THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944
THE BATTALION
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Successful Course
For Firemen Held
Three courses, basic training,
instructor training and Red Cross
lay-instructor, Highlighted the 15th
annual school for firemen held
at the Texas A. & M. College,
May 29-June 2 by the Department
of Chemistry in cooperation with
the State Firemen’s and Fire Mar
shals’ Association. Over 400 fire
men were enrolled from 274 Texas
towns. Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of
the Department of Chemistry, was
director of the firemen’s school.
Where a community has a fire
man successfully taking the 27-
hour intensive basic training course
or the fire department instructor
course, and returns to his home
department, that community gets
a three percent reduction in the
whole town fire rate.
The annual school for firemen
is held primarily for training reg
ular or volunteer firemen in small
towns and rural communities. Fire
departments of the larger cities
send depatment officials to assist
in giving the drills and evolutions
which make up the basic training
course. This year, officials of fire
departments of Dallas, Houston,
San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston,
Waco, Beaumont, Luling and Se-
guin demonstrated the nine drills
and evolutions featured.
Report was made to the fire
men’s school on fire instructor
training conducted by the Industrial
Extension Service of the Texas
A. & M. College in cooperation
with the State Board for Vocation
al Education. This showed fire
department instructor training was
given to 1,146 firemen during the
past year. These included a 30-
hour instructor training course to
299 firemen; 10 hours of fire train
ing to 293 building attendants; in
dustrial and military fire brigade
training was given 443 men, and
96 attended 15-hour classes at an
officer’s training conference.
College Airport
Available For Use
With the closing of the large
Army Air Corps indoctrination
center at Texas A. & M. College,
Easterwood Field, the College Air
port will be available for exten
sive civilian flying operations by
July 1, Dr. Howard W. Barlow,
acting dean of the School of En
gineering, has announced.
Easterwood Field is reputed to
be the largest and finest air field
owned by a college or university
in the United States. The airport
comprises nearly 800 acres, about
400 of which are in the present
limits of the field, the balance be
ing available for approaches and
future developments. There are
three concrete paved runways 150
feet wide and 5140 feet long. Each
runway has an accompanying taxi
strip and a number of intercon
nectors to facilitate taxiing and
traffic handling.
Present plans for the extension
of these facilities for civilian use
contemplate providing for storage,
field service and repair.
Representing an investment of
$1,080,000, Easterwood Field is
owned and operated by the Texas
A. & M. College through the School
of Engineering in cooperation with
the Department of Aeronautical
Engineering.
Authorization for the establish
ment of a training school for air
craft and aircraft engine mechanics
has been granted by the War Man
power Commission and funds will
be provided by the State Board
for Vocational Education, acting
through the A. & M. Industrial Ex
tension Service, Dr. Barlow said.
This course will be the forerunner
of many similar ones to be es
tablished throughout the State.
One is now being conducted at the
A. & M. War Training Center at
Grand Prairie.
Additional facilities providing
for flight and ground instruction
for students at the Texas A. &
M. College and local citizens will
be provided as soon as possible.
These will be announced at the
earliest possible date.
The blue of the sky and the col
ors of sunrise and sunset are due)
in a large measure to the presence
of dust in the atmosphere.
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