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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1968)
THE BATTALION Thursday, July 25, 1968 Page 8 College Station, Texas Firemen- (Continued from Page 1) conducted at Brayton Firemen I Training Field near Easterwood I Airport. The other courses are set at various facilities on the main campus and at Ramada Inn. Chief Smith noted training for! this week’s pump maintenance, class includes rebuilding fire || trucks for the Rosenberg, White Settlement and Iowa Park Fire Departments. WEDNESDAY night approxi mately 3,500 firemen and guests were on hand to see a specially- equipped Bell UH-1D helicopter swoop in to extinguish blazes in | a burning automobile and a jet, airplane. Frequently, the chief observed, firemen, policemen and medical I personnel attempting to reach | the accident site are detained by traffic. “A helicopter, however, can simply fly over all this conges tion and arrive on the scene with-j out delay, as we will demonstrate Wednesday night,” Smith re marked. THEY ALSO saw in action* General Dynamics’ Dyna-Cat, a remote-controlled vehicle capable] of receiving water from three!! fire hoses and shooting it in any direction. The A&M school marked the first time the 1,500-1 pound tracked unit had beenj used to fight a fire. The school continues through! Aug. 9, with industrial firemen] coming in next week and Span-! ish-speaking firemen the follow-]] ing week. Briefs... Premier Players Set For Action Premier Players, organized by I the Aggie Players, will stage “Ah Wilderness” by Ehgene O’ Neill instead of the “Cave Dwell- [ ers,” on August 22, 23 and 24 in the Fallout Theater. “As one of O’Neill’s best, the ] serious four-act play, possesses a romantic tinge touched with humor, but at the same time stresses a point without preach-j ing,” commented Robert Wenck, director. The play concerns a young man’s struggle to reach maturity in his society and within his family from the end of high school to the beginning to col lege. Cast members include Doris | Bowden, Sandra Carter, Leslie Denton, Georgia Dillon, Jon Han cock, Read Pearson, Cors Simon, Billy Smith, Dick Taylor, Tanya Toler, Becky Upham, Bruce Wick, Scott Wilson. Susan Cronk will be assistant director. Two parts have not been filled and anyone interested may con tact Wenck at the Fallout. Organized three years ago, the Premier Players gives teenagers of the Bryan-College Station ar ea an opportunity to participate in theater work. In past years, such plays as Curse You Jack Dalton, The Bed, Under the Sycamore Tree, The Spinless Druge, and Harvey have been presented. New Journalism Instructor Added Bob G. Rogers, managing edi tor of the Austin American- Statesman, has been named a journalism instructor at Texas A&M, announced C. J. Leabo, Journalism Department head. Leabo said Rogers will teach half-time while studying for an advanced degree in political sci ence. Rogers, a 1959 honor graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, joined the American- Statesman staff in 1952 as a re porter and copy editor. He was named assistant city editor four years later, appoint ed editorial director in 1965 and promoted to his present position the following year. Rogers, a native of Godley, began his newspaper career with the, Waco News—Tribune and Times-Herald, working as a re porter in the summers of 1944- 46. He worked full-time for the Waco papers from, 1947 to 1952, when he relinquished the posi tion of assistant city editor to move to the Austin paper. The 40-year-old journalist is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, Austin Commit tee on Foreign Relations, Execu tive Committee of the Headliners Club of Austin and the boards of directors of the city’s Goodwill Industries and United Fund. He won the Headliners Club’s “Team Effort Award” in 1966. WESTPAC FROZEN POTATOES 2-29 r MORTON FROZEN CREAM PIES 4 14 Oz. 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