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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1977
Page 5
Campus Names
Wells on resources
council
Clyde H. Wells, chairman of
he Texas A&M University Sys-
em Board of Regents, has heen
ementcaj Planted by Gov. Dolph Bris-
to the new Natural Re-
iources Council.
The 11-memher group, com-
losed of representatives of key
Itate institutions and agencies,
vas authorized earlier this year
ance’s an, )y the Legislature to help establ
ish procedures for wise utiliza-
ion of Texas' natural resources.
Wells, a rancher and busi-
lessman, has heen a member of
the Texas A&M hoard since 1961
and is serving an unpreeen-
dented fifth consecutive term as
its chairman. He is a graduate of
both Tarleton State University
and Texas A&M University.
Wells was named “outstanding
businessman-conservationist by
six hanks in the Hood-Parker
Counties Soil and Water Con
servation District in 1975. In
1974, he received the Knapp-
Porter Award, the highest honor
bestowed by the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Serivce. He was
named “Man of the Year in Texas
Agriculture” in 1967 by the
Texas County Agricultural
Agents Association.
Wells is a director of the Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association and is a member of
the Texas Sheep and Goat Rais
ers Association, the American
Society of Range Management,
Texas Hereford Association and
the Soil Conservation Society of
America.
Irby named new
employe guardian
Cynthia Ann Irby, whose
prior Texas A&M experiences
includes teaching, counseling
and personnnel work, has been
named affirmative action officer
for The Texas A&M University
System, announced Chancellor
Jack K. Williams.
Irby succeeds Kenneth B.
Livingston in the position estab
lished in 1974 to formulate pro
grams insuring equal oppor
tunities for all personnel and
prospective employes.
Livingston has assumed new
duties as personnel officer for the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station.
From 1973 until this year,
Irby served in Texas A&M s Per
sonnel Department, initially as a
personnel representative. She
was promoted to wage and salary
and classification manager in
1975. Her Personnel Depart
ment work included interpreta
tion of classification policy, help
ing establish operating
guidelines, wilting job descrip
tions, conducting salary surveys
and assisting in preparation of
Texas A&M University System’s
classified pay plans. These ac
tivities involved work at Prairie
View A&M University, Tarleton
State University and Moody Col
lege, as well as on the main
Texas A&M campus.
Irby received a Master of
Education Degree in educational
psychology in 1973.
Execution delayed
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — Supreme
Court Justice Lewis F. Powell has
delayed the Sept. 13 execution of
Edward Lincoln King, convicted of
killing a Dallas police officer.
The papers were handed down to
prison officials late Friday. King,
34, of Dallas has until Nov. 5 to file
an appeal.
King w as convicted in June, 1974,
of murdering patrolman Leslie CL
Lane. The Lane shooting occurred
March 2, 1974, after a five hour
spree in which King beat a
policewoman outside her apartment
and kidnapped two other women.
King had been on parole at the
time of the shooting after being sen
tenced in 1963 for attempted mur
der, robbery and burglary.
eat belt
tudy
esults
'rivers who get a hump on the
id or a rap to the knee in an acci-
iitshow a higher tendency to use
belts thereafter than do drivers
red more seriously or those not
|rt at all, reveals a Texas A&M
iversity study of 405 Brazos
unty operators involved in acei-
nts during 1975.
owever, no driver’s attitude
mged in favor of mandatory seat
It laws because of his wreck, say
t. David Alen Stern and Dr.
llirice Dennis. Dennis is director
khe Texas A&M Safety Education
fl.. rnrpk
■gram.
rector
such)!
heir findings also indicated that
rried persons, who made up 62
r cent of the sample, showed a
tedpareW 11 ' 1 ' overall penchant for using
loffwa it belts following their crash,
lieconda fhe 47 drivers in the study W'ho
[teived “possible injuries” (no
lible wounds, limping, pain, un-
innofai nseiousness) showed the most
s, wgtt! sitive attitude about wearing seat
ams.fci |( s j n th e future.
ucafaM ^e study shows that the 46
finer)anir erators who received injuries
)gi n g from minor lacerations to
jiiationw kt internal injuries, plus the 312
livers not hurt at all, did not dis-
ly any marked attitude change
aid using belts as a result of
ir accident.
Stern said 300 of the drivers re-
; type« r t e( l they were not w'earing seat
Its at the time, roughly corre-
limding to national estimates
lich suggest that only one in five
ickles up while in the car.
What do the findings mean in the
ttle to make people aware that
could he saved by using seat
Its?
flbe researchers suggest subject-
gall drivers to an accident produc-
jig "possible injuries, an approach
: n g as undesirable as it is impractical
/tode fed costly.
rUftJwThe next best thing may be the
’ Beat belt convineer,” a device capa
ble of simulating the low-speed
BeyoraWnditions in which a driver would
office! tj 1 y he humped, rapped or
l ’' blocked senseless,
on ■ Designed specifically for demon-
ion Itations, the “convineer" consists of
isiwcmeat which is drawn mechanically
pan incline, then allowed to free-
'imiosi ill backwards down a track to
rnt** leatc forces occurring in a crash at
llOmph.
^ |The study recommends that the
enfl' bivincer he used in conjunction
^ nth a multi-media information pro-
[am carried out in public schools.
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