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1794 survival tactics taught
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Survival instructor Paul Risk tea
ches today’s adults tasks that were
fundmental to life two centuries ago
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“If Daniel Boone came back today
and found out adults are in the field
learning to build tires and make
shelters, he’d wonder how they sur
vived long enough to be adults,” said
Risk, Pennsylvania State University
associate professor of recreation and
parks. “We’ve bred a whole genera
tion of people who don’t even know
how to build a fire.
“I’m teaching the basics of life in,
say, 1784.”
Risk, a former park ranger and
former member of a mountain res
cue team, tries to minimize risk for
people who are lost or face emergen
cies in the wild.
He has been teaching college
courses, including one on global wil
derness survival, and holds public
survival seminars. He also helped
tape a simulated survival attempt by
plane crash victims, for broadcast on
the Pennsylvania public television
program “Outdoor Pennsylvania.”
His 340-page textbook, “Outdoor
Safety and Survival,” is in many
bookstores throughout the country.
The seminars held by Risk and his
firm. Survival Technology Asso
ciates — with help from state and lo
cal authorities throughout the na
tion — are attended by teenagers to
sexagenarians. He will leave his less
lucrative university post in July.
Some of the seminars are funda
mental day-long courses on survival
or outdoor safety. Some advanced
two-week seminars include field
trips. He also offers courses on com
munication techniques and urban
safety, including how to deal with an
attacker.
techniques anu camping is mat one is
voluntary and other is necessary.
Risk stresses psychological aspects
of survival — on his stationery is
printed “Survival is an attitude” —
and he said the wise person remains
calm and knows what to do next be
cause of preparation.
The most basic survival tools are a
whistle, matches and knife — for
use, respectively, in signaling, start
ing fires and as an all-purpose tool.
Risk said.
Other survival items to have in car
or camper, particularly when travel
ing in wilderness areas, include wa
ter, shovel, blanket, reflector, flare,
aerosol horn, spray paint, tool kit,
fiasnlij
Risk, 47, of College Park, Pa., said
in an interview if people know na
ture and prepare for emergencies,
they will not be too scared of the wild
to f unction nor will they take its dan
gers too lightly.
He estimated that several thou
sand people in this country per year
go through a survival experience,
which he defines as any delay or dis
orientation in the wilderness. The
only difference between survival
first-aid kit and flashlight.
The five keys to survival are fire,
shelter, signals, water and food.
He called food least important be
cause the average person can survive
30 to 50 days without it and rescue
often comes before food is nec
essary. But water is needed within
four days.
Risk said it is wise to notify some
one of your travel plans, ana to stay
put when lost, because rescuers look
where you are most likely to be. And
when most people unfamiliar with
the wilderness start moving, they
just go around in circles.
He recommends staying in place,
establishing a camp and starting a
fire — even in summer.
He said making a fire occupies the
hands and provides a psychological
boost.
Next, obtain shelter from the el
ements — heat, cold, rain, wind.
“If your car has broken down,this
may mean dismantling your vehicle
for insulation,” he said. Theuphok-
tery and filler can help keep you
warm. The hood could help forma
lean-to.
It is important to establish contaa,
perhaps with people searching for
you, by making yourself as visibleas
possible. You could spray paint an)i
— the international distress signal-
on the car’s roof. The spare tire
could he burned as a signal fire.
If you haven’t brought water,he
advises using a purifying kit on any
water you find. But if you have no
kit, drink the water anyway.
“It’s no choice between being sick
of giardiasis or dead of dehydra
tion,” Risk said.
Oklahoma, Alaska
races will be close
United Press International
Early signs of a heated contest
between former U.S. Attorney
Frank Keating and Rep. Jim
Jones, D-Okla., surfaced Wednes
day when Jones, targeted for de
feat by national Republicans,
challenged his new opponent to
debate.
The national Republican cam
paign committee Wednesday
called Jones’ action “unprece
dented,” saying it showed Jones
was scared of his opponent.
Keating, a conservative, re
signed as U.S. attorney to run in
the Republican primary Tuesday
and won the right to take on
Jones, the House Budget Com
mittee chairman. Jones was unop
posed in the Democratic primary.
“We expect Keating to be the
next congressman of the 1st Dis
trict in Oklahoma,” said Steve
Loiterer, a spokesman for the
National Republican Congressio
nal Committee in Washington
D.C.
“The Jones campaign has been
running scared for some time,
with good reason,” he said. “It is
unprecedented for an incumbent
to sit glued to the television so he
can pick up the phone and chal
lenge his opponent to a debate.”
“How sweet it is,” Keating said
after his win over consultant Tom
Cantrell. “Now we switch into
third gear.”
Jones, who is considered vul
nerable because of his frequent
opposition to President Reagan
on budget issues, challenged
Keating late Tuesday to a debate
adde
but added he may “have to force
Keating to stay with the issues.”
Keating has agreed to debate.
The race highlighted primary
action in Oklahoma and Alaska.
In the Oklahoma race for the
Senate, Democratic incumbent
David Boren piled up 90 percent
of the vote over political un
known Marshall Fuse to win re
nomination for a second term.
Republicans George Moth-
ershed, an oilman and attorney,
and management instructor Will
Crozier will meet in a runoff
Sept. 18 to determine Boren’s op
ponent in November.
In Alaska, Republican Sen.
Ted Stevens ran unopposed in
the primary and claimed more
than two-thirds of the vote. He
said his strong primary showing
may help him in a bid to be Sen
ate Republican leader.
“It helps you a lot to have that
kind of support in your home
state,” Stevens said.
The Democratic winner, for
mer Alaska Attorney General
John Havelock, received about 20
percent of the vote and easily beat
four other Democratic hopefuls.
In the primary race for Alas
ka’s one seat in the House, Rep.
Don Young, who also ran unop
posed on the Republican ticket,
garnered about half the vote.
Movies: how they
relate to politics
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Whenever
protesters greet the president at a
campaign stop, you can count on
hearing “Reagan, Reagan, he’s no
good; send him back to Hollywood.”
What they fail to understand is
how deeply entwined the movie in
dustry is with modern politics.
Reagan, who played down his
Hollywood background early in his
political career, is now recalling it
with gusto, exhorting U.S. olympi
ans to “do it for the Gipper.” (He
had the gall to say that on the cam
pus of the University of Southern
California, the school beaten by
Notre Dame in the game that was
won for the Gipper.)
With politicians belatedly recog
nizing what Reagan knew a long
time ago, that acting skills are nec
essary not only for campaigning but
for governing, it was no surprise that
Democrat John Glenn pinned his
hopes on last fall’s release of the
movie “The Right Stuff,” invoking
nostalgia for the bygone patriotism
of the Kennedy presidency.
Glenn, of course, posed as a true-
life hero, in contrast to Reagan’s cel
luloid roles, and although he and the
movie failed at the box office, Holly
wood found it was on the right track
— chauvinism was in.
“The Right Stuff was followed by
“Uncommon Valor” and the newly
released “Red Dawn,” both movies
appealing to the political right.
Two of this summer’s biggest
movie hits have been appropriated
by Reagan supporters.
Republica
At the GOP
convention, Kepublican youth as
sumed the identity of “Fritzbusters,"
a takeoff on “Ghostbusters," in
which a quartet of brash con men,
fighting City Hall and the federal
government all the way, rid Manhat
tan of an unearthly menace.
And a magazine columnist has
gone so far as to declare Reagan no
less than the 1980s incarnation of
Indiana Jones. Vice President
George Bush has called the site of
the Democrats’ convention “The
Temple of Doom.”
Where does this leave poor Walter
Mondale?
Say what you will about Mondale,
he just is not the dynamic man of ac
tion celebrated in so many modern
movies. Except one.
The runaway hit of late summer
portrays the angst known by almost
everyone in high school and college.
The kids who wore unstylishly short
hair, unstylishly white shirts and
white socks ana unstylishly studied
hard, bullied all the way by jocks and
bimbos.
If ever there was a movie for the
beleaguered Mondale campaign
start identifying with it is “Revenge
of the Nerds.”
Laugh at the nerds of this world
if you will, but when they seek their
revenge and justice triumphs, as
always does in Hollywood, it is based
on the one undeniable truth of this
world — there are more nerds than
golden boys.
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