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Schools at which 89 Texas fire-
mostly fron volunteer de
partments, received training in the
iques of fire ighting.
"Tm 'Firemen’s S chool concluded
its sessions Friday w^en the men
took finaj exam jiations. Cities
whose fire fighters have jassed
‘e cdurae at A4M get siecial
t an <heir insvlrayce ratfs.
t he Firemen’s Training S<hool
was founded in 11930, and has
since served as *\ nod el for s imi
lar schools in other states, ac
cording to Bond.
iThe'rju.S- Air Fcrcet also
nijze the fexas school! as “1
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en’g anc Fire Marshal’s
Texi is.
In addition to the summer course
the Firemen’s Schbol division of
A&M conducts training schools in
various communities a]l j year
round, >with five fv 11-time instruc
tors. Ejach man con lucis classes on
a “circuitj” consist ng of five cifc-
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tjance of each
other, ijsiaeh city is} visited once a
week for five week! .Most of these
courses aife for mixed departments
ies, within a short i
other. lEaeh city is
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to H. R. 3rayton, Tdirectpr of thj
school lan< former A&iM chen^isti
professor. The A}r Farce j me
came from 14 states, and repne|-
sejited thc fire-figi iting forces
such ■ installations is Scott Fiel<
Bellvilfe, Illinois and Lowfery Field
, The Texas Fireiien’s
School had 589
year, Ifrom 283 cijti
with 176 men freps
the f&'st class in
said. Of the present
75 percent were
„ the first time.
J On the :other hand,! one of the
-^iremeft-injstructors
sent far mrery one ,
annual! sessions. He
dom pared
96 cities in
>30, Brayton
year’s class,,
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Special courses are also give*
for professional fire companies
in larger cities. Altogether abon L
200 Texas fire departments are
taught by the traveling instruct
tors each year. AH the instruct
tors are former firemen.
Several national and state au
thorities addressed the riremeifs
School this year. State authority
included Olin Culberson, Railroad
Commissioner; Joe S. Fletcher, as
sistant director, Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety; and G. 111.
Kfntz, supervising engineer, U. S
Bureau of Mines, Dallas.
-National authorities included 1
Alfred Fleming of New York,
rector of conservation, Natidi
Board of Fire Underwriters a
Bond. . —'
Bond is also secretary of the
fire services section of President
Truman’s National Committed
for Fire Prevention, and report
ed that Texas is cooperating witljr
that national group. '
Teaching of fire prevention jin
teachers’ colleges/ so that tpe
teachers may in turn pass' the ini-
formation on to their pupils was
among additional steps urged tyy
Bond for Texas.
He also urged that uniform pgy
scales be established for firemen
of all departments. It should lf>e
possible, Bond said, for a fireman
to go “up the ladder” in promo
tions by moving from one fire de
partment to another as openings
become available, rather than in
spending an entire career in the
fire department of a single city.
Establishment of rural fire pro
tection districts, id cooperation
with the Forest Service, was urged
by Bond. He also pointed out the
necessity of disaster relief plan
ning, similar to civil defense woiik.
The Department^ of National De
fense has set up an agency to
create civil defense planning on j a
National level, and a ^report fro(m
Washington on what the Federal
Government must do will be made
shortly, said Bond.
“The best defense against hi^h
explosives, incendiaries and atom
bombs is plenty of space between
building. You have, fortunately
lots of space in' Texas,” Bond com
mented.
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Hall features for this coming season. She will appear here March
22, 1949. * * ' *
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Movie Star, B-29 Encountered
At Ft. Sill ROTC Summer Camp
- By LARRY GOODWYN
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After three weeks of almost continual bombardment of
facts and figures albout Anti-Aircraft Artillery, the cadets
at Sill ran into their “old faithful,” the 105 mm howitzer as
the final phase of camp training in field artillery gunnery
last week.
The windup of 90mm AAA training was featured by gun
drifts in which squads of 10 men-* T i— —
each were timed in emplacing and
march-ordering the 90mm gun.
Four Aggies were on the winning
squad in emplacement competition
and three more on the group which
established the lowest time for
march ordering the weapon. '
On July 19 Burth French, for
tunate holder of Battalion Com
mander for a three-day period,
became the official escort of
Miss Jacqueline White, Holly
wood starlet, visiting Ft. Sill
where her latest picture, “Re
turn of the Bad Men,” is having
its premiere.
Miss White, who plays opposite
Randolph Scott in the nicture which
has its setting in Oklahoma, pre
sented the ribbon for winning the
Battalion review to Battery C of
the ROTC Cadet Battalion—then
became the “dat"” of French for
the remainder of the evenine.
For French, first sergeant of B
Battery at A&M last year, the
occasion marked his second first
of eamn—two weeks previously he
had the highest score in the Bat
talion in firing the caliber 30 car
bine . on the range—but there is
little doubt' which “first” he de
rived the most eniovment from.
Aggies nominated the annual
ee’imming ebamoionsbins held at
Sill .Jiilv 11. Seven of the ten mem
bers of the B Ratterv team hailed
from A&M: Bill Townsend. Herb
Walne, Adolnh Thomae. Corkv
White. Lav^repce Williams. John
Standefer, Larry Kinard and Boh
Holmes. i
A Battery, which placed second
was comuosed of five Aggies: Paul
w ivel. Burt French. -Tapk O'd^ev.
Dallas Stites. and Jimmv Hartt.
while four more were on the C Bat
tery team: Jimmy Stephens. Har-
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For Your Visual Problems
Consult
Dr. Carlton R. Lee
OPTOMETRIST
203 S. Main — Bryan
Phone 2-1662
For
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old Zietman, Dick Plock, Bull
Mitchell and Bill, Hayes.
In addition, Johnny Heeman
and Allen Self, both Aggies, gave
an exhibition of diving—both
good and bad—with Heeman pro
viding the former and Self t|ie
latter. a
They even have Aggie-Exes i in
Oklahoma. This fact became ojnly
too well known to Aggie cadets; at
Ft. Sill this week when the Aggie}
Alumni Cftib of Lawton, Oklahoma,
completed plans to toss a barbeque
July 14 for cadets in camp.
At least six Aggies at Sill who
will receive their commissions
at the end of camp July 31 pl^n
to go on active duty at Camp
Carson, Colorado, fof two weeks
of mountain training. They art:
Raymond Horany, Fred Hughes,
.TohnnV Heeman. Art MoeUer,
Pete Richey, and A1 Davis.
The government isn’t sparing the
dollars when ft comes to training
its ROTC cadets. Just in order to
make visual tracking more life
like. the army decided to send a
B-29 aloft for cadets to sight dnd
“fire” on. Where did the pique
come from? Spokarfe, Washington!
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(( Texas Counties
Studied by Paine
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The statistical phase of a stqdy
of the resources and industries of
six east Texas counties has bqen
completed by L> S. Paine of the
Agricultural Economics ahtj So
ciology Department.
The counties are Newton, Jas
per, Tyler, Liberty, Hardin and
Orange.
This background study is( ainied
at determining what fnrmei/s lo
cated in the area are doing, hpw
they are doing it and the economic
and social results. 'f j
Paine is placing snecial jempha-
sis on the growing dairy industry
in that part of the state. The cw-
clnding phase of the study Will in
volve field tests of the secondary
data already summarized. i*
Sill Praised
By Commander
The 250 Artillery cadets
at Fort Sill, nearing the
If way mark in their
ncentrated training pro-
received high praise
both the camp executive, Col.
L. Milbum, and the instruc-
responsible for the various
ihases -of the camp, recently.
In addition to getting practical
aihing in latest artillery techni-
_ es the cadets are being given
ihances to serve in various com-
and positions.
Colonel Milburn stated that the
irit of the potential artillery of-
icers is high. He said much in
terest has been shown in such sub
jects as communications, camou
flage, anti-aircraft artillery drill
and practice firing, and selection
nd occupation of anti-aircraft ar-
llery positions. Intensive field ar-
llery training got under way last
eek.
Interest in camp activity does
not; stop at the conclusion of the
day’s training. An athletic pro
gram featuring inter-battery com
petition in softball, volley ball,
swimming and boxing is in pro
gress. A daily newspaper which
Covers the camp activity is publish
ed by the cadets after their regu
lar duties are completed.
The camp executive stated; “I
feel that we have one of the finest
groups of ROTC cadets it has been
Jny privilege to serve with.”
-LETTERS-
(Continued from Page 2)
price range.” 5 .
Campus, but if you have ever
walked ft, you will know, as I
know, that it isn’t an iota less than
a full 5 mile walk. After two
weeks of walking to work, home
for lunch, back to work, then home
agairi at 5, I felt sure there must
be an easier way. I’ve told myself
over and over that it isn’t actu
ally the walking that bothers me,
it’s the principle of the thing.
It is all those people driving
by swoosh in their cars with a
big empty seat. That really
gets me! I’ve convinced myself
that they may be justified, but
I haven’t convinced my legs yet
—they ache every night.
You won’t believe it, but of the
nine next-door neighbors, not a
single one’s destination coincides
even remotely with mine. So I
walk.
As I said, I didn’t mind it so
much at first — communing with
Mother Nature so early in the
morning, but the novelty soon
wore off, and I found myself look
ing back wistfully whenever I
heard a car coming. Thhy usually
kept right on going, too.
I
I did get a ride one morning
which restored by faith in the
goodness of humanity, but it
was only a temporary restora
tion. A sweet old lady, who was
taking her laundry to the Laun-.
romat, picked me up. She took
me nearly all the way down
there before she could find a
place to stop and let me out. I
was further away from rtiy work
than when I caught the ride.
So, please, driver, if you see
some poor struggling creature hob
bling aj^ng on her knees (I’ve
walked off up to there) lie : good
to me. If you can’t give me a
lift, then please don’t splash wa
ter on me as you go by.
I \ Name withheld
by Request.
DR. N. B. i McNUTT
DENTIST
OfficeUn Parker Building
' Over Canady's Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas
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1 Corpse, 3 Murderers in Houston
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By T. J. BILLINGSLEY
• In Houston practically anything
can happen. Some things practical
ly happen. Lots of things happen
that aren’t practical. Last week
was no exception.
The weekly murder came off on
schedule. A young lady pictur
esquely dubbed the “Queen of the
Beaumont Highway” was still
more picturesquely bumped off on
the road of the same name.
The gendarmes have three sus
pects, each of which cheferfully
admits that he did the woman in.
The minions of the law have sent
the murder slug along to a balis-
tics expert to determine the win
ning contestant.
The protectors of the peace had
other troubles too. ';
A lady summoned the radio pa
trol to her uptown residence to
remove a horse she found stand
ing on the back porch when she
returned home from a shopping
tour. What with the recent horse
meat scandal the poor critter was
probably only looking for the
kitchen to have a few words with
a stablemate.
Across town the men In blue had
a little variety from the usual
procedure of moving automobiles
from off pedestrians. A motorist
reversed things by complaining
that there was a man sleeping on
top of his sedan. When they re
moved the body it explained that
it had been counteracting the heat
by taking a few nips of some aged*
in-the-weed Nectar of Blue Grass.
He remembered nothing until a
few pink elephants later when he
was awakened by the officers of
the law with his pockets. inside
out and his mind containing a little
less. The gendarmes shrugged their
shoulders and bade him be on his
way.
The Houston Post’s man of many
answers, Mr. H. Mewhinney was
fresh from settling a dispute over
whether or not a bus driver is
deserving of a cup of coffee at
the end of his run and was devot
ing his question and answer column
to the problem of whether a night-
hawk was a nighthawk or a bull
bat.
A reader wondered what the
birds wheeling around in the sky
at dusk were. Mr, M. said they
were bull bats. Ten thousand irate
readers arose.and said they were
no such thing but rather (a)
nighthawks, (b) banded flycatch
ers, and (c) some latin name two
columns wide. j ^
H. M. layed back at them by
saying that he was a country boy
at heart, and that all rural lads
knew a bull bat was a bull bat.
The dissenting readers concluded
that H. M. was full of one, had
had the other in his belfry and the
argument was still raging when
last-I bought a Post. r - (, *
The birds incidentally, were still
flying about, oblivious of all the
furor they had fostered.
And out on South Main where a
new Ford was selling on the used
car lots for $3,200 a dealer was
auctioning off a .shiny Ford. But
it wasn’t quite new in the true
R. C. ECHOLS
Realtor
Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Bryan
Phone 2-6454
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body tissues in good repair; also
i promotes growth.
AIBOFLAVIN ».. Nourishes the body ceHs and
generates vitality.
THIAMIN . . . , , Increases the appetite by help-
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“T” that had been cratid
farmers bom for all thfsei
Back in the days w!
car makers were puttfni
new gear shifts on t‘
the aforementioned
had feared that he
learn to drive one of th<
led contraptions and I
three new Model “T’s”
them in his bam to b«
one at a time. He unfo
only outlasted two of
the third one fell into tl
one of the South Main Mol
chants who sensed it’j
value and put it ojn
block.
After the nostalgic i
had looked it over for
knocked it down for a
to a man who gays he
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prize away one of the
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iurdayv July 24, 1948
ni'stifii
over in their graves! 1
down town the natives icur-
past the new building skele-
.fflknowing only one thing foe
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surp. Besides
Auction Proceeds
to Loan Fund
Public auction for lost and found
articles turned into the Security .
Office was held July 9 in the Sto* .
dent Labor Office in Goodwin
Hall- . ' . : ■
George A. Long, Student Loan
Administrator, was auctioneer for
the 1 ijlay. ]
, Bidding was slow, but the ma-r
jority of the articles were sold.
Prices offered ranged from five
cents, for a tie clasp‘ to eight doH-
ars for a leather jacket. ;
Total sales amounted to $50.85,
and Long said that this money
would be put into one of the stu
dent loan funds. Future auctions
will be held for unclaimed items
that ire turned into the office, with
therproaeeds from each, sale ^going
to Btuam!
fit loan funds.
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