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Wednesday, August 15, 1984/ r The Battalion/Page 7 by Scott McCullar ^ Mofy amp sorcery tale THE TOUWG FRIWCE. WAS ORPWANEP 8y T/f£ MTSr/C SORCERER IN A BATTLE, WH/CH THE SORCERER'WQ^ AND TOOK POWER OVER THE . PRINCE’S KINGDOM. '' ' '\ iled Suites ol> :tion of “exira' " in a meetinj he represenfi' i ■teiiftodecidt natters such as a Geneva con' cupied territo- ives frm n Terence, lain committee if the condem ates and Israel 1 15 countries i tries and some iduding France, Intent, whileja' uid Switzerland •staining. •THE TOONG PRINCE WAS CAST OUT, BUT GREW TO AAANHOO0 W/TH AN INTENSE HATRED AND EUST POR REVENGE UPON THE ONE THAT HAD SO CRUELLY STOLEN HIS ROYAL PARENTS AND HERITAGE FRO/A Hitt. THERE WOULD BE A DAY, HE SWORE IT... THE BARBARIAN PRINCE TRAINED HlttSELF INTO AN INCREDIBLY SAVAGE FIGHTER, AND ALONE TRAVELLED ttANY LANDS, KILLING WITH HIS HUGE BROADSWORD, PREPARING TO FACE THE SORCERER. FINALLY, THE PRINCE RETURNED AND ENTERED THE SORCERER'S CASTLE, CAREFULLY SEARCHING... ...AND WAS EATEN IN THREE SEPARATE CHUNKS BY ONE OF THE SORCERER'S ttEDIUtt-SIZED ttOAT ttONSTERS. THUS, THE MYSTIC SORCERER LIVED AN UNWORMED LIFE THEREAFTER. ttORALt THE PRINCE WAS A SWORD LOSER. (VOT TO BE. COMTU/UE.P...) Wu/ce dump sites considered United Press International AUSTIN — State engineers ate reviewing water and geology maps of two plots of land in North Texas to determine their suitability for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, officials said Tuesday. Tom Blackburn, spokesman for the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority, said the state should decide later this week about the viability, of the privately- owned sites in Archer and Wilbarger counties. Agency officials flew over the sites Monday and will review available data on the land before deciding whether to pursue the property, he said. The land is now used for graz ing. WVa.cV.bwvn saWV \A\c svavv found \A\e property by advertising in local newspapers. “We met with the landowners and looked over the land very quickly,” he said. “It’s mostly clay soil, which is what we’re looking for.” Blackburn said, however, there may be a problem with the mineral rights on the Archer County prop erty. Both tracts are about 300 acres. Meanwhile, Blackburn said the agency’s board of directors has in structed the staff to seek a three- month extension of an option to purchase a 456-acre site in South I exas. The $903-an-acre option on the privately-owned site in Dimmit County is scheduled to expire Aug? The Dimmit site near Asherton has been identified as geologically acceptable, but it has been vigor ously opposed by the Catholic Di ocese of San Antonio and nearby VAndownevs, \nc\udmg former Gov. Dolph Briscoe. The state is also considering sites in Webb and McMullen counties in South Texas, said Blackburn. The agency has $743,()()() in its current budget to buy land and per- lorm, engineering work on a site. Hie facility is expected to cost about $ 10 million. The authority does not have a firm timetable for selecting a site, hut Texas faces a Jan. 1, 1986, fed eral deadline in building a storage facility for low-level nuclear wastes produced by its hospitals, universi ties and industry. Texas’ wastes are now shipped to dumps in South Carolina, Nevada and Washington, hut after 1986 those f acilities will not be legally obli gated to accept wastes from other states. Texas produced 27,000 cubic feet of low-level radioactive wastes in 1983. No oil to be produced UT drills well in building United Press International AUSTIN — Most oil wells are drilled in the wide open spaces, but the University of Texas has drilled one smack-dab in the middle of the basement of its new petroleum and chemical engineering building. “This is really a test well,” quipped Dr. Myron Dorfman, chairman of the UT Department of Petroleum Engineering. “We don’t expect it to produce. ” While the 550-Foot well may not produce oil or gas, it is expected to produce research data that could lead to computer-operated oil and gas fields in the future, said Dorf man. Researchers hope to use the well to develop computer applications to improve efficiency and reduce man- adfabor in oil Held aye melons. “We think this (oil and gas) indus try can become automated just like every other industry is going,” said Dorfman. 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It has been logged and documented like a producing well, Dorman said. “This we)) w))) give us the capabil ity of using the well to simulate ac tual conditions in the field,” he said. “We can fill it with water, oil, gas or mixtures, and then within the lab it self we ll have all sorts of digital me ters and we II he able to develop our own programs on microcomputers. " 1 he idea is to develop compu- tered-operated oil fields,” Dorfman said. “We’ll he able to punch a but ton and get a well to flow into a test tank rather than a regular tank, or change the opening through the flows or the pressures.” Computer-operated oil wells would require less manpower, pro vide move sophisticated monitors and better safety, he said. “It could cut down on the need for non-technical types and allow you .to operate a field with several old wells with a minimum number of people,” Dorfman added. “We’ll use to work on new logging techniques and enhance the recovery of old fields and train production enei- neers. Right now, all that is visible in the building’s basement is a hole in the ground. Corpus asks for squadron United Press International CORPUS CHRIST! — A study group is recommending that Corpus Christi make an all-out effort to be come the homeport for a six-ship squadron that the U.S. Navy is con sidering stationing in the Gulf of Mexico. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Texas, said the Navy this month began a formal investigation into the feasibil ity of homeporting a “Battleship Surface Action Group” in the Gulf and that Corpus Christi, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Biloxi, and Pensacola so far have expressed in terest. “ This is great news for the South Texas coast area, which has a num ber of positive qualities to offer, in cluding a fine working relationship with die Navy already in place,” Or tiz said, referring to the Naval Air Stations at Corpus Christi, Beeville and Kingsville. The Corpus Christi ’90 Task Force Committee reports it is send ing a letter to city of ficials this week urging them to convince the Navy to locate the ships — consisting of a battleship, a cruiser, a guided missile destroyer, and three guided missile frigates — here. Secretary of the Navy John Leh man told the Corpus Christi con gressman in a recent letter that the Navy would receive proposals from the various communities trying to at tract the ships between August 1984 and January 1985. Delivery of the ships would begin about 1990, Ortiz said. “According to Secretary Lehman, the investigation is consistent with the Navy’s intent to disperse its forces, improve the utilization of the nation’s ship repair industrial capac ity, develop ports suitable for use by Navy ships, and use the geography of the country to broaden Navy op erating experience and reduce tran sit times to areas of potential crisis,” Ortiz said. 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