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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1978 Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.69 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. —4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING WEDNESDAY SPECIAL EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Chicken Fried Steak Dinner Two Cheese and w/cream Gravy Onion Enchiladas Whipped Potatoes and w/chili Choice of one other Mexican Rice Vegetable Patio Style Pinto Beans Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Tostadas Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Chicken & Dumplings Tossed Salad Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First’’ SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable time M/P E | Pay Off Help Supply Critically Needed Plasma While You Earn Extra CASH At: Plasma Products, Inc. 313 College Main in College Station Relax or Study in Our Comfortable Beds While You Donate — Great Atmosphere - $ ^ Per Donation — Earn Extra — Call for more information .-.v: Traffic, HEW programs Feds improve ambulances By SCOTT PENDLETON Rattalmn Stuff “You called, we hauled, that’s all. That was the way one official de scribed the kind of service the na tion’s ambulances rendered a decade ago. Until the mid-sixties all an am bulance provided was taxi service from an accident to the hospital. Half of the ambulance services were run by funeral homes. Their hearses could carry the dead or in jured equally well, since the atten dants didn’t provide active care dur ing transportation. Two publications focused national attention on the need for better emergency medical service. The final report of the President’s Com mittee for Traffle Safety in 1965 cited the deficiency of emergency care and transport of the sick and injured. In 1966, the National Academy of Science published a booklet entitled “Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society.” It identified the epidemic proportions of accidental deaths — 6.5 million since 1903 — and the inadequacy of ambulance services to prevent unnecessary loss of life. The Department of Transporta tion and HEW have been working to improve that situation by developing and implementing the concept of emergency medical service. This in cludes transportation, care at the scene and in transit, and radio com munication with the hospital. The Highway Safety Act of 1966 assigned the task of improving traffic safety, including emergency medical services, to the Department of Transportation. In 1968, DOT published 18 Highway Safety Program Standards on topics ranging from “Driver Edu cation’ to “Debris Hazard Control "3609 Place East 29th - <7:777. X« f ^ yA 1 !-#.-* »!r^q pmnmiEAS I Hi*-, ■ U ■ -jrm Imported Coffees, Teas, and Gourmet Comestibles PERFECT STOCKING STUFFERS and Cleanup. Congress appropriates funds ($172 million in fiscal 1978) to help the states implement those standards. Texas received $8.6 million in 1978. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), created in 1966 under DOT, ad ministers the funds. It reviews a state’s annual Highway Safety Plan, which explains how the funds will be spent. Emergency medical service comes under Standard 11, whose stated purpose is “to provide an emergency care system that will: I. Provide quick identification and response to accidents. II. Sustain and prolong life through proper first aid measures, both at the scene and in transit. III. Provide the coordination, transportation, and communication necessary to bring the injured and definitive medical care together in the shortest practicable time, with out simultaneously creating additional hazards. To accomplish this purpose. Standard 11 says that "each state ... shall have a program to ensure that persons involved in highway acci dents receive prompt medical care... ’ This program must include “train ing. licensing, and related require ments for ambulance service per- ^ THURSDAY - DEC. 14 “COUNTRY EDITION” FRIDAY - DEC. 15 ^ “TEXAS” SATURDAY - DEC. 16 “GEORGE CHAMBERS & THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN’ 1700 Feet From The Villa Maria Exchange On Farm Rd. 2818 "BEST IN LIVE COUNTRY WESTERN ENTERTAINMENT" HOURS Thurs., Frl. 7:00-12:00 Sat., 8:00-1:00 LAKEVIEW CLUB 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Saturday Night: John Wesley Ryles & Southern Express From 9-1 p.m. STAMPEDE DANCE Every Thursday Night $2.00 per person All Brands, Cold Beer 45 Cents 8-12 * * * * * * * Are you dissatisfied with your'X -^present Laundry and Dry Clean—X Jing Service? ^ * -X Jnext semester you HAVEj ?A CHOICE! 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And despite the firm language of the safety standards, DOT lucks real authority to force compliance. “We don’t have much pressure available to us,” Schwartz said. “Congress took most of that away from us.” He cited the motorcycle helmet law as an example. Under Standard 3 (Motorcycle Safety), DOT had said that any state without a mandatory helmet law would be disqualified from certain federal funds. Congress overruled that decision because most states passed a helmet law just to get the funds. Robert VVeltzer of the Region 6 NHTSA office (which has jurisdic tion over Texas) said, “Congress pulled the rug from under our feet because it wanted “progress and partnership” from the NHTSA and the states instead of an adversary re lationship. As a result, “We don’t regulate, VVeltzer said. “We have not drawn battle lines and said, ”111011 shalt. ” DOT’s concern with achieving overall highway safety, and not just Standard 11, also weakens its impact on emergency medical services. "We require the states to take a look at the entire spectrum with an eye to reducing accidents,” Weltzer said. "Emergency medical service is only one of 18 areas." The NHTSA reviews emergency medical service projects in light of their potential to reduce deaths and injuries, Weltzer said. It compares the projects’ potential to that of other ways to reduce accidents, such as selective law enforcement or engi neering projects. “Greasing the squeaky wheel" is another way DOT establishes priorities among the 18 standards, Schwartz said. “Congress has emphasized the 55 MPH speed limit program," he said. Therefore the NHTSA is giving that a high priority since that is “where the most noise is coming from.’ A state doesn’t necessarily have to use any of the DOT money for emergency medical services, Schwartz said. But Texas has spent $4.3 million of DOT funds on emergency medical service since 1967. From 1967-1972, DOT spent one-half to three- quarters of a million dollars of “seed money to start and operate Emergency Medical Services Jji sion of the Texas Department Health. When it proved its worth, EMS division was established cially by the 63rd Texas The state began to provide the vision’s funding. Now the EMS division uses D() funds, $217,(XX) in fiscal response data program and an dent investigation program, The response data program«a piles ambulance activity repoi submitted by participating ami) lance services. The information computed to give average respot times and other data usefulforph ning purposes. HEW works more directly DOT to establish emergency me cal services. Under the Emergency Med Services Systems Act of 1973, HE off ers grants to regions withinastii The funds can be used forproje ranging from feasibility studiesl expansion and improvement emergency medical services. In fiscal 1978, Congressapprop ated $36 million for emergency ieal service grants. A Texas community can seel grant two ways. The first is straight to the HEW regional to work out an application. Since HEW wants the develop regional systems emergency medical services, thei plication would have to adilrj much more than just the com nity’s own needs. live second way for a commim to seek a grant is through its Com of Government (COG). Texas vided into 24 multi-county COGi gions, for which the COG plans kinds of assistance projects. Brazos Valley Development cil is the COG for Brazos Co The COG makes upagranta^ cation that addresses all aspectstf emergency medical servicesystf which it sends to the E.MSdisisr All the COG applications are hined into a state application the EMS division sends to the gional HEW office. HEW reviews the stateandiiil pendent applications and dedi which ones to grant. In 1978, received requests for over lion in grants from the five-stattl gion 6, but was only budgeted $3.6 million. St Id Un lance: Am Cross Th worst La vehic cany “Y Willi tion An emt in th Re accoi pract Ame Th eight lance Tc sider hour Re serie and mb gene A a tn trea J> sen I Cog T ofl lim T whe It grants the funds on a % matching basis, or, in poor 25-75. All the Rinds go to theE division, which acts as a man over the projects. Texas received $1.5 mi HEW grants for emergency service projects in fiscal 197S large portion of that money spent on systems for ambulance hospital radio communication Despite federal aid, some« muni ties shy away from theexpei of an emergency medical sent And they are expensive. A modular ambulance, almost an emergency room wheels, costs from $ 16,000forals model to $35,000 for a fully equip; one. “Fully equipped” includes $6,000 device that monitors tient’s vital signs and transmitsth to the hospital. To receive monitor the patient s vital signs, hospital needs a base station ni with a visual terminal cosli $15,000. 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