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by Jim
‘There’s a definite relationship here. When we raise
a pole that’s th’ same type used for a Bonfire, it rains!”
TTI will study
auto design safety
Could redesign of automobile
exteriors reduce the number of
pedestrian injuries and deaths, or
would a change in design simply
alter the type of injury and per
haps be more lethal?
These are some of the basic
considerations in a study being
initiated by the Texas Transpor
tation Institute with a $168,000
grant from the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration.
TTI offiieals note the latest na
tional surveys show pedestrians
ire being hilled at the rats of
10,000 annually and iceoant for
17 percent of all motor vehicle
deaths.
The study will be headed by Dr.
Hayes E. Ross Jr., principal in
vestigator. and Dr. Ronald D.
Young, both of whom hold joint
Friday temperature
sets date record
Weather that held mid-afternoon temperatures in the mid-70s and
low-80t over the weekend set a record for maximum temperature on
July 30.
A Texas A&M climatologist said the Friday high of 7S degrees
was the lowest ever for that date or any earlier between July 13 and
September 6. '
Similar records were also set in other parts of Texas.
John F. Griffiths of the Meteorology Department noted that
accurate records are available here since 1914.
Griffiths said the 75-degree Friday reading was 22 degrees below
normal for the date. In this area, midjfuly to mid-August is generally
the hottest part of the year with 9S to 97 afternoon temperatures.
The climatologist said the 57-year records show only two
below-80 maximums for the July 13 to Sept. 6 period. A 76-degree
high was recorded on Aug. 2, 1925, and Aug 7, 1974. Both also were
associated with heavy rainfalls.
Griffiths said trends indicate an end to the uwseasonally cool
weather. Saturday the mercury climbed to 84 and Sunday it reached
86. ; ‘
Records also indicate more summer. In 1925, all but one of the
20 days preceding the 76-degree Aug 2 had 100 or higher afternoon
temperatures. By Aug 23, 1925, the high was well over the century
mark agun. Griffiths reported.
A&M hosts students from around the world
colorful front drivo
flog at its
during Au-
worid-will bo at tho unhrerehy for
this weok for bomoetojrs and tours
through tho Ex port m sot ia Inter-
national Lhrtag (EIL). Staten H.
Johansson of Sweden has bio-en-
glaserlag research underway until
mid-August through tho Interna
tional Association for tho Ex-
Students for Technical
(IAESTE).
Cornells E. (Keen) Oosters of
Zwindrecht, Netherlands, has chrtl
engineering work ia progress at
the Texas Transportation Insti
tute under supervision of William
B Ledbetter AAM‘% College of
Engineering arranged work-study
programs for the IAESTE visi
tors.
Three more special internation
al students will arrive next week
from the Netherlands, El Salva
dor and Iran. They will be here
two wooks in tho EIL cultural
U. S.
before going to
to bogtn tell
Hoot families are needed for
Joes Orlando AHamlrano of San
Salvador Sad Bahroos Bari sea
man! of Tuhoran, Iran, noted Jim
Summers, Memorial Student Can
ter Travel Committee chairman
who has arranged visits.
Altamirano, SS, will enter UT-
Austin for graduate chemical en
gineering work. Re taught a year
at the University of El Salvador.
Jose’s father is a journalist, his
mother a social "worker. He is in-
142 Spanish-speaking firemen
here for training school
appointments in TTl’s Structural
Research Division and the univer
sity’s Civil Engineering Depart
ment.
Joining in the interdisciplinary
project are Dr. Adil M. Mayyasi
of the Industrial Engineering De
partment and Dr. Paul H. Newell
Jr„ head of Texas AAM’s Bio
engineering Program.
Objective of the research is to
supplement currently available
pedestrian accident data with in
formation derived from carefully
controlled computerised simula
tion of the vehkle-padestrian
crash event.
Special consideration will be
given to any significant patterns
which develop in the causes of In
juries and the affects of vehicle
configuration on such patterns.
Texas AAM took on an added
international look this woek as
MS Spanish-speaking student
firemen from 18 Latin Amorican
countries assembled for the one-
week Spanish section of tho Tex
as Firemen's Training School.
Chief Instructor Henry D.
Smith of AAM’s Engineering Ex
tension Service reported Monday
first day registration totaled 218,
including 76 instructors and man-
Latin American
students to get
UJS.orientation
Mexican. Central and South
American college students enter
ing U. S. universities this tell will
be assisted by a Texas AAM Uni
versity official.
J. Wayne Stark will conduct an
orientation program on how to
visit in American homes.
The Memorial Student Center
director will, work with 46 to 50
students Monday in a program
conducted by the International
Office at UT-Austin.
Two or three Texas AAM stu
dents who have participated in
foreign travel programs will as
sist Stark, ^ .
The Latin students are enter
ing graduate studies hi institu
tions throughout the U. S. They
are participants in Latin Ameri
can Scholarship Programs of
Amorican Universities. LASPAU
students return to their countries
and teach.
Texas institutions in LASPAU
are UT-Austin and the University
of Houston.
To become culturally acclimated
before starting studies, the stu
dents participate in the Experi
ment in International Living
4EIL), which arranges Somestays
with American families. Three
will visit in Bryan and College
Station. •
Tho MSC's Travel Committee
has participated ia EIL several
years. It sends students for for
eign homestays and arranges area
accommodations for visiting stu
dents. Jim Summers of Shreve
port is the 1871-72 committee
chairman.
NSF swards $102,900
for pollution study
Taxas ASM has been awarded
a $102,900 National Science
Foundation grant for deep water
pollution stud tea ia the Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean.
Taxas ASM trill cooperate la
the study with the University of
Puerto Rico and the University
of Toxas at Austin, with hath
institutions alee receiving NSF
grants. Similar reaearch la be
ing conducted in the Atlantic and
Pacific by otha
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Student enrollment is up 28
from 1970’s record enrollment of
114. “We have about a 26 percent
increase over last year,’" Smith
noted, “and i^a a little better than
ere expected.”
Smith said this year’s program,
with all instriiction in Spanish,
emphasizes protective equipment,
breathing equipment, chemical
and petroleum fire-fighting and
hotel fires, rescue and evacuation.
Both municipal and industrial
firemen are attending.
Films of the Tucson, Alls., ho
tel fire last year will be used as
a training aid. Roundtable discus
sions will accent use of chemical
agents, foams and emergency pro
grams such as hurricane and nat
ural disaster work, Smith added.
A special equipment demonstra-
terested ia Latin American liter
ature, music aad poetry sad has
traveled ia Mexico aad Contra!
America.
Also a chemical engineering
Major who will enter Pan Ameri
can Collage, Badiossamani is the
son of an Iranian physician. Bo-
hrooa has travetod ia Europe, has
a brother in New Jereey and is 28.
Both EIL participants speak
English aad have been in the
Putney, VL, area making visit
preparations. Persons interested
in hosting the students should
contact Summers or MSC director
J. Wayne Stark.
Jan Nagengast of Heiloo, Neth
erlands. will stay with the Henry
Alanseyer Jr. family. Jan has stud-
isd business at Stichtiag Nijen-
rode ia Breahaten aad plans to
complete his bachelor dsgrei at
tho University of Houston. His
mother manages Nagengast * de- ,
esassd father's printing office.
The Japanese EIL participants
also will visit ia Houston, staying
in the homes of former students
of AAM.
Tho university and MSC com
mittee has 11 students overseas
this summer as Experimenters.
They are with families in Austria.
Csechoalovakia, Germany, Greece,
the USSR and Yugoslavia.
EIL enhances intercultural un
derstanding through person-to-
person interaction at the family
level.*
tion is scheduled Wednesday eve
ning, followed by a watermelon
party hosted by Pete Rodriquez
and members of the Bryan Ami
gos Club.
A buffet dinner will be held
Thursday night and classes end at
noon Friday.
Smith said the Houston Fire
Department is assisting through
the use of three buses, equipment
and several Spanish-speaking in
structors.
The Spanish school is the final
ssssion for the three-week Texas
Firemen’s Training School. A mu
nicipal school was hold July 18-23
and the industrial section was last
woek.
Total registration for the three
schools is 3,104. Each session has
been a record for the 42nd annual
school.
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