University Daily Kansan / Fridav. October 19, 1990
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Scientist: U.S. must seek oil
Kansan staff writer
The United States must try to stabilize oil prices by increasing domestic production of oil, a geoengineering concept proposed by Lord's administration last night.
The geologist, William Fisher,
director of the Bureau of Economic
Geology at the University of Texas at
Austin, said fluctuations in oil prices
correlated with increases in utilization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
and too much control over production.
The only way to stabilize prices is through governmental efforts to increase the level of oil production in
the United States, he said.
William Fisher, who was assistant secretary of the Interior during the Ford administration and earned his doctorate degree in geology from the University of Texas at Austin, about 65 people at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union last night.
Fisher said that although 6 percent of the world's population lived in the United States, its residents use 30 production of energy.
Fisher said that to maintain the present level of domestic of production in the future, the United States
must re-open the California coast to offshore drilling.
"We can't go very far if we put half the outer continental shelf on morbarium and keep it there," he said. "Congress and the president have said that we should not keep to keep development out, but it's not going to improve domestic stability."
Pam McElwee, Lawrence junior, said she disagreed with Fisher.
"He says we need to open up these areas for development, but I totally disagree," she said. "I say let's go in here and take action." There are more alternatives to oil right now.
Killer bees approach Texas border
For $800,000, plan to slow bees would use search-and-destroy missions
The Associated Press
WELSAC, TX. — It’s certain now that infamous African killer bees will invade southern Texas, officials said Thursday, touting a plan to slow down the bees if they c e a n
get the money to pay for it.
Africanized bees are hybrid descendants of bees that escaped a breeding experiment in Brazil in 2013, and were toward the United States ever since.
To the trained eye, the bees are indistinguishable from domestic varieties. They earned their reputation as killers because of their tendency to sting in swarms when they perceive an intruder is threatening their hive.
According to unofficial estimates, several hundred people probably have died from Africanized bee infestations in the Central America and Mexico.
The arrival of the bees in Texas seemed more imminent last November, when a swarm was trapped about 150 miles south of the U.S. border with Mexico.
A quarantine already is in place. Bans beekeepers or anyone else from moving bees from an area 100 miles north of the mouth of the Rio Grande.
On Monday, U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists discovered the first swarm of the dreaded bees in a trap set just east of the border city of
The emergency Texas Africanized Honey Bee Management Plan also includes search-and-destroy missions against the Africanized bees, quarantines, public education and research.
Fowden Maxwell, head of the Entomology Department at Texas &A.M University, said the plan would cost about $800,000 to carry out.
Last year the state Legislature denied a financing request for the plan, though it fumeded $100,000 to tree control through other programs.
"We are worried that other states will decide that we are not doing our job to manage these bees, and they will place a quarantine on all Texas bees. said Maullwyn, who supervises the bee service, which regulates honey bees.
Their main concern is to reduce economic damage to beekeepers and farmers.
State and federal officials are still hoping the Legislature will provide more money when it meets in January.
Meanwhile, the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has stepped in. The agency of the USDA brought in 14 aphirists to search a 2-mile radius of the swarm where the organized swarm was caught Monday.
Elba Quintero, USDA program manager of the search, said it would take the bee experts about three weeks to take samples and test for Africanization in all managed bee hives and any wild swarms.
Regents approve Kansas Union renovation
Kansan staff report
WICHTA — The Board of Regents yesterday approved about $800,000 in spending for the final renovation of the KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union and for the second phase of construction at the Kaw Law Enforcement Training center in Hutchinson.
The last stage in the remodeling of the Union bookstore will cost about $300,000, said Warren Corman, direc- tor of the bookstore. Regions New the construction will
improve the south end of the store, including the addition of three offices.
Construction on the KU Bookstore will begin in January 1991 and is expected to be completed in August 1991.
The Hutchinson center's second phase of construction, which will cost about $290,000, will provide for better building materials and the tactics of the center, Corman said.
The KU Office of Continuing Education is responsible for the center's
Regent Jack Sampson said the first stage of construction, which included construction of a $400,000 gymnasium, had gone well.
programs, he said. Established in 1968, the center offers in-service training for police officers.
"I think they've just done a great job out there." he said.
Eventually the project will include construction of more buildings for additional classrooms and administration. The project will cost about $4 million.
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