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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
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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.
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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.
To keep his end of the bargain,
Gramm must cajole an austerity-
minded Congress to amend the
armed services .itirhorization hill to
include $129 million lot tlie new
hospital.
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