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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1975 i.\ki:\ ii;\v cum 3 Miles N.on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Johnny Bush & The Bandoleros from a \ p STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nite (ALL BRANDS BEER 35 cents) Crash barriers LADIES FREE Every Tuesday Nite All Brands Beer 35c 8-12 Music furnished by the Bra20s Sounds MEN $2.00 Sand, tire barrels saving lives Take a few minutes to bring your bicycle in for service. WE SERVICE ALL MAKES OF BICYCLES Also Sales Center For: PEUGEOT • RALEIGH • BICYCLES Bicycle parts & accessories CENTRAL CYCLE & SIPPLY Sales • Service • Accessories 3505 E 29th St. — 822-2228 — Closed Monday Tnke East University to 29th St. < Tarmw Stro t Texas Transportation Institute researchers have developed a crash attenuation device so good that they haven’t been able to locate the sur vivors. One of the devices developed by the Texas A&M University group was located on a divider in a San Antonio freeway to protect wayward drivers from a hige signpost. The barrier was found destroyed, appar ently by an auto traveling between 40 and 60 miles per hours which was still in good enough shape to drive away. The accident was never re ported. Dr. T. J. Hirsch and E. L. Mar quis conducted the research in cooperation with the Texas High way Department and the Federal Highway Administration. “The attenuator device that we have successfully tested is au tomobile tires filled with sand stacked on a 18-inch wire cage,” Hirsch explained. “The cage moves the center of gravity of the attenua tion up and keeps the auto from jumping over our device. ” “In three series of tests with light and heavy vehicles, the sand-tire at tenuator system smoothly stopped vehicles traveling at 60 miles per hour, ” he said. “Not only that, but the decelerations produced in these tests were all tolerable to the unre strained occupants.” The cost of the life-saving devices is one of the main features of the system. It can be installed for as little as $600. Once it has been hit, re-installation can be rapid since no additional work on the site is re quired, all of the tires are reusable, and much of the sand is salvable. “This system is an inexpensive and efiFective barrier which can be employed to protect motorists from many hazards located near our nation’s highways,” Hirsch went on. “There are many rigid obstacles on our nation’s highways which cannot he removed or made breakaway and consequently are hazardous to the motoring public, he pointed out. “Impact attenuators have been developed, but, in gen eral, they are expensive. Asaresull, some obstacles remain unpro tected. This system can do thejol effectively and at a low cost. Currently, 22 of the units are in place in the metropolitan areas of Austin, San Antonio, and Waco. - - i — - — ———i—— A tire and sand barrier developed at TAMU stopped this car traveling over 60 mph with only 6-G’s i force on the driver which he would have survived even without seatbelts. If it had been a normal cement barrier, the forces would have been 29-G’s, sufficient to kill anyone in the auto. Grove flicks run through summer Computer Science Majors BS/MS Level Business and Scientific Texas Instruments has Dallas openings for June and August grads. If you are still searching for a challenging position, please send a brief resume to: Staffing Manager Services Group P.O. Box 5621, M/S 948 Dallas, Texas 75222 Texas Instruments I NCORPORATED An equal opportunity employer Grove movies start Tuesday, the first day of summer classes. They will show at the open air facility west of the MSC drill field, near Wofford Cain Hall. Grove Chairman James Balzrette said movies will start each night at 8:30. Admission will be free to TAMU students showing ID cards. Others are 75 cents per adult and 50 cents for a child under 12 years-of-age. Double features June 17 and July 22 will have the Texas A&M movie, “We’ve Never Been Licked,” as the second show. Open dates are planned July 3-9. MSC dances are set in the Grove for June 2 and July 10, dates of registra tion for TAMU summer class ses sions. The Grove schedule: June 3, “The Dirty Dozen”; 4, “Waterhold No. 3”; 5, “Murphy’s War ”; 6, “The Great Race”; 7, “Bullitt ; 8, “Where Eagles Dare”; 9, “Cool Hand Luke”; 10, “To Sir, With Dive ”; 11, “True Grit ”; 12, “Cat Ballou ”; 13, “On A Clear Day”; 14, “They Call Me Trinity”; 15, “Never Give A Sucker An Even Break”. Also, June 16, “Kissin Cousins”; 17, “Horsefeathers” and “We’ve Never Been Licked ; 18, “To Catch A Thief’; 19, “Red Line 7000”; 20, “The Ten Commandments’ ; 21, “Trinity Is Still My Name”; 22, “Ipcress File”; 23, “Valley of the Dolls”; 24, “Prime Cut”; 25, “The House of Dracula”; 26, “McHale’s Navy”; 27, “That Darn Cat"; 28, “Boh, Carol, Ted and Alice ”; 29, “Titanic”; 30, “Super Cops”. July 1, “The Long Hot Summer ”; 2, T776 ; 11, “Bonnie and Clyde ”; 12, “The Owl and the Pussycat”; 13, “Zachariah”; 14, “Chisum”; 15, “Klute ”; 16, “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”; 17, “The Professionals”; 18, “Colossus — The Forbin Pro ject”. Plus, July 19, "The Endless Summer”; 20, “My Little Chick adee”; 21, “Barbarella”; 22, “Duck Soup and “We’ve Never Been Licked”; 23, “Fail Safe”; 24, “Way Out West”; 25, “Paint Your Wagon”; 26, “The Greatest Show on Earth”; 27, “Double Trouble”; 28, "Phantom of the Opera”; 29, “Kelly’s Heroes”; 30, “McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force”; 31, “Stage Coach.” Aug. 1, "The Graduate”; 2, “Sugarland Express”; 3, “The Guns of Navarone ”; 4, “Vanishing Point”; 5, “Green Berets ”; 6, “King Kong vs Godzilla ”; 7, “Dancing Masters”; 8, “The Producers”; 9, “Coconuts”; 10, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”; 11, “Oliver!” and Aug. 12, “Fahrenheit 451. ” MSC Cafeteria SWEET SHOP now featuring Beautiful, Taste Tempting CAKES Made to Order and Decorated to Suit Your individual Needs for BIRTHDAYS WEDDINGS And Other Special Occasions Choose a delicious pie or cake from our attractive display or place an order for your next special occasion or call 845-1118 QUALITY FIRST” YOU WON’T BELIEVE WE ARE DOING THIS . 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