th you,’and
not going to
ading matt-
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asketball, 1
t very likel
Cliff Rice, a doctoral candidate in wildlife
studies, juggles on the lawn in front of the
Academic Building. Rice, who was finishing
lunch with friends, says he juggles
often" to keep in practice.
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Lynn Blanco
rials suchai
i students ill
r
eart disease deaths not related
o coffee drinking, study reports
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A new study
iers good news to coffee drinkers
(to may have heard of a possible
nk between heavy coffee drinking
id heart disease.
A follow-up survey of 2,530 men
id women, blacks and whites, in
vans County, Georgia, found no
insistent differences between the
art disease death rates of heavy
fee drinkers and those who drank
ss or none at all.
The reassuring statistics will
leer the coffee drinker as well as
leabstainer," said Dr. Samuel Vai-
ub, associate editor of Archives of
ternal Medicine, a doctor’s jour-
al published by the American
idical Association.
After all, coffee is no ordinary
ink such as chocolate soda and the
he wrote in an editorial ac-
impanying the Evans County re
lit. “It is a way of life."
iThe possible relationship be-
reen coffee and heart attack has
been controversial since a report
from Boston University in 1972
suggested that heart attack risks in
creased by 60 to 120 percent for
those who drank coffee regularly,
with the risk increasing with coffee
consumption. That conclusion was
based on studies of hospitalized
people.
Two other studies comparing
people who died of heart disease
and those who did not found no as
sociation between heart disease and
heavy coffee drinking although a
Finnish study reported last year did
find such a link.
The Evans County study is the
latest of seven prospective surveys
following coffee drinkers to see if
they develop an abnormally high
rate of heart disease. All were nega
tive outright, or after deleting any
effects caused by cigarette smoking,
a known heart disease risk factor.
The new report, published in the
October issue of the Archives of
Internal Medicine, was prepared by
a team of doctors led by Dr. Sieg
fried Heyden of the Duke Univer
sity Department of Community and
Family Medicine.
They identified those who were
heavy coffee drinkers — drinking
five or more cups a day — and those
who drank less than five cups daily
or those who didn’t drink coffee.
The group then was followed for
four-and-one-half-years.
A total of 339 deaths occurred
among the group and 130 were at
tributed to either heart disease or
stroke.
When deaths from heart disease
were singled out, the report said
there were no significant differences
between those who drank coffee and
those who did.
“Lack of systematic differences in
vascular mortality among the four
race-sex groups led us to the conclu
sion that there was no evidence of
an association between coffee-
drinking habits and mortality, either
h orn all causes or from specific vas
cular diseases, the report said.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1978
Devices may reduce
gasoline vapor risks
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Oil industry
researchers say they have found a
simpler, better way to capture the
polluting gasoline vapors that now
swirl unchecked into the air at serv
ice stations when cars and trucks are
refueled.
Industry officials want the
Environmental Protection Agency
to accept the new system as a re
placement for the bulky, complex,
problem-plagued equipment it now
is testing in California and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The EPA, responding to the
Clean Air Act, is expected to decide
soon on how to control gasoline vap
ors at service stations.
There are two major differences
between the two approaches to
vapor control — where the control
equipment would be installed, and
who would pay for it.
In the system now being tested
by the EPA, the equipment is built
into the filling station pump and the
station operator would pay the cost.
Operators might raise the price of
their gasoline slightly to recover
their expenditures.
But in the new system developed
and tested by the American Petro
leum Institute, the equipment
would be built into individual vehi
cles and car owners would bear the
cost. The API estimated the cost at
less than $10 per vehicle.
Unlike equipment on service sta
tion pumps, which in theory could
stop fillup vapor emissions from old
cars as well as new, the system pro
posed by the API would be limited
to new cars because it would have to
be installed during vehicle manufac
ture.
The system the EPA is now test
ing involves a bulky nozzle designed
to fit tightly into a vehicle’s fuel
tank, plus a double hose from the
pump. One hose supplies gasoline
to the vehicle, while the second
hose sucks vapors out of the vehi
cle’s fuel tank and returns them to
the service station’s storage tanks.
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Tests of that system have turned
up several defects including fuel
spills caused by poor-fitting nozzles
and cases where the pump con
tinued running after the car’s tank
was full, simultaneously putting
more gas in the tank and sucking it
out.
The Soft Touch
The system proposed by the API
uses a special gasket, built into the
fillpipe of a car’s fuel tank, to grip
existing service station pump noz
zles and keep vapors from escaping
while the tank is being filled. A
spring-loaded trap door on the gas
ket assembly would keep the tank
sealed when no nozzle was inserted.
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SMITH TOOL IS
ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY!
OK, so we don’t have a flashy name....but ours does go back a long way, back to the beginning of the
century, when founder H.C. Smith saw a need for quality oil field equipment, and offered the young and rapidly
growing petroleum industry his pioneering rock bit.
It’s been a long and interesting history since those early days, and now Smith Tool has the largest sales record
in the U.S. for their industry. The oil and mining industries depend on us, for the part we play to help develop
our nation’s energy resources...and a lot of people depend on us too. Like the people who work here. They think
we’re anything but ordinary, with the way we encourage their contributions...with the solid stability complemented
by steady growth...with strong rewards in salary, in benefits...and especially, with our non-polluting manufacturing
plant. This year our openings will be in the following areas:
MATERIALS & PROCESS:
Qualifications:
Duties:
Degree in Metallurgy or Mechanical Eng. with emphasis in physical Met.
Investigate Metallurgical needs in areas of heat treating, welding (conventional and
E.B.), forgings, casting, lubricants, mechanical testing and failure analyses. Department
size of approximately 25 allows for hands on experience.
TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Qualifications:
U.S. Citizenship and a degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering.
Duties:
Provide technical leadership for in house and customer needs in the areas of drilling
research, (field mechanics, drilling theory, computer modeling). Also assist with
seminars to educate our customers in the latest available research. Small informed
groups with lots of diversity and occasional international travel.
SALES ENGINEERING:
Qualifications:
Duties:
Degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering.
Very similar to the above position in Technical Services. Major differences will
encompass more customer contact and a chance to live in your own preferred
geographical area.
PRODUCT DESIGN:
Qualifications:
Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a general understanding of mechanical
drawing principles.
Duties:
Assist in the development of our product design both in theory and in actual manufac
turing considerations. Persons with a desire in computers will be trained to use
our computer graphics.
What’s in our name? An impressive history, and an even more exciting future. You could be a part of it. Sign up in your
placement office for a campus interview, November 10th. If you are unable to visit with us on campus, please fill
out the coupon so we can contact you at home.
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