^3^ THE BATTALION Wednesday, July 15, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 3 Costs of food cut / 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 Continued from page 1 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. Continued from page 1 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. Deansgate TOWNSHKtE / TEXAS 77*01 J.C.