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Wednesday, July 6, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 |Vork started to up /V&M well production by Angel Stokes t Battalion Staff ree of the four oil wells d on the Texas A&M dairy lile, savsiPP are at the maximum allow- hatcai )le production, but the fourth qJ .)! ell is having trouble flowing, . j ys Ed Wells, chief operations nQar iJneer for North Central Oil •t aretliM) j n Houston. ’ “at atey\ells said that equipment ve said J|be brought in on Friday to work refracing the well, work should take 12 to 15 T the™ ics.' o belieifj standai d be alyj i t be m is, even r candi like racing — the process of hyd- Ically inducing cracks and [tures in the walls of the well holding them open with is supposed to increase productivity of wells. The first attempt didn’t work,” Wells said, but he can’t be sure the second attempt will be successful. Clyde Freeman, executive vice chancellor for administra tion, said the first well began producing oil in April, two others began in May and the fourth well began in June. The three wells that are pro ducing at maximum capacity are roughly averaging 418 barrels per day, he said, but the fourth well is only averaging about 80 to 90 barrels per day. The oil leases were approved by the Texas A&M Board of Re gents in February. North Cen tral Oil paid the University $1.28 million for the drilling rights to more than 1,000 acres or University property located at the dairy farm and Flensel Park. No other wells will be drilled on Texas A&M property, Wells said. Texas A&M will receive 30 percent of the first $ 1.07 million in revenue from the first well, while North Central Oil will keep the remaining $750,000 as payout. Payout is the money needed to cover the costs of drilling. After payout is reached, the company will keep 25 percent of the proceeds from production and the University will receive 75 percent. The money from the lease and producing wells will be placed in an endowment to be used for building improvements and construction on campus. ‘Mercy killing’ claimed Ruling may set precedent United Press International HOUSTON — A prosecutor says he will not necessarily seek a prison term for a man accused of killing his comatose father, but the defendant’s attorney be lieves the state will play on emo tions and try to set a precedent. “I will not recommend either probation or pen time,” said Prosecutor R.K. Hansen of the trial that began Tuesday for Bil ly Ray Clore, 25. “It is something that should be decided on an individual case basis,” Hansen said. Clore’s family contends the defendant loved his father, 63, Robert, and shot him March 21 to put him out of misery. The elder Clore suffered from a kidney ailment and had been hospitalized for four months. He lived for two weeks after being shot. Defense attorney Jack Zim merman said he believes Han sen will seek prison time. “It is a very emotional case with emotional issues,”he said. The family is supporting the younger Clore by helping pay his legal fees because they say the death was a mercy killing. Clore began working with his father in the family tire business when he was 13, and relatives said the two men were very close. Slaying suspect surrenders exas holiday traffic atalities lead nation gfi United Press International It vas led the nation in traffic fties for the Fourth of July Tend, with alcohol, high and pedestrian accidents Iprime contributors to the age. The Department of Public peiy had predicted that 49 j)le would die on Texas Is and highways between 6 friday and midnight Ipnday. But the DPS count at 8 p.m. ojiclay already showed 49 traf- di aths, and spokesman Larry id said he fully expected the 1 number to be higher. ’ifteen of the people who were pedestrians, most of j.m struck as they tried to cross <<ds in the dark. One man, a professor at North Texas State University, was struck by a train as he lay on a railroad track in Denton County. Another pedestrian, Brian Donald Bouchelle, 20, of San Antonio, died Monday night af ter he was struck by a car while walking on a frontage road of I-10 in Bexar county. Todd said alcohol was a signi ficant factor in many of the acci dents, and officers were con cerned about drivers who had been drinking trying to hurry home as the long weekend came to an end. “Monday night is the last night of the three-day holiday, and that can be a bad time as motorists go home, especially those who insist on attempting to drive while drunk,” Todd said. A woman died of injuries she suffered in a two-car head-on collision Sunday night in Marion County that killed two children. Two fatal motorcycle acci dents were reported in the wan ing hours of the holiday. Ricardo Ramirez, 27, of Brownsville, was killed when his motorcycle hit a curb and a util ity junction box in Brownsville early Monday. Michael Roy Wolke, 23, of Spring, died when he lost con trol of his motorcycle on a curve and hit another vehicle Sunday night on Sawdust Road in Mont gomery County. United Press International HOUSTON — The third man wanted in the slayings of four video arcade employees walked into police headquarters Tuesday with his lawyer and surrendered to homicide detec tives, police said. Kenneth Ray Ransom, 20, was being sought by lawmen in at least two counties in connec tion with the stabbing deaths and robbery last Friday at Mali bu Gran Prix before he surren dered. He has been charged with one count of capital murder. Two other males in the case were arrested late Friday. Both Richard James Wilker- son, 19, a former employee of Malibu Gran Prix, and his cousin, 16, have given police confessions, said Detective J.C. Mosier. Wilkerson, charged with capital murder, knew three of the four people killed Friday. Ransom walked into the homicide division about 10 a.m. The motive for the killings was robbery, officials said. The killers planned how they would separate the employees to make the killings more efficient and minimize the victims’ chances of resisting, according to the state ments of two suspects, which matched each other in details, detectives said. Authorities said the two sus pects in custody have expressed no remorse over the slayings. Ransom was charged Satur day with capital murder in the death of Roddy Dane Harris, 22. Police said the suspects killed their victims with small knifes. Three of the victims had their throats slashed and all suffered numerous cuts to the head, chest, arms and face. ait charges Texas milk impany, sickness related xcurrej grill all aturatit] ead ofll Jnited Press International MPHIS, Tenn. — Seven e have claimed in court rinking milk produced by est Farms caused them to ,ie seriously ill last year, ur suits filed last week in il court in Memphis said feople in Memphis, Little Ark., and Greenwood, became ill after drinking ; est Farms milk. Memphis official said the i, which occurred last June and July, ended in unnecessary surgery. “The symptoms of the infec tion closely resemble those of appendicitis, and at least 27 per sons suffering from the infec tion had their appendixes re moved,” said Dr. Tom Konigs- berg, director of the Memphis Health Department. Midwest Farms is a division of Dallas-based Southland Corp. Two of the suits name the cor- lane hits fence to con' gSkfore take-off hich mb.wliil s, smolj s notinj to are it dead United Press International ASHVILLE, Tenn. — The of an American Airlines jet scraped a fence as it ed out of a loading gate Siesday for a flight to Dallas, the rt Paking plexiglass covers over igational lights, officials said. e prospi mains cl supp'd he accident prompted the ine to cancel the flight so that its could be made. Don Miller, manager of a is t* 1 jlerican’s Nashville office, said duding Ite was no danger to passen- sntal Pi | s and the flight was cancel- tionalSi| led as a “precautionary mea sure.” “It was taxiing out and the wing tip hit a fence,” Miller said. “There was very minor damage. It broke the plexiglass cover over navigational lights. “We didn’t have any covers here, so the flight was canceled as a pecautionary thing,” he said. Miller said most of the passen gers were placed on other flights and the mishap was under inves tigation. poration, which is also the pa rent company of 7-Eleven stores where some of the milk was pur chased. One of the suits also names Stop-N-Go Inc. A suit filed by William and Cheryl Kaplan seeks $600,000 in damages. Another suit seek ing $250,000 also accused Dr. Bobby Flowers of misdiagnosing a patient suffering from the milk-related ailment and per forming an unnecessary appen dectomy. COMPARE Compare the nutritional value of an evening meal at the Memorial Student Cen- 1 ter with a snack for the same or similar price anywhere else. OPEN MON-SAT 6:30 A.M.-7:00 P.M. 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