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V . )torms halt flight THE BATTALION Page 9 THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1979 olumbia grounded United Press International agenjEL PASO — The often delayed light of the space shuttle Columbia, issed weather-sensitive because oftempo- jd installed to protect its Juminum skin, was postponed again rtU ilVednesday ^ ue to a s P r i n g i e r ainstorm centered over south sed« Texas. dinctJWeather permitting, Air Force ice coipokesman Harry Nixon said the 11 for; buttle — bolted atop a 747 jumbo lesfrojl — would take off from Biggs n eusiArmy Air Field at 9 a. m. today and Oto.cftive 90 minutes later at Kelly Air force Base in San Antonio on the first leg of an all day flight to Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle was to have departed El Paso Wednesday for Kelly AFB, but thunderstorms continued be tween west Texas and Florida, the shuttle’s final destination, and aT-38 jet trainer dispatched from El Paso to San Antonio indicated there was no chance of clearing. Astronaut Deke Slayton, in charge of ferrying the Columbia from Ed wards AFB, Calif, to the Kennedy Spaceflight Center, then ordered the grounding, the fifth in the last 12 days. ake bit you? era’s what to do y RICHARD OLIVER Battalion Reporter on tlitj ^ ori 1°°^ now, but next to your ,’s rer Blt foot is a five-foot rattlesnake. And it just bit you. What do you do? The first thing to do is to find some ^Ral attention, according to Dr. homas Glass, clinical surgeon at the Iniversity of Texas Medical Branch i San Antonio. rv ri Glass tJyetrea wed by Glass spoke Wednesday night on atment of snakebites, spon- y the Health Education sec- 1 proolijf of the Department of Health 1 monefd Physical education, i politiJ“It s n °t hard to get medical care,” Is in 1 !lass said. “The earlier you get to ime! medical attention the less n that image will occur.” Event] Glass is adamantly against the webfosscutting and mouth suction liatelv icthods of snakebite treatments. arei “It’s important to keep the wound lelievejean, he said. nett Im "By putting your dirty mouth on a fiakebite, you increase the chances involvafeinfection many times over, mini" “Gross-cutting is a dangerous and it offi ijnsure way to stop the spread of the a Pa enom A person can never be sure bes to ow deep the venom has been in- jcted, and it is often impossible to iunittee|etennine how deep to cut. Also, 20 to 25 percent of all but: atheri snakebites have no venom, making the cross-cut unnecessary.” Glass believes applying tour niquets and ice packs to a snakebite are the safest and most effective way to neutralize the spread of the venom. T have been cussed and discussed over my views in this area,” he said’ “but most arguments against these methods are absurd. Both the ice pack and the tourniquet will restrict the movement of the venom and save many areas of muscle tissue which would otherwise be injested and de stroyed by the venom.” Glass said tourniquets should be placed close on both sides of the bite to restrict vemom movement in either direction. “Shoelaces, strings, rubber bands or anything will do,” he said. “Don’t worry about the width of the tour niquet or cutting off your circulation. It’s almost impossible to cut off all circulation with the tourniquet.” Glass said of the three pit vipers — rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins — the rattlesnake causes the most deaths. “From one to seven people die each year from the rattlesnake bite,” he said. “Usually no one dies from the bite of a water moccasin or cop perhead.” It was the torrential rains in south Texas that caused NASA officials, fearing wetness might damage the temporary tiling, to order the shuttle to land at Biggs Air Field, adjacent to the much larger Fort Bliss, Tuesday with only 20 minutes notice to Biggs officials. However, when technicians in spected temporary plastic tiles bonded to the aluminum skin of the spacecraft after its first test flight, they discovered some of the tiles had blown off. The shuttle will have 34,000 black and white tiles attached to its skin when it is launched to protect it from the tremendous temperatures of re entry. But it still lacks 7,000 of the permanent tiles and the plastic dummies were put on to preserve its aerodynamic lines in flight. The latest flight plan alteration has called for only a two hour refueling stop at San Antonio instead of an originally planned overnight stay, followed by a direct flight to Cape Canaveral, Fla., bypassing a pre viously scheduled stop at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Some 1933 stamps worth $2,500 now United Press International NEW YORK — A two dollar in vestment in a souvenir sheet of stamps 45 years ago is worth $2,500 today, according to Alain de Cadenet, a collector and consultant to the British Post Office. The sheets were issued by Austria in 1933. Norway will mark the 125th an niversary of the first Norwegian stamp by issuing souvenir sheets in conjunction with NORWEX 80, an international stamp exhibition scheduled in Oslo June 13-22, 1980, de Cadenet said. 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