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roast, plus our delicious baked
potato.
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with our “You make it”
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We salute 1983
Graduating Aggies!
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(Maroon) Champagne
Commemorative Bottle
Class of ’83
$/l 99
750 ML
CLASS OF 83
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Whiskey 7up
$C99
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By Ramada Inn
846-1860
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Offshore oil
hard to reach
United Press International
HOUSTON — Corpora
tions wanting to tap the more
than 750 billion barrels worth
of proven oil reserves in 600
petroleum basins worldwide
will need vast amounts of
money and technology to re
trieve the fossil fuels, energy
experts said.
Many of the areas where
the fuels are located have not
yet been explored, and are in
places where either the poli
tics or rough weather make it
difficult to research.
“I firmly believe that in the •
future we will Find as much oil
and more gas than we have
found to date,” geologist
Michel Halbouty said
Wednesday.
Halbouty, a presidental
adviser on petroleum matters,
and other energy experts,
made their statements at the
Offshore Technology Con
ference being held in
Houston.
More than half — or about
393 billion barrels — of the
untapped reserves are under
oceans or land controlled by
Middle Eastern countries. Ab
out 62 percent of the world’s
reserves — or about 469 bil
lion barrels — are under the
jurisdiction of OPEC nations.
Eastern Europe, including
the Soviet Union, and Latin
America, each account for ab
out 12 percent, or 91 billion
barrels, of the reserves. The
United States has about 31 bil
lion barrels of proven crude
oil still not drilled, or 4 per
cent of the world’s total.
But T. Don Stacy, produc
tion manager for Amoco Pro
duction Co., said three prob
lems stand in the way of re
trieving those reserves —
money, technical develop
ment and politics.
And Stacy said political
pressure by environmental
groups makes it impossible to
drill onshore in the more than
1.17 billion acres of U.S. gov
ernment-owned land.
“Congress and certain peo
ple exclude these lands from
exploration to be used only
for backpacking and hiking,”
Stacy said.
Internationally, he said,
expensive and unnecessary
regulations hamper the drill
ing industry and cost millions
annually.
Halbouty said at today’s
prices much of the untapped
reserves are not financially
feasible.
“These are tough times. At
today’s prices, no. But in the
future, yes, they can be pro
ductive areas,” Halbouty said.
GTE to requei
rate increase
by Kimberly Hix
Battalion Reporter
Phone bills for residential cus
tomers may increase by $1 a
ide
month under a $32.5 million
rate increase to be presented to
the Public Utilities Commission
May 19 for approval.
General Telephone original
ly sought an $85.5 million rate
increase. Under this rate, re
sidential customer bills would
increase about $4 a month, a 24
percent increase.
The settlement was reached
at a PUC hearing April 27. The
decrease in the rate requested
was a result of changes in the
Federal Communications Com
mission depreciation require
ments.
GTE has filed for rate in
creases annually since 1980,
John Wallace, GTE Public
Affairs manager,
Wednesday.
“We will make themont
as far as it will go, but thee
the original rate requesUil
doubted ly have an effeci
when a new request willbej
sented,” Wallace said,
greater the portion receiveil
an effect on how frequenilj
have to come back.
“In order to continued
ernize and improve senitt
penses must be offset withi
tional revenue.” **
The proposed rate desif il
eludes local rate increase;; y' ^ r:
for residential and $2.1i HRST-
business. Extended area»
increases include a 30ceiB
crease for business and a lj B
increase for residential. B
Currently, the monthli P
vice rate in Bryan-Colleg; | ;
tion is $9.10.
State obscenity hi
unconstitutional
r
United Press International
AUSTIN — The State Court
of Criminal Appeals cited the
First Amendment in throwing
out a section of the state’s
obscenity law Wednesday.
The ruling came in a decision
overturning the conviction of a
Houston man for promoting
obscenity because the state
failed to prove he knew a film
was obscene.
The decision deemed uncon
stitutional a provision of state
law declaring that a person who
promotes obscene material is
presumed to do so with the
knowledge of its content and
character.
Carl Lee Davis was convicted
and sentenced to three days in
jail and fined $750 for promot
ing obscenity to an undercover
Houston vice officer who viewed
a film in a peep show booth at an
adult book store where Davis
worked.
The appeals court said that
though it determined the film
was obscene, it found noigUnited
dence Davis actually exM|LL.AS
the movie to the officer anilple atte
made change for the ofiflnian
which was used to viewtheiigunnei
Declaring state law thaifit comp
sumes a person who t Authori
obscene materials knows |ei. 24,
obscene is unconstitutionallad ou
cause “it infringes upon jlpthy f<
freedom of expression p '®is pre
teed by the First Amendr pec om
, r .A oner
rreedom ot expressiorjlft qqq
important a right to allow!: i ar j ( .j (V
seriously impeded or imj)M esclav
a presumption such asL
by
one implicated in this cause, od j ec | p
court said. ^ml p
The
ruling, however,! : ai a, p<
promoters of obscene m. iw s aid.
are not above the law. B phy;
‘All this opinion holds is 11 1'etera
law enforcement officialse
rely upon sufficient infers
ilt to obtain and susta
of guil
he didi
ted a $!
forwarc
conviction for prom ov ” Sh
obscene material,” the opiip
stated.
Senate approves
water control bill
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United Press International
AUSTIN — One of several
bills comprising a proposed state
water plan won final approval in
the Texas Senate.
The controversial measure,
which orders state water author
ities to protect marine life in
Gulf Coast bays and estuaries by
regulating the inflow of fresh
water, won final approval
Wednesday.
The measure garnered tenta
tive approval in the Senate
Tuesday but stalled after one
lawmaker claimed it would halt
future construction of dams and
resevoirs on Texas rivers.
The measure orders the
Texas Department of Water Re
sources to preserve the historic
productivity of the ecologically
>ays
To do that, water authod
would determine if the takinj
fresh water from a river
adversely affect marine I
the bays downstream.
If it decided the dad
would be significant, itcoull
quire the applicant to corcij
sate for the loss.
Sen. John Traeger, D-Sea
opposed the bill when ii ■
came to the Senate floor.
He gave it his sup)
Wednesday after an and
ment was added specifying!]
only the water resources c
ment could determine HheJ
or not a permit to divert m|
upstream would damage f
bays and estuaries.
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