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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.
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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
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“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
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“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.”
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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.
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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-
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