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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981
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Chemical exposures increasing
Emergency squads trained
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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
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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
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trucking industry, shippen
other transport consumers
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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
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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-
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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
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children with security objert
ferred blankets and pillow
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fed animals.
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treasured object. Of that p
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until at least age 9. x
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emotional detachment froa
object is a slow one for a sun
tial number of children. “Hi
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and resorted to only briellyoi
ticularly stressful occasions.'
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port, for example, discard®
blanket but kept it in herdo
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year, ” her mother reported,
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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.
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Mrs. Hall, offering to help, a
first she declined the offers.
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from others, but if people are!
enough to help, than thanld
and God bless them.”
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