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‘Pretty skinny’ guy crowned
as homecoming, uh, person
By Celia W. Dugger
Staff Writer
. Rob Anderson may be a “pretty
skinny” straight-A student with ambitions
to attend Yale University, but for now he
is homecoming queen at Central High
'''Chool in Macon.
At the Friday night homecoming
>me, 16-year-old Anderson, decked out in
i black tuxedo, was crowned with a spar
ding tiara and handed a huge bouquet of
■ed roses.
“He looked gorgeous just like a
|ueen,” said his girlfriend, 18-year-old
Charlotte NeSmith, who squired him at the
festivities.
I When his name was announced at half
lime, the crowd screamed and cheered.
■Some of them went crazy,” Miss NeSmith
laid.
| Anderson challenged the 12 feminine
Beauties in the contest partly as a joke and
Hartly to make a point about what the race
f r queen had become in recent years.
| Instead of being a contest to elect the
fest example of what the school can pro-
irefighters take another step to save Atlanta lives
By Connie Green
Staff Writer
Atlanta’s most dangerous fire season
s arrived, and firefighters have mounted
effort to teach people how to avoid
Ung killed in a residential blaze.
I Most of the city’s residential fire
talities occur during the fall and winter
bnths, according to Atlanta fire-preven-
In statistics.
I During National Fire Prevention
lek, which started Sunday and ends Oct.
I fire-prevention officers throughout
Itropolitan Atlanta will be sponsoring
|e safety demonstrations in shopping
Ills in hopes of making people more
pre of the main causes of fires in houses
f apartments where most building
fs occur so that residents can do
fie firefighting of their own.
f There were 32 fire deaths in Atlanta
f 981, according to Lt. C.R. Gragg of the
nnta Fire Bureau’s Fire Prevention
f ision. Ten of the deaths occurred during
f spring and summer April through
Btember. The other 22 occurred from
Biber to March, the time when people
■illy heat their homes, Gragg said.
B During 1980, there were also 32 fire
Blities —two during the spring and
people killed
i state’s roads
Bv The Aisocialed Pre»
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pighways this weekend,
uding a pedestrian who
I struck by a vehicle,
Georgia State Patrol
Irted Sunday,
ne accidents included:
[Dennis Lee Scott, 37,
[riffin was killed when
kicle hit him in a road-
I about four miles east
[Griffin in Spalding
|ty Saturday night.
■Dewey Dunn, 38, of
lesville, died when the
In which he was riding
led over early Sunday
fancy Hart Road, 12.5
| south of Elberton.
■Jefferson Turner
lias, 19, of Bowman
Billed when the motor
| he was riding left a
| in Bowman in Elbert
By Saturday.
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■ 16, of Dahlonega was
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Ber vehicle collided
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duce, the race for homecoming queen had
"degenerated into a popularity contest,” he
said.
The son of 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals Judge R. Lanier Anderson, Rob
Anderson described himself as “very
skinny.” He is vice president of the honor
society, member of the academic bowl
team and the math club, and co-captain of
the band. Anderson will soon be sending
his application to Yale.
Anderson said his father “thought it
was a good joke. But he wasn’t quite as
gung-ho about it as my mother was.”
To symbolize his race, Anderson
picked a scarlet letter A, which stood both
for the first letter of his name and his
decision to stand against tradition. Ander
son said he thought “guys should be al
lowed a place in the process of being a
homecoming queen.”
To celebrate his victory, “we went to
Shaky’s,” Miss NeSmith said.
Most students were amused by Ander
son’s race, but a few young women with
their hearts set on being queen may have
been disappointed, Central Principal Wil
liam Bell said.
“I feel quite sure some of them were
very hurt by it," said Bell.
‘Fire deaths are caused for a number of reasons, but most
because of heating devices. So people should make sure to
have their heating systems checked to see if they are in good
operating condition.’
Lt. C.R. Gragg,
Atlanta Fire Bureau
summer and 30 during the fall and winter
months, according to Gragg.
“Fire deaths are caused for a number
of reasons, but most because of heating de
vices,” Gragg said. “So people should
make sure to have their heating systems
checked to see if they are in good operat
ing condition. I know some people can’t af
ford it, and they let some things go, but it’s
worth it. Some people can do their own
minor maintenance.”
Some blow motors used for heating,
especially the older ones, might just need
oiling, Gragg said. Residents also should
have someone check their fireplaces, he
said.
Usually, fires in the winter are more
severe than those in the summer because
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What causes a transformer
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Transformer similar to one that exploded
winter fires are less likely to be noticed in
their early stages, Gragg said. When it is
cold, doors and windows are closed, so
these fires usually are not detected by
neighbors until a building is in flames, he
said.
Most of those who die in building fires
are not burned to death but die of smoke
inhalation, Gragg said. “Most of the re
ports show they are found dead on the
scene, and the fire may not be in the room
where they are,” he added.
Therefore, it is important for people
to take precautions, and the best way to
protect themselves from fire while they
are sleeping is to install a smoke detector,
Gragg said.
“It’s not that we have a bad fire de-
Fatal electrical mishap
called a ‘freak accident’
By Chuck Bell
Staff Writer
When 17-year-old Mary Shannon
Flanders was fatally burned by a shower
of hot oil at the Riverview Academy foot
ball field in Albany, she became the victim
of one of the most unlikely occurrences of
modern times what engineers call the
“eventful failure” of an electrical trans
former.
Officials of the Mitchell Electric
Membership Corp., which owns the trans
former, have not yet determined what
caused it to rupture as Miss Flanders was
walking beneath it.
Albany fire officials classified it as a
"freak accident,” and with good reason.
Although such events are not unheard of,
transformer failures are rare and trans
former failures that result in death or in
jury are even rarer.
The reason it is unusual for something
to go wrong with a transformer is that a
transformer is such a simple device that
there is not much that can go wrong.
Basically, a transformer consists of a
steel core wire wound around it. There is
more wire in one coil than in the other.
When an electrical current flows through
one of the coils, a current is induced in the
partment. It’s just that people don’t take
precautions,” he said. “They can’t do any
thing about it unless they install a warning
device.
“Most of the fires are caused by plain
old carelessness,” said Lt. James Gibson of
the DeKalb County fire department’s Bu
reau of Fire Prevention. “Some house fires
occur when people decide to cut off their
electricity and use candles for light and
end up using them improperly. Some have
been caused when people tried to heat
their house or apartment by burning a
bucket of charcoal. Some just don’t know
about checking chimneys and cleaning fire
places.”
For checking a chimney, Gibson
recommended setting a flashlight at the
bottom of the fireplace with the beam
pointed up the flue, going to the attic, spot
ting as many holes as possible, and patch
ing them up.
Every day of fire prevention week,
Atlanta fire officials will have home fire
safety demonstrations with safety equip
ment at Greenbriar Shopping Mall in
southwest Atlanta during shopping hours.
DeKalb fire officials plan to have shopping
mall demonstrations this week also. For
times and places, contact the DeKalb Fire
Prevention Office.
other coil. If a high voltage is applied to
one side, a lower voltage is induced in the
other side, and vice versa.
When a transformer is operating, the
coils tend to get hot. They are prevented
from overheating by being enclosed in a
steel can that is filled with high-grade
mineral oil and sealed with a tight-fitting
lid.
While the oil, which also serves as an
electrical insulator, keeps the coils rela
tively cool, it gets very hot itself, and
therein lies a problem. If the hot oil, for
some reason, escapes from the can it can
cause serious injuries to anyone unfortu
nate enough to come in contact with it.
Utilities use a number of methods to
prevent that from happening and no two
utilities do it exactly the same way.
“If you talk to Duke Power, for exam
ple, you’ll find that they don’t do it the
same way we do it," said Georgia Power
engineer Charlie Bleakley. “Os course, we
think they’re crazy and they think we’ve
missed the boat.”
One problem that engineers have had
to solve is the buildup of pressure in the
transformer as the hot oil expands. If the
pressure gets high enough, the lid can blow
off, allowing some of the oil to escape.
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