The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 29, 1983, Image 12

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    Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, April 29, 1983
Persistence advised
in summer job hunt
United Press International
WASH INGTON — The sum
mer employment outlook can
discourage even the most in
dustrious of job-hunters.
The National Park Service
has 35,000 applications on file
for 6,000 summer jobs. The con
struction industry plans to re
hire laid-off workers, and retail
ers have virtually eliminated ex
tra summer help.
But experts insist there will
be ample opportunity this sum
mer for the persistent, energetic
applicant.
“We’re talking about students
who are willing to be flexible, to
learn a new skill,” says Inez
Frank, director of the University
of Maryland’s job referral ser
vice. “I’m anticipating things will
be the same or better than last
year.”
Summer jobs have become an
economic necessity for nearly 60
percent of the nation’s youth,
16-21, who will forego the sun
and surf for employment.
“Today’s teenager’s just can’t
get by without some sort of in
come,” says Brian Wyant, 17, of
Lanham, Md. “If you’re living at
home, your parents don’t expect
you to mooch off them forever.”
The restaurant industry, one
of the largest employers of
teens, expects a strong summer
season.
“The economic indicators
point to the fact that we are mov
ing out of the recession,” says
Dorothy Dee, a spokeswoman
for the National Restaurant
Association. “You can assume if
the economy is getting better,
people will be eating out more.”
The construction industry is
less optimistic: “Unemployment
is the last thing to change when
you’re coming out of a reces
sion,” says a spokesman for the
Associated General Contractors.
“Employers are going to look
first at skilled people who have
families to take care of.”
Other industries, like retail,
have permanently changed
their summer hiring practices.
“I would not encourage anyone
to look at the retail industry for
summer employment,” says
Alice McCord, personnel officer
for the National Retail Mer
chants Association.
One of the most promising
fields this summer will be resort
work. Employment officers in
Atlantic City note with bemuse
ment that the casino industry
has never been healthier.
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Process extends production
‘Dry’ wells yield new oil
United Press International
HOUSTON — “Mining” for
the residue left in some oil fields
after the wells run dry could
yield additional oil equalling
that already produced, accord
ing to two engineers.
Mike Hyland and Bill
Spence, engineers for the con
sulting firm of Keplinger and
Associates Inc. of Houston,
propose digging shafts under
so-called depleted fields to let
the residue oil run out “like you
pull the stopper in a bathtub.
“When all the oil that’s reco
vered by conventional (well)
techniques has been recovered,
perhaps 60 to 80 percent of the
oil is left because the mechan
isms that push the oil up out of
the ground become depleted,”
said Hyland.
That is because oil is found in
porous rock formations and is
forced out of wells by natural
pressure. Eventually that press
ure runs out.
After pressure starts to drop,
secondary and tertiary recovery
methods — including pumping
fluids into the field to revive the
field’s pressure or to fracture
and loosen up the formation —
can extend the life of oil wells.
But even after secondary and
tertiary recovery, much of the
oil remains in the rock. Hyland
said as much as 300 billion bar
rels of oil will remain in place in
the United States alone when
conventional extraction meth
ods are exhausted.
Hyland and Spence recom
mend sinking a shaft into an old
field, then running tunnels
under it. From the tunnel, holes
can l>e drilled upward into the
oil-bearing formation, letting
the oil flow out by gravity.
Pipes running from the tun
nel complex would then bring
the oil to the surface.
Hyland figures as much as 50
percent of the oil remaining in
some depleted fields coulci be
recovered with this upside-
down oilfield technology.
Hyland and Spence said Con
oco Inc. already is using the
technology to maximize recov
ery at a Wyoming oil field, and
they are working on plans for a
couple of other companies. The
technology also is said to be in
use in the Soviet Union.
Shaft mining was too costly
when oil sold for less than!
barrel, as it did before the IS]
oil embargo. Now, the i
price of oil is much high
peaked at $34 a barrel lastjc l^njoria
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must be shallower than jj
feet, since cost rises with(k|
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so as not to resist gravity hoi
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to work on.
“There are a number
servoirs in the United fc
which are candidatesforoia
ing,” Hyland said. "Therein
number of fields in Texan
Louisiana which are quite i
low and have a lot of oil left
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United Press International
FORT HOOD — It’s a battle
field right out of Star Wars: The
sky is black and starlit, but
through a glowing green lens
you can see a soldier, plain as
day, slip into the woocis about
150 yards away.
He leans against a tree,
weapon ready, thinking he’s co
vered by the night. The hairs on
the sight rest on his chest, where
you can almost read the name-
tag. A touch of the gun switch
and the trooper would never
know what hit him.
Thus the U.S. Army learns to
fight in the dark.
At this huge central Texas
post, the 2nd Armored Division
this year opened the Army’s
night fighting school for tank
troops. A recent symposium
drew representatives from
academia, the growing night vi
sion industry, and Army and
Marine Corps units from as far
away as Germany.
“What we’re doing in the 2nd
Armored Division is convincing
the soldier that he or she can
operate at night,” said division
commander Maj. Gen. John
Woodmansee. “So that when the
sun goes down, a grin spreads
across his or her face that says,
‘OK, now it’s our time.’ ”
What brought all this on was
the influence of political reali
ties, both in the United States
and Europe, and technological
leaps in a very specialized in
dustry.
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motive ca
arm, bos:
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Since the Army weal
volunteer, the strategy
tended toward fewer siij unite<
with bigger guns. ThedeicIhSOUTl-
ment in light amplifying' — A brig
light scopes” and thermii holding a
ing viewers have giventi arc torch
the field the ability to see ii
dark.
To take advanta]
sibilities, the Army has tor stamp
training soldiers to doanitf : Both cl
in t he dark that they am more effn
the daylight. K They ;
It starts with the sole effort in
themselves, who are gntpse robot
being tried on what the I pass perl
calls “reverse cycle," basic.:workers ii
workday in which they: live and i
shorter hours at nightandt to health,
siesta in the afternoon, I ' The U
“Basic soldier skills are* land got i
important, as opposed tot of robot <
mesmerized by technoffigo. Its R
said Lt. Col. Jared Bates,» has been
battalion has been trainiijtional Sci
reverse cycle with the3rdla one-of-a-1
center.
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try Division in Germany.
Having gotten soldiers'*
to the idea, the Army is wd
out techniques for using i contributi
equipment. to propri
Night vision devicesco® experime
two types. Pilots, jeep and® computer
drivers and foot soldiers«4 a l arms ai
age intensifiers, improvedBques.
sions of the Starlight scope* ' Robert
troduced in Vietnam. ctor, said
These take light from tl*w|bots no
visible range of the j fat lories,
shift it over to the visiblerd number n
and project it against a J by the en
inside the device. It is "paw Rather
using available light fharket d
projecting a light source" >soriente<
own. jcnowledg
But it does need some'j ing,” Kel
In bad weather its effect"
diminishes. To cure
military has developed
imaging, which reads
differences in heat and
lates them into visible ii
Thermal imagit
heavier, more expensive!®
quire a larger power sou® 1
they are generally used
and other tracked veld
. Thermal imaging has tit
advantage of permittingt*
vision in daylight where tl (f ^
is obstructed by dust, sirf
fog.
The bugs are still being'
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Hood.
“Last night a tankco®?
ran through a supplyunC*
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scared, the tanks were?
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