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Grand jury
indictments
tossed out
AUSTIN (AP) — A Travis
County grand jury was dismissed
two months early and a judge tossed
out its 120 to 150 indictments after it
was discovered that one member
had been indicted by an earlier
grand jury on a theft charge.
“It’s just one of those things that
pops up on occasion,” said State Dis
trict Judge Bob Jones.
Among qualifications to serve on a
grand jury is a requirement that
members not be under indictment
for theft or any felony.
Carolyn Jean Alvarez, 23, was a
member of the grand jury empan
eled by Jones on April 1.
District court records showed that
she was named in a Feb. 5 indict
ment on a charge of aggravated
theft over $750 but less than
$20,000.
On Monday, Alvarez was arrested
and booked into the Travis County
Jail on the felony theft charge. Pros
ecutors said they learned of her ar
rest after she told officers she had to
be released in time for the Tuesday
grand jury meeting.
New concept in water conservation
Incorporates creative landscaping
By John Marr
Reporter
During the hot summer months, many home-
owners are forced to watch their lush yards
wither and turn brown because of local water re
strictions. However, a relatively new concept al
lows homeowners, businesses and cities to main
tain a beautiful landscape while conserving
water.
Xeriscape, the conservation of water through
creative landscaping, can help eliminate outdoor
water waste while maintaining healthy land
scapes.
Dr. Harlow Landphair, professor of landscape
architecture at Texas A&M, says, “Sixty percent
of summer water use is on traditional landscapes
and is usually inefficiently applied.”
Xeriscape incorporates three basic principles
of water conservation:
• The use of more effective and efficient irri
gation systems.
• The use of mulches and soil preparation to
conserve moisture.
• The use of lower water-demanding plants.
Mark Vaughan, landscape architect, says
sprinkler irrigation is probably the most com
monly used method of watering.
“The major advantage of the sprinkler is that
it allows water to be evenly spread over a large
area,” Vaughan says, but he cautions people
against overwatering.
“People should maintain their sprinklers and
move them when the water starts to run over the
curb or sidewalk,” he says.
For effective watering of mixed landscape
(trees, shrubs, vines) and flower beds, xeriscape
emphasizes the use of drip irrigation.
Drip irrigation slowly applies water to the
plant’s root area and reduces evaporation.
A layer of mulch over the irrigation system will
further help to conserve water, Vaughan says,
and add to the overall beauty of the landscape.
The selection of a grass for the landscape is
one of the most important processes in xeriscape.
Landphair says grasses, such as St. Augustine,
require the most water and maintenance of all
landscape plants and significant reduction in wa
ter use can only be achieved by reducing the area
occupied by grass.
A South/Central Texas Xeriscape spokesman
suggested the use of patios, decks and mulches as
alternatives to planting grass.
John Thomas, owner of Wildseed Inc., says
wildflowers usually are the best alternative.
“Wildflowers offer more color and use less wa
ter for the price,” he says.
Death law
change
approved
AUSTIN (AP) — The House
on Wednesday approved a
change in the death penalty law
and advanced a bill that would
make it illegal to threaten to tam
per with products.
With no debate, the House
gave final approval to a bill by
Rep. Larry Evans, D-Houston,
that would make it more difficult
for jurors to return death penal
ties against accomplices in capital
murder cases.
The bill would require jurors to
decide whether an accomplice
was “a cause” of the death. Under
current law, an accomplice, even
if not the triggerman, can be sen
tenced to death.
Evans’ bill won Final House ap
proval in a non-record vote, send
ing it to the Senate.
Winning tentative approval on
a non-record vote, and with no
debate, was a bill by Rep. John
Smithee, R-Arnarillo, that would
allow 10 years in prison and a
$5,000 fine for threatening to
tamper with a consumer product.
According to a House analysis,
a national food retailers group re
ported 1,892 cases of tampering
threats in 1986, compared with
only 200 cases of actual tam
pering. Threats of tampering
have caused problems in Texas,
including a Waco incident in
which $400,000 had to be spent
to destroy products a caller said
had been tainted.
Oilman: Need for Texas oil
will keep producers going
MIDLAND (AP) — The world’s
unquenchable thirst for energy will
insure the Permian Basin’s destiny
for years to come, says Bernold
“Bruno” Hanson, president of
American Association of Petroleum
Geologists and a Midland oilman.
Elected president of the world’s
largest geological association in June
1986, at the bottom of the worst
downturn in petroleum history,
Hanson has had to steer the 42,000-
member organization through its
toughest waters ever, but he sees
smoother sailing ahead.
While four of every 10 petroleum
geologists in the nation are still out
of work, Hanson is not ready to bury
petroleum geology with the same di
nosaurs that made the science possi
ble.
“It’s all a matter of price. When
the price for oil returns, so will the
demand for petroleum geologists,”
Hanson says.
Since becoming president of the
association, he has traveled 100,000
miles making speeches to geologists,
professional and political groups
around the world — even testifying
before Congress — to get that mes
sage across.
But Hanson says some of the most
talented and experienced oil finders
in the nation have been put out of
business by company layoffs and
early retirement and will not be
available when their services are
needed most.
“By 1900,” he says, “OPEC will be
selling oil by the tanker to the high
est bidder, and the crisis will be on
again.”
Hanson says there is an excess of 5
million to 8 million barrels per day
of worldwide production that is be
ing narrowed rapidly. He adds that
there is virtually no exploration
going on anywhere in the world to
find new reserves, and that con
suming nations are becoming more
dependent on OPEC reserves.
Most industry experts conclude
that the United States will be 50 per
cent dependent on foreign crude by
“The U.S. energy con
sumer has two choices: he
can pay a little more now,
or he can wait until the
crisis and pay triple. ”
— Bernold “Bruno”
Hanson, Midland
oilman.
the early 1990s, but Hanson says it
could come as early as 1988.
Whenever it does come, the North
Dakota-born oilman says OPEC will
not hesitate to put the squeeze on
consuming nations, and force them
to once again look for new reserves.
“That will prompt a demand for ge
ologists, landmen, roughnecks and
will open up thousands of jobs in the
oil industry.”
He says intense dependency and
demand for petroleum will make
sure of that, noting that a 100-mil-
lion-barrel field is the equivalent of
only two days’ world consumption.
He said the average well in the U.S.
has a reserve capacity of only 45,000
barrels, and that it takes 50 such
wells to equal one day’s consumption
in the U.S.
“With that kind of world appetite
for petroleum, it’s going to take a lot
of new wells to add reserves,” Han
son said.
“On an average it takes the dril
ling of 10,000 wells to find a single
50 million barrel field, and 700 wells
to find a field of less than 10 million
reserves,” he said.
He also said it would take almost a
decade to get to a point where a suf
ficient volume of wells could be
drilled to replace reserves in the U.S.
He says that restoring America to
a point of adding reserves would not
place an undue burden on the U.S.
energy consumer.
“Bringing oil prices back to a $20
price would only add three cents per
gallon at the gas pump. After that it
would cost the consumer nothing,
because increased tax revenues from
a revitalized oil industry would re
duce his tax burden in other areas.
The U.S. energy consumer has two
choices: he can pay a little more now,
or he can wait until the crisis and pay
triple.”
Hanson, a former geologist for
the old Humble Oil Co. (now Ex
xon), first came to Midland in 1951
and has seen the largest producing
province in the U.S. mature from
primary to tertiary production.
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