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]Vo more booths Outdoor phones ior >rs adH the iiij United Press International I TOPEKA, Kan. — The out door phone booth — Superman’s impromptu dressing room and [lie stage of boothstuffing college [tudents — is in danger of be- oming extinct. Bell System telephone com panies are phasing out their trad itional, enclosed outdoor phone tooths in favor of modern models [hat leave Superman, college [tudents and pay phone patrons [jut in the cold. I Nationwide, the blue alumi- lium and glass outdoor booths Jvith folding doors are being re- fired to “boneyards for old, ob solete telephones,” Southwest ern Bell news services Manager Ceorge Chaffee said. I Vandalism and maintenance bests are forcing the phone com pany to turn to new driveup, [valk-up or mounted pay phone models that are open to the ele ments. “Aluminum and glass booths nave been used for everything From outdoor latrines to objects Chaffee said S ' mple vandalism >” He said when phone company employees service the booths to empty the coin bins, they also Have to replace panels of shat tered glass and toss out pop bot tles, food wrappers and filth left by patrons. B.C. Coon, Southwestern Bell com manager, said the enclosed booths lend themselves to being rather bad-smelling, unsightly trash collectors . Coon predicted the booths eventually will become extinct, except for maybe a rare one that never needs a repair or replace ment. i ° <ten have windows broken he said. “Doors don’t work. Some have been run into with cars. Vandals scratch diffe rent things on them.” Besides, he said, “You can’t get stuck inside the walk-up booth.” Now You Know United Press Internationa] ZERMATT, Switzerland — The Alpine resort of Zermatt has banned skateboards as being “dangerous and a public nuisance.” Zermatt has no gasolinepowered vehicles — the few delivery and garbage trucks are electrically pow ered — and the town council ruled that skateboards would disturb the peace. BUSINESS COLLEGE Inquire About Our Term Starting September 26 Phone 822-6423 or 822-2368 THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1978 ALL CURRENT SCONA MEMBERS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE COMMITTEE GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, September 12 7:30 302 Rudder Tower ir control board attempts to put |he measure to obnoxious odors SEPTEMBER 7 By ANDREA VALES Battalion StaiT igit to be classified a .ja nuisance”? A coi Just how bad does an odor have to ‘offensive and committee of the Bxas Air Control Board is trying to ijHkfilish criteria for that measure- iincnt so it can institute odor regula- h .«rexas law states that a nuisance is I'any object, place "-much constitutes a jts ,BobabIe medium of transmission of di ase to or between human be- aftev” . r f f . .("■udors, if potent enough, can gtansmit illnesses, said Dr. John M. |Sweeten of the Texas Agricultural tension Service. He said the finical advisory committee of the ^CB was formed to develop ways condition possible and to regulate odors in Texas, make re commendations to the executive di rector of the TACB on the those findings, and create guidelines for determining whether an odor is, in fact, a nuisance. Sweeten said air pollution control agencies study odor intensity, qual ity, offensiveness and the size of the area affected. Other criteria include the number of complaining persons in determining the and the fre- queney and duration of odors at a given location. Although federal and state agen cies take interest in air and water pollution, most of the funding for odor research is from private indus tries such as Shell Research Co. in Houston, Sweeten said. He added that most agencies don’t take an in terest in odor research because odorous gasses are non-toxic in low concentrations, and fairly temporary because of the wind factor. He added that odor research is expen sive. Currently, the TACB staff and technical committee are testing a device called a Dynamic Olfactome ter which measures the intensity of a gas. Sweeten said a panel of human judges will be selected to smell various dilutions of butanol as a reference odor in order to rate the offensiveness of a gas. The problem with odor detection is not the concentration of the pol lutant, but the human perception scale, Sweeten said. The persons selected for the odor detection panel should not be highly iefe, rear impacts simulated adavers used in auto tests ■ ALBUQUERQUE — A Univer- W of New Mexico official VVednes- p defended the use of human bdavers in cars crashed together in a research program as the best way i recording what happens to a per- HJ an auto wreck. Dr. A.J. Ladman, chairman of |NMs Anatomy Department, said Waver research in simulations of l>"-speed side and rear impact coi tions is very important.” He said |rrently there is no better way of otaining data on how the human Pdy reacts. for three years, auto safety tests fusing 11 cadavers donated to the ■ NM School of Medicine were Bonducted on a compressed air ■ocket sled track” by the Physical ■cience Laboratory of New Mexico bite University until last .November. The tests were suspended when fP- John Moss, D-Calif., criticized e m as being morally objectiona- i* 6 , unnecessary and poorly done. Moss is oh a 11 t* m o tv s X—J /-x « i o T terstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Sources in the Department of Transportation have indicated no decision has been made on whether or when to resume testing. Ladman said under current pro cedures, potential donors are not told that the “medical research” in which their bodies would be used might include auto safety tests. If the tests are resumed, he said, more specific information may be needed on the donor forms in the future, as a result of the current de bate over the tests. Ladman is a member of a commit tee of the Association of Anatomy Chairmen, which is compiling a re port on the tests. The tests were being held at a facility once used in space mission preparations. 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