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Researcher: Future
rests on technology
By Ashley Bailey
Reporter
The future of the United States
rests with the application of ad
vanced technology and the competi
tion that exists in the open market
place on a worldwide basis, a U.S.
Army researcher said Wednesday
night at the College Station Hilton.
Dr. Jay Sculley, the assistant secre
tary of Army research development
and acquisition, told Construction
Executive Program members that
because of its ties to technology, the
Army both depends on and helps
the construction industry.
The Army has 300,000 physical
plant buildings in need of repair, he
said. It also owns 155,000 houses;
500 million square miles of paved
surfaces; 48,000 miles of storm
sewer, electrical or sanitary lines and
over 3,000 miles of railroads — all of
which would cost about $170 billion
to replace, Sculley said.
Sculley said the statistics provide
stark evidence that the U.S. armed
services must find a new way to re
place or restore their constructions
at a cost that taxpayers can afford.
In the past fiscal year the Army
corps of engineers awarded ton-
tracts in excess of $4 billion for its
military construction program and
another $2 billion to civilian compa
nies, he said. About 98 percent of
the military contracts and about 97
percent of the civilian contracts were
awarded on a competitive basis, with
about 57 percent of those contracts
given to small businesses, he said.
“I would say that the corps of en
gineers, even within the Army, is a
leader in competitive contracts and
in paying attention to the socio-eco
nomic goals instilled by the small-
business administration," Sculley
said. “It’s my job to beat those sot io-
economic goals, but it’s also my job
to insure that competition is fair and
open and that we get the most for
the taxpayer’s dollar.”
The requirement lor efficient and
cost-effective construction provides
a focus for the Army laboratory re
search development program, he
said. Army research is directed to
ward exploiting technology in order
to stretch the miliiarv construction
dollar, he said.
The Army’s program involves!
dividual-paced learning, comp:
aided instruction, video hr-
discs, work simulations and
learning aids, he said. These
help the construction industryi
fessiouai become aware of te
logical advancements in the
place, he said.
The federal government
more money on research thanj
other organizations combined,n
has supported six Nobel Prize;
mug efforts, he said.
“The expertise found in
search and development labsist
a national resource — notjusti
tense hut also in health and!
resources,” Scullev said.
“We are standing on the vergeS
let hnologic .il breakthroughs is®
nifuant as any we’ve seen uioutagH
lization," he said. "The federal; ?;
eminent must take full advania;<j§l
each technological opportunitywi
presents itself and be sure lha;
results of eac h are transferredkM;
diistts because technology and;
petition is c»ui future.’’
WWII veteran kills man
in front of wife, police say
KERRVILLE (AP) — A World
War II veteran angry about his med
ical claim shot and killed his claims
counselor as the victim’s wife and
other workers watched in horror
Wednesday, police said.
Rufus William Smith, 63, of Fred
ericksburg, was charged with mur
der in the shooting death of John
Walker Pettit, 54, a veterans affairs
counselor with the Texas Veterans
Commission.
Justice of the Peace Pat Knox set a
$300,000 bond, and Smith was being
held in the Kerr County Jail
Wednesday night.
The suspect had walked into Pet
tit’s office, adjacent to the Veterans
Administration Medical
about 9:20 a.m., police Detective Joe
Fanning said.
“There was an argument in refer
ence to some benefits that he felt he
was entitled to and he produced a
weapon and shot (Pettit),” Fanning
said.
Pettit’s wife, Linda, a clerk at the
hospital, was in her husband’s office
when the shooting occurred. Othei
workers witnessed the shooting as
well, officials said.
Fanning declined to describe the
weapon or the number of shots
fired. He said the suspect surren
dered peacefully to hospital security
officers.
Pettit’s body w'as taken to the
Bexar County Medical Examiner’s
of fice for an autopsy, Fanrimgsi:
Hospital spokesman Bob Fair si?
Pettit had worked as the sole 'f •
ans’ affairs counselor in Ken',
since August 1979.
Pettit helped veterans bv trad
dow n medical and bank records^
military files to assist theminfil
claims.
"John had plenty of friends
here. He was deeply involved v
all veterans organizations," Fairs
“He was not one of these fa«-
people. He would get out among
veterans groups and help their,
well as he could."
Fair said the suspec t was a W
War 11 veteran who had beenrecc
ing medical treatment.
Discrimination files
of federal agency
missing in backlog
DALLAS — Two dozen people
who filed age discrimination com
plaints have waited two years for ac
tion, but their cases were lost in a
huge backlog in the district office of
a federal agency, officials said.
The Dallas office of the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commis
sion has the largest caseload of the
agency’s 23 district offices, District
Director Lorenzo Ramirez said.
Its 37 investigators resolve about
3,200 cases a year but this year have
5,800 complaints pending, he said.
The 24 age discrimination cases,
on which the two-year statute of lim
itations has expired, had priority but
were lost in the shuffle of the heavy
caseload, which includes increasing
numbers of equal pay, sex and race
discrimination complaints, Ramirez
said.
“The problem is just getting to the
complaints, and the impact is on the
people who have to wait for the re
sults,” he said.
A 32-year-old Dallas truck driver,
who asked that his name not be
used, filed a race discrimination
complaint two years ago. He said
he’s still waiting tor an Ef-LH inling
that could allow him to recover dam
ages from his former employer.
“It’s lousy to be poor, broke and
waiting for the federal government
to act on your behalf,” he said. “You
go to the federal government for re
lief because they are the only source
of help for those without money.
But they take their time, and you
wait and wait.”
Ramirez said he doesn’t have
enough workers for the caseload the
Dallas office handles, and the work
ers he does have are frustrated by
red tape.
The office has a six-, 12- and 18-
month warning system on age dis
crimination cases to avoid losing
complaints because of the two-year
deadline, he said.
“The EEOC is the best there is,”
Ramirez said, “ft is about the only
thing there is to Help people discrim
inated against. In these field offices,
we are the most active and available
source to protect the civil rights of
the common man.”
But the 24 people whose com
plaints have expired have lost their
chances for legal redress.
PUC grants
extension
in GSU casf
AUSTIN (AP) — The Pub! j
Utility Commission on W’ednt j
dav approved a two-week delayi’l
the Cult States Utilities ratecasti
after the company said it coni'a
not meet today’s deadline forII |
ing further information.
The deadline for deciding tbfI
case, which had been set for Mon If
day, is now Feb. 1.
Commissioners have asked fa|
further information, including
documents about CSU’S federal
tax payments and the moneytbtj
company is spending on theraltl
case.
The three-member panel oJ
Tuesday had approved a 90-da ! |
delay in the case in order tohea'l
more testimony about GST
River Bend nuclear plant in Si|
Francisville, La.
But that plan was scrappl
when company President E.Lin:
Draper said GSU would need at*
interim rate hike in order ic|
avoid running out of mone
while the case was pending.
It is the longest case in Plf|
history and includes the commit
sion’s first-ever review of nudearl
plant expenses.
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