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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1975
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3 Miles N.on Tabor Road
Saturday Night: Johnny Bush & The Bandoleros
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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.
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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 .
(We don’t believe it either)
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TOMMY HILL
&
The Texas Crude
JUNE 4 — JUNE 29
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