Page 6 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1981
Local / Features
‘Almost Anything Goes”at RHA fundraiser
By RUTH M. DALY
Battalion Reporter
The crowd was silent. Everyone
held his breath as the golf balls
were expertly escorted to their
final resting places.
Sound like the U.S. Open?
Close, but not quite.
It was the final event in Sun
day’s “Almost Anything Goes”
competition, sponsored by the
Residence Hall Association to be
nefit the Brazos County United
Way campaign.
The game that the crowd was
watching so intently was not regu
lar golf. Golf balls were used but
were carried on spoons. Each
member of the four teams that
made it to the finals had to carry
the golf-ball-on-a-spoon in his
mouth as he made his way through
an obstacle course without letting
the ball fall off the spoon.
This atypical golf game was
typical of all the games played at
the RHA event that raised $ 100 for
the United Way.
Twelve teams, each made up of
five men and five women, partici
pated in the preliminary events,
games adapted from grade school
games.
For example, in the beach ball
carry, two team members had to
carry a beach ball between them
and manuever through an obstacle
course. The ball could be held be
tween them by anything but their
hands. As if this wasn’t hard
enough, contestants had to manu
ever through the maze walking
backwards.
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team member had to spin around
ten times, then run 10 yards to
another team member who repe
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In the circle dash, team mem
bers had to transport an orange
from neck to neck without
touching the fruit with their
hands. After this phase of the com
petition, they had to run arm-in
arm about 30 yards and stack
themselves into a pyramid.
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“QUALITY FIRST”
Blind man’s bluff was the basis
of the quick shave competition.
Each female contestant was blind
folded and then shaved a male
member of her team (using the
blade of a plastic knife, of course).
She then fed him a cup of jello and
was given directions to a bell that
she had to ring. The first team to
have all five women contestants
ring the bell won the event.
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PROGRAMMER/ANALYSTS - HOUSTON, TEXAS
Hughes Tool Company will interview Computing Science and Mathematics
degree candidates and Business Administration or Economics majors with six
or more hours of Data Processing coursework Thursday, October 8, 1981.
Candidates will interview for positions as Programmer/Analysts at Corporate
Headquarters in Houston, Texas.
Hughes Tool utilizes state-of-the-art hardware and software - IBM 3033
mainframe using MVS, CICS, TSO and JES2 supporting at large teleproces
sing network. Primary languages are COBOL and Mark IV utilizing on-line
editing, testing and inter-active debugging. Excellent opportunities for ad
vancement in a professional environment.
Register at the Career Planning and Placement Center, 10th floor Rudder
Tower.
Paul Egner, left, gets a little overcoated with shaving cream
by blindfolded Carol Deeken in the quick shave competition.
West Texas oil boom fuel
job, housing problems
United Press International
The oil boom has caught up with
West Texas.
While the oil and gas industry is
fueling the area economy, it also is
gobbling up the work force.
Local businessmen are battling
wage spirals and a competitive job
market. Community leader^ are
struggling with acute housing
shortages.
“We knew that with industrial
development there would be (job)
displacement,” said Winston
Wrinkle, president of the Big
Spring Chamber of Commerce.
“The oil field pay scale for unskil
led labor is now up to $5 an hour.
Every one else has to keep up with
that scale — either with improved
benefits or bonuses.”
In a recent meeting with
Wrinkle and other town officials,
several employers expressed con
cern for the top wages the oil in
dustry is willing to pay.
Phil Neighbors, industrial de
velopment director of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce,
said, “In general, people move to
ward jobs that pay better and oil
and gas does pay better in west
Texas,” he said. “Technical and
semi-technical jobs in oil are
booming.”
Neighbors said inquiries about
an oil field roughneck training
school in Abilene have been so
numerous that the Chamber of
Commerce, which is sponsoring
the school, hired two full-time
employees to handle phone calls
from “all over the country.”
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Neighbors agrees, but
out that high interest rate
preventing new housing^
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Neighbors said, some to®
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Chamber of Commerce
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out future problems West
may face when the oil and
terest wanes.
“The boom in the oil
industry will not continue
and communities need to k
their base of industrial oppf
ties,” he said.
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from a trip to the Midwest,
he met with 160 industn
sentatives interested in reb
or opening branch
area.
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just new workers,’
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creasing the manufacture;
and service industries,
look is good.”
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