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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, August 25, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Collision: It's the Human that Hurts What Happens in a Collision In recent years, collisions have been studied in an effort to improve the chances for survival. Extreme slow-motion film and instruments for measuring forces have been used in these studies. As a result, we now have a good understanding of what happens to the car and to the people inside during a collision. It has become clear that there are really two kinds of collisions within a single accident. The first is the car's collision in which the car hits something, buckles and bends, and then comes to a stop. The second and more important collision is the "human collision" which happens when a person's body or head hits some part of the car. It is the human collision that causes injury. The Car's Collision A crash into a solid barrier at 30 miles per hour is a severe accident. It involves the same force as hitting a parked car at 50 miles per hour since the parked car will move a little while the solid barrier will not. Because the solid barrier does not move, the car is forced to stop. The front bumper is the first part of the car to come in contact with the barrier and' it stops immediately. Within one-tenth of a second, the front of the car crushes about two feet and the car comes to a complete stop. The crushing of the front end serves as a cushion for the rest of the car, and helps absorb the shock of the collision. As a result, the passenger compartment comes to a more gradual stop than the front of the car, and it remains undamaged by the collision. Even in severe collisions, the passenger compartment usually remains in good shape. If a collision occurs at an extremely high speed or if the car is hit broadside, the passenger compartment can be partially crushed. Fortunately, how- ever, this happens in only a small minority of all collisions. In the great majority of accidents, the front or rear end of the car sustains most of the damage. The passenger compartment usually is not dam- ag at all by the vehicle's collision. Instead it is damaged by the human collision - by a person striking it with his head or body. The Human Collision In our example of a 30-mile per hour barrier crash, the car is crushed a couple of feet and comes to a stop about one-tenth of a second after hitting the barrier. Slow- motion film would show that the people keep moving inside the passenger compartment at 30 miles per - hour. They continue moving inside the car during the one-tenth of a second that the car takes to stop. The people are still moving forward at their original speed when they slam into the steering wheel, windshield or some other part of the car. This is the human co lision. It's the Human Collision That Hurts Some people believe that they can rotect themselves in a crash by olding onto the steering wheel, or bracing themselves with their arms or legs. Collisions usually happen fast to permit this. Even if there is time to brace yourself, the forces involved in a collision are too great to withstand - even at moderate speeds. In a 30-mile per hour barrier crash, an occupant strikes the interior of the car with a force of several thousand pounds, causing serious injury to himself and damage to the interior of the car. It is not easy to appreciate just how severe the human collision can be even in low-speed crashes. To help understand what happens, imagine someone walking briskly head-first into a steel post. This would be about a 15-mile per hour collision. His injuries would be severe - he might survive. Now imagine his head striking the post at 30 mile per hour. The force would be four times greater than at 15 miles per hour and the person would not survive. Most parts of the car interior provide little padding and severe injuries to the head and chest can result from minor accidents. For example, a person flying around inside a car can strike the windshield, the windshield frame or a door post. All of these are hard and unyielding. When a person hits something hard he must come to a stop over a very short distance because the surface will give wa very little. His body must absor most of the force of the impact. When an occupant hits a hard edge, a knob or a lever, all of the force of the impact is absorbed by only a small part of his body's surface. Severe injury from hard or sharp objects can result even in a relatively minor crash. For ex- ample, gearshift levers have been known to enetrate the skull and cause deat. If a person hits the steering wheel or a padded portion of the interior, some of the force is absorbed by the car. Except in extremely low-speed collisions, this will not be enough to protect the occupant from injuries. Padded dashboards and collapsible steering columns provide only a few inches of cushioning. If an occu- pant's head hits a well-padded dashboard at more than 30 miles per hour, serious injury will result. Chest injuries from the steering column are common in car acci- dents. Also, facial disfigurement often results from being thrown into the windshield. In fact, head and chest injuries are the most frequent cause of death in collisions. In Ontario, about half of fatal accident victims die of head injuries. Person-To-Person In a collision, passengers tend to move towards the point of impact - not away from it as might be expected. The tendency of everyone in the car to move in the same direction during a collision some- times gives the term "human collision" special meaning. In a frontal collision, drivers and front seat passengers can receive serious neck and spinal injuries from rear seat passengers who fly into the front seat a fraction of a second after impact. People can bump heads with fatal force and, in a side collision, a person can be hurled against the passenger next to him and force him out the window or door. Considering that people nor- mally weigh between 100 pounds and 200 pounds, it is not surprising that highs-speed, person-to-person con- tact during collisions is a common source of injury. People often carry young children on their laps while riding in a car. This can lead to another form of human collision. Accident cases have shown that mothers can crush their children against the dashboard during a crash. Even in relatively minor accidents or panic stops, a child can be pulled away with surprising force and hit the dash- board or floor. You Remember the Real Canada If you can remember.. . . When a boy was a boy, and dressed like one. 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Letters to the August 21, 1976 Dear Sir: Dear Editor, this exchange between Mayor Garnet Rick- ard and myself over the matter of the Eldorado brief must make tedious reading for you and your subscribers but as some politicians frequently use words to dupe people into believing less than the whole truth, I must respond to Mayor Rickard's letter that appeared on your interesting editorial page last week. To begin with, I state unequivocably that there is an Eldorado brief ----at which I had a fast glance at Region--- outlining the wants of Eldor- ado Nuclear Limited at Port Granby backing up the com- pany's application for an amendment to the Durham Official Plan. I also state unequivocably that I have been informed by responsible Region officials that copies of this Eldorado brief at which I had a glance - - - was in the possession of Mayor Rickard for the infor- mation and distribution to members of the Newcastle Industrial Commission. The pamphlet? I know nothing about 'any Eldorado pamphlet unless for some reason or another Mayor Rickard is using such a document as a red herring. So much for the Mayor's remarks about the Eldorado brief. Now to some other points that the Mayor made in his letter of last week. In this letter, Mayor Rick- ard inferred that I did not attend meetings concerning the Darlington Arena. He further stated that I did not attend meetings concerning the Newcastle Fire Hall and that I was absent during "most of the budget discus- sions." In response to these charges I would like to reply that in view of the Darlington Arena mess with its questionable granting of tenders and its ensuing water problems -- in view of the manner in which the tenders for the work on the Newcastle Fire Hall were granted, I admit that I took a small part in these proceed- ings. My reasoning for my lact of action was "If the Mayor is willing to see things happen in this way --count my out." I did not choose to get involved to rubber stamp actions, that in my mind, were questionable. Concerning the budget. According to the letter of Mayor Rickard, I made out- landish statements "released earlier this year on proposed tax increases." I will leave judgement of my remarks to the public for another week or so till the public receives their last two tax bill instalments for this year. Let the judge- ment at that time be made . whether my statements were outlandish or not. The Mayor's charge of absenteeism led me to check Council's record of attendance through Town agendas. These records show that the poorest attendance to Council and Committee meetings since day one of the New Town is held by Mayor Garnet Rickard. The Mayor failed to attend 14 meetings in the twelve months of 1976-75. Mr. Rickard also missed 14 meet- ings in 1974 for a total of 23 meeting absences. In the same frame the writer was absent for twelve meetings. This is all very childish, Mr. Editor, but I am forced to respond to the points raised in Mayor Rickard's letter of August 18. This whole exchange -- a prosaic one, to be sure -- started over the Eldorado Nuclear Limited brief. The brief deal was a bummer and had the required legal co- operation been extended to me, the whole matter would now be past history and the public, would have been spared this juvenile exchange. Rather than that, here we have the situation where Mayor Garnet Rickard and myself are having at each other like a couple of fish- wives. The blame for all the argy barging lies squarely on the door step of several people including Mayor Garnet Rick- ard who for some unknown reason or reasons are withold- ing information concerning Eldorado Nuclear Limited's plans for the Newcastle from1 the public. The matter of the Eldorado brief was -- and still is -- deploable. Sincerely, Kenneth E. Lyall, Councillor, Newcastle, Orono and Clarke. The Kid and the Cone Dear Editor: It is difficult to know how many contributions we are going to be asked for to build arenas now the lights are installed in Orono Park (at Newcastle) and the Lions have built their swimming pool in Newcastle (Village that is). But, before these fiscal campaigns get underway and the newspapers are complete- ly monopolized by my good friends Ken Lyll and Garnet Rickard in the forthcoming gubernatorial race, I am seriously considering a local Royal Commission on what- ever happened to the 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent, etc. ice cream cone. I notice the two dipper is now 50 cents. Why not put the question on the Queen's Park Order Paper? With a family of four or five, two bucks for a cone really brings home inflation. Of course, the one dipper for five kids is only $1.50. I'm no economist but I just can't picture a world with surplus milk production and 50 cent ice cream cones. It seems to me, that in all the planning power plays the spirit of the kid and the cone has just got lost in the shuffle. Sincerely, "Dick" Lovekin. R. R. 3, Bowmanville, Ont., Aug. 20, 1976. Dear John. Granted my penmanship is certainly nothing to write home about but I have a feel- ing that two errors in some Maple Grove news sent in to you were not made by me. (Aug. 18 issue). One referred to a family gathering held at the home of Mrs. Harry Freeman's grand- daughter as a family of daughters and sons-in-law and read as daughters and son-in- law. The other stated that an ex- change student at the home of the Cryderman family was a Rotary student when it should have read a Lions exchange student. I hope there will be space for this letter in your next issue. If I did make these errors I apologize but there was another reason for drawing attention to this matter which is that a former Maple Grove correspondent complained of errors not of ber making. I felt that our Maple Grove young people should have some publicity and added what local news was at hand as a summer roundup. Pic- tures may be more accurate from tiny tots to graduates but no more inforative. Now, these are minor affairs and complaints but at times we need to take a long look. When going over old papers recently from the "Free Press Weekly Farmers Avocate", head lines caught my eye -- "What bas happen- Editor I ed to Canada?" from Bruce Hutchison 1966, quote, "If ai economic disaster befalls the country it will not be a test of the government, but of the character of the Canadian people." From another clip- ping, I read of the objective of man and Lenin to create havoc by strikes causing high prices and eventually unem- ployment." Good material for a debate. M.M. Snowden Dear Editor: August 16, 1976 a public meeting was held at Bowman- ville Council Chambers, in court room No. 2 to discuss the repair or building of arenas in Orono, Newcastle and Bow- manville. Three engineering firms were represented; ten people from Orono, Newcastle and Bowmanville came at the invitation of this council, to voice their proposals and to watch and listen to the various proposals of the engineering firms. At 1:15 p.m. this public meeting made a motion to hear the individual engineer- ing firms "in camera", though not a camera was in sight, except for the one on the shoulder of the Oshawa Times Reporter (who didn't stay all afternoon). "In camera" meant that the public and press were to be excluded from this public meeting! A motion was made and second- ed to allow The Durham East M.P.P. Mr. Doug Moffatt to remain, which was pretty considerate. Everyone else spent the afternoon standing around in the sun and the wind, while the various engineering firms spoke and were spoken to. As each firm had its hearing and exited, of course what had transpired 'inside' was made known to the irate group outside. At last, at about 4:40*p.m. the Golden Climactic moment arrived, when the public and press were graciously allowed back in the Council Chamber, where they had been comfort- ably installed with the council- lors at 1 p.m. It turned out that the firm chosen after more than three secret hours of debate, was the firm officially appointed by The Town in 1974-75, Totten, Hubicki & Sims! They weren't even there! A small discussion ensued about the cost of furniture for The Newcastle fire hall, all the while councillors making rest- less motions for adjournment, which became fact at 4:50 p.m., leaving Mayor Rickard now to disclose to the press and two of the 10 left, still holding out for information, of the facts discussed "in cam- era". The Mayor was meticu- lously answering any and all questions! When asked, "Why," if all the facts were to be disclosed AFTER the meeting, to those who had that much time to wait, "why couldn't these people have stayed to hear these facts while the meeting was in session, he answered, saying, "Well, there were a few things said, that probably would not have been said if the public had been present, adding, "I myself, had nothing that private to say." Who and which of the councillors have such dire and dark things to say that the public should not hear? It could be that some councillors do not wish to have public in-put at council meet- ings. It could be that through the years this type of per- formance by council bas left the people of The Town and Region, feeling discouraged, frustrated and defeated, which in turn accounts for the seeming apathy, on the part of tax-payers, who pay the salaries of these councillors. People-input and 'people- impact' is needed. Unless the people of The Town and region realize they are defeating themselves by absence from council and seeming lack of interest, the practice of councillors, be- coming more general as time 25 Years Ago August 16th, 1951 Durham County showed itself to be forging ahead of most Canadian counties in business tempo by recording retail sales of $14,497,000 in the past year, as reported by Sales Management in its, copyrighted annual survey of buying power, covering every part of Canada, and the U.S.A. Thirteen dogs belonging to Willatts, Perfects, Heath, Ferguson, Mason, Quacken- bush, Burgess, Shackleton, Terry, Corden, Cowan, Mul- holland, and the White fami- lies, who live in the Liberty Street South area, have been killed in the past week by poison, thought to be strych- nine. To date little action has been taken to track down those responsible for the inexcusable action. Dogs belonging to Nixon and Fice were sick but recovered. Rev. T. M. Dustan, B.A., L. Th., returns to his post in India in early September and will preach a farewell sermon in St. John's Anglican Church, on Sunday evening. On Saturday evening Gor- don Moorcraft was driving down Lover's Lane, when a small boy suddenly plummet- ed out of an overhanging tree, Tarzan like, to fall in front of Gordon's truck. The lad turn- out to be the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Oke. goes on, is going to curtail the rights of citizens to attend council meetings at all! Now, In the Dim and )istant Pastj 49 Vears Ago Thursday, August 18, 1927. E. P. Bradt, Agricultural Director, B. T. S., gave an address on the World Poultry Congress, at the weekly Ro- tary Club meeting on Friday Bowmanville boys attendi' Scout Camp at Camp Okont 3 miles northwest of Oakville include Harvey Joint, Alan (Jim) Williams, Bob Corbett, Ed and Gord Flaxman, Bruce Cameron, Ivan Leighton, Newton Hackney, Ed Thomas, "Harold Colmer, Ned Rehder, Dick Wright, Gordon Adams, Walter Cole, Bradley Hone- man and Jasper Smith. Mrs. Muriel Sissons B.A., who has been on the teaching staff of B.H.S. for the past two years, has been appointed teacher of classics of the new Port Credit School. Bowmanville bakers, W.P. Corbett and C.W. Jacobs held their annual picnic at Cobourg on Wednesday, with about 50 employees and their families attending. At a well attended meeting of the Official Board of the Orono United Church held at Park Street Church, Orono, an increase of $200 to the pastor's salary was unanimously voted, making the salary $2,000 per anntm. The Courtice - Everson clan held their annual picnic atthe Cream of Barley Camp on Friday afternoon. councillors are the people's, not the other way around. R. A. Lilley omrmKKf=KmRxmuERK M -- Nr M Nn By Bill Smi Second Now that the Games are over, and all the tears have been shed, it's time to look ahead to the 1980 Olympics. What the International Olympie Committee needs like a hole in the head is new ideas, but l'Il give them one anyway. It's simple: give everybody a second chance. I'm sure people like Debby Brill and Bruce Simpson and Yankovich Strmzlwvzlski will agree with me. Most of us get a second chance in life, whether it's falling down on the job, impaired driving, or being married. Why not the Olympie athletes? I got a second chance once upon a time, and I was ecstatically grateful for it. It was a long time ago, and the Olympics had been cancelled for The Duration, but there were some pretty serious games in progress, just the same. It is one of the great ironies, and my students simply can't under- stand it when I try to explain, but yours truly, and a lot of others, were involved in a bitter competition. We were trying to become fighter pilots, so we could be killed. Isn't that silly? But it was so. No Olympic athlete suffered any more tension, anxiety, or frustration than we did when it came to the big day, the final event, our wings test. Long before that, of course, were the eliminations. First one was the physical examination. It was.tough. Many a youth with dreams of dicing through the clouds in a dogfight was shot down in the M.O.s office because he had flat feet or was color blind. Next came the preliminary heats. These were known as Elementary Flying Training. If you came through about 60 hours of flying training without being terribly air sick, without bouncing more than 40 feet on landings, and without running into another aircraft and killing yourself, you made the semi-finals. We lived in constant fear. Oh, not of killing ourselves. Nobody was concerned in the least about that. The dread phrase was "washed out." That meant that you weren't going to be that dashing figure - a fighter pilot - but that you were going to be retrained as a mere navigator, wireless op or tail gunner. In other words, sent to the minors. If you survived the heats, off you went to finishing school, known as Advanced Flying. This was like making the Olympic team, but knowing you'd probably finish in 31st place. I was sent, with a lot of other young idiots dying to be killed, to Camp Borden. It was quite an august group, including one Jake Gaudaur, the large, jovial gentle- man who is now the commissar of the Canadian Football League. Hi, Jake. Despite the augustness of the group, we trained in mid-winter. We flew in snow, we landed on snow, we crash-landed into snow, and occa- Iey Chances sionally an intrepid student, usually an Australian, proved once again that an aircraft falling 6,000 feet will nôt penetrate the ice of Georgian Bay. The whole deal was not unlike Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. And all the time, leering over our shoulders, was the ugly face of tl, thing called Washed Out. It seems incredible, looking back, that we were in such terror of that creature. If all the young fellows in the world had managed to have themselves washed out, there wouldn't have been anyone to fly and kill and die. But we suffered all the palpi+ tions of Olympic contestants as w- edged closer and closer to that triumph of sado-masochism, the Wings Test. This consisted of about one hour of psychological torture in which the student flew the aircraft through a number of uncomfortable and alarming exercises, while an in- structor, sitting in the front seat, snarled imprecations. Came my big day. Everything was great. I was s haking like a wino. It wasn't quite snowing, but it wasn't quite not snowing. And the intercom wasn't working. Normally, this isn't a big deal. The intercom was just a little sort of telephone into which the instructor shouted obscenities and the student ground his teeth. But on a Wings Test, it can be something more than a minor nuisance. My instructor would shout at me to do a steep turn to the left. I would guess at the muffled instruc- tions and do a loop. He would yell at- me to do a loop, and I'd do a sloppy slow roll. After half an hour of this blind man's bluff, he indicated with a ferocious gesture of his thumb that he was taking over and we were going to land. We did. He climbed out, speechless. I climbed out with- my tail well between my legs. He just looked at me, and shook his head. I just looked at him, and- wagged my tail. We both knew that 1 was Washed Out. He walked away. I looked around for some immediate means of committing suicide. The only thing I could see was a whirlir- propeller and that was a bit t___ messy. There must, of course, be a climax to this fascinating narrative. And, there is. Next morning I was moping about, feeling as ,though I'd just learned my mother was a prostitu and my father a quack abortionist. A voice: "Smiley, get your gear on!" Another instructor, widely- known as a Mean Bastard. We took off. I hate to brag, but with the careless abandon of a man who knows he is off to the galleys, anyway, I flung that aircraft around the sky in a dream Wings Test. Two days later, I not only had my wings, but had suddenly become an Officer and a Gentleman. So. Everyone deserves a Second Chance. And that is my contribution to the XXIst Olympics. l'Il let the committee figure out the details. ES er