2 The Dailas Post 7m Dallas, PA Wednesday, November 24, 1993 POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE MOCK ACCIDENT — The Dallas ambulance crew prepares to transport Beth McHale, playing the role of a victim in a simulated accident at College Misericordia November 19, designed to call atten- tion to the dangers of driving while drinking. DUI drill a sobering experience By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Two wrecked cars sat in the pouring rain on the grassy area near College Misericordia’s base- ball diamond, their occupants moaning in pain. + One passenger had been thrown from her carand was lying motionless on the wet grass. . Blood, broken glass, twisted metal and beer cans littered the scene. ~“ “Oh, God! Help!” cried a female victim as a campus security pa- trol approached the wreck. . Emergency crews from Dallas and Kunkle screamed onto cam- pus and began to tend to the victims while firefighters used special rescue tools to cut one man from the wreckage. Later a Life-Flight chopper would be called in to airlift him to a nearby hospital's trauma unit. /-..'The score: one dead, two in- ; Jured, one not hurt but obviously “drunk Carmen Novitskiand John Tone have seen too many such scenes ~ while serving with the Dallas Fire and Ambulance. _ Enlisting the aid of friends and college personnel, they designed - the mock accident to help alert their fellow students at Misericor- ~ dia and the entire community to the dangers of driving while in- toxicated. ~ *. “A large number of the acci- - dents which I respond to are DUI- - related,” Novitski said. “Between the colleges and the bar scene, * there are too many young people involved in this type of accident.” Tone also wants to prevent “at least a few” DUI-related accidents through the similation, which he devised this summer while serv- ing with his home fire department in Randolph Township, NJ. He also serves with the New Jersey Forest Fire Service and, while attending Misericordia, with the Dallas Fire Department. The mock accident also was also used as a drill for campus security. Misericordia campus security, fire and rescue units from Dallas and Kunkle, the Dallas township police, the Life-Flight chopperand students Beth McHale, Jan Kummer, Jon Dameron and Bill Papageorgiu also participated in the drill, organized with the help of the college's Campus Outreach Prevention Education (COPE) of- fice, which provides federally- funded drug and alcohol preven- tion programs to the students. “Do you know that you can fill Yankee Stadium with all the people who die in a year from DUI-re- lated accidents?” Papageorgiu said. “That's over 50,000 people a year.” +“ Students laughed as Papageor- giu failed field sobriety tests administered by patrolman Way- man Miers, unable to count cor- rectly to ten or stagger in a straight line. “Whoa, man!” he said as Miers snapped handcuffs onto his wrists. Melissa Murphy was appalled. “Innocent people just got killed and this jerk doesn't realize it!” she said. “I didn't think that it would be this intense,” said student Sara Rose. “There's so much equip- ment. I expected to see an ambu- lance and maybe a police car. The rescue equipment was very inter- esting to watch.” “Ifit changes one person's opin- ion, it's worth it,” said student Lori Verespy. “This is a good reality demon- stration,” said student Bill Dor- mer, a native of Pottsville, which 288-3500 Mark Plaza, Edwardsville, Rt. 11 586-6000 Rts. 6 & 11, Clarks Summit N.E. Penna's Renowned Spot For Great Food & Entertainment Steaks « Chops + Seafood Over 100 Entrees el d-Y: 18 lol dl plo] [Te EAA CTI i STAT To SI T1 MOL Te 0 (ACH E11 @ OFT g fh {lof 1 Open for Lunch & Dinner 11:30 A.M. - 2 AM., 7 Days a Week Make Your Holiday Reservation Early ENTERTAINMENT Fri., Nov. 26th Looking Good Sat., Nov. 27th East Coast he calls the alcohol capital of America. When not attending school, he works in a hospital, where he sees “an awful lot of this.” Both Dor- mer and fellow student Andrew Fox of New York said that they had lost friends in DUI-related accidents. Although many students ob- serving the mock accident said that it brought the message home to them, they felt that those who drink and drive wouldn't pav at- tention. “They think it won't ever happen to them” said Marissa Bet. New Jersey Forest Fire Warden John Baraniuk, whom Tone serves with when he's home, made a special trip to Dallas to videotape the mock accident. He said that he is impressed with the area fire and ambulance units’ efficiency and teamwork. “We don't have many drills like this in. New Jersey,” he said. “It sets a good example for other colleges to follow.” After the mock accident ended, Dallas Township police chief Carl Miers said that homicide by ve- hicle while intoxicated is harder to prove than murder. “You must prove that the driver's level of intoxication di- rectly caused the victim's death,” he said. “I think that this was a good deterrent,” said Papageorgiu after having his handcuffs removed. “I certainly learned it today - the hard way.” PA stream map now avallable Howard Higbee spent most of his 30 year career drawing 45,000 miles of Pennsylvania streams onto a 5 by 5 foot map. Then his original drawing and printing plates were lost! Long thought to be unreproducible, this rare out- door enthusiast’'s possession is now updated and back-in-print. Higbee developed the legendary “Stream Map of Pennsylvania,” a chart so detailed that the tiniest and remotest waterways—imere capillaries on the Pennsylvania landscape—show up in living color. Every stream is there. Not a single one is left dut. This is the so-called “lost” Stream Map that many fisher- men, farmers, engineers, environ- mentalists, hikers, canoeists, kayakers, boaters and of course fishermen, have been searching for. Even the President of Penn- sylvania Trout Unlimited, William Kodrich, is quoted as saying, “I've been searching for a copy of the Stream Map of Pennsylvania for over 10 years.” And before the new updated version became available, the Department of Environmental Resources found it necessary to keep their one remaining badly worn original “Stream Map of Pennsylvania” under lock and key. Professor Higbee, a former government geologist and retired Penn State professor, completed the map in 1965, plotting the location of 45,000 miles of streams, including 10,000 miles of streams clean and cold enough to support trout. Starting with 82 large topographic maps and aerial photographs, he re- duced them again and again, drawing in each stream by hand, under magnification, with sharp- ened pen points. To check dis- tances, he adjusted his car's odometer to measure miles in 500th. The result was a masterpiece, a map that contains streams you won't find on other maps. But a few years out of business, the printer entrusted with publishing the map went out of business, and the original drawing and print- ing plates were destroyed. Be- cause existing copies illustrated streams in non-photographic blue, it ‘appéared that reprinting the map was impossible. In 1991 at the age of 91, How- ard Higbee told Vivid Publishing of Williamsport, PA. “At this stage of my life there isn't much I really want or need. But seeing the ‘Stream Map’ available to the public again is one thing that would make me happy.” So with Howard's help, Vivid began a search for the lost drawing and printing plates. The search located a few sur- viving relatives of the printer, bankruptcy court records and Where each completed week of Physical Therapy earns you a FREE Week of One-to-One Personal Training Only at: One-to-One Fithess & Rehab Center 675-6554 J The Dallas Post LIFE'S WORK - Professor Howard Higbee, at age 91, looked over’ the first proof of the updated PA Stream Map. i attorneys also provided a few leads. A conversation with the man that actually cleaned out the bankrupt printer's building and hauled all of the printing plates to the Baltimore Landfill ended this avenue of the search in a dead- end. Vived then began a search for a way to reprint from Howard's only- remaining copy of the 1965 Stream Map. Many of the nation’s leading printers and even map experts like National Georgraphic said the same thing, “It can’t be done. Some said the map would have to be completely redrawn. Finally, Vivid located a brand- new technology that looked like it could reproduce the many fine light blue lines on the map. One section of the rare map was tested. Karl Ings and Larry Seaman of Vivid Publishing were present when the first proof was pulled. “The results were much better than we ever expected, it was very exciting. We knew then that it was going to be possible to republish the Stream Map,” said Ings. “We know the map would sell well because every fisherman we showed the map. to said they wanted one. But, what kept us “searching long after most people would have given up, was the hope that our friend Howard would see his wish fulfilled,” said Sea- man. The very next day, Ings and Seaman took the color proof to Higbee with a big smile. Howard said, “It's an exact duplication of ROBBER =a 4 -a ee LI) ee Lo) ass RAVIOLI ee 8 se 8 een se EE S08 E80 A000 0004s 0eNssen0sssls TIEN es ee Bd BO vs SI euBEseE bea SEAet eds illo chnteusersenn0Cela oe 0 Aid Abonus booklet, titled “Stream Map Location Guide” is included free with each map. The “Guide” lists the location of over 900 pro- ductive streams, this represents the 10,000 miles of Pennsylvania streams and rivers cold and clean enough to support trout. Over 300 lakes, dams, reservoirs and ponds are indexed. Bass waters and trophy fish waters are also indexed. The streams listed in “Trout Streams of Pennsylvania” by Dwight Landis and “Pennsyl- vania Trout Streams and Their Hatches” by Charles Meck are also indexed in the “Guide.” This makes it easy to reference the close-up maps and stream. de- scriptions listed in the books. . A portion of map sales will benefit Pennsylvania Trout Un- limited’ stream conservation ef- forts. 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