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Page 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 3, 1971 THE BATTALION pace shuttle station desired by Florida, California, others CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. UP) — Quietly and outside the limelight, a big battle is shaping up among various states for a huge economic prize: location of the launching base for the space shuttle of the future. Cape Kennedy, from where man first went to the moon, is the leading contender in the treas ure hunt. But its premier position is be ing threatened by California and COURT’S SADDLERY . . . FOR WESTERN WEAR OR FOR YOUR MARE. FOR SHOE REPAIR BRING IN A PAIR. 403 N. Main 822-0161 New Mexico. Oklahoma and Utah also are in the running, but are given only the slightest chance to pick the plum. At stake are billions of dol lars, thousands of jobs and a possible economic boom for the area that wins the launching site for the shuttle, the reuse- able spaceship, scheduled for op eration later this decade. Politicians and lobbyists, back ed by hundreds of thousands of dollars, are hard at work in Washington, trying to convince President Nixon and Congress that the space shuttle should be launched from their respective states. A decision may come later this year. Cape Kennedy is the leading candidate because the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration already has invested $1.5 billion here for land and for launch and support facilities for the Apollo moon program and other projects. But the shuttle will be a unique craft, and some advan tages that favored Cape Kenne dy on earlier programs might now work to its disadvantage. The complex vehicle is being developed to ferry men and sup plies between the earth and or biting space stations. It will be a fully reuseable two-stage craft which will take off vertically. The booster stage, the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet and man ned by two pilots, will kick the orbital section into space and then turn around and fly back to the launch site, landing on a run way like an conventional aircraft. The Boeing 707-sized orbital section, with two pilots and 12 or more passengers and 50,000 pounds of cargo, will continue to the space station. It later will return to earth with equipment and passengers from the space lab. It also will land like a plane. Both segments of the shuttle will be designed to fly 100 or more times, greatly reducing the cost of operating in space. The pricetag for the Saturn 5 rocket and spaceships for the current Apollo moon launch program is $325 million and none of the hardware is reuseable. Sands Missile Range, and Utah is pushing Wendover Air Force Base on the Utah-Nevada line. Oklahoma has suggested Clinton- Sherman Air Force Base. Most observers feel Utah and Oklahoma are out of the running and their campaigns have been lukewarm compared with the oth ers. A 12-man NASA facilities group headed by Robert H. Cur tin will make the choice, prob ably late this year. NASA originally had hoped to begin flight-testing the shuttle in 1974 and to have an operational version ready to support a 12- man space station by 1976, with the station growing to 50 or more men and women by 1980. But Congress has been reluctant to vote heavy funding at a time when the country has more earth ly problems. As a result all tar get dates have slipped at least two years. 1HE BA1 By CLIFFOF ttalion Sp< THE WINNER of a seat jis one of the first two women aldermen in Chicago lights upj joi cigar to prove that this symbol of political victory is not merely a male prerogative' ‘ Running as a Democrat, Marilou McCarthy Hedlund defeated Republican Alderman RcM i" the brawl ert C. O’Rourke in the north side’s 48th Ward. (AP Wirephoto) ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE AIRLINE SCHEDULE INFORMATION FARES AND TICKETS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL & CALL 822-3737 1016 Texas Avenue — Bryan One Cape Kennedy disadvan tage for the shuttle is that the launch area is nearly surround ed by the Atlantic Ocean. That made it ideal for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs and 23 courses required Basic fireman program asked FORT W0 Jristian Ui ?rogs clincl Conference < lay night wi ie Texas Aj ir Coliseum. The Frogs 13 league n the early he second h The game irawl with L a play that Vpbout five mi Tempers f ;ies’ Wayne Simpson words. Whei shout jtepped in t then the ten (few punches Both ben many fans ined the i football play After orde resumed, wit ously shower first minuter No seriou ported althc iplayers were In action i [Kennedy an final say as unmanned launchings because the no-longer-needed booster rockets were dumped into waters offshore without endangering populated If either the booster or orbital section of a space shuttle should stray on takeoff or landing, it might land in the ocean’s salt water. Recovery would be diffi cult and the resulting corrosion could render it no longer use- able. The other candidate states, not ing this and other Cape weak nesses, began touting their areas many months ago. California is backing either Edwards Air Force Base or Van- denberg Air Force Base. New Mexico favors its White Minimum training for firemen and instructors employed by the state’s 53 paid municipal depart ments has been recommended by members of the new Texas fire commission. The recommendations will be sent to every department affect ed for a public hearing April 27 in Austin, reports Henry D. Smith of College Station, chair man of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, Personnel Stand ards and Education. Smith said the commission rec ommends that a new fire-fighter complete 23 required courses for 325 credit hours within one year of joining a department. The fireman will be certified upon completion of the courses. A grandfather clause is includ ed, Smith explained, for firemen working when the requirements become law. Texas law enforcement offi cers already have similar certi fication requirements. Smith, chief of the Firemen’s Training School at A&M, empha sized that recruit training will require paid departments to be come more professional. A&M began a 240-hour recruit school last fall, with classes be ginning every six weeks. Also recommended were four levels of certification for fire de partment instructors. Commit tees were named to recommend standards for fire department in spectors and arson investigators. “The objective is not only mu tual aid between departments, bqt,, the d^y^Iopment of educa tional programs that are the same for every department,” Smith noted. “Through this tiaining the fire departments will be able to give more effective service for the lo cal tax dollar and bring the pro fessional standards higher than they are now,” he added. The fire commission was au thorized by the legislature in SB 269 approved in June, 1969. Smith said the four instructor levels are basic instructor, in structor, advanced instructor and master instructor. Basic instructors must have experience in the subject area taught and complete at least one 30-hour methods of teaching course conducted by an educa tional agency approved by the Texas Education Agency. Advanced instructor certifi cates would be awarded full-time training officers who complete methods of teaching, five 45-hour vocational teacher training cours es approved by the Texas Educa tion Association and 15 semester hours of college-level courses in communications and administra tion. The vocational courses include organization and use of instruc tional materials, analysis and course making, training center and classroom organization-man agement, aims and objectives of vocational education and human relations communications. A master instructor must meet all other qualifications, hold an associate arts degree in fire tech nology from a junior college and be a full-time instructor or ad ministrator in a fire traininfi vision. bounded the Smith said he expects a ki^ demand for the 30-hour methtl course. He has doubled the cki size for the course during theft nual municipal training schooh: A&M this summer. 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