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demonstration Tonight J Record 1,343 Firemen At School First flames at the 44th an- irf 10 J Texas Firemen’s Training ^ Wol were ignited here Monday n*’ a record 1,343 students on 'iding I both bdl ! fromp for the municipal firemen’s he, announced Chief Henry Smith. A public demonstration of fire- ant, > ghting techniques scheduled for t care light should prove to be the ment’s iBtest” show of the year for e unit Bents of Bryan-College Sta- 1 as p# Profljunicipal firemen participat- rants iKj n annua j f j re sc hool will * ^ f’ a c ^ ance s h ow their !W-found expertise in fire-fight- In< ; ® I at 7:30 p.m. at the Brayton jfeld facility south of Easter- D0(! Airport. “We want to invite all citizens of the area to come out and see for themselves the methods we use to train municipal firemen,” Smith said. “We guarantee a real show for those who attend.” Students from throughout Texas, 20 other states and four foreign countries, are participat ing in this year’s fire school, ac cording to Chief Smith. Smith, who heads the fire men’s program of A&M’s Engi neering Extension Service, said the men will participate in courses ranging from basic fire fighting to disaster rescue. The courses are being pre sented by more than 400 instruc tors, with the training school staff being supplemented by per sonnel from various fire depart ments throughout the state and representatives from industry and the armed forces. The municipal program con tinues through Friday. A special course will be offered for indus trial firemen next week with the following week devoted to ses sions for Spanish-speaking fire men from Mexico and Central and South America. Smith said the previous record for the municipal course was established last year with 1,283 students from 10 states and two other nations. Nations represented this week include Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand and Venezuela. Getting things ready for the school is a year-round job, but things really get hopping about six weeks before the first con tingent of firemen sign in. Chief Smith said his full-time staff members put in 14-18 hours a day during the hectic month- and-a-half before the municipal school begins. Staff members employed year- round at A&M by the school include Tom Robinson, coordinat ing combined operations; Bud McDowell, coordinating Fire fighting I activities; Jack Snead, Firefighting II programs; and David White, coordinating logis tics operations and keeping up pbe Battalion - &1. 67 No. 269 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 25, 1973 Easterwood Certified By FAA sterwood Field, owned and ted by Texas A&M, today me the first airport to be anently certified under a icribed set of Federal Avia- Administration safety stand- for airports served by non- !uled CAB-certificated a i r iers. AIDS—The certificate was presented I Dr. Jack Williams, TAMU 1409 resident, by Louis W. Stepter, ^“dinator of FAA’s Houston during ceremonies on the ersity campus. his presentation, Stepter d that the airports being ed by unscheduled CAB-cer- ated air carriers must be cer- ^^ficated to the new standards by 1974. “FAA’s certifica- ® process is designed to en- 'I* M 1 s hance airport safety by assuring initial implementation of mini mum safety standards and con tinued conformance to these standards in day-to-day opera tions,” Stepter added. “We be lieve the traveling public is en titled to this assurance and pro tection.” Easterwood Field received its Airport Operating Certificate from the FAA after the agency determined that the facility met the safety requirements specified in amended Part 139 of the Fed eral Aviation Regulations which applies to all “land airports serv ing air carriers that hold certifi cates of public convenience and necessity issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board.” The amend ed regulation became effective losed Circuit TV ervice To Improve \ nP Steam and electrical lines which I SI ' n recentl y completed r ^f llities tunnel which runs across campus soon will have impany. m Closed circuit television trans- ” Ission lines which are spread roughout the campus are being Dlaced, according to Norm ^j|io<lwin, program director at nfljlAMU-TV, the university’s edu- Wf ational television station. •AjThe cable,” Godwin explained, f / is a solid aluminum type which as better picture quality over Mger distances. Before we - roved to the new transmission HtjBility, we were as close as 100 —jlhis to closed circuit users on Be campus. i “Now we are as far as two lliles from closed circuit recep- &M Board Considering \fiond Sale fThe Texas A&M University r ptem Board of Directors will dlUMpd a special meeting Friday to •pftake bids for possible sale of !H*bonds totaling $5 million. esident Jack K. Williams id proceeds from the bond sale ould be used for construction ojects throughout the system. The board also will consider iroposals for restructured student irvice and building use fees for &M, Prairie View A&M College hd Tarleton State University as squired by recent state legisla- (House Bill 83). The pre ssed restructuring represents no crease over previously an- unced totals. The next regular meeting for e board is Aug. 14. tion stations. Our picture quality on closed circuit isn’t quite what we want, so we are replacing all our existing cables with the new aluminum cable.” Approximately two miles of the new cable will be in place by the start of the fall semester, ob served KAMU chief engineer George Schearer. He is supervis ing the replacement process which involves work in the heat- filled utility tunnel. The closed circuit program is operated by KAMU as a part of the educational television pro gram in the College of Education. Schedules transmitted include enrichment programs, demonstra tions of laboratory procedures and techniques, and other non lecture subjects. May 21, 1973, in accordance with the provisions of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970. Principal provisions of the new regulation relate to the main tenance, marking and lighting of airport operations areas, the maintenance and availability of firefighting and rescue equip ment, the establishment of a fa cility emergency plan and the de velopment of means and proced ures for performing other func tions at the airport such as peri odic self-inspection, control of ground vehicles, and reporting airport conditions to its users. Dr. Williams was commended by Stepter for A&M’s prompt re sponse in preparing an Airport Operations Manual for approval by the FAA. The operations manual provides the basic infor mation required to determine initial compliance with the certi fication rule. It also spells out the means and procedures for continued compliance. Easterwood Field was opened in 1939 and operated as a turf landing strip until 1941-1942 when the first paved runway was constructed. Airport operations were conducted from a temporary terminal building until 1958 when the present terminal was con structed. Continued growth of the air port necessitated the need for additional expansion and recon struction of existing facilities. The university has just com pleted a project with federal as sistance under the Airport De velopment Aid program which included expansion and recon struction of aircraft parking apron, overlay of Runway 16/34 and connecting taxiways, land acquisition, obstruction removal, fencing and site preparation for an instrument landing system. Total cost of the current expan sion program is estimated in ex cess of one million dollars with federal participation in the amount of $326,000. The Federal Aviation Adminis tration is presently installing a medium intensity approach light ing system and runway align ment indicator lights at Easter wood Field with scheduled com pletion in August 1973. Ross Volunteers To Help Honor Texas Rangers Members of the Ross Volun teers will participate Aug. 4 in the Texas Rangers’ 150th anni versary celebration in Waco. A contingent of A&M’s elite honor military unit will form an honor guard for Gov. Dolph Briscoe, among other responsi bilities. Twenty-four RV’s under Com mander William F. Edmiston of Eldorado will participate. They were contacted for the summer activity by Scott Eberhart, 1973- 74 Cadet Corps commander and RV. The Aug. 4 activities will in clude groundbreaking for a Texas Rangers Hall of Fame, reception and dinner. A&M cadets will post flags for the event and form a saber arch for distinguished guests’ arrival at the dinner, Eberhart said. Four thousand celebraties were invited to the celebration. The dinner is an invitation-only affair to which the RV’s may take their dates. The Waco A&M Club plans a luncheon for the Ross Volunteer Company members. The company was named for Gov. Lawrence Sullivan Ross, one-time A&M president from Waco. 'On the side of Texaa A&M.” University National Bank Adv. WHO PULLED THE PLUG?—Friday’s swimmers were in for some disappointment and not much water as the drains were left open at A&M’s pool Thursday night leaving the pool practically empty. with donated equipment and sup plies furnished by industry. Also on the full-time staff are John Hubacek, field equipment maintenance; John R. Rauch, co ordinating fire prevention activi ties and handling student regis tration, and W. B. “Cotton” Dor man, keeping track of instruc tors* housing and subsistance. Dorman is assisted by George Stock and Charles Page. Guest instructors began arriv ing last week, and the more than 400 representatives of industry, fire department administrations and the armed forces, have been readying school facilities and equipment for the students. Smith’s work at the school has not gone unnoticed as he has been named the recipient of the first annual IFSTA Award for outstanding achievement in fire service training. The award was presented to Chief Smith earlier this month at the annual validation confer ence in Stillwater, Okla., of the International Fire Service Train ing Association, an educational alliance organized in 1934 by Oklahoma State University. The award was presented to Chief Smith for making “signifi cant contributions to the training of firefighters,” according to the citation accompanying the award. Chief Smith was joined at the conference by associate instruc tor Charles Page in representing the annual school. Page was named as Texas State Coordinator of IFSTA activities at the conference, replacing Chief Smith after a year term. Page will serve in the coordinator ca pacity until next year’s confer ence at Oklahoma State Univer sity in Stillwater. The IFSTA, a nonprofit educa tional association organized to develop training materials for fire service, brings together fire department executives, educators, representatives from government, delegates from firefighter asso ciations and organizations and engineers from the fire insurance industry at the annual Oklahoma conference. FIREMEN LEARN the tricks of their trade as they extinguish a variety of fires at A&M’s Fireman’s Training School. Safety Director Retires After 25 Years Service John W. Hill who retires Aug. 31 after 25 years of service to the Texas A&M University Sys tem, will be honored by associ ates and other friends at a re ception Thursday on the campus. The reception is planned from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Krueger-Dunn- Commons. Hill, a native of Nocona, served as insurance and safety director for the A&M system for 24 years prior to his 1972 ap pointment as safety coordinator for the System. The safety coordinator’s job in volves coordinating safety pro grams with all colleges and parts of the A&M system, Hill ex plained. He also pointed out that the job entails insuring that these safety and health pro grams are in compliance with existing state and federal regu lations. Hill had almost 20 years of The cast for the Premier Play ers production of “The Match maker” has been announced, with Beverly Crawford in the part of Dolly Levi. Director Bob Wenck said the 14-member cast lacks two teen age boys. The teenage theater company’s next meeting will be Tuesday, at 8:15 p.m. in A&M Consolidated High School. “The Matchmaker” is the stage production from which the top musical “Hello Dolly” was adapted. “Even the little parts are good in the play,” Wenck said. “Every body in it is worth watching.” Sharing lead parts with Bev erly Crawford are Bill Smith as Horace Vandergelder; Carol Wick as Irene Molloy, and Randy Wil liams as Cornelius Hackl. “Second leads” are Donna Han sen as Ermengarde; Donna Nel son as Flora Van Huysen, and August Wenck as Barnaby. The cast is completed by Jackie Freund, Craig Thompson, Missy Rives, Cindy Beck and David Barron. Amy Plapp and Karen Sackett are backstage crew mem bers. The story concerns efforts of an old millionaire manufacturer of Yonkers to get married again. For that purpose the widower employs Dolly Levi as a match- experience in the safety field when he joined A&M in 1948. Except for two years study as a safety instructor with the Air Force during World War II, Hill spent 17 years with the Texas Highway Department before coming to A&M. Hill was a safety instructor with the insurance division of the highway department in Austin before joining the A&M System. As safety instructor, he helped devise a self-insuring program of workmen’s compensation and investigated claims concerning workmen’s compensation and safety programs in the Depart ment. When he joined A&M, Hill constructed and directed a work men’s compensation insurance program for employees of the Sys tem. In addition, he directed an accident prevention program for students and staff, administered maker. The situation resolves in a fast-paced 24-hour period. Presentation of “The Match maker” by the A&M theater group will be Aug. 9, 10 and 11 in A&M Consolidated High School. Admission to each of the 8 p.m. performances will be 50 cents per person. Don Webb, president of the MSC Directorate, announced to day that two new committees might soon be formed at the MSC. One of these would be a Dance Committee, designed to increase the number and types of All-Uni versity Dances held during the school year. The other new group would be the Special Events Com mittee, intended to originate new and unusual types of program ming. Both committees, Webb said, are being formed as temporary committees of the MSC Summer Directorate. If response is suf ficient, they may be able to hold a dance and have some other activities within three or four weeks. In addition, he said the summer committees hopefully will the staff benefits program and assisted in organizing the Cam pus Safety Association Section of the National Safety Council. He also developed and taught the first industrial safety course at A&M in 1949. Hill attended Texas Tech Uni versity and the University of Illi nois. He earned a bachelor’s de gree in industrial technology from A&M in 1955. Hill has served as vice presi dent of the Texas Safety Asso ciation for Schools and Colleges and is a fellow with the Ameri can Academy of Safety Educa tion. He is past vice president of the Veterans of Safety, South ern Region; a certified safety professional, and registered with the National Engineers Regis trar. Also active in civic and church programs, Hill is a past presi dent and currently secretary of the Bryan Rotary Club. He is vice president of the Opera and Performing Arts Society (OPAS). Hill is president of a local safety and health consulting firm. He said he plans to devote his time after retiring to this firm and to traveling. Hill and his wife, Marjetta, have one daughter, Mrs. Skip Wehner, of Carrollton. The for mer Patricia Hill attended A&M and was a staff writer for the Battalion. Her husband also at tended A&M and is a veteri narian in Carrollton. begin planning for dances and other activities during the fall semester. They could develop into two regular MSC Directorate committees if they prove popular. Any students who are interested in increasing the quantity, quali ty, and variety of the student programs and activities at A&M in the coming year are invited to the organizational meeting for these two committees, Webb noted. The meeting will be in Room A and B of the Student Program Of fice on the second floor of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. If a student is interested but cannot attend the meeting, he or she should leave a name and number with the secretaries in the Stu dent Program Office (845-1515) between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Premier Players Announce Cast Organizational Meeting Called For Two MSC Committees