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
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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'
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hich
mb.wliil
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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.
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