1 --1 iiiiiiiiiinrnmTiiiiiffliwrrrr^^ Industrial firemen’s school draws 946 A record 946 industrial fire men, instructors and manufactur er’s consultants are here for the one-week Industrial Firemen’s Training School at Brayton Fire men Training Field. The 42nd annual training school is being sponsored by The State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ As sociation of Texas. Chief Instructor Henry D. Smith said representation from throughout the nation and Spain, France, Germany, England, Can ada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Au stralia, Netherland Antilles, Bra zil, Italy, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Ven ezuela. “The record enrollment includes 741 students, 89 instructors and 116 equipment representatives,” Smith said. “The student enrollment is up 105 over the first day last year.” He added many international companies for the first time were sending key supervisors and pro duction engineers to learn about fire control and safety. “One of the largest groups,” Smith said, “is representing Ca nadian industry. “Two 36-hour courses are of fered,” Smith explained, “and the emphasis this year is on extensive use of chemical agents to quickly fight industrial fires.” He said the workshop sessions are devoted to discussions of the major industrial fires and explo sions occurring during the past He became a firefighter so he could play baseball Elbert E. Sanders of Edinburg wanted to be a baseball player so he became a fireman. Now, 38 years later, its hard to find a big ger supporter of the fire service and the Texas Firemen’s Train ing School. While Sanders’ baseball career was limited to semi-pro ball, his fire career includes being a past president of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas and an active member in the International Association of Fire Chiefs. He wears three hats for the City of Edinburg—fire chief, fire marshal and city build ing inspector. He joined the Edinburg de partment in 1933 because it spon sored the semi-pro baseball team in town. He thought it would be a good way to get to play. Except for duty with the Navy medical corps in World War II, he’s been active in the fire de partment ever since. The guest instructor for the municipal fire school last week said he believes the summer one- week training program here has placed Texas at least 15 years ahead of other states in fire de partment training. “I’ve watched this school grow since 1939,” he said, “and I firmly believe it’s the greatest training available for firemen.” Sanders has attended every school except two years while he was in the Navy. He admits con tempt for towns who refuse to send firemen to the school. “Any town that doesn’t send men up here is practicing fool ish economy,” the 63-year-old for mer barber contends. “A lot of towns have modern equipment but they don’t know how to use it. Others don’t have the equipment, but the men come up, learn how to use it and go home to talk their cities into pur chasing equipment to save lives and property. “I can’t begin to count the dol lars and lives Edinburg has saved as a direct result of our city send ing its volunteer firemen here,” Sanders said. The major advantage of the fire school, he claims, is it shows the men the proper way to fight a fire with emphasis on safety. Sanders’ wife, Ray, is affection ately known in South Texas as the “assistant chief of Edinburg” and his son, W. C., now Chamber of Commerce manager at Liberty, was a volunteer in Edinburg un til he graduated from college. Sanders said he has watched his city grow from a one-pumper town to a modern fire department city with nine vehicles, includ ing two 2,000 gallons-per-minute pumpers. A unique aspect of his 56-man department, he reported, is the use of 12 college boys who live at the fire station. The city pro vides room and bedding and the boys have formed a cooperative to purchase and cook meals. “The boys tell me they save about $100 a month while attend ing Pan American College,” San ders said. “A couple of them have grad uated and told me they would not have had the opportunity to get a college degree without the fire department help,” he said. A&M, Baylor Med to work towards joint health programs HOUSTON — Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M have agreed to plan to develbp cooperative joint programs in comparative medicine, allied health manpower development and graduate sciences, the chair men of the two institutions’ boards of trustees announced Tuesday. L. F. McCollum for Baylor and Clyde H. Wells for the Texas A&M University System, said an Institute of Comparative Medi cine will be established to allow Baylor and Texas A&M to effec tively utilize disease in animals as models for the study of hu man illness and to take advant age of advances in human medi cine for the benefit of sick ani mals. Baylor’s animal resources in Houston and at Huntsville will be shared with Texas A&M fac ulty and students. Texas A&M conducts sev eral medically-related projects through its College of Veterinary Medicine, Activation Analysis Research Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Program and through several departments of its Colleges of Engineering, Sci ence and Agriculture. Texas A&M will join Baylor in strengthening Baylor’s pro gram in allied health manpower development. The program is aimed at increasing the number of members in allied health pro fessions. Baylor and Texas A&M also will develop a program of com mon credit courses in the gradu ate sciences similar to those Baylor now shares with Rice University, the University of Houston and the University of Texas at Houston. This program will enable students at Baylor and Texas A&M to take courses for credit at either institution with no additional tuition charge. Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, presi dent of Baylor College of Medi cine said, “we are delighted to from a partnership with Texas A&M University that will en hance our joint programs of med ical education, research and serv ice for the citizens of Texas. Col laboration between a private medical school and a large public university will result in programs of very high quality, coupled with minimum cost.” Dr. Jack K. Williams, presi dent of Texas A&M, said, “This agreement continues and expands a tradition of cooperation be tween our two institutions. We are particularly anxious to de velop new areas of service to the people of Texas in the land grant tradition of practical benefits from our joint research, exten sion and teaching activities.” rv- ' Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. 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Besides classes that include studies of hydraulic and effective fire streams, use of chemicals in industrial fires and the char acteristics of different burning materials, every fireman fights fires staged at Brayton Field. A special industrial fire fight ing demonstration and equipment display is planned Friday morn ing at Brayton Field west of the campus and south of Easterwood Airport. Smith, his staff and instructors for last week received a special honor from the nation’s oldest fire hose manufacturer before ending the one-week municipal school Friday afternoon. Fabric Hose Co. presented Smith a 20-inch sterling silver fire chief’s bugle to honor what the company called “the most outstanding fire training program in the nation.” Smith’s megaphone-shaped bu gle was only the tenth presented by the company since it was founded in 1869. The industrial school is to be followed next week by a special school for Spanish-speaking fire men. 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