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features i- f Police chief requires citizens take gun class Battalion/Page 11 March 2, 1983 l ii icetyler,. cut and; crano e hicleSfc United Press International ed-out JCHELMSFORI), Mass. — It that tjnav not be legal, but Police Chief Raymond McKeon insists I that if you want to buy a gun f 110 vou've got to prove first that you ln can handle it. d r ml P r t sc dla Hadley re- . 10 ceived a handgun for Christmas, sle wondered if she’d ever mus- ter the courage to fire it. ■ ° ‘Ttn not interested in blow- lvem hwg anyone away,” she said, “but women shouldn’t be crippled la a e with fear at the prospect of using edical ’4 un ” irvice, ■ the inJi Her apprehensions were dis- e th e jptll e d by (duel McKeon’s ies attempts to protect his commun- ipl_ a it) from needless deaths. ' n j uri «B a corn P re ^ ens ' ve home firearm program, be has made it tpugh to obtain licenses and is educating owners about their re- 'sponsibilities as owners of a lethal weapon. I Massachusetts requires guns t| be licensed (w ith a mandatory one-year jail term for violation) but requires no practical know ledge and experience with handguns as a prerequisite for obtaining a license. McKeon found that intoler able. “My Cod, a driver’s license isn’t issued without a suitability test,” he said, “while a license for a gun doesn’t stipulate that the potential owner know anything about using one.” In Chelmsford, no one obtains a firearms license with out passing an intensive written exam and demonstrating the safe use of guns at the police range. McKeon said the tests could be challenged in court, but in sisted, “those are my minimum standards of suitability, and I stand by them.” But he’s worried about those who obtained licenses before his restrictions were implemented more than a year ago in his comfortable town Of 32,000. The only solution, he said, was to offer free, day-long courses for those already own ing or considering purchase of a gun. Alarmed by National Safety Council statistics which showed 1,900 accidental firearms deaths nationwide in 1982, McKeon said his goal was to turn the com munity “into one of the safest in the country” through a program other police departments can emulate. “We’re not trying to discour age people from purchasing guns,” McKeon said. “What we want to do is prevent unneces sary tragedies from happening.” The Home Firearms Respon sibility course, run by three officers and a civilian expert on guns, focuses on ammunition, identifying and operating firearms and the responsibilities of an owner. Then it’s out to the range for practical experience. Japan trails U.S. output United Press International NEW YORK — Americans harbor many illusions about Japanese industry and the productivity of its workers, say two university professors of Japanese extraction. Contrary to current popu lar belief, U.S. workers actual ly are 30 percent more pro ductive than Japanese work ers except in those industries that manufacture largely for export and have turned heavi ly to robotics, says Prof. Koji Taira of the University of Illi nois at Champaign-Urbana. Taira adds that, while Japan’s economic growth has been gaining on that of the United States by 10 percent a decade, the Japanese hope of reaching full economic parity with the U.S. in per capita Gross National Product prob ably will not be reached. 1 he newest estimates of some Japanese economists, he said, put Japan’s potential growth now at a rate no greater than America’s. “If that’s right,” Taira said, “the U.S. will remain a com fortable 30 percent ahead of Japan.” Taira told United Press In ternational Japan’s auto mobile industry is peaking and cannot continue to ex pand. He also said Japan’s light industries, apparel and other consumer goods, are finding it ever harder to com pete with Taiwan and other Asian countries. Prof. William Ouchi, who teaches management at UCLA’s Graduate School, said in an interview in the Manhattan Report on Econo mic Policy that naive Amer icans believe the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry “knows all, sees all and tells everybody what to do” in business. The truth is just the opposite, Ouchi said. “The Japanese govern ment intervenes far less dire ctly in economic policy than the U.S. government does; things go by voluntary con sensus in Japan, not by gov ernment intervention.” Ouchi attributed much of the current Japanese success in competition with the U.S. to structural failures in the American system. For exam ple, he said, American law puts too many restrictions and obstacles in the way of inter company joint research and development projects. Japanese law and custom favor such projects. Another big failing in the United States, Ouchi said, is that “in a society that cher ishes private property rights, we have, paradoxically, fa vored a system in which no body really owns our big cor porations. therefore you have companies drifting or run ning amok.” Big light are tightly owned by big banks and so top management is constantly monitored. Ouchi blamed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which forbids bank •ownership and control of non-banking businesses for much of the current failure of U.S. industry. He said the Un ited States is the only indust rial democracy in the world that has such a law. Ouchi is most widely known as the author of “Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the lapanese Challenge.” In this book, he deals at some length with the Japanese practice of lifetime employment, which he terms a critical factor. His Company Z seeks to make American employment condi tions just as attractive or more attractive in different ways. 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And if you’re going off the beaten track, make sure someone knows your plans. The people who rescue lost climbers in New Hampshire’s rugged White Mountains don’t mind performing good deeds in 80 mph winds and bone-chilling cold in a real emergency. But sometimes an inexperi enced and thoughtless hiker is unprepared or changes his course without telling anyone. When volunteer rescuers have to risk their lives to bail this kind of climber out of trouble — which could have been avoided — they get understandably angry. Rick Wilcox, coordinator of the small Mountain Rescue Ser vice of North Gonway, puts it this way: “We’ll help anyone. But we’re not kamikaze about it. The hikers have a responsibility to take care of themselves.” Probably the most controver sial rescue ever made in New Hampshire’s mountains in volved two Pennsylvania ice climbers who were saved last winter after surviving several days in wind chill factors of at least 100 degrees below zero on 6,288-foot Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in the Northeast. Albert Dow, a rescue worker, was killed in an avalanche while looking for the two young men — the first rescuer in the area to die in the line of duty. Hugh Herr, 17, and Jeffrey Batzer, 20, suffered severe frostbite that cost them parts of their extremities. Herr’s legs were amputated six inches be low the knee while Batzer, 20, lost parts of his fingers. Rescue workers still debate whether the climbers were negli gent. “They made two different decisions that spelled disaster,” said David Warren of the Appa lachian Mountain Club. “They changed their route without tell ing anyone, and they left some heavy equipment behind — leaving them unprepared for a night on the mountain. “It’s a bittersweet experience. Two people managed to stay alive and one person is killed,” Waren said. Fish and Game Capt. Henry Mock said the most blatant ex ample he remembers of a hiking mistake involved a young couple who went winter climbing with out leaving a note — one of the worst errors a climber can make, he said. Wilcox’s 25 Mountain Rescue Service volunteers mostly work in shops and tourist-related businesses in the mountains. Like volunteer firefighters, when the call goes out for their services, they drop their work, gather their own equipment and often lose a day’s pay at their regular jobs. 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