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Wednesday, August 20,1986/The BattaJion/Page 7 / A \ P AGGIE SPECIAL Students $225- Large 2-1 Duplexes Close to Campus CALL NOW 693-3777 Aggies* Choice Timber Ridge Apts. 846-2173 503 Cherry St (3 btks from compus) INTERNATIONAL HOUSE rtkKAKa. RESTAURANT I $100 off 1st mth rent uilth this od. : •fiptd iequiu t6ptu All you can eat Daily Specials 10 p.m.-6 a.m. All You Can Eat Buttermilk Pancakes $1.99 Spaghetti and Meat Sauce with garlic bread $2.99 The Calm Before The Storm Srnior fi«h tamp counselor Garv Hair takrs a break with incoming tmhman Mk hrllr Hamilton before leaving as part trl the second ses- n»oto by Amthouy S. C*»prr sH»n ol Stutlenl Y Fish ( amp I his summer the camp will have lout sessions, each < ontaining five tamps of 150 f reshmen. *Must present this coupon International House of Pancakes Restaurant 103 N. College Skaggs Center SAVE TIME Lap belts: A help or hindrance? SAVE MONEY Senator calls for mandatory shoulder belts for rear seat WASHINGTON (AP) — A U S. senator, citing doubts about lap-oniv safetv belts, is calling on Transporta tion Secretary Elizabeth Dole to re quire rear-seat shoulder harnesses in all new cars. Meanwhile, safrtv-conactous mo torists ate finding that installing shoulder belts in rear seats of cars al ready on the road is far from easy and requires determination and more than a bit of luck. They get little help from dealers or auto manufacturers The call for new regulations and attempts by some car owners to in stall rear-seat belts were sparked by a National Transportation Safety B<»ard study a week ago that sug gested lap-only belts actually cause the wearer to sustain severe, some times fatal, injuries in many crashes The Findings stunned auto safetv experts and were attacked for imply ing that lap beh users might be bet ter off not wearing a belt. But all sides agreed the shoulder beh — al ready required on front seats — pro vide the best protection by far. NH TSA spokesman Ron De Fore said the agency, which is pan of Dole's depanment. expects to decide bv mid-September w net her to un dertake new rulemaking to require rear-seat shoulder belts in new cars. Np TVS manufacturer equips its cars with rear-seat shoulder belts, al though a half a dozen foreign man ufacturers do on at least some m«id- els. In a letter to Dole, Sen. John Dan- tonh, R-Mo., chairman of the Sen ate Commerce Committee, said urr gent action is essential for requiring that automakers make rear-seat shoulder belts standard equipment "In addition the department should use its authority ... to prt>- vide consumers with information as to how they can retrofit their cars with lap-shouldet safetv hefts in the hack seat.” wrote Danforth. Since 1972. all cars have been re quired to have reinforced anchor lo cations for rear-seat shoulder belts so owners mav install such belts for added protection. But automakers have never been required to furnish the belts or keep them in stock and tew dealers know anything about them, industry officials said. Barry Sweedler. a staff member of the NTSB. said that since the board's lap-belt report was issued, the agency has received numerous tele phone calls from car owners who nave had similar stories. S weed lei suggested people try auto parts stores such as J.C. W hit ney in Chicago, which he savs offers retrac table shoulder belts in its 1986 catalogue for $22 apiece. Doctor soys seat belt study sends public 'mixed signals' DALLAS (AP) — The presi dent of an emergency physicians* group said Tuesday tnat a gov ernment agency's study indicat ing lap safety belts sometimes contribute to injuries was ilhad- vised and sends the public mixed signals Dr. Rk hard Stennes, president of the Amenc an ( ollegr of Emer gency Physicians, saicf the Na tional Transportation Safety Boaid acted hastily in teleasing a repoit this month that indicated lap safetv belts worn bv hack-seat passengers contribute to injuries in automobile accidents. “Our concern now is that the N TSR has come out with a sug gestion that lap belts in the hack seats ol the cars may make thmgsc worse rather than better,’* Stennes said Stennes said the hoard drew conclusions from sparse research and gave the public mixed signals on whether to wear the Up safetv belts NTSB officials contend the re port resulted from more than a years worth of study and in cluded extensive study of avail able literature on crash victims who wore lap safety belts. The report does not recom mend that people stop wearing the rear-seat Up safetv belts. The study only looked at f rontal colli sions and did not guage the safety value of Up belts in othet types ol ) crashes. Barry Sweedler. director of the hoard’s bureau of safety program in Washington, D.C., said, “We said there was a better way and that would be to go with the three-point belt.” However, Stennes said the board's study will most likely he used bv passengers as an excuse not to wear the belts. “I have many specific inci dences in mv own practice in San Diego where we've seen people who have been wearing (Up) seat belts and have had their lives saved," said Stennes. who was in Dallas on Tuesday. The board’s report recom mended that automobile man ufacturers install three-point safetv belts in the rear seats of cars and also urged emergency physicians to become more in formed on the possible injuries that can result from wearing Up belts For years Klnko's Professor Publishing service has given faculty members an efficient means for providing customized, relevant course packets of supplemental readings. Now we are offering an added Incentive to use Professor Publishing. If you bring your materials In early, we can give your students a 101 discount on their packets. f leraemfcer? •ring in yonr originals ■ before September I, * and kmko s will give vour students P | 10% off the regular price of j^the pocket. klnko's 201 College Main 846-8721 Workers get retraining from grant DALLAS (AP) — As many as 570 displaced workers in the Housion-Galveston area will get retraining in new job skills through an $800,000 grant an nounced Tuesday by the U S. De partment of Labor The grant will be used to assist workers who are displaced through Uvoffs and adverse eco nomic conditions. Secretary of Labor William E. Brock said. The grant is part of a total $2 1 million allocated to workers m Kansas and New York as well as Texas. The Houston-Galveston Area Council will get the $800,000 to aid the workers dislocated from jobs in the otl. manufacturing, construction and non-etectncaJ machinery industries The areas affected are Austin. Brazoria, Chambers. Colorado. Fort Bend. Galveston. Harris. Liberty. Matagorda. Montgom ery. Walker. Waller and Wharton Participants wiM get skills train ing from community colleges and on-the-job training from (oral employers Med center dates to 1886 Hospital’s future unclear SAN ANTONIO (AP) — From leddv Roosevelt's Rough Riders to the U.S. Marines injured in the 1985 bombing of their Beirut barracks, the nation's military casualties have flocked to Brooke Arms Medical Center for medical attention for de cades But after 100 years of treating American military casualties and serving as a premier burn treatment center, the future of the aging fa cility is clouded. For almost 20 years, the govern ment has been trying to decide what to do with the outdated 697-bed fa cility. spread out in several buildings on Fort Sam Houston. The latest proposal, hammered out last montn between U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm. R-Texas, and Dr. Wil liam Maver. assistant secretary of de fense for health affairs, calls for con struction of a new $129 million 200- bed hospital, which would be ex pandable to 450 beds Despite the compromise, the fate of the medical center still is uncer tain and Congress, which has hutted heads with the Department of De fense in the past, must go along with the latest plan Brooke Armv Medical Center has a long and colorful history dating back to 1886. when the first perma nent hospital was opened at Fort Sam Houston The current main hospital, which houses the 40-bed burn unit and general care wards, opened in 1958. Because of the influx of war cas ualties in World War II. BAMC nearly doubled in size when the mili tary converted three barracks build ings into an adjunct hospital build ing about three quarters of a mile trom the mam facilitv. Traffic between the buildings is so heavy that the post's ambulances rac ked up about 125.000 miles last year. BAMC’s original mission, when the main hospital was built in the 1950s. was as a smaller Armv hospi tal. But during World War 11. the hospital grew into a major military medical facility that has survived three wars. The center, one of eight major hospitals in the Army, is second in size only to the Walter Reed Armv Medical Center m Washington In 1973. the (General Accounting Office recommended closing BAMC and building a replac ement hospital But there was no movement in Washington concerning the hospital until 1976. when the Joint Commis sion on Hospital Accreditation in spected BAMC and was horrified at conditions Congtess responded by spending $10 miltioii on renovations and re pairs. B\ 1984, Mayer convinced San Antonios congressional delegation to give up on a 695-bed replacement hospital. The assistant defense secre tary at that time committed to a hos pital with a maximum of 450 beds. 2484 „ Cebu AHarn In Pier 1 imports Back-to- 25%-50% Off Selected Items X Since then, architectural and eny neenng plans have been in works lor a $558 million, 450-bed hospital. A Department of Defense blue- ribbon panel, a private consulting firm ana a GAO study all concluded a full-scale hospital was not war ranted at Fort Sam Houston. In Jun had chan une, Mayer announced he ged his mind and would support only a 150-bed replacement building. The remainder of BAMC’s missions. Maver said, would be con solidated with Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center at San Anto nio's Lackland Air Force Base. Then on July 21, Gramm and Maver put their heads together and came up with the 200-bed compro mise. 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