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Show THURSDAY. APRIL 14, 1977 AID CORAL STUDIES Brief s Sunken Warships In The Pacific Massive air raids in the. Pacific 32 years ago pre helping scientists to for-Sou- th DR. EARLE told him their task would be to locate and tag the largest corals we can find Well also mark and measure small corals and return later to see how much they've grown. . mu Home Decor Quality In Bridgerland Square HM51 : N. Main Logan, Utah - - 753-(JGC- ii am. V4 The scientist catalogued several new species of plants pft. . NEED A SEPTIC TANK - NE MAKE OUR TANK WE NIU. TANK FURNISH DELIVER ONLY AND OR DO INSTALL TANK AND IAGIH0E ALL WATER LINES - "KEEP IDAHO based planes pounded Truk during World War II, they laprovided the coral-ringe- d goon with scores of new reefs sunken Japanese transports, warships and supply 20US24U8 AND Giddings . - . vertebrates. Seeing how the coral softened the grisly relics of war, National Geographic Soo.ety she concluded: The sea tends her graves well." MUZZLED BY CORAL, a tank sits on the encrusted deck Japanese transport at the bottom of Truk Lagoon. Knowing the date some M ships were sunk in World War II bombing raids on Truk, biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle is able to record the growth rates of marine organisms covering the sunken fleet. WORK. CLEAN AJ reef-dwellin- g of a OWEN CASPERSON CONSTRUCTION PRESTON r .r - JOI. WHOLE and obtained useful information on coral growth, food chains, and the habits of fishes and in- V By ALSO DO WATER . They were startled by some of their finds, which includeci a tree of black coi-a- l and another more than five feet across that grew life a chrysanthemum on a ship's deck gun. To gain insight into shortterm growth rates, I cleared a number of areas on several ships to bare metal," Dr. Earle writes. In time the living mantle that I removed will be replaced, and growth rates based on a new starting point can be established." REFLECTIONS Bath The nation's new secretary Treasury, W. Michael Blumenthal, believes it is possible to balance the Federal budget but not without' the right kind of economic' policies. It is essential, he of the scuba diver who as a teenager had watched the destruction of the Japanese ships caught in the lagoon. learn more about coral mation. When Amerirpn carrier- - Remodeling or Building? Lighting THE BUDGET GAP GREEN" craft. Last year, marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle visited the now quiet waters to study marine growths on the drowned fleet. In the May National Geographic, Dr. Earle describes how she and underwater photographer Al Giddings made repeated dives to the shattered ships, collecting and cataloging samples of the coral that has transformed the wrecks. SWOOD JJiNT LOOKING coral-encruste- UP AT the mast and d yardarm of Fujikawa Maru, towering in 70 feet of crystal blue water, Dr. Earle felt as though she were in a vast said, to put our many underutilized resources to work jobless people and unused plant and equipment, which now is 20 per cent idle. If that is done carefully and well, there will be enough additional produc- INSULATION tion to keep inflation down, Mr. Blumenthal said. We will generate enough revenue from a higher level of activity to close the Federal budget gap." For fiscal 1977, which ends ,Sept. 30, the deficit is expected to exceed $50 billion. The gross Federal debt now is about $645 billion. TOOLING UP THE ECONOMY WELL DO IT FOR YOU OR DO IT YOURSELF BY RENTING More business investment is needed, not only to stimulate the economy in the near term but also to provide tools for workers AN INSULATION BLOWER FOAM tools badly needed for longer-ter- BRUCE ALLSOP m economic growth and high employment in the future." Dr. Richard L.. Lesher, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. FOR WALLS INSULATION 311 EAST 7th SOUTH, LOGAN 752-098- 9 BOOT SALE ienced diver, she led a team of five women who spent two weeks in 1971 in Tektite II. 26 Styles In Stock the habitat scientists placed, reef at the bottom of Great Lameshur Bay in the Virgin Islands to test the ability of researchers to live and work underwater. on a Reductions on ovory Rod Wing Boot Dr. Giddins, who has made some 35 dives to the sunken Italian liner Andrea Domain the Atlantic, has filmed a widely acclaimed television documentary, Search for He will the Shinohara. spend this summer at Ber- ond Shoo in Stock I (EMMS! 8EMHQ3 muda filming underwater scenes for the movie of Peter Benchleys book, The Deep." At Truk, Dr. Earle and Al Giddings enlisted the aid of Kimiuo Aisek, a.Trukese TforrnrflftniTBnThrnr.iffm QbiotThri . submarine cathedral. 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