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■ The Aggie Seat, which can be
tied Quickly into a length of rope,
is adding a new safety dimension
to firefighting.
■ The seat — loops formed in a
rope by two special knots — was
developed by three instructors at
the firemen’s training school
here. It is especially useful in res
cuing firefignters from caged lad
ders when their legs get tangled
in the rungs.
I John Hubacek, industrial res
cue co-ordinator at the Texas En
gineering Extension Service’s Fire
IProtection Division, said firefight
ers are required to wear a Swiss
Beat when they work in confined
spaces, but they can’t wear that
type of body harness in a cage.
■ “That’s where we come in,”
Hubacek said. “The Aggie Seat is
used when these people are not
seriously injurea. It removes
them easily. It’s easy to tie. We’re
leaching it to all of our trainees,
and they come from all over the
world, so hopefully they’re telling
other firemen about it.”
i Hubacek, along with firemen
|Billy Parker and Leo O’Campo,
designed the knot during rescue
straining drills at the firemen’s
1 training.
O’Campo recently described
the Aggie Seat in Fire Engineer
magazine.
i’, “We’ve found that in most in
stances where the standard life
basket was used, the Aggie Seat
was quicker to rig, more comfort
able for the victim, and allowed
more versatility,” he wrote. “With
the Aggie Seat, the victim’s upper
body is supported, and like the
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Photo by PETER ROCHA
Fireman Billy Parker demonstrates the Aggie Seat.
Swiss seat, it supports his weight
evenly and does not impede blood
circulation or breathing by bin
ding.”
Hubacek said the Aggie Seat is
also used for lowering firemen
into industrial vessels or confined
areas with small one-man open
ings, since it holds the user in an
upright position, leaving both of
his hands free.
“The uses and situations where
the Aggie Seat can be utilized are
limited only by the imagination,”
O’Campo said.
rsStocks plunge after slow trading
United Press International ers who thought a summer spurt was ing price war and some disappoint
underway. Investors still are nervous ing earnings.
delegJ- NEW YORK — The stock market about the robust economy and high T he Dow Jones industrial average
looseff plunged in slow trading Wednesday interest rates. plunged 11.26 to 1,111.64. The clo-
[idale OfTvhen a brokerage executed a large sely watched Dow climbed 18.33 the
ity belf ^Jing program for an institutional Walt Disney, St. Regis and ARA previous three sessions,
l ei dienr and other traders pulled out Services attracted considerable at- The New York Stock Exchange
ol the bidding. tention because of takeover situa- index fell 0.51 to 87.25 and the price
jf? The setback ended a three-day tions but drug stocks came under of an average share decreased 17
rally and disappointed many observ- heavy attack because of a broaden- cents.
Correction
The description of the Rudder
Run in the Park and Ride story
which ran July 17 can better be
explained as leaving Olsen Field
and travelling on Joe Routt Street
to Coke Street. The Shuttle will
then turn north onto Lubbock
Street, travel down Lubbock to
Bizell Street, head north on La
mar Street then south on Nagle
Street to get back to Lubbock. It
will then travel around the Lamar
Extension (the street between the
physics building and the Trigon)
and west onjoe Routt back to Ol
sen Field. The Battalion regrets
the error.
Texas official
cuts Reagan
farm policies
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Texas Ag
riculture Commissioner Jim High
tower used biting humor and scath
ing rhetoric Wednesday to blast
President Reagan’s farm policy for
trying to “make chicken salad out of
chicken manure.”
At a convention marked by
speeches that ranged from emo
tional to boring, Hightower’s re
marks seemed a relief to the conven
tion delegates — many of whom
banged chairs and cheered in appro
val.
“I come before you today on be
half of America’s farm families who
want to send a message to Ronald
Reagan: Mr. President, there is a
world of hurt in the countryside and
these farmers want you to know it’s
bedtime for bonzo in 1984.”
Hightower opened his speech
with Harry Truman’s adage that “no
man should be allowed to be presi
dent who does not understand
hogs.”
“Well, I’ll tell you what, we’ve got
a guy in the White House right now
who does not know a hog from a
hand grenade,” he said. “Since 1980
it’s been hog feeding time at the Rea
gan White House. And the hogs
aren’t just feeding at the trough,
they’ve climbed all the way into the
trough and they’re wallowing in it.”
Hightower, the chief architect of
the party agriculture platform
plank, said Reaganonics threatens to
destroy the family farm system and
also farm-based economies in rural
America.
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