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Air Defense Course Revealed
Special to The Battalion
A two-hour instruction course in
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latest missiles, will be presented
during January and February in
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f eais i anj Mexico cities to Army Reservists
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as well as other military and
civilian personnel interested in
attending, according to Col. Merle
L. Fisher, VIII U.S. Army Corps
commander.
The instruction will be given by
two members of the Army Air De
fense Command, Fort Bliss, Maj.
Leonard T. Hawke, Chief, Air De
fense Tactics Division, and Capt.
Joseph W. Heflin, Battery D, First
Guided Missile Battalion.
They will be in Colleige Station
Feb. 1.
Among the subjects presented
during the first hour of the course
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will be an outline of the Soviet
threat with emphasis on Soviet
air attack capability, and a review
of the Army Air Defense as a part
of our country’s protection against
this threat.
Explanations will be given of
the North American Air Defense
Command and the U.S. Army Air
Defense Command, the radar sys-
•ems presently in effect. Also the
Army Nike system presently lo
cated around many American cities
will be discussed.
The first section of instruction
will close with plans for the future,
the Ballistic Missile Early Warn
ing System and the anti-missile
missile, the Nike-Zeus, expected to
be able to knock down ballistic
missiles of any type and capability
in existence now or expected to
become operational in the foresee
able future.
The second hour of instruction
will cover the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and a rescrip-
tion of such Army weapons as the
HAWK, and the new Mauler and
Redeye, still in the development
stage.
THE BATTALION
Thursday, January 12, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 3
FIRST ANNUAL
Range, Forestry
Conference Ends
Chairman Maynord Hill
... Presides over Wednesday session
Writer Reveals Experiences
Of A First Parachute Jump
By BOBBIE BROUSSARD
From the Associated Press
ORANGE—My friends were a
big help. Like a sore thumb. There
I was finally to the point where
I said, yes, I’d jump out of that
airplane.
Then my friends began eroding
my resolve.
Why take a chance?
Are the odds really in your
favor?
Some day a parachute may not
open, and it may be yours.
The editor didn’t assign you to
jump. He said just write a story
about the Golden Triangle Para
chute Club.
I’m afraid of snakes, rats and
crawly things. But I’m not afraid
of height.
So my courage held. But for
how long? If I had time to worry,
would I turn yellow.
I had the time, all right.
My feet didn’t fit any jumpers’
bootp. That caused a delay.
Then the day I was to jump the
winds grounded me.
The next attempt found rains
falling so hard jumping was post
poned.
Finally the perfect day for
jumping came.
Jean Saxon, also of the Orange
Leader, wanted to go along. I told
her okay, but I probably wouldn’t
leap.
Nevertheless I went home and
changed clothes.
The pilot was Clarence Feuge,
operator of the Sky Harbor Flying
Service. Skippy Minnion of Beau
mont, club secretatry, loaned me
his overalls and helmet. I had
Richai’d’s mother’s boots.
A new fear overwhelmed me.
Would people make fun of me if
I turned chicken while in the air?
Call said, “Once you get out
there, you’ll discover it’s easier to
jump than to climb back in the
plane.”
Up we went, and before I’d
really decided whether I was a hero
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or a coward, Call ordered, “Get
ready.”
The altimeter read 2,800 feet.
The plane slowed to 60 miles per
hour.
I crouched with one foot on the
step and the other on a landing
gear wheel. The jumpmaster
touched my shoulder.
I shoved back with arms out
stretched. Almost before I real
ized I was off the plane, my chute
opened. The jumpmaster had pulled
the ripcord, not waiting for the
tug of the static line.
A flood of relief, mixed with
indescribable happiness washed
over me. I was drifting downward
at 17 feet a second but felt no
sensation of movement.
It was as though I was sus
pended in space. The silence was
uncanny. I felt lightheaded and
exhilarated.
I glanced down and saw Richard,
Jean and Skippy running in my
direction.
Skippy and Richard were shout
ing advice and even from hundreds
of feet up I could hear them clear
ly. When I was about 200 feet
from the ground, they shouted for
me to prepare to land and to look
straight ahead.
Then I felt a gentle impact. That’s
all there was to it.
By ROB MITCHELL
Students of the Range and For
estry Club, in order to present
some of the need to exchange in
formation with people in other
occupations, have held the First
Annual Range Conference in the
MSC.
Basicly, the function of the con
ference, which ended today, was to
give those people in attendance
some idea of the training in aca
demic, scientific, technical and
practical knowledge which the stu
dents at A&M acquire. Also they
hoped to stimulate the exchange
of information among the bankers,
ranchers, government service rep
resentatives and other people in
attendance who would be affected
by the practices of good range and
forestry management.
This first conference was at
tended by approximately 100 per
sons. In the coming years the
Range and Forestry Club hopes to
be able to expand and have larger
and better conferences whereby
they can discuss wider and more
varied practices in the field of
range management.
The high light of the program
was a reception held in the Memo
rial Student Center where students
in the Department of Range and
Forestry met with prospective em
ployers and discussed the job
opportunities open in the field of
range management. They also dis
cussed the future of range man
agement and its possibilities as a
profession.
Tuesday afternoon Arnold Heer-
wagen, Washington Field Special
ist-Range Soil Conservation Serv
ice of Denver, Colorado, gave the
keynote address on “Range Man
agement—a science vital to ranch
ing and related industries.”
Other speakers in the
ence were: Dr. G. M. Watkins,
director of agricultural instruction,
who gave the welcoming address
to the conference; Dr. C. L. Lein-
weber, Head of the Department of
Range Management who spoke on
the department and its functions;
speaking on “Increased profits
through grass and livestock man
agement” was Clyde H. Wells, a
Hood county rancher.
Representing the Texas Agricul
tural Experimental Station at
Sonora was Dr. L. B. Merrill who
spoke on “Recent developments for
increasing livestock returns on
rangeland.” W. R. Horsley, Direc
tor of the Placement Office, gave
a talk on problems in employment
in the field of range management.
Presiding over the meeting Tues
day was Gerald Wakefield, the
president of the Range and For
estry Club, and on Wednesday
Maynard Hill, chaiman of the
Range Conference Committee, pre
sided.
Smuggled Note
Cites Treatment
BELGRADE (^—Yugoslavia’s
Communist party paper Borba re
ported Tuesday, Jan. 10, a letter
smuggled out of prison from the
Congo’s Patrice Lumumba com
plained of inhuman Treatment.
Borba said the letter was sent
to Rajeshwar Dayal, U. N. repre
sentative in the Congo. Lumum
ba complained he was poorly fed,
not permitted to leave the cell,
denied visits by or information
about his wife and in 35 days has
not been given any clean clothi
Borba’s correspondent in Leopold
ville did not explain how he got
confer- the letter.
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