Disaster
Hayward Field bleachers ‘collapse’
leaving plastic wounds, fake blood
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Of the Emerald
“They've killed my best friend!’’
the young woman giggled hysteri
cally. All around her under the
Hayward Field bleachers, cub
scouts, members of the civil air
patrol and volunteers off the street
with plastic wounds lay in pools of
dripping, manufactured blood.
Some of them were hanging from
the web of metal support poles
which held up the stands.
Theoretically the Hayward Field
Bleachers had just collapsed.
“Our purpose is to make sure all
local agencies are able to imple
ment a coordinated disaster effort
in the event of a real emergency,”
explained Lee Zimmerman, direc
tor of the Wednesday mock disas
ter and manager of the local medi
cal services.
Prior to the disaster, 70 volun
teers laughed nervously and
joked in the Hayward Field stands
as registered nurses moved
among them squirting blood.
Richard Schmink, 12, was fitted
with a rubber stomach from which
protruded a small portion of red
intestine. “This is a bowel protru
sion, explained the nurse, as she
gave Schmink a “blood reservoir
and pump, a small pump and bag
which Schmink could squeeze to
make his wound bleed.
Robert Crisp received a realistic
piece of glass in his arm and a
broken neck. "You re not sup
posea 10 move, me nurse in
structed.
Others received amputations,
and were fitted with bloody
stumps, which covered their
hands. Marge Sliwinsky, a nursing
student at Lane Community Col
lege, was given a rubber face
mask on which the skin over her
right jaw was replaced by a red,
gaping hole.
In the time between the official
collapse of the stands and the
make-up procedure, volunteers
sipped orange drinks through their
masks and speculated as to the
cause of their injuries. “See, what
happened was," said Schmink, “I
was on the top of the stands; when
I fell my stomach got caught on
one of the bolts."
The injuries were meant to be
varied. The disaster was theoreti
cally caused after a service truck
accidentally backed into the
southern portion of the east side
bleachers, causing them to col
lapse. This in turn upset a propane
cooker, causing a small fire.
Probable injuries from such an ac
cident, according to Zimmerman,
include skull fractures, concus
sions, neck injuries, multiple frac
tures, burns, chest and abdominal
injuries, coronary and respiratory
seizures and hysteria.
"Ohhhhhhh! Ohhhhh. Help me,
ohhhhh! Seventy people, with
the exclusion of those who were
dead, rolled in the dirt and con
crete clutching themselves.
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Although local agencies, includ
ing ambulance services, city and
county governments, police de
partments, sheriffs offices and fire
departments, were instructed to
react to the mock disaster as the
real thing, some were late in arriv
ing.
“We've got a real one," radioed
the fire department. The ambul
ances arrived 10 minutes after
being called. Paramedics moved
among the injured with stretchers,
bandaging the plastic wounds.
As Schmink happily squeezed
his blood pump, paramedics at
tempted to stop the bleeding with
gauze. "Ohhhhh, my stomach
hurts,” he wailed.
“Where s my purse,” screamed
one of the hysterics looking wildly
about the stands.
A victim with a waxen face, and
blood leaking down his forehead,
was tagged "immediate” and
loaded unconscious on a
stretcher.
“We have two head injuries,
one bowel injury and one undiag
nosed,” said the director of field
operation radioing the first ambul
ance. “We have 35 critical injuries
needing immediate attention. An
emergency center of operation
was set up in back of the first am
bulance
“You ve got to help my friend,
you ve gotta, cried another hys
'eric coming up to a paramedic.
(Continued on Page 4)
Wide variety of styles, performances
greet fans at weekend tennis events
By TIM LEONARD
Of the Emerald
For tennis players and fans alike it was a big
weekend in Eugene as two tournaments attracted a
wide vanety of styles and offered quality perfor
mances
At the Eugene Swim and Tennis Club the annual
Pacific Western event featured top players and prize
money while the City of Eugene sponsored competi
tion for local doubles players at Amazon Park.
The singles and doubles finals featured umpire
Denby Mackie who officiated at Wimbledon earlier
this year and will later work the Forest Hills tourna
ment. In addition, Mackie is the president of the
Northwest Tennis Association.
The western event had been sponsored by
American Express the last three years but the spon
sor switched to a resort club tour and the lack of local
sponsorship meant less money and fewer players.
The Pacific Northwest Tennis circuit features
matches in Eugene, Portland, Tacoma-Seattle and
Vancouver with the top two finishers receiving berths
in the opening round at the U.S. Open at Forest Hills
later in the summer. The prize money this year came
out of the entry fees.
In the women s singles final, played before a
large gallery under bright sun with occasional gusts
of wind, Sonoe Yonezawa of Japan easily handled
Lindsey Berman in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Their
match featured long rallies from baseline to baseline
with the unseeded Yonezawa keeping Berman mov
ing throughout the contest.
It wasnt until the sixth game of the final set
that Berman managed to hold her own serve while
playing from the baseline, as she passed up chances
to move into the net for volley shots. The consistent I
deep topspin shots of Yonezawa proved to be too f
much for her opponent while the fans watched some i
well-played rallies.
Roger McKee captured the men's singles
championship with a straight set win, 6-3, 6-2, over Jon
Hermanson.
McKee, seeded second, broke serve in the
fourth game following two deuce points and was
never threatened. He repeatedly hit strong volleys to
pull his younger opponent wide before hitting clean
winners.
The University undergraduate stayed with his
game plan to play aggressive, and followed short
shots into the net for his volley shots. The place
ments repeatedly had Hermanson lunging wide, with
errors the result. In all, McKee broke service five
times in the match, which saw Hermanson playing
below form after defeating the number one seed
Saturday. J
City holds first of three summer tennis tourneys
It was 70 degrees at 8 a.m. July 16 and the heat
was barely on. Who met whom, when and where, for
how long and how hard — the questions ominous —
the answers unknown. By 8:30 it was settled and the
annual Eugene City Doubles Tennis Tournament
was underway.
Each summer Eugene s Parks and Recreation
Department sponsors three tournaments for area
players to test their skills. Last weekend's competi
tion at Amazon Park was strictly doubles, 18 years or
older. The $4 entry fee entitled the players to their
choice of competition, the stiffest being the “open,”
followed by the recreational “A" and finally the recre
ational “B” group.
The men s “open," "A" and “B“ began Saturday
morning and went 14 rounds to set up the finals for
Sunday. The women's doubles had only two rounds
in the “A” ana tnree in the open to match for the
finals. The "open mixed doubles each went seven
rounds to the final. All matches were best of three
sets
The gallery was small with a prevailing jovial
atmosphere both on and off the court. “The matches
were played well at all levels of competition with both
winners and losers showing fine competitive spirit,"
said Jimmy Clarke, the tournament director.
Trophies went to all finalists.
There are two more tournaments scheduled for
the summer. The next is a singles tournament set for
Aug. 18-21. The deadline for entry is Aug. 15. A
singles and doubles tournament is scheduled for
Sept. 14-18. Deadline for entry is the Sept. 9. Eugene
Parks and Recreation can be reached at 687-5333
for more information. There will be entry blanks av
ailable in the Eugene Register-Guard.
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