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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 ’
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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. Mobile
home parks should provide com
munity shelters for their residents,
and public buildings should desig
nate shelter areas that are clearly
identified.”
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