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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1974 THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 18
Labor Department Prof
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Rules For Tractor Safety
By MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - Structure to
protect farm workers from
"rollover" accidents will be
required on new tractors
purchased after Aug. 31 and
used by farm employees under
proposed U.S. Labor Depart-
ment rules.
The proposed rules would
allow either a frame or a frame
and enclosure structure and
would apply to all agricultural
tractors of more than 20 hor-
sepower but would not be
required on tractors used only
by farmers or members of their
immediate families, the
department said.
The frame would be similar to
an automobile roll bar and
some frames could incorporate
weather-protecting enclosures,
according to departments
sources.
Wendell Glasier, a safety
specialist in the Labor
Department's Agricultural
Standards Branch, estimated
that the protective structures
would increase the price of new
tractors from about $200 to over
$1,00 depending on the com-
plexity of the structure
requested.
According to a 1971 Tran-
sportation Department study,
tractor overturns account for
between 480 and 600 of the 800 to
1,000 tractor-related deaths per
year.
And a 1969-72 National Safety
Council (NSC) survey of 10
states employing nearly one-
third of the nation's farm
workers showed that on-the-
farm deaths due to overturns
occurred at the rate of 8.6 per
100,000 tractors, the Labor
Department said.
The NCS survey was "a
pretty good stud y," involving a
random survey where
researchers checked directly
with farms and did not rely on
secondhand reports, Glasier
sawfc The state surveyed were
Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Michigan, New York, Indiana,
Illinois, Oregon, Nebraska,
Louisiana and Ohio.
The proposed rules were
formulated by the department's
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) and
"are substantially based on the
recommendation of its Stan-
dards Advisory Committee on
Agriculture," the Labor
Department said.
The committee's recom-
mendations have been
"discussed and hashed over
many times over the past 18
months," with participation by
farm industry representatives,
an OSHA spokesman said.
He also noted that the rules
would not apply to farms which
are family owned and run,
unless employees operated the
tractors.
The rollover structures would
have to meet OSHA per-
formance requirements. These
would be based on test
procedures which are
"essentially adaptations of
standards developed by the
American Society of
Agricultural Engineers and the
Society of Automotive
Engineers," the Labor
Department said.
The NSC's finding of 8.6
deaths per 100,000 tractors due
to overturns is "an enormously
high" figure, according to the
OSHA spokesman, who said
that tractor-related accidents
account for the majority of
farm deaths.
Glasier said that, according
to the periodical, Farm Safety
Review, one-fourth of farm
machinery accidents involve
tractors and 86 per cent of the
accidents occur between April
and October.
High tractor speeds on roads
are u major source of tractor
accidents, he said. The OSHA
spokesman said tractors are
sometimes prone to turn over
on grades and when in use
around ditches.
Written data and requests for
hearings on the proposed rules
must be submitted by March 6,
the Labor Department said. If
objections to the rules are
made, a hearing will be held,
after which the department will
make its final decision on the
rules, the OSHA spokesman
said.
Equal Rights Article
Set For Convention
AUSTIN, Tex. - A
complex—and in spots con-
troversial—article that guaran-
tees Texas children equal
educational opportunity goes
before the constitutional con-
vention today.
But a floor vote is not
planqtd until Monday.
Itepublicans, advised by
somefime White House legal
adviser Charles Alan Wright,
are expected to fight the
provision giving young Texans
a constitutional right to equal
educational opportunity.
Wright, a University of Texas
law professor, told Rep. Ray
Barnhart, R-Pasadena, the pro-
vision would lead to endless
lawsuits.
Also likely for attack is a
provision leaving control of the
$680 million Permanent Univer-
sity Fund in the hands of the
University of Texas and Texas
A&M systems.
The education article moved
up in line ahead of the voting
rights article Thursday after
the convention gave the Rights
and Suffrage Committee per-
mission to take back its report.
Staff members of the Style and
Drafting Committee had re-
worded the voting rights provi-
sion unsatisfactorily.
The legislative Committee
voted 10-8 Thursday, with five
members absent or not voting,
to increase the Senate from 31
to at least 40 members follow-
ing the 1980 census.
lawmakers would decide for
themselves, without a vote of
the people, the exact, size of the
legislature, up to 50 senators
and between 150 and 155 repre-
sentatives.
The committee went through
several test votes before leav-
ing the minimum age for repre-
sentatives at 21 and lowering
that for senators from 26 to 25.
Finley Sells Seals, Turns
To Oakland Arbitration
'
SAN FRANCISCO -
Charles O. Finley hinted he
turned a profit by selling his
hockey team, the Seals, then
returned to the arbitration
table where his Oakland A's
baseball players are seeking
more money.
"I still think hockey is a
great sport," the Chicago insur-
ance millionaire said Thursday
after the California Golden
Seals were turned over to the
National Hockey league for
more than $6 million.
The team was a loser, both
on the ice and at the box office,
in years of Finley own-
ership. The Seals, who left Oak-
land today to start a road trip,
are last in the NHL Western
Division and averaging only 5,-
000 fans per home game.
Finley bought the team in
1970 for a reported $4.5 million.
He said he was "completely
satisfied" with the amount he
received from the NHL.
Finley discussed the sale,
which had been pending for two
months, at a news conference
after A's captain and third
baseman Sal Bando argued
over the arbitration table why
he should receive $100,000 for
the coming baseball season.
Bill Dineen pitched the first
World Series shutout for Boston
in 1903 when he allowed Pitts-
burgh three hits in the second
game played.
The natural benefits if
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the apparent advantages tf trading at large
Wherever you buy an article of merchandise, or deal for a
service, about one-third of the price you pay goes for the
support, upkeep and improvement of services and facilities
in the community in which the trade is made.
It doesn't take a slide rule or a computer to figure out that
when you trade away from home, the community-enriching
one-third of your money benefits somebody else, not you.
It Pays to Trade Where You Live
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prospering work which about one-third of your trading
dollar pays for, wherever it is spent.
And... sometimes far more important than the purely
financial benefits of buying at home... is that when our
community business establishments get more of our trade
they can provide a better selection of goods and services
to meet our unexpected and emergency needs.
It Pan to Trade Where You Live
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