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Pa THE BATTALION Page 13 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1980 ornado safety outlined in health report United Press International ■WASHINGTON — Residents of Wichita Falls had such a long warn ing before a powerful tornado struck in April that many fled to their cars to R to outrun the storm. It was a dreadful mistake. I Of the 26 people killed and 30 in jured by the storm while they were “.i in vehicles, 77 percent had left the , ! 1111 7 relative safety of buildings when 0 evV °, r f^they discovered the storm was “ y ” vert Gppro a chin S . once i,«„ T1 ' ,; h “ m f s lefl l y 20 ‘ he f vi y •ring the Si J ims ' inc ' udin fi ei S ht who died ’ sut ’ , was stripped Hi wds andededsL-- oastofMw. kony eyes new video lg recorders United Press International n |;NEW YORK — Despite the rising ilhusiasm for the video-disc system ^ the United States, the Japanese ■y Corp. will devote itself to mar- leave people! ceting another type of home system, road,’ Marfarajjglvideo cassette recorder, says a of New Mode pokesman for Sony’s American sub- item Arizona!: idiary. Tucson, and tltij. Californiainchtj Video cassette recorders enable part of the aeti’iewers to record television prog- l^aredo, Men amjs for later playback, while video- ide from laret |i sc players cannot record programs, 1 study is b( mt instead use pre-recorded lodelforanalys ideodiscs. lexicon border *7. as can be ider:-, Mitsuru Ohki, a spokesman for fficials said, ony Corp. of America, told UPI in in Nuevo Lartfl interview the company will not ita on air and nter into the consumer video-disc ge treatment larket until a unified video-disc upational ai iandard is established and software se pollution, t the system becomes available, ation and pest e; dKipcpnicWi'fcliowever, he said, the firm has duies cpiutuik.. . . i . r will be thetc ‘ ans to manufacture a video-disc tor ions at the cv lsdtudonid purpose, not for the as B. Richm Bn f ral consumer. meral, andDr lid iteverde dir- ” u ' eo cassette recorder sales in m Health Ore- le | ldnde< ^ States totaled 402,000 I the .nrrrnnni'Pfo * n 19^8 and 475,000 units in year, are sc. 379 according to industry figures. ■ guesses they will reach 600,000 >650,000 units this year. ^ ,ast y ear - Sony accounted for ab- Jt 30 percent of the American mar- _ J Jt. RCA Corp., which sells a com- -ting system manufactured by Mat- ishita Electric Industrial Co. of tod Press Intemfcpar., accounts for roughly 35 per- ’A, Colombia- int. ivernment TuesME. con d round of nes Sony and Matsushita are the two illas holdingmost$ or manufacturers of video casset- matic corps jn»l4Ccoiders Retamax and \ HS i Embassy. ideo home system). :re scheduled fotf i.trkul P olice ^p,.dis C systems — an optical sys- e embassybutdW o f philips, a stylus method of >u rnuun sour. 3^Q or p anc j the VHD (video high d be held Td|I ty disc) system of victor Co. of i creign ministry®, w hi c h will be used by Mat- shita. The three systems are in- . .. mpatible. : details are not:t\ >reign ministn if Ohki said the problem with the , ■-disc system is that you have to nment source s%elop both hardware and software Cesar Turbayr the same time for introduction into lis cabinet to rf 'e market. Sony believes the sys- nt position. Tkj||i s suitable for educational and ; doubtful U.S. stitutional use but not for consum- i Asencio and > entertainment, omats would k On the other hand, he said, it has ' council and sK : hh merits as random access and the ns Sunday. pacity for storing an enormous he risk of settiuf fount of information, t might affecttbC'With video cassette recorders, ” iment prefers to! said, “you can use tapes time and , the source said ain just by erasing the previous litants of the Affording and can record your favo- t, one of ColonRV programs even if you are not st guerrilla group tome by presetting the device.” 50 million ransotThe high price of the video casset- 311 jailed comra^bcorder is considered the biggest freeing the bottleneck at present to a major mar- ;/ penetration. It runs $1,200 to 300 in the United States. As for video-disc sales, Magnavox harket-testing the optical video- c players in three American cities Seattle, Atlanta and Dallas. Magnavox has never released sales ires and an industry rce said “everybody’s guessing.” Imates range from a conservative h 00 units by the Japanese to 10,000 ts by a U.S. industry spokesman. There are three types of home !k 5:30 p.l J19. rime rate its record play and si theStu fered little or no damage. A team of health investigators, re porting in the magazine Science, concluded that people in motor vehi cles had a ten-fold greater risk of se vere injury than those at home. The researchers were on the scene shortly after the tornado struck, ex amining the causes of death and assessing the effectiveness of current safety warnings. The twister devas tated an 11-square mile area, killing 47 people, injuring hundreds and destroying or severely damaging 3,000 homes. Only five deaths occurred among 10,863 people who stayed indoors in the area affected by the tornado. “Apartments and single family homes were the safest places to be when the tornado struck, and the risk of being killed in either location was only one per thousand, ” the re port said. “Other public buildings (for exam ple, restaurants, churches, shops) were less safe. If the 1,768 people in their cars had sought shelter in sing le-family homes, we can estimate that they would have suffered rough ly 80 percent and 90 percent fewer fatal injuries.” Other findings: — Brick houses were safer than frame. Thirty-five percent of all brick houses and 50 percent of frame houses suffered major irreparable damage. — People over 60 were injured seven times more frequently than those under 20. Above age 40, women were at greater risk than men. — Lacerations, abrasions and bone fractures were the most com monly noted injuries. — 96 percent of all people sur veyed felt they had been adequately warned. Sirens started sounding one hour before the tornado struck. — 56 percent of people who were in single-family homes took shelter in an interior closet, bathroom or hallway while 24 percent waited the storm out in a basement or storm cellar. In summary, the report said cur rent recommendations that people at home should seek shelter in an in terior location proved to be sound. “People in motor vehicles, whether they be in the country or the city, should seek shelter immedi ately upon hearing a tornado warn ing and should not attempt to drive from the tornado’s path. “People in single-family homes in a tornado-prone area should identify and reinforce some interior portion of their home as a shelter. 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