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less 1 ^ burroj is inaj levels { t»urrow|J ill inves rnigrati:| t s and r| and lJ 3, thedaT 10I1 tiutj Welcome to A&M — Workshoppers Che Battalion Warm, cloudy, humid 5ricns ’l Vol. 65 No. 130 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 29, 1970 Thursday & Friday — Partly cloudy, afternoon thundershow ers Friday. Wind Southeast 10- 12 m.p.h. High 93, low 72. Saturday & Sunday—Continued partly cloudy, scattered thun dershowers in afternoon. Telephone 845-2226 Journalists attend meet More than 500 high school students here More than 500 high school journalists and their sponsors are here this week for the 12th an nual High School Publications Workshop. The one-week program is spon sored by the Journalism Depart ment. Workshops are planned in both beginning and advanced pho tography, yearbook production, publications production and news paper production, noted depart ment head C. J. Leabo. Experts from throughout the nation are serving as workshop instructors. Activities began at 5 p.m. Sun day with an opening convocation and will continue through Fri day night’s awards banquet. A highlight of the annual af fair is the Miss Workshoper Con test. Each participating school nominates one entry. The Miss Workshopper Contest and dance is scheduled tonight. Sam Pierson, Houston Chroni cle photographer and past presi dent of the National Press Pho tographers’ Association, will give a special lecture at 8 p.m. tonight See Journalists, page 4 Industrial firemen set for fire-fighting school -lit Huge cranes resemble giant insects over Engineering Center—$9.3 million building due to be ready for students next fall Construction said on schedule Construction on Texas A&M University’s $9.3 million Engi neering Center—officially started one year ago Tuesday—is on schedule. John Merchant, A&M inspector for the 324,000 square foot struc ture, reports the five-floor frame should be completed by mid- Day-care center starts registration Applications for children to attend A&M United Methodist Church’s new community-wide day school this fall are now being accepted at the church office, announced Dr. Joe Dixon. Dr. Dixon, chairman of the church’s Commission on Educa tion, said the school will include a morning developmental program and afternoon day-care service for three and four-year-old chil- | dren. The day-care service, which includes a light lunch, will be of particular benefit to working wives of Texas A&M University students, Dr. Nixon noted. December and the roof finished by mid-January. It will be ready for students by September, 1971, Merchant said. Some 85 workers are completing the framing and pouring on the second floor. The third floor work will begin by the end of the month. Hardware for the utility system is being assembled in the base ment. A utility tunnel and two 48-inch storm sewers are com pleted, Merchant pointed out. One-inch steel plating for the nuclear reactor sub-critical and accelerator room also is being laid this week. Merchant said work has pro gressed on schedule at most time. A three-week sheet metal strike did not hurt construction, he noted. Merchant expects about 125 men will be working on the building after the frame is completed. W. E. Bellows Construction Co. of Houston is the general con tractor. Bellows bid $7,546,600 for the two-year project, with the remainder of the costs going for fees, furniture and equipment. Fifty per cent of the construc tion costs is coming from federal funds through the Higher Edu cational Facilities Act. The building will be occupied by the dean of engineering and his staff, the departments of chemical, electrical, industrial, mechanical and nuclear engineer ing, the Texas Engineering Ex periment Station and Texas A&M Research Foundation. Included in the building are a sub-basement, basement and four floors, There will be 373 rooms in the structure, designed by Wil liam E. Nash of Bryan. The building was staked July 14, 1969. Ground work started July 23 and the contract with Bellows Began July 28. '‘Texas Clipper’ returns from European voyage GALVESTON—The Texas Maritime Academy will use its new docks on Pelican Island for the first time Sunday when the “Texas Clipper” returns from its two-month European cruise. TMA officials said the 15,000-ton “floating classroom” will arrive back in Galveston at approximately 5 p.m. The docks are located at Texas A&M University’s 100-acre Mitchell Campus. TMA is part of Texas A&M’s Moody Marine Institute. Prior to returning to Galveston, the “Clipper” will make goodwill visits to Brownsville and Port Lavaca-Point Comfort. The ship will arrive in Brownsville Thursday morning, departing the following afternoon for the overnight trip up the coast. The “Clipper” sailed from Galveston June 6 with 180 students aboard. Included were 102 TMA cadets and 78 spring high school graduates enrolled in Texas A&M’s “Summer School at Sea.” The 12,303-mile itinerary included visits to Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, England and Puerto Rico. The university welcomed an es timated 800 industrial firemen expected this week for the in dustrial fire-fighting course. Chief Instructor Henry D. Smith termed last week’s muni cipal firemen’s school a complete success. Enrollment was up seven per cent over last year, with official registration set at 1,197. No major injuries were re ported. Students and instructors from about 40 states and 20 foreign countries will attend the indus trial school. Headquarters is the Ramada Inn. “The industrial school is for people engaged in industrial fire and safety protection,” Smith said. Industries from many nations send several key men to the school, which is the largest in dustrial fire-fighting course in the world, according to Smith. A week-long special school for Spanish-speaking firemen is scheduled Aug. 2-7. Approximate ly 125 will enroll during that session. Broken records and a blazing public demonstration marked the third day of the 41st annual Tex as Firemen’s Training School last Wednesday. A record 1,869 total attend ance—up 125 over last year’s mu nicipal school total—was announc ed at the Firemen’s Banquet. Firemen were here from 437 Texas towns and 22 cities in 13 other states. Three foreign coun tries and five military bases also are represented, Smith told 1,000 attending the steak dinner. Firemen’s Training School in structors estimated 3,500 adults and children attended the crowd pleasing two-hour demonstration at Brayton Field following the banquet. Smith said this year’s school “was most successful.” Classes ran smooth and stu dent participation was excellent, he pointed out. “Teamwork,” he emphasized, “has been excellent.” Two of the instructors repre sent foreign countries. Salvador Lambreton, a 10-year veteran with the schools, is from Monter rey, Mexico. He also will instruct during the Spanish-speaking school Aug. 2-7. The other instructor was Keith Wayman of the Christchurch, New Zealand, Metropolitan Fire Department. This is Wayman’s first trip here. Abdulla S. Massarweh of Ku- ★ ★ ★ wait, a country in Asia, is a stu dent in the fire marshals’ course. Smith announced the 1971 schedule included the municipal school, this week’s industrial school and Spanish school. States besides Texas repre sented at the municipal school in clude Arizona, Arkansas, Colo rado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, (See Industrial, page 2) ★ ★ ★ Retired fire chief still eating smoke Smoke-eating as practiced by almost 1,200 men at the annual Texas Firemen’s Training School could be one of the healthiest vocations going, considering the example of 82-yeair-oldl Frank Hammer of Belton. A regualr participant since his 1952 retirement as Belton fire chief, Hammer is the oldest liv ing past president of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshal’s As sociation of Texas. The association sponsors the week-long school in its 41st year at Texas A&M. “I still go to fires,” the 64- year and still active member of the Belton Fire Department said. “Once it gets in your blood, there’s nothing else to do,” the spry, white-haired smoke-eater stated. “Of course I usually just watch. But if it’s a bad fire, I’ll pitch in.” Hammer was the 1927-28 asso ciation president and instrumen tal in starting the educational format of the annual school. He says he missed several during his fire-fighting career, due to duties as Belton mayor six years and city manager for 15. The 34-year Belton fire chief hasn’t missed in the last 18 years though. “It’s one of the most wonderful schools conducted,” Hammer eval uated. “We had no idea it would come to this back there in 1928 when we had it at Denton with three cooperating industries and three instructors.” “We didn’t have much equip ment either . . . just hand extin guishers, for example,” the vet eran Texas fireman explained. Sessions this week at Brayton Training Field are instructed and administered by 377 persons util izing large amounts of complex fire-fighting equipment and sup plies furnished by more than 120 companies, manufacturers and cities. Hammer said the school was held in Bryan in 1931 using sev eral large pieces of city equip ment and was taken by A&M in 1932. The annual school, which will be followed by one-week ses sions for industrial and Spanish speaking firemen, is conducted by the Texas Engineering Extension Service and Texas Education Agency. “We had 196 students in 1932 and some school equipment made available by state appropriations,” Hammer recalled. A six-man com mittee that included the Belton native, association secretary Olin Culberson and the late A&M Pres ident Frank C. Bolton requested the state assistance. The veteran smoke-eater said (See Smoke-eater, page 2) 1 ^ Firemen battle blaze at 41st annual municipal fire-fighting school , firemen hustle to extinguish blaze on fuel tanks before it spreads while weary firemen at right walks through yards of snake-like fire hoses.