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Carlsbad, N.M., Tuesday, January 15, 1980 Another TMI: Are We WASHINGTON (AP) On a Sunday morning in October. radiation leaked from the Fort St. Vrain nuclear plant northeast of Denver. Not until that night did Lt. Gov.

Nancy Dick, the ranking official in the state at the time, learn about it from a reporter. Although the leak was confined to the plant and apparently posed no public danger, an angry Mrs. Dick said she should have been informed immediately. She was not the only one left in the dark. It was midafternoon before any authorities were notified; plant workers said they tried to call the state health department in the morning but got no answer.

The incident in Colorado which occurred seven months after a release of radiation at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania demonstrates that emergency communications procedures are still far from clear at the nation's 70 commercial nuclear power plants. Some nuclear critics say if a major reactor accident were to occur today, much of the confusion and chaos that marked the Three Mile Island incident might well be repeated. For months, a special task force of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been working with officials in 40 states and hundreds of communities to develop new rules on emergency planning. One NRC staff member calls it "a can of worms," with problems that will take time to work out. State and local governments complain they will have to spend money they do not have.

Some federal and state officials disagree on procedures for accident notification. Others argue that a number of proposed requirements, such as an ability to notify the public within 15 minutes, may be impossible. And the new NRC requirement that a 10-mile area from all plants be ready for quick evacuation has been challenged in cases where there are large concentrations of people, such as the Indian Point reactors near New York City and the Zion units north of Chicago. Last month, President Carter told the NRC and the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to complete a review of all such plans by June. New NRC rules, expected to go into effect early in 1981, will require federal approval for all emergency plans.

One version would require plants to shut down immediately if adequate plans are not approved by the NRC. HEADQUARTERS For Levi's naso OUTFITTERS FOR MEN AND BOYS Before Three Mile Island, the NRC and the nuclear industry believed reactor design would prevent a major accident and only a population zone" of no more than three miles need be covered by an emergency plan. The president's commission on Three Mile Island said that approach was useless because a serious accident would affect a C02 Injection Well Set Obituaries Government Opens Wheat Campaigns WASHINGTON (AP) Government officials say they hope to begin soon a campaign to buy about million metric tons of wheat that had been ordered by the Soviet Union but then was embargoed by President Carter. Meanwhile, Agriculture Department officials have asked Brazil and Argentina not to sell additional soybeans or soybean meal and oil to the Soviets as a result of the U.S. cancellation of sales on those products.

Howard W. Hjort, the department's, chief economist: policy analyst, said Monday the formal arrangements for government purchases of the million metric tons 'of wheat the Soviets had wanted are almost complete much larger area. The proposed NRC rules expand emergency planning, including possible evacuation, to 10 miles from a plant, and some precautions would be required as far as 50 miles away. According to a federal survey, no final plan in line with the proposed NRC rules has yet been submitted to Washington. "Everybody is short in in the rolling sandhills four miles southwest of here is set begin an unusual assignment Wednesday.

They will be sinking a shaft destined to become New Mexico's first carbon dioxide injection well. When the shaft is in and other preparations are complete, the same kind of gas that puts fizz in your soda pop will be sent down the hole at high pressure to and that buying is expected to start shortly. In addition, the USDA plans to buy contracts from exporters for up to 10 million metric tons of corn suspended by Carter's action, which was taken in retaliation for the Soviet military advances in Afghanistan. Hijort said details of those arrangements will be worked out as quickly as possible. "But we don't want to move so quickly that we'd end up with a contractassumption agreement that is unrealistic," he said.

The grain purchases and other actions were ordered by the administration to help protect farmers from declining prices that officials said would have resulted the grain had some respects," said Brian Grimes, head of the NRC task force, which has visited half the country's plant sites to examine plans. "How do you plow through the morass and all the complexities and the unknown?" asked Hilary Whittaker, a planner with the National 1 Governors' Association. "You don't just develop a plan overnight. In some cases initial plans do its chemical magic. And if all goes as planned it will unlock several million barrels of oil in the tightfisted rocks of the MCA unit.

Officials of Conoco Inc, which owns 75 percent of the MCA, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology were in Maljamar last week to announce the project and inspect the site. Conoco will spend $3.1 been dumped directly on the market. Department officials said Monday that Argentina and Brazil made no commitments to join the U.S. embargo on the sales of soybeans to the Soviet Union. Thomas R.

Saylor, associate administrator of the department's Foreign Agricultural Service, said the two countries were asked to cooperate "in not shipping soybeans and soybean products to the Soviet Union" to offset the orders canceled by Carter. The United States asked Argentina and Brazil to "limit their exports to the Soviet Union to normal trade levels" and suggested that the three countries exchange information on exports and trade flows. Sledders Get Break By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Sledders may soon be able to swish downhill through, the snow at the Capitol without risking, kiddie incarceration. and But elephants, cars unauthorized funeral processions must still keep their distance. It's currently a misdemeanor crime a violation of the Enited States EDITOR'S NOTE The concept of using carbon dioxide to get oil out of the ground in New Mexico has been bandied about for years.

The concept is about to be tested here for the first time. W.H. Graham of the Lovington Leader writes about the state's first CO2 recovery project. By W.H. GRAHAM Lovington Daily Leader MALJAMAR (AP) The crew of a drilling rig set up Capitol Traffic Regulations to "coast or slide on a sled" within the Capitol grounds.

Seven-year-old Jay Maguire found this out the hard way on a recent snowy day when he and a group of friends sledding on the slope behind the Senate wing were stopped by Capitol police. Jay's angered father, Rep. Andrew Maguire, responded as lawmakers often do when in a tight spot. "My old tax service didn't double check everything. I shoulda come here last year.

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"Two hours into the exercise," recalled Grimes, "the governor of Oregon (Victor Atiyeh) had to tell a million in capital and $1.1 million in operating costs over the next four years to install and run the pilot project. New Mexico Tech is supplying technical assistance through its Petroleum Recovery Research Center. They expect to obtain oil, of course, and to determine whether the CO2. flooding process is feasible in the MCA and other New Mexico sites. Miscible flooding with carbon dioxide, a tertiary recovery method, is designed to mete the oil left behind traditional pumping and water flooding recovery techniques.

In an interesting twist, this new technology is being introduced only a mile from the Maljamar discovery well of 1926, which, opened oil production in southeastern New Mexico. The MCA, which covers more than half the Maljamar field, has produced 49 million barrels of oil since 1963 when water flooding was initiated. But the two standard recovery processes have coaxed out only about half of the estimated 95 million barrels in the reservoir. What about the rest of it? That's where tertiary recovery comes in, and in this case CO2 may be the answer. Experts say it could recover up to half of the oil still in place.

The CO2 will be injected into the test area, which covers five acres, under carefully controlled conditions. Technicians want to know everything about what goes on underground because so much depends on what they learn from this testing. They will even "pressure core" a 200-foot section of the producing formation so that all fluids can be captured "in-situ" and analyzed in a frozen state. This step alone, not a part of the Conoco investment, will cost $500,000 with the Department of Energy picking up the tab. Seven wells will be drilled on an inverted five-spot pattern one for injection, four to produce oil and two to log and monitor.

Although the pilot is set up to last four years, technicians expect to spot trends and begin making evaluations in perhaps half time. From this information a decision will be to made on whether to put the entire unit on C02 flooding. A larger project would require, among other things, building a pipeline to bring in CO2. The 6,000 tons of gas to be used in the pilot stage will be trucked to the site. The CO2 injection is expected to start in 1981.

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Monico Garcia Rosary services for Monico C. Garcia, 91, 318 S. Second will be held today at 7 p.m. at West Funeral Home chapel. He died at his home Sunday.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Loving with the Rev. Timothy Byrnes officiating. Burial will be in Loving Cemetery. Garcia's grandsons will.

serve as pallbearers. He was born in Fort Davis, Texas. Before moving to Loving about 60 years he was employed in a quicksilver mine near Terlingua, Texas, and also had a mail route between Terlingua, Alpine, Texas. He then farmed near Loving and operated Garcia Grocery in Loving. In the early 1940s he went to work on the loading docks at U.S.

Refinery, retiring around 1958. He was a member of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Survivors include six sons, Primitivo and Leondro, both of Loving, Fermin, Luis and Susano, all of Carlsbad, and Pablo, Lovington; three daughters, Amelia Lerma and Maria Onsurez, both of Loving, and Mary Holguin, Albuquerque; two brothers, Manuel, Carlsbad, and Santiago, Huron, three sisters, Enfemia Loya, Fort Stockton, Texas, and Sabina Garcia and Josefa Garcia, both of Alpine; 35 grandchildren, 26 greatgrandchildren five great great grandchildren. 0.E. Burton Sr. Services for Orville Estil Burton Sr.

will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Denton Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Don and E.N. Gibbs of Church, Street Church of Nazarene officiating. Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Luther Green, Bob Dillard, Newell Ricer, Jerry McCabe, Jim Phillips and Daniel Lambert. Honorary pallbearers will be Jack Allensworth and Ray Mullins. Survivors include a daughter, Gail Ellis, South Point, Ohio, and. a sister, Dorothy Blakenship of West Virginia. Lee Davis The names of two brothers of Lee Davis were omitted from the obituary run in Monday's Current-Argus.

They are Jeff Davis of Sweetwater, Texas, and J.B. Davis of Carlsbad. THE RECORD Police Blotter Burglary and Larceny Sue Rodgers, 317 E. Amelia a Moreno, 1001 W. Russell reported fire Fox told police someone damage to a wooden fence stole a bicycle, valued at $52 which caused over $100 from her porch Saturday.

damage. The fire happened Ellis. Thornton, 3003 this past weekend. She also Piedras reported a gun reported the loss of a tape was taken from his pickup player which was stolen between Jan. 1-11.

The gun from her car Dec. 9. The was valued at $80. player was valued at $180. Vandalism Arrest Grace Evans, 2331 W.

A 20-year-old Carlsbad Texas reported the man was arrested Monday windshield in her vehicle for possession of less than an was damaged by an airgun ounce of marijuana. while she was driving in the Fire Alarm 200 block of North Sixth A grass fire was the cause Street Sunday. No value was for an alarm at 905 N. Canal set on the damage. St.

Monday. Crime Stoppers -Call 887-1888 Operation Game Thief 800-432-4263 Court News Henry Moreno, 29, of month. Moreno appeared Carlsbad, was arraigned before Magistrate, H. H. Monday on a charge of Linneweh and was ordered murder in connection with held without bond on the the shooting death of Rudy charge.

A preliminary Sanchez Jr. earlier this hearing was set for Jan. 23. Admitted: Rita Carrasco, Olivia Durham, Lucille Pritchett, Brenda Donaldson, Thomas Christopher, Martha Wiggins, Harold Dunn, Brenda Hind, Cora Oliver, Joel Roberts, Lizzie Marie Heinrich, Charles Able, Joshua McCall, Sammy Wright, Margaret Johnston, Kathlyn Daugherty, Margaret McComb, Charles Vandolsen, Samuel Martinez, Lawrence Corbin, Burnett Willmon, Isabel B. Dominguez, James E.

Robertson, Debra Kaye Hospital Ingram Dismissed: Jimmy Fennell, Brenda Dugas, Angela Borjorquez, Infant Male Borjorquez, Ruth Hamer, John Jessen, Sherman Gann, Nancy Brazeal, Infant Female Brazeal, Anita Ruiz, Infant Female Ruiz, Melody Smith, Infant Male Smith, Stacy Kitts, Luz Duarte, Rose Johnson, Grace Adcock, Nannie Burkman, Howard Moore, Frances Coy, Sandra Maxwell, Dale Vickery, Donald Burch, Mildred Williams, Ricky Mullins Tourism Carlsbad Caverns National Park Year Ago Today 1,003 Total Today 926 Month 1980. 12,902 Month 1979.. 8,435 1980 To Date 1 12,902 1979 To Date 8,435. Guadalupe Mountains National Park Total Today 207 Year Ago Today 122 37 Yesterday's High 76 Year Ago Low 19, Year Ago 38 By The Associated Press Tuesday Hi Lo Pre Otlk Albany 40 36 .05 cdy Albu'que 56 39 .30 cdy 68 43 cdy Anchorage 8 3 cdy Asheville 56 32. cir Atlanta 49 43 cdy Atlantic Cty 54 47 Baltimore 47 43 .03 cdy Birmingham 57 40 cdy Bismarck cdy Boise 40 .26 rn Boston 44 39 cdy Brownsville 81 63 cdy Buffalo 40 33 .02 cdy Charistn SC 47 42 :03 clr Charistn WV 46 41 cdy Cheyenne 55 36 edy Chicago 40 32 rn Cincinnati 42 31 Cleveland 43 29 cdy QUALITY STEAK SALE MONDAY SPECIAL SPECIAL SIRLOIN $2.79 PLATTER Reg.

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1,325 1980 To Date 2,468 1979 To Date 1,325 Living Desert State Park Total To Date 531,484 1980 To Date. 970 1979 To Date. 528 Month 1980 970 Month 1979 528 Yesterday's 51 He threatened to file a bill. The Maguire Act would overturn the anti-sledding rule. But House Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill, a member of the board that writes such rules, intervened and argued for retention of the rule. O'Neill reportedly assured Maguire that, if he agreed not to pursue his legislation, the subject would be brought up the next time the board on which Vice President Walter F. Mondale also sits meets. "The speaker is trying to work it out with maybe an alternate site for sled, elephant, duck, goose, pigs or other swine, cattle, horse, mule, goat, elephant, duck, goose or other undemesticated animal, insect or reptile" onto the Capitol grounds. Dogs can be walked in the vicinity of the Capitol but only on leash "not exceeding four feet in length," the rule book states.

Farm equipment is also banned the result of an amendment quickly added to the rules last February when protesting farmers were in town. "No funeral procession, unless specifically permitted to do so by the Capitol Police Board, can be driven over street or roadway in the area," the regulations also state. only The ones to Maguires run afoul weren't of the rules and regulations for the Capitol grounds. Not long ago, several aides to Rep. Bob Carr, were tossing a Frisbee on the Capitol lawn when stopped by an officer.

"How petty can we get?" Carr demanded in a letter to O'Neill. But to no. avail. After all, Carr was reminded, Section 104, clearly states: "No person or persons shall use any portion of the Capitol. Grounds, including steps, terraces and courtyards, as a playground." Weather 1980 Rainfall.

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