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* : Page 14 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981 Features Chemical exposures increasing Emergency squads trained A Hous H I AT ROYAL OAKS, WE’LL LET YOU USE OUR COURTS TO TRY DEMO RACKETS BEFORE YOU BUY. CALL TOMMY CONNELL ’72. USPTA TENNIS PRO AT 846-8724 FEATURING THE FINEST IN RACKETS & APPAREL YAMAHA TRETORN BOAST IZOD PRINCE DUNLOP ASHAHI WILSON HEAD ROYAL OAKS 846-8724 4455 CARTER CREEK PKWY. r J l;-*' • \i l; : I-; Is I;' IS “We’ll serve you at lunch even fsister than before!” LUNCH SPECIALS MON. ‘Steak and Peel” A giant Baked Potato stuffed with Chicken Fried Steak. TOES “ steak I Delight” A ] /3 lb. Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich. WED. “Best of The West’ A giant Baked Potato filled with Ham, Creamery Butter and Cheese. THURS. “Super Nachos’ A Texas. Size Portion of Hot, Cheesy Nachos. We LOADING ZONE of Aggieland Family Restaurant AGGIE OWNED & OPERATED 404 University Drive in University Center OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 693-8869 United Press International Chances of exposure to hazar dous chemicals from a transport truck wreck or train derailment will continue to grow along with the volume of material trans ported daily across the United States, reports a specialist in charge of training emergency re sponse teams. In 1977, one of the last years for which figures are available, more than 14,000 accidents were re ported involving trucks hauling some sort of hazardous material, and about 1,600 reported mishaps involved railway tank cars. Larry Payne, who directs the Texas Engineering Extension Ser vice (TEEX) program charged with training officials and emergency squads, said such spills range from gasoline to more dangerous and exotic products such as chlorine, aluminum alkyls and anhydrous ammonia. Scores of Houston commuters were killed or injured several years ago when a tank truck car rying anhydrous ammonia toppled from an expressway overpass onto one of the nation’s busiest in tersections. The need for swift, safe and carefully planned action in such events prompted TEEX, a part of the Texas A&M University Sys tem, to develop a special five-day hazardous material control course at its College Station headquar ters. Payne said the class is now virtually the only one of its kind in the world. The week-long course, offered on a regular basis, is designed so that students spend about six of every 10 hours in realistic hands- on situations — from a fiery truck crash to finding and patching leaks and cleanup procedures. Although begun only two years ago, the hazardous material con trol course is now held more than a dozen times a year at Brayton Firemen Training Field, a 60- acre, $7 million facility southwest of the Texas A&M campus. “In many cases, the fluid found leaking in these simulated exer cises is only colored water, but students are expected to think, dress and act as if the liquid were a deadly poison,” said Payne. In addition to the course, the TEEX Oil and Hazardous Mate rial Control Training Division has contracted with the Chemical Manufacturers Association to con duct a two-day emergency re sponse workshop at various loca tions across the nation. Another spinoff of the unique course has been development of a two-day tank truck rollover school in which other emergency teams will practice controlling the mate rial while unloading and upright- ing the trailer. The truck rollover class was developed by TEEX with the assistance of Shell Oil and the American Petroleum Insti tute. Hazardous material extension courses are also being taught bv the TEEX division as a res the program, he added. Wlj ( courses are oriented morel) the theory of contingency 1011 me, ning and hazardous materij iis tt trol, the instructors canpt playe students limited hands-ot fowl mg at their plant site. Tk During all this, Payne sj( hazardous material control ram has received enthusiast Or Wi port from a 19-member adi committee chaired by aCM] resentative from Exxon Cli and which draws other m that Held from manufacturers, railway trucking industry, shippen other transport consumers ‘Security blankets’ are normal phast Th line, their Coug reaso Kyle to SCI Cougi United Press International NEW YORK — In the comic strip, Linus hangs onto his blanket. Real children also often form tenacious, persistent attachments to “their” happiness security ob jects. The beloved objects, soft to the touch and soothing, go to camp and school. Is the happiness and security object habit good, bad or what? The question is answered by a team of doctors from New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College in a report in ANNOUNCING OUR NEW EXPANDED HAPPY HOUR 2-7 p.m. Daily 2 FOR 1 HIGHBALLS (except call Brand) (except Garters) FROZEN DRINKS l 25 3109 Texas Ave., Bryan Pediatrics, journal of the Amer ican Academy of Pediatrics. Drs. Miriam Sherman, Mar garet Hertzig, Rochelle Austrian and Theodore Shapiro based their report on information from pa rents of 171 boys and girls at a New York City private school. They said the study showed that the number of siblings, the birth sequence of the child in the family, the parents’ marital status, sex of the child, the child’s history of thumbsucking, and ease of care of the child in infancy were all un related to attachment to an object. The doctors said the evolution of professional ideas about a child’s attachment to a security object follow theories about thumb-sucking. “Despite early attributions of an association between psychological problems in children and thumb sucking, later investigative stu dies clarified the fact that no corre lation existed between psycholo gical problems and thumb sucking. ” Similarly, the New York scien tists said, they could find no signi ficant differences between chil- 823-7470 dren who were and those who were not attached to a treasured object — or in those boys and girls who continue to use such an object after age 9 years. “This study,” the scientists said, “highlights, once again, the diver sity and richness of individual ex perience that falls within that lar ger category called ‘normal, ’” they said. Until this newest report, other experts over the last 30 years have read all sorts of things into a child’s attachment to a happiness and security object. Other investigators have claimed: —Attachment to an object, in addition to being normal, was uni versal and even necessary for health. —A link between the first trea sured object and ego development character style and even the poe tic process. —Children who esteem their prized possessions excessively have disturbances in motherchild relationships. In their study, the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical School feet i II ;ittad]K experts found three children with security objert ferred blankets and pillow most of the rest had dolls anc§ivi fed animals. Of the 171 students involi the study, 54 percent wen ported to have been al treasured object. Of that p 49 percent maintained the until at least age 9. x The doctors said the pro# emotional detachment froa object is a slow one for a sun tial number of children. “Hi ject may not be used regulaiij may be kept in an accessible] and resorted to only briellyoi ticularly stressful occasions.' A 10-year old cited in lb port, for example, discard® blanket but kept it in herdo “She had not used it for year, ” her mother reported, night before she was to lew summer camp,’ her n»s observed, “she retrieved! was soothing herself with! She told her mother k “nervous’ and “scared' needed her blanket, butleS camp without it in atone ran fo ent u a little owes (uard ;eepin greatt durin they i Wh 46-yar H cl FAY Coach Arkans Open 11-9 Sun.-Thur. 11-10 Fri.-Sat. Agent Orange blamed in Vietnam vet’s death • JAYCEE GOLDEN CHECKS • JAYCEE GOLDEN CHECKS • JAYCEE GOLDEN CHECKS • (/: o LLi X o JAYCEE LU Q O CD LU LU O >- < S <n o LU X o GOLDEN CHECKS C_ > -< O m m O O o m o X m o CD United Press International GRAND PRAIRIE — The can cer death of a 31-year-old Navy veteran — possibly caused by Agent Orange — may alert the nation that Vietnam veterans “never really stopped paying their debt,” a minister eulogized. Addressing nearly 200 people gathered for the funeral of Larry Hall at the Calvary Baptist Church, Pastor Earl K. Oldham asked the nation to recognize the “unsung heroes” of the Vietnam War. “Larry Hall came to me a few weeks ago and said that if his death would help other families who are suffering from Agent Orange, then he was ready to die, ’’ Oldham said. “Maybe his death will alert the nation that men who served on the battlefield in the Vietnam War really never stopped paying their debt.” he said. “Maybe now a na tion, as individuals and a govern ment, we can understand that we owe our men something. ” Doctors say Hall’s death, the learning disabilities of his chil dren, his wife’s miscarriage and the death of a baby are consistent with problems affecting other Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliant. Hall, who died Friday, a few weeks ago recalled his Navy tour of Vietnam canals aboard the! Gunston hall in 1970 and 19'1| remembered inhaling large! of Agent Orange, a chemicalij to defoliate jungle brush. Mrs. Hall, who is now) with two children, took i week job in a school cafelj when Hall was forced to qui job on a loading dock. 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