats estimated to be Worth St million said Mehaley. Who has been with the company is years and received about 1,000 pounds of Silver bars. Treasure salvos inc. Is sending treasure list to investors not present thursday and expect to Nave ids treasure distributed from in key West vault by the de of february. They Are going to get a return beyond their wildest dream Mchaley said stateside fire guts vacant store that was City landmark Providence . A a suspicions fire thursday gut cd a vacant department store building a downtown landmark Ihal was to have been convened into a retail residential Complex no serious injuries were reported in the Blaze which broke out about 6 30 . Al the 95-year old Gullet building. But the fire forced the evacuation of Soo Johnson a Wales College students from a nearby dormitory and dense Blade smoke snarled traffic on interstate 95 and 195. The fire was brought under control i Only after noon. Penn honors co inventors of computer built in 1946 Philadelphia at a co inventor of the first All electronic general purpose computer visited the University of Pennsylvania to help the College Mark the 40th anniversary of the device and said computers Are still in their infancy. J. Presper Eck it vice president and technical adviser to Sperry corp. Joined others who helped build the 30-ton computer at Penn in 1946."we Are still very much at the beginning of this thing to a greater Culet than people might realize.,. You be still got robots ahead of you yet said  made his remarks before addressing a Spe Cial convocation where Penn awarded four honorary doctorates. Highest Price expected for Cosby show reruns new York a the bidding begins oct. 27 in new York for rights to repeat telecasts of the the Cosby show Viacom enterprises announced thursday calling it the most powerful programming Opportunity in the history of Televik  Are looking for the highest Price we can achieve for the  Joseph d. Zalaski president of Viacom Domestic syndication open lion to d a news conference. The show which has. Ranked no 1 to to time period for 107 consecutive weeks and  s Rise to no. I in network ratings will be available for repeat broadcasts beginning in sep tember 19bb. Company settles suit by employee with aids Boston a a 31-Yeapotd Telephone repairman with aids who has been out of work for More than a year said thursday he is return ing to his Job As part of the it Lemeni of a jul million suit against Bis employer. The agreement also provides that new England Telephone co. Educate employees about the fatal disease Paul Conan his lawyer David Casey Anthee a Rte Romny Aid in a statement medical adv sin for both Yamei have found he is medically Able to return to work Slid Casey who said Crenan Herawi report wat major Factor in Cronan s resuming a Job