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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, July 15, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 3
Costs of food cut
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Hot training program—This scene from last year’s Firemen’s Training School will be re
peated many times during the next three weeks when the 41st annual school opens Mon
day. Besides the intense heat from the fires, the student-firemen usually have to bat
tle nature’s 90-plus weather. The campus expects to host 2,725 firemen for the three
one-week schools.
Fire-fighting school
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room sessions,” Smith declared.
He emphasized instructors are
highly qualified and experienced,
many of them participants in the
summer training prograips for
over 15 years.
Smith disclosed the donations in
instructor’s time and expenses,
iire-fighting equipment, fuels,
chemicals and facilities would cost
at least $1,276,200 for similar
training.
Municipal classes begin at 7
a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. Approx
imately one-half of the firemen
will be housed in campus halls and
eating in A<6M dining facilities.
“Area motels have been booked
for several weeks,” Smith points
out.
The first firemen’s school was
held at Texas A&M in 1930. Since
(fiat time, 41,333 students have
been trained, Smith added.
One unique addition to this
year’s equipment is a fire simu
lator loaned to the school by the
Dallas Fire Department.
The recently-completed teach
ing aid can simulate all types of
fires and fire conditions. It comes
complete with fire-fighting equip
ment that can be manipulated to
fight the fires.
Two technicians from the Dal
las department will demonstrate
the equipment in an advanced
course.
It will be open to public view
ing at the Ramada Inn all week.
Watermelon feast set today
A watermelon feast for sum
mer school students will be
spread Wednesday by the Memo
rial Student Center Summer Di
rectorate.
Musical entertainment, games
and plenty of ice-cold watermelon
will be provided, announced Allen
Huddleston, special events chair
man from Houston.
The watermelon feast will be
staged in the area between
Spence Park and Kyle Field, just
south of the Guion Hall parking
lot, from 5 p.m. until dark, Hud
dleston said.
“Every student should make
an effort to get out,” he com
mented. “There will be 3,000
pounds to watermelon to be con
sumed.”
Volleyball, sack races, tug-of-
war (without mud) and other
activities are planned, along with
entertainment by groups that
perform at the MSC Basement.
The watermelon feast is one of
several summer school activities
provided for students by the MSC
Summer Directorate, noted Caren
Conlee, chairman from Bryan.
Besides regular “C” groups, such
as the radio and camera commit
tees which continue from the
regular semesters through the
summer, the directorate organizes
dances, the Basement coffee
house and the Grove Theater.
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ing with students’ board fees is
having central storage, baking
and meat processing, he con
tinued.
A large new freezer, a new
cooler and hundreds of square feet
of additional storage space have
been completed in the basement
under Duncan Dining Hall where
enough food can be stored to last
a regular nine-month school year.
The meat is bought in large
quantities just as the other food
is and is cut and kept in freezers
which are kept at below - zero
temperatures. Col. Dollar added
all of the meat and fish are
either state or federally inspected.
He said the kitchens are kept
sanitary and all employes are
required to have their health cards
renewed each six months. He
added that there has not been
a case of food poisoning since he
came here.
One of the biggest problems
for food services is the fact that
A&M goes from one of the larg
est feeding situations in the
United States in the regular
school year to one of the smallest,
Col. Dollar said.
“The problem is trying to hire
enough employes to handle the
large number of students in the
regular terms and then having
to let them all go in the summer,”
he said.
“We finally get all the help
we need in April and then we
have to let them all go. We can’t
afford to keep them all employed
in the summer so we’ll have them
available when school starts in
the fall.
“We also have a hard time
hiring people because of inade
quate public transportation and
people getting higher paying jobs
closer to their homes.”
Harold R. Thearl, asst, to the
director and manager of Sbisa
Dining Hall, Henry P. Wellnitz,
manager of Duncan Dining Hall,
and R. V. Ray, manager of the
Memorial Student Center food
services were praised by Col. Dol
lar for doing “exceptional work”.
He added two of the men came
here with a cut in salary.
Col. Dollar said some of the
equipment they had when he
worked in the kitchens when he
attended the university were still
there when he returned as direc
tor.
A lot of the equipment has
been replaced but more will have
to be,” he said. “We are working
on a major equipment replace
ment program which will be ex
tended over a five year period.”
Col. Dollar said new glass doors
were put in at Sbisa Dining Hall
because the doors were so big
some of the women couldn’t open
them. The doors at Duncan Din
ing Hall, on the other hand, had
to be replaced after they had to
“chain the doors to keep the
wind from blowing them open”.
Col. Dollar said he had in
volved the students in running
the dining halls and has tried to
get students or professors inte
rested in decorating the dining
halls.
He said they provided no results
and he has been unable to deco
rate them since they are so mas
sive.
On one occasion Sbisa Dining
Hall was decorated in a Mexican
fiesta atmosphere and Mexican
food was served for the Thursday
night meal. The company that
sold the food used pictures of
the decorations as an advertise
ment in a major food services
magazine which said it was like
decorating a football field.
Col. Dollar concluded that stu
dents are part of the menu board
which he organized in 1965.
Rouse to be guest
editor of issue
Dr. John W. Rouse Jr., director
of Texas A&M University’s Re
mote Sensing Center, has been
selected a guest editor for a
future issue of the Institute of
Electronic and Electrical Engi
neers publication, “Transactions
on Geoscience Electronics.”
Dr. Rouse is accepting papers
through Nov. 1 for a special re
mote sensing issue. Publication
is expected in July, 1971.
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