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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1981 Page 13 Vacationing aquatians are catered to at the Fish Hotel mine | As the rains fell from the sky Tuesday, they also came from the ground. A vent in front ases. | of the Oceanography and Meteorology Building for the underground steam tun nels on campus was blowing the rain into the air as it drained off into the vent. Metals found on sea floor United Press International NORWALK, Conn. — The oc topus liked to dine on time at the Norwalk Aquarium Fish Hotel — but if his food was late, it was no problem. He’d come and get it. “Oh if he got hungry he’d just move the top cover of his tank and stick out two tentacles. If he didn’t get the food then, he’d be out of the tank,” proprietor Peter Falcione said. Falcione’s guest, a smaller vari ety of octopus, was about as big as a soccer ball, with tentacles 18 to 24 inches long. Its owner had trained the octopus to look for food itself, Falcione said. Tanks are available year-round at the Fish Hotel, either on the European or the modified Ameri can plan. The European plan calls for one daily feeding and the American for whatever food the customer specifies. The staff is also available to “fish-sit” in peo ple’s homes. Customers bring a water sam ple from their home tank to the Fish Hotel which Falcione ana lyzes. Then he sets up one of 32 tanks for his guest with precisely the same chemical balance. Falcione’s hotel busines started as a courtesy to customers in 1951 when some hobbyists left their pets at his tropical fish store when they went on vacation. Now the hotel is often booked solid, espe cially during school vacations and over long seasonal holidays. Falcione says there are similarities between his hotel and conventional ones, but there are differences, too. Nobody steals his towels. The ashtrays are safe. And his guests don’t flirt with the maids. The most costly stay involved an executive being transferred at company expense from Connec ticut to Los Angeles. He arranged for the Fish Hotel to ship his four- tank aquarium after he arrived in February. The shipment had to be held up for six weeks until spring be cause Kennedy International Air port personnel require ground temperature to be above 55 de grees for tropical fish shipments. The total bill came to $1,000. The longest a guest has stayed at the Fish Hotel was six months. A little girl with a 20-gallon aquarium and 20 small fish tele phoned Falcione and wanted him to put them up for the six months she and her family expected to be in Florida. “She didn’t have but $60 or $70 in fish,” Falcione said. “It would have cost $250 for six months. I told her to let me speak to her father. He said no. Then the little girl comes into the store with all those fish. I told her, “You father said no.” The kid points to a wo man with her and says ‘Grandma. says it’s OK.’ ” United Press Intcrnationul ) WASHINGTON — Scientists ftploring the eastern Pacific sea |oor by submarine discovered an f cessible 25-million ton natural ncentration of copper and other petals worth an estimated $2 bil- m. Dr. Alex Malahoff, chief scien tist of the National Ocean Survey, jnnounced the spectacular find uesday and said there is evi- ence of similar mineral lodes off begon and Washington. It could mark a new and ramatic turnaround in the as- essment of the volume of acces- iMe world-wide deposits of rategic minerals, he told a Na tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration news conference. He said deposit believed much richer than ore in any mines on land could be mined by current technology. The deposit is so new, however, the fledgling ocean mining industry has not yet explored the possibility of tapping it. The Russian-born scientist held a fist-sized chunk recovered a mile and a half beneath the sur face of the water by robot arms on the research submarine Alvin. He said the deposit lies on the sea floor in international waters 350 miles west of Ecuador. Malahoff said the deposit marked by a forest of stalagmite looking cones tens of feet high was at least 130 feet thick, 650 feet wide and 3,200 feet long. It was located along a fracture zone in an undersea ridge 240 miles east of the Galapagos Is lands and 350 miles west of Ecuador. The metals precipitated out from hot mineral-laden water seeping up through cracks in the sea floor crust. Similar geological structures exist around the world, raising the possibility of vast new sup plies of some of the metals most valued by modern technology. Mickey Mouse” convicted of fraud m running income tax scam in prison United Press International NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A for- T Missouri prison inmate who ce filed a tax return under the me Mickey Mouse pleaded ilty in federal court to running income tax refund scam from i prison hospital room. George Turner, 55, of Chicago mitted filing a false claim ainst the government and also :aded guilty to forgery, said Eve Miler, spokeswoman for the Internal Revenue Service in Nashville. In a statement read by an IRS agent it was revealed that Turner prepared and filed at least 47 false tax returns claiming a total of $4,500 in refunds while impris oned at a medical facility for fed eral prisoners in Springfield, Mo. Miller said Turner previously was convicted for filing the forms under the name Mickey Mouse, but declind to elaborate. “It didn’t become a matter of court record,” she said. “You can put this under the headline of “Mickey Mouse caper closed.’ ” U.S. District Court Judge John T. Mixon set sentencing for Nov. 4. The two counts carry a max imum of 15 years in prison and an $11,000 fine. INTERNATIONAL CAREER? A representative will be on the campus WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14, 1981 to discuss qualifications for advanced study at AMERICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL and job opportunities in the field of INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Interviews may be scheduled at PLACEMENT OFFICE AMERICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Thunderbird Campus Glendale, Arizona 85306 SPECIALS Sun. Lone Star Noon to 7 7 to 9. mm* m JLone DUv Longnecks Dime Beer Mon. Drinks 50C Beer Men’s Nite “Monday Nite Football” On Our Big Screen TV! Tues. 50<; Drinks Ladies Nite Wed. $ 1 Margaritas Thurs. 2 for 1 ’til 10 p.m. j§ “UNESCORTED LADIES FREE” HAPPY HOUR 4:00-7:00L^ Pool, Pinball, 3 full bars, waitresses & P — 1000 sq. ft. of dance floor on which to kick up your heels! 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