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Tuesday, June 16, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local 3nfc &M geophysicists join am studying oil, rocks • liungrvu: i/ing, (litrL, ch friesfJ By RaeAnn Warmann ithoilt | Keener Something besides (lie cool lints that feed the Guadalupe olesqut | e| . j s |i <)Vv j n g deep below the ae- y.lktwlHedimeiitaiy basin beneath the the saint y ol San Marcos, idayor III oil, and Texas A&M geophysi- iiiesswasiK :ilon S with others, will try to get I moie detailed picture oi it hy par- ’I , Bliiig in an Austin-based pro- 1 11 il! am in which geologists will pen- * lie rock near San Marcos and is re.s|M >>ipie the fluids found within the li sniidiip' 1. First proposed by the Hureaii ol . ' ^ffinnit Geology, the ( bill Univer- llh IS"" 1 (ies hwestigations and Deep Kxplo- ition ptojed — GUI I)K — will look seismic records to determine dil- t real ■less all;:., 7 si M ih hazard ig was tliMirstlii retlees between continental trust idlceanic t rust. Dr. Karl Hoskins, tadlol the A&M getiphysit s tlepart- en|, says. “In between, we’ve gt»l this mess,” oskins says, “and we dtm’t kntiw hats there, really, but San Marcos :ml(l he a gtxul sptK tt> find that hecusloi!%.ky| ia t j( vvill tlo is tell us a lot them-lout the origin of oil, because we’ll illnliiougli sediments dial the oil 1 Hready been formed in and mi- talismaifctecI away Irom. We’ll be able to heBateniple it anti will learn a lot just mhii lluitl bebavior at great depth.” Hentisls already know that fluids earailating (brougli the rocks at mllguli but still aren't sure about ie<i)tn|>t)siti<m and temperature of Hluids, what they carry or how they affect the formation anti trans portation of oil, he says. Any breakthroughs resulting from GUIDK, however, will be scien tific, not economic. “Most of the time in the oil indus try, of course, when (bey drill a bole, they’re most interested in getting down there anti testing for lluitls or testing for hydrocarbons, and get ting out of the hole if there’s not hing there,” Hoskins says. “In this case, this hole is really being drilled for science, not for any other reason.” The Gulf Goast is one of the big gest sources of hydrocarbons in die United Stales, he says. It still is active in producing lluitls anti generating hydrocarbons. But when drilled below I (),()()() feet, Hoskins says, this active crust becomes overpressuretl. “Overpressured in the t)il industry means you’re risking blowouts, which you don't like,” he says. To thill into lower parts of the earth anti through overpressured /ones, a 75,000- to 40,000-fool hole is necessary. The hole will go into areas where both organic and inor ganic metals are being deposited and where lluitls are circulating. “Eventually, the hole will be drilled into this transititinal crust, whalever’s below the basement,” lie says. Hoskins says it will be another two years before actual drilling starts, as the project is still in the planning stages. The exact drilling time will depend on funding from the Na tional Science Foundation. But when the project is ready, a relatively shallow hole will be drilled lirst — about 15,()()() (eel — to pin down any problems. “Then, when that hole is done, about 1992 or 1997, we’ll he pre pared to start a big hole and go for 4(),()()() feet,” Hoskins says. The 70,000- to 40,000-feet of core that will be retrieved from the hole will be put in a permanent reposi tory for scientists. “When it’s all done and all the shouting is over and somebody sits flown and totals up the expenses, it’s probably going to come to $200 mil lion, and it’s probably going to take 10 years to complete the whole pro ject ,” he says. is liKih High court kills Houston law against ‘interrupting’ police second set of 3V2 X 5 color prints only 5 cents each with film proc essed and printed at regular price. 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W/VSHINGTON (AT) — The Su- HcCouii, in it First Amendment eyij'iwlse]ruled Monday that cities may 'e. otmake il a < rime for bystanders to Bmpt” police officers at work, t womenPf a vo,e n * 1, the justices struck | l( .| ir! own a 1956 Houston ordinance latjnakes it a misdemeanor to in- !iTii|)t police during their work. Five justices joined in saying that ity municipal law that prohibits in- irrupting police officers is uncoil- Ktorsulijtuliunal because il may be used to ur legitimate free speech protected yllu' First Amendment, abortion I F|ree others in the majority )led to strike down the Houston iwoii narrower grounds. ) il isa dial m 111. Juslice William |. Brennan, in his (|| y pinion for the court, said, “We are lincllul that the preservation of lib- 11 U l ' rlydepends in part upon the main- ettsol; malice of social order. But the First ecolor mendment recognizes — wisely, sen ( e think — that a certain amount of (( mil fBessive disorder not only is inevi- ible in a society committed to indi- klual freedom, but must itself be , FoLected if (bat freedom would sur- im 1 ive. Today’s decision reflects the gffiitutioual requirement that, in Hace of verbal challenges to po- T’ins Hiction, officers and numicipali- persiwpmust respond with restraint.” irally Joining Brennan’s opinion were Justices Fbm good Marshall, Byron R. White, Harry A. Blaekmmi and John Paul Stevens. Three other justices said the Houston law could be redrawn to meet constitutional requirements while still safeguarding the ability of police to do (heir jobs. “The ordinance could make clear that it atmlies to speech only if die “The freedom of individ uals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the princi pal characteristics hy which we distinguish a free nation from a police state. ” — William J. Brennan, Supreme Court Justice purpose ol the speech were to inter fere with the performance by a po lice officer of his lawful duties,” Jus tice Fewis F. Powell said. Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O’Gonnor said they agreed with Powell. Chief Justice William H. Rehnqu- ist voted to uphold the Houston or dinance. Fhe city law was challenged by Raymond Wayne Hill, who had served time in prison for burglary and returned to Houston in 1975. Hill was arrested on Feb. 4, 1982 on a Houston street corner by police making another arrest for a traffic violation. A crowd gathered as Charles Hill, who is unrelated to Raymond Hill, began directing traffic and the offi cers moved to slop him. According to court records, Ray mond Hill told the police they should “pic k on somebody your own size” and leave Charles Hill alone. The police then arrested Ray mond Hill and he was charged with a misdemeanor for interrupting po lice during their work. Hill was found not guilty. He then filed a federal civil t ights suit chal lenging (he ordinance. Brennan said, “fhe freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a po- 1 lice state.” a rilil Irllri 1 —3 walk away a ii/Li L'lh " from separate plane crashes m 1 a ■AUSTIN (AP) — Three peo ple escaped serious injury in sep arate plane crashes in the Austin Hea, authorities say. p Tvvo people, identified by Tra vis County sheriffs deputies as Louis Burrett, 70, and Anne Rbsebourgh, 27, escaped with mi nor injuries when a power line caught the left wheel of their bi plane Sunday and pulled it to the ground near Lago Vista on Lake liavis. K Witnesses said the biplane, pi loted by Burrett, was flying in low circles over Fake Travis before cirashing into the heavily wooded shoreline and fell partly into (be wilier. H III the second accident, also Sunday, (he pilot of a single-en gine plane escaped uninjured af- lei the craft clipped some trees, became entangled in power lines a id crashed in a heavily wooded ffrea in a Williamson County sub division. ■ Ernest Harrington Martin ap- Jiarently had just taken off about !> p.m. Sunday after stopping at a Jiiivate landing strip to ask direc tions to another airfield in the area, Dale Boyer, chief of the Ge- (lar Park Volunteer Fire Depart ment, said. || Martin was alone at the time of the crash, he said. Hobby: Fiscal crisis should not be solved by cutting education AUSTIN (AP) — Ft. Gov. Bill Hobby, saying the state’s fiscal crisis has grown more urgent during nearly a year of inaction, said Mon day the problem should not be solved by further cutting human services or education spending. “We cannot afford to balance our budget at the expense of human services and higher education,” Hobby said in remarks prepared for a private briefing for about 50 busi ness leaders. “Recent budget cuts have dam aged our colleges and universities. So far, it is not irreparable, but an other round of reductions might he,” Hobby said. Hobby said some business leaders discussed the possibility of a state in come tax during the hour-long meeting, but he said he doubted an income tax would lie enacted. fhe lieutenant governor said he expected the Legislature’s answer this summer would he a temporary tax surcharge — on the sales lax and other levies — to get the state through the 1988-89 budget period. “I doubt that there’s going to he any major revision of the tax struc ture this summer. I think what we’ll see is probably ... a surtax on the sales tax and all other taxes to get us by a difficult period,” Hobby said. “Surtaxes are kind of the tradi tional way of avoiding thinking through a problem,” he said. Hobby said he would propose a “starting point” for budget negotia tions in (he special session beginning June 22 that would require a $6.7 billion (ax increase for 1988-89. “That is an enormous amount of money to raise,” Hobby said. “Therefore, reductions most likely will he made in this starting point budget in the next few weeks.” But, during a news conference af terward, Hobby declined to say where cuts might come. He said he considered the proposal totaling about $79.7 billion too low. 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