Wednesday, August 15, 1984/ r The Battalion/Page 7
by Scott McCullar
^ Mofy amp sorcery tale
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AND TOOK POWER OVER THE .
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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.
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“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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The full-size well, part of the
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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.
Corpus Christi ’90 termed the
possibility of getting the ships —
along with a $100 million construc
tion project and a $50 to $60 million
yearly payroll — “one of the most
important tasks currently facing this
community.”
One committee member also sug
gested that the presence of the Navy
blue jackets and ships would en
hance tourism in the Corpus Christi
area.
Ortiz said the Navy is expected to
select the homeport site next April
after viewing presentations from the
six cities.
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