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*> Page 2 - October 22, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK I Teenage bu oro fnnnc n UIU I UUUu u Associated Press COLUMBIA ? David Gale bus driver because at $3.47 an old job as a supermarket b convenient. Gale's day as a driver for 1 and a senior at lower Richland bia begins at 6:50 a.m. and er "When 1 worked at a supern at 4," said Gale, who is 17. 441' have to do mv homework." THE PAY, the hours and t reasons why teen-age drivers Carolina for the last 30 years. Student drivers account for share of accidents, but South C convinced student drivers are ; "At the time we certify ther operate the bus safely,' said CI driver trianing and safety fo Education. "They don't always practic like you and I don't always should," he said. IN SOl'TIl 71 percent of th were students. They were invol accidents reported. Since the school year bej Carolina's drives have repork with 125 for the same period 1 But several recent sensatio tracted widespread media cov cerns about teen-age drivers. On Sept. 1 7, a total of 33 stm injuries after a bus driven by Clearwater, a community just driver was found to be not at THREE DAYS later, a bu overturned in Columbia, rcsull students. The driver was charge conditions. The most serious accident in cured Sept. 4 near Florence wh adult collided with two cars ai cf n/lnnf c o r\ r\ f h/a r\r'%\n*r r\ f -J I UU\. I U.) U1IU I 11V U1 I vv.1 V./ I W 1 I V Alabama, Oklahoma, Arka Virginia also have employed < dent school bus drivers, accoi National Highway Traffic Saf The number of student dr from less than 1 percent of tl about 5 percent of the 5,1 Mississippi. STUDENT DRIVERS arc Carolinas, where the states system. South Carolina drive hours a month, Nix said. in [North C arolina, >5 pcrct year were students and they w the 1,246 accidents reported. North Carolina drivers mus in $200 or more property dan ding to norfleet Gardner of N Education. But South Carol every scrape and dent. Mix s; During the '50s and before, adequately trained and tho said. "Their record was ex didn't get away with parking Soule conducted a study of using data from 1969 throug l,.,. I l?, t , I 1 I cl I V- I I I I ) I \J y ( I I V, II I W. i l .^UULIMI cent of the drivers were stud percent of the accidents. "There was insufficient d; overrepresented in the accidei The GAMECOCK in the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published three times a week on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays during the fall and spring semesters and weekly on Wednesdays during hoth summer sessions, with the ( exception of university holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in the (JAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Caro mm. The Board of Student Publications I and Communications is the publisher of the GAMECOCK. The Student Media Department in the parent organization of the GAMECOCK. 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The GAMECOCK is a licensed stu- | dent organization of (he I'niveraity of | South Carolina and receives funding j from student activity fees. s drivers pp f attention | decided to become a school hour it paid better than his agger and the hours were Richaland School District 1 , high School in cast Colum- V larket I'd have to be at work d get home late and then I'd he convenience are three big |i ' more than their statistical Carolina officials say they're as safe as adult drivers. n we are confident they can [iff Nix, assistant director of v > >r the state Department of we know e 6,500 bus drivers last year f , Ived in 80 percent of the 939 tan in mid-August, South ?d 120 accidents, compared ast year. ft*ll%SB8fl|B| nal bus accidents have aterage and raised new condents were treated for minor SHlDS ? a 16-year-old overturned in east of Augusta, Ga. The Lake Mui fault. participant s driven by an 18-year-old R I A ting in minor injuries for 23 l\| t\ ;d with traveling too fast for | i;aH on irinit rlri\/nr It a^_ . . > M Y"" ?i .?v.. wv Associated r en a school van driven by an [ an intersection, killing two of (he cars. dam? air wa: nsas, Iowa, Mississippi and evening wne \ significant number of stu- u ding to David Soule of the m "anc*ety Administration. ^ plante< ivers in those states ranges a launchei le 10,421 drivers in iowa to slow, looptn 100 daily route drivers in 'cw seconc^s "You dor You just thr used most extensively in the Per launch own and operate the bus invention. :rs put in an average of 66 l'le ; and the pi :nt of the 12,825 drivers last caught a th ere involved in 65 percent of 'n^ warm a'1 Still, Locke :,i_ ..... i. of the tov th .1 I C|)UI I ilLClUCIllS 111 it I I CMl 11 rtage or bodily injury, accor- n,ne yearsorth Carolina Department of UK TOS1 ina bus drivers must report and then st< , student drivers were sleeted, ' .n\ mt( roughly supervised," Soule explaining eeptionally good. The kids gliding led on a vellow line." ^ '1C to^ ^ a hard plasi student divers' safety record a pj|ot h 1979 from the eight states pearance ol . He found that while 22 perlents, they accounted for 35 "I've Inc. looks wind I ua to determine why the're j|la( gOCS j, nt picture," he said. jQ prott J patented it USC BICYC TOURING meel J Everyone Welcc I?nilJUlMUJLI^____l_JL_?. -UM?OWI : . VK'> SSfi?fcfH|H^^^^9 - RHMQMa vHJ>H ihoy rray Sailing Club sponsored an open regatta this weekend for s. a :_ jl^? x" a is toy corporaui s Germany and Japan u RNWALL, Conn.?The Windseeker. s cooling with the onset of n Tim Locke rushed out SOON, THE public 3r with his small invention test the glider itself. Locke and his part d his feet in the thick crass mann. have formed Wi d the toy hang glider on a and have overseen the g flight that ended after a tion of 30,000 gliders with a gentle landing. their distributors will sc i't have to really wang it. corporation's first ow it," he said of the pro- NASA, which bought < ling technique for his to sell at its Washing shop. Another 48 have air been hotter,* the foam New England Air Musi lastic glider might have Locks. lermal" ? or a rush of ris- The sales have been 1 ? and flown for minutes. what has been a was pleased with the flight frustrating business lat he has tinkered with for Locke and Hermann. experience that has le confident of their ov SKI) it into the air again, wary of others, aod fascinated. > all wind sports, he said "We had a lot that his devotion to hang Thomases along the to his toy development. almost the fuel to driv< as a 14-inch foam wing and Locke said. "We bel lie balancing weight shaped persisted, the persist* that together give it the ap- off." f a miniature hang glider. Their troubles start* l.ocke began working 1 many different designs. It "1 HAI) this brai ess simple, but there's a lot struct a toy flying han no it," Locke said. said, explaining that h ret the design, Locke has model that same day f in the United States, West had at his morne in Wi le Alexand clue 304 / I j >me J| 3820 cJ^o?tnjuood v.r ^',v'iVV^ fl s, ,. 1 ' ' ; . , Oi \ all classes of boats. The two-da^ )n's first ( inder the name then too show it t "The i will be able to totvpe at special t< ner, Carl Her- Falls Vil indseeker Corp. As Lc recent produc- design, that they and business ;11. The year-old a comps customer was Herman 48 of the gliders necessar >ton, D.C. gift The t\ been sold to the satisfied cum in Windsor pany an sales. T1 [he high point in be inten difficult and gamble experience for logger b It has been an Herman ft the two more ill abilities, but KVi^ contract deal wa T Hmiht inn t rn W? V*V/U I'l I II u, M IV I I IV, way. That was decided ? us on further," and sell ieved that it" we "We .Mice would pay for this of the r I'd in 1975 when own. " on the glider. we put nstorin to con- Will g glider," Locke stockho e built a working glider's rom materials he compan est Cornwall. He glider. ler's of Columl (Introducing utnj tueaxa ?Ci mSgm to tfte fateit mF Call for on ^ stylis Dawn Rearc Chaz Fost? Alexan 787-6607 I !?>.. Cc 11 . ~] - Photo by Mary Jinn Hollis I event drew a total of 59 | customer k the glider to Hermann to o his boyhood friend. * moment he threw the first prome, I knew we had something 3 work on," said Hermann, a lage resident. )cke set out to improve nis hermann took over the chores, such as trying to find my willing to buy the glider, n also set out to gain the y patents. vo first thought they would be selling the patent to a comd receiving royalties from its ley found many companies to ested, but unwilling to take a on the 30-year-old Locke, a iy profession, and 29-year-old n, a graphic artist. xTIJALLY, THEY did reach a with one company, but that s cancelled Inst venr. The two thought their strategy, and to form their own eorporation stock among their friends, realized no one has the energy like we have," Hermann said eason for striking out on their You can't calculate the hours into this." i the support of their Ides, the two finalized the design, and found three small lies to make and package the >ia, Inc. uCC 4 cJ\!?UJ?.?t cJ~fCI Lieut 1 J '' i-togynou*. : fiaintijit. teac/if to adafil ie of our talented its today ? Ion Vernon Wells ir Terry Huskey idem ? owner La, <s.c.