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state Texas gas reserves drop sharply, newspaper says United Press International DALLAS — Energy Depart ment figures indicate natural gas reserves in Texas dropped 25 percent from 1976 to 1980, a Dallas newspaper reported Saturday. Figures indicate natural gas reserves in Texas fell 6 percent in 1980, despite unprecedented production throughout the na tion, the Dallas Times Herald said in its Sunday editions. sale of gas to consumers outside the state at lower prices, the newspaper said. Reserves have been steadily dropping since price controls were established in the Texas market in 1978. No major Texas pipeline has maintained a re serve since the passing of the Natural Gas Policy Act, the pap er reported. The drop in gas reserves for Texas’ intrastate pipelines could mean a big problem for Texas in the future, when cold winters shorten supplies across the na tion. The situation is aggravated by federal laws providing for the Last winter, natural gas usage by three major pipeline com panies was cut for seven to 15 days. As reserves decline, the length of curtailments will in crease. Texas energy experts said in dividual consumers and hospit als will not be in danger of gas curtailments in the near future. Most natural gas in Texas is burned by utilities and indus tries, the newspaper reported, with only about 12 percent going to homes. Curtailments will affect schools, small businesses and in dustries which cannot switch to fuel oil when natural gas is in slim supply. “I don’t think we’re seeing a problem yet, but it’s fast approaching,” said Mike Long, a spokesman for Valero Energy in San Antonio. “Beyond 1982, we see the problem shaping up.” Representatives of other ma jor Texas pipelines, including Lone Star in Dallas and Pioneer Corporation’s gas division, could not predict when curtail ments could take effect. The companies blame the problems on the Natural Gas Policy Act, which extended price controls for intrastate markets in 1978. Texas pipelines are dis criminated against, the news paper reported, because the act allows interstate pipelines to keep a supply of cheap gas that enables them to outbid pipelines in Texas and other states for new gas supplies. The newspaper said gas from the Outer Continental Shelf is restricted to the interstate mar ket, cutting Texas out of a potential supply, and Texas can not buy gas from the interstate market. ATE ■rouv ileberg. AX issue: Rudder. Asylum sought, officials say Latins flood the South United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Charit able organizations and immigra tion officials say hundreds of re fugees from the political wars of El Salvador and Guatemala are flooding Southern cities, hoping to find ref uge. “They are worried to death that at any moment they could be deported,” said Cloribel Rubio, who with her minister husband has helped more than 100 Salvadorans in the past year. “Many say, no matter what, they aren’t going back.” As of February, 50 Salvador ans had requests for political asylum pending in New Orleans, Memphis and Louisvil le immigration offices. Guate malans have made another 15 requests for protection. Edwin Chauvin, district im migration director, said the New Orleans office had deported 14 Salvadorans since March 1981, most because they were in the United States illegally. Another 55 returned to El Salvador 'll ■ SPIRIT AWARD Applications due TODAY at 5 pan. in the Forsyth Alumni Center #131 rose L. voluntarily. “We give them a form and they set down the reasons they think they will be persecuted if they return and we forward all the information to the State De partment in Washington for its recommendation,” Chauvin said. “In the final analysis, it’s out- decision, but we strongly base it on their recommendations, be cause they have offices in fore ign countries and we don’t.” The Rev. Juan Rubio and his wife of Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Metairie have helped about 100 Salvadorans in the past 12 months — at one point they had 16 ref ugees living in their home. The fact the Latinos came from different political factions turned out to be the least of their MERA p.m. KETING ategy at 7:3( Jelcoine to coi MER ST l ENT: Buck ay in thedei VARIETY pril 16 at 7:3< ie box office, i-students. U BAHA’I inciples of eq " be served. ARTMEN1 ture” by Prc TUNA CX a meeting ti SS ’82 ELE eektoget you 2 p.m. staff photo by Eiletn)! Getting ready for the race Full-time cyclist Janet Friedrich checks her bike in preparation for the Women’s Aggieland Lowenbrau Stage Race. The race was held Sunday morning. Friedrich, Kansas City, Mo., took part in: annual event sponsored by Aggie cycling team. NG DEMC eet the Cand udder. All cai en invited. E WELCH AIR at 3 p.m. in 30 AMU ONE-W |.m. at the Gro yng are welcom 'umes “There was no problem,” Mrs. Rubio said. “They didn’t talk politics. They didn’t come here to continue the war but to start a new life.” In one local case, Mrs. Rubio said, a man was sent back to El Salvador even though he showed immigration officials a picture of his brother who had been shot. The assassins had pinned a note to the body, warn ing the surviving brother, “You’re next.” □ens Houston hotel reo four weeks after blaze v< United Press International HOUSTON — Vowing it will become one of the safest hotels in the world, officials have re opened the Westchase Hilton Hotel four weeks after a fire kil led 11 people. Manager Erich Huemer, who lives in the hotel with his wife and two children, said contrac tors are installing a new sprink ler system and a new alarm sys tem that puts a switchboard speaker in each room. MONDAY NIGHT: ALL YOU CAN EAT SPAGHETTI The new alarm and sprinkler systems are expected to be com pleted in four to eight weeks at a cost of several thousand dollars. “We are going to be the safest hotel in Houston and one of the safest hotels in the entire world," Huemer said Friday. “It was our choice (to put in the additional equipment). We decided to go ahead with it regardless.” During the fire, guests said they could not hear the alarm, the hotel had no sprinkler sys- United Press Int BROWNSVILL lents trying to c mslaught of ash rom a volcano in s< tern and no wav of callins| co i was ' i ed their c room simultaneously, i ie P> windows do; did not require sprinklenW^l care w'T the hotel was built in liptoblems. A tangle of suitsandrar ^ )()Ut E25 billir suits followed the blaze,if 3 *®' 0 as ^ anc * ing a legal wrangle bel’XP e ' m l * rUo ^ le ■ hotel and the contpanvikpwthon volcano stalled its old alarm svstrp.co first erupt Huemer said the closed for four weeks lifW ena * traveled officials hoped tohavelkJP and sprinkler systems liira before reopening, not M ire damage. ™ of Huemer said busines slow in the first dan reopening Monday, bulli pected it to pick up. Stam] lickin <0 b S< 2 N ON o a And Domino’s Pizza is here to help you make the grade. 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