US Army Corps of Engineers • Rock Island District I VOL. 4, N0.12, April1983
Nanda named Engineer of the Year
S.K. Nanda, the Research and Devel Flow-Frequency Task Group; served on opment Coordinator and Assistant to the Iowa State Water Plan and the En Hydraulics Branch Chief in Engineering ergy Task Force for Iowa; taught hydrau Division, was named the "Senior Engineer lic concepts at two Corps Districts, a Dam of the Year" for 1982 by the Quad-Cities Safety Analysis course attended by per Engineering and Science Council at their sonnel from five Corps Districts and three annual National Engineers Week banquet. states, a HEC-2 Computer Program Nanda was nominated by the Rock Is course at the Iowa Department of Trans land Post, Society of American Military portation; and presented a speech on Engineers and the Tri-City Section of the Methods of Bank Protection at the Iowa American Society of Civil Engineers for Engineering Society Seminar at Ames. • his many achievements during his profes Nanda graduated from Illinois Insti sional career as a civil engineer in water tute of Technology with BTCE degree, resources. and he received his masters in Mechanics He has 17 years of experience in the en and Hydraulics from the University of gineering field, 15 of those years with the Iowa, Institute of Hydraulic Research. Rock Island District. Throughout his Nanda is a registered Professional Engi career he has demonstrated excellence and neer in the States of Illinois and Iowa, leadership in the hydraulics and hydrol and is a member of the Society of Ameri ogy fields. can Military Engineers, American Society Nanda began his career with the Rock of Civil Engineers, and the United States Island District in 1968 as a Civil/Hydrau Committee on Large Dams. He was also lic Engineer. He worked in this capacity named the recipient of both the District's The 1882 Quad-Citi• Senior Engln.. r of the until 1976 when he was appointed the Year, Mr. S.K. Nand, of the Hydraullce Branch, En and the North Central Division's Award Chief of Hydrology and Hydraulics Sec gineering Dlvl8ion. Nanda wu nominated for thla for Engineering Excellence in 1981. tion in Hydraulics Branch. Then in 1979 award, which Ia aponaored by the Quad-Citl• Engi Nanda is also very active in commu neering and Science Council, jointly by the Rock It he assumed his present position where he land Poet, Society of American Military Englneera, nity and civic activities having served as is responsible for the coordination of all and the Tri-City Section, American Society of Civil President of the Bettendorf, Iowa, Lions the District's research and develpment ac Englneera. Club, District Governor of Lions of Iowa, tivities with various laboratories through District 9x9, Vice-President of Bi-County out the United States. Nanda is also the National Training Center in Davis, Cali Mental Health Association and Director District's National Hydropower Coor fornia; proposal of the multiobjective Sta of Scott County Mental Health Center, dinator, a member of the Committe for tistical Method for Water Resources Opti Director of the Bettendorf International Wingdam Restoration on the Mississippi mazation was a joint effort with Dr. Folk Festival, and Vice-President of Quad River, and has authored several computer Haines, of Case Western Reserve Univer Cities Engineering and Science Council. programs in the field of hydraulics and sity, and a paper on this subject was pub A native of India, Nanda and his wife hydrology. lished in Water Resources Research; he Nalini, reside in Bettendorf, Iowa. Con A recognized leader in his field, Nan has served on the OCE task force to write gratulations are extended to Nanda for da's expertise has lead to many innovative the Corps of Engineers Manual on Inte this noteworthy achievement. design concepts, professional papers, rior Flooding Hydrology; and he was se speeches, and conducting classes. Some of · lected by the Corps to work on a United Did you know ••. his achievements include: proposal of the Nations project in India, however, he was The cornerstone of the Clock Tower, Probability Method in the Design and In unable to serve the term due to his Dis which was laid in an appropriate cer terior Flood Control Facilties, and teach trict workload. Other professional involve emony on 21 April 1864, has never been ing this concept at the Corps of Engineers ments include serving as Chairman of found. the suspense deadline, many hours of MEN WOMEN overtime had to be worked on weekdays and on weekends during the Christmas Part of what you Holiday season. During this hectic period, Dan was responsible for coordinating and earn is pride. preparing a large portion of the draft materials to be used in the budget docu ments in a format ready for typing. Com plicating the preparation of this material was the fact that he had to obtain some input, and coordinate all the material with other District elements. It was also necessary for him to completely redo some budget documents for projects where the funding schedules were revised by higher Daniel P. Fetes, a Program Analyst in the Pro- authority. In addition to all of this, Dan gram Development Office, was named the recipient also prepared and coordinated responses of the RID Employee of the Month Award for the month of December 1982. to various telephone requests from North Prode may be the boggest reward tor servong on the ArmynR!~~~~~~n to the teelong you·ll get tor servong your Central Division concerning clarification Country part tome. you II have other rewards Good pay tor one thong You 'll be well paod tor the 16 hours a month and two weeks Annual Traonong you put on and additional information on the budget There s 10b traonong wh och could help you on your career F etes named December material that the District submitted. There's low·cost onsurance Plus retorement benefots oncludong medocal and dental care Throughout the entire period, Dan But. above all. ot s prode young men and women are 1 employee of the month earnT~gs ~atr~e ~~mfe~l;~=r~~~~ao~to openongs and see of played a very key role in assuring that the you Qualofy - today Daniel P. Fetes, a Program Analyst in necessary budget documents for the Rock the Program Development Office, was Island District were submitted in a satis Call Army Reserve named the District's Employee of the factory manner and on schedule. Opportunities Month award winner for the month of De Dan was commended for his diligent 319-391-1777 cember 1982. and dedicated efforts by Colonel Slofer, Part of What You Earn is Pride. Dan was nominated for the award for our District Commander, as he presented A 1•1• 'L his efforts in completing the Fiscal Year him the award in a ceremony held in the (FY) 1984 Congressional Budget docu Clock Tower Building. ments. Dan, who has more than 10 years of The FY 84 Congressional Budget docu Federal service, is married, and he and his ments were required last year with a very wife Debra, currently reside in Rock Is land, Illinois. short suspense scheduled. In order to meet Spring dance set
Get your denim jeans and dancing boots ready, the Rock Island District's "Spring Dance," sponsored by the RID Civilian Welfare Association, is just around the corner. This year's spring dance will be held on Friday, 6 May, at the Rock Island Elks Club, which is located in downtown Rock Island across from the Post Office build ing. The dance will run from 7 p.m. till midnight, and it will have a country/wes tern theme as the music will be provided by the country rock band "Blue Collar Boys." There will be prizes, surprises, and lots 'n' lots of fun, so don't you dare miss this gala event. Tickets are priced at $3.00 per person for everyone. Retirees, if you're in terested, contact Bobbi Olds at 788-6361, ext. 6348. Mark your calendars now and plan to We reported In the February luue of the Tower Lock and Dam 15, and hu now been at Fountain be there. As the dance chairperson, Bobbi Tim" that the old NCR Dredge "Rock llland," now City for ewer a month. Here Ia a final took at that Olda put it, "Wear your jeans, boots, and named the "Colllne" was making Ita final journey up grand old ledy of a dredge that wu called the the Mlsalsalppl River to Fountain City, Wleconlln. "Rock llland" when ehe operated In our Dletrlct ten-gallon hats; but leave horses at On 28 February, the "Colllne" madelte way through during her hayday. home!"
Tower Ttmes, April1983, Page 2------Looking back
(Excerpted from July 21, 1930, Moline Pratt, however, as, said Mr. Robbins, quently, the W .P.A. has been required to Daily Dispatch) "Willie never was very strong physically." submit all projects in the nature of stream improvement, which includes flood con Arsenal Clock, 63 years old, stops trol, bank erosion, aids to navigation and and recalls an Interesting story Weather Interferes water conservation, to the Engineer De partment for review and approval, and to by Pat Patten "About the only thing from outside have written approval of the Department which can stop that clock," said Mr. Rob before beginning work on such projects. After ticking ponderously away for bins, "is a sleet storm from the northeast. This coordination of W.P.A. and Engi some sixty-three years with practically no This coats the big minute hand with ice neer Department projects is being super time off for good behavior, the gigantic and makes it so heavy that it cannot com vised for the Rock Island District by the clock in the tower on the old storehouse plete its hourly circuit. That, however, is a Hydraulic Section, assisted in structural building on the Arsenal Island came to a very rare occurrence." matters by the Planning Section. sudden stop Saturday evening at exactly Here are some data on the "Big Ben" Of the five states in the Rock Island 7:16. of the island: Length of pendulum-33 District - Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, It was the work of a few minutes for feet; weight of pendulum-600 pounds; Illinois, and Missouri - the greatest F.E. Robins, veteran superintendent of weight of gong-2,000 pounds; diameter W.P.A. stream improvement activity has the government bridge, and the assistant of face-12 feet. been in Iowa and Missouri. There are 108 to throw the massive timekeeper into projects. Of these projects 21 percent are "gear" again but, in the meantime, count proposed, 22 percent are operating, 32 per When they both stopped less motorists, who, in crossing the island, cent have been discontinued, and 25 per have timed their appointments by its ex cent have been completed. During his conversation with the Dis pansive face, noticed that it had quit and The projects consist of flood control patch reporter, Superintendent Robbins thereby hangs a tale- levees, water conservation dams, stream recalled an interesting coincidence of last This clock quoting Superintendent channel improvements, bridges and mis fall. At 1:20 in the morning both the big Robbins, who by the way, has been on the cellaneous projects, such as river front arsenal clock and the wall clock in Mr. job as steadily as the clock itself since and harbor improvements which affect Robbins' office stopped for no apparent 1886, is one of the six exactly alike built stream flow. Twenty percent of the pro reason. "It was too late for blasting in the by A.S. Hotchkiss, an expert in such jects shown are levees, 42 percent are river to have caused the clocks to stop," things, for the government way back in dams, 4 percent are bridges, 28 percent are said Mr. Robbins, "so the only reason I 1867. The other five are still doing busi channel improvements, and 6 percent are can think of is that there was a slight ness in arsenal buildings at Allegheny, miscellaneous. earth tremor." Pa., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N.Y., The projects as a whole are sound and As the reporter motored back past the Springfield, Mass., and Washington, D.C. the completed projects that have thus far clock after his interview with Superin been inspected appear to be well executed. tendent Robbins, it was correct to the The total cost of all of the projects at Installed by Rodman minute and probably will be ticking away present, regardless of status, is approxi for another century barring sleetstorms The Rock Island Arsenal clock was put mately $6,000,000. This amount from the northeast. in service when Col. T.J. Rodman, later a represents both the cost to the Federal general, was commandant, the second to Government through the W.P.A., and the hold that position after the new plant was W.P.A. Projects In much lesser cost borne by the various opened at the close of the Civil War. the Rock Island District sponsors of the individual projects. They Colonel Rodman, in coming from the vary in magnitude of cost individually east, brought with him a brass molder (Taken from May 1938 issue of SAFE from $1,000 to $800,000. named William Pratt, whose weekly duty CHANNELS) In connection with the cooperation was the winding of the clock. Mr. Pratt, with the W.P.A., a series of special forms who was a stickler for detail, according to by B.S. Tucker, Assistant Engineer have been developed which are used for Mr. Robbins, devoted a half-day out of compilation of pertinent data. These every six to the task and maintained an The Works Progress Administration forms have proven very satisfactory, in amazing assortment of oil cans to keep the was established by an Executive Order in fact, the W.P.A. in this region has now machinery in order. May 1935, under authority of the Emer adopted them for their general use. When age made Pratt too feeble to gency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Several projects are of sufficient mag turn the huge crank, Superintendent Rob Its purpose is to provide relief and relief nitude that consideration must be given bins instructed one of his assistants on the work, and to increase employment by to them and their effects in preparing En bridge in the art of keeping the wheels in providing for useful public projects. gineer Department flood control and navi motion. The latter has been attending to Since the War Department is charged gation reports; thus the coordination of the essential duty for more than twenty with river and harbor development and those related fields of activity is of dis years and finds it an easy matter to com flood control, the opportunity for conflict tinct value of both of the agencies in plete once each week in about 30 minutes. in the work of the War Department and volved and to the public. This is no reflection on the ability of Mr. the W.P .A. soon became apparent. Conse------:------...... ------Tower Times, April1983, Page 3 District holds flood training seminar
It' springtime, but wait! The river is was designed to acquaint the new person inar attendees were briefed on the rules rising and the National Weather Service nel involved in flood emergencies andre and laws which govern the extent of the is predicting crests well above flood fresh the minds of the seasoned veterans Corps' activity in a flood emergency, such stages. Quick, what can the Corps of En to what the Corps of Engineers can and as PL 84-99 and 93-288 FEMA. Also dis gineers do in advance? How about when can't do under existing laws, as well as ac cussed was the five different levels or the flood hits, can you build a sandbag tual flood fighting techniques. codes of an emergency situation which are levee? When its over, is there anything Fifty District participants as well as emergency preparation, operations, reha the Corps can do to help in cleanup and the North Central Division National bilitation, water supply and advance rehabilitation? Emergency Manager had their day measures. The morning ended with These questions and many others were divided into two segments: in the morning presentations on how to inspect levees, answered for many District employees at the classroom presentations were held, which was given by Ken Jensen, Chief, the recently completed Rock Island Dis and in the afternoon a demonstration of Geotechnical Branch; followed by Chuck trict Flood Training seminar. This sem flood fighting techniques were presented Farnham, Chief, Flood Plain Mana inar was conducted by the District's followed by actual "hands-on" practice. gement/Special Studies Branch, who Emergency Management Division, and it During the morning session, the sem- spoke about flood plain management and
Right: Done with the claaaroom portion of the flood seminar, the participants moved outdoors for the "handa on" training in flood fighting. The flrat step waa to learn the proper way of filling a sand bag. Here the participants are going at the pile of sand practicing the art of making a sandbag.
Below: Another aapect of flood fighting Ia the uae of pumpa to drain flooded Interior areaa. While you might think that there Ia nothing to running a pump, if you do not connect the hoaea right or fol low the operating procedures, you would find your aelf fighting a losing batttel Here the seminar In structors have a pump with the proper hose con nections made, and they are In the prOC888 of prim Ing the pump before starting to operate it.
Tower Times, April1983, Page 4------inBurance; and George Johnson, Chief, tion was completed the· seminar particip Hydraulics Branch, who discussed the use ants were then given the chance to show and application of the various hydraulic what they had learned, as the staff turned programs that are available through the them lose to build their own sandbag Districfs computers. levee. The afternoon session was held out The rest of the afternoon session was doors at the forebay area by Lock and devoted to learning how to set up pumps, Dam 15. Here the group were shown by connecting the h08e6 and running them. Terry Stieger, Chief, Emergency Manage This was done for both types of pumps ment Division; Vern Greenwood, Natural that the Corps of Engineers uses, the four Emergency Manager; and the Flood Area inch pump and the Crisafulli pump. Assistants, the proper techniques in filling It was a long day, but everyone in and tying sandbags, and then the place volved agreed that it was a day well spent ment of polyethylene and sandbags in learning what the Corps' missions are in a conBtructing a levee. Once the demonBtra- flood emergency.
lett: Having eandbaga filled, the ciU8 then r• <*ved lnatructlon on the proper technlquea of lay Ing "poly" rolla on a levee to protect It from er~ alon. Pictured, the partlclpanta have poaltloned the "poly" on a levee alope, anchored the bue portion, and are In the proceea of aecurlng the top part of the "poly" roll.
Below Center: The final atep when all elae falla to build your own eandbag levee. With that In mind, the eemlnar partlclpanta form their eandbag brigade and begin to build their own eandbag levee.
Below: The moment of truth. Their levee com plated water Ia pumped Into the ditch to ... If the levee will hold. later there would be amll•. from both particlpanta and lnatructora: the ciU8 becauaa their levee held, and the lnatructora for knowing that they taught them how to do it. Sad facts about small cars
When a Congressional subcommittee sustaining serious or fatal injuries than do "Even among different makes and on transportation held hearings this past occupants of large cars. The percentage of models in the same size group, insurance winter, one of the people asked to partici drivers in small subcompact cars sustain claims for medical costs resulting from in pate was William Haddon, Jr., M.D., ing serious and fatal injuries in crashes is juries sustained by passenger-car occup president of the Insurance Institute for about double the percentage of drivers of ants varies considerably. As a group, small Highway Safety. full-size cars sustaining such injuries. two-door cars have worse claim frequency The Institute had earlier published a "It· has been asked whether the poor results than the average for cars of all report showing extremely high occupant perfonnance of small cars somehow is due sizes. Some small cars - such as the death and injury rates in small cars. The to their being more often driven by young Toyota Corolla, the Datsun 200SX, the report noted that deaths per registered people, who have a high likelihood of in Plymouth Sapporo, and the Dodge Chal vehicle in the smallest cars on the road are volvement in motor-vehicle crashes. lenger- have results that are between 38 twice as high as in the largest cars. No Available data indicate this is not the percent worse than average. In sharp con matter what kind of crash, the number of case. In each of the age groups, the drivers trast, other cars such as the Volkswagen deaths per registered small car is alarmin of small subcompacts involved in crashes Rabbit, Honda Accord, Plymouth Reli gly high, but some small cars do even have a substantially higher chance of sus ant, and Mercury Lynx, do substantially worse than others. As a group, Japanese taining a serious or fatal injury than driv better. One reason the Volkswagen Rabbit made cars were found to have even higher ers of full-size cars. performs better than other cars in its size death and injury rates than cars of com "In virtually every crash configuration, group may be that Rabbits are equipped parable size made in the United States. the occupants of small cars fare worse with automatic seat belts. Seat belts, if Unless you were completely isolated from than the occupants of large cars, every worn, reduce the chance of death and in radio, TV and newspapers in 1981, you thing else being equal. The number of oc jury for passenger-car occupants by about could not have missed the fuss and furor cupants who are ejected from their cars 50 percent." that report caused. during crashes because their vehicles' So what does all this mean to us aver In his statement to the Congressional structures are inadequate to keep them age drivers? It certainly doesn't mean committee, Dr. Haddon answered two of contained is substantially higher in small that we should refuse to buy and drive the questions most frequently raised by cars than in larger cars. This finding has small cars. It does mean that we have to owners of small cars: especially serious implications since ejec 1) When all the big cars are finally tion long has been known to be one of the Compacts (cont. pg. 8) gone to the junkyard, won't small cars be most hazardous occurrences possible in a safer than they are now? crash. Dr. Haddon says no. "A greater per centage of drivers of small cars, as com pared to drivers of larger cars, sustains se CHEVROLET CHEVETTE 2-DR HONDA CIVIC rious and fatal injuries in single-vehicle ~ DATSUN 210 ' TOYOTA COROLLA crashes- those in which the size of 'the SMALL SUBCOMPACT FORD ESCORT other car' plays no part since no other car CHEVROLET CHEVETTE 4-DR HONDA ACCORD is involved." err>u DODGE ARIES TOYOTA COROLLA TERCEL 2) Because small cars are more ma SUBCOMPACT FORD MUSTANG neuverable, aren't they less likely to be in volved in crashes in the first place and jMBre CHEVROLET CITATION FORD FUTURA doesn't that offset the disadvantages to CHEVROLET CAVALIER OLDSMOBILE CIERA small-car occupants when they are in SMALL COMPACT crashes? CHEVROLET MALIBU OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS Again, Dr. Haddon says no. "There is FORD THUNDERBIRD no evidence to support this, and what evi ...... COMPACT dence there is suggests that small cars ac CHEVROLET CAPRICE FORD LTD tually are more rather than less often in CHRYSLER CORDOBA OLDSMOBILE 98 volved in crashes." Small size alone does 4iJiip INTERMEDIATE not insure maneuverability, which has more to do with tires and suspension. A CADILLAC BROUGHAM CADILLAC DeVILLE small car can be quite maneuverable but it ..,..... isn't always. FULL SIZE Here are some other interesting quotes from Dr. Haddon's statement: "It has been repeatedly documented that occup utilizing the lnaurance lnetltute for Highway Sa- chart you can figure out the type of automobile you fety(• preeent deftnltlone, here are eome exampl• drive even If the model 11 not lilted In the examples. ants of small cars, when they are in of care by llze (uling 1882 modele). Uelng thl1 crashes, have a much greater likelihood of
To yqr Times, April1983, Page 6 ------.;.....------What's up Greenwood attends disaster conference
Significant Accomplishment Award: Vern Greenwood, the District's Nat Doyle McCully ...... Ch, Engineering Division ural Emergency Manager in Emergency ~Swanson ...... Ch, ADP Center Management Division/Security Office, SSP: was a participant in the State of Wiscon Barbara Merrill ...... Emerg MgiDt/Security sin's 17th Annual Governor's Conference on Disaster Preparedness, held on 7-8 Bernard Dolezal ...... Coralville ~e "Mike" Thomas ...... Reg Functions Branch April of this year. This conference, which is sponsored by Gary Thompson ...... Park Mgr, Coralville ~e Steven Saylor...... Channel Maint Section the Wisconsin Division of Emergency George Bean ...... Channel Maint Section Government, is the second largest event of its type in the United States. This year James Osche ...... Park Mgr, Saylorville ~e close to 600 leading officials were in at Janet ~wis ...... Coralvilee ~e Peggy Wordsworth ...... Reg Functions Branch tendance. Participants in the two-day Exceptional Performance: event included sheriffs, police and fire of ficials, emergency government directors Charles Kennedy ...... Park Mgr, Uke Red Rock and other authorities involved in disaster ~ter Wadzinski ...... Rec-Res MgiDt Branch management. Donald Bowden ...... Executive Assistant Jerry DeMarce ...... Coralville Uke Focusing on significant issues in emer I..awrence Johnson ...... Uke Red Rock gency management the conference fea tured speakers involved in the handling of Gerald Dowell ...... ~e Red Rock "Mike" Thomas ...... Reg Functions Branch several recent and very serious disasters. Gary Thompson ...... Park Mgr, Coralville I..ake Discussed in detail were the handling of the New Orleans Boeing 727 aircraft crash Steven Saylor...... Channel Maint Section James Osche ...... Park Mgr, Saylorville Uke in July 1982, and Missouri's ongoing dioxin controversy. Also, Wisconsin's Janet ~wis ...... Coralville Uke Peggy Wordsworth ...... Reg Functions Branch Governor, Anthony Earl addressed the George Bean ...... :...... Channel Maint Section group on disaster management. Besides hearing some interesting Special Act Award: · speakers, Vern also attended training David Barker ...... I..aGrange I..ock & Dam workshops which emphasized public infor Melvin Rice ...... I..aGrange I..ock & Dam mation skills in disaster situations, there Mary Donahue ...... Uke Red Rock sponsibilities of the U.S. Coast Guard, Harold Hastings ...... Uke Red Rock military support in peacetime and war I..awrence Johnson ...... Uke Red Rock time emergencies, emergency management QSI: training, and tornado spotting. And to Gerald Dowell ...... Uke Red Rock round out his schedule, Vern, who is an Donald Bowden ...... Executive Office Engineering Geologist, also attended a Jerry DeMarce...... Coralville ~e serr.inar on nuclear waste disposal. Suggestion Awards: To Robert Peppard, Illinois Waterway Maintenance-Operations Division to con struct a device that will load and unload metal grating bundles that are used'as walk Words of freedom ways on the dams. This device eliminates the need to use slings and chains, which often A nation is made great not only by its become tangled with the grating; requires only two men to utilize the device; and vir fruitful acres, but also by the men and tually eliminate the possibility of injury to the workers handling the grating. women who cultivate them ... not only by Retirements: its great forests but by the men and A fond farewell and best wishes for a long and happy retirement go out to the follow women who use them ... not only by its ing District employees who have recently retired: mines but by the people who build and John Giellis, I..ock and Dam Operator at I..ock and Dame 11, on 12 February, after 10 run them. years of Federal service. America was a great land when Colum . ~nald Kennis, a deckhand-sailor in Channel Maintenance Section of Operations bus discovered it. Americans have made it DiVIB1on, after more than 9lh years of Federal service. a great nation. It was Archibald Mac~ish who said: "There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the free Professionalism and Integrity: dom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American dream. Full of visions. Dreams We're Proud to Sign Our Work. are the language of the spirit." - Art Linkletter J I 'I • Stan's All Stars take Compacts (cont.) bowling crown get serious about wearing safety belts. Belt use is higher in small cars than larger cars, but it's not nearly high enough to and Jim Nelson with his 282 game. The The 1982-83 Clock Tower Mixed Bowl offset the inherently greater hazards to ing League finished with a flurry as men's high series was taken by Jim Dixon occupants of these cars in crashes. "Stan's All Star's" took the league crown with his 732 series, in second was Tom We have to remember that our small by beating "Roland's Rollers." Crane with a 712 series and rounding out car is not going to forgive our driving er The Rollers were the second half the top three was Dan Johnson with a rors, particularly excessive speed. The 709. champions and thus earned the right to higher the crash speed and the smaller the The women's high game was captured face the first half champs the All Stars. It car, the worse our chances of surviving. by Nancy Blackwell with her 283 game, was an up and down season. The All Stars There just isn't enough energy-absorbing flew to the first half championship and with JoAnn Wilgenbusch, 273 game, and material between us and whatever we've Linda Johnston, 272 game, following close then struggled most of the second half, crashed into. Incidentally, that's why behind. The women's high series was top only to rise to the occasion and take the when we speak of various sizes of cars we ped by JoAnn Wilgenbusch with her 736 overall crown. The Rollers' year went just speak of wheel base. The weight of the car series, with Tammy Fratzke in second by the opposite. Starting off slowly, they is of little importance in crash protection virtue of her 704 series, and Jan Quint col were in last place at the end of the first -the critical factor is size. Many people, lared third with her 703 series. half, they then took off and either lead or Dr. Haddon among them, think we might In the high game; "The DJ's" were tied for the league lead in the second team be smart to increase the size of "small" took top honors with their 1,192 game, fol half. cars somewhat but build them out of lowed by "Pin Splitters" 1,149 game, and The members of the champion "Stan's lightweight materials so as to have crash "Rolanda Rollers" were comfortably in All Stars" are: Dan Standley, Ric Gender protection without sacrificing fuel econ nalik, Lorraine Deaton, Gerry Wise and third with their 1,143 game. "The DJ's" omy. also walked away with the high team se Roberta Gendernalik. Team members of When all is said and done, the sad facts ries award for their 3,301 series, "Stan's the runner-up "Roland's Rollers" are: about small cars are statistics. There's All Stars" held down the second spot with Rowland Fraser, Dave Peterson, Marty plenty we can do as individuals to keep their 3,226 series, and "Rolands Rollers" Bemdl, Jim Nelson and Linda Johnston. ourselves off those bar graphs. Team standings at the end of the sec- sat in third with their 3,215 series. ond half were as follows: 1. Roland's Rollers 2. Pin Pickers Wheelbase 2. The Winners 3. Stan's All Stars 3. Channel Markers SMALL less than or equal to 96" 3. TheDJ's SUBCOMPACT 4. Pin Splitters SUBCOMPACT greeter then 96" and lea then or equal to 101 " 5. T.E.R.D.S. Following are the leaders for average, SMALL greater then 101" and less than or equal to 106" high game and series with handicap at the COMPACT close of the season: COMPACT Men's average; were Jim Dixon with a gruter then 106" and lea than or equal to 111 " 186 average, Nate Cotton with a 181, and INTERMEDIATE grMter then 111" and less than or equal to 120" Dan Standley with a 176. Women's aver age; were Sandy Dixon with a 152, Kanm FULL SIZE gr•t• then 120" Johnson with a 146, and Patty Johnson with a 145 average. In the men's high The lnatltute uaM th... definitions of car size lut decade. So If a dealer tells you that the car game; Nate Cotton was first with his 286 since aut~ manufacturers definitions change with you're looking at Is full-sized, ask him what the the ttmee. Automobllee with wheelbuea that manu- wheelbue of the car is and compare It to this chart game, followed by John Gall with a 283 tecturera once called "Intermediate" are now called to find out If It really Is a "full size." "full size" to reflect the ~eral downsizing of the
The Tower Times ia an unofficial publication authorized Diatrict Engineer ...... Col. Bernard P Slofer UDder the proviaiotu or AR 360-81, publiahed monthly by Chief, Public Affairs Officer ...... Richard S. Guatafeon olftet preu (or the \!Mployees o( the Rock leland Diatrict. Editor ...... Raymond A. Gall Viewa and opiniona expreued in thia publicatioo are not Graphics and DeaiJll ...... Loren Carey m Deeee~&rily thoee or the Department or the Army. ~ Photoe ...... Bob Canotena US Army Corps mail to: Roclt leland District. US Army Corp. or En11neen, Attn: PAO. Clock Tower BuildiDJ, Rock laland, Dlinola 81201. of Engineers Phone (309! 788-8381 en. 8204. Circulation: 1200. -tf U.S. Government Printing Office: 1983- ~7/11 Rock Island District
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