The Palmer Rustler (Palmer, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1973 Page: 3 of 4
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-Thursday, June 21, 1973
F A weekly public service feature from-
! the Texas State Department of Health
WTO
— J.E. PEAVY, M.D., Commissioner of Health
A disaster is unpredictable.
Tornadoes may strike with little
|pr no warning and the path of a
• hurricane often changes
erratically with little advance
warning.
Texas and the nation this year
have felt the brunt of Mother
Nature’s violence, and tor-
"nadoes have roamed the skies.
With summer, the hurricane
season lies ahead, reminds the
State Health Department.
Both natural disasters are
capable of causing unforeseen
numbers of victims requiring
immediate medical attention,
plus the threats of disease
brought on by unsanitary
conditions, disabling of public
utilities, contamination of water
* supplies and disruption of
medical service. Floods also
thay produce rapid buildups in
mosquito populations,
a
Plan Try to
Aid Groups
Atop Peak
ALBUQUERQUE,
New
nuisance as well as a health
threat.
When a disaster strikes, the
Health Department joins with
other state and local agencies
and organizations to fight back
with efforts to restore affected
areas to normalcy. State
disaster headquarters is in a
sub-basement at the Depart-
ment of Public Safety in Austin,
where a core of public officials
coordinate disaster activities.
In the State Health Depart-
ment, the Disaster Health
Services Program of the
Division of Civil Defense and
Traffic Safety provides ad-
ditional resources at the point
of need. This is a part of the
Texas plan for disaster health
and medical care.
Seventeen disaster relief
districts, each with a physician
directing disaster medical care,
are tied into a district Civil
Defense Council which coor-
dinates activities of state
agencies with disaster func-
tions. In case of disaster or
severe threat-such as an im-
pending hurricane along the
A DEVOTED PIPE SMOKER is Jay Bowser, one con-
cludes, if he can keep it lit while sailing The Sizzler at
Marco Island, Fla.
trucks, personnel and
helicopters. Representatives of
the State Health Department
were on the scene within an
hour of notificiation, coor-
dinating disaster health relief.
Once a hurricane or tornado
has struck, there’s little one can
do.
Inahurricane situation, there
normally is enough warning to
allow residents to leave the area
of take shelter in solidly-
constructed buildings.
If the possibility of tornadoes
exist, individuals should listen
to radios and television stations
for latest advisories. Some
cities and towns have sirens and
other devices warning residents -
to take cover. It’s possible to
• move out of the path of a tor-
. nado if sighted in time.
i The State Health Department
, and its local and regional units
have responded quickly and
effectively in past disasters.
With the resources and per-
sonnel at its command, it stands
ready always to meet the future -
emergency needs of the
• citizens of Texas.
A SOLDIER moves through ruins of an evacuated village in the Phnom Penh area
of Cambodia as a shorts-clad youngster eyes him.
Mexico — Rescuers planned an
attempt by helicopter today to
aid 36 persons stranded in two
cable cars on the Sandia Peak
Tramway near Albuquerque in
New Mexico.
An attempt shortly after
midnight using a crane to
rescue the stranded passengers
failed. The cars were stranded
early last night when a gust of
wind lifted them off their drive
cables as a power failure oc-
•curred in the system. Failure
soccurred as thundershowers
where moving through the
rAlbuquerque area.
State police said the cars
were stranded about 1800 feet
from their base stations, one
near the foot of the Tramway
and the other near the top of the
10 thousand 300 foot peak.
The President of Sandia Peak
Tram Company says the 38
persons stranded over night in
two cable cars are comfortable
and not complaining.
The official—Robert Nor-
dhaus-says blankets and
provisions were hauled by ropes
up to the cable cars for the
stranded passengers. Nordhaus
says a baby aboard one car has
milk and facilities to warm the
milk.
Standards
Discussed
Meat Market
WASHINGTON — The seante
agriculture committee opens a
hearing today on legislation to
allow seven states to maintain
meat-marketing standards
exceeding federal
requirements.
Democratic senator Abraham
Ribicoff of Connecticut says the
amendment to the federal meat
inspection act is needed
because of a federal court
decision that the federal act
supersedes states laws.
Ribicoff says “tougher state
laws which protect the con-
sumer should not fall by the
wayside just because the
federal government has passed
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
It’s easy to make up rec-
■ ipes for inflation-plagued peo-
ple while you’re meditating
over a nice plate of on-the-
house roast beef.
They’re going to re-
; name the owl the “Water-
gate,” because he keeps
repeating “whooooo” and
doesn’t want an answer.
There’s nothing like a near-
strike by lightning to renew
your faith in going to church.
* * *
Hans Christian Ander-
sen would never have
made his mark against
the fairy-tale spinners in
government circles.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
coast, the Civil Defense Council whose primary function is
is mobilized. Within each checking water supplies. In-
district are zones from which vestigators from the Food and
supplies and personnel Drugs Division check damaged
requests emanate. food and drug products, and
The State Health Department Communicable Disease Ser-
sends representatives of the vices Section personnel may be
Disaster Health Services called in to provide vaccines
Program to each disaster area and serums if needed. Other
to help coordinate activities of state personnel may be
other health department per- assigned, and local health
sonnel. In the case of departments put physicians,
hurricanes, program personnel nurses, sanitarians and others
are pre-positioned in cities on duty immediately. ।
along the Texas coast to await Within minutes after a tor- i
and plan for the storm. nado dipped down into the heart i
Always quick to arrive on the of Lubbock the night of May 11,
scene are engineers of the 1970, nurses and others picked
Sanitary Engineering Division their way through the rubble to
----------------------— check and salvage vaccines and
Check Report
About Rigging
Recruit Data
get them to pre-planned
emergency headquarters. A 1
disaster health representative i
of the State Health Department
was on the scene of the tragedy
WASHINGTON - me Ate with two hours even thoughthe
. SHINGTON The Army city telephones and electricity '
criminal investigations division,ant ,
is looking into reports that were knocked out and tran- ’
recruiters have been doctoring sportation disrupted. ,
personnel records to meet The Corpus Christi-Nueces I
similar but weaker legislation.” enlistment quotas now that the County Heatlh Department had I
Ribicoff says the court draft has ended. its personnel on duty when Celia
decision would take the teeth Pentagon officials say the slammed into that city August :
out of Connecticut regulations nationwide investigation has led 3 of the same year The State 1
that require beef inspection to the reassignment of 107 Army Taaith Denaetment was also I
both before and after slaughter, recruiters over the past seven Health Department was also
The court decision directly months. there. The personal
affected Michigan’s regulations So far, the probe has ranged automobiles of two represen-
limiting to skeletalmeat the into 37 states, with large reports tatives of the Disaster Health
content of hot dogs, sausages of improper practices coming Services Program, who were in |
and luncheon meat. from Syracuse, New York; San Corpus Christi awaiting the ,
Federal regulations permit Antonio, Texas, and Kansas storm were severely damaged
these products to contain such City, Missouri.In addition, district engineers
things as animal snouts, lips, The Army has fallen short by , ; 7-
spleens, udders and other about ten-thousand men in its and personnel from state ,
organs. enlistment goals over the past headquarters were, on the
four months and there has been scene.
The vice president of the considerable disagreement in Equipment from a Packaged
American Meat Institute, A.P. the Pentagon about whether Disaster Hospital was set up in :
Davies, opposes the legislation, educational standards for a church at Aransas Pass to 1
In prepared testimony, enlistees are too high. provide needed medical
Davies says consumers would Army officials say recruiters equipment after Celia.
have t pay 8 r prices ieen caught Just recently the Health |
individual states could establish manufacturing phony high Department took over the
separate requirements for school diplomas, providing D , OOK over me |
sausage products. “crib” sheets to prospective medical inventory of a hundred |
He says “the real issue is enlistees before they take 200-bed Packaged Disaster
whether or not we will continue qualification tests, ignoring Hospitals, similar to the one |
to have a reasonable national requirments to look for police from which equipment was used j
standard for food products that records on potential enlistees, during Celia.
will enable such products to be seeking to recruit physically A major disaster isn’t the !
distributed in all of the 50 unfit men and falsifying responsibility of one agency but
states."residency requirements. demands the coordinated ef- ’
Ribicoff says that besides Army officials say the single forts of many to snap back after
, Connecticut and Michigan, requirement for a recruiter to tragedy During trino •
stricter-than -federal meat stay on his assignment is the tragedy. During spring tor-
standards have been adopted in ability to meet enlistment nadoes which hit Burnet and
Maryland, Massachusetts, quotas. Those who do not are Hubbard March 10, for in-
Nevada, New York and pulled back into regular Army stance, the Texas National
California. units. Guard responded quickly with
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Quick Heat
Manifold.
Exhaust Gas
Recirculation
Improved Carburetion and Choke
Altitude and Temperature
Compensation
Hydrocarbons and Carbon
Monoxide Calayst Catalyst
Air
Control
Valve
Modified Spark
Timing
— PCV Valve
Warm-up Control
Air
Injection
Pump
High Energy
Ignition
Nitrogen Oxide Catalyst
(Each Side)
Carbon Canister
Domed Tank
Vapor Separator
“Expensive, inefficient, unreliable and unnecessary,” claim the critics of the way Detroit proposes to meet
the final and most drastic automobile emission control standards due to be required on 1975 and 1976
Y models, which will bring pollutant levels 90 per cent below those of 1970. Heart of the controversy are
catalysts which convert exhausts into harmless gases using precious metals such as platinum and pal-
ladium. Added cost of the catalysts to a new-car buyer is placed at $275 upwards, exclusive of manufac-
turer’s and dealer’s markups, maintenance costs and cost of additional fuel consumed. Because other
pollution-control systems or methods may be simpler and superior to the catalysts, the automakers are
asking the government to postpone the 1975 standards by at least a year. (1975 system differs from
1976 in not requiring the nitrogen oxide catalyst shown directly behind engine in above drawing.)
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