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la and his Camaro at a 12-hour endurance race at Sebring.
The car climbed a fence and then flipped on to the track.
Quintanilla suffered minor injuries. (AP Wirephoto)
Woman refused aid
Houston’s
ambulance service studied
HOUSTON UP>—An investiga
tion is underway into an incident
where a woman died five and a
half hours after being refused
transportation in a city-owned
ambulance, city officials said
Tuesday.
The refusal came after firemen
who operate the city-owned emer
gency ambulance system here had
been told to cut down on the num
ber of responses to nonemergency
sick calls.
Senior Fire Capt. D. E. Gun
nels, a supervisor in the ambu
lance division, said Mrs. Billie
Ruth Davis, 54, was “a victim
of circumstances in which too
many people cried wolf.”
Mrs. Davis died at 10 p.m. Sat
urday in a local hospital after a
heart attack.
UH decides not to appeal
ruling against selling beer
HOUSTON OP)—-The Univer
sity of Houston said Tuesday it
was giving up in its efforts to
sell beer to students in the uni
versity center.
UH officials said they and
ARA Services, which runs the
food concession in the center, had
decided not to appeal a ruling
handed down March 5 by County
Judge Bill Elliott denying them
a beer license.
The be r would have been sold
only after 5 p.m. and to students
with proper identifications show
ing they were 21-years-old or
older.
The application for the beer
license was endorsed by the UH
board of trustees but Judge El
liott cited a city ordinance that
prohibits the sale of beer within
300 feet of a public school and
Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin’s
ruling that UH was a public
school.
A University spokesman said
it was thought an appeal of the
ruling would not be successful
unless changes were made in the
existing ruling and ordinance.
At 4:35 p.m. the same day, her
sister, Mrs. Winnie Scott, called
for a city-operated ambulance.
The vehicle arrived and an emer
gency medical technician spoke
with Mrs. Davis and examined
her for heart beat and pulse rate,
Gunnels said.
But the attendant ruled that
Mrs. Davis’ case was “not one
of life and death” and advised
Mrs. Scott to call a private ambu
lance, Gunnels said.
The private ambulance took
more than an hour to arrive. Mrs.
Davis reached the hospital at 7:15
p.m.
The technician, whom Gunnels
declined to name, has been asked
to submit a letter explaining his
actions. Gunnels said all of the
department’s 171 emergency tech
nicians have been under orders
for several months to cut down
on the number of nonemergency
calls.
City ambulance service from
any point in Harris County to
the hospital of the patient’s
choice costs just $25 while private
ambulances may charge up to
$150, he said.
Gunnels said as a result of the
incident he thought the techni
cians would he told to give more
thorough examinations.
“Our men aren’t doctors,” he
said. “We know mistakes will be
made and that some people are
going to die.”
BELFAST <A>)—A half century
of Protestant home rule in North
ern Ireland ended Tuesday when
the provincial Parliament bowed
to British pressure and voted to
adjourn for at least a year.
An angry crowd of 100,000
Protestants massed outside Stor
mont Castle, the seat of Parlia
ment, and assailed the British
measures as a sellout to the
terrorist campaign waged by the
outlawed Irish Republican Army.
Terrorists killed two more per
sons with a bomb near London-
Voting rules
for residents
may change
Tennessee’s one-year voter resi
dency requirement has been over
ruled by the Supreme Court and
a change may be in store for the
Texas residence law.
Randall Wood of the Texas
secretary of state’s elections di
vision said that he would receive
a copy of the Supreme Court
decision and would then determine
what steps Texas must take.
Raymond B. Buchanan, Brazos
County tax assessor-collector, said
that, as of right now, out-of
staters in this county will remain
disenfranchised until they fulfill
the residency requirement. He
is awaiting word from the secre
tary of state.
derry, and there was other scat
tered violence.
A Protestant general strike
crippled the province for a second
straight day. Fears mounted
that the imminent British take
over of the provincial govern
ment could touch off new vio
lence between the Protestant ma
jority and Roman Catholic mi
nority.
In London the British Parlia-
nfent rushed through legislation
to enable a senior Cabinet min
ister William Whitelaw to as
sume all government powers in
Northern Ireland by tonight.
The British acted in hopes that
direct rule from London would
defuse the long history of sec
tarian clashes that have taken
290 lives in the province during
the past 32 months.
At Stormont, the seat of power
in the 51 years of Protestant
domination over the Catholic mi
nority, Brian Faulkner gave per
haps his last speech as prime
minister of Northern Ireland. He
denounced the British takeover
as “totally undemocratic” and
vowed a policy of noncooperation
with his successor Whitelaw.
One hopeful note came just
before the adjournment debate,
when extremist and moderate
Protestant leaders appeared to
gether before the crowd outside
to urge a united stand.
The speakers included Faulk
ner and William Craig, a militant
whose Ulster Vanguard move
ment organized a 48 hour strike
that brought the province to a
standstill.
Craig, long a critic of Faulk
ner’s tactics, praised the out
going prime minister for doing
his best and led the crowd in
cheering him.
Isolated incidents throughout
the province gave evidence of
more violence to come, however.
Two men were killed at Li-
mavady, 17 miles from London
derry, after a bomb exploded in
a truck parked outside the town’s
police station.
Food
to be
price hikes
investigated
‘Sissy’ Farenthold to speak
at noon forum Wednesday
Texas State Rep. Frances Far
enthold will speak at the Politi
cal Forum noon series Wednes
day, April 5, at A&M.
Leader of the so-called “Dirty
Thirty,” a pro-reform group of
legislators, she will discuss re
form in state government in a
presentation titled “To End An
Era of Neglect.”
Political Forum chairman-elect
Mike Lindsey said the public-free
address and question-answer ses
sion will be in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom. Mrs. Far
enthold was extended the Forum
speaker invitation several days
before she announced for gover
nor last fall.
Sissy Farenthold was elected
to the Texas House in 1968. She
is considered a contending candi
date for governor.
The representative from Cor
pus Christi has supported numer
ous campaign and election proc
ess reforms, educational ad
vances in public schools and col
leges, anti-pollution bills and
human rights for women and mi
nority groups.
Rep. Farenthold’s interests also
include child welfare and day
care for children of working
mothers. She advocates drastic
reform in welfare programs to
take care of unmet needs of the
poor, the aged and disabled.
WASHINGTON <A>)—The Cost
of Living Council moved on four
fronts Tuesday in an effort to
find out what is causing the rise
in food prices.
The council said that beginning
immediately the Internal Reve
nue Service will conduct intensive
compliance surveys on several
large meat-packing organizations
“to determine whether price viola
tions are occurring in the total
meat delivery chain from on-the-
hoof to retail.”
Several meat wholesalers are
under investigation to assure
compliance with current price
regulations, the council said.
The council said it also is con
ducting compliance surveys on a
number of major food chains to
get information on their meat
pricing practices.
And finally, it said, the gov
ernment is beginning to look
closely at quarterly reports sub
mitted by major food chains “in
an effort to isolate instances of
excessive profits which may he
attributable to illegal markups.”
The council made its announce
ment as treasury Secretary John
B. Connally prepared for a Wed
nesday session with 12 large food
chains to discuss meat prices.
The current controversy on
food prices began last week when
the government announced that
the cost of living went up 0.5 per
cent in February, largely because
of high food prices, particularly
meat.
Food is subject to controls, ex
cept for raw agricultural prod
ucts, which are subject to vola
tile price changes.
Freshmen
to renovate
health center
The Freshman class will help
renovate portions of the Brazos
County Mental Health Center the
weekend of April 8.
There will be a party after
wards for the participants.
Freshmen who wish to help can
sign up in the dorm drive or con
tact the Freshman Class Projects
Committee at 845-5390 or 845-
6480.
Propeller from Atomic Age helps research in Space Age
The propeller from the “Enola Gay,” a B-29 which
dropped one of the atomic bombs on Japan in World War
II, now serves as a wind tunnel fan. (Photo by Mike Rice)
By MICHAEL RICE
Staff Writer
Though its days of making
bombing runs over Japan are
over, the 12A4-foot diameter pro
peller used in the Low Speed
Wind Tunnel belonging to A&M
still serves its country well.
The propeller came from the
B-29 bomber “Enola Gay,” which
was used during World War II
to drop one of the atom bombs
on Japan.
A wide variety of tests have
been performed at the wind tun
nel with the aid of the propeller.
Driven by a 1500 horse power en
gine housed in fiberglass, the
propeller is capable of creating
a wind velocity of 200 miles per
hour while rotating at 900 revo
lutions per minute.
For those who have never been
to the wind tunnel, it is located
adjacent to Easterwood Airport
approximately two miles west of
the main campus. Resembling a
giant caterpillar in some re
spects, the massive steel struc
ture may be seen easily from
FM 2347.
The tunnel is operated by the
university’s Space Technology Di
vision and utilizes the faculty of
Aerospace Engineering and per
sonnel of the division research
and instrument shop.
The wind tunnel is supported
on an “as needed” basis by indus
tries and groups such as NASA
and Lockheed. These perform the
test planning, data processing,
instrumentation, machine shop
work, operations and mainte
nance.
Used for aerodynamic research
and development as well as pro
viding instructional aid for stu
dents of the Department of Aero
space Engineering the facility has
been more recently used for ex
perimentation and design work
for shuttle-craft vehicles to be
used in future space travel.
The overall circuit length of
the tunnel is 397.5 feet, with the
smallest diameter being at the
site of the propeller. The largest
diameter is located just before
the test section of the O-shaped
structure and measures 30 feet.
The test section, the smallest
section of the tunnel, incorporates
an external pyramid balance sy
stem. The balance is located di
rectly beneath the testing section,
and is a rectangular 7-foot by
10-foot area that is 16 feet long.
When specially designed models
are placed upon the balance, the
system separates and indepen
dently measures the aerodynamic
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
components of lift, drag, side
force, pitching and rolling move
ments, and yawing moment.
Signals from the system are
transmitted from the balance to
transducers, amplified and filter
ed, and fed into a computer where
they are recorded on magnetic
tape for future reference and cal
culations.
At normal atmospheric pres
sure, the test platform can oper
ate at wind speeds from zero
to 300 feet per second. Just be
fore reaching the test stand the
tunnel narrows sharply speeding
the wind up from 30 m.p.h. to
200 m.p.h.
Jim Phillips, an employe at the
tunnel, said there is too much
danger involved to let people
stand in the section while the
prop is going.
“We like to think that dubious
honor is reserved for teasips,”
said the electrical technician.
During the summer the temper
ature becomes too hot for the
tunnel to produce tolerable work
ing conditions. This is remedied
by a cooling system that runs
around the top of the continuous
steel structure.
The tunnel is cooled by spray
ing water over the tunnel shell
outside the building. Runoff water
from the top provides cooling for
the sides.
Like a steel caterpillar, the wind tunnel coils around
itself by Easterwood Airport. (Photo by Mike Rice)