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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1978
$16 million puts guard up
Gulf patrols increased
In an effort to cut down on leaking
from off-shore oil rigs and tankers,
the Coast Guard is planning to
spend an extra $16 million a year on
pollution patrols.
Lt. Cmdr. James L. O’Brien told
the Texas Coastal and Marine
Council meeting at Texas A&M
University Friday that the Coast
Guard intends to visit each of the
2,300 drilling platforms in the Gulf
of Mexico twice a year. One of the
inspections will be unannounced.
While there, they would inspect
for saety and possible sources of pol
lution.
“I can’t tell you that ‘X’ amount of
tar on the beaches is natural and ‘Y’
is from tankers. I don’t know and I
don’t think anyone else knows,” said
O’Brien.
The patrols will include an over-
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flight of the entire Gulf once a week,
four more surface vessels to help in
spect each platform four times a
year and aircraft that would have in
frared capabilities to detect oil spills
or tanker discharge at night.
O’Brien said about a third of the
1,500 oil spills that occur in Ameri
can waters each year take place in
the Gulf of Mexico.
The pollution patrol efforts will
mean an addition of 1,200 Coast
Guard personnel to man the aircraft
and surface vessels and to act in
support.
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GEOLOGISTS
ENGINEERS
Texas Oil & Gas Corp is one of the largest independent
producers of natuial gas in the country Since its inception
in 1955, TX0 has grown into a $700 million energy company
with a highly aggressive exploration and production pro
gram. as well as an extensive gas gathering and transmission
system Our district offices are in Colorado. Oklahoma. Kansas
as well as Texas, and TXO's college recruits enjoy the op
portunity to assume a high level of responsibility and partici
pation in these activities within a few months after employ-
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We are seeking bright, aggressive individuals who
starters, interested in immediate participation and are
capable of quickly assuming that level of responsibility which
a major independent can offer In addition to a challenging
career. Texas Oil & Gas Corp has an outstanding compensa
tion and benefits program for its employees Contact your
campus placement office and/or academic department
to schedule an interview We look forward to seeing you then
OUR REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE INTERVIEWING:
Geologists - Thursday, October 26th
Engineers - Friday, October 27th
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Pecan harvesting is incre#
over Texas as cool fall weatki
tinues, the Texas Agricultural!
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crop generally will be shortd*
the season-long drought.
Early pecan varieties are In!
in western, southern, central
eastern areas, the extension jf-i , .
said recently. I ts a S
Peanut harvesting continuil er
be a major farm activity duriiii
week, with generally
being harvested in west cei|L
central and southwest Texas a^ rs anrl U ,j
the coastal bend, agriculture
cials said. However, receuti
weather in the coastal
caused some losses.
Meanwhile, cotton harvest
continues in north centralTeias h
is being stepped up in the s» ighorns 1
rolling plains and trans-Pecosj isas42-ya
the extension service noted.
Harvesting of com and sorj
remains active in the Panhanil
south plains, with
yields.
Farmers are also hanestiml
state’s sugar crops: sugar
the high plains and sugarcane
Rio Grande Valley.
Small grain planting remaini
ive over much of Texas alt!
conditions are once again
ing growth, especially in cenl
eastern areas. Armywonroail!
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Monday
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Besides looking pretty, the Texas A&M Floral
Test Garden is useful for course work. Adrian
Correa spends a little time identifying flowers
in the patch on Houston
horticulture class.
Street. He is in a
Battalion photo by Paige Beasley
Early planted fields areproi
grazing for livestock in many
tions, but rain is needed to
growth.
Students handle ‘real’ problems
Engineers visiting classes
CAMPUS
Fight cancer with a
checkup and a check.
Twice-a-semester “professors” in
an engineering course at Texas
A&M University term the payoff ex
cellent, for the student and the visit
ing “prof.”
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American
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Raymond Roesner, Dan Lindsey
and Tom Gamey of Houston speak
from experience in both roles.
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The three men, all Texas A&M
graduates, are on campus this week
in the Visiting Engineers Programs
of the Engineering Design Graphics
Department. They work for Dresser
Atlas Industries and Entex.
Citizen
Kane
Lindsey and Gamey were once
on the other side of the drawing ta
bles from visiting engineers in the
department’s classrooms.
Already a “real life” experience
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AND ENGRAVING
through student team handling of
product design problems, the
course gains added realism from the
visiting engineers.
“It was the only real world course
I had as an undergraduate,” com
mented Gamey, who graduated in
1977. He is a mechanical engineer
with Dresser Atlas.
Coursework requires student
teams to design a practical solution
to a given problem, such as a gate
opener or garbage compactor, and
near the end of the semester the
teams present an oral report, using
graphics, on their solution.
The visiting engineers, who serve
in a consulting capacity in a first visit
early in the term, return to evaluate
the presentation.
“It’s a highly practical course,”
commented Lindsey, 1973 civil en
gineering graduate and Entex gen
eral engineer.
Garney said its practical aspects
range from emphasis of six basics of
design — “I use what Dr. (James)
Earle and the department faculty
teach every day” — to team basis of
design solutions and communication
work.
The communication methods
taught are probably the most impor
tant, from a practical standpoint,”
Graney added. “The team approach
is realistic too.”
Roesner said he gains from the
student interchange. The four-time
visiting engineer and 1967 graduate
said, “I can better relate to the
younger engineers in our company.
My participation has helped me bet
ter communicate with them.”
Lawrence Filing, like Lindsey
from Entex, said the student-
engineer exchange “helps the stu
dent get squared on theory and
practice. That’s highly important
during the first couple of years in
the engineering curricula.”
A Texas A&I graduate who taught
at Del Mar College, Filing has been
in the program several yean
one of the greatest I’ve setii
said, “but then Texas Ait
known for its extra effort."
In use in the EngineeringDi
Graphics Department for 12
the Visiting Engineer Progni
had 737 professional participai
"We get good support fromia
try,” Earle said. ‘ They come!
time and time again.”
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Writing in the November is*
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extremely pleasant, but i
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