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-
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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
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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-
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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