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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mis-
uri, whose agricultural eco-
mty traditionally centers on
ain and livestock, could be-
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Missouri may trade cows
and plows for vineyards
Right now Missouri is fat-
in the pack chasing Califor-
for the No. 1 in position in
ne production. But by the
rn of the century it could be
e other way around.
When the Augusta region,
iout 35 miles west of St. Louis,
sdesignated in 1980 as Amer-
's first Viticultural Wine Dis-
ict, there were 14 wineries in
issouri. Today there are 25,
four more are being plan-
id for the southern tier of Mis-
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Not only is the number of
neries increasing but most of
ose already established are ex-
inding. One enologist said the
ason is simple: profit.
“1 don’t think you’d expand,
irticularly in a depressed eco-
Coreenl wy. >f profitability was not
icre,” said Bruce Zoecklein of
extension service for the
University of Missouri at Col
umbia.
The supply of wine industry
wide is much lower than de
mand, and experts predict the
demand for wine to double by
1990, he said. It will be the “non-
traditional” states that will be
nefit from that demand, Zoeck
lein said.
Zoecklein, viticulturist Larry
Lockshin and state enologist Joe
Francka of the Department of
Agriculture agreed that Mis
souri’s climate, soil, reasonable
costs and Midwest location has
the potential to outproduce
California.
However, experts agree it is
not likely to happen within the
decade.
Zoecklein and Lockshin are
employed by the state as wine
specialists, and Francka coor
dinates the wine and grape de
velopment program.
“The investment potential,
the profitability of producing
wines can and indeed is more
than in California,” Zoecklein
said. Missouri, in acreage, now
ranks in the top 10 wine-
producing states.
Some experts say California
has little acreage left for possible
vineyards, and the cost of the
land alone would be about
$20,000 an acre, compared with
about $1,000 an acre in Mis
souri. Missouri has about 2,200
acres planted in grapes, but
Zoekcklein said that about 1.5
million acres in the Ozarks possi
ble could be used for grape pro
duction.
The cost to establish a Mis
souri winery — with the poten
tial of producing 2,200 to
100,000 gallons of wine —
would be between $14 to $45 a
square foot, or $3,500 to $5,000
per acre.
State wineries using only Mis
souri grapes sell from 500 to
65,000 gallons a year. The
largest winery in the state, Bar-
denheier, which accepts grapes
from outside of Missouri, pro
duces about 1 million gallons.
Latest statistics show that Mis
souri residents consumed about
6 million gallons of wine in 1980.
The state tax on the wine was
about $1.8 million.
Zoecklein said a temperance
tradition in Missouri is partly to
blame for the state’s failure to
capitalize on its wine potential.
“There are those people in
the state, who feel the growth of
this industry threatens their ...
morality,” he said. “The attitude
in this state can only be de
scribed as archaic.”
Zoecklein cited a state wine
law change in 1980 as a step in
the right direction. The new law
allows wineries to sell 500,000
gallons a year, instead of the
previous 75,000-gallon limit.
Missouri is no newcomer to
the wine industry.
As early as 1823, French
Jesuit missionaries were produc
ing wines from the wild grapes
that flourished in Florissant,
near St. Louis.
In 1843, German settlers be
gan to cultivate vineyards on the
hillsides overlooking the Mis
souri River valley. In 1866, Mis
souri was the second largest
wine-producing state in the na
tion and the city of St. Louis was
the nation’s center of wine study
and research.
Reagan: ‘No grudge 7
held against Hinckley
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Two
years after the attempt on his
life, President Reagan says he
holds no grudge against the
man who shot him, John
Hinckley Jr., and says he
hopes the gunman can be
cured of his mental illness.
In an interview with The
Washington Post published
Wednesday, Reagan said he
has accepted the March 30,
1981, assassination attempt as
“something that goes with the
territory” of being president
and has mostly forgotten it.
But he acknowledged the
shooting concerns his wife,
Nancy, almost every time he
leaves the White House.
Reagan was wounded out
side the Washington Hilton
Hotel along with his press sec
retary, James Brady, a secret
service agent and a Washing
ton police officer.
Hinckley, who was accused
of shooting the four men, was
acquitted by reason of insanity
in the attack. He remains in
the maximum security ward
of a Washington mental hos
pital and is undergoing
psychiatric treatment.
In a taped interview with
NBG News, Brady, the person
most seriously hurt, said he
often thinks of the attack, but
does not wish his attacker any
evil.
Reagan said of Hinckley, “I
don’t hold a grudge or any
thing. I just think it would be
fine if he could be cured,
also.”
He said he favors changing
the law so a defendant could
be found “guilty but insane.”
Reagan said when he
thought about the possibility
of an assassination attempt be
fore he was shot, “I always had
a feeling I’d see it coming.”
When it actually happened,
he said: “I didn’t even know
I’d been shot until someone in
the hospital told me. I thought
I’d broken a rib. But you can’t
go around constantly wor
rying or fearing about that.
Life would be too miserable.”
Earlier, Reagan’s personal
physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge,
told United Press Internation
al that the president is healthy
and has suffered no physical
or psychological problems
since the attack.
Firms fight noise with noise
United Press International
NEW YORK — Sound wave
rsters sooni
'l/'Tk al ncellation — deliberately us-
' g a loud noise to counter a
oblem noise — is being used to
cut noise pollution in some
eas of industry.
I It’s a technology in its infan-
1 I, utilized so far in the labora-
^1 n loi v only by a few companies,
U- u lid Dr. William R. Thornton, a
lund and vibration engineer
1 forGulfOilCorp. in Pittsburgh,
t 7 11 ini I Zoology wouldn’t be
y 1 LI 111 |)ssible without the help of the
/ Imputerand the microproces-
r, he said.
“A microprocessor samples a
und wave from the heater,
talyzes it and matches it with
equal but opposite sound
[ave,” he said. “T he computer’s
lund wave is sent through a
mdspeaker and, when it meets
elected tothfl le wave com ‘ n g off the
ii iint the Fed lac h‘ ne > cancels it out, reduc-
rnamentinS >g the overall noise level.
Lduht monthsi“ lt ’ sa i ob wel1 worlh doing,
ed that sliemhe Occupational Safety and
i< (ontrovei'® ea hh Administration has esti-
ii lins on alftw late< ^ tbat no ' se problems cost
tnerican industry $400 million
year in worker absenteeism
lone.”
Physicians have blamed noise
rsuch health problems as sto-
(tach ulcers, asthma, colitis,
igh blood pressure and, of
|ourse, deafness.
Scientists have improved
Icoustics in construction and in-
lustry through the use of insula
tion and
materials
vibration,
however,
actually treating undesirable
sound waves at their source was
stagnant until passage of the
Occupational Safety and Health
Act forced industry to do some
thing.
Most effective devices now
vibration-dampening used for breaking up noxious
designed to reduce soundwaves are passive: the
Thornton said, automobile engine muffler and
the technology of the firearms silencer, for inst-
‘ 1 ‘ , ~ ance.
The new technology involves
“active attenuators.” In simplest
terms that involves setting up a
siren to make a noise at a fre
quency that would cancel out the
noise made by one or more big
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machines at other frequencies.
“But it can’t be done any
where as easily as that sounds,”
Thornton said. “Measuring pre
cisely the noise frequencies to be
overcome, calculating the fre
quencies that will overcome
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He said the target of the new
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