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Show June 27. HILL TOP TIMES 1980 Page 31 Injuries climb while whizzing along on roller skates Grandma on roller skates with Uncle Harry! Yep. And they may just be two of the and women. In contrast, the great majority of skateboard accidents occurred to boys and whizzing along in the nationwide craze d of the injuries were scrapes About and bruises, but the remainder were more fractures and sprains to ankles, serious and other joints. wrists, estimated 135,000 people injured while one-thir- roller skating. Last year alone, 100 senior citizens and more than 10,000 middle-age- d adults were hurt while on roller skates. In fact, during 1979 roller skates surpassed skateboards in the number of reported accidents, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. At least half of all roller skating injuries were suffered in 1979 by teenagers and well of the injuries were to girls over two-thir- men. outstretched arms. The way to go, experts say, is to try to land on flesh or muscle when falling. In other words, the padded portions of the body. ds According to expert skaters, many of the more serious injuries might have been avoided if the roller skaters knew the proper way to fall. an experimental backscatter radar system. Testing will be conducted until May of next year. The test will prove the technical feasibility of using the radar as an early warning system to detect aircraft approaching the North American continent. The radar system detects approaching aircraft by sending radar signals to the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer 50 to 250 miles above the Earth's surface. The ionosphere then reflects the signals back to Earth. Aircraft passing through the beam reflect the radar signal back to the system's receiver. The radar beam can be steered from 500 to 1,800 miles to track , aircraft masked from ground-base- d radars by the of curvature the Earth. . (AFNS) over-the-horiz- I Backscaffer radar system feasibility test now underway toll-fre- hotline. Typically, when skaters lose their balance they try to break their fall in ways which increase the likelihood of fractures and sprains, such as falling forward onto The Air Force Systems Command is testing on Some of the bruises and broken bones could also be avoided if skaters follow these tips: wear protective padding on elbows and knees, try to fall in a relaxed manner, rather than a stiffened posture, skate on smooth surfaces, keeping . a watch for stones, twigs, broken cement and other surface irregularities. If you're a skater and want more e information, call the Commission's In the continental U.S., call Maryland, call in 6; In Alaska, 800-492-83- Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, (AFPS) call Hill 3. employees invited to open house Karl Larsen, Civilian Recreation Director, has announced that Ogden Union Station officials have invited the people of Hill AFB to visit the Ogden Railroad Museum Tuesday for an open house. AMTRAK will inaugurate the Superliner Coach service on the "Desert Wind" between Ogden and Los Angeles via Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Bi-lev- el Stretching 85 feet in length and standing LrDe LTD more than 16 feet high, the superliners are among the largest passenger cars ever built. 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