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Cbc CIationteD0ct jackson daily news 3 1 Sunday, June 18, 1978 Section Dreamy Solution to Summer Heat Leads to Poet Temp Engineers A A SOLAR ZOO is soon to begin construction in the desert lands outside the gambling mecca at Las Vegas. Twenty five domes from Mon terey Domes Company of Riverside, California will comprise the main exhibit area of the con-pletely solar powered zoo. By MELVIN MADDOCKS Christian Science MonilorNews Servtc A friend who feels a little guiltier each summer about using his air-conditioner became overheated the other night and dreamed a vision, as he sees it, of an honorable cooling solution. In his dream a group of former air-conditioning engineers, as worried as he about kilowatt-consumption, were staging a conference to seek an "alternative cooling system." It happened to be an extraordinarily hot day for mid-June. The wltering engineers, determined to keep their fingers off the button of you-know-what, were desperately fanning themselves with computer cards strapped to their pocket calculators.

Suddenly, beneath the open window, a passerby was heard to say: "I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore." The words had a remarkable effect on the men in the room. "I feel five degrees cooler," the youngest engineer cried. "Seven degrees, to be exact," an older colleague corrected him, looking at his pocket thermometer. That one limpid line from William Butler Yeats, it was later calculated, had been worth the equivalent of 5.000 cooling BTL's. The two senior engineers had the presence to run after the poetry-quoter, and though they took three blocks catching him, they were no hotter after the run than before, thanks to repeating Yeats again and again.

The poetry-quoter and a number of his friends former English majors who had been cooling themselves for years by their recitationswere more than delighted to cooperate in a systematic development of the method they had stuled upon intuitively. And so was founded the organization known as Poet-Temp Engineers. Inc. At first the overeager engineers assumed that, for their purposes, the "colder" the poetry got, the better. Tests were run with subjects in a Turkish bath repeating Robert Southwell's line: "As I in hoary winter's night stand shivering in the snow." The line had a 4 CWC (Cold Word Count), But, oddly, the cooling effect was disappointing, lagging far behind Yeats, or, for that matter, a mere 2-CWC quote from Andrew' Marvell green thought in a green The English majors and engineers soon learned that there was such a thing as too-cold poetry.

The temperate Shakespearean line, "Fear no more the heat o' the sun," provided splendid relief in about three cases out of four. On the other hand, the cold Shakespearean quote, "When icicles hang by the wall," numbed without cooling. And so the laws of verse-cooling gradually evolved. Poet-Temp Engineers discovered, rather to their amazement, that one did not have to give up Dante's Inferno for the summer, though, regretfully, a list had to be drawn up, warning against reading certain works at a temperatures above 85 degrees. For instance, Blake's "Tiger, tiger, burning bright." Or George Seferis's "A Word for Summer." One of the control-tests had a nasty time after reading: "There will remain the yellow desert, summer, waves of sand receding to the final circle a drum's beat merciless, endless." All poems dealing in the mataphor of Apollo's chariot also had to be banned, which the English majors said was no great loss.

So much for the "hot" poeUs. As for the "primal coolers" those who tested out as the best heat-wave beaters they fell into two groups. The surprise category consisted of Chinese poets. Even the titles "A Green Stream," "Cooler Weather" were worth a portable air-conditioner. And those images! jade-white dew, blue mountains, rivers seeking the snowy sea.

Wordsworth was found to be a generally cooling breeze from the lake district, with many a "green dale," "bower," "sportive wood," and "shady haunt." But on a real August scorcher Poet-Temps discovered there was nobody like a good 17th-century English garden poet. John Donne on "Twickham Garden." Henry King with his "fresh and spruce" flowers. Above all, Marvell again with his superb gift for slumping the reader "at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy foot." Call him a dreamer, but our friend woke up cooler, and convinced that with the Oxford Book of English Verse and a little Debussy on the turntable, he could make it to September "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," in Keats' words. Or as a real primal cooler, Emily Dickinson, put it: "A little this side of the snow And that side of the haze." Daring Man It was at America's first World's Fair in 1854 that the elevator industry was given a boost. To prove that his new "safety hoist-er'-as really safe, Elisha Graves Otis was raise! on a platform high above a crowd in New York's Crystal Palace.

To the spectators' amazement, he then ordered the rope cut. The falling platform was checked by Otis' new safety device in a matter of seconds. Bowing to the applause of the crowd, Otis calmly pronounced, "All safe, gentlemen, all safe." The first escalator was patented as an elevator when the patent application of Charles Seeberger and Otis Elevator Company was rejected because there was no classification for the term. One year later, in 190, "escalator" became the registered trademark. In 1950.

due to popular usage of escalator to denote a moving stairway, the patent office ruled that it was in the public domain. The word became Otis' contribution to the English language. Aardvarks to Live in Solar Desert Domes LAS VEGAS, Nevada Wild aardvarks, bats, reptiles and bighorn sheep will soon be housed in the round at the new Las Vegas Valley Zoo. The zoo is being built of solar powered geodesic domes in the desert land outside the world renowned gambling mecca. The zoo will use 25 domes on 250 acres of the Floyd R.

Lanb State Park as a showcase of desert animals of the world. This startlingly new idea in zoos is the brainchild of zoo director Herb Em-merson. The domes are well suited to the zoo's conservation philosophy. They are simple to construct, use building materials efficiently, are energy savers, and readily adapt to solar collectors. The small Las Vegas Zoo staff of zoologists, educators, keepers, and maintence crew will construct the domes and erect the solar collectors by themselves.

Both the domes and the collectors come in ready to assemble kit form. A bank of solar collectors, along with ribbons of triangular collectors across the face of each dome will provide the energy source for heating and cooling the buildings and for the hot water for culinary use. The collectors may very well be a drawing attraction in themselves. Emmerson states he chose the domes for his zoo because, "Like the desert's barrel cacuts, the dome has the least amount of surface area per unit of volume. Thus, just as the barrel cactus allows little loss of moisture, so does the dome allow little loss of cooled or heated air." Other reasons for his choice are the does are earthquake resistant strength, low cost, and ease of construction.

Funding for the dome zoo will come from the Zoological Society of Nevada, a non profit citizens' group. The first dome to be completed will look like a cave and will house the bat exhibit. Some future domes will be sun shelters for visitors. From inside th domes they will observe the wildebeest, bighorn sheep, coyote, ostrich and other arrid climate animals in outside exhibit areas. Some later domes will house reptile exhibits, nocturnal animals in reverse photo periods, offices, food concessions and restrooms.

A Pink Suit on a Leading Financial Authority? Humidity Isn't Cool It is an important function of air conditioning to eliminate excess humidity in summer. If your cooling system is oversized for the house it will short cycle. That is, it will cool the room too much but not remove moisture in the air, leaving the occupants with a clammy feeling. It is standard engineering practice, according to the Better Meating and Cooling Council to install air conditioning equipment to fit the needs of the house, or slightly less. Using small equipment and having it run longer longer won't cost any more to operate, and will give you the comfort you expect.

If a new unit is being offered which provides both heating and cooling, make sure it is sized correctly for the cooling requirements. Otherwise it will cost you more than necessary, and won't do the cooling job properly. background in economics and finance. "I had to plead to he-come a broker," she said. "Finally, a firm offered me a desk in the back office where I hadn.t much chance for responsibility or to meet the public." Desiring to get out of that back office and make her ideas known, Mrs.

VanCaspel began speaking on finance at women's clubs. Shortly thereafter she started offering public seminars which rapidly attracted a wide following. Along the way she also founded a stock brokerage firm, VanCaspel and the VanCaspel Planning Service. Her endeavors have made her a millionaire, a state which she believes is possible for many people to obtain, once they have learned to play what she calls "the money game." "It really is a game," she said. "Attitude and your approach to it count as it as anything.

In general, people are too uptight and closed-minded about their money. You have to learn to relax with it before you can successfully put it to work." by MARIA LENHART Christian Science Monitor Newt BOSTON Her soft Oklahoma drawl, perfectly coiffed blonde hair, and pink suit may not fit the commonly held image of a leading financial authority, but many investors consider Venita VanCaspel just that. The Houston-based Mrs. VanCaspel, president of her own stock brokerage firm, owner of a financial planning service, and first woman member of the Pacific Stock Exchange, has no trouble drawing both financial planners and the general public to her nationwide seminars that focus on her conviction that almost anyone can achieve financial independence. It was precisely this conviction, she says, that led her to the financial planning profession and to the completion of her recently released book, "The New Money Dynamics," a sequel to her best-selling "Money Dynamics," which contains updated information on tax laws and inflationary trends.

"We're a nation of financial illiterates," said Mrs. VanCaspel in an interview during a recent trip to the Boston area. "Ninety-five percent of all Americans reach retirement age flat broke. They were taught how to earn a living, but not what to do with a dollar once they got it." According to Mrs. VanCaspel, there are five basic reasons why people reach age 65 without adequate financial support: The failure to begin saving money early enough.

(She estimates that a 25-year-old investing only $10 a month at an annual rate of 12 percent compounded can accumulate $100,000 by retirement age. A 35-year-old would need to invest $30 a month and a 55-year-old $425 to yield the same amount. The failure to set a fi- nancial goal. Ignorance of the kinds of investments needed to achieve that goal. Paying unnecessary taxes through insufficient understanding of tax laws.

Too heavy an investment in life insurance. (She recommends life insurance only as a means of protecting survivors. Her major recommenda- ANOTHER MILES tion for achieving financial 'independence'is to invest 10 percent of a gross income into carefully selected mutual funds, stocks, commercial real estate, or an oil or gas limited partnership yielding an annual return of at least 12 percent. Anything earning less, such as a bank savings account, she feels, cannot keep pace with current inflation rates and therefore actually causes the investor to lose money. "Inflation is the Robin Hood of our era," she said.

"It takes from the ignorant and gives to the well-informed. If the money you save grows only at the rate of 5 to 7 percent, it's a guaranteed loss. "I particularly discourage four- and six-year certificates of deposit. An investor with one of these is betting that the long-term interest won't increase in the near future, that there will not be inflation, and that he will not need his money for four to six years." Yet she does not rule out savings accounts entirely. "Everyone should have at hand an amount they feel gives them security against an emergency, such as loss of a job.

Usually an amount sufficient to cover three months' expenses is She considers government bonds to be a poor investment choice as well. "I think the federal government should be sued for false advertising for pushing bonds. Bonds don't guarantee a future at all. They simply don't grow at a rate to keep up with inflationyou end up losing money on them." Mrs. VanCaspel is at odds with the widely held viewpoint that it is always better to buy housing than to ren it.

She recommends that only people in an income-tax bracket of 40 percent or above buy housing, as they can use mortgage payments as a tax advantage. "There are other ways of building up equity or assets other than just paying off a mortgage," she said. "For lower income people, the best buy today is rent. Rents went up only about 5.7 percent last year, on average, whereas the costs associated with owning a home rooe by 12 percent. "For those who do buy a house, though, my suggestion is to make the lowest down payment possible.

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