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Vol. 89 No. 189 USPS 045360 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 15,1990
IEEX trains oil crews
to meet new demand
of reviving industry
3y JULIE MYERS
Hhe Battalion Staff
For the first time since 1986, a
lass of trained oil rig crew workers
dll graduate Friday from a rough-
teck school operated by the Texas
ingineering Extension Service.
TEEX is a member agency of the
Texas A&M University System.
Will McNair, division head of the
TEEX Energy Training Division,
aid drilling activity had increased
icfore troubles in the Persian Gulf
X)sed a threat to foreign oil sup-
ilies.
“When oil prices stabilized at $ 18
o$20 a barrel, those numbers justi-
ied more investment in a high-risk
venture like drilling,” McNair said.
Now, with oil prices approaching
(28 a barrel because of tne Iraqi in-
rasion of Kuwait and consumers
grumbling about dependence on
foreign oil, McNair said domestic
production will increase and oil pro
ducers will need more workers.
McNair said classes at the school
resumed in response to a need.
“Drilling companies that called us
when they began drilling again said
they needed trained workers again,”
McNair said. “The labor pool had
run dry.”
Another five-week drilling school
begins Sept. 3 at TEEX’ Abilene fa
cility.
The school provides extensive
training in drilling operations and
safety procedures. McNair said the
Abilene TEEX school is one of the
few that offers hands-on training
with actual drilling rigs.
The seven graduates should have
no trouble finding jobs. McNair said
he already has been contacted by
drilling contractors wanting to inter
view trainees.
McNair said the search for alter
native fuels will not have a negative
impact on the industry or the rough
neck school graduates because some
alternative fuels, like cheap and
clean natural gas, are byproducts of
oil and will be the fuels of the future.
McNair said all state vehicles will
be converted to the cheaper and
cleaner natural gas by 1991.
Graduates can expect to earn $7
to $8 an hour.
Bush prepares for Arab king
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush re
turned Tuesday to the White House for fresh
Persian Gulf briefings and preparations for an
important session with King Hussein of Jordan.
Protection for American warships from Iraqi re
prisal drew priority consideration from the ad
ministration.
As Bush interrupted his Maine vacation, Hus
sein, who has staked out a role as Arab emissary
to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was heading
for the United States from Baghdad, apparently
with a message for Bush.
On the front lines in the Middle East, the
United States drew concrete help from Syria, an
old Arab adversary still on the State Depart
ment’s list of terrorism sponsors, in tightening its
squeeze on Iraq.
Syria, a bitter enemy of the Iraqi leader, re
sponded to a U.S. invitation to unsettle Saddam
by dispatching troops to Saudi Arabia. There
they joined with tens of thousands of American
soldiers to protect the world’s richest oil fields
from Iraqi seizure.
The Pentagon said Marines from bases in Cali
fornia as well as an unspecified number of addi
tional aircraft — including refueling tankers and
Air Warning and Control System radar planes —
had arrived for the Saudi operation.
John H. Kelly, the assistant secretary of state
for the Near East, met in Damascus Tuesday with
Syrian President Hafez Assad and Foreign Min
ister Faorouk Shara.
In Washington, there were reports that Syrian
troops had moved closer to the Iraqi border, but
U.S. officials said the reports had not been veri
fied.
The complex American strategy for unnerv
ing Saddam includes raising the specter of con-
Fhe usually pro-Western Jordanian
King Hussein has remained on the
fence, declining to join the embargo
approved last Monday by the U.N.
Security Council.
flict with Syria.
Assad and Saddam, secular leaders of rival fac
tions of the Baathist parties, are bitter rivals in an
Arab world riven by divisions among conserva
tive monarchists, fundamentalists and modern
ists.
In the crazy-quilt pattern that has taken hold
in the Arab world after Iraq’s blitzkrieg annexa
tion of Kuwait, the usually pro-Western Jorda
nian King Hussein has remained on the fence,
declining to join the embargo approved last
Monday by the U.N. Security Council.
Capitalizing on Hussein’s ambivalence, how
ever, the Bush administration readily accepted a
suggestion by the king that he fly here from
Baghdad where he has been meeting with his
more powerful neighbor.
Hussein will arrive today in Washington carry
ing an undisclosed message from Saddam and
spend the night in the capital before flying to
Kennebunkport, Maine, to see Bush at his Walk
er’s Point vacation retreat.
By then, the president will have completed a
new round of strategy briefings as well as sessions
with top economic advisers on budget problems
aggravated by the cutoff of Iraq oil to the West
andJapan.
The king has called Saddam a patriot and ob
servers in Jordan report trucks and tankers
crossing the Iraq-Jordan border without appar
ent interruption.
And yet, Margaret D. Tutwiler read a
statement to reporters saying, “Our relations
with Jordan are and have been excellent.” She
said Jordan “has indicated to us their intention to
abide by the U.N.-imposed sanctions.”
Jordan, a key player in the Arab-Israeli dis
pute, lies between Iraq and the Jewish state,
which Saddam has accused of conspiring with the
United States in a campaign against his country.
The king has pledged not to allow Iraqi forces on
his territory. Still, U.S. officials say he is in a diffi
cult position alongside an aggressive and power
ful Arab power.
On the diplomatic front, meanwhile, ambassa
dors from the Soviet Union, Britain, France and
China were called to the State Department to
consider ways to safeguard the growing naval ar
mada in the Persian Gulf from Iraqi reprisal.
Two options under consideration, U.S. offi
cials told the Associated Press, were assigning
coordination of the ships’ defense to ajoint U.N.
military command or putting them under the
protection of the U.N. flag.
The meeting with Robert Kimmitt, the under
secretary for political affairs, was designed “to re
view what role the United Nations military staff
committee” could play in connection with the
embargo, spokeswoman Tutwiler said.
The idea, which originated with the Soviet
Union, has been under discussion in telephone
conversations between Secretary of State James
A. Baker III and Foreign Minister Eduard A.
Shevardnadze for several days, Tutwiler said.
Photo by Eric H. Roalson
Camp counselor Jay Jenson, Class of ’90, leads members of day afternoon before leaving for session “B” Fish Camp. Jenson
Camp Hobbs in their camp yell in the stands of Kyle Field Tues- is a Psychology major.
Faculty Senate hears
issues for new year
By CHRIS VAUGHN
school year.
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M’s faculty needs to
have a say in what athletic confer
ence the University joins if it decides
to leave the Southwest Conference,
one associate professor said during
Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting.
Dr. David Anderson, an associate
professor of English, spoke during
Committee of the Whole,
Committee of the Whole is during
the end of regular business and al
lows professors to voice concerns or
raise topics unrelated to the day’s
business.
Anderson said the athletic scene
has changed dramatically for A&M
since the University of Arkansas left
the Southwest Conference for the
Southeast Conference.
He said faculty members should
have a say if A&M also decides to
bolt from the SWC.
“My concern is that whatever dis
cussion and decisions are involved
won’t include faculty concerns,” An
derson said. “The faculty has a legiti
mate interest in what conference
we’re in.”
Anderson said faculty members
are interested in A&M joining a con
ference with high academic stan
dards, should it decide to leave the
Southwest Conference.
During remarks by Faculty Senate
Speaker Dr. Bill Stout, he said
women in the Corps of Cadets, fac
ulty pay inequities, AIDS policies,
better Student Senate communica
tion and east-west campus conflicts
are among the Faculty Senate’s ma
jor priorities for the upcoming
Stout went over a rough draft of
Senate priorities for 1990-91 during
Monday’s brief meeting. He said,
however, the list was preliminary
and was not complete.
The priorities for the Faculty Sen
ate’s Executive Committee included
better communication with faculty
members and the Student Senate,
appropriate emphasis on teaching,
evaluating the AIDS policy for the
University and resolving class con
flicts between the east and west cam
puses.
Stout said the Faculty Senate and
Student Senate weakened each oth
er’s positions several times last year
because of disagreements.
“When President (William) Mob
ley had a proposal from the Faculty
Senate saying one thing and another
proposal from the Student Senate
saying another, no action was often
the result,” Stout said. “It would put
both of us in a stronger position if
we agreed.”
In an informal poll among sen
ators Monday, more preferred
scheduling west campus classes on
the half-hour on Mondays, Wednes
days and Fridays to alleviate class
conflicts with the east campus.
The Faculty Senate’s Planning
Committee and the Academic Af
fairs Committee have been looking
into the problem for several weeks
and will continue, Stout said.
Other possible solutions men
tioned by the Senate include inform
ing students during registration that
they have registered for back-to-
back classes, prohibiting them from
doing it or increasing the amount of
time between classes to 15 minutes.
Owner revives puppy
with' mouth-to-muzzle’
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
When Bear, a five week-old Rot
tweiler, fell into his water bowl last
week, he probably thought he was a
goner.
The puppy was limp and lifeless
when its owner, College Station fire
fighter Rick Westbrook, found Bear
upside down with his hind legs stick-
ingout of a gallon can.
Westbrook’s girlfriend, Lori Rob
ertson, said Westbrook grabbed
Bear out of the can and quickly be
gan mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
on Bear until the puppy regained
consdousness.
Westbrook said he tried holding
Bear upside down. When that didn’t
work, he wiped the puppy chow off
the dog’s mouth and started using
Funeral services for a Texas
A&M junior were Sunday in Aus
tin after the student died in a car
acddent Thursday night in the
dty.
Jessica Ann Schroeder, a 21
year old from Austin, was a civil
engineering major at A&M. She
“mouth-to-muzzle” resuscitation.
Robertson, a first grade teacher at
Sam Houston Elementary, said her
boyfriend told her she probably
wouldn’t want to kiss him again after
he told her what happened.
Robertson said Bear is doing fine
now, except that he frequently has
nightmares.
Robertson said she thinks they’re
nightmares because Bear wimpers
and moves his paws when he sleeps.
Westbrook just had returned
from the veterinarian’s office where
Bear was being treated for pneumo
nia when the accident occurred.
Robertson said Westbrook plans
to give away an entire litter of pup
pies that he has, including Bear, but
she said she had grown attached to
Bear because of the traumatic expe
rience.
was going to be ajunior this fall.
A memorial fund has been es
tablished in Schroeder’s name.
Forest Oak Funeral Home in
Austin handled the arrangements
and can be contacted about infor
mation on the memorial fund.
Dancing frogs sidestep their doom in fire
Battalion file photo
Legendary Carl’s Corner Dancing Frogs were displayed on an
overhang on Harrington Classroom Building in Spring 1987 as
part of an exhibit sponsored by University Art Exhibits. The
frogs escaped a fire that destroyed the famous truck stop last
week. They are now owned by a Dallas night club owner.
By MIKE LUMAN
Of The Battalion Staff
The dancing frogs displayed on
the roof of Harrington Classroom
Building in Spring 1987 almost
croaked last week.
A fire broke out and leveled their
Interstate 35 home, a 'truck stop
complex 57 miles south of Dallas.
The 500-pound, 10-foot-high,
polyurethane statues survived un
harmed on a roof.
The blaze left nothing else stand
ing at Carl Cornelius’ uninsured
$1.5 million establishment in Carl’s
Corner.
“They danced and played all
through the fire,” Cornelius said.
There are six frogs in all. Three
visited Texas A&M in 1987 as part
of a University art exhibit.
Cornelius said financial reasons
forced him to sell the performing
amphibians to a Dallas businessman
for $35,000.
They will become part of Players,
a “gentleman’s club” now under con
struction in Dallas and will probably
be moved next week, he said.
The green and yellow giants were
created in 1982 by Bob Wade of
Waco for the short-lived Tango club
in Dallas.
Cornelius said he bought them for
$6,000 after a city ordinance limiting
the size of commercial signs was en
forced.
He plans to rebuild the complex,
but it will be without the long-accus
tomed presence of the famous frogs.
Wade is working on other projects'
including a wooden Indian for the
truck stop, Cornelius said.
“We’ll have something,” he said.
He said he was devastated at first
by the loss of almost all he worked
for.
“But what do you do, cry about
it?” he said. “You go back and do it
again.”
Cornelius said friend Willie Nel
son is planning a benefit concert at
the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas
Aug. 27 to help pay for construction.
He added that a similar benefit
could take place in College Station,
but there were no firm plans.
The fire is believed to have started
in an air-conditioning system. Em
ployees lacked time to save most pos
sessions in the complex, he said.
Among valuable items lost in the
blaze were numerous pictures of ce
lebrities, he said.
Cornelius said sightseers and for
mer patrons were wandering in the
ashes, even stooping to bag some as a
souvenir.
“I don’t think Mount St. Helens
has anything on me,” he said.
Carl’s Corner, population about
200, was established as a town in
1986.