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Photo by PETER ROCHA
Workers secure railroad rails onto a car Thursday afternoon
alongside Welborn Road. The old rails on the car were re
placed by new ones that are longer and welded together
rather than jointed for a smoother and safer ride. Rails were
replaced from near Navasota to the intersection of Welborn
and Villa Maria Road.
United Press International
PORT ARTHUR — A 16-mile oil
slick hovering in the Gulf Thursday
threatened the upper Texas coast
with a multi-million dollar clean-up
job over 100 miles of beaches, offi
cials said.
Jerry Galt, an oceanographer with
the National Oceanic and Atmo
spheric Administration, said it did
not appear the 1.3 million-gallon
spill would beach Thursday but
should threaten the Galveston area
by this evening.
“We don’t see any impact at all
(Thursday),” Galt said. “By (this)e-
vening it’s going to threaten an area
around the north jetty (in Galves
ton).
“We’ve seen no onshore tenden
cies since this morning. We’ve gotten
a break from the weather,” he said.
He said the oil, spilled Monday
from the British tanker Alvenus that
went aground southeast of Port Ar
thur, could eventually spread across
100 miles of Texas beaches.
“Oil doesn’t drive up on the beach
and park like a truck. It bounces
along. The initial hit will be small,
then it will grow,” he said.
The oil, spread in a Y shape across
16 miles with a width of about 500
yards, was described by a Coast
Guard spokesman as “nearly as thick
as peanut butter.”
It moved as close as 4 miles from
the Texas coast at High Island but
then was blown back to 8 to 9 miles
off the coast. Officials said the delay
gave them more time to prepare for
the landfall.
Coast Guard Capt. Tim McKinna
said officials already have a list of all
available equipment and contractors
that can be used in the cleanup. He
said crews were prepared to begin
operations in the middle of the
night.
“We firmly hope to have people
on the beaches so that when the oil
arrives we can deal with it,” he said.
“We fully plan to be there when the
oil gets there.”
Tractors and front loaders will be
used to scoop the oil from the beach
as it hits, he said.
Dr. Roy Hann, head of the oil spill
technical assistance team at Texas
A&M, said if the spill does not go
ashore at on the Bolivar Peninsula, it
could hit the jetties at Galveston
within 24 hours.
“It’s going to be nasty to clean
up,” Hann said. “It’s going to be a
black, tarry oil. A little bit of sedi
ment mixed with it is going to make
it denser. If not gotten off quickly it
will get buried and appear as tar.
“If it hits the rocks (on the jetties),
people will have to scrub it off by
hand,” he said.
Jack Bushong, director of the Gal
veston Convention and Visitors Bu
reau, said the economic impact of an
oil spill on the island's beaches could
be up to $3 million a day for the tou
rism industry.
“It depends on the degree and
how quickly we could clean it up,” he
said.
Mondale pleads for ‘campaign for the people’
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Walter Mon
dale, wrapping up his first major
campaign swing in this majority His
panic city, threw away his text
Thursday and made a passionate
speech appealing for a people’s cam
paign.
The Democratic presidential
nominee was introduced by Mayor
Henry Cisneros, one of the eight
candidates he interviewed for vice'
president before choosing Geraldine
Ferraro.
“This is a special man,” Cisneros
told a cheering crowd of 6,000 peo
ple who gathered outside El Mer
cado, a Mexican-style marketplace in
the heart of San Antonio.
As Mondale began reading his
prepared text, a wind started blow
ing the speech away and the former
vice president turned behind him
and said, “Take this thing; I don’t
need notes to speak. I know what I
want to say.”
With that he launched into an im
passioned plea for support of the
first major party presidential ticket
that includes a woman.
“It’s not what we do for women,
it’s what women can do for this
country if we stop discriminating,”
Mondale said in an evocation of
John Kennedy’s inagural.
The crowd answered Mondale
with a rousing cheer as he said that
the country needed a campaign for
“the people instead of by the adver
tising agencies.”
The appearance in San Antonio
completed the 24-hour, three-city
swing that also included a rally of
10,000 people in Austin and a visit to
a technical training class at a junior
college in Houston.
After the San Antonio appear
ance, Mondale and Ferraro flew to
Minneapolis where Ferraro planned
to meet with Mondale before flying
to New York for a weekend at her
summer home on Fire Island.
Earlier in Houston, Mondale
blasted President Reagan for cutting
programs for the handicapped as he
and Ferraro talked about high tech
nology education at a computer
drafting class.
The students in the classroom at
Houston Community College Tech
nical Center included blacks, whites,
foreign students, women and one
man in a wheelchair.
“Every dollar we spend for physi
cal rehabilitation returns $5,” Mon
dale told them.
“I will never understand why this
administration is slashing away at
these programs” for the hand
icapped, he said.
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Job offers up for Aggies
University News Service
Average starting salaries for
spring graduates of Texas A&M
University are slightly above the
national averages in several
fields, placement officials report.
Officials also said Texas A&M
graduates are receiving more job
offers this spring than a year ago.
“I think we’re on a definite up
surge for both fall and spring in
recruiting activity, numbers of in
terviews and numbers of job of
fers,” says Placement Director
Louis Van Pelt.
Van Pelt said he feels the in
crease in hiring is a reflection of
the economy’s upswing.
Figures from salary surveys
compiled through June show pe
troleum engineers at the bache
lor’s degree level with an average
yearly salary of $30,744 — the
highest among spring Texas
A&M graduates.
The average national salary for
top-ranking petroleum engi
neering graduates this spring was
$30,306.
Texas A&M graduates are also
earning more than the national
average in mechanical engi
neering, electrical engineering
and accounting.
Stocks climb in record trading
United Press International
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones in
dustrial average soared 31 points on
a record 172 million shares Thurs
day in one of the biggest rallies in
Wall Street’s 192-year history amid
investors’ hopes for lower interest
rates.
Brokers said a long-awaited sum
mer rally is underway and that the
second-leg of the bull market, which
began two years ago, might have
started judging by buying panic
among megabuck institutional inves
tors.
Wall Street, heartened by Federal
Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker’s
statement last week that he hasn’t
tightened credit, apparently is con
vinced interest rates have leveled off
and the economy will slow to a more
sustainable pace.
The Dow Jones average’s 31.47
gain to 1,166.08 was the largest since
it soared 36.43 on Nov. 30, 1982.
The gain puts the closely watched
average at the highest level since it
finished at 1,167.19 on May 10.
Technical analysts said buying acce
lerated as the Dow smashed through
the 1,140 level that had been a stum
bling block for months. The Dow
has risen 79.51 since hitting a 17-
month low on July 24.
The New York Stock Exchange
index climbed from 2.19 to 90.77
and the price of an average share in
creased 74 cents. Standard & Poor’s
500-stock index surged 3.91 to
157.99. Advances led declines 1,457
to 255 among the 1,982 issues
traded at 3 p.m.
The Big Board volume of
172,830,000 shares, up from
127,520,000 Wednesday, was heavi
est on record, easily surpassing the
previous mark of 155,990,000
traded Jan. 5.
“This is the beginning of the sum
mer rally and possibly the second leg
of the bull market,” said Chester
Pado of AC Securities, Los Angeles.
“A lot of cash had built up in institu
tional accounts and they were re
ady.”
“This rally was simply that won
derful thing called a buying panic,”
said Anthony Tabell of Delafield,
Harvey & Tabell, Princeton, N.J. “A
lot of people are going to say this is
like August of 1982 but we’ve not
going to have anything like that.”
“Investors are impressed by the
fact that the bond market has rallied
in the face of the $16.75 billion
Treasury refunding and that
sparked this rally,” said Peter Fur-
niss of Shearson Lehman-American
Express.
Officers have variety of roles
Stress a fact of life for police
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By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
Some people find it difficult to
cope with stress, a fact attested to by
the glut of self-help books on the
subject. But stress is a fact of life.
Even getting out of bed in the morn
ing can cause stress.
Stress is defined as a physiological
reaction to a stimulus — a bodily re
action to anything that happens in
the environment. Stress itself doesn’t
change. It’s the degree of stress a
person experiences, coupled with
that person’s receptivity to it that can
create problems.
Not all stress is bad, and whether
stress is a problem largely depends
on the individual. Researchers have
learned that some people are more
susceptible to stress, and some pro
fessions are much more stressful
than others.
Law enforcement is a unique pro
fession in terms of stress, says a
Texas A&M University professor of
educational psychology.
“Name me any other profession
that has the immediate, unexpected
possibility of stressful situations,”
said Dr. Walter Stenning. Police offi
cers are faced daily with more stress
situations than people in other pro
fessions, he said.
“A police officer has to be so many
things,” Stenning said. “He may
have to be a priest, a psychologist, a
doctor or a mediator.”
He said that the demand to play
different roles can cause an officer
to expect too much of himself. Many
officers feel they aren’t doing a good
job when they aren’t able to adopt
these different roles. This can lead
to poor “job self-esteem.”
But there are a multitude of other
contributing factors to the stress ex
perienced by law enforcement offi
cials. Stenning said one of these is
the job’s low success rate.
For example, statistics on crime in
Texas compiled by the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation for 1982 show
that there is only a 22 percent clear
ance rate on crimes in this state,
meaning that only 22 out of 100
crimes are solved.
“I can’t think of another field with
as low a success rate,” Stenning said.
Other factors include trying to
live up to a “superhuman” public
image of a police officer, frequently
switching shifts without allowing the
body time to adjust and commu
nicating poorly with one’s spouse.
Stress management instructor Bill
McCoy, who works for the Law En
forcement and Security Training Di
vision of the Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service, said that many
officers don’t realize that they are
under stress until they have reached
an “exhaustion stage,” during which
they aren’t physically able to cope
any longer. This is the stage in which
most people become more suscepti
ble to illness.
A 1982 National Institute for Oc
cupational Safety and Health poll of
2,600 officers concerning work-re
lated illness showed a high incidence
of various diseases reported by offi
cers.
For example, 69.4 percent re
ported that they suffered from high
blood pressure that became worse
after they took the job.
The divorce and alcoholism rates
among police officers also are very
See POLICE, page 4
In Today’s Battalion
State
• A community theater in Arlington Thursday canceled
the last performances of its all-male “Who’s Afraid of Vir
ginia Woolf” at the request of playwright Edward Albee.
See story page 5.
National
•Postmaster General William Bolger Thursday warned
the nation’s 600,000 unionized postal workers that he will
fire them if they go on an illegal strike against the U.S.
Postal Service. See story page 8.
World
•The hijacking ordeal of 46 hostages on an Air France
jetliner ended in Tehran Thursday when their captors sur
rendered. See story page 3.