THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, August 4, 1966
Page 4
Head Injuries Cause Most
Deaths on the gridiron from
hsad and neck injuries and
from heat stroke are the major
safety problems pinpointed in
the 34th annual Survey of Foot
ball Fatalities.
The report, covering a pe
riod from 1931 through 1965,
was issued hsre today by Dr.
Carl S. Blyth, director of the,
Laboratory of Applied Physio
logy and chairman of the
Committee on Injuries and Fa
talities of tha American Foot
ball Coaches Association.
Most of the deaths blamed
directly on football for the last
five years have been caused
by head and neck injuries. In -1965
alone, 24 tf 25 fatalities
related directly to football re
sulted from these typas of in
juries. The survey committee offer
ed two comments following a
stern declaration that "injuries
to the head and neck must be
reduced."
First, it recommended that
athletes be given proper con
ditioning exercises to strength
en th'jir necks so that heads
would be held "firmly erect
when making contact."
Second, it condemned
"spearing," a battering ram
tactic in which the head is
driven with force directly into
the chest, stomach or kidney
areas of an opponent during
blocking or tackling.
As for heat stroke, the sur
vey team called attention to a
dramatic increase in deaths
from this cause since the first
annual report was issued in
1931.
Heat stroke has claimed the
livs of 15 football players. Six
of th:se deaths occurred last
I Dr. Leo Jenkins
Dr. Leo Jenkins, president
of East Carolina College, will
be the featured guest on
"North Carolina News Con
ference" Monday, on Univer
sity of North Carolina educa
tional television.
A panel of Tar Heel news
men will be invited to ques
tion Dr. Jenkins. The 30-minu-te
program will be broadcast
at 7 p.m. over stations WUNC
TV in Chapel Hill and WUNB
TV in Columbia. It will be
rebroadcast at 11 a.m. Tues
day. Robert Morse is moderator
and producer of the weekly se
ries of news conferences. John
Young, director of television
at the Chapel Hill studio, is
executive producer.
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In recommending precau
tions against heat stroke, the
committee stated, "Remem
ber that temperature and hu
midity, not the sun, are the
important factors and that heat
stroke and heat exhaustion
can occur in the shade."
Blyth provided the informa
tion for the annual survey at
the college, professional and
sandlot levels.
The high school phase of the
survey was conducted by Da
vid C. Arnold of the National
Federation of State High
School Athletic Associations.
The total report is sponsored
by the American Football
Coaches Association, the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic As
sociation and the National Fed
eration of State High School
New Projector Purchased
Bv Moreheatl Planetarium
A quarter of a million dol
lars worth of new instruments
has been purchased by the
Morehead Planetarium. Inclu
ded is a Zeiss Mark VI pro
totype projector, the first of
the production model.
The new instrument is be
ing built at the Zeiss factory
in Oberkochen, West Germa
ny, and will be delivered to
Chapel Hill in the summer of
1968. The projector is to be in
stalled and ready for public
use in six months after arrival.
Extra equipment that the
planetarium has ordered in
cludes a comet projector, a
solar system projector and a
special projector mounted on
the console.
According to Donald A. Hall,
assistant manager of the Plan
etarium, "The new instrument
will do everything better than
the present one."
The present instrument was
built in 1930. Before it was
moved to Chapel Hill, it was
used in three other places in
Stockholm.
"We can't really say the old
instrument was wearing out,"
Hall said, "Because the com
pany will simply take it back,
rework it and resell it. All
of the big United States plane
tariums, though, had newer in
struments than us and all
had replaced theirs."
There will be many benefic
ial features with the new in
strument, Hall pointed out.
Because of variable speed mo
tors on the new instrument,
study by the astronauts will
be benefited. 'This variable
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Athletic Associations.
The study team made spe
cial note that the number of
direct fatal injuries in football
is "very low." The average
number of fatalities last year
was less than two per 100,000
players.
Deaths directly related to
football are defined as those
in which a severe blow to the
head, body, kidneys or spleen
caused death. Indirect deaths
are considered those caused by
heart failure, h?at stroke or
infections.
The 25 d i r e c t deaths last
year represented a decrease of
almost 14 per cent from the
year before.
Twenty of last year's 25 di
rect deaths occurred in high
school, four during sandlot
play and only one at the col-
speed will be a big help to
us when we are simulating or
bital runs for them," Hall
said. "For example, now when
we want to simulate a day
we can do it in either 10 min
uts and 30 seconds or in three
minutes. With the new instru
ment, we will be able to do
anything between 36 minutes
and say a minute."
Another feature of the new
projector is a zoom ratio on
Jupiter and Saturn. When dis
cussing Saturn, for example,
demonstrators will be able to
project the planet and then
enlarge it nine times to show
such surface features as the
ring structure.
For the first time the Plane
tarium will be able to show
seven diferent kinds of lunar
eclipses arid 10 different kinds
of solar eclipses.
Presently, eclipses are done
by special effects projectors
and the planetarium instru
ment is shut off. In addition,
the new planetarium will show
the change of brightness in
planets that occur in nature.
The extra equipment being
purchased will also provide
some new features. With the
console projector, the narra
tor will be able to do a var
iety of things. For instance, if
he is talking about a constell
ation, he will be able to put
up on the dome an outline of
it. There will be a series of
300 slides with the projector
which can be used to demon
strate all kinds of astronomi
cal principles.
Football
legiate level
The most susceptible play
ers, from an age standpoint,
Saigon Tea Is Fini
8
By MIKE McGEE
Sixth In A Series
This is the story of one of the most significant but un
heralded campaigns of the war in Vietnam, in which the
American soldier triumphed over almost overwhelming odds to
carry the day. It demonstrates the unique manuverability of
U. S. troops and their ability to adjust to adverse circum
stances. The place is Saigon, South Vietnam, along Tu Do Street and
through the heart of the city. The time is March of 1S66. The
code name of the operation is STIF. All U. S. troops in the
capital participate.
"Saigon Tea is Fini!" is the rallying cry passed from
man to man in every street in town.
To start from the beginning. Saigon Tea is the drink the
American Soldier buys the Vietnamese bar girl for the privilege
of talking to her. he price of this shot-glass of plain tea had
been 80 dong (75 cents) from the beginning of time until
October of 1965. In that month the bar owners raised the
price of Saigon Tea to 160 dong.
"There was hardly a stir of protest among the customers;
they were so used to being soaked of their funds that it was
reflex action to pay the new price.
The owners and girls thoroughly enjoyed almost double
their old earnings throughout that swelteringly hot winter.
Then one day late in February the magic word, STIF,
appeared in the back pages of the Saigon Daily News, the
local English newspaper. I am tempted to attribute its origin
to Henry Fink, their sportswriter.
For about one week that short comment and call to action
was seen every day or two. Nothing happened immediately,
for the word spread slowly and in whispers. (Since few people
read the newspaper anyway.)
-Suddenly soldiers coming downtown could see scrawled
on the sides of buildings, on sidewalks, and on little pieces
of paper: STIF.
Being wary of political developments, everyone was asking,
''What is it?" "Is it dangerous?" "Can you read Vietnamese?"
The soldier would go into his favorite bar, and naturally
ask abdtit it. There was always someone who knew the cam
paign was gaining momentum.
The GI was a little flabbergasted that someone should
suggest he should go into a bar and not buy a girl a drink.
But he was not long in catching on. Solidarity was the word,
he man who surreptitiously bought a drink was a coward and
a traitor.
I should say here that the whole movement was spon
taneous. We all cooperated individually. A few didn't go along,
like infantry men in on three-day passes.
Some unknown organizer added the final dimention to the
struggle the Sit In! Go to the bar, buy a beer for yourself
(for 30 dong), and sit there all evening. The girls would go
around, smile real big and say, "You buy me drink?"
The bar owners were getting shook up after a week of
this. Some tried to close their bar early and reopen it later.
Others sent the girls out with buckets of water to splash the
silent customers. One owner in desperation built a fire on the
floor in the back of his bar to try to smoke them out.
To no avail. The indomitable courage of the American
fighting man won out. The owners petitioned the government
to negotiate with the U. S. authorities. The price of Saigon
Tea was set back to the old 80 dong. In return the Military
Police would place off limits any bar that charged more.
Soon the capital returned to normal. But not for long
the next week the Buddhist uprising broke out, with their
riots and sit-down demonstrations.
We have often wondered, since that time, if the Buddhists
weren't somehow inspired to action by watching the un
paralleled success of the American way of mass resistance.
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PRESENTS
Thursday 4 August
Summer Cinema
CARRY ON NURSE
Wednesday 1 0 August
Sinfonians Jazz Quartet
Rendezvous Room
8:00-10:00 P.M.
Combo party scheduled for Fri., 12 August, has
been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
Deaths
were between 16 and 18. Fifty
four per cant of the d3aths
were in this age bracket.