Wednesday, October 31,1984/The Battalion/Page 15
Corpus council
ends rationing
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United Press International
I CORPUS CHRISTI — The City
1 Council Tuesday ended two months
of water rationing imposed during
1 one of the driest summers this cen-
Mury, but simultaneously made plans
to ensure adequate supplies in the
future.
■ The council continued in ef fect its
tmandatory water conservation plan
: limiting the watering of lawns and
Iplants, and approved plans to de
velop and produce 25 million gal
lons of water a day from uncler-
v ground wells.
■ Almost all of the water for the
t|y’s more than 200,000 residents
jKame from Lake Corpus Christi, be-
K|ore the drought reduced its level to
f as low as 36 percent full.
■ Tuesday's action allows 15 other
Hbastal Bend cities that buy their wa-
jerfrom Corpus Christi to end water
locations at their discretion.
In relaxing the strict water ration
ing plan, Mayor Luther Jones and
yden Head Sr., head of an ad hoc
ater advisory committee, said pub-
licity about its water problems was
hurting the city’s image.
Head and Jones appeared con
cerned that the water shortage
might hurt the city’s chances of be
coming the home port for a battle
ship squadron that the U.S. Navy
plans to station in the Gulf of Mexico
in the future.
Head’s committee submitted a
three-point proposal: 1) complete
development and production of wa
ter wells that will provide 25 million
gallons of water a day, 2) acquire
land for future well sites that could
bring the total of supplemental wa
ter to 60 million gallons a day, and 3)
restructure water rates to cover the
development and production cost of
well water.
Jones said it would take years for
Corpus Christi to recover from na
tional and international publicity
generated by its water problems, but
that a move now to eliminate alloca
tions would go a long way toward
improving the city’s reputation and
also would assist in the city’s quest to
become the station for the Navy bat
tleship group.
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Technology
Fiber optics handles bytes
of info by a mere thread
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WALTHAM, Mass — The rapid
velopment of computers has re
ived a great deal of publicity lately,
But little has been said for comput-
I's’ important counterpart — fiber
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■^o matter how much information
■impliters are able to process and
KenUWj Store, their use is limited unless large
J volumes of information can be trans-
^jjHrred from one place to another
||ui( kly and cheaply.
I ^Copper telephone lines, micro-
Bve transmitters and satellites
; fen't able to transmit the enormous
| mounts of information experts are
BWedicting will soon be speeding
I Brough computer networks.
Bbight signals carried along
I .ffireads of glass will most likely be
the solution.
■ Fiber optic technology is already
j i|sed for trunk telephone lines and
| Between nearby businesses that re-
| fuire a large flow of computer infor-
: ption.
■ Within this decade,-experts pre-
| |ict, fiber optics will even reach into
the home. Sprint, a long-distance
felephone service, already uses fiber
gptics along much of its transconti
nental network.
“Because light’s information car-
tying capacity is so great, relatively
ptrly in its technology fiber optics
liurpassed all other forms of trans-
Shission in cost effectiveness,” said
I teslie A. Riseberg, director of com
ponents research at GTE Laborato
ries Inc.
w At GTE, a leader in fiber optics
development, Riseberg’s researchers
1 are designing new ways to reduce
Jhe cost and increase the amount of
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jdJFederal jury indicts
ep a 14 on drug charges
information that can be transmitted
across the hair-thin glass fibers.
One fiber can carry the signals
from 10 television stations. That is
roughly equivalent to transmitting
the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
within a few seconds.
Why is fiber optics better than
conventional methods of transmis
sion?
Because most common forms of
transmission use electromagnetic
signals, much like radio waves only
of higher frequency. Fiber optics
uses light. Light is also part of the
electromagnetic spectrum, but the
distance between each wave is so
much smaller that 100,000 times
more information can be carried on
it.
The technology is not without its
problems.
For a long time engineers worried
that broken lines could not be easily
spliced together. Copper cables can
simply be soldered, but glass fibers
have to be perfectly aligned before
melted together.
GTE solved the problem by in
venting a device similar to Chinese
handcuffs. Each end of the fiber is
cut and then inserted into an elastic
tube. The inner elastic lining aligns
the two strands perfectly.
Riseberg said GTE has also found
a way of packing the information
onto the telephone lines more
tightly.
When people talk, there are al
ways gaps between their words. GTE
engineers discovered a way of filling
those spaces with computer commu
nication. Whenever a gap occurs, the
computer fills it with information
being transmitted somewhere else.
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HOUSTON — A grand jury has
[dieted 14 people — including a
althy Santa Fe, N.M., man — on
racketeering and narcotics charges
in a widespread investigation by a
federal strike force.
The Department of Justice also
seeks forfeiture of $5 million worth
of real estate, luxury cars and bank
acounts.
The indictment, unsealed Mon
day, charges that Drake Williams,
37, a certified public accountant
from Santa Fe, concocted a drug and
money-laundering scheme that has
netted him and others at least $15
million since 1974.
Williams’ organization was
cltarged with distributing 40 tons of
marijuana and 46.5 ounces of co
caine, and offering illegal tax deduc
tions to businesses for laundering
drug profits.
JProsecutors filed court documents
Monday preventing the sale of a
$200,000 house in nearby Sugar
Land, a duplex in West University
Place, inside Houston, and other
houses and acreage in Santa Fe and
in several Texas communities.
The government sought most of
the stock in a copying business called
A-Jiffy Inc. in Houston, which Wil
liams has renamed Pro-Graphics.
' Prosecutors said they also were
freezing several bank accounts, in-
duding one in Zurich, Switzerland,
and seizing a number of luxury cars,
motorcycles and airplanes that they
said were used in racketeering or or
ganized criminal activity.
Williams, jailed in lieu of
1500,000 bond, was charged with
Operating a criminal enterprise, the
so-called “drug kingpin” statute,
which carries a maximum penalty of
“ in prison and a $ 100,000 fine.
Williams, who told a magistrate
that he has an accounting practice in
Houston, also was charged with
three criminal racketeering counts
carrying maximum sentences of 60
years. He also was indicted on 11 tax
and drug violations.
Others indicted were Williams’
twin brother, Vance, Beverly
Springer Lunday, 36, and William
Calhoun, 33, of Houston; Tanny
Gerald Miller, 33, of Waller; Charles
Vorum of League City; Marshall
Calhoun, 65, of Spring; Jan Gross-
man and Oscar Silva of Austin; Mi
chael Sahs, in federal custody in Big
Spring; Edward Orellana of Bur
lington, Mass.; Salvadore Meraz of
El Paso; Joseph C. Watson of Austin;
and Robert A. Williams of Paso Ro
bles, Calif., brother of Drake and
Vance.
Their 24-count indictment alleges
the defendants used the Houston
copying business and several others
to launder substantial sums of cash
from drug trafficking.
Drake Williams allegedy offered
an illegal tax deduction to Marshall
and William Calhoun, a father and
son who operated Custom Steel Co.,
Inc., in Houston.
Williams was charged with giving
two large amounts of cash to the two
businessmen in exchange for checks,
which were then reported on the
firm’s business tax returns as pay
ments for “contract services” which
were never rendered.
The indictment charged that Drake
Williams also was heavily involved in
cocaine and marijuana distribution.
Williams earlier was indicted in
May 1983, but the Gulf Coast Re
gional Drug Task Force later asked
for dismissal to pursue stronger
charges against Williams and the
others which allowed confiscation of
their assets.
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