University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1983 Page: 4 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS August 31, 1963*4
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Registrar
named
dean
Elmer Rode, dean of admissions and
registrar, has been named acting dean of
academic services, Lamar president Dr.
C. Robert Kemble has announced.
Dr. Richard Hargrove, former dean of
academic services, has requested
reassignment to classroom teaching,
Kemble said.
Hargrove is teaching three upper level
courses and one graduate course in the
College of Education.
The academic services division,
organized in 1979, includes the depart-
ments of admissions and records,
recruitment and retention, public ser-
vice and financial aid. Hargrove was its
dean from its inception.
“I have accepted Dr. Hargrove’s re-
quest to return to the classroom with ap-
preciation of his many and varied ad-
ministrative services to the university,”
Kemble said. ‘‘He is an extremely effec-
tive teacher as well, and the College of
Education will certainly benefit by his
addition.”
Excessive playing of video games
imay lead to high blood pressure1
“Space Invaders Wrist,” “Pac-Man
Fever” and ‘“Donkey Kong Daze” are a
few of the maladies doctors, tongue-in-
cheek, associate with the excessive use
of video games by overly enthusiastic
players.
Robert Eliot, M.D., a cardiologist in
Omaha, Neb., said for some people there
is an ailment more serious. He says
video game playing may contribute to
high blood pressure.
“The stress and intensity of the game
might trigger an outpouring of adrenalin
and other substances in your system,
which highly agitate the player,” he
said.
He said this boost of adrenalin helps to
explain why video games are addic-
tive—they can give the participant a
feeling of invigoration, a natural “high.”
“I have some cases where 14 year-old
kids with high blood pressure have been
put on anti-blood pressure pills for the
rest of their lives. It turns out many of
them are video-game junkies,” he said.
Eliot, who works at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center, said
teenagers and adults with a family
history of high blood pressure may find
video games provoke the problem in
themselves.
“You get all the excitement of a com-
petition without physical participation.
But if you don’t take it out on the playing
field, you might take it out on yourself,
on the inside,” Eliot said. These high
anxiety feelings cause the upward swing
of blood pressure.
Eliot said that, while video games do
not directly cause heart attacks, they
can be used to help determine who might
be susceptible to heart problems.
“These young kids who take it so
seriously might be walking time bombs
later on in life. We are doing research to
see how best to utlize information gained
from video game use to pick out these
‘hot reactors’ or those who are paying a
dollar for 10 cents worth of effort.”
Eliot, who is the author of a forthcom-
ing book, “Stress and the Hot Reactor: Is
It Worth Dying For?” (Bantam Books),
said video games provoke healthy com-
petition if used properly.
Other medical advisers say the only
real direct dangers so far apparent from
video games are eye strain and calluses
on palms and fingers from extended
periods of playing.
“We also have our share of sprained
ankles and twisted knees from kicking
the machines found in video halls,”
Suzanne Jader, a Denver nurse who
works part-time in an emergency room,
said. “But you really can’t say that was
directly caused by the games
themselves.”
Alicia sets records
DALLAS (UPI)—Hurricane Alicia set
loss records for four insurance companies
and the largest insurer in the storm-
battered Gulf Coast area—State Farm
Mutual—still is unable to estimate the
total loss it suffered.
Overall, the American Insurance
Association expects claims from Alicia to
total $675.5 million, not including coverage
under federal flood insurance, crop
damage, and utilities and oil companies
that are self-insured.
Buck Williams of Allstate, a subsidiary
of Sears-Roebuck Co., said he expects
claims against his company to be about $40
million, “Give or take a few million.”
He said, “In terms of dollar cost of this
storm to Allstate, this is the largest loss we
have ever experienced.”
Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. said its
losses would amount to about $35 million
after reinsurance recoveries—more than
twice as large as the previous record, $17
million from Hurricane Frederic.
“This will be the largest single storm
loss since the company was organized in
1952,” a statement said.
Members Insurance Co.—serving credit
union members in Texas—estimated
losses in excess of $10 million.
State Farm was still adding up its loss.
Bob Sasser at the firm’s Bloomington, 111.,
headquarters said Thursday losses on
homeowners policies were substantial but
the company has not been able to estimate
the total. Sasser said, however, that State
Farm expects to handle more than 3,000
claims on automobile coverage, and losses
in that sector alone might be as much as $4
million.
R.T. Powers, handling storm claims for
Crum & Forster, said, “We expected more
losses than we have received and we ex-
pected the average to be larger than we
have received up to now.” He said the
storm would cost Crum & Forster between
$10 million and $12 million.
Prudential Property & Casualty expects
its losses to be under $3 million.
Spokesman Fred Fischer said Prudential
had relatively little business on the Gulf
Coast and most of the claims it handled
were in Houston.
Hallmark ‘partners’with retailers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)-The
Hallmark Cards sign hangs above some
20,000 shop doors worldwide, but—with a
few notable exceptions—the nation’s
largest retailer of greeting cards rarely
has a penny invested in any of its outlets.
“The vast majority are independently
owned,” said Fred Bokun, a manager of
public relations for Hallmark Cards Inc.
“All we ask is that they have a represen-
tative offering of the Hallmark line and put
Hallmark on the door.”
But that doesn’t mean the Kansas City-
based corporation’s interest in the shops
ends with the unloading of the delivery
trucks.
“Anything you ask them to do, they will
do," said Cliff Lewis, who with his wife,
Drue, owns three Hallmark shops in
Amarillo, Texas. “But they don’t force a
lot of help on you.”
“We are,” explained Hallmark vice
president Denny Griffith, “close
partners.”
Hallmark personally owns only about 3
percent of the shops that carry their cards.
But the corporation provides nearly 85 per-
cent of the individually owned stores’ total
merchandise and even helps the owners
design their shops. If called upon, they also
will aid in management training and pro-
vide help with the bookkeeping.
Sally Wolf-Bower, who will open her
eighth store in September, says Hallmark
did not even insist on the name being
above the door when she firkt bought a
card shop 12 years ago. But she later put it
up on her own.
“That would be rather foolish (to leave
the name off the door) because Hallmark
has such a good name,” said Mrs. Wolf-
Bower, who is in partnership with her hus-
band, Hugh, a former Hallmark vice presi-
dent. They own three stores in Houston,
one in Fort Worth, and four in Dallas.
“I felt I should be capitalizing on the
name” after opening her third store, she
said.
There are about 20,000 Hallmark outlets,
and 8,000 of those are shops in the United
States. The company also has shops in 110
foreign, mostly English-speaking coun-
tries, which again are owned by licensees,
said Griffith, a vice president for cor-
porate stores.
Hallmark owns the New York gallery on
5th Avenue, and the shops in Disney World
and Disneyland, and the Crown Center
shop in Kansas City, among others. Some
of these shops are retained because they
are showplace or test market shops for
their products, such as in Atlanta and St.
Louis.
“I guess you can call them flagship
stores,” Bokun said.
Occasionally Hallmark buys stores from
independent owners who want to sell out
for retirement or for other reasons. But the
corporation resells them as soon as possi-
ble.
He said instruction includes everything
from cash register procedures to accoun-
ting.
“We probably have one of the most
thorough training programs.”
Griffith said the owners can also acquire
the Management Services Contract, which
provides assistance in all phases of store
ownership, even to providing group in-
surance.
“And they can drop the contract (at any
time) and go on their own,” he added.
Hallmark recently purchased more than
40 stores from Fox Foto, which Hallmark
intends to sell within the next few years.
Griffith says local, independent owners
make ideal dealers.
“We bring them in to Kansas City and
they actually go to school,” Griffith said.
Hallmark uses a computer to keep track
of the volume and types of cards sold, then
tells a store owner the demographics of his
customers. For instance, cards for grand-
children sell well in older neighborhoods,
and, as might be expected, cards for
grandparents have large numbers of
buyers in younger, family-type
neighborhoods.
“We can Judge what will be best for that
store in a very short time,” Bokun said of
the computer. “It makes it easy on us and
the store owner.”
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Bonnin, Richard. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1983, newspaper, August 31, 1983; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500502/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.