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their trade using latest chemical warfare. Over 2,000
municipal firemen are here this week.
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A record 2,230 student fire
men, instructors and sales repre
sentatives are here for the 42nd
annual Texas Firemen’s Training
School.
The enrollment includes repre
sentation from four foreign coun
tries — Mexico, Saudi Arabia,
Venezuela and Brazil -r— and 10
states, including New York, Min
nesota and Florida.
Municipal enrollment last year
was 1,950.
Created by the Texas Legisla
ture in 1930, the school is con
ducted by A&M’s Engineering
Extension Service with coopera
tion from the Texas Education
Agency. Sponsor is the State
Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ As
sociation of Texas.
The one-week municipal pro
gram ending Friday, is followed
by a one-week session for indus
trial firemen and a third one-week
training program for Spanish
speaking firemen from Mexico,
Central and South America.
Chief Instructor Henry D. Smith
and his seven-man Engineering
Extension Service staff will be
aided by 485 experienced instruc
tors and speakers made available
by municipalities, industries, man
ufacturers, state and federal
agencies and the armed services.
Smith said the emphasis this
year is on training the firemen
to use new “light water” chemi
cals in fire-fighting classes and
modern techniques in manage
ment, operation and investigation
programs connected to the fire
service.
“More than 134 different com
panies, organizations, and indi
viduals have donated or loaned
the Firemen’s School more than
$600,000 worth of equipment and
supplies,” Smith said.
The 26-acre Brayton Firemen’s
Training Field west of the main
campus, where the field opera
tions are being conducted, is con
sidered the best training course
in the nation with $700,000 in
facilities.
The first week attracts volun
teer and paid firemen from small
communities and large cities.
Practically all of the training
(except fire prevention, fire ad
ministration, fire department in
structor, and supervisory develop
ment courses) are conducted on
the field with actual apparatus
and utility equipment used in
actual fire-fighting.
Courses include sessions on res
cue operations, proper use of lad
ders in removing victims from a
fire, uses and limitations of hoses,
forcible entries, new and proper
use of protective equipment and
combined operations involving
various types of fires the firemen
might have to handle.
(See Record page 5)
Show planned tonight
Something for the entire fam
ily is planned tonight when in
structors for the 42nd annual
Texas Firemen’s Training School
host the public for equipment
displays and firefighting demon
strations.
The program begins at 7:30 at
Brayton Firemen Training Field,
south of Easterwood Airport.
Chief Instructor Henry D.
Smith promises a good show for
youngsters and adults.
Rescue equipment and fire
trucks will be on display at the
front of the 26-acre fire field and
some equipment companies will
demonstrate the equipment.
Texas A&M’s experimental
pumper, which uses six-inch
hoses, will be the first demon
stration. Smith will explain the
research behind the pumper and
members of his staff will show
its application using a variety of
hose lines and water nozzles.
Ward LaFrance Truck Co. fol
lows with a demonstration of its
command tower.
Examples of practical applica
tion of fire extinguishing sys
tems, is scheduled by Safety
First Fire Equipment Co. A
company representative will
show fire extinguisher use in
kitchens, ovens, tanks, dipping
vats and paint booths.
One of the traditional crowd
pleasers is the airplane fire. This
demonstration includes use of
foam to simulate fighting a fire
aboard a crashed aircraft.
Other demonstrations will in
clude use of breathing compres-
Board of Directors to meet
Tuesday, consider budgets
in
The Texas A&M University
System Board of Directors will
meet Tuesday in Galveston.
Major items of business in
clude consideration of 1971-72
operating budgets for the 11
parts of the system, including
its three academic institutions —
Texas A&M University, Prairie
View A&M College and Tarleton
State College.
The board also is scheduled to
hear a proposal to establish an
Occupational Health and Safety
Institute at Texas A&M.
In addition to its business
meeting, the board of directors
will host a dinner Monday eve
ning for Galveston’s top city of
ficials and civic leaders.
The board meeting will be held
at the Holiday Inn beginning at
9 a.m.
sors, fighting a house fire, res
cue operations, hand fire extin
guisher capabilities and limita
tions, liquified petroleum gas
fires and several demonstrations
of chemicals mixed with water to
quickly extinguish large or small
blazes.
The “light water” will be used
on pit, tank and pipe rack fires,
Smith said.
The demonstrations will take
approximately 90 minutes.
5,654 enroll
for second
summer term
Second-semester summer en
rollment here is a record 5,654
students including 839 women.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey said
current registration represents
an increase of 172 over the same
period last year.
Main campus enrollment is
5,353. An additional 159 students
are participating in the Texas
Maritime Academy’s summer
cruise, while 98 are studying at
the Texas A&M Adjunct at Junc
tion and 44 at the Marine Lab
oratory in Galveston.
Enrollment last session was
6,507.
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Closer in and living up to the nickname smokeeater, masks for protection. The firemen will give public demon
student firemen try their hand at close-in work using gas strations tonight at 7:30. (Photo by Debi Blackmon)
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Swede here for research
through exchange program
International visitor Stefan Johansson works in a bio- chemist. They check distillation apparatus, through which
engineering lab with Dr. James Chapel, university bio- amino acids are refined for use in investigations.
Stefan H. Johansson has trav
eled almost halfway around the
world ths summer looking for
molecule-size objects.
Johansson is participating in
protein synthesis research at Tex
as A&M through mid-August. He
also hopes to see as much Ameri
can theater as possible and swap
ideas with people.
The 24-year-old Swede is a food
chemistry major at the University
of Technology in Lund, Sweden.
Johansson will return to the
Southern Sweden institution in
September for the last term of
a five-year chemical engineering
degree program.
His two months work in a bio
engineering lab here is super
vised by Dr. Paul Newell and co
ordinated with Dr. James Chapel,
biochemist who came to the uni
versity recently after two years
of post-doctorate work at M. D.
Anderson Hospital in Houston.
From the experience, Johansson
said he expects to finalize a proj
ect for his last year of study.
“We’re interested in Stefan be
cause of his background in food
chemistry,” said Newell, mechan
ical engineering professor who
directs Teague Research Center
work. The lab cooperates with
other Texas A&M investigators
of dietary supplements and food
sources.
Johansson is here through the
International Association for the
Exchange of Students for Tech
nical Experience (IAESTE), in
which A&M students have studied
and worked in Spain, the Nether
lands and other European coun
tries. The technical program also
enables broader cultural under
standing.
Johansson was selected for IA-
ESTE participation from among
200 qualified Lund students.
“I’ve found everyone very open,
very friendly,” commented the
brown-eyed, brown-haired student
whose fifth year of studies will
be about the equivalent of final
master’s degree work in the U. S.
“Invitations to visit in a home,
go out to eat and so forth have
been extended nearly every
night,” he smiled.
While walking into Bryan one
free evening, he was offered a
ride by Clarence Shaw, an envi
ronmental design student from
Calcutta, India. They wound up
at the home of J. T. L. McNew,
M.D., for discussion of politics
and ecology, among other topics.
The son of a small-town Swed
ish farmer, Johansson is well-
traveled in Europe, through his
theater experience. He studied
drama and has participated on
tours in Italy, Germany, Poland
and France. With a choir Stefan
toured Austria, Switzerland, Eng
land and Scotland.
He speaks English with a Brit
ish flavor and has done some
Shakespeare, though his acting
has centered primarily around
Moliere, 17th century French
playwright-actor.
Memorial Student Center Di
rector J Wayne Stark wants
Stefan to have the opportunity to
visit Houston’s Alley Theater.
Earlier this week, between lab
sessions at the Research Annex,
Dr. Chapel took Johansson to
Houston for a tour of the Manned
Spacecraft Center including the
lunar receiving lab and lunar
excursion module lab, a five-acre
stretch of simulated moon surface.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.