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PAGE 6—LEVELLAND DAILY SUN NEWS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1973
Editorials
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YOU TELL EM. SCOOP! TELL EM HOW WE DON'T NEED THEIR LOUSY OIL!'
Detroit's lethal
gas tanks
Doctors galore
by Paul Harvey
There are more
doctors in the United
States this year than
last; allowing for
dropouts—11,747 more.
And almost half are
graduates of medical
schools outside the
United States.
Might that supply
catch up with our
demands?
In the United States
there are 314,527
licensed physicians.
That snot as many as it
sounds. Most of these
physicians are
specialists whose
practices are limited to
specific ills.
Ifyouwant a G.P. —an
old-style family doctor
who’ll treat flat feet, flu
or fits —you’ll still wait
in a long line.
Last year 14,476
licensed physicians
were added to the United
States medical
Drofession—the most in
any one year ever. And
almost half of them are
graduates of foreign
medical schools.
Out out of six doctors
now practicing in the
United States got his
training outside the
United States. Are they
as capable?
In 47 states and the
District of Columbia
they have to pass the
same licensing exams
and Delaware, Florida
and Texas are coming
around.
But ethical
considerations
necessarily differe with
the varied backgrounds.
Some come from nations
which are more
“strict,” some less.
Of those of our
hospitals generally
considered the best, one-
third of all staff doctors
are foreign-trained. Not
all speak another
language. This group
includes many
Americans who failed to
#get into U.S. medical
'schools and sought and
got their education
abroad.
We are graduating
from U.S. medical
schools fewer than 9,000
doctors a year. There is
a shortage of 50,000
doctors. This has
motivated 15 medical
schools to accelerate
their curricula so that a
student can earn his
M.D. deggree in three
years instead of four.
Next will be an
abbreviation of medical
internship and residency
requirements.
U.S. population is
increasing 1 per cent per
year; physician
population is increasing
3per cent per year. In a
dozen years we will have
doctors galore — but
more foreign than
domestic.
It is the sick people of
other nations who are
deprived by our influx.
— There are now more
doctors from Thailand
practicing in New York
than in Thailand.
— Iran produces 600
doctors a year; 100 come
here.
— Korea has only
13,000 doctors to serve
its entire population, yet
there are 2,000 Korean
medical graduates in the
United States and more
on the way.
Most of these foreign
countries educated these
doctors at government
expense, only to have
them leave for the
fancier facilities and
more lucrative
practices in the United
States.
The advantage is all
ours —for now —until
such time as it may
diminish the motivation
of Americans to seek a
medical education. That
day, we will all lose.
The Lieutenant
i
Governor's report
By Jack Anderson
and Les Whitten
WASHINGTON -
Between 2,000 and 3,500
Americans are burned to
death in auto accidents
every year. All too many
are the victims of poor
engineering and
government
indifference.
We have studied
dozens of pictures of
scorched cars and
blackened corpses. We
have also watched vivid
color films of auto tests,
paid for by the U.S.
government but left to
gather dust in UCLA’s
engineering library.
These show what rear-
end collisions can do to
standard Detroit cars
with gas tanks located
near the rear, whether
they are the late models
of Ford, Chrysler,
General Motors or
American Motors.
In the films,
automobiles traveling
from 10 to 55 miles an
hour are shown
slamming into the rear
oftestcars. The results
are horrifying.
RUPTURED TANKS
At 30 to 40 miles per
hour, the filler tubes
were ripped from the
tank, which began to
rupture. Leaking gas
spewed into the car and
onto the road. When the
fuel was purposely
ignited, as often happens
from sparks during an
accident, the life-like
dummie s were
consumed by fire.
The films also
demonstrated that
highway cremations can
be reduced simply by
relocating the gas tank.
When the test car was
modified to place the
tank over the rear axle,
the crash failed to split
the tank. The only
leakage came from the
filler tubes.
Other documents,
obtained indirectly from
Ford’s internal files for
us by West Los Angeles
product safety expert
Qyron Bloch, show Ford
has been crash-testing
itsgas tanks since 1957.
Yet the company, while
making some
concessions to safety,
still refuses to put the
tank over the rear axle.
On some Fords, the
floor of the truck is the
same piece of thin sheet
metal as the top of the
gas tank —an
arrangement criticized
by American Motors as
early as 1964. But it
wasn’t until court cases
began toaccumulate that
Ford began abandoning
this hazardous design.
CALLOUS GM
Meanwhile, General
Motors, incredibly, is
tanks
thus
moving’ its gas t
even further back,
increasing the danger of
fiery, rear-end
collisions.
Unlike the style-
conscious nabobs of
Detroit, the National
Association for Stock
Car Auto Racing has
tough rules to block the
unnecessary immolation
of drivers. To get on a
NASCAR track, an auto
musthavea "firewall of
steel not less than 20
gauge thickness, ” a gas
tank “as far forward as
possible in the trunk
compartment,” safety
valves and other anti-
fire devices.
Ironically, the reason
the Detroit automakers
give for their interest in
racing is to gain more
safety research. Yet
they refuse to adopt the
NASCAR gas system
standards. This failure
has led to such horror
stories as these:
A mother, father and
four children from
Kentucky were rear-
ended as they were
driving home from a
Who Nose?
"Phooey
on spring!"
BY LYNDELL KENLEY
Hasn’t the weather
been beautiful lately?
This time of the year is
my favorite. All the
songs, poems, and
stories extoll the virtues
of spring, but to me
autumn is by far the best
season of the year.
4- + +
You may be thinking of
buying your anti-freeze
early this year. We
understand from some of
our customers that the
big displays of cheap
anti-freeze won’t appear
this year. Bob Taylor
down at the local
Gibson’s Discount
Center tells me that he
only got half what he
ordered this year and
won’t be able to get any
more when his existing
stock is gone. This
seems to be pretty much
typical. Don’t be caught
short.
,+•.+ +
“A man usually falls
in love with the girl who
asks the kind of
questions he is able to
answer. ”
—Sentinel, Cottage
Grove, Ore.
r+.+ +
“Business is like a
man rowing a boat
upstream. He has no
choice; he must go ahead
or he will go back."
—Lewis E. Pierson
vacation. The car
became a fireball as gas
burst out of the ruptured
gas tank. A witness tried
to pull the screaming
family from the car, but
the flames forced him
back. All six were
cremated alive. Our
photos of the tragedy
show they might have
survived if the gas tank
had been located over the
rear axle.
‘FLAMETHROWER’
The car of an 18-year-old
New York girl and her
parents was hit in the
rear at a toll booth. The
filler tube popped from
the tank, creating a
flamethrower effect that
incinerated the parents.
The burning girl was
pulled alive through the
front window by a toll
booth guard.
Bloch and the
Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety Center
for Auto Safety have all
taken their research on
fuel systems to the
Transportation
Department. They have
+ + +
Fat Boy says he knows
a guy who evaded the
draft on account of his
poor eyesight. The guy
took his wife down to the
draft board to prove his
point.
+ + +
“Why does this meat
taste so strange?” asked
the young husband. “I
can’t imagine,” replied
the bride. “I burned it a
little on one side but I put
sunburn oil on it at
once.
+ 4-4-
First Egyptian: “Who
was that lady I saw you
with last night?”
Second Egyptian:
“Thatwas no lady. That
was my mummy. ’ ’
r+ + +
“When I was a boy, I
was told anybody could
become President; I’m
beginning to believe it. ’ ’
C. Darrow
, + + +
The toughest part of a
diet isn’t watching what
you eat; it’s watching
what your friends eat.
.+.+■+
“We’re lost! what
shall we do?” cried one
deer hunter
hysterically.
“Shoot an extra
deer,” said the other
hunter, “and the game
warden will be here in
five minutes.” ^
received the legislative
support of Rep. John
Moss, D-Calif. But so
far, the Department has
shrugged off the issue
except to promise
“ultimately’ ’ to produce
a standard.
In Detroit, spokesmen
for the Big Three
automakers vigorously
defended the safety of
their cars.
General Motors
claimed no matter where
a tank is located, fires
cannot be completely
avoided. “It has not been
established,” insisted
GM, ‘‘that moving the
tank will significantly
improve the
crashworthiness of the
fuel system.”
CLASH OF FIGURES
At Ford, a spokesman
said car fires are
extremely rare, with the
fatality figures more
like 600-to700 than the
Transportation
Department’s 2,000-to-
3,500 estimate. The
Ford man said there has
never been ‘‘any
demonstrated value to a
firewall.”
Chrysler claimed
there isn’t enough data
available on the tanks for
a final decision. By
shifting the tank
forward, said the
spokesman, the danger
might increase from
frontal crashes, side
accidents and roll-
overs.
FOOTNOTE: Despite
these protestations,
Toyota tests have
demonstrated the safety
of tanks over the rear
axle. In Mercedes-
Benz’s new sedans, the
tanks have also been
moved over the rear
axle. Studebaker Avantis
have had firewalls and
rear-axle tanks since
1962. Furthermore, the
new experimental safety
vehicles being developed
with federal funds have
the tanks over the rear
axle, metal firewalls and
other safety devices.
Spain moves
to curt inflation
Spains tost of living has
risen 43 per cent over the last
three years and 12 per cent
during the last 12 months,
necessitating rigorous mea-
sures to curb inflation.
Prices will remain frozen
for nearly all staple foods,
meals in restaurants, hotel
charges and a wide range of
goods and services until the
year's end when the situation
will be reviewed. — CNS
BY BILL HOBBY massive amounts of
AUSTIN-Since the crude at an acceptable
discovery of what first price. Thus we must rely
seemed to be limitless 00 the supertankers to
supplies of crude oil in supply Texas refineries
Texas, our state has a* a reasonable cost,
been an exporter of this The problem is that no
basic energy source. port in the United States
We now discover that *s capable of handling
far from being limitless, these huge ships, which
Texas oil reserves are require water depths of
becoming critically between 55 and 110 feet,
short. The only practical
In 1970, Texas solution appears to be
exported 325,000 the construction of deep-
barrels of crude oil a day water offshore
to other parts of the terminals, or so-called
United States. By 1980 it superports,
is estimated that Texas Those in state
will be importing 3.5 government have
million barrels a day. ■ recognized the problems
That will increase to 5.5 a™* promise of this
million barrels a day by approach to easing the
1985.
Almost all of this oil
will have to come from
the Persian Gulf and
other far-flung
producing areas.
Conventional tankers
cannot deliver such
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TREATY OF GENEVA
On Nov. 7, 1515, by the
Treaty of Geneva, Switzer-
land and France agreed to
mutual peace.
energy crisis. Last fall,
the Legislature
established the Texas
Offshore Terminal
Commission, and
charged it with
developing an overall
plan for construction of a
deep-water port.
The commission is
well underway with that
plan which will be
presented to the next
session of the
Legislature.
Legislation is
presently pending before
the U.S. Congress which
would simplify the
licensing procedures
necessary for
superports, whether
they are to be built by
state or local
governments or by
private industry.
This legislation is
vital ly needed to remove
the many bureaucratic
roadblocks to
establishing superports.
Federal laws on this
subject should reserve
to the state the right to
decide where a deep-
water terminal is to be
built off its coast. This
provision is needed
because of the vast
environmental and
economic impact a
superport will have on
the residents of these
states.
It is obvious that
offshore terminals are
needed, and their
construction should not
be delayed unduly. This
wil 1 require a great deal
of coordination between
state and federal
agencies and the private
business sectors
involved.
I believe a superport
for Texas is vital to our
economy. It can and must
be built with the utmost
concern for the ecology
of our Gulf and the
environment of our
coastal residents.
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