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University Daily Kansan, June 7, 1982
By United Press International
OLHAEMA CITY—The sluggish economy and the recent oil glut have cooled the once-hot demand for engineering graduates, but the salaries of technical majors still dwarf all others, college and industry officials say.
Salaries for engineering grads taking jobs with energy-related companies commonly start at more than $30,000 a year.
Placement directors at Oklahoma's two largest public universities said recruiters no longer were stumbling over each other to sign up engineering majors, as they had been during the past five years.
Petroleum engineering certainly had been in heavy demand, said William Audas, head of placement services at the University of Oklahoma.
BUT THE DEMAND has slowed, even to the point where some offers made last fall to students graduating in the spring have been withdrawn.
"I'd say we're on the flat side of a rather high plateau," said Max Brady, division manager for human resources for Getty oil in Tulsa.
Demand for petroleum engineers, as for many others in technical professions, is a "cyclical thing" and is "either fear or famine," he said.
Don Briggs, director of Oklahoma State University's placement services, said the demand for "technical types" has grown. And I think we are seeing a slowdown.
"The demand is starting to level out, instead of almost going straight up, as it has in the last three or four years," he said.
Briggs said, however, the law of supply and demand had begun to revive a need for graduates in education.
"People certified to teach in public schools are probably one of the highest-demand candidates on the campus," he said. "They're extremely important teachers. That a lot button right now."
However, starting salaries of up to $36,000 a year for engineering graduates still tower over the salaries offered to teachers by tax-supported school districts and probably will continue to do so, Briggs said.
Accountants, though not as highly paid as engineers, enjoy strong demand and have a wide reach. "Cynomys has softened and "the stock market has gone to hell," said Rocky Duckworth, a partner in the Oklahoma City office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Campbell.
"Public accounting is kind of an economic swing-proof business," he said. Duckworth said that in the six years he had been with the Big Eight accounting firm, "every year, our demand has been greater."
Those with bachelor's degrees in geology have not fared well, said Jeff Ruiz, division recruiting coordinator for Getty.
"Bachelor's degrees in geology are a dime a dozen," he said. "Even a master's degree—they're starting to be all over."
But Ruiz said demand varied according to a graduate's record and his school's reputation. Students of one Colorado technical college "may actually get a job offer a year and a half before they graduate" be said.
But he said the oil glut had forced many major oil companies to put a
The situation apparently has made some technical graduates a "little negotiable on their salaries." Ruiz said. With half a dozen small independent oil companies folding every week, he said, companies are passing up new graduates who have experienced professionals who can hit the ground running."
Getty apparently will not cut back its hiring, but Ruiz said planers had to look ahead to what their needs would be next year, and "it's hard to say how many positions will be available for college graduates."
"I'll be fewer, certainly," he said.
GLENEDEN BEACH, ORE. (UPI.) The new chairman of the Western Governors' Conference says he is frustrated that the 35th annual meeting of the West's leaders did not produce a solution to the nation's housing slump.
Cure for housing slump sought
Oregon Gov. Vivec Atiyah said economists had told the conference "there doesn't seem to be a solution, that you can't get there from here."
"That's not an acceptable answer," said Aithey, a publican seeking his second term as governor in a state wrought with economic problems stemming from a slack housing industry and high interest rates.
The 17 governors of western states and Pacific territories, in a bi-partisan, unanimous vote, approved a resolution asking congress and the Reagan administration to allocate a balanced budget within three years and to slow growth in defense spending.
The idea was that a balanced budget would produce confidence among lenders and consumers to help bring interest rates down.
"How much effect that (the resolution) is going to have is hard to tell, but it is at least coming from more than one day," said after the conference ended Saturday.
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Storms flood New England; tornadoes hit Iowa and N.D.
FT WORTH, Texas—A federal bankruptcy court is so overwhelmed by the task of supervising 80,000 creditors of Bramif Airways that it will open a sepa
The court will more than double its current staff of seven women and its office space to handle the parade of attorneys, Barriff ticket holders and former employees of the defunct airline.
Braniff filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy position last month, swamping the office.
At least seven people were dead and six were missing in a weekend of New England storms.
While record rainstorms waged an all-out assault on southern New England on Sunday, driving 1,300 people from their homes and washing dams down water-choked streambeds, a pair of swimmers slammed north Dakota and Iowa.
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Bernetta Leiden, bankruptcy clerk for the northern district of Texas and coordinator of the office expansion, dimensions of the case were stagering.
Tornado warnings were in effect through Sunday night for North Dakota and central and northwestern Minnesota. A severe thunderstorm watch was also posted for the western two-thirds of Iowa.
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"Most of the time, we have one credit or three. Occasionally, we get 3,000 or 5,000, but, my God, we've never had 80,000." she said.
Two Lake Auburn, Maine, boaters were missing. All were presumed drowned.
Recursions hampered by fog, rain and three-foot waves sought two women canoensis missing since Saturday night in Rhode Island's Narrasnaget Bay. Nearly 100 people, 14 boats and a helicopter were involved in the search.
Braniff bankruptcy overwhelms court
A tornado that touched down in Sibley, Iowa, encompassed a seven-to-eight-block residential area, Oceola County Sheriff Robert Rolfesza said. At least 10 people were injured by flying debris in the storm. Officials said all were treated at area hospitals and later released.
Sheriff's officials in North Dakota's Ramsay County said a twisted touchdown about four miles north of Devil's Lake, blowing one mobile home from its foundation. No other damages or serious injuries were reported.
Richard Herberts said he and his family were out motoring and could see the twister.
"I heard a rumble when we were driving down the road, and the next thing there was debris flying around." he said. "I turned the car around and started honking the horn to alert the neighbors.
burst. Warren Bates, about 30, was vied etaping a rafting trip when his raft was caught in the freezied current of a Connecticut river.
To help handle the overflowing work load from the Branifac case, the court plans to open a separate annex this summer. Nine temporary employees; whose jobs may last for several years; will be hired.
Intense thunderstorms rumbled through the Dakotas and Iowa, petting down trees in the area.
"We've had no reports of any major flooding," said Highway Department Dispatcher Stephen Cass. "The minor washouts have been more or less all over the state, but we've been able to handle them with the normal crews."
A spring not easter dumped up to eight inches of rain on Long Island, snarling traffic and causing low-level flooding.
"The tornado hung around for about 90 seconds."
"The tributaries of small streams are going crazy." Frank Gradand, director of plans and operations for Connecticut Water Authority, might anger them, the less problem there is.
Up to eight inches of rain in 24 hours swamped western Connecticut, where 900 residents of Naugatuck, Ansonia and Seymour fled to schools, gardens and churches. There were about 400 evacuations elsewhere in the state. Water rising six feet in five minutes swept away a dam at Clinton.
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Less severe flooding washed out some New Hampshire roads.
An unidentified man drowned in a car that was washed into a rain-filled ditch in Orange, Conn. An unidentified woman was swept away while trying to walk from a water-struck truck in Salem. A man who was locked up on Friday at a golden Rhode Island road
Six other New Englanders were reported missing. Richard Poggio, 15, was floating down a water-gored Connecticut brook when his inner tube
Summer-starved residents of the Midwest and Northwest put off backyard barbeques another night. Temperatures on Sunday morning nosedive into the 20s in the Great Basin, and Yakima, Wash., shivered through 35-degree readings that broke a 68-year-old record.
Under Chapter 11 rules, the company or trustee eventually produces a reorganization plan, which must satisfy both the court and the creditors.
It was 36 degrees in Madison, Wis., and Chicago's low of 40 tied an 88-year-old mark.
Almost all parties in the Branifax case expect the Chapter 11 proceedings and reorganization to take several years.
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