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‘Piston coring’ aids study
By DONNA HARSHMAN
Reporter
The Ocean Drilling Program,
which is supervised by Texas
A&M, operates a research ship
that drills unbroken sediment
samples that are used to explain
the earth’s origins.
The ship, JOIDES Resolution,
has drilled as deep as 27,000 feet
and uses “piston coring” to obtain
the unbroken core samples.
While most drills rotate when
taking samples, “piston coring”
allows the drill to move straight
down. The rotating drills cause
fossils to break or become dam
aged, but “piston coring” re
moves entire sediment samples
intact.
“We can look at the climate of
the past,” says Dr. Philip Rabino-
witz, director of the Ocean Dril
ling Program. “By looking at the
past, we can look at the future.”
He says the samples are help
ing to explain continental drift.
“There is no doubt the conti
nents aje moving,” he says. “We
are looking at why this is going
on.
“We drill near the margins to
examine continental drift. For in
stance, what caused Africa and
ne. Whoi South America to move apart?”
After the samples are re
moved, they are studied at A&M,
the University of California at
San Diego and Columbia Univer
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“We can look at the sediment
and the way it was formed,” Rabi-
nowitz says. “We also can look at
fossils and species.”
Samples have been obtained
from several voyages, Rabinowitz
says.
“Each cruise lasts about two
months in duration and is de
signed to solve a certain geologi
cal problem,” he says.
“About 50 scientists and tech
nologists staff each leg,” Rabino
witz says. “All the technologists
are from Texas A&M.
“By looking at the past,
we can hx>k at the futu
re, ” — Dr. Philip Ruhi~
nowitz r director of the
Ocean Driiling Pro- \
gram.
“One scientist from A&M
serves as a liaison of sorts,” he
says.
The first voyage, called leg
100, was in January. TheJOIDES
Resolution was tested and mod
ified under varying sea condi
tions during this trip.
“Major modifications cost $15
million and the vessel is one of a
kind,” Rabinowitz says. “The lab
oratories on board are unparalle
led.”
The second voyage, leg 101, in
volved the ship’s first interna
tional crew. The crew studied the
evolution of the region near the
Bahamas.
And during leg 102 in the mid-
Atlantic, scientists examined the
physical properties and structural
features of the Atlantic’s crust.
Samples recovered from leg
103, in the Galicia Bank off
Spain, revealed that the area near
Spain was flooded by a shallow,
muddy sea nearly 150 million
years ago.
Leg 104, which is now being
conducted in the Norwegian Sea,
will be completed in mid-August.
The crew is investigating Nor
way’s continental margin to learn
more about the evolution of
ocean margins.
The voyages have added to the
prestige of the drilling program,
the largest research project at
A&M. It has attracted interest
worldwide.
Additional voyages off the
coasts of Newfoundland, France,
Senegal, the West Indies, Pan
ama, Peru and Chile are sched
uled for later this year.
The National Science Founda
tion, France, Germany, Canada
and Japan are involved in the re
search and funding. The United
Kingdom and the Soviet Union
have expressed interest as well.
TDC may be
forced to let
inmates go
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — Unless Texas
prison officials can find extra space
in the next month, about 140 women
inmates may be released before
Sept. 1.
The date is the first deadline of a
negotiated settlement to a prison
overcrowding lawsuit that prevents
housing prisoners in temporary fa
cilities.
Prison spokesman Phil Guthrie
called the situation serious, saying,
“Any situation where we might not
be able to meet the court order is se
rious.”
The prison suit settlement, signed
in May, states that all inmates must
be out of temporary housing by
Sept. 1.
Guthrie said male inmates were
no longer put in temporary housing,
but one of every 13 women prison
ers in the state will have to be re
leased if additional space is not
found.
As of Tuesday, the prison system
had 1,784 women inmates.
Parole board director John Byrd
said 45 women were paroled last
week after a special panel of the pa
role board reviewed 150 cases in an
effort to expedite the release of
some whose paroles previously had
been rejected.
When the inmate level, now at 94
percent, reaches 95 percent, some
prisoners must be given additional
“good-time” credit, making them eli
gible for parole sooner.
Unemployment benefits running low
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Quick action is
needed on the federal and state lev
els to make certain jobless Ameri-
canscan receive unemployment pro
tection, a national labor leader said
Wednesday.
Thomas R. Donahue, secretary-
treasurer of the national AFL-CIO,
told Texas union leaders that only a
fraction of those out of work cur
rently receive unemployment com
pensation.
“The fact is that last month, un
employment benefits were paid to
the lowest percentage of unem
ployed workers in the last 25 or 30
years,” he said.
“Last month, 26.9 percent of the
unemployed in this country — those
who are unemployed and looking
for work — were eligible for unem
ployment insurance coverage,” Do
nahue told the opening session of
the Texas AFL-CIO convention.
“That’s a very, very serious prob
lem that we have to deal wih in the
first moments of the good economy
of this country and in the first legis
lative opportunity we get,” he said.
Donahue said little attention has
been paid to problems with unem
ployment compensation as the na
tion’s economy has improved.
Many Americans have been out of
work so long they no longer qualify
for benefits or have been unable to
work long enough to requalify be
fore being laid off again, he said.
“We have dver 8 million people
still unemployed,” Donahue said.
“We’ve been hanging at that 7.3
(percent) unemployment figure (na
tionally) for a lot of months now.
What is not obvious in that unem
ployment figure is the absolute de
struction of the promise of unem
ployment insurance.”
With only 26.9 percent of the job
less drawing benefits, he said, “The
been out of work so long that they’ve
exhausted their benefits and there’s
no supplementary available, or else
they couldn’t work long enough to
qualify under some restrictive inter
pretation or another.”
In Texas last month, he said that
“15 percent percent of the unem
ployed collected unemployment
benefits. The highest was 45 percent
in Massachusetts and 37 percent in
California. That’s a tragedy that no
body is talking very much about and
that we’d better address.”
Also speaking to the 1,500 dele
gates from 900 local unions was Gov.
Mark White, who criticized Presi
dent Reagan’s foreign trade policies.
Those policies are eroding many of
America’s basic industries, such as
steel and oil, White said.
“The current laissez-faire trade
policy being practiced by the current
administration has the potential of
leading to an economy that loses its
basic industries and is left only with
service industries,” White said.
“In a sense we will be left with
those service industries that may be
doing nothing more than shining
each others shoes — and the shoes
are imported from some other coun
try,” he said. “That’s not a strong
economy, and we have to guard
against that happening.”
White also announced a $2.2 mil
lion assistance program, combining
a $740,000 federal grant with similar
amounts in state and local funds, for
unemployed steel and copper work
ers jobs in Texas.
The help will be going to steel
workers in northeast Texas and
Harris County, and copper workers
in the El Paso area.
Correction
In Thursday's Battalion Dr.
Zede Carpenter was incorrectly
identified as the director of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station. Carpenter is the director
of the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
The director of the Texas Ag-
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Dr. NevUk Clark.
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More fish kills expected in Trinity
Associated Press
ARLINGTON — More fish kills
can be expected in the Trinity River
below the Dallas-Fort Worth area
unless additional stringent waste dis
charge limits are enforced, a state
parks and wildlife officuil predicts.
But Dallas city officials say
tougher sewage treatment regula
tions won’t prevent pollution.
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