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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1954)
D. B. COFFER COLLEGE ARCHIVIST MSC, FE 3 COPIES .3 on olumo 53 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1954 Price 5 Cents this ROi Put on hi;?*#! STOt [|L CENTER—Field operations on a 26-acre Firemen’s Training - School were directed J walcie-talkie radios from this communica- ters. At the microphone is Capt. Roy d Paso Fire Department and in the back ground Col. H. R. Brayton speaks via phone with his office in the Texas Engineering Extension Service. Three radio- equipped cars also were used in the exercises simulating conditions in large-scale emergencies and civil defense. $T!4rmistead, Turk Visit Military mtkj-ive Talk In San Antonio yan rmistead, dean aterinary Medi- haid |D. Turk, ment of veter- ———addressed mem- ary Medical As- NDITP ounty Tuesday r Officers’ Mess, I L Wednesday Drs. 1. IJ'k while visiting- lical Service RO- • f ji r . held at Brooke md a ’ enter ’ observed tli a ca; ve ftt nches 10 lectric ance, ^ uourse training course 0 months to in electric coopera- i offices in 79 ing launched this 1 electric training Texas Engineer- rvice. chief of the de- , aides include ; Troy S. Watson, W. Kerlick and i. All of the in- isit each of the . there are co-ops id in a series of ‘S which will treat ures of rural eleC- [ ir Wood said. The ealing with prin- ity was completed training facilities with groups of the 133 veterinary cadets attending the encampment. Activities observed by the civil ian educators were demonstration School of Aviatfoh Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base. Drs. Armistead and Turk, both of a pack animal transportation team, from Camp Carson, Colo.; visit to the Quartermaster Cold Storage and Meat Cutting Plant at Fort Sam Houston; a tour of the Bordens’ and Foremost milk pro cessing plants in downtown San Antonio; and a trip through the popular speakers in the veterinary field, addressed the ROTC veteri- Stevens Resigns Post As Departmental Head Prof. A. B. Stevens, head of the department of petroleum engineer ing, has resigned effective July 1. He will enter private business. He came to A&M in 1934 as an associate professor in petroleum Hearne Ready For Big Attendance At Political Shoutfest Reports from Heame indicate that one of the largest crowds ever to attend a political rally there will be present for the gathering July 21 at 8 p.m. on the football field. All candidates for county, state, and district office will be welcom ed. Hearne civic personalities B. F. Russ and Cayce Moore will be in charge of the affair, Russ in troducing the speakers and Moore leading the arrangement commit tee. i engineering. In 1937 he was pro moted to professor of petroleum engineering and in 1952 was ap pointed professor and head of the department. Professor Stevens is a graduate of the University of California with a B.S. in petroleum engineer ing (1927) and holds an MS from the University of Southern Cali fornia. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, the American Institute of Min ing and Metallurgy Engineers and the American Gas Association. He is an outstanding authority on pipe lines and holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps of engineers reserve. He has served as consultant for the armed forces and industry on pipe line and transportation problems. He has served as a member of the Tex as Petroleum Research Committee and for many years has been vice- chairman of the Gulf Coast Section of the AIME. Ags At Ft. Bliss Gassed; Shoot Cannon At Airplane LEAF artially cloudy and ahd tonight. Scat- howets expected in lis afternoon. Yes- temperature was 97 his morning, 68 de- The 1954 Reserve Officer Train ing Corps Summer Camp is only two weeks old, but the 47 Texas A&M students training at Fort Bliss, Texas, already know what it feels like to be gassed with tear gas and fire a 90 mm shell at an airplane. Training began at the Camp on June 21 with a class on defense against chemical warfare attack. The cadets got their first dose of Child Stricken Camille Flowers, five-year-old daughter of business administra tion professor Baker Flowers, was taken to Bryan hospital last Fri day with influenza meningitis. Camille is improving but is ex pected to be in the hospital for at least one more week. tear gas during this instruction. They entered a gas filled chamber and removed their masks. This experience was intended to give the cadets a real knowledge of the ef fects of gas and their own reac tions to it. In the second week the cadets began training on the big guns, in cluding the smaller caliber auto matic weapons and the 90 mm anti-aircraft guns. At the end of the week they were taken to the 1.5 million acre Fort Bliss firing ranges where they actually fired the guns at aerial targets. The cadets face four more weeks of this intensive training—training that will enable them to become future officers in the United States Army and safeguard our indepen dence. nary cadets Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Arnaistead, past president of the State Veterinary Medical As sociation of Texas during 1947-48, served 42 months in the Army Vet erinary Corps during World War II and was discharged a Major. Dr. Turk, currently a member of the Research council of the Ameri can Veterinary Medical Associa tion, has been a member of the Texas A&M staff and faculty for 20 years. Ramsey Doing Well After Operation Jones Ramsey, A&M sports in formation director, is resting well at his home at 727 Mary Lake street following an operation last Tuesday in the St. Joseph Hos pital in Bryan. Ramsey expects to return to work within two weeks. All Types Of Fires Set Off In Training School Thick Smoke From Many Biases Hovers Over City Dense black mushrooms of smoke rose and hung high in the air over the campus daily this week during demonstra tions at the 25th annual Firemen’s Training School. * Two four-room frame houses, an Aggie Drowns In Lake While At Summer Camp MISSION, Texas, July 12—Ed win Dean (Bubba) Bennett, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bennett of Mission, an ROTC student at A&M college in summer training, drowned while swimming in Apache lake near Phoenix, Ariz., Sunday, according to word received here. The body had not been recovered tonight. According to meager word re ceived here, Bennett, a staff ser geant stationed at Williams Air Force base near Phoenix, went swimming with two other cadets, John Norman Smith, Sharyland, and a boy named Pierce. The three boys reportedly staiT- ed to swim across an inlet in the lake which was choked with stones and brush and* Pierce turned back. Bennett went down and Smith tried unsuccessfully to save him, it was said. Bennett was an excellent swimmer. 1895 Batt Editor Dies In Gonzales A former editor of the Battalion died this week, 59 years after grad uating from A&M. Archer Hutson Fitzgerald, class of 1895, passed away July 12 at Gonzales, where he operated the A. H. Fitzgerald drug store. Graduating from A&M with a degree in agriculture, Fitzgerald left an impressive record of schol astic and military achievements behind him here. He was a dis tinguished English student, presi dent of the Calliopean Literary So ciety, and associate editor of the “Olio,” A&M’s first yeai'book. Known as “Little Fitz” by his classmates, Fitzgerald was a 1st lieutenant and adjutant of the Ross Volunteers and a member of “C” Battery, Infantry. Specialized Training Is Air Reserve Plan Bryan-College Station’s first course in specialized training for Air Force Reserve Officers will soon be conducted at the 9807 Air Reserve Squadron. Acceptance of applications for enrollment in a. Flight Operations course, one of many slated to be conducted by the 9807 Air Reserve Squadron, was announced today by Lt. Col. W. C. McCulley. Reserve officers eligible to apply fdr the course are those whose spe cialty codes include: pilot (all types), aircraft observer (all types), operations staff officer, and aircraft controller. Officers may possess any of these classifi cations in either primary or addi tional AFSC category to be eli gible for enrollment. “The highlight of the specialized courses,” said Lt. Col. W. C. Mc Culley “is that Reserve officers may now attend classes in a pay status if they so desire. Under current Air Force directives, both ‘Ready’ and ‘Standby’ reservists may take the training, and may se lect whether • they will attend classes in a pay or non-pay status.” Previously, only those officers in the “Ready” Reserve of the Air Force could take such training. The Flight Operations course tentatively includes such subjects as weather study in relationship to powered flight, mission plan ning, air traffic control, aircraft instrumentation, latest navigation al techniques, and overall flight op erations training. Interested reservists should visit the 9807 Air Reserve Squadron or call 2-1963. Additional staff officers have been appointed to fill vacancies in the 9807 Air Reserve Squadron. Capt. E. J. Schneider and 2nd Lt. James L. Liverman have been ap pointed to assist Capt. R. C. Qual- trough as training officer. 2nd Lt. John M. Geiger has been appointed to assist Lt. Col. E. R. Wagoner as Assistant Reserve Information Officer. automobile drenched with gasoline, a petroleum transport truck, oil pits and butane tanks were set ablaze to give firemen “combat” experience in the control and la test scientific techniques in ex tinguishing all types of conflagra tion. More than a quarter-million dollars worth of equipment was put to use in the course covering every phase of fire-fighting. More than 1,000 firemen from 312 cities in Texas, from munic ipal departments in 15 other states, from 33 military installa tions and 47 industrial plants at tended the school The rescue and resuscitation of victims overcome by smoke and poisonous gases was emphasized. A new portable oxygen “lung,” which chemically generates its own oxygen from moisture of a per son’s breath, was introduced for use of firemen entering burning buildings Another mask for vic tims draws from oxygen tanks worn upon the fireman’s back. A “disaster village” was used for the first time in this year’s five- day course. Smoke-filled, partially collapsed brick buildings provided all-too-real classrooms for instruc tion is removal and revival of vic tims injured by falling debris or trapped by flames and smoke. This training, officials point out, would apply in cases of atomic at tack or dny sort of home or plant explosion. Col. H. R. Brayton of the Texas Engineering Extension Service is director of the school, conducted by the TEES under the auspices of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association. A profes sor of inorganic chemistry, Bray ton has directed all of the annual events with assistance from ex perts in the fire departments of principal cities in the Southwest, and state and national agencies. This year he has about 150 on the staff of instructors. Firemen Extending the school breakfast at 6:15 a.m. daily and start studies within the hour, keep ing to a fast pace until 5 p.m. In addition to the practical demonstra tions, there are lecture sessions keeping, laws and ordinances, and public relations. FOUR-MINUTE JOB—The four firemen above took ex actly four minutes to smother blaze and clear the smoke pouring from this four-room frame house, saturated with gasoline and set afire during exercises at the Firemen’s Training School on the campus. Expert instructors proved theory that fog spray is more effective than high-pressure streams in combatting such fires, which is true in most other types of conflagration. •